Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 15, 1874, Page 8

: THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1874—SIXTEENPAGES. TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. RATES OF SUBECRIPTION (PAYABLE IN ADVAXCE). 12.00 | Kanday $2.5 Rl e S1E 00 | Weilky 2:68 eekly. s of a year at the sume rato. ::flmm: delay sod mistakes, be sure snd give Post- OfSce address in full, including State and Coonty. ‘Remittancosmay bomade cither by draft, express, Post- Offics ardor, or in registersd letters, at our risk. TEUMS TO CITY NUBSCRIDEES. Daily, dolivered, Sunday excepted, 25 centa porweek. Daily, delivered, Sunday tacluded, 30 cents per week. Address THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Corner Madison and Dearborn-sta., Chicago, I —_—— E TO-MORROW'S AMUSEMENTS. Isted stroot, botwoen Mad- ACADEMY OF MUSIC. ison and Morroe. ** Aladdis B M'VICKER'S THEATRE—Madisan streats botmeen Dearborn and State. Kogagement of Wybert Beeve. *'The Womaa in White." HOOLEY'S THEATRF—Randolpk strect, between Olarxand raSalle. ** Perl." Snerman House. 'S HALL—North Clark streot, corner of O ek Concerctrouve: N} -FUUSE—Clark _street, opposite A R One AT % Ton's M. SOCIETY MEETINGS. W LODGE, No. 128.—Membors are xe- Q.F,;‘},Y,‘,,E!,,‘;,E} e ol on Sunday moraing, Nov. 15 10 0'clock abarp, 1 attand the tuncesl of 0. COLLINS, S The Chicago Tribune, Sunday Morning, November 15, 1874. WITH SUPPLEMENT. A WORD TO THE POLICE AUTHORITIES. The steady increase of burglaries, larcenies, and robberies of various kinds in this cityisa burning disgrace to the police euthorities of Chicago. The people of this city are absolutely without protection, and s much expcsed to burglars and thioves 88 if thera wero mots Prench tragedienne, who attaived the zenith of her power at 50, and was estecmed one of the handsomest #omen on tha stage. N THE INDICTMENT OF ME. STOREY. The Grand Jury now in session has found sn indictment against Wilbur F. Storey, editor and proprietor of the Chicago Times, on the charge of libel. This will bo a -potable case in the crimimal records of Chicago, since it is the first instance, a8 we believe, of 3 sibel suit taking the shape of a criminal prosecu- tion. The statute provides aa & penalty fine of not more than $500, or imprisonment in the County-Jail for not more than one year. The indictment against Mr. Storey is founded upon an editorial paragraph printed in the Times of July 16 last, in which Mr. Farlank was charged with abstracting §2,500 from the Reliof Fund for the bemefit of Dr. H. A. Johnson. ‘he circamstances of the domation to Dr. Johnson have been stated before. As be had worked himself into ill-bealth in the ser- vice of the Relief and Aid Socioty, Mr. Fairbank conceived the plan of raising funds from per- sonsl friends and the business men of Chicago to send Dr. Johnson to Europe forrest and recu- peration. When Mr. Fairbank went to Mr. Cool- baugh to solicit & subscription from the National Banks, Mr. Coolbaugh reminded him that there was a largo surplus in the Bankers' Fund, con- | tributed by the National Banks of New York; that a1l those for whom this fund was iutended had been relioved; and that, as tho fund was now the property of tho National Banks, a por- tion of it might pe devoted to Dr. Johnson, who had been of such great service to the Relief cause. Mr. Coolbaugh drew an order vpon himself, which was signed by all the Prosidents of the Nationsl Banks who were in the city, directing bim to pay over 82,500 for this purpose. This money was given to Dr. Johnson as coming from tho National Banks of Chicago, and he remained in 1gnorance of tho fact that it had beon & part of the * Bankors’ Relief Fund.” Whea this was policeman withinitslimita. Whole blocks are rav- ased by burglars with perfect impunity. It is within boands to ssy that s gang of burglars can takie any block of residences in this city and de- liberately devage the whale night to the robbery of each house in detail, coliect and load up their plunder, and drive off with it st daylight, with- out interference by the police. More than this, thesa scoundrels have become 50 em- boldened by the success of their operations, and the fact that they have complete li- cense to rob and plander, that they no longer trouble themselves to wait for dark- nees 28 a cover for their operations, but work in the open daylight. It is only mnecessary for ihem tg ascertain that thereare no men in a house, and this they can easily do. Not a Jday or a night passes that they are not a$ work in every part of the city, and thereis not & day ora night when they are interrupted, be it & single bouse or s whole block of houses that is suffer- ing from their depredations. Their number al- 50 i constantly increasing. Those who are here, finding that they can operate with perfect im- punity, and that there is no dieposition on the part of the police authorities to arrest them, are writing to their pals in otber cities, and they are swarming in here by every train. How long will it be before this.gang of ontlaws and des- peradoes strips the city ? In view of this disgraceful condition of things, it is pertinent to ask what the police force is doing, and what we have a police force for, if not o stop this villainous work. The City of Chi- cago has & Police Board, 2 Chiet of Police and his deputies, a detective force, and & patrol of $00 men, costing the citizans and tax-payers pearly $1,000,000 annually, the rank and file of the force earning nearly double per yesr what other laborers get for their hard work. It is not o be expected that they canarrest all tha thieves In the city, but the trouble is they scarcely ar- vest any, and, even when the opportunity is offered, do not manifest & disposition to make amrests. We have a detective force whose™ special duty it is to ferret out these ruffians, and who are presumably as intelligent and skill- ful as the average of detectives in other cities ; but beyond the occasional capture of some poor devil, who may etesl for thejmeans of subsist- ence, of what use are they? The trouble, how- ever, is not with ‘the rank and file, for that is msade up of young men of strength, coursge, and activity ;_bot they have no work cat out for them. The best of soldiers sro useless unless there is some head to plan out and direct the battle, The best of policamen are of no ac- count, if loating is the chief duty they are required to performa by their euperiors. Tho responsibility for this - condition of things, this lack of sccurity, this exposure of honest and pesceable citizens to the dopreds- tions on property and risk of life, rests with the superiors of the force. It lies at the doors of headquarters. Are theso authorities m league with the burglars and thieves? Are they afraid of them? Do tney fear that if they interfere with them thoy may lose their votes and the po- litical influence they wield among the depraved classes? Do they consider the public foir game for these scoundrels, and that peaceful and law- abiding citizens have no rights Which thoy aro ‘bound to protect ? g If this is the trouble st headquarters they will wake up some fine morning and find out they have made a mistake. The public is not in a iem?ar to bear thia sudacious and infamons con- duct of the thieves much longer. There ié a limit to patience. Tho suthonties will find some day that Chicagois like San Francisco; that the peo- Ple have taken the regulation of thes villains into their own bands, and that lamp-posts can be used for other purposes than as gas-lights and stroet-signs. The public is s very docilo animal ‘mado knowa to him, somo months ago, throngh the medinm of the Chicago Times, he returncd the money. Mr. Storey's quarrel with Dr. John- s0p, however, bas prompted him to harp upon the transaction, and in his paper of Thursday Iast he criticised tho Relief and Aid Society very harshly for re-clecting to its Executive Commit- tee two men (Mr. Fairbank and Dr. Johnson) “who are notoriously guilty of having sppropri- ated reliof funds to their own use.” It was this paragraph which provoked AMr. Fairbank to ap- poar before the Grand Jury and demand Mr. Btorey's indictment. This course certaiuly froes Mr. Fairbank from every suspicion of mercenary motive in the matter. Ho does not ask for dam- ages, but falls back on the law of the Btate, and demands that, if he has bezn libeled, tne libeler be punished for bis offense. Mr. Fairbaok has retained Judge Trumbull, Mr. Sidoey Smith, and Mr. Leonard Siwett to assist the State’s At- torney in the prosecution of the case. ‘ THE GAMBLERS AND THE POLICE. One of the most disgraceful features of the Government in the City of Chicago is the tolera~ tion and protection given to the immense gangs of gamblers who now infest the city. Never in the history of this city has the business of gam- bling been 80 extensively carried on s now, and never have the gamblers so opeuly flaunted their trade a8 during the last year. Thero is no excuse for this. The crime of gambling is not committed in secret. The name and person of every gambler in Chicago are known to the police. It is not saying too much to assert that Superintendent Rehm and Deputy-Superintendent Hickey are personally scquainted with every gambler doing businesa in this city. These two officers know the loca- tion of every gambling-house, know who are its proprietors, know who are its dealers and other operators, and know personally all abont them 2nd their business. We venture to say that, if Capt. Buckley was authorized, he could, in ome weck, enter twenty notorionus gam- bling dens on Clark strect alone, arrest tho inmates, and furnish proof sufficient to convict forty professionals. While this fact i8 notorious,—while within five minutes walk of the Police headquarters a score of these estab- liahments are in full operation every day and Dight,—why is it that the police never move one step towards breaking up these dens? When Mr. Washburn was Superintendent of Police he made himself obnoxions to the whole gam- bling fraternity by his unremitting warfare upon their nefarious business. When the Peoplo’s Reform party camo into power, the first act of the Reformers was to dismiss ‘Washburn and put Rehm in his place. A change of men did not change the law, and it is as much Mr. Rehm's duty to prosecute gamblers, to arrest them, and farnish evidence for their conviction, a8 it was Washburu's. Why has he not done his duty in this respect? Is he restrsined in so doing by any order of tho Police Commissioners ? If be is, let bim produce that order and vindicate ‘himself and the whole police force from the in- evitablo conclusion that the gamblers are under the protection of the police. In January, 1872, the Legislature of Ilinois passed a new act for the punishment of persons keeping gaming-houses. The law was most searching and sweeping in its provisions; so much so that there were somo doubts as to its constitutionality. Itwentintoforcein July, 1872, and under that act a gambler was indicted and convicted. The case was taken to the Supreme Court, and that tribunal affirmed the constitu- tionality of the law. The District-Attorney then eaid that under that law he conld effectually break up all the] gambling-houses in Chicago. Here is the law: 80 long as it is treated even passubly well; but when it is imposed upon day after day, week after week, and month after ‘month, and cannot find relief or protection whero it has the right to expect it, it will got cnraged, and when enraged it will make short work of those who stand in it way. The police authori- ties therefore are warned in time. The paopleof this city are in earnest. Complaints and threats BTe pouring in upon us from all sides. If the suthorities do not commenca protecting the * People at unce they will protect themselves. The honors which have been paid during the lnst month to Witliam Cullén Bryaut, Charlotte Cushman, and to Mle. Dejazet, the eminent French artist, show that age has ita compenga- tious, and that where talent ig real and the mind Is cultivated old age does not interrupt the fas- cinations of earlier days. A French paper, re- ferring to this fact, recalls several other in- stances of & similar kind, among them Diana do Poitiers, who was nearly 40 when Henry IL. be- came attached to her; Anne of Austria, who was tie handsomest Queen in Europe at 39 ; Ninon de L'Enclos, who wis 72 when the Abbe de Bernis fell in love with her; Madamo do Main- tenon, who was mearly 50 when Louis XIV. wedded her; and Mademoiselle Mars, the gifted Whoever keepa s common gaming-house, or {n any ‘building, booth, yard, or gurden, by him or Lis agent used and occupied, procures oF permits any person to frequent, or to como together to play for money or other valuable thing, at auy game, or keepe, or suffers to be kopt, any tables or other apparatus, for tho parpose of playing at any game or sport for money or oter valuablo thing, shall, upon convietion, for the first offense be fined nct lees than $100, and for the eecond offense be fined Dot less than $500 ond be im- prisoned in the County Jail not les than six months, and for the third offense shall be fined not less than $500 8nd be nprisoned in the Penitentiary not less than £ years nor more than fve years. Under this law the old trouble of proving who was the * keeper ” of the Raming-house was re- moved. The Court ruled that any person acting or officiating as dealer or otherwise, s or for the proprictor, or who was ranning the game, was in legal contemplation the * keeper” and could be convicted of keeping the gaming-house; that it ‘W88 DOt necessary to prove that he owned the tables, or was a proprietor or lessee; whoever superintended, managed, or directed the game, or sold the chips, or otherwise officiated, thereby made himself the **keeper,” and could be pun- isbod &8 such. There is no difficulty, therefore, in the law. That is ample. Nor can there bo any difficulty in tho way of evidence, ike McDonald is noto- riously ‘the proprictor of several gambling- bouses. He makes no disguise of it, and openly avows himsolf & professional gambler. ‘Thers are plenty of others who are equal- Iy notorious. The polico know all these establishments, and know all the persons em- ployed and officiating in these houses. Within an hour on any day that tho Police Commission- ers give the orders (unless the gamblers be first informed to get out of the way), the police may arrest twenty of these pests and enemies of so- ciety, and furnish any Grand Jury with all necd- od evidonce to prove them keepers of common gaming-hcuses. Mr, Reed can call on Capt. Buokley, if the Police Commissioners will permit it, to furnish the Grand Jury now in seesion with s list of the notorions gambling-houses in the Bouth Divigion, with the names of the proprietors and of their operators and assist- ants. The Grand Jury itself, upen its own mo- tion, may summon tho police officers and require them to explain why it is that they do not arrest these notorious criminals and bresk up these gambling-houses, If there is any understsnd- ing or promise, express or implied, between the gamblers and the Police’ Board, the Grand Jury can do & public service by makiug that fact pub- lic, and by indicting the officers for & connivance with crime. These gambling-houscs are the nurseries of crime of every dogree. Nearly every thief and burglar is alsos gambler. These are intimately connected with the confidence-men and the abandoned women; and of all these classes Chi- cago has now an extraordinary number, who are by the polico allowed to prosecute therr nefari- ous trades with freedom from arrest or other dis- turbance. - These men are literally turned loose upon the community, and this when we expend £1,000,000 a year for the support of a police to enforce the Iswa and break up the dens of crime. We trust the Grand Jury will investigate this whole matter, and fearlessly do their duty in protecting Chioago against the gamblers and their partaers, in or ont of office. THE CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY. It is gratifyiog to know that seekers after books continne to present themselves at the Public Library. It would be more gratifying to know that a large percontage of these seekers did not have to go away empty-bsnded. The Library is as yet in its infancy. The more valu- ablo of its books have been contributions, and many of them first-class books. These contrib- uted volumes were donatel by thoir authors, and many of them are autograph copies. They are not such as can be placed in the circulating department, and thus it happens that the seckers after first-clnss works are often unable to get what they want. The patrons of all public libraries, and of private ones also, deal largely in novels snd other works of fiction. To meet this popular demand, the mansgers bave bad to expend largely of the limited funds at their command in purchasing Looks of that class. While clussical works, and books of history and science, are to bo found on the catalegue, the managers Liave not been able to duplicato them to an ex- tent $o meet the comparatively limited de- mand for them. It is, perbaps, unfortunate that the popular taste inclines somuch to fiction, and to the scnsational class of literature; bt the Chicago Library is not yet ina condition to gatity, to any great extent, a more cultivatsd taste. Dookscost money, sud the Library bas but a very small sum at its disposal to purchsse books. Even tho supply of works of fiction falla far below the demand, while the managors aro unable, except very slowly, toadd to themore substantial works. Librarios are things of slow growth. It takes time to sccumulato s librrzy capable of furnishing reading matter to suit all the tastes of a population of 400,000 people. This is, of necessity, a work of yearsand of considerablo outlay of money. With time and money the usefalness of the Library a8 an educator must increase. At present the Chicago Library can hardly be said to be much of an educator; the most that can be claimed for it is, that it is pre- paring the publio mind by reading for a better class of books when the Library can get them. The objection to the issue of g0 many vol- umes of novels, many of them of a trashy char- acter, is not altogether just. The book®orrow- ers at all public libraries aro largely of a class who have no other moeans of gelting any books to read at all. These persons are unable to buy books. They sro mostly persons who aro st work all day, and can only read at night. Hav- ing worked ten hours, and walked two to four miles botween their homes and places of labor, thoy maturally turn to reading ns a recreation. ‘Their taste may have been vitiated by the New York Zedger and other weekly publications of that kind ; nevertheless they want books that will offer them amusement or entertsinment, rather than books of a purely instructive charac- ter. The Public Library, as we have already eaid, is not in a condition yet to furnish the bet- ter class of books in any number. When it is in & condition to supply students, and all persons secking substantial instruction, with ine books they need, wo may reasonably expect that the number of students will increase by the oppor- tunity, and that the Library will become, what it was infended it should be, an educator of the public. ‘WHAT WE BUY IN PARIS. The American Register, printed at Paris, con- taing some very intereating detsils of the export trade from Paris to the United States for 1874, which Prof. Prico could undoubtedly apply with great force to his theories on commercial crises, During the year ending the 30th of September, 1864, the total shipments from the Paris district to tho United States amonnted to $1,469,106; and on the same date of this year, £36,703,877. Tho same paper states that, at the very lowest computation, nesrly $13,000,000 are slso dis- bursed yearly by peoplo of tho United States i Paris, 80 tbat Paris lovies an annual tax of aboat $50,000,000 upon the Americans for lnzurics, which is 8 larger sum than she levies npon any othier nation. Of this amount, more than two- thirds is spent by tho gentler sex diroctly in Paris, or is sent to the United States for its ex- clusive benefit, and the details of the ex- port statoment show how the sex is spending its money, or somo ono elso's ‘money, whichever it may be. Tho first develop- ment of the statement is the fact that chiguons are doomed, and that the mountains and cat- aracts and pyramids of Lair which have hitherto adorned (?) the female head are destined to give place to a more rational and undemonstrative style of head-gear, and that ladies have decided hereafter to wear their own tresses, instead of the tresses borrowed from the heads of French and German peasants. In 1873, the exports of boman hair amounted to $494,350, but in 1874 thisitem had fallen to $230,382, a depreciation of more thas one-half. Economy in thiadirection, Lowever, does not argue =comomyin all. In 1873, the export of artificial flowers and feathers amounted to £1,155,585, whilo in 1874 it amounted to $1,482,447. The loss in the .quantity of bsir, therefore, will be com- pensated for by the more elaborate sdoramentof | the natural bair, and of that mysterious and in- definablo object called a hat or bonnet. Kid gloves are objects of enthusissm and adoration. In 1878, thetotal value of the gloves exporied was $569,908, and in 1874 the amount was £844.297, which shows either that the lsdies are about to quit cleaning thair kids, or that several thousand more of them have quit Lisle-thread and ailk, and have reachea the more sristocratic level of kid. The figures rolating to shawls will prove very startling to the sterner sex. There is no more elegant or graceful article in the lady's wardrobe, and there is mot one which makes such fearfal inroade upon the paternal pocket- book. The male being, therefore, = will read, with painfal spprebension and mel- ancholy interest, the fact that, in 1873, shawls figured at 655,549, wiile in 1874 the women of America purchasod $953,466 worth of the lovetiest things out, and every lady's shawl a little better than her neighbors. An- other item will fill the masculine breast with dire alarm. In 1873, tho amount of buttons export- ed reached $1.634,108, but in 1874 fell to 81,455,~ 567. Thia shows that buttons are going out, and that the women of America have determined to emancipate themselves from the thralldom of button-sewing. At the first glance, this wonld seem to bo a blessing, for the total depravity of inanimate things is nowhere 8o cloarly manifest- ed 88 in the tendency of buttons to come off at the wrong time. In some thonghtless moment, when the Tyrant Man is boguiling bimself, or exhibiting himself at the greatest possible advantage, & shirt-batton slowly meanders down his back and his shirt-collar climbs up his ears, or & suspender-button steps down and out, and down goes one side of his pantaloons by the run. Buttons are continually doing this, snd always chooss the least suspicious tife. Any complaint to thematernal departmentof the house, al- though emphasized with a reflection upon the lack of skill she invariably manifests in sewing on buttons, is met with a stern rebuke at the length of the masculine finger-naile which cus the thread, or the Iack of Chnstisn patience, which virtne is es- gential to the integrity of buttons. The falling off in the sucply of buttons, however, is mot a blessing, for shirt-studs must take their place, and shirt.stnds cost & great deal of money, and in addition to that have a mean habit of wrig- gling themselves out of their holes and getting lost. There little comfort in the fact that jewelry and laces show some falling off. In 1873, tho value of the jewelry exported amounted to $1,443,514, and in 1874 to $£942,447. In 1873, Iaces were exported from Paris to the amount of $901,738, and in 1874 the value of this item de- crensed to $515,047. This is a happy sign ; still ‘happier if it becomes permanent. Avother item may be mentioned, which is very refreshing in this connection. Dry-goods and woolen cloths have increased in amount. The value of the ex- ports in 1873 amounted to $8,355,414, and in 1874 to $10,679,755. When jewelry and laces fall off, and dry-goods ana woolens incresse, there i hope for the average American and the average American pocket-book. The summary of these figures is certainly sstonishing. They show an increase in tho exports from Paris to thus country in 1874 over 1878 of $817,000, and the Parisian papers take special pride in showing that tho exports from Paris alono exceed tha ex- portation of the whole of Germany to the United States. HOW THEY ABROAD. The matrimonial-ogency seems to have be- come a gettied thing abroad. It does not do its good deeds by stealth or throngh ambiguons ad- vertisements, but openly. It trumpets throngh tho daily press its trade of uniting the ivy, prop- erly decorated with gold-leaf, to the oak. Hav- ing o many women, with such-and-auch for- tunes, on hand, it offers them to tho highest biddor with all imaginablo®gravity. The great seat of the trade is in Paris. There the ardent lover can havo the dowry of the object of his pocket's adoration ascertained, and, if it proves insufficient, can havo object No. 2, No. 3, aud 80 on ad infinitum, sapplied until the precise compound of good looks and heavy bauk- accounts which he desires has been found. The snxious maid or widow may in like mancer discover exaitly how deeply indebted is her wooer, and can then calcu- late, with an admirable prudence usually wanting amid the delusions of love, whether she will tuke this one, or wait in single cussednoss until she can buy a husband cheaper. The Parisian agency 18 cosmopolitan. It is willing to provide busbands and wives, on demand, in any market. We translate from an Italian paper this frank advertisement : Mannuors—The * Discreet Catalogue.” Confi- dence-house founded in 1860. Loyalty, discretion, and quickness, M, Andre, Rus —, Par'g. A widow, 26, forsune, 100,000 franca, A widow, 50, fortune, 1,000,000 {r. ~ A widow, 40, fortune, 200,000 fr. A widow, 36, fortune, 500,000 fr. A widow, 43, income, 80,000 £r. An orphaa, 18, dowry, 500,000 fr. An orphan, 20, dowry, 1,000,000 fr, A young lady, 24, dowry, 200,000 fr. A young lady, 34, dowry, 1,500,000 fr. A young lads, 28, dowry, 300,000 fr. Note—The above Hst is only aslight sketch of what the * Discrect Catalogue ™ can offer. Every serious let- ter oxpecting an answer muat contain 10 frizics. It will be noticed that this appropriately- named maison de conflance mentions no males in ita list of desirable matches. Itwounid be an un- warrantable inference, however, to suppose that it is only women who avail themselves of these agencies, Lists of marriageable males are occa- sionally published. It is amazing to learn from them how many good-looking men of noble birth . are willing to be bought by any woman, old or iyoung, pretty or ugly, whose fortune is big anough to pay the prico they set on their icharma. Thoe male population of Berlin, julged by its matrimonial advortisements, coneiders cash as theono clement necded in connubial ibliss. Occasionally & too-fastidious person stip- ulates that the feminine incombranco on the catato he wishes to marry must not be of low birth or extreme ugliness ; but this is an excep- tion. The Vossiche Zeilung prints any number of notices to the effect that Bo-and-go, banker, merchant, officer, lawyer, etc., 2a the case may be, wishes to marry & lady of so much fortane, who may be old, ugly, and of doubtful family. Nay, some of these advertis- ers are willing to present themselves at the altar of Hymen and Mammon with brides of indifferent character, provided the purse they carry be weighty enough! Another queer fes- ture of German matrimonial advertisement is the number of persons who wish to contract Pla- tonic unions. Now it is a gentleman * of ripe age” who believes in *“the Platonic ides of love " and wishes to ‘“‘realize this besatiful idea in marriago,” aud now it is & man of fino social standing who is, 28 he phrases it, “not young,” who wishes to. *form a purely Platonic connection with = lady of Heart and Intellect.” Even thess purcly Pla- tonic persons have a keen lookout for caeh. The first regards * » lady not entwrely without fortune " as a prerequisite $o the bestowal of his P) ic love, and the second demands that the lady of Heart and Intellsct should be “in indepeudent circumstances.” The matrimonial agency proper does not flour- jsh ia England; but Thackeray aod the lesser satiriats have drawn terriblo pictares of the way marriage and money matters are mixed there. It is pleasant to think that the Republic knows nothing of this. Here, 28 everybody is aware, love is the only consideration paid for matrimony. Nobody asks, * How much money has she?” when told that the pretty Miss Smith is, a8 one delicate phrase runs, *‘in the market.” No blushing girl treats Brown, who has a million, with any more regard than she bestows on Bowen, who lives on s $1,200 salary. Here, when January and May marry, it is not because January buys May, but because May loves her darling grandf— husbsnd, and would love him just as much if he had not & peuny. Of conrse, we are models. As for the rest of the world, it isimitatiog Heaven by doing away with “ giving in marriage.” It substitutes selling. OUR RED BRETHREN. We published, Saturday morning, three dis- patches from the West on Indian matters. Bead together, they form & significant commen- tary .on the bad features of the peace policy, which, good in itself, has been carried into effect with a certain sickly senti- mentality that makes it defeat its own ends. I This is largely the fault of subordinate officials, The suthorities at Washington cannot, in the nature of things, superviso all the small de- tals of frontier management, but it is the bungling dischargo of theso small matters which often makes the difference between success and failare. The first dispatch chronicled the offer of a re- ward of §250 for the arrest of the Minneconjou Indisns who mardered Frank Appleton, Clerk of the Red-Cloud Agency, some months ago, and of another reward ot 8125 for the detection of two Indians who amused themselves, last spring, by butchering Jobn F. Hallowsy, an_employe of the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Agency. It appears from this that at least two Government officials have been slaughtered by our red brethren within a short time, and that their murderers bave gone unpanished. The second dispatch told the story of & bloody fight near the Wichita River, between Capt. Farnsworth’s command of twenty-eight men and sbout 100 Arzpahoes and Kiowss. The most noticeable point in the account is the statement that the Indians had more ammuni- tion and better guns than the troops. The telegram says that the savagea had breech-load- ers, vhich ‘“were sometimes of longer range than those ot tho troops.” It is nmot strange that the gallant soldiers, with numbers, ammaonition, and guns agsinst them, had to retreat in the night. The friends of Private William Dencham, of Chicago, who was shot through the head ; of Corporal Thomas J. Thompson, who was shot in the right side; and of Trumpeter Hermann Fehr, who received a pullet in the chest, wiil doubtless be pleased to. think tbhat these soldiers of the United States wero probably killed by United States bullets, shot with United States powder out of United States guos. ‘Lhe number of weapons bought by the Western Indians is small in comparison with the number they receive as presents from the -Government and steal from the bodies of the soldiers they have slaughtered. After reading these two dispatches it is s triflo surprising to learn from the third that each of the Chiefs of the River Crow Indians of Mon- tans is to be presented by tho Government with +a good horse, saddle, and gun.” They will have the winter for practice in sharp-shooting, while they are living on the Reservation at the ex- pense of the country, and will then be ready to test their skill in the spring on the war-path. ‘The country press, in order to save telegraph bills, would do well to clip out the following prophetic dispatch and keop it for use next epring p River Crow, Montans, May 3, 1875, * White-Squaw-Scalper, Baby-Brainer, and Man-Tor- tarer, the three head Chiefs of the River-Crow Indians, are on the war-path. They waylald, with their bands, an emigrant train, yesterday. The women and chil- dren were tied to the wagons and burnt up with them. The men were stripped and fastened to the ground. Thelr ears, noses, and tongues, were cut from their heads and a fira was kindled on the stomach of each. They died inswful agony. A detachment of troope was sentafter tho murderers, but the guns of the Chiefs were of such superior make that the soldiers were picked off wherever theyshowed themselves, when tho Indians were still out of rangeof the army ‘broech-loaders, The names of the dead and wounded are as follows : Tho troops had to retrest. There are fears of & gen- eral Indian war. VERTILATION IN SCHOOLS. ‘The Sanitary Convention pow in session in Philadelphia has taken up & very praciical sod very important subject, pamely, ventilation in school-rooms. It is a notorious fact that very few of the public-school-buildings are construct~ ed with reference to scientific or thorough ven- tilation. In cold weather, the children are com- pllod to breathe bad air, which is all the worse from being heated. In hot weather, the only way of ventilation is by opening windows and Ietting in a strong draft of airupon the heads of the children, the result of which is that the more delicate pupils invariably take cold. In addition to poor ventilation, the children of course are deprived of proper exercise, and aro not allowed in many instances sufficient time for their meals, —=& combination of evils sufficient to make the majority of school-rooms the breeding-places of disease, sud sowers of the seeds of fature un- healthfulness. Too much care cannotbe takenin this respect. Edacation is of little account if the pupil’s health is lost, and at the very time when & child most needs the advantages which conduce tostrength, vigor, and robustness of constitution, ho is surely but elowly laying the foundation of future unhealthiness. Theannouncement, there- fore, will be received with pleasure that the American Social Science Association has co-over- ated with the Health Association in its efforts to remedy these evils, and has devised & plan for ijmproving the bealthiness af schools which will te discussed at » public meeting to be held in- Detroit some six months henco. It would have ‘been well also had the two Associations included the ventilation of churches in their schome, a8 moet of these edifices are construoted in the in- terests of the devil, so far as good health con- duces to good morsls. If it is impossible for a child to becomo well educated and save his health im & poorly-ven- tilated school-room, it i8 no less impossible for & man to beccme truly devotional and pro- serve his spiritual health in & poorly-ventilated church structure. The mngers may eing like nightingales and ths preacher may preach like st. Chrysostom, but it will be of no avail if the listener ia breathing bad air and feeling dull, stupid, and sleepy. Students and eaints must ‘have frash air, good food, and plenty of exercise, to attain the mazimum of perfectipn. Under any other conditions, the former find early graves and the Iatter have dubious chancea of reaching the better world. We sncerely trust that the ‘movemeut of these two Associationa will not prove & more spssm of theories, but that it will load to practical results. Give tho children pure air, time for their food, and plenty of exercise. — THE BORROWS OF A KING. Uueasy lies the head that wears the crown. De Tonniens has coms to grief once more,— Orelie de Tonniens, King of Patagonis. Of De Tonniens’ antecedent miseries Tax TRIBUXE has scoken before; but the latest developments of fate are more remarkable than saything that has yot happened to His French-Auracanian-Patago- nisn Majesty, showing that, in that faraway 1and, neither divinity nor anything else hodges in the King. The King of Patagonia is Moosieur Orelie de Tonniens, s frisky little Frenchman, who, tired of Pansisn frivolities, bas been taking contracts in governing South American Kingdoms, and, for aught we know, has been Kinging it all along the Pacific Slope to Cape Horn. In any event, his Iast somersault landed this frisky Frenchman in Patagonis as King of that delightful conntry and ruler of its sterile plaina and gigantic bow!~ ders, from the Rio Negro to Terra del Fuego. His subjects are not very choice people, especial- ly for & Frenchman. They live on horseflesh, are very filthy mn their habits, are exceedingly vain, althongh they have nothing to be vain of, and are great liars. It is also very bard to tell men from women, 8o closely allied are the types of male and female beauty in that favored land. But De Tonniens was none the less a King, and, bis subjects being guileless, trusted and adored him. When De Tonniens was chosen King, he bad greed and gusmo in his eyes, for the islands pear the Straits of Magellan were rich in this fowl-product. Haviog been made King, away went De Tonniens to France to ne- gotiate a loan upon his guano securities. The French always have money laid away in their ald stockings, and De Tonniens had a wheedling tongue; and, besides, Do Tooniens was a King, and there was something dazzling in the appari~ tion of a King suddenly turning up in Bepublic- an France with bis pockets full of guano. His fertilizer was magical in ita effects, and Pata- gonian bonds went off like hot cakes. ~The King’s hands wero soon full of money, and the guileless Patagonians were plunged head and ears into debt, withont knowing that debt isa Dnational blessing. Meanwhile, the French Argo- naut with his gold set sail for bis Kingdom, and the thrifty French will long remember his fleece. The luckless De Tonnions, however, was sailing straight into trouble. The Argentine Govern- ment claims one part of the guano islands and the Chilian another, and no sooner bad De Ton- niens reached their waters than he was seized by them with all his trea ures and royal bag- gage, 8o that the two nations now have a King and a bandsome pot of gold. Of course they have no muse for the King, as Kings are manufactured every week in those coun- tries by means of the machinery of revo- Iution, but they have use for gold, and will place it where it will do the most good. Mean- while, the poor Patagonians have lost their King, and the French investors bave their pockets fall of Patagonisn bonds, which are of no use except for kindlung purposes. Thereia great wrath on the boulevards and in the cafes, and the bond- bolders are demanding that AacMahon shall compel the Chilians and the Argentines to sur- render De Tonniens and fork over his gold. Bat this cannot be done, for, when De Tonniens be- came King of Patagonis and all the Terra del Fuegos, he renounced his allegiance to France, became a Patagonian, and swore to wear guanaco and horse-hide instead of the habits of Worth, and to eat horse instead of frogs. It is & bad state of things for the Frenchmen, the Pata- gonians, and their ill-starred King. The Chilians and the Argentines will not allow him to go to his loyal subjects, and have probably siready epent his money. But De Tonmiens is irre- pressible, aod he may yet turn up ss King of the Cannibal Islands, or monarch of gome of the South Sea Islands, where *every prospect pleases, and only man is vile.” It is safe to say, however, that De Tonnions will steer clear of guano hereafter, and that Frenchmen will not regard sea-fow] with any other feeling than that of mournful interest. The gull, hereafter, will be & very suggestive bird to them. A CHANCE FOR JULIAN HAWTHORNE. Hawthorne, the son of his father, bas in- herited something of the subtle peychological speculation which marks Nathaniel Hawthorne's best work. The son’s two novela show strong traces of it. If he really has this power, he can find a fit hint for the plot of a third novelin a story which comes to us from New England with & circumatantiality of names and dates aud place that challenges disbelief. At 6 p. m., Wednesday, Sept. 9, a young lady of Lawrence apparently aied. Her friends felt no doubt of her death. They were weeping around her bed, when her lips parted and moved, and & deep, gruff voice issued from them: *‘Rub both of her arms a5 bard as you can.” The startled people didso. A sccond voice spoke from the body : * Raiseheruponend.” Whie the terrified relatives hesitated, the first, gruft voice said: *“Raise her up on emnd; you're deat, ain’t you?” They lifted the body up. It or she, or they, began to breathe. Her father sat bebind the body, holding it np. A third voice issued from the lips: “If I could move her legs around o that Icould -set herup onthe foot-board, she'd be all nght.” The father was about to do this, when heand his danghter wero both lifted up and placed on the foot-board. Then the girl apparently lived again. She talked cheerily and brightly, but gave no sign of recog- nizing any one. In a few minutes the body fell back on the bed, spparently again life- less. Boon still another voice began & conversation which lasted three hours. ‘The voico declarad that the body was possessed by spirits. A long tance slgep followed. Thursday morning, a voico called the father to the bed on which the body lsy. Hosat down there, The voicesaid: * WhoamI, anyway?” “You are —." *“No, I sin't; — died last night.” There were other manifestations up to noon of Friday. Baturday morning, when the corpse had been properly prepared for the grave, the family were discussing the place of burial ‘Then an spparition of the desd womaa cama into the room, told where she wished tobe buried, and vanished. Her wishes were followed. This 18 all the story. We havesuppressed the names, but have made no other change in it. The plot that might grow, under Julian Haw- thorne’s care, out of this is plain. Let two radically-opposed temperaments be united in marriage. Let their children be wayward and their grandchildren wild. Throw into the family history » hint of murder and s certainty of cun- ning crime. Have the different streams of bicoa tbat hava flowed from the first marrisgs Snally unite in the Issk. The child of that gyipy be acted upon by all the influences of hery, poscesed by their spiits, if yop m““‘ noval would bo devoted, of coure, g g, velopment of her charcter. Thers fpy o " for a Hawthorne hore. Mindful of gy, fathr &id for American literature, we ragy dow the son with this suggestion for s pgy e —— § CONCERRING C. t is some days aince the tale, news of a bank-robbery, with ::‘f:e:.;:;:nm comitant of & cowardly cashier ang 2 % cashier’s family. All newspaper-sayg. N tne old story. Brown, who has beep mg::v the Pottawumpsic Bank for unnumbareq % takes the vault-key home in hip prgp. pocket and goes to sleep. Tywo decked with blaok masks and bludgarmy by » convenient window. Mrs. Browp iy s up snd gagred. Miss B. ditto, The grees ditto Brown then wakes hnmgciqmau himself and s pistol Ho s told to rige .,,d“ does 50, trembling. Heis asked whm‘m. - 1s, and he tells at once. One man standy ] over the Brown family, while tae other mf: key to the confederstes in the bugy. Ty esnnot unlock the door. The messenger escorts Brown to the bank, and by painting pistol at him actually forces him to M“: vault! The thieves make their baul ang g pear. " Brown frees himself from his fuiey s0on as the rogues are safe from pursuit, py arouses the town. There is w, sod froitless chase. Perhaps the back § ruined ; perhaps & number of poor peopls iy Btrange to say, amid all the hubbup and fy lamentation, it sppareatly never occars to, or to anybody else, that he, Brown, hay Plang any but the most heroio part. Ho does aoiee the slightest sign of believiog that he Dag beey. a contemptible coward. It seems quite rigy |- him that he has betrayed the trust repossdy [ bim, and has poesibly plunged hundteds o g, ple into misery, because, forsooth, his wratcheg © Iife was threstensd. Cashler Brows voed b | emall respect for Col. Brown, who surrendeny § fortross because bo fears he may be\ilegly © defending it, but he entertains 8 bigh regar 1y himself under the same circamstances, g public has hitherto shared this regun, cryf b lenst has expressed no contrary opinioas ; bt ! istime for it to change its mind, andthey speak its mind freely. If a mers threyy £ of death is to excmse the hmhqg men, gy i of a trust, what security of good faith ean v kave? It has been snggested by 3 Boston pagey that the vault-key of & bank should be madsis several parts, and that it shonld be divided 1Y every night, among half & dozen persons. By E if cowardice is to be still conmdered respeciatl the only effect of this would be to bring, instud of one, six Eigh-toned citizens on theirks crying: *Don't pomt the pistolst ma ¥, | Hobber, don't ; you'll find my part of ths ky behind the clock on the parior mantelpisca™ £ E RELIGIOM IN RUSSIA—THE GREEK CHURCH L’EGLISE RUSSE, Axarorx Lzoy Buoum, § Paris, 18574 b i Religion nowhera holds such sway overths f° masees of the people a8 in Russin. In evey b village, the church of the place, with its green {: or blue cupols, towars over all things alse, s | fitting symbol of the Empirs of Orthodoxy,— tho Greeks call thia church, by sy of profer ence, the Orthodox Church,—over the heas and minds of the people. Trus, in Bussia, asia all other countries, Skepticiam has invadsd ths educated classes. Bat the victims of Dvabt aro thers fewer relatively than in auy cber country in the world. The religious Life of ths Russisus presehy some strange phenomena. Thers i no e naturally more disposed to ba religions than ths Russisn. Spontaneously all " his cocaptions take s religious form. He always professests be, and believes himself to be, s Christisa. Tt heis not always Christian, although alwys ro ligiously inclined. Thers are sirata of Busis3 society, snd not among the Finnith sd Tartar trives alone, into which Christiity has not yet penetrated. Idolatry still Enget among the loweat classes. Pagan rites and be liefs have in many places survived, thelr forms only changed. The religion of others,aid, ia found to be & kind of hyhrid bstwsen Chit- tisnity sad primitive Paganism. The pumberel sects among the masaes is something sppallasy) and new ones are daily arising. It is stogs that a people who, like the Bustisas,axepled Christianity withont a struggle, should thus, ix theur lower ranks, cling to a modified Besihen- ism. Btudents of their religious kistory &% however, that their conversion to Christsti'y was never thorough. Nor is it only the natsd 28 whole in which this contradiction of Py ism and Christianity is found. Very oftea i religion of individusls is discovared fo be3 strange compound of Psgenism, Christitsfh, snd Skepticism. A apecies of Naturalistia Pof- theiam ia still widely prevalent in Russis. The Russian Church is & National Chareh. 1 is & National inatitution, sod the oue Wil dates farthest back of all Bussun institntioss It in not only a National, but s popular insim tion. The country snd the Charen w% identified in the mind of s Buss His religion and his patriotism are always -flfl; Even whero Skepticism sbounds the Charch! soldom ttacked, for, strange to ssy, ¥hes Russisn loges his faith in the Choreh, hadn; nofcesso o be attached to it. He still oved To attack it would be treason. e The Russians call their Church the Hol? olic Apostolic and Orthodox Church. 1tis x usually eslled simply the Orthodox Churel- B0 the Greek separated from the Western chm;l ! had oaly 20,000,000 adherenta. Ithssoot 7 000,000, There ar of these 60,000,001 sin alone. It might, therefors, ba more sFPT priately called the Slavie, not the Greek Chb It is generally supposed that thareis verT difterence between the Roman Catbolic -m: . Greek Churches. Thisis tos grest. MM“. roneous. Thereis often & very seriou® sl ence where thero is apperent harmooy Ww the two great bodies. Thus, the ml";mm Purgatory is an article of the Roman faith. Itis not of the Groe!; or ::a:m 5] Neither Purgatory nor the dou! the Holy Ghost ia admitted by the Gree® ::_‘ +Orthodox Chureh,” howver, does %% & demn these doctrines. It contents 285, saying that they are no part of i8I broach - botwaen the Bussisn sad the Catholio Churches is being graduslly T To the points of difference between them i have been sdded recently,—the dfl:‘""w‘ Immscalato Conception, and” that of *\% Infallibility. i tain - £3% doctrinal definition can ot the clos of the grest Councils anteriot ruptars of Bome and Constantivoplé " theory of doctrinal dovelopment in OB ““M in entirely 1ejected by them. It i3 % tained that the Christian aammhubufl“"; for centuries. There is, 858 oumsmlm'-\‘:'r-ntl @ siderable latitdde of opinion in the CBOC points not sattlod by the first Conndle Ly Russian Church hasno central a0 Roman. The Greek Criochism 85 Chrch has uo head but Christ. Noloes! can impose ita usages, 1angusge, orm‘g’ o any other. The Slavonic langusgt. Greek, 15 in general use in the serTics. In many respects, the Russisd nearer to soms of the Protestant 50¢ ke the Roman Catbolic. It is Nationsh "0y Auglican. 1t has no centralized BOVNIL 1y When Doellinger mgnalized his deire d:w-d * Ruseisn Charch, becsuso he was not dUPP0 ., aocaps tao decreo of Papal Infallibility, &