Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 22, 1874, Page 8

THE CHICAGO DAILY TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. 1874, EATES OF SUBSCRIPTION (PAYADLE N ADVAKNCE). '5.00 | Sunday. $2.30 Datly, by anall. . S1Z00 [JERT TG0 et 4o i homme e, vent celsy and mistakes, oé'il’i'a"- in full, ticloding State and Conaty. Temitances may bemade eitherby draft, express, Past- Ofice order, or in registered letters, at our risk. TERMS TO GITY SUBSCEIBERS. Daily, delivered, Sunday excepted, 25 cents per weok. Dadly, delivered, Sunday included. 30 cents per woak. THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Corner Madison and Dearborn-sts., Chicago, Il ettt A mure 2nd give Post- ~O-MORROW'S AMUSEMENTS. # 'S THEATRE—Madlton e and State. " Jessle Deasa. strest, between RAND OPEPA-HUUSE—Clark street, spposfe :;;-Gan:-;:%nuw Kelly & Leon's Minstrals. VErand atch S." ACADEMY OF MUSIC—Halsted streo! snon and Monroe. Fagagomentol AMrs. *“Was She Right?" HOOLEY'S THEATRE—Randolph stroet, between Clark and Lafalle, ** Divorce.” betwi Mad- S Coanirss. -1 'SE—Manroe sirest, between '+ Arthur's Gird of tho Period.’ % ALL—North Clark strect, corner of HOMEOPATHIC HOSPITAL FAIR—~Nos. 110, 113, and 114 Lk steeot. SOCIETY MEETINGS. £ CHAPTER, NO_ 2 R. A. M.-Hall, 72 mvocaiion Monday eve: Nor. work on the M. AL, Da- tod. Dy order of the H. P E. N. TUCKER, Sec. VEARBORK LODGE, No. 310, A. F. and A. M.— Eh e it e Ml Vxeflfi:‘fihnfi‘?:!;‘d‘:!" x %m 8. uuD‘bY. W, NSIA LODGE, NO. 160, A.F; & A. M., will al Hall, 198 LaSalic-et. rat Sociable at Ori L .| and their sdherents the Board of Trade and to the genersl commer- cial reputation of the city. Is the Board equal tothe task of vindicating itself?: If not, then the sooner it dissolves ‘the better. Belter for Chicago that there be no-Board of Trade at all than one where the transactions degenerate into frands; aod where' the eculators ntrol, and stamp the Board itself with their own reprehensible In the papers of the case is a statement made by Mr. Bturges that in June snd July, 1874, he purchased fwenty million bushels of corn! This statement is pot denied or dis- proved by those who are prosecuting. They do not seem to give to the transaction. if true, the consideration its importance demands. It will not be pretended that these stupendous purchases, or any considerable part thereof, were bona fide ; that those who gold held that amount of corn, or that Sturges ever received it: the sales were largely fictitious, or, in otber words, were mere bets on the market. The law of this Btate, which went into operation July -1, 1874, pro- vides— N ‘Whoever contracts to have or. give fo himself or another the option to sell or buy at a futurs time any grain or other commodity, . . . or corners the market, or attempta to do 80, in Telation to any of suck commodities, shall be fined not less than $10 nor more ihan §1,000, or confined in ‘the county juil not exceed- ing one year, or both; aud all contracts made in viola- tlon of this se-tion aball be considered grmbling con~ tracts, end shall be void. . This is the law of the State, and fcrnishes the respectable and Lonest members of the Board of Trade an all-sufficient reason for the suppres- sion of all uncommercial and illegitimate trans- actions among its members. Has the Board the moral courage to deal properiy with this evil, ont ‘narsday eveniog, Dec. 3 1454, of J. Baratow, ~*Hiatter, et ricet, Per order of the Committes, The Chicags Tribune. Sunday Morring, November 23, 1874. WITH SUPPLEMENT. THE CASE OF W. N. STURGES. We have been favored with o series of publica- {ions contsining the evidence and the arguments and statements in the case of Mr. W. N. Sturges, who is arraigned before the Board of Trade upon several charges of uncommercial conduet. The facts, as wo understand them, are that in July last Mr. Sturges was running s corner in corn ; that on that occasion several persons and firms who bad sold to him defaulted in the delivery ; that in soveral cases the-defaulters claimed thet they were prevented from deliver- ing by Mr. Sturges directly or indirectly. Thess tases were all submiited to the Board of Arbitra- tion, which committee fixed & rate at which most of the contracts were settled,—all resulting in & profit to Mr. Sturges of sbout £7,500, not in- cluding the loss from delay, ete. 1In September, there was another ezcitement in corn. ' Mr. Sturges was a large seller. On the 1sst day of September the ruling price was 79 to 80 cents far cash corn. Mr. Sturges sold largely 8 these prices, aud, though numerous persons vainly souglt to purchase corn for shipmont at80 cents, he claime to have made other sales at 70, $5, and 60 cents. -He failed to deliver to 8 num- ber of purchiasers at tho high prices, but claims to bave delivered the corn sold at the lowar prices. On the 31st day of July, while the roling prices were G4 to 68 conts per bushel for corn, Mr, Sturges announced a purchaze by him of 250,000 bushels at 80 _cents,—that price being 16 sents above the then markei price, and above the price at which he had himself sold corn on that day. . Denion & Co., who failed to deliver corn to Sturges on the Slst of July bought for delivery nest day, claumed damages. “The ‘matter was referred to the Committee on Arbitration, who awarded Denton & Co. damages, which award was subsequently affirmed by the Committee ‘on Appeals. Mr. Sturges refuses to abide by this award. e 3 . Certain charges. were preferred aguwust Mr. Bturges, and investigated by the Board of Di- rectors, who, upon the facts and evidence, re- ported to the full Board of Trade that My, Stur- ges biad been guilty of— Firet—Selling large amounts of ccrn, on Sept. 30, for delivery before $ o'clock that day, which corn he did not deliver according to the terms of his sale, while he swears that he did deliver a much larger amount of corn that day, which he claims to have sold ntolater hour thanths above,and at from10 to 20 cents per bushel below its actual value; and, far- ther, that he hea refused to pay, or in any way sc- Eknowledge his Mability for, the actusl damages in- =zurred by the purchasers of such corn, by reason of his failure to fulill his contracts, thus leaving the parties to whom be had sold such property without remedy, except by the action of the Board, or the dilatory processea'of Iaw. Second—Refusing to adjust his undisputed and ma- tured contracts for the sale, by himself, of lurgs quan- tities of corn at geller’s option during September last, 1ud refusing to release margins deposited to secure the fulfillment of such contracta, Third—Making purchase of property st fictitions prices, largely above the real valuein the market of sach property for the evident purpose of extorting ex- cessive money damages from those with whom he had maturing contracts ; and also making sales, or alleged aales, of property, st far below its real valus in the market, for the evident purposs of seeking to avoid tho payment of Just damages to those with whom he had matured snd undispated, but unfulfilled, con- tracts ourth—Refusing to be governed by the rules of the even if to do 80 requires the expulsion of every offending member who shall e guilty of such transactions? THE * NINETY-DAY LAW.” The extent to which a large city i infested with gamblers, thieves, confidence-men, roug] and the dangerous classes gonerally, depends on the vigilance of the police in driviog them out. The rule is, thst every city must take care of itealf ; the eect of its application is, that tho cities whoso authorities are lax have more than their proportion. The gamblera and thieves be- long to & nomadic class, and migrate before con- stituted authority. Thore is & certain * Ma~ sonry " about their organization which enables -them to communicate secretly and quickly the relstive chances in the various cities for being. let 2lone. Their favorite haunts aro chapged according to circumstances. This year 1t will become gonerally under- stood, perhaps, thas they will find no comfort in New York or Bostou ; next year that it will be exceedingly warm for them in Phil- adelphia or St. Lonis ; and so they avoid the cities where they have received wurnings, and congre- gate in larger number in those cities where their operations are treated with greater leniency. When the People’s Party (?) went into power in Chicago about s year ago, there was a general advertisoment to the gamblers and thieves throughout the country that the policy of the Chicago authorities would be “liberal"; the re- sult was that the dangerous classcs flocked bero by thescores and bundreds, - As they found that the policy hsd not been misrepresented, thoy | have been constantly incressing instead of de- creasing ever since. Most of the other cities in this country have » decided advantage over Chicago and othar Illi- nois cities in the possession of more stringent laws for the apprehension or dispersal of the Imown bad characters. These laws have been generally adopted by Btath Legislatures after the model of the English code for arresting profes- sional criminals when found in suspicious places. In Philadelphia, for instance, thers is what is known as the * Ninety-Day Law,” which author- izes the police to arrest any man known tobes thief, confidence-operator, bunko-roper, or noto- Tious criminal, When he is found without em- ployment or in a place likely to develop his crim- inal propensities. When arrested, the man is isken befors a magistrate, who is suthor- ized " to hold him over for good be- bavior to soy amount- which may seem proper. It the known criminal fail to furnish bail ho is sent to prison for ninety days, and he may be rearrested when his term is finished if ho is again foundunder similar conditions to the first atrest. When bail'is furnished, 1t is usually under the condition that the vagrant shall leave the city. New York has a law kmown as the, ** Professional Criminals Act,” of like application ; and so, we believe, have Detroit, Milwaukee, and several other large citics. As Iong as. the llinois Legislature neglects to pro- vide a similar law for the protection of Chicago aud other citiss-in this State, we shall beata constant disudvantage. The bunko-gamblers, confidence-men, and thieves driven out of otber cities under these laws will come to Chicago, where no such danger awaits them. 'Moreover, our police and justices have this excuse of a defective law constantly at hand to urge 28 2n explanation of their failure to stippress tho criminsl classes. Themuuicipal authorities of Chicago shouid exert themselves to induco the Legislature which mects next winter to ‘provide a law by which known crimi- nals may be arrested when they are found loaf- ing about as vagrants, and be compelled by our Association, and denying its jurisdiction over him as & member, by written refusal to abide the award in the case of Dentan & Co., ete. Mr. Sturges makes a general denial of the an- thority of " the Directora to present charges against him, or of the Board of Trade to try him on the charges preferred; he denies the binding obligation of the award, and insists ‘upon & trial before the law courtsof all the mat- ters. He offered considerable teatimony ss to the facts of the caze. Asguming thst the transactions charged by the Board of Directors took place as charged, we thiuk the time has now come when the Board of Trade shall decide once for all whether it will cantinue its organization, or dissolve; and to decide whether this great commercial city shall or shall not be represented by & Board of mer- chants, or by an organized body of desperate and .\!nscmp\flonn speculators. Itis of peculiar < Ilimficuxu that Mr. Sturges can say: 'y prosecuto; Boasnar ;‘ :;!:nndl:e. &ud assert, ag & reason, that the well av myselt, s on trial, and " Unfortunately, thess intimations of Mr. Bturges as to the common practics among mem.. bers of the Board are widely circulatod, and bave made & deep lodgment in the minds of producers snd shippers, sod of merchants in all Pparts of the country. This impression has dons, and will continue to do, grast injury to the civractar of Police Magistrates to give bonds for their good bebavior or go to jail, where, if they must be supported at the expense of the law-abiding, peaceable, and industrious classes, they will at least bo prevented from committing criminal depredations on the public. THE OWNERS OF GAMBLING-HOUSES, There i one way in which every gambling-den in Chicago may be closed within a brief period. 1tis to indict the owner of evary building in which gaming is tolerated. The lawis ample for this proceeding, - Section 127 of the Criminal Ju- risprudence of this State provides that * Who- ever keeps & common gaming-house, ete., or knowingly rents any such place for any such ‘purposes, shall, upon conviction, for the first of- feoso be fined not less than $100, and for the second offense be fined not less than $500 and be confinedin the county jail not less than six montha, and fof the third offense shall be fined Dot less than £500 and be imprisoned in the Penitentiary not less than- two years nor more than fiveyears.” The State’s Attorney has expressed the opinion that this gambling act is sufficiently broad to enable him to convict any man guilty of the practices it prohibits; yet that portion of it which relates to the owners of buildings and rooms in which gaming is pursued has been utterly ignored. It is the Pplainest proposition in the sorld that, if this portion of the act wera rigidly enforced, it would not be heces- Bary to prosecute any faurther, - Houss-owners would not run the risk of the county jail or the Peaitentiary for any consideration of rental, and thers wonld be no gambling if the gamblars could find 00 local babitation, “* . Thia 1aw jx antirely jost snd ressonable, Tha who knowingly rents a bui'ding or & Toom to bs used for gaming purposes becomes a partner in the faro-bsuk or the keno- table which is ron In it His ' rental dopends upon the. profits of the gambler, sothat he is directly interested in having the house largely visited and run in such & way 25 to, pat moduyin the keeper's purse. There is not s gaming-house in this city but whbose owner, either of his own knowledge or through his sgent, is aware of the character of the business. transacted, if it bas been occupied for this pur-. pose as much as & month. After ascertaining the fact, the owner then knowingly rents his house for gaming purposes, since he could de- alare the lease forfeited on account of the nefari- ous and unlswful business transacted. And he would declare it forfeited unhesitatingly if he thought there were the slightest danger of being ‘indicted under thelaw, % The duty of the police in this matter is clear. Every gambling-house in the City of Chicago is known to them. Thoy could prepare within twenty-four hours s complete list of them, to- gether with the pames of the. owners. of the buildings in which - they are -located. The Police Commissioners should direct the Chief of Police to give an order to his Cap- tains and Bergeauts to have such a list made. Ho should then, by their ordors, motify tha owner of every building and room used, for gam- ing purposes of the law and the fact, o that there could be no pretensa of ignorance in re- gard to the character of the business. He should next be instructed to report to the Grand Jury the pames of all the owners who did not immedistely clean out the gambling-hells; and he should also furnish the me- cessary evidence to secure their indict- ment. With the law before them, and such evidence as the police could furnish, no Grand Jury could fail to find true bills. The indict- ment and conviction of half-a-dozon housa-own- ers would render it & physical impossibility for gamblers and bunko-men to gecure quarters for the prosecution of their nnlawful trafilc. If theau- thorities even profess & desire to put 2 stop tothe gambling that now runs riot in Chicago, andcheck the otber crimes which grow diractly out of it, they will lose no time in adopting this method, which is sure to be efficacious. We eball seo whether there is any disposition to act upon the plan which the law has provided for them. If the police do their duty in the premises, we bave no donbt that the Grand Jury, the State’s Attorney, and the courts will complete the good work. ! POPULAR EDUCATION IN A REPUBLIC. Ono of the most remarksble systems of public instruction in the world is that of the Canton of Zurich, Switzerland. The Government of Zurich is a democratic deepotism. The laws passed by its Assembly have to be ratified by the popular voto before thoy can take effect. For nearly forty years it has derived all its revennes frum an income and property tax, arranged on s slid- iog scale, 8o that the rich pay more, not orly ab- solately but in proportion, than the poor. The Canton provides gratuitous education, civil and military, and compels all its inhabitants to avail themselves of it. It habitnally grznts sabsidies to book-publishers. This scheme of government contains some of the features which are almost uaiversally considered by writers on political ad- wiietration to ba fatal to the prosperity of the individual and the preservation of the State. It i a atriking proof of the way in which practice 80 often modifies heory, especially in politics, that Zurich is ooe of the world's most flourishing communities. The ratio of its ac- cumulated capital to its area is something re- markable. The svarage wealth of its families is three times that of France. Pauperism does not exist. The standard of education is marvelously high. The system of public instructionis a trifle complicated, when put into print. Schools for children under 6 are free from State interfer- encs. Thisis, however, s matter of complaint. From the age of 6, the child ia under Govern- ment control. If he or she goes to the publio schools, instruction is free. If to the private schools, the State supervision still continues. Primary instruction, compulsory upon all, lasts nine years. The first six are spent in the * ele- mentary,” the last three in the complementa- ry,” schools. In the former. the sessions consume from twenty to twenty-eight hours per week, exclusive of the sewing-lessons of the girls. No child under 12 years of age is permitted to go out to work. . The course of the complementary schocls consumes four hours of each Tuesday and Thursday, snd con- sistd of a review of all the elementary studies. At this point, when the pupils are 15 years old, compulsary education, except in singing, ceases. One hour & week for one year must be spent in finishing the musical course, which begins eight years beforehand, when the scholars are but 7 years old. There are 600 of these elemontary and complementary, schools. ‘In 1872, 83,000 children attended them, st an average cost of $4 apiece. They have to huy the nscessary books, but the " subsidies 'to printers scd lithog- raphors make these- wondrously cheap.’ ™A first-rate atlas, in the hinds of every scholar, costs next to notbing.” 'Boys sud girls are edacated togother.. The teachers are mnow all masctline, but some women are to be employed hereafter. Theore are substantially no prizes, but a scholar getting good marks need pay noth- ing for instroction in the higher grades of schools now about to be described. Next to the primary schools are the secondary, seventy-six in number. Bince last year, theso have been made free to all. Instruction is given in modern languages, history, geography, phys- ical science, etc. The boys learn geometry, and the gixls sewing and "**conversation.” If the Iaat branch is well taught, Zurich society must be in delightful contrast with that of the rest of the world. Tha 8,000 pupils in these schools cost the Canton £2.50 apiece peryear. Tho next grade is the Cantonal scliool, properly so-called. Graduates of tho comple- mentary schools ean enterit. Zarich pava $40 per year for each pupil in this, and he or she pays $10. The courses of study are divided and sutdivided with great minuteness. The Specta- lor sums up the whole system to this point by saying: *‘Thus the school-years of working- men are from six to fifteen (or sixteen, if we in- clude the last year’s singing class); -those of the rades are from six to seventeen (six yéars in the primary schools, two fn the secondary or Can- tonal schools, three in the industrial schools); those of the engineer, srchitect, chemust, etc., from six to seventeen and a half; those of the lawyer, doctor, theologian, ete., from six to eighteen.” Besides all these schools, Zarich maintains an university of four fsculties, and the Swiss Con- federation supports, in the Canton, = first-class polytechnic schoul. A course of lectures in either, occupying one hour » week through the year, costs 82 ¥ ‘The inhabitauts of Zurich PAY anaverage the, prostrate form .of the di v o discovered benesth those of all the nice young men. They were sitting, and standing, u?d sprawling upon him impartially. His bullets bad missed, and his foes had trinmphed. His. revolver was taken as & Iawful prize of war, and his look was, smashed, but be wasletgo free. He is now supposed to ‘be lurking somewhera: ‘within the- Court-House, waiting for' fresh’ chances'of ‘combat.' The town still claims to’ own that structure, but would probably be will- ing to sell its title cheap, especialiy if the pur-, chaser would agree to remove the building and its contents. The story of "the "Rev. Elliott's doings, if it is true as it is told, might be placed beside the exploits of the Rev. E. E. Hale's hero who. stole a meeting-house. Stealinig a Court- 'House aad its sppurtenances is something more surprising still. school-tax of 2115, exclusive of the volantary coatributions of the Communes towards the sal- aries of teachers, The aggregate educationsl tax is $200,000 5 year, which is proportionately, about fourteen times the sum France spends for- the same purpose. The money is' cheerfully’ given. Improvements in the school systom are: being conatantly made. The'statistics of intelli- genco in the army show that the “soldiers of Zu- rich are ten times better educated than those of England. There iz np comparison between them and the French soldiery. The latter-are hope- lessly behindhand. B 2 " Politics, like dreams, sometimes go by contra- rles. Hereisa Republic which, by trampling on some of the features ususlly conaidered es-: seotial to the existence of such a Gevernment, has laid those sure, strong foundations "of popu- Iar sovereignty for which most Republics has wighed id vain. *The syster would probably fail if triod in its entirety on a large ares, but Amer- ican educators and statesmen can get valuable bints from the'sbundant details we bave givea. LIBERALISM IN THE CHURCH. : ‘The leaven of Liberalism seems to be at-work in the theological lump and in most unexpected quarters.. Ite last manifestation is in Congre-, gotionalism, and New England- Congregational- ism at that. The good old Puritanical divines must have stirred most unessily in. their graves during the recent sesssion of the Congregs- tional Conference’ at Bridgeport, Conn., if they were aware of the effect of Yale liberaliam upon their succesgors, or if any. notes of the discus- slon’ which was favorable to greater Christisn zeal, mors catholicity of dogms, and more solemnity.of, forms, penetrated into their quiet 'WORKINGMEN-AND THE SAVINGS-BANES, A workingman sends us & communication, from which we make the following extract : “As a workingman and a lover of your paper, may-I say that soma deys ago I read an article in Tuz TRz USE urging the workingmen to invest their surplus earnings in savings-banks? At the time of the panic Taz TRIBUNE and other ity papers pointed out the great defocts In the Savings-Bank 1aw in not holding the stockholders respansilus to the dopositars for the amount deposited in the banks, which has made tho workingmen have no confidence in the banks, - In- stead of placing their money in them, they keep-it obout them, and otiiers spend it. I can assure you I1° have had $800 §n my pocket tor the last twelve months, 2nd I bave not confidence enough in the banks to place it there, and I know many stinilarly situated. May I resectfully ask you to give your honest opin- ion about the safety of iha bauks?. Why cannot the State make o law to hold the banks responaible to the State and the State to the deposjtor? This workivgman asks a qliemon which has probably been asked by numerous others. He has had $800 lying idle inhis pocket & whole year, when it might bave been earning 6 per cent in the bask. It has besn uuproductive capital, of no use to him and creating nothing, and he paturally enough has tired of being his own bavker, without the ability to pay dividends. He might have invested his money otherwise,—in cheap lots for instance; but it is possible he has no more confidence in lots than he hasin banks. ‘What shall he do with it ? In snswer, we retumn to our first position— put it in the eavings-bank ir thers is no otber use forit. Itisnot difficult to find banks that are worthy of confidence. Our correspondent alludes to the facs that the stockholders of the banks are mot responsible to the depositors. Tho eavings-banks, thus far, have not been organized under a general law, but under special charters. Nevertheless, some of them have voluntarily announced their lisbility to the amount of double their capital stock. Bat even in this case our correspondent will ses that the line of deposits may be immense and the capital stock small, so that this wonld not be a com- plete guarantee. The only perfect guarantee be has is in the reputation of the bauk and the integrity of its ofiicera. There are many banks in this city, like the State Savings, the Fi- delity, the Merchants' Saviugs, Loan and Trust Company, the Merchants’, Farmers’, and Mechan- jca’ Bavings Bank, the German Savings Bank, the Chicago Savings Institution, snd others which have proved themselves worthy of the contidence of the workingmen, ‘They are offi- cored by honest and capable men, who have proved their ability to mauvage their banks by carrying them through the recent severe finan- cial panic with success, aod are to-dsy a8 sound and powerful 8s the tional ~ Baoks. never ‘octasioned much surprise, ¥ spoken only’ for himsslf, and the denomina- tion hss..not..felt obliged to- acoept bis views upon theology any more that they bave his views upon free-love, But in this Confer- ence the delegates were the leading men of the Charch, and they spoke for the Church. Thus Dr. Bacon, in a discassion on creeds, demanded that the Church shonld make such s.atstoment of belief as would not exclnde * any Christian” from the privileges of the Church, and asserted that the whole practice of subscribing to creeds had no warrant eitber iu Seripture o in reason. Dr. Rankin, of Fairfield, Dr. Fields, and other Doctors concurred in Dr. Bacon’s views, and drew up a resolution recommending the churches to make such a statement of belief 23 would not exclude any Christian, which was passed by an overwhelming majority. This having been done, Pregident Porter spent a short time in vindicat- ing Tyndall. Dr. Barton then discussed the value of s book of common’ prayer and of forms for various ceremonies. The arguments which he sdduced in support of & prayer-book were very portinent. He kpew it would be a great aid to young ministers who wers often too melancholy and low-spirited to pray well; it would choks off old ministera who were liable to pray half an hour withoat stopping; it would suppress fantsstic and ridiculous praying ; and lastly it would prevent others from making the mistake, which ba ‘made sometimes, of intimas- ing that a deceased person might be unhappy in bis condition, implying thereby that he was not in the better world.. With regard to the admin- istering of the Sacrament, he took very advanced grounds, and said i this connection: *We want the strengthened ritual—many of us. We want the ‘Te Deum,” we want the *Gloris 1o Excelsis,” we want the Catlolic ecreeds spoken or chanted by all the people, we want the incomparable ‘Ter-Sanctus,’ we want the « Benedictus,” a8 spoken by Zachariss and chanted byall generations. I euppose there are some among us who would discard such a hymn 28 the ‘Te Deum,” for the very resson that it hag been sung throughout the Christian world, In mentioning the above banks, we do not. intend to throw any discredit | almost .- uaiversally, for more than a thousand upon the others, bat we sclect them | years.” The viowa of the Conference on Rit- ualism may be inferred from the fact that, when good Deacon Tomplins had the temerity to offer a resolution condemning Ritualism, it was voted down by = large majority. r The action of this Conference is suggestive as & 8ign of the times.. It will strike many another good old deacon besides Tompkins with a sort of boly horror, but it indicates most accurately the drift of the religious world. Mr, Gladstone, in his famous article on * Ritualism,” attributed the tendency of the Church in that direction to the ecthetical element, and there is much force in the assertion. There is a very general long- ing upon the part of worshipers to relieve the cold, hard forms of dogma and creed by making their worship attractive with , beautiful forms, so as to draw in the outside world. oaly as prominent instances of banks which workingmen can trust, and in which, in our opinion, their deposits will be safe. With re- spect to the second point made by our corre- spondent,—that the bauks should be msde re- sponsible to the State and the State to the de- positor,—this is not practicable. Such an ar- rangement could only be effected with the Gen- eral Government, as is the case of the. British Postal Savings-Banks. This is not. however, a novel suggestion. It haa been miade many times, but has never been received with' great favor, either by -the Government or the poople. Our correspondent, therefore, who has the idle 8800 in his pocket, should place it in a good savings-bank, and he should choose his baok by the experience it has had in the past, and the prudence, and ekill, and integrity of its officers. If this is not sufficient guarantee for him, it is all he can get. Rather than let his $800 lie idlein his pockets, however, another year, he had bot- ter put it in a lot, or in a mortgage, or Govern- ment bond. It is of nouse to him or any one clse in his pockef ‘WOMEN AS DECORATIVE ARTISTS, Moncure D. Conway gives, in the current tumber of Harper, au interesting sketch of the way in which women are entering artirtic pro- fessions in England. They are utiliziog the taste that distinguishes their sex. A'm?mber of feminine names are now honorably known in London as those of skilled and artistic deco- rators. Some of the women thus prominent have been drivento work by poverty. Others bave begun their career by designing or painting trifles for their friends. S8kill in needlework was the origin of Miss Jekyl's success. Her em- broidery made her somewhat known, ‘and she utilized the artistic opportunities it secured her by studying other branches of decorative science. Blis is nmow famous as a designer of oma- mental bragses. Her work is regularly exhibited st the Boutn Eensington Musenm. It has made her wealthy. Other women Lave imitated ber. Believersinhereditary geniug will be interested in knowing that one of-the ‘most sacceastal of Misa Jekyl's followers is Mias Leslie, s relativa of the celebrated artist. The designiogand decoration of crockery has become » well-defined trade, and is largely in feminine hands. Miss Levin, the dsughter-of another artist,” is noted for her skill init. One praise- worthy feature of this movement has been the ready courtesy of the men already engaged in it This is in marked ¢ontrast with the conduct of the average man when woman seeks to compete with b, He usually throws all possible ob. stacles in her way. The carpet-weavers of Kid- derminster ste now on a atriks to prevent the employment of women by their masters. They have written threatening letters to the feminine operatives already employed, and are, in fact, try- ing every sort of terrorism. There has been nothing of this sort for women atudying decora- tive art to meet. One of the many good works of Messrs, Morris & Co., the: famous decorative firm of London, has been to extend the sphere of woman's work. There are now two London firms, composed entirely of women, who com- pete .with Morris & Co. Ona of them was formed by the Misses Garrett, relatives of two celebrated women, Dr. Garmeti-Anderson and Mrs. Garrett-Fawcett. They both served .s regular apprenticeship of eighteen months. The second firm conzists of Mrs. Haruley Brown and Miss Townsend. ‘They have decorated the interior of Merton College, Cambridge, which admits only women to its privileges. In com- MUSCULAR CHRISTIANWITY. We fear that the Rev. Dr. Elliott, of Washington, Ky., has been making unkind references from the pulpit to the probable fature of the editor of the Mayeville (Ey.) Eagle. At any rate, the blood of the Eagleis up. Itissues uupleasant biographical sketches of the Rev. Elliott as rap- idly as its namesake screams. If one-tenth or 80 of what it says is one-quarter true, the resi- dents of Washington ars not to be congratulated on their choice of a pastor. Wo extract fromthe Eagle's crowded columns a fow of the chief charges against this expounder of the Gospel and pounder of men, a3 follows : His first sppearance iu Washington was as & tescher, - In this capacity he managed to'quar- rel with everybody and to embroil the whole town in litigation. When the verdicts were rendered aod the fees were paid. it was found that the clerical combatant had got into his hands, by some legal legerdemain, the title to the town Court-House. He has siuce established himself there, and invites the town to put him out. As he is panoplied with revolvers, the town has not yot found time or courage to do 80. Having sccured the citadel, he atiacked the ontworks. It is the custom in the Village of Washington to hitch lorses to the fence of the Court-House yard. The Rev. Elliott objected to this becanse the animals gnawed the rails, He could not have his property destroyed in that way.. Itis easy to see that, if twenty horses eat two splinters s day apiece, & square’ of fencing wil.l_loon'nnish. At any rate, the belligerent divine thought 80. When the yeomsary of ‘Washingtan persisted in fastening their horses tothe fence which they had paid for, he white- waehed the rails with & compound of plaster and poison. No horses have been hitched there since, Such triumphs excited him to further efforts. He locked wp' the well in tho Court- House squsre from which the Washingtonians were wont to take their daily drinks. A number of young men with an unwonted 'fondness for cold water tried to break the lock ons night. Elliott lay in ambush for them and opened fire ‘with a revolver. A brief, fiarce struggle ensned. Whisn the imoks of the shooting cleased away auels, chair-cov- ers; and dresses: ‘In the latter, théy have antici- pated some male srfists who have been discuss- 1ng the necessity of prepazing desigus for femi- nine dress, and o pittiog English ageinat French taste. % s 3 ? . We eannot show 28 good aTécord as England in this matter, bt the faule is not so much in ~omen s in : artistio decoration here is. still in its infancy. There are one or two Iadies in Chicago whose panel-paintings are highly prized by persons sort is done in New York by women, and the two household-art stores of Boston are said to depend largely on feminine handiwork. .. EMIGEATION AND EMPIRE. - It ia not many months since the striogency of the Iabor markets of Eurcpe directed general at- tentton to tha tide of emigration from the Old World, which was bringing ita labor to the United States, . The principal sufferers by it were Ger- .many and Great Britain, and active. measures were taken to check the draft upon the skill and 'muscie of the 1wo countries by their respective Governments. The English press, notably the Times, painted out the danger attending such an exodus from the British Empire to the Uni- ted States as an increass of power to a xival, and s preparation for s war of kinsmen. Col. Mater; editor ‘of the Anglo-American Times, publisned in London, " dissented from "these timorous opinions, and predicted a speedy change in the utierances of the press npon this subject. - This prediction bas already been veri- flea, and, in the issue of bis paper of Oct.S1, Col. Muter points out some of the advantages at- tendant upon emigration. According to the London Times, the number of emigrants from Great Britsin who came to this country was 233,078, of whom 123,348 were English, 21,810 Beoth, 83,692 Irish, and 72,198 foreigners whose various nationalities could not be.asceriained. In reviewing these figures, the Times finda caase for rejoicing in the thought ‘that the for- eigners would eventually be absorbed into one great Epglish-speaking community. Col. Mater 'sees a reason for rejoicing which has escaped the observation of the Zimes. Emigration, he hoids, is the true path to empire. If Well con- ducted, it is profitable above all other national movements, its object being rather to plant the race, the language, and the inatitutions flourish_ .inply on the soil, than to rule theland where that settlement has bean made. Where there is harmony of kinship, institutions, and language, thérs can be no sarious strife ; and where the commercisl and sentimental bond is closer, the political tie may be loosened. Thus it is no longer the policy of Great Britain to encourage the immigration of her loyal subjects to the Dominion of Canada, and bundle the Insh and their natiooal resent- ment into the United States. Such ashort- sighted policy might st one time have produced the most sorions consequences. What bad feel- ing existed between the two countries was in- tensified by the flood of disaffected Irish emigrants, and the danger of rupture which then threatened was avoided rather by good fuck than good mansgement, the bad blood ‘having been expended in the War of the Rabellion. The wiser policy which Col. Muter has urged ia beginning to show itself in the encouragement beld out to well-affectod emigrants to settle in the United States, to produce the enfenle cor- diale between the two countries, and conserve their matual interests by the closest possible alliance. He apprehends, st no distant day, an emigration to the Union from England which will fill up whole States, bringing with 1t capital in the truest sense of the word, and bind the Union and the Empire into & cloger intimacy of kinship and commercisl interast than ever be- fore. This is the highest conquest and mos enduring empire. MAKING MOKZY BY SPENDING IT. A compaoy has been formed in England for the purpose of sliowing grown-up children to eat their cake and have it. It is styled the Gen- eral Expenditure Asaurance Cowpany, and its prospectus announces that its object is ** assur- ing the return of all money expended from day to day.” This method of making money by spend- ing it is as delightful as it isnew. If a mancan clesr 15 conts by buying & cigar and smoking it, and if & woman can clear $25 by ordering a bon- net from Madsme Lobriand, from Paris (who is roally Miss O'Brien, from Cork), it is- evident thas the cigar and the bonnet are clesr gain, and that the most prudent and parsimonious thing to be done is to purchase both in large quanti- ties. If the Gen. Ex. Ass. Company can really work such marvels, the world will shortly be en- riched as well as revolationized to an astopish- ing extent. When a man can pay $5,000,000 for building a railroad, and thes get it all back and keep the railroad besides, every Granger will doubtlers have & double-track, steel road run- ning airect from his barn to tide-water. Charity will wax apace, A msn by spending $50 will get hia name in the newspapers, will: be able to congratulste himself on his noble disposition, and will get the money back. The Biblical re- mark about the resuls of throwing bresd on the waters will be verified to a degree never predicted by the prophet. The ooly’ trouble will bo that no fit objects for charity will exist. The beg gars will 211 get on horseback. The newsboys and boot-blacks will desert their pleasant Home and build five-story marble-fronts on the ave- nues. In order to preventall the sin and shame that now resuit from poverty, it will only be necessary to endow each pauper With & nickel. By expending it a sufficient number of times, he or she can mcquire s stock of all things needful. There is danger, to be sure, tbat it will be difficult to buy much, because tradesmen will be anxious to increase rather than diminish their stocks, gince monsy is to be mads by spending money instead of receiving it. A penny spent will be ‘s penny gained. The pictureof the future is too daiziing. When nothing costs anything, or, in other words, any- thing costs nothing, everything will be. done The_ profectors of tne Company sdmit that its aim may ““at first sight sppear- astonishing” (which is very trde). but claim that the plan is # easy and simple in its operation:” 8o, indeod, itis. The Company chooses tradesmen of every sort throughout Grest Britain, who act 4 its agents. They pay s small preminm for the privi- lege. When a member buys anything ot them, he pays cash, and receives in return a coupon for the amount. When his coupons amount to £5 he senda them to the central office and gets an “ sgsurance bond " for' £5, which the Company promises to redoem, Every six monthss certain proportion of the bonds will be drawn by lottery and paid. .YWhen the 150th drawing is mads, all the bonds then ontstanding will be paid. Thus, at the utmost, s man will have to wait only seventy- ‘five years for his money, sud may gat it ineide of s’ year, “The explanstion of this is that the prémxnmn received from tradesmen and ‘members will .be invested in intereat-bearing plating this work, thoy bave Invented 8 numbar’| securities, aud the fund thus xocumulated will thie market. The demand for lacky enough to see thém. ‘Some work of the’ be used to repey he boy st b, a0 Bt v o it the Company instesd of the" tugzogee. former, after subtracting salariss, expeers, ° ropays the laiter what bo would fay gyrrs himself if he had“canstantly bongyy o % 20d invested the. difforancs batweoy 5 credit prices. , The plan. i tharetegy " practicable, to s0me extent. By neyg g Company will doubtless have briacigs . :“," ca. Then the man who pays 5 centy for 2 TRUNE ean reflect with Joy thar piy grazidson will receive that sum by 166y - © — THE SUNDAYJ\MUSEHEN; WiR, The question of Bunday stunsementy 3 ments come the all-engrossing topio in New York gige, the injunction, which was sued opt A Btrakosch against the Polics Board, to i them from interfering with his opmu-m"fll tainment Bundsy evenings. Tne Sl fsnge are arrayed agaicst each other, anq o is sharp firig all aiong the line, x.““"“ comment until sootber timo, we sha} o reproducs, in the present article, the Bpirit du warfare on either side, that the publiy m:nm an intelligent ides of the general goye™ TUpon the gide of the Church, the B Gean Hepworth says: i 'x‘ DoI want s theatrstoset upt oppoattion 44 1 Will theso Young peopls got a1 taucl hroess ke Grande Duchiesse " as they will from the prag,d any truo minister? Will a dramatic: pegfe % make them temperzts, or repentant, or detaeriid How cau I encoarage any movement whith el dayevening? . - Tl ‘The Rev. J. Hyatt Smith saya ; A Sabbath concert of unexceptional characte ire 10 opan Lo d00F 0 perormanse which wy o, al'of a Parisian Boliday. ¢ 50 Bl _ Tho Bev. Archbiahop McCloskey says: I donot object to_enteriatoment L ity within them musio of 3 solecn and s T but Ido object to s amutements of kind that tend to draw peopls from the charey o) that have the influence of rendering our Subbath ey ana European. I cannot indorse certa 13 thoy are now carried o, DRI 0 Dr. J. H. Bylance, well known in Chicagy, takes a medium ground.. He recogaizes thasy. servance of Bandsy simply as & matier of g tom and not obligatory. - He says : There 3 no distinct commany it Taw ARG DY Ojectionsto tals sl T & Iy thas the morals of the people will be njured,aug 1y in the constantly-growing lberalim of the 1y iy Church s losing ground. 1 do not argue for thg g SHHEaTe Age, and which iny Bitesien oD Bt o ‘present age has proved e deprecats mnocent amusement and o0z day, but it is bard o see whers it will all end 1t g rate we are going. Such a step a8 the ane we speikd will havo an enormous infinence in allenating ramg from the practice of Christianity specs for the Lord's Day. Dr. John Hall, the eminent Presbytering ine, saya; I am certainly not in favor of it, snd I da% that any minister of tho Goopel :n‘:e.xmfl you pat it, no benefit caa be dons by & thestres, and {pasmuch a3 it tands (o weskea et flnmm‘; gablath day upon the peoclawma am o 3 am excessive o By Aoy such movement o 1n contempiation T o Dr. Talmage, the sensational Tabermuh preacher of Brooklyn, makes & ssvage casiagh upon the atage and every one connected vith . 80 virulent, in fact, that he is many timesgrily of misstatement, and his arguments loss slitun force. The Church 18 not allowed to have if allix own way. The Stage fires back with ita hearies columbiads, and has two important clarical alhes in the Rev. Dr. Frothingham and Dr. Partsout The latter eay e 3 I declars myself in favor of operstioand thestrial performances on Sunday evening for the masse, T4 enormous numvers of who do not, cannof, izt will not attend church, demand recreafion, smiuw ment, and exctement, elaments to them of halidyy forcibly : Tam_decidedlyin’favor of Sunday concerts, sl have advocated thelr insaguration ali my e, 13 in favor of open lbraries, of public lectures, of wy innocent and harmless on on. the tht popular mind, the s socially, and dispe! anxiety and care. Our preseat wss of Bunday I believeto be altogether wrung. Car churches are too few in number, and our poar pu can nomors afford tosttend fhemon Sundsy tha they can afford to attend the high-priced opera during the week. Beaides this, the preaching in our churckes 18 10t good,—not of the nature calculatad o tntarest o instruct our masses, A . guns. Tdttle Lotts takes up the Bev. and the sprightly little woman handles bim in this wise : i dmis thero have been immoral peopls o our pro- (s:-:an; Jn-?:-ua'u'o ere. black aloop in every fock, but I don’t see that that gives Alr, Talmage s ight denounce us all any more than it does Yet tney remain puresnd virtnous, all Lhay’h“a had 2o contend against, This, boverer, does nct prevent Mr, Talmage, aleek and well fed, wha bas mever known the day when want ey’ yufpuamwmwk" $3,000 or $9,000 salary, and in the most unjust, oz eous, and false way denouncing peopls of Wi, ToSvery aiterance, ha sbows he kaowa BOAIE. Alr. E. L. Davenport, the tragedian, st the ¢lose of his engagement in Brooklyn, medes speech from the stage, in whichmnl’udnd l? the Reverend 'Lalmage’s sermon, declaring that, in view of recent events, the comparicod tween actors and ministers is in fsvor of the former. He did not know bat the time migt come when he (Mr. Dlvlnp::)o vcml‘:I .b: ‘fi verted by Brother Talmsge, become b conm:uyfion, and perhsps hu:mod to tho dig- nity of & deacon. He was afraid, hov(evur, thst & long time would elspse Dbefors that importat ovent arrived. - Clergymen wers mot llnw. o profit by the exercise of the actor’s talents; n:t: ¢ all events thia reverend gentleman might ¥t bear in mind the words of his Master, * Chari toallL” Aax Strakosch has & fow wotd."‘flh the Rev. Dr. McGlynn, of 8t. Btephens Chureh, who had put himself on record against Sufiz performances, and fires 8 cantre shot. . Hel attention to two facts: - ‘conls church for §1 and §1.50 Verdls rsquiem, {087r they would have to pay $ at the Acsdemy DeX', Gy evening, when T propossto produce i ia 14 & o ergion of the requiem a Second—That s ve of the {he organ, whereas the score demsnds a fall was sung 10 Dr. McGlyno’ indag et which_sdmissian et hfi?pr'o'fi?.':'a{:;wsc. Stopbent. These extracts will give the reader 30 inw gant view of tho situation. Meanwhil, lsst i day evening * The Barber of Sevills 7 wss g toan immanse audience at the Grand Oper* House. - At the Staat- Theatre, OF + Bandits ® was an attraction. The nin¢ ries « grand sacred concert ” was given &b fil: Yo ery Theatrs, the programmoe IM: o Life's in Daoger,” * Brisn Boroihmo; % “- Maid of Erin,” and * Nickof moWoodfa; s Bloody Nathan, the ‘Avenger,” 3 collect sanctities which to say theleastis upigue. poed Tivoli Garden was in full blast with lflP‘:m‘ formances. There was also & * = concert ™ at which Gilmore's Band played P ic overtures, and Violetta Colville gang 80 £ from ** Puritani ” and ** Eathleen Mavo ) neither of which are in MMU‘“‘W T R A D 3 1t is usually thonght rather bad wflq”:" any serious controversy with an employé & mere question of salsry. Batitis not l‘”"w'. supposed that, becanse s msn happent “’w e his services underestimated, bo ought pasted as a scoundrel, and srrested T prisoned as s burglar-or highwayms2 i complaint of Mr. James 8. Shaw, BOTOL) true, he has been subjected to & grest & unpleasantness on account of his disse “‘:_ with s firm in Now York City. Hstof ) mated his services too highly, the m}:m#" to payhim in fall, and bo left them suit to recover the balaes du0 Too and obtained suother situstion. ' %M b6 was driven by alleged slaoders instig Fd the defendsns in the snit.. He thereupX® g menced & civil and criminel action i While taking tes with his wife, sbartly il ward, in Brooklyn, officers from Jthack mndcmumwmuvw‘“"""‘