Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 12, 1874, Page 6

THE CHICAGO DAILY TRINUN SATURD 12, 1874---TWELVE THE INQUISITION L Long and Terrible Drama of Persecution, The Dinbolical Work of the ‘' Holy Office ” in Various Countries, Bpain the Chief Séat of the Atrocious Fanaticism. Four Hundred Thousand Victims to Religlous Bigetry in That Single Kingdom, pposition of France, England, Haly, and Germany, to the Papal Pretensions. The Institution Swept Away by the French Revolution. Iis Attempted Revival After the Down- fall of the First Napolson. The Spirit of the *“Ioly Offico” Not Yot Disappeared from the World. From the London Times, THE INQUINITION AND ITS HISTORY.* Thoso volumes deal with o striling episode In & memorable talo of wrong and sufforing which will be always intoresting to thoso who love to study tho phases of religious faith and the growth and progross of human soclety, Tho aunals of the Inquisition form TUE DANKEST SCENT: in that long and terrible drams of porsecution which at differont periods has disgraced Chria- tendom, aud which, though mndo intolligible to those who dwell on tho past with thoughtful oyes, must bo contemplated with shame and re- gret by thoso who balieve {n tho truths of the Gospel. Tho establishment of this famous in- slitution marked one of tho most snecessful ef- forls of superatitlon to stiflo thought, aud sig- v showed how human orednlity conld seo in- oxpiablo crime nud guilt in what in no senso was allind to either, The principlo, too, which up- Toid the Inquisition was not the least daring of ho asewmptions of eacredotalism iu the Middle Ages ; and its organization, whioh in its full do- velopment was un bsolute tyranny superior to luw, was probably the most iusolent inroad on tho rights of the State over made by a Church, As for tho operation of its horriblo tribnnaly, thoe iniquitiey of ity ruthless procedurs, and the revolting erimos of which it became tho instru- mont, they il A TLACK PAGE in the Iistory of Europo; andl tho manner in which it nccommodated itsolf to tho desigus of despotism and bad government, ‘or fell in with tho inslinets of natioual bigotry, was as remark- able as tho sleady opposition it oocasionally one countered from classes aud ralers apparently Joined in sympathy with it, Its crualty, too, was #o undizcerning tht it somotimes made vietims and muartyrs of those who renlly favored tho canse it “sustuined; and, like all expedionts whichi huve beou employed by irrospousible and mrrogant powar, it was frequently dirocted with little wisdom even for the attainment of its pro- posed objects, As for the consequonces it hng Fruducml in the world, they mny #till bo traced n (ho differenees between tho races which have longs feluats influonee and thoso which, happily, nre freo from it; and its gradual extinction and finnl abolition wora not the least of the GLORIOUS TRIUMPNS OF REASON AND RIGHT in the last two centarios. Whatover, theyefore, adds to our knowledgo respactiug the evil and Daloful monunont of the opprossion and tho folly of mnnaind oan hardly fail to possess in- torest ; and for this reason, and, also, becauso tho deopest questions of Cliurch and ‘Stato nt prosont altract peenlior notice, we diveet atton- tion 1o the volumes haforo us, which profess to form & complete history of tho Inquisition thronghout its existonce, Dr. Ruie refory, in hiw tirst volume, to somo woll-known instenees of ruligions tyranny, but o hus nowhere indicated the goneral cuuses of which persecution b been the tesnlt, thongh such an inqairy should obviously precede s thonghtful roview ot bis subjact. 'Fho darkest stain ou Ohristain society, tho ovil which hay linker tho precopes of Chrint with deeds of re- voltng crimo nnd folly, may, we think, be aseribed 1o three ageucies, the operation of which may, moro or lods, ba traced in the big- tory of most religions, Dnring the conturies of 8trifo and_coufusion whioli followed tha fall of tmperiul Ttowe, Christisnity assumod n stern aupaet, and Providenco seomed to tho eyes of tha pious n God of torrors und awful punishe ment, Throughout thig period, too, in which sredulity aud ignorauco wore allied with vio- jence, u- dowmant priesthood raied the Chureh i 2ud thin custe, nuder tho wupromo Dapney denicd hopo in this world and in the noxt to ul who quektioned its immonso protonsions and held them np to general exceration, Christiane ity ituelf in those” uges, moreovor, as it prasod from the bands of its Divino founder into thosn of superstitions men, boramo n systom of dognins und forms ; and the sottled bolef of Christeudom wus, that tho Iuntest doubt nw to tho strungest doctrines, or tha lonst departuro from the muny cuservaiicos which wore decmad essontinl to the walvation of man, wis s CROLL OF THE NOST TRENENDOUS KIRD, which oxposed the culprit to clorunl pordition. Tho tendeney of theso views and sontiments wug to accustom men to the iden of persceution, and an outbrauk of it was renderod cortwin ad 8o0n us the nntural progress of mankind aud the cxpanding growth of the bmman intollect should somo in collivion with the estabiluhed faith, snd with the hugo fubricof power uud importanco which bind gutherod ronnd it in times of burbar. ism. This consummation, howover, was lon dolnved, and for many gehorations Enutopo posed i tho deop sloep of apivitual Londago, sontented with un_mnquestioniug fuith; whila fhe Church onjoyed hior eusy supromacy, nud hiad hardly an oeeasion o put forth her farrors, 80 perfect was her widesproad authorily, Duri thin longthened poriod, which may ba said havo extendod down to the thirtosnth oentury, the victories of persocution were very fow ; aiid thougll tho priesihood often gava cawws for scundl, and tho arrogance, the nmbition, uud tho corruption of the T'opes'disgraced tho rolig- ion of which they wers the hends, tho paace of Oluristondon romained undisturbed by auything liko o noctarian revolt, At last thio ebanuge onmo, As tho growth of weelth and civilization in- creasod the wself-respect of tho laity, ny the progress of lnowledyo gradually led to disboliof in provalling supenitition, ns iho Inftuonco of commerco nid nntiona! intercourse difTused jdens ond forms of thought more or less contiary to thy dominant croed, the opporition to the clams of tho Churel, ond evon o the Catholie doe- trines, beeume menaclig 1u Flandors ana Italy 5 and thonsands of the burghers of Ifstunit and Lrabant, aud of the inkntitants of Venieo, Floy. ence, und Milay, wero deeply taintod with whng theit acquired the dronded hime of S UERETICAL FRAVITY," Tho chief sont, howevor, ol tiu wew ekopticidm wes. the fortile tract of mountuin g valley, reachings to tho waters of tha Moditartamery fien, which oxtonds frow Languaduo to the verge d Daupliny, In this distict the gruceful re. ‘ainn of tho old Roman culture liad’ never dig. weared; it had beon uffoctod by tho Avign mol cmm;f;cd quiekly from tha harsh bongd. e which Feudalism bad cagt over Frnuco und derozanys und ite trade with the Levaut mado Ay pooplo fumilisr with Oriental traditious aud m\‘lLu ncompatiblo with the recelvod thevlogy, Tho thirteoutl coutury hud hardly bogun when thio Chureh snw with aifright it power repudi- ated {n this flourishivg roglon, and the Puapacy at onco vowed vougeanco aguinst the uudacious rebols who scornad its yoko, It {8 uhmocessury to toll liow a sorles of Counoils condemnod tho “ocentsed boresy of the Cathari;” how tho brnte force of tho North of Franco was mar- shuled by sacerdotal polioy In a furious crusado pgninst the dovotod South; and how ita wuvay 10 bands for & timo effaced in ruiny and blood tho Albjgensian and Waldonsian schism, It was, socording to Dr, Rulo,—and kis viow, JUISTORY OF THE INQUISITION, By Wintmn Jgunu TtuLe, D, D, Loudou. 3876, wa think, is historloally correc this horsible porscontion WIIOH GAVE DInTIl to what (houcelorward was known distinotively an tho Tuqulsition. In tha quiot agen of une doubting boliof which proceded the horatleal ro. volt of I'rovenco, tho cognizanca of religious offensos had bolonged to the Bishops of the wholo Church 3 and this Jurisdiction was deemed ruflicient lo chieck the few foeblo assnilants of tho fafth who wado thoir n{menrnncn at dirtant futorvals, or oceaslonnlly to destroy tho unhap-~ Iny Jaws who Ubecnine objects of acclonfnstion] hatred. But the groat riving of the thirteunth century coused Roma 1o geok morn effectusl means to vindienta nnd asuire hor piritunl valo, nrud the Popes Inrgely suceeoded jn drawing to themselves tho muthority to unish - for unbelief which the genoral Iptacopato hiad beforo oujoyed, In thoss parta of Chirlstondom whero 1lio” 'apal Influence wan most recognizod awd fully estublished, tha Biuhops lost thelr control over herewy, nil the supervision’of this mortal erima was' gradunily trausforred to wpecinl Lribannls, —complotoly andor thq powor of Rome, nud filled by hor with hee trustod cwinenvios, tho strictest ordor of the rogulnr clorgy, Tho duty of theso courts wus to #earch ont and ostivpate horaties whouever thoy appenred, and, in tho handn of tho faithful Dominicang, thoy beeamo by degroos the porfect fnstrunonts of oluborate oppresslon and irre- aponsiblo powor, which havo yriven the Inquisi- tion its ovil nnmo, Tho firat of thoss courts wau sot up In Fiance, ns 0 aoquel to the Albigonsinn eritgndo ; nnd under tho auspices of oflicinls from Ttome, who receivad tho title and rank of Inquise eltors, it gavo froo scope Lo HACIEDOTAL VENQEANCL iu the nelghborhood of Tonlouso and Carcaa- sonuo, From this time forward tho Iuquisition wa oatablished in somo dogreo in tho Kingdow ; and, a8 lnto ovon as tho sixtoonth contury, its ald waa invokod to erush at tholr birth tho first strugles of Fronch Protestantism., The Instl- tution, however, never attained tho terrible coca- pletencss within the limits of Franco which it attained ultimatoly south of the Pyrences, and gradually it became moro aud moro opposad to tho tondencles and ajms of tho Frouch Mouar- chy and ta thio gonius and inatinets of tho Franch nation, Lven from tho outset tho Honso of Capol 1was jenlous of a purcly Papal tribunal, aud In Praneo reprosontativos of tho ait Power controlled tho priestly Tnquisitors, Ag the intluenca of tho Valais soveroigne increased and tho stato of tho Kingdom becnme moro sot- tled, this wterforence grow mora definito ; and, ag enrly 18 tho roign of Houry 1L, tho Parlias mont of Paris publicly rofused to rocognizo tho Inquisition asn Inwful jurisdiotion. 1t is une necoagary to_ay that, in"tho following contury, when Louls X1V. became absoluto, the existenca of such an authority in Franca woutd havo bnon intolorablo to tho arcogaut movarat ; and, boforo Lifs accession, tho porsiutent claims of tho Tronch clorgy to_the Gallican rights, tho indirect offoct of tho Hu‘guunot movemont, and the vigorous atrupgls of tho Fronoh intellect ngninst supar- stition and the domination of tho Churely, hnd brought the inquinitorinl regime to an opd. No traco of tho institution, wo' think, survived thoe roign of Henry IV., and tho nation TAPFILY ESCAPE in this way, one of tho worst evils which could blight its enorgies. Yet the persccutions of ney- eral of the Honrbon Kings wera only leus griovons than that of Rome, and when wo rofloet on tho Rovocation of the Edict of Nantes, on the Drag- onuades, on the frightful mnssacres in tho Covennos, and on the cruoltios of Fronch Bish- ops sud Parlinments, ovou in tho Iater yoars of the eighteonth century, we cease to wonder that the Rovolution which followed was marked by & ferocious wpirit. Vo must pass, however, from Franco to Bpain Lo witnons the most portentons ealamities which suporatition could elfect in Kuropo, The northe ern Kingdows of tho Poninsula had been poun- trated h’l tho thirteonth eontury by tho horesies of Languedoe nnd Provenco; and, during tho Pontificats of lunocout 111, the populations of Aragen and Castilo woro as vohomontly apposed. to tho Romish priosthood s thoso of Montanban, Nnrhonne, aud Albl. The Inquisition was intro- duced wto Spain botweon 1230 and 1240, and for somo time it mado its intluenco felt from the Asturinn hills to tho plaius of Valencin, thongl it yot kept behind tho Siovra Morons, the border tand of tho Moorish Provincos. Its operation, hotwover, was not 8o ruthless as it had been ho- yond the Pyrencos; and the pooplo, and oven the noblas, of Aragon, in posscasion of liberties greater than these of most comntunities in tho Middlo Ages, Do outhurat of RESENTED FIERCELY what they justly deemed o daring subverson of their indopondence, The power of the tribunal was feobla in Spain until tho consolidation of the foudal sovereigntion ied to a eruende against the infidols of tho South, and we_hear but littlo of tho Ioly Oftico Loforo the closing years of tha fiftoonth ceutury, whon wo find it ostab- Hshied in full vigor in the united realms of Fer- dinand and Issbells, Even theso volarios of Rome, however, appenr to bhave looked with doubtinl oyes at the immunitiss of the Papal In- quusitors ;” they endeavored to protect tho rights of tho State by supnlating thut lay Assousorn should sit sido by sido with the encordotal Judgon; and the Cortes of Arngon end Castilo alika - protested against what they solemnly de- clarad was an_ inrond on the Royal proroga- tives, TFrom this timo, novertheless, dates that frightful reign of religious intoleranco which for two conturies was tho roprouch of Spain, and tho moet conspicnous agent in which wag the Inquiition, with it deeds of horror. Tho first victims of tho Holy Ofice wore the Jows, who during long ages Liad oceupied somo of the best parta o Spu, and hind largoly ndded to tho wealth of the country by the trade they maine tainod Detween tho Moors and Chriatinns, At the instigation of tho notariuns Torqueniads, thousands of this unhappy race woro INMOLATED AT THE STAKE, thousands also perishoed in hideous dungoons ; and the persecution beeamo no intenso thai Judnism was almost effaced in Spain,—thesufor- cra having ouher, for tho most part, gono through the form of wbjuring their fuith, or having fled from the Immd of blood. such, too, or mnearly eo, wus the fato of tho Iargo’ aud flowrishing Moorish popiila- tion, whose industry hnd clothed with plonty the Inily of Grannda and Andalusin, and whose eal- ture in till attested by noble monuments of an- ciont art; for 100 yoars thoy wero nesniled by all that crucity aud ‘bad fulth conld doviso; nnd their deporintion to Africn at lnstis, porhaps, the Mokt conspicuons inftance of the ruinons folly of Spanish superstition. Dy similar means tho nuscont enorgies of Protostanty woro destroyed in Spain, at tho great crisig of tho Reformation and, by the closo_of the sixteonth contury, tho succesaful Inquisitors bonated that heresy ‘conld not rear {ts hend within tho realm of the Cotho- lie King. ~ The vietory of tho Church, howaver, over Jows, Infidels, and Lutherans, 1 not put an end to tho frightful activity of the justituti whioh had achieved such wonders within the Bpanish Teninsnl, Philip 1L, in tho enrly partof bis reign, had removed any constitutionnal restrainis on the action of hig fuvorito tribunul; and for moro than n contury after his death the Inquisition, controlled only by a Grand Inquisitor nomi- nated by the <Crown, - upheld the Faith jn_ Bpain by remorsoioss punishment, and olten exaggerated by its atrocious decds tho policy of repression suggested from Romo, Winlo tho Heformation had triumphed in Togiand, aud its spirit had lrgoly porvaded Frunco and Northern Germany, tho hideous rpectacles of the aulo da fe were qlnlxe common in Cordors and Bevillo; dhd the Moly Ofilea in Haid to % AVE MADE 891,000 vieTiay Dofore it centad Lo Lurn and destroy. It muat bo wdded that, in Iater times, tho popular senti- ment largely follin with these horriblo oxcesses of blood, aud wolcomed tho sigght of tho herotlc at tho stake with ferocions glas; no complelut was honrd from any order in thoe State, tha an- clout apirit and rights of Spauiards huviug por- ighed under tho all-cnoronching Monarchy, 'ho supremaoy ot the Faith which way thus attained way, doubtless, n pricaless galu in tho oyes of the zenlots who played at Kings In the Bsourdal; but tho cost of tl:ln gront consummation was the desolatlon of onco fertile” Provinces aud tho ulter prostratien of tlie Spanish intollect, aud it i4 imposaiblo not to vounect tho stundy docline of Bpanish goniun, manliness, and worth, with tho peculinr ascendoney which tho Inguisition for ko long & period enjoyod in Spamn, Why persoution, nt Wit mocerate, raged with such extraordinary fury In Spuin, is . prob- lom of somo hintorical intorost, and it s worth while to refor to the cuuses, which uro nowhero noticed in theve volumos. ~ ‘The priucipul cause, we boliove, was thal religlous pnssion ulliod it~ sotf, in tho populnr mind, with o paniotie feol- ing ; tho lieretica ware not only onomics .of tho Faith, huc dotosted forelguers, nb honrt opposod to tho gruudour and power of Cliristinn Spain ; aud nntional sentiment concurred with bigatry in seoking THEN OITER RUIN AND EXTINCTION, Beuidow, the chiarnotor of the Hpanish ruco I at onco tngiuativo and cruel, and, when It L ho- come posucesad with the notion that Rome was acoursod by Toaven,—n notion urtml{y improng. od on 1t by the machinory which the uquisition employed,—it oxhibited an amount of intolorant hute “unequaled iu other parts of Luropo, Nor can wo forgot tho immicusa influoneo of Thilip TL, durlng his long relgn, in mold- ing and shaping tho natloual deutinios at tha criticnl period of the sixreenth ventury ; it Joft a pormanont murk on Spain, and transmitled to }mr an ovil horitage of fanaticism and unmanly subjection, Tho oporation of these combined , cauncs mado porsgouttion flowrlal in Bpatn with a vigor unlnown in other countries, and it i in tho Detdnmtln tint wo bohold tho Inquinition {n itn highest porfection, Dy, Rule han given us n minuto neeount of tha Moly Oflico in the fullncus of ita power, when il hnd hecomo absoluto from Figueras to Cadiz, Tho Tuquinition, na wo inve roen, way placod under tho eare of {he Monnt- ohy, though ita wuliordinnto oficors worw np- pointed from Home, nnd_its tyranny in H1|mm was, perbaps, the ' dendliost which modorn 2uropo haw ovor witnemsod, o Inquisitorial Conrts spread aver the contibee s utd, aided by o lioat of Informors amd wpiew, thoy plied the worl of destroying horeay with extriordin: weecny and vigor. Wha proceduro of tiose fearlal tyie bunaly wan o BTRANGE AND REVOLTING PARODY OF Matir) tho accused wora not. informed of tio clinrgen agniunt them: confewsiovs woro wrmng from thelr lips by torture, whicl was also nften ap- phod to tho withossos; their advocates wero compallod to abandon tholt dofotse when **ron- sonnbla prool ” of puilt was made; nnd, Low- ovor innocent, thoy wero nevor nequittad, bub dismiased subjeclk toa frosh proseoution, As mny Lo eupposad, this tromondons machinory wyan somotimen porverted Lo tho worat abuacs dark deeds of erime, of vengoanee, nnd lust, woro dono under tho protence of “ purginsg horoey ;" aud the extravagant Heeuso of tho Spauish (1l bunhls wes moro than_onco condemned by tho Moly Beo,~DPrelates, Jesnits, Cardinnly,” and avon Kings, having boen denounced by tholr oftleious spies, A word vomaing to say on tho aupalling punichments inflicted by the Inquisi- tion in Spaln. Tho awlo-dasfe wan designed Lo prosent an imago on enrth of tho last Judzment, i nothing wan left undone to give tho oxhibi- tlon o MATESTIC, HOLEMN, AND TERRINLY ASPEOT When the Holy Oftice hind selectod a l\‘]lml! for *oxoreising unbolicf Trom tho land," o strict faab was proclaimed in tho nolghbothood, and tho profano laity wern Jealounly oxeludod ‘from tho sncrod spot “which was made roady for tho visitation. On the nppointed day n siataly pro- cesnton, arrayod i costly hut sombre garb, ‘and procoded by tho banmers of the King and the Popo, led the way (o n vout amphithontzo, us ally fn tho muTict-pinco of & enthedral town; and horo, with a gorgeous altar ligh raued in the nmudot, and in tho prosonco of an nesomnbled multitudo, marshalod regularly necording to or- dor aud degroo, tho * sontencos of tho Chureh waro pronounced, while tho slow boll tolled o noto for the dylug, followed by an outburat of oxultiug musicsignificant of tho telumph of tho Faith, ong bands of prisoncra woro then marched out” dressed In o ventoro omblomationl of tho torments of tho damned in various do- groos;* and, whils somo woro pardoned and ab- Jured their sins, othors woro handed ovor to tho secular arm, and solemnly CONBIGNED 'TO TIN GIBULT OR THI FLAMES, Jeith a gontio admonition to depart in penco, "Tho ofligies of horotica condomned fn thoir abe sence woro also burnt with formal precision, a ponalty which mado their families infamous; and the coremony ended with n_joyous thanks- glving, In which tho blossing of tho Most High was invoked on the propitious sacrifico, It is unnecessnry to dwell on the torriblo snf- Torings of tho thofsands of victims who woro In this way immolated in tho Spanish Poninsula, Yet their agonios, porhaps, it hna boon justly ro- marked, wore less griovous than those of thoir friends and kinsmon, who wero taught to be- lievo that the condomued harotlo wus forover lost, and that tho punishment ho undorwent on orrlh was but tho shadow of a droad hora- nfier, A8 wo have 6nid, tho result of this fell suporstition was to weaken and brutalize the minds of tho pooplo, and a remark- abla fustance of this was scon In the history of the Spanish navy, which rapidly decaved swhen Thilip “IT. brought it undor tho power of tho Holy Ofiice. A8 may bo supposcd, this instru- mont of tho Faith was iutroduced into tho Span- ixh colopies, and the American Indians were con- vorled by tho Churoh at Carthngoun, Lima, and Moxico, by the discipline which hndl proved so officient with Jows “and Bloriscoes in' Oranada and Murcia. _The Inquisition, too, was sot up in Portugal, and flouvished thero for several gon- erations, not only undor tho Spanish conquerors, but under the native house of Braganza ; and it found 1ts way into tho Portugnose sottlomonts in Africa, Indin, and South Aneries, whero it dili- gently porformed its ncoustomed work, and was more than once TMENURTD DY THE FOPES for its undiscorning nud relontless zeal, and for its interferonca with tho Josuft miesionaries, whoso proeelytism nover bad reconren to torror. 'Tho power, Lowover, of the Holy Ofiico scems to linvo boon nowhere o firmly rooted or exercised with Buch absolute sway as within the limits of Old Spain; and though, in the roigna of Charles Y. nnd bis gon, persecution raged in the Low Countrics u8 wildly as in uny part of Europo, the Inquisitorial system, [u its full complotencas, wass not established for any length of time in the Notherlands, or even, perhaps, in Bolgium, ‘The efforis of Alva, oy fa well known, to plant mong the Scheldt and the Maas tho institution whicli had grown up 8o vigorously beside tho Lbronnd the Tagus wero mot Dy tho rovolt of tho United Provinces, and tho Inquisi- tion soon beecame a thing of tho past within tho torritorics of the Duteh Republic, and porhaps oven in Brabant and Tlanders. The history of tho Inquisition in Ttaly, tho seat nnd vontro of tho Papal rulo, s intorasting, and not a littlo significant. Tho Inquisition wah foundod thore abont tho tima wheu it appenred in Franco, and ity powers wero omployod to root out horesy from tho Italian Republics in many instances. Yot, ns o rtulo, theso flowrishing States, filled with & strong municipal spirit, and enlightencd m no ordinary dogreo, REGARDED TAE NOLY OFTICE WITH DISLIRE § and tho skepticism and forco of tho Italian intelleot, 8o conspicnons in tho Middlo Ages, bed littlo sympnthy with the Papal preton- siong, Venioo refusod tne Inquivition the powers it claimod; TFlorenco, though = Guelf city, rostrictod Its Courts and hor ox- ample was followed by 3odous and Milan; whilo In other places tho populnco roso when atlempts wero made to destroy horotics, Av tho Roformation the Papal Court mado & mom- orablo offort to strongthion and extond tho mue chinery of its favorito Institution, and the Con- grogation of Cardinals at Romo wore mado Grand luquisitors in all countrios—with tho singlo axcoption of dovoted Spatu, whore the Church could fully roly on tho Crown—and with a special reforenco to tha Faith in Italy. With this potent nagistance tho !oly Ofiice madaconsidorablo prog- ross fu the Italian Statos; crowds of unhnppy horetics porished at tho stake, or wora dono to death in secluded dungeons; and Protestantism wag effacturtly wtamped ont from the Alpino ranges to tho Straits of Moseiva. Yot tho popu~ lur sentiment moro than onco oxpressed INDIGNATION AT TIESE REVOLTING DEEDS § the power of I‘hulr I was noodod to plant tho Iuquisition in Naples and Scily, and Venico and Gouon nover allowed its tribunals unehecked su- premnsey. It was not until the delay of its frone dotm had sepped (ho enorgy of tho Ialinn raco that tho Inquisition was sooure in Italy, and the cruolties of the Itullan Inquisitors sere nover #0 wido-sproud and claborate ns thoso in Spain, Nothing liko an auto da_fe, it woukl scom, was over witnossod in an Italinn ety 1t hos ofton beon ramarked that Papat Rome was ouly supreme in tho countries ruled for many nges by tho Roman Empire, T'he anunls of tho Inquisition support thus aonolusion, for that institution of tho Iloly Sco struck root among tho Latin racos alono, and nevor found’ n congeninl #oil boyond *ho Rihino, tho Alps, end tho Britlsh Channel. The IHoly Ofitee wau nover soou in that Catholio K- glaud which from the reign of Homry II, showad apeoulior jonlousy of Papal jurisdicaion, and stubboruly Tenced out with noble laws far gont- ler approschen of Papul tyranuy, Whon tho movemont of Wicklifo and’the Lollards bogan, and perescntion arose among s, the Itiuhops ro- tuined the suporyision of horosy hithorto possess- ed by thom ; and, though thoy wora nided by the famous stabuto which cumbled thom to sond the Tiollurd to tha ktake, thoir nnthority wan certein< 1y ot all times Mlb'}lwb to the control of tho Iny tribuunls, Tven during the puesionate Oathalio {lfll'liuou which followed tho nccossion of Mary Ludor, AN ATIEMIT TO BET UP A INQUISITION IAILLD, und the authority of Parlimment was r sunction the deeds of blaoil which thou committed, aud which, we nimst udd, wero fow compared with tho barbarities practicod in othor ]urm of Christondom. I'io hiutory of Gormany 4 more deoply stained with porsocntion than tlat of Eugland, and tho bad faith of Blgiemund to Joramo of Prugue, tho atrocilios porpotratod by Chatlos V., aud the frightiul rovonitios of Tardinand of Gratz, show - that tho Lanpiro conld vio n nots of intolernnco with the worst Pontiffs, and nbly sogondod tho policy of Ttoma, ull, whothor owing to the long; foud Lotwosn tho Gorman Cwesnrs and tho Popos, or 10 -tho e fluonce of tho Imporial tribunals, or to tho in- dopandenos of tho Toutonio climracter, tho Tue quislbion, in its peoutiar farm, was never astab- lished In the Gorman Statos ; and, moroiloss [ tho mithodox tyrauny of weveral of tho Gorman vulers mud Princos was, it was not o systomatio und deadly In ita offcots us the withoring domi- nation of the loly Onlee, Weo oan merely glance nb WL DEOLASE AND FALT, of this formidnblo Institution, Long aftor the acoesnion of tho Bowrkons (o the thrane, Spain continued to burn and strangla horeties, nnd uy auto da fo wig not an unfrequont sght ovon in tho middlo of the thirteenth contury, 'he Toly Ofileo, too, porformed ita fuuctions in Italy and Portugal even in the days whon Voltaire's genjny was seppiug the Clwrcl, and the crueltios of thy Inquisition In India ‘ofton rouscd tho angor af the Jnglish merhauts who laid the fonndations of our Fastcrn Empiro, By dogrees, howover, the numorons Influances which for twa centurins had heon ovarthrowlng tho power of the Romish priosthacd in Furope and mitlgatlng the fronzy of fanaticut zonl fowmd thair wiy oven tnto tirn foithful laudy mort under tho control of tho Itomnn S0 and toe tuquisition aud its horroe Liegan fo yiold slowly lo tho now fdean, oven in tha conlva of ita wupremo authority. Charles 111, enttaild ity adions prviletos - fipalu, nud ox presned disgust ot its ornol excentionn; lis examplo waii followed by tho King of Portngal; il Lo Fronch Bovolution and the wword of Nae polsun RWTDT AWAY THE WIOLE FARRIO. of wron« nud oppreenion fu Ialy and the Thorlan Tontusuia, Noverthelons, the sysicm wag, in facl, revived during the ovents that fol- lovad in 191416 the dotard Foydinaud mado a hold attempt to rastorn tha Inguinition in his recovered Kingdom, and the Tribunals of the Yaith in the c!lfi:f Hpnaish citien, nutil very Iatoly, practiced mnny kinds ol tyranny on dis- Houtern fromi the Chue Thero wan n almilne rengtion {u Tortugal, whoro, even Lo this dey, tha Eealoginnieal Coarts are ttolorant nnd vex: atlous fn tho extremo; and it was not until tho great change of 1870 that the Colloge of Cardi- unly ab Roma censod to oxerefso a kovero and prying jurisdiction avor the * faith and morali of tho subjeets of the I'ope, 'The day, howover, of ‘tho lomwsition and its sway hns, Wo muy ho- liovo, paseadl awuy foraver, thongh, eonsidering tha oxisling pretonsions of 'Itome, va kuow thnt tha epivit of tho Jloly OMco hay nob yob disup- pured from the world 5 CHIUAGO, Tiro was discovored at 6 o'clock last ovening iu n 1001 v tho second floor of Nos, 78 and 80 Htato wireot, u four-story briok bullding owned by J. Matteson, ‘Tho room wag oceupiod by C. A. Corroll s n collar manufactory, Tho loss amounted to nhout $200, nnd is l'u{ly covorad by insuranco, Van Oott & Co.'s Jowolty stocit on the firat floor was elightly damagod by water, ‘Iho origin of tho firo {8 unlknown, = The alarm eamo from Box 10. A slight firc ocourred in the sliodsnt Moulding & Harland's brick yard, on Elston svonne, noar the rivor, lnet ovonfug ab 7:30 o'clack, and wns tho onuse of tho'alarm from Box 652, Tho dam- ago amounted to about 975, Sparks from n Durntug kiln cauved the fire, OIARLESTOWN, W. VA.~LO3Y, $200,00, Crxorstats, Dee. 11,—A fire at Charlestown, W. Va., Iast night destroyad all tho buildings un botl sides of Kanawhn streot, from Court to Anderson streots, inoluding tho St. Albert's Ifo~ tol, Kylo's enloon, Lowenstein's saddlory-shop, Hawthorne's furniture-store, Bullard'a barbor- shop, Bcott's shoc-storo, Snyder's law-offico, Sheuror's lenthor-atoro, Murtin's millinory-store, Gorhnm's rostaurant ; Doubert's grocery i tho Biugor “sowing-machine rooms; Knln's saloon, Toll'a building, the Good "emplars’ hall, Btrausg' ulomh!s storo, Knufman's building, nn- ocoupied, Titter's atova store, Htorrott's grocoery, Koiflor’s tobaceo storo, Mre, Deach’s millinory atoro, Cart's tailor shop, Docloy's shoo stora, Bnydor's dwolling, tho Mayor's ofiico, and an on- gino-lonse, ‘I'ho loss iy catimatod at ©200,000; mostly insured, CINOINKATI, Doo, 11.—A Inter dispatoh sayn th total losa'by fira at Oharlaston, W, Va., last night i now ostimated ot £110,000; insurance, £85,000, AT CINCINNATI Cryorsnaty, Deo. 11,—A fire this morning con- sumned tho planing mill of James Grifith & Bons, at tho cornor of Hunt btreot and Broadway, Tho loss Is £00,000; the ineurnnce $26,000, Tho names of tho companics were not necortainad, The fire ig supposod to have beon ¢ho worlk of an incendinry, Tho following {8 tho insur. aneo: Dounsylvania, of Philndelphia; City of Providonco ; National Tiro & Marine, New York ; Maubnttan, Duffalo ; German, Farmors' & Drovora', Louisviilo ; Unlon, Ciucluati, 81,000 cach; Globo, Chicago 5 Entorpriso, Clncinnati ; Fravklin, Philndelphia ; North Amorien, Phila- dolphis, 91,600 cach ; Toyal, London, and Tire Association, Philadelphin, 81,625 each ; Amazon and Commercial, Clnolnnati, §2,000 each ; Citi- zong', Clucinneti, £2,250; Ztna, Hartford, 5,000 Wotal, 527,500, AT MASBVILLE, 0, 1 Soectal Dispateh to The Chicago Tridine, CuLurcorig, 0., Doe. 11.—Tho main shop of tho binding-works of M. E, Dslker, nt Muesville, was totally destroved by fira before daybrenl yestorday morning. It is supposod to havo boon 8ot on fire by carcloss trampe, The total loss in batweon $7,000 and £8,000; insured for 5,000, 21,000 of which is placed with the Amazon, of Cincinnetl, AT PLATTSMOUTH, X O3tamA, Neby,, Deo, 11.—A fire ot lattsmouth, Nob., yosterday afternoon destroyed two build- inga on the enat sido of the Court-Houso, Lose, 24,000, The Court-Flouso was slightly dom- aged, AT LYNDONVILLY g Sr. JonNsnuny, Vi, Dec. 11.—Walker's Hotal, at Lyndonvillo, was burned last night, Tho loss is §25,000; the insurance, £10,000, ——— BORTICULTURE. Adjournment of the ¥llinois Ilorticmitural Society. Special Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune, Proruy, 1lL, Dee. 11.—This bas boon tho clos- ing day of the State Hortipultural Convention, and, like most closing days, has been dovoid of any purtionlar gonoral intorest, Tho morning eossion opened with n paper on ' Vegotable Gaordontng,” writton by E. C. Hathaway, of Ot- tawn, and road by tho Seorotary. Following this was on eseay on *‘Hodge Culture,” by Mr. Nel- son, of Wilmingzon, Somo valuablo suggostions as to tho methods of growing and protacling hedges woro thrown ont, and considerable dls- cassion followed tho roadmg of this papor, a8 olo that of the preceding one, A long and interesting discnesion followed on grapo culturo, in which ucarly overy member presont participated, Tho question” discussed rincipally was what variotios woro most profita- Elo in n commercial point of viow. It wzs gon- erally canceded that, thus fex, the Concord stood herd nnd ghoulders sbovo atl othor varioties ay tho best marketable, but it was also conceded that, it o8 much attention was paid to other va- rioties, thoy in turn would rival tho Concord in the murkot, as thoy now do on tho table of tha epienro, lsome argumont followed on the subjeot of the distribution of Ir Monsures wera taken to 80t up & business-directory heving this objeot in viow, and the mentitg was appointed for Jau, 5, at Cliieago, to farthior considar the subjeat. Aftor prssing some resolutions apropos 1o the oceasion, tho meoting rdjourned to meot at Quiney & your honeo, ————— THE WEATHER, Wasursaroy, D, C., Doc. 11,—For the Upper T.ako Hoglon and tho Novthwest, declacdly clear aud cold or fair weather will prevail, with west- erly winds, shifting to eonthorly nnd castorly, and slowing falllug harometer during Saturdny night. Stata T.OCAL OBSERVATIONS, 400, Thoe, 11, Tinie, lmr,i'rlu-imi. ot i <|Cloviy, o0 Gl 1315 9, . w7 Maxlurwm therinomotor, 1NERAL ODSELY 1’mv]_‘li"um. 1, Uarry ot Gilson Teal:uk Tesyeuy aCramo, Marquotto fin.2 Milwanken 0,417 1 Omaba i 1 I~ BIE, ’JT'&..‘( BIN, WY, 1[8, E, W, frontly OSEAN STEAMSHIP KEWS, Toxpox, Dec, 11.—Tho stosmships Hurnhors, from Loltimors, aud Frauce, from Now York, Liye avrlyed ont, Nuw Yonk, Deo. 1l.—Arrivod—Oder, from Dromen ; Cambris, from Hamburg, FOREIGN. Count Von Arnim’s Trial Still in Progress, The Defendant Making Out a Very Lame Case, - Ho Ts Alrendy Convicted of Disin- £ERUoUSDERS, Russia Commences Trado by Caravans with Central Asia. Serrano Appointed Generalissimo of Bpain, (GERMANY. THE VON ARSI TNIAT. Losnox, Doc. 11.—Count von Arnim, at his trinl yosterday, showed symptoms of {lineus, nnd WaH olso ovorcomo by tho bort, ‘Che Court roso st anonrly hour at his roquest, Upou tho resumption of Count von Arnim's trinl this morning, o lettor from the Countto Yon Bulow, the Under-Secrotary of tho TForeign Oftlco ,was rond. Tn thin communication, tho Count tnaintalued that aftor ho waa placod on tho rotirad list ho was no longer smenablo to the disciphnnry powers of the Faretgn-Ollico, Ierr Beheran, the chm(nr_vflnr {ho Gorman Logation at Parls, toatifled that ho fivet learnod that tho documonts wera missing from Baron Holstein, alwo & nucrntnr{ who was searching tho nrehivos for Priuco Tlohenloho, the Ambns- ondor. ~ At this point Dr. Dockhorn, of counsel far tho defonuo, stnted that, fu Dagombor Inat, Baron Holateln confossod that ho had roceived ordors from Borlin to wateh tho notions of Count vou [Arnlm nud send_continuous roports in rela- tion theroto, Tho Count decided to pen a tele- gram to Baron Iolstein, summoning him to ap- posr_and dofond himuolf agatnst tho chargo of Dr, Dockhorn, Arnim horo remarknd s lad niready atatad tho wheroabouts of ull tho documenty excopt i fow lncludod in tho third c. ory. e conld not reproach the wall of the Embassy for enro- lessnesa, and uecapted the ontiro responatbility, Prof, Lowis testitiod that Yon Arnim consulted with him whether o should walt for tho Toroign Ofico to commenco proceodingas or tako tha in- ilintivo lumsolf to compel ftto recognizo Lisright of ownership in the documents. THE ULTRAMONTANE ELEMENT, Tho Ultramontaues ara activoly working to fo- cnro tho defoat [n the Reichstag” of tho Land- strum bill, 'Tho noblo ladies of Westphalin recontly fined for signing o soditious eddress to the Disl hop of Paderborn havo appealed from thoir sontenco, BEDITIOUS PUBLICATION. Horr Mojunbo, membor of Parlinmont and editorof tho Ultramontane journal Germana, bos boen arrested snd imprisoned for publish- ingacditious mattor, Count von Arnim was intorrogated with refoer- onco to tho nuthorship of cortaln nowsprper nr- ticlos attributod to him. o admittod that ho authorizod the publication in tho Lrussels Zcho de Paylioment of =& s&tatomout that ho was obout to resign tho Ambassn- dorship bocauso of tho trontment ho received from DTaflsian gocioty. Ho said ho would enll tha Secratary of Btate, Bhilo, to prova thnz tho Foreign Oflico asked whothor hie wantad thls nows to appear in the Gorman papers, Ho afterwards ; donied tho autborship of the itom, In order to mitigato the Improssion it produced. Tio acknowledged tho nu- thorshlp of tho articlo in tho Cologna Gazelte, nnd admitied that lo wished to iufluence the press. Ho acknowledged that tho Ietter to Dr. Dollingor wns his, but refused to anewer ?\mullunfl {u'rolation to tho revelations' in tho Viennn press for fear of compromising others. Iforr Broun, f ormerly proprictor of tha Spener Gazelle, Lentiflod that in May lnst fory Lindon, on bobalf of Count von Arnim, requosted tho publication of au nrticlo, Horr Gohlicke, editor, ropoated the testimony given by Lim at tho preliminary inquiry. Horr von Buloyw testifled {kiit Bismarck ordor- od Daron Holstcin, subjoct to Arnun's approval, to tront tho statomont in the Zoho de Pariiament ironically, and reproduco it in Germnn PROTA. Herr Londsborg, jonrnalist, was oxamined, Ho acknowledged that he sent tho disclosura to the Vienun Presie, but doclinod to etate whotbor Von Al was implicated in tho publication. Lnndsberg admittod thnt ho wroto the lottors included in the indistmont concorn- ing tho purchaso of tho Tagsblm‘l or somo other newspaper by Arnim, —The liter froquently spoke on that subjoct, but witnoss nover com stdorod bis inteniions sorions, e SPAIN. REPUDLICAN CONFERFNCE. Mapnip, Dee. 11.—Mnrshal Serrano hns visited Tspartero av Logrono, and hus had o conforence with Gens. Lazornn and Morlonos. “'ho Gorman gunbonts Nautilus and Albatrosy Liavo withdrawn from Spanish wators, ARAY 70881 1TEXDAYE, ‘Dec. 11.—Gel heve lost 700 men in his rocont defeat. BERNANO GENERALISSINO, Loxnoy, Dec. 12—5:0 a. m.—A Madrld dis- patoh to the Times pays' Marshal Serrano wans gozotted ns Gonorulinalno of all the armies of Spain previons to his departurs from the Capi- tal, which took placo on Wodnesday. Active oporntions in tho Nurthara not likely to bogin immediataly, ma {a'roported to s = CENTRAL ASIA, RUBSIAN TRADE, Sr, PETERSROURG, Dee. 11,—Nowa has ronched the advanced posts of ‘tho Russion army in Central Asin of tho safo arrlval in Khorasan of tho first Russian trading caravan which aver ponotrated that -couutry. Tho reports rovoived from tha caravan compinin of hostile arltations among thoe native tribes, causoed by intrigues and instigations of Lritish ugonts, WAR ON THE TURCO. ST, I’m‘r.nsnuno, Deo. 11,—1'bo_Rusalan cam- paifn against the Tarcomans in Khivn s cone moncod, Twa columns aro in motion, Ono hus alrondy crossed the Awwu Daryn, sud is operating in Khivan tersitory. oS GREAT BRITAIN, BTRIKE ENDED, Loxnoy, Ded, 11.—''he strike of aperatives in the juto mills of Dundeo hus eunded in a victory, the proprictors baving given up their intention of reducing the woges, BTEAMER LOST, 1t i8 feored that tho steamer Pellean, from Cardiff for Cork, has been lost, with all on board, The passongers and crow numberod forty-nix, ———— FRANCE. ABHEMULY PANTIES, Pans, Dec, 11,—M. Come, recontly olected Prosident of tho Left Contre, at & eaucus to-day stated tlat tho party had gono to the utmost limit of concesslon, The Extromo Loft eleotod L. Dresson ns Presldent. The Committee of tho Assembly to which was roferrcd tho validity of M. Durgong's election in tho Dopartwont of Novro Lus declded to postpono tho investigation uctil o rosult in rcucf;ed In tho judicin! progoodings against par- ties impliented in the Committeo of an. appon ta the people. Moanwhilo the onepartists will purh immmodiato contirmation by tho Assembly of AL Lurgong's right to hig sont, A MAN WITH A HISTORY, Finenotal Buin-Luinily Berenyvemont —an Over by the Cars—Sulcigema Snd Ntory. rom the Osweeya (N, T.) Palludium, During tho ol oxcitomont, J, J, Buwoll, Martville, Cayugn County, & man who bud tr: clod tha conutry cousidotablyy and who wus o person of refinod tnstos and n fuir dogroo of wul- tivation, invested in Ponusylvauia olf lands’ and mudo n fortuno amouuting to §:50,000, or. thoro- whauts, o put most of the money into build- ings o Ditholo, thon o growing town, and belioved by ‘il speculators to ho the comingg quoen of that section. Hoon altorward tho grasf dm at Pitholo nwopt awny his ontire DodBeEHIONg, upon which ho had not a cont of insuranco, Deforo ho hind falvly recovered from tho ptroke of fato which im{m\‘o.rmlmd him, ho recoived tolegram m Murtvillo, stating that hiy only childron, twin hoys, wern drowned, IHo went homo nnd found that one of hiy boyw had broken throughis pond whilo sltating ; the other heriofe- ally attemptod to uavo his brother, and both por- lahed, Mi. Burroll barled hin hos , and, shattor- od in forluno and mind, wont back to I'itholo to ather wp the remuants of his businens. Roon theronftor ho was notifled ot his wife's doath, 8ha having fallon o pray to geriof gmw!n‘; Irom the dantliof her childron, o burled his wifo besido his boyn, and, stiipped of fumily and for- timo, winrtod” fn to huifet tho ovil (ldo which optned eolting in o wlornly against him, 1a onrly lifo’ Burrell hind Joarnad tho trado of shoomaliing, nnd he started a ehop at Martyille, One dny this fali ho conctuded to o down to Fair Huvon and pick up o fow ordera for wintor boots among his old friends, who, Jnowing his minfor- tunes, ho belloved would holp him nt Jenst to enrn his bread, Ho succondad handsomoly, nud, when starting for homo, fonnd that tho tlolkot- agont was hot in tho oflico, and paid tho cons ductor £1 on tho traln. Ho helioved that thoro was chango due him, and had some words with tho conductor about that matter, but did 1ot ro- celvo tho chango which ho clalmod, At Htorling Junction, ho got off to spouk to n lady whom he maw upon tho platform, and continned tatking to hor untll tho train was under hondwey, Ifo thon caught the platform rafl nnd BWing himsolf on, " As lio was ahout Lo opon tho door of tha coack, e nlleged, tho conductor mot him, thrast bis dollar blITin his faco Ko rudoly and with auch foreo that ho was pushed off tho plat- form, and, as ho foll, his nrm struclk ncross the lbmulz and was out off botweon tho wrist and ol oy, o wns now doprived not only of fortune and family, Lut tho hatd dhat had oarnod bis own #ceut living, Ho suthorizod Churchill & Nut~ ting, of this clty, to commenco actton against tuo Southorn Contial Railrond Company for dame ages, and camo to Ouwogo Lo stop, "Ha ongaged o littlo ruit stand noar tho Fitzhngh Houns, and foolt & room in that hotel, Oto morning this week ho was found atupld in bed; phyeiciahs wero ealled and found that he had taken morphine in fatal quantity s next doy ho died. It was said that ho wan & fanon, but examination failed to show that to bo truo, and 110 wan buried with other snicides and paupers in Potter's Fiold, Itis n plain LIt of truo history, told with the dmly nowspapor’s reportorial toraoness and bluntness ; bub what pogo of fiction ravoals o nioro dramntic otory ? SOUTHERN DISORDERS. Amos Defends His Action fa tho Vicks- burg Affair, The Vicksburg Prisoners Held o Await the Acticn of the Courts. How They Dispose of Election Returns in Louislana, THE VICKSBURG TROUBLES, @OV, AMEH" BTATEMENT, JAoKRON, Miss,, Doc, 9, 1874, Tothe Editor afthe New York Herald : I take this ns an opportunity -to prosont an fn- cident of the sufforing of iho colored peoplo of tho South in their slow and uncortain courso to- ward pereonal }berty and personal security, with the hope that tho great gonorous heart of tho nation may be moved, becauso I havo yot to ren political ovents at tho Bouth reported falrly for Ropublieans ; and, teast of nll, to got mysolf right boforo the peoplo, That I should bo falrty rapre- sonted eannot bo oxpected from o pertisan oppo- sltion which con find it in thoir hearts to put dcores of mon to doath for political reasons. Buch an opposition cannot do Jjustico toan opponent, nor has one cither tims or inclmation to correct constant misroprescntation. Tho pros- ont troublos in Vieksburg aro but the natural outgrowth of tho violence of Inst Augusat’s olec- ton and are, in my opivion, for political purpoacs, WIAT THE ‘' LEAGUES" ARE DOING. Tho Whito Leagues ut ono time and Tnxpayers Lenguae at anothor have been for somo timo, toiough their committees, examining the books and popers of the county oflicials, Thoy, the Longuors, it 18 #aid, forcod themselves ou tho Grand Jury, and, after o langthy session, found indictmonts against but ono county ofiicinl, o colored man by tho name of Davenport. This information rolativo to the nction of the Grand Jury Treceived from tho foreman of said Jury and tho Loeaguors. ' No clinrgo wau mado ugainst tho official condnet of Shoviff Crosby. I know ho hos made his settlements to dato. They antiei- patod—uo enid the foreman of the Grand Jury roforred to—that tho county would bo defraudod beonuso Crasby’s bond was not sufticiont. Hero lol mo eny, Ropublican oftloials who have to give bounds nro constantly being ntlucked turongh thom and ombarrassed hoyoud monsure, yot tho number of dofaulters in’ tho Stato during the bast yoar Lavo been more numerous among Democratic officinls and for o groator smonui, §o say all our roports, than among Republican olticials, Tho Longuers pretond to say that TIE PETIT JURY WILL DI PACKED t0 acquit Davenport nud Lwe ox-county ofiicals apainst whom indletments hayo been found. So far as I know,—go faras I could learn from the forcmen of the Graud Jury,—tho indictmont against Davonport end the pretonded fonr of packad juries woro the only causo of the presont usurpations nud bloadshed in that city. After n mooting of tho so-called tax-payers, £ committeo waitad on Crosby and domanded his rosignation. Oronby declined to resign, aud aled what chargos hud beon preforred ngainst him. Phe Chuir- man of the Committee stated thoy wore only instraoted to awk his immedinto resignation, Afterward & mob of romo 600 waltod or bim nnd Lo resigned to aavn his lito—so ho has stated to me, ‘Thoother ofiicials to be waited on mado their ascupo or secroted themuclves. The Cirewt Court wns in_tession, and tho Judgo, being deprived of his Shorift, cama down from his benets and was going to lanve tho roo: but (80 [ am .informed by an ovo-witnews) was forced to yoturn to it and adjourn tho courbto n giveu day, . JUDAT DROWN'S REPORT, "Tho following it a noto recoivod by me from the Judgo : o flis Exeallanry Gov, Amiss 1 It becomes my duty to iuform you that an azgan mob, composed of aoveral hundred armed e, I this cvoniug (aken forclblo posession of tho Gourt- Itouso and Jail of thia_connty, and forced meat of tha county officera to resign or e to the country for pro- fection. Thomob {5 in posscasion of tho records of the oftices, nud throaten vialenco fo nuy ono wio doea not recopaizo thelr authority, My court is in Besmon, hut T am poworless and_esunot oxeouto fhe lu, Ro. Hof must bo furnivhed from abroad fn the way of mil- itury by tho Stito or Genoral Government, und that auickly, to provent geveral riot aud loss of ilfe, Very respeetfully, Gronak F, Inows, Judro Fifteenth Judiclal Diatrict, ‘I'ius nnarchy provailed. 'Then eamo the ques- tion, Shall tho United States ‘be called upon, or shall the State attempt to maintein its Aushority and laws? For obvious reasons tho Progidout whould not he appealed to until the Stato authori- ties hadaclod, ~ Saturday ShorafT Croaby roturned to Vicksburg, My Adjutant-Gonoral wont the samo duy, ‘I'ho cily was then'full of armod tnon, nany having gono thoro from othor towns nml from Loutsiana, TNE UOVERNOR APPRISED OF THE FIGUTING, About middny on Monday I reeoived tho fol- lowing telegram : G Ameas mmouced about 9 o'clook », m, oulxido clty Himits, on Grovo atroat, mnen moving out on diferont atrects, Thoy havo pose resdfon of 1o ‘Oourt-lHouse, and Bherit’ Croaby {a under nrrest, Milltls nre poworless to enfores ordc Ty A, G, PaoKER, Adjutunt-Genoral, ANOTIER DISPATCN, Later tho following camie; ™ Gow. A, Amer: Fluhting lus coased. Ten or twolve colored and one whito o killod, Probably twico thiut munber wonnde e, 'Tyweuty or thirty prisonors fakien by wiriten. 0. 8, Lix, A, D, 0, 1 nfterwurds Jenrnod tho foliowing facts s ‘Chat the colored mon hiad an undorstanding to ail'Crosby in bia offort to rogain noecossion of lis oftica, aud started from varlous parts of the county Mondny morning, Early that morning Cronby wus solzed by (hé mob, Ouo of the leadinig men of & body golng to Crosby’s ald, ono Owon, saw him und received his ordors coutier- mandiug thoso provioasly given, and ordored him to desist from farthor efforts in his boliuif. Under a flog of truce Owen roturnod to Iug friends, and ‘was roportingg Ins intorviow with Croaby, whon the Whito Lengiters vated to as- sault Oweu's party, and_at onco advancod on thom and oponed fre, Tt i reported that few of Owon's men hud syms, and a¢ onco broko and ran, Fighting Krod fodicn of THLN THT SLAUGNTER DEGAN. Tt i nnid nnd beliovad that_como sixty or elghty colorod mon woro killed, Tho snumo old story— nogrocs kitled by tho score, nouo of their qun- nonty hurt, and still the negro to blamo, - 1¢ is roported tomo that unurmod negroos on cotton Lialas, potug to town, wero killod, Also mon wero lnlled olwowhore without nuy arma ju thelr postosion, Positivo word comon to mo that tho firat man Iillod wos o Prosbytorinn minlutor, un- dor tho following ciroumstancos: 1o wis 'pro- cooding aloug a stroet in Vicksburg when ho was naccostod by & squad of mion, one of whom asked him whoro ho was gain, 7. Hig roply was about a8 follows : + Dow’fx tu’ého huunn‘?n 4 - ** Whnt houno " rDown whero T fiyo," .I“\‘;ll-:nl;::)l)fl:’;lslx? 1‘:“ shot dead, Thin I givo ta B 5 54 Vickeparg, Plrit whicl is raporlod e oxlstin g CROBDY' DANM R EN, On Tueaday I 2 o Y L recelved the followlng tole. To Gior, Aues : 1leave on upeclal traly a1 for non, Banpend n Adjutunt-Goneral, Upon thanrrival of Gon, Packerho graoted mo with thono words: I have como byg o spocial train to unvo Orosby'a lifo, Thoy say if they gol o tolegram that tho Unijted Sinter troops arg. coming to Vioksburz bafora {ng rosiguation of Croshy oan bo accopted by tho Bonrd of Bupors \'Hinll's ?rmzby \v‘fl‘l‘ ho II{, mldmh." ind nat kont for Unitod States troops, My roply was that I gould not hold an inte: with tho mob tn Vieksbiirg., . - iv1eoura0 Lnst uvunqu Iiasuod ncall for tho Leglsla- turo to assemblo to-day, I heavd that flzhting wad taking place in a romoto part of Warren County. Vieksburg ju tho connty sontof \Wara yon County, 11Such, in'brief, aro the facts. I will not givo tho inaws of datails loarn of tho troubies in Vicksburg. Tho Leaguors have had foll and completo control of the affnira thare, and thore 78 no mora necessity for the massners® of Mon- day than there wa fo: t1:0 riot n yorr clty soma uwelvo yoars ago, which resnltod i the death of A0 many {unocont and harmloss nogroes. It ig tho optnion qf many—go it {8 roported—the Whito Longuors prooinim that, {f thoy find tho can get nolitical control unlx by foree, they wil apply forca, DELNERT AMIS, Gavornor of Misslesippl. TUE BITUATION AT VIOKBLURO. Vioranuna, Dee, 11.—Deports from the ine torior aroe that tha negroos ura roturning to tha flelds, nd purnning thicir usysl avocations, Tha aty is gulet and orderly, e Boord of Aldormon last night authorizod tho Mayor Lo organizo n brigado “of voluntaor policomen, to counist of fen companios of fifty "o Crosby ana heri(T Crosby and sevornl ne; o '8 T nuy z:)nn{) prisonior, pnruyl(ur thalr JS?.“S{:aw‘.‘ an 0 made nmenabls {o inyo vielted Uiom. e Toon 15ty “thio Board of Caunty Suporvisors, a but one, now in session, hfivu ammclr?f“ffifiz tho negro Clinncory Clerk hag 1o Jand whoteoer on record, thottzh Lo hns beon in ' ofiien mean thai & year, 'Thore nro soveral indletmonts for forgory aind emhezzloment peuding ngainst hum, I, G, Hall, tho notortous nogro- lander, is roa ported killod. ot Snyder's BIuft to-dey. No page ticulars, _AMER' COURSE APPHOVED, Wastsaos; Dee. 11.—The courso of Goy, Anien, of Misairaippi, in endenvoring to BOpprosas tho disordors existing thero without calling for tho assistance of the Foderal Govornmont, is & Bouree of much gratifleation to tho Administra- tion, althongl the opinion is oxprossed that, haq ho netod more prompely and gono in poraon Lo tho seano of action, much Lloodshed would hayo been avertod, ——— LOUISIANA, THE RETURNING TIOARD, Nrw Orreaxs, Dec. 11,—Tho Roturning Board decided to refer tho DeSoto Parish olection ro- turns 1o the Legislatare, becauss they hiad no roturns from tho Buporvisor boforo thom, Somo weoks ago Boan, the Supervisor, gavatho roturna to prostituto, 'who wanted 81,000 for them. Tho Consorvatives urged tho Board and State authorities to take somo action to compol the Buporvisor to roport, but thoy rofused t6 move in the matter. Tho Consorvntlvuato-dnx offored tho duplicato of tho roturns which was filed with the Clork of the Court, the ballot-boxes and tho teatimony of tho Clork, but the Board dectined to canvass tho duplicates or to examino tho bal- Iot-boxes, ——— CASUALTIES, KILLED BY TIII CARS, Spectal Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune, MasgricLn, O, Dee. 11,—Charles Hershisor, aged about 18, was instautly killed this nftore noon on tho Atlantic & Great Wostorn Tailway, uear thna city. 1fo bad boon a brekemnn on this rond A short time, but had loft their sorvico, Ho hnd boen to Galion to draw bia pay, and wae roe turning home on a freight train, In nttemptin toolimb on the top of a car ko lost his hcmil &ng foll undor the last car, which pagsed over him, DIED OF 115 INJURIES, Special Dispateh to T'he Chicago Lribuns, Astwere, O., Dec. 11.—)ilos EKephart, who was burned roverely, yostorday, at tho burning of Paulding Furnac, at Cecil, 0., diod this nf- tornoon at & o'olook in the most intonsg agony. DROWNED WHILE SKATING, S1. Ay, Minn.,-Dee. 1 A Bon of George Herbarggar, of 8¢, Cloud, while skating on the Mizsissippi Raver Inst ovening, skatod futo anaire Lols andl was drowned. —_——— Child@ren oi'the Same YMormon #athex Not Acquainted with fach Other. Fram the Salt Lake T'ribune, T'hero are meny astonishing and fow admirnble features about tho religion of our Latter-Day neighbors ; but, without stopping to disouss ther all, 1t nnswers the purpuso of this articlo to mone tion a circumstanco which camo undor our notics o fow davsago, Jt is o samplo of many such cases in Salt Like City and throughout tho Terri- tory. In u convorsation had wich o boral-minded young Mormon tho writor asked him if ko and so of the samo nnmo woro his Lrothers? Stopping & moment us If to study o puzzle, the gentleman thon spoke ot soveral of his brothars and sisters, remarking nt the closo that thoss woro all he wat ecqualutad with, “But aro thora moro of your fauuly whon you do not know #" wo inquired ; whoroupon the party procceded to oxplain. that Lix father, ona of tue foremostof the priesthood, Los tauy women snd also n great namber of childron’; that under tho polygamous system boya and girls of the same patornity grow up to man- hood without over meeting each other. Thoy nre, therefore, not oven ordinury frionds, but n8 much atrangers to oneanather s though born of diiforent ‘races and in_diforont States, uroly this phaso of tho kingdom is not to ba cmulitod 3 althongh it may afford o solntion ta Drigham Young's doctrino that n man may right {ully matry his own sistor, a8 has beon done in Utahi, “Bringing ehildvon up in ignorance of _t(llwlr conganguinity might help to carry out the iden. At Ponryn in Cornwall, England, during tha Into Mavoralty contost, n curious scene took placo, “L'ho retiring Mayor desired and antici- utod ru—nlecflou,.lnrhu was & Liberal, and the dborels in_ the Council outnumbored the Cou- sorvatives by ono voto; Lutone Liboral Coune cillor, Samucl Cox by uamo, proved inconstant, Wwas won over to tha Covservatives, and when vots ing lime camo, amid ntonsooxeitoment, lio voted ot for tho Libernl, Mr, Luyin, but forthe Cone servative, Mr, Rowe, o Mayor, when tho ro- 8ult waa known, made the following speech : “It is on record that about 1,800 yenrs tgo ono Judny #old his Mnstor for thirty piccos of silver, Struck with remoree ho wont aud hing himeolf, I wonld recommnend Mr, Sazuel Cox to go and do likewiso. 1o will avor bo like Cain, go forth in tho world branded on the forohead 63 & rono- grdo and traiter,” Br, Samuel Cox, howover, had not hanged himself up tho latest intelli gonce, On tho contrary, lie and the Oonsorvas tives wont and dimed with tho nuw Mayor, ———————— 2 Fortunute Dronm, Tho Montpelier (Ve.) Watchinan tolla tho fol- lowmg: * Oue of oueineuranos companios had u heayy insurancs upob a cortain dyolling-bouso in this Slute. Lecently, o Indy living in the housu (tho owner belng tomporarily absout), drenied that thore was a hole in the chimney in hio attie, with inndlings piled aboutit, nppnmnu[yl for tho purposs of fiving tho house. o wmuol did tho dream troublo hior that sho could ouly bs sutiofied by 4 pereonal fnepection of tho spot, whon, to the surpriso of all, she found ovory- thing just ag sho had dreamed; n hole broken throngh the chimnoy nud filled with matchey, punor, sud wood-kirfdliugs, tho wholo carefully coverad up with o hoard, nud the board held in placo by a slone, all ingoniously arranged for a very mysterious conflagration, "Jtis noocdless to to add g)u'.t the insuranco company regurded this dizqovery as good eauso for at once caueclivg tho polig, S Governtory in Arl:unnn:.‘ Lot An ogad- citizon uf Avimusas went. ol ho raom\:gt the Congrassionul Committeo in Littlo Ttock to Loll Judgo Poluud thud #inco reconsting- tlon fn 1808 Atkansus bhad had smixtoon Govorn oru, 1o compluiued that It wasn't 8370 for & man to livo there; that ho himself was rather slow in his montal oporutions, and serreely gob his mind mado up to support oua Govornor when thuy sprung anothor on him, sud mado him lublo to arrest for treason, Ho said ovory tima he camo to toww ho asked mou at tho ontskirts who was Govornor on Lk porticular dny, last ho mpht mako n mistako in huerahing for the uypopular onv, After roiioving his mind of o little wore dry humor, ho lott, but presently roturned, agke ing pormission to malkn & corroction fn his State= mont, 16 was goventoon Governars, ho knid, fne stond of eistoon,~lo had rauzembored gnothor ono whuls bo wes goiug down stuivs, i