Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 29, 1874, Page 4

4 THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1874 . — e TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE, 18735, TATES OF SUNACRIDTION (PAYADLK IN ADVANCE), 1) { Sunluy. G530 | Weokly' Dty CAAC Lreunld at thi OMice. pin R St SEE0 Partnaf a yorr at tho aania rato, o provent dplay and mistakos, Yo euro and givo Post- Ofito addrean in ful, felnding Stato snd County, Remittancosmay bomado eithorby draft, exprons, Port- Otico order, or i roglstered fottors, atanr risk, TENMA TO CITY SUNACINENS, Tatty, dolivored, Sunday oxecoted, 27 conta parweok Daily, defirorod, Bunday fncludad, 30 conts per waok Addrees THE TRIBUNT UOMPANY, Carner Madison and Doarbor Ohlcago, 11, TO-DAY'S AMUSEMENTS. AOADTEMY OF MUSIC—Halstod sroet, batween Mad- lyog and Monros. Kugagemont o Misw'Olara Bloreis, QRAND OPERA-JIOUSI-Clark strect, | opogrite y hornian Tlousy, K Loon's Mlastrels, *' Lo Potiy Favat.” 10AQ M—Monros , between Donr. B R e e Connt ™ Rt avd oveuing, . {QOLRY'S THRATRR_Randalph stroot, betwesn Olark and LaSallo, * Led Astrayen s M'VICKER'S THEATRE—Madison stragt, botween P gt Mngsgomment of Eanta Buoin: **Riclard 1LY HALSTED STREET OPERA-TIOUSE-Cornor Tal. wtoal Lo Heveivon strcotss. Mo, 1ontz's Fouals Min. strols, Afternoon and ovoniny SOGIETY MEETINGS. T LODGY, No. 508, A, T. and A, M,—Tegulsr o e i {Tciiay) ovemine at 13 otolock, (h SRl o ) anteo . fo buafoess i work. ‘o iratornity eordlally invited. . II. ORANE, Sec. NIOX TODGE, No.9, T, 0. O. I'—The offoors and o sEpsoby notie to piont ' tho Tl cotane Ol Waslinglon-sts,, on Tneaday morning, 28th % v‘fl(lfll‘y‘;h'\fl,. to I\'l'fiml‘filllg "IIHYEJ,I;‘D"‘:&R"& A o, Ordor o inncox. Brothors gl S HALDWIN, N, G 'GOLWELL, o S NOTICES. BURNETT'S KALLISTON—*'THE DEST COS- o 66 world s hlatie Tl ** Imparta poculiar softness of toxtury. M. Yorfoetly huaithy action of 1ho ekl ativaled for tho coriploxi & filred a8 8 cotuotio, tollut comploto witho Boston Trant, INDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTS. 5-0lty, Buburban, and Country Roal R A Qi inoors Gllandon, Lost and P Pac soments, Tallrosd Timo- mablo, Modical Cards, st oic. The Chivags Teibumne, Tuesday Morning, Dscomber 39, 1874, The appeal of Turopont: Triroy from the order requiring him fo give n bill of particu~ lars in his civil suit ngainst M. Brecute, was henrd yesterday by two Judges of the Now York Supremo Court. A decision was reserved till to-dny. Ono of tho Judges ‘said that & material modification of tho order seemed to be essentinl, The Rev. Mr. Grexprsvive has given notico to lis congregation that lio will not preach again unless his innocence shall bo satisfactorily estnblished by tho Church Court to which his case has been appenled. If My, Bexcaer had ndopted a similar policy when hig fair fano was first impeached, he would stand higher in public estcom than he loos to-day. Two ordinnnces fox tho construetion of rail- toads on streetsin tho West Division were sffered in tha Council last night and rejected. 1t is understood that the West Division Com- pany, with its usual pnitry and contemptable spirit, refused to *“whack-up " with the Ring, Tho ordinances on their merits perhaps deserve to pass; perhaps not. It is scarcely worth while o consider them in that light ; tho Council does not look at the merits of ruything which can be supposed to offor a chance for bribery. The Rev. Mr. Oasg, of Fond du Lae, Wis,, has stirred up & commotionamong the church peopla of Northern Wisconsin by making a Liberal Christian of himsclf. The process does not scem to be favorable to the growth of allthe graces, forMr. CAs's sormon, ports of which are printed thismorning, isnot remark- able cither for “liberality” or good-tempor, Liberal Christinnity, as we understand it, is based on liberal manhood, 'Thero is a spuri- ous typs which is based on oppoasition to orthodoxy, of which type Mr. Cast is an epostle. Orthodoxy is not a condition of genuine Liberal Christianity, such as Ronswr Corryzr upholds and exemplifi Mr, Stunees is again in the deep waters of afiliction, Tuless he shall suceced in melting the heart of Judge MeArristrr, who is some- what prone fo grant supersedeses and in- junetions, the ballot in the Board of Trade will be taken up today at the point where it was interrapted by Judge Wrrrzaus' injunc- tion, The daty of tlo Bonrd is, of courss, fmperative. Nothing tlat hns tronspired since the injunction wns obtamed, at all condones the original offonse of Srunors. If ho de- served expulsion then, be more richly do- serves it now; for ho has thwarted the Board by aunoying and expensive legislation, and fn this manner has materially injured its rop- utation. Tho Auditor of Illinois in his bienninl re- port atates that after the 1st day of January tho debt of tho State will bo $1,450,000, pay- ablo At intervals during the noxt three or four years, Ile ndds that the incomo of the State from tho Illinois Contral Railroad will Lo smply sufficient fo pny the intorest as it ncerues and tho prineipol as it falls due. So that debt mny be said to be practically paid. It, however, for the time, diverts that rail- vond rovenuo from other objocts to which it might bo beneflcinlly applied. There is no particular renson why tho State should uso that particular fund to pay off tho romnant of tho debt; to meet the interest and the principal as it falls due will require but an infinitessimal tax, und the revenuo from tho railrond might bo applied Lo tho completion of the only certain means of ever regulating vailrond rates,—the completion of the canal nnd of the lockage on the lllinois River, @1.24 for Fabruary. Hogs wero fairly nctive and flrmer, Sales at $6.00@726, Oattlo and sheep woro nctive and firm ot Saturday's prices, The brothren of tho Westorn Avenuo Bap- tist Ghurch had o delightful' vow lnst night at a business-meoting called 1o consider the resignation of - Mr, Gonvoy, former pastor of tho church, ''he questions which oxciled the feolings of tho meeting avo too deliento and mysterious for carnal apprecintion, It is only cortain that no resolution of praise possed py that church can injure Mr. Gor- poN; md the brothren might havo apatod themsolves the troubla of fighting ovor such a resolution, which ono of them liad offered. Tho report of the meoting given clsowhero in ‘this paper shows how religion ean bo bur- lesqued on nn occasion by a company of ig- norant pictists, Gen, Burrwax las at last esosped from the roporters and taken his departure for Now Orlenns. 'Threo membors of his stalf bear him compnny. Tho warlike aspeet of the mission is somowhat relioved by the fact that two Indies, belonging to the staff, are in the party. It is not casy to guess what aro the unturo of tho General'a instructions. Ho is, so far as we can judge, to bein the neighborhood of New Orleans by the timo the Legislature mects ; but to assume no active commandun- less somo grent emorgonoy occurd. His pros- once in Now Orleans will not be grateful to tho Whito Lengues. The comments of the Now Orleans newspaporson tho roports of his nssignment to the city are the most mena- cing aud provoking that bave come from tho Southern press for a long timo, One paper opportunely recollects that ‘SmEnDAN Wos 4 tho Munchausen of the War,” *“an overrat- edand vainglorious warrior ; another saysthat ns ““n soather of political troubles ho is any- thing but a suceess”; and the Picayune says : **If there is ono man more responsiblo than another for the misfortuncs of Louisinnn that manis Gen, Smenmax.” All this, indeed, does not boda s kind reception of the Genernl and his companions by the people of New Orleans, But no coldness on thoir part will disturb him, Ho can do without their favor. His presence in Now Orleans will have a good effect, Ho i3 & man of positivo action, agninst whom no suspicion of favoritism can lie, and who will put down violenco with astrong hand. Just such’a man, if report speakis true, will bo needed in New Orleans next Mondny, when the Legislature meets, .Tho Pacific Mail Investigation is being eon- ducted in Now Yorlk with results much more satisfactory than any reached in Washington, Ora hundred oud fifteen thousond dollavs of Inwix's corruption fund bas been traced di- rectly to tho Hon. Winimwm S. Kive, ox- TPostmaster of the House, and member of Congress cleet from Minnesotn. The story about Kixa which appearod in Tuz Trie uNE something more than a week ago, rod for which o B8t Panl nowspe. per was the responsible authority, is thus corroborated in ils essentinl pnrticu- lng, 'Tho country will be pained and shocked by tho confirmation of that story. Wo have leen hoping all along tha the in- vestigation would prove to bo part of o schome to depress Pacific Mail stocks, rnd that the Committee would not merely fail to convict any Congressman of bribery, but es. tablish beyond o yeasonable doubt- the abso- lute innocence of the Congress which granted tho subsidy, It is imposaiblo to ontorfain such a hopo longer. Mr. Kive must account for the §115,000 which hoyeceived. Hisown services na o Jobbyist wero mnot worth ono-tenth of that sum; but he was just tho man to accept the monoy and por- tion it out among the corrupt members. The duly of the Committae is to press this matter until the full extent of it is ascertainad. It counot be, and it ought not to bo,. dwsrfed ov slighted. If it is not fully dealt with now, tho fixst work of the Forty-fourth Congross will bo to decide why Wiztmax S, Kiva should not bo oxpelled from the House, If Mr, Kivo's guilt is esiablished noy, the next Congross will be able to dismniss him sum- marily, The Dovcras Mopument Associntion yes- terday took measures to get rid of tho busi- ness they voluntarily assumed. In his life- | timo Mr. Dovaras deeded to his wife a lob of ground in Groveland Park, intonding to build thereon n residence. When he died, thero was started a project to ereet n grand monu- ment to him in this city, and the widow waa nsked to give up this lot for thet purpose. Subsequently, the Legislature made an ap- propriation of $25,000 to purchaso tho lot from her, and it was thereupon deeded to the State, The State holds the title to tho land, but permitted it to be uged for tho purpose of erccting a splendid monument thereon. In courso of time a portion of thoe baso of the monument was erected, and there it stands to this day. Yestordny it wns resolved by the Monument Society to ask tho State to permit the removal of the remains to the grounds of the Chicago University, and to sell the grounds and apply the procecds to tho completion of the monu. ment, Whether the University will consent to this arrangement has not yet bLoen doter- mined. It was suggosted that the body be removed to ono of the cemeteries; that if tho remains of Dovaras were o bo disturb- od ot all, thoy should be deposited in somo place dedicated permanently to that general purpose ; and that, i the iden of o soparate monument with appropriato grounds was to Lo abandoned, then their finnl deposit in a public eemotery would bo most appropriate, Thevo is forco in this reasoning, The removal of tho remnins from the pmlt is of itself an abandonment of the origingl thought of hav- ing them vost in n spot to which when living he was 8o much attached. e family, having parted with all title to the land, can heva no moro objection to the removal of the body to n cemetery than to the University grounds. If tho monument is not to bo built on the Innd sot apart by tho Btate for that . purposo, The Chiengo produco markets wera rathor slow yesterday, except in provisions, Moss pork was active and 30@8ie higher, closing weale at $18.00@18.05 cash, and $10.25@ 19,47 1.% seller February, Lard was in mod- erate demand, and 10@200 per 100 tbs higher, tlosing easier at $18,10 onsh, and $18,82 1.2 @13,85 soller Fobruary. Meats wore quite and a shado firmer, ot 6 3-8@0C 1-20 for shoulders, 9 8-8@9 1-20 for short ribs, nnd 9 7.8¢ for short clears, 1Ilighwines wero in light demnnd and stondy at 97 120 per gol- lon, Flouwr was moro notivo and casior. ‘Whent was less active and S-i@10 higher, closing at 00 3-8c cash, and 90 6-80 for Jan. uary, Corn was quiot and frrogular, closing Hro nt 79 1.2@980c for old, G4 1.2¢ for now, ond 71 1+fo soller May, Oats were in falr domnnd and 1-20 higlier, closing at blo cash, and 52 f-dafor January, Rye wns quict and strongor, at 08@09 1-20. Barloy was dalt and sasior, closing at.§1,23 1.2 cnab, and 1,48 1-3 thon the State,in easothe removal takesplaco, should sell the lnnd, and put the proceads in the Trensury, Mr., Dovoras has beon dead nearly fourteen ycars, Whilo it is to ba re- grettod that the monument hins not been com- pleted, we trust that there will bo no buying or solling or other proceodings with a view of raising monoy out of tho trade, even to comploto tho momiment, Tho “ Independont Jonrnalats" avs bogin ning to opou their eyos, ‘Lhoy started out on tho general nssumption that overything in. side tho Ropublican party was bad, and overy- thing outsido the ltepublican party was good, ‘They seom to bo appronching a renlization of tho fallnoy of the lnttor part of their original yroposition ; tho fallncy of the flvst part will follow in due courso of thme. This con. clusion, ot lonst, ia forcod upon us by the position vcoontly irkien by My, Sasurn Rowwgs, oditor of the Springflold Zepublican, 1o was tho fivst to sinxt out in that puculine field of *indopendence™ which found con- solation only in general opposition (no matter of what nature) to tho Republican party, ond lie {8 now onoof theflrst to acknowledgae that ho was not nltogotherright. In a recent lottor which Mr. Bowsrey wroto from Wash- ington to his paper, ho distinetly stated that if the policy of the party were intrusted to such men ng Viee-President Wrrsox, Scere- terios Fisi and Bristow, Postmaster-Genernl Juwrn, Fruny, of Connectiout; Bramve, the Monnis, Judge Hoan, Hawrry, GARFIELD, and men of this class, *“we should soo the old ship righted in loss than thirty days.” ‘I'hen Mr, Bowres adds: TFor the Democrala aro 0 miasing thele opportunity and atiirking thelr responallility to opon wido thedoor for Tepublican reorganization ond restoration. They aro bullding negativly Snstead of afirmatively,—~on tho capacitics and infatakes of (helr oppononts, rather thob upon their own virtuo and strongth, Thoy offer no pollciea or suggeations of reform. They talk and actna §f they preforred the currency queation ahould Lo Jgnored ratbor then sottled. They prosont no schiemo of adminlstrative fmiprovemont, Thoy shiow 10 nbility or desire to liberalizo thelr organization, or clthor personally or politieally to fampt tho volos that wwill make thom & majority, relying rathor ou the samo popular_disguat with tho prosent Administration that Liag got thern tho nost Gougrean to givo them the next Tresidency, without the limitation of thelr enjoyment of ta powor and patronoge, sud without on fucressod numbor of sharcrs thoreof, Mr. Bowrns ovidontly tries to let himeclf down easy ; but the fact is, that not only are tho Demoorats in just the condition which he deseribes, but the futuro of the Republican party is now in tho hands of tho very men ho hias named,along with othors equally honorable ond able, No man sympathizes more in ac- tions with theso gentlomen than tho Prosi- dent, aud tho contldenco which Mr, Bowrres inferontially reposes iu their ability to make the Republican party all it ought to bo will unquestionably bo realized. THE INDIANA SENATORSHIP. - Tho Democrats of Indinon scom to have purchased an clepbihnt in their majority in the coming Legisleture. Thoy havo tho op- portunity to elect o Senator of tho United States, There are, perbaps, 100,000 Demo- crats in the State willing to accept the offico. Under the Democratio rule in Indiaus, the choico hns to be made by a caucus, and, to obtain tho nomination, the cnndidate must obtain the votes of throe-fourths of all the Democratio members, This last part of the rulo is o hard oxnction; it gives to a siyall minority the power to defent the aspirations of the very best mon, Thero aro several cen- didntes named for the vacant Senatorship, Tho first of these is Mr, Josernt E, MoDoxs- ALD, o lawyer of ability, o politician of ripe exporience, and a gentloman of personal char- acter and respectability. Ho has been for many years the working lender of the party, and naturally it was assumed that ho would bo clected. DBut ho has opposition. Mr. Dan Voonnees, currency wild-cattor, has be- come A candidate, and is stumping the Stiate in advoeacy of his own claims, Ho is bidding high for votcs. e proposes to issuo greenbacks until they will bo so plontyand chenp that a farmer will recoive his hat and pockets full of them in exchnnge for a lond of corn or pork, Mo propnses, when he has got greenbacks down to o low figure, to “pny the bonds off " with them, nnd then, having sponged out tho bonds with greenbacks, wo suppose he will wind up the whole alfair by ropudiating tho greenbacks. > Mr. Voormees has o record in Congress which perhaps My, McDoyarp, wouald not have made, and that record was fitly crowned by his voting for, taking, snd keaping the “hack-pny ® of which tho last Congress robbed the Trensury, Ho wns one of tho lending salayy-grabbers, Whilowe would not do oven tho Democracy of Indiana tho in- justico of sssuming that Voormzus has any chanco of being elected Benator, still, under tho throe-fourths rule, ho may have friends onough with othor candidates to defeat Mc- Doxarp gotting the nomination, In aunticipation of this statc of things, at- tention is given to the chances of other candi- dates, Mr, Kcnn, though an able, clear- hended man, is so utterly opposed to Voon- uges’ financial vagaries that the latter will op- pose him as Dbitterly as ho does MoDoxarp. Mr, W. S. Hommaw, a Demooratic mom- bor of Cougress, who las o good and foir porsonal record, who las mever been acoused - of dishonesty, who opposed and refused to take the ¢ back-pay,” aud who has repoatedly been clected in n Re- publican district, is presented. It ianot like- ly that Mr. Voonnees wants Horarsx, or wants anybody but Voonuees, still he might go for somoe one in order to beat MoDoxaxp. Wo do not underataud My, HormaN s agreeing with Voornzees on the financial question, but hohasthot talon any decided ground on that subject as have Krer and McDoxazn, Thus it will be seon that, while perhaps two.thirds of the Domocrats of Indiann favor tho.clootion of MoDoxarp, tho three-fourths rulo may placo iv in the power of a fow dema- gogues liko Voonnurss to defent the populnr will, and forco the election of some inferior and inexperienced man, It moybo that Mec- Doxato will have the roquired vote in caucus, and will therefore bo clected ; but things do not look that way in Indiana. Tho possibili- ty of the Senatorship beingput up at suction, or to a general seramble, will call out o legion of oandidates, and who will bo the winner it is impossible to predict. In the meantimo, the war is razing in the party, and the Demo- orats find that their necidental victory lnst fall bas alveady entailed upon them a bitter fight over the division of the apoils, A NWATIONAL VILLAINY. Tho information comes from Washington that the sewing-machine companies aro agnin petitioning Congress for .an extension of the Wizson pntent on sewing-machines, Wo assume, to start with, that their efforts will end in ignominious failure. No Congress, whatover its political complexion or oharnc- tor, con afford to fly in tho faco of the publio on a quostion to which there is but ono side, "The peoplo of this country are sicle and dis. gusted with the sewing-machine monopolics of overy deseription, Wo must boar with those which have as yob unexpired, but the protest ngainst suy renowal thercof is 50 lond ond universal that Congross connot hesitate ns to its duty, Milliong upon millions of dollars have been exaoted from those very peopls who worc least ablo to pay so enormousaroyalty upon 8o necossary an articlo; and these vast sums lhave gono into tho pockats of speculators and not tha invontors, ‘Ihove is rarely auy justice in tha renowal of & patent, for tho beneflt doos not ofton neeruo to the original benefactor; there in nbeolutely nouein ony of tho sowing. machino patents, Tho patent for which tho present lobby nsks n ronowal is on an attachmont for faed. ing tho mnchine, It was grantod obout twonty-flve yonrs ngo for tho flrst time, and has olvondy onjoyed one renewal md oxtension, It hoe made fortuues not ouly for tho inventor, but for all the spooulntors dote whoso hends 1t has possed from timo to timo, Wirsoy, whose nnmo it bears, sold it somo timo'since to a combinn- bination of four companies for 50,000, This price ho recoived over and above all the roy- allios which have been paid him for n quar- tor of a contury, aud the compnnics havo givon this consont in tho hopo of exncting o hundrod times ns much outof alorig-suloring people, with the assistance of Congress. Wao do not hesitato to sny that nothing short of corrupt influencoy conld induco Congress to mnuction this gigantic fraud. Wo havo shown in provious nrticles tho seandal- ous disproportion of -the cost of these mn- chines to the prico which the public is re- quired to pay. It is nok neccasary to go over thoso figures again, but it may ho atated that in overy machine which is sold for $100 thero i $80 proflt, which ig divided up among tho patentoes, the manufacturers, ngonts,. ote. With reforonco to tho Wirson patent, it is stated that thoaverago price of tho machine s $050 ; tho notual cost of tho nvernge ma. chine doos not' oxceed $12.50. 'Tho averago profits on sewing-mnchines undor the patent extortiona nre from 800 to 400 yior cont. As rulo, the tondency of the Government, is to grant patents that cover too long n pe- riod, 'Tho patont is virtually a high-tariff jm- position and a monopoly, ‘Ie conaideration which actuntes tho Governmont to deed awny on oxclusivo privilege for a certain length of timo is to give some special compensntion to tho inventor, and thus encourego the inven. tivo genius. Practically, howover, it almost always happens that tho bonoefit of the fran. chise accrues to speculators, who teke advan- tnges of the temporary nacossitios of tho in- ventor, and rob him of his rights beforo the value of ‘his invention becomes appavent. Then the general public is required to pay exorbitant royalties for nlong term of years ns aroward to tho sharp practice. So far ag sowing-machines sro concerned, the peopla ‘havo paid tenfald what they ought to heve paid, and it would bo a national villainy to domand another dollar on this account be- yond what existing patents require. TILTON'S REPLY T0 BEECHER, Those who objoet to a rovival of tho Berouse-TInToN controversy in the newspa- pers, must blame Mr, Beeouen forit. With tho oxception of n fow sensationnl prints which sllow no scandal to be cxhausted as long as thoy ean help it, the press very gon- erally had given the matter over to the courts, whero it now properly belongs. But Mr. Brromes, desiring to moke answer to the criticisms that had been passed onhis demand for a bill of particulars, printed recently an offioinl statement of his side of the caso in his own paper, the Christian Union. 'Thisarticlo has patnrally clicited a reply from Mr, Trz- ToN. Sinee wognveour renderaMr, Berousn's articlo and commented thercon, it is only fair thet Mr, TrrzoN's reply should reeeivo simi- lar attontion. This disposition for fair-denl- ing scems to bo painfully lacking nmong the majority of tho New York newspapers. But one of tha leading morning newspapers in that city gives publicity to Mr. Pruron’s card; the others make no referencs to it. Wa note tho circumstanco 03 in Ieeping with tho gen- ol one-sidedness with which most of the Now York nowspapors have vegevded this un. tho broad way nnd through opon doors, Io must maot the wholo case, and not any part of it. e must nnswer tho general charge, ond not thoe specifia times nlloged, 1o must foaco M. TrrTon's ovidenco, such as it may prove to be, with overwhelming ovidenco on the other side. o must sent- tor tho clouds that have gnthered over Iis hond, Io cnnnot plead wenlmess, for ho is stronger than his adversary. Ilo eannot plond lnck of sympathy, for the whole public desiro his acquittal, Tlo cnnnot plend proju- dico ngninst him, for the community in which hois to be iried is made.up of his pnrtisans, Ho eannot plend Iack of timo, for it is now moro than two years sinco the firat suspicion of this scandal poisoned tho air. Wo can find no possiblo oxeuso why Mr. Brxzomnen should resort to technicnlitics or delay. Either ho should meeb Mr. I'uroN’s caso ns the Intter has presented it, or he should proseoute Mr, TizroyN immedintely undor the fortunato controversy, I tho caso hnd to bo testod on the two artioles which hove recently been printed by Mesats, Boreain and Tinrox respectively, the verdiot would be in favor of tho Int- ter, To meets Mr. Brrompn's explanstion with 8l the ocarnestness which lo has displayed throughout this unoqual fight, aud with tho sharpness and pointeduces of a man who understouds his case fully, He makes four points, to wit: (1) That Mr. Beecmen and his counsel still insist npon a limitation to certain dates within o single month, though {he chnrge is that the acts of adultery extonded over moro than two yenrs; (2) that while ho (T1r7ox) is not willing to practically nbandon his case by coming to trial under such a limitation, Mr. Becomen fails to call up tho criminal indictment against him for slandor, notwithstanding Mr, Bezomen hos this opportunity for convicting him and send- ing hin to the Penitentinry, if ho (Beecuzn) ig innocent; (8) that ho belioves Mr, Brrem- EN's policy to bo fivst to crowd him of court and then claim magnanimity by abandoning tho criminal suit sgainst bim; and (4) that o ronews his charges, end is ready to prove, if permitted, that tho acts of adultery were committed in the fail of 1868, throughout 1809, and in the spring of 1870, aud that con- fopsions thereof wors made ab various times by both Mr. Brromen and Mrs, Trnrox to himself, to Mg, Mantua B, Bravsmaw, Mr. Frayeis D, Mouozroy, Mrs, Eanea R. Mour~ ToN, And others, Theso points are made with tho sharpness that have distinguished every documont which bas appeared in this case over Mr, Trrron's signature, Wo have no desiro to discuss the morits of this controversy any further if it is to ba taken imto the courts, cither in My, Trurox's oivil suit against My, Beeomee, or in Mr. Brronen's oriminal indictment against Mr. TrToN, and thore fairly fried. Butwo are fully justified in protesting ngainat special plead- ing or pottifogging in a caso in which the interests of publio morality are at issue, Mr, Tryzox should be permitted to make out his case s ho has stated if, if ho has tho neces- sary avidenco to do it, If hie can prove, as he olaims, that sovoral persons had confessions fyom the lips of both Mr, Brzoner and Mrs, Truroy, this ovidence should certainly not bo oxcluded simply bocnuse they did not speoify in these confessions thet the adulter- ous nots were cowmmitted on Oet, 10 and 17, 1868, If My, TruroN has other ovidonce of & strong circumstantial charactor, such as letters (and it is unusual to provo nets of adultery by witnesses of the neis), this evidenco should not be exoluded hocause it doca not notunlly cover two specified days oub of two yoars of olleged criminality, And if, thon, the technicalities of the law permit Ar, Brronen to confine My, Truroy in the manner proposed, and thus excludohis ovidence, M. Bezonen ought not to avail himself of their oxistenco, Bu if ho docs o stoop to an un- worthy and unjust polioy, then Mr, Trtron should bo granted an envly and impartial trinl undor tho indictment for libel that has been found ngninst him, MéroMr, Beeones will be tho proscontor andwill hnve altho advantages of atteck. If, in spite of thesa advantages, Mr, TrrToN ean justify by the introduction of material ovidones in his golf-defonse whish would bo excluded in the civil sult, then Lo cortainly ought to lave the opportunity to do 8o ot tho vory oarliost dny, and it willbe ap ontenge upon him audupon publio justics {¢ My, Besouens ralatlons with the publio prosceutors securo o delny, Tho faot sooms to be that Mr, Bezonen's councl do not fuldll tho promises made by Mr, Deeones himsolf in his Cloistian Union artlolo, Wo rogrot that it ls so, and wo avo of aplnton that nobody will sufior moxo from such n polley than Mr. Breousn himself, ‘Thora is only one esoapo for guch o man oub of such an fmputation ga this, and thot is by indictment, Thore is no middle grqund for Mr, Berouen, THE CLERIOAL SUICIDE, The snd tragedy which ended the life of Rov. J. M. Cooxs, pnstor of tha Westorn Prosbytorinn Church of Washington, tho fnots of which wero given in detail in our issuo of Monday, viewed from any stand- point, is one of tho saddest aud most pathetio enses in the sunals of suicide which lag over como to thio notico of the public, It was sad in the fizst placo that o minister of the Gospol should be so wenk morally'as to bo unnblo to restrain the temptation of theft ; second, that the results of n moral insanity shonld have led him to suicide; and, third, in tho peculiar swroundings of the case, Mr, Cooxs was o minister in good standing, at tho hend of o largo congregation, No breath of scandal had over touched his name or fame, The theft in which ho was deteeted wns of o trifling amount, and was evidently not committed with eriminel intont, 1To hed purloined a book,from a stationer,—an offenso often committed and often condoned, and looded upon in literary circles with o degree of lenjency that i awarded to the person who takes an umbrella, Bibliomanincs are, fro- quontly kloptomanines, and to the former clasg tho decesed clergyman seoms to have belonged. Men who become engrossed in any speciolty, study it exclusively, and make collections, in othor words give their life to it, often become the sloves of n temptation which is stronger than any moral power, The very proeess of collecting end studying, month in and month out, yesr in and year out, blunts tho moral sonse, and makes tho taking of a book, or an old coin, or n choico geological specimen, n matter of genernl usago, the loscr finding his compensa- tion in ontniling n similor loss upon some ono clso at the first opporlunity. The taker of property under theso civcumstances feels ns littlo compunction and is as unconscious of wrong as tho man who by constant repetition of tho smmne story at last distorts its meaning entirely, and still believes he is tolling tho trath. Tho particular case of Mr. Cooxs was agravoted by the fact that Mrs. Cooxs hos beon insnne for somo time, and that this family troublo clouded Mr, Cooxs’ mind and caused him to develop the same symptoms which had charactorized his wife's diserse in its carly stages. ‘Fhis would render him still less lioblo to accountability, and establishes tho fact vory clearly that Lo was ab least ‘morally insone. The result is even more prinful than the act itsclf, and tho tragedy shows that ho was not aware of any criminal act in taking the book, and that underneath the cloud was a good and true man. It was not until thesta- tioner detected the book in lis possession that tho full menning of what he had done flashed uponchim. Tho appearance of an item in the Sunday morning papers, giving no names, but containing an account of the ocourrence, met his eye. Rather than en- duro the shamo, of an exposure, and the wrecking of oll bis good words and works during & quarter of a contury’s Inbor with his congregation, ho deliborately commitfed suigide. Ho could not feco his people that morning with a charge resting upon him, nithough not one of his congregation would havo known ho was the guilty party, and, if they Lad, wonld probally hnve condoned it in view of his past services, aud left him frea to pursue o useful and honorable life in tho future, A neturslly bad man would not lave committed suicido undor such ciroum- stances, Ho either would have faced the not with brazen determination or would have apologized for it in somo way, Ministers higher in station than Mr, Cooxs havo en- tored their pulpits on Sundays and preachsd the morahities, sentimentalized end jested, with thousand-fold worso taints upon their robes. This man, however, though clouded with insanity, could not live to enduro tho ghame of an offonse of which no jury would find him guilty, atlenst of crimingd intent. He has mado a torrible expiation for his small lapso from the path of rectitude, snd although his hitherto useful and upright life has gone out in darkness, his rocord stands clearer than that of many who not only can bear the shamo of an exposure, but defy publio opin- A number of persons in this country and in England have the best of ronsons for knowing that a cortain or, more striotly spopking, an uncertain ‘‘Emma Silver- Mining Compsny (lmited)’ has been in operation, 'The *Emma " was as fickle ns tha sex which gave it its name, It paid monthly dividends of 1 1.2 per cent for ten months, and has since yielded only injunc- tions, libel-suits snd disestor, Tha oficial statemont that the Company was “limited was perfeatly {ruo, from one point of viow, Dut its :nain limitation was public credulity. As saon o8 that vieh bank stopped honoring tha drafts which rackless, and perhaps dig- Tonost, speculators drow upon it, tho square wiles of silver which were supposed to o owned by tha concern in Utah vanished, and it was discoverad that tho only pockets of oxo it had boen drawing from wero tho pockets of foolish investors in Now York and Tondon, An English stockholder named Asgxw hoy put tho Company into tho Englisl Courtof Ohancery. ‘Lhe Vice-Cliaucellor, aftar lonring counsol against Mr, Askew's appli- cation for an order to give power to oxamine tho Company's books in order to obtain ovi- douoo sufllciont to wind up its affaivs, grantod tho application at once. Ho did more, 1o doclored that *f gross fraud on tho part of the original promotors of the Company " way apparout ; that the last two monthly divi- donds had Loon paid with borrowed money and that * ouormous sums of monoy had Loon obiained from tho shavoholders upon the faith of statoments which, to all appoarancos, woro totally untruo The Quped shoroholders oleoted a now Board of Dircotors n short timo sgo and o new attornoy has sinco boon appoiatod. 'ho Ohairmon of the Doard, Gon, Ganvmyen, and tho attornoy, Mr, ‘Lunnen, hove investigated the wholo matter in Utah, nnd have begun a clvil salt ogalnst Senntor Srewant, Gem. Baxren, and Tnexon W. Panr, threo of tho main ngents in tho apparont swindle, for fraud and conspiracy. Dnmnges aro lnid at 36,000,000, This suit, unliko most of its calibro, is to bo prosceuted with speed and vigor, An English stockholder has offored £10,000 to help defray Lho cost of the proso- oution, but hig aid is not needed. One of tho unplensant fonturesof this sean- dnlous affair i the parb which our Minister to England, Gen, Sonenok, scomsto havoplayed init. Itisto bo Loped that the investign- tion by tho English courta willbe so thorough hat Souenox’s shoro in tho tronsaotion will be mado perfeotly olear, so that ho will eithor bo fully freed from a suspicion which groatly intorferes with his diplomatic usefulness, or will have such proof accumu- Iated against him that ho will b forced to ro- sign duties which ho can no longer honorably dischargo. ‘I'his point, however, grave as it is, is but a minor matter in comparison with the harm which tho Emma seandal has wrought to Americon credit abroad, This iy something which ennnot be computed in dollars and cents. It puts an additional element of un- cortainty into every seeurity we offer for snle on the othor sido of the water. This ontails the absolute rejootion of mnny bona fide onter- prises, and compels those which do sell their shares to offern higher rata of interest than they would hnve boen obliged to pay had not tho Emma Company gulled the English pub- lioat tho expenso of all American securities for many years to como. COMPULBORY EDUCATION, New York will have a Now-Year's gift in® the shape of s Compulsory-Eduention law, passed by the last Tegislature, which will tako offect noxt Friday, It is the ninth State to ndopt such alaw. Several other Statesare considering its espedioncy. The Iilinois Logislaturo made & move in the right direc- tion nt tho last session. A Compulsory-Edu- cation bill passed the House, but stuck in the Scuate for lack of one or two votes. The next Legislature should give us this needed mensure, In Germany, argument for the sys- tem of enforced school attendance isin sub- stanco this: A man with education is worth very much moro to limself and to tho State than if ho wero 'withcut it. It is, theroforo, best for himsclf snd tho Stato that ho should be taught. The knowl- edge he ean gain during childhood is his capi~ tal in futuro life. It is larceny to take this away from him, A porent who refuses to send his ohild to school plays the part of a Trustee who approprintes the {rust-funds he holds, Homay therefore be rightfully com. pelled to give tho boings whom ho lnsbrought into the world a chance to leep their futuro rosources intact, If he prefers to send them ton private school, well and good The State insists only that cvery child shall have acertain amount of instruction. It makos no differonce where ho gets it. If the parent pleads poverty as an oxouso for not send- ing bis child to school, the Stato points to the open doors of tho schools it provides and supports, and tells him that he need pay nothing for tho learning his boy or girl will get thero, Taxation for tho support of theso freo schools is defonded onr the ground that the greatest good of tho groatest number, as well as the welfaro of the nation, demand that instruction should be universal, This is good logic. The safety of the indi. vidual and the State are alike bound up in univorsal edueation, Wo spenl well within bounds when we say that no community which rests on' universal suffrago can long oxist unless it onforces universal education. The latter is the safoty-valve, the balance- wheel of the former. Popular ignoranco in this country now is very great. A largo percontaga of our voters can neither read nor write. In 1870, Dlinois contained 2,589,801 pexsons of all ages, Of those more than 10 years old, 133,584 conld not write, and 86,308 could not read. The Southern States aro very much worse off than oven this, Our institutions cannot long stand this strain. Out’of 10,000,000 Gerinans, 6,000,000 chil- dren go to school continually, Oubt of 40,000,000 Americans, only 8,000,000 chil- dren attond school regularly, Tho contrnst isnot to ourcredit. 'The solo sure for it ig o CQompulsory-Education law, with Lhowalghe of public sentiment at its back. . BEWERAGE IN WEST CHICAGO, Provious to 1872-'78, the West Division of the city had been greatly ncglected in tho matter of drainage, Tho firo of 1871 forced o very largo additional population into that portion of the city, and especinlly into the alrendy crowded wards, The Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, and Fifteenth Wards wero not only all below grade, but were undrained. Living thera was perilous to health and life, not only of the persons residing in the locali- ties, but of the wholo people. A pestilence onco engendored takes a wido sweep, includ- ing in its destruction all parts of the oity. Considorations of public safely thereforo de- manded the policy adopted two years ago. In many of these districts thero was a scarci- ty of water, and tho public woro supplied withwells,~which wells were nothing but re- coivers of the surfaco water of tho low grounds, The want of drainnge hnd there- foro the effoct of poisoning the water supply. The timoe eame at last when tho old systom of oxtending the old sewors by a patch hero and ouother there lind to bo abandoned. Here "wero singlo wards having 80,000 to 40,000 population with soarcely any sowor- age, or paved streets, or water supply, Tho City Government, thorofore, determined to put tho sewerago-whero it wis most wantod. The coutracts of 1878."4, and for 1874.'s, cov- ored an unusually large avea, In tho former year thero were 9,217 feot of sower con- struoted in the Seventh Ward, 18,310 in the Lighth, 17,618 in the Ninth, and 7,787 in tho Fifteonth Wards. In the West Division thore wero construoted in that year 68,731 fect of sowors, of which two-thirds wore con- struoted in districts negloeted in former yors, In 1874 tho sumo polioy was oxtended, and upon tho completion of the flscal yenr in April, 1875, there will bo 146,745 feet, or nontly 29 miles, of sower constructed. Dur- ing tho ¢wo yonra the addition to the sower- ogo will equal 214,470 feet, or 40 1.2 miles, draining 81 miles of atreet frontage, and fur- nishing the sowerage conneotion to dwollings on that length of streets, Tho whole length of sowerago in the West Division now mona- ures 183 13 miles, affording sower conngo. {lon to 207 miles of frontago. During the lnst two yenrs over O miles havo been con- struoted in tho Boventh Ward, & 1-3 miles in tho Efghtl Ward, 0 miles fu tho Ninth Ward, & 1.4 miles in tho Twolfth Ward, & 1-2 miles in tho Thirteenth Ward, 4 milea in the Four- teonth Ward,and 7 milosintho Fitteenth Ward, iPho ‘onth and Eleventh Wards may now be oongidored ne completed in the matter of soworago, 'Tho Twolfth Ward lsin such a stato thot o smell addition will sower that ward, Tho Ninth Ward, with the additions made, is now in a good condition. Tha Fif- teeuth Ward is of nn immenso torritorial cx- tont,—larger than the original 'Town of Chi- cago. It contnins lardly less than 47,000 inhabitants. It has had some attention dur- ing the last two years in the construction of sowars, but there is much to b donoe thero yot. Thore are whola neighborhoods thabt have no sower connootion. 1t fs diflenlt to compute tho benefits of thin largo addition to. the West Side sowerngo systom. It leads to paved strcets, with consequent ralsing to grado, and the construction of n beiter and a pormanent class of improvements. 'The eroction of wooden buildings having been prohibited, tho number of sub- stantial brick buildings has recontly Inrgely incronsed, For these, sefverngo, water, gns, and paved streets aro indispensable. As tho sowerago i3 laid, the other improvements follow 08 n matter of course, Without sow- ers, there ean beno permanent improvements, Tho 40 miles of sowers lnid in the West Division in the last two years, in nddition to their value ns n sanitary mensure, have boen of incalouleblo benefit to the propertyin o pecuniary way, It has mado hnprovements possible that withont them could not have been attempted. Tt lhns hestened and en. cournged tho construction of a better class of buildings, nnd, with the construction of these, wholo neighborhoods bave put off tho appearsuce of filth and squalor, and put on. the gub of improvement and cleanliness. Miles of deep sud filthy ditches have disap- penred ; low places have been filled up, grades established, curb-walls built aud streots paved, and much of this in districts whero two years ngo no one could pass without being sickened with the oflensive vapors of rotting vegetation and animol filth in the stagunnt pools and recking gutters, A CARPET-BAGGER COME TO GRIEF. It is not often that anything good comea out of South Carolinn, tho Nnzareth of Amer- jcan politics, but that region has at lnst sont somo glad tidings, Thero is & person by tho name of Neaasr, who was Comptroller-Gen- eral of tho State in the days when overy in- truder filled his carpet-bag with bonds, and stocks, and bribes, and things. This especial intruder, unless he ling been most sadly belied, improved all Lis opportunities with such zeal thatit became a grave matter of doubt whether his pocket-book or his con- geienco was most Leavily burdened, While Moses was Governor, Neaorz, who was just thon taking care of the Richland County Treasury, got o great many favors from the State Administration. This excited & good deal of wonder, for the Governor and the ex-Comptroller General were scarcely on spenking terms, It turned out, however, that Niaore was in the habit of exhibiting a Lnifo to Mouxs and ex- pressing an ardent desire to carve cortain designated organs, as the heart, the lungs, ox the liver, out of the Gubernatorinl body. Moses, unliko his great namesalo In this ag in all other points, was n coward. So when Neaonz said: “If you rofuse me this, you'd better write an ordor for a first-class coflin to your undertaker,” Moszs would reply: “My dear Neacrk, nothing is further from my thoughts than & refusal; take anything you want.” This foible of tho Governorecame Jnown, and other men played upon his piti- able fears in the ssme way. Thero is & story current in South Carolinn of s creditor who ohased Moses from Charleston to Columbin, forced his way into the Execu. tive Mavsion, and got & note for §15,000 paid by simply lsying his pistol on tho table bec foro the quivering Gubernatorinl noso and sny- ing: “Doyousco that? Well —.” Thefright falellipsis aftor * Well" produced the cash of once. Whon CmaymrnuaiN became Gover nor, ho found Neacrx still Treasurer of Rich. land County. Theroupon, without muchado, ho removed him, giving thereby s gratifying proof of the sincerity of his promiso to atone for the faults of his past carcor. NEAoLx transformed himself into o walking arsenal, panoplied with revolvers and begirl with knivos, and called upon CHAMDERLATN, Bofore ho hod hod time to half got through the stock of threats before which the eraven Moses had been wont to wilt, the Governor put him, not into the offico from which ho hind ousted him, but into jail. It was some timo before ho could get tle $10,000 bond to keep the penco which the law cxacted from him, NeAciE is forlorn now. His hopes of future peculation are gono, Ho has come to griof, There is a delightful chanco of his em= igrating to one of the Southern Republics, It is understood that a man with hie wits about him can steal a comfortable living thevo, but then the residents have an ugly habit of occasionally dropping their rulers from church-towera ox boiling them in oil. Neither of these methods of becoming an angel appoals strongly to Nezacue's tastes, Ho ought not, howaever, to be too fastidious. If a Frenchmon has medo himself Kingof Patagonin and sold a lot of Patagonian bonde on the Paris Bourse, an Amorican, and osc pecially o Neaarz, ought to be ablo to absork all South Americs and construct o sccond raugoe of tho Andes with the unpeid coupons of the Govornment bonds ho kells to his dupes, Lot Neagre loave his country for his country's good, Trosas Coares was indicted, with twe othiers, for murder. A motion to quash tho indictment was overuled by the Court, where- upon Coares plonded guilty of manslanghter, and was contonced to tho Penitentinry for® ton yems. The case wrs taken fo the Su. proma Court upon several points, the princie ono of which was tho following: That the indictment cherged that the three persona named thorein, with o stick of wood which ench soverally hod and held in thoir soveral right bonds, inflicted tho wound which re. sulted in death., This, it was claimed, wnt an allegation of nn act physically impossible. That it was physieally impossible for three men ench to hold the same sticlk of wood at tho samo time in his right hand, and, whila 50 holding it, to strike a blow therewith, The Supreme Court of Tllinois bas decided this alleged act was not a physical impossibility, though highly fmprobable, ‘Cho Court find another reason for conflrming the convietion. I'ho law makes nll accossories, at or beforo tho fact, principals, consequently, proof that cither ono atruck the blow with the wenpon dosoribed, and that tho othor persous ohiarged wero nocessories, was sufiiciont to sustain tho indictmont, It tho {deal nowspapor la & journsl whose nown is frosh and comploto ; whoeo opiuions ara the Jolnt rosult of faultless logio sud indisputable a0t § whoso polioy {s o thing fixed and Immutas- Dlo, and whoso uttorances whilo attractive in form aro within bounds of docenoy ; if, indeod, tha ideal newspapor is a grave instructor of tho public in whom no noutral orimoral woakness can bo fouud, tho London Daily Telegraph ia tho farthest removed from tho ideal of any pae por publishoed fu Europe, It is tho ombodiment of, all that lu rookless and ephemaral In Jourx uollem, Its atylo 14 (Lo agonlelug odge of