Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 28, 1875, Page 4

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, MARCH 28, 1875 TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. MATES OF EUESCEIPIION (PAYABLE Lt ADVAKEH).” Pestage Frepzid at this Odice. Dally, 1 3.00 | Weorly, G5 Prete . 1588 Feta edeted S 1:5 Beaday ‘Ten copies, 13:83 doub,o sbac: 3.00 Torts of aysar at the name rate, ‘Wasrkp—Une active egont in exch town and villece. Spee.al serangoments made with such. ‘Sp-cimes copies sent free. ‘Vo prevear delay and mistakes, be eure and gire Post- Office eddress in full, including Stato and County. ‘BRomistancosma2y bomade either by czalt, expresh Post- ‘Otice onder, or in registered lettorr, ‘THEME To CITY SUBECRIDERS. Dally, delivered, Sunday excepted, 25 conte per wack. Daily, delivered, Sunday incleded, 30 cents per week. Address TRE TRIBUNE COMPANY, ‘Madison and Deerborn-sia., Chicage, I . * so-MORROW'S AMUSEMENTS. A-HOUSE—Clark, street, yaite eee, OPERA OP Toone Mumees. "Barbe Bleue." EMY OF MUSIC—Hals* d street. between Mad- Poe tas Sepagement of Juseph Murphy. ** anm Cre.” uM I THEATRE—Deaborn street, corner Non- M'VICKER'S THEATRE—Madison strect. between Besrtorn and Btate. Engagement of Lewrence Barrett. HOOLET'S. Clark and FARWELL HALL—Matison street, between, Clark end LaSalle. Concert by ihe ‘Tennesso6 Colored Jubilee Koger, THEATRE—Randolpe streot, berween LaSalle, *!Magaolis.” —_——— SOCIETY MEETINGS. SY. GRORGE'S BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATIONS The embers are herebs notificd to attend tho fuel of sar decested member, James Morison, from fis Seace, Judd-st., between Cliaton and Jede: day (Sunday), st "Bm and accompany hia Samotery by cara ali p. m2. GEO. . GOOCH, President. G. T. BURROUGHS, Secretary. ATTENTION SIR KNIGHTS |—Spretst conclave of Chiezco Commendary, No. 19, K; Te ‘Risatay evenness eee Tb. for wore on H. T. Order. Visiting Sir Knights courteously innied. | ord jor of the H.C. MS, Heccrder. Dt a a3 wepbepe anger natin $0.20 oar oe bu ar 9o'cl a SF ESS Mbo fancral of oor Inte Hiro, James Fo, a Perorsaily invited. 2 ew a MITE, ORTH, Heo. XILWINNIEG LODGE, NO. 5,4. Fk AL Max ‘The fourth and ipeurocutt ot ig Legge will be Bold at hele rooms, Corin rch So." Membors and friends of the fnvited. Music under the direction Order pre cordially lnvi MS. CHARLUTTE, Secrecy. ——— BUSINESS NOTICES WE MEAN JUST WHAT Moh ion ton treet itor rote . “Only 28 for « fall est of rem ker rofend ie cree geld. ailing, at halt the bent cam Wereaatcd. WB. MoChesnoy's, corner 2d Tandaiphsce. EAM DISCHARGES AN eared, Fors limited period Shere to treat all rerponsib! e cared, thered | provi ‘fecting she deaf from emcists exot Zengervar_ roms hands. ‘The loss of money may not be material to some Parma, bat the deprivation Bamaos Curt to be treated 50: Genay elicitade. ‘Dr. tie ruey bess to state that he has no connection Gdvorticing to cure deafness, noi:her hos En given permission tor the pablication, of 's 99) wportiag te cmenste from bir, aad cannot, thorefore, te D] larming consequences resulting mnsible f¢ cy sect raabnose ced desperation practiced by ignorant magierAere noise in the head, and all disagrecable dis- cherges from the ear, spoedily and permanaatly removed ‘withoat causing tho Icast pain or inconvenience. Acare Tibgt SAREE Sranteod whore msifcrmaticn docs Hot caiet. “ins following letter ia from a highly secomplished one {tee hts hoon deat stoco Estee ar test agrozable discharge process f« neither wedious nor severe, #0 od gootiomaniy administration of your treatment cannot ‘Erwin the gratefal esteara of the afilicted and the ‘Mies KATE 01 is parlors, in the The Chieaga Ceibune. Bundsy Morning, March 28, 1875. Though we are not yet converted to a poly- giot architecture, nor exactly appreciate why three architects should be paid 3 per cent on $2,500,000 to $4,000,000 (which a Court- ‘House will cost) instead of paying one srchi- tect 1 per cent, we presume that we shall get nothing better, and rejoice that Mr. Borie ‘has been added to the list, We believe that he will discountenance as much as he can the more outrageous demands of the “ foreign Know-Nothing” combination, and that he will insist apon honest work. Besides, his appointment is a very important concession on the part of the Germanico-Hibernian com- bination. It isan admission that the mere ‘sccident of American birth does not always operate as a bar sinister in politics, We had ‘began to think it did. The Chicago Athenmum announces a new and excollent festure in its good work. It will provide, on the successive Monday even- ings, beginning April 5, ten-cent lectures on ‘Art topics, The Academy of Design has heartily co-operated in this new design, and the programme is an inviting one. The first Jecture will be on “Types, Character, and Dialect,” by Messrs. Recaszy and Ropznr- gon. It is apparently intended to be sort efcompound of caricature and slang. ‘The others, however, are all of a higher char- neter, and seem fitted to supply, for the time being, the great neil of artistic in- struction for the public. We call especial at- tention to the fifth lecture. Mr. W. L. B. Jexwxx will speak of ‘ Architecture: The House and its Furnishing.” Any attempt to popularize household ert is something to be devoutly thankful for.” Free tickets to this Yecture should be issusd to the barbarians ‘who now manufacture furniture for this msz- ket, in order that they may learn to mend their ways and their work. The ten enter- tainmenta promise to give a good dollar's worth of art. Tho Lx Morss-Fanwewn courts have ad- fourned sine die, after a session of eighty-five @ays,. Mr. J. V. Lm Mornz and Mr. ©. B. Farwxin were opposing candidates for Con- gress in the Third Congressional District. ‘The election was a close one, but the first countchowed a majority for Mr. Farwrut. Mx. Lx Morxs at once gave notice of contest, | und tho taking of testimony on both sides has eontinued almost daily since the Ist of Jan- usry. The grand struggle bas been sver the returns of the Fourth Pre tinct of tho ‘Cwentieth (Ward, where er Fanwexu obtoined a lerge majority. The yidence of Mr. Lz Morse has boen directed to establish that the whole return of that Prpcinet ought to be rejected, because of ir- regularity, illegal voting, fraud, and other Titiating circumstances. He sought to have the return of this precinct excluded by the Returuing Board; but that Beerd declined to _ io so becanse of a want of power. Ifthe rote of that precinct be excluded, it will re- F izce tho difference between the vote of the wo candidates too small number of votes. Yivch evidence has been taken on both sides with reference to individual votes in other precincts. This mass of testimony will now yo to Washington, to be there digested by the Committes of Elections, Unless the vote of the ‘Twentieth Ward precinct be wholly rejocted as fraudolent, then the contest by Mr. Le Moxre will fail. Should thint be rejected, then the contest will turn om the cases of clleged illegal voting in other poestncla, Ona of the itams in the contro- vorsy is the voting at Norwood Park of a large j number of paupers from the Alms-House, who, it is alleged, voted for Mr. Le Mors. It is probable that there will be an election jn that district for a member for the next Congress before this contest will be deter mined by the present Congress. _——e ‘The first agitators forcivil-rights in Chicago under.the new law have come to grief. United States Commissioner Horse, acting under the advice of Judge Bropoerr, has dis- missed the suit against the proprietor of the St. Elmo restaurant. The ground of the de- cision is that the Civil-Rights law does not apply to such establishments. The District- Attorney at Washington has declared that, in his opinion, it does not apply to barber-shops. Bex Borter has announced that saloon-keep- | ers can still choose their own customers for che intoxicating drinks, Indge Esnconshas Ere ically swept away the whole Inw in his charge to the Memphis Grand Jury- Tt ‘degins to look as if the mnch-debated act is not worth the parchment it was engrossed upon, This result will be a bitter disap- pointment. But, after all, it will teach col ored people, as well as white people, that they must live down, not logislate down, social prejudices, and that their future social standing deponds upon themselves, not upon acts of Congress. As their minds are eda- cated and thtir manners aro refined, the color of their skin will be furgotten. The social prejudice against certain classes of whites cen only be cured in the same way. ————<—_—_ THE STATE LEGISLATURE. The majority in the Legislature refuse to adjourn. They came to Springfield to spend the winter at the public expense, and they are not in a hurry togohome. These gontle- men receive in direct salary $85 per week; many of them boerd for $15, snd pocket $20 ‘a week clear profit,—a large increase of their ordinary income. To adjourn would be to cut off this source of revenue. The business of the Legislature has been will- folly and persistently delayed. The Legislature has been in session neariy three months, and has passed or finally acted on not over half a dozen bills. Ontside of the sppropriation bills, there were not a dozen subjects requir- ing legislation, and these the Legislature has not disposed of up to this time, The General Incorporation law, the amendment to the Revenue law, the Bank-Investigation act, the bill allowing foreign corporations to hold for- feited mortgaged property, and a few other general subjects, have been discussed over and ovér again in both branches of the Legis- lature, and no action reached, All these bills could be disposed of ina week, if the ‘‘Re- form” majority would only address them- selves seriously to business, There is, however, a “ political bill” which isin the way. The “Reform” combination wish tomake voting easy in Chicago, and to render large Democratic majorities possible ; for this purpose they have a bill to repeal the Begistry law. To pass this bill requires 77 yotes in the House, There ere several bills pending on a third reading which the majority will not permit to be passed, using them as levers to help through the repeal of the Registry law. If the House will only repeal that restriction on illegal voting and on fraudulent elections. the majority will do anything, pass anything, no matter how scandalous and unjust. However much the State may be interested in the legislation which the majority of the House refuses to act on, we know of no greater wrong or out- rage that that body can do than to repeal the Registry and turn over the elections in this county—one-sixth of the State—toa mob utterly unscrupulous, and capable of voting to any extent that party exigencies may require. Better for the State and the public moral that the Legislature dissolve at ‘once, and break to pieces without passing any lawe, than that they should repeal the Regis- try law, and open the flood-gates of ballot- box staling in this city and county. THE TOWN ELECTIONS. ‘The joys of the springtime are not without their penalties. Among them are the town elections.” These are sui generis. They are called elections by courtesy ; they are really mob meetings. The Hon. Joserpn Guvengor, alias * Littlo Joz,” has issued his proclama- tion in the manner and form prescribed by law for the town meeting in South Chicago. The Right Honorables the Town Clerks of West Chicago and North Chicego have in ike manner promulgated their commands. "The mobs are convened for Tuesday, April 6. ‘Mr. Grvewnvr instructs the South Town mob to gather st the engine-house on Dearborn street, near Lake, ond gives it the sanction of authority by affixing his hond and seal. ‘When the mob is convened it will proceed to (1), choose a moderator, (2) go. through the forms of electing a Supervisor, Town Clerk, Assessor, Collector, and Constable, and (3) vote taxes for the payment .of these tax-eaters. This is the only purpose of rais- ing town taxea in either North, South, or | West Chicego. ‘Tho corporate authorities of these three towns d® not build bridges, re- pair roads, maintain schools, support paupers, or perform any of the functions that a Town Board in a rural district representing a couple of hundred agricultural ond village voters may do. Their official duty as a corporate body is simply and solely to, vote themselves enormous salarics. The mob is therefore re- quested to set aside from $40,000 to $50,000 foreach town, $30,000 of which goes to the town officers, and the balance to makeup the deficiencies inthe collections of former years. ‘The Assessor gobbles about $10,000, the Col- loctor $10,000, the Supervisor $2,500, andthe Clerk $1,500, This exhausts, with the de- ficiency, the entire levy. If there were no town officers there would be no town taxcs. Every individual who pays taxes reads on his certificate ‘* For State, County, Park, and Town taxes;” that portion representing “ town taxes” is simply the blackmail levied upon the property-holder for the support of the loafers and bummers who succeed in grabbing the town offices with the assistance of the mob they gather about them every spring. Mr. Grvesnor has specified, as directed, that there shall be eight voting places at the South: Town election Tuesday a week. These voting places are distributed in 2 most significant manner. There is one for each of the first five wards, and three for the Sixth Word, That is, three for Bridgeport, where the “bhoys” prefer to congrogate. But there are no boundary lines and no regis- tration for town elections, Anybody may vote at any one of the voting places, or at all of them. Most of the voters on these occasions avail themselves of the latter privilege. They vote enrly and often. They begin in, Bridge- port ‘and work down te the First Ward; and, if they are by that time sober enough, they recommence at the First Ward ond work themselves back to Bridge- port, voting at all the intermediate places. Mr. Muxe Evans will marahal his oohorts, end Mr. Tom Foxux will gather. his clans to- gether, on the South Side. The only issue, then, is whether the cohorts or the clans will east the greater number of egal votes. ‘This does not depend altogether on the num- ber of the retainers on either sido; the result is even more influenced by the facility with which the votes are cast. One active young rough, who can be kept sober, and can get around to every voting place two or three times during the day, is worth more than half a dozen lazy fellows who will not vote moro thea twico at each precinct. As: far as the general public is concerned, it doesn’t matter much which clique comes out ahead. One would absorb about the same amount of money as the other; Doth are the products of the pot-houses; neither could by any pos- sibility do the public any service. It is only a squabble between @isreputable tax-eaters, supported by different factions of bummers, Joafers, and ronghs, and it can make no sort of differences which’ doggery gets the best of it. ‘We do not beliove the Legislature now in session at Springfield can do the State better service then by adjourning over ‘Tuesday, April 6, and coming up to Chicago to see for themselves what an lection is in a large city where no registra- tion is required. They will then have a faint picture of what would have resulted from the repeal of the Registry act, which was seriously proposed and disrep- utably worked for, and almost passed ; they will see a disgraceful mob going through the farce of depositing their ballots, ignorant of everything except tho interest of the particular bummers who have retained them. They will be unable to count a hundred reputable tax- payers at all the polls combined. ‘They will sea one branch of “popular Government ” given over to the oxclusive control of low, ignorant, dranken, lazy, and disrepu- table vagabonds, who are thus enabled, under a vicious system, to vote away $40,000 or $50,000 a year in each of our three towns for the maintenance of 2 number pf their own class. If the com- paratively small matter of a town election, involving a grab of only $40,000 or $50,000, can bring out 8 horde of scalawags and roughs, how much grester and more disreputable the crowd would have been at a city election, a county election, a State election, or a Presi- dential clection, if the Legislature had de- liberntely deprived us of every check upon illegal voting! i We beliove that a visit of the Legislature on the occasion of the town elections of a week from next Tuesday would have twoim- portant results, viz: All idea of repealing the Registry act would be incontinently abandoned, and some scheme would be de- yised to relieve Chicago of the legal oppres- sion of paying $100,000 a year for the sup- port of n set of tax-eating bummers, and for no other purpose on earth. TEE CHICAGO RIVER. ‘We understand that the Board of Publio ‘Works intend to apply to the Canal Commis- sioners to order the lock-gates at Lockport to be kept closed for some time to come, as & means of ensbling the Board to cleanse out. the Chicago River. The request .is regsona- ble, and, as the health of the city is to be promoted thereby, we hope the Canal Com- missioners will not hesitate to grant it, The Chicago River now contains a large quantity of the'sewer emptyings of a long winter. Tt is already stagnant and filthy. The reason for this is, that two opposite forces have ‘been at work to control its current, and, one about equally balancing tha other, thy water bas come nearly to a standstill, We have had, on the one side, the discharge of water into. the canal, and against this we have had tho emptying of water into the river from the sewera and the water-shed of the South Branch. As the fall in the canal is not sufficient to overcome the counter-force, and create.a current awsy from the Jake sufficiently strong to draw through water from the lake itself at the mouth of the river, the Board should en- desvor to create a current towards the lake. ‘The first step in this direction is the closing of the guard gates at the Summit, so that there shall be no drain upon the water of the South Branch into the cenal. It is not prob- able that any serious objection will be urged to this on account of low water in the canal the other side of Lockport, as it acts as the drain for the contignous country, and will draw a gront deal of water from the Des- plaines by underground inlets, s Once the guard gates are closed, a current in the river towards the lake can be soon created. The natural supply from the watershed of the South Branch will bring it about, with the help which can be given this supply by simplo means. The Board of Public Works can set tags to work whose wheels dip low to stir ‘up the surface mud and light accumulations, and set them in motion so as to be easily carried off. If necessary, water from the Desplaines can be let into the South Branch. through the Ogden ditch, and the latter” thus converted into an auxiliary instead of being a menance to the purity of the river. The danger of a flood, for which there were reasonable apprehensions at one time, is past, and now the danger is the very opposite, Stagnent water in the Chicago River is a serious matter, The spring sun will soon convert its nocumulations into malaria, The mud and filth will also be a serious delay in tno approach of navigation. It is therefore in theintercst of all that the Summit gates be closed, and the other methods for creating a current should bo promptly adopted. ‘The simple, unaffected, and plaintive state- ment of the little girl Joszpmma, the only survivor among the Maxysar children, bas thrown a new and, we believe, a true light upon the mysterious poisoning which resulted in the death of the mother and two children, and the narrow escape of the other. The great valne of the statements made by this child is found in her ignorance of their ap- plication and bearing on the case. She it was who first told of the yellow-covered sen- sational account of the Mrs, Saxeman poison- ing case which her mother had been reading. ‘This book was found subsequently, and bas given the cue to the solution of the mystery on principles well recognized in mental philos- ophy. The family were desperately poor; ao lest resort bad failed; mother’s anxiety, an empty stomach, and a fe- yered imagination, inflamed by the pe- rusal of the Ssenwan horror, made it essy for Mrs. Marrisxt to believe that death was the happiest. solution of such existence as hers and her family’s, The fact that she wrote & letter, and was up difring tho night awniting the dissolution, are confirmatory of the theory that she did the poisoning. ° If the bly tell the whole story. Her administering of -“holy water,” blessed by the prieat, is also in confirmation of this theory. She was anxious that her children should die in the ! superstitious. (ian Biaxiwsmx | Ignorance, confusion, and fright would be- ususlly held by the more si The contradictions of the are not evidences of guilt. after night. narrow, filthy streets. age, or lamps, were filled with garbage and night-soil. Showe the wayfarer who wi —SIXTEEN PAGES. ithout sewers, drain. ra of slops fell on alked through these alleys Church, and bad the faithin ‘holy water”. cent or guilty. covered lit State. State. Tt might denominational church, school, lege, in the State. perbeps $75,000. one way or the other. bie las Park wovld cssign it picion of jobbery. ing will be don: “HE GOOD OLD TIMES.” save drift with this deadly tide. self on the same sida, facts are: tray him into contradictions whether inno- The theory that Mrs. Ma- urvsmr did the poisoning is entirely reasona- ble, and it is not the first time that great crimes have been the direct consequence of rending whet is generally known 2s “yellow- ‘THE DOUGLAS MONUMENT. One of the measures pending in the Legis- lature of this State is a disposition of the Doveras Monument. ‘Two bills are pending. One authorizes the removal of the monu- mont and the remains of Doveras from the present site to the grounds of the University, ‘and the salo of the present site and the ap- plication of the proceeds to the completion of the monument, The other bill sppropri- ates $50,000 from the State Treasury to com- plete the monument where it now stands. "The latter bill failed a day or two ago for the want of a sufficient number of votes, and we aro credibly informed that jt would have passed, had it not been for the fact that there were Democrats in the Legis- lature who opposed it because of Dovatas’ course in relation to the Civil War! This, be it remembered, is in Dlinois, fourteen years after Dovaias’ death, and ten years after the restoration of peace! We question whether there is a Legislature at the South where any moasure would have been rejected fora like reason. It betrays in unmistakable terms the bitterness of the Bourbon Democracy in this ‘There is, of course, a question of propriety in the Legislature making anysuch appropris- tion ; but it isa matter resting exclusively in the discretion of the General Assembly. In 1862, the Legislature appropriated $25,000 to purchase tho present site, where the body of Dovaras was buried. This was cnderstood to have been all that was ever oxpected of the The title to that site is the property | of the State. One of these bills proposes to remove the body and monument to the Uni- versity grounds ; but exactly what propriety there is in such a rcmovel it ix difficult to see. with similar propriety yemoved to the inclosure of any other or This removal also includes a real-estate operation. Tuo 24 aeres on which the incomplete monument now stands would bring, if put into the shope of lots, in round figures, $50,000,— ‘The most extravagant proposition was for a monument to cost $75,000; but we suppose & suitable and proper one could be built for $25,000 or $30,000. If the site be sold, it is natural to expect the entiro proceeds will be consumed If the monument is to be moved from its present site, it is possi- that the Commissioners of Doug- in that public grognd, where disinterested parties could doubtless erect a suitable mon- umont for $30,000. In that case the State could sell tho present site, recover the 25,000 paid in 1862, and be refunded the $30,000 expended in the monument, and the whole proceeding be relieved of even a sus- If the monument is to remain where it is, and the State is to farnish tho means to complete it, then there should be some provision made for a rational, eco- nomic, and, responsible expenditure of the money appropriated for the purpose, Be- tween the conflicting interests demanding the removal, and the application of the proceeds of the sale of the present site, and the inter- est insisting on the completion of the monu- ment on its present site, it is likely that noth- There is a sentimental longing for the * good old times,” which, carried toa notun- common exce:s, produces substantial harm, for men imagine the world is deteriorating; that a tidal-wove of ignorance, misery, and vice, is eweeping over the world; and that they are but atoms, unable to do anything ‘They aban- don any hopes of Lettering the present or the future, sitdown in dull inaction, so far as disinterested offortis concerned, and let their dreams of the golcen age that has been pre- vent their striving for a new golden age in the present or the boundless future. This is no; the view of most think- ‘rs, Even aman lke the great Frenchman Canporze, who mjects “optimism” with scorn, saying, in hi essay on ‘Selection in the Human Species,” that this theory of ever- lasting progress is tontradicted ‘by the facts of tho past and the present and the probable facts of the futurs,”"—even such a man be- lieves in continual progress until now and for many centuries to cme. Mr ranges him- ‘Witness his glowing picture, in the “ Three Essays on Religion,” of the man of the future, inspired by the ‘“‘relig- ion of humanity.” Spencer is a constant and an excecdingly able tdvocate of the Inw of ev- erlasting progress. Uanpotie mentions his arguments with deep respect Dezarzr, in the tenth chapter of his ‘History of the Conflict Betweon Science and Religion,” sup- plies a mass of facts in regard to the bad old times which have s long mesqueraded as good which are more substantial than philo- sophical reasoning, and. more convincing to the average man. Let us see what those ‘The good old tines of idyllic peace and in- nocence were maried, first, by terribly de- structive wars, epidemics, and plagues. The- ological quarrels aid persecutions almost de- populated Norther: Africa, The wars of Jus- qrNtax made increlible inroads on the people of Itely. Spanish barbarity killed 2,000,000 Mexicans, and swe)tPern almost bare of life. England, thanks t¢ war, bloody cruelty, sick- ness, and misery, only barely doubled its population in 50¢ years after the Norman conquest. ‘The normal rate of increase doubles population every fifty years. In the famine of 1030, hunan flesh was cooked and sold. In 1258, 15,!00 persous diod of hunger in London, then a tity of not more than 100,- 000 souls. 2Eneas Sxivrus, afterwards Pope Pros IL, visited tht British Isles in 1480, and has left a descriptin of the condition of the | common people at hat time, They lived, ne says, in huts builtpf stone without mortar, | with turf roofs, wih a dry bull’s hide fora door, without windovs, with no chimneys,with clay floors. Someof them had never seen breed. They livedon coarse vegetables and on pulverized bat. Their scanty clothing swarmed with verrén. They were bratal in their habits, The|condition of things in Paris and London fir a thousand years before the Reformation was scarcely bettor, The houses wero of wod, daubod with mud and letter che wrote can be found, it will proba- } thatched with clsy ¢ reeds. Dirty straw was i the only carpet. Iomestic and humun ani- mals heried togethe in filth. A bag of straw and a wooden log wire bed and pillow. Mod- jesty and purity wre impossible. Outside the houses, thing| wero no better, The 1 é | inga,” of the Protestant denominations, They Mucnexer has said, with French exaggera- tion of an unclean truth: ‘There was not a bath for a thousand years.” King, courtier, and slave vied with each other in dirtiness. When Txosus 4’ BECKET was murdered, his clothes were found to be full of vermin. The ‘odor of sanctity” at that age would demand disinfectants and Boards of Health now. S ‘The good old times, thus rich in war, pesti- Jenoe, famine, misery, and dirt, were poor in the resources of healing art. A sick man sionate entreaty of the preacher. Notre Dame has manys ‘been witness to the sighs and tears snd wringing of hands of the smitten sinner, Many o fashionable lady has sold her jewelry for the benefit of the poor, and many a hardened reprobate devoted his life to works of charity, under the alternately persuasive and admonitory eloquence of the saintly Lacorpame. The mission system of the Catholics has been far more effective and frnitfol of results than the protracted meetings of the Protestants. If the Prot- estants reformed, the Catholics converted the nation. ‘The reformations were a change of creed ; but long before there was any creed. to reform the nation hal to be transformed from Pagan darkmess into the light of Chris- sought @ shrine cure, not a physician. The first were everywhere, the latter almost no- where. Some crusaders brought back to Europe two sovereign cures for all the ills flesh is heir to,—a bottle of the pretended’ milk of the Virgin, and a finger of the Holy Ghost! The good old times, again, were times of utter insecurity. Wwoa1aa of Malmesbury, speaking of the Anglo-Saxons, says: “The common people were a prey to the morepow- erful; their property was seized, their bodies Gragged away to distant countries; their maidens were either thrown into a brothel or sold for slaves; drinking, day and night, was the general pursuit; vices, the companions of inebriety, followed.” Ivory castle was the stronghold of a thief. The ruins of robber towurs still crowd the banks of the Rhine. Law, in the good old simes, was the science of torture. The bed of justice was a rack. Thumbscrews tore truth and falsehood, more often the latter, out by the roots of the nails. ‘The shuddering visitor still sees in the sub- terranean cells of Nuremberg the “Iron Virgin,” a ghastly compound of knives, and speer-heads, and iron bars, which pierced and squeezed its victim in its iron embrace until just enough life was left to let him feel the sharp blades which cut him to pieces as he fell into the bloody stream 30 feet below,— astream which seems to shrink away-from the earth’s surface, as if ashamed of the part it plays in this sickening drama of man’s in- humanity to man. s The good old times, once more, were an era ef utter selfishness. There were no hos- pitals, no charitable organizations, unless the } monastic nurseries of vice and hot-beds of lechery are entitled to that name, no brother- hood, no humanity, no philanthropy. It is needless to add that tho good old times were times of the darkest ignorance and the grossest superstition. In proportion. as education advanced, the condition of the world became better. The lamp: that buras in the human brain is the light which guidos nations to civilization. The key to material growth is mental growth. It is by waging a relentless war against ignorance; by precent- ing crime, attacking it with the school-house instend of the jail; by compelling parents to cease to deny their offspring the natural, in- alienable right of instraction,—it is by such means that modern society will finally reach the vicinity of the Millennium. In proportion asit has used these weapons, it bos prospere: in the straggle of life. When it uses them all, it will finally win the fight and usher in the good new times. THE REVIVAL SYSTEM. It would probably be too much to ssy that there is more religions excitement throughout the world just now than there ever was be- fore; but it is safe to affirm that, barring the great reformations ard revolutions that have convulsed mankind, the public interest in re- ligion never was greater than it is to-day. And, in looking back over the history of Christianity, there i nothing thit, sooner or more frequently, anests the attention than the fact that the Chistian religion is more indebted to what ere called ‘revival movements” than to any other agen- cy. Bude, and ‘nurman, and farcical, and even tragical, cs they often are, there they stand a phenomenon of enduring inter- est to all students of human history and human nature. From the Day of Pentecost to these opening days of Easier, all branches of the Ohristian Church have resorted to “special efforts,” or “missions,” or “protract- ed meetings,” for making an assault upon the religious sensibilities, not to say an appeal to what Cannyne calla “the religion of vulgar hope and fear.” Perrn the Hermit was a gigantic revivelist. He (to use the religious vernncular.of our: times) “got up a revival” of such dimensions and results as the most noted of his modern successors must contemplate with despairing envy. He worked upon the religious sensi- bilities with perhaps as much effect as any man who ever lived except Manouer. More were awakened and propelled by his exhorta- tions than have been affected by the admoni- tions of any modern exhorters. The history of the revivals “gotten up” by the monks of the Middle Ages and the Catholic missionaries of the preceding and suc- ceeding times, would, indeed does, make sov- oral volumes of suggestive reading. Nothing can be more thrilling than the narrative of the hardships undergone and the stratagems resorted to by these pious anchorites who “* took their lives in their hands” and went forth to convert the ragged Northmen, or the languid Southerner. hero is no more eloquent or impressive chapter in oll the annals of revivals than that which describes the conquest of the Anglo-Saxons by tha un- armed warriors of Catholic Rome. ‘Without compulsion, the multitude bo- came Christian. A brotherhood of holy pas- tors, with uplifted hand, walked forth and Dlessed a joyful people.” The zeal of the revivalist hes left an ineradicable mark upon the progress of both the Catholic and Protest- ant forms of Christianity. For several years, with scarcely the interval of a single week, we have heard, as part of the regular news from round the world, that some heroic act has been done, or glorious martyrdom suf- fered, by Catholic priest or Protestant pastor in Greenland’s icy mountains, or on Indis’s coral strands, Among the latest of theso stirring items is that of the missionary pros- | trate in the hut of a Mongolian convert, re- joicing during his delirium over the prospect of seying mass on the banks of the Amoor, and that of another priest who made a jour- ney on foot, 500 miles through Newfound. land forests, carrying the Gospel to a little colony of French fishermen. The “ missions" of both the Catholic and the Anglican Churches are, in the main, very similar to the revivals, or “ protracted meet- never fail to attract crowds end convert mul- titudes. The indifferent are elarmed, the stolid quickened, tho backsliders reclaimed, and the prodigal induced to return. And the scenes which frequently attend upon these services ore often scercely less exciting than | the “jerks” and swoons of the more igno- rant converts of other sects. The crowd in London church or Paris cathedral will sway tianity. That was done by revivalists, who had no newspapers to record their victories, or extol their ‘‘humble” eloquence. It is curious to note, by the way, that, with all the reputation of the Catholics for prose- lyting, we never, or seldom, hear of their making the conversion of Protestants the ostensible object of their revival movements. ‘Thoy do not put that in their exhortation, or upon their flog. Their most conspicu- ous instances of heroism and self-denial are, as of old, in the strongholds of heathen- ism, They do, indeed, lay their nets for Pro- testants,—as in London, for example, where they have caught some fish worth catching during the last quarter of a century. Still, they do not plant any Protestant missions, 50 called, after the example of Protestant mis- sionarieg in Ireland or Italy, who are boldly set for the “conversion” of their fellow- Christians of St. Avoustzxe’s and Madame Sweroume’s faith. We do not suppose that Brother Moopy would hesitate to attempt the “conversion” of Joxy Henny New- man, but we fear that that eminent Father would not be willing to go far out of his way to “convert” even Brother Moopr “from the error of his ways.” When the Protestant becomes a Catholic he is called a “pervert”; when the Catholic becomes a Protestant he is s “convert.” So the Protestant prose- lyters say ; the Catholic proselyters reverse the designations. As Brother McCormox Jooks disdainfully upon Prof. Swine as & ‘heathen man and a Republican,” so Cardinal McCxrosxex, with no less commiseration, regards Brother ‘McCon- wack as a castaway, although a good brother Democrat,—unless, indeed, His Eminence should apply, as would be nataral in this case, the dogma of ‘invinci- ble ignorance.” Upon the same ground the Pope may look out of his window with hu- morous pity upon the “revival”. which Brother Van Merer has ‘gotten up” under the walls of the Vatican for his special bene- fit,—the Pope’s, we mean, “ Looking from the window of his residence,” Brother Vay. Mere tells us, ‘the Pope can see the press printing the Bibles which are overthrowing hissway!” And, what is still more dramatic, this printing is going on “in Neno’s gor den, where the early Christian martyrs were burned to death in their shirts of tar!” Nor is this all of the revivalism which Brother Van Meren has to say or show for himself. He has “go advantageously placed his prayer- meeting that the singing may be heard— especially if the singers be instructed to raise their voices a little—in the very chambers of the Vatican!!" We undertake to say that Peres the Hermit, and Brother Moopy, and “the converted butcher,” and even Brother Husmroxp, with his ‘‘ Covenant cards” and dramatic tears, is outdone by this typograph- What is a tail-feather of the cock that crew when Perzr denied, in the way of a doyo- tional ouriosity, compared to this cunning missionary’s hymnological raid upon the private chambers of the Sovereign Pontiff? By all means let him give the order for the raising of the voices of his besieging cohorts, so that he may see the desire of his heart in the overthrow of tho Papacy! ‘The fact that thera is a move- ment upon his flank, in the shape of a finan- cial investigation, should only embolden his plans and inflame his zeal. There is no time to be lost. A master-stroke like this will con- found the enemy of both front and rear, and raise Brother Van Mren so high as a gotter- up of revivals as to make all his competitors “pale their ineffectual fires.” But, after all, the evils of an ignorant zeal are less than those of a stagnant intelligence. WOMEN AND WAGES. An attempt to pay women employed in our State institutions the same salaries as men holding similar positions, whether doirtg as much work or not, has failed, the House hav- ing voted down the proposition, The argu- ment advanced against the proposition wes that the State has no business to pay higher salaries than are given by private employers for the same work. Such a course, it was contended, wastes public fands, increnses un- necessary taxation (which means making o man pay s dollarfor nothing, and then charg- ing him 25 cants more for the cost of collecting the dollar), snd, by mak- ing Stato much more profitable than private employment, swells the rush, already too great, for official positions, and still farther corrupts the civil service of the State. The reasons for their smaller remuneration in private employments are three, and only one of them can be affected by legistative action. The three are, their physical inability, as a role, to perform as much labor, their lack of training, and, last but not least, the enormous supply of feminine labor in relation to the demand for it. Their physical inferiority is largely due to themselves. Fashion slaugh- ters robust health. The average man could do nothing like the amount of work now reqnired of him if he wore the preposterous style of clothing which femi- nine fashions demand. Part of this weak- ness, however, is due to natural causes, which will always make feminine labor, in many pur- suits, less-effechve, and therefore less valu- able, than male labor. The socond cause— ' tack of training—is the joint fault of women ond men. As long as the chief object of the average young woman is to got married, so long she will fritter away in learning and practicing dubious “ sccomplishments * the time which her brother sponds in learning some trade or profession. At the same time, her opportunities for study have not hitherto been equal to his, They aro very nearly gonow. Girls can go to college, can study Jaw, medicine, and theology, can learn a va- riety of money-making tradea. Their com- parative neglect of these chances is due part- ly to social prejudices, partly to their fathers’ refusal of the needod money, and partly to their own idleness. The third reason we have given is really tho result of the other two. A great mass of untaught, inefficient women fight with each other to get places in | avery fow pursuits. Their competition, thas condensed, is the more deadly. Miss Exauy “Farrnroxn eays that nine out of ten women reau in London, when asked what they ean do, answer “Ob, anything,” and really jcol zeal, according to Brother Van Murer. | who come to her great Employment Bu- | | H { i | ' | can do nothing except sew. We do not wish to be understood as holding the position that women should not be paid as much as men for equal work. By all. rules of honesty, equity, and good conscience, they are pl titled to as much compensation for the sams quality and amount of labor or service, and, when they thoroughly qualify themselves, they will receive it in this country as they do in France, where, in fact, they are preferred by employers in a multitude of avocations tp men, because they are considered more faith. fal and trustworthy. THE . The State Senate has passed the bit amending the Revenue law by re-enacting g portion of Bill 300. It simply cotreciaim. portant omissions in the existing law. at present, when an appeal is taken from a judy. ment for delinquent taxes, and the judgment is sustained by the Supreme Court, thereis no authority in the law for selling the property for the amount of taxes. The new lawre. quires that before any appeal shall be allowed the amount of the tax, with cosis, etc., shall be deposited, ond that the same ehull be done in ease of supersedeas or any other proceed. ing arresting the collection of taxes,—the deposit to be held to swait the deter. mination of the case, snd to be applied according to the final decision. This bill is al right so far as it goes, but shat has become of the bill authorizing the city to collect all the unpaid back taxes of former years, the collection of which was defented at the regular time by dilatory leg proceedings? These taxes, due and unpaid, and of whose legality there never wes a ques. tion, would, if collected, psy of a larce amount of the floating debt of the city caused by their non-payment. The city is also embarrassed by the necessity of pu. chasing delinquent property at tax-sales, and by the law which compels the payment of all subsequent State and county taxes on the same property in order to secure o Tien, ‘The property purchased by the city in 1874 represented over half e million of unpaid taxes, not including the taxes which the city had to pay on property previously purchased, The bili passed by the State Senate does net cover either of these cases, towhich, toa varz large extent, the financial embarrassments ct the city are due. ‘What has become of the billson these sub. jects? They are of vital importance to Chi. cago, and we trust they are not to be fox gotten or thrast aside. Senator Kesor’s til seems to be completa enough for the future; bat when is the Legisiature to authorize tLe collection of the unpaid taxes of the past five or six years? Are the dend-beats to be sl. lowed to retain the money they withhald frou the city? ——_——— ‘The carpet-warrior of Great Britain, distin. guishable by hie military sir and proficioncy in waltzing, is a most disgusted creature. Byte law abolishing the sale of commissions, this rul- unable ornament finds bimself in a protty fix Under the old system the Government made x0 objection to his staying af home and displarivg his manly qualities in the ball-room and apcat town, even when ho saould bave been awzy. When his regiment was ordered to Africa, ta In- dia, and to Canada,—horribly slow places, wh: re his dazzliog appearance was extremely inapp-c- priate,—all he had to do was to hiro a subs:isa:e by exchanging his commisaion with some lta- gifted soldier, and, while his commits were spending their lives at Aden, Gibs- tar, or St. John, N. B, this pet of the petticoata would still be the hero of ths saion and the cynosure of impressionable beile- domi. But the new law abolishes this privilege, and is consequently voted a bore. Jt is not ear prising that thu class is making every effor: te wake the exchanging of commissions kcal again. Itis rather a funny commentary on the noble warrior that, while be desires to be con- sidered killing, this thirst for siaughter is ra:ie fied by ravages on feminine hoarts, sna aie EN An edifying spectacle is presented by the zsa~ agers of the intercollegiate regattas, who a8 just now engaged in perfocting arrangements to provent the racurrence of fouls, and rowdyivm, and jockeying, on the part of the contesting crows. Yet it is a gentlemanly sport, they sss. The course of each boat this year is to be marsel out by buoys. A much more eatisfactory si effective arrangement wonld be, we think, 21- duction in the number of crows contesting st wy onetime. ‘The race, as at present manage’, is scarcely better than ascramble; the interes: of the spectators 18 scattered and divided; ands duties of judges and time-keepors are enormns. Much more satisfactory results would be ob tained if the final race were between three ot four superior crews, selected by = series of pre ADr. Joszrz Harve, of San Francisco, ¥H lataly obliged to produce in Court and veri’ya Dill for medical attendance; and in doing 20 be inadvortently exposed the questionable practices of his brother practitioners. The bill dispc'al was for professional aervices rendered to s ads, who died in spite of them. The Doctor-ms<?’ fourtoon visita, and charged for them $1,400. Is swore that, if the lady bsd lived, he should net have charged more than §25 for each visit; smd many other eminent physicians testified that a der similar circamstences they would act io the game manner. The inguiry is immediately #1s- gested whether the differonca in compensstion srbitrarily determined by the doctors for kill ing or curing a pationt, is not too great for the safety of tho commanity. Uf to-day brings forth the bright promis of yesterday, itwill be a glorious Eastor-Sautay indeod—slorious for tho enthasiasta, who oon? ont from thow fast wan and baggard; glorwus for the clergy who will proach thoir Easter #:t- mona to crowded houses; glorious for the old people, who will herald it aa a new life of whch itis typical ; glorions for the young folk, ¥b9 have pined and fretted under the social resbit- tions of the Lenten season; glorious for the ladies, who can come out in their spring hatssod now styles ; glorious for the childron, with thelr many-colored ‘Esater eggs; glorious for ibe churches which will reap a rich reward from the Easter offerings ; glorious tor everybody and everything, relizous and secular, moral, and physical. So mote it be! es Mr, Barazp Tarros mentions tho fact tha! the Burger Schulen (corresponding to &t graded schools) in Germany have introduced tha atady of the English language with the most e cellent results, and argues that our own school systom should not be in any rospect inferior ta that of the most enlightened European nations Gur eystem, as Mr. Tarton well asys, higher aims and possibilitios then that of Ge" many, although it is inferior in technical om pletencas. Set ee Mr, Auxx. McCroze, of the Philadelphia 11s will come slong in a few dara, no doubt, snd plain that his paragraph on ANDREW Jounsos meant to be sarcastic. There are already 575? toma of such sn svowal In tao mesntioe Justes Gonnox Buxcrr ia meditatiog » Ube suit, to be based on this sentence : © Oxhers bad denounced Guaxr, but it was left for Jous0% tocall hima Casa.” Ae if Mr, Basxzrr Wo? net the joventor of that highly elegant #04 forcible comparison | es Gov. CxAMDERLATN, of Sonth Carolina, OF tinacs to grow in favor wita the bost eloment io the Republican party. He bas alrondy di tho Opposition snd s‘lenced the hostile dk iciem of those who moat atrenuously him in the campaign, and scoms to be destined towin the good opinion of sil honsat son