Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 7, 1875, Page 4

TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. N (PATABLE 18 ADYANCE), I'repnid at this OMce. (U0 | et 1 yesr..8 1,07 75 ebied. e o Toa Gopies. PEEi} WanteD-Un oh town and villege, Biecial srrangomonts made swith suct. Brecimen caples s1at (roe, T prevent delay and mistakes, bo rore snd give Tort. Otfice addross In Iull, includisg Stata and County, Remittancesmay Lemade olilierby draft, expross, Post- Oftice arder, or in registercd lotiere, at our risk, . TERUE TO CIKT LUDECRINENE, Daily, delivered, Sunday excepted, 23 conta per wask. Dally, dolivered, Bundsy Included, 1) cents pse maok. dross THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Qerar Madison sud Dearbornast ‘hicago, 11, TODAY'S AMUSEMENTS. UOOLEY'S THEATRE—Randolob strest, betwesn Clarx and JaSalle. Einorson's Minstrels. M'VIOKER'S THRATRE—Madison street, hetween Dearborn and Btate, Engagement of the Varislan Upora-loafle Troups o ** Girotleiirolls," ACADEMY OF MUSIO—Hslsted street, botwasw Mad. 1on and Monres. Ingsecmiontol the Kmily Soldens Troupe. ** Madamo L'Archidue. ADRLPII THEATRE— eoe. Varioty Entertalomer EXPOSITION BUILDING-Lakeahors, foot of Adams streot. Kshibition of Palntiogs. MCCORMICK ITALL~North Clark steeet, cornar Kin. e, Conostt by Jesse Ehepard. THINY PRESBYTERTAN CHUROH—The Grand Al logory ot ** The Pligrim." born strest, corner Men- Communication il work on ¥, C. Deg TURAYL DAPANTS, WO ONLY NEED A CFR. tain dalieacy of complaxion o rendar fhem b lnaatilal oy th et cily briles, Mhould il (ne examplgof e wbio 0% {0 thin tan }:!’l!u‘n.:‘np:l")?rn('lx."elr):fa rloment of ratinod lovelinees, ,Sold 3 all deuceiste. The Chitags Teibune, Friday Morning, Mey 7, 1876. Tho Spanish Governmient Lins paid tho bal. ance of the Virginius indemnily several months in sdvauca of the timo specified by tho arbiteation W. T1. Hanrcz, the ex-Chief Geain In. | speetor in Chiego, was yesterdny formally displacad by his sunceessor, to whom he ro- fused to turn over tho sarplus Ir.ndnlthut liave ncenmulated through tha excess of /fees over running expenses, busing the refnsal upon tha advice of counsel that the Stato has 1o legal claim upon tho acerued balance, Ex-Senator Prarr, the newly.appointed Comumissioner of Internal Revenue, scems to have overcowo his distaste for the *‘shams nud sycophantic subservieney ” incident to n residence in Washington ; or, possibly, thero ia something in the intimation thet he is to step into DELANO's shoes, und thus receive & recomponse for the shock to his fine sensibil- tiex. 2 A curious and exiromely protracted divorco taso has just terminated in Doston, and tho vardict is, that both parties—who nre of some social prominenco—havo given oach other nmplo grounds for gelting unhitched, sud that both aro entitlod to o decroe. Tho Jury found adultery and eruolty on the part of tho wusband, and adullery, but no cruclty, on the wite's side, . SaxRAnDALL, in o moment of contldence, has announced thet o part of the Democratio policy next winter will be to abolish tho uffice of Commissioner of Internal Revenuo. ‘I'hat proposition has nlready been mado in both Honses of Congress under Republican rule, and a bill with that end in view was in. troduced in tho Senate carly in the lnat ses- sion, e —— Tho decision urrived at by the council of experts who havo examined the walls and foundations of tho Custom.Ilousa in this city, + hy direction of the Supervising Architect of the Trensury, coufirms the fears that have heen entertained for somo time prat. It is Lelioved that it will bo impossible to remedy the dofects made apparent by tho uneven sottling of the foundations, which are fonnd to ba wlolly unsuited to the charncter of the toil upon which thoy rest, and therefore un- cqual to the support of the mnssive super- structuro; and that the entire work is worth- “less, and will have to be undone nnd done over again. Tho prospect of delay involved in this wrotched state of things is not caleu- Inted to crente in Chicago an affectionate re- gand for the numbskull who planned theso shaky foundations. Mr. Bowes yestordny concluded his testi- mony in the Beecnes trial, His examina- tion, in the matter of duration, did not sat- isfy public expectation, but, as to pith and subetance, it hag proved no disappoint. ment to thoso who looked to him for importunt evidence, Tho cross- expmination by Mr. Evanrs left mun. shoken 3Mr. Bowex's positivo contradie. tion of many of tho moterinl statoments of the witnesscs for the defonse, nud ho rotired frum tho stand doubtless with the consclons- 208 of having produced a profound ime pression. His appearanco in the case i un cpoch sccond in grave conscauenco 10 nono that bavo preceded or are likely to follow it. Our dispatches indicato thet Gen, Borzes, Mrs, WoopnuLy, and Miss Criviiy 210 o be subpeenacd for the plaintiff, but that the former, being engnged in & crso in New Unmpshire, will not be able to attend. St. Louis may now in somo degreo refuta Wexpztn Puiires disagrecalle remarks ubout Lrulns by pointing to her collection of importad Lase-ball players, With the result of yesterday's gung staring blankly at us— very blankly, on the losing sido of the scora —wo reluctuntly concedo that, in tho matter of the purchaso and shipment of ball-toasers, ot prasent the St, Louis brain scems to be su. perior to tho Chicago article, In this branch of commeres tho suprewncy lodges tempo. rarily ot the other end of tho Lridge, Now, in return for this candid acknowledgment, may wo not reasonably expect 8t, Louis to admit that ona of the players in the winning nine dovelped Lis broin by o threc-years' sojourn in Chicago; while, per contrd, n member of the defealed club came to us, with a ccre. brum very much the worso for u life-louy residence in St. Louls? Chicago and Wex. vELL Priznies will feel warranted in muin. taining thiy theory, whether our jubilent neighbors agree with us or not, e The Chicago produce markets® were irregus lar yesterdsy,' Mess porl was quiet, and de. clined 200 por brl, closingat £21,65 cash, and €21,80 for Juno. Land was dull and 7}@100 per 100 1bs Jower, closlug at $15.40 cash, and $15.628 for Jume, Aleats wero more active and firmer at 87c for shoulders, 113@12% for short ribs, and 121G12)c for short clears, Highwines wero quiet and 1¢ highor at 81.15 per gallon. Lake freights were dull and un- changed. Flowr was in betler demand and finmer, Wheat was active and easior, closing at $1.0t cash, aud 21,06} for June. Corn was moderately active and j@le lower, clos- ing at Tie ensl, and 75icfor June. Onts wero active and jo lower, closing at G2}c casly, and 63fc for Juno, Iiyo waa very quict at SLOT@LOS. Barley was quict and firm #0@1.01 for May. The hog market waa active ond lower, closing wenk at 1 5 decline, Cattlo wero in good demnnd and were firmer. Sheep wora quiet and firm. et *Judge WiLw yesterday rendered o de- clsion in the case of the chartor cloction. It will be remembered that ho had previously granted o temporary injunction forbidding the canvass of tho rotwrns of the voto on the chnrter, ponding o further henr- ing of tho cnss. In tho weantime the Common Council, disregarding tho in. junction, did convass tho returns and declare tho result. 'Tho complainauts then nmended their bill to the formn of a Jegal con- test of the clection, and prayed an injunction agninst tho exerciso of any powers ornu. | thority under the charter, pending the hearing of the bill contesting the elec- ! tion. Judge Wittiams yesterdny refused fo grant the injunction, on the ground that to suspend the governmental fune- tions of tho city would bes an evil as great 4 that compleined of by the bill, This decision leaves tha caso to go on to trinl in n regular way to contest the clection. The Judge, who is compelled to be nbsent from the city for o weak, anuonuced tint on his veturn, if o should decide that he had Jjurisdiction of tho cnse, Lo should take such steps 13 were uccessary to punish the viola- tion of the Court’s orders by those members of tho Common Council who hiad voted to do 50, and also tho corporation newspuper which Iind advised and nrged tho Aldermen to treat the injunction with contempt. The aaticr, therefore, rests until Judge WiLLians’ roturn to the cily. — THE TOLL.GATE POLICY. ‘Thero was an enterprising and ingenions gentleman in this Stato who, some years ago, when speeinl legiclation was allowed, and vehen cLarters were granted by o single vate upon bundles containing fifty or siizty bills, Lad himself end Lis brother-in-law incorpor- ated osa toll-gato company, with authority to eract gates on any public road and to de- wand nud collect Lolls for tho passugo of per- | sony, vehicles, and live stock through such gntes. Mo was considerably disgnsted when the first geto ho erected was thrown down, aud he found himself indicted for obstructing the public highway. The New York Zriduneis an advocate of tho toll-gate policy. opposes ny reduction in the rates of tolls on the Erio Cannl, nand gives as n reason thet the peoplo of New York will not submit to be tazed to mmintain highwsys by which the | peoplo of tho United States may tako goods into Now York to sell, nnd by which they may bring out of the State the goods they wmay buy. 'The Zrilune opposes such reduce tion on moral, scientific, philosophical, eco- nomical, aud arithmetical grounds. Wo will notice only the lattor. Now York lLind saveral caonls, perhaps a dozen, the only ono of whicl that earned enongh {o cover its annual cost for repnirs was tho Lirio Canel, and all of the surplus earnings of that canal wero cons sumed in making good the defleiencies in the others. All theso canals have been nban- doned now save four. Theso are tho Erie, Olamplain, Oswego, and the Cayugn & Scneca. Theso four enrned, in 1873, within o fraction of £3,000,000, and cost £2,700,000. Of this the Erio enrned over £2,700,000, and cost $1,700,000, showinganct surplus of o million of dollars. In 1874, tha snrplus carnings of tho' Erie Cnnnl was million of dollara, The other canals in the ! two years cost, over their earnings, 51,300, 000, which was paid out of tho surplus from the | Erio, Kow, on ordinary 1ann, ranning fonr shops in no way conneeted with ench other, and one of them yields o net income of a million of dollars o year, and tho others are mainteined at o loss of nemly the samo sum, would probably shut up the losing eatablishments, and, it possible, incrense his profitable busi. negs ot the other, Tho State of Now York Las already practiced upon this common. sense iden, and closed eight of hor non-paying connls. The State of Now York Las roceived $60,000,000 from the IErie Caumal over all expenditures thercon, not including That paper earncstly , THE CHICAGO TRIBU FRIDAY, MAY 7, 187 buying goods in Now York be allowed to travel homo with themn without paying toll nt every croas-road to help pay the cost of keop- ing the road in repair! ‘That we may do the T'ribune no injustice, wo quote its own dec. laration ¢ 1t in the doctrino of tho Biate Constitution and tha opinton of a majority of the people that the canale should bo sclf-pustalning, Yhe majority of our citl zens are nat in favor of allrseting burlness to tho ea- nals atthio cost of tazing themuelves ta mako up for deficlent fncanie, This, reduced to its plain meaning, fs, that the merchants of New York City aro not in favor of attracting business by removing the toll.gates ou the roads leading thero, and tnx- ing themselves to keep those ronds in repair, ‘Tha same paper repudiates tho idea that the Stato hins the least interest whether thero aro any bozats run on the Erfe Canal or not. If the boatmen canuot mnke money and pay tolls, then let them, says the T'ribune, burn their boats, and go to work at somo other business that will pay. Here is what the T'ribune hna to say on that subject : Tt {8 also aald that tho State In in partnership wilh Lho Loatmen aud forwarders, and therefors bound to protect them from loss. Thatwa deny, ThsStatnhaa 7o mara tight to collact money from the tax-pagers and Land ft over to canal-boatmen and grain-dealors than & lias to make good tho losses of fron manufscturers or real-eatato epeculators, Tho time has been when to dony that it is the duty of tho Government to collect taxes from tho peaple and hand it over to make good tho losses of iron manufncturers, or any other manufacturer, would clicit from the T'ribune a suggestion that the deninl was in- spired by British gold, Wo congratulate tho Z'ribune on its having nbandoned tho doce trino that it is Inwful or honest for the Sinto to levy taxes upon the publio in order to mke good any inen's losses, or to mako any mnn's business a profitable one. But why abolish toll-gntes on ronds leading from iron, nud cotton, and woolen mills, and not abolish those on all public highweys Letween States, throngh Stater, and lending to market? Why lovy tolls on every lond of apples, corn, tlour, conl, nnd lumber, moved over this high. way owned by the State, and on every load of gools bought in New York to be iaken over this rond to other fitates? 1t Now York does not wish to atiract commerce by abolish. ing toll-gates on the Stato roads, then New York hns, perhaps, decided to nceept as final 1ho diyision of trado alrendy bogun to othor routes whero toll-gatos nud toll-gatherers ara unknown, and rords are kept in repair, G A B £ T RY, A morning newspaper in this cily, which lias been a Llind Brecgur partisan from tho outset, H The feattiro of tho TrroN-DLzcurn frial on yestor- @Ry wis tho calling of Mr, Bowes, of tho Zndependent, in rebuttal, Mis testimony was In tho maln unimpore tant. s contradictod Mr, Brrencn aa fo the placo of delivesy by him of tho letter from TrLTON fo tho latter, #aying that It was ot tho FRIzLAND manslon fnatead ; ofatthe houso of Mz, Drecurn, 1o proceeded to ! givohis veralon of the famou tripsrtito agrecment, | Gnit whtio ho was 6till on tho stand the Court adjourned ¢ until morning. Thia is certainly o very remarkeblo sum- mary of Mr. Bowrs's testimony, and, if the wistuke as to tho place of delivery wero all thnt Mr. Bowes's oxamination brought- out, it vould certainly have beon * unimportant in tho main.” Tho apologist for Brrcmrz seems to havo overlooked the following points wnde by Mr, Bowey in his testimony on Wednesdny : 1. "Chnt ho delivered the note from Tivrox fo Bercnen at Fasznaso's house, and not at Bezonen's housa, 2, That ho did not tell Mr. Brzomen that Lo was ignorant of tho contents of that note. 3. That nothing was said about Mr. Trx- ToN's fitness as an editor on that oceasion. 4. That Breourn did not speak of the charges of Brssie TorEn against TirToN. . ‘Fhat tho tripartito covenant had no con- noction whatever with his paymont of $7,000 to Mr, Trron; also, that there was no con- nection between the covenant and the arbi- tration which led to the payment of $7,000, nud that nothing was snid whon the award was made about the dificulty betweon Alr. Drecner and Mr. TrroN, G, That the check for this sum was drawn April 3, 1872, and tho iripartite agrocment was executed April 7, 7. That Trutoy hind been dismissed from Bowex's cmploy befora the latter hod any conversation with Bercien on the subject. Now, here are soven {flat contradic. tions of Mr, Brzonen on vital points, which Luock the contrition business *‘higher than a kito,” s Saxt WiLxrsoN would say, and yob this partisan only seos tho fact that Bowey claima to havo left the lotter at Freerasp's instend of Bzrenrn's house! Itis hardly to Lo expeeted, howover, that a party with both oyes shut should b able to soe anything, im. portant or unimportant. the stolen aud wasted rovenues, The rnilroad competition {s now so great that, unless tho tolla be reduced, the transportation of grain will bo divorted from tho cannl, &8 the boata cannot poy the preeent tolls and comreto with the railways. Dut tho Now York 7'rit- 1tno objects, beeanso, if tha tolls on the Lrie Canal be reduced, thon the peoplo must be taxed to maintain the ofher throo ennals. The pelicy of tho Now York 4'ritune excludes tho idea of inaintaining a freo lighway, or a road without toll-gates, as a modern innova- tion, not tobe tolerated. Now York Oity, for instancoe, has no toll-gates on any rond enter- ing that eity, nor on Broadway, nor on Wall streot, nor on uny of tho stroets, which are froely used by all peoplo who visit that city to buy or scll goods, nnd the peoplo of Now York City have to tax themsclves to keep these strects in ropair, and to pavoe and repave them at gveat expemse, his policy is an innovation mpon the system which provailed n hundred and mora years go, when overy wmau had to pay toll to get into town, and toll to get out of it again, ‘'ho Trlo Cannl is o highway over which hundreds of milliona of dollaxs’ worth of property are transported to New York to be sold, and of property purchased in Now York transported to other States, It ought to have been made free, and maintained at the ex. penso of the Btato, many years ago. To koep any tolls vn it, or to wtiempt to make it a source of ravenue, it having pald for itself long ago, is about ay rational us it would bo to put toll.gates on Yroadway or at the enlvench of Central Taik, or to coltect tolls for navigating tho Mudsen River, Foll-gates ara u rolie of tho past, aud, like the navigetion lawa of the United States, or the protective policy, tho projudico sgainst bo- kinning any work on Fridsy, faith in the po. cition of tho moon's horus as an indicstion of the wenther, drond of sitting thirteen at o tolle, find specinl reveronce in tho minds ¢ven of indepondent thinkers. Iho Now York T'rilne has evidently not got away from tha anclent doctrine that every man who uses o publio road to got to market should pay for its uso, and Leneo that toll-gates ero essential to cquel aod exact jistice, No mun shonld be ullowed to take his pigs or corn to New York without paying for the use of tho rond cover which lie travels; nor should auy man MR. DANA'S PERSECUTION, The District of Columbia Ring, having falled in their vecent effort to drag Citanres A, Daxia, editor of the Now York Sun, to the District, in order that Doss Snermenp could institute muit for libel against Lim, have now sdopted » now systom of tactics by seok- ing Lo havo him indicted by tho Grand Jury under tho Poraxp Gaglaw, It is only a fow weeks since that the judicial mnchinery of the District was employed to bring Mr. Dana within tho clutches of the Ring, by issuing o subpana for him to testify in a easo of which he was profoundly iguorant, Boss Surenenp meanwhilo having sued out n warrant for Mr, DANA on & chargo of crimi. nal libel, and cmployed his detectives to watch the incoming trains 6o as to arrest him tho instant ho camo within the boundarics of the District. Mr. Daxa, howover, was sharp enongh to sco the cunningly.covored trap, and paid no attention to the subpwus, whers. upon an attachment was issuedfor him, 'The Ring wero thwarted in this move bLy tho fearless decision of Judge Brarcn. vonp, und now seeks to bring Mr, Daxa to tho District under thePoranp Gag-law, Inorder to do this, it bocamo necessary to avoid the point made by Judge Drrrox in the BorLw caso, that, inasmuch as it was not al. leged in the indictment that the offonse was committed in the District of Columbla, he must discharge him from oustody, ‘Che Ring wera fully equal to this emergoucy, and, al. though it was woll known to them that Mr. Dava hod not boen in {ho Distriot, thoy st forth in the indiotment that Mr. Dava wroto, or eansed to bo wiitten, falso, libelous, and defamatory articles in the District of Golumbia, wnd caused thom to bo printed in the Now York Sun, ond then circulated it fu the District, ‘Ihis declaration was made not only with the Lnowledzo of tho fact that it waa falso, but alko with the knowlodgo that the Judicinry Committees of both Houses of Congrosa last winter refusod to report bills vepealing the Porano law, for tho reason that it did not enlarge tho jurisdiction of the District Courts, and had ' no reference to libel, and furthermors that tho Scuate Com. mitteo exproasly declared that the Porawn law gavo no power whatever to bring a pare #on to the District, or try him for what he bad printed in a paper outside of it, They know full well, moreover, that Judgo Porann himsolf hnd publicly given expression to the same views, and that tho most eminent law- yers in Loth branches of Congress shared theso viows. Infamonsas this recont attempt i3 to drag Mr, Dana to the District, there is a gleam of consolation in tho faot that it will bring about an fssue in which the publio will ba likely to find ont tho renl meaning and intention of this Torayp Gng-law, and how far unserupulons Rings can strotelt and per- vert it to kidnap peoploin other States, and coverup thelrsuspiclous schomes by silencing tha press, FRESDYTERJAN UNION, Fow persons outside of thoe theological rehools underatand tho formulated doetrines of the Presbyterian Church, and fower still cnn explain the canses of the various divis. ions in the Uhurch, both in Europe and Ametien, in 8 manuer that will moet the ap- proval of gectnries and dogmatists, No re. ligious community of the modorn world hns applied more rigidly tho principles of liber- tyy equality, and fraternity, sud none lns been more torn by internal dissonsions, than the one founded by Carviv, Presbyterian liberty is liberty to go ont of the Church if it doesn't suit you, and yet to inherit eternal happiaess i you aro otherwiso worthy, Its practieal applieation in tho government of the Church has produced nlmost as many different kinds of Prosbyterians as thero nre polite Ianguages. Tho Free Church of Italy and the Reformed Clurch of Franco nra essentinlly Presbytorian, Unequivoeally 60 are the Tatablished Church, the Freo Cluirch, nud the misnamed United Church of Scotland ; the English Presbytorian Church ; thePresbyterian Church of Ireland ; tho Cann- dian Presbyterlan Church; and, in the United States, tho Northern Chareh, tho Southiern Church, tha United Church, the Cumberland Church, nnd the Roformed Charch, "Tho chiof Presbytorian body in America is tho ono which is generally known at tho North ns the Prosbylevion Church. It emr- braces 4,946 congregations, 4,607 minis- ters, 405,634 communicants, and 516,000 Sunday-schaol children, Last yoar it sabseribed to various benovolont enter- prises $10,000,000, Ita wenlth and influ- ence aro great, giving it, porhaps, a rank im- mediately below tho Catholio cnd Methodist Churches. This great Presbyterion Church has been formed by the union of two Schools, tho Old and the New, which were established in 1837 in consequunco of doctrinal and, it is snid, political difforences, which cannot be stated now to the satisfaction of either party. The Southern Presbyterian Church, which scceded when the Wer of the Rebellion broko ont, still mnintains o separate organization, ond withal & defiant amd hostilo attitnde, which puts out of tho question, for the prosont at lcnat, all prospect of compromise or reconciliation. Repeated overtures hava been made to tho Southern Clureh, but they haye been ro- ceived without favor, if not contemptuonsly ; nud tho last Comumittos on Union appointad by the Northern Olurch has adviced the abandonment of efforts in this direction until somo decided encouragement is afforded by the Southern Church. Notwithstanding this unfortunata failure, or, porhaps, because o difforent result was anticipated, tho ox- ample of the Old and New Schools at the North hns proved infections; and the iden of =& goneral Presbytorinn Union, or a Pan-Presbytorian Council, has baen for sevoral yonrs presont to the leading minds of the American and British Churches, Accordingly, a conference of the Committoes from all tho Prasbyterian danominntions has been called to meet in London on July 21 of this year, The British Churches havo re. sponded, and have drawn up a sort of pro- tocol, which provides, among ather matters of dotail, for o Pan-Presbyterion Council, to bo held onco in three yoars, the first ono in 1876, placo of moeting to be determined st the London Committec-meating of 1873, The plan {s grand, but somowhat better caloulated, we imegine, to overawe and im. pross the lay mind than to affect clerics, or occasion them any disquictudo as to tho in. togrity and soparate existence of thelr sovoral Churches. No itlea of organic unfon among the Presbyterians of all beliofs and all conn. trios hos over beon seriously entertained. This great Council may, indeed, prova to be tho first stop in thin direction, but thoro is no prosent belief that it will. The most that is contemplated now is o sort of (Ecumonienl Council, *whose powers sliall ba only thoso of a doliberative body, and shall enrry only moral wright," This preeiso limilation is insisted on by tho Dritish Churches, and those of America have no wish to disturb it. It would bo absurd, to bo sure, for any sot of men to declare proviously that their publio mecting should have *no moral welght,” it the elements for it wero conspicuously pres. ent; but it happens to bo the caso, in this instanco, that the Council will have compara- tvely littlo influence on modern thought. It will givo greater Pprominenco to the principle of fraternity, rogulato misslonary affalrs among tho Churchos, and furnish tho material for o Presbytorian jubiles once every thrae Yyears, THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR RENEWED, A rusty old cannon, half-buried in the mud of tho campus of Princoton (N. J,) Qollego, has boen resurrcetod and stolon by a raiding party of Rutgers Colloge students, War ho- tween the two lnstitutions is now pending. Tha two Presidents, MoCosn and Oancrorrr, havo boon drawn into tho strifo, Tho citi. zons of Now Brunswick, whera Rutgers Col. logo is situated, havo subcribed money to defray the cost of imbedding the captured trophy in solld masonry, and Princeton threntens to blow up tho masonry,the collego, and the town, sooner than lose its pracious cannon, The gun is & rovolutionary relle, During the battle of Princeton, the Britlsh troops atormed the town, Ngasau Hall, one of the colloge buildings, still boars the marks of bullets and bolls, When the rogulars re. treated, two of their cannon were loft be. hind,—probably by an oversight, One was hoavy, one light. The latter is the present casus belli, ‘Tho big one waa loaned to the 'lown of New Brunswick in 1812, Its return was refased, and a military company marchod from Princoton, one day in 1820, and recap- tured it. It was planted as a post in the col. logo campus, 'Thers, twenty yoars ago, the little gun was placed besido §t, The ralders from Rutgers meant to seizo tha big one, which they claim was givou, not lent, to ¥ow Brunswick, but instead they took the small one, When Dr. MoCosg, on behalf of Princoton, aslked for its voturn, Dr. Giup. neLy, the President of Rutgers, roplied that thae studonts under Lis care would bo mads to obey the laws 0f God and of the Btate of Now Jersey, Further than this he sald not, and his nssurance of the moral well-being of Rutgers did not, strango to say, eatisty tho Loys nt Princeton or their President. Tho Intter has directed suit to bo brought against tho offending college, but it s doultful whether the frato victims can bo kept from taking the law into their own hands, 'Lhero nre ndvantages in this trouble, after all. It ia n good ndvortisoment for both senta of learning. Tho great mass of Amori- can citizons biave mannged to got nlong hith- erto without knowing much of tho oxistence of Ruigora Collego and the namo and fame of the Rov, Oasrnrry, who means to have hLis youth obey the lawa of God and New Jersey (tho two do not always agree, by the way), but declines to have them restoro stolen property, hnsnot beon a household word outside of (he ‘own of New Druns. wick, Princeton is much better known, It 4u tho only collego in tho country the Presi- dent of which writes o book a wesk and thinke nothing of it. ‘Wo trust the theft of revolutionary relics will not becomo epidemic. Bo many de. cayed towns cxist on the strength of tho omnipresont Gen. Wasmivaton's hendquar- tord, or have ns their one glory a bullet-hole in a pro-rovolutionary barn, that the abatrag- tion of theso trophies would rob them of everything worth having, But what can wo expect when ono institution of learning robs another, and when that most precious of all rovolutionary relics—tho Declaration of Indopendence—is stolon bodily from ‘Tnosan JErrEnson by an obscurs Mocklenburger, ono Dr. Bnevann? This Bnevanp, by tho way, was & gradunte of Princoton, so that thero i something of pootlo justico in tho latter’s present lozs, TWO PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEMS, The BEEcurn caso hns given birth to two interesting and curious psycological prob. lems, One of these grows out of tho theory of tho guilt of the ncensed, and the othor out of tho theory of his inuocence, Such prob. loms always nrise whors testimony is confliet- ing, and thoso who would form n judgment aro thrown back upon general principles. Theso principles relate o the netion of mind in givon circutnstances, and the problem is, to frame a theory which shall explain the prineipal facts, and ally them, if possible, in accordanco with recogmized mental laws. Lot ns seo how the case in question pro- pounds ituelf: One lnaw of mind is, that a man cannot have two opposita characters at tho snwme timo, Ho may bo n good man, or o bad man, charac- teristically; but not both at once. A good mon may yield to temptation and do oven an extremo wrong; but ho will not porsist in it, or seck to cover it up by persoverance in felsohaod, when an accusation fs made and proof is advanced. Hence anacousod porson often and rightfully puts in his recognized character ns part of his defense, It tends to make the charge appoar absurd, Mhis has been bofore the people the strong point in favor of Ar. Bezcnen., They could not credit the accusation. It was untruo upon its feco. Wo bave heard of s promi- nent Collego Tresident, and also of the editor of a leading religious paper at the “Enst, who declared tha, apart from tho testimony, the psychological difficulty of bolieving in Mr. Beecnen'a guilt was insuper- ablo, The enormity of that guilt would be indescribable, and the imagination refuses to attompt the conception. Adultory is a sin of deop dyo in Any one; it is blackest of all fna clorgyman, But what it to this boadded maltitudinous felschoods? What if there bo yoars of hiypoerisy, in proaching, in praying, in conversation? What if, finnlly, thero be perjury of the most brazen and blasphemous charncter, repeated again and again? What 1£ this bo done to contradict truth-telling wit- nessed, and to mako them appenr to the com. munity as conspirators and perjurars worthy of the State's Prison? The problem is, can Hexny Wanp Breouss be such amen? In. stinctively ono angwers, No, ns his whola con- gregation hins done. And the soeming impoasibility is incronsed in proportion as wonre able to descead to the partioulars which usually reveal personal charncter. While gonoral uscfulnessin tho pulpit, on tho platform, and through the press, has weight, one is much moro infla- enced by what is known of a man in the freo ontpourings of his spirit in less studied ways, Thus, in the case of Mr, Beronkn, they who havo enjoyed his friondship and lstenod to his spontancous utternnces, who have heard him pray by the beds of the sick and dying, who have received his instruc. tion and consolation in the trying omergoncies of lifo, in ecritical goul- struggles, irn hours of afllicion and tomptation, who have hoard his informal lecture-room talks in which he went over all the phases of religious exparionce, moving other hoarts by tho evident moving of his own,—those will not onsily bo convineed that they havo not looked into the depths of his belng and seen o thousand times over tho ovidence of his moral integrity and intimate communion with God. Iloing eatisfied of this, they will naturally ssk, can o man boat onco tho exemplar of plety and the blackest of sinners? Can it bo credited that the gronteat preacher of the ngo isalso the most naudacious hypocrite known to history? As the Biblo itselt puts it, *‘Doth a fountain sond forth, at tho mamo place, sweet water and bitter?” It may indeod be urged, in partial reply, that other ministers have fallon into this samte sin, and have attempted to cover it with falschood ; that Davin, *the man after qod's own heart, the inspired pealmist, wes guilty of it, and sought to conceal it by murdor; that F¥rrem denied his Mastor, nnd that under the solemnity of an oath; that some temporaments sur. render themsclves wholly to presemt cire ocumstances, like astors on a stage, &0 that thoir private charnotor may be different from their publioc performances; that, as Mr, Brzonen's lotters show, thore may be an appearauce in the pulpit and with friends which is quite contrary to the soul's real oxpo- rlenco; and that ministerial criminals, like other trensgrossors, easlly persunde them. selves that tholr sin was vonlal in the ciraum. stancos, and has beon ropented of and for. given, and so continue to presch and to pray, and even scom to have an added unotion, These considerations, drawn from other men nnd other days, do not solve the psychological problem of Mr, Brromew's supposed guilt, with those who have known, admired, trusted, and loved him for twenty-five years, Axnd certainly the faith of his church in their pas. tor, in despite of the cumulative ovidonce against him, 18 morally sublime, and speaks volnumes in favor of his charactor, I, now, this were the only problem tha$ could be raised, the case wera easily docided. But, unhappily, paychology has many spplica. tions, and ita principles necessitate, in this 1atter, the solution of another diffoult prob. lom, on the supposition of Mr, Bascuxa's in. nocencs, For it in & low of misd thet oll acr tion has apparent ronson back of it ; that tho will decides in view of motives; that thn weight of the motive muat correapond with tho nalura of the cans, 1f Mr. Brrcugn ba regarded as inuocent, then the problem is, to account, by n suflicient molivo, for the part taken by Mr. 'I'iroy, Mr. Movrtoy, and My, MourtoN, who, in that caso, aro to Lo sot down as perjured conspirators. Tut men do not conspire and perjure thotn- solves for slight rensons, on small provocs- tion. Lispecially ave they unlikely to do this to overthrow one strong not only in his inno. conce, bnt in socinl position, in publie ropu- tation, n sacredness of ofilee, in personal maguotism ; one surs to bo backed by troopa of friends, millions of 1monay, and tho power of tho secular and religions press. What could tompt threo respectable persons, not lunatics, falsely to charge snch n man ns exny Warp Beeones with tho sin of adul- tery? Take 'I'nkoponz Tmron as the first elomont fn tho problem. Whnt desperation of jealousy, or ambition, could indueo him to accuso Mr, Berouen of adultery with Mra. Trutoy, knowing the charge 1o befalso; knowingthoriskhoran,if hefailed to addnco sufficient seeming proof ; knowing that success would brenk up his own home end bring disgrace wpon himself and his chil- dron, while failure would brand him forever s o perfured villain, and might consign him tonfelon's ccll? Whero is tho motive for o mad an attompt against tho strongest man in the country ? Harder still §s it to allege n suflicient motive for the part thus assigned to Mr. Mourrox. 1lo was no hot-herded fool, tofall into a Trrroxtay trap, Ho wasa man of afalts; o cool, clenr, farsocing, edu- cated, experienced merchnnt; who read mea, and know how to mauags them; who moved in good society, had a wido circle of acquaintanoo in the Lusiness H world, and was n partner in & largo entablish. ment, with wealth in possession and in pros- peet. The problem is, to account for conspir. ney and perjury on his part, to help o fallen egotistandsentimentalist like Trrroy It ades. tardly wer upon such & man ns Hexny Warn Beroucn, his own wife's pastor, ond his per- sonal friond. But a third impossibility iy, to account for the notion of Mrs, Movrzon, It is easy to say that a wife will do anything to ald nnd defend her husband, But in this casa thero i3 not enly bsurdity in supposing the husband to be involved in nny baseschemo requiving such desperato aid, but there is the clecrest evidence of Mr. Doecxen him- self that she is s lady of intelligonce, refine- nient, dignity, purity, truthfalness, and Chris. tinn_character; o member of his church, an admirer of his prenching, and who would oortainly fear an oath, ns women do more invariably than men. Shall all her rélatives and ncquaintances, whoe leve scen for yoars tho evidence of her worth, instantly accept the supposition that sho hins sworn a false onth fo conviet her innocent pastor of a fear- ful crime? And with what motive that could outweigh a Christian lady’s instinetivo shrink- ing from each onormoms guilt? Hero isn peychological problom with a three-fold im- possibility in it. ‘With such altornative problems on hand, is it atrango that good and wise men look in perplexity from one to tho other, unn!glu, and in fact unwilling, to offer an explanation, not choosing to imputo to either party nnparal- lelod guilt? They wait to have Judge Fuz. zzgroN and Mr, Braon try their philosophy on one of these probloms, and to sse BMMr. Evants and Gen. Traox casay the other, The mystarics of mind, in cithor viow, are too deop for an ordinary sounding-line, ——eey A SBARSPEARE MEMORIAL. Mankx Twart hos dono something much more grateful and graceful than anything which has emanated from his humorous sclf, in tho writing of a letter to the Now York Times calling tho attention of Americans to the recont project set on foot by prominont Englishmen and lovors of Smaxspeane to arect s memorial theatre to the world’s poet at Steatford-on-Avon. The sita for the build. ing hes alrendy boen given, and the subserip- tions, hended by Cazswics, tho netor; I, B. CratTenToN, of the Drury Lane, London; Bexyaxay Wensren, of the Adelphi, London; Buonsone, tha comedian ; and Mr, Sormeny, oro under wiy,” Tho plan is to build the thentrs upon a site overlooking the town, and to surround it with ornamontal gardens,—any sum raised boyond the required amount to bo devoted to the cel. cbration of tho nnniversary of tho poot's birthday, and to the improvoment of ncting by tho establishment of prizes for emsays upon the subject, loctures, and ultimately a dramntio training school or colloge, In con. nection with the thoatre, it is proposed to ca- tablish & library anda saloon or gallery in- tended to receive pictures and slatuary of Bhakspearean subjects, Donors of $500 and upward aro to be Governors and Managors of tho property, and will meot anuually for the eleation of an Executive Council and the framing of rules for the goneral mansgemont of the memorinl property and the funds. Twonty-two prominent Englishmon have al- ready stopped forward and made themselves Governora by the payment of the requisite sum, ‘Wa have no doubt that the English appenl which Murx TwarN has placed beforo the American people will meet* with a hearty re- sponse, and that vory niany of our literary men and prominent actors and artists will be glad to enroll themsclves as Governors and have a voice in the management of this great and moritorious undertaking, Americans have alrendy subscribed liberally towarda the srection of an Amorican memorial window in the church of Stratford-on-Avon, and Amer- {cans, as Manx Twamv says in hislettoy, num. bor about threa-fourths of the visitors to that town. Bonrcely an Ameorican goes to En. gland without making it a point of duty to 80 to SBmaxserane's tomb, and it is probable that those who do not go to England have an equal reverence for the momory of the gront poet. His works will always be a sufficient memorial, and yot in theso days, when it hos bocome the fashion to erect memorials to eminent men and to some who aro not eminent, in their own lo- calities, it seems somcwhat curiows that no memorinl haayet been erccted commemorating Buaxspeane in hisbirthplace. We have littlo doubt that as soon as the proposition becomes generally known to the American people thelr contributions will be made upon a scale which will give them a controlling intorest in the managemont of the memorlal, The New York Z¥mes offers to roceive and forward the American subscriptions, The New York Herald {s justly proud of its advertising- patronnge, It publishes a column of glorification ovor the fact that it printed 8,400 advertisements in ita issue of April 11, "This record is probably eclipsed only by that of Tox Omicage Tununa, on April 25, On that dsy we printed 8,800 ad- vortisements, only 100 loas in number, and coverig much more wpaocs, The Herald hed soarcely any long advertisements; wo had a goodly number, 1f the Avernge lengih of the sdvertisoments in each paper had beon thoe sama, wo would have published, in the apaco ocenpied by these 3,300, nt loast 4,000. While we dovoted fewer colnmns to thin depnariment, their superior length ang broadth mora than mado up the differonce, Moraover, wo printed on that day soven eol- umna of paid matter, exclusivo of the 3,300 ordinary advertisemonts. Wa did this in s city which counts ouly 500,000 inhabitants, against Now York's million, The Herald's record, highly creditable as it is, cannot bear comparizon with that of g ‘I'ninuse. r———— tates Bupreme Court oa Wednesdny dolivered an intorosting decision in tho case of the Mechanics’ and Traders' Tauk ¢s. Tho Union Mank of Louisinna, Originally tho plaintifs brought suit to re. cover 130,000 of tbe Union Bank, which they had paid wnder eompulsion of n judy. ment given by the Provost Court of New Or. loany in 1862, when that city was under the commnnd of (ten. Burtyn, Tho argumant of tho plaintiffs was that the entiro proceod. ings of the Court wero invalid, becauso they were in violation of the Fedoral Constitution, which vests tho judicial power of the Govern. ment in one Supremo Court and such inforior courls as Congress may from time to time os- tablish, The Hupremo Court hold that the csteblishment of provost courts *‘ wns but tho cxeraise of the ordinary rights of con- quest. The plaintiffs, therefore, wero prop erly subjocted to the power of thoso courts, and had no rights of immunity, Gen. Bureen being in command in Lonisingn, Lo was invested with all the powers of mnking war, excopt so far as they wero denied to him by tho Commandowin-Chief, and among theso powera was that of cstablishing conrts in conquered territory.” Whother the Pro: vost Court neted within ils jurisdiction or not, tho Snpremo Court declared to bo a question exclusively for the State tribunals, Tt hes ofton been wondered whers Gen. Myns, known to the valgar as the personal coneretion of ' Old Probabilitien, obtains iy informetion regarding tho weather. Thw amoz. ing mccuracy with which ke prodicts * rising thermometer, with light wind from the southe wast,” just before a frigorific wavo renches us from ANilwankee, bias given riso to suporatitioun fancies that our Governnieot & paying o oalary 0 a savan who derives sssistanco from demoniza nourcco. Prof. Joux II, Cicz; Liss, in tho inter. csta of relenco and 8t. Louls, como to the reg- cuo of Gen. Myxng, and showed tho 1guorant world just where to look for indieaticns of chango of weathor. It s to the equinoxes of the plancts that the mnow-storm of movivg-day was roslly dua, Anybody might hase forctold tho unpleseantness of tho woathor by caleulativg tho number of oquinoxes, Thore lave Deen no loss than fourteon of thees distorbing plicnomena, aud thers ara’sevon more yot to lLoar from beforo Decomber. Thia boing tho cane, all tlat wiil bo necesgary for the unfortunate worldling to do iy to buy o teloscopo, an almanae, and eloctro~ moter, and calculato from day to day for himasolf, and {f he falls to come s near the truth as OId Prob. it is bocauso his carly education was de- fective. It is consoling to know, after all, that the planots which causo our bad weather by ex- cesaive equinoctial indulgencea share our misery, and that thero are probably followa in Maren Yonus, and 3ars who are struggling to make their old overcoats last till warm woather sots ip —_———— Our civilization is not zotually & failurs, and the Caucnsian still managoa to prosorve o pree earlous existonco at the oxponse of the hoathen. It camo to light through a Chiveso lady namod A1t Coox, who handod a Sacramento policoman a letter, and the lattor, boing an Improvement upon tha Chicago varioty, waa ablo to read tha preclious document. Aftor ho had ceased smiling, the Chineso lady banded him s second document. Both waro stamped and moaled and signed, ono G, W, Bmpsrwy, and the other J. B. Peeny, Thoy certifted to the correctness of hes character, and dirocted any policoman in Bacra- mento into whose bands tho Jotters might fall ta treat hor with duo respect. Undor a searching cross-examination, it appoared that Am Coox paid €20 to Mr. Brmpsrrr for procurlng these emphatio testimouiala of good character, which ia why remark upom the survival of the Can. canlsn is made. —_—— An Internationnl Assoclation has boen formed I Now York for tho presorvation of game inthe United States aud Uanads, by tho sdvocacy of sgamo law idontical in both conntries, Ths Associntion Is acarcely intornational na yet, bnt It {a composed of womo of tha best known nator alista and sportamon of this country, who gor. dlally invito tho co-oporation of othors. Per haps, a8 a guarantas of good faith to aur Cans dian cousins, the American olemont of the Asso- ciation could do nothing mora euconraging thax to suppresy the rockless slaughter of the buffalk on the Westorn plains, Ho is s larger anima than tho grouss, quall, or wiid-gooss, and kit extinotion is far more imminont. POLITICAL NOTES. Unsympathotlo people havn noticod that ex Renator Fexton and Col. Pnep A. Conmrrxa wero not present at the Scuvnz banquot. They aro not 8o liberal aa they were, both bocause the profeesion has boen proved unromunerative and because tho avowed Liboral epublicans are bew coming chiofae in thelr company. Tho Now York Tiines has spread before ita readors tho utterauces of the People's Paper ot Chicago touching tho next Prezidontial eloction, The People's Paper appoars to be s disdsinfnl publication, not iutended for the people, and cousequently a littls caroless about what it says and how it epells, It Las no standing in Ohi- eago, aud Is sbsolutely unknown, Mr, Puiiyan's troublos withh the Bouthern Democrats on socount of tho Civil-Iights bilt sre by no rueans ended yat. The editor of thy Mobile Register rocords his oxporlence of & somewhat extonded journoy through tho Sounth, and says that tho PuLLaay cars wero atudiously avolded by all the mpative whites. Doubtloes, when the truth s fully known, it will appear thal Mr, Purrivax has been nuconsciously drawi iuto s position of satagonism to the Southort poople. Tlo never meant to sot up in business as & Roformer. Gov, HARTRANFT, of Pennsylvanis, 18 sure of & nomination for re-clection a: the approgchlug Topublican Convention. He has gratified bit friends and surprtsed his enemlea during his of+ flcial eareer by making a record almost above ro- proach. Dlected aftor a campalgn of unpar- alleled bitterness, and whon scousations affect- ing his charscter for integrity wers abundsot aud apparently well supported, he had from the start great diftlcultles to contend with, Thesa o bas ret and overcome completely, snd evea thio Domoorstio organa oan find no serlous breach in his roputation. Tho Cioclonat] Commercial announces grandil- oquently that 1t s & mistake to suppose the In- dopendent volors hav ded. Thay Liave not taken a fized position In either the Domocratio or the Ropublican party, Thers fa no doubt thaé “they will In some manner formulate thoir idess, sud seek to {nfoss them into the old organixations." This ploture of the Indapend= ent voter, golng sbout with his formula of idess, und sseking Lo fufuss, or squirs, it into the old organizations, i amusing encugh. It shows how sublime and monumental the self-concold of “an Independant votar" can bs od an eoe caulon, TLe Indianapolis Journal of Wedneadsy hss varlous appropriste parsgraphs about the olsation of the pn“dll1 day, whish will 0 doobd adwminister md s