Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 10, 1875, Page 4

TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. RAYRS OF SUBACRIPTION (FATARLE IN ADYANER), Pautage Prepald at thin OMe {2,:'%“"% 812,000 | Wenkly, 1 yei 1.05 o g 60 | Fira eopie au Bunday fiiiiion, oo | T s 14 denblosh Partaof & you marate. YANTRD-Une actire agont {n saeh town aod villsgs, Spectal areangomenta uade with suoh. Bpscimen copirs sant free. Ta pravent delay and mistakes, be rure and give Posts Offlcn sddress In fall, fncluding Blate nad County. Hemittancesmay bamade eitherby dralt, exproxs, Paste ©ics order, or In reglstorod lettors, at our riak, TERMS TO CITY BUNSCRINERS, Daily, delirersd, Bunday sxcepted, 205 oenta por week. Daily, deliversd, Banday fncladed, 30 canta par wook. Address THE TRINUNK COMPANY, Corner Madison and Doarborn-sa., Oblesgo, Il TODAY'S AMUSEMENTS. MVIORER'S THEATRE—Msdison street, betwaen Dearborn and Statn, Engagoment of Mad, Adelaido Ristors, **Rlizabeth." ACADRMY OF MUSIO—Halstod atrest, batwoen Mad. Mot and Monroe, Eogsgomont of Mrs, Lander. ** Eliz- iboth." WOOLRY'S THEATRF—Randoloh strast, betweon Darxand LaBalle, Emerson's Minstrels. ADRLPHI THEATRE—Deatborn streat, corner Mon- ¥o. Varisty Entostainmont. FOWE'S AMERICAN CIRCUS-Lake Bhors, foot of Tashington stroot. EXPOSITION TUILDING-Lake Shore, foot of )dams strest. Battlo Ploture of ' Lookout Mountatn.” R ey BUSINESS NOTICES. TWO GLANCES AT HER MITNOR — fore, tke other after tsing ** Laird’s Blnom of will gonvince any Indy of maturo years that shoe h: colrd ten yoars of her aco, a0 far A £ concernad, during, tho fiveminutes operaion. Bold by drugglets voryrhie The Thicags Teibuue, Mondsy Morntne, May 10, 1875. ravnal appoarance neumed in tho Annonncoment is mnde of the discovery by Prof. Brucser, in a monastery library at Bi- nni, of nino hitherto unknown portions of * tho Codex Sinaiticus, the oldest axtant manu- script of the Now Testament. e ————— Our correspondent in the South writes of tho gradual though slow oblitoration of the color-line in Arkansns; of the success of Gov. GanLAsp in complying with the requiroments of the now Constitution in relation to finances, and §n managiog to do without nioney when there is nono in the Treasury; of tho steps takon toward the suppression of lawlessness throughout. tho State; of the gralifying im-. provement in the condition gonorally of the atored peoplo, and of other 1aattars of inter- est, r——— The intelligent and overy way admirablo cmrso of tho District Grand Jury in refusing to find nn indictment against Mr. Dana for alleged libel of * Boss" Suzrnerd was in- fluenced greatly, it is said, by the nrguments f a colored juror, who opposod tho indiet~ ment, predicting that such an abuse of judi- 1inl powor would bring disgrace and calamity spon the District, and whose offorts were strong enough to offsst thoss of o Ring furor, who fonght hard for an indictment. 4n attempt will bo made to seouro a recon- sidoration, but without success, it is belioved. e Bome Froneh journals, with their charao- Wristio want of accarncy when ireating of American aflnirs, stated that Mr, Bansm, tho Minister in Rome, oxpocted a lotter from Prozsident Grnawr, expressing to the Popo thanks in thename of the United States Gov- erment for the alevation of Archbishop Mo- Croskex to the rank of Cardinal. The deniol of the statoment by tho Jtalie, in Romo, is bardly necessary to convince tho peopla of this country that the Prosident has had no motion of writing such a lotter, or of in any manner taking official notice of Cardinal Mo- Croaxur'’s good Juck. D, Sroormia, of the Church of the Epiph- any (Episcopal), in a lecturo to his con- gregation lnst evening, gave an account of his obecrvations and erperiences during o two weoks' towr in the South; and the Rev, J. W. Bamy, of tho United Presbytorian Clrurch, yesterday preached o sormon on “'The * Doctrine of Futare Punighment,” in which he doclaimed ngainst tho tendencies both of the arthodox and liberal Christians, and urged inatead the good old creed with * ment and marrow * in it, belioving that tha neglect to preach stern and unplensant traths may no- ovunt largely for the flabby morality and un- prineipled rascality of the ngo, The lecture nnd the sermon are published in full in this isaue, A fow ndditional partionlars are received concerning tho fata of tho passengers and crew of the ocenn stenmship Schiller, which was wrecked Friday night off tho cosat of the HBcilly Islands, 'The later roports confirm the appalling accounts pub- lished in yesterday's Trmune, and- placo tho number of tho lost at nearly 850 souls, Among tho saved was but one woman. Everything tends to prove that the disastor ‘wros not the result of carclossncss or inoapac. ity on the part of tho ship’s officers, but that, on the contrary, sll possiblo caution and prudonce woro observed. The Onptain, who fs highly praised for his brave and noble ef- forts in bohalf of the snfely of his pnssen. gers, was swopt from his post Ly a mighty wave, and was geen no more, A revised list of the fow persons who escaped in tho awful battle with tho wind and sen will afford somo comfort to anxious friends, but to tho great wmy of stricken ones nothing is left but mouming and grief, Bmatancr's speoches in the debate upon the thange in the Prusslan charter required for the abolition of convents fairly ring with taustic, contemptuons bitternosa ngninst the Pope, and show with what relentless rigor ond to whot oxtromities tho wor upon the Boman Church will be “prosccuted by this nrch-lnstigator of the downfall of Papal power in tho German Empire. The bill ro-’ caived tha votes of all but the Ultramontanes, whoso appoal in tho namo of lborty and the legitimate independonce of every soct wos utterly usheedod, 'Thoe intonsity of the warfare s atiributed, not to the preponderance of orthodox Protestantiem in Germany, but to the houtility of the Libernls to Romnanism, it being by them rogarded ns nn enemy both to the Empira and to German crudition and onlightenment, Subsequent {othis debate and the passage of tho bill, orders were igsued by the Imperiul Govern. ment to treat a3 o punishable offenso the col- lection-of money for the bonefit of pricsts whohiave been ‘subjected to legal punalties; while in the Lower House of ths Prussian Diot the bill giving tho Old Catholics & shura fu tho Roman Church proporty was passed to a third readin, The Chicago produce markets wers gener. ally woak on.Baturday, Dess pork was quiot sud e per brl lower, closing at 81,00 oash, aad $2L60@FHL A% for June Lard was dull and n shado ensior, closing at $15.40 per 100 tha cash, and 815,50 for June. oats wore dull and onsier, at 8]c for shoulders, 1130 for slort ribs, ond 12}e for short clears. 1ligh. wines wore, quiot and stendy nt 31.15 por gallon. Lake freights were quiet and un. changed. Flour was in fair domand and stendy, Wheat waa less active and wonk, closing 10 lower, at $1,014 cash, and $1.03} for June. Corn was in moderatodemand and stendicr, closing }@}a lower, at 7230 cash and 74]o for June. Onts woro quict and o high- er, closing at 620 cash and 6330 for June. Ryo was dull at $1.07. Barley was quiet and firm, May being nominal at $1.30@1.82, Tloga woro more active and firmer, with sales at 37.25@8.26 for poor to choice. Cattle were quict and about stoady at $3.50@0.75. Sheop wore dull and nominal. A distinction withont s differoncs hina long obtained in tho classification of the publia schools by the Chicago Board of Lducation, which, herotofore, Lins nover been accused of being wantonly progressive in its manage- mont. A movo in tho right dircction is now under hendway, started by mombora with modern idens and n Inck of veneration for tho traditlons of the old pnst, who propose the abolishient of the absurd and unjust dis. criminntion betweon the Principals of *¢ dis~ trict ¥ and “grammar” schools, and there. by to bring nbout a aimplification of the grades, An increase of cfliclency, and nre- duotion of exponses—n consummation most desirable, THE TRADE OF NEW YORE. After action, renction nfter concentration, diffusion ; after growth, decay, Thislaw is beginning to illustrate itsolf in New York City, Tho Metropolis swallowed up the trndo and commerca of & dozon ports that were onco important ; now half-a-dozon ports are competing with lor nand crippling her de- velopment. The process isbastened by the blindness which keops up high tolls on the Erio Canal and neglects to provide any ade- quate means of receiving and transferring grain at the seaboard, 'The result of this short-sighted policy hag been, and npparently will be still more in the future, to nvert West- ern trado, the great source of Now York's prosporily, to Baltimore, Philadelphia, Bos. ton, and Montreal, The enlargement of the Cnnndian ennnls and the improvement of the mouths of the Mississippl permit a still grenter diversion of irade, ‘The effect of this chango is alrondy felt in Now York. Othor citios are advancing ns sonts of commerce, and will continue to do so, and M. Sixonin's pieture of Chiengo as the Metropolis of the country in 1905 may be verified. "The Now York Sin nzxs that one-fourth of tho mechanics who were iu that city daring 1872 have gono to other States or to Burope; that half of those now in the city have had nothing to do during tho last winter; sand that, even in the so-called busy scason, one- third of them will bo oat of worlk, "This is Inrgoly due o the persistent neg- lect of the merchonts and moneyed men of the Motropolis to use thoir groat influenca in providing cheap transportation. Tho diteh that has been making New York's fortune for balf a contury is too littlo and too expensive to swallow up Western trade in the future as it haa in the past. If it isproperly improved, Now Yark's prosperity will recsive a fresh stimulus, Btill, in any event, that city can- not hope to long retnin its position as the commercial Motropolis, The great citica of Europo are not seaports. They lio in the in- terior. 'There is one city which strotchos its iron arms in every direction, and grasps wonlth with onch one of thom. Itis tho grent grain mart, tho great provision mart, of the world. It is dQcstined to bo the con- tro of manufactures, It extends, in groat oconcentrie circles, over tho prairie. Tt Lins absorbod geveral branches of the job- bing trado thot formerly medo Now York thoir seat. It is absorbing many others. Ita businoss quarter is the finest in the workd. It throbs with life. It is tho predostined Motropolis, And its name is Chiongo. THE PRELPE-BOWLES LIBEL SUIT, This important case, just tried in Massa. chusotts, is likely to become a leading ono in the definition of the limits to which news. papors may oriticiso the conduct of persona having business ar offlcial relations with the prblio, Mr. Bowzes is tho editor of the Springfleld (Moss.) Repudlican. Mr. Prers is n wealthy contractor. In 1871, n scheme for building several railronda making connec- tions with Springfield was ngitated SIr. Purees has two sons, and one of these was elected to the Legislature, which Legislature voted such lawa ns wore nooded to give legali- ty to thascheme, A part of the busincss whs to havo the City of Bpringfield subseribe 300,000 in aid of the nmow lino, which was carried. Othor offorts of a like character wero also mado at o subsequent time. The Republican opposed oll these things, charging Poers and his sons with buying votes, lobbying bills through tho Logislature, and with having despoiled tho city of a large sum, and of using it to get more, It charged lhim with being the Boss Twzep of Springfleld, and dofined Tyeedism to be gotting tha controlling voice on both sldes of o trado; to stand at both ends of a bargain; to act for the public in contracting with himself, Theso articles cov- ered sevoral woeks of publia discusslon, and Prewes brought suit, claiming §200,000 dam- ages. Tho caso was tried before Judge EN- p1oorT withont a jury, and the Court, after hearing the argument, rendored o doclsion in which he roviewed the evidones in datail, and thus closed with o statement of the resnlts ronched by him: Toking tha facta ne they are found, I think that & portion of ihls Mbel fa provod to be trua. It fa nocessary, howaver, for tho defendsnte to prove the whale, Thers are two lasding charges—he * bda for the city Jobs,” “openly buys volos,” and “lobbles bills through (ke Leglslature™; and, secoud, *haviug despoiled the city of & Jargo suin of money, be s uaing 1440 oblain more,” I do uok think that the defendant. haw offered any evidence on this last cliarge, It fs not shown that Mr, Puxted did teke part of that monsy Limself, and “iauying it to oblain more,"ote, There 1asy be othor chargos, though I class them heroos sccond, The avideuce showa that money wus ex- pended, aod 1ald out rockleasly and oxtravagantly in huflding o parallel road fnto this city, This might havo beon dono 10 gob & southern road; the proof offored that Az, PuELrs had triod to leass tho road would secm ta show why the road was so bullt, But that docs not eotablish the truth of the chiarges, sud, by the familiar rules of law, If 1be defendant fails to watabiish the truth of all e Liss said, tio cese must be. given to the plaintill, and that malics must bs found that the Law roquires, On tho third count no evidence has been offored hero, althoughi 1 tiuk in the answer they sy it fa proved, Then the defendautssst up that 1he occason was priviloged, and, whethor truo oF falso, it was tpoken in good falth, withoud malice and in honest purposs, Iahall not godnto nice distinotfons st this thno, Ithink (bats doclaration by ono cltisen, ro- latiog to matters that he knows are made in good faith, taay be privileged, Dut the law nlso yequires At It shall Lo exorcised witlin certaln rules and re- ctione, [ have admiited the testinony upon which Mr, Bowexs ia sald Lo bave soted, but mo proof upon 118 point bes besn brought forward, Direch malice, 4 proved, ia the aad of privilege; ¥ can't say e tbe ovidonce oad thes wob BB dipriid -iL 7Y YHE CHICAGD? TRIBUNE: MONDAY, MAY 10, Bowtxahad beon engaged in A hested contraversy with Mr, Preces, and, as bearing on this question of 11l-feeling, tho ovidence fs very dectiled that there was, therofore, axpress malico—that state of foeling which the law defines s such, The extent of {4 I do not consider important, or that Mr, SowLrs may have been actuated by ofher mottves than this, The rosnli then s, no evidence having been addnced on the third count, and tho ples of Justification by truth and privilege having fadled, there must be a finaing for the plsintiff, 1was careful to enumorate In the earller portion of my opinfon somewhat in de- 1ail the evidence bronght in concarntng the lactions, Decauas it becomes important whon Lhe claim for dam- agen 1a considered, In aesessing damages, thst amount aball be awarded which the pIAIntifr, as ho sppearsin {lie ovidence befors the Court, ia entitlod to in the i Jury donoe to his good namo, 1 do find thak Mr, Witsas Preivs wan guilty of flegal and improper practices, and wes & party to in@uouces corrupting to tlio community; and the only queation ia what 8 man ia to recoive when auch facts aro published. He 18 corlatnly not {o receive large damages; judgment is therefors entered for $100, Here, thon, the Court finds that the plain- Hff * was guilty of illogal and improper prac- ticos, and wos 8 party to influences corrupt- ing to the community” ; but, as the defond- ant had failod to substantiate somo of thoe do- tailod atatemonts, the Court was sompelled to give such dnmages ns such a plaintiff ought to recaive.. The judgment docs not carry costs, Tho cago, however, I8 to bo taken to the Suprome Court by both partios, Mr. Bowwrs claiming that, on tho point which he had fnilod to prove, his statement was one of privilege, and Mr. Pretrs claiming that the Court hns done him injustice by the judg- ment. Mr. Pretrs is ovidently disappointed. The proposition to try the case before tho Judgo was his own, he probably not having faith in jury verdicts; but, as it turns out, he could hava hardly fared worse than he has dono. CONDITION OF THE NATIONAL BANKS, ‘The Comptroller of tho Curroncy has callod for statoments of the condition of the National Banks on Mny 1. In accordanco with his usual practico, ho has made public a compilation of the statemonts mode for March 1, preceding. Comparing these fig- ures with thoso of a year beforo shows that the prosperity of the National Banks was not materially arrested in the year following tho panic. Tho prostration of the bauks of this country after the panics of 1887 and 1857 was utter, and lios not passed ont of the memory of our oldor busi- ness men, Tho fact that the Nation- ol Banks have on undivided prafit of over £50,000,000 to oxhibit within eighteen months after the panic of 1873 mnay be taken to prove two things ¢ The national system Lins produced moro consorvative and durablo banking than wos brought forth under the old-fashioned * wildeat” rogiwe; and tho country itsclf has grown boyoud the toler- ance of such looso and irresponsible methods of banking businoss as provailed in the lnst generation, i In tho year which passed between tho siatements of Teb, 27, 1874, and Morch 1, 1875, tho condition of the National Banks has improved in about overy item. Tho loans and discounts went up $57,800,000 ; the in- dividaal doposits, which constitute the largest part of tha loanable resources of the banks, woroe consoquently reduced to $53,880,- 000, Tho surplus fund, which is built up of profits not turned into divi- donds for stockholders, was increasod $7,761,732; when to this is added the $51,- 650,000 of undivided profits on hand March 1 lnat tho bonka show thomselves to have had & more guccossful yoar than could havo been expacted. Tho twofold significance of this oxhibit in rogard to the good management of the banks, and the prosperity of tho merean- tilo business of the United States, which is reflected in that of the banks, is vory oncournging. The pumber of banks has increased from 1,976 to 2,009, and of these 94 new backs L3 aro country bankd, Tho bankciroulation was $339,602,955 on Feb. 27, 1874, and had docreased on tholat of March to $3824,6256,840. This does not in- clndo about $20,000,000 of bank-notes still fn tho handa of issvcrs or surrondered and not yoi roturned to the Comptroller of the Cure rency. Tho condition of the resarves of the No~ tional Banks is very healthy., It can bost be deseribed by reproducing the figures used by the Comptroller in a recent communication to the Now York Evening Pout : STATRMEXT OF TIIN CASK REAERVE OF THR MATIONAL DANKA AT THX OLOSK OF BUSLNEIS ON MAROK 1, 1876, Countr) g i’ Cituea, Cash 1 requi'd[$25,349,039/£26,401,873§60,063,35/$104,435, 16 Cash_to- ! Lserve. | 411,000 43,408,201 67,007,864 147,629,508 ial ees.o| o0 35,048,040 19,304245) 18,4500 . B, col catel _815,0001 11,160,000| 21,248,000 7,230, nmI:;n 1,662,634 2,0 -ml 11,708,715| y:m:m rod.d 10,811,008 36,408 1m0 1676710 REDAPITULATION, Total cash reserve held. .. Total cash roserve roquire 04,638,168 Rl RPTPTRPTTPIORS $ 63,000,139 The decroase of bank-circulation, accom- panied as it is by o slight reduction in the volume of greenbacks, is taking placoata most favorable timo, Tho business of the country is in puch a state that not avon the wildest inflationist can find anything to say ogainst this roduction, Tho fact that bank- ing 18 freo, and that it tho circulation did go below tho necessitios of trade—an event which is many millions of dollars out of the rango of pousibility—it con be increasod to the needed figuro in thirty days, makes this contraotion @ proocess that all parties may watch with equanimity. It {a to be hoped that, under tho present laws, the firat steps have boon takon towards the resumption of spocio-payments, rmsa—— The value of direct as compared with eir. cumstantial evidonco 8 commentod upon by tho New York Z¥mes in refcrence to an inci. dont in the Beeonex case, The defense, for 50Ing roason or purpose not very clear to the public, called a number of witncssea to prave that, in the Rosszn funeral procession, Mr, Tiuron rodein o carrlage with Mrs, Woon. nurz and hor sistor Cravint, Witness after witness appeared and sworo positively to o porsonal familiarity with Tivroy, and to bav. ing personally seen him on that occasion in the carrege with tho two women named., Horo was dircet afirmation by witnesses of what thoy had geen. Now comes the countor-testimony o? o half.dozon other witnesses, who ewear that Trerox was not on that ocoasion in the carrisgo with the women, One of them, Alr, Swxroy, awears that howaa in the procos- elon, and that he and Truron walked side by side during the whole affair, This is con. firmed by other witnosscs, who saw TirtoN aud BwiNToN togother and on foot. But this isnot all, 'Thore iaan overwhelming mass of testimony to the fact that the WoormuLy and bor sistor were not in a carrdage at all is that procession, The WoopmuLn walked with her husband, and the Craviuy walked by berself, consplouously boaring a flag, Yol the witnesses who swors to having sesn Tizaox riding wilh ike bwo womea e b8 be 147,918,303 presumed to bave sworn honestly. In their zealin behalf of Mr, Bexonen, they allowed their momory of a previons transaction to be influenced to the prejudica of Tsrtow, And they, honestly no doubt, belioved what thoy #Wwors was true, B ——— RELIGIOUS NEWSPAPER JEALOUBY, The New England Congregationalist has takon to lecturing tho Boston dnily papors for their long roports of the rocent ceremo. nial in connoction with the hestowal of the borrotta upon Cardivnl McCrorgsy, and makes the remark that they looked like Ro- man Catholic organs, We notico that soma of tho other rcligions newspaper organs of Trotestant donominations are troubled in o similar way. It docs noi yot soem to have entered the heads of the religious editors that the socular newspapors are not the organs of any denomination or sect; that their readers are Ontholies, Protestants,Jews, Infidels, and loathen; that they must give tho news to all clnsges, irrespoctive of roligious bollofs, with which thoy have nothing todo; and ihat nows 18 nows, from whatover source it may cmanate. If tho Cougrogationalists should got up a show s large and imposing s that of tho borretta corcmony, the daily popors would apponr liko Protostant organs, If the Jews should insugurato sn oqually ‘brilliant pngennt, tho daily papers would pre- sent an appoarance that would have delighted Avnauaxt himsclf, hed Lo lived to wit ness it. When will theso roligious pa- pers understand that tho daily papors are not publishied in the intevests of ono aect or of any sect, nud cesse nssuming that, becauso thoir sphore is restricted within tho limits of one small denomination, 88 compared with tho groat mass of the Christinn world, the daily papers aro limited by the same Lounds? Tho roligious papers present the news of & single denomination, and have the right of adjusting tho matter they publish to suit tho croed in which thoy believe, or to criti- cigo it by the tonots they hold. Tho sccular papers present tho news of all denoming. tions, without adjusting it'by sny standard, 'To thom news is nows, whother it bo relig- fous or elsowise ; whother it be the dotails of the Breonen ense, tho borrotia ceremony, a Pau-Anglican eonferanco, or o horesy trial ; and, if they feel called upon to critiolse, thoy do so from tho atandpoint of general morall- ty ond tha rolations of the nows to tho world in goneral, Tlus is o mntter of necessity, Tho religious nowspnper deponds npon its own denomination for support. Itsadvertising 13 mainly donominntional, except when it bol- sters up high-flying stocks and railrond bonds, Its subscribers nro rigidly denominational. The seoular press derives its support from'all donominations, for theso lattor must have the news. Its ndvertisements como from Chris- tinus, Turks, and Infidels, and aro accopted without question, excopt as to ordinary mor- ality. Its subscribers come from overy quar- tor and condition of life, for the mewspapor sells ity nows as the merchant sells his warca, without roference to the condition of his cus. tomer,provided ho can pay for thom, Theseare simplo truths which the religions press ought to understand. Tux Cmicaco TRIBUNE, for instance, printed a very long account of tho berretta cersmony, but it would bo ag ab- surd to claim it as favoring Ttoman Catholi- cism on that account, ns i would bo to as- #ume that we arein favor of ocean catas- trophes becatse we hovo published a long nccount of the loes of the Schiller. If thero is any denomination desirons of oceupying a similar amonnt of space and enthusiasm in TaeTnimune, all it hoa to do is to inaugurate as imposing a coremonial. THE ART OF BLOOD-LETTING, Time was when the principal duty of o ‘barber and a physiclan were one. Tho samo instrument was sometimes used to shave o man and to bleod him. The art of* mudicine, in fact, consisted mainly of tho art of blood- shod. Poople were bled for ovorything, If a man had n hendacho, or & backache, or an scho anywhore else, or & fovor, or a chill,— out came the lancet and out camo tho blood. This wos tho pannoes for discase. Men fol- lowed tho singlo profession of bleeding. A praotice carried to such absurd extremes could not maintain itself, When tha reaction came, it was violent. The lancet has boon almost wholly discarded. A physiclan who suggosted blood-lotting has ran tho risk of ‘being condemned off-hand as » quack, Now comes oneof tho ahlest physlelans in America, Dr. 8. D. Gnoss, of Thiladel- phia, and slapa the prevalont prejudico in the face. Ho wishes the loncet reinstated asa servicenbla wenpon ngninst discnse,—not tho only ono, as it once practically was, butas ona of many. In an olaborate argument, road bofore the Amorican Medieal Assocn. tion, during its recont moeting at Louisville, Ky., Dr. Gross plends for blood. He says that the disnso of blood-lotting has been dus to a fashion, epidemio in its naturo; to the nbuse of the practico; to greater knowledgo; and to the introduction of cortaln rome. dies for inflammatory diseases which wore wunlmown & ocentury ago. ‘Those causes should have modified tho omployment of the lancel, Instead, they have deatroyed it, Dr. Gnoss insists that the renction went too far, Ho enumoratos twenty or thirty difforent diseasos which can ba best treated by blood-letting, and. makes, for unprofcssionnl roaders at lenst, on ex- ocollent showing for his theory. The ecssny, ‘when read, mada a profound impression upon the Assoolation. Iis publication was unani- mously voted. It oannot fail to provoke do- bato here and abroad. It is an incidental proof that the division botwaen tho old and the new sohoola of medlcine, the orthodox and the hoterodox, allopathy and homoop. athy, instead of namrowing, as some paople have fanclod, {8 really growing broader, And who shall declds, if the doctors are to dis- agroo in tho future more than they have In the past ? Owing to tho resultd of ono or two recent trials in England, tho Englich papers are bo- ginning to dlsouss the libel question with considerable interest, Ono of these was tho award by a jury of $7,000 agalnst tho Lon. don Athenaum, on account of a book oritl- cism. Another ense i3 even more romark- able. Tho dofendant, one Yromaxs, pub- listior of & newspapor called the Booksellor, in which dissolutions of parinerships and bank. ruptoles were printed, announced the dissolu- tion of partnenihip in the Dritish and Forelgn Stationery Soclety under the head of * First Mootings Under tbo Now Bankruptoy Act.” The announcemont grow out ofa printer'a er- ror inarranging thomatter,and the dofondant went and mads a personal explanation to the plointiffs, and corrected it in his paper, The plaintits, howover, brought sult and xocov- ered 8500 dawages, althongh there was no walice, oithor express or constructive, and tho ervor was ons which might ocour at auy time, In this case, like ths$ agalnst the Athenaum, the interpretation of the law was lafhis (b jusy. Id vidw of sush wsds 1 1875, these, the courso pursuod in the rocont | & priord probabilities, but by an induction of ontablished facts, ns in the oaso of any other ncoused person, Bpringfield Republican cnse of lenving tho decision to tho Judge is much more in ao- cordance with Inw and oquity. pdbebifiateta MaC S HISTORY VERBUB THEORY. The psychological problems in the Brrourn easo, to which wo made reforonce n fow dnys since, ean nover bo potiled theoretically. And this simply bocauso, on supposition of guilt, no satislactory roason enn bo rondered for wrongdoing. Thoology hins pnzzled in vain, from the boginning, in trying to explnin how the first sin could have beon committed by an unfallen being. And so, beforshnnd, tho im. probability of » good mon comimitting n grosa .crime is g0 groat that wo feel justified in xo- polling tho iden; * eapocinlly where the par- ticular good man ia o personal friend, or tho horo of our idolatry, It s only as stern focts confront ug, that tho theoretieally im- possible bocomes an astounding reality. To go badk to King Davio for an illustration, it wog proviously simply inerediblo that ho, “tho mon after God's own hoart,” “the swoot psnlmist of Isracl,” tho magnanimous sparer, on two occasions, of Saut's life, could peduce tho wifo of brave Unian, who was nbsent, fighting ngainst the cnomies of the King, and could thom, to cover tho first sin, couspire with Joan to murder tho injured husband. If Mr, Brrou- xn bo guilty of tho sin charged, his fall is not more wonderful, conspicuons, or sean- dalous to tho cause of religion than was that of Davip. ) Had the Episcopalians of this country been questioned, prior to tho investigations had, whetlier Bishop OxpErpoNk could possibly yield to temptation in a feshly diraction, thoy would havo been filled with horror at the vory suggestion, Yeb the shamo was nono tho less real, and tho ofilcinl deposition none the less necesaary. It wns of no use to proclaim that a thiog could not bo after tho evidonco was in hand that it was o fact, Wo have inquired somewlat of those no- quainted with tho detalla of such casenin tho years gone by, and their testimony is two- fold: first, that clergymen are sometimos guilty who would never havo been suspocted of tho crimo, from their position, reputation, ond usofulness; and secondly, that, when accused, thoy almost invariably deny their guilt in the most solemn mannor, and only confess, if at all, whon the proof hns become 80 overwhelming ns to rendor further deninl absurd. One person mentioned the ense of o prominont minister in n New England eity, a membor of the Excentivo Committeo of a loading bonovolont soclety, who was aceused of this samo sin, when past middle lifo, and aftor years of success in spiritunl labor as a pnstor. Tho approprinto ecclesinstioal tribu- oal mot for his trinl, and he boldly confronted it with a plen of nob guilty. The onso proceeded, he relying on the denial of the implicated woman to sustain him ; and it was not till a clerioal friend took him nside, after a doy's proceedings, and told him that the womnn hod confessed, that he broke down and with mnay tears admitted his crime. The hope of escape from shamo and deposition had been a torribla snare, A pamphilet by o distingnished Ohio'minis- tor mnkes this startling statoment: *The writer of these pages was for seventoen years associnted with n iinistor in college work, and, for several yoars of that time, associnted with him in the postorate of the Collego ohurch. Flo wns an earnest preacher and es- pacinlly gifted in proyer., Three years ago, he was nconsed, upon the tostimony of n sin- gle witness, of oriminal intimacy with tho wife of ono of tho Doncons of his church. Although at times, for yenrs, thoro had boon lints of scandal, yet not one in a hun- drod gave tho lensteredence totha story which the witnoss told. 'The witness was mal- treatod and mobbed. The acomsed donied the chargo, and asserted his innocence with the most solemn assevorations that ever feil from human lips. His ‘donials and nssavors- tlons wero repeated dny after dny in the most golemn monner for throe wooks, until at Tongth the horrors of hell got hold upon him, for ha bolioved in a futuro judgment and future retribution, And ho then confessed thnt the charge was true, . . . For yeara and years this crimingl intimacy had oxistod, his accomplice sitting before him every Sab- bath, and her husband, all unsuspecting, re- celving from his hand, each two months, the bread and tho cup I Another informant called to mind a case onoo famous in tho Prosbyterian Church. Thoro was n minister in a great city, tall, with bright black eyo and raven hair, imng- inative, cloquent in an unusunl degree, and tho writor of a volume of truo pootry. He was tho pastor of & church which was active in reformatory aud religious work. His min- istry wos blossed with many rovivals in his own church, and he was in domand to aid other postors on similar occasions, Ho also becamo the editor of a roligions paper of wide circulation, and in it was the eminent advoeato of moral purity, But ovontually the astounding fact came to light that, for yonrs, notwithetanding theso solomn feonos, ho hod been guilty of flagrant licontiousuess, The proof was overwhelming, and he con- fossed and wns deposod from the racred office. But the instructive point, our in. formant rald, was tho explanstion which lio gave of his combined prosching and sin. “How could you havoe tho heart to con. tinue in the ministry?” inquired A minis. terial friond, and this in substance was the onswer: *“Idid not practice my wickedness constantly, bat would have seasons of ab. stinonce and ropentance. I fully bolioved in evangolical religion, and my imagination glorled in unfolding tho system of redemp- tion through Christ, so that Ionjoyed preach- ing; and when I saw that many were con- verted undor my labors, I folt that God had forgiven me in His mercy, and that o do. sired that I shoald continuo in the ministry, Thore would come & relnpso, and the maontal darkness of being without hope, for a son- son,” This is & valuablo case, sa shedding light upon the psychological problem, It shows what alternations there may be of con- duct and of feoling in men of a certain tom- perament, and how, 80 long as tho sin remains o socret, a man may forgivo himeelf, imagino that God haa forgiven him, and feol stimulats ed, by his supposed oxperionos of Divine meroy, to preach more eloquently and pa- thetically than ever. And so, when wo subatitute history for theory, wo connot dispose of thoe Brromen mattor by the priorprobabilitica, 3r, Byronen is human, and may, thoreforo, havo fallen as havo many others, Whether ho Aas fallen is to bo determined, not by our feclings or sup- positions, but solely by tho ovidence. There is no shorter and casier mothod than a eareful study of the written and oral testimony, Ho must stand or fall by what the doouments and the witnessos declare whon the case is closed and comes to be reviewed, not only by the lawyers, the Judge, and the jury, bul by the grea$ maas of thoughtful men. It he I to b saved, 18 ninad be 2ol by & deduction fram enomy and dostroyor of American labor—the rutliless crushor out of an infant induatry which has, like the mannfncture of pig-iron once ngainst the pauper Inbor of Europe. legislation of the country was in the colo- bratod Whig tariff of 1842, pored monts” and ‘‘Bologna 1abor, of American materiall ! American imlmiryklms roceivod A sovero blow. Now comos Hecrotary Baistow as on and slato pencils, been struggling for exist- Wo rofor of course to tho anciont, vencrablo, sud honorable businoss of sausago making. Tho first montion of sausnges in the tariff when **pre- sausage” wero sovarally taxed 256 por cont, to protoct the Ameriean producers of theso nrticlos. In 1846, both articles wore atrickon out of the tariff, and did not apponr again until 1861, when propared meats and Bologna sansages wero ogain taxed 80 por cont. In 1802, the tax on prepared ments wns advanced to 35 por cont, which rate continues to the present timo, Tho tax on Bolognn sausngo continued until 1872, when Dologna sausage, sausage sling, and dried blood were put on tho free list. Bolognn sausngo has & commercinl charne- ter, and the Custom-House authorities seized certain saussgos which they did not considor Bologns, and charged them with duties, wo supposo, ag propared ment. The courts do- cided in favor of the importers, and now the Becretary of tho Trensury confirms the de- cislon, refuses to sppeal, and throws open the doors of tho United States to the pauper- made sausages of the world to freo compoti- tion with the ssusages mndo by American Undor this decision it i not necessary that snusngos, to be dmittod freo of duty, shall be 4 Bologna.” Any sausago, mada anywhero, by any people, oven by thosa of Canads, are honceforth admitted freo to compete with tho productions.of American labor aud American material for sausages, Thero wos o timo when such an ountrago upon Amorican Iabor a4 this would havo evoked a suggestion that Dritish gold had beon usoed to bring about— tho dostruction of native industry; and wo call the attontion of the Industrial League to this alarming proceeding, the tondoncy of which is to deprive tho country of the great. ost blossing which it has gained in the cen- tury of its independence—**protoction to American industry.” Whatevor may be ihe opinion of the pub. Tio relativo to the guilt or innocenco of Ar. Drromen, or the implied guilt or innoconee of Mrs, TiLroN, and whatever mny bo Gthe opinion of tho pubHo us to ko conduct of tha case, the rulings of the Courb, or the weight of testimony, there ean be but ono opinien ns to tho attitude of Mrs. Turox in conuee- tion with it, ond that iz ona of pity, bo she innocont or guilty. In Fobruary last, Gen, Tracy said in his opening speech : ‘And now, gentlemen, I sak you o conalder for o moment that Mrs, Tiurox i1 the true defendant in this cane,~nlie Whoe lips aro soalod and whose hands aro ted, while {ho battle s waging aver horbody, Blie can mske no outery, and strike no blow in her own dofenso, Blio can only woop and pray, s she has done 20 often already, looking for her deliveranco to Al mighty Godand to tho apirit of justice which e in- spiroa in the carts of mea, TIn the faco of this declaration, when tho opportunity was offercd Alr, BeeouEn's conn- gel of bringing hor upon the witnoss-stand, thoy stated that they did not desiro or thinlk it mecessary to wnsenl Mrs, Trrron's lips or untie her hands. After the plaintiff's coun- gel bave piled up a most damaging array of facts ngainst hor, her own counsel deliber- atoly proceed to gag her! This is simply cruel. Then, in order to manufacturo sympn- thy for themselves, and bring n pressure to bear upon tho jury indirectly, the lotter-trick is deviged, with the knowledgo thaj the Court will rule out the commaunication | CE——— Mr, Weypenn Prmxres having compared Chicngo and 8t. Louis, as two cities, one gov- arned by brains, and the othor governed without brains, tho Bt. Louls Repudlican publishes the speech, and says that the statement was true, but that now Bt. Louis has brains, which have beon introduced there of late years. Here is the way tho caso is put: The polnt of the srgument is woll Tade, Braina doca make grestcities. Ohicago did grow moro rapld- 1y than 8t, Louts, because in tho former city thera con- grogated more progrosstys men than wore in St. Lous, o far {s Mr, PrrrLirs correct, but he doee not go far enough, He talks of the Bt. Louls of the past, ot of ibacity of the presont, A now atmosphera has obtain. ol liore, and {he tunid and frresolute men reforrad to have dlod away and disappeared as tho Indian does ‘whon vigorons settlers intrudo upon his Ustless ex istonce, Dotwoen the 8t. Louls of to-day and tho 8t Touls af fifteen years sgo there s a vaat differenco, and Mr, Pusruirs should havebeen wiser in histonsos, One of the first and most sensible things tho now brains did for St. Louis was to build abridge over the Mississippi River, and es. tablish closo and direct communications with Ghicago. It weoms that the two grost Anglo-Saxon nations aro victima of gush and blubber at the samo timo. The Bexomen trisl hag im- preased upon the public mind the fact that the highor circles of Brooklyn aro in a con- tinual state of Lissing and orylng.' The Tyomnonye trial has developed the same sort of inordinate foolishness among tho lowar classos of England, if wo may trust Dr. Ke. NzALY, who said in Parlinment, the other day, that ho “had seen womon weep and had soon toars in strong men's eyes when thoy thought of the tragody of that trisl.” Tho idon of sobbing over a fat perjurer is not po- thetle. Noither is the idea of two long- hoired men engaged in & frantie ldesing- matoh, with a torront of tears perambulat. iog their respeotive noses. Tiaoxenax has something to ssy somewhere about ¢ the gront goddess of Gush.” His prophotio spirit must have foreseen this yesr of disgrace, 1875, Difficnlties between pastor and people do not soem to be altogether a Chleago inatitution, They have broken out in Nowbridgo, a small town on Long Islsnd, buttho acrimony dlsplayed 18 8o truly Wostorn thas & feeling of rogret muat overcoma the patriotic Chicaguan who reads an sccount of it. Tho pastor In powor, Mr, Waiont, was not fortunata enough ta securs the good-will of that tromendous funotlocary, the Proslding Eldor, and was concequently super- wedad by another clargymsn named KnisreLLen, ‘I msjority of his congrogation appear to bave slded with Mr. Wmour, buk to no purpose. Knterxrien oame snd saw, but Waianz ocoupled the parsonnge. As his wifa waa elok, and ought not by all the rules of obatetrioal experience to bo moved for soveral weeks, ho declin- ol to go out. Thoe Knwsreiren moved upon tho parsonsge With a committeo of ladies and gentlemon, under cover of soveral wagon-loads of furniture, 'Thoy tried to wneal this furoituro into the parsounge. Waiauz resiuted, Ths ladive shrioked unkind epithetuat him, and menaced his fuvalid wifo, The gontle- men seised him by the collar and shook bim. The expressmon, perched upon thelr wegous, proanniably looked ujon this soene of brothieily love wilh fealings of placid admiration of ke prinoiples it illustrated. Dresently tha cantlo way aessuitod st the windown, sind the ntn‘tiio wag thus surroptitionaly futroduood, the Iad.os rhout. fng with delight over tho suicoess of thair nelomo, But, aa noither thoy nor Mr, KnisteLien conld be induced to follow up the advantago hy o bodily entrance through the sama nporturas their advantage was of no partioular profit. Aug 80 thio cane atands. sasoon a8 Mrs, Waront 18 ina condition to do g0, and offers the nse of his barn to 1l (neom. ing KnisTerLen. Chicago I8 onvions, naturally, but thero 18 no maying what will ocour aliotiy + . put hor ahiond otice mare, press and ita functions havo Iately hacu mile by vory different autboritics, though undsr eirean. fam. o upheld tho Integrity and general o canoy of the nowapaper-prass in Amorica, whily have any person drop & nawspapor morely Le. digcover many pomta of sympathy botwcen roferonco was to * penny-s-linors who wouid ratlior apico a paragraph with falachood thau with may bo said, raveal tho position fu which (he Mr, Waianr offors t0 tuoye e wmRw an i) Rutsiebe ik P P Two romarkablo utterances concerilng the stanocs in some rospoots alike, My, Wity Curnrex Bryant, at a banquet in Now York lag wook, responded for the profossion of journal. at tho same time rocognizing and giving dua prominonoce to ita imperfoctions, He would mot caupo its viowa on & eingld mabjecy might diffor from his own. Whoovor acty in thie mapner i8 lkely t> remret, mooner or Iater, having dono 80; and to bimeelf and his nowspaper which Lo lind pre. viously overlooked. Tho othor uttoranco to which wo liave roforred cama from ox-Judze McKeaN, of Bolt Lake City, A banquot was toudored to Lim by tha Bar of tho city on the ocearfon of his rotirement to privato life, at which tie improved the opporiunily to anamai. vort Bovorely upon the newspapera and tho part they had borne in procuring his deposition, 1lis teuth,” Thosa widely divergont opinious, it press now stands with reforonca to mon of lel ters and to tho groat masa of polilicians tn this country. Tho former class fone. the press for the injury it roay do itself, the latter claay for the injury it may do them. —— e Tho Town of Beward, Neb., thouzh compara tivoly young and gulloloss, has ite share of in. fantilo disordars which take the form af divaes suita, One divorce was grantod s tuffering wifs who hod been beaten ginco the honeymoon ceassd, and that was twenty years ago. Tho other wife had expotioneed roligion, and that led to domes. tio disagroomonta, Bho was baptized [ a frog. pond ono day when the thormomeier ranzed he. low zoro, sud camo homo as ** demuition moix unplensant a body " a8 the moat vivid picturs of AaNtALING'S fmagination could expross. The brutal husband warmod hor up with a stran, anl wet the cougealod blood in active cireuiatic who an oflicious membor of tha ledies’ convo: ticlo interfored. Aftar counting eixtoen punct. ures in his hido, mado with s bosio-knifo, io concluded to ailow tho restoration to pracecl, bat the injurea wifo, finding hor domestic and roligions dutioa conflictod, apponled to the Cours for a divorce, and obtained it. 'Tho propar thing for such a devotoo s to eschew 1aatrimony, v the Town of Soward, Neb., will oblalna Lal name, The Chamber of Commoree, eleation in Now York City last Thuraday is an event of almoib national aonsequonce, 1t 13 tho uenal thing for tho Nomiuating Committeo to prosont a full tickat, and for tho election tg procoed witlous o contest. Mr, Wirrzan E. Dopa:y, tha rotiring Prosident, was elected in this rasnner elpht consecutive Hmos. TYo oloction (Ll yoar waa contested. Tho candidate for DProsidont on ths regular lickdt wis ex-Mayor Orpyee, Ho was boaten by an indo- peudent candldate, Mr. 8, D, Bincock. Tha Now York Tribune aays that the eloction measa hard monoy 80 far aa ft Las any excopt pemoual significance. We do mot know what tho paition of Mr. Oroyge in respect to this quostion of currenoy 8 I {t is n¢all equivoeal, wo rajoica mont leartily that ho was beaton. Anothos, and quite sufiicient, reason for Mr, Ornyxu's de~ fost wag hta connectlon with tho Midland Rail- rond transsctions, whioh, while thoy did not compromies his charsctor, did involvo him in a meanner to {ncar the hoatility of s poworful cltquo {n tho Chamber of Commorco, —_— A correspondent of tho Now York Tribuse, commenting upon & clorgyman'a dutics, sapplo- menta tho oft-ropeatod advice to bo careful cf his pastoral visits to tho ladlea of his flock with n suggestion that the pastor go whoro bis poo- pla go, to tho theatre and tho raco-course, and learn from sotusl oxporience what wore the tomptations to which bumanity wes exposed at such places, jnstead of burliog **huge bolts of denunclation at them, and describing tho amuso- monts in & way that avory ono, oxatpt the ciergy- man, knows to bo void of truth and love.” There cortainly is roason to believo the minwter who denouncea @hat ho knowa nothing of might loarn somothing from an oxporimental study of his subject. But thore {8 moro so tho matter than this only, 1f tho clergy wonld oncourage by their prosence such performances as their parishloners approve, they would not only tosd to olovate those vory smusomoals, but would ald powertully in crushing out such as would nov boay moral {nvestigation. — The woos of tho Comptroller's oflico in Now York sppoar to bo mapifold, and tha boauties of his position outweighed by porsonal peril. The Now York papars contain an account ot an ab tompt upon the lUfo of tho Deputy Comptrollos, Mr. Apnanax L. BAnzy, by oro Jases A. D v, Mr, Durry hiad boon In the employ of thd Bherit?, had been discharged, and profoasad W havo a bill againat tho city for $1,10), which Mr. Eincx refused to pay~—doubtless upon the un- satiefactory and unintolligible ground that tho bill wes fraudulont, Vexed at his want of suce cess in collecung tho monoy, Dovyy sssailed Eancx with o pistol, which, fortunatoly, failed to oxplode, Tho most smusing part of (his sffair is its similarity to tho masault upon dir. Ggerx by the New York Herald. By, Guury ro- fused to psy Bexxrrr's advertising LU bocauds it was fraudulont ; Mr. Bexxerr assafled bim with his Zerald ; the weapon proved larmless, and Mr. Benxerr was oxposed. Both attacks wera cowaxdly, and botls wore failures, — e The aconomy of Nature set forth in tho papu- Iar ballad of Big Vloas and Littlo Fleas iw abont to recelve promps illustration, A party of woslthy Englishmen, 120 in numbor, snd mozt of thom gified with » titlo, and all thet that (m- plios, will be hero in the fall to hunt the buffalo, 1t {s aatiafactory to know that the hunting will not be altogather on thoir sids, as tho bolles of this democrstlo country prizo w *tuft" almort 15 much ss the tuft-owners do tho buffulo- tongue. DBy the way, few of our lovely doemol- sollos oan givo the origly of tho phrasa * tults luntor,” and, as snch {gnorauce will doubtless ‘be uabacomlng, tucy ought to lesmn, Tho differenco ip tho rank of atudeots at the English universities is denoted by tbo gown and cap. The nobleman wears & bullion tassel in his mor tar-board oap, known by the slang term ' tuft.” Honoa the phraso. ———— Porphava the moss pronounced saocesa of tho epelling-match mania was accomplishad by » deat man, who cauld not hosr the wordu givot him to spell. They wore thorofore written oub for him, end, to the surprise of everybody pres* ont, by just glancing at tho word ho_spollad i¥ out without & momont's hositation, Ha wpetled down all his opponents, when one of them msdo the astonlsbiug discovery that he oould do tbe samo thing undar the ciroutnstances. The police force of the City of Brooklyn havo fust mot with an opportunity of showing tholr spproclation of a kindnoss by the death of tho Iate Mra, CoNwAY, mausgeress of ghe Brooklyn theatre. A fow mouths sgo Cspb. Dovsxs of thelr number, was sccidontally shob by & roportar ot the Kagle, sad dsd loaviog & widew sod Samiy I deillwe