Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 21, 1875, Page 4

TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. RATES OF SUDSCRITTION (PATATLY, 1Y ADVANCR), Postage Yrepald at this Qfilce. s Weolly, 1 yous eind Rlhis o BIE0 men g8 Randay 23.00 Pariaaf a yoarat tho ramorate. TYANTRD-URa activs agont In enchs town and villags, £rectal arrangements made with sucl, Bpeclmen coples want freo. "o prevent deloy eud mistakes, bo mre and glrs Post. Oftice addrees in fll, including State and County, Remittances may bemade eltherby dralt, express, Post- Ofhcoorder, or n registared lettors, st onr risk, TEAMS TO CITY SUT4CTIDENS. Datly, delivezed, Sundar excopted, 20 eonta por woeks Tatiz, éelivered, Bunday lnclded, 0 cents por wask, Addreas THE TRIGUNE GOMPANY, Cornor Madis Ta-D.‘\V'S AMUSEMENTS. MOOLRY'S THEATRE-Randoinh strset, etween Claskand LaSalte. Einsrson's Minstrels. M'VICRER'S THEATILE—tiaditon strest, bstmeen Deartern nnd State. Kngagement of Charles Pops. ** Samson. " ~ ADELPHITIIEATRIZ—Doarborn stroat, coraer Mon. ro0. Varioty Entertalument. AUADEMY OF MUSIO~Ilalstod streat,batween Mad- fs0n and Monroe, Kngapement of the Fox Pantomime- Troupe. ** Hampty Dumpt, SOCIETY MEETINGS. ORIENTAL 1ODC Commutileatiun thie Q. X By ondiro 3 DEARBONN 1ODGE, X, 10, A, F. & A, .o Tegu: 1ar Gommunlcation, this’ (I crorilng, ‘st Masonia Han "2:':57".75" Work'ca J1C 3, Decreds” Wiatiors fan o oy BUSINESS NOTICES. FROM BUDDING GIRLIOOD TO A WUMANLY , aud oven far Into 160 svoning of 11e, & pure R O A AR AU Soth Bl b al e aints vt frsrsy Soncs Sosfou Che Ehivage Tdibune, Friday Morning, May 21, 1878. The Centennial of the Mecklonburg Decla~ ration of Independence was very gemernlly and heartily colebrated yesterday in tho prin- cipal citiescf the South. The eighty-neventh General Assembly of tha Prenbyterian Chureh of the United Staten bogan its scssions yesterdsy in Oleveland, with on attendance of 440 delegates. Tho day waa chiefly devoted to organization. Three now arrests were mado in Chicago yesterday in conuection with the whisky- frauds. Tho parties apprehended are Store- keepors, who are charged with such a neg- lect of duty ns to afford an opportunity to defrand the Government. e ] The Indian expedition to Wnshington threatens to bo & failure. The Chicfs are dissatisfied with their intorproters, and are waspicious and bad-lampersd generally. They quarreled among themsclves while at Omaha, and are divided as to what thoy want to do in tho Black Hills matter, Secretary Bristow has been notified by President GraxT to await 8 personal confar- ence on tho subjoct beforo taking further ac- tionin reforenco to the removal 6f Super- visor Moxx, in whose behalf sirong efforts are pat forth, on the ground that no charges whatever are preferred agoinst him, e aaa————— Among tho aunouncements of excroises to tako plnco at the commencemont of the Gar- et Biblical Institute next week wo find the following: * Wednesday, May 26, 8 p. ., Christinn Journalism, Tho Rov. Anrmus Ep- wanos, D, D., editor Northwestern Chsristian Advocate,” Is this meant to bo in earnest? Oris the announcement a misprint ? e w— Another demand for protection will pos- sibly comoe from Ponnsylvania, A Chicago firm has been awarded tho contract for do- signing and building an iron bridgo over the Monongahela River at Dittsburg, Don't Pennsylvanin want protection from the ‘West? Is the iron work of Pittsburg to be -dono herenfter in Chicago? Was it for this that Naturo deposited coal and iron in Penn- sylvania? Did Congress so logislate to pro- teot the lebor of Pittsburg that Ghicago can g in and build iron bridges for thas ity ? ——— A sickening batch of scandal comos from Indisnapolis, whero afidavits havo beon filod und publivhed, charging the grossest of vil- Iainy upon the Buperintendent of the Asy- lum for the Deaf and Dumb, who has held the position for aighteon years, and who i anlso n Presbyterian ministor. Tho afidavits allego thoseduction of several Young women, pupils of the institution, by the Superin. tendent and o formor male teacher ; but the utory is disbelioved by tho best peopls of In- dianapolis, and libol guits have beon brought against tho muthors and publishers of tho sffidavits, Scandalous roports aro also cur- rent concerning o Justice of the Bupremo Court and a Campbellite minister. s timo two parties in the grain market,—ono interestod in a short crop nnd high-priced grain, and the other in a lurge crop and low-priced grein. Thero are important faots having & bearing on this question, but what the exaot atate of the facts 15, 13 somewhat obscure, Wo publigh all the + nows coming to us, without referenca to the Learlng it may have on cither rido of thia question; Tug TuiouNe hos no other intorcat in the matter than to publish information, It is ridiculous, thereforo, to ellegs that Tnx Inmunx {8 oxaggerating the grashopper stories, or undorrating the probabilities of a shiort erop, ‘cllows of Indiana have taken a stand for teraporance which s both practical and efeotual. The Grand Lodge of the State yesterdny sustained the notion of a mubor. dinate lodge in suspending a momber's con- nection with tho Order on the ground that he was a soloon-kecper, 'This action, by o powerful secret sociely, is significant and pralsoworthy, for it entitles the frateraity in Indinna to add to thefr many bright jowels that of Consistency. To practico what is preached {s itself o virtus scarcely less eason- tial than those of Faith, Love, and Truth, 0Oddly enough, it was * Bourbon Lodge No. 203" that ejected the saloon-koepor, T e— The Chicago produce markota were stondler yestorday, Mesa pork was moderataly activo, and declined 800 per brl, closing firm at 820,05 for Juns, and §21.00 for July, Lard Wwas less active, and deolined 150 per 100 1bg, closing steady at $14.76 cash, snd B1.OT@ 15,00 for July, Meate were quiot aud easlor a4 8o for shoulders, 1130 for short ribs, and 1130 for short clears, Highwines were nom. inally ensior at 81,17 per gallon, Lake trelghts woro {n better domand end easlor 4 BJo for corn'to Buticlo, Flour was quiot od tamo. Wheat wan active sod oasier, bui losed firm a4 §1,008 onads, 2ud €103} for Joma. Cern was bu fair dunsod, sad deulingd {e, bt closed strong at 6870 cash, and 69jc for June, Oats wers quiet and unchanged, closing nt 627c for June, and 15je for August, Ryo was dull at $1.05 Barley was quniot and stronger, closing at $1.40 for May, nnd 31.10 for September. Hogs wero fairly netive nt 10@16e decline, Sales mostly at {7.95@ 7,50, Cattle were in good demand and firm, Sales nt $2.60@6.90. Sheop word in light mpply. Prices were firm Boston stands aghast at the depravity of human nature s illustrated by the suddon discovery of raseality and erime on the part of a citizon who for many years hind been trusted and respected as men seldom aro in these degenorata times. Alr, Annamast Jacksos, & prominont lawyer and business man, hias enjoyed this nnusunl degres of con- fidenco at thq hands of his frionds and noighbors, who have intrnsted to him the loaning of thoir money, the control of prop- eriy, and the management of their busi. ness affairs, The constant pressure of oppor- tunity for dishoncsty proved at last too strong to bo resisted, and Mr. Jacksox fell, drogging with him the small fortunes of many who placed their all in his keeping. Now that Jacrsox has absconded, there has beon developed adepth of systamatio villainy, concenled for severnl years, which seriously shakes one’s faith in Judge Ponren's theory that a lifotima of Cliristian conduct is concln. sive proof of superiority over temptation and fall. Many peopla in Boston still have faith in JucrsoN's integrity, but, as may bo r~alily suppoaed, thoy ars people who have not suf. fered by Lis dishonesty. In snmming up for tho dofonse in the Brrouer case, Judge PorTen continues his savage and nbusive attacks upon tho wit nesses who gove the most damnging tosi- mony for tho plaintif. The evident design is to mako the fight squarely on the issuo of comparative eredibility, and if the de- fonse only succced in convincing the jury that Tmron, Mouvrtox, Bowny, Ricmamps, ManTiv, efe., are tho aban- donod wretches that Ponten paints them, the lina of policy, though ques. tionable in point of taste, will bave tho merit of at least partial suacess. Bat how about the great jury of public opinion? Wil Porren's distribos carry conviction thero? Moroeover, hio hins opencd a wide door for the plaintifi’s counsel to bring in—indeed, lLins forced him to bring in—an smount of bitter personality far exceeding that which has bean indulged in on Mr. Trrox's side during the progress of the trial, If the issue of credi- Dbilty should sffcct Air, Brzonra himself un. pleasantly Lefore the arguments are finished, ho will be in no position to claim either pro- tection or sympathy. THE CASE OF MRS, LINCOLK, Wo rofer to this cass with no purpoas of grioving the friondsof the lady orof pandering to curiosity, but simply to oxplain that in all tho painfal proceedings Mrs. Lavcorw has beon treatod in the kindost and gentlost mannor by her own personal friends, and that from the beginning to ths ond sho main- tained her dignity and character as a lady. For savoral years after the sssassination of her husband, Mrs. Lixcors was pursued by a montal picturect the dresdtnl scone. She could not shake it off. She courted solitnde, denied herself to oll visitors and frionds, and became o victim to hiysteria, accompanied by various spprehensions, of which destitution, poverty, and absolute want were the moro violont. A gentlaman of this city, ono of the warmest porsonal frionds of hor husband, succecded in obtaining an intervisw, and than froo accoss Lo her at all times. During a period of more than a year, during which he visitod her mainly at her special request, o never failed to begin the interview with a minate dotail of the evonts of « that fatal Friday on which her husband was murdered. This same story was repeatod at overy interview, and al- most In the exact words cach time. It had engrossed her mind to tho exclusion of ali other things past and prosont, except the gloomy approhension that she was reduced to want. At last, he proposoed that she leave the hotel, and buy = house, farnish it, and roceive friends, and hnve soms cares to divert her mind. Bho at lnst comsented, and he stutos that during the few months in whish tho house was purchased, oud she was cn- goged in furnishing it, and thus lad netive employment, she was comparatively happy, and hud shalen off tho terror and wrotchod. ness which had proviously afftioted her, But when this business was completed, whoen there was nothing more to bo dona, hor homo again becamo a sort of prison, and she ro- lapsed into all tho old gloam, despondency, and tarror, Acting under theso combinad in. fluonces, she did many things which wora surprising, if not painful, to her friends. Bhe liad an aversion for companionship and ac- quuiutance; sho closed s}l means of social approach; she lived within tho secluaion of hor rooms, suffering and onduring the ever procant horror of tho ono terriblo ovent. At times she wonld grow restloss, and gud- denly change hor residencs ; but wherover she went the reliof was temporary, the rolapse inovitable, Under this intense strain, her mind gradually bocame unbalanced, and year nftor yoar sho hos roquired more and mora tho vigilant care of her frionds, Hor condition, and what weato be done for her, have bosn long and carofuily consid. ered, aud her mental wenkness and eccon- tricitles during the lest fow months bocame so plarming that some proventive nction became nocessavy. Bho had among other things bo. coms possessed of tho idea that Ohicago was ou fire, and she had withdrawn the bonds and other sscurities in which her funds were in. vosted from the vaulta of tho Fldolity Do. poait Company, aud carried them on hor por- #on, feeling thus prepared for instant flight. ‘Fhore was reason to approhend that in hor ostless, troubled stats of mind she might recelvo porsonal injury, and at last, when longer delay wounld roally be crulty and nogleot of duty, ler son ok campelled to the painfal procseding which, under tho laws of this State, must precads any detontion or restraint for insanity. Al the old personal friends of Mr. Lanoorn wore consulted. Tho Hon, Isaso N, Anxorp wos appointed hor'counsal, The Hon. Lron. AzD BwETT assumed the even more delicato task of representlng the Bheriff and exe. cuting the process of the Court. Itis neod- lesa to soy that the duty of arresting hor, of convoying her to the court-room, of commu- nioating to her tho charoter and neosssity for the procesdings, and tha proposed dis. posal of her person under restraint, was per- formed I tha mout delicate mannor, requiring, Lowover, persistent firmness, groat patience, sod pervonel kindness, Her porcnliar condl. dlon of mind was evidenced by many ingeni. ous protoxts to poatpone, delay, or evede ac~ ton; but thess belng met with kindness and caador, she ylelded to her frionds, and aub- taitted lo the deores of the judlolal tuquiry, Wa rolsalti from publishing the datails o THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: FRIDAY, MAY 21, 1875. her arrast by Mr. Swrrr, and the subsequent and eapped a fitting olimax to t| arrangomenta for her departuro to tho place of dotention. It is snfiicient to say lhat throughout thoe trying sconcs shis was keonly sensitive, was fully conscious of her position, and skillful in her means to evade the excou- tion of the judgment ; but thers was no vio- lonco, no denuncistion, no roproaches, ‘Throughout the whole husinoess she displayed the amiability of a cultivated lady. ‘We closa this briof explanation of the causes lending to this proceeding, and of the circumsiances attending it, by repenting that it hind long bean forcscen by her intimates ; that it was postponed as long ns affectionate regari coull do so with safely to horsolf, and that the result will satisfactorily explain toall many things in tho past which were ns poinful and distressing to lor frionds and tho friends of her husband a3 thay wera sar- prising to thoss uninformed of the peouliar circumstances, MECELENBURG IN IIS GLORY, Yestorday was the centenninl of the alleged Mecldonburg Declaration of Independenco, or rather the alloged centonninl of the Doc- Inration, for the famous manifesto was really made, though probably not in tho form or at tho timo now claimed for it. It is not denied that o mild sot of resolutions wero passad at Charlotto, tho county-seat of Mecklenburg County, May 31, 1775, and it {s diffioult to believo that n much more vigorous manifesto was put forth by tho snmo sort of meeting in the samo town alovon days bofore. Nothing was heard of the latter for nearly fitly yenra. Then the pro-Revolutionary relics still loft nlive in Mecklonburg got togother, wrote out a sketch of the Declaration as it lingered in their feeblo old memorios, and publish- ad it ns tho real thing, Thore wids not a ghrod of documentrry evidencs submittod, And yet, on this flimsy foundation, the hon- asty of Tnoius Jerrensox is impenched, and bo is accosed of wilfally plagiarizing the Declarntion of Indepondence! The argu. ment for the anthenticity of thoe Moeldon- burg paper is, in brief, this: In (he fitst place, soveral survivors of tho Revolutionary ora, who had been prosent ot tho meeting at Charlotte, testified to tho gotfuinensss of the paper, Dut this testimony was given forty- four years ofterwards, mninly by very old mon, and by men who had hundreds of timos rend and ropeated the national Declaration of Independonce, Was it not natural, was it mnot practically inovitable, that the catch-words of the latter should linger in thoir fecblo momories and be uncon- soiously reproduced whon they tried to rocolloct their own Declaration ? Somo mis. taka in timo was to bo expocted after tho lapso of 60 many years. It is only strango that it was not gronter than eleven days. 8o much for the first part of tho argument, Socondly, the man who published the roso- tions in 1819, Jomy MoKwirr ALEXANDER, waa Secretary of tho Mecklenburg Committoe, the qunsi-revolutionary body whick passed tho original set, and preserved tho journal of its procesdings. This was burnt, howaover, with his house, in 1800, Bofore that time, Arexaxpen had made and given away two copics of tho Declaration. One of theso has never been heard of. Aftor tho publication, and thorefors not until the question had bo- como a disputed one, impartiality in which ‘was practically impossible for a North Oaro- linian, Gov. Sroxxs, of that State, testified that he had seon the other of theso copies in 1793, and that it was tho samo as the paper published. This testimony, it ia to bo ob- sorved, was givon aftor tho lapso of mnearly thirly yours, and was nocessarily partial. So that wo have, in the second place, the recol- lection by one mon of a paper burned nine- teon yonrs bofore, backed up by the recolloc- tion by another of the contents of an alleged copy of that paper which ho had scon thirty yonrs before. This is, wo boliove, a fair stato- ment. It certainly does not uphold the Mook lonburg sido of the case. Troxas Jerrenson and tho Philadalphia Daclaration ars still o littlo ahend. ; Yeateday, however, they did not stand a ghost of o chance, down in Carolina, The cannon which roared glory for Mecklonburg roared deflance at them. The orators flont- ed at them, and convinced overy true- born Mocklenburgor of tho gonuinencss of hia Declaration,—a tagk which was the enafor for the faot that every ono of them was already so fully convinced of it that wild horses could not tear it out of him. And sinca tho calebrators belioved in their pet delusion, the colebration was none tho lcss Learty and none the less prodnctiva of good. North Carolina deserved a centennial colebration on gonmeral principles, for she wes one of tho firat Btates, and perhapa the first, to ight ; sho sullered grently during the TRevolution, bat nover complained; she way slow to secedo, and did so at last with rogret; shs has allowed Littlo proscription within her borders sinca the close of the War; and sha is now apparently prospering as she do- B0XY0d, ——— INDIAN CHEEK, The nobls rod man of tho forcat has hith. erto beon chargsd with divers and sundry traits of charaoter not redounding to his oredit. Among them are his proclivity for loaving whito men bald-leaded and torturing prisonera; for drinking fire.wator in nnlimit. ed qunntitica; for the most abstract and un- qualified laziness; for a sublime disregard of Lis plightod faith; for filth and dirt of evory description and, in fine, for genernl onased. ness. In addition to these deplorablo evi. donces of a lack of Christian civillzation and of thoso soclal graces and amenitics which make lifs so delightful, the red man of the forest has now developod & new festare, which iag hitherto been suppossd tobe thomonapo- ly of the pale faco, nemely, cheek, Ho lins not only doveloped cheek, but chock of the most extraordinary description,—large, yolu. minons, approaching the sublime, Theo threo gontle savages who have dovel- opod this check are Brorrkp Tam, Lowz Hoxx, and Rep Oroup, Chiofs of the Bioux dolegation, at present in Washington nego- tiating with the Government for tho ceasion of the Black Hills, Rrn Croup oponed the ball by informing the Great Father that tho whole whito race wers liars, and ho took oc- caslon to remark that he made no exception of the company present, which included the Prosident, the Sacretary of the Interior, tho Commnlssioner of Indian Affairs, and numer. ous subalterns and stipendiaries of the De- portments, Rep Oroup having thus mildly oxpreosod his opinion of pale faces in general ond the Adminfstration in partioular, Mr, 8rotTad Ta1z, anothor untutored son of the forest, dlsplayed his lack of Allal reverence by anapping his fingers in the Groat Fathor's fuco, and notifying him he most not send them to the Becrotary of the Interior and Commissloner of Indian Aftairs, who ovidently, in Brorren Tam's ostimation, ware the champlon liars in this mendaclous ocountry, Next came Mr, Lows Hoax, o plain, simple, guileless eblld of the forest, with the . etidaxt inteadlon @l Unpioving uwpos ik las- pression mado by Mossra. Reo Croup and | nerm will array themselves in whits and enroll | true BrorTep Tawn, and of overwhelming tho President and his Cabinet at ono foll awoop. So Mr. Loxe Iony strode up in all his nativa diguity and, prondly wrapping his blanket about him, notified the President as follows: *“I nover claimed I owned all the conntry before to-day, but now I claim it.” This was not all, One {a irresistibly rominded of Farsrare and Gon, Bouss, ns Mr, Love Hony addas * Theso mon you seo (nliuding to the Indiang around lim) are soldiers and will fight.” This wns tantamdunt to on invita- tion to tho pale facos to come forward and contost tho title to this brond domain, but at this juncturo the President notificd Mr., Losg Honx end his frionds that ho was not roady to ‘discuss tho question, whoreupon tho owner of tho country and his friends, Xtrn Croup and Srorrep Taw and their followers, withdraw, For sublimity and dimensions of cheok commond us to theso simple, untutored chil. dren of tho forest, who hava been brought up under the aweet and genial influencos of No- turo, and have nover been contaminated with the hnbits of cities or offeminated by the vices of luxury, Thero is a frocdom and di. rectness of specch abont them which aro very refroshing, and thero aro soma poople who will bo churlish enough to say that the In- dinns wero right, and hit tha nail on the head evory timo. It is at least the first timo that tho management of Indian affairs has beon struck gquaro in tho faco, and forthis, at least, tho Indians deservoeredit. Baclk of all their lougbable swagger ond impudenca there was some plain, hard truth, which was spoken where it ought to lisve gomo offact. PRAYERS AND OPTIONS, Thero is a story told of n French priest, in a provinco that had been visited with a long drought, wlho nssembled his parish and do- voted severnl lours to fervent prayer for rain. The prayers wore go eflicacions that the rain camo down in torrents before tho services wero concluded. As the priest had forgotten to bring his umbrella with him, he retired to hia closet, while the congrogetion were roturning thanks, and prayed for a tem- porary susponsion of the rain until he could reach home, in which he wes not 8o success- fal. We aro rominded of the story by the gossip on'Change concering the growing crop. One of tho stories told yesterday was to the effect that n Goveruor of ono of tho grasshopper Statos haa issued a proclamation advising the psople to meet in $heir churches, and, by united prayor, apposl to Hoaven to avert the threatoned plagno; and that the same CGovernor is at tho same time *long ™ on 100,000 bushels of wheat. The question dis- cussed was whother the official wos wanting in faith id tho efficacy of prayer, or whother his patriotism was so much superior to his selfishness oa to induce Litn to rosort to prayer against his own interosta. It there is any truth to this story, it will cortainly be interesting to wnteh the resulis as well a8 to spoculato on the motives and sensations of the Govornor meauwhile, It may bo that he is a follower of Tyxpiry, and is willing to venture the margin on a hundred thousand bushols of wheat in a proctical proyer-gauge, Certainly thero could not be o moro favorable applicatipn of Trvpani's proposition, o far as the Christiens are coucerned. There would be the Lord and the Ohurch on ono side, snd on tho other tho grasshoppers and the Dovil,—for his Sa- tania Majosty wonld certalnly put forth his best efforts in favor of tho Board of Trade operation. It would bo curious, also, to watch the offocts of such a tost upon the zegular membors of the Chicago Board. Thero would bo mors church-going and pray- ing in thot body'than thero has ever been before. The “shorts” would murshal ns a body and attond church overy Sundsy, and put in a rogular appoaranca at all the speciat services. 'Cho “longs,” on the other hand, could bost sorve thoir causaand propitiate their patron by following their usual nyo- cations, Meanwhile, tho *long* Governer, lio the Tronch pricst, moy retiro to his closot and pray for a continnation of the lo- custs until he can *get out.” ‘We have an idea that thore will bo noither more nor less grasshoppers on nccount of prayers or tho failure to pray on this specifio matter. Tho beat answer evor mado to Tyx. DALL'S suggostion is that it would ba sacyile- glous to nddress the Lord, and imploro a re- versal of any natural Inws for the bonefit of eny particular locality, olass, or population {n # formal trinl of the éffioacy of prayer. This answer will apply to a locust-plague as woll as anything else, It has boen discoverod that tho locusts preveil in any soction thoy infest’ two moasons; thoy fly over the first senson, and drop their oggs which develop into *hoppers" tho next season, which fly off to another gaction. If thia is the natural law that governs thair existonce, we cannot boliove that the Lord will revorse it on nccount of supplications. Ho puts na vestraint, however, on man's ingenuity to over- como tha plagues, torments, and inconven- fences of Natura, and wo are inclined to beliove thot more can ba nccomplished in fighting the grazdhopper by enlisting the sativa co-oporntion of scientific and practical men than by dovoting tho same amount of tima and monoy to spocific prayor for am in. terferenca in natural laws which the Lord in not likely to undertake, Tha * longs " on wheat Liave moro to foar, and the ¢ shorts™ moro to hope for, from human ingenuity, ex- perioncs, pluck, and application than from the intorference of Providence in this visita- tion of loousta, Tho present month ought to be productive of substantial bonefit to the people of this country., Tho great majority of the clergy- men of all denominations and nearly all the doctara of all achoola are in scsalon in vari- ous cities of the United Btates, oonsulting and discussing dogmas and disgnoses, theology ond therapeutics, theses and doses, With such an arrsy of savora of souls and curors of bodies in conference, somo valuable re. sulia should onwue, Tho body politie ought to be regonerated, hoth in its hygione and ita hopes for horeafter, We are pained, how. over, to notice that the original Apaw now ond then crops ont and asserts his time-honored prerogative of bolly and bluster, and that the dootors of soul and body slike are still victims of jealousies and malevolonoco. Denominationnl bittarness occaafonally rankles, and declarations of faith excite hot-blooded children of the light to rise up and declare they will spend thelr bot- tom dollar and shed thelr last drop of blood to overthrow the conocernover the way, which i ruining the Amorican people, The adyo- cates of small pills rudely joctle theadvocatos of big pllls, and call hard names. Bt in the maultitade of counselors there ia safoty, s0 we may expoct that this gathering of D, D.’s and M. D.'s will ultimately vesult in advancingthe world more rapldly towards that good time oconming wheth the ssivts will have strang thomselves under tho banners of the Princo of Poace. 0; Cincinnati i3 happy,—more than happy; Cincinnati is fortunato, the favored of tha gods. Thore jaro plenty of citios dolng as much business as Cincinnati, having os much wonltis and as Inrge opportunitics for the en. There are Thore are many citica whoro you can eat your break- fast without having your egge and coffee pep- pored with soot; many ecitlos whero tho authors of ham and tenderloin do not have municipal freedom. Cincinnati is peenliarly Those millionaires of joyment of esthotio luxuries, brighter, fresher, olonner cities. blest in it people, Auburn nud Olifton who live ‘‘on the Leights,” na thoy look over to the Bpring Grove Cometory, have o way of rensoning to themsclves that, whon thoy mako thieir last journoy ovor thero, they caunot tako tholr ducats and shokels with them, and thnt, innsmuch as Cincinnati gave thom their monoy, thay cannot do bettor than givo soms of it bacle to her, and give it back to hor befora they go hence, so that thoy can see it properly administered and appropriat- od, and givo tho city thoir advico concorning its use, rather than run the risk of obliging the city to fight their heira for its possession. This {8 sort of Jocal pride and faith which manifests iiself in good works, and is much Lottor thon braggadocio and buncombe. It is #0 rave to find public spirit, esthetio taste, and tho loftiest ambition nssociated with wonlth, thatthe fact is worthy of more than passing notice. The illustrations of this are numerous, Hexny Propasoo, the Clifton millionaire, whoso elegant house, grounds, and private art-collection are always open to respectablo sight-seers, gave to Cincinnati a fountain of bronze, whese superb proportions and ele- gont groups of emblematie statuary are an unfailing source of delight to every art con- nolssonr, Davip Smvrow has given to tho city the gronndn and n fund for the creotion of an nrchitoctural tower, or some other kind of memorial, in tho very heart of tho city. ‘Wrrra 8. Groesnzox has donated o sufil cient sum, the income of which will provido the pooplo of that city with freo musio in the opon air for all time to come, Josern Lona- wonti has placed the city upon an enduring art-basis by founding nn art-school, hand- somely endowod and oquippod. Tho Measra, ‘Woonwarp, Huomrs, and MoMrozew, have alzo made Inrgo donetions, thoe object of which is to promota and advanco the causo of Art, And now comes Reunex R. Srrivanr, another largo-henrted citizen, almost beforo the last notes of the groat chorus hsve died away, nod announces his intontion, in a note to Jomr Srzrrro, the Treasurer of the Festival Association, to give $125,000 towards the orection of m spacious and clogant music ball. The Commercial soya: The nots sddressod to Mr, BmiLerro contsins, in the rat place, tho plain proposition, biefly couched in positive terms, o give $125,000, contingant upon the olty giving tho ground, aud another $125,000 {0 bg od by subscription, for the ecection of & plon, tantial musio hall, Accompauying this sre “come wd " a8 to whot ought to ba done, The writar de- alres that o quartorof o million of dollars shall bs ez~ pendod on the fmprovement, o wanta the subscrip- tlons for the other $125,00 to be made on a broad bosls, that s many persons as possibls may booome intorosted fn -it. Mo does mot want to fake part in the management of (he busi- mess, Ho proposcs to give outright, Mr, Bramsazn has conmulted with very fow yersons {n regard to this matter, ouly Jonx Bint. rreo, To D, LixcoLx, A, D. Burrocr, sad W, W. Saannonoues, perhaps, Wa have reason {o bolleso that ho hiad for zomo tlms contemplated soma grest gift to tbe publie. It waw not unttl Sunday last’ that o announcod to snybody the chanael through which bolatendedto diroct his munificenca, Xr. SrmiNG- xa's notoclludes fo a music hall aaly, Thero fan baen undor discussion Istely tho proposition to eroct permanent buldings, that would servenob enly for veat meotings aud feativala, but for onr snnual Expo- silion purposes, should 1t bo found precticablo to com- Dino them, idea of annrchiters of promioonce, who hins been consulted i the matier, 18 {0 butld an clliptical hall, after the plan, in outline, of the Albart Hall of London, England, with other bulldings on the sides, Thote ore other promlnent eitizenn, of largs wealtlt, who will joln witls Mr, Brexaxs in this move- ment, As the city has all along been favorably disposed toward .donating the ground, and Mr, Senmvons did not make his donation without the assurance that the romaindor of tho nécossary sum would ba ralsod, it is cer- tain that Cinclunatiis to have a musio hall which will be in keeping with its musical copobilities and surroundings. As Oincin. natl is now the musical contre of tho country, and in faot has no competition except in Boston, and a8 her festivals have become permanent inatitations, which will ocenr bi- ennially or tienuially hereafter, it is fitting that the cityshonld have a buildiog commen. surata with the extont of hor festivals. The Lxposition Hall, in which tho Festival washeld last wook, in some raspects is & good one, It is spacious, and it is contrally located and easy of acoess from all parts of the oity, but it 1s not as perfeot in acoustics ns it ought to be, is not well ventilated, and its surround- ings aro anch that it is vory dirty, and dusty, and hot. It is a groat wooden barn.like stracturo, which, if it onco took fire, would burn like tinder, and it is so poorly eon- structed that storins easily find tholr way through it, Those who were prosant know ot seriously the storm on the opening night affocted the concert. Through the handsome liberality of Mr, Brmivarn nll this will be liorcatter avolded, nnd, when Cincinnati gives her noxt ostiyal in 1877 or 1878, uho will have a hail werthy of the oceasion, All this shows that thore is some eiviliza. tionin Cincinnati, and that hor merchant prinoes are not only wonlthy, publip-epirited, and genorous, bat that they aro also men of taste and colture, IHerein thore iz wome differonco botween Oincinnati and Ohieago, and there is also tha very matorinl difference of ogo, which is one of the first essontials of the art-spirit. DBul we warn Clucinuati that she s not to have ths monopoly of esthotics in tha West. The elements are alroady moving hers. Two years ago, no one, excopt newspaper correspand- ents, went from Chicago to the Qin. ciunatl Pestival. Last week thore was & handsoma dolegation prosent. Thoy Luve soon how it was done. ‘Tho Festival influonee haa reachied here and J working, and, if Ohi. cago doos not make her tuitial attempt next yoar, sho will two years from now. ‘T'he ele- menta are all here. It only nosda the master. wplrit to organize and mold them, and an excoutlve wommittes to work with diligence and skill. The grost conduotor, Tasopons Tuoxas, stands ready and eager tocome, it the assurances are given him that his suggestions will be followed. Wa therefore give Clacin. nall timely wamning that Olicago {s preparing Lliersolf to oontest the superiority with her, —————— The Bpringfleld Regivter roiterates the slan- dor thot the monoy of the Grain Inspestion office was deposited in banks by order of fHtate officers, and foz the purposs of giving aredit to uswspapers in Chlaago, This story besa et there s Y e e e falsehood. by far tho witticat, and the English tho most forciblo and obsctire,” coarsenoss—in Ita accoptabllity glishmon, Within tho past to shonld be the caso. the subjoct. —_— The history of the Prrrivs affair in Paris {a by this timo tolorably familiar, The partics to itars & Dourbon Princess, hor American hus- band, and » Madame Memmax, Parlsian. The Princess and ber husband wors attached to the traln of Queen Isanzira. They rented lodgings from Madamo Mrtuimax. By ons expediont and snothor they dolaysd paying for thom nntii the total amount reached 20,000 francs. Thon tho Madamo bocame furious and oxasperating. Sho threatened an exposure, Bhe was, bowaver, ap~ ponced for o timo by falso roprosontations of snd by god- to tho Princoss’ child, Bat at Iast all tho rosourcos preat oxpectations tho ompty Louor mother with in America, of atanding ex-Quoon Isabells of Jdocelt were oxhausted, The Madame bogan » oriminal prosecution, Sho succeeded in her first ault against the husband, which was tried Iast year, and ho waa condemned to one yoat's imprisonment. Evon this did not satisfy hor tago. A prosecution was institntod this yoar ageiost tho Priucess herself, and sho has just beca found gullty, sentancod to txo years' im- prieonment and to pay 80,084 francs. Fortu- pately for tho Princoss, tho Bourbons are ro- stored, and sho is safely in Madrid. Her hus- band Isnguishes in prison, it is tras, but his torm s nostly expired, and she waits with loving impatience to welcome him home, Buch is the sentiment of Fronch justica and the oonstaney of Bpanish love. The French lodging-koeper bas her rovevgo, and the Spanish Princosa has her Jodglogs rent-fres. — Beuntors Buanox and Joxzs, of Nevads, belng rosldonts malnly of Ban Francisco, are at dag- ®ora’ points, and the way in which thoy work aysingt one another la worthy of note, Jonzs §00s to Washingtun, makos a Sonatorial reputa- tlon, proparcs to build a palace of Lis own, and thon atarts ico-factorios all over tho country, He atarts one in San Y'rauciaco, aad controls tho ico Interest in that city. Now obsorve Buanox's maneuvres. BuinoN owns tho Cosmopolitan Ho- tol in 8an Franciaoo; Bianox made s bid for tha Liok Houso, but falled to got it. Rendarcd dos- porate, he hna bought into the new Palace Hotel, purchaslog’ W. O, Rarsrton's in- ferest for 1,760,000 It is nos fme proboblo that hs will shortly eucompass tho Occldontal, Russ, and Grand Hotels of tho #ame city. Now thoro ia no doubt that this is & trateglo movament on Joxes, Doos ho intond to crowd Joxzs' sco out of tho market, or Is it his alm to buy up all tho taverns in tho malghbor- bood, 80 that Joxsg cannot havae whers to Iayhis bead? If the lntter is his object, it is clearly short-sighted. Bfr. Bmanon must know well that statistion average tho consumption of whisky in Nevadn at sixty gallona a year per capits. Does he want to sacrifice his profita on this amount foraporsonal dislike ? —_— e As we habltmlly import our fashions from Europo, tho gond time is coming for ths long- noglected artist in this country. As prices in otlier articlos como down, thoss in art go up, Eogland ia st presect suffering an acato art- manis. Ono fe In tho direction of rare china, tho othor of pajutings. Some enormous soms bave recontly bosn pald for ploturea in London. Thirty cabinet pictarea of tho Dutch and Flem- fsh schoolu avoraged £1,000 each. A landscapo by Jour aod ANpnxw Borm, contalning Anpa- nay, Haoaxn, and Isoxaxy, brooght £4,725; a very small work by Apataw Vax ok Veron sold for £4,615, A landsoapo by GArxgponoval, 40250 mches, was sold for £8,465. At snother salo, TunNen's *“Grand Canal &% Vonice" brought £7,850, which was & largo figare for a paintiog which in 1860 ocost 2,400 gulness, and wan originally sold by the paintor for 800 guinoas. A pioture by Furry, some time'sgo the ragain Yondon, brought £4,567 108, It is * Bofore Dinnor at BosweLi's Lodgings in Bond atroet, 1700." Mruran's “Jeenrian™ snd “ Chill QOctabor " aold Yor £3,800 and £3,100 respeotive- ly. Mr. A. T, Brewant has seb the fashicn al. roady for the Unitod Btates, and it wsy shortly become aa profitabls s mania to artists s0d own- ars here as in Engtand, g — Twe claver satires on nowspaper braggadoolo bave Intely boen written in the East. 'fho Now York World Lapplly bié off the Tribune's end- loas productions about its new building by printing an olaborate and most exhaunativa notics of anew floor that has lately boen lafd down in its own old composing-room, ‘ThePhiladolphia Times, tor its part. dlstanced the Pressof the sama aity In the collection of crop statistics by publishing moss blood-curdling reporis from tha muwquito districts in Now Jersey, Certaloly thore was soma sorh of cloverneas in these firos efforts; but i¢ Is plain that the idon can sasily be worn out, and that imitators st third-haud can- not expoot much applsuse. We 60 ou this ao- count much pained, snd not atall amused, to nokios tho aatirioal articlss on the grasshopper orop which sppoar regalarly in the local con. temporaries of Tus Torounk, and whieh are plaloly begottan of eavy. e e Monmouth, Oregon, must be both mellifinous snd molodious. Thlu littlo frontler villsge nuwm- bars but forty houscs, snd yet iu thouo forty houses there are nine organs, threa pisnos, aud s nondescript which is describod ss a planc. malodeon, whatover that may be. In sddition to this it has » corne band of fourtoen per- formers, sud imnuwmerable guitars, fiddlss, ban. Jom, flutos, fites, olarionets, sudoiher lostraments used in the manufecture of muslo. Mommouth caly needs an orchesirion now ko sucoesatully compole with Cigclooatl snd get up » musicel fostival. -— Mies Awxa Bxamea, » davghter of the so-called Adrolrsl, was lately married at the resldenve of bLier father {n Moblle, The bride and groom &tood undor's Bebel flag, wlich was presonted to the so-called Admiral whea bo was Captein of the Alabama by London Iadiss. The position nioy be omivons for the married cowple, Thare ::ouuon 'hngnlo:‘t-&m-;w'anu olte usder & symbol sunlon, The wede mfl B soastied, wad Sgidy tiadieidt, unless it be contradioted, and the calumny cannot bo aunswored by kilenco. Wa do not beliovo it true, aud wo refer to it, not that we think it las any foundntion in trath, but that the friends of the Ktate of- ficers may. promptly deny and expose thoe A writer fa tho Tondon Globs saya: " Thers are only three nstiou who uso slang to nny exfeat, viz.: France, England, and Amnenca, Of {hess, Fronch Is Amerlcan the tnort appropriste, ‘Thin paragraph bas bean travoling through the country now for some manths, and apparently without evoking s singlo protest. It Is time #omo roply woro made to tho exasperating dis- play of igmorance, The suthor could ucarcely have pradicaled tho statemont upon sn ectual oxpatlenca in the turoo countsica, It ho min- glod with the business-men of the United Btatos, e must have beon atruck with the copiousnoas, originality, celapuess, force, and unlvorsal uso of Amorican alang. 1f not, lis powers of obserya- tion must bo fooble. Ona of thio bust avidences of tho superiority of tho Amarican slang— which, by tho way, s singutatly fres from En- fow yeara " Americanlsms” havo been enarafted upon the colloquial languago of Great Dritain toan astonlshing success, Thoy have cropt into ita ltoraturo, and, by adoptiun, Lave lost thelr dis- tinotive and original title, suporseding the clum- slor, coarser, and losa forclble forms once’ pop- ular in Boglaud, It Is quito intolligible that this Tho BSaturday Review credita tho Americans with having ** Invented a new form of wit and complicatlog our criminal codo,” and the wit of the populace 18 shown in itaslang. It has baon enrichod by the phrase- ology of o half-dozon dlfferent nationalities, and thefittost forma havo survived, Tothe writer of tho itom wa cordially rocommond s peruasl of Cox'a essays in Harper's on American bumor, as an foducement to give mora thorough study to o career of [ flluatrions buccansor in whose Intorest 4 Ty eoncsived, ——— POLITIOAL NOTES, The New Haven Register remarka; Pio'aty, the mulo uover lived that could drivo Gyang t Thet's right. Own up when you're beatcn 1, Norwich Bulletin, Gov. Trorn's Canal Tnvortigating Comp: Db hirod & hail to begin with, will taks x fow nobalanced contracts ap| #00 Low tho old syatem worked. Tho Ion, Guorar . PENDLRTON hng devel. opod undxpected powera ss n dinner-giver ; an] tho Domocratie manngera bogin to think thit 1y talght inake 0a good s Lresident na Bayany . Tho editor of the Norfolk Virgintan 3. , from thio porusal of Gon. SkEusax'y mom..ry 5 romark that tho sutbor was **a brilliaut ki, “Tlo coplausaosy of the comphment will d yony very much upon the emphaais, ‘ Orgaug of tho Oppoaition party in Icamay rauge tho eall for tho Btats Convantion t, st locality, Insomo quartora it Appears that g1y Convontion fs to bo puraly Democratie, ruy |',. othera that it is to ba Liberaliy-Democrati s, The DBig Chlofs of tho Interior Depa tueyy vrobably have wome rempect for the Untay savage sluco Iizp Croud's Intorview wity thy Prosidont. 1tisnot so hord tobe called a fiyr when tha wholo white raco s inoludod In 11 g, egary. Dex iz, of Goorgls, says that sec waing was a mistoke, but no crime; whilo rad. a Is acrime and no mistuke. Thisiss 8 refien of tho all tongued oratory that we DAy e pect to hoar fo greator or loss abundaucs wLeg Congrses mests, The New Orleans Pleayune would ks to s " tho livoly person " of tho Chioago v, Journal sant down thers * whon tho next bla, ahirt soason sots in. He would be Apt 16 niake the mortusry lists choerful reading by cantian with his ewn *focotious and lght-hoartay gayety.™ + The Ala California, Senator Binacx, apecial organ, takea this early ocoaslon tn ny that Ar. SanaENT's declination of a re.clectiun in 1877 may be violated without injustics to auy. body, Wo understand the aitustion tc to Eisy Mr. BanaENT will not run £ ho sconnse. filly chance of boeing olsctod. Thot quoer jury in Towa which nequift-d RARxIN tho other day waa composod of .+ © “to ocrats aud aix Republicans, Evary on: u 1 was moved by the appeal to his sympath eav Y tho dofondant’s connsol made, Itiss though, whother nicoly-balanced polltical are an improvemont ou the old stylo, An Evansville papor, which perhapi mte dy to be funuy, savethat *ovon Coramiky b ... 1o¥? can mako his correspondonco ech ths pal. lay of tho poper bo represonta,” The Now \ i Lerald ia conspicuously amnowspaper v his not, and nover Lad, s policy outsile of tuy Prompt and sccurate publication of th~ news That waa & clever bit of retaliation .0 Liepabe licana nf New Hampshire managod to put us «n the Domocrats in the case of FRANKLLH, a iy Fnaug, Jonks, The First Coogrewsionul 1iu. triot is much excitod abont it. The buptisual name of Feanmiax Joxes appears in the his father, datod at Barrington, Jan, 23, 1 Rashness and smbition have beon frocly ot tributed to Mr, Munat HALeTRAD, but it »t:!} 13 wained, until very recently, for any one to eci- ously question his businoss angacity. T kua been done by & correspondont of tio D1 niors American, who reporla the ramor thar Ar Haxateap is contemplating & newspsp.er i Now York. H. 0. Davis, one of the Alabsma Jaxialvnre of 1872, who voted Brexcen ioto hissos i ths United Btates Senate, and who waa rewardod or his fidelity with tho Post-Officont Union 8;.ri has bson gent to prison on a charga of pitiur ny from tho malls, A Southern nowspspaor serd - cally suggests that tho Marabal who arrna.ed Davis, the jurymen who convicted hi n, nud il Judge who sentenced him, wore bandits; wul that the National Government ought o lv.s 1o timo in sending on & pardon. ‘The people were of courao vory mrioh rf whon they heard that Mr, Wiraox mwas 1.t b eling in the Bouth for political elfco!, L. Toorcation, but was engsged in s picis oge to tho tomb of Lis son., Bat L3 stogy e ney. As tho Worcaster F'ress bappils oxir it: “The routs takon by Mr, Wizs:nt. reuh his son's grave in Texasis vory much iko ths path by which young people go honie fiow siege ing-school,—only on & larger scale.” 't Col” Gxonex B, Conknmmr, ouse uof ito editora of ths Washiogton Chronick, und C i1k of the United States Cirouit Court uf 1o.n, Iately submitted to an interviow at M¢, Fleassnt. o s0id that Gon, Guaxt made groet e in accopting the Prosidoncy, that ha derives a ro-nomination, and that he can cas'y canyths Convontion. Asto the Benatorial guesion Iu Iows, *Col"” Conkury said thai I[lintax would tako the position it Lo could got it witt- out a fight, and that BKLKNAP was no: propaiod to say hea would not be a candidale, 1lLers opinlons, coming from such a wource, are of uo consequence whatever, \Wo are surpriscd to eee thom obtalning prominence in the e.lumuw of influontial and dlscziminating journalu, PERSONAL Pannr Divawronz played to s 83,077 Lioase st hor bonefit, Jonn Monmmsexr's father s &7 years old, acd lives at Baratogs. Mr. Locxx's ** Naaby® efasions ate about to be printed fu English, MourTox refused to be interviawed In Doslos, but * he saomed choerful,” Ex-Senator Nrz.is sn inmats ef ths Banford Hall Insane Asylum, mear Flashing, loug Teland, An exchangoe thioks the naw wpring mattress, advertised sa *‘Bost on Karth * is desigued es- olusively for camp-meotinga. The suocess of tlie Hartford base-be'l nineis attribnted to the number of olergymen whv is.0 soason tickota to tho ball-groundn. Lady Ouarrinros haa grappled with tha toughoat passazes of Anmrrorux's woiks, sl wilt pablish s translation of them, Mies Lypis Guaves, dsughter of Chlof-Jus tics Gnavks, of Michigan, stazls from Lattle Oresk for Eurcps next Monday moraing. The Rev, Pascar Lann is the suggossive t ams of & recently-ordalned Kogllsh ocurals. Lie should preach gresn pesos on eacth, it any. Not more than 8 per oont of (ke childan sent to Canads by Miss Irs have turnad oct kad y. Bear tn mind tha mortality among the youny. The Boston Giobe makes baste o disc! ia the ststement that Mrs, Cooran, the medlum, fus fraud, Y¥ew people in Bonton are not mcdiwas. Dy, Cntariw, of Boston, ia In troubls, Eis w.fe quarreled with the Desoons of the charch, sud the woalthioad pew-holdars of the churoli have seceded. ‘The edltor of the Parie Amerioan Registsr bas marrdied & fasciuating New York widow. It 1 Dok probable that her pare will be fouod in tue weokly list of Amerloans abroad, + Luox Broxx s wioked to wear e aets, »a Evn dido’t bave sny. Kva dido's hare aiy olothes, sud theretors It wicked for Lucy fHroxa to woar thom.—Delroit Zres Lrees. Quaesn Viotorus hsas given Lady Hxues £1.000 # yoar out of the civil list. Ja thie clw ot procosdings, her Majesty imitates tho i gods, and Lislpa & Jady who Herrs horuelf, ‘fbe Priuce of Walos is (o be dresssd lke sn Fastora potantate, vith & big tarban and baggy panis, dortog bla Indlen tour, He eao st 4 on his record for Mie ctier fentare of Oxieaisl clvilisation, Huivar bia basa erseotile, @14 m“mi&maw '::Hfid'-