Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 23, 1875, Page 4

o THE -CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, MAY 23, 1875.—~SIXTEEN PAGES. — e it idi -without giving equivalent, and .eking out | aliko. That possibility is'fast, becoming ¢ TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE ,BATES 8¥ STRECKIFTION (PATABLE IN ABVANCES. Ponul Yrepald st this Office. Waekly, ] year. +6: 188 I dryic o8 “x.c’g opiss. 14:00 Trrtret von yearat the same rate. ‘WAXTYT—Une active agent ix each tews sad villags. Bpecial arcingements mads with such. Bpecimaa copiss sent free. Toprevent delay and mistakes, be sure and give Pust- Office address in full, including State and Cousty. Remiltances may bomade eithar by draft, exprass, Post- OfEce arder, or tn registered Jetters, at our risk. TIRME TO CITY SUBSCRIBRRS. Daily, l.lltm'd‘ Sunday excepted, 25 eexts per wook: Dals, delivared, Sunday lncinded, 30 cents per week. Addren THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Cernar Madison axd Dearborn-sta., Chicagss bt i dirieid ENTS. TO-MORROW'S AMU! ‘Guéng“l' OVMESIC—HI l.dl!s::’; Won xu lonres. agageme! P Robart of Weodloigh.™ WOOLEY'S THXAm—BnInInI sweet, betwees Clarxacd LaSalls. Ka s Minstre} woen Mad- A, Bievens. ZLP] EATRE-Dearborn street, eorner Mox- ‘Dvmggmmm.' *¢The Courfer of Lyozs.™ s ———— SOCIETY MEETINGS. ATRVIEW CHAPTER NO, 161 B. A. M.—A stated eaaion Y okeriow Chapas NoLI6l AL e iveseid at Bl corgor Cotiaye Grovera, sad Thistyser- enthat..on Blonday evening, May * ol ‘w businese and work on Al egre: L rd f t! Fiuions cardially avitad: |y ordtarfibe . i K P YETTE CHAPTER, No. 2, ',LAPA ~Stated Canvoe-flnn Monday mnbfinl] ‘clbelh 10" bu;‘l\n'?‘. and work on the LRSS . N. TUOKER, Secratary. TTEN' HTS !—Special Conclave of . o sm Kh'lfiu » Monday avcnh::- EX . 185, for wvlk on’ 1K 0. Order, Vi oourioonly inrited. By enter of the lioi Com Bundsy Morning, May 23, 1875. The amendmont to the Postal law which Senstors Huwmw and Raser and the ex- companies rushed through Congress in Q’;:s.hfl hgfi of last session has doubled the postal expenses of a number of merchanta in New York. The Board of Trade of that city will 'try to have the law repealed. ] The troubls between Prussia and Bdgmm is still perplexing the Iatter. The Belgian' TUltramontanes hsve skillfully worked up publie opinion in such a way that the Min- istry will probably be overthrown for its wise conservatism in pacifying, insteed of irritating, Prussis by its answers to Bm- MARCK'S rough notes. A new horse-disease has broken out in St. Louis. It differs from the epizootic in kill- ing its victims. It is said by surgeons to be epidemic, so that its advent here may be ex- pected shortly, It resembles cersbro-spinal meningitis, which has hitherto sppeared, we believe, only in men, women, dogs, cats, and children. Two genial young residents of Port Jervis, N. Y., bave been amusing themselves lztely by firing bullets at the passenger-irains of the FErie Railroad. Nothing was done about it wntil the two smusing persons sent a bl or two through the Directors’ oar. The Direc- tors, who had endured the sufferings of the passengers with such heroic fortitude, at cnce had the men arrested. * The powers that bs™ must be respected. There was & Republican Convention in Summit County, O., yesterdsy, which did a thing or two worth mentioning. It instruci- ed its delegates to the State Convention to favor the passage of a resolution expressly condemning the third-term idea; and it de- clared that the public-school system must ba preserved intact, and that the funds collected for its, support must not be divided among “religions or other sects.” It was a good idea to spesk out plainly about the publio schools. Attacks on them sre largely due to the belief that the people are not interested in them. Gen. Buruxn is quoted as ssying that there will not be a public school in the country in twenty years; but then B. F. B.’s stronghold is not prophecy. He prophesied ‘his re-elaction in 1874. e ————— A number of sppointments to Gangerships in the First District of Illinois were mads yesterday. As the first lot of Gaugers, who turned vut so badly, owed their places pre- sumably to political influence, it wonld be in- teresting to lmow whether any other cause dictated the selection of this second sof. Civil-Servics reform, in the shape of a ocom- Ppetetive examination, could scarcely have been expected. The only suitable questions to have been asked would Lave been, ** Are you honest?” and “Are you s good judge of whisky 7 All the spplicants would have enswered them in the gsame way. But itis to be hoped that some care was taken to as- certain the character of the appointces, and that they do not owe their places simply to ¢he fact that they peddled tickets for some- body some time. eee————— Mr. A. H. Stxemzxng’ psper has one of that ‘voteran's breezy column-and-a-half paragraphs in defenss of the Southern text-book from which we quoted some passages the other day. The Constitutionalist, we are sorry to ses, de- ferds the statements made in this book, one of which is that the last two amendments wera “carried through by force and usurpa- tion,” vhmh is equivalent to saying that they ought to Bs disobeyed s soon as they safely ean. We said then, and say now, that this is pnpostawm partisanship,® unfit to be taught in schools. The Constitutionalist de- clares that Northern text-books are too unfair aad pertisan {0 be used in Southern schools, bus carefully refrains from supporting its opinion by quotstions. The Savannah Neus, which makes the same chargo and dilates np- w it, pursues the same very safe policy. Although nearly all the news of ecclesigsti- eal wrangling now has its origin in Germany and Ttely, it really appears that there is no country in Eurcpe where the relations be- twean Church and State sre more sharply defined and contested than in Switzerland, Thers are now thres different parties. On 55 one sids ave the Ultramontanes, who will reoognize the validity of no civil laws that corflict with the Church Government. On t.h;'ofhn gide are thoso who are ‘re- folved to maintain the supremacy of the eivil laws over ths Church st all bazards. = Betwson these two iz lib- ersl party, who do not care to discuss Ultra- tmontane policies a¢ all, but wish the nrr.h and the Btats to go their ssparate woykl. ‘luwonmagxhhng thesa thres bodiuu oue eriting cutof a decree of the Berness Government in Januy, 1374, banishing sizty.nine Catbolio priests of the Jurs, and flmnmmmwmmum mant. Tha mstier is' bafare the Federal As- fembly and Councll, mpon- & motion t4 re. e ths mumm.u it stated that the Ultramontanes have the Fed- eral Council upon their side, as well ‘as the middle party to which we have referred. Even some of the Protestants—particalarly the French Protestants—have expressed the strongest disapproval of the ecclegiastical policy of the Swiss, 28 well as of the Prus- sign, Government. e CaRn ZerRAEN has come to grief, and Grr- aoRE is jubilant. It will be remembered that pome time ago the irrepressible Grumore gave s Jubilee at Boston, of which, in large part, Mr. ZeRraAEN was conductor. . GILMORE attended to the anvil' and cannon business, and the * Hail Colambia,” lap-doodls musio; ‘but whatever music wes good:for anything was produced under Zezramn's baton. The Juabiles made a great noise, but did not make any money. On the other hand, it lost a great deal of money, and left the Boston hotel men, railroad men, and others who hed guaranteed the affair, ont of pocket. When settling-day came, thers was a dispute be- tween Grrarore and Zrrmanx as to the value of the latters services. It was let outto experts, and they couldn' agree, the awards running all the way from ten cents to ten thousand dollars. Then Zemmamw split the difference, and went into the courts and demanded $5,000. The litigation was a long one ; but the Court, having no mausic in its soul, has brought grief to Canv's heart and joy to Parriox's, by deciding that the former is entitled to nothing. Perbaps the Court bad been eaught in the guarantee fund. The English Government having sbsorbed the Fiji Islands, cannibels and all, at one gulp, & large and influential deputation is seriously urging Lord Carxarvox to take in_x- mediate possession of that vast and almost unexplored tropical island, New Guinea. The request comes from the Colony of Victoria, and the English papers are now busily in- vestigating New Guines, to ses if it is really worth taking. Ons of them, the Pall Mall Budget, has discovered the following facts, but is not very enthusiastic in the premises: ‘Returning to New Guinea itself, it is clear that a tropical territory of such magnitude, with a climats described to be hotter throughout than even- the hot- 1est part of Northern Australia, would not be occupled either by ourselves or by any other Europesn Power with 2 view to colonization. It is certainly possible that the existence of gold may some day attract a rush from the Gilbert or other Australisn gold-flelds in the North, for neither heat nor foar of natives will koop ‘back the resolute gold-digger. It is to bs hoped, mev- erthcless, that soms control will be exercised over such roogh interlopers, and that their greed or love of adventurs will not be per mitted to foroe a policy, Some accomnt of the interior of & portion of New Guinea has recently been given by a travelar, who mys that during the year 1672 he croased the island, accompanied by Australian and Prpusn natives, from Torres Straits almoat to the northern coast, His satements, however, need con- firmotion. The cenire of the island is described s covered with » denss tropical jungle, abounding in game, but uninhabited save at long intervals, A stu- ‘pendous mountain chain bresks the monotony of the forest and desert, and the ramge includes not only an sotive volcano of great maguitude, but an extracglina- 1y pesk which rises sheer out of tha pisin o a height of 52,000 feat, or 8,000 feet sbove Mount Everest, and far xbovs such pigmies 8 Mounts Diarseli and Gladstone, seen by the crew of the Basilisk, He also discovered s Iarge fresh-water lake abounding in fisb, previously nnknown even to the natives, and twe rapid rivers swarming with crocodiles, which after junction teend towards the narth, e——————roe— THE CITY TAXES. The tax-payers of Chicago have noueed that there is a wide difference of opinion be- tween Mr. Hayzs, the Comptroller, and ‘the five principal Boards, in their estimates of the necogsary expenditures for the year bsginning April 1, 1875, Mz, Havrs estimates the total expe.ndxmtn necessary for the present year at the sum of $6,277,820. This includes sll the expendi- tures of the city. But the “Boards” have more enlarged views, and their demands snd the recommendations of the Comptroller thus compare : Comptrolier's] Toa-d wttmates, | estémates, Board of Public Works.....§ 1,523,404/ 3,301,515 ‘Health Department 100,000 11,803 Police 00,0001 318 Department 900,000 191,677 Behool Department 800,000 1,419,939 Total. T ] 4 The difference between these estimates amounts to one million eight hundred and twenty-siz thousand dollars | Taking the Comptroller’s estimates for the other expenditures of the city, and adding thexnf to those given above, we have as totals : Comptrgller's,- $5,277,320 ; Boards', $7,103,~ 845, On the 1st of April, 1875, the Comptroller reported that there were then nnexpended of previous years' appropriations, $1,800,000, which sum isnow to be reappropriated in ad- dition to the sums above nemed, making the following aggregates : Az advised by the Comptroller, +$7,077,20 ‘As 2aked by the Boards, .. 8,903, Of the amount asked for this year, all will have to be raised by taxation except $300,000, miscellaneous receipts. If the Council agree with the Comptroller, then ‘the sum to be raised by taxation will be about §4,900,000; if the Council shall agree with' the’ Boards, then a tax must be levied that will producs £6,800,000, In the mlnl of the entire bufly of fax- payers we appoal to the Common Council not to exceed the estimate of the Comptrolier in their appropriations. If they appropriate what he advises, the sum at the disposal of the city, including unexpended balances of ‘previous appropristions, will. be seven mill- ions of dollars! Can the Common Council boe 80 reckless s to add another sighteen hundred thousand dollars to the sum to be raised by taxation ? The people of Chieago lnva, of their own means, and with borrowed money, expended since the fire from $70,000,000 to $80,000,- 000. A large part of this property is as yet unproductive, and a hrge part of it has, in consequence of the panic and the general de- pression of business, not yet become profit- able. . Certainly, the productive value of im- proved property in Chicago is not as grest a3 it was two years ago, nor any greater |° than it was one year ago. The owners are not as abis out of the rentals of their prop- erty to pay the taxes thereon as they were o year ago.. "This same property. is also taxed abont $2,000,000 for county and park pur- posss, besides the general ‘taxation which our people are subjected to far the nppmn! the National Government. Under thése circumstances, we sppeal to the Common Counéil that this is no time to indulge in expenditures that may be avoided. The people who have rebuilt the city cannot ‘st the same time indulge in other expendi- tures. When to*the interest on the money | invested in zebmu Ohicago sre added insur- ance, county, town, and Stats taxes, and the city taxes at ths rate of last yesr, the aggre- gate percentage will be found to sweep awsy the entire product from that proparty, Thera i3 10 room or margin for incressed taxation, An incrsasa of ‘taxes in hundreds of eases meens iha conflcention of the property, bs- catise, tnabls to hold it, the ownef nmpui with it for whatever be ecn get, Tast your G apgrapas vituation of fih || Iandledy ‘‘told on her,” property in this city for taxation was $303, 000,000, and the rate of tsxation 18 mills an the dollar. It will require that same rate of taxation and the same sggregate valuation to produce the revenue- estimated for by the Comptroller. But to produce the revenue needed to meet the appropriations_asked for by the Boards will require that the rate of tax be increased to 24 mills on the dollar.” It is-useless to add to the assessment and then point to a reduction of the rate of tax, That fraud will deceive no-one: The productive, and’ therefore real, value of the property has not incrensed since last year, and it will be a mockery and a delusion to attempt to hidoe and ‘cover up an advance in the rate of taxation by an. nrbm'uy increase of the as- sessment, - : The gentlemen who oomposa the Commxb tee on Finance in the Common Council cer- tainly know the condition of the’ people of Ghmlgo, and their inability to pay increased taxes. The citizons look o that Committes to report such a list of appropriations as.will Toquire no increass of tax over last yedr; snd they look to the whole Board to preserve the financial credit of the city by 'a firm ad- herence to close economy and to such rate of taxation as may be necessary to meet the city's debts and necessary expenses. OUR PERKINS. We do nnt melm the u.nfartumte person who inflicts stale puns and idiotic paragraphs on a long-suffering public, and haunts news- paper offices in'the vain hope of preventing impartial eriticism of his laborious nonsense. This is not the PeaxiNs we mean. He is not ours, and we trust he never may be. - It would be a great sin on our part that'could deserve such punishment. 'We use the word “our” in a national scnse. America’s PEr- s is CranLes Axxey P., the member of our Spanish diplomatic service who married the Princess JSABRLLA DEALCANTARA DE 50mo- thing-or-other-else Bourson, and thus became the only American member of the Royal Bourgox - family. The political traits of that family—their - learning noth- ing and forgetting nothing—appear in many American voters, but tle Ilatter are but imitators. The Rev. . Errazen Wrurraws used to tickle his foncy with the belief that he was “‘the lost Dauphin,” and 80 n Bourbon; but he. wasn't. . PeREmNe alone is the resl thing. He married »- Bour- bon and has bacome the father of Bourbons. And at the same time he has got in '{rouble, and is now adorning the inside of a Paris jall. His wife is a niece of ex-Queen IsaBErrs,—most of the Bourbons have “ ex™ before their titles, and the rest of them ought to. He, she, and the Queen, came packing to Paris together, ‘Then ho and she lived on the Quean until tho Iatter got tired of it.. Then they lived on confiding -land- lady. True to their race, they had not learned to pay their bills or forgotten’ how fo spongs for 8 living. When thelandiady got tired of the royal beggars who occiipied -her best rooms, and said she would have her rent, they kindly allowsd her to take it out by standing godmother to the lest young Bouz- Box-Periays hidslgo. Even this unimagina- ble honor, however, failed to content her long. She decided upon harsh mensures. Not being abla to take her rent, she took— alas for American honor !—PzrErNs and put him into jail. In vsin he and his Royal sponsa told her that Isiprira was going to send them some money,—which she was, but her nominal -husband applied to the courts and stopped her.- In vain did Mrs. Perrmys mistranslate s letter in order to prove this to the landlady. The Iatter was inexorsble. So Pzrxnxs went to jail, whers he will stay some five months longer in order to complots the year for which he was sontenced. -Hiswife went to another houss, but the irato and she had to- move. This process was . repested until Spain - bowed its neck- again to ‘priestcraft and Bourbon-craft. Then Ax- Foxso and his cousin Ieanzrza skipped over the Pyranees to Madrid, where. the one got 8 crown and the other a pension. Mrs. Pge- x1xs loves her husband, but doss not cara to return to Paris, because her eox-landlady has just sued her and got a judgment for 39,000 francs, and a decree, by virtae of, which the -Princess Prxxrvs would stay in: jail for two months if she should return to-the city where her husband langnishes. BShe therefore stays in Madrid, waiting for him. This is a1l the story to date. PrrriNs has been a8 unlucky 88 his countrywomen ustally are when they ‘mérry gham titles, He married a roal one, but does not scem to have been the gainer. ‘And yet what conld a man expect who had the incredible temerity to make ex-Queen Iaa- -BExLA his aunt-in-law ? THE BEECHERIAN VIEW OF PERJURY. Hexry Waro Beeoner is not the only Beroaxa whose way of life and thought are pecaliar. In’ the light of events connected with the pumimg trial, the Rev. Tmomus K. -Beeoeze, of Elmira, N.- Y., brother of the defendant, will soon need to riss and explain. It will be ‘remembered that the contrition letter was wiittenin Janoary, 1871 Mrs. WoopEvLr let the corruption loose in November, 1872. For three yenrs prior to that time it had been sgitating the Bezomes family, especially brother THomMAS and sister Isasxura Hooxes. Prior to the pnhhuey of the scandal;- the, latter had .been in corre- spondencs with: Mrs.. WoopruLL, and «in April of the same year with Brother Troaus. As part of this correspondence, we-make the following utzut from one of Brother Cl‘nox. 45" letters: Youhavenoproof ax yet of any offerieson HEimrs part, Your testimony would be allowod in no court. TIL0%, wife, MoULTON & Co. ars witnesses. Even Mirs, Srarron cau only declare hearsay. 8o, If youmove, remember you are standing on uncertain information, ond we shisll not probably ‘ever: get the facts—and I'm glad of 1t. - If Mr, and Xrs. TILTOR'are brought inta court notbing will be revealed. Perjury for good reasond is, with sdvanced thinkers, no ain. At the time, this letter was looked upon as n careless and reckless assertion, but the ds- vdapmenis of the trml have since shown' that Brother THOMAS was right in ;his unarflon, and that perjury has been taken into account 85 one of the prime factors in the case,—de- liberate, rank, oold-blooded perjury. . It will furthermore be remembered that Gen. Traor, it in alleged, gave utterance to the same faot uBzothar Tromus, only 8s o lawyer and a ‘man of the world. -Ho annommnced rather sen- tentiously that this. was ‘o case which could be lied u:mngh,mflmnt lmntmg the men- dacity to advanced thinkers or assigning any gaod rensonafor it This canduct upon Gen. Teaox's part, however, doen not strike us so forcibly 25 the' samo ‘géneral idea expressed by Brother Trouas. - Triox is alewyer, a man who in his professional capacity has been associated with stock, financial, and milroad rings, and knows all the ins and outs of esbal and intrigue. Brother Troxtag, however, is a man eallsd ‘of God to preach the Bitils to'srring men and women, & man nppnud t0.keep hinml.!-unlpomd from the and expound them for the benefit and hless- ing of mankind. - The majority of the :witnesses in. the Bexouer case have belonged to:the class Imown as * advanced thinkers;"—Mr. Berom- IR = and his clique, Mr. Trizxox snd his clique, . all the advocates of Womens’ R‘ghh, and all the minor orbs Wwhich circalate about STEzmmy Prany, ANDREWS, the great contral sun of the Pantarch, Even Bessre Tuxes, who thought that she was picked up by Trurox in the desd Wiiste of night, and earried, through” everal halls and rooms to.his pnrtmunt with- out waking, may - bo i one of the advanced ‘thinkers.. “How thess edvanced thinkers have licd . How deliber- ately they have per;uxed themselves - How ‘completely have 'they’ vindicsted Brother TrHomis' assertion that - ¢ Perjury for, gond rensons'is, with advanced thinkérs, no ginl” We 'are loth to-believe that alf theso advasiced thinkers hava committed perjury; that there isno parsona! honor ‘among “any of Lhem 3 but, making all possible allowances, it is- ayi- denitthatone-half of them have lied;and which half jo is may never ba. discovered. Ins- much 8 every witness has been contradicted directly, downrightly, and point-blankly by soma other witness, both on general and par- ticular points, it follows as an inevitabls con- clusion that at least 50 per cent of these: ad- Vanced thinkers Liave lied. Thus Brother. Tromas’ assertion is vindicated to the letter. The bearings of Brother Tmoxas’ assertion upon the case are not 0 important, Howoyer, as their bearings upon him’ personally as & man and as 4 minister of the Gospel. . In the lattar capacity, his duty ‘is to presch the Bible to his people. -The Bible says :-** Thou shalt not bear false witriess thy neigh- bor,” and “Thou shalt pot take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for” the Lord will not hold him gnildess ‘who taketh His name iin vain.” Inhundredsof places perjuryis set down 88 a gin, and the severest penalties are foreshadowed,—among them the warning that liars will have their port in the lske that burneth ‘with ' brimstone. . It makes 1o exceptions of advanced thinkers or of good reasons,* Its application is universal and without -qualification, and, unless all thess awful warnings are groundless, thers will be hot work hereafter for soma of these advanced thinkers. Being a sin, does Brother Tmomas believe -that the advanced thinkers can commit theft, murder, adultery, and the other rank crimes, with impunity, if they lave - good reasons? It would be interesting to know, moreover, upon what grounds Brother Trodas, being a minister of the ‘Gospel, can ba glad to lmow that perjury can be com- mitted, and why he has nat also expressed his great joy that other crimes csn be com- mitted by these advanced thinkers; for most certainly if it be_no crime for an. advanced thinker: to deliberately tell a falsehood, - it .is no crime for him to steal or inurder.” This is a curions code of morals for a Christian min- ister., The worst fasturo of the case is the doubt which he throws upon his brother “Hexpy Wazp, who is an advanced . thitker, and may have had good ressons for commit- ting perjury. Assoon, therefore, as the lat- ter's case lsneh‘.led, it ‘will behoove Brother Txomus to rise.and explain himself, and at the same time explain his allusions to another advauced thinker, contained in the {nlla'wing letter: Eracrma, Nov. 5, 1872.~Dran ‘Brzox: To allow it Devil himself to be erushed for speaking the trutn is unspeskably cowardly and contemptilie. I respect, a8 st prosent sdvised, ¥rs. WOODRULL, while I abhor hoe philosophy. She only carrics out HENBY'S philoso- by, aguinst which I recorded my protest twenty years ago. He bas drifted and I bave hardsoed, I eannot help him exoept by prayer. Inmy judgment Hxxey is following his elippery doctrines of expediency, and in his ery of progress snd the mobleness of humsn nature, has sacrificed clear, exact, ideal integrity. Of the two, WOODHULL s my herv, and HxaY my coward, au at prosent advised. He might also explain which is the worst,— to crush the Devil for speaking the truth, or to defend an advanced thinker for lying. - BUNKO. . Very soon sfter -the last city election in "Chicago, the rogues of the United States learried that they could ply their ‘trads here with practically complete safely. From East, and West, and South, they flocked here. They havo since become plessantly acquainted with the officials whose duty it is supposad to be to rid the community of such’pests; have made this tha gambling centte of the country ; have adopted a charter ‘conducive to their and their friends’ interests, and have pickoted the whole South Side north of Har- rison street with men whose duty it is to wheedle countrymen out of their cash. The community is powerless to help itself. The wlmtry merchants, and the farmers, whose trade is the raainstay of Chicago, have been robbed st the rate of a dazan per- dny for months. = The money tboy brought with them, wlnch ghould - luva gons _ to our merchants, hos gone to, the “ bunko ” men. It is true that the game the ‘Iatter play is a transparent ono, which should deceive nobody ; bat a stranger in a sirange city, who-meals a ** friand ? of himself and of the most prominent men of - his section, naturally grows confiding, and is easily daped out of his scanty savinga. * The ,man from Oshkosh * has become & pmvarbia.l phraso in Chicago. However unjust to the burned city it may be, it has coma to mean the man who is met on one of our gtreets by a swindling' person, Who greets him s a friend aund learns- his name and residence; who is then met by another * friend " who knows his’ name ‘and residence to begin with,. having. learned - it from his confederate ; and.: Who ia then al- lured ‘into s xoom where ‘marked cards; or loaded dice, or & sham lottery, inwhich oaly the proprietors draw prizes, rob him of the money with which he intended to buy goeds. He - goes . home intengaly - disgustad, after .an ineffectual, ‘ alwi ‘ineffedtual, visit to ‘omr polics, lwadqnaxtan, and often transfers his trade to some other. mty. where his faotsteps will ‘not be dogged by thieves. And, as we have said, the commumty cannot help, itself. For the. only way: in, which honest citizens can suppress such:an evil, ‘except by resorting to lynch law, is to cal] the attention of the pohco mdmnfial to thn matter. - _ In Chicago this would donngood. 'I'I;p pnhua sauthorities of this city aro. uamingly in léague with the gamblars, - ‘The latter dre perfectly well known to the Atectives and to many-of the regular _policemen. *-If ‘Supt. ‘Rery choss to do so, ho could arrest a score of bunko men to-doy and anotlier score fo- morrow ; and then, by Tuesday morning, the rest of the great gang would have fled tho city,~unless, indeed, they kmew, as they probably would; that Mr. Bz had no in- tention of baving any of the men arrested con- victed and sentenced. “The responsibility for the disgracefalstats of things that now prevails is upon the shoulders of the Superintendent of Police, He could stop it if he would, but he won't. If a merchant whoss stors, czv'd. d With customars, | begime. a favorite resort for thieves and pickpookets, ‘shonld :hire:a to kesp thess 7iguas awiy, and. should b | Chrn R et (1, e S0 P, pols | “faot Bquisrely in the face. cal, or pecuniary ressons, wes siding and abetting the criminals, he would of conrse dmehnrga him instantly. Yet this imaginary _employe would be no.more faithless to his duty; and would deserve no more fully an’in-' stant discharge, than “the Superintendent of Police, who refusés to perform his officinl duaty. Time was when the business of 2 Su- perintandent of Police in a great city was to arregt rogues, break up dens of rascality, and drive the criminal classes ‘out of the city,— via the State Pa-nihanfilfy»if he ‘could. We ‘have changed all thig in Chicago. -Our Police |- Superintendent’s duty does not now seein to includs’ such. Business.” A consequence. is that the dmgemu.s class enjoy an undisturbed license to prosecute their criminal tmde. o . .THE WOMEN OF WARS. W § The pmodxcu uprising of woman, and her protest sgainst ‘the dry-goods condition of -things, bas now afflicted ‘Wmnw, Ky.,and a asm of Eeonnmy, 25 well as a’shiver of in- ighation, has seized dpon thirty-ong of the ladies of that blue-grass community. These thirty-one, Who are represented to. be young and fair creatures, who are still" susceptibla | . to'the atfractions of dress and not old ladies or spinstets long past the blandishments of gros’-grmn and moxreanhque, hnvu met in eonventxon. They have all” msads speeches, ‘and they have whereased -and resolved, and the result of it oll'is that they have de- termined to purchass no dry-goods' exceeding in cost 25 cents per. yard for the 'space of a “year! 'I"bey have already eom- menced ’ their penmme, and | the .dry- good.s denlers of Warsew are gitting in sackeloth and ashes as they contemplate the fabrics upon their shelves, doomed per- ‘haps to lie there for a whole year, by which tirge they may be. out of fashion, except for an Old Ledies': Huml or & Home forthé Friendless. - " Inview, howaver of the ‘excellent resolu- tion adopted by t.ha women of Warsaw, we havo little feeling " for the dry-goods dealers of that burg. Their small financial incon- veniences aré &5 nothing compared with the sense and wisdorn and the soung political and domestic- economy involved in :the position taken by the women of Warsaw. We neod mora of such women and more of such reso- Tlutions, - If - they could be ndupted and car- ried gut for the space of one yesr by the women of Amorica, it would be = blessed thing for the financial eondition of this coun- try, If the women would resolve. .to -abandon not . only-. costly dresses. but ‘costly - flummeries and norsense of all ‘deseriptions, and the men of America would “for the same time cut off Saddle-Rocks, to- bacco, whisky, opeta-boxes, and ‘much of thejr nonsense, an equailibrium in the finan- ‘cial market would be established, mortgages would be lifted, trade would get on a health. ier ‘basis, and the wkole commercial warld would start upon a new career of ‘ wealth and prosperity. We should then produce more than we, .consume, instead of - consuming more than we produce, 83 we are now doing. . 'This is & very beautiful picturs; but we fear itis Utopian. - *Like the Radbi in ¢ Uriel Acosta,” we have seen all this before. The ‘womeén of ‘Warsaw are doing what has been .done many s time before. How many con~ ventions of women have assembled .and vir- tuoualy and frugally resolved to wear cheap clothing? How many times have the écono- ‘mists rejoiced when lovely woman has' sol- amn!y dstermined fo have nothing more to "do with nonsense, and_ in a short time found themselves disappointed? Much as we ad- mire the action of the women of Warsaw, we fear that the women of Warsaw, like the gvnfl.o 8ex’ everywheu, ars ‘‘uncer tain, ‘coy, and bhard, to plessc.” We fonr that the women of Warsaw are finkle, and that they will change their “minds before a month has passed away. We feer the effect of one gingls pattern displayed in a modiate’s window,—one of those patterns ‘which is sweet and pretty, and too lovely for anything.: . We fear that ‘at’ ths ‘siglit of one lovely creaturs from Louisville or elsswhere “porading the stroots of Warsaw in a killing gros-grain or stunning moire-antiquo all their resolution will melt sway, and that they would rush into extravagance with an appe- tite increased by their iemporpxy abstinence. In this fact lies somo comfort for the Warsaw dry-goods dealers. They" can bide their time inthe assurance that human’ nature is the same the world over, and that the women of ‘Wersaw have as much of it as other women ; that the female nature is fickle, and that the female natars of Warsaw is no exception to the rale. umm.om MINISTEES, A curious mnuncunent comes from the Ningara Presbytery, now. in session. Ta a paper.on **Vacant Churches. and Unem- ployed Miniafars,” prepared by a eomumittes of which the Bev. E. P. Marvi; was Chair- man, it was stated ‘that - the Presbyterian Church has & surplos of ‘ministers. * Ssys the Teport: ““We mean thot we have more well qualified ‘ministers than wo' can amploy effi- _ciently, and support comfo\'tably Probably we hlve abgut 500 men ' of fair: qualifications who are unemployed in the ministry because they cannot find living fields, and our Home Migsion Board cannot gustain them. - We see no hope of better things until our ecclasias- 4ical bodies are willing to look this important " It is'vain to con- “fass the Church with' fiew titles in the minis- ters. Wo gimply have the rose by another name.” This is & condition of Lhmgs which is not pscnlm to the Presbyterian denomina- hon, but is applicable to.all churches. . 'I'hl :whole minigterial market is overstocked. The ruies of pohhcnl economy which apply {o" the ordinary transaction -of commercial ‘business apply-to - this ‘ministerial situation also. Thesupply is greater than the demand. want.. One effect of this is & - c.heapanmg of the price of ministers: “The average' salary of- the Presbyterian "minjster . is reduced. A fow may gt exceptionally lngh prices, )usz ‘a8 when the market for precious stones is overstocked dismonds” hold their prica al- though other gems cheapen.. The rank and file, howaver, have to live upon amall salaries, and every one knows,that poor ministers are as- plentifal as 'poor crows, - How ocan-it be otherwiso when there- is mot work enougli for thésé ministera to do ? .Some of them must lig idle-and some of them -only do Dbalf-work, Thera. is another. consideration to be regarded - from -the ‘fmancial pomé of view, Mmutan unliks the members of any other prof mpporkd, oven if.they hava nuflung to do. Lawyers, doctors, sditors; and authors, when they have nothing to do, bestir themsolves to find something, or- go to ' the Poor-House. Ko one thinks;of -allowing them to occupy ginecure positions. . ‘They must work or starve, Ministers, however, rely upon sup- port, and congregations have conie to regard it ax » duty to kesp them out of want, sven when in idleniens. . Honos come donation pary tiss, sharitablesubsariptions, and idle pudm- senits Al purty of iha vineyaid desiving selacin their gupport from religions newspapers, hos- pitals, asylums, Sunday-schools, and other precarious sources of income. All this makes a serious tax upon churches, and helps to place them befors the: community in the atti. tude’ of most pemntent mendicants. ‘It i enough, and oftentimes more “than a church ‘can do, to pay-its salaries and runmng €x- penses and do ita proportion of missionary .work, without being obliged to pay an ad- ditional tax every year for:the support of idle There are moral 85 well as ‘pecuniary rea- song why this overplus of ‘ministers is to be _deprecated. It places the minister at the mercy of his congregation. So long as this _enormous disproportion exists, congregations can treat the clergy as they please. - They are not afraid to lose their pastors, for the -roarket is fall of them, and they can supply vacancies with the most perfect ease. In- stead of being the guide and suthority for the flock, the flock becomes guide and authority for the pastor. The s}:eep psy Do regard fo the shepherd, but jump fences and ‘even throngh other people’s pastures at ‘will, without regard to the shepherd’s werning. All sanctity and reverencs for the minister are lost. He is made to feel "he holds his place by sufferance. If he wanta to keep it, he must fawn and truckle to the ‘multitude, and, even when' he -does stir, the chances are ten to one that some drons is plotting to get his place away from him. In this manner, the church loses its humility. Having plenty of ministers to choose from, it becomes fastidious and even saucy. The minister loses his indspendencs at a propor- tionate rate. Whils the minister suffers in the loss of ‘reverence and the decline of his discipliné and weak in influence. - ‘What is the remedy for all this? Exaotly that which political economy supplies. Re- duce the supply. Establish an equilibrinm between'it' and the demand. It is better, in fact, that the disproportion should be upon the side of the demand. It is not enough that, becduse a man is good, or is talented, he shonld “rush pell mell into the ministry. The other professions sadly need good men and talented men. 'We want good and talent- ed lawybrs, doctors, and authors, even mors than we want good and telented ministers. But asit is now, if a young man happens ‘to be .pcssessed of a good moral and religious character and fair talent, the fond family immedistely consign him to the theological seminary to go into training for the ministry and place his less good and tal- ented brothers in some of the other profes- sions. Upon this point, the Committee ex- press some very sensible views: * Stand back and let God, instead of doting parentsor ambitions friends, call young men into the minisiry. Beware of the spirit of SamUEL's dsy when men ssid, ‘Put me, Ipray thee, into one of the priest’ offices, that I may eat a piece of bread.” Let Presbyteries be more particalar and faithfal as to qualifications of both head and heart, and ‘lsy hands sudden- lyon no man.’ et us recognize the fact that God calls men out of the preparatory course and ‘the minigtry whom ™ He never called into it.. Let us have no Medo-Persian laws, but provide for the damission of the ministry.” - This is very practical advice, and, if followed, will have a healthy in- fluencs in’ future. - But what is to be done now? What is to become of the 500 idle ministers in the Presbyterian denomination, and the hundreds in other denominations? “What other courss is there for them to pur- sue than to turn their attention to something elsa? If they have nothing to do in their own profession, it is pretty evident they werse mistaken in supposing that the Lord has called them for His work. If such had been the cass, work would havs been provided for them. If they sre good men, there are plenty of avenues open to them in other occupations, for good men are everywhere nseded. THE MILLENNIUM OF PEACE. All tho swords and spears have not yet been beaten into plowshares and pruning- hooks. | Christendom, in fact, bristles with bayonets. Her ports are stocked with torpe- does and iron-clads. Eoropean nations which nomnmfly follow the precepts of the “ Prince of Peace” keep millions of men under arms, and thus'at once diminish the producing class and increase that of the unproductive ¢onsumers,—already out of all economit pro- portion. The history of the world since 1856 is foirly saturated with blood.- The destruc- tion of life would have made MarTavus’ heart rejoice, while the frightful waste of wealth involved in it ‘ must be recognized a3 ‘one of the greatest of economic evils. It is not. strarge that, under these circumstances, ths different peace- soleties "have led' but A precarious ex- istence. Their resolutions, read amid the eclio of. ¢annon-volley and musketry, have sounded rather sbsurd.” Yet, after all, al- though the war-cloud hangs heavy over Eu- rope, and the two great Christian' nations of Russia and England are ‘preparing for a sav- age conflict in‘ Asiatio heathendom, the peace millennium is not necessarily so distant. The man now in the prime of life who has heard only of wars and rumors of wars from his childhood may be: pardoned for believing with Hozses that the natural state of man- kind is warfare; ‘but his grandson may live to ‘see nations settle their dispdtes in courts far more gammfly and wmplahly than indi- wviduals do now. " The growth of | science involves the decay of war. Scientific inventions have' made ‘battles so frightfully destructive of human life that they are dreaded far mors than they ‘used to be., Two centuries ago, the whim of a King’s mistress could set two nstionsat slowly killing each other. "Now that the kill- ing is quiokly done, the whims and caprices of those in power count for less, and the popular belief in the justics and right of one side of a great question for more. Again, what ‘msy- be called ths emotional side of certainty. ' Is it any more incredible, in th, present state of civilization, that the time may come when weak and strong nations wig settle their digputes as peacefully s indivia ualsdonow? They may be expected to saltly them more pueatuny, for most *rongs are’ dons in sudden moments of irifa ‘tion and temptamm, mdqba owly. moving body 'like” a' nation is less exposed to - fleeting temptation, am.g would be mors deterred by the- prospact.of ‘punishment, than an individual. Courts res, of course, on'the feserve-force of the nrtional strength. They are obeyed becauss a mgn knows that he cannot by any possibil: £y re- sist the force that can be brought to Lear fo compel his. obedience. So internstional courts would ‘rest ‘on the whole poer of Christendom, -and -nations would uss their | strength- for the gxeat purpose of zn!.xre.mg ]ushoe n.nd ‘preserving peate, instéad of PioG. tituting"it’ to 'ends of savagery. “There ave perhaps some questions which cannot bs snl. mitted to arbitration, but they are very, vury few. In a really ‘vilized worid, esnturis would pass without & single war. HOW WE SPEKD OUR MOKNEY. The New York papers state that on Satnr. day, May 15, the steamers which left thy port took with them 2,290 passengers, il that the number ' of passengers leaving thii port during the week was but little akort of 4,000. Abont half went in ‘the cabizs, sud the others in the steerage. The steerage ‘cn the cutward trip is uncrowded and compars. tively comfortable, and is much resorted to by well-to-do foreign-born citizens who; visiting their European homes, prefer the economy ct the steerage to the costly luxury of the cabin, There were, howaver, included in this aggre- gats a number of disappointed immizrants The number of American tourists léav.ng fur Europe increases every year; and it is Dot improbable that 50,000 will go over during the present summer. Thers are those who claim that this is & m. tional loss, putting it on the same grewnd v the claim that the purchase of goods i for. eign countries i8 a log2 to the United Stato, The money is spent variously. £ larpe prt of it may be put down under amusements, ur sight-seeing; much of it is expanded for dressing, for jewelry; much for eati:z aui -drinking, and traveling expenses. TLom irs invalids who gosbroad toseek health ; olksrs who put the ocean between them anl the; 3 ‘business that they may bave that rest of body and mind not posaible at bome. As a general thing, however, thuse “wi. o g abrosd do not spend much more moncy than the same persons would spand hed they remained in this country. The daily e-peni- itures per capita during the waterinz-place season equals, perhaps, the expense of the same classof travelers in Europe, a-.d ile daily expenditures in the social seasonr in the rather than fall below the cost of & wh ter. in Paria. Bo far, therefore, as the outla: of s trip to Europe is concarned, it does no! in- volve any serions expenditure 6f mczeyon the part of the travelers beyond whit tacy ‘would expend in thesame tineat home.. Wyt ever ‘ waste of substance,” therefore, is in. volved in & trip to Eurcpe, is not, so far.as the persons spending the money ars cea- cerned, inany woy increased. The man who can sfford to make the tonr of Europe can hardly be zaid to bnn.mg an unpatriotio nse of his money in so »4 In the estimation of meny persons, the moany ‘| spent in obtsining a collegiate edu ativi is po much money wasted, and perh:.ps in many cases this is trus ; but that hh.u-dly a resson why np one should be sent to ecLiegs. There is @ very large—indeed an immen<s —sum annually expended for medicize and medical advice, of which a very largs propor- tion—some would say the whole—is not only wasted, but the expendituro is L.ru iy injurious. We ':pendlnnun!.ly many m’" in diamonds andother jewels, in elabora expensive dreazes, in costly entertainmer.!s, ‘n gorgeous' decorations of our houses ; ihesa ars many millions of dollars Ar)endad evan for flowers, which perish within & few Lours in. the heated rooms which- they ‘daor:ata. ‘We expend annually in wines and liquors. in cigars and other forms of tobacco, in, 't beverages, enough, if so applied, to pay off onr national debt in & few years. If, in aliort, the American peopls would eat and itk nm]whatmmsdcdtommhfs i they wrull dress in the plainest garb, made in their own households; if they would d:ink nothing but’ water, and banish tobacco; if they would silence- the opern, close the thaatzes, ‘cuppress the circus, and all science, which finds vent in euthanagia over the. . *religion” of humanity,” -is * wholly in ‘favor of peace.’ Its influence is not to be underrated, for it ap- pears in a strong form in the works of all the gréat English scientists, with the possible exception of Mr. DanwiN; and thess works have either created or bsen the inevitablé re- sult of the tone of modern thought. Finally, the waste canead by war is utterly unreasona- ble and barbarous, and therefors unscientifio. Whst might not be done if the money and men wasted in war wers dovoted to the devel- opment of kmowledge?—if the vast sums used in killing, or getting ready to kill, men ware used to educato men?—if forts were re- placed by schools, and iron-clads by musoums, art-galleries, and endowed scholarshipa ? International peace must be brought abont by international courts. A thousand years 2go, it would bave- been held as wild folly to sarionaly sonsider the possidility of eatab- lishing donrts whith would mets out im- parkial Jflt‘ 4o high sait low, Heh 4nd pocry other worldly shows and amusements; if they would carry the same thrift into the ¢on- struction of their dwellings, and into .the furnighing thereof, —theywauldsxuimmsmo sums of money, which ars now, in compariton with that system, wasted in Inxurions cx- tnvsgmce Such s return to simplicily, temperance, frogality, and thrift, would avoid conntless other expenditures,now necessa'y tomeet or keop up with the wants of civiliza- tion. Bat the world is not disposed to go back to that style of -living. We live in an extrava- gant age, and in an extravagant couniry. “Wa Live fast, and crowd into the fleeting moments 2ll the' fun we ¢an. We act upon the prin- ciple” that we " have but ons life, and thata nkmnna,mthxswuxm,nd it ja our duty to eat, drink, wear, smoks, and see all thst we ‘can ' pogsibly dn within the short tix2o at our disposal. The men who hoards, or “1sys by for s rainy day,” is now st for his penury, and is asked if he ex. pects to carry his money with him beyond the grave. We are an industrious peopls, 8 hard-working peopls, and crowd into ons day what is equivalant to three dsys' labor in suy aflm‘ country. We earn much mozey, but wa eam it that wemay spend it, and spend it for something we have not had befors. Time was when a trip to Europe wss oaly thought oibylhasawhnwmthapuulma!hnd- itary wealth and of hereditary pratensions to possible affiliations out of - the common line in Europe. 'Now the trip to Eurcpe is: one of.--the thhglpntdawnm the note:book of ‘every’ boy ‘and gid for faturs perxormmu. Every immigrsné who corries to this Iand proposes to get riok, &nd go back to ses kis 0ld neighbors, bearing with him. the. evidance .of. bis.rise in the world. - In'fashionable life s trip to Europs is becoming as essential to s wedding s it ‘was forty yoars agofor the bride o taksto bar new home. the- half-dozen quilts and otber bedding the work of her own maiden hsnds. MYms was when to visit Barntogs was an eZ- travagance bevond ‘the meansof the multl- tude ; now a grester number visit Europe ave nufly than visited the watering-places twes- ty yesrs ago. A visit to Burope, not singly, bu:hy(m.fl!u,hdnnunmnnd the urdioary expenditures of all Amerde cans who can afford it, and oan Do mare be “taken off thiks can the parpc-d o ameiean men sod women to kave s faed large cities, and at Washington, oxcerd TN