Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 10, 1875, Page 6

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1875, TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. TATYA 6F AURACRIPTION (FATADLE IX ADYANCE). Foaingo Preraid at this Once, 1 200 [ Weekly, ) 5o R e tRA Ry Bundy K ‘Tan cop dnnh’ashect. 2,00 Parteol a yoarat tho same rate, WWAKTED—Una aetive azoat In oach town and village. Special arranganionts mada with stck. Bppctmou copies nent fres, TTapreeent delay and mesiakes, bo sure and give Poat. Ofice ccurerw in foll, fneluding State aad County, Rerl (anoesmay bomede oither by drafl, expross, Post- Ul.ce vicer, or In rexlstercd letiory, at onr risk, TRRMA T0 CITY AUBACRIDENN, Datly, delirerod, Bundsy escanted, 253 vonl Dallg, deliversd, Bunday Ineluded, Address THE TRIDUNE COMP, 0 Carner Madisan aud Dasrbot Chicags, Ll or woek, TO-DAY'S AMUSEMENTS. ADPLTHI THEATRE-Dearborn street, comer Mone e, Vanaty Entertalamont, MVIORER'H THEATRI-Madlon strest, between Drwbarnand Steter agagoment ot NoD: Robers Paatowtme-Tronpe, ** Jack and.Jill,* ACA DAY OF MURIC—Halated stoant, hatwoen Mad. Joom aud Nanroo. “Engnzemant of Hlavorly's Minstrels. * Evs, 2 Tals of the Hajous, UOOLEY'S THEATRE~Randolrh straot, hatween Glsex and 1a%alle. " Fngagemont of John Thompson. *1Zykes, theBhowman. No. R, A. M.~Rpe- The Chidage Teibune, Thursday Morning, June 10, 1875. Trensurer SrIsNen is offered a choico of medinms for the recovery of the stolen pack- ngo of 347,000, Various clairvoyants, trance~ arlists, and the liko havoe proposcd to furnish information from the spirit-land which shall lead to the restoration of the plunder, but Gen, SpiNNER, being projudiced agalnst illicit spirits of all kinds, prefers to work with flosh. and-blood detectiv Silver s gotting so cheap that no family need bo witbontit. 'Che Government has re- contly pucchased & largo amannt of Lullion in Carson City at the cheapest mate ever known iun the country—$1.07 perounce, Al this fignre, it s caleulated that by next fall the Government will have purchased and coined n puflicient quantity to admit of the retiroent of fractional currency, and the substitation of rilver in its place, Bportsmen's Couvention in Cloveland, Mr, Jony V. Lz Morxg, of Chicngo, was honored by being eleoted President of the Asrocintion, which, in return, did itself eredit in tho sclec- tion of no ino o type of tho gentleman and sportsman, Postmaster-Genernl JewrLr wns present yesterday, and addressed the Conven. tion, enying that ho was heartily in sympathy with the purposes and nims of the Associa- tion, and promising that, npon his retirement from publio life, ha would bo *one of them " £gain, Tourists roturning from Europs will have causo to regrot the general falling off in cus. toms roceipts, Bourotary Baistow las an unpleasant habit of ** wantiny to know, you know,"” and amonys the matters to beinqguired into more rigidly will Lo tho trunks of trav- elers coming nshiore, Strieter rogulations are to be enjoined in this rogard upen Custom- Houso officinls, whoso ideas of *‘necessary” wearing-apparel, jowolry, cte., may bo ex. pectod Lo undergo the process of contraction, sad p vast mmount of genteal smuggling will thus bo prevented. A chemical analysis of the Chicago Custom- Tlouse sbone, just completed in Washington by a chomist beyond the influenco of Muri- 1ER'S persunsive powers, proves the stono to bo Incking in soms of tho qualities required in tha mpecifications, innsmuch as it con- taing ingredicats which yield to thu action of frost; licnoo tho scales so numerously ob- sorved in the walls in Chicago, It ia nmow considered cortain that tho quality of the etono ns woll o3 the condition and adequacy of the foundntions will enter into tho investigations of the Examining Commis- sion now in this city, and in Washington it is tuought that tho present stone contract will ‘be annulled, the walls and foundations razed, rnd tho building roconstructed upon a new plan and wilh & ferout material, Collector Wanswonts had nt lest soen the folly of expecting a cabweb to successtully resist o now kroom in the hands of a vigor- ons sweeper, and Lns wincly chosen to stop out ruther than Do brushed ont. His resig- nation rewzhed Washington yesterday aftor- noaon, acecinpanied by o long lotter of expla. nation and fustification. 'Che resignation s better late than nover, though its tonder ten days ogo would heve besn mere to Mr. Wanswort's crodit and advantage, ss the policy of charitablo silence would thon have beon practicable, instesd of the unfavorable commuent provoked by resistanco and delay. A rwwnor s current in Washington that Gen, ‘Wepsren will not accept the Collectorship, Dut, “for the good of the service,” it is to be hiqped tho report Is unfounded. ———— Tho Eplscopnl brecze blows ot and cold. Yowa ls in a torrible stew, and the new Dio- ceso of Fond du Lno enjoys tho extremo of folicity, Both lave eleoted Bishops,—tho Rev, Dr, Barxax having been chosen yes- terdny by Fond du Lag, and Dr. Ecoveeton somo days ago in Towa, 'Tho latter dioceso is uald to be in a state of open robollion. It was charged that dovices and stratagoms quite unchurchly were employed to socars Dr. Ecouxstos's election, and now it is freely osserted that, in tho ovent of the Standing Commitiee’s cousenting to bhis conseeration, he will not be roceived by over ons.hulf of the Towa parishes, aud that his installment as Bishop will greatly injure the Church in the Diccose. In Fond du Lao a tiore Ohrlstian spirit pre- vadled, and the minority, finding themselves beaten, grocefully and heartily helped to mske the voto unanimous, and sung the Glorla with as much unction as though thora bad been uo contest. Dr. Bumvman has charge of & parish in Lexinglon, Ky., and will be wormly welcomed to Lis now Eplsco. pate, ] = =] 'The Ohieago produce warkets weve stendler yestarday, Mews pork was quiet and Ho per brl higher, closing at 810,60 cash, and 1055 for July, Lard was in woderate ro. yquest, and fo per 100 1ba Jower, closing &t 315,50 cosh, aud $18.55 for July. Meats were more aotive and firmer, ab 7}@8e for shouldery, 1140 for short ribs, and 11}@1130 for short clears, Highwines wers active and flrny, at $1.17 per gullon. Lake freighta wern ™ ly activo and easicr, Ylour was and {@jo highor, closing tame at 67§0 eash, and 69c for July. Oats were firmer, closing at 62¢ cnsh and age for July, Ryo waaquict, nt 980 eash, and 75c for September, Darley was in Letter request and firmer, closing at £1,034@1.04 forSeptamber, ITogs wore act ive and a shado lighor; sales principally st $7.0027.80. Caillo closed weak, with a downwanl tendency, Sheep wero ensy. Mr, Lievsex Srmsarn, the publicsspirited Cincinnatian who recenily donnted 25, 000 to that city for tho purposo of building a musio hatl, has now incrensed his donntion with €40,000 more. Cincinnati is rejoicing over the fact, and has a right to, It is raro that such instances of local pride and of public spirit are found. In this respect, Chi. cngo s far behind Cincinnatf, but then Cin- cinnnti has more wealth than we have, moro Iejaure, nnd more ngo. Wo have but n very' fow men who can afford to do this kind of a thing, Lut thoso who ean ought to be about it, which reminds us that Mr, WesTwonTHo bias not yot given the county those 80 scres for park purposes which we understand Lo contemplates doing. In his nrgument yesterday in the Beronrn case, Mr. BEsct, who closes for the plaintilf, crented an excitement by plainly and in n pointed manner intimating that bribery of the jury bad been attempted, and possibly consummated, by the friends of the defendnnt, This was more than (the mero bombast of an advocate desperate- ly anxious to serve his client, and in saying what lie did Mr. Beion evi dently expressed his own convictions, based upon circumstances and probabilities which have led others besides himself to the same conclusion. With the world of wealth cast at Mr. Berenmn's feet since the seandal was mado public, it would not bo strange if over-zealoug partisaus, anxious to guard aguinst tho possibility of an unfavor. ablo verdict, lad contrived to bring to bLear a 1ooney prossure upon the jury. No one will ba willing to believe that such a step haa been taken with Mr. Breenrn's connivanco or conseat ; but, 60 long ny jurors aro human and friends aro super-solicitous, Mr. Beacn's significant ref. erenco to the gold of Midas will not be uni. versally received in a Pickwickian sense; there will bo plenty of people who think the plaintifl’s counsel meant just what he said, THE JEFFERSONIANS AND COSMOPOLITARS ‘We yosterday published tho proposed con. stitution and the inaugural proceedings of tho two Democratio clubs which bave been formed in this city : the Jelersonion and tho Cosmopolitan. Theso clubs recognizo, and jn writing de. fine, the broad line between the swallow-tall cont and clean shirt on the one side, and on the other the short bair, hard-fisted, nnd froe- and-eesy Democracy of Chicago. 'The gen- tlemen with immaculate linen, like Judge Hesny G Mitaes, Senator Trumnuwr, F. 0. Kauzs, Jonn Hise, and Menvinie W. Fouuen, call themselvos Jeffersonians, and, in order to keep their eclub ex- clusive and select, have fixed an admis- sion feo at 81, which will effectually oxclude all the lower clnss of Democrats who are not in offico. This club 15, and unquestionably will continuo to be, eminantly respeetablo ; it will ombrace the aristocracy and wenlth of tho party, and perhaps the intellectunl and thinking Democrats, ‘The platform of tho club (printed in ''nx: TRIONE yesterday) is o vory sble prosentation of sound principles, and might safely be adoptod by tho tepublic- an party in every Stato of theUnion., Though a little more elaborato, it strongly resembles the declaration of the recent Republie- au Convention in Ohio, It ignoreatho senso- less jargon sbout State Sovereignty, recog- nizes the Afrlean ns a citizen, favors sound money, a revenue tariff, aud honesty, efficlen- ¢y, ond oconomy in Government,~all good Ttopubliean doctrines, The other club bears the titlo of Cosmo- politan. Perhapa the relative popularity of tho two clubs was best evidenced by the pro- ceedings at their orgauization, 'Tho Jeffor~ sopians, fow in number, met in a small back roowm, with locked doors, in the Sherman Houso. The Cosmopolitans distributed far and wids cards printed fn- gold mpon tinted paper “‘cordinlly inviting” the *great un- washod" to nttend. Tho Jefforsonians held a dry and dnll, but highly respoctabls, confer. ence, from which even reporters wero exclud. ed. The Cosmopolitans had *opon Louse,” with all that {hat term implies. ‘Phere was o hiaudsomo sprend,—boned turkoy, rounds of beef, saddles of mutton, bnms, tongues, and pigs’ feot, with numorous side dishes; a half n hundred waiters were in attendance supply- ing the *boys” with whiskoy, and gin, and champngne, and with cigars by the bhatful. Ts it any wonder that, while tho Jefforsoniaug had a dozen or two at their meeting; the Cosmopolitaus had thelr two or three thou- wond following ocach other from midday to midnight? The comparative strength of tho two clubs waa probably shown in tho num. bors of thoso attending their respective organizations, Compnra the lst of names given ns consti. tuting the fathers of tho Jefferconians with the following Comumitteo of Invitatiou of tho Cosmopolitnus: Ex-Ald. Micnars B, Batey; AlL T, F, Banzr; Gronok Vox Hovruen, Tax Collcctor; Ep, Pmuaavs, Town Assessor; Ald, Tox Forry; ex-Olerk Orro Brum, ond Par O'Barew. Each of theso mou s oqual to sovern} lmndred votes ab an cleclion, or primary meoting, or for any otlicr purpose, Conspicuous at the epening were Ald, Hir- pnetit, Ald. Munrny, Joux Conconay of the Twentisth Ward, Mayor CoLvry, Mixe Evans, Connmap Fovrz, Bhoriff Aaxew, Perzn Iaxn, and the retainers of all that class of men, Chicago and Cook County pay out anuunally in the wny of salaries and other perquisitos 92,850,000, All the leading Cosmopolitans Yiavo n share in this fund, Lvory man whols in office, or expects ever to be in ofilce, or who hes been in and expects to got ek, is A Cosmopolitnn. I'heso men are mon of power. ‘They have each a largeconstituency, ‘They constituto tho bulk of the party. They care nothing for platforms or resolutions; they have but ono purpose end alm, and that is tox-eating, They do not work nor toil; thoy do not cromte nor produca; but thoy consume vigorously, In their eatimate, Govermments were croatod to benefit the **people”; the Cosmopolitany consldor themselves tho poople, and there. {oro so administor the Government that the largest swin of blessing shall fall to ench Cosmopolitan, The Democraoy of the two clubs varies. That of tho Jefforsoniany la thooretio and ideal; that of the Cosmopoli. tane practical and substantial ; the ons is in- tellectual, the othor sensual ; one is abstract, and the other concrete ; one rests upon prin- dp]n,&lfll other upon profit, quict and anchanged. Wheatwas moderately sutive, and 130 higher, closing ab 07}c cash, sad ¥éfo2or July. Oorn was in falr dasand Judge, TruamoLy fitly ropresonts one of thess clubs ; Tox Forsy the other. Hzwny G. Mouasa may e3arolss a contraliing power over the judgment of tho Jeffersonians ; but Jomx Conconax controls votes, not meraly of his boarders and customers, but by wards, | towns, and divisions.' The Jellersoniang nay be powerful in the forum and tho Sen- ate-House, but tho Cosmopolitans control the ballot-box and employ the stuffers and repenters, and mnko Sonators, Judges, law. mnkers, and Inw-givera, We had nearly forgotten to say that the Tiestsus, old aud young, are members of both clubs, Of conrso both clubs, in their separate lines, will feel the impress of these two gentlomen., The Jeffersonians will bo kept down from possible nerinl wanderings ofter tho influite, and the Cosmopolitans be heli to tho doctrine of a fair division. "I'here i8 n peculiar udvantage in this donble- headed organization. It gives tho two clnsses of Democrnts, between whom thero is not the faintest suspicion of nfinily, the manns of operation without collision. Such o sepa- ration would .bo bardly necessary in any other party; but in the Democratic party it is both n convenienco and n ne- cessity. The intelligenco, decency, and respect for politicnl opinfon of the party aro roprosenfed by the one clnb, and pro- tected, as wo have said, by the admission tax of ono dollar per Lead; while the lust for office, for the plunder of the public, for the increnso of taxes, for tha letting of big contracts, for large expeuditures, for the creation of now oftices, and the distribution of more palaries, and the control of nomina- tions, tha packing couventions, stufting of Dnilot-boxes, and the carrying elections by whatover means may be necessary for that purpose,—is as fitly represonted by the Cos- mopolitans. The latter club, now thoroughly organized, concentrating within it everythingand every- body that is interested in spoils and plundor, and who have at their commanda constitu- ency numorous and unprincipled enough to mnke Buccess a certainty, at onco nssumes vast political importance as the Tammany organization of this motropolis. Who are tho Twerps, Sweenys, CoxNoLLys, INoERsoLLs, and Ganvers, who aro to graduato from this organization, may not bo now known; but there can be no quostion of the abundancy of the well-propared material already en- rolled among tho Cosmopolitans, DOGMATIC V8. SECULAR EDUCATION, Wa have already directed attention to the fact that tho oxtreme Catholica aro not satis- fied with tho exclusion of tho Biblo from the public schools, In Ohio, whore this concos- sion to the Catholio hostility to tho publie scbools hos been mado to somo extent, the Catholic T'elegraph, nn organ at once of Arch. bishop Poncern and the Democrntio party, boldly announces that no Catholic can send his children to the public schools, under the present system, with or without Bible-read- ing, without committing o sin agoinst tho Cliurch. It antagonizes the school without the Bible as & * no-sect ” institution, and im- proves the oceasion to arraign Protestantism in gonoral, &y follows : Its creod fg tho deatal of all postiive ravesled re. ligion, and this {s the logical sequence of the fall developmont of the proteat which rbels raissil agalnut the divine suthority of tho Church thres centurles g0, 1f theroare thousands iu.this country profosse iug to belong to somo ono of the many Protestant de- nominatione, aud who yet favor tho climinatton of religlon from o tralalng of youtl, thelr weomingly Lllogical position can be caslly cxplained. Thoy buve unconsciously aceeptod tho finsl conclaslon to which tholr falsy religion loads,—~thoy thunk and act na lu- Odels, Becauso {nfdelity 18 the maturad fruil of Pro- testantiam, Thoy favor the expulsion of God from the schiool-room bocauss tiey havo oxpelied all balief fn Chrisliauity aa a supornatural religlon from their minde, 1fany Catholio dosltos (o take the sama side on tho school queation, e virtually places himaelt fn {ie eatogory of thoso who Loldly deny that the Son of God commissloucd tho Church to teach all natious, o sdmits that the Btats fv tho supremo feacher, Rulde, and law-giver—a very popular rellglon, it is {ruc, in thess anti-Christian daye ; but thoxe who em- Drace it ceass to be Catholics, No Biata has the right 10 8uy 1o the Cathollo citizen that Lo must violale Lis consclence, aud that bis child must drop his fatth at tho door of the school-ouse; and any regiue of edu- eatlon which requices tida 1s godlses, pagan, and anti. Amerlcan, It tho Catholic Telegrapk or the pricsts whom it represents expoct to influente the Amorican poople by such langunge to abandon their school-system,—ono of thie mein props of our form of Governmeont,—thoy will prob- obly find thomselves very much mistaken, flicso are grave aud sorious charges which on organ of the Catholioc Church thus reck- lossly makes, and wo can only regard thom as indirect utterances of the Oburch authoritics, put forth with the express purpose of Inciting the projudices of the Catliolio laity still fur- ther against our publio schools, 'The exclu. sion of tho Biblo from tho schools warranta no such denuncintion, It is a grataitous nssumption to sny that ‘“all bollef in Clris. tianity as n supornatural religion has boon oxpelled” theroby, and that * infidelity is taught.” This is not true, 'Tho omission of the Bible as o school-book simply removes all religious instruction, and it is not the province of a secnlnr school to inculesto o belief in o superuatural religion ” or any othor religion. ‘The scope of a secular school, and especlal. Iy o secular school supported by general taxa. tion without regard to religious sects and for iho good of the Blate, is conlined to the le- gitimato definition of education. Wensten enys that education is *‘to prepare and fit for any calling, or business, or for nctivity and usefulneas in life,—ns to educato o child” It ia not to propare aud fit for & future life after denth, which ig the duty of other institutions and persons, for whioh ample time and op- portunity are aforded. 'The scular educa- tion is to give a foundation for tho more in- toliigent, comfortable, and profitable solution of tho problom of existenco. It is the corner-stono of trades and professions, It has no moro in common with church dogma than any trade, or manufacture, or profes- slonal calling, to which a child may be apprenticed. It is intended to enable tho child tho betlter in its growth to overconle the obstacles, to battle against the acoldents, to avoid the evils, to mitigato tho pains, to fmprove tho opportunities, and toincronso the productiveness of lifo, To start the child out in the world without the radunents of an education, such as ha re- colves in our common schools, is to lsave him in the primeval conditlon of thosavage of tho forest, but little better able to help himeclt than the brute. When he is taught to read, to write, to cast accounts, to know the constraction and micaning of laugunge, tho geography of his country and the world, and the other socessorics of @ common school education, he is preparing himsel? for tho roadier acquircment of any trads or pro- fesslon which he may make the calling of his lite, Education having been demonstrated to be the primary and necessary introduction to s successful strugglo for exiatence, it wust be admitted to bo as essontill and as of tho same geoeral ngture 88 the learning of a trade or the pursult of a life avocation. There is, then, no more reason why the time allotted to socular education should be infringed upon by dogmato in. straction than any otber celling in lifa, The ' Catholics, for instance, might with cqual propriety and reason demnnd that every man- ufactaring establishment in this country which employs Catholic minors shonld open and clogo thetr working-ny with Pater- Nosters and Are-Marias. 'Thinis alro education iu the namo senso ad seenlar sehiooling, to wit : the preparation for a ealling or business and for activity and nsofuluess in life, If it be n sin against the Chureh for Cath- olics to sond their children to Ameri. enn fchools whers no sectarinn dogmn 1 taught, then it is equally a sin toadmitthem into manufacturing establishments whero po dogmn i3 tanght. If the publie schools teach infidelity whon thero is no kectarian in. struction, then the Catliolio children are also constrained to learn *infidelity” when they learn o trada that lifts them up beyond the lovel of n hod-carrier. Yet seculnr education receives the following denuncintion from the Catholic organ The present syrtem of pullio schools brands the Catholic faith as & crime, sud the American Stato pun- falica it yearly by fines equal In amount to the sum wfeh Calhofies are compelled o expend after the pay- mont of echool fax upon fho Cathollo oducation of their chillren, Tho American rchool faw Inn peusl enactment ogainst (ho Cattiolio religlon, orige Inaling and perpetuated In the sawo apirlt thal hoa driven the educating orders of tho Church from the soll of Germany, 1t doea not lighten the griev. ance, it doca not extonuate ita injustics to appeal to thodenlalof the right of Prolestants to Lave thelr chiliren educated fn thelr faith, Tte Injury Inflicted Dy the hand of the Sials Wpon one PArsy 1a ND MONO~ ‘mont; for a wrong can bo no Justifieation of an fufury done to snather, If Protestants aro willing to adopt the teaching of Infidelity, this williugness doen not confer upon any political organization tha authority to compal Catholica Lo puraue the eams courss of apos- tany, 1o whohath 1o care of his own houechold has denfed the falth, snd 14 woree than an {ufidel; and tho Chureb, sith no wncertain sound, and In no ambignous language, but in clear, expllcit, and decislve phrase- ology, lian decfared o fho Catliolio workl that tho ro- lgious education of tbelr chifldron fa su all-important care, s paramount duty, which cannot ba neglectod without gullt. Thoro could, therefore, lurdly bo & moro fmpudent falsehood than tha sssertion thint s puLlic sucular system of education does not Intorfara with tle religlon of Catliolica, 1t i an Interforouce that amonnts o & mowt grievons and fimulting oute roge; 1t Hinstrates most perfectly the bruto rulo of & reckless majority in tho dowain of religlon, from which the lotter of American law excludeuall {utor. ference, The answor to all this is perfectly obvious, and suggested by tho legitimate definition of education. The sects have ono day ont of overy seven in which to give dogmatio in- siruction with tho help of their elergy. Tley havo thoir family prayera at home morning and ovening. Thoy have the disposition of the time of their children during oll butabont six school hours on five days of the woelk for five or six months in the year, That is, out of 168 hours in tho week, only thirty are given to secular education in our common schools for sbout half the yoar, and the pa- ronts of tha children aro at liberty to roquire a dovotion to dogms of aa much of tho re- maining 138 hours in every woek aud in the other five or six months of vacation as they soe fit. With this great diserimination against secular oducation already cstablished, it i outrageous to infringo upon the small pro- portion of time given over to that education which WensTez defines a8 o ‘‘preparation for any calling or business, or for activity and usefulness in lifo,—as to educate a child.” THE INJUSTIOE TO MR8, TILTON. Ar, Evans has at laot concluded his wil- dorness of words to the jury in the Beronen case, and with this conclusion we have oll that the defenso can offer in bohulf of their client. It is remarkable that, while Ar Evanrs hos devotod oight daya of talk npon tho genoral issues, ho has dovoted scarcely oight minutes to one of tho moat important fontures of the wholo cass, nnmely: the fnet that Mre, Trzron was excluded from testify- ing. Mr. Evants scoks, in the first place, to lny tho responsibility of her exclusion upon the plaintiff ; and, in the second placo, to convey tho improssion that her testimony was not needed, This is a very lamo and weak plea to come from a man of Mr, Evarts' ability. * Why didn’t the plaintiff call hor 2" says tho great ndvocate. Becauso sho was not the plaintiff's witness. She was the do- fendnnt's witness, and she was knowing to thosame line of facts concorning whichMr, Beeoucn testifiod. Tho opportunity was offered by the Court, and tha plaintiffs at- torneys begged that she might bo allowed to go upon thoe stand and tell hor story; but the dofendant's counsel refusod, and, at this Iate day, publicly atato her tostimony was not needed, It would hinve been just as consist- ent for tho plaintilf to have called Mr. Beronen as Mrs, Tinron, But let us suppose Mr, TrrToN had cnlled his wife to the stand. ‘What would havo been the result? He would have been exposcd to the universal odium and indignation of the public. The publie would havo said, and said rightly, that it was mon- strous for Mr, ‘C1zron to call his wifo to tes- tify to her guilt,—alnost as monstrons, in fact, ny the rofusal of the defandant to allow her to testify to her inndconco, after sho had implored tho privilege, The public will bo vary alow to acoopt Mr. Tivants’ vorsion of this episodo in the caso, ‘The lamenena of his plen shows that thero in something behind ; oud the publie will ar- rive at the conolusion that this something was tho foar of cross-oxamination and rebutting testimony, They did not davo to expose hor to Judge Frrrenron's rigid questionings and searching analysis. She had equivocated and crossed her own tracks too many times, She hind shown hierielf to bo a very weak woman, whether ghe were guilty or not. Bhe wesn dangerous witness for the defondant, and an 1ucompetout witness for the plaintiff,—honco she was dropped. But other reasons suggost. themselves, Dy oxcluding Ars. TiLtoN, they debarred tho plaintiff from calling in those with whom she lad convorsed, and to whom, in theso talks, she hnd con. fossed guilt,—witnosses like Aliss Ax. TmoNy, Mre. Branton, Mrs, Monse, Mis. Rromnps, Mr, Brzomen's sistor, and others, Were they afraid that these witnesses wonld confront and coufound her, and that they would testify to what she had confessod to tham, and thus overthirow the fabric sola- borlously bnilt up by the defensa? These are the conclusions which the publio will ar- rivo at,—tha questions it will ask. Evor sinco the testimony for the defense haa closed, this great gup has boon apparent, and Mr, Evanrs' rensons for not filling it aro not satiatactory. The gap still remains as an aching void, and tho only causs for it is believed to be fear, Of what? That we have already hinted at. ‘Without her tostimony, the case is one-alded, and, whatover the vordict may be, it will only bo a verdict on a part of the case, The most voaluoble testimony in the suit has not been beand, The facts ars notall in, and never will be until Mru. TwzoN testifica. Tha de. fensa hava cast ausploions on their case by suppreasing the testimony of that witnoss, ] ‘The story that 15,000 Philadelphians pro- pose to go to the Black Hills is of courso a self-ovident bit of hyparbole, but it shows that o numbor of such lunatica can be found in the City of Brotherly Love. 'That anyone should go to the Black Hills, whea be cannot got thére; when, if he does, ho cannot cg- capo being run ont by soldiors or sealpod by Bioux ; and when ho probably could not find nny gold thero if he dug and mined in peace for a century,~that any one, under thicse circumstances, should go there, is almost in- eredible. If the Philadelphinus start, thoy will bo fleaced and plundered en ronte, will be bagged by tho troops who now surround tho Hills, and will spend the noxt year or so in tramping back to their presont homes, Tha men who have engincered the crazy ex- citomont over the probably mythical gold de- posits of the IHills must have tough con- scienced. Fow persons would care to stand in their places, even for tha monoy they have niade ont of their dupes. THE BRITIBX AND BURMESE. The telegrnmy from Ravgoon, Asis, pub- lished in the London Zimes and Tup Cut- csgo Tnmuse of yesterday show that the long-oxpected war between England snd Burmah is closo at hand. For many yesrs, the English have beon annexing bit after Lit of the western sen-const of Farther India until the Kingdom of Burmah Las lost the whole Province of Pegu, and bas thus been completely shut off from the Bay of Hengnl, Rangoon, from which the present warlike rumors cowe, is a British city due south of the Kingdom. There have been several dis- putes about the boundary between the two Powers, Tho lost ono ended in a curious way. A strip of territory inhnbited by a Dbarbarous aud warlike tribe was deelarod noutral ground. DBurmah Lounded it on tho esst aud the Dritish possossions on the west. It is now claimed that the Burmeso have encroached upon this neutral soil, and that Great Britain must in honor provent this. Besides this protext, which is one of very dublous reality, there is n moro serious grievance, A Dritish explor- ing party, sent into Western China, was cut off and murdered. Tho attacking party con. sisted of Chinese, but it is suspected that in- formation nnd materinl aid were givon them by tho Burmeso suthoritica, To sottle theso two questions, Sir Dovcras Fonsyra has beon sent ns a speciol ambassndor to tho barbarian King, 'Tho Iatter, when Lo was notifled of this sppointment, remarked that it was n good thing, *“as it is woll that no differonces vhould exist betweon two such mighty powers ns the Rsitish and Durmieso Govornments,” "This, from a petty despot who rules over the fow million of ignorant inhobitants of a ter- ritory only twice 04 largo as Oregon, is characteristic bit of Oriental magniloquence. Tt is ovidond that tho settlement will be by force, and probablo that it will result in the annexation of tho Kingdom. Sir Dovaras Fonsvrra is & man who likes to fight, and knows how. Mo is dronded and hated in Hindostan aa the Englishman who nuthorized blowing the rebollions Xukas into pieces and pordition from tho months of cannon. Ho hay beon gathering au army, and the King hies been doing likowise. isfirst act will b to **demand” an immediate explanation of the friendly recoption given by the King to the Chinese Genoral who is suspected of tho murder of tho exploring expedition. The auswor he will get can be inforred from the fact that the Burmose are already building forts, equipping gun-boats, and cutting tho telegraph-wircs. Perhaps no answor at all will bo vouchsafod. The barbarlans may thinlk that silenco is golden, They will find that it Is lendon, The English now have ss good a pretext for soizing the wholo of Burmah ns they had for taking the part of it which they alrendy occupy ; and tho wholo would be of especial sorvice to them, for the rond into tho hoart of Chinn lics through Burmah, With this an- nexed, the projectod Indo-Chineso railronds would be built ap tho valley of the Irrawaddy River, and thonce down that of the great Yangtse-Kiong, A glance at the map will show that such arail syatem would unlock the whole interior of Chinn to British trade, Such n dazzling chance is worth a war, as they look at things from London. When £ 8, d. aro involved, British troops are always cheerfully sncrificed. And so good-by to in. dependent Burmah, THE POTENTIAL BOURBOR ORCARN, It is reportetl that the ¢ Jofferson Club,” or the Cosmopolitaus, or some other Bourbon organization, is sctually about to start a Dom. ocratic organ in this city, The vetoran Jown journalist, DEN1s A, Manoner, is said to have beon offored the chance of conducting tho funoral, ‘Thbat is not the way the promotors speak of it, They call it managing the en- terpriso, but our phrase is tho right ono, It wonld be a peouliarly charactoristio bit of Bourbonism to start a paper here with a fow thousand dollars of capital belind it anda bucolic Bourbon at its Lend. BStill, Ar. Ma- noney will prove to bo as appropriate an odi- tor aa the Cosmopolitan Olub could seoure forthielr journal, His intonso devotion to par- tisan passions can be relled upon. His hide- bound Bourbonism has never been pierced by a oy of light or common sense, As ho hag learned nothing and forgotten nothing, ho con associate with his patrons without shocking their prejudices. e noed not pa- rado his bellef in Ltate Boverelgaty in erdor to prove his sympathy with their dlsloyalty to the nation,~—for the dogma of State Sov- orelgnty is utterly incompatible with the per- manent oxistenco of the soversign Uniled States,—becausa Lo can produce his record of imprisonment during tho War, and so show that his Copperheadism lay been consistont and thorough. His life, passed 1n & small city, has fitted him for the narrow prejudices nnd short-sighted views that befit the mana. gerof & Domocratio organ, If ho is chosen for this place, he will nover waver in his party loyalty. Whether viotory or de- fent i8 his roward, ho will push on in the same old path, carefully shuiting his eyes to tho naw fucta of the prosent, and clinging to the worn-out shibboleths of tha past. Ia will bo, in a word, in full harmony with the Cosmopolitan Club, No ona can suspoct him for & momont of any sympathy for the results gained by the sacritico of half a million lives and many millions of treasurs, o ia & con- sistent, courngeons * Copperhiead,” 1f the gentlemen who wish to engage him chooso to waate their spare fands in enconr. sging the men who furnish printing paper 83 the men who buy printed papor by the pound, they have a perfect right to do 80, Instead, howover, ol throwing away time, money, and toil in building up a new paper, they will, if they sro wise, purchase the Z%mes, Its thin mask of independence ahould not dater thow, This i worn only to allure stray niokels from the pockets of Re- publicans, and to drive the unterrified De- mocracy into buying et least ite silence, and, if possible, its support. Ita ohief editor and his subordinates are Bourbona at heart, Thelr prinoiples, 'so far as any such mon. strositios exist, are DBourbon, but self. Intorest has lod to thelr temporary sup. prossion, Thelr pens would follow with ihe olossst fdelity the line of mo- tion marked out by the Cosmopoli- tan Club, for it s their own. And of courso tho 7imes could bo bought. In. ductive rensoning would eatablish that fact. It in tho predestinod Bourbon organ of tho city, Time and monoy spont on another would bo sheor waste. Itis trno that political organs lead but a sorry life in thia city oven when they have Pacific Mall pickings and bankors from Towa lo fall back upon; but duo caro paid to the critinal columus and tha libelous scondals of the Z%nes would in- anro its continued circulntion among the class that chiefly supporta it now. If the Cosmo- politans want to put their money where it will do the most good, they will buy the paper thnt wns suppressed during the War for blatant disloyalty, nnd that {s still falthful at hoart to the traditions of that thna, "*BRANDED » BEMMES, 4 Rarnazn Seases, the ex-Confederato Ad- miral, made a long rddress ot a meoting held In Mobile, Aln., in memory of the late Jonx C. BrecntNminog, iu tho courso of whicly, amoug many other absard things, he said, with referenco to tho Centennial celebration: Alibama fs summoned fo Philadelphta to sing poans totbe Felerdt Constitution, Aud, tn so doing, kno must fake tho whole Constltution, tho Fonrtcenth Amondment along switls (o rest. But (hat amendmont brands her with disgrace 5 reliel aud & traltor, This Lraud was lmplanted on ber forelicad by tho people of the Northern Stator, They refure to romove it, Will nhe not be tho meaneat and most exinging of Alavos, if, with this Lrand still resting npon Lor forohead, sha unifes with thoso who havo branded her In singing the snlhem of hier own degradation? Can tho Nortliern States, by the aide of whom slie will lie seated, fall to foul 8 meritod contempt for an omasculated State who has o liltlo respoct for bemsalf? , . . Iwant the Fourteentl Amendmentof the Constitution firat ro- poaled by & throe-fourtlis voko of tho States ; and then 1 want black lines drawn around it as eal of disap- probation, put there by the American paopla, of the partian and sectional Listrod dn which the amends ment was engoudored aud iad ita Lirth, Let unogitata ibls question at the polls, in the kalls of tho State Log- islaturen, in Congress, everywhors, until we accom- plish our purpose. If ex-Adwmiral Sevmes persists in wearing a **brand” and {a determined to ba set down 03 o rencgade, o rebel, and a traitor, probably no one has nny objection ; but that ho shonld neck to fasten the *‘brand " upon the State of Alnbnma and oll the Southern States, is simply absurd and malicious. Tho theme of tho Centeuninl celebration, if it have any thomoe at all, is the principlo of froedom and the cfforts of our ancestors, Northern and Southern, to maintain the integrity of tho Union and porpetuate tho Ropublic. It any peans are to bo sung, they will bosung to this tune, and if ox-Admiral Sesxrs cannot sing this tuno he had better stay at homo and nurse his discontent, but kesp qniot. No ona will offor any obfaection to his being an irreconcilable, but lot him keop his black flag to himself and not flaunt it in the South, His address is sn insult to the intelligence of tho South and the real motives of the North, Since tha close of tho War, the North oand tho South have como too . noar together to be affcctod by such violent and oxtravagant nonsenge. Every day tho intercourso betweon tho two soctions growa closor and closer. The Vice- Presidant hss bat just roturned from an eox- tonded Southorn tour, and bears witness to tho unvarying hospitality and courtesy he ovorywhora recoived, smud even ex-Admiral Srawes himsolf could make a tour of the North without being remindod of sany brand or roquosted to sing any ponus, This, how- over, i not his intention or his disposition, He is dotermined to wear his brand, and, aa there is but ono other man in the South, Gex, Beavneoann, who is afilicted in like manner, it would not bo inapproprista or un- timely for thoss two irreconcilables to pack up their trunks and leave tho conntry. Noithor of thein arc in sympathy with the Amorican people, and the American poople in tarn have no eympathy with the bar- barian proposition of the ona or the piratical policy of the other. Noither of them will bo missod, if they decide to go. EXIT THE GRASSHOPPER, It was reserved for somebody in Minnesota to discover an eavy, simple, and npparently sure method of stamping out the plaguo of locusts, It sppears that tho almighty dollar {s the god of grasshoppers ns well as of men. Monoy is stronger than 'hoppers, and thoy perish before it. A littlo Minnesota munici- pality offered a reward of s0 much per bushel of locusts, The plan worked to s charm. Tha idle villagors, tho unemployed Inborers, tho boys and girls swarmed thicker than the grosshoppers. Thoy picked the swarming insecta up by the handful, scooped thom up with dippors, shovelod them up, filled palls, buckets, and tubs with them, Such a tro- mendouas activity mot its roward, Not only wag the promised cash promptly paid, but tho looust vanishod from tho faco of that part of the earth, o and sho wera scoopsd up with such celerity that she had no timo to Iny o singlo egg, so that the pest scems to lave been stamped ont permanently, The same tactics Lnve beon tried in other parts of the frontler, and always, we boliove, with suc- cens. The amount of ensrgy developed by the offer of a fow dollary par bushel of dead locusts is simply surprising, Abont the anly bad foaturo of the planis tho temptation it offers to an enterprising rogua to shatup a fow paira of hoppers in a box, sell thelr mill- {ons of yearly progeny at a atated sum per bushel, and so keep up the spocios, , In tho vicinity of Des Molnes, a weak solution of arsemio in water hes becn found exceedingly efficacions when - sprin. kled by a garden.pump and hose on vogotation. The trace of polsoa that dries on tho leaves doos the buuiness for tha gnaw- ing locust. One Towa man saved a lurgo or- chard in this woy. An jugenions applicaticn of Paris green has also beon made, 'The poi- son I8 put inside & barrol of water, within whioh a churn revolves and so keeps the min. eral in solution. A garden-hose, with & roso- sprinkler attached, thon sends this over grass, shrubg, and trees, ‘Thia remody has proved offoctive in the cose of grasshoppers, potato. bugs, and all manner of creoping and flying ingocts, It deserves wide publicity, When the looust is sweeplng miles of comn. try baro, and .Gormany is prohib. iting the importation of Americen potatocs ‘on sccount of the insidious bug so apt to sccompany thom, it is high time that every good romedy for the soil should be known and tried. Prof. Tnoaas Tavrow, who is connested with the Bureau of Agriculture at Washing- ton, and must therefore be looked upon with a cortain suspicion, has suggested a plan for utilizing the extinct grasshoppers. Ile would squoeze the oll out of them and uso this in myrisd ways. Then be would make the vosldue futo fortilizors or mix{t with corn- rmeal and feod it to tho Indiana, It this last thing is dons, grasshoppers who dled from the effecta of arasnto ehould ba seleated, for obvious reaso; The Bumem Court of the United Etates has sustalned the right of a Stato to lovy a tax upon the gross revolpts of rallroad com- ponles ruuning fhrough its torritory, whetle tho company ia organized within or withoyy tho State houndarics, It had alroady, in g provious easo, aflirmed the Stato’s right to tay tho gross receipls of railrond companien char. ferad by iteelf. Tho presont opiniou fq brought ont by the Erio Railway Corupany, whioh Pennsylvania toxed to tho extent of three-quartors of 1 por cont on ita groy raceipts, and whicl the Erie Company eqy, tested. DBut the Supremo Court sustaing tlg State. Tho declsion iz an important one iy view of tho prosent relations bolweon tlg ratlronds and State Governments, There ean hardly bo any room for com. plaint s to tho cont of grain-transportatioy from Chicago to tho senboard at the present tuno. Whent wns taken on Tuesdny frow this cily undor coniract to be delivcred at Now Yok for 10} ceuts por bushel in currency, Ocenn freights for grain are contracted for at 15 centa per bushel in currency. Tho quotations for freight in Montreal, on Friday last, for the transportation of grain from Chicago to Liverpool wero aa follows ! Per b, P10 b ot oty Cents, Centa, Chieago to Mantreat, 17§ o Moatzeal o Liverod, cHivy 1y ) 1 Theso aro the figures in gold. Contracts have beon made for moving grain from Chi. eago to Liverpool via Now York for 46 conts per 100 pounds, in coin. Taking tho Iatest rate of 103 cents curren. cy per bushel for wheat from Chicngo to Now York via Bufalo, wo find it is about %rce. tenths of a cent per ton per mile, computing tho distance by the shortest rail route, It is nbout two-tonths of a cont per ton per milo computed by the aotual distance of the routo taken, Certainly theso rates nro ng low 08 tho most ardent anti-monopolist could desirs, and this transportation is over routes in no wise affected by lawa having for their purposo the enforcemont of chenp rates, It has mm; lc{ Lo generally I;ulinved that tho Congregational churehes will hold coun- cil on tho condition of tho Plymouth Socic!y aftor tho Breonen trialis ever. Br. Brecnrn scems to approhend somothing of this kind himself ; for, Iast Sundny, he called upon the Rev. Dr. Jreenuve, an Opeu.Commuunion Baptist of New York, to couduot tho evening sorvico of Plymouth Churcli. Dr. Jeernzvy’ churck was rocontly disfranchised by the Baptists on acconnt of his views; and Mr. Breonen, in introducing him to the Plymouth Church congregation, said: T rojoice that tho timo has come whon a church can be disfranchisod by its brothren withont losing their sympathy; or, in other words, that disfranchisment has lost its terrors—that o church cannot be hown down or even barmed by it, but that it can still go on shedding its light upon the world,” This utteranco is significant, It would seom to indicato that Mr. Beroner not only expacts that the Con- gregationalists will take some action on tho caso of Plymouth Church, but also that ho apprebonds that they will, without regard to tho vordict of the trinl, 'follow the line pointed out by the Nation in an article which wo quotod recontly,—tbat Mr. Bgronen's position and usofulness are gono in any ease, In the far-away towns of Towa thore waa Iato- 1y hoard tho volco of an aged, uncouth, rough- shod, and unanolnfed * misslonary,” His loins wore girt about with an old skato-strap ; his rai- mont was gonorally divided with refarenco to joints rathor than to seowmu; his shouldera wero covorod with & louss blonse, which joined in frea dalllanco with the breczes, Tho sorvices con- duoted by this anclent proaclior were highly original and unlgue, e saug hls own hymos and prayed his own prayers, but ho preached otbior poople's Bermons. Tho moat solomn ,part of tho procosdings was the taking up of a col- loction, This tho proacher vover, under any cir- camstances, neglected. His contivual appoal waa: “Qive freoly, and it eliall bo given to you sgaln, fall moasure, prossod down wnd rurning over.” But the Iowa paople, Lowever devout, are not esaily docsivod in carnal affairs, To the vlow of the koon country-desler, who kept one tyo on heaven and tho other on his sugsr-bar- zel, there appeared to bo momething too much of collection-taking, aud toa littls of prolonged and oxhaustive praying, in the anciont proachior's meotings, Ho thecolleotions dwindled gradually amay almost to nothing, notwith- standlng the forvent and often stormy oxpostu- iationa of tho esintly man, At last su awful oriels came, Tho total subscription, at tho oloso of & Jong and oloquent Borman, was ono solitary niokel. Tho proscher ralssd his withered land to heaven, and called for judgmeut upon the bard-hoarted and stiff-necksd poopls who woro thus leaving ona of the maints to perish, A scoffer in the crowd shouted his defiance, and tola the old preachor to * take to sclusors-giind- ing, his natural occupstion, and earn an lionest lvalihood.” Upon lilm turned tho veoorable mlasionary, and exclalmed: ** Bes hore, youny man, if I have another word from you, I'll punch youso far you won't get back iu & weou; 1 whippod one man ont a¢ Stuart and £ can whip anottier in juut five minutes;” snd he ocussod and sworo in tha most unparson-like mauner, A nowly-made grave In tho wilds of Wostorn Iows now marks tho wpot whero the anclens prescher took o his Isat collection. e The plan of glving bountios for doad grase. hoppors, which has boen extansivoly rescried to in Mionosota, has givon groat sailufaction. "Pwo thoueaud busbels of 'hoppera bave been paid for iu Bluo Earth County, 2,600 bushals i Lo Bueur County, and smallor quantities n other purts of tbe State, It 18 now eald thut tho hunt~ o8 aro refuruing to peacetul fndustrial pursuity, having sboub exbausted the supply of game. The grasshoppers would doubiloss Lavo left Minnesota ln any event as soon as thelr wingu had grown, but they would onty have dons 8o to saok greener pastures olsowhere, The bounty systom haa thorefora besu proved valuablo o well a8 oflicacious, Rigid adberonce to it throughout the afilicted region will, it in Loped, produce oy good results as have beon attained in Cbiua, whora the extermiuation of tho pests s mado compulsory, sad the authorities of infost- ed discrlcts are Lield reaponsible for fallurca to prosecute the work with vig: 4 sucoess, In 1771, the total population of New York Province was 168,007, The City and Uounty of New York tiad 21,863 inbabitants : Albany, 42,- 700 ; Queens, 10,080; Suffolk, 13,228; Ulstor, 13,850; Dutcheas, 23.408; Omange, 10,0923 ‘Westabeater, 21,745 ¢ Klags, 8,028; Richmond, 2,847; Cumberland, 8,047; Gloocester, 722 Of the grand total, 12,893 were blacks, of whom nesrly all wero slaves, b Philosopliers who are eadaavoring to assign s cause for tho sudden outbresk of dresdtut crime in Doston and the neighborhood mey rest watis- flsd with s recont discovery, Out of elghty-four muarderers in the city sud its immediata viclalty during the paat elghtoen years, ouly two have boen hanged. ‘this ssewma to ba & clear case of oamso end offect, Ths ‘American humorist, /¢ 19 satd,i s on his last logs, Tho race is short-lved a$ best. AuTke aan Wan, Jony Puanniy, Peraorsux V. Nassy, Max Apkren, aod verious Rewspaper-wils, baye flourished and faged awayi and it {s now bacoming serious queation whethor they have ozlsusted tlis virgin soil from which they spruog. A reasonsble Inforenos is, thed the humorists themualves, nod the soll, were iu esch cass wocked oub. 1d is sessoaly preved s yeb bt