Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 12, 1875, Page 4

TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE- BAYES 07 FUBICRIFTION (FPATATLE I ABVAROY), Postage Prepald at l‘hll amc $13,00) | Weokly 30 | Fiva coble double shoet..... 3.00 Tartaof & year at thessmorate, WANTRD—tne activo saent In each town and village, Epecial srrangementa ‘made with such, coplea sent free. dalay and mistakos, be sure and give Pork. ©Office addrexs in fol), inoluding Siate and Covnty. Hemittancesmay borads eitherby dratt, express, Poats Oficeonter, or in registered Intters, st onr risk. TERMA TO CITY SURSCRIRZAS, Dally, drlivered, Bunday excopted, £73 vente perwask, Dally, deltvered,” Bunday included, 30 cents por wosk. Addrmey THE TRINUNE OOMPANY, Ossner Madivon and Dasrborn. Uhioago, B, To AMUSEMENTS, DRUPHT THRATRE—Desrharn streot, eorner Mone o Fnteratamnte” Afierson Akl APeALoE. 'VICKKR'S, TITRATRE—Madison sireat, betwesn Dearand dtaton Eassgment ot Ko De Roboris Pantomime-Troups. and.JfiL* Alfterncon and evening. ACADEMY OF MUSIO~Halsted atrast, batwoen Mad-. on and Mouros. Vingagoment, of Haretly's Minatrals. ‘alo of the Bagous.' A lternocn and evenlog, 8_THEATIIE—Randolnh _streat. batwaen Sullo, | ¥ ot o John Thempion, af Colorsd Broihor," Altecacon and ovesing. TWRI THIRDSTRERET BASE.BALL GROUNDS w | JITENTE hip gama betwesn the Hoston aad Ohicgo Dine ata:6s o'dlock. i SOGIETY MEETINGS. Wi, B, WARREN LODGE, No. 30, A. FL! ular communication this eveninx. 'Jir o Posrier oo S R BunLop &AM er of the ) Beo'y. ASHLAR LODGE, No &8, A, F. & A, M.—Speolal cimmunication this evening for workna the ¥, U Dogres, &t Fresma Tn..llflll“. M:ilm. t. ll' l:kh:fll" b:"l“lll{ ll""ti , Faning, 1458 (asse o Tegrpen Tuavlay evaniag, WM GRANE: Degroo. The Ghitage Titbune, Saturday Morntng, WITH SUPPLEMENT. A terriblo earthquake has visited Now Grenada, near the Venezuela border. Sixteen thousand people are reported as having lost their lives. Juno 13, 1878, ‘The policy of the German Governmant to- ward the Romish Church has ot last beon folt in our own freo and independent land. Wo can publish what wo plense, but may not cir- culata it with equal freedom, The Berlin Ministry havae just issued an edict prohibiting , tho ciroulation in Germany of the Catholic Gazetle, published in Baltimore. It is fortunate for Brother Craruay, of Ply- mouth Church, that the defense of his pastor | will no longer require so much of his loisure and means, as it apposrs that the wealthy Trusteo wilt shortly be called upon to show why he should not go to the Penitentiary for dealing in smuggled silks, knowing them to be such. The evidence against the great dry- goods prince is said to have assumed a most serious phnse, It was a lucky dive made in Hampton TRoads & fow dnys ago. For about ten years divers have been trying to recover the heavy iron safo of the Cumberland, the man-of-war sunk by the Rebel ram Virginia, but no one had snccecded until a new man came slong, who gecured the prizo in 78 feet of water aftar working but two days. The safo has been brought to Norfolk, and is said to con- taln betwoen £60,000 and $100,000 of that sort of monoy which goes to the bottom quickly, but is proof against destruction by water—gold coin. The snfe will bo a valnable war relic, but its contents will be still more highly apprecinted by the owners, both of whom livo in Norfolk. The Californin State Republican Conven- tion mot Thursday at Bacramento and nomi. nated a full ticket, with T. G, Pusrrs ot its head o8 tho candidato for Governor. The Convention adopted a platform in which is contained a recognition of the illustrious careor of Prosidont Graxt, ond an acceptanco of his rocont letter a8 a final settlemont of the third-term agitation; an earnest and practical deliverance on the subject of economy and honesty in the administration of tho State and County Governments by sucha ocurtail. ment of the number of officers and their sal- aries as will place public servants onan equal footing with Dusiness omployes in the matter of compensation, and thus abato the geoeral mania for office-holding; o demand that the Btate and its common schools ba kept froo from ecclesiastical or secular con- trol; a declaration of war upon the Central Pnoifio and other railrond companies which dony and resist the right of State regulation and control of fares and tolls ; and a pledge that the Republican membora of the Logisla- ture will vote for o fair and reasonable reduc- tion in this direction, The platform throws down tho gauntlet to all monopolios and cor- porations soeking to plunder the peoplo, and males this olonding isme in the campaign, 1t is suoh o platform as shonld rally to its support the Independents snd fair-minded Democrata of tho State, and carvy the Repub- licun party to certain victory, e v—— Yestorday's ovents in connection with the Bromen case woro more than usually inter. eating. In the midat of his impasaionod elo- quence Mr. Brior detected o sneer of in- credulity upon tho face of the foroman of the Jury, who has for some time past been ro. garded us committed to the alda of tho de. fendo. Tho indlgnant lawyor turned flercely upon the grinning juror and read hima les- gon which ehould teach him to control hia countenanos, if nnt to dismias his prejudices. Later on, Mr, Ruacs visited his scorn and ronentmint upou Pontea for eharging him Wwith falschood, and gave thet abusive indi. vidual to understand that there was a Yimit bsyond which he would not bs permit. ted to pass with safety to himself, Porren #seews Lo resomble the unfortunate orator who could never open his month withoat putting his foot init, Fraxx OanpxyTEn, the por- Arit painter, has added a fresh contribution to tho liternzure of the scandal by publishing & statoment in which he contradicts Onancys Brosuy, JacxsoN BomvrTze, Descon Fnre. axp, IL B, Orarini, Bexzomen, Bovrnwioz, and other witnessea for the defenss, and cor- roborates the testimony of TruroN and Mouz. vox in seversl lmportant particulars. Qam. PINTHR states that the charge of adultery against Brzomxn was known to the Rev, Dr, Brona from the Airst, a8 wo can readily be. love, remombering the attitnde maintalned toward the pastor of Plymouth by Dr. Bronus, Dr, Buomaroy, ato. e —— The Chicsgo producs markets were rather slow yesterday in the sggregste, Moess pork ‘was dulland 13 por brl lower, closlag at $10.50 cash, und $19.85@19.40 for July, Lard was sotlve snd dsclined 800 per 100 tis, Slosing st §18.35 cash, and $18,50@18,85 for Y. Meals weie galsd And Orm, 8d B0 for shoulders, 114@1140 for short ribs, and 114a for short clears, Highwines wera in fair do. mand ‘at jo decline, at $1.17 per gallon. Lako freights wore quict and tame. Flour wns more nctivo and easlor. Whont wns mther quiet and 4c higlor, closing at 9Gje cash, and 98lo for July. Corn was leas nc- tive and declined jo, closing nt GGjo cash, and G8je for July. Onta wero dull and jo lower, closing at Gde cash, and #7{o for July. Ryo waa nominally unchanged, at 98¢, Barley was in good demaud and firmer, at £1.01}@ 1.05 for July, Hogs wora activa and 10c higher ; solea at $7.20@7.60 for common to chvice. Cattle were dull and a shade lower. Sheep were in light dewnnd at about steady rates. It is announced that Ald. Srovr, of the Sixteenth Ward, intends to’ move, in the next meeting of the Common Conncil, for a rovision of the fire ordinance, the purpose of which is to narrow down the fira limits, which are now cooxtonsive with the city limits. Wo can scarcely think that such s proposition will command any hoaring,in the Council. It oannot bo that tho lessons of our great fires have so svon lost their value, and wo do not beliove the Council will deliberately insult public opiuion by romoving the only essurance of fulure mafety, The renson which Ald. Brour gives for this motion is that building in his ward has come to n stand-still, If this is so, then his ward is not o fair gauge of tho effect of the ordinanco, The buildiug of this season generally is much more extonsivo than it was lost season beforo the erection of inflammatory wooden ghells anywhere inside the city limits was prohibited, and also greater, we boliove, than it has beon at any time since the first senson sucoeeding the fire of 1871. If Mr, Broor's wardis an exception, .| ho must look for some other explanation, and he must not sk that the most vital intercsta of the city bo sacrificed for any ignorant, stupid, personal, or sectional purposes. SHERMAN'S TERMB OF PEACE, We have already referred to the grent ‘blander of Suenxan'a life,—his attempt to negotinte torms of peaco with the broken and crushed Rebels which would preserve slavery and the Rebel State Governments, and lay a foundation for indemnifieation for all their Iosses ab the cost of the mation. In his memoirs, Gen. Suenaay, after havinghed ton years' timo to witness tho troubles of recon- struction, aud to read in them the horrible congequences which would have followed the adoption of his terme of peace, hag nover a word of regret that he had proposed them, nor n word of rejoicing that they had been rejected. We now publish snother chaptor in the history of that trapsaction. It must bo ro- wmembored that at that time Lre had sur- vendered, and the only Rebel army in the fleld was the pititul one in North Carolina commanded by Gen. Jouxeron, Jere Davis and his Cabinot wera fugitives, and wera with JomnsToN's avmy, Jomnstoy asked a confer- onco, which SmerMaN granted. On the way to that conferonco Suenstax heard of Lix- coLy's assnssination, Tho fist day's confer- once rosulted in nothing. No terms were proposed in writing. On the next day the conference was renewod. The chapter we now publish shows that after the first day there was a constultation among the Rebels 08 to what thoy could do, Bazrormininoe and Postmastor-General ReacAN attended the moeting of the Generals noxt day, At that meoting, Sremuan wrote out his ex. troordinary terms of peace, which he ond JounsroN signed, subject to the approval of their respective Governments, ‘While the terrs were. on their way to Wash- ington, they were also submitted to Jere Davs, who asked the opinion of his * Cobi. net” as to their acceptance. Tho lotters of the Cabinet, Bexsaury, Breormvninar, Davis, Reacay, and Marrony, aro vory inter- esting rending, Thoy all ngree that the Con- federacy was exploded and ended. They had 1no armics, and no men, no arms, and no monoy. The scattered forces were rapidly dissolving by desortion. They all concoded that it was practically hopeless to prolong the contest. This was their condition ot the time of this conference. SHERMAN'S terms, they argued, rostored all tha Statos to the Union exactly as they ware before the War, The Robel troops were to take their arms and artillery home with them and deposit thom in their State Capitals, Tho Rebel State Governments were all recognized as the Governimonts of the States. Property of all kinds, including slaves, was to con- tinuo a3 provided by State laws, and to be guaranteed by the United States as a condi. tion of peaco, The wholo Oabinet urgently appenled to Jerr Davis to accept Bienuan's terms, as socuring practically everything they could expeot in tho restored Unfon. Tho stipulation as to tho rotention of their arms at the Stata Copitel is mentioned as an ad- vantage with reforence to the contingenoy of a ronewal of the War. Gon. Burnaan states that he sont these terms to Washington, not caring whethor thoy were approved, modified, or rejected ; but it seems that, when he sent thom, he at the same time wrote to Gen. Harieox to in. fluence tho Prosident, it possible, “‘not to vary the terms at all, for I have considered everylhing.” The complete history of this extrsordinary tranxaction discloses the marvelous political woakness of Gon, Burrsax, It explains to some extont the impresalon roceived at an earlier part of the War, that Lis mind was disordored., In the very hour of victory, while the Confederncy neoded but one more blow from him to termipate ita existence, he was selzed with the ambition to settle the whole future policy of the nation by & formal troaty of poace with the Confaderate Govornment| His terms re-established slavery, nud guaranteed s porpetaity under Btato laws; restored the Rebel State Governmonts to represontation in Congress ; paved the way for the nasump- tion of the Rubel debt, reimbursement of all damages sustained by the Rebels, paymeut for all eacaped slaves, and, in short, it was completo surronder of the victorious Union North to the overthrown and conquered dis. unjon South, How he could have made such. & bargain in his right mind is & puzzle which hia best friends are wholly unable to compre. hend. It wasthe one great mistake of hia life. Btrike that out, and tho remainderls brilliant, and unsurpaised by the deeds of any other man, . A new boal 88 appi which {8 calonlatsd to excite somethingof the azme general interost and lively controversy called ont in this conutry by the recent pub- Heatlon of Gen. SugumaN's Memoirs, Itisa volume by M. Orrvias, NaroLxon's Premisrat the time war was doeclared mgainst Prussia. ‘The purposa of the book {s to defend the Miolatry ‘::. tt Aime f:m the serfous chargss ve sinoe besn freely made agelal it He dliclaimd the sespouaibility YRR CHICAGO YRIBUNE: SATURDAY, JUNE I2,, 1875.—~TEN PAGES. for the Franco-Pruasian conflict, and assumes, a3 a cabla dispatch this morning tells us, that Prussin had really deolared the war by insulta that could not be borne, While Oruavizn's Ministry cortainly precipitated the conflict, wo do not know that it shonld ba blamed too much ; for, in its duclaration of war, it prob- ably roflected tho sentimont of the Fronch peoplo, and Prassia had certainly done noth. ing to avoid tho opening of hostilities. One of the best oxplauntions of the French dis. astors, aside from the infarior prowess duo to a doficient military method, is found in the wretched condition of the Commissary, Quar- termnster, and Ordnnnce Departments, 3L Oruvizn claims that the responsibility for this cannot be put npon his Ministry, ns tho military orgaunization wns the work of years beforo his Ministry came into power, But), Ovravien certainly failed, in severalmonths of power provious to the war, tocorrect the abuses and root out tho corruption in the French ser- vica which gave the army bad equipments, de- ficient ordnance, poor clothing, cte, If AL Ovvrivien's work is writton with hislf tho blunt- ness thot charncterizes Gen, Suenyan's Memoirs, we may oxpect to hear that he hss abont forty ducls on hand within the next two weeks. ANXIOUS FOR A CONTROVERSY. Wo print this morning & communication from a gentleman who is ovidently anxious for a controversy with Tnr Taisuxz on the Catholie question. Though his communica- tion fs entitled *Tho Bchool Quostion in Politics,” he hns, na a matter of fact, very little to say on this, and indeed scarcely touches the subject at all, In this rospect ho simply evinces an anxiety that tho general question shall bo sagitated, for, in the first place, thero waa littlo in tho articlo ho rofers to which required o reply from him, and, in the second place, he has fatled to seizo npon any saliont points on which there might bo o differonce of opinion betwoen Tmx Tamunz and the Anti-School Catholics. Relative to the Gromnaw bill, passed by the 1ate Legislature in Ohio, and providing equal privileges for all religious seota in public ro- formatory, penal, and eleemosynary institu. tions, there is no question aa to its intrinsie propriety ond justico, Tuz TrinuNe has never roflocted on the charaster of thislaw; on the contrary, it has approved its purposs, and believes that sucha Inw should be adopt. ed in nll Btates where bigoted officinls ox- clude the inmates of any public institution from the consolations of their own Church; whare thereisno official attompt of this kind, tho law is unnecessary. The law embodies a principlo of common justics, which needs only to be formulated where tha principle bas been ignored. ‘What we did object to in the matter of the Geamay bill was the style of the partisan- ship which it called forth. Pending its dis- cussion, its suthor and the Catholic Telegraph gava formal notice that, it the Democratic party (then a majority in the Legiulature) failed to pass the bill, the Catholics would desert that party ; but if, on the other hand, the bill was paesed 88 s Democrstio partisan mensurs, the Catholics would bo whipped into the Democratio ranks from all sides under the lnshof the Ohurch, Hero wasdirect evidence of an alliance betwoen Church and party, which, in this country, is equivalent toa throatoned nnion between Church and Btate ; for it only remains that the Church pacty shall develop sufficient strength to oarry out tho logieal resnlt of such an alliance, viz,: the domination of the Church over the affairs of State. Hers was tho real dnnger incidont to the manner in which-tha Graman bill was pressed into a law, and it was of a charnoter to naturally arouse the ap- prchensions of thinking.people in the Domo- oratio as well as tho Ropublican party, That those apprehensions wero not exaggerated bas gince beon amply attested by the aggressive attitndo of tho Catholic clergy in Ohio onthe school qnestion, and the ountspoken utter- ances of the Catholio Telegraph in Cinolnnatl, which we have already quoted. The dcolara- tion of the Republican Stats Convention ogainst any division of ths school-fund, and sguinst the release of any seot or class from taxation for public-scliool purposes, wes nob by any means premature, TFrom this point tho writer, who signs him. self * Amorican Catholio,” diverges into ob- servations and aasertions which are altogother oxtraneous and irrolovant. For instance, when ho says there aro States whero Catholics sro inoligiblo to office, the statoment iz not pracisoly accurate, and the inference is slto- gather wrong. Thero is only one Biate in which this relio of sactarian bigotry ia pre- sorved, and that ia the Lttle, unimportant Btato of Now IHampshire. Of course it ja a roflection upon the intelligence and libemlity af the New Hampshire peoplo thot such ex- clusion should be maintained, but it is in no senss & party quostion, New Hampshiro was alwaya undor the ocontrol of the Doemocratic party from the time of its formation in 1826 up to 1830,—a torm of thirty years. Bince that tims the control of the Btato has vacillated be- twoan the Demoorats and the Republicans, but the nominnl exclusion of Catholics from office has lioen continued equally by both. The question has been submitted by both parties, asd a roform has been voted down by both, It is an old-time, traditional prejudice, of no credit to elther party, but pormeating all olasses not Catholio, so that it is entirely separated from party politics. If *American Cathotio * iz anxious to know Tnr Trisoxe's idea of this exclusion, we need anly say that this journal, for twonty-one years, has stead- ily opposed all mectarian disorimination and disabilities, and sdvocated equal political, alvil, and religious rights and privilegea for all men. That is ita record. ‘When Tux 'TripuNs sald that those Cath- olies who belleve it to be a min to send their children to the publioschools shonld not hiave taken up thelr residence in this country, or, it they did, should not undertake to break down a Byatom of free, secular eduoation so Qoarly cherished by our poople, we did not mean to say that thers are none bat foreign Catholics In this country, but we did mean to iftimate that not one native Oatholio'inas hundred is opposed to our system of publio schools, Amorlcan Catholics who boast of Rovolutlonary forefathery generally asoept the free-school systom as gratofully as they take any other heirlooms that have come down from & patriotio ancestry, As to the Oatholics in the Revolution, we have no deaire to deprecinte tholr patriotiam, but what they did waa as American citizens and not as Catholica ; and their devotion and sacrifices must be to individual and not to seotsrian oredit. We may be permitted to doubt, how- ever,: that the Bons of Bt, Pavaiox, or any other Socloty, Cathollo or non.Catholle, gave £100,000, onless it was Oontinantal money, worth lttle more thaa nothing. No Soclety wae a4 that time ln condition to give £100,. 000, or any like sum, in gold o its}sqaivalent, Wo have uo doub, Lovaver, that the Cathe | dves not seam & coouz 1o soscadiog 40 (hels | may have vy diisest olica sl they could, means, to promote the canse of American in- dopendence. But what hias all this to do with the recont movement in certain circles in the Catholie Ohwrels to break down the public-school sys- tom of this country? THE 1038 OF THE VIOKSBURG. ‘The Inst issuo of Tux Tniouse contained tho details of another ocean atenmship dis. nstor, which involved tho loss of at lenst fifty lives. Whether nny still more wera lust will not be known until tho fato of the bonta which succoeded In leaving tho steamer is ns- cortainod. The sinking of the Vicknbnrg was ona of thoso disnsters which is liable to oc- cur at any time during the spring scason of tho year, when fcobergs are sbundant in the track of steamers, and ono for which no ona can be blnmed, On the othor hand, thers woro some fentures of thoe disaster calling for wonds of commendation. Tho boats of the steamer wore handled with more skill and success than is usual in cases of such terriblo emergency, and tho Captain behaved with coolness nnd conrnge, summoning his pas. sengors aft and encouraging them with the hope that thoy might be saved, but finally losing his own life, There scems to have been no panic or confusion, and yot the loss of lifa was very lorge, This disaster emphnsizes the recommenda- tions which wero made in Tz TABUNE re. cently, with regard to some omissions in the equipment of ocean stemmers, which are of the utmost importance as affects the aaving of life, and both the omissions moutioned in that article obarncterized tho equipment of tho steamor Vicksburg. If there wero auy lifo-presorvers on hoard, they wero not whore thoy could bo mnda available. In tho nar- ratives furnished by the survivors, no mention i8 mado that thero were any lifo-presorvers, or, if thore wers, that any one made use of them. Of conrse, without life-preservers, it was impossible for those who wero lost to mnintain themselves in the water ony length of time, whereas, had there been any, all or noarly all might bavo been pioked up by the bonts perhnps and saved, as thers were -only eighty-cight souls nll told on the steamer. Again, two of the boats of which we have accounts, and probably all tho rest after thoy wero launched, wero filled with water to such an extent that thoy wora mainly unmanageable, or 80 much 8o at least that the ocoupants conld not save thoso who wero floating in tho water near them. Theso boats were evidently not pro- vided with buckets for bailing. If they had been, it would only have been & fow minutos’ work to have clearod them and made them entirely manageablo, For tho lack of these two procautions, it is clearly evident that mony lives were lost, Tix Tnmoxne, there. fore, onca more would earnestly impress upon stonmship companies the inportance of theso two provisions for the saving of life, namely: tho equipment of steamers with a sufliciont sumber of lifs-proscrvers, to be placed in the boats g0 as to be’immediately avnilable, and the cquipmont of tho boats with bailing buckets so disposed that they will be imme. diately available. They are very simplo and inoxponsive procautions, and the nogloot of every company to provide them is the cause of nearly all the loss of lifo which attonds the shipwreck of vessels nt ses, MR, BOWEN'S POSITIOR. ‘The communication of the younger Dr. Baoox to the New York Tri2une, which we published recently, prosents very forcibly the awkward position in which Henar O, Bowen stands with roforence to the Beecusn case, Ho sooms to be the lenst acceptablo person connected with the scandal, and reminds one of the remark: with which Wrinx Lrorn GanaisoN bogan a speech, inthe dayswhonhe ‘waad peouliarly odious to the mass of the peo- pla: “I may safely afirm that I am more notorious than popular.,” The fact is, the public is tired of hearing adout Mr. Bowzx, s the one intelligent man on the matter of Mr, Breomen's guilt, and yot hearing nothing Jrom him. As the witnesses in the trial, on both eldes, have talked BowsN from the be- ginning, alternsting his name with that of Drecmem, it was supposed that his advent on the stand would throw a flood of light upon the dark places, Bat ho wns quostioned alightly, testified to only a few points of incidental value, and left the charncter of Mr, Beromen in a8 much donbt sa evor. Both sides ploinly dislike and disirust him, while tho disappointed public view him with anything but com- placenoy. Trurox allegos that, in pnat yoars, Mr, Bowzn privatoly mado the most griovous charges against Afr, Breonea to himeelf snd Ourven JounsoN, Mr, Jounsox, 80 far as we aro aware, hos not denied this fact. Tho tripartite agreament implies the same thing, while ssoming to rotract the acouaation. We only say seoming to retract, becauss Mr, Bowzx alloges that he nover has notually re. tracted anything, bocause the language of the docunent contains a siguificant ** perhaps ¥ in Mr, Bowxx's statement, and becauso the expremsion in it of confidenco in Mr, Beremen's Chrstian character might have meant not that he was innocent of tha things which had been allegsd, but that being guil- tyhe lod privately manifested such penl- tence a4 to roingtate himself in the good opin. {on of Mr, Bowey. It may be that subse- quently Mr. Bowzx came to doubt the reality of the ponitenoce, as he haa sald that he re. gretted the having signed the tripartits agreo. ment. Dut, urges the younger Dr. Bicov, why does not Mr. Bowen, who clalma that he #imows all about it," speak out? It he knows that Mr. Besouxs is & pure and up. right man, let him aay so, end defend sn in- pocent man, who is his own pastor. If he knows that Mr, Berouxn is an impure and bypoeritioal man, why does he not afiirm that, and drive bim from the pulpit which ho desecrates? This is & very general foeling, and it provokes many to an angry denunciation of the silent witness, Wa have onrselvos spoken plainly in roproba. tion of Mr. Bowzx's equiveoal position, But lot us not bo too harsh, and even unjust, from ignorance of faots which, if known, might juatify ‘the strange courss which he has chosen to pursue, We are pot jn his confldence, but probably others are, His sons end personal friends defend him, and affirm that time will ahow that ho is right in his chosen policy. They have dropped oo- caalonal hinta, bath as to the nature of what he knows, and as to the reason why he daes not proclalm it. It is well said by Dr, G, B. Baooy, that “the plea that be is bound to silence still by any covenants—tripartits or othar—~or by obligations of honor and friend. ship, is @ ples which will not generally be oocepted. Theve sre othey obligations which, under the ciroumstances, may well be pars- mount, asd these obligations are mof to be iguored withous offenss to publie sentiment, Bor without provekisg P! camsmre.” Ib . Bacoa that ena from any to which ho alludes, and Mr, Bow- eN's frionds have Intimated two, which may not be suffloient, but which are not without foreo, A One is underatood to bo that ke conld not aponk withont bringing bofore the public, in o most painful way, tho names of Iadics in high gocial positions. Perhaps this is ko, a3 Mr, Bueanuman i roprosented as having snid in conversation not only that Mr. Beeouss waa not guilty of adultery with Mrs, TrrToN, but that a far stronger apparent casa could bo mads out againat him in connection with sov- eral other ladies, who yot wero per sons of tho bhighest respactability and above suspicion! Ivorything depeuds of conrso in such matters npon whatis known with definiteness, Mr. Bowax would not ba warrantod in dragging now partics into sus- picion, whilo ndding no decisive proof to the caso s 1t now standss Dut, if he actuslly knows, and can prove immorality on tho part of Mr, Brecurs, no considerntions of the effect on guilty partics should be allowed to scal hia lips, The case is now Ao sorious, tho public is so divided in judgmnent, the proba. bility of grave divisions among ministers and churches is 5o groat, aud the certainty that, if Mr, Brronen is guilty and yot escapes con. viction, innocent persous will suffer in their roputation, snd be charged with slandor and perjury, is so undeniable, that Mr. Bowen would be a traitor to humanity and to relig. fon if ho should persevero in hia gilence. It has beon intimated that he meant to leave a posthumons statemont, and thus clear his comscienco, There i somothing cowardly in that, ss well as possibly unjust. It in the worst kind of a Parthinn arrow, It delnys spenking till the accuser can bo held to no responsibility be. foro man, and till the accused miny bo de- prived of the moans necessary for Lis defense, But such a suggested conrse points to the other reason for silenco oocasionally hinted by Mr. Bowey's frionds, Letit bo suppoaed that yoars ago ho camo into possession of direct evidence of Mr. Brroxen's guilty connection with o certain lady, bot that the proof, if donial wero mado, is limited to his own testi- mony. Let it bo supposed furthor, that Mr, Bowex has every resson to believe that the two guilty persons aro propared to unite in a porjured denial of any statemnent which he might make. Whera would that leave bim? Plainly he could not volunteer, orally or in print, any such accusation, without liability to a snit for slander or libel, in which ho could have no logal defonse. He could only safely testify in a court. DBut whon hawas on the witness- atand no question was put to him, or would have been allowed to bo put to him, on any other caso than tho one pending, AMr, Mouz- ToN's experionce is & warning; for when he ventured to -publish what he said thot Mr, Bexcuzn confossed to him about another case, he was mot with o libel suit, found himself withgut the legal evidonco for n defense, and was forcod to sottlo the matter ata hoavy cost. This may be Mr, Bowxn's position, for sught that the publio knows. 1If it is, the fact will account for hia singular silence, Only, whon men have knowledgs of guilt which they cannot prove to others, they should be silent as the grave about it from the first, It will not answer to talk privately i~ a fow, and to hint morae publicly to a larger number, and then to fall back on silence to evade responai~ bility. And this ssoms to havo been Mr, Bowzxn's policy. THE PACIFIO RATLROAD BOBBERY. The enormity of the fraud in the Pacific Railroad logislation of Congross has recently rocoived a new illustration. It will bs re- momberod that Congress first made & most liberal grant of land, equaling, from , Omaha to San Francisco, many millions of acres. It then voted 8 bond subsidy at various rates per mile, tho wholo aggregating (for the Union and Central Paclfio Roads) the snm of #58,000,000, in United Btates bonds, having thirty years to run, and bearing 6 per cent. interest. The next step was to have the legislation so nmended that the Unitad Btates should relinguish the mortgoge it held on the raflroad and its property, and accopt a second mortgage, the company oxecuting a first mortgago to socure its,own bonds, which were igsued in equal amount. The law of 1862 pravided that the bonds should be immed on tho condition that the Government have ths right to withhold all the moneya that might become dus to the Company for the transportation of mails, milltary, and supplies, and spply the amount o tho principal and interest of the debt. But a complaisant Congross, in 1864, substi. tated one-half for tho whole of thess earninga. In 1871, the Becrotary of the Treasury re- tained the whole, and Congress at once di- reoted Lim to payin cash one-balf to the Company. In 1878, after the Cradit-Mobiller expoaure, Congrous directed the same offl- cor to withhold All the earnings ond provide for having the question judicially decided in the Court of Claims, Tho Company brought sult for the recovery of $512,000 of the socond hal? thus re. tained, and the Court sustained the clalm, ‘We have no doubs that the judgment of the Court is right aa the law stands, but this leavos ina more glaring light tho criminal wenakness of Congress in patching the Jegisla- tion st the command of tho Pacific Railroad lobby until it surrendered everything. That oar resders may undorstand the present financial condition of this Pacific Railroad Job, we will give the figures of the scoount a8 it stood on the 1st of April, 18751 5, 810,258,104 1,184,508 Central Pacifte, ... Befunded by one-half $.9,0802% 611,001,220 3,802,201 ‘Balanse dus Unlied Blates $ 7,13500 Hare, then, we bave the fact that the Com. panies owe to the United Btatos §53,131,682, principal, and $16,801,260 for arrearages of interest, or in all 969,022,802, The pay- mentsof interest by way of charges for trans. portation are leas than ons-Afth the {ntersst pald by the United States. The total inter sat for thirty years oo the bonds will awount to $05,618,010, and, if we allow that the Companles will continue to pay one-fifth of the intsrest, the Companies will owe the United Btates in 18941800 Total sma dus 0 United Bates. .. ... 8129,38, 614 It can bardly be claimed that thess Com- paniss will be In condition to pay this debt s maturity, The United States hold but & second , snd {n arder to suforoe its claig must take up thefirstaortgage, amount. ing to $23,000,000. This will swell the debt die o the United Bletes S0 over one huadred. tions: Whother tho Governmont of the Umit. od Btates should go on, and eventually lose one hundred and eighty-three millions of dollars, or whothor it stop now, waive all claim on tho rond, and make the outatanding €63,000,000, tha principal of tho bonds, part of ita own dobt. Ty ——— An offort fa being mnade to found a Chair of Coltic langunges and literaturo in the University of Edinburg. An ondowment of from £10,000 to £14,000 is dosired. Tho objects of this now Clnir aro stated to be (1) **to provido for the soientiflo study of Celtlo compnrative philology, and for the collection and elucidation of oxisting lterary and his- torical monnments of tha Celtio langunges,” and (2) *to provide for the schiolarly teach- ing of the vernpoular Celtio to students deatined to pass thelr lives in tho Celtio dis- triots of the country.” The first of thewe objects {8 one of interest and fmportanco to scholars everywhere, 'I'lio project hna mot with the heorty approval of Max Murtien, Matrnew Anzowp, sud others. There are stlll four living Celtic dialects,—the Irish, Goelio, Welsh, aud Manx, There aro very many fmportant mnnuscripts oxtant and o number of monuments. If a Professor is appointed, thero will be no Inck of students, for private classes in Celtio at Edinburg and Glasgow have racently atiracted qoite a large number of scholars. The subscription list also contning the nnmes of a largo number of eminent Bcotchmon. The first four sub- seriptions are by “Ilis Graco the Quko of Butherland,” **His Grace the Duke of Ar- gyll," * His Graoe tho Duke of Manchester,” and “Tho Most Noble the Marquis of Buto," 80 that other subgcribers can feel sure of having their names sppear in good company, The Highland Association of Illinois, which bas its bondquarters ot No. 7856 West Madison streot, is now soliciting nid for the endowment. Bubscriptions of any amount may bosent to G, McPnensox, Esq., Secretary, ot tho addross alrendy given. Tho printed blanks contain the following stirring exhor. tations to benevolenco: * Loan gu.dluth ri cliu do shinnsenr* and ** Buas leis a Ghaolio! Na logaibl a bhan idirL.” Is such s boouti- ful language to bo suffered to perish? A now work has recently boen published entitled * Man and Boast,” in which the au- thor, tho Rov. J, G. Woon, seoks to show that the lower animals possess thoss montal and moral characteristies which in human boings are supposed to pmta'n to the soul. In support nf his theory, he nnrrates many storios, among them one concerning a duck whoso mate was stolon, The morning after the loss tho duck commenced mourning for her drake, and rofused to bo comforted, but nurgod hor sorrow in silence and far away {rom the other ducks and drakes. Somo time olnpsed, but it did not mitigats her grief. One day, a very gay young drake, whose duck had been killed, waddled up to the sup- posod widow and sought to consols her, but sho rofused his consolations, Ho then songht to forco them upon her, wherenpon she made it 80 hot for him ho alunk away. A few days nftor this, tho long-lost drake wns discovered and brought back, whereupon his duck was 60 overcoms with joy that sho did nothing but quack for half a day, Aftor this por. formance, sho and tho drake retired to n se. ctuded spot whera she informed him of the proposals which bad been mado to her by tha other drake. The result wos, that they hunted bim up and gavo him tha peverest kind of chastisement for his conduct. All this goes to ghow that these ducks and drakes havo mors senss than charaoterizos the ducks ond drakes in Brooklyn. It is bulloved that the lawgpassed by the New York Legislature during’ last winter to enablo the State to bring civil suits sgainat Tween, ConnoLy, Bweeny, Tox Frzupe, and the other members of the old Tammeany Ring, is thoroughly comprohensive, and will load, without doubt, to the recavery of g0 much of the gkalen property a8 has not been squandersd. Under this law, the Htata can sue for thim recovery whorever or in whatever handa the property may be,—a right which it did not have be- fore this law was pazsod. Tha State, like a private individual, may follow the Tammany thioves into Europesn Btates, after the ron- dering of judgment in this country, and so acquira the same righta to levy an execution on prophrty found in foreign States as the individual American eitizen bos, As these prosscutions are under tha leadership of Osmanres 0'Conos, who has already done so ‘much to bring the Tammany thieves to jus- tice, it {a not unlikely that a conaiderabls pro- portion of the stealings will be eventually re- covered,—a eircumstance almoat unparalleled in this country, A political anomaly hoa ocaurred in Mexloa. There is & post-ofiice in the Blation of Uruapam, in the Btata of Michoacan, which has been closed, the Govornment having been unsble to flnd any one who would take the charge of it, If the Moxican Govern- ment, however, wants a Postmaster for the Station of Uruapam, in the State of Micho- acon, all it has to do is to aunounce the fact and {nvite proposaly from the United Statos, The nobls army of poat-offics scakers that would pour soross the Rio Grande would more than fill all the post-offices and custom. houses combined In the whole of Mexico. It the Moxican Adminfstration wanta its Micho. scon Poat-Office rsopensed, it has only to noti- fy the Jeffersonians of Qhicago. They all want somsthing, and they sre not very par. tioular what it is, Anything from mseatin the Washington Cabinst down to the Micho- scan Post-Office will suis the Jeokinslsm, In spite of all disconrsgements, Bolds its own as well in Grest Britain a3 in America. The everlssting hills are pod more firmly fixed. England espocislly snjoys the most parfect type of Jenkinslaw, inssmuch as shio supporia and patronizea s linesl descendant of the original Junains, in the person of Mr, Epwans Jexxixs, M, P, the sathor of *'Giax's Baby,” Thesuooocsaof his fortanate and haphiaz- ard plecs of cleverneas neama ta have lifted thia gentleman above the ordinary lovel of human affairs into an etevated yeglon of dreamlsnd, where, freed from all shackles of conven. tionalism, he geily discoursas on forekmowl- odge, fate, free-will, intemperance, socislism, the pesce of FEurops, ihe International copyright, and other subjects 80 momentous that a year of Sundsy leckurea would not snfics for their seitlement. My, Jmnxiws, M. P., 1s s irrepressible spesch-makes. It was he who beeded the doputation t0 Mr. Dumamur which demanded @ Paclismontary Come misslon to finquire Into the wronge snd rights of aathors; it wes ke, ageln, who badgered Diszirzuy, in tha Houee, in the samie couRecilon, snd was savarsly snubbed for bis palus; §b was ba, slso, whe, in & publio 2ddsess, aileged $1at the power and Infiuence of Chriatianity, noasided by say other means what- over, bad pravented the oelastrophe as beiwesa Frasos and Gerasny which was so ressally | i 54 4o b who lalks loudest, sad wvmwn wheaevet (he nl'u-udu.lulahn_u T bis gloguanon it b8, Saaidy fub Dibimiity; All the debt of gratitnds that was nxing JuNKoNS for * Ging'a Taby " was pald b, (o ¢ woek wfter fta publication, and he iau gy ninda such overdrafty upon human fo that ho dasorves no further accommo 11 ias bocomo tho vory head-contrs of Jouting. inm, and o worthy contpatrios of Sort, Enys, Private Davzenn, Gronus Faaxom Tiaty, aln’l tho poripatetic Wrstox, —— Col. Loxa, the American who has bon an. gaged, uudor tha Khedive of Lgspt, i e ing Conteal Africa, for ouo and & half £ sars Diog wrltion to hls father an 8ooount of his lyifl: iant campaign agniust tho savages, & s . tontions for the tmurediato futura, Tiis miceesn sppoars to liave beon groator Lsan wan at firut re.- ported. Althongh ho had to fight with nn ceedivgly warliko tribe, and to Lrave tie daugo of doath from poisoned arrows, bis truon ;. not flinch, nor was thole march aver woriouy impodod. On his arrival at Ledo, ret 1o Cniro, he roceived & decoration of the tiird claey of Mojidich and the flrman of the grado of onol. The Khedive forwarded thewe m: distinction with & peraonal lotter of filicita; Col. Lovo oxpects to make lus futura rosd in Cafro, o will firat, however, travel over Ia. ropo on ofilaial businosa ; and ho hopos to b sont o Americs, whore, no doubt, ha would . coive & wolcome worthy of his fame. o), Loxa sctually carrled to the Kbodivo one of (ho Iyl iputinn race whoso existonco had vreviously boen establisbod on the tastimony of saveral African explorors, but none of whory, we b lieve, had bafore this time boon sosn within the limits of civilizatton. —— In San Francisco, every inhabitant appoars, by figurea which of course cannol lie, to sille, con- placently snd focessantly, from tho rising of tho sun to the golng down thoroof. 1t I masortel that, in that modol city, thero nro ui0 diam-shops, oxclusive of bars Aitnched 1o grocories, rostanrants, and bilfhrddnh, and 980 of this lattor olass,—making a handsors total of 1,970 places where liquor is sl by tha gloss, Estimating tho roceipts at 230 a day, which 18 not high in San Francisco, 459,100 4 day is spont on favors, for 472,800 driuky. [a ona year, 21,571,500 is opent for 17:,5i2.0:0 drinks, which, at G5 drams to tls galpn (bay- room monsnreraent), wonld ropresent 2,639,115 gallons, Making proper roductions for water, and rockoning the sverago cost price at £1, tis amount cost originally 06,834,696, nnd thus yiolds a profit of $15,290,904 to the rotait dealais, San Franoléco I8 a city not balf the sixo of € cago, but she gels away with ono-third m liquor. Would it not be aa well for the Ro- formars to hold thelr next Convention thore ? Tho 8t. Louls Globe-Democrat saxs, in & burst of solf-complaconcy : " Of gourso thoro i buy ona “Queon City of tha Weust,” and she reuts, beanutital as the moming, bosido tha Fathor of Woters, at the Misaouri end of tha grestest en- gineoring triumph of the age. All tio world knows her snd sdmlros Lor," Are wo nover to hoar tho lsat of this bridgo ? Has 8t. Loma nothlog elge to brag about but this structuio spsuning the muddy Miamssippl, upon swhich no Ht, Louisian dares to go sfter dark for foar of boing knocked into the river, after baing rob- bod by foot-pada ? Iavea't the Bt. Louis nows. papers gald aboot enough on this tople? It is potting to ba a littlo todious. Give ua n chango, Say somothing sbout tho removal of ths Na- tional Capitsl, or & new dirsctory, or tho Brows. 8tocking Clab, whick wont home from Chicazo with a bee in itg ear., Bay anything, but giva un & rost about thiubridge. I itis kept up much longer, Chicago will build oue soross Lake 2tichigan, Gen, BArTLETT hsa been given a beantital modal for his sposch at the Ooncord celobration, sccompaniod by s lottar which closes thus: *+Your words, aa you Liave abundant oocasion to struck the key-note of tha grand Conton« quarter proves that the vountry fa roady to for gok tho animosities of the past, and muintain a brosd and generous patriotism In the futuro.,” ‘The prosentation was, In this instance, appro- priate enough ; but common orators aliould be made to nndorstand that medals are not ordina- 1y prizos, to be spoken for in any pulpit, ros- trum, or logislativo hall, Tue ers of fostival mpeoch-making is 80 far passed in America that gonuine and manly sentimenta have somo oppor- tunity to be beard and valued. This is ono of the fncidontal lessona of tue graceful recogut- tion of Gen. BARTLETY. . —_— Boaton i3 a grest city for celobrations With th o exception of her great fire of 1872, in which sho falled to coms up #o the standard eatab- lishod by the Chicago exhibition, Boston has always atood high up in the matter of displsy. In patriotis colebrations, Boston s facile prin- ceps; and the Bunkor HIll celebration on Thursday noxt is to be aa far ahoad of saything yok dono sa posaible. The ety la 30 ba as weil lighted aa it was by the great fire, but in a more syatematio snd less expenalve manner, Gas plpes are being run up all the boslnesy blocks, to be used for llominating, Al the publa squares are to be hung with Ohinese lantemns ; snd, in the Banker-Hill district, headlights are 10 be na thiok as grasshoppors. On the Mopu- ment, s Iarge number of calunm-lights will be distributed ; and the spires of eburchies and lofty bulldings sre to ba similarly adorned, et el i Nos long sgo, Mr. Powzms discoversl, or thought he had discovered, s process of induo- ing reluctant rainfalls, by the fring of hoavy srtillory, e nover was allowed the Congiess- ional graut to put theory to practios, Now comes & Frenciman with » project mory usatal, lora demoraliziug, and cheaper. It ia to do without %ain sltogethor. M, PAny argues that ehlo:ido ot calolum absorbs molsture from the alr. By mixing it with the most unpromiaing solts, be hos ascertalned that s judiclous proportion of the fo- willas compound will more efectually irrigate waate lands than suy present aystem of eansis of wells, Hia preparation retalns mcisture for three days, where watar-application a8 DOW prace tiood wonld ovaporate in ous. And wo far AL PAnAY haa not asked for sa sppropriation. —_— PERSONAL. Gon. J. O, Smith goes to Fhiladelphia Tosedsy on Centonnial busineas. The New York Oity Directory, sormeeted for the May movings, is already out. Lotis proposes to abandon the baajo. Theu Lotta ceases profsastonsily to ba. Mr. Cobbler, of Indinos, died of hls relativer recontly. He took thewm internally. Happy horees of Guernsey! When obstrep erous they are roade drunk an ether. Arthur Ortos now runa s sewing machine to priscn, That in what has reduced his bulk. “ A Blerra Wedding " s Joaquin Miller's lash, His first was loss Blarraous,— trifle, In fact, H. W. Besoher is on the ragged edge of ths Cinclnnat! pollos foroe, He is " on trial,* $00. T.B. Blackstous,) President of the Chloage & Alton Railroad, s on s tour tirough Oolorsdo, Gentlomen now shingle thair halr with lawo-subless, —=Cwictimad Times, Samplea oa view ai tLin ofics. Groves haa siolen 8 march o his brother-man. agers, (n gotting hisbenedll for & weak trom Ban- day. Porkins likes bis Escon la rashers,—ihat s, without Bowens in I% (1004 suough for & posks opolitan. The A, Loula Jady who “had » burief bee oot made™ in Ialy avideaily miataok it tor tha Coloasenm, The santence of Jesss P haying beem sommuted, Piper, who killed only oae Liwle gizh should ba homozsbly sed at liberty. Btainer i golsgup, What uahappy rescliess flous wust thel announcemsa: call up of 8 French bend steuggitng agaios fate) mehuluhuhoij oud & [y