Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 20, 1875, Page 4

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Tennyson's dra- matic poem ‘* Queen Mary” was published. ‘Tbe London Times says that thore is “‘more true fire in the drama than in anything which lias appeared since Snaxsreanr’s time.” We fear the eritic is too enthusiastic. The Poet sign of the future. We have arranged to do our part in the work by the publication, every Sunday, of a review of the fine arts, which will not only give a clear idea of their progress in Chicago, but will keep ita readers posted “on matters of interest to art-lovers elsewhere in this country and in Europe. This department, will be under the cara of a thoroughly competent writer, and will con- tain contributions from some of the best art- critics of this country andof Europe. To- day's: Tarsone contains the fourth install- ment of this weekly review, which has al- ready attracted the favorable attention of the community, fs we have abundant reason to know. “ ‘The man who won't vote is always an un- known element in American politics, and a very displeasing one. Nobody knows how many of him there will be on any particular day ; but as a rale the stay-at-homes hold tho’ balance of power, and could, if they would, decide an election to suit therhselves. Our Canadian neighbors are troubled by this same “evil of indifferentism. It is possible that they will take steps to cure its» Their Minis- ter of Justice has proposed that every voter ‘who does not vote shall be disfranchised for acertain time, which time is to cover the next general election. It is uncertain how far this would cure the evil, and certain that aman may well shrink from casting a ballot for either of two average candidates of the caucus. But, if Canada should try the the- ory, it would be a valuable lesson in politics for us, Wherefore we hope she will SUPREME CGURT ON CITY TAXES. The intelligence from Ottawa is not en- couraging. In all the cases involving the validity of judgments for city taxes, the Su- preme Court has decided adversely to the city. It will be remembered that in August, 1874, - Judge Waz.ace, of the County Court, refased judgment for taxes (in 1873) in all cnsos where objection was made. He rendered this decision upon the groand that it was impos- sible to reconcile the provisions of Bill 200 and those of the General Revenue law. The Supreme Court now affirms Judge Wauiacer's decision. The Court goes further, and over- rales judgments given in favor of the city for previous years. These decisions apply to special assessments as well asto general taxes, which leaves the city in a sad condition. The city authorities last winter obstinately and persistently maintained that the proceed- ings under Bill 300 were legal, and therefore THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, JUNE 20, 1875.—SIXTEEN PAGES. and most experienced architects, who can bo,/market, even after paying 85 to 40 per cent | paid out of the contingent fund. If necessa- | tax. These protectionists close their eyes to ry the Common Conncil might instract the-{‘the fact that -the’ production of a hundred Mayor to appoint such a: commission, and it zillion yards of cotton’ cloth, with- rapid ought to do it immedintely, as with its+ gale, is more profitable than the production report the people of this -city will j-of ten millions of yards, with. mills closed be entirely satisfied, and they will’) }wo-fifths of the time, and labor and machin- not bo satisfied with anything else. - It will /ery unemployed, even if there be added the not be difficult for the ‘Mayor to find half-a- | premium extorted by law in favor of non- Luureate of England bas fallen into a sad | refused to have that bill repealed, and ro- habit of late of manufacturing verses to order. | fused to abandon the useless machinery of —— city assessment and collection and collect The French Courts are very severe upon | the taxes under the State law. ‘To have done Americans who live hy their wits and fleece | that would have been to abolish forty or fifty Frenchmen. Some time ago, Gen. Jon C. | tax-eaters and save $80,000 year. So Bill Fremont was condenmed to a year or two's j 300 was patched. and it was dotermined to imprisonment for floating fraudulent bonds; | continue in the old rat. Pensrss, thg link between America andthe {/ Tho Supreme Court now says that where Bourbon family, now langnishes in a Paris | thore are two laws conflicting, gener- jail because he cheated his landlady; andj ally, and one is made dependent on ene Fintan, an American Spiritualist, who | the successful - adaptation of the ma- tock “spirit photographs,” has just beencon- | chinery of the other, the Court can- victed cf swindling. and sent up for six | not undertake to reconcile the differences, months. Our Spiritualists abroad had better | and must reject one or the other, The Su- come home. They can phatograph a thousand | preme Court intimates the impossibility of so ghoste a day here without anybody’s interfer- ing with them. And if they don’t know how to doit, any good photographer gan show them, We have received from one of our corre- ‘ spcondents at Brownville, Neb., a bundle of branches of young pear, peach, and apple trees, showing the ravages of the grasshop- per. The bark is stripped from them in grent patches-clear to the wood, and on the smaller twigs, even the soft wood of this year's growth is eaten into. If the grasshoppers are possessed of such voracity as this, it is not difficult to understand how completely they must destroy vegetation, or to believe thet they go into the ground after the roots. Such devastation as this, if it spreads over any great amount of territory, will produce fearful results among the young treas of Nebraska, and put farmers and nurs8ry-men back three or four years in their efforts to raise froit. . ‘The mysterious disappearance of certain account-books belonging to a grain-firm in Milwaukee must excite the livekest ap, hensions of the revenue officials, The bool were owned by Messrs. Maroon & Paensx, who were ordered to produce them for the. Verification of the grain-receipts reported by some of the distilleries. The books were ab stracted from the office of Messrs. Marroon & Puewan, in their sbsence, by some persons! unknown, who carried the bulky volumes | sway at high noon without exciting any dis- /| trast, or meeting with any opposition. It! will be seen in the Milwaukee correspondence | ideal is unlimited absinthe, frogs, and opers- Dbouffe; the German's, wurst, beer, and Ge- mtetlichkeit; the Italian's, Christi, and endless siestas; the} Lecryms Spaniara’s, olla podrids and cigars; the Irish- man’s, plenty of whisky and Donnybrook. { The latter has had an opportunity to enjoy his bern ideal in the Dublin fire, during which 1,800 puncbeons of whisky wero pourec into the streets, the whole popula- tion being left free to take it hot or cold, ss the case might be, without charge. ‘The dispatch states that ‘‘The crowds are collecting floating whisky in pails, dippers, snd hats.” One can faintly imugine the happiness of Dublin, with lesh- in'; of liquor to be had for the gathering, and tt.c innumerable little Donnybrooks that must Y.sve been improvised. It’was an o¢casion maceroni, } patching Bill 300 that it can work harmoni- ously with the general law, and suggests the wisdom, if not the legal necessity, of collect- ing city taxes under the General Revenue law. In the meantime the city taxes for 1S74 are in the same legal condition as were those of 1878, and the objections sustained by Judge Wantacz last year must, if presented again this year, be sustained by the Court. The city, therefore, will be dependent for the col- Jection of its taxes upon the patriotism of those who shall voluntarily pay them. Itisa question whether it is not too late for the city to provide that the taxes for 1875 shall bo collected unde# the machinery of the State law; but we hope not. In all the cases of appeal from judgments for State and county taxes the Court has sustained the validity of the proceedings and of the law, and it is criminal any longer to refuse to have our as- sesaments and collection of taxes under a law which has been judicially determined to be ive in every particular. THE GOVERNHIENT BUILDINGS. ‘We revert to the Government building question once more in order to impress a point of particular importance, and that is the appointment of a commission of Chi- cago architects, whose duty it shall be to see whether the present structure cannot be saved. To go ahead now and undo the work of the last two years, to pull down all this iron and stone work, not only involves a ‘waste of years’ of time and of millions of money, but it also involves a very grave lement of uncertainty whether we shall get anew building for years tocome, If the present structure is pulled down there must be new appropriations made. A new set of contractors, superintendents, and architects will comein. New kind of stone will be used. There is the danger that there will be now AU nations have peculiar ideas of what con-{ jobs, rings, and corruptions, There is the stitutes happiness. The Frenchman's beau, additional uncertainty whether Congress will grant the additional appropriation to cover all this expense. The next House will un- doubtedly be disposed to look at everything from a partisan point of view, and, if it takes a partisan view of this structure, com- menoed during the administration of a Re- publican House, it will be very likely to let it stand, in order to make party capital, as a monument of the bunglinggand mistakes which characterized its predecessor. There ig also ground for believing that, if this ‘building comes down, and -an sppropriation should be secured to erect a new one, it will be built of New England granite, like the Cincinnati structure, instead of Buena Vista sandstone. The now architect naturally has had no experience with our Joliet marble, and knows nothing of its qualities as a building stone. Instead of nackte, ‘sich oaeai < a going to the Ohio River for stone, as suflering a Meets saad ep eeral ‘Muxuerr did, there is reason to believe he For once, at least, pies was~frea ; and will go clear to the Massachusetts seacoast, what more could the most patriotic Hibernian thus opening up s direfal vista of posaible dedead delays, increased charges and expenses, and + deena new contracts, with all their possible jobs __ One of the surest signs of metropolitaniam | and corraptions,—in which case we have only i the existence of a tastefor art and art- jumped out of the frying-pan into the fire, criticism. Before the Great Fire Tee Tare. | Tt will be ashame to tear theso walls down Unc fostered that taste and developed it by a if there is any method of securing them so wees of articles, afterwards republished in | that it will be safe to go on and complete the ook-form, which were of substantial value | building. ‘The faults which have been dis- artists settled here at | covered of variegation anc scaling of the and to the community at large. | stones are not worthy of a moment's con- a Secemere the esthetic out of Chicago | sideration. The ons is merely.an eyesore. ‘eBooks, pictures, statuary, studios, and other is a defect ggwhich can srtgalleries all went, People with their] be remedied by preserving’ the’ stone Stores, officas, and homes to build hnd no ap} from contact with, the atmosphere which Breciation left for any art bat, archi causes the peeling. Y‘The people of this city\ Boe Chicago does ‘not, Porhaps, prove that | will never be satisfied until it has been accu- 27 had the liveliest possible appreciation for rately determined whether it is necessary to thst, Xow, however, the old tastes are revit. ‘pull the walls down, and this cannot be accu- pee Artists are coming back ; the Academy | rately and satisfactorily determined without esign as not unprosperous; and tha consulting mon who are thproughly sequaint- Foarly: display of psintings at tha\| ed with the characteristi i P x : ristios of the Chi inter Sine Exposition has become a marked | soil and its ability to hold heavy foundations | the ertlife of the whole country. \For this reason we once more arge fe a ‘arge upon the Tm Tron Seoogitnea ia thie ® hopaful Mayor to oppoint a commission at our oldest dozen architects who Imow the condition of the grounds upon which the Government building stands, and it will not take more than a day or two for them to determine the question whether the walls ought to come down. There are architects in this city who could probably map out the entire subterra- nean area of Chicago in its business section, and the report of such experts would be more pertinent and satisfactory than anything which ‘can be furnished by architects who are strangers here and know noth- ing of the city, or by Government Com- missioners, however skillful or intelligent, they may be. The people of this city will place no reliance upon the judgment strangers, and, as they ure the principal par,y| ties interested in this building; they have a right to be heard in the matter through theis best architects, who have built heavy build_ ings upon the same soil as that upon which the Government structure stands, If they’ report that the walls should come down, all | xight ; butif they report that they can be*| made secure, then the people of Chicago and instruct their members of Congress to | see that their demandsarerespected. Thisis only simple justice. There is another point, also, which ought to be established, if it is decided to resume work, namely: whether it is necessary to finish the work as massivély as it has been commenced. ‘The foundations and walls which have thus far been isid are } 9 strong enough to hold a building 200 fest high, whereas this building will not be higher than the average of business blocks in the city, and will not be subjected to any extraor- dinary weight or pressure. This, however, ig an outside affair, The principal point we would urge for immediate actio is the appointment of the local commission, of architects: first, because they have equal skill and ability, and more erperience, th: strangers; second, because they know every foot of our soil, and have built buildings, bo! light and heavy, all overground of the same, character as that now in question; and, third, because the citizens of Chicago will never be satisfied until it is done, and be- wgause they demand it ass matter of justice. There is no more important matter that can engage the attention of the Mayor and Coun- cil at present. — NATIONAG BOARD OF TRADE. 5 The National Board of Trade closed its session in Philadelphia on Friday last. Its recommendations may thus be summed up: 1, concerted action against the addition to bills of lading and railroad receipts.of. condi- tions unknown to the Common Law; 2, that inland carriers be required to deliver the quantity by weight of grain shipped; 3, ad- vising the appointment of a commission of American and Canadian merchants to prepare a treaty for reciprocal trade between the two countries; 4, recommending the Centennial to the,pride and patriotism of the country ; 5, urging continued attention, to the subject of transportation by Congres and the State Legislatures; 6, urging the establishment by Congress of a bureau to gather and dissemi- nate information on the subject of transporta- tion; 7, insisting that railroads shall receipt for quantities of merchandise. ‘There’ were various other thingsurged upon. the Convention, but they rejected them all. On the important questions of finance and currency the deliverance of the Convention was as follows: . é Resolved, That the present time, when commM@cist indebtedness is small, prices of commodities low, and the currency g0 excessive thaflarge amounts are lying idle, presents afavorable opportunity for the institu- tion of measures to restore specie payments, Resolved, That such payments cannot be restored and maintained as long aa papor currency exists which can be used in legat payments, instesd of specie. Resolved, That the National Hoord of Trade there- fore prays Congress to withdraw from circulation and cancel the United BSintas legal-tender notes, by in- stituting messnrea for this purpose at the next ses sion. Resolved, That the National Board of Trade hereby expresses its sense of satisfaction that Congress bat fixed a day for the resumption of specie payments, but that it cannot withhold an expression of its concern that no well-considered methods have been adopted for the execution of that measure, aud begs of Con- gress that it will place at tho earliest period poszible suitable means in the hands of the Secretary of the ‘Treasury for the proper execution of the law providing for resumption at the time named. These resolutions were adopted by nearly an utanimous vote. They are in admirable contrast with the doleful wailings of Mr. Kerrey at Philadelphia, and the equally absurd ravings of Mr. Pzxpieron at the,Ohio Democratic Convention. The present time, when the commercial indebtedness is com. paratively so small, and the volume of cur- Yency so excessive that several hundred millions of dollars are lying idle, offers pecul- iar advantages for a rapid resumption of a permanent specie basis of values. The reso- lutions trathfully declare that the serious obstacle which stands in the way of this re- sumption is that a paper currency is legalized in payments instead of specie. The other resolution, urging Congress to adopt such meusures a8 will enable the Secretary of the Treasury to carry out the law of last session fixing 1879 as the date of resumption, was very timely. We have no question that the Board represent on this question the senti- ments of every thoughtful man engaged in honest snd. legitimate . trade and production in the United States. In the Convention there was a gentleman from Detroit, who thought the great trouble was due to the fact that the tariff was not sufficiently prohibitory. He declared that it was anomalous that we should export raw cotton and then re-import the same cotton mannfectured. His remedy for this was such an increased duty on manufactured cotton as would prohibit the importation. It seems never to have occurred to this gentleman that it would be better policy to so increase the manufacture of cotton in the United States that we would have no occasion to buy, and would have a surplus to sell to other coun- tries. That is the way to effect a permanent exclusion of foreign-made cotton goods, and this can only be done by such a re- duction of the premium on non-pro- duction in this country as will encourage manufactures, At present we only produce & comparatively small ‘quantity of cotton goods, when we might not only have 5 monopoly of the home supply, but could ex- port to all parts of the world. We must have s general export trade. We have the {row material and the labor; we employ the labor three days ont of five ; we make three. yards where we ought to make five; and our manofaoturers, under the protective law, de- mend for the three yards what would be a fair Price for the five. The result is, the foreign- ee onnies in and undersells them in their own {cheap posta; high or low, V : ; should demand that the work shall go on, 4 Pense of tho Postal Department ; and now in y production. ————————ee—e- TAXING CHURCH PROPEBTY. There can be little, doubt that the iden, of taxing church property will ultimately pre- vail. It is only a question of time. At the outset it has formidable obstacles to encoun- ter, but these will disappear before the pro- gress of calm investigation. At: first, the proposal to tax church property meets a strong and well-nigh universal prejudice growing out of usage in the past. It strikes the common mind as an assault on religion, or, at least, .as withdrawing from it a proper ken of respect. Ilitherto, the State has ‘manifested its reverence for religion by ex- empting its institutions from the. burdens of taxation. This has beon so long a custom that s departure from it shocks those who do not rise above usage, and consult principle, ‘The parallel custom, only just laid aside, of al- lowing rulers-to frank their lettera wasregard- ed as well nigh a right until the discussion of led men to see that every one, ould bear his part in the ex- England even the Queen, and in the United States even the President, must put the same stamp on aletter that is required of a shop- gizl or of an’ apprentice-hoy. When once wo get at the underlying principle of any sub- ject, it proves to be a remorseless leveler, and old distinctions in Church and State find no oarter. ‘The custom of exempting church property comes down from the days when Church and State were united, and when, on many sub- jects, the Church gave Jaw to the State, and, in the name of God, had its own way in all i i ‘Then the pe system of taxation for that pur- pose. So long as this was. done, it was folly to tax church property, To do so would be as if a man were to take ont of one pocket to put into the other, But now that }) we have reached, in this land, the true prin- | ciple of separating Church and State, we aght to accept all’ that is logically implied. When Christ said, ‘‘Render unto Cmsar the things which are Cosar’s,” he took high and } advanced ground, and hia Church, since the primitive age, has been slow to occupy it. Before tho time ‘of Constantine, it never thought of soliciting pecuniary favors of the State. It wonits world-wide victories with its own resources, glad if the State would but let it alone and forbear to persecute. Bat from the day that it consented to be es- tablished ‘by tho civil power, it has always leaned, to some extent, upon the secular arm; and it is loth, even in this land, totally to dissolve the connection. After being cut off from direct aid, it clings to the indirect. After losing its invitation to eat at the State table, it humbly desires to be allowed to pick the crnmbs from the floor! But light is breaking in, and clear-sighted and thoughtful Christians are advocating the taxation of church property precisely as any other. ‘The leading religious newspapers are doing much to correct public sentiment. The Advancs, in this city, the Independent and the Christian Union, New York, and the Congregationalist, at Boston, have ably sus- tained the view which we present. They are the more to be commended in so doing when it is remembered that they are ahead of their constituency, and are slowly eduesting them out of antiquated notions, Often it is o costly proceeding to ran counter to a relig- ious prejudice, which good men mistake for a fundamental truth to be conscientiously held. But the course of reform is onward, and one after another men of mind will espouse the right, will demand andsecure a hearing, and ‘will initiate a wide discussion, which will carry the popular vote. A few States of the Union have already begun to tax church property, and the example will be contagious, As Con- ventions shall be held for revising State Con- stituiions, the question wili be regularly raised, the facts will be brought forward, the principle will be debated, and a sentiment will inevitably form favorable to the proposed change. + For, let it be considered how plain the case is viewed fromthe side of the State, The political economist feels himself pressed with the problem of taxation. He wishes to make that burden bear as equally as possible upon. all tangible proverty. He finds that opinion is unanimous ir favor of taxing real estate, by reason of is valué, its permanence, its accessibility, aid its easy control by the ‘civil officers. He naturally lays down the principle that ill the real estate of a locali- ty must be subjected to the -same tax, upon im equitable assessment. Before the law-maker, studying the texable resources of the community, it is of no consemence to. what -use that real estate is put, He legislates to tax it, on the ground of its ycuniary value as protected by the Governmeit, and not because it is wisely or unwisely, yrofitably or-unprofitably, used. by the owner or because it is employad agriculturally, commercially, educationally, or religiously. He has no right, in a particular case, to see mything else than ‘a protected piece of proprty which ought to bear its fair Proportion ofthe expense of the Government which proteés it. But, to his amazement, he learns, on consulting the census tables, that on immase amount of real estate is ex- empt from txation, on the ground that it iz church progrty and property devoted to Purposes of :ducation by-religions sects and corporations Of such church property alone, the census ‘ables of 1870 report a value of $854,483,58, of which there is set down to Tllinois $24664,253! No donbt it isalow estimate. .nd this isa kind of 2 property rapidly incrasing in value, for it. is usually well locateé The additions to it are also great everyyear, as congregations increase in means, Ajreal estate nowhere pays less than 1 perient on its assessed value, it would appear tht Illinois loses, every year, more than a qurter of a million of dollars of taxes by this xemption of church property! Probably te City of Chicago loses from $80,- 000 to $5000 in the same way; while the entire Unin is thus annually out of pocket to the amant of three and a half miltions of dollars! jut, as the expenses of the States must be pid, what is lost here must be made up elsewhre ; and so other real estate is taxed corresporlingly higher. All private real- estate owaers pay their legitimate taxes, and,’ in addition, those of the churches! This is plain ijustico i alt cases, but especially in the cay of these who do not belong to the religios bodies which. own the exempted ‘propery, and it is a virtual continunnca of ithe Gohsction of Chutch’and ‘Btita, being a ih | contribution by the Stateto the churches of the amount which otherwise, and equitably, these would have to pay ss tax upon their property. Illinois thus contributes, ‘every year, $226,642 to the -support: of ‘the churches. 4 ‘The usual reply to this is that the churches, in return, are of immense value to the Stata in promoting good morals and religious prin- ciple. This is trae; but we may not mix, in that way, questions of taxation and of inci- dental benefit, or everything: would escape the tax-gatherer. Every good man aids the State by his probity and industry: shall good men therefore be exempt ‘rom taxation, on the ground of the public benefit accruing from right character? Harijy. Every man- ufactory, store, shop, and well-cultivated farm aids the State essentially in many incidental ways, as does every teacher of learning of any grade, and every one. who promotes the useful or the fine arta. But no such plea is aset-off against taxation, which simply and rightly looks at property only as property, let it be used. by whom or for what purpose it may. Labor, trade, art, education, religion, all help the State; but so also, by its protec- tion, does the State help them, and therefore it taxes their property, and should treat all THE SUBSTITUTE FOR STEAM. A man named Kerxey, after living fourteen years in a back-street in Philadelphia, has come to the front. He brings with hima worderfal, a marvelous, 9 miraculous, inven- tion, the fruit of the years of patient struggle against poverty, and failure, and despond- ency. This is a new motor, a cold-water (tectotal) engine, & compound of chambers, pipes, and valves, into which air is forced from above and water let in from below. Then, by some utterly unknown process, the new force is generated. The pressure it exerts is simply tremendous, varying from 2,000 to 15,000 pounds: on the square inch ! The highest practicable prosstre of steam is Jess than 20) pounds to the square inch. This is the story. the inventor and his con- federates tell. He professes to have discov- ered a new force dependent upon new chem- ical and mechanical Igws, ond beyond and above every other known power of Nature. Acompany has bean formed to introduce it into general use, and not a share of stock is for sale (?). [ In a ease like this, seeing is believing. ‘When the’ patents already applied for have been got, and the new power has been prac- tically and publicly spplied, then, but not till then, will the world or wise men give any credence to this wild story. But, if it proves to be true, the possible results are beyond the imagination of the wild- est dreamer, The steam-engino will disappear. ‘The motive-power of the world will be cold water and air, The demand for coal will well-nigh vanish, for the new force can of course be converted into heat, and will thus sapply warmth as well as motion. Smoke will become an extinct nuisance. Trains will dart along the railroads at the minimum of expense and meximum of velocity, and the problems of cheap transportation will be for- ever solved. Avery great part of the cost of manufacturing will be saved. Flying-ma- chines will become perfectly practicable, for here is o force. that .far uxceeds that exercised by 8 bird in propor- tion to its weight. Steamships will flash across the ocean, and the vast amount of room now used in storing coal, etc., will.be saved. danger of fire and explosion on sea and id will be greatly lessened. Although steam has never been successfully appliod to artillery, this new power, perhaps, may be. The General of the future will then go forth to meet an army with a few iron pipes ond boxes, a pail-of water, oforce-pump, and a million or so bullets. Thus equipped he will sweep off the foe by regiments, There is no end to the possible powers, uses, and benefits of this invention, should it prove to be what is claimed for it, ‘The whole world will be the gainer to an inconceivable extent. The enormous fortune sure to be realized by the inventor and his ring of backers will be well deserved, sud the name of Krenzy will be known to the end of the world and to the end of time. For particulars see our news columns. : MARRIAGE MADE EASY. - Every once in a while articles make the tour of the American press which are based upon the matrimonial journals published in London and Paris. They would indicate that professional matrimonial brokerage is confined to Europe, and that we of this coun- try must rely upon the amateur brokers, in the persons of maneuvering .mammas, de- signing papas, artfol daughters, ambitious sons; and intermeddling relatives. The in- ference is incorrect. Professional marriage- brokers, who undertake to provide rich wives for poor husbands and tice versa, old men’s darlings, and special protectors for widows and orphans, are also indigenous to this new: soil of ours. There isa special journal in this city which professes to have been Published every month during’ the past six yeirs, and which is devoted to the inter. ests of Cupid and Hymen. It undertakes to marry off all sorts of matrimonial candidates, young and old, rich and poor, virtuous and vicious, handsome and homely, at the rate of 50 cents for fifty words of description, and 2 cents a word thereafter. This is certainly cheap enough, and, if the same agency could ‘Assure a proportionate cheapness after’ mar. risge, its mission would be more usefal than that of Moopy and Sawgey among the heathen of London. This journal explains its raison @etre by ths admitted fact that ‘There is a superabundance of men ‘in the West and a corresponding ratio of women in the Eastern States,” and-its purpose ia to enable “the stranger in one State to commune and inter- change sentiment freely and withont restraint with his. sister in another State, thereby creating a bond of union between persons thousands of miles ‘nway.” It will not be denied that all this is very touching as tosen- timent and very remarkable as to rhetoric. The matrimonial candidate is duly num. bered, and then permitted to state his quali- fications and demands, Thus, No. 622 is a widower of happy disposition, which speaks —in other words, fair, fat, and forty; this would be arare combination with “musical talent.” There is one young woman of ‘ex- ceptionally good taste who calls the particu- lar attention of editors to her advertisement ; xe ragret to announce to the local press that she lives in Vermont. Another is not so for- tunate in her nnouncement. She wants a gentleman under 30 years who will read * Jong letters,"—think of marrying a woman who deliberataly starts out in life by writing “Jong letters” and threatens to keep it up! - One advertiser offers an admirable scope for.s young woman with reformatory aspira- tions. He confesses his object to be that of securing a wife “whose moral influence will overrule my vices, and fit me fora home circle.” Here is an opportunity for a moral girl to do more good than by teaching a class in Sunday-school. Itis worthy of note that farmera’ daughters are in active demand; and, if the matrimonial journal is o fair gauge of the average male sentiment, a knowledge of housekeeping is preferred to the more polite accomplishments. A very pretty picture : ‘‘A widow without children, 83 years of age, medium height, aminble dis- position, dark-brown hair, blue eyes, and passionately: fond of flowers.” It seema as if a balmy breeze from the Sonth were wafting the rich odors of exotics, redolent of magnolia and Night- Blooming Cereus, and gently fanning the heated brow of an overworked newspaper- man, reclining for the nonce in o swinging- hammock on the back porch. There is some- thing so poetic, delicate, and sensuous about the widow's advertisement that she must have been captured, we fear, before this additional notice of her charms can help her to make a selection. If not, we advise her against the young gentleman who is labeled No. 505, who is G feet 2 inches high, has “‘ speculated large- ly in the oil regions, figured with the bulls and bears of New York, and won laurels on the battle-field of Antietam.” He is a man for the romantic widow, fond of flowers, to avoid; so much sweetness should not be wasted on a mere speculator, ‘There is one rara acis- among the feminine candidates who ought to be im- mortalized, under the designation of ‘No, 502"; she is a young woman nearly seven- teen—sweet sixteen, in fact—who “is not vain when told that she is handsome,” and who wants to marry for the unselfish purpose of “making some gentleman’s home alittle Eden.” It is safe to say that that young woman will never die an old maid. Thera are Many unique specimens of humanity who want to marry. One man proclaims himself in advance ‘to be strictly in favor of wom- an’srights”; he ought to be a hen-pecked hus- band. Then there is “a poor orphan without arelative in this wide, wide world,” who de- sires to correspond with some young Indy “who will take pity on him and say ‘yes.’” And, finally, here is an artful woman, whose address we do not give on account of her evi- dent deception, and who endeavors to cap- ture a bachelor with chaff like this : IW ietiel lle watts a lotr very tay tall Dont Tosiano of over's Hundred thousead tacambered osty EF ous hundred aad twenty-five pounds, We wish that the matrimonial journal of Chicago, which claims to have had a life of six years, contained nothing but matrimonial advertisements; but, unfortunately, it has other advertisements which do not speak well for the police authorities and Post-Office man- agement in thiscity. It takes advantage of the ailly people who want to marry by ad- vertisement to bring to their notice all sorts of quack books, such as ‘* How to Get Rich,” “The Art of Clsirvoyance,” “ Love-Making Secrets,” “‘Confidential Advice toa Lover,” “Tho Secrets of Handkerchief, Fan, Glove, and Personal Flirtations,” and » good many other things more hurtful and more disgust- ing which we do not care even to name, We imagine that there would be jast as many and if ; gate, an imitation of the Propyleon at Ath- well for his late inmented spouse; he now seeks a new partner with “musical talent,” and therein shows himself to be a brave man. Then there is an Alabama lawyer, who weighs 140 pounds, and is rather fastidi- ous; he expects to get for a wife “an intel- Lgent, pretty, and well-educated young lady.” No, 620 might suit him, for she modeatly ad- mits herself, though « farmer's danghter, ‘to be “fairly educated and intelligent”; she also “‘performs on the piano and sings,” and is “considered pretty.” But the Alabama Jawyer might not suit her, for sho demands a “‘whole-souled, earnest man,” and she will Probably have to seek a husband ontside -the legal. Profession, Musical ladies appear to bein. demand, A Nebraska mechanic wants’ one, but che imust be s widow betwoen 85° ang 45 yoors, and weigh at least 150 pounds, marriages without this official matrimonial journal, and we know there would be con- siderably more decency and purity. ‘WANTED: A KING. It is Greece that wants one. Her present monarch is about to resign. He has hitherto not been suspected of possessing brains ; but the highly-sensible resolve he has reached, or ig reported to have reached, shows’ that the suspicion might have been entertained. It is the fashion for Kings of Greece to abdicate or run away. This might be called their hereditary habit, were it not that no one of them is ever united by blood to his prede- cessor or successor. The reigning families of Europe take turns in putting their little boys on the Hellenic throne, and when the -boys grow up they jump off and run away. After the allied powers freed Greeca from Turkish rale, Count Caro p'Isrrra was chosen Presi- dentof the “Republic.” He was promptly as- sassinated. The allies then turned the country into a monarchy and offered the throne to Leoroxp, since King of Belgium. It was ac- cepted; but sober second thought, which ripened several months afterwards, induced the new-made King to abdicate. Then Orzo, 17 years old, second son of Lupwic of Baya- ria, was selected. He and 3,500 soldiers, and s corps of Bavarinn statesmen and $12,000,- 000 in money were dulytshipped to Athens, and Lupwie went to work building the giant ens, which now decorates Munich. It.was designed to commemorate the triumphant reign of his son; bat the day bofore it was finished Orno came meekly home, without any perceptible glory around him, and with- out the statesmen, the soldiers, or the shekela with which he had left. he statesmen had gone back in disgnst some time before, the troops had deserted, and the prudent Greeks had pat the money where it would do (them) the most good, viz.: in their own pockets. During Oruo's reign, which lasted from 1833 to 1862, there’ had been revolutions, and earthquakes, and semi-wars, and brigandage, And attempts at asrassination, and other in- cidents of the same sort. The Queen's maids- af-honor decked themselves with the jewelry stolen by brigands a mile or two from the gates of Athens, and brigand chiefs marched into.the city and interviewed the King, pro- fessing their trade, and inviting him to have them arrested, if he dared. Oruo stood it as long ashe could ; but one fine day, when he got .-back from a little sail, he found that Greece had -slid' away from him, and that he was no longer King. He did not take the trouble to land, but sailed home in an English frigate that. happened to be handy. Then Greece elected Prince Avrep of England King, and he de- clined, with thanks.“ Prince Gzozar of Denmark Was the next man chosen. He rashly accepted,—an act which only his ex- treme youth at that time can excuse, Since then he and his wife have sdded innumera- ble children to the population of Greece, but hove not been heard from in any other way: ‘The Kingdom is hopelessly bankrupt. Its accounts have been systematically falsified aines 1859, so that nobody knows how bad the state ‘of things is Country and péople,|. are both worn ont. When the grapec- ‘Op fails, the people rebel. © When it yiclas well, they buy some extra knives ang guns, and torn brigands. Anarchy Pre. vails outside of Athens. The population of that city lives on cigarettes and inhabits monotonous rows of dusty hi and talks scandal. Outside of Greece, Greek blood seems to be rich in good qualities, Jy flows in the veins of: somo cf the greatect merchants of Europe. But inside ‘Greeca it stagnates. King Gzozcr has-now been badg. ered, aud bollied, and insulted, and threas. ened for a dozen ‘years, He has lived in’s hot, dusty house, a sort of ‘hovel.on Slarge seale; hos struggled with bankruptcy ; has been hated by his subjects and despiced by his nominal peers; has failed to executé any schemes of reform, if he ever had any; and has done all this for the sake of being called s King. No unensiet head hes ever worn a crown, andthe only wonder about his throwing away the bauble is that he did not do so sooner. i BUNKER HILL: BY ONE " qegar #9 Was The current number of Potter's American Afonthly contains a copy of a letter, still pre. served with pious care, by Perrn Brows, ong of the provincials who fought at Broed’s Ein, It was written eight days after the battle to his “Dear and Honored Mother,” end tells the story of ‘the fight. It is a quaint mixtars of Paritanism, patriotism, and self-gratuly. tion, Perez had intended to work darieg the summer in Connecticut, but “ ths Altwise in His Providence”. arranged: mattera in g way which Prrze trusted would “tarn tg His glory and my good.” He went to Cam: bridge on some business, and soon after. wards enlisted, “being hearty in the cane ® However, as he ingenuously says, he wag “*forbid to go home,” and business was ‘stagnated and a great deal wholly broke up,” so that the only trade open to him was. that of a soldier. th He was in Col. Perscort’s regiment, which was ordered on parade, with two others, at 6 p. m., Friday, Jane 16. After a three hours’ drill-parade, they marched down to “Charles. town Hill” (which seems to have got its name of Breed’s Hill after the battle), and worked on an entrenchment there until 5 o'clock in the morning. When day broke, and the provincials discovered they were not on Bunker Hill, and were close to the enemy, ‘‘the danger we were in mada us think there was treachery, and that we were bronght there to be sll slain.” “ And,” continues the provincial soldier, “Iminstand will say. that there was treachery, oversight, or presumption in the conduct of our off, cers.” When the British fire grew- hot, “many of our young ‘try people” began to desert. Pzrer, however, had already been’ at Concord fight, and was made of sterner stuff. He saw Asa Potzanp, the only man killed during the preliminary bombardment, shot down. He also saw a peculiar military fest, which he describes in this way: “One cannon cut three men in two on the neck.” If we read ‘‘cannon-ball” for ‘‘cannon,” “Charlestown Neck” for ‘‘neck,” we probably get the clew to this remarkable When. the British were about to land, the “Artillery Captain” was ordered ‘to advance his guns and open fire upon them. Instead of doing so, he ‘‘returned home to Cambridge with much haste, for which he is now con fined, and it is expected must suffer death.”, ‘The attack was made by “an oblong square”. of grenadiers. ‘‘ God, in mercy to us; fought. our battle,” and, although we were finally de- fented, Perzs Brows made good his esceye._ “Twas in the fort when the enemy camo in,” he writes, “jumped over the wall, ard ran half s mile, where balls flew like hailstones and cannon rosred like thun- der, but I escaped; then it may be my tarn next.” Itnever came his turn on the battle-field. He fought through the war, and died in 1829, at the age of 76, If he had not had the good saase to write this lettor; he might be now forgotten; but as it is the news papers will doubtless bestow a brief immor- tility upon Mr. Peter Brown. Last Fridsy was hangman’s day, and five murderers expiated on the scrffold thgir re. volting crimes. If the. ‘‘ reformers” of the Bovee calibre had been successful in, thia country, these brutes would have been turned overto the Penitentiaries, to be pardoned out as soon as the recollection of their crime should have been dimmed, or a chicken~ hearted Governor came into power. Thelist . of pardons in Illinois within the last year, recently published, shows how readily par. dons may be obtained even for men whose crimes have brought on them the sentence cf imprisonment for life. Hnd the five mar- deravs hanged last Friday been consigned to prison for life, the chances are that every one of them would have been pardoned out, had be lived a few years, free to do mur- der again. One of them was so utterly de- praved that he went to his death with s lie on his lips. The argument of the ‘‘reform~ ers” opposed to hanging is capitally pare phrased in the last Wation, which snys, con- cerning the recent murder of a Brooklyn cit: izen by a burglar: It will do no good to bang him; men have been hanged for murder for ages, and yet, as wu xe, AUK dera ore committed. By rarity of ressoning, it will do no good to imprison him ; men have been impris- oned a grest deal far murder and robvery, and yet they continue, a3 we see, to murder and rob: Neither capital nor any other punishment had really any ter rors for this man when he was committing his crime, as any ono may satisfy himself by asking him when heis caught, He will tell you he was not thinking of punishment at all, showing the sbsurdi:y of the tik we hear about “the deterrent effect of the gallows.” Besidea this, to hang him would only brutalize the other, ‘burglars, by familiarizing them with violent death, They frequently joke end laugh in full view of the scaffold; they laugh and joke, too, when passing by thie fail, and even in their cells inside, “ehowing the futility of,our whole penal system. Thorgh last not least, society, rather than the criminal, is respcnsibls for bis acts, - If he had been wall brought up, and bad received a college education, and had hed a moderate income when he graduated, he probably would never, havostolen 2 cent. The moral of the story is that, when men see a burglar taking their watches in thelr. bedrooms, they should lie still and let him ron, snd. thus avoid these sanguinury encounters. ie Those who fail to be convinced by this line of argument will be rejoiced that there aro. at least five murderers less in the world, and. that the necessity of submitting with Chris- tian grace to the knife and pistol in the hands of sanguinary villaiis is reduced in. this proportion. ms It iss pet theory among uoroly students thas, genius and discipline are not to be found vom- bined inthe same person. On the coutrary;! urges the youth of the period, the more genini, the lesa discipline. The list of-West Point. - graduates, with their “standing,” pabliabed in. the New York pspers, proves nothing of the’ Idnd. ‘The maximum marks obtained for ‘*ass¢i-' pine” by any one gradusto are 48, by MoCaLEBy: who. is credited with 81 for “engineering,” within 12 of the greatest number gained by. any. of the class,—48 for “* law,” being far'abeed 0! his class ; 42 for “mineralogy and geology," ‘Within ons of the Ligbeit,—and 92 for “¢ nance and gunnery,” the highest in this depert,. mens boing 4h 2