Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 1, 1875, Page 4

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ATTENTION, STR ENIGHTS !—Stated_conclaze of Commandery, No. 19, E. T, Mondsy evening, Aug. 2, 176, for business and work on K. T. Order. Visiting Sir Knights courtously invited. By order of the G. A. WILLIAMS, Racorder. VAN RENBSELAER GRAKD LODGE OF PERFEC- TION, A. & A. Scoteh Rite Masons.—There wili be 8 Asembly Thuraday evening nest. Work on and 5th Degrees, By order of E. P, Hall, T. P, ED, GOODALE, Gr. 8ec'y. ASHLAR LODGE, No. 503. ¥. & A. M.—Regular communication Tucsdsy Evening, Aug. 8. Work an the 34 Dogree. Visiting Lrethren cordially invited. Per order W, M. C. H. CHANE, Sec’y. ECHICAGO CALEDONIAN CLUB.—The regular ‘monthly meeting will be held in their ball, 167 and 169 Washington-st., next Tuesdsy evening st 8 o'clock. Fhair Picnic will be held August 12, W. C. BOSS, Acting Fourth Chieftain, the éth AL 8T. GEORGE'S BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION.— The regular monthly meeting will be held at their ball, 167 Washingtonst., on Monday evening, Aug. 2, 1815, at 8 o'clock. THOS. BUTTUN, Rec. Bec. The Chicags Cribune, Bunday Morning, August 1, 1875. The Hon. Warse MACVEAGE has done 8 graceful and sensible thing in declining to serve a8 an investigator of his father-in-law’s partner, Secretary Deraxo. ‘It is announced that “the Hon. J. B. Mmrer, of Massachu- sotts,” has been chosen to fill one of the nu- merous vacancies in the Commission. Who is he? Whitewash spread by an unknown germson will do DEraxo little good. During the past week a large delegation of buxiness men of Chicago has been visiting the Counties of Edgar, Clark, and Crawford, in Southern Illinois, lately brought into direct communication with Chicago by the extension of the Paris & Danville Railroad. At every point—Georgetown, Paris, Marshall, Hutsonville, and Palestine—the delegation was received with the greatest enthusiasm. Iargs and enthusiastic meetings were held in churches and public halls, and the people of this highly-favored section of our State were earnest and zealous in expressing their de- termination to 2id in every legitimate way the business interests of what is hereaiter to be their commercial metropolis. It now only remeins for Chicago manufacturers and deslers to improve the sdvantages so easily English juries have recently returned ver- dicta in the case of two steamship-disasters. The first is that of the Vicksburg, which, it will be remembered, was lost by collision with joebergs 8 few weeks ago. In this case, the jury found that the Captain of the steamer obeyed none of the Company’s in- stroctions, and, of course, his vessel was lost. The second wes that of the Abbots- ford, of the Philadelphia & Liverpool Line, which was stranded recently, fortumately without losy of life. In this case the jury found that the vessel was a long distance out of her course, that the officers knew they ‘were an a dangerous coast, and that the ship was not moved with caution, nor were sny soundings taken at all. A combination of favorable circumstances prevented this from being a great disaster. Now, a3 no one will be punished for neglect of duty, it would seem at least that the masters of vessels ought to take warning by these examples. They owe this much, at least, to the traveling publia. The sucoess of the cheap trains on the road between Boston and Lynn has led to & new thing in railrond enterprise. A parrow-gauge railwayhas been built between the two cities, which is to be run on the cheap-fare prin- ciple entirely. The five-cgnt treins on the Eastern Railway are confined to the morning and evening, and make only onme trip each way. The fares on the narrow-gange will be somewhat lower,—12} cents to Lynn,—but they will apply to all trains. One hundred days before the road was opened, the iron of ‘which it is built was lying on the shores of Laks Champlain ; the lumber of which the cars sre made was piled at Troy; and the ties wers growing in North Carolina forests. Buch enterprise augurs well for the success of the mailway. The experiment will be watched with interest, especially in Chicago. The growth of our suburbs and the prosperity of our city have been retarded by the exorbitant rates charged for tickets to and from the suburbe. A Bostonian pays 5 cents for 14 miles rids, while a Chicagoan is charged 10 oents for a 2-mile trip, from the Union Depot %0 Twenty-second street. ‘The most notable fact in the economic his- tory of the last few years in England is the or- ganization of leagues of employers for the svowed purpose of countequcting the trade- uniong. From a purely selfish point of view, this policy has slready been justified. It was tharoughly tested by the miners'strikein South Wales. The combination of a few dozen masters utterly defeated the combination of several thousand workmen. The great lock- out now inprogress in the English cotton-mills is an illustration of the strength of thess associstiona. The league of cotton manu- facturers controls 162 mills. Of these, 156 'were shut July 26, and the other six are to be closed Aug. 1. Such concerted sction will be practically irresistible. The operatives will stffer for days and perhaps weeks, and will finally be starved into sacceptance of the reduced rates of wages. The appearance of this new factor in the strife between ¢ eapital and labor ” changes the whole prob- lem. It will not improbably result in a foderation of all the English trade-unions,— indeed, samething of this sort alresdy exists, - —eand finally in the revival of the Interna- tional. The latter body was by no meansan uumixed evil before it was captured by the Communists. Its reorganization on tho original basis is not, therefore, to be whally @wded But now thst employers imve dis- abyenid the possibility and prudt of comibiua- tion, it is not unlikely that an international Inbor league would be- followed by an inter- national association of employers. We are inclined to think that such a threatening or- ganization of these two great forces would do good rather than harm, in the long run, by bringing so much study to bear upon the vexed problem of their proper relations that a solution of it would be reached either through arbitration or co-operation. ANDREW JOHNSON DEAD. Ex-President ANDREW JoHNEON died yester- day in Tennessee, from the effect of & paraly- &is with which be had been stricken on Fri- day. He was born Dec. 29, 1808, and was in the G5th year of his age. His public record is a remarkable one. At 10 years of age he was apprenticed to a tailor, and worked at that byginess in Raleigh, N. C., until he was 18,—teaching himself to read. With his widowed mother, he moved to Greenville, in East Tennessee, where he worked at his trade and married. At 20 years he was elected an Alderman of the town ; was Mayor from 23 to 26 ; 8 member of the Legislature from 27 to 31; canvassed the State as Presidential Elector at 52 ; elected to State Senate at 33 ; to Congress at 35; and, during ten years' continuous service, took en important and conspicuous part in legislation ; served four years (until 1857) as Governor of Tennessee ; was then elected United States Senator for six years; arrayed himself on the side of the Union and sgainst Rebellion; was appointed Military Governor of Tennessee from 1862 to 1865; was elected Vice-President November, 1864; inaugurated March 4, 1865 ; succeeded as President of the United States April 15 in the same year; retired March 4, 1669; and in February, 1875, was-elected United States Senator, taking his seat on the 4th of March. From his election as Village Aldermen in 1820 to the time of his death he was con- tinuonsly in elective office, except during the time he served as Military Governor, and the six years following the expiration of his term as President. Axprew Jof\soN was no ordinary man. Indeed, he was an extraordinary character. ‘| His success was due to no advantages of wealth, family, or education. He was poor at the outset, and remained com- paratively poor to the end. He was thrifty and sparing in his expenditures. He was 2 man of great natural abilities, which made themselves conspicuous despite his illiteracy and want of education ; they enabled him to surmount obstacles that were fatal to others, He enjoyed the personal confidence of his immediate neighbors, and of the people of his State, and that confidence had. even a wider constituency among the American peo- ple. There was one particular in his character that should never be forgotten, and which should serve as an incentive to all classes, and especially to men holding public station, and that washis inflexible personal honesty. No suspicion of any official turpitude ever existed of ANDREW JomNsoN ; and it was to the public faith in his integrity that he owed the victories which he gained in his contests in his own State. AxprEw JomxsoN's pnblic career, of course, reached its zenith in the Presidency. The extraordinary events of his Presidency are fresh in the memory of the public. He suc- ceeded Mr. LinvcoL under the awful and un- precedented circumstances of assassination. He succeeded at the close of along bloody civil war, when the Government had to deal with even the more difficult guestion of the reconstruction of twelve millions of people, four millions of whom had been elevated from the personal condition of slavery to that of freedom and political citizenship. Be- tween the two races, the line which separated the superior from the inferior had been broad and impassable for s century; it had been intensified by the comparative igno- rance of the one race and the cultivation of the other; and the problem which met the Administration of, Jomxsox was how to create, upon an enduring basis, Governments for these people in which there should be no dis- tinctions of race or color, and where the master and slave were to be on a common level of right, of freedom, and political equality. One of the peculiar traits of AxDEEW Jomnson’s character was inordinate egotism,— his complete confidence in himsclf and in the unbending pertinacity or obstinacy with which he adhered to his own ignorant con- victions. . Before the meeting of Congress he 'had marked out his * policy ” of negro serf- dom, and sought to 8o commit the Govern- ment thereto that Congress would have to acquiesce. But Congress refused, and for ‘three years there was & constant and bitter struggle between the Executive and Legislative Departments. The President vetoed all the measures of Reconstruction, and, so far as he was able, used his authority to nullify and defeat them. Congress, on the other hand, resorted to legislation having for its practical effect to deprive the President of the power to remove and appoint the civil officers of the Government, including even the members of his own Cabinet. The Pres- ident was not amiable under the controversy. He was definnt and aggressive, and was es- pecially sbusive in his speech. The Con- gress, fortified by an overwhelming verdict of the people, at last resorted to the ex- treme measure of impeachment, and a formal conviction and deposition failed only by a- single tofe in the Senate. We do not think it extravagant to say that the general action of Congress in the matter of Reconstruction, as- opposed to that of Ax- DREW JoHNSON, Was sustained by five-sixths of the American people ; and the actual re- construction of the ex-Rebel States was only accomplished in spite of and against the un- relenting opposition of the President. This is hardly the occasion to discuss the opposing policies of the President and of Congress in the matter of Reconstruction. Reconstruction is now completed, and the excitements and passions and vindictive feelings that prevailed in 1865-'8 had so far relaxed and faded away that the people of the North, of all parties, generally were gratified when the Legislature of Tennessee, last winter, elected the ex- President to the United States Senate. His election *was 8 personal triumph. He de- feated the caucus, through the voluntary de- mands of the common peopls of the State that he be elected. Axprew Jorxsoy, however, by his conduct in 1861, in opposing Secession and Rebellion in Tennessee, gained a place in his country's ‘Thistory which even a subsequent successful impeachment could not have wholly ob- scured. He faced Disunion, Treason, Seces- ‘sion, and Rebellion on the soil where these flonrished, and where it required courage and patriotism of the highest order to do so. Axprew JomxsoN could, however, have berdly adopted any other course. He had Dbeen & living protest sgainst the aristooracy which was founded upon Slavery. ‘He was amwan of tho common people. . He had no ancestry or lineuge Lo refer ¢o § bha was nota descendant of & family rich in lands or slaves ; | he was s laborer, living upon the wages which his own hands earned ; his appear- ance as o leader in politics was resented as an encroachment upon the domain of those born to rule; he might be tolerated as a usefal retainer, but as s Captain never! Every office he obtained he forced from the ‘upper class” of his party. At last he reached Congress, and for ten years he was content to represent his immediate neigh- bors and friends. His party refused to recog- nize him further. In the Presidential elec- tion of 1852 the State had voted for the ‘Whig candidate, and, in 1853, ANDREW JomN- soN was essential to the success of the party, and thus he forced the old nullifiers, abstrac- tionists, secessionists, and aristocrats to teke the Tailor of Greenville and make him Gov- ernor of the State. Two years later he was sgain called upon to meet Knownothingism, and succeeded. He made war on the aristo- cratic wing of the party, and so strong had he become that Tennesseo Wasone of the strongest Union States at the South. It re- fused to secede in 1861, and, in the end, was declared to have seceded, by fraud and swindling upon the pirt of its executive officers. Axpnew Jomson had his faulis, personal and political. He had many very wild politi- cal vagaries, which, however, despite their absurdity, he honestly believed in. He was excessively dogmatic. He was intolerant in his opinions, and always extreme. Owing to his deficient education, and his residence among a people who st that time were hardly 85 well improved as himself, and the personal antagonisms he had to encounter because of his humble origin and his mechanical occu- pation, he in early life had to resort to lan- guage in his popular addresses which was far more forcible than elegant. In the vituperation common on the stump in Ten- nessee he had but one rival, and that was the Whig Parson Browxzow, and for nearly fifty years these menled a life of bitter denuncia- tion. Jomvsox was perfectly at home in such a strife, and there were few men, in Tennes- see or out of it, Who would venture a second time into that kind of discussion with him. In after life, when in more elevated positions, he could not get rid of this rude style al- together. It followed him to the last, attract- ing more unfavorable comment in his exalted positions than in his earlier days. v He lived to an advanced age, and has gone down to the grave bearing many honors. His own intense combativeness provoked acoun- ter warfare on him. The country will hear of his death with no revival of unkindness. Though condemned by the nation, and at times regarded as & dangerous man, never- theless, at the grave of the Village Alderman, Mayor, legislator, Congressman, Governor, Senator, Vice-President, and President, all his fanlts and errors will be overlooked in the brightnes of the epitaph,—*“In the day of treason, he was an American patriot.” OUR PUBLIC WORKS, We print elsewhere a transcript of the fourteenth annual report of the Board of Public Works, which presents some items of much interest, especially with regard to our water facilities, which we commend generally to the people of Chicago, and particularly to the insurance interests and sore-headed news- papers of New York, which have so per- sistently misrepresented the efforts made by Chicago to protect herself against- danger from fire. Frox‘n the report of the Board, it 10w appears that at the time of the 1871 fire we had 272 miles of water-pipe; now we have nearly 400. There were then 1,552 hydrants; now there are 2,607. The capac- ity of the Water Works at that time was 88,000,000 gallons per day; befora the «close of the present financial year, it will be 100,000,000 gallons! In sddition to this total increase in the quan- tity of water, many of the old pipes and hydrants have been replaced by new ones, and ten large fire-cisterns have been built. To these New York parties we commend the statement of the Board that, ‘‘ As soon as the new engines shall be in working order (two compound, condensing, beam-pumping en- gines, capoble of raising 30,000,000 gallons 155 feet high in twenty-four hours), namely, in November of this year, Chicago will be one of the safest cities in the country—if not in the world—so £ as the water-supply is con- cerned.” Since 1871, there have been laid 521,387 feet of water-pipe,—or 100 miles,— at acost of $1,409,453; also 353 hydrants, of which 66 were in the North Division, 129 in the South, and 158 in the West. The income from water-collections for the year (which ended in April) was $705,926, a decrease of $2,877 on the colleotions of the previous year, which was occasioned by the July fire, that swept away 560 acres of build- ings. The total income of the Water-Works since 1854 has been &ix millions ($6,086,616). The expenditures connected with the water- supply for the past year were $617,065, leav- ing a surplus for the year of $88,861, which goes to show that the Water-Works are more than self-supporting. ‘We are glad to notice; in comnection with the waste of water, that, in accordance with the suggestions of TmE TRIBUKE, the Board recommend the general use of meters whenever the financial condition of the city will allow of their purchase. The comments of the Board upon the waste of water are very forcible and pertinent, and ought to com- mend themselves to water-users throughout the city. During the year, 42 miles of sewerage hava been built, making the entire sewerage of the city 240 miles, the whole cost of construction for the year being $587,5607. Eight miles of streets have been paved during the year, making s total of 111 miles of paved streets in the city. In this connection, the Board very curtly hints that many of the streets ara in 8 very bad condition, and that ¢ There can be no radical or permanent improvement until the tax-payers, with whom the matter is optional, choose to pave them.” During the year, over 72 miles of sidowalks have been 1aid, meking 725 miles in the city. During the year, 712 building-permits were is- sued, snd 244 applications for the removal of wooden buildings wers favorably acted upon. In connection with this branch of their report, the Board very strorgly condemn the practice of allowing the romoval of wooden buildings within the city limits, and their protest ought -to be recognized. There is great good semse in their statement that * The fire-ordinance now prohibits a citizen from erecting s wooden building, and, on the theory of general pro- tec?'nn, roquires him to use brick or stone. It is a serious violation of this theory, and a gross injustios to citizens thus prohibited, to suthorize the removal of old wooden build- ings into proximity with structures built in woord:nu with the provisions of the ordi- Dance, Among miscellaneous improvements ao- wflpll'lm during the year are the following: Dreaging I the iver has beca dazrlod on it & total expenditure of $19,710.38 New bridges bave been built over the Ogden Canal, ot Randolph street, at Fullerton ave- nue, and a viaduct over the tracks at North Halsted street. Five engine-houses and an engine-house and police-station have also been built. There have been expended upon . the nine parks belonging to the city, which embrace sbout 75 acres, $40,051.54. These are the principal features of the re- port, the most important of which are those touching water and sewerage facilities. The former we once more commend to the Na- tional Board of Underwriters as 8 most com- plete and final answer to the New York news- papers which have so constantly misrepre- sented Chicago. What is New York doing to protect itself from fire ? Can it make any such ghowing as appears in this official report ? e THE CHARTER OF 1872. The legality or illegality of the election by which it was assumed that the charter of 1872 was adopted will go up to the Supreme Court in three different guises, viz.: (1) The Al- dermanio contempt cnse decided by Judge Wrnznaxs; (2) the Police Board case, which involves some of the results of the charter; (3) the quo warranto case, in which the peo- ple ask by what authority the Mayor and Council are acting under the charter of 1872. The last-mentioned case presents more di- rectly than the others the issue between the people and the present City Government. A decision in the Circuit Court will probably be rendered to-morrow. It would be unusual, we believe, to give the counsel for the Mayor and Common Council a second opportunity for amending their pleas. Such an opportu- nity would be particularly obnoxious in the present case, in view of the evident purpose of the City Government to delsy the final de- cision in order that the Supreme Court may not have a chance to pass upon it until after it shall be too late to hold an elec- tion this foll under the old charter. This consideration will probably influence Judge FarweLy to refuse any further delay. The desire to hold theiy offices from six to eighteen months beyond the time for which they were originally elected has been, and is still, the secret of the support which the charter of 1872 receives from the Mayor and the Aldermen. They believe that if they can, by means of dilatory litigation, postpone the overthrow of the ballot-box-stuffed char- ter until after the regular day for the fall election, they may be still able to hold on to office, with its powers and perquisites, in spite of the will of the people. Itis proper that Judge Farwery should take account of this purpose, and, havingalready given every opportunity which it is usual to give, should deny ony further effort at delay. If Judge FarwELL gives a decision to-mor- ‘row, it will be in the shape of a judgment of ouster, declaring that the city has failed to show that it hes the authority to act under the charter of 1872. Of course an appeal will be taken immediately to the Su- preme Court, and, pending this appesl, the charter of 1872 will continme in force. The quo warranio case carries the preliminary questions up fo the Supreme Court, which will be called upon to decide in effect whether the election was legally called. If the Supreme Court sustains Judges Boors and Fakwery, that will be an end of the mat- ter; it will have been held by the highest tribunal in the State that there was no legal election, in which case the charter could not have been adopted. But if the Suprems Court yefuses to sustain the judgment of the Court below, then will come a trial of the issue whether the majority of the legal votes cast were in favor of or against the adoption of the charter. Thisissue comes np in two suits,—one in the Circuit Court, and one in the County Court,—one brought under the General Election law, and the other under the provisions of the Act of 1872. It will then be a matter of testimony as to the ma- jority of legal votes, whereon the ultimate fate of the charter depends, unless summari- ly disposed of because thers was no legal election whatever, and because the voters have never had a lawful opportunity of de- ciding whether they want the charter or not. One of the organs of the repeaters and ‘ballot-box-stuffers givesspecial prominence to the following extract from Judge FarwELL's recent opinion : 1 don’t think they are dificulties which necessarily ‘make the election void. There is not » tendancy, s I understand the Courts and the deciaions of the Courts, to surround elections with technicalities and difficul- ties; 80 that when people sre iavited to come and give their votes upon any questions submitted to them that it should be in the power of officials or anybody, either by their fraud or by their negligence, in any case, to defest an eloction; and where there 18 no fraud of that character, or mistake which should lead the Court to set it sside, on general grounds,— that the real question is, how have the majoruty of legal voters voted on this matler? That {s the main question, 1t Courts sre Inclined to view this in a technical way, and to bunt for difficulties, and to seize readily upon “technical objections, this whole business of elections will come into disrepute, and will ba looked npon with disgust by the great body of Tespectable citizens, and at least s great many people will be led to keap away from the polls when they see how often it is that their votes amount to nothing, I understand it is the inclination of Courts, for good reasons, not to sur- round this question with unmecessary difficulty, nor toaet asido elections for technical objections, but to endeavor in all such cases to ses that the right conclu- #ion isarriced at, and that the voice of the majority of the lepal volers is heard. We fail to see that the above extract has any special significance that is favorable to the supporters of the charter or ballot-box-stuif- ers. It is all true enough and proper enough, but Judge Farwzrt probably thought there ‘was gomething more than mere ** technicali- ties” and ** technical objections * to the man- ner in which' the charter had been submitted; if he had not thought so, his decision would hsve been just the reverse of what it was. But if the objections are not sustained, and the issue of illegal voting comes to trial, then Judge FarweLy's remarksapply, and among the first questions that will arise is how the number of illegal votes is to be determined in wards where there has_been no list of voters kept, and no poll-books returned ; or inwards where two ballots, presumsbly on separate questions, were deposited in one and the same box, by the same persan. Take the First Ward, for example: Some 1,760 tickets were found in tha ballot-box, of which 1,665 were for the charter. Now there is the strongest circumstantial evidence that there were at least 1,400 illegal votes among these. The fact that the totaivote of the ward at the exciting general election of last fall was only half as many as that cast at the charter election would. be sufficient to estab- lish this. But mo list of voters was kept in this ward. How, then, can the number of illegal votes be traced, or the illegal voters discovered, mnless & polllist containing the names of those voting can be produced? The demand will be msde that, in this ward and every other ward whers there was an evident parpose to ignore every provision of the Eleo- tion law looking to the identification of illegal votes, the entire’ yote be thrown ont ss illegal. The same demand will probably be made in regard to those wards where two balloks wers allowed $0 be deposited by cns person in the same box. We do not see how these demands can be refused, and if they are admitted they will suffice to overthrow the result of the election as declared by the Council, which violated the injunction upon that body not to count the bogus returns. Another effort is being made to create ‘par- tisanship for the charter because Marx SHER- 10ax has been got out of office under its oper- ation. This ought to have no forca whatever. So far as Mark SHERIDAN is concerned, his term of office expires Dec. 1, and he would then go out of office anyway, unless the peo- ple see fit to re-elect him, which they would bave a perfect right to do, and which, under our form of government, we know of no means to prevent. Nobody should permit himself to be misled by any of these side- issues. The charter-contest is all-important because it includes the whole issue of the honesty of elections. If it holds, all future city elections in Chicago will be of the same fraudulent character as the charter election, for they will be heldin the spring without registration, and with a judicial notice to the repeaters and ballot-box-stuffers that they may follow their practices with impunity. GIVE BROTHER MOODY A CHURCH. The Great Fire of 1871 was impartial in its destruction, and therefore did not spare the mission-school in which Brother Moopy, then unknown to fame beyond the limits of Chicago, labored for the good of the territory in which it was located,—a territory, by the way, which sadly needed the lnbors of some zenlous home missiongry like Brother Moopy, who has now become an evangelist of world-wide fame. He had no denomina- tion or congregation to fall back upon for help in this emergency. His constituency was poor, ragged, and impecunious, and not only: conld not help in the erection of a new edifice, but had never contributed anything towards the running expenses of the old one. So the charitable people of the community and those interested in Brother Moopy's pe- caliar work took hold and commenced the erection of a plain, but substantial, church on the old site on North LaSalle street, half a dozen blocks north of the river, and had succeeded in erecting ome story when the funds gave out. The panic then set in, and it became impossible to raise any more money, and thus the building remains unfinished. It is at present an ungainly snd unsightly blot in the midst of a section rapidly being im- proved with handsome buildings. The friends of Brother Moopy are now or- ganizing 8 movement in this city which has for its object the completion of the church pending his return from Europe. Such an act will be a very graceful recognition of Brother Moopy. He has richly earned it. He has conferred honor upon the city and has made its name more widely kmown and respected than ever before. When he left us upon his religious mission, he was compara- tively unknown out of the city; now he is known to the whole civilized world When he left us, he had been comparatively suc- cessful in conducting a mission-school and managing the religious and charitable affairs of the Young Men's Christian Associa- tion ; now he has thrown the whole King- dom of Great Britain into a religious fervor, and attracted thousands upon thousands of people to hear him discourse in hig simple, but earnest and convincing, manner. When he left us, his auditors were the lowest classes of society ; now he has talked to aristocrats, nobles, and royslty itself. Al- most at a bound, he has reached the exalted place held by WmrerrerLp and otherevangel- ists, and has made his name known the world over. Chicago, therefors, cannot do less than to recognize not only what he has done in the cause of religion, but what he has done for Chicago. To finish his unsec- tarian church will require a comparatively small sum.and little time, and the testimonial will be but a very alight one in comparison with his services for piety. In this connec- tion, there is another thing to be remem- bered. Brother Moopy now mnot only belongs to Chicago but to the whole country, by virtue of the remarkable unsectarian work he has been doing. When he returns, he should receive a warm welcome from Chicago as well as from. all the large cities in the United States, and it is not impossible that in the midst of this general enthusiasm tempt- ing offers will be made to secure his services. In all probability, St. Louis, Cincinnati, New York, Boston, and other citiss which have a chronic jealousy of Chicago, will make des- ‘perate efforts to get him away from Chicago, which rust therefore be up and doing, and show Brother Moopy that he is appreciated, and that his wonderful work is recogmized by his own city. We do not believe that any form of testimonial would be so pleasing to him as the completion of his unsectarian missionchurch, about which cluster his fondest associations, or that anything would suit him better than to resume his labors where he inaugurated them. 'To do this the more effectively the material should be placed in his hands complete. The evangelizer of Great Britain should not be greeted with the sight of a half-story church, standing in all its deformity just as it was when he left here. All the churches, evangelical and unevan- gelical, liberal and dogmatic, shounld unite their efforts to accomplish this result, and we have no doubt that the unconverted public will.elso cheerfully lend a helping hand in so good & cause. - BASE-BALL AND THE CHURCHES. A new departure hes been taken by one of the churches of this city—the Plymouth Con- gregational—which commends itself, namely : the culture of muscular Christianity. Upon two occasions this church has entered the field, and delibdrately, cold-bloodedly, and muffinly, of course, played games of base- ball. Her players were crude, immature, and green, and of course made Bome aston- ishing displays in speed and dexterity. None of them are athletes, and this unfortunate failing led to some lame legs, discolored shing, swollen fingers, stiff backs, and & gen- eral diginclination to go up stairs, except by the use of the stair-rails as means for pulling. All paid the penalty of indulgence in the Na- tional game, snd, while nome perhaps displayed & proficiency which will qualify them for positions in the White Stock- ing Club of next year, the White Stocking Club of this year has seen days when it wounld not be warranted in undue levity orin dis- paraging comments upon the playing of this charch nine. there. The point to which we wish to call attention is the fact that ome at least of our. churches is not so thoroughly spiritualized that it gives no heed to 'the body ; not so completely hedged in with didactics, dinlectics, and dogmatics that it cannot have a good time after the fashion of the world’s people ; not 8o fearful of the hereafier of its soul that it can have mo ‘care for the here- after of its muscle ; and perhaps recognizes ths fact that good strong muscles involving lungs are the essentials of healthy, active religion. As there are, undoubtedly, some lean, dys- peptic, sharp-faced, and spectacled Chris- tisns whose views of the world are not rose- colored, and who square their lives'by dog- ma and creed, and who will look with holy horror upon these thirty-six Plymouth Church players who have fought dpon the ungodly diamond, Tue Cimcaco TrRIBUNE, as the de- fender of muscular Christianity and the fos of cant and dogms, sssumes to defend them upon the broad, genmeral ground that a healthy, strong body is more condacive to vital, practical, humanizing, charitable relig- ion than an unhealthy one. In illustration of this fact, it points with some degree of pleas- ure and pride to Brother Moopy, whom it upheld and defended when ho was only the Superintendent of a little mission-school in an obscurs, degraded quarter of the city, and- probably in his wildest' dreams never foresaw that he was to become the world's evangelist, and shake the United Kingdom of Great Britain from one end to the other. Now, Brother Moopy is none of your lean, lank, cadaverous, scowling saints, who grow bilious and dyspeptic atthe very sight of fruit-stands, meat-markets, and green groce- ries filled with the substantial good things of this world, which Divine Providence certainly could not have provided for the children of darkness alone. He is a sound, strong man ; solid and compact in build ; big-boned and broad-shouldered ; capable of work snd im- mense endurance ; a man who knows how to eat, who can eat s great deal, who enjoys his eating, and one whom eating does not hurt ; aman built for walking, running, and hit- ting out from the shoulder; and a man who by virtue of kis brawn and muscle is not afraid of the world, the flesh, or the devil. The application of all this lies in the fact that Brother Moopy has been doing andis now doing more good in the world than all the dogmatists and theologians combined,—these latter classes being always lean and lank, with limp muscles and poor stomachs. If all this be true in the case of Brother Moopr, it is true in the case of any one else, and it is the duty of the church people to make the physical man as perfect ag possible in order that the spiritual man may accomplish the largest possible degree of work. It is utterly impossible that a man with bad blood, a weak back, a poor stom- ach, slimpsy legs, and flaccid muscles, can think clearly, or work hard, or abound in spirituality of a wholesome sort. Poor cir- culation and weak digestion affect the head, becloud the hrain, enervate thearms, and sour the disposition. Hence we look upon base- ‘ball a8 an aid to grace, because grace abounds where the heart is fresh and: good, and the heart is all right where the disposition is sunny, and the head bright and clear, and the arms strong, and these are conditions which grow outof physical exercise ; and of this na- ture is base-ball. A8 a matter of mere physi- cal importance, why should the world’s peo- ple monopolize all the muscle? Sinners asa rule are inordinately healthy. But why should they havesll the healthiness? Have we not outgrown that silly belief that whom the gods love die young? Is it not time to quit seeking to impress upon children the saintliness of the little Sunday-school schol- arg who dis young,—not because they were good, but because they have no stomachs and lungs, and therefore dje off like any other unwholesome creatures? For all these reasons we cammend the action of Plymouth Church to the other churches, and suggest to them that while they are cuitivating the Christian graces they also cultivate their muscles, and thus better prepare themselves for wrestling with Batan, who is flendishly healthy. BASKETS FOR BURIAL. The Dnke of SurHERLAND, Who is & reso- lute, pugnacious man, and has heretofore fought through many reforms to a successful jssne, and who cares not a rush for the opinions or prejudices of people 80 long as he is convinced that he is in the right, has now entered upon a new campaign against British prejudices, and more particularly sgainst British undertakers. This time he is not advocating a theary of his own, but of AMr. Sevaroun HaDEN, an eminent medical practitioner and one of the most skillfal etchers in England. Mr. Hipex having long opposed the practice of burying in wooden or metallic coffins, and being thor- oughly opposed to cremation, has given the subject much thought, which has at last resulted in the simple and economical mode of burying in wicker baskets, which allows the natural process of the assimilation of the body with the earth. The Duke of SvTEER- zaxD has entered into this scheme with the same keenness and enthusiasm which hitherto he has expended upon fire-engines, locomo- tives, dishonest servants, and extravagant |_shop-keepers. His first move was to issue an invitation which requested the company of the receiver at Stafford House on the 17th and 19th of June, **to see a collection of models of basket and other perishable cof- fins, constructed on the principles advocated by Mr. Sevmour Hapex.” The receptions were crowded with people, and all appeared pleased with the scheme, except.the under- takers, of course. The following extracts, whish we make from the official programme of the oceasion, will give a general idea of the baskets and the manner of their use : L Themesche n most of them should be larger than It i3, and 88 open as is consistent with strength snd the perfoct retention of their contents; which contents, sgain, rhowid consist of the larger ferns, ‘mouses, lichens, harbs, fragrant shrubs, snd any of the conifers, willows, or evergreens which are always tobe had. 2 The oslers composing the buaksts should be light (two thin omes being better than one thick one), and mo more sobd wood should enter nto their constraction tban s Decessary to preserve their form. * 3. They shonld be'of whits or stained willow, with- out varniah or other preservative covering. 2 4 Accompanying esch of them shiould be & narrow But all this is neither here nor leaden band or ribbon, plerced with name and dste of death, 0 be passed round the chest and lower limbs, and throngh the xides and over the top of the basket : (L) Por retaining the body in its position ; (IL.) For the subsequent identification of the bones ; (IIL) ¥or sealing the cofiin, a3 s guarantes that ths conients bave not been disturbed, 5. Tu special cases linings of some imperishabls ma- terial for & few inches npward from the bottom will be necessary ; and fn other cases such modifications of the ordinary form &s msy insure campleta inclasion of the body in wool, charcoal, ar other difinfectsuts. The undertakers, as we have said, were not pleased with the outlook, but the florists were in écstasies, inasmuch as the baskets presented opportunities for almost boundless expenditure in the way of flowers, mosses, ete. The general public looked approvingly upon the scheme,” and the ladies, it is said, were lost in admiration of the beauty of the baskets and the suggestions they afforded for floral decoration. - There seem to be thres very strong argu- ments in favor of the wicker basketa. The first and most important of these is that these coffins not only do not hinder the sssimilation of the chemical elements of the. body with the earth, but that they accelerate ily thus removing oms sourcs ad lsash of P T T T the possible unhealthinees of Second—This mode of sepulturs 8001 be less shocking than the present T to relatives and friends, by removing o feeling of gloom and loneliness whigy - ciates itself with sir-tight, wooden, or p. tallic coffing. The ornamental ang gm:; shape and texture of the bfl!hh,mdg; beautiful manner in which they can b ge, rated with vines and flowers, would serve mitigate the sombre andhopeless associgti,, which always cluster about the fan, % ber, and would render the mourners . susceptible to the sympathies of theirfim; and more hopeful of teir own future, ¢ haps one of the strongest argumenty for o scheme is the cheapness of the baskety | correspondent writes : il Two large-sized, stm i of tne warmoman riher e e Iabeled, “ Forma of cofins for ordinary uee» ,',,,] clear, firm handwriting, thess expresaiva wards, o best are very nexpenaive.” I sw the chocy oy professional-looking gentlemen, dreassd tn gy colars, blanch aa they read these words, and Ly marked that the Duke of SUTHKRLAYD sceme) | regard these two cofins with especlal, almoet patery interest; and this interest did got seam dump but, on the contrary, rather strengihened, by g blanched cheeks of the professional gentiemen, The inexpensive character of the baskats| point of fact has aroused the ina‘@lfihni the London undertakers to such a pitch th they have held public meetings in tha ¢ to protest against the new reform; whih, | course, only makes the Duke of Si S all the more zealous, as there is Tothiy which rouses him like opposition. In ty * direction, at least, heis on the right traq and will have the sympathies of the Jir; everywhere in any effort to reduce the of funeral expenses, which have now groy to be so enormous that it costs mare to ¢ than it does to be born or to get married. | 'CONNELL'S CENTENNIAL * The centennial anniverssry of the bithy Dasrer O'CoNNELL occurs on the 6thof th month. and will be celebrated in Ireland, gt wherever the Irish people are to be found, wh the enthusism characteristic of the racs. | 0'CoNXNELL ig, in many respects, ono of § most remarkable characters in all history, . records of the human race presmfp other instance in whick a private individd wieldsd so much inflnence, and yot bad his power, not on arms, but on moral infuen slone, There have been greater lawyers, ng er stateamen, greater orators even; than 0'C¢ NELL ; there never was a greater popular lesd. Ha exerciged over the people of Ireland a potr which was tnat of an absolute ruler. HaBi, millions of men under his control. He goveny them, and songht to teach them to govern :a. solves. His opponents were the most powes in the world. His struggles wero with thy s tocracy of England, and he compelled themp do justice to his people. He could extitaf3 Dassions of the multituds to, the point of ox. flow, and, what in more wonderful stil, aly them,—and this in the case of the mos: imi give people in the world. . i DaxtEr, O’CoRNELL Was born at Carbag, i paternal estats, near Valentia, on the 6thof & gust, 1776. The American Revolutionary ke had just begun, His parents were rigid Cath lics, and young DaNtxL was obliged togo tok Continens to be educated,—the penal lam - hibiting Catholic colleges at the timein Euglad, Scotland, or Ireland. He was sent to the Jetl College at St. Omer, in France, whers mos! the Irish clergy received their education. Hat first intended to enter orders, but the ecclesie tical state was not adapted to his fiery, reatie spirit. The French Revolation, which hehudwss opportuuity {o observe, made a deep impressa on him ; and it is very cortain that the dreadid cansing a repetition of its scen2s in Irelaod bd much to do with the policy he adoptedul eschewing physical forca entirely. ' Haviog abandoned the study of theolsgy,be took to the ptudy of the law,—the Bar harg been made accessible to the Catholio Irish sice 1790, His knowledge of the lsw was of gmi use to him in his after caresr 23 an sgitace. Tt taught him how to-vergé on treason 2:d sxe tion, and yet becoms guilty of neither; or,id express it in language attributed to hims,if, b to drive & coach-and-four through an acs of i liament.: i O’Coxmzrr bad but one ambition frombis earliest manhood,—to Liberate his poople il bis country, to which he was devotedly attaches The Ugion of the Englishand Irish Pacis ments took place in 1800. The Irish Parlismat was forced to decroe its own dissolution, s submit to union with the Parliament of Grat Britain. Thero is little doubt that English gsd played a large part in the consummation of tis fact. O'CoNyeLr, while the Union was. iniy discuesion, had the courage to denounce it; mb at the great meeting of Catholica held .co s 13th of January, 1800, in Dublin, to prow against it, he drew up the celebrated resolutoa in which the incorporation of the Irish Pale ment with the English was depounced sa bs destruction of the freedom of the country, &t ita subjection to s foreign Power. = Prrr, who had brought apout the Tk sllowed Ireland very little freedom of acie. But, after his death, the Whigs came into poets and the Catholic opposition began to maka il felt. CaxyINo introduced a bill providioe ke Catholic Emancipation. It looked st the i 28 if NAPOLEOX'S campaign against Russia wld make all Enrope eabject to him. Eoglsod ba to be alarmed. It felt that, inuu_le’ should attack it, it could hope for succets BT in case it could rely upon the Irish. " Whilethf foar lasted, the House of Commons pasecits. bill by & vote of 255 to 10G ; but it was Job i the House of Lords by s majonty of caoi3 voting for it, sod 126 against it. Naro Russian campaign failed, and CAN¥ING conlsk e induced to trouble himsal{ any furthat s Catholic Emancipation. + O'CoNSELL was not an inactive spectalc!® what was transpiring all around him. Outs? 1%th of January, 1312, he made his celeisied speech at a meeting in Dublin, in which be & acterized his own business ss thiat f sgitadt despotism as the principls of Prrr's pPoST bypocrisy and bribery as those of Prcnss Ministry, and Iying as that of Casrumssi He declsred, too, that, in czse the Emsocifs bill was carried, he would himself appess ¥¥ candidate for Parliament. 5 0'CoxxzLL and Smzr, began the Catbolid® sociation 1n 1823. At first the number of FE". bers was only 10. The object of the 2 was, by every possiole legal means, 1o ende®® to secure freedom for Ireland. Its pumbas! creased rapidly. Its expenses were me money raiged in the churches. But it ¥38%% predestined to immediate success, and wasl ¥olved by s act of Parliament 1n 1625. 1In 1828, O'CoSNELL ventured to Opposd 3 FrTZoERALD 88 & candidate for Paslias: Catholio was at the tima pormitted to st ¥ liasment. The tess osth was mmwrdt;‘ who wero elected: and it was snch 83 io 16 10 Cathiolic could tave. 0"Coxxarumss B2, of this, yet he professed himself » caof 2 Parliament, and.was electod. _Tha pews &t election created the greatest excitement gland. Wrrrinarox and Prer, who bad 0P et Emaocipation at & former time, wero 90¥ ?’ pelled to recommond it; and it was camies®: the 13th of April, 1820. Yt tha ol clation was again dissolved, sod 0'Cox¥:y ‘election declared invalid. He lppur!fl‘fi' timo a3 a candidste, and was trinmphant & elocted. - He immediately eatablished & “'{ sociation. ;. As a Pariismentary orator, O'Coflm': - not at first a8 successful as he had, beevfSt: popular speaker. But Lie soon sdapted h’é; to the new ephere in which he r-n’“’#, used & mors refined and classical lanecas o In his ordinary harangues. ITe had bot? s used to descending to ¢Iin Levn! of L’h,"\“’ = that it required some eTuit kb div W18 L cemeteriy, would vey