Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 5, 1875, Page 4

TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. RATTR OF SUPFCRITTICN (PATATER. IN ADVAXCR). Poxtaxe Pretaid nt thin Ofic L1300 100 Bpecimen copiis kent fr. To prevent delay and mistakes, lie rure and givo ietuding Stateand County, cither by draft, cxpress, Post-Olico order, or in ristered letters, at our risk, TERMS T0 GITY AUNSCRINERS, Daily, delivered, Snnday excepted, 2345 conta por week, Daily, delivered, Sunday fucluded, #1 cvotn per woek, Addrers TIlK THIBUNE COMPANY, Cornet Madiron anil Doarborn-ats,, Chicago, 111, " AMUSEMENTS. WOOD'S MUSEUM—Vonroe sreet, hetween Dears Boru awl State, Afternoou, “ Last Lyune.” Eventuy, “ La Tentation,” McVICKER'S THEATRI Dearburn and State, **'The fadieon treet, between w of Teo, HOOLEY'S THEATRE—Tsndolph sircet, betweon Clirksud LaSalls, Engagewent of the California Minatrola, rlom streel, corner ACADEMY OF MU! Madison atl Monroe, * Th:e 8hivgaun,” INTER-S8TATE EXPOSITION~Lake shore, foot of Adams strest, alated etreet. hetween ment of W, T, Melville. UNION PARK CHIURCH—Lecture by James T. Flelds, Bubject : ¢ A Vlea 1or Chicesfulons.” SOCIETY MEETINGS. onree-at,, A initing Sie r of the 1L C LUCKE, Recorder, ning at ity o'loc ] Dbusiness” atil work on Kuigitn courteously fuvited, nd membera of Poion tonstend n speef il meet netion in L By or- N. G, g ot 8 2eigurd 10 Drotlier Grorg der of A Ehe Chicagy Tribuine, Tuesday Morning, October 5, 1875, Greenbncks, at {he New York Gold Ex- chango yesterday, opened %51, fell to a shade below 85}, renctud ta and closed at the figure of the previous decline, New motors have been searce of Infe, and Chief-Engineer Woon, of the United States N comes {o tho resevo with an invention eonsisting of a power derived by the agency of carbonic ncid gas wbtained by means of | electricity and galvonism. e has filed n eaveat, ancl promises to exhilit his inveution at the Centenninl. Kernny must hurry up and apply for his patent, Ife asked for an oxtension of six months to run a train of cars trom New York to Philadelphia, andif he doesn's, look shinrp Woon will get there first, Th o Chiengo Presbytory has passed resolu. tions depreeating tho action of tho Board of Edreation in abolishing Bible-reading in the schioola, So long ny tha Preshytery confines it30lf to Sopreeation no one will object to ity enjoyment of that luxury. Tt is only that when thero is n prospect that the subject will bo ngitated and exagerated into a political insuo that any apprehensions need bo felt. Thero is now no such prospect, and it is to bo hoped that the Protestunt clergy ne a body will conclude to let well enough nlone, In sweeping out the Interior Department after Mr. Dzraxo, the Lroom of Assistant Becretary Cowex has encountered several ex- pensive and useless concomitants tolerated by the former oceupant, which have shared the fule of the common dust, Among these at- tendant superfluities is mentioned a full. grown stablo which the ex-Seeretary thought necessary to the dignily of his office. An- other ornament in tho person of a # Superin- tendent” hns come suddenly in contast with tho sweoper, and the chances are that the places that have long known him will know him no more, A caso is shortly to bo argued before the Bupreme Court which involves ns its chief fenture the question of tho legality of the city, connty, and State tax assessment for 1875 in Cook County. The casae is an appeal by tho South Park Commissioners from a de- cision of the County Court refusing judgment for a special assehsment mado by the Park Comissioners, and the appellees claim, ns n ground for resisting tho assessment, that Cook County is not under township organiza- tion, and that for this reason there s by law 1o such office as County Collector, the Bleriff boing ex-gfficio Collector. This question will como beforo the Supreme Court, and upon its decision will depend, among other things, whether tho County Treaswrership s worth the tremendous seramble now taking place. It may traunspire that Mr. Ilesive has made a bad bargain with tho corruptionists and bum- mers of the * Opposition,” At yesterday's meoting of the Committeo of Eighty tho fact was made known that MMy, Moopy hesitates to come to Chicago and lead the rovival movemont beeauso of a be. lict that the churches are not united on the subfect of inviting him. Among his reusons for this belief Mr. Moony mentioned o ro- cent artlele in the Jnterivr, referring to his lack of cducation. Now, weo can join with the brethren in general in nssuring Mr. Moopy that (hore's motbing in it, and that he s kept closo truck of eveuts in Chieago during bis absenco to little purpose if ko hins not discovered that, inthis ayin wany other jmportant maotters, tha Interisr docs mot refleet the sentiments of ihe Presbyterlan churches of this city. Air. Moony should Pay no attention to it, but come right aloug, nud, if such a thing is pos- eible, convert that party in the Jaterior oftice who thinks souls can't bo saved without a emattering of Hebrew, ————— Tho Chicaga produce markets wero steadior yestorduy. Mess pork was uctive, and wealt on long futuras, closing at at §22,50 for Oc. tober, and $10.15 seller the y was dull and oasier, closing Wb $13.50 cash, and £12.27} ecller the year, Meats wero quict ond do per b higher, at VG Y% for shouldors, 188@13Je for khort ribs, nud 13jo for short clears, Lako freights wury quiet aad o higher, at 2}¢ for wheat to Buf. fulo, Mighwines were dull and cuwsier, ot &1.14 per gallon, Flour'was dull and steudy, Wheaat wus octive and irvegular, closing ut at §1.11) cush, §1.11§ eeligh tho month, und Carn wai getive sud §'%.10] for Novomber, 1 3¢9 80 bigher, closing st A6Je cush, aud G3lo tov November, Outs were wiuk, elosing ot d2zia for Qutober, sud Bije fur Noveuicr. TIIE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: TUESDAY, OCTOBER &4, 1875. Tty was activa and firmer, at 72@72}0, Dar- ley was netive and 4@ e lower, closing at e for October, and e for November. Hogs closel ruiet and ensy at 10620 decline, Salew were at 37,8406 8,30 for common to good prades, Onttle were dull and weak., Sheep were in good demand and stendy, One hun. dred dollars in gold would buy $117.25 fn greenbacks at the close, ‘The vacaney in the oflice of Buperintendent of DTulice, oceasioned by the resignation of Mr. Jage Renw, has been filled by the ap- pointment to that position of M. C. Hickey, Inte Deputy-Supcrintendent of Police, Mr. Iickexy wns confirmed by the Common Conneil last evening. Under the ordinance crenting the prescut organization of the Police Department the Superintendent is the nctnal head, and is vested with an authority far cxeending that of the ostensible hend, the City-Marshal, Such being the case, A splendid opportunity for distinetion is afford- ed Superintendent Icrry. Ie hns long been known ns the best police-officer in tho Department. His ability in this re- gard is comceded. If he will only do ms well as he knows how to do, and hns the power and nuthority to do, there can be no question ns to the restilt, He knows how, nud he has the power and suthority, to purge Chicago of the hordes of bunkao-stecrers, confidence and monte-men, blacklegr, burglars, garroters, and thieves which have flocked hither from all parts of Ameriea. Ho knows almost overy one of them by sight, aud ho can make the city too hot to liotd thewm, T] 8 what Superintend. ent Hickeyx can do if he will. Knowing this, the people of Chicago will look anxiously for the clean sweep of the new braom. BIBLE-READING IN THE PUBLIC ECHOQOLS, Perhiaps the most remarkable feature nbout the Inte exclusion of Bible-reading ns one of the regnlar duily cxercises of the public schools of this city is, that the action was tnken in the most quict, matter-of-fact way, nd thiat it was approved by an almost unani- vote in the Doard, This suddon dis- ion of the matter has attracted criticism even from thoso who Jdonot condemn the ex- clusion. It if the ruestion had been formally discussed, it wonld have attracted the interference of partisans on both sides, and probably huve ereated o contention that would only have been hurtful to the public-school gystem in any event, As it is, the Board have contented themsclves with dirceting the suspension of Bible-read- ing in tho smme menuer as they would dis- pense with any single exercise, or any par- ticular text-book, or auy fenture of discipline which, in their minds, might be owmitted to the advantnge of the schools. Several clergy- men have pulliely acquiesced in the propriety of the action of the Board, among whom aro the Bev. Crisrox Locke, of Grace Chureh, Prof, Swive, the Rev. Ropent Corryrn, the Rev. C. I Tnoyesos, of the Fifth Preshy. terinn Chureh, nnd the Rev. Dr, D, Farrows, of St. Paul's Reformed Episcopal Chureh. Somo of these have preached discourses in favor of omitting the Bible exercises in tho public schools, In examining the merits of tho ease, it i proper to understand the legitimate purpose of the American public-school system. It ig n system whereby the State undertakés to farnish n+ common-school education to all who are not otherwise provided for. It is not an exclusive, but rather o supplemental, system. It is fonnded in the demands of civilization for a gencral diflusion of ele- mentary secular knowledge among all classes of peoplo ; and the cousideration which the State receives for Its espenditures in support- ing it is in the increase of intelligence nud uscfulness, and the decrense of vice nnd wenkuess incident to ignorance, thus fur- nishing a higher order of citizenship than wounld otherwise bo nitained, It is not the province of publio schools, support- ed by taxes, to tench speclalties, either do- mestic or dogmatic. What may be acquired in the family, in the churches, or the Sunday and denominational schools, does not come within the scope of the public school, except in o far ns tho family, the churches, or the private schools partake of tho common-school charncter. If a father wishes his son to make a special study of civil-ongincering, or law, or medicine, or theology, or a mother desires her dauglter to become a skilled musicinn or artist, it is necessary to give tho child some special instruction in this partionlar dircc- tion ; the public schools could not accom. plish their purpose and divert their resources to any specialties whatever, So thosowho de- uiro to nfford thoirchildron specinl religious in. struction, either goneral or dogmatic, must avail themselves of other and more appropri- ate facilities at haud. Thero is nmplo time for this every day before and after school- hours, and during the whole of Satunisys and Sundays whon tho publie schools are closed, Tho Catholio parents may send their children to public sehools to sit along side of Method- 1st children, nnd the Unitarinns or Hebrews may study reading, writing, and arithmetio sido by sido with Episcopalinns or Baptists, if religion is not mentioned and dogina not dis- cussed; und each and all of them may find ample opportunitica for rcligious exorcises outside of the publio schools, where such ex- creises do not naturally belong, 1t it bo sald that the reading of tho Bible without note, comment, or explanation is not dognatio instructjon, tho answer in, ‘that it I o meaningless and incomprehensible ozorcise for childron, and shauld be dlspenaed with in ihe public achoold on thot account. It ia dogmatin s ono sonso, since o version of the, Now Testmnont is read which is bolleved to be incorrect by the Catholics, who constituto moro thon o third of the population of the city ; and since another lnrgo closs of citizens and tax-payers roject the Now Testament al- together s o voligious book, But the Berip. tures, if not intorpreted, have no significance to tho child of tho avernge school age, and .interpretation runs at onco into creedsand seo- tarinniun, ond crentes antsgonisms. No School Board would dare to nuthorize its teachers to explaiu the chapter of the Bibla which it has been eustomary to road su ho or she dogmatically believed it, for wuch an explonation wonld inevitably partake of Judaista, or Catboliclsm, or Methodism, or Episcopalionism, or Baptism, or Unitarian- ist, or Presbytermnism, or some othor of tho numerous fms futo which religious bo- liofs are divided, To onter into thiy, it will Lo universally conceded, would be to.intro- duce an ¢lement of discord that would load to the speedy destruction of the wholo sys. tem of publicschool education, It will seureely b denied that the readiug of the Biblo, either at raudow or in a Lréken series of chuptery, one o duy, without explunation or inferprutation, cun ke no othor impres- sion upon the large muss of school-children thin thut of o dreary, disciplinary exerciso in which they dake no interest sud fromn which they derive no guod, buenuso they do Lok eviapistond it Tha School Uourd buve merely dropped such an exercige from the sehonl houra, ‘The intelligent roading of the Scriptures to children, which includes their explanation, is provided for in this country by n syrtem as general, enterprising, and far-reaching s the public sehools, Wo refer to the Ameri- enn Sunday-school system, which makes this a specinlty, and in which all the churches take part. This systemn reaches the poor through the mission-schoold as well as tho rich in tho more gorgeous churches, It hns aliterature of its own, including listorienl, biographical, chronologicnl, nud dogmatio text-books, It hns its eatechism for ehildren, nnd its nids and instruction-books for teachers. 1t interpreta and explains tho Seriptures on a day especinlly set aside for religious devotion and study, and in a manner to com- mand a peculiar roveronce from those who portake of the instruction, Tho public school, supported by general taxation, eannot undertake such instruction ; and, without it, larried aud unintelligent Bible-rending to children must be as irksomoe as learning Por-~ Low's * Course of Timo” by heart as o pun- ishment for infraction of scliool rules. The dropping of Bible-reading ns a rogular school exercise g no direct connectiontwith tho Cntholic controversy on the public-school question, except that it deprives them of the slightest foundation for charging that Catho. lio pupils nro forced to listen to Protestant tenchings; it takes from them the only good excuso they have ever had for an attempt to break down the system. But it will not gralify the ultra class of them; for, while they eall the public schools with the Protes- tant Bible ** heretical schools,” they eall the public schoola without the Bible ** Godless uchools,” Wo refer to that portion of the Catholic Churell which secks a division of the sehool fund for dogmatic purposes ; this wns tho way they troated the matter in Cincine nati, So far as the Chicago School Board is concerned, there is, we believe, but oneCatho- lic in it, and but one Irishman ; and tho Irish- man is not a Catholie, and the Catholic {s not an Irishmna, So it is not likely that the Catholic interest exerted any influence in the matter. We believo that the Bonrd regarded it simply ns n school exercise which might be omitted with advantnge to the public-school system, intonded to provide a general, non- sectarinn, common.school edueation to those who cannot or will not go to private schools, MORTUAGE DEBTS AND CHEAP MONLY, The Cincinnati Enquirer publishes n states ment furnished it from Springtield, Illinois, in which it is stated that tho farms and city property in Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Minne- sotn, Wisconsin, Missouri and St. Louis, Il- linois and Chieago, are mortgaged to the amount of 200,000,000, and crics out ve- hemently agninst the tightening grasp of tho money-lender upon the farms of tho country. In the list, Illinois, including Chicago, is put down nt $115,000,000. Without stopping to inquire as to the accurncy of the figures, wo propose to exnmine the magnitude of this mortgage business. The argument is, of courge, {hat theso States will be ruined if they nre compelled to pay these debts in currency worth more than 50 cents on the dollar. In Nlinois, in 1874, there were in cultiva- tion over 27,000,000 acres of lund, In 1875 they probably amounted to 80,000,000 acres of improved land, Dedueting from the sum of mortyages £65,000,000 for Chicago and other city property, the sum claimed to Le due on the lnnds of this Stato is 1250,000,~ 000. The valuo of these improved lands, in cash, exceeds 30 per ncre. We therofore have a mortgnge of 250,000,000 upon pro- ductive property, worth in cash $000,000,000, Tho grip of the money-louder is therefore not o sorious ns {o bo alarming! Without touching the land under cultivation or in auy way improved, we have in Illinois, in 1874, 9,000,000 of acres of other land uniniproved, worth at n low average 10 an acro, and of itselt eoven at o forced snlo all-snfficient to pay the entiro land mortgnges, with all the State and municipal debts in ad. dition, The iniquitous and grosping monoy- lender ean hardly be said to have the State of Illinoiy within his grasp! The ability of the people to pay this debt is further shown by their possession of livo stock to tho value of $185,000,000, so that it would only take one liorse, ono mule, one ox, one sheep, and one hog out of every four in the State, to pay off every dollarof debt due on the farms of Illinois. One-fourth of the annual in- creaso of the liva stock of the State would discharge all the mortgnges on lands in this State evon if the curroncy should go to par. Tho State of Tlinois has 102 countics. The Sevontconth Congressional District is com- Posed of anly four counties, and one of them o small county, Those vounting had, in 1874, qver 385,000 acros in whoat, over 352,000 in corn, over 82,000 acres in onts, 97,000 acres iu graas, 81,000 acres in other fleld products, 151,000 ncres in inclosed pasture, 25,000 acros in orchard, and 496,000 acres in wood ; and the value of tho product of this one district, including the live satock, was, in one year, equal to tha whole sum of the mortgages on lands in tho State of Illinois, The same table in the Enquirer puts tho mortgages on farm lands in Minnesota at $6,000,000. The rolative magnitude of this dubt s illustratod by the estimate that the State of Minnesota will, in 1875, have a sur- plus crop to scll worlh in Minnesota §50,- 000,000, ‘Tho State that can in a single year produce, oftor supplying tho home consump- tion, a surplus worth $50,000,000 can hardly bo snid to have fallen into the grasp of the money-lender, The poople of Afinnesota, like the people of Illinols, Wisconsin, Iowa, Nobraska, Indiana, and Michigan, are pro- ducers, ‘They have asurplus which they have to soll annually for cash, and it is important to them that the money thoy recolvo for thelr hundreds of millions of anuunl productions will retain'its value from day to day. The people of Minnesota who sell thelr surplus crops in October and Novenber, 1875, aro in. terested in baving the money they roceive re- tain at least the valuo it may have when paid ta them, They do not want that monoy to decline 10 or 20 per cent while it e in their bands. Thoy do not want their 8fty millions aof dollars to shrink toforty or thirty millions when they use it to mako their snnual pur. ohases, The surplus productlons of tke Northe western Sintes in 1873—the surplug which theso Btates bave to sell—will aggrezate sov- eral hundreds of millions of dollars,—exceed. Ing, perhaps, in mwnount the wkole issne of greenbacks, ‘Theso States are producers and not speculatora. They have sctual property to sell, ‘They sell this property for cash, and with this cosh purchase thoso things which they necd but do not produce, It ia impor- tant to them whether themonoy {hey receive for tlelr property is wortk 85 cents on the dollur or U0 ceuts, Assuming that they will receive four hundred willlons of dollurs for their surplus produats, tho money thicy re- ceive nuw worth 86 cents will b etjual o the purchase of 8340,000,000 gold valne of other goodr, 'Thoy nre perfectly familinr with the following resulta : Greenbacks, £ 0,0 0,00 400,600,001 Worth, Wit buy tn gald, 40,000,000 It is important, therefore, to theso produc- ers, who aro dealing in nctunl property and not in speculntive atocks or debts, whother the moncy they receivo at 84 cents shall ad- vanco to 90 cents or fall {o 60 cents, We know of no class of muen moro iuterested than they are in having the currency advance in valuo and retain its advanced valne. If tho holders of the two hundred millions of morlgages on lands in tho West aro dosirons of hnving the value of currency kept up, the men who have four hundred millions of dol- lnrs of property to sell ovory year, and with which they have to make their purchases, aro far more interested in having the currency they receivo equnl to purchasing the Inrgest possible nmount of exchange articles, Should the cloctions this year indicate that there will bo an oxpansion of currency by an unlimited issuo of grecnbacks, the value of tho curreucy will probably decline 10 or 16 cents on the dollar. This will bo equal to tho oblitoration of from forty to sixty millions of dollars in the purchasing power of the money received from the rale of this year's sirplus, We submit that, com- pared with tho mortgage debt, the men who seek to destroy the value of the currency should be held and treated as n common enemy by nll who aro not speculntors and bave their nctual productions to sell, Shall the money theso Western States veceive for their surplus crops be worth 60, or 90, or 100 cents on the dollar? THE GREAT MISBIONARY GATHERING. Chicago welcomes to-dny the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Mis- sions, which commences at 2 p. m., in Far. well Hall, its sixty.sixth annual meeting. This is tho oldest foreign missionary organi- zation in the Innd, and one of the most im- portant in Christendom, 1Its missions long since girdled the globe, and its affairs lhave been conducted with such sagacity that the results of its experienco nro consulted with cara by all similar bodies, while its financial eredit i equal to that of the Banivos in every commercinl mart to which ita bills of ex- change may go. DBeginning with the small receipts of $009.52 during the first yeor of its history, it now lacks but n few thousands of reaching an annual income of half n mill. ion, Its composition is peculinr. It is in. corporated by tho State of Massachusetts, and has its headquarters at Boston ; but it Lolds its annual meetings in all parts of the country, usually alternating botween the East and the West. There aro two classes of members, corporate and honorary, The corporate membors form the legnl Bonrd, and slone have a right to vote on the business questions. They aro elected, n fow at a time, by the provious members, on report of n Nominating Committee, and the aim is to ob. tain persons of prominence and character, who are in a sonse represontative men. Some have thought that, in past yenrs, too much consideration was given to socinl and eccle- siastical distinction in this respect. Theso members number 207, of whom 116 are clergymen and 91 aro Inymen, snd among them will bo found men conspicuous for charactor and ability as well ns for position. The honorary members are constitutod such for lifo by the payment of 350 for clergymen (usually paid by the churches) and $100 for Inymon, Theso have every right enjoyed by the corporate members, excopt that of vot- ing. They offer motions, they make specches, they servo on committoes, and they exerciso a powerful moral influenco in shaping the ac- tion of the Board. Thia featuro doos much to savo the organization from tha usual evils of a close corporation, The Prosident of the American Board is the Rov, Mark Hoerins, D. D., LL. D,, for many years President of Williams College, and the author of widely-known works on moral philosophy. = At present, tho Board represents only the Congrogational churches, though its charter is undenominational, and at firat, and for many years, it included also the Presbyterian and the Reformed (Dutch) Churches. Theso latter in the conrse of timo withdrow and organized denominational go- cieties, which they now support, leaving the Congregationalista to fall heir to the old or- ganization, A few individuals of the Presby- terinna atill contribute to its trensury. On the first evening of each annual meoting n ‘mffl‘mfl is delivered by some minister of cminenco. ‘This yoar the preacher will be the Rev. J. W. Axpnews, D. D, President of Muariotta College, Ohio, Presidunt Horkrns will make his onnual nddress on 'Thurs- day evening. While the business moet. ingn during the doy will bo at Far. wdl Hall, there will also bo asdditional meetings for missionary nddresses Wodnouday onl Thursday evenings at churches moro ro- mae from the business part of the city, The last meeting of the American Board in Chi. cago was in 1865, at which time the Now Sclool Presbyteriana were also its support- ers, It is expacted that botween 2,000 and 3,000 persona will attend the exeroizes from a diatance, besides our own citizens, Of course thy maas of these will be from this and the adpining States, but wo learn that three hundred expected guosts have sent in thelr names from New England alone, showing tho deer. Interest folt in tho meeting, The Con. gregationallsts of Chicago and its suburbs will Xeep open house this week, and, under tho ofiiclent and untiring porsonal superin. tondeuce of E. W, Buironrorn, Eaq., pro- vision has boen made to entertain all who come, even to the furnishing of dinner and supper to thoso whoso lodging quarters are at too great o distance to be reached in the intermisslons botweon the exercises during tho day, Among the misslonaries expeotsd to be present aro tho Rav. Dr, Hamuwv, Prealdont of Robert College,—a man of mark for intel- lect, for lenrning, for practical sagaoity, and for mechanical kill, During the Orimean war, learning that tho British forces wished for soft bread but could not obtaln it, he de- vised tho requisite ovens and machinery, set his Protostant converts to work, took the contract for tho bread, and earned for the misslon thousands of dollars, ‘There will Aalso be present the Rov. 8, R. Ricas and his two sons, the Rev, T. M. and A, L. Rioas, from the Dacotas; the Rev, Jonx OnANDLER, from Western Indin; the Rov. Tmomas W. TuoxrsoN, of the North China Mission; the Rev. Witiu lszranp; the Rev. Wirrniax MELLEN § aléo the Rev, Drs. Danizy Linorxy and A. Guast, of Bouth Africa; the Rav. E. 0. Toowniaz, of Turkey; the Rav. L. 4", DoANE, of Micronosia, and sevoral others whose names Lave not reached us, A leading lopia of discussion atthe present meeting will no doubt be the fnancial question, as the tressury is fn debt $44,000, beingan increase of debt of $14,000 from the previvus year, * The diloulty arikes prohibition of the sale of liqutor by statuto hny been demonstrated to Do a failure in accom- plishing the purpose after which it renches; that is, it doox not stop the rale nor the con- sumption of liquor, whilo the ineflleiency of tho law only brings alllaw into contempt and oncournges law-brenking. It hea also beon abundantly demoustraied that prohibi- tion as a politienl monsure by greatly wenl- oned popular politieal organizations, and do- prived thom of the power to accomplish other projeots for the public good. When, in the faco of these facts, a largo religions body de- manda that prolibition sliall bo adopted ns n political menauro, it seoms Lo be a confession that their socinl, moral, and raligious influ. enco ia not sufliciently exerted in the tempor- anco fiold to mitigate this particular evil, and they aro willing to risk other political ovils in ordor to atone in part for their own inef- ficlenoy. targely from the Unsiness depressions sinco the panic, which have affected tho roceipts of all tho benevolent wocictic. As these ara now appenling in distross aimultancously to the Christian public, very liberal benefactions will be required to freo them from embarrass- mant, }ow to holp ono sufliciently without drawing needed support from theother iu the problem. "The most siriking success of tho Ameriean Board in its missiona hag beon in tho Sond- wich Islands, which was one of tho early flelds of Inbor selected. Trom a condition of henthenism and barbarism they were elevated, in nbout thirly yenrs and about the cost in money required to build n singlo vessel of war, to bo a recognized Christinn nation; with a langungo reduced to writing, a considorablo printed literature, a sottled constitutional Government, a revenuno from imports and taxes, a population able to rend, annual ap- propriations for public schools, a foreign mission of their own to the Marquesns Islands, about thirty churches with nativo pastors, and a third of the population church- membors, For about forty years the Boand had missions among the Cherokeo and Choctaw Indinns of our own land, and then dismissed them from their care as Christianized and able to support their own schools and chnrches, they then having forty nativo preachers, Christianity being the vnly roligion of the people, and as largo & proportion of the population being professors of roligion as in any part of our country. The numerical results are not ko great in tho missions in Turkey, whero wero obstacles from an old and deeayed civiliza- tion, from corrupt Christian sects, and from n despotio Mohammedanism which punished converts, ns apostates, by death; but tho moral impression mado s of the highest val- ug in undermining tho wholo Moslem system ; in commencing o roformation of the ancient, corrupt Greok and Armenian Churches; in stirring to thonght and inquiry all classes of socioty ; in planting many puroe churches throughout the Empire, not a few of which are self-sustaining; in establishing schools and colleges for higher education ; and in the translation and circulation of the Bible. A great work lias been dono slso in South Afxi- en, in Indin, in China, and in Japan, in co- opaoration with other socicties, but wo have not space to give particulars, It had, lnst yeor, nineteen distinet missions, in which were employed 79 laborers from this coun- try, and over 1,000 native pastors, teachers, and catechists. The mission churches were 224, with 10,665 communicants, An impor- tant scrios of missions has also been estab- lished in Roman Catholic countrios, which is o work meeting with large success, The principal fields aro Mexico, Spain, and Aus- trin, As indicating the literature crented by the operations of this Board, it is suflicient to sny that, in 1800, it forwarded to tho Paris Exposition one thousand distinet publica- tions in thirty-four differont Ianguages, many of which the missionaries had reduced for the first time to writing. Tho whole number of such publications which had been issued from the boginning at that date was about two thonsand. Amongthese wore 44 in Arabic, 119 in Modern Aymonian, 6 in Anciont Armenian, 53 in Armono-Turkish, 186 in Mod- ern Greek, 48 in Modern Syriac, 807 in Tamil, over 100 in Tolugu, 150 in Chinese, 44 in Siamese 288 in Hawaliian, 18 in Zulu, 39 in Cheroiwe, 61 in Choctaw, and 21 in Mpongwe. . A prominent feature of the home opera- tions of the Amorican Board for the last five years has been tho work of the auxiliary Womnu's Board, which furnishes not ouly an important part of the funds, but supplies and supports numerous lady-missionary-tenchers, who do a most needful service among their own sox in honthen and Mohammedan lands, The ladies will hold a spocinl meoting of their own in Clark Streot Methodist Church on Wednesday forenoon, PAY AND PROTECTION. The Chief of tho United Btates Buroan of Statistics, Mr. Epwanp Youno, has just irsucd a careful report entitled *Lnbor in America.” It showa the rates of wages and cost of mubsistonce in the United Btates and British Amorien. Wo havo made np from it tho following interesting table, which con. tains tho avernge wages per doy of nnum- ber of trades in this country Farm laborers, ., Common laborrra Fomalo domestics (with bosra). ... Blackmniths, oo oo Manona and bricklay Cabinot-makers Coopers. .. Carpenters, Talnters.. Plastere Shioemak slone-cutters, Tallors.... Tho wages paid in the Pacifio States and tho Territories are oxcluded in the compnta- tion of theso figures. They aro considorably higher, in gold, than theso aro in paper, but, except in Californin, the incronsed cost of living probably consumes the whole margin of difforencoe. If we now excludo the agri- cultural laborers and the domestio servants, and then calenlate the average wage of skillod workingmen living betweon the sea- bonrd and the sagebrush plains, wo find it to bo $2.70 a day. Very few of the trades represonted in this caloulation can be exer- cised throughout the year. Tho weather lays & voto on most of them during at least two or threo months of each twelvo. It would bo unfair, then, to multiply $2.70 by tho num- ber of days in tho yenr, less Bundays and holidays, nnd assume that the result wns the amount enrned by the average skilled workingman, Ho probably considers himself fortunate when ho gets a chance to earn wages during 275 days of ench year. If ho "did this, his annual income would be $742.50. This is certainly small enough, even if he has no one besides himself to support. Bat ““children are tho luxuries of the poor,” and tho chances are that our avorkingman has his shore. His struggle with life is necessarily a hard ono. It should certainly not be made harder by law. And yet it is. If Congress should publicly vote that ho should be forced to pay a tax or bonus of 50 per cont on nearly overything he bought, the attompt to en- force the decrco would lead to & rovolution. And yet this procise thing ig indirectly done. Tho offect of our high tariff is to incrense the cost of nll protected articles to the consumer by about &0 per cent. If a foreign articlo is bought, the 50 per cent levy is o tax collected by tho Gov- ernment ; when & homo product is bought, the 50 per cont is n bonus extorted for the manufacturer. In either ovent, the working- man pays it. Tho tarif thus scales his wages down to $495 a year, since this sum would buy, under free trade, all that $742,60 will exchango for when protection is the domi- nant policy. DEATH OF A GREAT PONTIFF, The Delai-Lama of Thibet died rocently. We presume scarcoly a person who reads these lines hns any very intolligont idea who the Delai-Lama was, or cares who he was, aud yot he was the spiritusl and infallible hend of the Lamalsts, offshoots of the Bud- dhists, who number over 400,000,000 souls. Thero are Lamag and there are Delai-Lamas, ond the Delni-Lamns are recognized ns incar- nations of God, and - worshiped as thp Deity is worshiped. Kusrar-Kmax, tho great con- queror of Ohing, first established the Lama in power and gave him both temporal and epiritual sway, and a throno whore he could sit na high as the Emperor in temporal mat- ters, aud a good deal higher in spiritual. His most noteworthy snccessor waa SoNxara, who was immaoulately conceived by his mother's folling upon a Buddhistio inscription. By his immaculate birth ho was endowed with many remarkable charactoristics. e had o white beard and could talkc before ho was a day old, and from his hair grow a troe pro- ducing leaves which wero covered with sacred inscriptions, He died in tho fifteonth cen- tury, and although ho mscended to Heaven his body is still preserved, floating im tho uir, in & monastery which uie founded. Tho first of tho Delai-Lamas, however, was born in 1880, and the ono who has just gome to meet Boppua was thoe tenth of the line. Their lives have not always been peaceful, for three of theso Pontiffs have suifered death by violence at tho hands of Emperors who wero jealons of their power over thoe Mongolians., Their THE WOES OF OARY, A person by tho name of Cany is a candi. date for the Lieutenant-Governorship. of Obhio on the Democratic.dilution ticket. o ia testing the truth of tho old adage, **If you want to find out all about yoursolf, run for office,” My, Cany has found out a grent deal about himsal?, and, what is worse, the world has found it out, too. The copious biogra- phies of him that have been printed by the Tepublican and Independont press have not painted him in flattering colors, but the tints soom to be true. There are two incidonts in his morp recont careor which seom worth while for Ohlo voters to romember., Ono is about n matter of taxes. A fow years ago, ho sold a houss and lot to the Governmont for $25,600, which was some thou- sands more than it was worth. Boon afterwards, ho had to mako a return of histax- able property, Mo scheduled sbout $750. The Asscssora inquired what had become of the $25,600 which, as everybody knew, hiad Jjust been paid him by the Government, 1o roplied that ho had put it into bonds, His taxes wero thoreforo nssessed and paid only on the pitiful amount he had vsfgioally scheduled, When Lo Logan to howl on the stump sbuut bloated bondholders, this fact waa brought up. OCamy thereupon retorted that ho had never owned a bond. If thisis truo, he lled out of his taxea, If he told the truth sbout the latter, he is lying now, Theso are plain words, bat the facts | position, however, ia an onviablo one, Thoy —aunfortunately for this domagogue— | have no end of palaces and temples richly are plainer still, The other fact | ndorned with gold and silver ornaments. would bes woll nigh Inoredible, ware not the main pointa in it matter of record in the courta of Ohlo. We find a caroful state- ment of tho record in the New York Times, Cany, it is alloged, went to Oolorado, aa the attorney of a company of gentlemon, to buy a certain silver-mine, He agreed with tho owners to pay ©22,000, and took the usual bond. Then he telegraphed to his clients that the prico was $50,000, and to hwrry along themoney, He paid the $22,000 for the mine, and divided the extra $28,000 among those with whom collusion was necos- sary, kooping the groater share himself, The cese g in court, and the only public defense is on offer on hia part to take back the mine at $60,000. This is the story told by our Eastorn contemporary and by a muliitude of Objo journals, It s needless to dwell on the utter nothingness of the only defense that has been attempted. It ia a plen of confes- aion, with & very weak attempt at avoidanae, Thoy have endless ceremonies, pageants, and musie. Thoy run prayer.wheels which are vory profitable, and make n handsome thing out of helping the release of dying rich men's souls, which they accomplish by the neat little surgionl operation of tearing the skin from tho skull und boring a hole in it. Religious services are held for the comfort of doparted souls, but thoir effectivencss deponds greatly upon the manner in which tho friends and relatives come down, The bodies of ordinary common people are made up ‘into meat balls and fod to the Delai- Lamas' sacred dogs, They derive immense tribute from mines, lands, and flocks, and manage also to ke out a living by the salo of holy textures, fumigations, relics, and idols. When engaged in official business, the Delai-Lama is an objeot of unvy to all persons who love their ease, for on such oc- caalons ho sits croas-leggad, like o status, on five elogant cushions, arrayed in bis best - attire, He ia not obliged to say any- The Methodist Conference in sesalon in | thing or notlce anybody. He simply Bpringfleld, Ill,, have bofore thom n.setof | waves his hands, which is equivalent resolutions delaring it to be the duty of logiclative bodies to prohibit the sale of liquor, and othorwise working out temper- ance reform through political agencies, Did it ever cocur to religlous bodies that take this ground that they are making o confessfon of their own ineficiency? Toemperance is o porsonal and, to some extent, o moral attribute, and {ts encourage. ment und prowotion are the peculiar proper. tice of mocial and religlous influence. The to blessing, and sometimes he distributes little balls of pasts or clay. As everything which emanates from him is considered to bo omnlipotent, thero is great demand for these dirt-balls, and the profits are corre- spondingly large. In addition to this, annual tribute is carrjed evory year to him by cara. vens, In point of fact, there iu very litle to do and most excellent pay in the poal. tion, the most onerous duties being to i crossdegged, look wise, and say nolling. It is highly probabla that the grent and goog Delni-Lamn wiio has jnst gone to meet Runnmna way an exemplary man in thin rospect nn¢ did his work well, ns ro fuult wa found with him, and no Chiueso Finpernr murdored him. Ho must have ruled hig 400,000,000 people satisfactorily, and hLis momory now probably blossoms and amells sweet, ombnlmed jn the pyramid whare pi| the good Lamas go. Leaving him witl; )Lig Inmp and his lotos, who will ba his sitceersor This is probably quite as imm-terial to oy Westorn clvilization 03 who the other oig was, Daring the Inat hundred years the np pointment of the vicegerent of Bunona by rested almost oxclusively with the Chinogs Emperor. Wo presume that ecandi. datea for his position will bo as nn. merous s thoy nro in this country when an official suddenly steps out and leaves his place vacaut. The scramble for tho spoils, howevor, doea not laat long, and there is not much nowspapor discussion over the candidates, The Emporor designates thrao persons to suceeed him, the nctun) choice from these threo being made by lot, Thero is one prorogative which the Emperoy hag which it is to e regrotted cannot Lo ex, ercised over officials in this country. 1o hay two mandarins and a body of troops who con. stantly watelh the Dolail-Lama to prevent hin from execeeding his proper influenco o exorcising civil powers which do ng portaln to his office. This makes it impossible for him to defraud the reve. nues, or get into corrupt rings, or speculaty on the people's money. Wu know little of tho recent Delai-Lama except ag pertnins t¢ the circumstancoes of his offica. We presum he was a good man and did his cross.legge¢ functions in an honest and faithful mauner, and we hope that Buopua hns reserved g choice placo and plenty of lotes for Lim, T will make no spacial difference with Chicage society, nor will it seriously influonce the fall elections, who his succussor may bhe, bu for the sake of the 400,010,001 Mongolinn souls over whom he will Lo called upon to presido itis to be hoped he will prove s gooda man as his predecestor, THAT CENTERNIAL S8TATUE. Ths eablo tells us that a society kuown m “The Franco-American Union"” has beea formed ot Paris, and that its object is to crect & colossal statue of Liberty upon an i off tho const of Long Island. We ar to doubt the success of iho I'-A. The Washington Monument is a striking, not to say saddening, proof thal. raising n society, raising funds, and raising a monument, ary three very difforent things, The Parisian on gonization is liborally supplied with ofiicials, The Hon, E. B, Wasunurny, the Marquis 1z Noawizs, and M. Barroorpr together sup. port the onorous honors of the Presidency, M. Lasourave is Chairman, and two gentls. men whose fame is unfortunately eclipso by that of their fathers, MM, =z Tocquevisre and DE LAPAYETTE are memben of the Erxecutive Committee. It is much ensier, however, to fiud members thm monoy, friends for on enterprise than funds for it, nnd a colossal statue costs a good dea of monoy. M. Lanourave bns written toa Paris journal explaining that the Franco. American Union wishes to eroct such n statve of Liberty, who is to bo represonted ases. lightening the world. Tho particular part of the world in which the statue is to bo locatal ig supposed to be sadly in need of enlight coment, so that the choico of gituation hos boen wisely made. But wo fenr the site will mever bear tho statue. Ger many has lheretoforo monopolized the colossal-statue business. There is one in the suburbs of Munich, a bronze * Bavaria,” some 60 feot high, into whose head the tourist wearily climbs, and out of whose cyes tha tourist solemnly looks on n muddy plain, Behind it ia a stone and stucco structure, 2 gort of colonnndo, whicki contains some mel ancholy busts of desd men, and conveyss general impression of a graveyard. The statue of Hrrmann, which has just been ded icated, is another gigantic thing. The thinl colossus is still in embryo, but a sculptor.it fast chiseling it out of its stone prison. Itis o colossal Christ, and ia to bo erceled ot Ober-Ammergau, in the Tyml where the great pasgion-play is give overy tenth year. The rest of the world has no human colossi, Memnon axd the Sphynx ore not to be classed in this catogory. The colossl of the Old \Vufld‘hm disappeared, The harbor of Rliodes is 20 longer straddled by tho great bronze legs of the status that is fablod to have once k- stridden the entrance. Tho fvory and gdd Minerva of Pmmus hes vanishod frm Athens, and this sculptor's masterpicce, b4 colossal Jupitor of Olympla, was enrried ('o Constantinople and thera burned. Wo alsl possess something almost wniquo if th Franco-American Union really puts up it “Liberty,” ” Y4 Is uot strange that colossus-constructiod haa fallen inio disuse. It is tho task of this generation to pull down colossi, not to buill them. A'model tenemont-housy or s grest musoum is o botter monument {o civilization than any sculptor can chisel or auy artist oan paint, Tt will not only be tho frionds but tho lepiod of people in this country who have hesrd Avst Lousx Oany sing who will rejoice to hear thst she has made a most unqualified and entbueas tlo euccess in Ruesia, Bhe made Ler debut st the Imperlal Opera-Houso fo Boscou last Thuie day evening, selecting the rols of Asmcend i “11 Trovators.” A oable diepatoh says that the enthualssm was vory great, that sha recoived waany florsl gltts, and was called baforo the cur tain nine toes during the evening, it belok 160 grandest ovation ever recelved by sn Americsh artist In Russis, Thoss who know Mies Casrd persiatent and conaciontlous devotlan to Ler I:’fl- the misgivings with whioh aho wens to Russit aod the fears that whe would not eatle(y 'hl'l - flokle and somewhat fastidious Ruasians, v"“ heartily rejoloe over hier succass, snd the wbol people will receive tha announcement of he{:‘* markablo success with large dogroee of ri ’: from the fact that she is the first nulvo-bdo“ and purely-American srilst who has succoede A Rassisn soil, It emphanzes the muu’w;' H which has more than once been msde I o Tatwoxx of the futura possibilitiss of tho A lcan prims donna, ———— the The Marquis of Exeto Commodore of 4 Foyl Viotoria Yacht Club, hus zecalved tus i lowing letter from tha Private Becretary o Queen: e Dxan Loap Exersat It bas q‘:zund iz thzr::‘-'n of ALe recent Inquiry at Gosport that W 18 & 50°0,, practics for private yachis to, Aprrmch the mnyl it when Her Aajesty i on board, from motived of o It 18 evidout that sucl .Iynbh o must at ‘times_be attended with consile and in summer, when t sels, such out is_orowdod wl,u “l;; von oy kindl; Jwnare of yeohta how sarnes o tgu %uua- which may 1o shoul 1. tor, yours faithfulty, 7. Possaxs! al rathor & nest specknen of Bosd 4 3;:‘::.!" The recont accident {n the galeak it which Her Masjesty's yacht ran down » priv veass), causing the death of $woor thuolp:.‘ 800y, Was osused—as was plaloly showo l“d" Cosones’s inquesh, and &3 was plaloly set y