Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 21, 1875, Page 4

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T, Order, Visiting Sir Knignts courteously invited. By order of tho Em. LDom. G. A, WILLIAMBS, Becorder. [hirty- i Zompanions cordially invited. By order of M. E. H. 1 3 > L E c’EADW'lCK, Bec'r. TLLINOIS ST. ANDREW'S BOCIETY.—Members of the Society are requested to meet at No. d81 West Lake-st., to attend the funeral of the lste James Nicol, Manday, Nov. 23, at 12:30 p. m. to i’y = SO STOART. Becy. LAFAYETTE. CHAPTER, No. 2, R A. M._Hall Ko. 72 Monroest. Stated convocation this ('I[onflg) pvening, ll"'g’-' w&a&’hm& Pfil and work on the & 4 E.'N. TOCKER, Be¢. UNITED HEBREW RELIEF ASSOCIATION.— ! “There will be & meeting this afternoon at 2 o'clock m 4he lower ball of the Btandard Club, an Thirteenth-st., Gear Michigan-av. The Chivags Tribune, Sundsy Mormng, November 31, 1875., At the New York Gold Exchange on Satur- day greenbacks ruled steedy, the quotation early in the day being 674, and the closing price 873, The Republicans lost the election in New York, but they won most of the bets, never- theless. The favorite wager was that Bice- Low’s majority would not exceed 15,000, and tho official count shows that it was 14,812. The time for receiving applications for space at the Centennial expired on the last day of October, but a special exception is made in the case of citizens of Ilinois, who can file their wants and secure space up to the 30th inst. Ttaly, which now owns about half her rail- ‘ways, has completed negotiations, it is said, for the purchase of the remainder. The price is reported at £32,000,000. Where the money is to come from is unknown. The Kingdom hos an annusl deficit now, and partiel repu- distion is probably not far off. A The Ohio Democrats have abandoned the -attempt to defend the votes cast for their candidates in Wood County. This is not sur- prising when it is remembered that a precinct which never polled more than 800 votes be- fore returned 8,000 last month. The fraud ‘was 50 great that it was transparent. ' The Southern Pacific Railway Convention has adjourned, after asking the people to eontribute a few hundred millions to build a railroad to the land of sage-brush and sand. St. Louis was unkindly snubbed. The Con- vention voted down a motion to barely name that city in its resolutions. The cut was the more unkind because one of the persons prominent in giving it was the late Chief- Justice of Arkansss, J. C. McCrure. The testimony in the St. Louis cases has prepared people to expect unsavory revela- tions about * Special Agents™ of the Treas- ury Department. Those sent to St. Louis seem to have been in the habit of agreeing to be blind, in consideration of $10,000 cash. The amount which Special Agent S. J. Coxxry got from the Milwaukee Ring is not stated in the dispatches, but he has been ar- rested for accepting a bribe there last April. Mooy and Su¥EEy have shaken the sinful ‘@Hust of Brooklyn from their feet and gone to Philadelphis. There are a few heathens left in Brooklyn, sad to say. ©On the other hand, the Brooklyn Ring was smashed during the stay of the revivalists. If they can do as much as this at Philadelphis, the $25,000 raised in the City of Brotherly Love to help on the good work will be well repaid. Then Iet the revivalists come here and labor with the County Board. i and unchanged Wheat was active and easier, closing 8t $1.06} cash and SL0G} for December. Corn was in better request and firm, closing ar 51ic cash and 47§c scller the year. Oats wero quiet and easier, clos- ing at 30jc cash and 30jc for December. Rye was firm, at 65@C8lc. Barley was dull and weak, closing nominal at 86c cash and 84c for December. Hogs were firm, under a good local and Eastern demend, at $6.50@ 7.50. Cattle were dull agpd essy. Sheep were quiet and steady, at $3.00@4.50. One hundred dollars ia gold would buy $114.75 in greenbacks at the close. The cable dispitches announced & fow days ago that the demands of the German Minister of War for the coming year are in excess of those of previous years by 10,000,.- 000 marks, or $2,500,000, and in this esti- mate are not included other credits for the creation of batteries of reserve, the increase of the artillery of the fleet, and the formation of another railway battalion, which, added to those now in existence, will make a complete regiment, whose occupation it is to mnstm_ct railways in time of peace and keep them in repair in timo of war. What the Germans have to show for their immense military ex- penses is thus stated by the Geneva Times: Since the war of 1670-71 the eficlency of the army of Germany may bo fairly said to have been doubled, 1f we take into account not alone the increase in its numbers, but the improvements in arms and argani- zatio, Theactive army has incressed through the natural increment of the population and the jnnexa- tion of Alsace and Lorraine; the landwehr has been almost reorganized ; .the landsturm has begun to be organized. Tho old Zundnadelgewchr has been ro- placed by the almost perfect Mauser rifie: every feld Dbattery bas been farnished with new guns of heavier calibro and improved construction. The railway sys- tem of the counizy has been considerably extended, and extended in such 3 way a8 to subserve stratogical objects. Military tactios bave been changed and de- veloped to meet the exigencies of modern warfare. The fleot has been increased untilit has become almoet formidsble; and the Generals of the army and the Chiefs of the navy lisve been incessant in their efforts 1o utilize the experience derived from. past wars for the beneflt of the future leaders of the land and sea forces of the Empire. It will be strange indeed if there is mot another St. Louis duel in the near future. If & couple of the St. Louis chivalry could take a shot at one another on account of some mildly-expressed differences about the late ‘War in their respective journals, we do not see how Messrs. McCurLAGE and GROSVENOR and Messrs. Hype and Hurcams are to en- dure the criminations and epithets they are putting upon one another without some blood-letting. MoCuzraen, for instance, de- fies ‘“hell to produce or Omnipotence to duplicate” a character like Geosvesor, and it is safe to say that, if Grosvenor has not yet expressed himself in similar terms about McCuLracr, he will take the first opportu- nity to do so. Then Mr. Huromxs tried to drag Mr. Hyoe into the Whisky Ring, be- cause the latter happened to know MEGRUE, and Mr. Hype promptly brands Mr. HorcErss as ‘‘an arrant demagogue, a -man utterly deveid of principle, a proved blackmailer, s known perjurer, and notorious scoundrel,” and also produces a letter from MeGaUE in which the latter says Hurcanss agreed to use his paper in favor of 8 paving-contract in consideration of one- fourth the profits. At this rate we shall not be surprised to hear that the streets of St. Louis are running with gore, and we advise ambitious young men who desire to edita newspaper in St. Louis to put in their appli- cations early at the offices of the Globe-Demo- crat, Times, and Republican: THE WHISKY SITUATION IN CHICAGO. The extraordinary developments made in the trials of the revenue officers at St. Louis ‘have naturally excited interests as to whether like developments are likely to be made when the legal prosecutions take place in Chicago. The evidence is, that in St. Louis the manufacture of whisky and its sale with- out payment of tax was continued during the greater part of four years with the full knowledge, and much of it through the di- rect procurement, of the Government officers, wh® exempted the spirits from the Govern- ment tax of 50 cents per gallon in considera- tion of a regular payment to them of 30 centa per gallon, which 30 cents was divided be- tween the officers and such outsiders as were admitted to share in the robbery. ‘We have made every possibly inquiry as to the operations in Chicago, and we understand that the Grand Jury exhausted all the evi. dence within their reach, and failed to dis- cover any such general complicity between the offending distillers and rectifiers and the Government officers as prevailed in St. Louis. If there ever were such criminal relations, the evidence thereof has never come.to light, and if any person kmows of anything to establish such s state of things, he can do a public service by making it known, So far as the case now stands disclosed the whisky men of Chicago of all degrees have been operating each on his own account. Each establishment has of course had to pur- chase a Gauger and a Storekeeper ; but there seems to have been no necessity for purchas- ing the silence or the participation of the other and higher revenue officers. The latter do not seem to have had the least suspicion that any person in Chicago would defrand the revenue; and the fraudulent use of stamps, and the false and perjured reports of subordinates, seem never to have attracted any person’s attention. In Sf. Louis the revenue officers kept with religious fidelity two reports,—one of every gallon of straight whisky produced and sold, on which they collected the tax for the Government ; and, second, as faithful an account of every gal- lon of crooked or -grape-vine whisky, on which they collected for themselves the 30 cents per gallon assessment. The St. Louis revenue officers permitted no whisky to be turned out in that city without their knowl- edge. Their vigilance was sleepless. They Every Democratic member of Congress has received from ex-Congressman Bexzmix G. Huzzis, of Maryland, a circnlar asking for the position of Sergeant-at-Arme, He bases his request on the fact that, when in Con- gress, he voted against every bill for men or money {0 carry on the War, and once said in & public speech : ““ God Almighty grant you msy never subjugate the South.” He adds: “My greatest regret is that God did not grant my prayer.” It is charitable to sup- pose that the man is a lunstic. Even the next House will not dare to bestow a place of trust upon 8 person who boasts of his dis- loyalty to the Government in whose service he was. . The Chicago produce markets were rather more animsted on Saturday. Mess pork was active and 10@20c per bri higher, closing at $19.85 seller the year and $19.50 for Feb- Tuary. Lard was active and 5@10c per 100 s higher, closing at $12.10@12.124 cash and 12.22¢ for February. Meats were quiet and steady, st 7fc for shoulders, 10jc for short nl}s, and 10}@11c¢ for short clears, all boxed. Highwines were in fair demand and steady, at ®L1i per mulion. Flour was more active simply divided the business with the Gov- ernment, and let whisky be made for them at 80 cents tax, when the Government was charging 50 or 70 cents. In Chicago our revenue business was run on the principle of suspecting no man of evil. 1t is troe the distillers turned out whisky at their pleasure; the rectifiers received and shipped at their convenience, and they re- ported to the Government just so much as they thought proper, and our revenue officers ‘were not the ill-mannered persons to inquire into what was clearly other people’s business. In St. Louis the revenue officers demanded, for the privilege of making and selling un- taxed whisky, a cash fes of 30 cents a gellon. In Chicago the same privilege was enjoyed without the payment of a cent. We call especial attention to this fact, as illustrative of the different kind of efficers the whisky manufacturers had to deal with in the two cities. In St. Louis every milion of gallons of crooked Whisky turned out paid in cash 300,000 to the revenue officers for their non- interferénce. In Chicago the ‘same non-in- terference prevailed, and it cost not a cent. In St. Louis the non-interfering officars who got paid for closing their eyes are now on trial, while in Chicago the officers who never opened their eyes while this whisky fraud was going on, and got no pay, have not been even indicted. The whisky frauds in Chieago have there- fore been far more profitsble than those in St. Lonis. Estimating the grape-vine whisky produced in each city at 3,000,000 gal- lons, and the average tax avoided at G5 cents a gellon, the profit in each city was within a fraction of $2,000,000. In St. Louis the regular and the special exactions by the rev= enue officers were about one-half, leaving a million of dollars to the trade and & million of dollars to the revenuo officers, In Chicago the distillers and rectifiers pocketed the whole two millions of dollars, and thero was nota Collector, or Inspect- or, or Special Agent, or Supervisor, or Deputy,—not even a Clerk at Washington,— who ever even asked for a few dollars out of this large sum of two millions plundered from the Government. Can such an instance of official abstinence and official integrity be paralleled ? It is 50 extraordinary that there will be persons all over the country who will question its truth, and who will deny that 3,000,000 gallons " of whisky could have been manufactured and put on the marketin Chicago without the faintest knowledge or suspicion on the part of the Federal officers; and who will insist that sach profonndignorance could only have ‘been the resnlt of some such corruption as has been disclosed at St. Loms. But we have the assurance of the law offi- cers of the Government and of the Grand Jury that no evidence has ever been discov- ered pointing to any division by the whisky operators of any part of their dishonest gains with any Governméht officers. It is just possible that, at some time, the *trade” may have contributed to what was called a polit- ical fund, but we do not know that even this was shown to the Grand Jury. There is, however, a difference in the character of the witnesses here and in St. Louis. There, the manufactarers, frankly confessing their own guilt, went into court and told the whole story. Here, up to this time, none of our operators have made a disclosure, and, having none to make, they propose to go into court, be tried, convicted, and sentenced, as men who deliberately and systematically plun- dered the Treasury, and never divided a dol- lar of their gains with an officer or politician. REFORM IN FUNERALS, The English people are investigating one department of national economy with a thor- oughness which promises important results. Both in Church and out of Charch, the ques- tion of reform in funerals is being discussed very warmly. At the recent meeting of the Church Congress at Stoke-on-Trent, an entire day’s session was occapied with a discussion of this kind, in which nearly all the promi- nent English clergymen spoke in favor of a more rigid economy in funerals and a return to the simplicity of other times. The Rev. "Dr. Corums, of Stratford-on-Avon, read a very lively paper upon the subject, in which he advocated not only the cheapening, but also the Christianizing, of funerals. Heo pre- sented the following rather picturesque pro- test against the average English faneral : Tho prosent funeral ceramony was not, it waa be- lieved, more than 100 years old, and why, therefare, should we keep it up as if it were of & hoary and ven- erable antiquity 7 What, for instance, was the use of mutes, except that both in grammar and st funerals tiffy invariably suzgested the constantly accompanying “liquids”? What was tho use of pages, except that they suggested pages of a ledger, the items of which wo should have to pay for? What was the recondite myrtery of dingy black velvet horse-trappings? 4 Optat ephippia bos,” s24d Homacz, but why shonld the poor innocent horses be made “ Guya” of 7 What id plumes mesn, and why should thereba s particu- lar number, and why yhite, black, orboth? Ana why was a set of plumes sometimes carried by a page- | boy on & trisngular tea-tray in front of tho cofin? ‘Why, t00, were they put on the horses and the hearse? The type of fanerals, moreover, nover varied, and they were as hideously ugly as they wers 100 years 1go, Was it mot time to change this costly, this Pagan ugliness, for something more Christian? The Rev. Corus’ plan was to do away with plumes, trappings, hired mourners, mutes, pages, and all other attendants, as savoring of worldly pomps and vanities ; to have the clergymen head the procession with & cross or crucifix; to adopt the walking funeral, and that nll persons attending should be dressed in simple, modest mourning at- tire; and that the people * should be indoc- trinated with the notion that simplicity was not shabbiness, and that economy was mo dishonor to the dead.” Mr. Beresronrp Hore, Member of Parlisment, who has been an advocate of fumeral reform for many years, seconded the recommendations of Mr. Corxis by urging that the people should look to the Church for their funerals as much as for their baptisms and marriages. The Eary of SHREWSBURY gave a very practical turn to the discussion by informing the Congress that he had directed in his will that he shounld Le baried at no great expense,—not from economical motives, but because there were s0 many other and better ways of spendicg money beneficially in be- half of the Church. The discussion in the Church Congress evidently inspired Mr. JomN BricaT also to express his views upon the subject in a letter to Mr. GeorgE Prrr- zrers, of Birmingham, and, as all of Mr. BriGrT’s views are peculiarly marked by sound, practical common sense, and always tend towards the use of simplicity and economy in matters of everyday life aswell asin political affairs, they will undoubtedly exercise & wide-spread influence in the adop- tion of the proposed reforms. In his letter he discourages display of evéry description, funeral customs of the Quakers (of which Soctety he is a member), and especially the Quaker pragtice of discarding black as an em- blem of mourning. . It is a healthy sign that this discussion hag ‘taken such a wide range in England. The same necessity for reform exists in this coun- try as in England, although in less degree, as our funeral practices are not carried to that extreme of display which characterizes the English funeral. We ha%e no hired mourners, mutes, or pages, no variegated trappings or plumes carried upon tri- angular tea-trays. Nevertheless, fashion makes jtself manifest in equally frivolous ‘ways, and involves an expense withal which isbynomeans frivolous. Itperhapswill beim- possible ever to convince the majority of people that the adoption of dismal, Ingubrious black is really more suggestive of despair than of grief, invests the life of the survivor and the remediless woe,and banishes every suggestion of cheerfulness. But is it not in the nature of frivolity and mockery when fashion not alone dictates the wearing of complete black at the ontset, and then, as time passes on, grades the shading of dress down to a black-edged handkerchief or black-lined col- lar, and, as the last gleam of sorrow fades away, expresses the last regret on- a blaok- bordered envelope or & black-feathered fan?’ and advocates the general adoption of the [ memory of the departed with the feeling of. fashion steps in and dictates the number, character, and complexion of the flowers that shall be used, the nature of the devices into which they shall be woven, the form of letter for a monogram on the pall, and so on ad nauseam? There is probably not a sen- sible person in the United States who does Dot believe it a mockery that fashion should presume to dictate how he shall express his grief at the loss of a friend, and an outrage that he shall be suspected of inhumanity if he does not follow her dictates. To all such people the recommendations of Mr. Bricar and of the English clergymen, to which al- lusion has beon made, will appeal with great force, and will influence them to make a de- cided stand against the display, the bad taste, and the expensiveness incurred there- by. It is a reform, however, which in this country can hardly be instituted by Church Congresses or general meetings. It must be accomplished by individual action. THE POLICE AND RIMINALS. Superintendent Hickey, on Friday night, farnished the public with evidence of what he can do when he tries, and at the same time conclusive evidence of how long that able and competent officer has been drawing his pay without rendering the service he could have so readily performed. There is 1o officer on the police force who has the personal knowledge of the thieves, pick- pockets, confidence men, bunko-steerers, gamblers, and vagrants, that Superintendent Hiroxry has, and therefore no officer is so competent to find them at any moment when the law requires them. If so disposed he ‘ould rid Chicago of every gambler and con- fidenceman now doingbusinesshere. Hecould break up the bunko-shops, drive out the vagrants, close the murderous dives, and break up the mock-auction business. Here- tofore it has been snid that to do anything of this kind required an order from the Police Board. Then it required sn order ‘from Superintendent Remar. Then it was that the City Marshal was in the way. Now, however, Capt. Hickey ic Police Board, Marshal, and Superintendent in his own person. There is no one to restrain him in the discharge of his duties. He stands supported by the law and the moral sense of the community, and opposed to him are the criminal population. Now is his op- portunity. All know his ability. All know his personal courage. Does he desire to make his official record honorable for activity and efficiency ? Does he desire the commen- dations and respect of the people of Chicago? He Imows that the most disgraceful and criminal saloons in thig city are the under- ground and overground drinking-houses which are unlicensed. He can close these by force at any moment. He has the authority to report to the Mayor every other disorderly ‘saloon where men and women, boys and girls, thieves and prostitutes, associate, and have them closed up. These places are all schools of crime. He can order the confi- dence men and bunko-steerars off the streets, and arrest them as vagrants wherever he finds them. He can gather the crim- inal classes of both sexes from the streets, and place them out of sight. Ho can prevent crime and disorder by removing the occasions for the one and the agents of the other. Ho can make Chi- cago so unprofitable for gamblers that that occupntion will be measurably abandoned. In short, he can have a strong and healthy exercise of police authority, and win for him- self a credit which the people of Chicago have been long waiting to bestow upon the officer who will deserve i VON BULOW ARD BEEE. Were Dr. Hans Gumo Vox Burow an American citizen and a politician, instead of being a loyal subject of Bisyuarck and a pi- anist, no office would open its doors to him, no spoils would ever tempt him, from the fact that the interpreter of the classics is not & votary of Gawpers, the big-bellied god of beer. This fact has been drawn out in an interview between a reporter of the New York Sun and himself, the former being curi- cus, liko many other people, to kuow the reason of Mr. Cart Bercarany's sudden dis- missal from the conduct of the orchestra with which he (Vox Burow) played his concertos in Boston. The Doctor was very frank and blunt in his statement. He rid himself of Mr. CarL Bracyany because Mr. Carr Bera- NN kept himself full of beer, and. kept the orchestra full also, with disastrous results to the concerts. He plainly intimated that Mr. CARL BERGAMANN was in the habit of getting “ how came you so"”on beer, and he ani- madverted severely upon the beer-drinking tondencies of his countrymen in general, and mausicians in particular. Had this onslaught upon GaBrINUS, who sits enthroned indivers attitudes before every saloon, been made by an American or a Ger- man unknown to fame, the German people would have crushed him with the epithet of mucker, or wawser-sempel, or some other equally opprobrious name, significant of the German hatred of water; but this time it comes from a man who is a representative German musician, who has made German music more famous than ever, and who is destined to go down to posterity by the side of Liszr, Tavsio, and the other great Ger- man pianists, and to be chronicled in the en- cyclopedias by the side of WacoNEm, Rarr, Bramws, and the other representatives.of the modern German school of music. He is not a mucker or o wasser-sempel, and he can- not be extinguished with an epithet. His protest is in the mature of a defiant at- tack upon an almost universal habit among German mausicians, snd it has come in good time. It ig pleasant to reflect that Vox Buzow is eapable of making good his statement. He is not a man addicted to swan songs or Penserosos. He does not be- long to the tender-eyed, melancholy, senti- mental clags of musicians who play to femi- nine hearts. He plays to men’s heads. His mausic is the music of brains. He is aggres- sive and warlike, fond of combat as 'WaaxeR ‘himself, and hurls defiance at his own coun- trymen as promptly as he hurled his thunder- bolts at Verpr and the Italinn school recently. He is the Bisuarck of music. The German beer-drinkers will not make an open assault upon him. They may probably adopt the un- derhanded German system of cliquing against’ him, however, which is a favorite system with the average German musician. Against beer as an element of Gemuetlich- keit no exceptions will probably be taken, but we contend thet beer as an element of music has always been its bane in Chicago, as well 8s elsewhere. Beer drove Canru BERGMANN himself out of this city years ago. Beer cliqued sgainst HeNey Amver and ruined him. Beer drove GrOSSCURTH into his grave one stormy -winter day, acd not & beer-drinker followed him to his last resting-place. Beer killed Cant ANscHUETZ, one of the brightest and best German musicians this country has ever had ; and-it was reserved for THEODORE Taoxus, who is not a beer-drinker, to defend beer-drinking German musicians. Beer has driven some of our best home players into concert-saloons. It has been the bane of our sxengerfests, and has hindered the progress of German music in this city. It has ruined more voices tham all other causes combined. ‘When Trropore Tromas orgenized the-Cin- cinnati festivals, he banished beer from them, and speedily aroused the opposition of the beer cliques, which manifested itself in va- rionsunderhanded ways. Tmoxas crushed it at the first festival, and it did not raise its head at the second. But we need not speci- fy instences. The distinction between a vio- linist and o beer-fiddler is well known to every one having dealings with musicians. No society that makes beer a sine qua non of music.can succeed. The proofs of this are strewn all along the musical history of Chica- g0, and every other city, and it is for this reason more than any other that to-day the German musical societies of this city are in- ferior to the American. Dr. Vox Burow is not alone in his opposi- tion to beer as an essential of music. He has a most worthy coadjutor in Teropore Troxas, and i is somewhat remarkable that up to this time the negotistions for their union have not been successful. There are other German musicians who are not ready to admit that beer-guzzling is necessary to mu- sic. At the same time, now that Vox Burow has taken so decided a stand against beer, he may expect to find the cliques working against him as they have worked against Mr. Troatas, He has the consolation, however, of knowing that he can nppesl to American musicians, just ps Mr. Trmowas has, and that there is smong the Germans also a caltivated class of people who may not be averse to beer 23 an element of sociality, but do not Iook upon GauBRINUS a3 the patron divinity of music. — ILLINOIS ~T THE CENTERNIAL. The manasgement of Centennial affairs within the State of Illinois has not been of the most brilliant character. A few pictures of the buldings that are to be have been hung up in different windows, and a few small, very small, knots of unenthusiastic per- sons have gathered together from tims to time and talked enough to obtain ten lines of nonpareil in the newspapers. There has been no perceptible and systematic activity, and, 88 a result, no public interest. It is largely due to this fact that the applications for space at Philadelphia from citizens of Tllinois have beon so few. As matters stand now, the Prairie State section of the Centen- nial promises to be as bleak and bare as our prairies wers when MiRQUETTE pad- dled painfully down the Illinois River and La Sawurx’s forssken companions were butchered at Starved Rock. The : time for recawving applications expired { on the lnst day of October. Our representa- i tion is mo pitifully smell, however, that in- tending eshibitors from this State can obtain | space by applying before the 0th of Novem- i ber. The time is but short. It should be improved. The managers of the Contennial for this State have not taken enough pains to give the people any very definite ides of the way to filo an application, bui any one who can spend a day or two in hunting up their office, if they have one, or discovering their names, and then finding the men to whom the names belong, can probably learn how the thing isdone. We trust many citi- zens of Chicago and of the remainder of the State will take this trouble, and s0 give Illinois an honorable showing at Philadelphia. The business of grinding out gush about our cavernous mines, our flower-sprinkled prairies, our”business palaces, our endless produce, our fatted hogs, our wondrous whisky, ete., ete., has been somewhat overdone. The Centennial will be celebrated with enough of such stuff in any event. The more practical way to do honor to the State will be to make an honest show- ing, at the Centennial, of our agricultural and manufactured products, with such a dis- play of facts and articles connected with our | public-school system and our charitable in- | stitutions as may be of general interest. Less than two weeks remain for the work. THE STUDY OF GRAMMAR. TFifteen years ago the pupils in the highest ‘class of one of the public schools in Chicago were drilled in grammar by being obliged to write on the blackboard sentences from Grax's ““Elegy in a Country Churchyard,” and surround each word with a peculiarly- shaped figure, which meant, according to its particular curlicues, thatthe inclosed part of speech was a noun, or a verb, or an adjec- tive, or what-not. 'When the sentence had been thus laboriously dissected, the relative were attached by chalk-chains to their ante- cedents, the adjectives to their substantives, the adverbial clauses to their verbs, the thingumbobs to their what-d’ye-call-"ems, ete. This process was supposed to be the crownof grammatical instruction. Its vie- tims had been learning rules of grammar for some time; they had said them glibly by rote. ~ Their acquaintance with cut- and-dried grammar was far sabove that possessed by their parents. Their power to talk English correctly was far below that of their parents. A not improbsble inference would have been that cut-and-dried grammar was not the best possible way of learning to make a good use of our noble mother-tongue, but the inference does not seem to have been drawvn. The children laboriously learned to mouth a mass of names and draw a multitude got it all. The study of grammar has changed for the better since that time, but text-books have not contributed to that change. The average ¢ grammar ” is more crowded with technical absurdities now than it was ten years ago. Every author considers it his pride and duty to invent a new nomenclature for cases, modes, and tenses, so that two grammars of the same language seem to treat of wholly different tongues. A few months ago the teachers of the pub- lic schools of Cincinnati resolved that gram- mar ought to be taught by the reading of the best models of English composition rather than by the memorizing of a set of pedantic rules. Their action was indorsed in many quarters. We have found, scattered through Quick’s * Essays on Educational Reformers,” the opinions of a mumber of eminent edu- cators on grammatical study. In the famous Jesuit schools, which once monopolized the higher education of Europe, grammar was tooght, but not by rote. The masterex- plained to the boys the construction of Latin sentences which he had previously translated to them. As Latin wes the language of the Order, its study in their schools corresponded to that of English with us. Worszy, in his instructions to the masters of Ipswich School, in 1528, told them to teach the use of Latin in conversation before tak- ing up the grammar of the tongue, and ta never let grammar * occupy the more, valusble part of the day.” The eminent And is it not frivolity and mockery when:| him on one oceasion when he was not able to | Cozxr says, in the book he published at Ant- o declining, the average is but 7 to the square defend himself from the cowardly attack of | werp in ““Reading of good books, dil- igent information of learned masters, studi- m?m::?&fi:::ffi;:‘:;?&u g ous advertence and taking heed of learn & 3 5 hearing eloquent: men speak, aud, finally, busy | Loy pion, Thich the inagia i, imitation with tongue and pen, more availeth | zng nostalgia (hom: 'ckn“h‘ H5pochongyy, shortly o get the truo cloquent speech than | by the doctors to many ol T" 08 gy all the traditions, rules, and precepts of | often had fatel resnits - o that ham grammar,” Rocer Asczad, the instractorof | o raturn to the P .ular . Queen . Erxzasera and the author of the article, it was suj gm bsflma J{”"W?. ‘“ Schoolmaster,” wrote: ‘‘The common withi:{ knowled, egogf thy 2 e i wey used in common schools to read the | pegr relative, s\fflen.n f:n::m = S grammar alone by itself is tedions for the | debility, begged to Lo pe T MeTon master, hard, for tho scholar, cold nd un- | for the fnsane on acccent i 0, comfortable for them both. . . Without | natral impression of ‘:x‘lth?n ‘.;" ivid snd g, doubt grammatiza itself is sooner and surer | q 1o same time.” Thy o tes learned by examples of good authors than by | aflicted with sta;flin ;sm}a POTSOn waa glyy the naked rules of grammarians.” He quotes happening to herzehfl:i;:vflnmu_% ** ourmost noble Queen Er1zsneTa” as a proof which proved to be corrs by d"“'“" of the possibility of acquiring greatknowledge | of what people were vl ; of a language without any study of grammar. % o my, The weighty authority of Locxe is against | gimilar our ordinary method of studying the rules of langusge. We quote from the *¢ Thoughts on Education” : *“I grant the grammar of a language is sometimes very carefally to be | gtim; 1 5 studied ; but it is ouly to be studied by a pmbi:;t:.nggfntl:;ni;d perceptions yo grown man, when he applies himself to the | per by this indulgence, ::;m;‘,wmmf} understanding of any langusge eritically, | pate the words and thonghta a?"i"‘“"" ;rlncg is c;eidom,the business of any but pro- § ere speaking to him, and would g,e::;z; fessed scholars.” appro! ‘We might add to these er-cathedra declara- sfigumm:;;m:f;; m;)isfi“3 S il tions a number of others of like tone from | hig thoughts, telling higm somnm:e, : moro modern suthors. The drift of educe- | past life or some \mdiscloie: ety tional thought nowadsys seems to be that || the fature, The impulss to dumm’?’m IaviNg, and Gorosyrre, and HawrHORSE—We | was irresistible. Of late years this“ hm:. should add TmickrmaY, in his essays—cre perception has passed away entirel; marhfl among the best readers and the best gram- } would seem to be becausb it hllyl;ot.;;;. mars. subject to tho excitation of stimulants, A fewold instances of the unusual dav, ment of the meory are cited, in which dis. ease haa strer.gthened or revived it instead of diminishing it. Dr. Sremvszex oncs found an illiterats pensant praying aloud in Groek 3?: Hebrew when he was Pprostrated with ease; it was subsequently ascertsine that he hacl henrd tife parish mfnmm & those laagmages when he was a child, and, thongh he could not recall a word of them when he was in health, they cams back to him in disense. ABERCROMDIE 4lso relate how the nttendants of an asylum found 4 young girl inmate playing the most diffenly and exquisite music on the violin, thongh she was known never to have sny previous in. struction or practics. The explanstion wag that she kad baen accustomed some time be. fore to sleep in o room adjoining that ocen. pied by an itinerant musician of great taent ond power of execution; she could play these airs when asleep, but not when awaks, The same phenomenal development of thy memory is noticed in aged parsons whos memory grows more vivid with advancing age and declining physical power, and who Who, iy his younger days, was given to a free aq ASIATIC POPULATIONS, The details of the first regular census of India ever taken (in 1871) have just been printed in the Euglish papers, and contain many interesting facts. One of the most astounding features of the census is the im- mensity of the population, Although British Indis has an area of but 1,430,74f square miles, or sbont one-third the area of the United States, it has a population of 238,830,- 958, or nearly six times that of the United States. The popnlations of the principal cities aro 8s follows: Calentts, 895,000 ; Bombay, 644,000; Madras, 396,000; and Lucknow, 285,000. The religious census is as follows : Hindoos and Sikhs, 110,500,000 ; Mshometans, 40,750,000 ; Buddhists, Jewg, Parsees, and Christiens, 9,250,000. The de-- tails of the occupations of people are very curions. There are 1,236,000 persons engaged in the Government service, and 629,000 are occupied with. religions duties. There are also 63C anthors, 516 poets, 1 dramatist (happy land!), 1 speech- maker (thrice happy land!), 67 editors, 130 astronomers, 23,000 fortune-tellers, 31,000 re- » i ligious mendicants, 10,000 astrologers, 5 wiz.. | recall scenes of their childhood that had ards, 465 “devil-drivers,” whatever they are, | PAsSed out of their minds for many Jang 218,000 engaged ir the fine arts, 167,000 Y°&rs- 3 7 musicians, 38,600 actors, 75 jesters, 29 The experionce of SirWarrez Scor, whan ‘mimies, 221 wrestlors, 15 buffoons, 15 monkey- | 1 had overstrained his physical powersby dancers, 1,000 snake-charmers, 4,400 bards, | €Xcessive application to literary work, must 33,000 lawyers, 75,000 doctors, and 103,000 have come within the lifs of mwtmm “ guests” or poor relations dependent upon | Permit themselves o b engrossed in mantal their rich kinsmen. The non-productive | 13DOF af the sactifice of physical huslth, classes number 2,265,000, but of these only Scorr spgnks of bem@ h'“w.d by a ""?. 22 return themselves es gamhlers,‘ 5 nfpr&ensten'ee," a0 impzesion Mm pigeon-flyers, 49 as spies, 361 as pro- hsppened which ke hsd not WP" fessional thieves, and 80 as bud- fore, and a confused recollection of having mashes,” or vogabonds. When it i | heard before every argument or phrese wed considored that there are vast tracts of forest | 1> conversation. W." | i thatmoet e and. jungle uninhabited, the density of this | 5029 have from fime to time fsuhes of population is something very remarkable. thoughts, events, and languags which, though How small figare we cut inthe world may | 8PParently new, seem to have been gathered be estimated in considering these tremendons | {OI some previous existence,—things which Asiatic populations. Adding the population | S3uot be located, but comoas if from dreams of those provinces not under British control | OF 8nother life. The faculty of intensifying in India, the entire population of the country | 1% Slecp the thoughts or study in which i 76,846, China has 425,213,152 ; Japan, | 0%¢ i3 engoged in waking houws be 32,794,807; Ceylon, 2,128,584 ; Java, 17,298,-, | 10P€S to the same category of phenomens. 200 ; Persia, 4,400,000; and Siam, 11,500,000, | A student in Germony, anxions to sequire the or a'total in tieso countries of 778,711,979 | 13950880, and dooply immersed in ths sty people, occupying an area of 6,505,765 square ot ity injorder £ atlend lidkucad &t Ux' miles,—not quite twice the area of the United ""”% Aound thet }.m c?n!d sk = ar; States. The United States has n aros of | Yorsation faeatly in his slsep, thongh b 8,003,844 square miles, inhabited by sbout | <04 only stumble slong when swts ™ 40,000,000 people, while these Asiatic coun. | W29 Perls s tho morbid developmmbofmety tries have a population almost twenty times | 7 rol ling everyting u:q\;u' L mA:l thess s large mpon an area not twice as large. séody.of -thalangdags a5 actod ;i henome na are interesting and ourions, sad Japan corresponds most nearly to the United | P B gy States in population, having 32,794,897, | T2Y som e time lead to some scientifs and against our 40,000,000 in round numbers; but, | USefol co: anection betwesn "“":l “5;‘{; while the aren of.tho United States is 3,603, | L0 lates & maaia of * mind.veading may 844 square miles, that of Japan is only 156,604 | 80Cther d evelopment in the ssme square miles, avernging 209 per square mile, while our average is but 11 to the square mile. This density of population prevails in all the Asiatic countries except Persia, being 87 to the square mile in Ceylon, 263 in Chi- 18, 201 in India, 337 in Java, and 47 in Siam. - In Persia, where the population is steadily The test 1mony in the case of Prinos Lo, the “baby rop e-walker,” taken befors oae of the New York coarts by Mr. Bzaog, gives aa inkiing of the vesi . field there is in the grest cities for societies fi ir the prevention of eruslty to cbil- dren. Tht ) case is still contested by the sho¥ people, wt 10 seek to ratain possession of e child to o ;htly expose him to the perilof inatash desath, and , to show that thare was no . cruelty in 80 doing, Hussasp, Lzo's trainet and exbild tor, testified that it wes s branch of the profession to train infants fd trapeze oz other peilous fests, the ntudinn of whicky is tho terrific danger in whichthe place they Laby performers. He tod of & womsa Who ma e specialty of it, and who now h-n; trainiojz &-7e obildren, of whom one was bub years c.C ag e, whilo another was, as he put & 8 more tyaby.”’ Mora significant was his ststamesd that he obriained the boy by an sd: in response to which he was offered uo less taa - sevantoen ch ildron, from smong nh'on:a ha made hizgelection. With unoatural pareate ing that the 1uarket is, 13 it seems, literally ovet- stocked with those who will sell their £0 be killed or Dot, 48 may bagpen, in tho tight~ mile. MENTAL FACULTIES IR DISEASE. A writer in the carrent number of the Pop- wular Science Monthly recalls some curions in- stances of the acnte development of certain mental faculties in discase,—a phenomenon that must have been remarked in some of its phases in almost every personal experience. It is o curious instance of the connection be- tween' the mind and body, and the mutual influence of one overtheother. It is protean in character, and apt at any time to manifest itself in some novel form. The loss or im- pairment of one sense or faculty intensifies the power of another, and physical prostra- of eccentric polygons, and straightway for- | “friend was followed by o depression of spirits, .physician died, and, 8 few weeks after, this rope and trapewze profession, the nm_nblr‘ol 3: who woild abandon their offspring 20 equally czuel usage must be nmplylwlm’: 2nd mon » too yigorous sction csa be h?“ any of t he large cities for the protaction little on es againa t such parents. —_— PERSONAL Bishop Potter, of New York, is n the m Iir. G. W. Pattison, of Duffalo, in at tho Sber- m&n. + @ 1 Tre- ‘L. Kehoe, o Dublir,, Ireland, is st ©4 tions of a similar nature generally produce the snme sort of mental phenomena. The imagination, perception, and memory seem to be the most impressionable faculties subject to physical influences. The imagination, in- deed, has been known to produce death when the physical ailment was not sufficient to warrant such @ result; while courage, on the other hand, has mnot un- frequently enabled men stricken with disease 1o overcome the ravages of abused nature. It has been estimated that a large Droportion of the deaths of a cholera | &.ont. vitation. result Srom the terrorism whieh S bt Aberzambi, Burt, Seotlod, B84 the epidemic ucesin a community. This e Pulmer. ? ety dish'l:::y tecognized by physicians, | The Hon. A. L. Conger, of Akros, 0.4 whose duty it is to combat the mental terror | the Sherman. e they encounter as much as the germs of the thA‘SlYa.r:f“ and A. M. Titus, of Boaton, o . : disease, the one being almost as readily com- 4 et municated g5 the other. Among the recent { _The Hon. E. . Keyes, of Madlecm, pulginds y : Grand Pacific. o deaths in Chicago is one thatis known to ; » s by dyPie have been the rosult of mingled sentiment ( Booth's Hamts sevoraly critiised and imagination. Thé death of a life-long Yon Balow does ot balisve in weddiog 1 which took the formidable ahape of imagip. | 0 ITDOMIE, o g ing the same disense as that which had | -t % NG H- - & afflicted his decedsed friend. To add to the 7. H. Rowley . and H. 0. Fox, of Manchestss: intensity of this mental prostration the family E né., are at the Tremont. Y8 iy a0, & Som W 25 | o ehars was dined by the Commarsit victim of s diseased imagination was carried | (4 v'os Bogton Inst night. off in the very prime of life, and with James Lick wills that bis burial-pisc aball bo sufficient physical resources for .many years ob Mount Hamilton. The sooner the betisf. to come, had they not beenimpaired by men- Senstor Frelinghuysen has been made Prusi tal prostration. This was not su isolated | gong of 4 County Bible Society inNow JeseT: case. 'The effect of the imagination is fllus- | g i) Castelar will remain in Pacis uatll trated in the text-books of mental philosophy | eng of this year. Thiers bas boen visitiog Bi® by instances where criminals condemned 10 | von Balow admires tbe. musicsl crities 8 death were placed in a warm bath, with the | america, and wonders how they can Wwrit pocrd information that they were to be bled to | long notices of his perfcrmances for “"W death: then_a slicht out from which tha ) dava paver. InGermavy, bo savs, ®es 8%