Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 12, 1876, Page 4

v THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 12, 1870. TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. RATFS OF SUMCRIPTION (FATAKLE TN ADYAXCRL Tostage Prepuld at this Dally Edition, post-nald, 1 um;... 13.00 Parts of yoar attam e 2.00 &3 4 to aoy addross POTR WEIKS fof.... . ézl‘l{’fl’l Raition: Jitorary and Jioligio i TH: Weokly, Dovi-piid, T Parts of ye WEXZLY EDITI M{" DOT yoAt, o Ona Elnb ve, por o Clob of twenty, The postage v Specimen coplen sent free. To prevent delsy and mistakes, be guro and give Port-Office sddress in full, inclnding Statesnd Connty, Remittances may be made either by draft, espress, Post-Ofico ordor, or in registered letisrs, at our sk, TERMS TO CITY RUNSCRINERS, Dafiy, delivered, Hunday excopted, 23 cents per week, Dauly, dellvered, Bundny Inelnds 0 cents per week, Address TIR TRIBUNE COMPANY, Corner Maditon nnd Doarborn-sts., Chicago, Til, il propar. RER'S THEATRE—Madison streol, hetwoen m‘:fb?rg :uh.l Bate. Logsgement of Georgo Ittgnold. Henry Vi, HOOLET'S. THEATEE—Randolph sirest, beiween Clerkand Ladalle. - Eugagenent of the Keilogg Opera- Troure, * Lucta" NEW CITICAGO THCATRE—Clark strcet, hotwoen Tsndolph and Lake, £ngagementof Callender's Geor- gia Minstrola. Aftcrnoon sud escning, ADELPHI TITEATRE~Deatborn atreet, comer Monroe, Tho Organ-Grindor.” Varlcty yesformance, Afternoon and ovening, WOOD'S MUSEUM—Manrna strcet, between Dear- boru and State, * Under tho Gasight.” Afternoon and ovening, ACADEMY OF MUSIC—~Ihlated sirce!l, Dbetween Msdisou and Monroe, Engsgementof tho Georgls Mlinstrels, Afternoon and evenly; TSOCIETY MEETINGS. TESPERIA LODOE, X0, 411, A. T, & A, M.—Tegular communication at Masonic Temple, corner Randalph Snd Halsted.ts,, this (Wedneaday) evening, at 7:10 oclack. Third Degree, Vialting brethrin cordially favited, CIAS, Il. DRENAN, W, . CLAS, I FOERSTER, See, ATTENTION, SIR KN St, Bernard J(,‘nm{l:llnl; & 5y day crenjug, Jan. W . Visiting Sir Knights courteonsly fuvited. Dy gr:’f;flf ey e J, WOODMAN, I, C. The @hieago Tribans, Wodnesday Mornmng, January 12, 1870. Greenbncks ot tho New York Gold Ex- change yesterday closed at 883, Eightoon members ol t‘l;u Housa nre under- 1ined for specches on the Amnesty (uestion, According to the offieial prognosticntions, the temperaturo in this region will romain below tha freezing point to-day. The Kansas Legislaturo is Laving a lively time of it in tho clection of Spealter, with an excellent prospect that tho contest may be prolonged soveral day. An unusual swount of bitterness i Announcements are received by telegraph of the death of Maj.-Gen, Gorpox Graxcer, the Ifon. Joux Wisoy, formetly Commis~ sioner of the United States General Land Dftice, and the Hon, Wirutan Durrrx, ex- Treasurer of the Stato of Nlinoi Thus for only one member of the French Cabinet, namely, M. Sa¥, Ministerof Finance, has retired. At & neeting of the Cnbinet pesterday an clectoral programme was pro- posed which will, it is supposed by judicious tounsels, unite tho discordant elomonts and thus prevent a further ruptur In the United States Court yesterday, Tudgoe Bropoerr presiding, the docket of tho tevenuo cases was called, and the trials will jommence to-day. It is probablo that the wore important of the whisky-fraud cases will not bo taken up for several days, The Petit Jury pancl was drawn yesterday, and is unado up wholly of parties residing outside of Jook County. Peren Cooren presided aba workingmen's weeting in New York lnst ovening called to - ronsider inensures for the revival of flush imes and the employment of thoso now in dleness—briefly, to urge upon Congress the oflation policy, The usurl remarks about a ruly American cunrrency, the faith and re. lources of tho nation, ete,, were forthcoming, wd an address was adopted embodying these deas. Eulogics upon the lifo and servicos of the nto Axprew Jouxsoy, United States Scuntor from Tennessee and ex-President of the United States, were delivered yesterday in both Houses of Congress, In tho Sonate BIr. Montoy was Lho second spenker. Ile poid o high fribute Lo thy honesty and bravery of Mr. Jouxsoy, and to Lis services, alluding with graceful dignity to the impeachment trinl, and asking for tho dead that his faults bo buricd aud Lis usefulness ouly remem. bered. Brwz, Kiva is Lo have no pence in liis Pacifle Mail complications, Ife had hoped that the Company had discontinued the suit brought t recover the 125,000 patd by Inwry to the Minnesotn politicians, but notico wns yoster- day given that various depositions, including those of Rorus V. Haron, Tuexon W, Pank, Congrossman Scnvsages, Inw, and others will bo taken in New York on tho 24th inst., to bo offered in evidenco at tho next term of Court in Minueapolis, So far from letting ‘Wirtiast down ensy, {ho Pacifio Mail Com. pany have instructed their attornoys to push thio matter ** to the bitter end.” A new movo in tho Democratio schome for reviving the troubles in Louisiana was made yestorday by the majority in the Ilouso of Representativos in tho clection of another United Btates Sonator, making in all three spplicants for admission to tho Sonate, ‘I'bis netion ia a practical repudiation by the Demo- erats of tho claims of McENeny, whose ap- pointeo s cntirely ignored. The Nepub- licans in the Legislaturo took no part in the sham clection of yesterday, and will refuse to recognize tho validity of the proceedings. Tho Democrats have doubtless fully deter- mined upon going forward with the plot, and troublous times aro anticipated, Tho Chicago produce marlets were gonor- ally stronger yesterday, Mess pork was in good demand and 100 per brl higher, closing st £19.40 cosh and $19,50 for February, Lard was rather moro active and Lo por 100 Mbs higher, closing at $12,37) per 100 ibs cash aud §12.47§@12.50 for Fobruary, Meats wero quiet and firmer, at 7jc for shoulders, boxed, 10} for do short ribs, and 10fc for do short clears. Highwines wero quiet and un- thaonged, at $1.08 per pallon. Tlour was more active, Wheat was active nud e higler, closing at 98¢ cash und Y8jc for February, Corn was dall and firmer, closing tame at 440 cash and 43¢ for Februury. Dats wers quivt ond firm, closing ot 80fo weh and 300 for Fobruary, Ryo was quict ®e8po0jo, Barley was in good demand and l1o Tigher, closing at 82}o cash and 80c for Fobranry, Ilogs wore netivo and 100 high er, the bulk of the sales mnking nt $7.20@ 7.85. Cattlo wero in good domand and ruled ashndo higher. Sheep wero firm and stoady. On Saturday evening last thers was in storo in this city 2,497,776 bn wheat, 671,261 bu corn, 418,397 bu onts, 150,010 bu ryo, and 420,769 bu barley. Total, 4,007,208 bu. Ona Tundred dollars in gold would buy $113 in greonbncks at tho close, = Comptroller Iiaves rather silenced the demagognes in the Common Council who hnd challenged him to prepara a measure reducing tha cost of lighting tho city withont violat ing tho contracta or ostinguishing Iamps. His ordinanco requires the substitation of burners on all city Inmps of tho character of 4 cubio feot per hour, justead of thoso now in use. Iore is n proposition of practi- cnl cconomy, just such o one as any ordinary, careful, and prudent private cizen would adopt inhis own business, Instend of adopt- ing it ot once, tho Comptroller’s ordinance was referred to a committeo, whare it will bo Leard of no mor Plymouth Church has received another keen thrust from n sister organization in Brooklyn. Dr. Scoppen's chnrch refuses to sit in tho Mutual Council, for the reasonm, among others, that the questions to be de- cided involve the question of Mr, Brrcnen's guilt or innocenco—a question, says the de- clining church, which has ** thus far proved jusoluble, and which is impracticable of solution in this world.” This is o mild way of saying that the Alisngreement of a jury does not imply tho innocence of the acensed. In the Movrrox suit for damagss on account of malicions prosceution, Mr, Brzcuzen's attor- neys havo filed & domurrer claiming that there is not sufficient causo for tho nction. Wo this morning republish from the Now York Sun what prolesses to bo a full and au- thentic account of tho way in which the New York Tribuns pnssed under the control of Jay Gourn. The chargo that the paper is under this great speculator's control hias heen #o often mado and so pertinnciously repented that considerable pnblic intercst has been aroused in tho matter. The failure to deny n story that was very damaging to tho paper ling secared it n wide credence. Among the unplensant consequonces of this has been the maltrentment of 7'ribune employes by stock- Drokers, who thought that its financial re- ports woro cooked up in tho interest of GouLp's unserupulons schemen. Wo give the story of tho Sun for what it isworth, be that more or less. ! ———— Congressman Bex i, of Georgia, who wns n member of the Confederate Sennte, o~ cupicd tho time and attention of the Touso yeaterday inan eleborato reply to Mr. BLaiNt's grent speech of Monday on the Amnesty bill, The speech of Mr. HrLe was largely devoted to the nattempt to show that the fenrful ntrocities nt Andersonville mever had an existenco in fact, nnd that Jerr Davis was not responsiblo for the acts of Wriprn and Winz. In the light of his- tory and of the personal expericnces of thousands of Union prisoners who wera so fortunnlo 2s to leave the prison alive, the general impression is, oven among Demo- crats, that Mr, Hiun overshot the mark in Lis nuxiety to prove tho delightful peculiari. ties of Andorsonville. JLFF DAVIS AND THE AMSESZY. A few days ago thero camo & story from Washington to the effect that somo forty or more ox-Confederates now in Congress had given notice that no bill making an appro- priation for tho Contennial Exposition should unless n general amnesty nact, Duavis, should first be en- acted, 'Tur Tnipvse then insisted that the passngo of any Amnesty bill under a threat should bo resisted, especially au amnosty whiclt would make Jerr Davis eligiblo ton sent in the Senate, which he had aban- doned to place himngelf at the head of a rcbellion. Ono of the fist acta after the meoting of Congress was the introduction by Mr. Ravpavr of a bill grant- ing n general amuesty without exception, On Monday Mr. Raxpary called this bill up, and moved the previous-quostion, thereby in. tending to eut off all debate and all amend- ment, and then forced the Houso ton vote, The bill, failing to receive tho two-thirds vote required by tha Constitution, was lost, whore- upon Mr. Bratye moved to roconsider with a view of moving an amendment. There hos been n general rule in Congress that no person shall bo relieved of hin politient disnbilities unless upon application by that person, and 1o porson mnking such application has over been refused. There is & clnss of persons at tho South, including Davis and Toosns, who spurn the amnesty, and derido those who havo sought it, they claiming practically to bo no longer citizens uuder an usurping Gov- ermacnt, Tho bill of Ranparn dispensed with (his application and granted amnesty without condition, T'he Brave amendment had for its special object tho oxclusion of Jere Davis, It pro- posed to mako him thoe solitary exception, Loth for the general ronson of his chioftain. ship s instigntor and leader in the Rebellion, and for is personal conduct in tho cruelties practiced towards the prisoners at Anderson- ville, Mv. BuaNe nddressed tho Houso in onu of tho strongest speeches ever mado in that body, showing that the Itepublicans, thongh possessiug o two-thirds mnjority in both Houses of Congress, had nover rofused amnesty to any person who had asled for it, e then examined the record of Jery Davis' direet responsibility for tho inhuman barbarl. ties with which the Unlon prisoners wore treat. ed at Andersonville and other Rebel prisons, Mr, Bravg produced a goueral order issued in 1861, with the approval of Jrr Davis, to tho effect that in case any portion of tho Union army should advance within 7 miles of Andemsonville, the Confodorate artillery at that place wus to open firo with grape-shot on the prison contnining the 85,000 Lelploss Union prisoners. Hero i the way Mr, BLuNE states tho facts p n fact, thero are & great many Iustauces and proofs 10 sliow that Mr, Davis was in entire possession of tho facta {1 relation to Andorvonvilie, Whon Gen, Bugu- StaN's luvasion, or somo otlier invasion, of that postion of tho country waa under way, aud when (here was o danyer, or wupposed danger, that it nleuk come to that nelghborliood, tho regular milltary ordur, No, 19, dated *Headquariers Con to Blates Military Prison, Andersonvilte, July 7, 1884,” and signed by Briy, Gen, WiNDEY, was fssuod fu those words 4 Lo officer on duty and iu charye of the battery of Florida artillery will, ou recelving uotica that the eue- iy bia approachod within 7 mutles of this cify, open Aro on the utockade with yrane-shot, without reforence to tho situation boyond this liue of defense,” Tero were thoso 33,000 poor, Lielplens, naked, starve 10y, sick, sud dying men, A Ostholle priest ststes Le went to Gen, Cous to represent to bim that §f ke could pot oxchaugo thow they should be taven befure thu Unfon Hues [ Florida aud parotod, und Jut go free, aud yet if the Untun forces wera to get within 7 wmiles that regular order of Mr, DAvis was to open s battery of grapeasliot on (hose poor Wretches without tha slighteat posaible regard 10 What was golng on cutshie, Now, 1du net arraipu the Soutborn people for b Qod Sorbid that I ekould chargy aby peoplo with sywe pathizing with such an order, Thers wero many evie dences of groat uncasinoss among the Boutlern peos plo aliout it, snd ono of {hoe great arimes of Mr, Davis was that ho concealed it from the Bouthern people. This ntrocious order, issued at Anderson- ville by nathority and by direction from Richmond, hns boen forgotton by many per- sons, and will be new to thousands who have grown up since the War, It is an order with- out parallel in tho conduct of civilized war- foro, nud that it was not carried into oxeou- tion i duo to the fact that tho contingency on which it was based did not ariee. Is there any man in the North who would ever hiave Lield human fellowship with tho author of that bloody, hienrtless massacre of sick and starving Union prisoners bad tho order been oxcented ? ‘That civilization was spared such o horriblo crimo wns, howevoer, in no wise (o to Davis; bnt all the moral infomy snd ficudish alignity aro embodied in the or. doer. Morally, Davia i convicted by tho or- der, and ho may thank IMeaven that his bloody daeres was not executed and ho made o social monster, placed beyond the toleration of mankind. Thero is no objection to the rchabilitation of the Confoderates. Srermexs, tho Viee- President of the Confoderacy, has long since been ndmitted to Congress. SBome of the ablest wilitary men in the Confederate army now hold places in tho Sonato and Ilouse. Tha number oxcluded is now compnratively fow. But this bill is ostontatioualy offered not so much as o genoral amneaty as it is.n special amnesty to Jurr Davis. It is not o Lill to restoro him to civilrights, or to enablo him to vote, or to hold Blato ofiices; theso righta Lo now possesses. It is a bill to make him eligible to a seat in Congress and eligi- ble to the Presidency, While ordinarily tho Amcrican people nre disposed to let Davis nnd his atrocities and the Rebellion pasa into oblivion, this bill is framodand pressed 8o os- tentatiously to make Davis cligiblo to the Prosidency and to Lho Sonate that it becomea practically & bill for that purpose, and, in ro- sisting such a bill for such a direet purpose, Ar. Brae but represonts the public senti- ment of the great body of the American people. The Democrats in Congress—ond tho ex-Confedorates aro o majority of the Demacrats in tho House—have mada the possiblo elevation of Jere Davis to the Presi- dency o porty quostion and s party issue, They have rejected tho old policy of restor- ing political rights to whoover wonld ask for them, and now insist that Davis, who is exceptionally obnoxious to the American people, is no exeeption, and, without requir- ing him to nsk for restoration, proposo to grant to him, as to a national benefactor, the privileges which ho infamously forfoited, and which ho holds in too great contempt to ask to Linve restored. MR, MORRIBON'S SUMPTION BILL, My, Monnssoy, of Illinois, Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Mesans, hag intro- duced s bill in the Houso of Representatives for the resumption of specie.payments, It is very brief, nnd in that respect meritorious, for it many bo easily understood by common people. It consists of two things: first, tho nccumulation of gold by the Government and tho National Banks to the amount of 30 per cent of their circulation respectively ; second, the ropeal of tho Legnl-Tonder act s soon ns tho aforesaid 30 per cent sball liave been ne- cumulated. Wo presnme that further reflection will show 3Ir, Monnisox that the mere acounmula- tion of two or threa hundred millions of gold coin in public and private vaults will not cnuso sovon or eight hundred millions of de- precinted paper, now worth 88} cents on the dollar, to be worth 100 cents. Undoubtedly such nn accumulation would have an offect to advance the value of the green- back somewhat, since it would create tha impression i n the public mind that fur ther steps would shortly bo taken to restore specie-payments, and would ‘thus turn Wall street to speenlating for o fall in gold. It is likewiso true that specio-paymonts when once restored may bo maintained on 80 per cont of coin or considersbly less, But if the depre- cintion of the currency amonnts to as much as 1 per cent after the 30 per cont shall have been Loarded, the demand for coin will sweep awsy tho entire accumulation in a very short space of timo, The brokers will ““run” the banks for the agke of profit, and tho banks and brokers together will “run” the Govern- ment till every metallio dollar vanishes out of gight. The coin will not circulato nlong- side of a deprecinted currency, and tho ro- sult would be that the Government would havo one-third of the existing greenbacks in its voults—that is, the currency would be contracted to that smount by s very hnsty process—and the gold that had been paid out would be rapidly exported, since the holders could not afford to lie out of the use of it. The question arises whether a etntraction of tho currency to the mmount of 50 per cont, that being the mechanical effect of the proposed measure, would of itsclf bring the remainder to par, This is n inntter of opin- jon. Wao think it would, but we think also that not only public opinion, but the mora onlightened portion thercof, will prefer a moro gradual procoss, It may turn out that o contraction of 27 per cent or 20 per cent will accomplish the end just as well. At all ovents, it in best to moke the cxperimont with mnnll doses at fivst. 1t is o part of tha A B O of finance that n cortain nmount of currency is needed to transact tho business of a country, and that this amount, whon not in excess of the wants of trade, will bo at pav, wkether the amount of gold available for its rodemption be #0 per cent, or 10 por cont, or any other per cent. ‘I'his amount {8 varinble at different years and at different soasons of the same yoar, and the principal uso of o atoro of gold in bank- vanlts is to monsure and gauge the amount of ourroncy which a country needs nt any particular time. When the amount is in oxcess of the yoal wants of the conutry, it flows to the issuing bank for redemption, aud the banks aro compelled to curtall their issues, When the amount is insufileiont, the banks aro prompt to supply tho deficiency, because thoy recoive interost for ull they can keop out, This i tho sum total of the mighty currency problom, and the thing to boe-dons with our {rredoemable curroney is to bring its quantity down to that smount which the business of the country actually calls for,—tho solo tast of which is itw equality with gold. Thero are two or threo practicable methods of doing this. One of theso s to authorize the fanding of the greonbacks in an interest- bearing boud, ‘This is the most natural, tho loast oxpensive, and tho safest, Anotheris to obtaln by taxation & certain smount of groenbacky per month and destroy them. ‘Thia Is open to tho objection that the coun- try is not now in the condition to bear extra taxation, A third method (the one proposed by Mr. MognisoN) is to accumulate s large stock of gold wherewith to redeem tho grecnbacks, This Is the most ex- peusive of tho three methods, and also tho most arbitrary. Tho most expensivo, sinco it reqniros that we ehall enrn two or threo hundred miilions of dollars, and loro the intorest on it mosnwhile, beforo wa be- gin, Tho most arbitrary, heaausa it nosumes 10 per cont to bo the amount of contraction required to bring the remaindor of the our- roncy to par. All thres methods roquire contrnction to some oxtent, but under the first mothod the contraction will be purcly valuntary, and will coase at the procisa point whoro tho exinting currency is in oxcess of the wants of businoss. THE MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY, Since tha cloro of the Rebellion, evory man who hns ngked for nmnesty from the country which he tried to destroy has received it. This i3 n fact which finds no parallel in tha history of other lands. T'he Republican par- ty has bLeen more mereiful, mora gencrons, and more sensible in this matter than the Government of any other country at any timo has shown itsolf. Whon the War was over, wo built no gibbets and buug no traitors. The Presidont of the collnpsed Confederacy was arrosted and for a shord time confinod nt Fu:{:csa Monroo, Iis arrest, a3 Braing said in his speech of Monday, may havo been misjudged, but thero was no quos- tion of his guilt then and is nono now, With this one selitary excoption, which is senrcely o great epough one to be used to prove the rule, no steps have been taken to punish the men responsible for the cuormous waste of money and lifo in the War, Aud ns fost ns they have shown any desire to be re. stored to the full rights of citizenship which they defiantly cast naiido when they forsook the stars-and-stripes for the stars-and-bars, tho ro- quest hins been promptiy granted. The whole number of porsous in the South now undor disnbilities does not exceed 750, and thero is not ono of them, with tho possiblo excoption of Jerr Davis, who cannot be pardoned if he cares to bo, Thoe fact is that most of them do not wish to bo. Thoy enjoy masquorading ns martyrs. Thoy aro proud of being men without a country. 'Toosns 8 n typo of the class. This arrogant slave-baron scorns the United States. Ho boasts, abrond and at home, that he has no country, o haten tho land which gave him birth and which he tried to destroy. Ho lhas mnever called tho roll of his slaves on DBunker Hiil, and the disappointment hns embit tered him ngainst the mation which struclc ono of its first blows for freedom on that hill, IIo las publicly sneerced at men liko Sonator Gorpox, of Georgia, for what ho calls their fawning cowardico and spiritless truckling in asking to bo relioved of their disabilities. It would bo cruel kindness to cxtend amnesty to Toouns, The Southern. ers who now perforco continually hear endless variations of “Tark from the Toouns a doleful sound,” would seo this champion of the bad old times choked with rage nt the iden of being pardoned in epite of himself, e wants to strut his fow remaining years on tho stage, erying to admiring idiots in the pit: * Look at me, me the wartyr, mo the nbused, mo the victim of tyranny; I am Bob Toonss ; I hate the United Stntes ; I am not its citizon." * Their citizen,” Mr, Tooxns would be move likely to eay. The pation can afford fo contemptuously pity this sort of men aud givo them, without their asking for it, tho amnesty which they offect to despiso. Let us givo theso mon without a country a great country, and, by making one exception, isolate still farther thie man who won hia great victories over the starved and murdered prisoners of Anderson. ville, The people of this uation are not yet ready to ree JeFF Daviz in tho Sennto of the United States. METHODIST umxs;gua V8, BUNDAY PA- RY, Wo regret to obsorve that at the regular meoting of the Methodist ministers on Mon. dny Inst, in the discussion of the question “ Ara tho churches making men conscientious in moral condnct ?" thero was a disposition on the part of the clergymen present to hold the lnymen responsiblo for rending Sunday papers. We shall nll the more regret itif the laymen are so influenced by this discns- sion a3 to give up the grent moral -and rolig. jous agency of a paper like Tne Sunpax Tnpusg, and for the following renson: Tue TrisuNe which i printed on Sunday morn. ing is largely devoted to religious intelli- gence. Tn point of fact, moro spnce is de- voted to this class of nowh than to any other. It is sclected with the utmost impartinlity, no single denomination being given the preferenco over any other, All tho great religious movements and rovivaly receive notice. 'Tho general spirit of the religious press of tho country 18 represcnted. Intelligence from tho churches is published, Arguments and replies upon religious topics aro given in full. A directory of the churches, giving location, time of service, subject of sormon, and name of pastor, is printed, and we observe with pleasare that our Methodist brethron aro as prompt as any other donom- ination In baving their churches represented. Such a comprehensive array of veligious in. telligence cannot be found clsowhero, Tue Cuicago Trinuse on Sunday printa more re- ligious nows then u religious newspaper does in threo months, Wo hava o disposition to belittlo thereligions press, but thoy necessarily present but one phaso of the clags of intelli- genco to which thuy are dovoted. The Moth- odist nowspapers prosent dothodist news, tho Baptist, Daptist nows, and so on, Of course, T Tnunuse makes no pretenso to compote with them os moral teachers, Ttis not its sphere to preach religion, butto pro. sont news. Tt cannot dictato what shall be done in the church, or tho Bunday.school, or prayer-mecting. It only tells what takes placo in them, It ia not expected of Tz Tnisuye that it shall pronounce itself s in favor of this dogma or opposed to that, It can only inform its renders of tho positions assumed by othors, tho nature of thelr dis- cussions, and the outcome of their argumenta. It must steer ita way impartially smong all the sects, whetlier Christinn, Jowish, Pngan, or >Mahommedan, pre. senting the facts, figures, and satatistics, leaving the religions papers to comment upon, ndvocate, or controvert them, It theroforo presonts all tho news from nll of the churches. ‘L'lis the religious newspapers cannot do ; firat, beosuse they are published for special intorosts, and second, because they have not the machinery for collocting the nows which is gathered by mail, ex- changes, tolegraph, and roporters. Now, to rostrict the Methodist layman to a Mothodist paper giving only Methodist nows, by cutting him off from the secular, Bunday paper, is an act, of injustice, and, besldes this, is it not an inmlt tosthe intolligence of tho layman to presumo that ho can content himself with the newa from his own denomination, and romain in iguoranco of what is golng on in the rest of tho world? Bat the ministers will probably object on the score that Tae Suxpax Tumune prints sccular nows and litorary matter. This cannot bo avolded, beeauso tho daily paper on Bunday ia printed for tho world's people as well na tho raligions peopte, and the world's pooplo are n very lorgo conatitnency and very rapaclous rond- ors, Tut ghall tho Inyman be compelled to loso the religious intolligenco because the snme paper contains worldly nowa? If ho 1s n good lnyman, of courso ho will sedulous. 1y skip ovorything but the religious intolli- genco 3 but oven if ho should happen to run s ayo ovor tho curront news of the day, wo donot fancy that ho will Lo loss devoted to his chtreh duties, or loss wide awako in his attention to tho minister, or less eager to pass 1ho contribution-box and help tho choirsing. 8o fnr from urging their flocks to stop rend- ing tho Sunday pnpers, the shephierds thom- solvos ought to rend them, They would then bo botter qualified for their work. The clorgyman who only posts himsolf on whnt is goingon in his own denomination takes n veory norrow view of the great roligious ques- tions of the ago in their mutual relations and thoir influonce upon his own denomination, An astronomer might as well undertake to teach natronomy who has studied but one star, We have no doubt that o careful pe- rusnl of 'Tax Buxpay Trinuxs would tend to onlargo the scope of every minister, lboralizo his views, and make his preaching moro ef- feetivo, by tnking him out of the mnrrow, cramped confines of dogmatis knowledge, and giving him s general outlook over the world at large. CONTRACTS ON 'OHANGE. The new administration of the Chicago Bonrd of Trade practically pledged itself, at tho anuual meeting of that body last Monday ovening, to nchange in the rules aflecting delivories of produce on time contracts. Tho businnss community goneraily s satisfied that gome chango is neoded. The rales com- Plained of were ndopted less than n yoar ago, and were then believed to bo a great improve- mont upon tho old rules, under which had Leon engincered some of the most gigantio corners known to history. They probably would bave proven to bo a great improvemont if nccopted in tho spirit in which they wero framed. But they have been used by many members of the Board, whoso commercial record had bitherto boen clear, as a plea to excuso monfuifillmont of contracts which they could have honored without much diffl- culty, The Board of Trade this flnds.itself dangerously near to Scylla, as n con. sequence of its efforts to avoid Cha- rybdis, In n praisoworthy ottempt to take sway from the perty running n corner iho power to constituto himself plaintiff, Judge, jury, and executioner, tho Board orred in the other direction ; as was only natural. It is now proposed to tako ground which will lie between the two ox- tromes, and will therefore bo more nearly equitablo a5 between buyers and sellers. Under the old rules o person who sold for future delivery, and who for any reason had omitted to buy the property till near the ex- piration of the time nllowed for delivery, was often obliged to pay (or settlo nt) o prico dio- tated sololy by tho other party to tho con- tract,—tho gaid prico being somotimes so high ns to be clenrly extortionate. Under the new rules tho party thus omitting to buy in till the lnst moment las declined to do so at all if the price demanded wos a very little above that at which the proporty could be shipped to New York without loss on tho operation, In ordor to be equitable, the now rules should also have contnined o provision under which the buyer could refuso to ro- ceivo the property if tho prico named in the contract excoeded that at which shipment to Now York could be mndo, without loss, ot the dny of delivery. In tho absonco of this provision, or rather in presenco of tho other, tho buyer was obliged to pocket tho loss if tho markot went against him, and unable to . obtain the profit arising out of an upward turn in prices. Honce, several operators, innocent of any intent to run a corner, have lost hoavily, though the difference in the prices at which they bought nnd sold the property gave thom o theoretical profit. The natural result of this discrimination is a propondernnco of scllors, becouse buyers hold off, feeling that tho chances of the trade are ngainst thom. This induces lower prices than would otherwise rale, giving tho farmer less for his produco and diminishing the amonnt of money which he is nblo to invest in dry goods, groceries, and the numcrous other articles which our merchants have to sell, Besides this, the tondency is to make the volumo of produce handled in this city loss than it would be if prices were not artifl- cially depressed, as other markots not infre- quently offer higher figures, especlally when nided by marked diseriminations in railrond freights, 'T'ha lack of an equitablo protection to tho buyer of grain in this city thereforo tends dircetly to injure the entire commercial interests of Chieago, This is well emough wunderstood by the leading minds in tho Bonrd of Trade. Al seo tho necessity of o change, aud tho only difenlty is o framo rules that caonnot ba used by either party to a contract as an un. fair woapon ngainst thaother, Itisnot impos- sible that the diculty will bo met by provid- ing for two kinds of contracts,—one in which ‘bankruptay shall ba the ouly valid excusa for failuro to receive or deliver the property unmed in the contract, and another form of agreemont under which either party may torminate the trade by paying 10 per cont of the contract prico to the other party bofors tho oxpiration of the time namod in the doc- umont signed by both, The lust-named kind of contract has long been in use on the French Bourse, aud {s nnderstood to be a satisfactory mode of transacting business there, Of course it is qually fair to both portios, — To n genernl observor who is not cognizant of what s going on behind tho ourtain, ap- pearances indicate a war with Spain, or at lenst preparations for such o war, Inad- dition to the large amount of money shich Las been spent, aud the activity which has boen mauifest so long in tho various ravy. yards, it has boen recently stated that the navy Is to bo rendezvoused at Tort Royal, for the reason that our vessels will thus be within forty-eight hours' sail of Cuban waters ond the Gulf, In addition to this, it has also been stated that Gew, Jovenrau, the most skillful military offlcer iy Spain, has been ap- pointed Oaptain.Gonoral of Cubn, and that his firat offleiul act was to ordor from the Krure foundry six 1l.inch breech.londing steol cannon, with 600 rounds of momunition, to bo deliverod in Cubnat the earliest pos- sible momont, Now put these t{wo facts to. gother—the rendezvousing of the navy atn point only forty-oight Lours from Cubs, and: tho shipmont of heavy ordnance by the Span- ish Govermmnont to Cubs, which connot be used against tlio jnsurgents—and what . can they mean but war? And yet tho Presidont gave no hint of war in his imessage. Tho diplomatio dispatches aro not warlike. No alluslon has been made to the possibility of war in Congross. What doosit all moan? With all tho investigntion that is proposed, it is nlittle remarkablo that no one hns yot in- vestignted this myaterions problem, viz, s Aro we on the vorgo of a war with Spain? THE LIQUOR 'am-:guon_m"msuouu- '8, Gov, Rior, of Mnssnchusotts, in his rocont mesgago to the Leglslature, expresses him- self very decidedly with reforence to the liquor question in that State, and brings for- ward somo facta rolative to the operation of the licenso systom which aro of peculinr in- terest. As the question of suppressing ine temperance hns never been moro thoroughly eanvassed, and tho issues involved in the strugglo bave nover been more complotely tested than in Massachusotts, n summnry of his statomenta and recommendntions will be of intorest, Whila the Governor recognizes tho evils of intempotance, ndmits it to be the Bource of poverty, crimo, and domestic un- happiness, and admits that it benrs important relntions to the industrinl and cconomlo in- terests of tho Btate, and whilo he recognizes the fact that it is the duty of the law- makers to frame such legislation as shall tend to suppress it, le looks beyond the marrow views of the Pro- hibitionists, and finds that the question is narrowed down to the practical menns of nc- complishing it rather than an object of de- siro or n matter of fact or principle,—a gon- eral position which has always been assnned by Tae Cnicaco Trisune in ite discussions of the subject. Roferring to past legislation, the Governor finds that, aftér yonrs of nnsat- 1sfactory and barren prohibitory law-making, tho Legislnturo last year sought to regulate rather than prohibit tho sale and nse of lig- uors, and thereforo passed a license lnw which of itaclf is largely of n prohibitory charactor, In this law there is nothing which can bo so construed as to require the authoritics to grant a liconso, so that any city or town in tho State may' absolutely forbid the sale of liquor at its own option within its own limits, Furthermore, tho granting of a liconso is hedged in with very stringent cou- ditions. Liquor cannot” be sold between 12 at night and ¢ in the morning, nor on Sun- day, oxcept at hotels for tho uso of guosts. Adulterated liguor is forbidden to ba sold. The snloon-keeper cannot mell to known drunkards, intoxicated people, or minors, Liquor eannot bo sold at a public bar, and any liconse enn bo revoked upon proof of dis- orderly conduct or gambling in a saloon, ‘This Jaw has beon in operation eight months, and, although it has not yot had n satisfnetory trial, tho results of its operations bave boen such as to convinco tho Exccutive that it should Lo continned nnd beartily sustnined, As proof of 1ts effects, he quotes from the report of tho Board of Liceuso Commission- ers cortain facts which 1nake a strong argu- ment in its favor. In the first place, the lnw has been recognized nnd enforced, swhich is o decided ndvantage over prohibi- tion, since, however widely prohibition bas been recognized, it hos not beon enforced. In the second place, thers has been an re. Tnowledged decrense in thesale of intoxicating liquors under ita operation, and many places of business have been abandoned. An inves- tigntion and report from the Bostou Chief of Polico shows that the number of places whero liguor was sold was 8,090 in December, 1874, against 2,483 on the 17th of Soptember, 1875, Tho AMagor of Boston nlludes to the snme fact in his recont messago in tho follow- iug statomont : Thio number of places in wiich spirituous liquor is gold §n this clty 18 Teen by nearly 700 than 1t wus under tho former systom, and tho mumber of arrcsts for drunkenness lias been losa by about 20 por cent than 1t Was in tho pamo longths of timo last year, ‘We commend these faots to tae advoentes of prohiibition as showing that practical legis- Iation to regulate tho sale of intoxicating liquors in largs citles accomplishes more good than the attempt to stop o nan from drinking by prohibitory statutes. Prolibition nover stopped a man from drinking who wants to drink, Prohibition never decreased the num- ber of saloons. (n the other hand, while it might close public szloons, private ones and club associations have sprung up four-fold in their places. To the some class we commond tlio following wiso and temperato counsels of Gov. R10E: Tho clamor of thosa who drag tho destiny of this, noblo sud bonoficent virtuo Into tho arens of party politics, snd find no langusge to discuas it but that of panslonnts appest and persons 1 vilifieatton, , sbould neftyor dlssurdo nor intimidato ta honost advocaten from such o demonatrativo trisl of thin law; bocause that form of discussion flowa from Jndividusi charac- torlstics which aro fuherent, and which find vont in indiscrimiuato denunclation of men and of mousures, You may resd {n au snousl address of ono of my moat rocant and consclontious prodecossors, who was both the advocate and ezecutive of a prolibitory Iaw, te followlng langusge: Gov, WasnuRmx sald, in 1814, # Venomont and vituperative censuro aud condemna- ton, not only by laymen, but also by ministers of tha gospol of posce, havo boon hesped upon the Chief Constable, the Police Commiasioners, suil b Fxecu. tive, becauso thu law fs not thoroughly enforced, + '+ . Hurcly nothing short of omnipotenca could accomplish what Lisa not infrequently beon domanded at lfs (the Exocutive's) hands,” Still moro rocent ex- amplos will purhapa oceur o you as ovidonca that this spirlt has not yot whiolly ylelded to the admonitions of truth, the influcnces of Christian courteay, nor 1o tho deconcy which be somos good manuers, Prof. OrbnoNavx, the New Yorlk State Con. missioner in Lunncy, in a’roport rocently mndo to the Legislature, suggests several changes in the lunacy laws. In discussing tho relations of opilopsy aud crime, he says of tho epileptio: Uader ordinary sud mochanical calls ta action such & smind may be able to control ftecl? oud rotaln uil tho outward appearance of legal sanity, but let tho Jeast atrain come upon it, let passton atir it o the centro, and we can expect but ous veault {n a cataclyam of violence, terminating either tn homicido or sufcldo, Nambers of such persons walk our streets, and somo of thom carry coucoaled wospans which they ave but tou ready to use, andto usa unconsciously, upon tho alighteat provocation. Knowing thesa facts 10 bo ver- fled by thie atatistics of the eriminal courts, would not the Stato bo Justificd fn passing & law making it noces- aary that every violout opiloptis should, if at large, nave a committeo of the person sppolnted, who should givobonds for his peacoful bebavior and safo custody, and bo suthorized to surrender him {nto tho custody of an cpileptic asylum whenover bis coudition niay ro- qulre th, ‘I'ho recommondations of Prof. OnproNavx have specinl application in the case of the murderer ‘Davis, As it Is now very general- 1y expected that ho will be enabled, through the machinery of law, to escape punishment, what on admirable thing it would be it the gamblers of this oty could bo mado guardiany of his porson and givo bonds for his bo. hovior, and then ba suthorized to surrender him to an insane asylum when ho com- mences bis proparations to shoot down some other unoffending person in cold blood. grind their porsonal tuncs, The Keuncboo Journal, which is a DraiNe organ, thinks BaisTow 8 8 very good Secretary of the 'Tyeasury, but, being a Bouthern man, js prac. tically ineligiblo for tho Presidency, The Indianspolis Journal, which is a Morrtox organ, is opposod to Mr, Braine becaunse it has discovered from somo uuknown sourco that his fathor and mothier woro Roman Cathe ollea 3 bocauso he himsolf was brought up in that faith ; and beeause two of bia nioces arg nuns, ona consin i n profeasor nt Notre Dame, and anothor cousin, Mother ANGsLA, i8 the Buperior of n convont,—nll of which goos to show dangoroud relatlons to the Bearlet Woman. Thero naro other’ organs getting ready to grind tunes for their favorites, When the Domocratic organs commenco thele Heynnicrs, 'TuonMaN, ALLEN, OLAy, ond Tite pEX Lunes, wo shall have an ensemble of har mony aa fonrful and wondorful nsany Waaxzy hins yet concoctod. =] Tho Dotroit Post, after devoting half \ column to criticising Tz Cnroace Tainuma for insisting that tho Government officialy who participated in tho whisky frauds an guilty of a greater moral offense than the whislky mapufacturers, finnlly roaches the conclusion that ¢ at the samo time the guils ty rovonuo officors doservo tho soverost pun. ishment for allowing thamselvea to ba bribed,” 'That is precisely tho view which this paper has taken, The severest punish. ment should fail on the officors. In 8t Louis, however, the officars formed a ring first, and thon made overtures to the whisky men, making offers of largo profits on the ono hand nnd threats of official discrimina. tion on tho other, Thoy offered ,distillors the-nlternativo of being dishonest or closing thelr business, and it is straining language to say that thoso officers * allowed themselves to bo bribed,” ‘ . Thoe nsinine word-slinger who murdors the King's Enghsh by tolegrapls for Mr. Bromer's Times dlaplayed his usual astuteness yesterday, whon ho attempied to explain how Mr. Brana obtained tho floor on the RaNpALL Amuesty bill. Iosaye: Tho rals of the Toute is, that when a yota I8 taken 2 member of the majority an the winning sideof a props onition can move to reconsider. This motion to re- considor gives the mover the floar to open sud close tho debats upon the motion, Now {n tho yote upon tha passago of Jaxpat's bill & two-thinds vots was required, aa it was offercd under n snsponsion of the len, The minority, of whies DLAINK (8 @ member, conatitutes more than one-third of those taling uvon the il and was terefore o irtal majority aganat the measure, Mr, BLAINE then moved o reconsideration, That » minority osn ever bo s majority is good Mr. BrAINE obtatned the floor simply by voting for iba bill, which gavo bim the right to move a reconsideration. Ho had counted noses, and know tho required two-thirds majority for the bill could not bo obtained, sand sccordiogly be voted for tho meaauro, which, under tho rules of the House, gave Lim the right tomova its rocon- | sldaration. Au Eugltah grammar and BARCLAY'S digost would he important additions to the l{brary of tho Times corrospoudont &t Washing- ton, P ] A now monstor has made its appearance ia Irish wators, at tho mouth of tho Shannon, whith sooms to bo an {mprovement upon tho conveutionsl soa eorpent. It i describoed in tho New York Times ap Laving tho boad and neok of & horso, antlora like a stag, and the tail of & por- poiso. Th description fs not unlike the appear- . anco of somo of NEPTUNEe's horses, as tho old printera used to dopict thom, but wo are rather inoliued to believe it to ba an Irish bull, of & marino eort, The Times further saya: * Thia remarkablo crosture, which materially differs from tho nccounta given of othor mousters of the deep which bave from time to timo made their appearanco, stood looking for n long tima at tho man who describes it, and gavo doolded intinations of » wish for closer acquaintance, but these were not encouraged, ita appoaraccs not being deomed propossessing. After sbout half an bour 1t took leave, turning in tho direo- tion of Amorica.” The latter anuouncemont is pob without intorest. If this horso, stag, por- polso, bull, or whatevor io may be, is really coms ing to America, the Contennial managors ought 10 bs on the lookout and capture him for the big show, g o The latest Pariaina folly is an old Amorican one. 'Tho groat civens in tho Champs Elysses has been turned into & rink for parlor-skating Inorder to persuado tho visitors that they are gliding abont on ico instoad of asphalt’ and on stool blades instead of iron whools, srtificial suow ¢ provided. Bits of paper and cotton and wool areshowored down from the soof, while an electrio light supplies equally imagloary moonboams, The Catholic Cburch has & much prettior snow-miracle than tuls, which oomes off every yoar in Rome, Tho great basilica of Santa Maria Mazgioro 1s buiiton land marked by o miraculous fall of enow on a cortain Auguat.' It contains a chapel owned by the Bonomgsm family, with a dome-shaped roof. Each year, on tho anniversary of the snow-fall, tbrough the aperture (o the crown of the dome thera flutter down upon the pricsta and worshipers bulow & shower of fragrant whito rose-leaves. This !n aurely one of tho prettiest mothods of commem- orating o miraclo over dovised, ——— The Chicago Journal ias oclipsed itselt. The lightoing at 1ta command Las put a girdle round thio part of tho earth between Des Moines and Chicago in litosally loas than uo time. Elght or nlao columna of tho"paper of yestorday were Nled with the mossage of Gov. CABPENTER, of Tows, which it said was dolivered yosterdsy morning, but which will not bs given forth, in fact, uutil to-day. s i PERSONAL, Tt is rumored that George, tho Kingof thd Grooks, s leaving Groeco forever. The bollo of Wnsbington on Now-Year's Day way tho wifo of the Chinoso Mimster. An fnquiriog reader is Iuformed {hat Bfe. Carlylo did accept the degree conforred npom him by Harvard University. Mork Twain has writton sn artole for tA forthcoming Agantio about tho *'horao-csr™ poetry which has beon appesring lu varions nowspapers, Lieut, Camoron, tho Academy says, will probe sbly arrive in England fo tho middle of Jaoue ary, His splendid exploit placos bim, withou$ dispute, in tho very firat rank of African trave' olera, i The Cincinnat! Commercial wants to know, you kaow, whether ¥ the sonsual flag» has boon ralged ln [udia according to the uwrehqna(unl} oxprossod by Doan Btanley. Albert Edwasly coufesd, b Olive larper used to look for her imaginary Prince on New-Yoar's Day, when sho roceived calls ; and ho gouerally camo full of wino snd eake. Bho proposes to give callers in the future only coffas straight. Mr. Halatoad conjectares that Prof., Swing re- fused to bocome editor of the Independent boe osuse ho foarod ho would be ordered into the. financlal dopartmont **to copstrucy ®F: artl- clea fn the fntercst of a grizzly-boar pailrdad.” Allco Day, the ballet-girl who is known in con- noction with che Walnwrighs murder trial in London, {3 emyaged upon a biography of her caroer, and sho will shortly pubsh it uoder the title of * From the Footlights to the Prison Colt." Banjumin Diaraeli has nover beon baptized as & Christian, He drifted into the English Churoh, and etayod thore ; but his case does not disprove tho assertion of * one who kuows,” that it is Im- posslblo to convort o respootable Jew to Chrise tianity, ofr. Charles Fechtor, tho sctor, has been cone fined to Lus room iu Philadelphia since Christ- mas-Day, by an abscess which had formed on bis injured log. ‘The abscoas was opeusd lamd woek, and tho pationt is now jna falr way of TacovOry. Adelina Patti's cortificate of baptism shows that she was born Feb, 19, 1849, aud is oonse~ quently now noarly 53 years of age. 8ho wag tho daughter of Balvatori Dattl, Professor of touelo, s nstive of Catsnia, in Slelly, and of Oatarloa Paiti, nee Chless, s native of Eome.