Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 2, 1876, Page 4

4 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, APRIL 2, 1876—SIXTEEN FAGHES. TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. RBLTZS OF SUDSCRIPTION (PAYABLE IN ADVANCE). Postage Prepaid at this Ofice. 13.00 1.00 3.00 .00 Speciman copies sent fres. To prevent delay and mistakes, be sure and give Fost~ ‘ONce address in full, including State and Connty. Eemittances may bo made either by draft, exproas, Post-0ffice arder, or In reclstered letters, at our risk. * TERMS TO CITY SUBSCRIBEDS, Dally, deltversd, Sunday excepted, 25 cants per week, L eliversd, Sunday included, 30 cents per week. THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Carner Madison and Desrborn-sts., Chicage Il —_——om AMUSEMENTS. TO-DAY. HoOORMICE HALL—North Clark strest, corner &f Kinzia, Concert at 3 p. m. by the Hutchinson Family. HOOLEY'S_THEATRE—Randolph street, between Tlark and LaSalle. Concert at 3 p.m.inald of the NEW CHICAGO THEATRE—Clark strsst, betwsen Lake and Randolph. * Wildfeuer.* ADELPHI TEEATRE—Ncoros strost, eornsr Dear~ Rorn. * The Flying Scud.” ACADEMY OF MUSIC—Halcted strest, bstwesn Wzdisom and Monros, Benept of Jahn Muir, TO-MORROW. HOOLEY’3 THEATHRE—Randolph strest, betwses €lark and LaSalie. The California Minstrels? McVICKER'S THEATRE—Madisan street, Pearborn and Sute, - Lesp-Tear; or, Thie Ladiss’ vilogar WOOD'S MUSEUM—Monroe street, betwsen Dear- Dorn and State, Afternoon, # The Drankard.” Even- tog, “ Roving Jack, ADELPHI THEATRE—Desrbora street, ecimer Monroe. “ Quilp.” ACCORMICE HALI~—North Clazk street, corner of Kinds. Lecturs by Theodore Tilton. Subject: * The Numan Min SOCIETY MEETINGS. LANDMABE LODGE NO. 422, A, F. X A, M~ Members 2ra requested to be present at our next regus lir communication, Fridsy evening, April 7. end- EzeDts to the by-laws and other important business will cume before the Lodge. Work an the M. AL. degreo. Vinting trethren Jate cordially invited. By order of toe WM, Mraox HaRpis, Secretary, NATIONAL LODGE, No. 596. A. P. & A. M.—A Btated Communication will be held at their nall, cor- | Rer Halsted and Randolph-sts. Tuesday evening, Ayril 4, at 8 o'clock, Wm’i ML AL Degree. Visiting brethren eordially invited. ' By arderof W.3L - A. G. LUNDBURG, Becretary. APOLLO COMMANDERY OF ENIGETS —~There will be a Stated Conclave at the Asylum, 76 Mionros-st., on Tuoedsy evening at & o'clock, for im- portant business and the conferring of the Iilustrions Qrder of the Red Cross, Sir Erights of other Com- ‘manderies courteonsly invited. By order of the E. C. B. F. PATRICK, Recorder. GARDEN CITY LODGE, No. 141, A., F. and A. M.— A regular communication will be held at Oriental Hall, u“n' Wedn-d.l'y evening, Axxrilfl_fi.. Work i‘::‘:‘l:’:(;‘ M Degres. Visiting brethren fraternally H. F. HOLCOMB, W. M. L. L. WADSWORTH, See. OLEVELAND LODGE, Ko, 20, A. F. AND A. M.— The membera are hereby notified fo sttend the Eegular Communication of the Lodge on Thursday evontng mest, April 6. Action will be taken at this by with' reference to renting ttie Lodge Hall for 3 new term, Per order. GEO. F. SINCLAIR, W. M. LADY WASHINGTON CHAPTER, No, 158,0, E. 8.~ Mests every Tuesday evening in their new hall, north~ st cormer Fourteantl: strect and Bluo Isiand avenue. Entranee ca Fourtsenth street. By order of the W. EVA McHUGH, Secretary. HONE wnuz‘;‘l:u. 416, I Di[O. E.—Thl mtn;ba; Xre requested to esent on Monday evening, Ap: 1) i&n!gfi.r hall, mnnp:m corner lle and Adams- s, Byerdercf N.G. G. BURGHOFFER, ATTENTION, SIR KXIGHTS !—5tated Conclave of Tictgo Commandery, N CORINTHIAN CHAPTER, No, 03, R. A. M;—Spe- #al Convecation Manday evening, at 8 o'clock.” Work m i B, A Dagroa. 5. M. HENDERSON, H. P. J. 0. DICEERSON, Bec’y. LOYAL OBANGE LODGE, No. 57, will hold & meet- WwE for the eloction of oXcers, on Friday evering, A&pxil 7, st their ball, northeast carnar of Clinton and Bandoiph-sta. Bundsy Mormmng, April 2, 1878. A% the New York Exchange on Saturdsy graanbacks wers quoted at 87F centa. The officisl ststemant of the public debt, fscaed yesterday, shows that a reduction of $4,240,866 was effiocted during the month of March Tho three Chicago members—Firwzir, Euxmisox, and Cavzrrzro—all voted for the Silver-Resumption hill. The ultra’hards and 40 rahid inflationists all opposed the bill, but it was carrisd by sgainst 100 votes. It looks very much es if Baveemog had ebout concluded to throw up the sponge, o3 the paper he controls is rapidly arrsying it- galf against the Republican candidates for city offices, and has already gons more than half ovar to the bummers and tax-eaters. 1t is the purpose of Convay's henchman, F. ‘W. Wazrnex, to capture the Republican pri- mary meseting next Wednesday, and foist him- sclf upon the party s its candidate for Alder- man. He expects to do this by the aid of gangs of hired bummers and loafers. But that littls game will not win. The Republicans of ths ward will not vote for him under any cir- eumstances, since he betrsyed them. i ‘whole record in the Council shows him to be always on ths gids of the tax-eatars and bum- e The Republican primary meetings for Aldermen and city delegates are to be held in ull the wards in the city next Wednesday sfternoon between the hours of 4 and 7 o'clock. Though many of the ward clubs have put in nomination the men whom they rogard a8 best fitled o represent the tax- psyers in the Council, it will be claimed to be acvessary that these candidates shall re- ceive the majority of the votes st the pri- maries in arder to secure recognition from ths Convention and form a part of the regu- lar ticket. There is su intimation that in come of the wards (and especially the First) there will be a determined effart on the part cf the bummers to defent the candidates who bave been nominated by the ward clubs, and present the names of less reputable men as the regulsr Republican candidates. Such a scheme a3 this can only be defested by the sttendance at the primaries of all the good citizens who proposs to vote the Republican ticket. They may think that the primaries, sz » matter of course, will follow the sug- gestions of the ward clubs, and o regard it &3 unnesessary to put in an appearance. 'This is an error, and may prove a sarious one if the bettar men of the Republican party f£ail to attend the primaries next Wednesday afternoon, as they shonld. The Chicago produce markets were rather slow on Saturday. Mess park was dull and 100 per brl lower, closing st §22.35 cash and $22.65@22.67} soller May. Yard wasquiet and essier, closing at $13.82}@13.85 ecash and $14.00@14.02} for May. Meats were quist and unchanged, st 83o for boxed shoul- ders, 1240 for do short ribs, and 12§0 for do short clears. Highwines waes quiet and firm, st $1.07 pex gallon Fiewr was quist snd sisady Whea! vae quish exd eiosed jo lower, at $1.02} for April and $1.06} for May. Corn was less active aud easier, clos- ing at 46c for April and 49c for May. Oats were quiet and {c lower, closing at 32§c for April and 34§o for May. Rye was quiet, at 6Gc. Barley was active and 3c higher, closing at 60c for April and 61c for May. Hogs were in sctive demand and were firm, at $8.00@8.75. Most of the trading wesat $8.10@8.35. Tho cattle market was quiet and unchanged, at $3.50@5.50 for common to choice. Sheep were in demand, at $5.00@ . One hundred dollars in gold would buy $113.62} in greenbacks at the closs. The Ohio Republicans, not being ready to publicly announcs their real choice for Presi- dent, voted in Convention that on the sur- face they were sll for Gov. Hares. The Cincinnati Gaztte in probing below the sur- face makes tho following discoveries: In regard to a second cholee, in the ovent of the withdrawal of Hayrs, we Liave it from preity good suthority that the vote would stand as follows Bristow Morton. Blxine,. 11 As matters now siand, this may be regarded as ths olos of Ohio on the Presidential question. The Commercial slso run its auger down through the veneering, and, on touchinghard pan, struck the “bottom facts,” viz. : After all the notse and confusion about the Ohio del- egation in the National Republican Convention, our rosders may be interested in the actual results. In the first place, of course, the delogation is united for Havss, Everybody understands thst. Hives is to bavea handsome compliment, In his capacity of fa~ vorite soz, be is entitled to that, The main queation 482 How will the delegation stand then? And the an- awer given, after a good deal of closs figuring, s a8 follows : MoRTOX, 8; BLAINE, 13; BrisTow, 24, Tt will b soez that thess two independant investigations resulted substantially in mak~ ing the same discoveries. The House of Representatives has passed the bill, by 22 msjority, authorizing the Sec- retary of the Treasury to issue silver coins of the denominations of 10, 20, 25, and 50 ceats, in redemption of an equal amonnt of tional paper currency. There is & large amount of this currency now in the Treasury waiting redemption. The printing of frac- tionsl notes was suspended some time ago, and there is no means of redeeming the cur- rency. It is now settled that silver can be purchased and issued as coin at o less cost than it requires to print and handle the frac- tional notes. The change will enable the Gowernment to dispense with 1,600 per- sons now employ. . mn printing, stamping, assorting, counting, and handling thess little shinplasters. The amount of silver coin to be issued is limited to the amomnt of fractional currency, which is about $45,000,~ 000. The House refused toauthorize the coin- age of silver for private persons, thusleav- ing the “‘geignorage™ in coinage as a profit to the Government. But the bill asit passed makes the silver dollar coin alegal-tender for any amount not exceeding $50 in any one payment, and the silver coins for fractional parts of the dollar a legal-tender to the amount of §25. Such coins are now a legal- tender only to the amount of $5. As soon 88 this bill becomes a law, thers will be an immediate appearance of coin, which will bs now to most of the present gereration, anda consequent decline of the small paper cur- The Republicans have now put forward complets town tickets to be elected nsxt Tuesday in the thres divisions of the city. They are in detail as follows : SOUTH CHICAGO. Supervisor—Gronax F. Korsx, Asseasor—W. B, H. Grat. Cellector—ANDEXW J. GALLOWAT. Toun Clerk—E. L. BARECR, - NORTIH CEICATGO. Bupervisor—Capt. P. 3L Rrax, Assessor—HENRY LAMPARTNXR, Coliector—Enxsr HUMMEL, Toiom Clerk—CHABLES G, LIMDGERN, WEST OmICAS0. Supervisor—AvErY MooRE, Azsessor—JIaxes N. Craex, Collector—3omy Horrsux, Zown Clert—H. L. Hxzra, These tickets shonld commend themselves to the hearty support not only of the Repub- Licans In politics, but to all tax-payers and voters who are interested in the reduction of the extortionate amounts heretofora paid the town officers, in the fairand uniform as- sessment and proper division of the tex-levy, end in the honest collection of taxes without fevoritism. The offices of Assessor and Col- lector are mainly important, but those of the Supervisor and Clerk should also be filled by good and honest men, becauss they belong to the Town Boards and have a voice in de- termining their own salaries and those of the other town officers. There has been, we be- lieve, an honest effort to select the very best men for these thres tickets who would accept the places. The Republican candidates for Assessor in West and South Chicago are notably competent for their places, and we presums the North Bide candidate is equally 50, In the coseof Messrs. Gray and Cras, however, it would be impossible to find two other men who could discharge the duties of Asgessor 50 well ; the former hes made up every fair assessment that has been made for many years past in the South Division, and the latter was for a long time in charge of the city sssessment. All the other candi- dates are spoken of by the best citizens in their respective districts as deserving of the united support of the tax-payers. But the mere fact that these tickets are composed of excellent men isnot snficient to elect them. They will be defeated, and the bummers will prevail 8 usual, unless the re- spectable voters go to the polls next Tues- day, and ot only vote, but watch the ballot- boxes as closely as they did at the election last fall. The trouble about these town elec- tions i that the tax-payers have allowed them to go by default. They have fillad the newspapers with their complaints about the unfairness of the assessments, and have pro- tested 364 days in the year sgainst the out- rages of the Town Boards, but on the single day in the yesr when they could protect themselves by going to the polls they have given the subject no thought. Now, every one of thess men can serve their own inter- est better, and save time, by devoting an bowr next Tuesday to secure the eclection of men who will not causs them to growl sll therest of the year. If they fail to doit, they will sufier the penalty of their own neglect, and, for our part, we shall not bs in- clined to fill the columns of Tex TrmUNE with useless protests. We enter s general protest now aguinst the apparent indifference of the taz-payers to their own interests, and tell them that, this year, when thers is a good ticket in every one of the towns, there wili bs pobody but themselves to blame if thess tickets are not elected. As the polls open at 7:30, and » Moderrtc 7 ic elected at the placss designated the very first 4hing, all the citivans sbould make an effort toput in an appearance st that time, and thus prevent the tax.ring of bummers from sesuring & max of thair swn kind s Mod=s. tor, which of course nssures them an impor- runs from $100,000 to $150,000, when it cer- has been the habit of the tax-caters to seizo their own choosing, vote any asmount they pleased. They will undertake to do so again part. Every merchant, menufacturer, and ing man is interested in the reduction of public expenses and the fair assessment of returned from an errand on which she had gone out. After waiting until his fears wero aroused, leaving his two liitle ones at home, hoset out to find her. Late at night, learn- ing that a woman had been drowned iu the bay off an East River pier, he went there and saw the remains floating face downward in the cwent and moored to & pile. Filled with terrible apprehension, but yet uncertain whether the stark form there was that of his wife, ho implored the police stationed there to guard tho remains until the arrival of the Coroner to turn the face of the corpse to the light, that he might be relieved from that terrible uncertainty. His re- quest was, for a time, brutally denied, but, finally, yielding to his importunities, the officer of the law gavo the rope a jerk, turning the face of the desd woman fo the lights upon the shore, .and Youne saw that it was his wife’s body. Invain did he implore the vigilant guardians of the law to take the remains ashore, that they might at least be decently cared for until the Coronex's arrival ‘That also was refused, and with such coarse brutality that bystanders voluntecred their ad in taking the remains from the water—by force if need be. Then he was threatened with arrest if he did not take himself away. In despair he set out to find the Coroner. The search was bootless, and near morning he went home to his motherless little ones, while his wife's remains wera loft floating in the bay until nearly twenty-four hours had elapsed. Next morning he remewed his search for the Coromer, to beg the poor privilege of keeping the re- mains from the dissecting-room, and of giving them Christian burial. When at Iast he found that important official, the latter was preparing for another inquest, and, with characteristic small-official pompousinsolence, had no time to iisten to Youxa's story, and actually forced him to sit on the jury upon another inquest, while his infant children were left at home uncared for, and nobody could tell what had becoms of the remains of his wife, nor what further indignity might have been visited upon them. Finally, three days after sho was drowned, and after the matter had got into the papers, the body was delivered to him. His midnight watch at the pier whils the form of her who of oll the world hed "been most dear to him floated in the bilge water of the docks, from which petty official red tape and insolence forbade removal; bullied and threatened with arvest for simply asking that her remains be treated with common de- cency, and the horrid desscration of the dissecting-room in prospect ; and then when &t last the Coroner was found, being rebuffed by the insolence of that consequential func- tionary, and forced, in his sgonizing sus- pense, to serve oh a jury,—all forms a moro grim, awful satire upon the insolence and brutality of petty office than ever was writ. But it was of a piece with that to which it is our fashion to tamely submit, and the unfathomsble mystery of it is why we do tamely submit to it. tant advantige. At 2 o'clock the town meet- ing votes the taxes for town purposes for the ensuing year bya wiza tocs vote. At this hour all the tax-payers should again endeavor to put in an appearance. The aggregate amount voted in the three towns usually tainly. should not exceed $20,000inall. It these meetings and, with a Moderator of this year, and can only be prevented (if at all) by a policy equally aggressive on their employer of voters shonld give his men time to vote, and also to put in an attendance at the town meeting at 2o'clock. Every work- taxes, as it has come toapass when upon this will depend largely his ebility to sccure employment in the future. The Board of Trade has set & good example by adjourning over Tuesday afternoon, and the merchants and property-owners should sufficiently con- gider their own interests to take half the day to save themselves from extortion all the year round. A BEQUEL TO THE BABCOCK TRIAL. Decidedly the most sensational of all that has been'developed by the investigation into the Bancoux case is the testimony of the wit- ness BeLy before the Congressional Cermit- tee. It is elso to be taken with more grains of allowance than the statement of any other witness. It i3 not improbable that Brwr, having gained the President’s confidence in the War as a 5py, was by him commissioned, 88 Bewn states, to go to St. Louis and inves- tigate the factsas to the guilt or innocence of Bascock, and report the same to the Pres- ident, that he might act upon them. And under the excitement attending that case, and with the reports circulated by Bascocx that the prosecution was the result of a polit- jcal conspiracy, the President might natural ly and properly have desired to be put in possession of the facts upon wundoubisd authority. Certain it is that Berr did look over the testimony against Bancocx in Dis- trict-Attorney DxEr’s possession ; and almost equally certain does it appesr, notwithstand- ing Mr. Storss’ deninl, that the information thus obtained by Bery was conveyed to the defense, which goes a long way toward explaining the rendiness with which Bap. ©00x’s counsel met the testimony against him at the trial. And that readiness, it msy be remarked, was nowhere s0 conspicuous as in the production of the letter-carrier McGrwx, who spoiled the proof about the Joxcr letter inclosing $500 to Bascock by testifying that bhe (McGmu) returned that letter from a street letter-box to Jovom There is, in &ll probability, o deal of, truth and a deal of falschood in Bewu's testimony. He mani- festly did steal the testimony of the prosecn- tion, and, in all probability, did sell it to the defense. He was, in the current rascally phrase, ‘“on the make,” resdy to betray either gide or both, and concerned only to get tho most money for his villainy, His original employment by the President, if as Beru states he was employed, was neither dishonest nor dishonorable. But the nse he made of that employment was rascally, The public, however, is not concerned with Brixn so much 25 with the separation of the truth from the falsehood in his story, and in establishing through what influence it wos that lLe was enabled to carry cut, so far as it wes oxecuted, his rascally programme. His story, sofar astold, is damaging only to Bascocx. He (BELy) wss 8 precious knave, &s sppears from his own testimony, and while his services in the army may have boen such 23 to impress the President with his (Beir's) kecnness and sagacity, his very employment es a scout-spy ‘waa such as conld have inspired little confi- dence in him. 'The gquestion back of it all, therefore, is, Whose influence was it that pat him in position whore he could steal the tes- timony aguinst Bamcock; and who planned the cunningly-devised scheme by whichhe was enabled to do it? Thero is evidently n large field forinvestigation here, and one that cannot be too sharply explored, and it is to be trust. ed it will not be abandoned until the bottom facts aro reached, znd those guilty of thus conspiring to defraud justice bo brought to prompt punishment. Nothing can be taken s established by Brwr's testimony without corroboration ; but there is manifestly too much trath in it for his story to be dropped urtil it be satisfactorily established how much of it is true, and what facts there are connect- ed with the whole affair which have not besn disclosed by him. A CIBRCUMLOCUTION OFFICE. Drcrexs’ immortal skotch of *The Cir- cumlocution Office ” was read and reread by the American public with infinite relish. The sardopic portrayal of how, in the British Government offices, was cultivated tho high art of how not to do what the officials wero paid to do, of the ineffable snobbishness with which waa resented the astounding imperti- nence of the citizen who *‘ wanted to know, you know,” something about his business be- fors an office or department, and the labyrinth of red tape thst compassed about every official, snd through which zccess to him was about as difficult as to the North Pole, was to the aveMgs American reader a delicious satirs on the institutions of an efieto monarchy, where the citizen was simply one of the down-trodden millions. In contrast with the Govornmental machine in this land of popu- lar sovercigns, where officials are tha ser- vants, not the masters, of the people, and where the effusive affability with which the sovereigns are reccived by their servants aforesaid, and the superserviceable slacrity with which the business of the sovareign is attended {o, are the natural con- sequences of that relation of public servants to the people-masters, the sketch was partic- ularly refreshing. Yet it may be questioned whether the American sovereign in this very Centennial year, which is the year of his grandiloguent bozsting, does not meekly put up with worse insolence in petty office than do the people of any other civilized Iand, The gushing affability and superserviceability are reserved for the potent popular sovereign 'who has part in running the political machine. To the rest—the outsiders—the supercilious- ness, bratality, and red-tape surroundings of our petty officials ars simply intolerable, yet are endured. Bo it comes to pass that the Alderman is an almighty potentate in his Lt tle duck-pond pool, and is less sccessible t- ths avorage citizen than the Governor ~f » Stats, whils the magnates of other petty places are only approachabls after almost in- finite pains, with awe and humility, and fear iand trembling, and on no sccount are to ba disturbed between drinks. T2e case of Jaxxs YouNe is the latest illus- trr“.c4 of this. He was a poor laborer in New Yok, who, the othsr night, on going home from his day’s wark, foand his wife had not MEN ARD WOMEN—CCMPARATIVE MO- RALITY., Afost men and things in this world are mensured by some recognized standard of comparigon. Gulliver was a giant in one country and a pigmy in another. Physicaliy and mentally, men's powers tell in proportion to the strength with which they cope. The- oretically, it would be pleasanter to think of morals as an exception to the rule, and to be gauged by a uniform, invariable, and rigid standard, universally recognized by all men and epplied in all countries. Practically, however, it i useless to deny that morality is comparative as well as health, talent, educa- tion, wealth, happiness. Ills ‘and blessings are estimzted in this- life, the former miti- gated and the latter heightened, by the con- dition of those around us. Men are influ- enced by the times in which they live. Hz- man sentiments take precedence according to the importance given them by common con- sent. What is positively obnoxious in one country or at one time becomes comparative- ly unobjectionable in other countries and at other times. So virtues take rank according to the pursuits and customs cf the day and people : that which is most extolled in a con- dition of immature society becomes intolera- ble at a high strge of civilization. It is not strange, therefore, that the Brr- ENAP scandal, involving both BaraNar and Lis wife, should have led to a discussion of the relative morality of men snd -women. A modern school of political moralists, who may perhaps bo called ‘‘exactionists,” will insist that the grade shotld be precisely the same, and that both man and woman, and all men and all women, should rise to the same glorious heights of rectitude and look upon every kind of infraction of the moral code with equal abhorrence. But the ‘‘ezaction- ists” make no sllowance for the fact that there is still a large smount of human nature in the world which yields to temptation in a manner and to an extent affected by age, sex, and other conditions. Thers will be no practical reform in public and private morals without taking cognizance of that fact, and epplying remedies to suit the form and stage of the disease 88 it manifests itself. The comparative ruorality of men snd women has acquired specisl prominence by & conversation which Mr. T. W, Hrcamsoy, of Boston, had with five ladies of good standing and certeinly average moral tone, and which he has made public. ,One of these ladies, whom Mr. HiceiNsoy spenks of even as *‘ex- acting” in her moral standard, saw nothing wrong in BELENAP's performances, and only: one of the others looked at the bribery as an honorable man regards it. The only denun- ciation of the act was suggested by the phil- anthropic objection that the price of goods hod been raised thereby to the soldiers. Going outside of Mr. Hieemsox's experience, it is safe to say that individual discuasion will clicit' surprising obtuseness among women, whose purity and goodress cannot be ques- tioned, as to the impiopriety (not to pat it stronger) of Alra. Bruewar's part in the transaction. Wo venturo the assertion that many women will be found to innocently in- quire: * Why shouldn’t Mrs. BerNae re- ceive = present of several thousand dol- lars from 3Mr. Marsw, if Mr. Mamsm was & friend of her husband, and her husband had dome him a wal usble service?” There is scarcely a doubt that the women will sgree thers was no crime in it, though they may differ as to the propriety of it. And it is equally cer- <ain that scarcely one can be discovered who +ili go to the same length of indignation and Jdeauncistion that honorsble men naturally feel und express in contsmplating the be- traysl of publio trusts for private considera- tien. After noting this spparent indiffer- en-y emong good and pure women, mea will Lesitate before condemning as immoral women who sttest thair innocencs in the matter by the fraukmess of their utierances, sud will cozcluds that in their comparative monlity woms havs fade » difereal e rangement of the category of offenses and placed iow in the scale those which men regard a5 among the most heinous. The con- verse of the proposition is equally true, and if some other phase of immorality were in question it might be the male sex which would give evidence of moral obliguity. Mr, HigervsoN is an advacate of woman euffrage, and this experience of his should lend him to doubt whether it ia wise to bring women_into voting politics. He endeavors to head off this view of the mafter by at- tributing their loose views in regard to brib- ery and kindred offenses against the public welfare to their remoteness from public af- fairs, and their lack of familiarity with them. Bat the Nation, in commenting upon his in- terview with these ladies, comes to a differ- ent and wiser conclusion. It goes back to the primitive doctrine, long since set forth by moralists, that chastity in woman takes precedencs of ell other virtues, because there- on depends the integrity of the family, which, in other words, rests upon the husband's cer- tainty about the paternity of his wife’s chil- dren. Though this opens up a question that cannot well be discussed in public prints, the correctness of the principle, s underlying the superlative abhorrence to unchastity felt by all good women, can scarcely bo denied. It is no longer discussed, becauss society is advanced beyond the neces.ity for such discus- sion, and the first rank of purity in woman's code of morals is too clearly established to inquire as to the reason they give it prece- dence. Butif the family. is the first, and shall continue to be the first, consideration of woman, then it will ba wise to keep her aloof from public life, even at the risk of her comparative indifference to offenses which men regard as infamous; for, if women adopt the scals as men have established it for them- selves, their abhorrence for bribery may be increased, but their reversnce for chastity may be diminished. The world vould be the, loser by the change. Thero is no doubt that woman’ dependent condition has much to’ do with her failure to perceive, in tho case under discussion, the real importance of BeLsNar’s @ime and his wife’s share therein. In other cases her lack of moral perception might be explained by other peculiarities of her cendition. But ‘women are accustomed, to recdve in the way of gifts a very large part of tleir most cher- ished possessions. A husband gives his wife her homestead, gives her her dresses and her jewelry. Itis likely that, in her domestic economy, she has earned thim even more than he hag earned those tlings he claims 88 his own. Yo! she is accustomed to sccept them as gitts. She isalso mors used to presents than mua 3. Sle accepts them freely from her relatives and friends. With her husband’s or father's cnsent, she sees nothing wrong in receiving presents from gentlemen. If her h\ubnnq or father gives another man a business adwntege, the wife or danghter feels no compunstion in accepting agift inreturn for it. She makes no nice distinction between the Gwernment service and ordinary business reltions. She also rates famil- fealty 50 much higher that she always clin,. to her husiaod snd children long after men have desered, and refuses to scimowledge wrong-loing in behalf of the family long after r-»n witl less acute moral perceptions in other mattes have been foroed to admit it. The study i comparative mo- rality is an interesting ont It is the basis of Liscare’s most entertaining and valuabls book. And no phase of it is mre imporient than the varions standards st up by men and women. Aslong es thre are thess radical differences between then, it will bo wise to confine the good offices of women to the family rather than risk their stndards in public life. RELIGIOUS LIBEITY IN SPAIN, Tho question of relifious liberty in Spain begins to cssumo a veryinteresting form, and is already made the nost prominent issue befora the Cortes. Alpetition in favor of * Catholic unity,” whit means prohibition of every form of woship except the Ultra- montane, hes bsen inf;odneed in that body, gigned by the Papa Nuncio and Spanish Bishops, and the formr hes also taken occa- sgion to deny that the [atican has ever grant- od the presont Ministr the least concassion in relation to the libery of public worship. Meaunwhile it is assertd by the Epocs, pub- lished in Madrid, th% the Cortes will ap. prove the principle »f religions tolaratioa, and that the Vatican rill ba compelled to ao- cept it. i ) Under the circumstances attending the recent election, this ondition of the religious question is o little gmarkable. The Cortes, esnow constituted, contains only a littls haudfol of Republians, who are the princi- pal oppozents of [itramontanism and de- fendors of religiongoleration. The Vatican, through the ngencylzf the Papal Nuncio and the Bishops, took p active part in the elec- tion. Tho laiter issued pronunciamentos threatoning pains [nd penslties sgainst all members of the who voted against the interosts of thiVatican. They prepared the way for the infmidation of voters. It wos with their sdice and approval that in numerons provinr‘a voters known to be anti. TUltramontane in entiment were deprived of their' voting certicates; that the voting urns were stufied,breciscly as our bummers stuff the ballot-bois ; that voters were driven off by the polico ind gens d'armes, and in many ceses wers fidnapped and imprisoned until cfier the eletions were over. By such mesns the Repubican party was almost de- prived of represétation in the Cortes, the whole number inhat body being, we believe, but thres ; and yt, after having carried the election, the Chtch party seems unable to put down the qustion of religious toleration, which has sudddly risen in the Cortes with more pertinncit[ and probability of success than ever beforf In point of fact, we doubt if the question 2a ever been ssriously raised before. There aro tW causes which may help to account for thisudden defiance of the Veti- can. In the filt placs, there is a large party of young men)what may be termed young Spoin,—who fo liberal and progressive in their relationso education, religion, and the material proges of their country. Some of them aze Catblics, but they are sufficiently progressive *‘i enlightened to be willing that other a,u should enjoy the right of worship. Oters of them ara Protestants, aud none o(,lmxn aro Ultramontane in their sympathies. {t is o large and constantly in. creasing parf, and the Radicals, and Irrecon- cilables, andJommunists affiliats with them. The pxunnt}evmmunt dares not alienate this pesty. Withoat them it would fal to pieces like mope of sand. It has not strength enough of fself to retain its power, and in crder toD 50 must eoncilisgte them. Ii ould gain rthing by loging them and adl. iating with le Church party, sincs the latter is impotentleyond ita spiritual officer. It conld not fing men, money, influence, or power to Government, and thess ars sgencics fla.hnnud.tmmihnhpu sympathy of the Vatican with Don Cazros’ 3 pretensions to the Spanish throns, which bas been manifested in the assistance ren- dered him by prominent French and English TUltramontanes, and in tho farce of his coro- nation by the Papal Nuncio after he crossed the Pyrenees into Spain, has not made the Spanish people any more loyal to the Vati- can, since, however just Don Camros’ claim may be, the majority of the peo- ple have been opposed to him. In fact, the present Government has once before de- fied the Vaticen by arresting a pugnacious Ultramontane Bishop who was affording aid and comfort to the Carlists, imprisoning him, and vefusing to rclease him upon the demand of the Vaticun expressed by the Papal Nuncio. In this disposition of the Spanish Parliament to discuss religious toleration thers is hope for Spain, and & prospect that she may yet regain somewhat of the ground she has Iost. Spain is now the only country in Europe to which the Vatican can dictate. It is the Iast stronghold of Uliramontanism ; and when thisstronghold is surrendered, asit must inevitably be, there will then be some hope for that afflicted country. The many friends of Alr. LigxrY Q. Meaox, the young American scalptor, will rejoice that oncamors be has been successfal in the snits brought against him by one of hia former work- men in connection with the LiNcoLN monument. It will be remembered that the plaintiff in this case claimed to have been the designer snd soulptor of the monument, the commission of waich waa awarded to Mr. Meapg, and brought suit in one of the lower courts at Florence for compensation. Being defeated, he appealed to & higher court, aud the oable dispatches agsin announce his defeat, which defnitely sottles the matter, and will leave Mr. MzapE undisturbed hereaftor in the prosecution of his work. The suit is all the more important from the fact that ,the samo party, who appears to be & marble- cutter of that class employed by sculptors to do the mechanical part of their work, has hitherto maligned and slandered pearly all the Ameri- can scujptors’in- Italy by printing articles in varions Enropean papers, which have been copied into various papers of this country, setting forth that they have pursued a fraudulent business by claiming work which in reality was doase by Ital- ian workmen employed by them. Most of our artists in Rome and Florence have suffersd these attacks without making any reply to them, trust- ing to their character and raputation for refats- tion. One or two, however, were lesa patient, and instituted suite for libel against the sams party who bre _sht the suit against Mr. Meape. His defeat in this case is tantamonnt to his con- +viction for libel in the other cases, and is all the more gratifying from the fact that the suit was tried in an Italian court, under Italisn influences, &nd whero there was likely to bo a more practi- cal knowledge of the ments of the asse and of the processes and methods of the art than al- mmost anywhere else. Under such eircumstanoces, Mr. MrapE's victoryis & peculiarly significant sad gratifying ons. R A correspondent of the London Daily Tele- graph at Caro, in describing a breakfast with the Khedive of Egypt, mentions an incident in connection with one of the diahes, “rizals Ehedive,” composed of peculiarly small and deli- cata rico stawed in & consomme of calves’ brains. Ope of the dignitaries of the court, who sat by the correspondent at table, remarked: *I cor- dislly recommend that rice to you, in the first plsce, becavss ii is a reslly admirable dish, in the preparation of which bia Highnesa’ cef ex- cels all others; and secondly, because it is probably the most expensive mefs ever set be- fore any body since the days of H=zrioGABALUA. Every grain of that rice, my dear sir, cost the Kbedive a louis. I venture to appraise your consumption of # at $350 a mouthful That back you have just been drinking is not s abso- lutely chosp wine; Ismam Pasma took all he couald gat of it at 68 francs & bottle,—about $14 ; bug, in comparison to his rice, he may bs con- sided to have got it for nothing. That rice is of & peculiar sort, grown oa the Ehedive's own estates; it 1 consequently the moss costly arti- cle that appears upon the vice-tegal table.” This sort of extravagance accounts in part for ths bankrupt eondition of Egyptian finances. ‘The Republicans, having swept the French olections againat the Ultramontanes snd reas- tionists of overy degres, bavs now complete pos- sezsion of the Government. The Bourbon fami- 1y bas quictly withdrawn from active politica, A oorreapondent thus writes of them : Tho Liead of the Bourbon family loet his lsat chance when he insisted upon the substitution of the whita flag for tho tri-color. The Princed of Orleans have quistly resumed their places in tlie army, and have refired from the political arena. The DU D'ATMALE is engroseod with his corps d'armee, and with the duty of reparing the frontier places of the East; the Duc pz CHARTRES commands a regimentat Luneville; the Duc pzz NEKOU2S 13 siudying the Austrian cay- alary maouvrea, and trying to improva the French cevalry; tho Comte DR PARms is finishing quietly at Fu Lis % History of the American War.” There re- Iiaioa no hoatilé pazty befors the Republic except the Bopapartist party, which struggles with fl.\gcnny the painzul memories of the Empira, —_— Thete are twenty-one memboars of the present Common Council who are opposed to Home- Rulo in Chicago. They have defested the right of the Puople to elect their Mayor, and have fastened a usurper upon them against their will, and to the injury of the credit and reputation of the city. Ifost of these perfidions Aldermen have the brass to present themselves for indorse- ment and election. Here'ls a liat of them : For tho right of tha peopl: to olect their own Mayor— Noes—Foley, Warten, Fitzgesald, Reidy, Bommer, \dzoth, Baliey, O'Beian, W ite, Gandenson, Tya, f, Stout, Mahr, Lengacher, Murphy, SChAfr> er, Sweaney, Lynch, Jonas, Gorcoran—al, In English journals statemontis ere made to the offect that tho whole valae of the presents received by tho Prince of Wales during his tour in Indis will not much exceed £0,000, and the value of presents given by him will amouns to reutly the same sum. It is estimated that the value of the English goods ordered by Princes of India to fumnish their palaces for the recep- tion of the Prince of Weles amonnts to fally £250,000. And it 1s thonght that the taste thus awakened among the higher classss of natives for English fancy goods will permanently in- creass the export of productions of akilled Iabor. An exchangs makes a litils fun of the goo- graphioal knowiedge of our English cousina, thus : : Oxford~—* I say, where's Harvard 7 * peAmbridge—* Ob—sh—somewaars s s Flatss, T Xnow. Why Oxford—+ They want u3 to row s & placs ealled Gentennfal nezc summer. Cambridge—* Ob, indeed ! Ha! hal® —_—_— A correspondent writes us s savage atiack en Ald. Dixos, eharging him with conspiring to fasten WaRsEY on the Republicans at the pri- mary mesting. As Mr. Dxox s neithar & fool zor s traitor, we discredit the report, and decline publishing the attack. He knows vory well that WaggeX voted with Tox FoLey and the bom- mars jn the Council to prevent the peopte from electing a Mayor, and has forfeited all claims to RBepublican support. —_— ‘Wa judge the trads is * off* for the trans- fer of ihe control of the Times to s Demo- cratio Committes, clique, or club, as Bxveamaz's orgaa {s rushing in to 5l the rols that had been designed for the Times. The latter will continne to spisah around, and throw mud and billingsgate, aa harstofors. Ko matter what party they pratead to be- long to, those Aldermen who voted to fasten CoLvin on the peopls of Chicago should be dsfested. No tax-payer hsving the waltare of ks ally of Beart dam scnsistenilly snppors any —_— - In the second place, tho open and avowed | of them. Thore should bea clean sweep made of the entiro gang. They are not.to be truxiag again. Abad egg: Ald. F. W. Wanney, who Is sask. ing re-alection, after batraying the pecpls of Firat Ward. e _—— Two roiten ogga: Tox Brovr snd Pmp Masm, of the Fifteenth (o!d Sixteonth) Ward, A badly-decayed egg: J. H. Erongra PERSONAL. Tho eatate of the late Frank P. Blair, Jr, iy vatued at §$500. Capt. E. P. Dort. of Buffalo, has earned thy proud title of ** Plimsoll of the Lakes.” A Boston correspondent maintains that Haw. thorne took himself for the hero of ** Baptining Felton.” Susan Anthony says the oaly class of humay beings in the United States mea can't argue wity to-day is the women. Anthony Trollope’s new story, ** The Amoerican Benator,” is to bepin in gerial form in May. The acene islaid in England. We look for the resg rection of Flanagan. They do esy that Robeson is in one of thos : delicate situstions where it becomes his daty, either to draw out or doubls the blind. ‘Walt Whitman, in his youth. was s dapper ang dandyish coniributor to fashionable literary periodicals. He only began to be ths post of nature and shabby cfcthes in his maturer yearg Bireden sends Jenny Lind's shoestrings to the Centennial, Csnnot they send in person thay sweet warbler, whose melodious burats fillsd the soal of Phineas Barnum with sounds that echo still 2 Ben Butler ance had s Treaswry girl dis. charged because hs heard her refer to him s & cross-eyed appropriator of spoons. The Ciil Bervico was organized te have a highj opinion of Gen. Butler, The gossipa of New England say that if Mr, Dana is not sent to England, he will be sitting in Mr. Boutwell's seat in the Senate ome of thess days. Hence the very aotive intersst of Boutwell in the proceedings. On the 8th inst. Miss Millie 0. Bishop, of this city, & young lady well known in society circles, will gail from New York for Europs, whither ahe goes with the object of completing her musical and German stodies. John M. Francis, proprietor of the Troy Times, who is making thae tonr of the world, basreschsd Egypt on his Western way. Ho finds the Khe- dive democratic in manner and ‘kative, sod & very gentlemanly fellow—for a Khedive. Jamea Gordon Bennett has lassoed a new personal oditor at Castle Garden. He wants to have evarything about his newspaper ordarly and decent, in view of his approaching mar- riage, which i3 to take place ihe third Wednes- day in April. Tue TRIBUNE yesterdsy managed o publish announcements uwoder the four beads of +Births,” * Engsgements,” ** Marrisges,” and “Deaths.” Was it not 82d to think that s city like Chicago could not supply a salitary divares for the occasion? The new additions te the Papal Index are 3L da Presssuse’s book on the Vatican Council, Dr. Behulte's treatise against Clerical Celibaoy, and Dr. Friedrich’s *‘Mechanism of the Vatican Religion,"—the first written by a Protestaat and the others by Old Catholics. Flowering jessamine vines clamber aloft and load the air with their fragrance, lilies and vio- lets make their lowly but not lesa inviting ap- peal in Charleston, 8. C.; and in Chicago, XL, the beautifol mud slushss around & foot-snd-a balf deep. Such are the vicissizudes pf fortune. Friends of M. Kossuth will be intereatsd ta learn that he is still abls to appear in waat is popularly known in Landon Divorce Court pare 1ance a5 & “ Co.” A decree nisi for ths diasolus tion of a Mr. and Mra. Scott's marrisge, by res« soa of the lady's partiality for the Hungarisa hero, has lately beea made. The Rev, F. W. May, of Chesoning, Mich., has a praty black caso against him—a woman case, of course. A certain Miss Caroline Parker testifies to Gighenorable proposala mads to her by Mr. May, and to suspicious conduct of the defendant in & grove with another woman ; and it is thought Mr. AMay willhave hia name changed to Maroh, suiting the ction to the ward. Deniel Drew’s son-in-law, the Raev. XMr. Clspp, with childlike eimplicity some time ago with drew his wife's fortune from the keeping of heq father, and invested is separately. She is now » ;millionaire and Daniel is s beggar. Mra, Clapp’s money, it is scarcely necessary to say, was not lezt in Wall streat samong the sharks. The Astor wedding in New York, Isat week, 1 said to have witnessed the most opalent wed- ding group ever seen in Grace Church, and the fee which Rector Potter cnjoyed is aaid t¢ ‘have besn $500. Brown, too, the corpulen{ sexton, had a handsoms present fer opeaing the church, which, if it were under $50, would bs small businees. Benator Jones' baby *is 23 bald a5 & walnnf and has a comical represemblance to Jones.” At the last recoption it was kissed by Olive Logax and Gen. Butler. Mra. Jones was attired in vel ves, with an overdress bordered with cloth of gold, wronght in startling oolors. Bhe abso< Intely looked weary aud heavy laden with precions stones. AMr. George Fawcett Rowe denies the repor that he is soon to marry Miss Rose Lisls, ¢ young and pretty actresa who is appearing nightly in his highly succesaful play of ** Brasa.” He say be will never marry aoybody in the profes aion, because jealousy and unhappiness must arise between, persous so immediately in i valry with each other. The Emperor of Brazil ia to remain thret months in the United States. He will go to Cak ifornia before attending the Philadelphis Exhis bitioa. Aftor leaving America he is to make the tour of Europe, visiting Busaia and passing ovet to Asia Minor and Egypt.. He is s great admires ot all things American, and bas translated sew eral of the poems of Whittier and Longfellow. ‘The trouaseau of Misa Yznegs del Valle, who i to marry the Viscount Mandeville, son of the English Duke of Manchester, will cost $75,000 Bhe is 2aid to be one of the moat beantifal women in Americs. The weddiog will take place in May at Trinity Chapel, and will be cales braled by Bishop Potter and the Rav. Morgas Dix. The Duks of Manchester and family will croas the ocean to witness the ceremony, At a soirse to Mr. Charles Bradlaugh, recently beld in London, s purse of £169 waa presented tojhim. Among the speakers wasths veteran G. J. Holyoake—who, by all acconnts, needed the porse mors thsa Mr. Bradlaugh did—and Mra, Annie Besant, who wrote iwo or three radical letters to Tee TRIZUNE some months sge. She is famous for baving had & clergyman aa heg husband and being now a rank infidsl herself— nocompliment to her husband. The will of the lats Charles Danfarth, of Paten son, N. J., givea to b8 daughters, AMra. Williang Ryle and Mra, Taggart, $400,000 each ; $130,00( to his grandson, Robert Taggart ; $100,000 t< his grandchild, daughter of Dr. Barnes ; $100,006 each to the children of William Ryle; $100,004 additional fo Charles Ryls, on condition that he assumes the name of *‘Charles Daxnforth;* $5,000 to the executor, William Pennington, snd s small legacy to his coachman, Ars. Lucy Hooper, the aprightly newspaper correspondent, bas had 80 many calis upon her tima in the way of execating commismions for {riends this sids of the Atlantic, that she has finally decided t0 turm * comimissionaire,” For the very modorate commission of 5 per cent she offers to furnish anything in s Isdy’s wardrobs from eatin alippars to an Indian shawl M’ Hoopar's long residence abrosd, and her mti~ mste scquaintance with the peculiaritiss of French dressruskaers, sa shown by har lettars, 80 doubt render boe a shrewdshoppes. Bar addces® fx No. 3 Bus Beribe, Parin