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

\ 4 The Teibwwe, TERMS OF S8UBSCRIPTION. PATABLE TN ADVANCE~POSTAGE PREPAID AT k3 tpald, 1 T Dally Paltlon, portraid, 1 ye Mafled to an nddress tour weeks for. Sunday Edition: Literary and Kellgio ek el e of year Bt saine WREKLY EDITION, POSTIAID. Qne capy, per year... RO v, pereopy ‘The postage Rpccimen coples sent free. ‘To prevent delay snd infatakes, be sure and give Post Ofec address o full, including Btate and County. Remittances may bo inade clihcr by draft, express, Post-Office ondor, or In regiatered Ictters, atour risk. TRRMB 70 CITY SUBSCRIBERS. Dally, delirered, Bunday excepted, 25 centa per week, Dally, delivered, Sunday included, 30 cents per week Hdiress THE TRINUNE COMPANY, Coracr Madlson and Dearborn-sta., Clilcago, Jil. TAMUSEMENT! Adelph! Theatre, Monroe street, coracr Dearborn. Varlety perfore maace. New Chicngo Theatre. Clagk atreet, between Lako and Randolph. Hoo- ley's Sifnstrels,’ MaoVicker's Theatre. s Madtson street, between State and Dearborn. **Tho Overiand Route. mmr——— e MEETINGS, SOCIE: B, NO. 303, A, F. & A, M,—Regular the Third Degree, Viating breturen fraternall 1n- vited, €, M. WHITE, W. M. C. \. O'DONNELL, 8cc. MONDAY, JUNE 12, 1876, Greenbacks at the New York Exchange on Baturday ranged at 88}@88] conts on tho Qollar, — Coolor and clos: weather is the delightful prospect foreshadowed for to-day in official ‘eports on that subjeot. f A new President has beon installed in office Intho South American Ropublic of Bolivin. The change wns quietly eficcted by the army, tho country probaobly being too poor to in- dulgoe in the luxury of wlat in our own land amounts to something like ten thousand con- ventions and mix months of business-pa- ralyais, The racing event second in importanco to the English Derby—the Prix do Paris—oc- eurred yesterdny, and for the first timoin toveral years tho grand prize of the French Jockoy Club lins been captured by a Derby winner. Kisber, the victor in the groat struggle for cquine supremacy in Great Britain, was ngain suceessful at Paris, finish- ng with n clear lead of four lengths over the flower of the French stables, The dotails of an extraordinary suicide— wmong the most singular and romarkable of wy ever known—aro given in o dispatch Yom Lafayette, Ind. A skillful mechanic wd inventor, tired of lifo, brought his fenius to bear upon the contrivance of a ipecies of autowmatie guillotine, the work- ags of which were arranged and secured with patient deliberation and absolute accu. racy, so that whon the proper time hnd ar- rived the horrid machine did its work with inoxorable procision, and the head of the scientific suicide was savered from the body at a single stroke, Tho very latest tclograms from Washing. ton concerning the condition of Afr, Bramve convey the gratifying intelligence that the worst is over, and that there is good reason to anticipate his speedy rocovery, Dr. J, W. Pore, Mr. Bramve's family physician, at ) o'tlock last evoning mndo a formal teport for the, benefit of the anxious thousands throughout the country, stating that tho couse of tho attack was cerobral iopression, the consequonce, primarily, of reat montal strain, and, secondly, of the iction of oxcessive heat ; that there is no sppearance of apoplexy, congestion, or par- slysis ; that the pationt has responded ex- sellontly to treatment, and there is evory in- Bication of his spoedy recovery. Later ad- vices report Mr. Braivs sleeping tranquilly sud out of the reach of danger, ‘Tho charges agninst Mr. Onrn, the Ropub- tican candidate for Governor of Indiana, are raguo, indefinite, and unsubstantiated, and they should not bo pormitted in their prosent thape to projudice that *gentleman, whose long service in Congress was unimpoached until ho wns nominated for Governor. The Democrata fully appreciate the importance of carrying the Stato of Indiana at tho Octo- ber eloction, which along with tho result of tho October election-in Ohio will notably in- fluence the national contest. This is proba- bly the reason why they havo sot out thus enrly to weaken thoe Ropublican candidate for Governor in the way best calculated to wttract public stiention at this time, But Alr. Ontu's long public service, and his repu- tation as an honest and honorable gentleman, should protect him from condemuation on necount of mere charges, as yet unsustained {n any particular, s — Bpenker Kenn lica in a vory critical condi- tion at Washington, and it is feared that ho cannot long survive. The excitement and distress consoquent upon the publication and Invostigation of the grave charges brought by the witness Hauxex have so preyed upon ond impaired his Lealth, delicate and pre- carious at the best, as to give rise to seriona approhensions that the scandal will literally prove to bo the death of him. Our dispatches snnounce that the investi- gation is alrendy practically at an end, tho Commiltes, both Democrats end Republicans, having fully dotermined thnt tho chargos were bascless at the outset and pported only by malignant and perjured Jeutimony. ‘The report of the Committeo to this effect, aud complotoly oxonerating Mr, Kenn from all blame, will, it is carnestly hoped, havo the result of rallying his vital forces and cxercise a beneficial influcnco ju Improving his health, The Chicago producs markets were irreg- lar on Baturday, aud notive, Provisions were steadier, whoat stronger, and corn easier, Mess pork olosed a shada lower, ot $18.05@ 19.00 for July and $19.20@19.22} for August. Lard closed 6o por 100 1bs higher, at 811,20 @11.22} for July and $11.85@1L47} for August. Moats woro o per Ib higher, ot 7o for boxed shoulders, 10jc for do short sibs, and 10fo for do short clears, Lake froights wero steady, at 2Jo for eorn to Bufalo. Rail freighta were unchangoed. Iigh- wines were steady, at $1.08 per gallon. Flour wos in light demand and steady, Wheat closed 1o higher, at $1.07§ for Juno and $1.08 for July. Corn closed }o lower, at 4540 for June aud 46jo for July. Oats wore easier, closing at 800 for Juue orJuly. Rye wos steady, ot 720 Barley wag firmer, st 600 for No. 2 and 88¢ for No. 8. Hogs were active and firm at the opening of the market, £6.90@0.30 for common to extra. Tho eat- tle market was quict and steady. Sheep wero dull at $3.00@4.76 for poor to choice. One hundred dollara in gold would buy $112.62§ In greenbacks nt the close, Mr. Braixz's manogers and frionda at Cin- cinnnti aro confidont that his prospocta for the nomination minount to nlmost a certainty, They claim, with a groat show of sincerity, 293 voteson tho first ballot, nnd caloulate upon gaining steadily from that time forth until the 80 additional votes reqnisite for tho nomination aro secured. Thus estimate, Low- evor, would seom to bo far too liboral, as it ‘| embraces tho solid votd of 1llinois and Wis- congin, out of which thoro will surcly come At lenst soven votes for Bristow, and the united support of other States similarly sit- unted is relicd upon with equal confidence, 'Lhe possibility of losing strongth after tho first ballot is not for n moment admitted by the Bramve men, who expect to gain rapidly 08 Roon aa tho ‘‘favorito-son” business is disposed of by the varions dolegations. ——— ‘Wa publish this morning a communieation on the subject of dog-proclamations and Lot weather, the writer maintaining with great positivencas that canines are more Iinblo to hydrophobin in cold wenther than in warm, and that nothing but a senscless superstition among ignorant people connects tho idea of rabies with the *¢ dog-days " or Loated term, ‘The plan of & goneral muzzling of dogs or- dered in the Mayor's recent proclamation is chamoterized as o pieco of noedloss cruelty, tho effect of which will tend to hasten and oggravate rather than to pravent or alleviate the dreaded dog-epidemic, and the Humano Society is appealed to for intervention in behalf of the four-logged as agninst the two- legged bruto who orders this wholosale muzeling. It is o subject which, in the in. terest alike of humanity and tho public wel- faro, should ba treated intelligently, and it i altogathor likely that a littlo more light would prove a boon to the dogs if not a ben. aofit to the Mayor. Frrznvon's talont as n lettor-writer was not exhansted when ho had finished that re- markable production which cansed bis down- fall. Hois out in anothor communication, this time in a differont vein, which fills two columns of fine type, and which ko modestly desires should bo printed in overy newspaper which gave publicity to hia first famous of- fort. Ho had threntened diro rovelations affocting the charneter of some of the Demo- cratio Congressmon who kicked him out, but he now declares that theso threats were uttered undor stress of injuries unjustly in. flicted upon him, and, disclaiming this dis- astrous fntent, ho promises nover to unloosen the string of Lis scandal-budget excopt from asense of public duty or in tho weakness of rotulistion uader excitement. Therefore the trembling Confederates may rest securo for tho presont, but should have a care how they arouso Firznuan's senso of public duty or oxcite in his breast the instinet of rotalintion. An'ho would he could, but far tho present Lo won't, — MR. BLAINE'S ILLNESS, Tho whole country was surprised and nlarmed at the intelligenco that the Hon, Jaxes G. Branve hud been yesterdny stricken with unconsciousness, while attending church, in Washington. Tho first reports, and those received for soveral hours, gava but little hopo for his rocovery, but later accounts wero of a moro cheering character, During the evening he recovered conscious. ness, and was nblo to recognize his family, and there was an absence of tho mora serious conditions which at first wera supposed to oxist. His medical attendants have exproasod confidence of his ultimato recovoery, and that the character of tho attack does not indicate dangerous results, Mr. Brarve and his family will have the sympathies of the Amorican peoplo. That oven his vigorous physieal strength should have given way, under the terrible pressure and strain of the last few weeks, ought not to bo surprising. No man has ever had such 8 furious encounter, involving so much of momentous results, not only to himself but to his party, his country, ond bLis personal {riends, crowdod into so brief a spaco of time. Thoe storm brolse upon him from vari. ous quarters, and practically ho had to sus. tain tho shock unaided and alone. Neces- sarily ho has had to boar the brunt of the wholo battle, and bravely and daringly has he borne himself from first to last. Naturally of an ardent, excitable, and nervous temperament, kis whole being Las been subjected to an imnmenso strain, throat. ening mind and body alike. Added to this, tho intenso heat of Wushington City at high noon in midsummer, and wo have this brave, strong, powerful man subjocted to a trial, moutal and physical, which but fow wen could resist, The wholo nation will sympathize with him in his afliction, sud in forvent hopes for his rapid rocovery, and the full restora. tion of all his giant faculties of mind and body, all men, porsonal and politicat friends and foes, will cordially unite, The country cannot afford to loso Mr, Bratne at this time, Ho has much to live for and to hopo for, Tho country nooeds his abilitics, Lis experi. enco, and his power at this time. It stands in need of just such men. Ho needs life also on his own 'account. Ie has an unsettled account to settlo with oppononts, enemies, and rivals; and, whatover may be tho out. come of tho struggle at Cincinnati, there is much that Mr, BLaxe can do, and will do, towin and retain the affection and confidenco of his countrymen, — e Tho Nation, in o recent number, discussed ‘* Mr. Buistow o8 o candidate,” and after ro- viowing the gonoral subject and giving him 1ull eredit for his official conduet in pursuing fraud and romedying abuses, orgued that the porsonal fidelity of an ofticer was not sufl. cient; (but that civilized nations ought to provide o system of sdministration which shall promote vigilaneo and fidelity among all its offficers. It used this language : ‘Wa ara entitled to n system which will detiver us from dependence un uny one's zeal or coursge. Lot whether Mr, Butstow fw or is not heartlly in favor of & new systews or not, we are not sy yet fully inforined. e wmay be eaid to be In favor of *eclvil-seryice reform,” and yet not satlaty the needsof the time, because the phrase clyll-service reform {v used fu different senscs by diterent peg- ple. AsMessrs, Coxkuixe und Mouton uss lt— for they, tou, use it—it means what they call **puttiog noss but good men fn ottice '~ thut s, sppoluting uobody who is not well recommended by Henstors snd Representatives fricudly to tho Adminlatration. We have. however, had ubundant THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY, JUNE 1 1876. lence of this kind of reform, and it 1a beeaurs the conntry fs not aatinfied with It thnt there 16 any movement in favor of Mr, Binatow at all. Mr. Bristow has, to tho extent of his lim- ited jurisdiction, ondeavored to establish re- form, nud au office-tenure not dependent on the will or plensura of Benators and Repre- scutalives in Congress. That, if in placo with more oxtendod powers, ho would on- Inrgo this reform and ostablish n syatem by which official integrity would be socured, we hava no doubt. In his roport on the finances for 1873, ot pago 82, in speaking of smug- gling, ho said: Tut the only suro remedy for the evils of smag- gling, aud collusive nr other undervaluations, les ALInst [y the selection and retention of falthful and competent aflicers. Nelther laws nor regnlations, however stringent or minnte, wiil nccompliah tho desired resulte withont falthful ofticers to executo them. At page 37, of tho samo report, in discuss- ing rovenue frands, ho snid ¢ ‘The highest guarantee of the falthful collection of revenuc i In the vigilance and Intezrity of ofticlale, Thin guarantco can be secured only by carcful selec- (luna in the firat Instance, by retatulng in ofico ruch na have proved thelr cfiicloncy and honesty, and by prompt disinfssal and vigorous prosecution of such as have been proved falthioss, Wodo not think that thereis tho least doubt that, if Mr. Brisrow wore clected President, there would bo nreform in tho civil-service system to tho extent that tho Presidont could do so, unless Congress should prohibitit. The country wants not only a President in favor of reform, but also a Con- gress, —— INJURING THE PARTY. The Chicago Journal, professing to speak for itsclf, Col. Ingemsorr, and *‘many others,” insinuates an inability to understand how T'me Ciicsao TripuNE con remain in the Republican party if either Mr. Mortoy, Mr, CoxnriNg, or Mr. Braive Lo nominated at Cincinnati. Pne Cnrcaco TwibusE is under 10 owbarrassment on that subject. It pro. poses at all times to spoak the truth and to take part in no deeeption of the public. - Its readers look to it for n candid statement of facts, whether they have a damaging effect upon men in office, or out of office, or seck- ing oftice. 'The proper timo to discuss the merits of men secking party nominntions is before and not after the nomimation, If thore be good rensons why ono man or a dozen men ought not to be nominated, the uewspaper that suppresses the facts leaves it rendors in the dark, and permits the nomi- nation to be mndo in ignorance, deceives its readers, and is responsible for whatever de- feat may follow. ‘The Chicago Journal knows, s doos overy one, that neither Mr. CongrING nor Mr, Mon- wox can be elected if nominated. If Tuz Curclao Tumonz believes this, and further that it is very doubtful if Mr. Braise can bo clected, nnd tells ita readers tho truth, it is neting candidly with the public, and not as a false guide at o moment when a guide is most needed. Two yoars ago thio party organsled the party to n national defeat. They demnnded of the poople the re-clection of the public thieves who wors in ofiles. The party re- fused to Lo dragooned, and sufficient Ropub- licans all over tho United States nbstained from voting to let the Democrats clect o Democratio Congress; and even to carry the State of Illinois by 30,000 mijority, electing two-thirds of the members of Cougress, and o majority in both branches of the State Legislature. ‘I'hese Republicans are all looking Lo Cin- cinnati for a candidate who will give assur- anco of reform, while tho old machine politi- cians and dishonest’ rings aro endeavoring to repeat the policy of 187t Shall the Cin- cinnati Convention force a rapotition of the dofent of 18747 Bhall the Republican party blindly yield to those who are respousible for the corruptions of tho past, and shall the party again bo subjected to a defeat that will transfor the Government to tho Deomocratic party, to bo held by that or- gonization for o half contury, or until it loses it by snother civil war? Tmx Cmr- oaco Toimuse, a3 a public journal hav. ing no interests to serva but thoso of the country, believing that the national welfare can best be promoted by the principles and policies of the Republican party bLonostly administered, has sought to point out the dangers which threaten defent. It has not been actuated by any personal fcoling ngainst Mr. Braing, Mr. CoNxiang, or Mr. Montox; it hos considerod tho success of the party of more importanco than the success of any in- dividunl, and has sought to preserve publio confldonco and respect by telling its roadors the whole truth, in tima to provent future regroly, Whoever may be nominated at Cincinnati Tnr Cutcaco I'nisuxe will support, and this will not bo from any slavish submission to party dictation, but because Tur Tripung has an abiding faith in the truth of tho doo- trines of the Itepublican party, and as decp o conviction that tho success of the Demo- cratio party will bo perilous to the perpetui- ty of tho freedom of the peopla and the per- petuity of the Union. I'he support which Tute Onrcaco TumnuNe bas always given to the Republican party has beon an intelligent ond sincere support. It has defonded aund maintained tho principles of the party, leaving to othera to scramblo over the spolls, It supported the Republican party when Col. INcERsoLL was one of its wildest dofamers, and when he held that it was ng stupid to bo a Republican as it was to be a Christian, It is more thau likely that the membership of Tk I'nisuse in tho Repub- lican party will outlast that of many of the comparativoly rocent converts whose zeal ruus awsy with their diserotion, AN ANTI-BRISTOW S8CHEME, Bome wecks ago ‘I'ne Cuicado 'I'amuye availed itself of certain information that hiad como into its hiands to expose in n general wuy u conspirncy that Liad been entered into by certain Washington managoers of the Dem.- ocratic party and the Whisky-Rting clement of the Republiean party, which is resolved at overy cost to defeat the nomination of Secro- tary Bmatow at Oincinnati. At that timo wao clted certain ovidences of such a conspir- aoy in tho forcing of needless investigations into baselesa charges, and the timely expos- ure probably lod to au sbandoument of the moro desporato measures which were con- tanplated, since the investigutions foll flatly of their own dead weight, and the Whisky Ring spparontly gave up their designs. It uow appears, howover, that thoy morely changed tholr base, and sot about organizing & moro ingenious and villainous schome for Lilling off Mr. Bristow in the Convention. An accident has brought tho outline of this schemo to our knowledge, sud its exposure now way again sorve to defeat the purposo of the Domocrats and Whiskyites who have concocted it. A gontleman who has just returncd from Washington was shown while thers u letter purporting to bo ono of & series of the same Lind written by certain prominent Denio- cratic managers, und addressed to tho differ- ont Cheivioen of the Btatoe Democratic Central Committeos throughout tho country, ‘This letter urged tho gentlemon to whom it professed to bo nddressed to uso all their in. fluenco to have delegntes sent to the St, Louis Democratio National Couvention un. pledged, so that the Convention would be free to nominate Bustow in enso he should not bo nominnted by the Republicans nt Cincinnati. Of course it was not possiblo for our informnnt to rotain tho exact phrase. ology of thisletter, but he romombors that one sentenco was Lo the effoct that * Bnarow is tho best mnn to serve tho inferests of the South, and tho lonst likely to excito the sus. picions of the North.” 'This letter wns ex- hibited to our informant by n guasi atlorney of tho Whisky Ring,—a man connected with ono of its principal organs,~nnd in a gush of confidence with which such peoplo usunlly botray themselves, The man who had it snid that it had been found in the sirect of a Wastern city, and traced out a8 wo have indicated, and that it was designed to either present tho lottor openly in the Cincinnati Convention, or circulato it clandestinely mmong the delegates, and thus create the impression that Bristow is coquot- ting with tho Democrats, and is n dangerous man for the Republicans to nominate. The Whislkyito who Badthe letter protended to be- licve that it was genuine, ‘Wo do not remember ever to have heard of nmore vile and desporate resort to deprive o candidato of a nomination for any office, high or low, Of course, ecither tho lotter is o forgery, or some Domocrntic politician, in full sympathy with the Whisky Ring, and seriously apprehensive of Buistow's election if nominated at Cincinnati, was induced to writo it for production at the proper time. The iden that the Democrats liave ovor thought for one momont of nominating Mr. Bristow is repugnant to common intelli- gence, 1To is tho lnst man in the world they would think of nominating, Ho is and al. ways was an original Free-Soil, Anti-Slavery Republican and Abolitionist, inheriting tho,| principles from his fathers boforo him, Ho has always fought the Democrats, both in legislativo halls and on the field of battle. Ho has not o political idea in cominon with tho Democratic party. Ilo is a genuine reformer, and the Democrata have no use for such 8 man, Like the Whisky Ring in tho Republican party, the Democrats would as lief Lo defeated as to bo successful with Brisrow, for he would in no wise serve their purposo, Nor would Mr, Bristow accept n nomination at the hands of tho Demacratic parly, knowing that ho is iu overy respect opposed to them, and that he would not act with them if elected by their votes, Ho lins nover yot twned his hand, nor raised his voice, nor sought the aid of his friends to secura tho Republican nomination ; and ho would reject with proper spirit a Doemocratio nomination if tehdored to him, of which thero is no earthly ppobability. TThis fictitious letter, whether o forgery or written by one of the Democratic co-con- spirators with the Whisky Ring to bo used in the way described, was a shrewd but des- perate device. Now that its origin aud na- ture aro exposed, it may bo that it will be withheld altogethor or only circulated among the Cincinnati delegates sccrotly. In either caso it will probably have the very opposite effect from that for whichit was prepared, and which it might have attnined had it been suddonly sprung upon the Convention with the peculiarly significant reference to sery- ing Bouthern interests without exciting Northern suspicions. It bears tho lie on its faco, and it is as wicked and infamous a awindlo as ever human ingenuity invented, ‘Wo do not know whother Secretary Brustow can be nominated at Cincinnati or not; but we do know that this latest and most sean- dalous effort of the Democrats and Whisky Ring to Lill him off should convinco overy bonest man in the Cincinnati Convention that he is tho candidate of ali others whom the Domocrats and Whiskyites most foar, and thaot of all othors he is the man who would cortainly arouse the honest masses of this country even to enthusiasm, and lead them to certain victory. THE SILVER BILLS. Small favors are very thankfully reccived from the Democratic Congress, bocguze the country had about given up all hope of any legislation in thoe roal intorests of the eountry. Tho present session of Congress having been expressly sot aside in caucus to run o Demio- eratic campnign for the Presidency, there hins been o systematio avoidance of all legis- Iation which might in the lenst interforo with this plan. We presume that the Democratic managors concluded it would be safe and non-committal to pass the two BSilver bills (Mr. Payye's aud NMr. Rasparv's), and thereforo vouchsafed that much to the coun- try, inspite of tho opposition of thoinfla- tionists, which must be based mainly on the fear that silver will bo too effective asan educational agont, loading up to ultimata re- sumption, 3 Wo presime that Mr. Payne's bill will imnmediately passed by the Senate, ny it is nb- solutely nocessary for tho relief of tho sori- ous emburrassments in commereinl circles on nccount of the famine in small change. When it was determined to substitute silver for the fractionnl curroncy, thers was an fm- mediato hoarding of the fractionals to be tsed in exchongo. But tho facilities for gotting the silver into circulation have proved to be altogether inadoquate; this is sufficlently shown from the 'I'reasury statoment that, up tothe Tthinst., only alittle more than $5,000,- 000 o silver had boen fssued in exchango of fractionals, and that less than 38,500,000 in all had been put in circulation, including the payment of curreucy obligations aver the counters of the Treasury Departmont. This, of courso, is a wero drop in the bucket, and a largo part of the silver uctually issued has disappeared. Honco the famine. Mr, Pavne's bill provides that $10,000,000 of silver may be exchanged immediately for that amount of greoubacks, the greonbacks to bo held in the T'reasury ond only ressued in oxchange for the same gmount of fractional currency. 'Lhis s equivalent to a direct exchange of silver for fractional ewrrenoy, but it facilitates and hastens the work. Thero {8 now §7,500,000 of available silver in tho T'reasiiry which ought to como out itamediately whon this bill shall have becomo o law. It is probablo that the banks throughout tho country will send on groon- backs to tho Treasury, and take up this sil. ver to deal out among their customers as a matter of accommodation, so that the I'reas- ury will have hundreds of agonoies for the oxchango instead of the fow scattering Bub. I'reasuries which have herotoforo been in- trusted with the worls, Hereaftor tho Gov- ernment agencies will probably bo able to do thw work as rapidly as the silver is coined. Mr, Ranpary’s bill will give the Govern. ment the ndvantage of purchasing silver with its surplus greenbacks on huud at the present low rate of tho bullion, and will oventually increase tho voluma of swall chuuge by $20,000,000. ‘Chis will be found uccessury, sluce the hoarding of ail. vor, which will always continue to w grenter or losa extent, will necessitato n much larger amount of subsidinry coinago to supply tho demand thau wns found sufll. cient with the fractionals, which wero novor honrded and nover desirablo. There will be no auch immediato offocts felt from the pas- sago of the Ranparnbill as thors will be from tho final adoption of tho Payxg bill, but it ia anothor step in the right direction, and, if it shall becomo a law, it will assist notably in familiarizing the people once more with the advantoges of a specie currenoy, It may bo thought advisable by the Senate, howavor, to adopt a still more liberal monsure, and provide for tho exchango of silver dollars and half-dollars in a nnch larger amount for tho outstanding one-dollar greonbacks, tho latter to bo eanceled and destroyed when tho oxchnngo shall havo been made. ‘This would be an improvement, since Mr, Ranpary's bill ronlly authorizes an inflation of tho curroncy to the amouat of $20,000,000. Bocratary Bnistow's instructions to Bru- ronp Witsoy, Bolicitor of the Treasary, not to visit Cincinnati during the Convontion in hig behalf, is fully in keoping with that gen- tlemnn's conduct ever sinco his name has boen mentioned ns a possible eandidate for Presidont. In this respect he presonts a singular and croditable contrast to some other gentlomen who have also Leen con- spicuously nssociated with the possibility of the Ciacinnati nomination, Wo happen to know that Ermen Wasanunw, Chiof of the Secret flervice Bureau, and n subordi- nate cf Becrotary Drtstrow's, left Chicngo for tho East on tho very day tho large DBnwsrew mass-meoting wns held in McCormick's Hall. Ilo was seen on tho cars by & gentleman who expressod surprise that ho did not remain over for the meeting. Wasnours's reply was that, if he had done 80, it would havo been tho last Bristow meeting he could ever nttend as an officer of tho Government, that Secrotary Bnistow docs not permit his subordinates to do any campaigning in his behalf, and that he (Wasununy) would loso his official head the very first time the Becretary should Lear of Lis attonding a Bristow mecting or othor- wise actively assisting the Lnisrow move- mont. Wao venturo to say that cight voters out of overy ton, without rogard to political distinctions, really want to sce such a man ns that the next President of the United States. = — If the railroads want to employ their com- paratively idlo tracks and ongines profitably, thoy will immediately reduco the eastward- bound passenger rates to the same figure' as that which they have fixed for westorn-bound rates,—&14 from Now York to Chicago. If they would establish a round-trip rate of §25 ‘from Chicago to Now York and returg, mak- ing the ticketa good for a long timo or indef- initely, thoy would earn still more money. This spasmodic and half-way reduction will not avail them, since it will not serve to cre- ats a business that they would not otherwise get. Bt o notable reduction in good faith ond promising to last for a long time will, along with tho attractions of the Centennial, start up o newtraveling public and set paople going who wonld otherwise nover think of it. Such @ plan would also give a new im- petus to trade, and make overything livelier and overybody mote confident and hopeful. e PERSONAL. *¢ Counting heads, never weighing them,” ia tho grouty Carlylo's cpigrammatic definition of uni- versal snftrage.” Mr, Horace White hos an article on **Tho Finan- clal Crixla fu America™ In the June number of tho Fortnlghtly Revieiwo, The Rev. Dr. Newman Tall soys the churches of Qreat Britaln have lost 30,000 members within three years by intemperance. Mrs, Ilattle E. Falconer, artist, of Chieago, sniled for Hong Kong, China, from San Francisco, in tho steamcr Great Republie, June 1. The Prince Tmuerial, it {s about declded, will soon mako a tour of America. 3. Rouher fs op- powed to the trip, the Empress le neutral, and Gon. Fleury 1s In favor of It, Lord Eversly, when o small boy, heard Fox speak In the Nouse, and, with the usual geniuas of small boys, he inquired, **What ia the fat gentleman fn #uch o pavslon abonty™ The library editlon of tho works of Shelley, soon to be published In England, will contain & poem on Shelluy's death Ly his widow, and a hitherto un- engraved portrat of tho poet. The autoblography of the late Recrctary Soward Isnow In press ot the Appletons’. 1t is brought down to 1834, und 18 followed by a later mewmoir by s son, Frederick W, Seward, The Italisn historlan Malagnla has made discoy- eries {n the archives of Bologna which support the Dellef that Copernicas wasof German, and not, as generally supposed, of Polleh orlgin, Mr. Alexander Stephens ls now In Improved health, but not yet strong enough to write or read much., 1o says in a letter to u friend, under date of June 2, ** A relapse may como ot any time," ‘The Church of tho Disclples in New Yorl, pro- slded over by thu Rev. Dr. llepworth, hns been #old at auction under a first mortgage. The pur- chasers are friendly to the congregation and pastor, A little Boston hoy mourned, the other day, be- cause God had captured his toy balloon and pald nothing for It. It kiad slmply escaped and gone in tho direction which {8 popularly kuown us heaven- ward, Prof. Max Mucller has left England for a year's bollday, und is now settled in his new quarters In Germany, 1o hopes that tho reat, combined with change of alr and zoclety, will completely restors bis health, Noston people sk with some feeling why the New Yorkers were so Indignant nbout the destruce tlon of the Old South Church, when they might eadly have provented It by taking up o suitable subscription, ‘he cltizens of Manchester, Eng., propose to put o statue of Mr, John Bright In their Town Hall, Mr. Theed is already at work on it, aud o subscrip- tion 1» on foot to detruy tho expeuses, ‘Thu cost s to bo §5,000. Tlackwood & Co. are soon topublish a condensed cdition of Trof, Wilvon's ‘*Notes Ambroslanw, " Tho design of the editor{a '*to compress into s single manageable volume whatever 18 pormusnent and universal" in the work. Miss Edith Lee, tho young lady who bas been plaging Loulse Michel ot Hooley's Theatre, leaven the Ttose Eytinge company st this polnt, and ro. turas to hor homoin the East. The company, aftor playlug one woek in Milwaukcee, will disband, Queen Victorla's Jovée on tho 22d of May was held by the Princo of Wales, tho presentations be- ing equivatent to Introductions o the Queen. Tho 1ist of names of the persons presented on the oc- cavfon takes up five closely-printud columns of the London Times, A curlous old volumo, which is now on oxhibition in London, contalns waterscolor sketclies of the costunies worn by Mrs, Siddons in the varlous parts 1n which sho played fn the years 1802-1803, An coxamination of the volume conrine the statement mado in Ar, Fitzgerald's blography as to the fuelos gouce of many of M, Slddons’ costumes. Mr. Fltzjames Stephen, Q. C., has slmost ready for publication o **Digest of tho Law of Evi- dence, " embodylng thu maln principlos yhich reg- ulate this fmportant branch ot legal procedure in England. The work will make a small voluwo of about 200 pages, and will bo publlshed by Mesurs, Macwillan & Co. The proposition of the Unlversity of Cambrldge to confur the degreo of Doctor of Music upon Here Urahms, Herr Joachim, ond Mr, Sulllven, ls roe gurdod by those composers with undlegulyed dlu- uuy. They cannot, for reasons of courtesy und polley, refuse degrocs conferred by 8o eminent an wuthurlty; but, at the ssme time, they fecl that thy proposed honorw will be useloss Incumbrances, It v only in England that musicsl degrees are con- ferred; and, when tho Mst of Muw. Doca. is compured with the 1lst of untitled musicians, the reaults are lustructive and ludiceous enough. RELIGIOUS. : An Eloquent Sermon by Prof. Swing on ‘“A Lovable God.” Mr. Moody Delivers a Character- istic Address on Christ's Mission. Chlldren’s Pay at the Park Avenno Methodist and First Universalist Churches. “ A LOVABLE GOD. A SENMON NY PIOF. BWING. ‘The following Is the full text of Prof. 8wing's sermon un A Lovable God,” preached yester- day to a lorge cougregation fn - McVicker's The- atre: Let the beanty of the Lord our God be uponus, — Lralms, cx., 1% ‘The psalin from which these words como has been, perhaps, the favorite iymn of three thou- sand years. While thirty centurles lave been passing along in all their army of events, hearts fnal) the conditlons of Joy or suffering have been saylng, * Lord, thou hast been our dwell- Ing-place fn all geuerations,” and have been drawing spirltual riches from the great store- Touse of thought. The early Church percelved the richinees of this pocin and incorporated its meditations Into the most solemu of its servives —that chanted over the coflin of the dead. No modern poet could uow, writiug amid the Lroader learning of this century, constitute for the Church o better anthen, Our age could compose u psalm more powerful fu the delinca- ton of a future Hfe, for in this nincticth psalif only one vlew of man is taken, but in {ts own fleld of survey It could not be well suroassed by sny of the word-weavers of modern times, This hymn represents God ns the eternal houae of the nativns, Ifefs forever and ever Iic fs the Hand that holds all our days. Iils thoueand year-periods leall around man’s hour- perlods, and see them and explain them and re- ward them. Wo cannot comment upon such poetry, for it rises above all words and refuses to recclve light from objects beneath itself. Mountain peaks can be fllumed only by a sun that is high- er than they. What we may all do easily Is to take from this hymnof Moscsone sentence from his prayer, and for the hour Took into that petl- tlon: * Let the beauty of the Lord our God Lo upon ua.” Our times needs the dostrine of a Lovable God. Woneed » God whose moral beauty may beall around us and upon us, Our reason shuta us up to the notion that if there be a personal Delty He must bo an_infinitely perfect buln‘;. and hience our every-day theology should be in harmony with this general sssumptlon, and the moral beauty of the Lord our God should be upon us. Not able to wear such beauty, we should at least attempt to perceive it and derlve what of good we can from such a conception of our Muker. Let mo remind you that there has not been given to man nor found by lim any exuact Aum- ming upon the qualitics of God. Al theology hus been only an effort to study, and explord, and delineate the inmense [dea. “'The effort hay of course fulled of success, beeause the finjte is deburred from the privitege of finding out the Almighty to perfection. - What mun_ can hiape for is degrees of successy can reasonubly Tope to reach In the nineteenth, or twentietli, or thirticth century of this era a more valuable canception of the Crent Father than was reach- ed in the firat u%l. of human reflectlon. Not all the while will there be an unbroken progress. There will Le thnes of retreat, times when ;ruup of men after Chrlst will Told o twore de- eetive delineation of God thun was held by Plato 400 years beforo the Great Light came. Black spots do come upon soclety as upon the sun, and sometimes o murderer springs up fn New England who surpasses In atroclty any as- sasstn of the age of Nero or the Borghis, Thus will come declfues tn religlous idenss but taken all together, soclety grows better as it proveeds; and as it demunds better machinery In the lost age than it demanded u tho first, 86 it will study erpetunlly the lnm:fe of ts Muker, hoplng tu Hu some’ beautiful feature hitherto unscen, ‘These thing belng‘: 80, the study of God should be withaut Intermission, with the hope and be- llef that out of the long Industry of soclety along this path good will come. Thy Bible does not prescut us with a full por- trait of the Deity, And If it dld, one nge would Tisten to only otie vorse, and anofher uge to only some other verse, and the unity would be torn into fragments o Tndians tear up beautiful gar- ments uud break up jowels to give to each Chiet a plece, One seet would declare God to be o mau of war, another would say He {3 love, nud with or wlthout o full revénled aecount the world would be guite destitute of the full beuu- t?' of its Lord. The Idew of God lles before us, then, the subjeet of never-ending study, and we should all wceept of this nvitation wid ponder well over that name so full of mystery, but of power great us the mystery, . Por the most part, the modern creeds contain a noble abstract definition of the Almighty, but then they ut ouce forget the definition nnd nte tribute dctious to the Almighty which conty diet the definition in all partlenlurs, ,They de- fine the charneter of & Father, and then block out for Iflm the emplre aud bu Iness of a flend, The beauty of the Lord cur God wus upon them In the definition of the Dult{ but not in s works., ‘Thus the creeds sll lle open to new study, because ench une tells only how fur the student man had gotten yesterduy, and along what particular path be lad come, A huinan ereed, 1ike an Invention, never biuds the future, 1. Not only s the ctnendation of the divine Iden yoss!hle and cndless, but 1t s uhsnluluiy needful In each age, In our age very needful, It is quite certain that tho religious “sentiment of our times {8 exposed to many new temptatlons, und it may possibly be sinking under the fuflu- cnees of'a bad sky, There are climates in which, when men migrate thither, they lose heart und health, and” drag along as though sleep were the best destiny of the soul. There are moral climates that bring lassitude, and we fear thut our modern sky 18 not the best possi- ble for the development'of the senthment of re- Hglon. ‘The rationallsm of our times excludes a cureless delinitlon of God, Bome countries und times would keep up thefr worship 1f God were shown them as a'stick, or a stone, or a calf, or uButan, The negro Just from Atrica will fnd Ifs delty in somie colored yarns or in some stones on n string; and districts far away from Africa luve been perfectly satlsfled with any delinition the church saw fit to nuke of Jeho- vahi but the rellgious sentiment of our times can bo drawn out uod deterinted only vy a theory that shall present it with a ressonable, fovabloe (fod und Christ,—u God whoss deeds are in barmony with the credal deflnition, It will need be un impressive pleture that can draw the modern heurt away from the pursuit of riches and away from levity and rldicule {n religlon and tury it towurd u Bweeter falth. Men do ot worshlp us reudily now us they did i the old centurles, The progress of réason mukes so- clety more difficult to be be pleased. A poor fded of God will answer In a tine whes rcllfivwn has no fdeas to compete with, but where kleas ure sbundant only the fittest will survive. This fustidiousness of ‘taste {8 such that fdlotle anid infant things can no longer rule millions, but, on the contrsry, wiso rulers ure sought for cither by musket or ballot. Each gencratlon Is tull of niental revolt ugalnst the folly of yester- day. The same pecullarity of taste will demand respect {n religlon, and the delineation of God that satlstled the generatlons of the past will x!mt by any means sutlsfly the centurles of the uture. In most of the past times religious faith suf- fered nothing from rival sentiments, It wus universal, and 8o untaught and superstitious thut any nlmsu of delty und of future destiny wus_peeepted and adeeptable. Even Henry VIIL und Louis XIV, and thelr courts und eup- Jocts were Chrlstlung. Any religlon thie fathers might have desired would” huve been good for these shapes of manhood to lve by and die by, for there were no rival sentiments confessed. All must huve religlon without vy peradven- ture. But wu have come to ou ers when falth meety great and powerful competitors, Sclence has - come with its hint ut an eternul sl and benevolency has como with its w rnhlr of humanity; und mauteriulism has come with ts wornhlfiwl riches§ and skepticism has como with its reslgnution to an unknown future. With suchi men us Darwin, and luxloy, and Tyndall lewling the young men, fulth no tonger” has ull things in hicr own way, Thousands fecl much of the thng that duath s oblivion; that the bml{ returns to earth, and what of lfu therc wus In braln and hicart reappeurs, not in hieaven, but in flowers and blrd-song. 3 s the trunsmigration of soul of our duy, Mr. Ingersoll commits his Joved friend buck to the compunivnship of tho birds und tho trees, ,'Thers uis thousauds who think os Mr. Ingersofl speaks, he being only o little more tulkative thun hlscomrades indesputr. Youull kuow thoe bopelessness of Stuart Mill. You ali know how u wlder furm of skeptichsm 13 80 bocloudiug the future that cternlty tsshora of {ts power, and the Immenss publlc c slowly to tho altars of worship, nr'::umu n‘:»T:& L. Relflons faith remaing I the warld ang In some degrecs, I cvery singlo henrt; bup | docs not relgn supremo as it did (n the tiddlg ages and l‘llll to the conflnes of the el iteinthy centtiry, The pleasures of this life, the pencg of cternal aleep, the hnaty concluslons of sefenc the pursult of riches, tha hewllderment of the. ulu;(yl have come along to nbate the zeal and «im the viston of that beautiful fafth who L looking up from the old streets and hoincs and m}'nncn‘.\I carth, i n atich o criste, when immortality finds sy aa rival In the oblivion of nclunrcy, and wm:': od finds such o rival in the protoplasn of the learned, in an age of efther athelsin or sorrow, it will bie necesrary for the God of the Christln to bo bronght forward in 11is most divine quali tea, The deeds mullpnlll:y nseribed to the Cre. ator when Henry VIIL wnd Louls XIV, and Catherlne de Medlel wero Christtana will evoke the worship of an era that producs h souls as the Adatnscs, the Everctts, the Suy T4, tl g Gerrit Smiths, the Chases, The garments of Deity must flow more beauttfully aceording ng the tintes may have advanced in general edne. tot and fir the development of the rensonin faculty. The pleture of God being wholly ime possible, {t lica, therefore, forever ready £ re. celye the new color and delineation of il tig cunturfes that shall ever rn.ml Lefore ft. Fortle most part the modern Churbh in all its varly. tions has reached and does preach In its pule Pits o new theory of God, but for the most part wlsa it §s afrald to confess its own projrese, nnd by n aufeldal policy continnes reasserting 1(s de votlon to the old statements of doetrine. The outslde world feels this devotion to he true and remalus away from the altar, not_knowing there is in those sunctuardes a religlon sweeter and better aml truer than the standards, A yall churches are more liberal thay thelr erecils, for the creed belongs to one cen. tury and_the prescher to the next. Even tho Roian Catholle, after every l:x'm’lshm hus been made fn his creed for the” dammation of ever, Protestunt, will privately confess nll consistert Protestants to be In the lmth to Ileaven, The present Pope once told Frederika Bremer that he felt quite sure she would go to Ieaven; thus n s moment contradicting ev dogma uf the Romnn Church for o sweet ghl's sake, Thus, o doubt, for a good man's suke, God will, on the st auy, contradict nll the dogmaa of these earthly theologlanes, Catholle and Protestant, What the people did, all the clergy, with some exceptlons, are dobg, They are” preaching o better God and a betier Christ. than thelr creed wlows—the painful part of the fact being that these snme speakers are either unconsefous of thelr ndvance, or else are so deeply eustaved ly thelr Church that they dare not give thelr haris and minds openly to the eause of pure tratl, Be thia as it may, there is in all modern churdie 8 a religfon bronder and truer than the creed, und bolder and grander than the man that stunds so timidly by the great open book. Should the day soon come 'when the men of the temple shall Nave found the King In his beauty, nnd shall have found the cournge to tell théir au. diency that each century neede Its new study of Christ and God, it is more than probable that fulth will come "to many a heart that s full of darkness now. In our times it 8 necessary that the benuty of the Lord our God be urun ug, ‘The distortion und deformity of the Deity huve long cnough followed munkind, Tho ‘moral beauty of siich a belngr should Le above us, and In uan's heart nod life. Lord Bucon fu oue of his minor essays, sayst 1t were better to have no opinlonof God nt'all than to have such an oplnlon ua is unworthy of Him" He quotes from Plutarch these words: # [ would rather, o great deal, men shonld say there was no such ‘man s Plutarch than thaf that they shonld gay there was onee a Plutarck who ate’his own children,” Bacon thus attempto fo show that athefsm, the denlal of God, ma do mankind less harm than u rellgion whic holds a bad estimate of Deity. The cssay worthy of your peruenl fu full, but here we e only deduce from it the inferenee that the valug of religion Is to be determined not by the fact of u God but by the quallty of the God. 2. Huving now stated the case, let us advaneo to some thoughts about the * this beauty of the Lord our God." It canmot be measured to th full, but { must be there are sides upon whick It Is approachuble. This * beauty * may in part be seen dn the nssumption of u long day for th unfolding of the divine plan, When t mind crowds the mmx«m{ Into u few hours or into the Himits of o human e, it mare the image of the Father and we have only a poot luman vonception little better than the stick o stone of the pagan, When you see un honest man sufer, or un_inuocent “weep with paln, or an nfaut die, you have not seen the providence of Giod, but'you have seen only one event in s series—you have heard the single tick of u thne. plece that f8 to count Its hours far nway Inte cternity, While the human heart shall attempt ench evening to sum up what the Lord has done that day, it will_go from griel to gricl. You cannot bl the Tnfinite 1nto the chamber of a sick ehlld, to measure him und pass a judgment. Not even nt the grave of man can we tind the verdict for or agalnst the Ruler of the world, Backward and” forward runs the areun of ow Lord, and it Is only when the heart says with the Pyalmist that nthousand years arohut wsnday i 1lis sight, It can come auything near reachlig the peace of religlon, 1t is'possible thut u - (Irmr thousand years of carth’s history passed before a singlo "blossom cmne to it8 rock, or a bird to fts trees, or soul to its Eden, There are atars where Ught had been flylug along o million of years before the soft ray came to that planet called carth, Indeed, when the ray started from its far-off sun, our little globe nay have heen seattered, dust just belng eqlled {nto form from the wide c¢haod, and while that beam ot Tigghe was still flying onwardour world may have nssed through all'its geologle formations, and 'mvu seen u thousand generutions of plants and anfmals come and pass aw In presenceof s Creutor whose times are so unazing, the eo rows of the innocent and the good alt dimiuish and may be found to mar only as it were a flect. ing sound of the soul’s great life, The many l;rumunm of earth may flua a beautlful solutloc iu the large arens of the Father, As some ol the little dark facts of @ mortal become bright, even in his own brief period ; asthelog eabinand the bumility of w Lincoln, us the pover ty of o Franklin, mud the obscurity of a Wash. inggton pasa away and leave the seene all covered with greatuess and trdumph, so in the inmens) time of the Almighty cvery dark mystery ol human being can move away and leave the sky of providence at Iast bending over the soul withont o clowd to dlm its stars. It Iy perfectly vain to seck the * heauty of God™ ju the few days that surround man” here. It {8 necessury tochant the words of the old anthem * frot cverlusting to everlusting thou art God'" As we canmot take up a drop of water from the At lantfe und find fn that drop the (flow of the tidey the litting up of hillows, the puwer that floats all the shilps of a thousand ports, aud the sofi and loud wusie of enlm und storm, us to see the ocean we must grusp it all n {ts rocky bed hor dered by contlnents, so we cannot i the fuc: of u dyhig infant or | the adversity of & ol man see the government of love of God. Tt hat boundaries wider than these. Wemnst wait, and, what the fleeting moments of wun deny, usk the great years of God to bring, The tides of the nfiml, he deep music of huinan waters, cannot be seen n the drop of lfe, 3. In secking the qualitles of u Lovable God, it will he necessary for the modern times to limit the wrath of the ruler to thoss who trans- ggress the laws of morals, Hell must not be pletured ns coming b’ fate or milsfurtune, hut a8 tho penalty from Intemperance comes, from the violation'of laws. Men all know at lust that there {8 w punlshment that s disgraceful to the belng who Inflicts i, und not to the creaturs that suffers ft, The death ot Gallleo, of Cran- mer, of 8t, Paul glorified the sufferers and dis- graced tho powers that turned their wrath uguinst those innocent ones, ‘The crucliision A not. disgrace the Lord on the crogs but the Pllate on thu throne, ‘Thus there may be o theory of divine punishments which wlght re- moye'the disgrace from the soul in perdition, nnd bind ft us'a bloody chaplet upon the Iufinite One. There may be—there has been—a theory of retribution which might well have nade 4 human heart, full of the oanur( coneeption of {nstice, prefer to be the lost soul rather thun be tho Delty that condemned the soul. The Lond i His true besuty will evidently not condemn for deviation from dogma, or fur any cause that even to mun would appear tritling, but will con- demu uecordlng to the degree to which wickeds ness or llclf‘ Hves in the human goul. .\lunk!m\ s wlso yelearning the leeson that ull through the woral world ‘punishient for sin must ow, n dark stream whose waters will nev- crgodry. I ever society hug dreamed of the uneness of sin und virtue {6 has repentea of the dream and seema ready to behold the woral heauty of a justice that punlshes the bad. The peuce and welfure of society, the reform of the ransgressor, the enthroneiient, the coronatiui of vlrtue, vomblng to make the march of justics full of a strange form of Y. vanes of anaviny of patriots sgafust a vick . foe, In the storm that wreckvd the Armady zalnst the shores of the North, fi the awful ruin of the tlectof Xerxes on the coast of lirecey, i the defeat of the King's srmies fn the war ol our colonles, fu the great overthrow of the Re- elllon, u few swift' years ugo, the thrl{linu buauty’of fustico &y to bu scen. "The beauty lic not i the gratifieation of uny revenge, but in tho sense of the difference between *the our bt and **the voght not,” und fn the security souduess that comes by such a b ghway of pun- htmmm. Now, In Hesven, furuway fromtl.obate tlo-flelds of man, dwells the God of all this jus tice, und the falling Xerxes, und the fuillug l’hlflpll.. and George 1L ure cvents wmlmi here und there to Hlustrate u retribution tha! shall alwa 'ld toll?\mt-fidn sguinst the laws of thy great Judgoe of 3 lub ull u:huunhly carcer this beauty of the