Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 18, 1876, Page 4

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, JUNE 18, 1876—SIXTEEN PAGES. Miss DIcRINSOX in Boston Thye Tribwne, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. “PAYABLE IN ADVANCE—POSTAGE FREPAID AT THIS OFFICE. PErTa of yur ai ot Tate. ‘WEEKLY EDITION, POSTPAID. . per year. Ave, percopy.. e Cinb of twenty, per coj . The postage s 15 cents & year, which we will prepay. Specimen coples sent froc. To prevens delay and mistakes, be sure and give Post- Ofice address in fall, including State and County. Remittances mey be made either by draft, express, Fos-Office order, or in rezistered letters, at onr riak. TERMS TO CITY SUBSCRIBEES. “Datly, delivered, Sunday excepted, 25 cents per week. Dally, delversd, Sunday included, 30 cents per week < THR TRIBUNE COMPANTY, Corper Madison 20d Dearborn-sts., Chicago, Il SOCIETY MEETINGS. TTENTIOS SIR KNIGHTS, BERNARD COM- SATDERT No. 30 —Vou ara hérens. pobed th ap- Ppear st our Asylum armed and equipped for street pa ‘morning, at 6:30 &. m., t0 ACt as escort mmander to the ceremonics at - Tratn leaves the Wella-st. arp. Visiting Sir Knights are o participuic with ur on the oces- N WOODMAN. E. C. JOHS . DICKINSON, Tecorder. 35 . S. P. R._S. 32d.—Regu- ORIENTAL CONEISTORY. S St B B: members sre rogiiested 10 attend y rder - BARNARD. 33d_ Degree ~ Com rsnger m-Cher. JAMES A. T. BIED, S24 Degree G % ¥R GRAND LODGE OF PERFEC- VAN RENSSELA] RASD LOT N, A. 1SH SONS—There wiil g S R ‘Workon the 12th and 12th degrees. Org‘_elpoé M . ED GOODALE, Gr. Sec's. CRUS. NO. 1—All members are re- M%’PIE‘!‘CHID!EEBIY Castle Hall. 203 LaSalle-st., Fharsasy eveatn : Zdlnais S € Cclock sharp. ToF ‘work on the amp T "\'A].IBOT[L ce 3. 3. MITCHELL, K, of R &5 TTENTION, SIR KNIGHTS-Stated Conclave of o cfi.‘”‘““n;ns =, S By oot he B Eo . ero e o B TROWBEIDGE, Becarder. ARDEN CITY LODGE, NO. M1 A. F. & A, M.— aSians Sohmualiaton i e Aeid-at Orteari Hall o Wednesday evening: Junel. Work on the AL M. egree. Visdting bre :n cordiall v D ¥ 1L F. HOLCOME, W. M. L. L. WADSWORTH, Sec. s <. 0. OF O. F.—All members of Adriel Encampment, Fo. 106, are requested to be {n attendance at ihe next regular meeting. Friday evening, June 23, to elect of- Boers and transict other important businesi. ER. NO. 2. R. A.M.—Hall, 72 gt AR 3 e % TN o E. N. TUCEER, Secretary. SUNDAY, JUNE 18, 1876. At the New York Gold Exchange on Sat- wurdsy greenbacks were worth 883@887 cents on the doliar. The indications from all parts of the coun- try are that the Cincinnati ticket of ‘ Haxes and WeEELZR " has struck the average senti- ament better than any other combination that could have been made, except by the selec- tion of Mr. Beistow for the first place. - The New York T'imes has hit the nail on the head when it says: ‘ The Republican party has found its LivcoLy to lead it on to victory.” The District of Columbia Ring has not yet Bad its full measure of punishment. The notorions Dicx HarervoToN has now been indicted for receiving a bribe of $15,000 to facilitate the granting of a new trial toa couple of convicted murderers ; and, as the man who is said to have bribed him is also indicted for giving the money, there would scem to be some pretty good evidence that .| the offense was committed. Some evidence that the real purpose of the Democrats in bringing on a dead-lock over the eppropristions is to embarrasa the Gov- ernment may be found in opposition to the President’s suggestion that authority be given ¢o use the unexpended balances at the end of the fiscal year in case the Appropriation bills do not get through. To do this would be to defeat the Democratic purpose of con- straining and hampering the Administration. This is not & very lofty purpose, but it is entirely worthy of the Democratic party as represented by the present Congress. It is not even 50 bad 88 for the ex-Confederates tostand up in the hall of the National ZLegislature and sbuse and malign the men whose generosity Las permitted them to be there. The Caxenox family did \ie State some service, after all, in the Pennsylvania dele- gation to the Cincinnati Convention. It could not transfer the voto of Pennsylvania £0 CoNELING, 83 it originally aspired to do, but it could and did prevent the transfer to Brarv, which a large number of the Harr- BANFT men hoped to sccomplish. If the $wenty-aight votes which Pennsylvania cast For Haxes on the seventh ballot hed been »dded to the 351 which Brarve received on that ballot, BLarse would have had just 379 ‘votes, and would have been the nominee. Probably Mr. Camrrox was moved to this zourse, not that he disliked Haves less, but 2hat he disliked BLaorxE more. At all events, Lhe turn was a good one, and the country has pomething {0 fhank the Caxerox family For. The Chicago produce markets were steadier on Saturday, with moderate activity. Mess pork was 124@20c per brl higher, closing at 819.17§@19.20 for July and $19.373@14.00 for August. Lard was 12}@15¢ per 100 ths higher, closing at $11.37i@11.40 cash and $11.50@11.52} for August. Meats were un- changed, at 7ic for boxed shoulders, 104c Tor do short ribs, and 103c for do short clears. Laka. freights were steady, at 2ic for corn to Buffalo, Rail freights were un- changed. Highwines were unchanged, at $L03pergallon. Flour was dull and steady. Wheat closed i@ic lower, at $L04§ for June and $1.05 for July. Corn was 1o higher, closing at 46¢ for June or July. Oats ‘were steady, closing at 293¢ for June or July. Rye was easier, at 70@70}c. Barley was nearly nominsl, at 57@58c cash and seller June. Hogs were active and steady at Friday's quotations, sales making at $6.00@ 6.10 for common to prime light, and at $6.00 ©6.20 for ordinary to extra heavy. Receipts, 1,000, and for the week 91,200. Cattle 'were in fair demand and firm, at $2.50@5.00 for inferior to extra. Received during the ‘week, 17,715 head. Sheep were dull at $2.25" ©4.25 per 100 bs. One hundred dollars in gold would buy $112.62} in greenbacks at the close. = The pluvial visitation of the past two ‘weeks has been heavy and wide-spread. At Chicago it aggregated 37 inches in depth, of which 1} inches fell during last Frilay. This is nearly 8} times as much as the aversge rainfall in this city for that time; the average for the year is nearly 32 inches, A mmilar excess over the average is noted over alarge area of the Northwest, the ex- cessive rainfall being, however, nearly bounded on the sonth by a line runuming it Mattoon, St. Louis, and fx’,.fg;'é’:“’m““"“"‘wm of Kansas., We have 1o data 8¢ presant from which we can state the northern Hmit, The consequence of this extra deposition of moisture from the clouds is a state of shallow flood all over largs areas in the northern half of Ilinois, in Kansss, and some parts of Iowa. Two weeks 8go the farmers in some of these dis- tricts were praying for rain to bresk down the clods in their fields. Now they have too much of it. Thousands of acres of bottom 1ands are reported to be under water, espec- iolly in the Illinois Valley, and many other thousands of acres are s0 Wet that they cannot be cultivated.: It follows that the corn is being stunted by the chill caused by evaporation, and the weeds have sttained such a rank growth in many places as to overtop the corn and rob it of the nourishment it would other- wise draw from the soil. The wheat is not suffering to the same extent, because it will bear moisture except near the time of har- vest, and there has been comparatively little rain in the more southern districts, whers the wheat is near maturity. On the other hand, the rain promises a plentiful hay crop; but vegetables apd ground fraits are being ruined in many places. If the weather should clear up within a day or two, the recent rains have done no material damage, in city or country, that would not be speedily repaired under the rays of a midsummersun ; while another such a fortnight would undoubtedly be fol- lowed by a reduced yield of cereals, and con- siderable deterioration in quality. There is at present no decided signs of change; but the weather is proverbially uncertain, and prognostications are untrustworthy. The best we cando is to wait hopefully for a change. The resignation of Alr. Bristow as Secre- tary of the Treasury is now definitely an- nounced. He vacates his office next Tues- day. Mr. Bristow has long felt the neces- sity of this course in justice to his own pri. vate affairs, and we have been informed that, in order that there should beno misunder- standing of his purpose in retiring, he handed in his resignation about the first of this month, to take effect immediately after the -Cincinnati-Convention ; so the result,of; the “Conventior’s work can in no senss be said to Lave prompted his reSignation. He gives the Cincinnati nominations and platform his beartiest approval and %upport. Indeed, so far as his own candidature goes, it is but fair to remember that he never turned his hand or raised his voice to advance it; that it was entirely the spontaneous work of men whose admiration, confidence, and respoct he had commanded by his official conduct ; and that he persistently refused to permit his subordinates to take any part in his behalf. In all this Mr. Bristow has given the public men of this country a model which should always be imitated in view of the popular approval it hasTeceived. As to hisdischarge of his official duties, he leaves the most hon- orable record that has been made by any one of those whom Gen. Graxt has called about him. He grappled with the most formida- ble monster in the land and worsted him. He broke the most aggressive ring ever formed sgainst the Government, and scat- tered its fragments among the penitentiaries. He purified a revenus service that had been corrupt and imbecile for years. And he, finelly, did not desert his post until he had carried out to completion the great work which he had undertaken. Both Mr. Bers- Tow and Gen. GRANT deserve great credit for successfully resisting the wily efforts that have been made to set them by the ears in order that the thieves might escape in their quarrel. But the conntry cannot spare Mr. Bristow yet. It is now his duty to so ad- just his private affairs that he may reassume the portfolio of the Treasury Department when Mr. Hexrs shall call him there on the 4th of March next. i — A TIME FOB REST. Now that the Republican National Conven- tion is over and gone, and the candidates have already set out upon their campaign, the great public will find a time for rest, ir- respective of the forthcoming Democratic National Convention or its nominations. Crowds will go'to the Centennisl to examine the products of the world. " Crowds will go to Saratogs, Newport, and Long . Branch to swelter in the great caravanserais, exhanst their pocket-books, and convince themselves that they are enjoying watering-place felici- ties, while in reality they are enduring the height of misery. Crowds will flock to favorite hunting and fishing grounds for rest, ;emafion,v and sport. Other crowds will come to Chicago as the great place of sum- mer resort, enjoy our richly-laden tables, elegant hotels, fine drives, and cool breezes, and these latter will enjoy themselves more than the others. It is the time for vacation. Now the minister droppeth his Bible and ‘hymn-book, and the spider spinneth her web across the contribution-box. Contributions to the heathen fall of. Country parsons come to the city pulpits with their best ser- mons, and mount the stairs with fear and trembling, lest their firstlies and finallies may fall stale, flat, and unprofitable upon metropolitan ears. Now the church-singers pipe to foreign ears, and the sparse sheep of the flock, too poor to travel, do their own singing and browse upon the ancient and tough pennyroyal, what time the city parson strétches his legs under Eastern mahogany and fishes for something besides the sounls of men. Now the lawyer drops his briefs, flings his rejoinders and surrejoinders, his rebuttals and surrebuttals, his sci. fas. and nol. prosses to the winds, sues for the bracing breezes of the mountains, and prosecates the cod and haddock of the salt water and the trout and bass of the fresh. Now the doctor writes no more prescriptions, flings away his -boluses and pills, and leaves his patients to get well. Now the merchant closes his ledger, locks his safe, and gives the boys a chance to run the store. It isthe great sea- son of rest, and the summer's sun looks down upon the world hurrying in all directions to have a brief play-time, to enjoy a little season of recreation, and then return refreshed and reinvigorated for the work of the fall and winter, It is one of the hardships of life that those who need rest the most cannot have it. The rich, who can afford to take rest at any time, and %ho live gt ease all the year round, and who do not need change, will have the lion’s share of this play-time. The hard- worked sewing-girl, the woman behind the counter, the great army of laborers digging in the sewers, hammering in the machine- shops, driving teams, sailing vessels, running trains, building houses, carrying hods, and writing editorials, must keep on digging, hammering, and writing, in order that the others may have their rest. This is in reality & bardship, but there is a compensation. The man who stays at home is not altogether withont his pleasures. He saves money and has none of the discomfortsof travel. He will enjoy the cool lake breezes and the pleasant nights, while those who are away will swelter in the heat. The streets will be less crowd- ed, and he can pick the shady side of the walk withou$ being pushed off. Hw can find a place in his restanrant without having to ‘wait, and eat of food which is not the hetero- geneous stuff provided for the multitude. His waiter will be more civil and have a cleaner apron. His theatre will not be crowded. He can sleep in church withont offense, the rich and fussy elders being away; or, if he keep awake, he can listen to the sermon without having his attention dis- tracted by the butterflies of fashion that or- dinarily flutter about the pews. He will have calm and quiet instead of the stress and storm of the streets. When the season is over, he ‘will have more money in his pockets and more contentment in his mind. The man who goes away is apt to come home discontented. The absent minister finds flocks of fatter sheep than those he left behind him. The fugitive doctor finds unhealthy localities, areas of fevers and epidemics, and grows discontented with the disgusting good health of Chicago. The pretty little butterfly finds Counts, Dukes, and Barls at the watering-places, counter- jumpers with faultless mustaches, and dead- beats who are too lovely for anything, and comes home discontented with our common- place Avosises. The man who stays at home, however, meets with no discomfort and finds nothing better than what immedi- ately surrounds him, and the womsan who stays at home can shop to her heart’s content, so0 she is happy and contented. There is this much of consolation, therefore, to those whose pocket-books are lean, and who must keep on with the demnition grind of the treadmill, THE RELIGIOUS WORLD. In the Contemporary Retiew for June the opening paper is entitled “The Courses of Religious Thought,” by Mr. Grapsroxe. It treats of the variety of religious thonght, and is an effort to classify the opinions of men on religious subjects, though he admits that * at every point there start into action multitudes of aimless or erratic forces, cross- ing and jostling one another, and refusing not only to be governed but even to be classified.” He therefore makes but an * in- itial effort,” hoping that it may lead to a more accurate performance. He assumes that ¢ the Christian thonght, the Christian tradition, the Christian society, are the great, imperial thought, tradition, and society of this earth. It is from Christendom out- wards that power and influence radiate, not towards it and into it that they flow.” He un- dertakes to map the religious would into five grand divisions, premising that many wTiters, many minds and characters, such as JoEN STUART Ay and various others called Broad Churchmen, * will not fall clean into any one of the five divisions,” but will be between two, or will range over several. He states the five main schools or systems to be constituted as follows: 1. Those who accept the Papal monarchy, or the Tltramonsane school. IL Thoee who, rejecting the Papal monarchy, believe in the visibility of the Church; or the historical school. L Those who, rejecting the Papal monarchy and the visibility of the Charch, believe in the great central dogmas of the Christian system, the Trinity, and the incarna- tion. These will be here termed the Protestant Evangelical school. IV. Those who, professedly rejecting ell known expressions of dogma, are nevertheless believers in a moral governor of the universe, ond in a state of probation for mankind, whether annexing or not annexing to this beliet any of the particulars of the Christian system, | either doctrinal or moral. These I denominate the Thelstic school. V. The Negative school. Nega- tive, that is to ssy, aa to thought which can be called religious in the most ueual sense. Under this head I an obliged to place a number of schemes, of which the adherents may repent the collocation.’ They 'are 8o placed on the ground that they agree in denying categorically, or else in declining to recognize or afirm, the reign of a moral governor or providence; and the existence of astate of discipline or probation. To this aggre- gate seem to belong—(1) skepticlsm; (2) athe- ism; (3) agnosticism; (4) secularism; (5) (re- vived) paganism; (6) materialism; (7) panthe- ism; (8) positiviem. Mr. GripstoNz discusses each of these divisions. He states the points of strength in the Papal system: The charm of an un- broken continuity; the majesty of an im- mense mass; the energy of a closely-serried organization, and the containing within it- self a large portion of the individual re- ligious life of Christendom. * The faith, the hope, the charity, which it was the office of the Gospel to engender, flourish within this precinct in the hearts of millions upon millions, who feel little, and know less, of its extreme claims and of their constantly- progressive development.” The causes of weakness in the Papal system are thus ven : gl(]J Its hoetility to mental freedom at large; (2) its incompatibility with the thought and move. ment of modern civilization; (3) its pretensions 2gainst the State; (%) its pretensions against pa- rental and conjugal rights; (3) its Jealousy, sbated in some quarters, of the free circulation and use of the Holy Scripture; (6) the de facto alienation of the educated mind of the countries in which it prevails; (7) its detrimental effects on the comparative strength and morality of the States in which it has sway; (8) its tendency to sap veracity in the individual mind. ‘The Historical Church embraces the East- emm Churches, Liberal Catholics, Old Catholics, and the English Church. The third division is termed Protest- ant Evangelical. This phrase comprehends all who, rejecting the Papal monarchy, either reject, or at least do not accept, the doctrine of s Catholic Church visible and historical ; and who, withont always proceeding to an abstract repudiation of all aid from authority or tradition, are, on behalf of human free- dom, extremely jealous of such aid, and dis- posed rather torely on the simple contact of the individual mind with the Divine Word. The fourth grand division is the region of Theism. This system recognizes ona Al- mighty Governor of the world, who has placed us under discipline, and will in some real and effective manner bring it abont that -the good shall be happy, and that those who do evil shall surely suffer forit. 3fost of the Theists have come to be guch, not by a rejec- tion of Christisnity, but by 2 declension from it. Under this head he includes Universal- ism and Unitarianism, and the Jews. Speak. ‘ing of these, he says: Now we have no right whatever to impute bad faith. to the professions of the Unitarians and others that they cannot and will not part with the neme of Christians; that they are the true profes- gors of a reformed Chrietianity; and that they have effected with thoroughness and cousistency that reduction of it to the form of its original promulgation by its Llustrions teacher, which, in the sixteenth centary, others were eithertoo timid, or not enough enlightened, to effect. Since the time of BeLsuay, considerable changes seem to have taken place in the scheme of Unitarianism. At the present day it probsbly Inciudes much variety of religious thought. But 1am not aware that it has abandoned the claim to be the best rep- reseutative of primitive Gorpel as it was delivered by Christ Himself. The Jews, who taken togetber are a rather large commanity, have hitherto be- lieved themselves the stewards of an untulflled re- demption. But it seems that a portion at least of them are now dlsposed to resolve their expected Messiah intoa typical personage, prefiguring the bleesings of civilization. It may be doabted whether such & modification as is thus indicated would greatly 2dd to the moral forceof Judaism, ormake its alliance more valuable to the scheme which I am endeavoring to sketch. - Arguing that a religious system can only be truly tested when it is set to reform and train, on a territory of its own, great mases of mankind, any attempt o make Judeism a system must fail. It is not their numerical weakness alone which impresses him with the fear that it would fail. The only large monotheism known to historic times is that of Minoxet, and no one will regard it as competent to fill the vacnum which would be left by the crumbling away of Chris- The fifth division includes a large catalogue of schemes, some of which are designated. He makes a distinction between hallucination and imposture. Many of these speculations may at this moment live, and open, or at the most live without closing, the same fountains of good influence. But, he adds: that, as in wines, it is one question to pro- duce a commodity drinkable in the:country of origin, and another to maks such pro- vision that the product may bear a ses voyage without turning to vinegar. So, in the matter of belief, individuals may subsist on a paor, thin, sodden, and attenuated diet which would simply starve the multitude. He goes on tosay : Schemes, then, may saffer for the moral wants of a few intellectual and cultured men, which can- not be propagated, and cannot be transmitted; which cannotbear the wear and tear of constant redelivery; which cannot meet the countless and ever-ehifting exigencies of our nature taken at large; which cannot do the rough work of the world. The colors that wonld endure throngh the term of a butterly's existence would not avail to carry the works of Trruax down from generation to generation and century to century. Think of twelve agnostics, or twelve panthelsts, or twelve materialists, setting ont from some modern Jeru- salem to do the work of the twelve Apostles! Mr. Grivsroxe, however, disclaims any desire to charge the professors of these systems, as such, with mental or moral law- lessness. He points out that many of these schemes are mere names to’ cover the aban- donment of all religion, sometimes even of much moral obligation. Others are excep- tional men, so conditioned that the relation between life and belief furnishes no indica- tion of the consequences with which s like state of belief, becoming widely prevalent, and, in a measure, permanent, wounld be fol- lowed among the massof men. They are often men whose life is absorbed in intel- lectual pursuits, and who are saved by the high interest of their profession from the mischiefs left to idle hands and idle minds, cursed &8 these 50 often are with unbounded means and opportunities of indulgence. OBSTRUCTING THE CITY GOVERNMENT. It is now, we suppose, almost generally conceded that Mr. Haves, of the Comptrol- ler’s office, has become an obstruction to the administration of the government of Chica- go. There is not the slightest justification for his condiict, and there seems to be no motive for it Beyond an unwillingness to give up an office from which he has been re- moved by general consent. It is difficalt to believe that Mr. Hares is influenced by the emoluments of the office, which are liberal, or that he clings to the office because of its honors. But Mr. Haves has a high opinion of the superiority of his own judgment, and cannot brook opposition or control. He has had his theories about the management of the city finances, and seems to be not only devoted to them, but disposed to compel everybody else to accept them. The new Common Council, elected by the people, has quite other views on the subject. But Mr. Hares will not yield. With less delicacy even than the Locum Tenens, the ex-Comp- troller holds on defiantly. If there were nothing involved in all this beyond the question of whether Mr. Haves should hold the office and draw the salary, or some one else do so, it would be a gmall affair ; but when this obstinacy suspends the credit of the city, stops payments from the City Treasury, and disables the Common Council from exercising its authority, it be- comes & public nuisance. There is half a million of dollars in the Tressury, and there is nearly that sum needed to pay the July interest on the city debt ; there are $95,000 of city bonds to be paid or renewed on the 1st of July, and there are $1,000,000 due the city employes. The money in the Treasury cannot be used, the bonds cannot be re- newed, aud no money can be obtained to pay the city servants, because Mr. Haves claims to be Comptroller, holds the public books, disputes the authority of Mr. Dericxsox, and will not resign. He has made himself an_obstruction in the way of the City Gov- ernment,—an obstruction for no good pur- pose, but merely to compel the city tore- store him to office and let him have his own way. Mr. Haves' personal pride has been mortified that any other opinion then = his ‘has been listened to; mortified that a person elected to the office of Mayor should have dared to remove him; and mortified that the Common Council just elected by the people should have with such earnest unanimity concurred in hisremoval, and in the appointment of his successor. 'We do not accuse him of in- sincerity. To differ from himis, in his esti- mation, necessarily to be wrong, and so wrong as to threaten public safety. He therefore opposes the Council, thwarts all messures of redress, and, by interposing his bogus claim to be Comptroller, prevents any- thing being done. Mr. Dericrsox has urged that Mr. Haves unite with him in & joint resignation, thus permitting Mr. FARwELL, the Chief Clerk, to be sppointed Acting Comptroller. Under this arrangement the wheels of the City Government could be put in motion, all the saccruing lisbilities can be at once disposed of, and the money obtained to pay the starv- ing and destitute employes of the city. Mr. Havgs literally stands between these persons and their daily bresd; he cannot be recognized himself as Comptroller, and will not let any one else be. He can do no business for the city, and will let no one else do any. His conduct is wholly unworthy a gentleman of his hitherto high character, and is a surprise to men who know him, and a matter of indignant censure by everybody. * The public have a more complete contempt for a man who resorts to petty quibbles to retain a public office against the popular will than for any other class. Such a person has no sympathy from his fellow-citizens, Itis considered petty even in the case of AMxe Bamey, or Ep Paruurs, or the man Greasox, and hence the unusual regret that Alr. Hayrs should even ~semingly put him- self in such company. ** he persiats in this policy there is but one remedy, and that isto resort to the means aulzized by law. The Finance Commiiteo, in their report on the situation, say : Your Committee are under the impression that the City Conncil is the body upon whom devolves under our present charter the management and control of the finances &f the city, and that no in- dmdual, whether he be Comptroller, bookkeeper, or other subordinate, has any right or power to assume and exercise such control in defiance of the City Council. Such your Committee belleves to be the Jaw, and snch certainly Is the view taken by capitalists, business men, and unbiased and non- partisan lawyers of standing. 1In conclusion, your Committee etate that, in their opinion, If 5o anthor- 1zed by resolution or otherwise by the City Council, your Committee on Finauce, in conjunction with the City Treasurer and City Clerk, can make eatis- factory arrangements for paying or earrying for the time being the bonds of the city which mature Jaly 1, 1876, which amount to $95,000, as, also, the interest due on ity bonds July 1, 1876, which amounts to about $446.000, and can obtain money ‘with which to pay cil( employes, firemen, police- men, teachers, and Iaboring men, whose necessities and the equities of whose claims your Committce are impressed with and have decply at heart. The City Council on Friday evening, there- fore, passed an ordinanco to this effect. So Mr. Haves after all will make nothing by his action. Despite the obstructions placed by him in the way, the city officers will proba- ably be able to meet the public liabilities. A BISHOP'S FIRST PUNCH. First impressions are always the strongest and longest. There are grave and reverend men who, if pressed to it, would acknowl- edge thal their strongest impression is of their first pair of boots. Venerable Senators still retain vivid impressions of their first rocking-horse. Solemn clergymen in the midst of their studies of the fathers find their first pair of breeches recurring to them, and men of powerful minds, bestriding the world like a Colossus, remember nothing so keenly as their first spanking across the generous maternal Iap. These early impressions are always plessant, yet sometimes they are spoken of with a fine feeling of melancholy and tender regret. This was the case with Bishop HaveN,—our Gir,—who, in arecent speech before the Maryland State Temper- ance Alliance, recalled an early impression, and it was an impression of milk-punch,—a milk-punch which he tasted one memorable morning in & harvest-field. *He remem- bered the first drink of liquor he bad taken forty years ago. It was milk- punch, and was given him ina harvest- field. He said he thought it was the best thing he had ever tasted. He had been tempted to drink it since, but had never yielded.” There are many noticeable facts about this first impression. What an am- brosiel punch it must have been, how pure in its ingredients, how symmetrical in its proportions, how grateful to the palate, to have lasted in the good Bishop’s memory forty long years! Of all the fluids that have trickled down the elerical gullet, this milk- punch is the best and fondest in memory. It is the survival of the fittest. ‘It was given him in the harvest-field.” The mem- ory, therefore, is pastoral os well as spiritual. It amacks of the grassy lawn as well as the Bishop'slawn. Rora found her husband in the harvest-fiell. Dosa set her child in the wheat-sheaves and found her father's heart agnin. Our G, however, found some- thing in the harvest-field sweeter than & hus- band and stronger than o father. He was more fortunate than most of his comrades. Ordinarily they found nothing but black-strap,—a vile concoction of West India molasses and New England rum, com- pounded in & coarse, brutal manner. G Huvex's first drink, however, was ethereal, pure and fine as silk. Cows who had fed upon clover distilled the milk; and the spices of the Orient-flavored the spirit of the sugar- cane. The Bishop was right ; it was the best thing he had evertasted,and if he ever passes a harvest-field, with its area of waving corn or golden grain, if he ever sees the harvesters bending to their tasks in the broiling sun, i he ever hears the whir of the harvester, with- out recalling the fine flavor of that first milk- punch, or breathing a silent prayer for the buxom farmer's dsughter who mixed it in all its fair proportions and put it to her red lips to see if it wera correct, he is no true man. “He had been tempted to drink it since, but had never yielded.” Thers is an ineffable sadness in the declaration, and yet it speaks well for the good Bishop's resolution. He cannot find itin his heart to say a word against that punch. He lingers over its memory with fondness. He recurs to it again and again as an object though lost to sight, to memory dear. ' There are hints in his speech of what might have been under other circumstances. Like soma forlorn lover who has loved and lost, but never lightsthe flame again upon the altar, he remains true to the memory of that punch. We regret that the Bishop has never tasted another and revived the golden days of his boyhood, when it was the best thing he had ever tasted, but we admire his moral courage. There are other Bishops who do not like liquor and yet take to them- selves credit for not drinking it. Thers are others who set their faces againstit likea flint because it is wrong and then take credit unto themselves for not drinking it. But our GiL doeslike it. It was the best thing he ever tasted. He is not altogether sure such a good thing can be wrong; but he is a Bishop, and s0 he remains true to his first love through forty years of travel .in a dry wilderness, untraversed by even a rivulet of punch. Much as we admire his courage and resolution, however, wo can only regret that the Bishop cannot find it in his heart to take another punch, and yet another, to cheer him on in the harvest-fields of humanity in which he works so manfully. THE CHINESE PROBLEM. At the earnest appeal of the represents- tives of the Pacific States, the Cincinnati unity by pandering to the superstition and vices to which the Chinese are most addicted ; and that certain influences are illegitimately exerted to keep the Chinese population from accepting our civilization, taking on our bsbits, submitting to our laws, and assimilat- ing with our people. Al this is a proper subject for national investigation, though there would be more reason to credit it if the complaint came from the Chinamen them- selves, as it probably would if the Chinamen felt that they were abused. Meanwhile, it is Dot very likely that they will acquire much netive love for American customs, nor a very exalted respect for American civilization, while the white population applauds the act of stoning and cursing them upon every possible oceasion, and outrages {them by cut- ting off their pig-tails, which, at the worst, seem to be symbolic of a very foolish bat harmless superstition. * So far as the proposed inquiry is suggested by a desire to apply the fallacy of *protec- tion ” to human beings, we have no more re- spect for it than for Mr. Congressman HarrorN's effort to apply it to mineral waters. If the springs of this country of supposititions medicinal properties have not merits enough of their own to hold out against the springs of old Europe, our no- tion is that they better be plugged up and give the European waters a chance to gush. As with minernl waters, s0 with human na- ture. If the Anglo-Saxon race cannot hold its own as against the Mongolian race, it is not worth protecting, and the more of the Mongolians we have the better it will be for the country. There may be serious abuses which can only be corrected by national legis- lation. Oneof these would bz the practice of systematic deception, whereby contractors could employ the Coolies at 4 cents a’ day Convention adopted a resolution proposing that Congress shall order an inguiry to in- vestigate the effect of the immigration and importation of Mongolians upon the moral and material interests of the country. There is no objection to this resolution in itself. Investigation in the spirit of ascer- taining the truth, and for throwing new light upon any given subject of importance to the country, is not only unobjectionable, but desirable. The Chinese question will soon assume an importance to exact the at- tention of Congress, and it is better, too, that it shall receive conaideration before it shall have been able to arouse a sectional feeling, as the negro question did. The sug- gestion is, therefore, timely, and only sub- ject to misconstruction by those who with- out warrant jump at the conclusion that it means the exclusion of Chinese immigrants, ‘We do not presume that men of any intel- ligence, no matter how hostile to the China- men, imagine for a moment that the Repub- lican party in a Republican country can seri- ously contemplate closing the doors against any race, as such. It would be to traverse the principle of Republicanism and apply to the Mongolians & prejudice which was repu- diated s to the Africans. But there is some- thing besides this in the Chinese question. The people of the Pacific States must regu- late their own police laws, subject to the Constitution of the United States and its amendments, which include the Chinese as well as the negroes. If they are not equal to this, while all of the white men vote and none of the Mongolians, then they are con- fessedly imbecile, and do not deserve any sympathy. There aré phases of the contro- versy over the Chinese question, however, which como within the domain of national legislation. It is asserted on one side that Chinese immigration to this coun- try is partly involuntary, and that the so-called Coolic system is but a species of slavery; that the few Chinese companies carry on & system of deception and terrorism which amounts to the infliction of enforced servitude; that there exists a pow- erful combination to maintain a separate com- for a term of years, and bring them to this country to work them at s little less than the average wages, but at an enormous profit to the contractora. It may be that the traffic in Chinese prostitutes has become so bold and iniguitous 8s to require a national prohibition. But, as to the doctrine of “‘ protection,” we should as soon think of advocating a suppression of the prostitute trade on that account as to keep ont Chinese immigrants who voluntarily seek America for their own improvement and advantage. The prejudice of the Pacific Coast people against the Mongolians is the more readily comprehended there thanit isin any other part of the country; but the means adopted of asserting it cannot be approved anywhere. The proposition of the Cincinpati Conven- tion is the first reasonable and proper sug- gestion for meeting it. We give below an extract from the Pall Mall Gazette, which has been commenting on the relation of race and Republicanism, and which in a vein of sarcasm leads up fo a very important truth: The Chinese, as & nation, have grawn up under the inestimable blessings of competitive examina- tion. Prejudices as to hereditary descent have been happily exploded In the flowery land. Some exception has to be made, indeed, in the case of the Emperor, but that, of conrse, is accounted for Dy the fact that his Imperial Majesty is nota haman bewgat all. Persons are very ill-informed who are not aware that the Emperor of Chinz is a consin of the celestial bodies; and, therefore, the descent of the supreme power to his descendants is an un- avoidable thing (even if an evil). Bat, apart from this divine necesiity, everything in Chins, up to tue buttons of the highest mandarin, or the golden lilies of the selected spouse of the Emperor him- sclf, is subject to strict competitive examination. Mark; too, how perfect the education thus given mustbe! Look at the time taken to form it! It js now no less than 35,345 years since Foo Hi invented writing. It is 4,575 years since Hoang Ti established the first of those dynasties of which the twenty-second has now bappily reigned for 230 years. What can a people who only introduced compulsory education and competitive examination a few years since have to s3y against a nation with such a history? We have 0o doubt that reflections of this natore will be adequate to induce the Californians to anbmit to what, if inconvenient to them,- is in accordance not only with the American Constitation, but with the essential genius of the Republican form of gov- ernment. We are all agreed as to the propriety of improving away the less productive races in favor of the more productive. The natural repugnsnce which everybody may be expected to feel when Lis own turn comes must notbe allowed to inter- fere with the proper coarse of events, and the con- sistent working out of great Republican principles. If the Californians will only eat less, drink Jess, 2nd work more and better than the Chinese, they have little to fear from them. If they will mot, whoare they to contest the great Iaw of the sarvi- valof thefittest in the battle of life? It is very instructive toeee this great experiment wrought out before our eyes! and to do so may encourage us to wait with paticnce till our turn comes. There is 8 little bit of malice in the WAy all this is expressed, but it states a funda- montal truth after ell, and one which the Republican party will not be apt to forget in the proposed investigation of the Chinese Problem. — OBITUARY, ATUGUST HEINRICH PETERMANY. A cable dispatch from London a day or two since announced the death of the eminent Ger- man geographer, AGGGST HEINRICK PETER- MANN. He was bornat Bleicherode April 15, 1822, near the foot of the Harz Mountains. He was educated at Nordhausen, at first with the view of entering the ministry, but, having shown very decided geographical tastes, he was trans- {erred to Potsdem, where he made the scquaint- ance of some of the greatest scientists and geographers, among them Baron Humsoror. In 1847 he removed to London,where he became 2 member of the Royal Geogrsphieal Soclety. ‘While there he published several works, among them “The Atlas of Physical Geography,” and an “Account of the Expedi- tion to: Central Africa,” assisted in the preparation of many maps, and contributed to the ‘“Encyclopedia Britannica® It was owing in great measure to his exertions that BARTLE, OVERWEG, and VOGEL made their ex- peditions. In1854 he was created Professor of Geography at Gotha by the DUKE oP Sixz- CoBURG, and, in 1855, he was made Doctor of Philosophy by the University of Gottingen. OTHER DEATHS. Among other deaths recently reported are those of SAMUEL Hutcmissoy, a very prowm- incnt business man of Brooklyn, N. ¥., and one of the most active workers i the late Reform movement; of the Rev. MARVIN RiCHARDSON, the oldest surviving member of the New York Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church; and of THoMas A. NEsyaTH, who was a pioneer in the construction of street-railroads in Cindnnati, ————— An important feature of Chicago’s claims as a summer resort consists of its public places of amusement. During the past week the Tegular five theatres of the city have been open with at- tractions that would be creditable to a winter season. During the next few weeks the quan- tity will probably be reduced somewhat, but the quality improved. This is entirely owing to New York’s recognition of Chicago 2s a sum- mer city. At a season when the Union Square Company finds New York growing dull, it comes to Chicago with a placid assurance of cool weather and a warm reception. It will not be disappointed fn the latter so long as {t gives Chicago just as good a company in summer gs it does New York in winter. This it promises todo. Last summer its single attraction was “The Two Orphans”; this summer it has 5ev- eral. Besides “Ferreol” and Conscience," which have both made s suceess in New York, 1t will produce BReT HARTE'S new Pplay, written for Mr. STUART RoBsoN, the comedian, It is understood that Mr. BARTE has been a2t work at the play for some two or three years, so it ought to be 2 good one. ‘The event will have as much general interest, since it nshers Mr. HagTa {nto dramatic literature, as the debut of L secured, ang O cago’s judgment will more charitable. i Gt ——— PERSONAL Mr. W. H. Crane, the comedian, Msyor Colvin, R 8 o Hayes can afford to be ma my children, bless you. Erm Bh,‘ Edmund Yates is growing wealf capital palr of horses in Hyce pars” 20 Smae ‘The financial editors all declare but it fsn't very easy to borrow from 313" % If any one attempts to make the o) pun in sour presence, cut him on the spot. - Mr. Sankeyis resting at Seabright. ness Braoch. He is the guest of Mr. Clinton B, Pisk, ‘The New York Times refases to accept Mr. Dayyg Dudley Fleld 3 an exemplar of high mora) ,m‘ ples. = O'Neil and Crane cleared expenses rles for themsclves at Mmcku'lmn;: week. The Blaine men all want to seal ciliation, and we are prepared w”mom dead past bury its corpees. Charles R. Thorne, Jr., of the Theatre Company, will be a gnest Tremony House dnring‘:x-y.uym CnicE;u. B AMillais, the English artist, has just pot gp o house for bimeelf at South. Kensington at a cost of $200,000. Art is not always a beggar. Bistori is having a hard strogzle with the Engliy language, sttempting to learn the part of AMacbeth; but she sticks to her task bravely, The Guildhall reception to the Prince of Wates on his retarn home from India coet $300,000, go says agreat **city man,” who ought to know, Hayes.p Tnion, Squary Genevieve Ward, the Americanactress whofaleg fn herown country and sncceeded in Englang, recently made a hit 2a Meg Merrilies at Dublin. Speaking of magnanimity, why do not the s Ring people call off their dogs from Col. Brintpey They can do no harm, but they make an unseemly noise. 4 William W. Story and Thomas Ball are the sculptors selected to make the statue of Josiah Quiney for the City of Boston. Mr. Story basal. ready forwarded photographs of a design. The New York Sun directly accuses Mr. Blaigs of shamming sickness for political effest. The chargeis as discreditable to the man who ‘Wrots and to the newspaper that printed it as it is harm. lesa to Mr. Blaire. **Skirmish slong the best way poseble, ™ reag your TRIECSE, g0 to charchin a devout spis, vote for Hayes and Wheeler, subscribe for Home and Foreign Missions—this is the whole daty of man for the summer and fall months, A Boston enob has sent to Queen Victoria Dr. Ellis’ acconnt of the evacaation, bound In white calf, with dellcate alternating red, white, and blns stripes around the covers, near the edges. Thiafs Boston's idea of a pleasant memento. Having ‘‘backled on the armor™ and repared for **the fray," it s somewhat pmmfin;whm the din of battle subeiding. Will there beno fighting time for 8 month or two? If so, this will bea good time to unbuckle aad oil the joints. Hayes and Tilden, it is thought, are *‘too much of a muchness™ for Democratic purposes. The" Democrats will have to select a man with whom to antagonize Hayes, and suchaman will likely be zxshnnuz atsome point, probatly on the enrrency sne. Mr. W. H. Crane will make his last appesrance in Chicago for the present at the Adelphi Theatre this evening. He will assume the character in which he firét made a reputation for himself,— ‘t‘{uekabazz in *‘The Fair One with the Blonde ig.” The Ocean seems to be ignorant of the fact that the National Republican Convention adopted a real Lard-money resolution 2s part of the platform, Hayes is 2 hard-money man, t0o, and an anti-sub- sidy man, and an anti-Black-Hills man, snd an anti-fraud man generally. B Alfred Johnson, the Danish fisherman, has ac- tually taken his departure from Boaton for Earope in a dory measuring 16 feet on the bogtom, 20 feet ontop, 23 feet in width, and 23 feet in depth. The boat is decked over, with the exception of standing room and the hatchway. Dramaticartis upheld in New York duringthesum- mer season by Mr. Joseph Murphy, who, by his thrillingdrams of **Kerry Gow, ™ shoes a real horse onthe stage every night. Mr. Murphy has shown himself s0 mach of an adept in this work, that itis suspected he was s blacksmith in his youth. Some of the Whisky-Ring organs declared before the Convention was held that they would, under no circumstances, aupport Mr. Bristow for the Presidency. They may now have the satisfaction of sapporting Hayes, in the blessed assurance that he is a Bristow man *‘in all that the name im- plies.™ Ti the political excitement of the past few days, the grief cansed by the defeat of the Chicago Base- Ball Clubhas been swallowed up. Now the an-' guish which we ought to have felt 1s forestalled altogether by the annonncement that the prond Ppennon of Chicago isagain at the top of the heap. "Rah for Hayes and Spalding. Sarah Berohardt, the famous French actress, is almost supernaturally ethereal—or, to state the truth plainly, thin. It is reported that Alexandsa Duomas, when he saw the pictare in the Salon rep- resenting the actreas with her great Russian grey- hound lying at her feet, remarked thonghtfully: ‘‘Ah, yes, I see—a dog keeping guard over & bone.™ Panl de Cassagnac, the Bonapartist bravo, re- fosed Dr. Clemencean's challenge toa duel be- cause it was well known that the latter was the most expert pistol-shot in Europe. Cassagnac wants to provoke an insult, which will give him the opportunity to offera ckallenge, in which case he canname the weapons, ‘With foils Casssgnac has 10 superior. The factis now generally recognized that the cauge of Mr. Blaine was lost when the Pennsyl- vania delegation received the consent of the Con- vention to break. If that delegation badbeen held together, asit desired to be, it wonld have finally cast 58solid votes for Blaine, and elected him. The shortsightedness of Mr. Hae induced him to fight for four votes, and thersky lose twenty-eight. Mrs. Oates said, witha suggestive wink to her audience Friday night, **The times are hard.” The audience mormured, but dido’t appland. Every man present was feeling uncomfortable, and cvery woman was wondering how long it would be before she could get a chance to go to the theatre aguin. We move the expression be atricken oat of the libretto, and that Mrs. Oates’ wink be removed by the Sergeant-at-Arms. The Rev. J. W. Custis, late of Philadelphis, en- ters upon his dutles to-day as pastor of the Michi- gan Avenue Baptist Church. Mr. Custis has the repntation of an csrnest and successtul minister of the Gospel. Hehsshad but two pastorates since he entered the mixistry, and in both cases he has developed the congregations from small beginnings and constrained miseion to large numbers and wise usefulness. Itis belleved that the Michigun AVe- nue Baptist Church has been parsalarly fortansss in secaring his services President arant was requested to contribate 8 Ceacennial message to the Philadelphia Sunday- School Times, nnd he sent the following: ** Your’ favor of yesterday, asking a message from me to the children and youth of the United States, to accompany your Centeunisl number, is this mo- ment recetved. My sdvice to Sunday-Schools, 1o matter what their denomination, is: Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet-anchor of your libertids; write its precepts in your hearts, and practice them In yourlives. To the infinence of this book are we indebted for all the progress made In true civillzs- tlon, and to this we must look as our guide in the fotore. *Righteousness exalteth a pation; bat sis is a reproach to any people.’” Y TOTEL ARRIVALS. Palmer House—John Raymond, New York; A M. Talmey, New York; A. 0. Talmey, Stoning- ton; D. W. Lincoln, Worceater; Thacher Berdell, Boulder, Col. ; Senator Davis, Beloit; J. W. Kel- ley, Detrot; A. W. Bain, Cincinnati; 3. H. Witheredge, Philadelpein; C, R. Ingalls, Troy.....Grand Pacife—E. AL Fort, Oswego; Schuyler Colfax, South Bend; G. M. Dodge, Towa; S. D. Atkins, Freeport; S. C. Bald- win, Cleveland; Caleb B. Wilcks, Youngstown; Foy Reviere, Cognac, France; S. S. Stevens, New York; the Rev. James G. Scott and J. A. Allan, Scotland; Judge David Davis. Bloomingtoni W. D. Richardson, Springfield; W. H. Mo~ Cord, Wisconsin.... Tremont House—The Hoa William Aymere, New York; the Rev. E. B- Webb, Boston; Col. John Telling, Milwaakee; Gen. H. H. Landen, U. S. Army; the Hon. James Clement, Ann Arbor; Eugene Shaw, Eau Cleire; B B. Piké, Philadelphla; Dr. G. H. Hooper, New York.....Sherman House—H. S Adams, New York; C. H. Waters, Boston; J. M. _ Southworth, Woodstock; G. T. Coppins, New York; J. D. Hunter, Webster City; T. S. Suther- land, Troy, N, Y.; W. H. Calkins, LaPorte; B Stack, Boston; Judge Asa C. Case, Algoas, Ia