Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 3, 1876, Page 4

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F.. are hereby notified To meet at their hall, 13 South Halsted-st.. to; day, st 12 o'clock, to lllegflg;e Iun%wfl;fl‘?‘lfi ;ioec{‘l:‘ssgd i S R HESPERIA LODGP, No. 411, A.. F. and A. M.— Spectal CompnsieatioR Sundsy afleactats brother: o ral o ve 3 Boben Stacs Bard, - CIIAS. H. BEENAN, W. . CHAS F. FOERSTER, Sec- APOLLO COMMANDERY OF KNIGHTS TEMLAR. —Etated Assembly in Conclave, Asylum 76 Monrve-st., Tuesdsy evening, Sept. 5, at 8 o'clock. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1876. At the New York Exchange on Saturday the dollar groenback represented 91@91% cents in gold. Ths Hon. Braxe, Cansdiau Minister of Justice, who has been in England several wecks, hss, it is said, made en arrangement whereby the extradition clausa of the Asa- BorTOX Treaty will be continued in force be- tween,Canada and the United States. The election in Vermont occurs on Tues- day next, and of course will result in aRe- publican success, the State having heretofore been Republican by nearly three to oze. The principal interest centres in the relative losses and gaing of the two -parties. The Democrats started fheir campaign with the intention of making a serious reduction im the Republican vote; but, as it had the result of stirring up the Republicans to unusual offort and a remarkably vigorous canvass, th re islittle doubt that Vermont will give Ler old-time majority. . A new and rather startling phase of the peace policy has recently come to light. It appears that one Brrir, Agent at Standing Rock, has all along had a fellow-feeling for the hostiles, and has been detected in surrep- titiously issuing beef cattle to the Indians whom the Government is endeavor- ing to intercept and punish for the manifold atrocities committed of late. The report comes that said BursE has been sus- pended from office. Should the charges against him be clearly proven, there are many .people, more especially on the frontier, who wonld favor a suspension of & more final character and degree than that announced by the army suthorities. It is not creditable to the sense of justice that is supposed to pervade the people & Massachusetts thet the wretch Poaznor has ‘had his sentence commuted to imprisonment for life. His crimes were the most atrocious and fiendish that have ever been recorded. His escape from hanging is due entirely to the efforts of the moudlin sentimentalists of Boston, who have brought such a pressure to bear upon the Governor and Council that they have at lest ylelded. It is not probable that the present Governor will dare to par- don him; bat, as soon as a weaker or more sentimental man is elected, he will be dis- charged, and then will be free to fesume his career of child-murder. , No one familiar with Mr. TrLpEx's politi- cal methods will doubt for a moment that he inspired the conduct of the recent Demo- cratic State Convention in New York. He ren it as completely as he ran the St. Louis Convertion in his own interest, and there ‘was no independence of thought or action on the part of the delegates, who were his automatons merely.. He probably believed that he could constrain Mr. Sexyovr to ac- cept the nomination. In this he erred, but he withheld the knowledge of his failure from the Convention, so that it sdjourned, leaving the nomination for Governor to be dictated by him to the State Central Committes. He sccured this result by having the Chair- msn of the Committee appointed to notify Seymove ennounce that the latter had signified his intention of accept- ing. This was the lie direct, for Mr. Sgy- MOUR, on the contrary, had persistently and peremptorily refused to accept. Judge Grer, the Chairman of the State Committee, now apnounces this, and the Democrats are so much outraged at the whole proceeding ‘hat they will probably insist upon having the Convention recalled. This will be'a per- sonal rebuke to Troey, who would probably neme his factotum, Dorsmenerr, or his former law-partner, ANprew H. GREEN, now Comptroller of New York City, for the Pace. In any case, there is new cause for -ension among the New York Democrats ; a0d tiye part of autocrat and dictator which TIDEN\ ‘heg attempted to play will not be likely 0\ g4rengthen him in his own State. The Chit (o0 1 roduce markets were moder- ately active 'g.tnrdsy, and breadstuffs were firm, while ‘gmvisions were weak. Mess pork closedst 2‘;@ perbrl lower,at §15.50@15.55 cash and €15 55615 574 for October. Lard closed 174G 24,0 00100 Ibslower, at 9. 70 cash and §9.50@9 501 ¢or Qctober. Meats were 8 W”“]moxmmum. Sic for P b do short ribs, and 8jc for do short clears. Lake freights were quiet, st 2@24c for corn to Buffalo. Rail freights were unchanged. High- wines were steady, at $1.09 per gallon. Flourwas quiet and firm. Wheat closed {@}c higher, at 95}c for September and 96¢ for October. Corn closed Ic higher, at 434c cash and 43jc for October. Oats were firmer, closing tame at 310 for September and 314c for October. Rye was firmer, at 58@384c. Barley closed dull, at 78¢ asked for Septem- ber and 76ic for October. Hogs were in fairly active demand and sold stronger, sales making at $5.40@6.20 for common heavy to choice light. Cattle wers in fair demand and unchanged—quoted at $2.50@5.00 for com- mon to choice grades. There wasa good de- mand for sheep at .$3.00@4.50. One hun- dred dollars in gold would buy $109.62} in greenbacks at the close. The fourth annual exhibition of the Inter- State Industrial Exposition will be opened next Wednesdny evening. The management of this institution in the past, and the prep- arations for the present season, warrant the prediction that this year's exhibit will be more sttractive and the attendance larger than ever before. It is a Chicago institu- tion, which has been of great value not. to the city alone, but to the entire Northwest. The average sttendance for the past three years has been 400,000, and it serves to draw people to Chicago from all parts of the West, Northwest, and Southwest, and to give a lively start to the fall trade. To the country visitor it offers the opportunity for a thor- ongh and rapid review of the ‘‘ shopping ” of a metropolis, a4 well as an inspection of the various improvements in agricul- tural and industrial appliances. To the citi- zens of Chicago it provides a pleasant re- sort, with good music, & variety of sights, & mass of people, and a combination of useful study with rational recreation. The build- ing“has been thoroughly renovated; the space was all teken long since; and the pre- vious experienco of the managers will enable them to give satisfaction from the very open- ing. The Art Gallery for the present year has been filled mainly from the private col- lections owned in this city and elsowhere, following the plan of the * Centennial Loan Exhibition” of this year in New York City, which is spoken of as the finest collection of paintings everexhibited in the United States. Altogether there is every reason to believe will, in the nature of things, be disposed to conduct the department more strictly and economically. The interests of the city are certainly not likely to be affected injuriously by substitut- ing a single Commissioner for the present Board of three Commissioners. It is 2d- mitted that no more public works of magni- tude will be undertaken by the city for many years to come. The water, sewerage, street and sidewalk, bridge, tunnel, and viaduct systems are fully adequate to the demands of the city for years to come. Two or three hundred thousand people might be added to the population, filling up the vacank places inside the city limits, without requiring any further extension of public works. All that needs to be done is to maintain the public works in good condition and at the lowest possible cost. One good, practical man, de- voting his entirs time to the management of the Department, will be more likely to perforfa this duty in an economical and business-like manner than three men unde the old system; and, in any event, he wil be personally and constantly responsible to the Mayor and Council in a degree w‘hjch a semi-independent Board is slways able to avoid. WOMAN AS A POLITICAL PURIFIER. Recent events call fresh attention to this oft-agitated topic. It Las been rather a favorite argument with the advocates of women-suffrage that the confessed corruption of politics could be purified by the admission of woman to the ballot-box and to eivil office. The axisting evil was due, it was argued, to man’s grosser nature and less delicate moral perceptions. Man is a coarse being ; he is selfish also. He has long been accustomed to think of government asa con- venience forgaining personal and party ends, and to use politics as a cunning device for gecuring power and pelf. Hence, even when his conscience sometimes protests against the corruption, he silences its voice by de- claring that nothing is practicable in the direction of reform. He has no courage, no faith, no hope. But, allow woman to come to the front, with her sensitive moral nature, it is said, ond & new face will be put upon things. Her delicacy of feeling, her tenderness of conscience, her habit of always asking first for the right end wrong of a question, will revolutionize that the Exposition will be even more of & | Affairs. A npew element will be intro- credit to Chicago than heretofore. We are glad to notice that the common,| tendency of lawyers and small officiald to abuse their pnivilege by extracting from wit- nesses & mass of evidence extraneous to the case under examination, either for the pur- pose of brow-beating or confusing the wit- nesses, or to pander to & morbid. and de- praved curiosity, is eliciting condemnation in England as well as this country. In its comments on the Bravo poisoning case, the London Times took occasion to say : Dut it must also be said that public feeling has ‘been revolted by the manner in which this investi- gation has heen conducted, and by the lengths to which it has been pushed. When the fact of the previous existence of 8 criminal connection be- tween Dr. GuLLy and Mra. Bravo had been estab- lished, the main object of the exposure had been gained, and it was a cruel, and even 2 barbarous, act to enbject a most unhappy woman to hours of crose-examination for the mere purpose of elicit- ing details of this connection, and even, as in one instance, of endeavoring to extort the circum- stances under which, nearly six years ago, this fatal passion arose. It wax at this point that Mrs. Bravo, with a perfectly just indignation, turned upon her torturers, and refused to answer any more questions respecting Dr. GrLLY. There was apparently no other purpose in this inquisition than to expose to the public gaze the details of a liaison, and to excite still further the public taste for sensationalism and nastiness. The effect of such course in all trials and public investigations is to lower the standard of public morals ; and, so far as the parties to the scandal are concerned, it was an unwarranted proceeding, the recog- nition of which enzbles lawyers to probe and expose the private affairs of any person who may be called on the witness-stand. The T¥mes was entirely correct in speaking of it as ““ a disgrace to the Court which allowed it and to the manliness of every one who was in the least degree respounsible for it.” THE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORES. - The question of abolishing the Board of Public Works, which has been recommended by Mayor Hears, will come up before the Council at the regular meeting to-morrow. An ordinance providing for this would mnot, under the terms of the charter, go into effect until the beginning of the next municipal year; but should such an ordinance be adopt- ed now we have no doubt that the présent members of the Board (Messrs. PRINDIVILLE, Troxesox, and WanL) would retire at onge in order that it might be put into operation immediately. The abolition of this Board and the substitution of a single Commission- erof Public Works would be in keeping with the spirit and intention of the present charter, and follow out the policy already practiced by the abolition of the Board of Police and the Board of Hesalth. Itisnot unlikely, there- fore, that the Board will be abolished. We know that it has been recommended by Mayor HEATH only after deliberate consider- ation and upon a mature conviction that it will be in the interests of public economy. The chief objection that has been urged against the proposition is that the geo- graphical division of the city into three parts seems to demand a separate representation of each part in the Puablic Works Department, and that this is attained by havinga Board of three members, with one from the West, one from the South, and one from the North Division. But any advantage that this geo- graphical representation may secure to each division in the equable distribution of favors is more than offset, we are inclined to think, by the disadvantages to the city at large that result from an increase of ex- penditures incident to the system. So long 88 each of the three members of the Board regards himself as the special representative of his Division he necessarily uses all his in- fluence in behalf of his immediate constitu- ents. This naturally leads to trading. The representative of the West Di- vision will agree that the demands of the North Division shall be satis- fied if the representative of the North Division will concede the demgands of the West Division, and s0 on. We say that this is the natural tendency of that system of orgenization, without meaning to impute any bed motives to] the present Board. If, on the other hand, the responsibilities were concentrated in a single Commissioner, he would regard himself as the representative of the whole city, and divest himself of any sectional feeling. The same effect may be noticed in the matter of patronsge. Three Commissioners not only require three sal- aries where one ought to suffice, but the number of applications for subordinate places increases in proportion. One Commissioner in charge, who is directly responsible to the Mayor, and who cannot shift the blame for any mistgkes upon the shoulders of others, duced and made supreme. Her enthusiastic impulses and her hopeful temperament will refuse to despair when confronted with the obstacles which discourage man. She will investigate all the dark proceedings, and dis- close the mystery of iniquity. Her very, presence at the ballot-box would send dismay to the hearts of the wicked. She would ele- vate only the honest and capahle to office. She would elect Prohibitionists to the State Legislatures, and pat a stop to the traffic in intoxicating drinks. Every reform would find in her an efficient and unwavering advo- cate. And were sho in, office, were she re- sponsibly conducting government, corrup- tion would be impossible. Whowould dare to approach a pure, intelligent, and refined lady with & corrupt proposition? Her look of scorn, her glance of indignation, would burn and blast the base proposer of a bribe! Such is the theory ; and it reads nicely in the columns Yof a Woman's-Suffrage paper, eud has a teking sound when heard on the platform, calling back the answermg ap- plause of an apprecistive and sympathetic audience. But some (of both sexes) were always incredulous on this point. They were troubled with doubts, notwithstanding their experience of the many good qualities of the femsle sex. There, for instance, was the Hebrew tradition of the fall of man, which the theory did not quite account for. Why did the serpent choose the woman, rother than the man, for his seductive at- tack? Why choose the higher, the morally more sensitive nature? And how come it that she yielded, insiead of driving the tempter away in shame, to try whether he might not have more success with her coarser- fibred husbend.” Alas, this is e great stum- bling-block! It seems like a typical case, prophetic of a long scries of facts, and in- dicating that woman’s strong feelings and eager desires would ever.prove a weak side to her moral nature, and that man could be most readily reached and corrupted through his love for woman. But that starts us with abad outlook for purity in politics through female influence ! For we must consider that with this con- stitutional inlet for temptation woman’s en- trance into politics would not exactly be the coming of an angel into the midst of corrup- tion. It would be but the advent, amid powerful temptation, of a very sensitive na- ture, which already had wrong tendencies within it. In other words, it would still be human nature in politics. Sin unfortunately knows no sex, Sacred history therefore re- cords & Mrs, Porremaras a danger to young Josepr; tells us that where a great King fell into impurity, BATHSHEBA Was as willing as Davip ; shows that the inspiration of Ams in his evil courses was his wife. JEZEBEL in- forms us that when Herop bebeaded Jomx the Baptistit was in reluctant answer to the request of Henopias and her daughter, to whom the ghastly head was carried on a platter; and states that the ambition of Jaxes and Jous to have the places of honor and power on the right and left hand of the Messiah in His expected political kingdom was instigated by their mother, Sivroxe. Secular history as little shows that purity always goes into politics with woman. It rather brings to light a special love of in- trigne and management, and a disposition to resort without scruple to the most conven- ient instrumentalities. Such was often the female influence and method under Oriental despotisms, in Imperial and afterwards in Papal Rome, at the Court of Russis, and in the checkered history of France, whether under Kings, Consuls, or Emperors. The marked appearance of woman in the political scene generally wes accompanied with a cul- mination of evil ; as though corruption had pained its lowest depth. This argues nothing agninst the character of the sex at large, but only that it is little fitted to withstand the pecutiar temptations of political life. Am- bition, luxury, vanity, sensuslity, revenge, make appeal to other than male hearts, and the corrupt atmosphere of courts has not been due merely to the presence of man. Take our own City of Washington, and what a revelation we have recently had of political corruption, in which the two sexes seem to have equally shared. If Secretary BereNap is mentioned with reproach, the name of Mrs. BELENaP is spoken with sor- row, or with sneers, on every side. It has long been known that political favors in that Capital were often to be obtained through the agency of certain lady brokers, who acted as go-betweens, and who, in return for money, could influencs appointments to office and votes in Congress. Very curiously, the con~ duct of Mra. BELNaP has served to test the forsle standard of moral judement in an unexpected way. Mr. HIGGINSON gave, in the Woman's Journal, the Tesult of his ap- plication to five ladies of his acquaintance for their opinion of the conduct of Mrs. Berenar. He confesses that but ome of them condemned the act out and out, as a man would do; that one justified it entirely; and that three only disapproved of the in- creased prices which the soldiers were com- pelled to pay to the sutler! The dishonor of taking a bribe, the corruption that seizes up- on all appointments to office, the moment the principle is allowed that solfish consider- ations ere to control him who has the ap- pointing power, had no influence on four out of the five ladies! Yet these wero cultivated women, and of one of them Mr. Hic- GINSON says that her ‘‘moral standard is rather exacting,” and that her * absolute di- rectness and truthfulness would drive CuarLes READE to despair.” MMr. HIGGINSON thinks that if women were more in politics they would understand these things better. Alas, we fear that, as with men, something more would be wanting than understanding, and that contact with temptation might blunt rather than sharpen moral perception. And the revelations recently made in Chica- go as to the efforts of certain ladies to influ- ence the Board of Education to sppoint a Indy as the Assistant Superintendent sadly confirm this view, manifesting far more poli- cy than principle, anda remarkable readiness to resort to corruption to ‘‘help the cause.” The truth is that women are often less nice and accurate than men on questions of business dealing and public morals. ~Clergy- men say they have never found it half as hard to co.vince men as to convince women that the raffles, grab-bags,. ring-cakes, etc., at benevolent fairs were of the same nature as lotteries, and were, therefore, to be con- demned as instraments of gambling. * Why, it rnises so much money for agood object,” the Iadies always thought to be a sufficient answer : as if no one had ever censured do- ing evil that good might come. This ten- dency of the female mind to seize a present advantage, to think everything to be right which ¢ helps the cause,” would be a fraitful source of demoralization in politics, even in the better class. If now be added the tempta- tions which would assail those of weak moral principle, who, to gain envied dréss, or posi- tion, or money, might be solicited to evil, in many ways, in the devious paths of politics, it strikes us thet it is quite as likely that pol- itics would corrupt the women as that the women would purify the politics. THE HAY-FEVER CLUB. The tendency of human kind to aggregate itself is notorious. Given a certain number of human beings, having a certain foible, weakness, or hobby, and immediately they gather about 8 common centre and stick to it like iron filings to a magnet. There are clubs for the collection of bugs and catching of fish; clubs for the sailing of yachts and playing of croquet; kennel clubs for the training of dogs, and rodent clubs for the hunting of rats; literary clubs for the con- sumption of Cmavcez and cheese, and dra- matic clubs for the destruction of Bier und Brod; undertakers' clubs for hearsing, and mausical clubs for rehearsing ; clubs of gush- ing young creatures for. social enjoyment, and clubs of other young creatares for social misery; fat men's clubs and leen men's clubs; clubs for hunting, target-shooting, base-ball playing, whisky-drinking, faro- banking, church-furnishing, scandal-monger- ing, euchre-playing, and so on ad infinitum. Thego clubs hitherto have been devoted os- tensibly to purposes of entertainment, the idea being that an aggregation of humad beings can extract more comfort out of a hobby than the individual. Hereafter, how- ever, we may expect the speedy formation of clubs for purposes of mutual sympathy and lamentation, a bright example having been set in the organization of the Hay-Fever Club. . The credit of this novel associatio sgems to be due to the Rev. Hexzy Warp K#3¢mez, who, sitting in his cave of gloom add even wishing that he were dead, wiping his weep- ing eyes and blowing his itching nose, fancied that his individual discomfort might be materially lessened by contemplating an aggregation of red noses and watery eyes. The basis of his theory is undoubtedly cor- rect. There is solid comfort when you are in affliction in knowing that your neighbor is afflicted also. If your house burns down, you feel less sorrow provided your neigh- bor's house burns down also, and, if the whole block lies in ashes, thers is a certamn amount of actual conflagatory comfort about it. Rheumatic old less if they can have other rheumatic old ladies with whom to compare aches and pains. Actuated by some such feeling 88 this, Mr. Brecmes has collected all his wheezing and sneezing friends, and extended also an 1pvitation to all others whose noses blaze like beacons what time the farmer gathers the fragrant hay into his lofts, and banded them together into a common aggre- gation of human misery. The programme is substantially as follows: When the Rose cold “commences its ravage upon the col- lective nose, ‘the Club packs its trunks. ‘When the July cold sets in, the Club gathers its families about it, takes a weeping good- by, mounts the stage-coach, blows its aggre- gate nose at each village it passes, thereby obviating the expense of the ordinary horn- blower, and arrives at Bethlehem, where it settles down to the serions business of enjoy- ing the autumnal eatarrh, which appears to be the climax of this favorite but aristocratic disease. The hay-fever is none of your vulgar disesses like small-pox or measles. Like the gout, it is fastidious, and selects for its development the aris- tocratic noses of eminent preachers, gifted lawyers, languid ladies who toil not, like the lily, and opulent ex-Quartermasters. The sons of toil never have it. It passes them by like the idle wind. Bethlehem is the head- quarters of the Eastern Hay-Fever Club; Mackinac of the Western ; but on stated occa- sions East and West clasp hands and blow goses together across the catarrhal chasm. Hitherto the peaceful villagers of Bathlehem have passed their summers in delightful re- pose, enjoying the ofinm cum dig of rural life, the songs of the birds, the lowing of kine, the fragrant breath of the clover and timothy, and the bland and balmy breezes that blow from its mountain altitude ; but, since the advent of the Hay-Fever Club, the Arcadian dream has vanished, dissipated by the blowing of hundreds and thou- sands of sonorous noses. Brrcmer, with streaming eyes, traverses its grass- grown streets, wisking a better man were in his place. GRANT GoopricH, waving his new bandanosa, answers the salute of the morning cock with a blast from his sonorous nose.- All day long watery, itching men and ‘women go abont the streets wheezing, sneez- ing, rubbing, scratching, snd weeping, and at night no sound breaks upon the stillness except reponsive snorts from rabicund pro- bosces, whose owners lie “ weeping the weary hours away.” Considered oer s¢. the Hay.Fever Club is ladies suffer | O TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER 3, 1876—SIXTEEN PAGES. not an alarming feature of modern society. The only apprehension to which it gives rise is the prospect that the success of this Club will induce the victims of other ailments to aggregate themselves into clubs. How long will it be, now that the oatarrhal BEECHER and sternututory GooDRICE have_ organized their followers under the rose-colored banner, before we shall have the, Asth- matic Association, the Rheumatic B‘nm- blers, the Gout Gramblers, the Quinsy Pilgarlics, the Consumptive Co-operation- ists, the Lumbago Loungers,” and the Neurosis Sorosis, organized and banded to- gether and moking annual pilgrimages to hygienic spots? How long _will it be before we shall have one-armed clubs and one- legged clubs? How long will it be before the man who was blown up with gunpow- der, the boy with six fingers on one hand, the woman with the wen, and all the other street-corner monstrosities, will aggregate themselves into clubs and make periodical onslaughts upon aflicted municipalities with hand-organs, hurdy-gurdies, and accordions? With this alarming prospect in view, Mr. Beromen's efforts to organize hay-fever and concentrate catarrh bode serious results to individual comfort. Itisan open question whether a man who is rich and aristocratic enongh to have hay-fever ought not to be compelled to enjoy it alone, instead of intro- ducing it into the whole body politic as a social institution. THE ELECTION OF THE NEXT POPE. A few weeksago there was a cable dispatch to the effect that the Italian Catholic Society for vindicating the rights of Christians gen- erally, and the Romans particularly, in elect- ing the next Pope, bas incurred the displeas- ure of the present Pontiff. Later English papers bring the intelligence that the Major Excommunication has been pronounced against the members and supporters of that Society. The object of the Society as an- nounced is to revise the original mode of electing pastors, Bishops, and all members of ‘the hierarchy, by the;votes of the people and clergy, and the eleftion of the Pope by the clergy nnd people of Rome. It was stated or intimated thaf the Government of Italy contemplated some legislation on this subject favorable to the object of this So- ciety : but the Italian Minister of Peace and Justice, in answer to an inquiry, has an- swered that, while sympathizing with the ob- ject, a similar measure proposed by him in the discussion of the Papal guarantees was rejected, and he has no thought that a like proposition now would receive any more fav- orable action from the Legislature. Until popular opinion is more educated up to tho point than it now is, no favorable considera- tion can be expected from Parliament. Since then the announcement has been made that, within the Church itself, steps have been taken simplifying the mode of electing a Pope. It is just possible that this latter action has been taken as a precaution, and to enable the Sacred College to anticipate any action by the Italian Government to take the election of the Pope out of the hands of the Cardinals and place it in the hands of the people of Rome: The policy of Vicror Ea- aaNvEL's Government hasbeen that of abso- lute non-intervention in ecclesiastical mat- ters, and to confing the operations and su- premacy of the State to matters purely polit- ical. It would seem, therefore, that, unless the Government should resolve to abandon this policy, it will not interfere to take the election of the Pope outside of ihe body where the power has existed so long to give it to the people of Rome. The mode and manner of appointing Bish- ops of the Church have varied at times and places. Originally the pastors were selected by the people over whom they wera to pre- gide. Some of the most illustrious prelates of the early Church were thus seélected. In time this method, like all things human, led to abuses, and there were contested elec- tions, and rivalries, and angry contentions, leading to divisions and strifes not only be- tween claimants, but between factions of the people. The last appeal was, of course, to Rome. Regulations differing at times and in countries were adopted. The union of the Htate and the Church led to the appoint- ments of Bishops.by the sovereigns of the various countries. This in like manner led to abuses. The nomination of Bishops is now and has for a long time been vested ac- cording to circumstances variously, but the power of appointment is exercised at Rome. Similarly, the mode of electing the Pope has materially changed. At first he was elected as Bishops were, by the clergy and people of his immediate diocese. These elections, were in time prolific of conflicts. Finally, about 1059, Pope Nicroras IL. con- stituted the College of Cardinals as the ex- clusive electoral body. The election of the Popes has been exercised by that body down to the present day. The disturbances which had actually taken place in the Church and among Governments growing out of disput- ed elections of Popes were cited as one of the reasons why these elections should be confined to a partioular body of the prelates of the Church. Inlater days the Govern- ments of Austria, France, and Spain claimed tho right of veto upon elections of Popes made by the College. This right has been recognized and admitted at times, and repu- diated at others, sccording to the peculiar circumstances of the case. In the Cullege of Cardinals thers are rep- resentatives of nearly all countries, but the body itself may be said to be made up of Italians, All the Cardinals of the present dny, we believe, have been appointed by Prus IX., he having outlived all those who ‘were membars at the time of his election in 1846. Practically, therefore, the election of the Pope is in the hands, if not of Romans, at least of Italians. The claim that the peo- ple of Rome have any special right in the election of the Pope is hardly consistent with the existing condition of the Papacy. When the Pope was temporal Prince of Rome, as well as head of the Church, there may have been a pretext for their exclusive right to elect their own Prince as well as Bishop. Bat the Pope is no longer a temporal soversign, and is not recognized as such by any Government or nation. The Society which claims for the people and clergy of Rome the right to elect the Pope expressly denies any temporal authority of the Pope in that city or elsewhere. The London Saturday Review, in discussing the purposes of this Society, says: How far it would be advisable at the present day to revive the practice of the first thonsand years of Church history, and restore to the Roman clerzy and people the vote which for the last eight cen- turics has been transferred to the College of Cardi- nals, may well be questioned. The Pope, on any theory of hie ofice which makes it worth discuss- ing atall, is something more than an Italian Bish- op, and he has now ceased to be an Italian sov- ereign. There seems no reason why the election of a potentate who aspires to be the Head of the Tniversal Church should be intrusted exclusively to the citizens of Rome, or of Italy. It wonld naturally appertain rather to a body representing the Church generally than to any local or mational constituency. * And ‘such a repre- septative body the Ssered College is sup- posed 1ty be: but. In fack three-fourths at | least of the Cardinals are always Italians, and for Detween three and four centurics none but lh!lifir‘l! have filled the Papal throne. There was 3 plausi- ble pretext for such & restriction while the Pope was alao the ruler of an Halian State; it becomes alike unmeaning and incongruous when he i3 sim- ply the chief pastor of & Church embracing, or claiming to embrace, sll nations of the earth. It can only be justified on the principle openly main- teined by thie Civilta Catlolica, that, as the Jews were God's chosen people under the Old Covenant, &0 the Romans under the New Covenant are raised to a supernatural dignity. It is‘intelligible on this principle, but on o other, that every ecclesiastical question, from the highest mysteries of faith to the handling of a thurible or thecat of a eur- plice, should be regnlated by congregations and tribunals mine-tenths of whose members are Italians. The Papal authorities choose to regard the civilized world as at war with the Church of Rome, and have ideslized the word ‘‘revo- Jution” as anti-Catholic. Anything and everything in religion, science, art; or litera- ture which can be tortured by the severest construction as opposed to Papal supremacy, is put under the ban, 8s pertaining to ¢ The Revolution.” Thus, Roman Catholics who have enlisted in the Servian and Montene- grin avmies sgainst the Turks are gravely warned that they have engaged in the Revo- lution, not against Turkey, but against the Church. So in 2ll matters. All things, of whatever character or nature, which are nof avowedly for the Church are designated gen- erally as part of the Revolution which x§ per- secuting the Church. Prus IX., who has already reached a most venerable age. gives no sign of failure or weakness in his physical health, and may live many years yet. But it is most likely -that the College of Cardinals has slready taken all necessary measures, 80 that, on the happening of the death of the present Pontiff, the election of his successor will take place promptly and in advance of any interference by any Government either to control or prevent such election, or to ad- vance the cause of ““The Revolution.” THE CITY GAS BILLS. When Mr. WaTkINs, the President of the City Gas-Light Company, which supplies the North aud South Divisions, made his propo- sition to furnish the street gas for $21 per lamp per year, we advised the City Council to acceptrit if the estimate was made upon the basis of $1.50 per 1,000 feet, which is the price generally agreed upon as fair. We supposed that this was the basis of the esti- mate, as Mr. WaTgrns had previously stated that he would advise his Company to take $1.50 per 1,000. It seems that this is not the case. A writer in the Zimes has done the Gas Company an injustice by figuring ont that the Company would actually receive, at the rate of $21 2 lamp, a few cents more than $3 per 1,000, which is the rate of the old contract, and 50 cents higher than is paid at present. The principal error in this figuring is the omission of the fact that the proposed charge of $21 a lamp per year includes the cost of lighting, cleaning, repairing, and thawing in winter,—items that have hereto- fore been paid by the city separately and in addition to the regular gas-bills. In 1875 AMfr. WaTkxxs’ company was paid $31,000 for these items, and the average number of lamps in the North and South Divisions was 4,900, making an average cost of a little more than $6 per lamp for the items now in- cluded in the proposition of $21 per lamp. Deducting this amount it leaves $15 per lamp per year as the payment for the gas consumed. The average time per year, ac- cording to the new table for light- ing and extinguishing, is 2,338 hours for each lamp, which, at the rate of 3 .feet per hour, would consume 7,014 feet in the year. At the rate of $1.50 per 1,000, this would make the cost of each lamp $10.50 instead of $15 as proposed by Mr. WaTkINs, after deducting a fair estimate for lighting, cleaning, and repairing. His - proposition makes the city pay a little more then $2 per 1,000 feet. It may be thata ‘margin has been left for the supply of gas during cloudy weather, though Mr. WaTrrvg' proposition does not state this distinctly; but, even if this is contemplated, the margin of 50 cents per 1,000 for the entire yearis rather too liberal for the Gas Company, and seems to anticipate more cloudy weather than is at all probable or desirable. ‘The Council will do better, on the whole, to insist that the proposition shall be made for a regular chsrge of $1.50 per 1,000 feet, and pay for the extra expénses of lighting, cleaning, and repairing at the same rates as heretofore. To accept the proposition made by Mr. Wargrss will be to make a saving of only 50 cents per 1,000 on the actual cost of the gas consumed, though it is agreed on all sides that $1 per 1,000 ought to be saved. The bulk of the saving on the aggregate bills is made by a reduction in the size of the burner from 5 feet to 3 feet, and a reduction in the number of hours for lighting the lamps. But this is not enough. The only advantege of paying around sum per lamp is in the possible discontinuance of test- meters, but even these would have to be re- tained in order to make sure that the city re- ceived as much gas as it was entitled to get. If Mr. Waremss and his Company have de- tormined to furnish the city with gas at the rata of $1.50 per 1,000 feet, the fairest way will be to make a proposition to that ef- fect in plain terms. If not, then let the South Side Company be treated'the same as the West Side Company, and oil-lamps adopted throughout the city for a couple of years. This will bring both companies to terms in the end. The sentiment of the people is opposed to any further temporizing with the gas monopolists. We do not think they can control the present Council as there isreason to believe they have obtained their immunity to plunder the people heretofore. They have had ample time to decide whether they will treat the public fairly or not. If they have decided not to do so, then the peo- ple rely confidently upon the Council to pro- tect them from further extortio: — 7o the Editor of The Tridune. - Cricaco, Aug. 31.—Will you state in Tie Trrs- UNE what became of the Sixteenth Amendment? I noticed it passed the third reading. I have no- ticed, but do not remember of seeing how it was disposed of ; have im’ulred of several of the read- ers of THE DALY TRiBUNE, 2nd none remember any action of Congress after the above. Yours tra- Iy, A SeBscmBER. Early in the session Mr. BLAINE introduced I.xm_) the House the Sixteenth Amendment, which was subscquently unanimously reported by the Judiciary Committee of that body, and ‘unanimously passed by the House itself. When it reached the Senate, the amendment wes con- sidered as fnsufficient, and the Committec of that body proceeded to enlarge it, making it more comprehensive, and then put into it a pro- vision declaring that the exclusion of religious teaching did not exclude the Bible from the schools. The result was that an opposition was provoked, and the ameudment failed to passthe Senate for want of the required constitutional vote. ———— The paragraph which has bgen gomg the rounds of the press announcing the death of the talented Spanish lady known in literature by her nom de plume of “Fernan Caballero ™ is erroneous. The deceased proves to be Senor Dox F:zn.v!x CaBaLLERO, Who is equally famous in Spain as a geographical, historical, and politi- cal writer, and has written, among other works, Parts of the World,” “The Geogry; Nomenclature of Spain and Her 1'; 2 hica) % ) eoplegn “The Geographical Skill of Cervantes,» o A ditions 1o the Compendium of Spauish Figpes by Da Quesne,” and “A Prologue 1o o Aminta of Tasso.” thy ————— AN IMPORTANT CITY IMPROVEMFRY, MAGRICE STRAKOSCH, in company wij prima donna, Mile. BeLocca, o hi?,finz" made a great success in San anmm,,m“é In this city yesterday. The latter left immeg;. ately for Philadelphia to fulfll an engagumey and it is altogether probable will return 1o city in the latter part of the present monty ta open our musical season. Mr. STRARoscy wil] remain here a few days to armangz the prefiy naries of a plan which he has in conteaplatioy for a very important improvement ang o which has long been needed in Chicago, Ty hag already been announced in THE TRIGUNE fhy during his recent visit to San Francisco hecom. pleted his arrangements for the construction of an elegant opera-house in that city. Chig it now appears, is also to be the locality of his enterprise, his purpose being to crect p large music hall, uoon the plan of the Alberg Hall in London. The location will bea centry one, and, we believe, has alrcady been secureq, It is his intention to construct a hall commogy. ous enough to seat between 3,500 and 4,000 ple, with a very large stage adapted for festivy purposes and the production of " important works, and so arranged that the building may be used for an opcra-house whenever it ghj) appear feasible to have one. The interior gr. rangements Will comprise a main floor, sy rounded by boxes,which are to be sold foralong term of years amounting to perpetual owper ship, and a gallery. There is certainly a pregs. ing need for such a hall in this city in a conyen. ient location, not alone for concerts and festi. vals, but also for lectures and great populsr gatherings, and we have no doabt M, Srragosce will find a rich reward fop his enterprise. It is fortunate for thy ¢ity that the hall is to be built by a gep. tleman who has devoted his whole life to the managerial business, and who has the requisits skill and experience to know exactly what king of o hall the people want. Music has suffereq more in this city since the fire from the lackof ahall than from any other cause. Solongzas we had the Crosby Opera-House there wass common centre for music, but since that time it has wanaered about i churches, theatres, and badly-located halls, and has pickedupg very precarious living at best. With the erec- tion of a new ball, however, music will receivea fresh impulse, from the very fact of its having s permanent home. — e ———— ‘The nomination of 2 man for the highest ofice in the gift of the people should inspire soms respect for him. It is proper to provehima thief and competent to convict him of perjury; but when it comes to likening TILDEN to St TNa BULL, as a Herald correspondent did, it is equally disrespectfal to TILDES and an insultta the redskin. ——— The New York detectives think they have dix covered in ‘“‘drover’ Apaxs, who saved a train on the Central from demolition, the man who set up the job to wreckit. He is now injafl, and, if he is acquitted on the charge, he will then be returned to Philadelphis as litfle CHARLEY Ress. Down in LAMAR’S district they supply Demo- crats with police badges, and arm them with clubs and pistols. This makes them conserva- tors of the peace, and they are not responsible for the death of any Republican who riotously votes as his conscience dictates. ———— In a recently-published correspondence be * tween THOMAS JEFFERSON and JOHN ADAus, the latter remarks to the former that his com- munication was * The best letter ever written by an octogenarian dated June 1.” 5 —————— The British ship Vicforiz had a lively time recently on the Bonny River, South Africa. The colored men fired into the steamer, and, had It not been for her celerity in getting out, would have sunk her. * ——— Government officials have discovered that the Hawaiian treaty is unconstitutional, as it affords a preference to the Westernslope, in contraven- tion of the statute in that case made aud pro- vided. ———— Out in Nevada some fellows killed the Wrong man, They went to his wife and apologized, and she accepted with the explanation that s cidents would happen in spite of all precat~ tions. ——— Miss ANNE BREWSTER has discovered that th people of Abyssinia are aremnant of thelot tribeof Israel. She accounts for the deepened color, but fails to explain the shape of the nose. e — Dom PEDRO’S effort to induce the Mennonites to settle in Brazil bids fair to prove abortive. The Russians have concluded they cannat stand. the climate. ———— The Troy (N. Y.) Press has discovered that “The story of the stealing of CHARLEY Rox has been heralded all over the country.” PERSONAL. Mr. Joseph. Hatton, the English movelist and playwright, has sailed for America. Mrs. Hiram Powers will retarn to the United States shortly, after an absence of forty years. The English gossips have revived the story thst Mr. Disraeli is shortly to marry Lady Chesterfioid. The daughter of **Oliver Optic, " the boys' {svor- ite, fsabout to be married to Mr. Sol Smith Rassell, the actor. A Pole has been sentenced to three months’ im prisonment for following a French officer in Parif and singing the **German Rhine.” Mr. Chauncey T. Bowen, of Chicago, 13 to be married on the 14th inst. to Miss Crocker, s dsugh-, terof Mr. and Mrs. James Crocker, of Albassy N. Y. Aimee is aboutto marry in San Francisco s mem~ ber of her company named Darcy. She shouldn’® mix opera-bouffe with matrimony, as Mrs. Ostes has done. The pious Boaton Museum has put a charch- scene on its new act-drop. The entertainment 8 only of the **lectare-room™ ‘order, though gived with real actors and unsanctified scenery- The Independent saya that Bishop Coxe's attack on Prof. Haxley is outrageous; for he deserved honor whether he be considered o Christian of & Pagan, his errors of opinion being honestly held- Mr. Willdington, the mew French Minister of Public Instruction, is rapidly becoming the most popular man in France. ' Hardly five months i3 office, he has already done more than Guizot 838 Duruy. : Miss Griffin, a young sculptor of New York If in Albany for the parpose of taking a bust of GoT- Tilden; bot, as the Philacelphia Times 3878 fact does not remove all anxiety in regard to income-tax. 3ra. J— desires Trz TRIBUNE to nform the New York Independent that there is such s thisg 8t majolica, and that its history s given on page of Paul Labroix's work entitled *Arts in b Fourteenth Century.” There seems to be a general disposition onthe part of the Metropolitan press to doubt the staté ment of the Rochester Democrat, that the man WA beat the bass-drum in Wagner's **Twilight of tb? Gods” was paid 81,500 per night. We notice that Petera haa been finding asteroids In Centrsl New York Itistobe hoped that the good luck of the accomplished short-stop will B tempt him to abandon the profession of base- Chicago can hardly do without him. A correspondent Inquires what salary or emold* ments, if any, attach to the position of member the British Farilament. None. A memberof Par lisment can, however, hold certain offices Whic are not conferred upon others, and to whick ssl* aries attach. The Atlantic Honthly is rather severe on Bryash and Gay's ** Popular History of the United States, pronounci it dry. cold. withont sympathy, a8 without humor. Reading it is said to be like strag" ling through & country where there has beendd rain and no sunshine. Louis and Charles Blanc, #aid to be the origins¥ of the **Corsican Brothers,” are two of the fore” ‘*A Geographics] Dictionary of the Spanish Monarchy,” *A Political Pipture of tha Riva most men in Frunce. Charles, as the reco ) leadaraf oninion in art matters. has lately beed