Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 22, 1877, Page 4

o | i | | ~ 4 THE CHICAGO -TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, APRIL 2, 1877-TWENTY PAGES. The Tribune, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. BY MAIL—IN ADVANCE—POSTAGE FREPAID AT A THIS OPFICE. 0 y n, postpal THIWeekly: poRpad 15 K rostpatd, 1 Fartsof a year, por moath, S ecimen coples sent free. - Tojrevent delay and mistakes, be sureand give Post- Otceacdress in tull, thcluding State and cgu‘r:u-g.r Eewittances may bewade efther by draft. express, Poat-Gthee order, or in registered letiers. at our risk. 7ERMS 70 CITY SUBSCRIBERS. Tefly, deltvered, Sunday excepted, 25 cents perweek. Ledly, dedvered, Sunday included, %0 cents per week Aurliess THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Lorucr Madison and Dearborn-sts.. Chicago, L. TRIBUNE BUILDING DIRECTORY. Leoms. Occupants. 1. CHARTFER OAK LIFE (Insursuce Dep't.) & WALLACE. J. T. DALE. 4. DUEBER WATCH-GASE MAN'F'G CO. XS & APPLETON. i. TO RENT. 7. HENRY LUEBKER 8. WL C. DOW. A.J. BROWN. 9. WRIGHT & TYRR! 10 CHARTER OAK LIF 11-13. FAIRCUILD & BLACKA. N, R.W. ELYE. W. D. COOPER. ‘W. ROBBINS, (Loan Dep't.) J. A MCRLDOWNET. M BUREAU. COMMERCIAL EDITOR. @2 W, W. DEXTEK. 3. GEO. L. THATCHER. A. F. STEVENSON. NIGHT EDITOR. 4 0. CITY EDITOR. Ofices in the Bullding to reat by W. C. DOW, Toom 8. CRICAGO LODGE. XO. 83, I. 0. 0. F.—Oficers and memaers wisiing to attend the Celebration at Jolict on the 23ih fost. cun obrein tickets at the Lodge room Monday eveuing, April=. o RYNIGHTS THM- pecial Conclave at nroe-st.. o 5 0'cluck siarp. erved. Visiung Sir Kalghts courteously BoC 1L DUNLOP, Recorder. a7 he cont By order of the D COMMANDERY. NO. 35, K. T.— ir Kufglits—\'on are ordered to apear at vur Anvlum Tus luy eventng, April 24, for drill. Speelal Conclave Wednesday evenlog, April2s. Work ou the Orderof K. T. Ly orde . " W. M. BURBANK, E.C. J. 0. DICKEESON, Becorder. = 1.0. 0. F.—The Chitazo Batrallon of Patriarchs will leave fur Jolict Lo attend the Cel ion at that place 3y the Hock: [aland e armed and esuipped, Tharsday at usual time, wunicate.” By order of Coloncl Conansader. . A, M.—Hall, 78 Mouday eved business and warl urder, W. L REID, . P. 0. 69, R.A. M.—Regulir inz, \pril 24, Work on o & CRAWFORD, 1. . MIRTAM CHAPTER, second Grund Soclal at enue, Wednesday 1 rangments have been v APRIL .~ i1l glve tts £0 Fifth av- iz, April Complete ur- vie for o pleasant thne. SUNDAY, 22, 1877, In New York on Saturdsy greenbacks were a trifie lower, the raling price being 93%. The dispatches this morning indicate that Mr. TmoeN koew ecunough about Tweep frouds to put his hand on a yellow envelope containing the exposure of an unsuspected ringster. The Philadelphia stock market has been scarified by the bears, who, in a raid on the Pennsylvania Central, lowered the stosk of that road from 37 to 31. It will take a few days to clear away the wreck, and count the dend and wounded, and “‘fix the differ- ences,” when the full extent of the damage will be ascertainéd. The execution at Youngstown (0.) yester- dey was a horrible affair, and yet it is not the only instance of late where the Sheriff has not done his duty in preparing for the banging of a criminal. There can beno valid excuse for such bungling. Rather than have it repeated from time to time, it would ‘be better to employ a professional execution- er, as is donein the old countries. One can- not read the account of these half-done exe- cutions without entering a protest against the inhumanity which characterizes their de- tails. [ — The question, “Does conciliation concil- ate?” seems to have found a satisfactory answer in the proceedings of the rival Legis- latures in New Orleans yesterday. Gov. Pacranp applied through the Commission to Gov, Nicnorrs for money to pay his em- ployes, and the latter Governor responded by placing his contingent fund of £10,000 at the disposal of the for- mer Governor. A number of Picmarp legislators went over to Nicmoris, and a number of Niceoris legislators resigned gracefully to make room for them. As s fitting wind-up, a gold-headed cane was pre- sented by a white Democrat to a black Re- publican, with appropriate remarks and o fitting response, and it is only left for ons Governor of Lonisiana to say to the other Governor of Louisians, “It is a long time between— » The County Hospital has been built and furnished at a cost of more than $500,000, we believe, and yet, as far 38 we can learn, there has been no special provision made for a “lying-in ward.” There is no charity in a large city which is so necessary and humane as {Le carc of women during child- birth who have not the meens for properly caring for themselves. The Woman's Hos- pital in tlus city (a private charity) has more demands upon it of this nature than its re- sources can meet; the Foundlings' Home (another private charity) takes infants that ave confided to it by sinning or unfortunate mothers, but can give the mothers no care in bringing forth their children. Yet the misery that is entailled in homeless, abandoned, and neglected child-birth is be- yond the comprehension of those who have ot been called upon to give it special ob- gervation. Itisnot slone the women who have sinned (though charity may not consign them to desperation, want, and peril), but there is many and many acass where an honest mother, whose husband is dead, ill, or out of employment, must go through the most trying ordeal of a woman's life with- out proper medical attendance, or care, or nourishment., There are families that are not panpers, and not willing to become pau- pers, to whom sid and medical attendance ought to be extended during the three or _four weeks of a mother’s confinement. Itis proper and necessary thot a special ward should be established in the County Hospital for women in confinement who .can- not otherwise be - properly cared for. From what we have heard we should say that twenty or thirty beds should be reserved for this purpose, oven if it is necessary to crowd out some of the loafers, and dead-beats, and smaladcs imaginaires whom Iron-Puddler McLavenuiy (in charge of the County Hospital) is ssid fo carry along at the expense of the county. Itis not humanity alone, but the prevention of the too common crimes of abortion and in- fanticide, which exacts this provision for un- fortunate and impoverished women who are sbout to give birth to children. Thelato S, S. Joxes, in his spiritual es- tate, seems to be devoting himself to dictat- ing weckly lotters to his late paper, the Religio-Plilosophical Journal. It seems to ue that this ethereal, disembodied, intangi- ble spirit, who should be playing Lis . harp, must have a great deal of leisure on his hands, to be occupying himself with the ad- vertising prospects of his late paper, devis- ing means to run up its circulation, and ‘haunting subscribers who are in arrears. Oris the spirit of Mr. JoNEs misrepresented? Is it not possible that lus original messages, in their percolation through the upper atmos- pheres, nebule, star-mazes, milky ways, mediums, centre-tnbles, cabinets, and other things, saffer a sen-change into something rich and strange? If il-be not so, it strikes us that the preseut managers of the R.-P. J. are throwing a great deal of work upon the immaterial shoulders of the intangible spirit of the late editor. 1t hns created some surprise that a demand has been wmade for the resignation of Capt. BuckLey, now in charge of the South Di- vision police. The Mayor says very plainly that he is satisfied the South Division has not been cleared of the thieves and gamblers 2 thoroughly as night be done; that Capt. BuckLey is responsible for this section of the city, and it is on this acconnt he must give way. Bockrey has generally been re- garded as & good police officer, but rather timid in proceeding in cases where the law has to be strained at all for the public good. If this characteristic has retarded the move- ment sgmast the gamblers and thieves, it is only proper that Bucsrey should step aside, Toth the Mayor and Supt. Hickey are now mora than ever before committed to the pledge of ridding the ity of the crimi- nal and quasi-ctiminal classos. It was repre- sented that the war on Hickry, and inci- dontally on the Mayor, was instigated by the gamblers and their associates, and the Mayor was sustained by the peopls in standing by Hrcrer on the distinct nnderstanding that no quarter should be given to the vicious classes. Tt is proper, then, that the Mayor should have the sclection of his own ugents and subordinates iu carrying on this war. In that ovent, the people may hold the Mayor strictly and personally accountable for any failure. The people demand aud expect a thorough clesning ont of the dangerous classes, and wo think the present City Ad- ministration urderstands this, and will rest its claim to public coafidence upon sccom- plishing it. PROOFS OF PROSPERITY. The issue of ''me Tnrsuze this morning contgins twenty pages of seven colummns each, making the largest daily newspaper ever pnblished in this country. The New York erald has once or twice printed issues of twenty pages each, but its pages are congiderably smaller than those of Tae ‘Tursuse. Thedmvertisementsin the present number fill alnvet seventy columns, repre- senting every industry, trade, snd aliost every want known to civilization. The in- crease in our advertising patronage as com- pared with lost yeer hus been steady and grotifying. Sunday, April 2, 1876, Tme "TrrooNE printed forty-soven coluwns of ad- vertisements; the corresponding issue this year contained forty-nine columus. April 9, 1876, we printed fifty-one col- umns; April 8, 1877, fifly-six columns. Tee Trpmwune of last Sunday a year ago shows fifty-five columns of advertising mat- . ter, and 2,872 distinct advertisements ; tho, corresponding number of this year had the equivalent of sixty-three columns, and nearly 3,000 distinct advertisements: A year ag> to-day the paper had sixty-one columns of advertisements ; the issue of this morning contains in the neighborhood of seventy columns of sdvertisements. These figures show that the value of Tme Trrouse as an advertising medium is appre- ciated by the community, and that its circa- Intion, for character and cxient, is uni- versally admitted to exceed that of all competitors. The facts also show that there has besn within the year a de- cided improvement in the tone of business. Thers is no index of the feeling of commer- ciel circles more sensitive or more accurate than the advertising columns of such a news- paper as Tne Cmcaco TrmUNE. - Referenco to these columms yesterday and to-day will show that real estate has begun to move; that plenty of money is offered for invest- ment o low rates; that activity prevails in the departments of literature, art, and the theatre; and that every variety of merchan- dise is put up for sale, with the confident expectation that it will find & rerdy and profitable market. Tze TRBUXE congratu- Intes the people of Chicago on the possession of so valusble un organ for the expression of public wants as it affords them. Itis well that where there is the occasion for such a newswaper, there should be the ability to supply it, and that the results should be as profitable as they have been both to the pub- lic and to Tee TRIDUNE. One of the evils of the old Chicago police system waa the want of anthority to dis- charge an officer for misconduct. When a discharge was made the officer petitioned the Circuit Court, and, before tho removal was final, that Court had, with all its other Dbusiness, to try the case. The result was in- subordination and lack of discipline. -This was done awey with eventually, and the power has been exercised pretty freely, since Mayor HeaTa entered office, of discharging the drunkards, the dead-beats, loafers, and in- efficient men on the force. Solongas po- licemen were appointed by Aldermen and pro- tected by them, it was impossible to have either discipline or efficiency in the depart- ment. There is room, however, for further weeding out. Many of the men have come down from the old days when each police- man was a sort of law unto himself, was the oracle of saloons, knew and was boon com- panion with the ¢boys,” and had personal and easy familiarity with the discroditable classes. These men do not like the change to strict responsibility and hard work. They miss the protecting arm of the ‘ Alderman,” and they regard the power to remove them l for inefficiency as despotism. They have, therefore, got up a bill, which has been in- troduced in the Legislature by Mr. Kior- Bassa, and referred to thé Committee on ““Fees and Salaries,” amending "the General Incorporation ‘sct so far as it relates to Chicago, giving to every man -discharged from the police force of this city the right of appeal to the Circuit Court, where, after petitions and answers, and the hearing of tes- timony pro and con, and arguments, and other proceedings, the Court is o decide the case according to justice and equity. If this were a new thing there might be some room for consideration. But it is an old proceed- ing, which for many ‘years worked constant troublo and annoyance. It required the City Government to keép a man con- stantly in court attending to polico trials, aud to hearing witnesses as to efficiency and .general conduct of officers. . When the Mayor and Supcrintendent have knowledge that the service will be promoted by the re- moval of an officer, and therefore discharge him, that should be sufficient. To compel the Mayor to go into court and defend his con- duct every time a policoman is discharged, will be an intolerable nuisance, as well as an injury to the force. We trust this bill will not pass. It is a bill to protect the loafers, drunkards, lazy, idle, bratal, and dend-beat officers who are still on the force, from the thorough weeding out and reforma- tion which the new City - Government will soon put in operation. Itisan effort to re- sist reform, Ten good, sober, active, and vigorous men are worth twenty of the old style. To clean out the whole force, re- taining and appointing only those equal to the standard of thorough efficiency, will be . equivalent in the value of the force to an ad- dition of one-third of the number removed. The desperation of the struggle against all reform in municipal government is shown in this attempt to amend the city charter to prevent removals in the police force. —— AN EXHIBIT FOR THE LEGISLATURE. The Legislature of Illinois' néver forgets that Cook County pays something over one- fifth of the taxes for the eripport of the State Government. This is always remem- bered when there is a question of voting money to erect new buildings, endow new institotions, duplicate State prisons, hos- pitals, asylums, normal schools, homes, and all the other devices for expending money and levying taxes. It is eamsy to erect an eastern, and southern, and southeastern, and southwestern asylum or hospital regard- less of cost, 80 long as Cook County alone will pay one-fifth the bill for erecting and furnishing the buildings and maintaining the ever-growing expenses of the institution. This same Legislature, howover, turns a deaf ear to the appeals of the people of all parties in this county to " give them the op- portunity of defending themselves from the open, confessed, and undisguised robbery by the County Government.” T'he objection urged is, that Mr. Goopery, the hired ngent of the men in office, protests that if the men now in offico have their terms shortened not one of them will be re-elected! Appealing from the Legislature, which ig’ actuated by spite or malice towards this city, to the peo- ple of the State, we submit the following figures to show where this County Govern- ment is carrying the finances of this county. Look at the figures for the year Dec. 1, 1876, ations. " to April. For futerest $ 293,405 bt 368,100 Courf 425,000 ot Sinking Fund County Agent Insanc-Asylum County Hospital Normal School. Poor-House..... Dietlag prisone: Other purposes. s Outstanding order: 130,000 Total... 478,809 This is the exhibit at the end of four months of the year. There is eight months’ additional expenditure to be met out of these appropriations. There is'not s0 far a single line of stone laid on the new Court-House. Ina few months, the Poor-House, Insane- Asylum, Connty Hospital, County Agent, and Ontdoor Relief funds will be exhausted, aud they will have to be closed until the end of the year in December next, or will have to be supported by loans, to meet which there is neither an appropriation made nor & tax levied. Compnting the. probable cost of running these institutions for the remaining cight months, the expenditure will excoed the appropriations by more than half & mill- jon of dollars. Now look at the condition of the finances: Appropriations for yea: 1,601,630 Back taxes.... ....... 305, 038 Total possible revenue.. .......... $1,907,568 But these taxes will not be all available during the yenr. Computing by the per- centages of collections made in other years, the uncollected tax on Dee. 1, 1877, will be §584,043, leaving the total revenue during the year: Collected from taxes . .$1,322,625 Surplus fees, etC..eurerenes " 60,000 Total available revenue........ .$1,382,625 Out of this there must be pai May 1, interest old debt .. Nov. 1, interest old deot. May 1, interest new deb! Nov. 1. interest new debt June, temporary loans an July, temporary loan und fnterest. ‘November, temporary loan and ints Total imperative payments ...$661,305 Amount of revenue applicable to other PUIDOSCS ovvezneizaeannnaee oe $721,320 A.lrcn:pdy expended in four months. . “175, 868 Balance for cight months. ... . ......§242, 401 Hero we have a striking exhibit of the condition of the County Treasury at the end of the year: ¥ Total appropriations.... ... Expenditures over appropriations - Total expenditure ‘Total available re: Deficiency Dec. 1..... ...S 810,005 This deficiency is largely @ne to corruption and dishonesty, and to &' corrupt waste of money to pay useless' officers, and to" pay other enormous salaries. ‘ The'salary of the County Attornay, whose principal business is to lobby at Springfield to protect these Commissioners from being reformed out of office, is $7,000 a year, and he is furnjshed with an offico and has all his traveling ex- penses paid. This is & greater salary than is poid to any Justice of the Supreme Court in this or any other State, and is greater than is paid to Judge Drvantoxp or Judge TrEaT, 1t is notorious that all the.expenditares for the support of the public institutions are fraudulent. It has been shown that monthly bills for supplies have been presented and paid when the items in the bills have aggre- gated 100 per cent more than the items actu. ally delivered.. The surplus fund, robbed from the funds for the: poor, the sick, and the insane, was divided between the con. tractors-and the Commissioners. ‘We submit this exhibit of the county af. fairs at the close of the first four months of the year to the people of the State, and ask bow long wounld the people of any county submit to be thus plundered and robbed. This deficiency, moreover, is.a debt which canuot be funded. There is no legal au- thority to issue bonds ja which to fund this debt, which must remain, illegal as it is, a disgrace to the county and a source of great fature trouble. The constitutional limit of taxation is now reached for ordinsry er- penses, and it cannot be excceded by new levies to pay off this illegal flonting debt, contracted 1n defiance of law and purely for Ppurposes of plunder and robbery. ‘We subuwit to the members of the Legisla- ture that in view of this exhibit they cannot justify their refusal of the requestof the people of all parties in this county to have this Board of County Commissioners made elective annually and by general ticket. Itis impossible to reform the Board, or to take the control of it out of the hands of the corrupt Ring, so long as the members are clected in single districts, The corruption by this Board hias become a political power, controlling nominating conventions. It is to this county a more direct government than is the Legislature of the State. The fact that the Boord can maintain, at the public expense, its agents at Springfield to control legislation and protect the members in their places, shows with what tenacity and inter- est these men hold to offices which,to honest men having a creditable mode of earning a living, would be a trouble and vexation. We ask the members of the Legislature to ex- amine this exhibit of the condition to which the County Government has been reduced during the first four months of the year, and s8y upon their consciences if the County Board should be perpetuated in office, against the appeals and protests of the whole people of this county. HOME-RULE HOWLERS, The Irish Home-Rulers have at last canght the English Parliament on the hip. They are iu a weak minority of mbout G0 mem- bers, and there is a considerable faction in their number who may be classed as Irrecon- cilables. They havo never been able to get n hearing, there is not the remotest possi- Dbility that they ever will, and yet they per- sistently strive for it, and will listen to no compromise. Hitherto they have tried vari- ous plans to accomplish their purpose of setting up an Irish Parlisment of Kilkenny cats ; among them Fenianism, invective and personal abuse, arguments and motions in the Houss of Commons, but all of them have failed. They have now resorted to sys- tematic. obstruction of business, in which they are aided by the absence of any rules for cutting off debate. As in our own Sen- ate, there is no pravious question and no way of suppressing an obstructionist except by coughs, howls, and cat-calls, which of course are jmpotent in case the ob- structionist is lusty and tenacious. In this respect the English Parliament is like ome of our Democratio Con- ventions. The Home-Rulers, having dis- covered their advantage in talking against time, are making good use of it. Althongh the House is 0 overwhelmed with work that it would find occupation if it sat the year round, every time a Government bill comes up, the Home-Rulers arc on hand with a long string of amendments. Then they take the Blue-Books and commence resding from them, whether the matter read is pertinent to the bill or not. As soon as one tires, another takes up the strain, and so en, to the infinite disgust of the other members who are busily seeking ways and means for breeking down the obstruction. It could be effectually done by the previous question, catting off debatey{but 'the Times argues that privileges should not be sacrificed be- causo some members choose to sbuse them, and appeals to the good sense of the Irish members themselves to check the evil, noti- fying them that the very worst way of influ- encing the House of Commouns is by at- tempting to intimidate it, and informing them them that *‘those know little of the House who think that it will allow itself to be bullied into submission.” GAMBLING CLUBS, In Paris, whero the vigilance of the police long since succeeded in breaking up the gam- bling hells, as they exist in the large cities of this country, most of the card-playing for money is done at the clubs. For a time the hells were maintained under the auspices of women who kept open house or gave soirees on certain evenings with a pretense of re- spectability, assumed under the name of a deceased husband or protector, or by reason of the fashionable location of their resi- dences ; but even these gilded traps for the unwary have been closed of late years, we believe, The Paris clubs afford now sbout the only opportunity for gambling outside of card-playing in private houses; butim- mense sums change hands over daccarat and vingt-et-un, under the auspices of ‘club- organizations and with an implied protec- tion from the *“Greeks " (as the Fronch call the cheats) which is altogether illusive, as frequent exposures have demonstrated. The Chicago gamblers, we hear, have been stadying tho French system, and propose to reorganize their gambling hells on tho Paris- ian style. The police have raided the gamblers as vigorously as loosely-constructed laws and technical judicial interpretations thereof would permit. These raids have been so far successful as to prevent the more respectable men, tupon whom the gamblers live, from visiting their resorts, from fear of being surprised and taken to the Armory. The gamblers cannot live upon one another, and many of the estab- lishments have been closed asltogether since the business men, clerks, and outsiders have refused to visit them. They . have now conceived the idea that the French system may be adapted to their purposes. ‘There is a statute en- abling the organization of voluntary associ- ations for business or pleasure, and we un- derstand that between twenty or thirty clubs have fil2d their certificates of organiza- tion at Springfield within a short time, with the alleged object of *‘ amusement and recre- ation,” which sre intended to protect so many gambling hells. Such clubs might be organized with membership at $1 and dues of 10 cents a year,—any nominal sums,— and tickets and privileges issued on demand to such persons asare in the habit of visit. ing gambling-houses, and with the usual club right of introducing their friends. We do not know tho title of these clubs, but they might well be called “A Club for *‘Bracing’ Young Men,” or # A Club for Fleecing Employers,” or ¢ A Club for the Destruction of Homes,” or ¢ A Club for the Support of Dead-Beats,” or by any other title that would designate the real purpose of cheating, swindling, and robbing men while foddled with drink or dazzled by the deep fascination of play. The theory of {he gomblersén organizing these *clubs,” which will be regularly incor- porated and probably comply with the law in every particular except in violating the statute against gaming, is that the police will have no authority, and will not be sus- tained by the Courts in I;Naking in the doors or violently raiding the establishments and arresting the inmates. Once assured of protection - against sudden and violent police raids, the gamblers would not care much for formal prosecutions, because their customers would no longer hesitale nbont visiting them with the certninty that they could not be apprehanded while,there ; and the formal prosecutions would fail in nino cases out of tem, becauso. witnesses could not be found to testify as to the real character of the ‘‘clubs.” Whether these gamblers are right in their assumptions or not remains to be scen ; but the technical character of our judicial decisions, confining the police to the strictest limits of the law, would be highly favorable to their scheme. Fortunately, the Legislature is still in ses- sion, and can poss a law at once which will apply especially to these gambling cl.ubs, and givethe police the same privileges of summary process in raiding them as when they were openly and undisguisedly gambling hells. A law should be framed at once to meet this new danger which threatens society and public morals. It is not alone Chicago that is interested in this matter. Every city in the State and every town of 1,000 inhabit- ants has & proportionate interest ; for if the gamblers find that they can be protected by club organization (and itis said they have obtained trustworthy legal. advice to that purport), then gambling-clabs will be organ- ized all over the State wherever there are young men to victimize, old men to plunder, and business men to ruin. . The best Jegal ability in the Legislature shonld be engaged to construct a law that will completely cover the case and fully protect the police from interference by the Courts in breaking up these ** clubs,” and that law should be pass- ed immediately by a unanimous vote. LIBERTY OF THE PRESS IN FRANCE. The recent trial 2nd conviction of M. Pavn DE Cas546NAC, the editor of the leading Boo- apartist paper in Paris, Le Pays, for libeling the Chamber of Deputies, is & curious com- misnt upon the liberty of the pressin France, a political sentiment upon which Frenchmen particularly plume themselves. The denoue- ment in CassaaNAo's ease shows, however, that what Frenchunen estcem asliberty of the press would in this country be cousidered sbsolute tyranny, and raise a howl of exe- cration from Maine to California. It may be stated that Cassaayac is a Bonapartist, a duelist, n common scold, a hot-headed idiot, and a good deal of a public nuisance, secking notoriety by reckless personal sbuse of in- dividuals, and scandalizing the authorities as far s he dares. He has been condemned several times for press offenses as well as for dueling, and apparently glories in the con- victions as profitable advertisements, and pro- moters of his personal vanity. For some time past the Chamber of Depnties has been the target of his abuse, and at last, when it became intolerable, the Correctional Chamber took cognizance of it, and brought the testy Bonapartist to trial for libel. As showing the ridiculous brevity of the tether of an editor in Paris, we copy the following expressions, which were dwelt upon by the Public Prosecutor as being the most intolerable and viralent : i The Republican Deputies judge us by themselves, and tmagine that our courictions, like their own, are anly worth u five-franciplece. Wearethreatened with the stoppage of our pay as Deputy. A fine thing! We will fling it in their face when we choose. . . Sbame on 25 francsaday! Foryou it is good pay, for you will drink it more cheaply; but forus itiaa trifle, and is quite inadequate. + . . Tobe cenaured and stigmatized by fricnds —men like ourselves, pcopie we honor—woald be & serious thing calling for reflection; but to undergo all this from Republicans—people we profoundiy despise, and even hate—is tmmaterial, - The Court held that these offensive ex- pressions were addressed, if not to every Depaty individually, at least to the majority of the Chamber, and were aimed at the Chamber itself, and therefcrs condemned CassaGNao to two months’ imprisoument and a fine ot 3,000 francs, and the pub- lisher to a fine of 1.000 francs and costs. Le Pays represents the extreme of personal abuse and billingsgate in France and the Chicago T'imes in the United States. The exact difference between liberty of the press in the two countries, therefore, may be fixed by comparing the utterances of the two. 1f the Wells-street Bulldozer were lisble to im- prisonment every time he wrote such libels as those for which Cassagyac has been convicted, he would be in the County Jail as a boarder during the rest of his life. If any employe of that paper were instructed ‘to indulge in personal abuse, and did not produce some- thing fifty times as viruleat and malicious as CassaaNac's petty malice, he wonld be in- continently discharged as unfitted for the high position of a newspaper writer. Com- pare the mnd, manure, compost, and gar- bage that were thrown by the Bulldozer at both Republicans and Democrats, and at both candidates for thé Presidency during the counting of the Electoral vote, with Cassacyac’s harmless shower of pebbles, and what becomes of the French idea of lib- arty of the press? BURYING OUR DEAD. It is always a delicate matterto write of the last sad ceremonies over the dead, or to regard them either with curiosity or eriti- cism. Sometimes they assume a form, how- ever, that warrants it ; and in the obseqnies of the late Mrs. StrLes her berenved hus- band so far departed from the common usages of society as to make the event of public importance, and it is already publicly discussed. There are thoso not knowing Gen. STires who mnay be shocked at the nb- sence of any distinctively religious services on this oceasion ; those who do know him, however, and recognize his carnestness, con- sistency, and conscientionsness, will never doubt that he acted upon sincere convic- tions, with the highest respect for the opinions of others, and with no intention of chalienging the memorial observances above the dead which have obtained in modern times nmong religions people, and above all things that a man-of his retiring disposition did not seck to make the occasion a matter of public notoriety. Nevertheless, his marked departure from conventionality will creato mora or less dis- cussion, 50 that there is some warrant in searching for the incongraity of this funeral. It was not in the reading of Mrs. BrowxiNG's solemn “De Profundis.” It wasnot in the music. Mrs. Stines herself “was o musician, and it secms to us it was appropriate that her memory and her life should have been recalled in the tender strains of the moonlight sonata, and that the last good-by for the loved one should bave been ‘said -in BrerHovi’s touching ¢ TFarewell,” every note of which is full of tears and sad besuty. There was nothing inappropriate in Gen. Sriies’ delivering o brief address. If any person is competent to pay a tribute to the memory of a dead wife, it is the husband who has walked hand in hand with her through all the pleasant and mournful scenes of life, who has been her nearest friend, who is cognizant of her vir- tues as o other one can be. Asarule, we never know each other entirely. We sedu- louslyguard ourselvesfrom toonear approach to each other. We show only a part of our- selves. In society we bring forward & sem- blance of ourselves intended to create favor ; in our homes, through a relationship of years, we develop all sides of our nature, aad become thoroughly known to each other; and inno relationship is this: so true as in that of husband and wife. Hence, if any one were competent to tell the friendsof this lamented lady who and what she was, it was her husband. There was nothing inappro- priate in the matter of his address. It was dignified, manly, eloguent, and discriminative, delivered with all the sad and tearfal earnest- ness of profound grief. There would have come no protest from the silent lips of the deceased lady, for she shared her husband's belief just as she had shared his ‘joys and SOITOWS. Comment therefore will pot be made so much upon what was done =3 upon what was not done. It is the absence of religions ceremony that distinguishes this funeral from others. It is the absence of prayer, of recognition of a Supreme Being, of refer- ence to the unseen world. We are not thoroughly acquainted !with Gen. Stiues’ views, or what opinion he holds as to the fature world. The most that we know is that he is to a greater or less extent material- istic in his doctrines, and that his investiga- tions tend towards the same conclusions that wera reached by JerremsoN and FRANRLIN in this country, by Hoe and Ginsox in En- gland, and by numerous others. There are, without donbt, a multitnde of men wko share in this materialism, at the head of whom appear such men as Seexcezr, Trx- DpALL, HuxLEYr, DARwIY, and MrLy, as leaders of thought. Men seem to be born doubters. There is apparently something in the con- flicts with Fate, in the grapple with the forces of Nature, in the hard pressure of cir- cumstances, in the defiant nature of the in- tellect, as well as in {he strength of physical courage, that impels them into the cloudy regions of doubt. The absolute result in every such case is to strip death of its terrors. Those times when death-beds were charac- terized by so much of mental and spiritual sgony seem to have almost entirely passed away. There is also & tendency to make the Iast services over the dead of a less distress- ing character, less hafrowing to the feelings of the survivors, less gloomy, hopeless, and agonizing, and to regard the suprewe law of Nature the one great philosophical fact of the destiny of all animated things, if not in a Iess solemn in a more hopefnl manner. This much'is well. It is raré that woman, ever shares in this donbt. Her mature is emo- tional, religious, full of hope, abounding in faith and good works. Her faith is always clear and steadfast. While man iz trying to reason his way into o better world, hampered by a multitude of doubts, she sees all its ineffable glories ond knows its existence. The Mirvs watched for the resurrection of Crmamsr, never doubting He would resppear, and car- ried the message to the Disciples from the angel that rolled away the stone; bat Tmoxas would not believe until ho had thrast his hands into His side. If men wera left to themselves, uninfluenced by woman, with no memory of the counsels of the wife or the teachings of the mother, the vast ma- jority would lapse into doubt. If faith and good works are sufficient anto the Kingdom of Henven, then that blessed place will be peopled with. women. If doubt sends one to perdition, then there is little hope for man there, for in all ages these threads of doubt bave tangled the whole web of man's life, and wust in all ages to come. So long as man cannot see by faith beyond the veil, he will try to tear it away by reason, and thus forever be‘in unrest, Whatever may be the views of Gen. Strues, which were the views of his lamented wife, let us not question too curiously the manner of their parting, but, revering the memory of a good woman nnd respecting the grief of him who is left alone, and rec- ognizing him as an earnest, sincere man in his beliefs, bury our dead under the consols-~ tions of the Christian faith, if so be, and ac- cord to him the same sincerity in parting with his loved ones as seems to him best. If these obsequies shall in any way tend to dis- pel the gloominess aud almost hopeless grief that characterize so many fanerals,—if we could sprinklo but a few roses and pansies among the camellias, and let a gleam of sun- shine illumine the bier,—it wonld be well for the living, and could not affect those who are gone. — THE TICHBORNE MYSTERY, Tho ‘I'icEnoRNE mystery is by no means clesred up s yet. AmtEUR Ogrow, the claimant, is in juil, and bas seven more years toserve; he is as comfortable as involun- tary servitude, an sbnormally obess condi- tion, and a visitation of boils will allow an ordinary mortal—a very ordinary mortal— tobe. Bnt the mystery remains. We do not mean the mystery of his bogus claim. His trinl exposed his imposture pretty con- clusively, and left the bold and audacious effort of trying to sccure a title and estate by deceiving a half-blind old woman in her dotage nnrewarded by success but properly punished. The real mystery, however, is the constancy and devotion with which the lower clesses of England still cling to this common swindler, who, besides ' being a swindler, is a low, ignorant, and bratal fellow. The three years that Ortox has been in prison have not abated the zeal of the mass of people who espoused his cause. It was only the other day that 60,000 men marched up to Parliament to present a petition for the claimant’s re- lease. Tho bastard son of Crarces II., with his gallant bearing, his martial valor, and the religions zeal he invoked, had no such fol- lowing as this vnlgar Pretender. His coun- sel, disbarred and disgraced, is elected to Parliament on the strength of his sdvocacy of OnToN. A newspaper with a large circu- lation is run with no other stock in trade than Orron’s profossed martyrdom. More than one borough in Eugland would return OrTox members to Parliament, if his cause were made the issue in the election. The people who believe in him, swear by him, agitate for him, may be counted by tens of thousands among the lowest classes of En- glish society. It_i.s still 2 mystery that this fellow’s pre- tensions should have taken so stroug a hold upon the very peaple from smong whom he probably took his origin,—ameng the roughs, the tramps, the gindrinkers, those who only work when compelled to, and then in the x?oa'trepnlsive avocations. The most pat- riotic En.glixbmfln can scarcely claim that this partistuship comes from the vaanted Soxon ]o_ve for fair-play, since, if that were the moving cause, OzToy's partisans would be fonnd to some extent among the better nu@ more intelligent classes. It cannot be satisfactorily explained on the theory that these low-down people actually believe in the ‘justice of s for in that ase it would be o magrey 3 § ference to them whether a bory othy & whom they hate by Dnature, ghom a birthright or not. They wonlg k in the same light 1S other ariztgers X would spurn and avoid men h—""fy‘h dition, and, if anything, they woyy , > enjoy his enforced reduction to t il condition. There is but one other oy ble bypothesis. Tt is that the Jageyt % of English society believe Om‘,““;d:~ of their kind,—the Wapping butayey ¢ adventurous tramp, the Australian oy b —who all but grasped g title and rig, mains, o0 beroly fuled of imposing oy upon the aristocracy. The spirit of the Dy, letariat would rejoice in seeing smeh y, take his seat in the Housa of Lords ang o nob with the Bishops. They coug ot onthusissm over anissue of that king Tyt sneaking sort of sentiment whigy : fraudulently elevate ignorance and depn; to n position of wealth and distington 1] - it is a sentiment which we believe in‘m dy £ gether alien to & class of Englang's tion which as yet is little above t, - e a4 e (% el B ) ‘MAERE A ] A 8 by creation. The commuristic teng, “"§f~ Englsnd is not superior to this Tegling ; §? we can think of 0 other that’sccomy . | the continued and mysterious zeg) thaty © shown in OrToN's behal?. : DUTY HERE AKD Now, = - When Brother Mooby was about tolun £ Chicago, at the close of his toilsome and g, ‘ ful campaign, ha thought £t to delive S course upon the question of the H Advent of Camisr. Curiosity drew thonsg % to the Tabernacle to hear the Opinions gy this mooted point of the famous l‘y‘“fi&i E2 i ist. Ho announced his belief in the pe, i ness of that expected event, quofecilfgm, the Scriptural texts whichseem to favorpy au iden, assured the good people preyy that this thought was the inspiration af}; 1abors, as it had been that of the singing ¢ Mr. P. P. Buiss, and bade them wateh, sigty and morning, for the personsl, wg ble coming of their Lord. It was st ing somewhat ‘the implied engagemm, of wunion services, to be sure, fy Mr. Moopx to introduce into they such a topic. It used to be custazuy bang up printed notices in noon-dsy prye. 3 meetings having some such cautionary s, tence ng this: *‘Controverted Topies Pz bidden.” This, before the War, wasabmg hint to Abolitionists not to speak or puy about slavery in these meetings. Ttalioy § sured ardent Baptist brethren that, whise that common. ground, they must ressy their zeal for immersion and their mtipy 5 to *infant sprinkling.” Presbyterismgd © Methodists were likewise instructed by that, as belligerent ironclads ara not allowy to exchange broadsides in & neutrelpody i they must not have a battle over Calviiiny &' in a union prayer-meeting. Oune m‘dE suppose that if o similar motie ME been hung uwp in the Tabemsels 3% . would have led Brother Moony to supjrs a sermon on the *“Second Advent,” whit is about a8 ¢* controverted ” a topic ssomli well be selected. What those respousith for the meeting would have said, if, mis E quently, Dr. Gizsox, or Dr. Trreaxy, arle § Evarts had asked to be heard in-behulf d i the views generally entertained on that poizt by the churches which had united in the n- vival efforts, we do not know. The repad - would have placed them in an awkvard p BV sition. Nor can we be sure what wouldim M been said by some of the zealous “ workes' ? had one of the ministers named taken fhitx == the unannounced topic of a sermon in tt Tabernacle. We fear that /s would km been charged indignantly with introduey “ controverted topics.” It would havebe a curious accusation, in the circumstaws £ would it not ? E I But fortnnntely everybody wes goodar tured and accommodating, and o no ofem was taken when Brother Moopy, in the 43 terest of one of his pet ideas, violstedli F own rules. It was seen that he thou.gm_h % Le had & testimony to bear on this pot 5; and could not depart till he had bomei & The shortest way out was o let him bl say, as a kind of privileged churacter ¥ hiad earned a right to be o little disorisl) ‘The West goes for free speach genenll And so the good man gave his ressmsi® g supposing that the personal comitg ¢ & CatsT was the next event to belooked 8 & and that each saint should go to bedstail &5 thinking that quite probably it would & beforoe morning, nnd should rise it morning with an expectation that it eodl take place during the day. Hencehe 4 the necessity of o literal wn!ch{nlkfld right living, of continuous Clristisn % and of the immediate conversion of wicked. Ho thought his theory to bee pecially velusble, because of iis impres™ ness and good tendency. 1t does not become us, as secular jourtd” ists, to argue a disputed question of interpretation, and so we refer to the on general grounds of ccmmon sensd - Iy. To those so regarding the subjech A Moopy's argument, drawn from the o tendency of his theory, did not appes’ ': : convincing. [Itspractical impresuuljfl i lnrgely reduced by the assertiou of Li¥ & that this was the very' view beld BY Apostles and primitive Chnst!llfl of hundred years ago, who bad similary & ed, night and morning, for the S?""’d i ?l_ vent of Christ. When eighteen cont@ . continunl disappoiutment are added 10 fact that the view in question is only & ¢ puted theory, which is denied by 8 the ablest Biblical critics, even ® 57 Moopy's ardor and sincerity fail to sk o ides impressive. Certainly it Ilhl‘“l o & I what it has to boast over the. adm! tted . of the certainty of death, crelong, i 182 or overy man, aud of its ;perpetusl There would scem to ba po advants® substituting an uncertainty for 3 ceris™ nor oven any gain in adding the formef tho lntter. We seriously doubt the gt and moral value of any doctrioe ™ largely diverts attention from the work of life, in its daily perl duty inits various relations, to 8 ”l prying into the fature, or & morbid ! for startling events. The grand “;, issue in this world is character; a2d €0 ter must work jtself out, with ¥ human or superhuman helps, iz the e of a permnnent principle of fidelity i and man, in conscientiously. ‘meeting® and hourly obligations. Daty bere 8t - is the prime object of concern, 824 not gapfn.r astray who makes that e of his life. It is both Biblical and 18" Brother Moopy is such 8 mfmble 5 50 quick to see what is practical, e want to farnish him with an old 8¢ - meditate apon and to use. My 3 was the famous *dark dsy” in ¥ od . gland, when, for some unknown & cause, the sunlight was so obscared e dles had to bo lighted in the Bow Legislature of Connecticat was i« Hartford, and the House adjours £