Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 3, 1877, Page 4

;EE 1LOUIB 8. CHARLETTR, Becretary. a1 {3 71 § PLAR=Ciated Conciavn AL Aryii i iy Oy g t il P! SPEEEP T IE T S RSET ki 1 6 I ., commencingat 8 o'clock. ATl mem i 4 + issucd convoning the samo body of men, who . jwill continue their work to-morrow where ‘thoy left off yesterday, Tho jury is made "1 up of somo of tho best men of the city, and, '* - Tustorar is wiso he will not negleot his op- \ 3 3 .j. ¥, churches, £1,000,000. 4. THE CHICAGO. TRIBUNE: BUNDAY, JUNE 3, 1877—SIXTEEN | PAGISS, The @Ifilmm. Y ',l"mlMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. RY MAIL—~IN ADVANCE—TOSTAGE FREPAID AT . TH18 OFFICE. 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(- street, on Toesdsy cvenlng next, Juno 5, at 8 o'clock, Tt After (o tranaction of such Hsineas 4k nnl,muxhg bfilnm Hl‘e D%n;fillflfl!fz;ds,(:nl\,!fl hia will rotivatothe Armory for il WONLOD, Hiecorder, CHICAGO COMMASDERT. N0, 10, K, T.—Attan. tlon Rir Knighte—Siatéd Conclave Monday evenlog, June e str niatte” couricotnty Invited: B aras o v aitiok Bin, ARANE SANGONY, R 'E T R5Es ¥, szorwy, liccorter, N c 3 Ty eventhm ne “Very lml“::runl business and work FonN oI 1o 2o G M i* BD QOODALE, Grand Bec. 811t KNIGHTS, ATTRNTION~The members of E. A. Sherman Commandery, Knights Commanders of e lflun. lra:_:'r;}rcrcu “’.:2"'3{,:3},"",',,}.‘7},‘;:“;"".:’ B ordae s dederaon-sit., BatatdaT, O KR D RR LA FATYETTE CHAPTER, NO. 2, R. A, M.—Tall Monroa strect—Bpecial Convocation Monday even- Ing, June 4, at 8 o'clock, for work on the F, M. Jie« gree: Vinliom cordially invited to_mrat with'us. By order of M, W. . REID, Il P 7 COMINTIIAN CTIAPTER, KO. 00, R. A. M.~Bpectal s o N the £ and &, B3, oeheca ‘hz‘n?d';r"“'“ 5 * " d. A CRAWFORD, H. P J. 0. DICKERSON, Sec. 22 G. A. T.—Attentlon Comrades! Gon. Geo, ‘A, Caster S5 WisLihTaY. "Visling Comrads conmily rvie 0 Wabnah-ay. Visiting " VI EE VIRILING, Commanaer. SUNDAY, JUNE 38, 1877, . CHIOAQO MARKET SUMMARY, The Chlcagy produce markets weore genorally acte ivo and easicr Saturday, partly as a consequence of . Bno weather, Mees pork closed 1214 per brl low- > or, at $13,30@13,32}5 cash and $13.45Q13.47% for July. Lard closed ashade casfor, at $0,203 0.2214 for June and $0,30@0.32% for July. Meats were ateady, at 43c per D for Joose shoul. , ders, 0Xc for do short ribs, and 7c for do short ‘celears. Ilighwines wero unchanged, at $1.07 per gallon. Lake freights were moro sctive, at 2¢ for ;corntoBuffalo. Flour wasdulland ensier, Wheat losed 1%a lower, at $1.51%4 for cash or Juno and -$1.63 selier July, Corn closed Xc lower, at 44%c cash and 40%c for July, Osts closed stcady, at 3730 for June and 37Xc for July. Rye was qulet, 11{8¢ 70c, Barley was nomlnally dall, st 00@G5c, *1loga wero dull, aud 100 lowor, at $4.60@5. 15 per 100 1bs. Catile wera steady, at $3.00@0.00, '/ Bheop were quict ot $3,00@5.00. One hundred i dollars in gold would buy $105.024 in greonbacks : nt the close. ‘-' In New York on Baturday groenbacks ruled ‘ot 943 @04}, i ! The misories of the **Ring™ were the talk of tho town yosterday,, The man began to 1, italk who once knew tho most and said the “ ‘loast. Would 3t not bo judicious to watch {the ronds to Canadn ? i Justico no longer goea on crutchies in Chi- Jeago. Bho bas caught up with deflant ras. i ¢! | calitics, Lot us he thankful that the Court- ;Houso is haroly sbove the wator-table, and ! !that the big steals are severed from their (hoada, ' Gen. Orp hns beon instructed to cross nto Mexico in pursit of * greaser " thioves, when ho thinks it advisable, With any other ination that would bo considered a doclarn- ‘tion of war, Mexico is too busy trading {jnck-knifo Presidonts to pay much attention ‘i to anything of the kind, | Our special from Constantinopla gives o . clear and vivid description of thestate of law- ', ‘lesiness nnd corruption now reigning there, ,This lamentable condition of things cannot & 'fail to have ita cffect upon tho armies in tho ‘ )flold. and will certainly gain no frionds for Turkey abrond, This nessago is tho first ., Pross dispatch over received in Chlcago dl. "I rect from Constantinople, i Tho term of the Grand Jury, summoned ; Inst woek on a special venire, expired yosters ,day, before suficiont time had been given to Licar all the testimony in the importaut pub. (lio cases for the consideration of which it was'especially convened. But an order was with propor timo nnd opporignity, good results may bo expoctod from its sesslon, If ..portunity to makosa. clean breast of the . County Ring business, though he will not be - Justified 1f ke merely intonds to blacken the .icharacter of Fonsyrmn. Mr, Frepenick Mantiv, tho compiler of the * Btatesmnan's Yeor-Book," has recontly mado an estimate of the extont, nature, and valuo of the property in possession of the - Church of England, in which he places the . total incone of the Church nt £7,238,000, a9 . (follows: Church dignitaries, £317,000; rvextra Cathedral revenues, £130,000; bone. ficod clergy, £5,027,000; net revenue of -, Queen Axwe's bouuty, £34,000 ; net disposa- % i ble incomo of the Fcelobiastical Commisaion, ¢ :£700,000 ; nud building’ and repairing of The Spectator do- + elares that tho last-named amount should be .+ struck out, a3 it is not strictly a revenue, but ({8 frec.will offering from individuals, which 41, would reduce the total to £6,238,000, or 1 = €31,190,000. i — £ Dr. Kxox, who asaista the Health Com- ! missioner, has made a long, elaborate, and i technical report on the condition of the lake -'iwater supplied to Chicago, which altestan careful investigation. This makes especially valuable his ussertion that the crib water is ;-*“the purest furnished to any city in the United States.” Ho Bas discoversd two things, howover, or rather directed mew at- tention to them, which will not admit of this ssscrtion being mads truthfully after o while, if measures bs not taken to ahate s ‘them. Ono of the unfavorable conditions, iand the principal one, is the Oapey ditch, :which causes the Chicago River to empty tioto the luke whencver thero are hard rains ‘,or & freskot. Millions of dollars were spent u” order to change the curront of the Cliicago River, so that the waters of the lake wight wash it out with = reasonable current, j8od the failure to daw up this Qitch occa- 1slous every onco in a wlilo an emptying ¢f tho filth of the river into the Inke where the water supply is taken, or nt best leaves the river stogonant and putrid. A temporary dam conld be erctted at the cost of a fow thousand dollars which would serve the pur- pose until provisions can bo made forn pore manent stoppago of the diteh, lotting tho Aux Plaines River meander along in its own Liarmless way. The other nuisance re- ferred to is the practico of the distillerios locatcd on the North Branch dnmping tho refuse of their. bnsinoss and cattle into the lake near the aliore. Tho slaughtering- honses on the Sonth Branch do tho samo thing ; and Dr. Kvox estimates that thesa establishmonts contribnte a weekly supply of 500 tons of filth, garbage, and decaying animal mattor to the water which tho people of Chieago drink, Thoso peoplo can bo prevented from dumping their stufl any- whoro within threo milos of the shore, and stringont moasures shonld be takon to enforcd this authority over them. A mont significant indication of theattilude of Anstria’towards Rnssia i8 afforded by the recent remarkable reception of the Archdake Avpnzeny, one of the most popular membora of the House of Hapsburg, at Agram, tho Oapital of Anstrian Croatis, aud the controof Slavio sympnthics and enthusissm. It adds to thia significance that the Archduke, who was on his way to inspect the Austro.Turkish frontier, and is Slavio in his sympathics, went out of his way for this Agram recep- tion, nnd that tHe recoption was tendored him by the Governor of Uroatin himself, who, since that recoption, if roports be true, has been tendered tho position of Minister of ‘War., Tha effoct of this demonstration npon ths Magyars is reficcted in tho following ex- tract from the Pesther Lioyd, their leading organ: . Agram {8 to-day stil] more than Pragna tho Cape ital of tho Slavic agitation throughout the mon- archy, whose final obJect (4 the annexation of the lands along the Sare by Awsiria. The Croats aro interested in this project In the higest degree, fn- asmuch a8 they beliove that if Bosnls and Croatia, together with Dalmatia, wero once united onder the Hapsbarg Crown, their darling dream of & Kingdom of Iliyrla, or **Great Croatia, " would be accomplished, Already thore Is hardly a Croatian oficial of rank wno doca not consider himeelf the destined administrator of Dosnia and the Herzogo- vina, and overy offical's coustn or nephew counta for certain on a handsome appointment when the moment comes for the Anstrian occnpation of the Turkish provinces. Tho agitation for the snnexa- tion of Tusnis and the Terzegovina Is carried on eystematically {n Croatls, and numorous nzoncles ‘iavo been establishod beyond tho Save for the pure poso of preparinga petition In mass from thein- “habltanta for the protectionof Austrign occupa- tion. If this Magyar wail be trne, and tho recont ascendency of the Slaves in the Councils of the Government be also correot, then is an alliance between England and Austrin mani- festly impossible. There will be many who will ask the same quostion as the London Bpectator: ** What i3 tho Austrian Com. mander-in-Chief doing on the banks of the Bave, if tho contingency of crossing it is not ontertained at Vienna?" THE COUNIY RING. 3 'Thero is hope at last, and for the firsttime in soveral years, that tho Cook County Ring may be smashed. It wnsone of those con- spiracies which could not be definitoly ox. posed till one or more of tho notive and mora prominent members of tho Ring should tell itastory. Kiunxavry, a year or 80 ngo, told what he knew, or a part of it, and thero was oxtrancous evidence which would probably ‘have convictod somo of the ringlonders it it had not been run off ; but the chief men in the Ring -have been close-monthed, and so confident that some of their boldest opera. tions have beon in the very face of Grand Juries who were investigating thom. It has been known that Peniorar was the prinoipal outeide operator, & sort of Protean con- tractor, o skillful ~manipulator,~in onae word, tho Jaxy Rzms of the County Ring. The prospeot for complete exposura comes in the shape of a profossed willing- ness on tho part of Prnrorar to “squeal.” Heknowsitall. Xa was the Troasurer of tho Ring, and divided the monoy, Ha dic- tated the letting of the contracts, and levied the contributions on thoso who had favors to ask of the Ring. Thero has probably not beon a single transaction of tho ‘County Board for yoars, in which money was in- volved, that is not entiroly familiar to Pzno. zaT, Ho ocan probably lell the menns by which overy contract was procured, what the profits wero, ‘how much of the goods or articles contracted for was furnished, what proportion the Ring roceived, aud how the money was divided, Ife can raveal the de- tails not only of his own oporations ns a con. tractor, but of tho blackmall levied by the Riog on offlcials, employes, and other con. tractors 03 o consideration for tho favors granted, . Bo far, it is not likely that Peatorar haa made np his mind to mako an ezxposs of the Ring operations, Ho has boen prompted to say what ho has told by spite against Lis formor partnor, Tonsyru, who Lad pro- viously thrown upon him all blamo for the county part of their business, Hoe thinks that ho is no worso than Fonsrrm, who, ns he says, roceived two-thirds of thelr profits, and ho is desirous of telling just enough to implicate Fonayrnz as much as himsolf, Lut wants to spare the County Commissioners who have been involved with them. ‘L'iiia willnotdo, Now that Peniorat has virtual- ly confessed the whola conapiraoy, hoe must tell the whols atory., If he expects to earn Jmmunity from criminal prosecution, or re. taln any good feeling in a community where he says Lo iy now trying to do a legitimato business, he must exposo tho officlal thicves, Thoy aro the onecs the people are aftor,— the mon who have formed conspirncles to get themeelves clected in order to steal; tho mon who have violated their oaths and trusts; the men who have voted awsy the people's money ouly to transfor it to tholr own pockets; the men who have bribed and bullyragged a Legislature to keop thom in tholr places; the men who have de- flod public sentiment, laughed at indiot. ments, run off witnesses, and corrupted whilo plundering the community. ‘These aro the chiaps whose sacrifice is demanded by publio justice. The community has no in. terest in any quarrel betweon' Pemiorar and FonsytH; by comparison, it is a matter of indifference to the public bow much of the spoils they divided between them, or how much one swindled the other, The ouly service PraiozaT can do the commung. ty, and the only atonement he can make for his share in the Ring operations, is to exposo the scoundrelly Commissioners whoss viola- tion of their oaths enablod him and the oth- ers to commit their depredations on the pub- lio funds. The publio want to know what Commis. sioners shared in the plunder that resulted from a shortago of supplica; what Commis. sloners got thelr part of the surplus paid for the County Hospita! lot ; what Commission. ers were engaged In the schems o ensble them to plunder & former Bherif by raising the price of feeding the jail prisoners; what [ Commissioners benefited by letting the con- tract for tha Conrt-Honse fonndations to one of the highest biddera; what Commissioners were paid to throw tho stone contract in ‘Warxer's hands; what Commissionern blnoka mailed Architeot Eoan in the money paid to him; and what Commissioners were o divide the ‘“*swag” of $20,000 in the Hiweparw granits contract. Pentorat knowsall this and more, It is ovident ho doesn't want to toll, but in tolling & part he has committed himsclf too far (o raceds or to withhold the rest, Ils is now in a position whers ho will probably be fndicted and con- vioted nnless he mocures immunity. That immunity should be given him when he offers n full exposition of offioial villainy, withont any refarence to his own part of the transnctions; bnt, unless ho shall do this, he should be prosecuted to the end. v Tho outlook for the complota collapso of the Ring is good, oven if the oxpected rev. clations are not obtained immodintely. The Tweep Ring in New ¥York began to go to pleces when the first official exposures wers mndo. ‘Tho Chicsgo Whisky Ring was broken before thero were any convictions or ‘sentonces. 8o a wedge has been lodged under the County Ring which will en. able tho public, with tho sssistanco of the Conrts, to overlurn it, Pratorar will have excited by his partinl statoments tho snmo animosily among othor benefiola. ries of the Lling that Fomsrrn's statomonts oxoited in him, This will load to other par- {ial statoments, and n sories of criminations and reoriminations will finnlly expose the wholo gang. In the meantimo, wo think oporationa will bo susponded. It ssems so certaln that the whole villainy will come out that it is not unlikely evorybody will adopt the motto, ** Sauve gui peut.” Prntorat has superior ndvantages for saving himself by giving awny tho othors. 1lis own judgment will probably prompt him, sooner or later, to mako n cloan brenst of the whola affair, I Lio does not, matters have gono so far that somo of the others will, and he will be among tho snfforers. Lot him furnish the avidenco {o convict the official thioves, and he will oarn and securo his own immunity, ottty PUBLIO ni.:wr;«inu AND GOAYFOLD- Tho majesty of the law still vindicates itself, and securcs protection for the com. munity, in most of tho States of the Union, by tho infliction of capital punishment for the gravest class of ofenses, Murder in par- ticular is visited with this lighest penalty, This in done upon the principla that the most helnons erimo shonld roceivo tho hoavi. ost punishmont. As life is man's, most procious possession, being the necossary con. dition of nll action and enjoyment, so mur- der goes to the oxtrema vergo of injury, under the manifostation of the deepest malig- nity, Tho vory deed proves its own nature, For what lends the murderer to take the lifo of his viotim, ratlior than to do him somo other damngo, but the belief that thereby ho inflicts the worst posaible injury upon the man ho hates? This shows by parity of ressoning that what the munr- dorer would most dread to - 1380 would bo his own lifo. Thus we gain an index to the most suitablo form of retribution, Capital panishment marks, by its soverity, the gravity of tho crime of murder; it punishes it also by n ponalty which gains' power by a Just analogy with the crime, in that it takes from tho criminal procisely what he took wickedly from his victim; and it doters those tempted by hatred to commit the crime by Ahreatoning them with tho lossof that shich, in their evident opinion, is the human pos. scsalon of greatest value, and of which they are desiring to- deprive thoir hated fellow- wman, Thoro sooms thus to be a simple and yet adeop philosophy in enpital punishmont, which can never long or safely bo et aside. No substitute can over be found oqually efficacious, d Dt the powor of the penalty is in its fact, rathor than In its method or publicity. Horo ia whero mistakea wore formerly com- mon, aud are oven now often made, It was natarally argued that, if capital punishment was just aud beneficent, then it ought to be mado 88 impressivo as possible, To that ond, it was performed publicly, aud for a long timo in’a bloody manner,—by decapita. tion,—na if the real and noeded improssion must boe in a way of borror, But it was overlooked that tho only part of the com- munity lkely to gratity o ghastly curlosity by presence on such an oceasion was com- vosed of the worst clements of socioty, and that tho effcot of such a curlous gazing upon the agonlcs of others was suro to bo demor- alizing. Publicity also appealed to the false pride of degraded criminals, who, ex- pecling to seo their vilo nssocintes in front of the socaffold, wero often led to meet death with bravado, in order to leavo bohind o reputation for conr- oge and fortliude, We think animal food a necessity, and it follows that we must havo butchers, But it docs not follow that we must take our children {o the slanghter. louses to witness tho denth of lambs and sheep; nor that it would be well to havo nhattoirs along our boulovands, that the mul- titude might gloat over tho sight of ballocks subjected to the ax or the knife, The mis- fortunes of men call for tho application of snrgical skill ; but it would be o false logia which shon!d ronson that consoquently sur gleal operations should be publicly perform. ed beforo a miscellaneous gazing crowd, Tho dotual and salulary powor of capital punishment, ns a vindication of law and o protection to the community, is in the known and torriblo fact that the mnn who took his fellow-man's life in hatred bas lost Lis own ns the (forfelt. No spectators aro needed but a faw, specificd by law, to tostify that justice has had ita dus, according to tho judicial sentence. As re- gards the eriminal himself, it is best that he DLe loft to confront singly his sad fate, with. out the ¢clat of & crowd., As rogards the vicious classes, .tho improssion is deepest which {s mado by the unsoon but awful exe- cution which takos place within prison walls, With them the old Roman moxim Lolds strikingly truo: Omne ignotum pro mirifico— what Is unknown passes as wouderful, Tho mystery of a violent death, irifiicted by law, out of the sight of the public, enters their souls appallingly, thers being nothing to de. tract from {lo droad effect. Imogination comes to the ald of justice more powerfully than actual vision, Whiat a horrible blunder thess publio exe- cations are in evory point of view, 'Thoy gather & crowd of the ignoraut, the de graded, the coarse-minded, and the vicious, malo wnd fomale, who guthor to feast their curiosity on the dying struggles of s fellow-being! The atmosphare recks with profanity and vulgarity, and when the sad speotaclo is ovor each such beholder does but g0 away with a harderheart. And yot many of our Btates, partionlarly at the Bouth, re- tain this barbarous custom, under the mis. taken idea that publicity sscires s wider and deeper offcot; quite contrary ta the truth. The consequence is that the 1108t domoraliz iog scenes are continually witnessol, eapo- cially whera the negroes assomble, from far and near, in immense crowds, not only to wilnesa the hanging, butalso to henr tho *‘dying speech ™ of tho victim of the gal- lows. And this brings into plsy the singu. lar religious emotiveness of that ignorant, superatitions, and excitable population as they surround the soaffold and londly ap- plaud tho plous utternnces of the convicted murderer] Wo cut the following from a Bouthern newspapor, and add our protest to that of tho editor against the eontinuanco of theso publio oxecutions, which damage the morals. of the community and bring odium unjustly upon capital punishment. 8aya the oditor: b Within the past tso days we have had reports of hree hangings, each for arevoiting crime, oach ‘witnessed by thonsands of peoplo, each wmuardorer swinglog off with a livety hopa of salvation. One of the munlerers was & negro, whoso celme fa too revolling to rolste in detall, He made a fall con« feselon when ho was arrested, and recolved the death-rentence withont emotion, Within a month arter he had committed the crime ho patd the pen- alty, To hia follow.nogroes, who rtood watching the awlul scene as thongh it had boen a clrens formance, aven going so far & ' groat applans this wreteh salds **1 tell yon 1am with my Jxsvs. Don'tdoasT bave donos but, {f you do, pnt falth Til in‘the Lord; I1e {s mercifal and will forgiv now Ile has made my yoke emy." This tle soggestion to tho negroes gathered th there 1an't anything 80 drcadful in mnrder hanging after all, If a marderer ba only rarefal to *'put fal.lt In tho Lord,"* We are far from assert ing that oven & murdoror's eonl may not be naved, but wedo say that the effoct of seaffold scrmona ls most pernicions, This, agaln, ia another argument against pablic hangings. Plaialy, thore should be an end to snch re- liglous harangues, which, howaver well moant, mako a false impression as to the Ohristian roligion; os if & murdorer might commit his crime with a prosuthpluous and blasphomouns roliance boforohand, on the mercy of Gop in Crnist, to save from all ovil consoquonces, and might be sure that his schomo would be successful; sending hia ‘nnconvertod victim to Hell, it may be, and going himself, tia tho gallows, to Heaven! Bottor wers it for a penitent transgrossor to go humbly and silontly into the presence of the Great Judge, making no spoocches to athers about his faith and hope. Heis to be taught, indeod, by his spiritual advisor that even ho may be saved by a thorough ropent- enco and a true faith in Cunur; though, os with all denath-bed conversions, thoro must bo moro or loss doubt as to the gonuinencss of the change of character in view of tho do- luding influcncs of mero fear and tho lack of time and opporiunity to do the ordinary ¢ works maot for ropontance,” If Protes. tantasuspoct tho value of. such converted criminalism when associated with confossion to n Romish priest and tho devont kissing of acrucifix, others must bo pardoned for not too rondily croditing it when asacciated with tho nttontions of a Protestant minister and a fluont roference to the dootrine of atone- ment, ] CHURCH AND STATR IN ITALY, Tho bill on Clerical Abusos which was in- {roduced in the Italian Parliament ecarly in May, although it was subsequently thrown out by tho Senato, was ono of tho causes which paved the way towards MaoMamox's nbrupt chango of Ministry, and, as such, o history of tho logislation on this subject, which intimataly concorns the rolations of Church and State in Italy, will bo of interest, The corrospondenco from Rome to the Iatest English papers, especially to the London Times, which ia alwaya so comprohonsive in ita sweop of information, taken in connoc. tion with our own recent dispatches, con- tains many interesting faots not genorally known in this country, 5 ‘ The question of clerical sbuses arose in tho firat Italian Parlinment of 1854, and the first Inw wos passod in July of that year. It was directed against thoso of tho clergy who publicly assalled the laws and.institutions of the State, providing fines and other penal. tios for such conduct, incronsing the pon. alties whero the attack was,printed, making them still moro savero if the attack led to disobedience of the laws, and, it the publication was followed by sedition, making the author responsible as an ac- complicc. In November, 1830, those mensures woro included in the Ponal Code, with an ext:nsion of the penaltics to min. isters * who commit aots whioh ars of a nature to excite contompt of or discontont ogainat tho laws of the Btats, or who by un. duo refusal of thoir proper offices dlsturb the public consclence or tho poace of familles,” In May, 1871, th bill known as *“ The Papal Guaranteos " was passod, Tho first part of tho bill relates to tho Pope and the Holy See. The second part incronsed the Uborties of the clergy, nbolished all reatrictions as to the right of mosting, renonncod the right of nomination to Bishoprics, veloased Bishops from taking the ooth of loyalty to the sovoreign, abolishod tho azequatur and placet roquired for the publication and oxecution of the acts of the ecclesinstical authorities, nnd decreod that no appealoould bo mada agalnst clerieal dacisions in spiritaal and disciplin. arlan mattors. It was tantamountto a con- ceaslon by tho Btate of noarly all its rights in ecclosiaatical matters, excepling only tho ezequatur and placet, to the appointment of Bishopa and priests to the major and minor benofices. Notwithstanding this whole. sale conoession, the clergy showed no senso of gratitade, and the Bishops refused to soek tho areguatur they had always been compel- led to obtain. In rotaliation, the Minlster of Justice drew up and Incorporated in the new Ponal Code n sorles of sovere mensures pun. ishing clergymen for the disturbance of the public consslonca and the peacs of families, for speaking or printing any writing againat tha laws of the Btate, and for exercising aots of external worship (like organiaing proces. sions) contrary to the prohibition of the Governmont, The law was passod by the Senate and reforred to the Chamber, "Mean. ‘while, the now Minister of Justico detached the law from the Code and added throe clauses, Tho firat infliotod a penalty of im. prisonment and fino upon those clergy # who contraveno the rules relating to pub. lications or acts having referonce to mattors oonnected with worship, for which the con. sent of the authorities is required,” The sec- ond pravided that,'*althoughno appeal canbe made against the spiritual or disoiplinarian decision of the ecclosiastical authorities, yet, whon noy such decislon is injurious to the material interosts of individuals, the injured parties may sue for damagos or the Btate for indemnification not axceeding 2,000 franocs.” ‘The third inflicted penalties on all who pub- lished aught against the 8tate, *'from what. over occlesiastical authority or whatover place they may come.” It was this provis- lon which aroused the indiguation of the Ohurch and ast the French clericals plotting {0 vestorq the tomporal power of the Pope, 8 it was supposed that the provision was almed at the Pontff himself, The indigua. tion, however, was waated, s the bill was thrown out by the Beuate by 02 to 105, The Ultramontane papers were jubilant, The Voco Dells Verita, the next morning, said s ‘The proverbis]l good scnse of the Italisss bas sgoin triamphed, We, who do not expect good ftom congratnlate ourselves.. The Qovarnment has agnin beon able to res that Catholis Italy Is not dend, that the Impotancs of the **pooe Cletical™ Is not, after all, so great aa they pretend; and that, even atanding ontalde the sphers of action of the governing machine, onr protest is at bottom worth something, The following is from the Osservators Ro- mano: The Independence of {he Benala I the mors metitorlons, inasmuch as it Is not hatitual, and becanne, dneing the debate on the famoua bil), the Liberal organs of all calora atrove to bring prossure upon the Benalors, in order that, in sceord wilh the Government, thoy might pronounce theine fqnitons and liberticide sentence againat mintators of the Catholle Church, Binco then the dispatches have been com- paratively silent as to the effect of the re- jootion. On the 11th, the Diritlo, the Min- isterial organ, pronounced the Bonate's voto A5 a defiance of the Govornment's ocolesins- tieal policy, and domandad that the Ministry shonld meet this sotion by introdncing o civil-marriage bill, and the promised plan for the reorganization of ecclosiastloal property ; ond on the 81at an immonse Repnblican moeting was held, at which rosolutions woro adopted condemning the intrigues of the olergy. As the Diritio roprosonts the views of Mawoint, the Minister of Justlce, it I probable that its tono foreshndows the in- troduction of some new measure, and that we hnve not yet heard tho last of logislation on clerioal abuscs, OFFICIAL DIBHONESIY. Noarly two yoars ago Becretary Brisrow struck down suddenly and vigorously an ox. tonded and thoronghly organiz:d combinn. tion of Revenua officers to plunder the Treas- ury of ita lawfal income, and to corrupt and degrade soolety by making ill-gotten wenlth a badge of distinotion. This combination was not then new. It had oxisted under Jomnson's domoralized Administration, and with Gaanr's socond clection was renowod on the moat sosndalous sonle. Tho samo corruption extended to noarly all other branchos of tho public servico. TheCustom- Housos wero eo largely iainted with frand and dishonesty that offlcials consldered that stealing wos a legitimate perquisite, From the National to the State and Muniofpal Govern. ments the spread of corruption was natural andeasy; {t became general, and reachsd the point thatit was conoeded that in the Unitod Btates an honesat Oity Government was & maro excoption to an almost uni. vorsal ' rule. In 1874 thore was kind of = political evolation all over the West, in which thero was a liberal change of county offlcials, A resnlt was, a large product of defaulting Counuty Tress- ureps brought .to shame becauss of their fallure to got ro-olacted and the conssquent oxposure of their inability to sottle their ac- ocounts, From pablic trusts the ocorruption extendod to private business, aud ddfalcs- tlons and embezzloments, forgeries and ap. propriations by bank and other corporation officers, and by clerks, bookkeopers, and cashlors of private firms, and evon of relig- {ous bodles, have bocome As common as petty larcony. The causes of all thess things dato back to the War, and the lavish expenditure of money, which oreated in the popular mind two strong and dangerous sentiments 1. That tho possession of wealth was tho grond end of human happinoss, and that the man who was content to wait for this from the acoumulation of honost labor and econo- my was ¢ behind the age.” 2. That wenlth was to bo aoquired by the shortest possible processes, and that thero was no moral or social wrong or disgrace in defrauding or robbing the Government. Upon thess two promises, social and busl. ness, and especially officlal, life has beon conducted ainoce the War, and that orimo has bocome fashionable, and finds ready apology, is a natural consoquence. The large and sudden fortunes made during tho War begot an unrest among thosa hitherto content with small and general profits, The ostentatious display of wealth, in the shape of costly man. slons, dashing carriagos and tenms, the lavish display of diamonds and other gems, and the enormons expenditure for aress, for travel, and for living, by those who a short time provioualy wers contont with moderate wants soantily supplied, had o most demoral. izing effeot upon the moral status of socloty. Every man thought that he had as much right to the ‘‘happiness” secured by great wenlth as thoso neighbors once poorer than himself; and every woman sighed for the means to exhibit an oqual splendor of dress, jewelry, carringes, and dwellings as that of her neighbors, who really were not so adapt- od to those things a3 she was. This desire to havo plonty of money, lo acquire it rapidly, and to have it for the purposs of extravagant oxpenditure, took posscssion of soolety of nll classes, not only in tho large cities, but in the most rural villages. Bpoculation hardly distinguisha. ble from gambling becames general. Tha dupes and viotims of the Gold-Room, and the Lxchangs, included men of .all degrees. Btaking thelr amall means of from $100 to $1,000 ench on some expsoted ““rise " as n short way lo enlarge their possessions, wore thousands of women, and even clergymen, and men of all cocupations and professions, who were tirod of living merely well to do, and wanted to bo rich atonce, We neod not dotail how this desiro to get rich without work fhas undermined the moral sense of men and women, and espeoially of the young, and, onco the attention was directed to gottlng 1aoney, how readily crime as amenans lost its repulsivencas, The period from the close of the War to the date of the panio was ono of national political and soclal restlossnoss and wostefulness in oxpenditure; The sufferings which have followed the panio have been largely due to the sudden arrest of this ex. trayagant oxpenditure, aund to the difioult process of dispensing with a mode of living no longer supportable under the reduced if not wasted incomea of the pres- ent day, Tho deslire to get rich is now snp. plétnented by the effort to malntain a style of living no longar honestly posaiblo, and these aro responsibld for the general flood of orime which has of late years provailed, and especially for the general criminality whioh has captared officlal life in this country, The action of Mr, Baistow was the first strong effort to arrest this inatter of official crime. He did his pary ably, thoroughly, and well. If the entire moral effect of the whisky ocouvictions were destroyed by the’ pardon of all the guilty ‘and convioted conspirators, the fault rests wita oth- ora, ‘The neztstep inthe way of arresting oficial orime and making it odious was the selection of Mr, Havzs for Preaident by the Oincinnati Convention in preference to thoss who had sympathies with the existing oon. dition of affairs. The next was the election ©of Ar, Hivzs and the tranafer of the Gove ernment from the hands of those who ad- ministered it, on the principle that the first object of fres government is to enrich those bolding office, to those who cousider that government has higher and more important trusts; gpd. that the spolls of - oMco o1l Bor lavoks the catatrophe, bave resson 1o/ a0 en s to be sbolished. The ohango in the character and tone of the National Government ; the expulsion of corruption and frand from all departments of the publio service ; and the reduotion of the number of officials to the minimum, cannot fail to have a wholesome effect npon the whola country, It will be thefurniahing of a higher standard of officfal morality, It will arrost the popular notion that there is no wrong in robbing the Government, 1If any one havs any donbt of the general do- pravity of official life, lot him recall the disclosures in New York, and study the revolations of the last fow days concerning cur Qounty Government, If the Grand Jury now in session shall do no mors than 1ay baro the transactions of the County Gov- ernmont daring the last two years, it will accomplish much. It is not possible that publio sontimont, when brought direotly face to faco with official orime, .will shrink from an énergotio resolve that, as a corrnpt publia officor is tenfold more dangorous to socioty than the ordinary eriminal, his punishrgent and his ostracism shounld be prop ortlminleli grontor. Unloss official crime bo made infa- mous not only legally, but eocially, it is futile to attompt to punish ordinary offenders. —e e The New mmm purports to bo the memorable letter of ‘the Prestdent to Mr. GARPIFLD, It I8 aa follows? Exrerrive Mansioy, Waaninaron, D. C.. May 18, 1877.~Mr Dran Ozxgnan: In_accordance with vour wish 1 put in wriling what [ oxpressed ta you verbaily Jast night, It scame to me that yon can serve the country and your party botter by romaining A member of the House of Reprosenta. ives, where yoar long experience and great ablif- tics ro eminaiitly it yon for ieadership, I fully appreciate tho great aacrlfico I ask you to make in withdrawing from the Scnatorial conteet, but1sm confident that In the enid you will not regrotit, It is my bolict that your prospeets of election am Speaker arc vory ‘neatly ceriain, and you do not need my asanrance that I'ahall give yon the hearti- est co.operation to that end. Falthfally your friend, R. B, hry, O'KnEnAn's frantic efforts to drive England into the Turco-Russlan war have ended in'dis- mal faillure. The “Old Man® yesterday ro- volted at paylng 40 conts, gold, per word, cable charges, for sczquipedalian balderdash about DisnaxLr's policy, and whistled to tho gory O'Keaxax, via pnctmatic tube, that his serv- Icos were no longer required. Mr. Frano B, WILKLE, onu of tho editoilal writers of - the Times, has beon sclocted to fill tho vacancy, and will leave for Europe tnis afternoon., His ex ploits s a correspondent during the War of the Rebellion eminently fit him for.the position. ————— x Prominent citizens of Balt Lako City scem doubtful about that attempted massacre of the Now York Iferald correspondent. It was a atartlimg story; but It wonld lave been better bad the correspondent pre-arranged for wite nesses. A recurrenco of the attack will prob- ably rosult in his friends prohibiting the useof whisky as an articlo of war. e e——— Qen. Wnartox, of New Orleans, declares that any portlon of Bnx BuTLER's Jotter to Mar- shal Prrxix which refors to him (WiARTOK) is false, That is juat what the Hon. Warsz MacVeaam sald about his connection with the samo communieation. This makes two agalnst ono, and that ono the Massnchuscits gentleman with a moral boomerang. e ——— The cashicr of an East Baginaw (Mich.) bank has been discovered to boe s defaulter—shortago, $720. It isplainthathiscarlyeducationwasneg- Jceted, and that he dld not read the daily papera. Ho ought to havo made it $1,000atlcast. There can bo no cxcuse for his 'aniency, the moro especlally as he ran away with the daughter of & prominent citizon. . ———— Wo warn our estcemed contemporary, Mounap HALSTEAD, that tho Gan of two Statcs, Mainc and maldenhood, are gaping to rocelve him. And yet such is the man's fool- hardiness that he gocs sbout whistling * The Mulllgan Guards® as it he was not sitting on theedgo of a voleano of exclamation-points and libels. B e Tho editor of the Miliwaukes Semtind is seriously offended with a Iate cartoon of Nast's, in which Miss KATs CLAXTON I8 roprescntod as surrounded by a cloud of atomic cditors with asses’ heads, . Tho Sentind man siwears that nono but his Creator eliall safely reproduce his Ykeness tn that manuer, ————— The discovery of the arms of the Venus of Milo rocalls the fact {hat, In dne of hls salad days, Ricuanp Graxt Wnita wroto & howling culogy of Miss—Paurixn Manrxnay, who had, he said, found the lost arms of -tho statue in question, . —t——— The Dcemocratic papers, as o ruls, seem in- clined to cxpreas thelr willingnoss to shake hands across the bloody Crisoru tragedy; but tha Republican papers, as a rule, do not appear anxlous to do so. e———— How many offices has Gen, Logax already de- clined, according to his friends? If great caro 18 not excrelsed by the Goveroment In keeplng tally he may bo offered tho same office moro than once. ——————— {t 13 tclegraphed as a fact that many of tho New York Custom-House officlals work from 10 a.m, to4:30p. m. It Is lucky for them that they are among those who do not have to work for a llving. 2 —— ‘When a puhlic characteropens his paper of & morning aa clrcumapectly as if it wero an Jofers nal machine, it is pretty safe to Infer that he, Inhis boyhood's sunny days, had a chance to propose to G—L MILT—N, and dldn't. A Qerman citizon of Washington, the other day, happenod to sco Miss Au—g—1 E. D—pon pass just as ho had foished perusing ons of her Medlllipples. “Ach! Svh!" he cxclaimed; *dot 1sh & very BLA1N® woman, dou't ft1" e — No one In Chicago will think Turkish Bashi- Bazouks aro heartless, cruel wretches whon they resd PentoLat's complalat of tho way Forsrtu and others misused him, ‘ ———— A Boston poctess, helng sent to prison for a- plagiarism of cormmon thirgs, took iwith her her two cats. Sbe was bound to cultivate the mews even undor restrictions, | i Tt Is stated of Gen, TenBaNATEYF, the Rus. sian defcnder of Scrvia, that he is half French; but, unfortunately, which half {s not Indlcated. A Boston book-houso hava issncd ¢ Lamb's Tales,”” Aslambg do not have much tall, why not give us the whole work in sheepl Ilsncorzs’ Job in the Augean stable was light and pleasant work compared ‘with that now given to the now Grand Jury. f 1t is onr unblased oplulon that Mr, Bratns is laboring hard to secure the Republican nomina- tlon {u 1850 for the other man. #Mr, MonTox belongs to tho pash," says tho Now Orleans #icayuns, Ie makes a pretty lively present for Democrats. s Tho Pope bas deposited $000,000 in the Daok' of England, saysa cablegram. It saves Vicron Exaxuzy from temptation, % # § | Pisnrzront has & borrowed crest on bis carrisge. Yes; and snob-bating uewspapers have c(a)reat him for it. % Is it part of an architect’s business to know how to “comedown ? himself, though his bulld- ings remaln standingi ¥ When s noted man dles hig living friends pass ®ood resolves, When a poor man dies all good resolves go with him. » o . —p——— No more Twesp for Cbiago. We bave, too, Tanmany troubles of our own to look after. g Thero s to be only one of a famflyin the Treasury Deparsmont oficcs, In ik cullnary, | | . He s understood 1o be not of Becrolary BnERMAN there s to bo n\;:nh #nirees as ** domestid brolls,” ——— Gorv. Brons begins to explain, B: month he may be prepared l?) act. 2, Al ————— * The Grand Jury will constitat . thority on “lam-Inated stone.!* e Axiable da Rounrnna's fast horso ot away withe —waa it 4501 i f Gen, Butan's letlers disappolnt & moral to adorn a tale. | Ta-tal Pxtorar. = —————, PERSONAL. Oliver Wnndeil Hnlmu', Jr., is ono of the lawyers retained in the great Boston acandal caso. Jefferaén Davia is proparing for publica. tion his memolre, soon to ba pablished by the Ap- pietons. 1leis in oxcellent hoalth, ¢ Prosident and Mrs, Hayos decorated tho Monnment to the Unknown i Arlington Cemctery ;m- flowars bronght by themeelves on Docorafion- Ay, Mr. Oharles Dudloy Warner’s artiole on ' Calvin the Cat, " in the lastnumber of Seridnerts, i thought by many critics 1o be *the best thing he hasever done. Itis full of the most dellcions humor, 3 The World undarstands that Bishop Coxe has Introduced a new reading for the sake of his Rusrophile converts. Instead of anying, **Dost thou forsaka the Devil and all his workst" he readss ‘Dot thou forsake tha Devil and all hig Tarket" _ "Tho mysterions new novel in Mackiood's opens with this senfenco: **0f all the clorzy wha had sapplled DBrighton tea-tables with goselp, Weatley Garland was the most provoking man; he \waa so mysterious, so handsoms, so weallby, 5o talentod, 0 upmarried. Adolaide Nellson and Maudo Granger had the good aenso to ‘withdraw, at-tho lost moment, from the circna performance of ** Humeo and Jullot* for tho benoflt of Mr, Rignold, It shonld be a pormanont injnry ta the reputation of any actor to taxe part in such & ridicalos affatr, , Itin said that Mr, Motley never recovered from tho blow to hla amour proprs Inflicted by his removal from the Dritish Misston, and it causcd bim to avow more frankly and frequently than his bost frionds conld have wished his dectdod peofor- ence for tho English over tho Amerlcan methods of adminlateation, and for English over' American socloty, 3 Bir Danfel Macneo told at the theatrienl dinnor in Edinbarg of an old conple who went to the theatre to soe Mrs, Stddons play AMrs, Haller, 1n ono vt thamost heartronding scencs, tho old, man, who had watched the proceediogs with minglod dingast and astonishment, marchod londly oat of the house, exclalming: **Yo long-nosed thicf, ye call this diversion, " Mr. Oharles F, Wingate, the now oditor of the Neaw York Ezpress, 1s a8 Journalist of oxpoe rlence and abllity." o has written Targely for all tho metropolitan newapapers; bot the most brille Iant work dono by him was a series of,articles on the Tammany Ring, written for the North Amerie can Reclew,, s recently-published book on Journatiam will be pleasantly romembercd, There is a big will case in Baltimora nrlsing from the heqnest of Mr. Georgo Stoncbreaker of all hit property to 8 number of churches, atter the death of his widow, who fs now dead.. The will wanmada forty-iwo ycars ogo, and the broperty, which was then worth $70,000, has stnco increascd vastly in valne. Tonrtcen lawyers havo beon en- gagod fn the case, somo on behalf of the churcher and some for the natiral holrs; and there Is aver, promise of rich plckings all around, Mr. Glomens aud his fidus Achates, the Rev, Mr, Twichell, havo justrotnrned from Dee- muda, haying mada the ronnd teipIn the samo ateamer, sceing ll the eights, with a day to sparo. Tha Courant saya they report the onlon crop fully upto the average. Nermuda Ja prondof thren things,—its onlons, its potatoes, and Ita roads, It Inn delightful Island to walk over, nnd i one Is fond of onlions there 18 no place In the world whera hls tasto can ba 0 porfectly gratifed, The Now York Post judges that the his- torian must bein his sonl a poet, olso he will write dull chronicles Instead of the plctaresque history which brings paipably boforo the reader the.men,. the events, the omotions, snd the aspirations, of an earller time, For thin cause, it balleyes Motloy and Prescott, who wero pocta at henzt, turned from the new story of our own .country to oldor ones which aro moro picturesquo. ‘Wa fear Mr, Bancroft will notbo plcased by this article. . In tho lnst number of the Sanitarian thero s an interesting paper on ** The Plon of Insanity," by Dr. Alfred L. Carroll, President of tha Riche mond County Medical Socloty, The writor argues strongly agalnst the theory that insanity sflontd ba consldered In all cases sufficlant to oxempt a man from responsibllity for celmo, o tracos and do- fines cortaln peculiar condltione of the insane, in which they may commit erimo with some sharo of moral guilt;and criminals of thia kind are so dane gerous to soclety that they should be held account- able for what thoy do. Honry Weeks, the English sculptor, who has just died at tho sge of 70, was clected an A. R. A, as longago as 1850, When he was only 27 yoars of age he completed a bust of Queen Victo- ho firat that was evor taken of hoer after her accesslon to tho throno. Among his best known works are the statues of Cranmar, Latimer, and Ridloy, for the Martyrs’ Momorial at Oxford! of Dr. Goodall, at Eton; of the Marquis of Wollea~ loy, for the India House; of Lord Dacon, for Trin- ity Collezo, Cambridge: of Lord Auckland, fot Calcatta; and of 8ir K. Barnes, for Ceylon, Mr, MoKes Rankin mado soveral startling innovationa in his personation of Macbsth at Phil- adolphla recently, The most fmportant was In making thd charcctor an old man in ‘tha last act, sunposing saventeon yoars to have clapsed bo- twaen tho doath of Duncan and that of Macbeth. Tho part, It wiil be romembered, makes NacbelA speak of himself as ** fallon fato the sera and yollow leat,** Tha Interprotation of Mr. Rankin is ingenlons, though perhaps a tnfle stralned. In history Macbeth reigned so.entoen yoars, it is trus; bot the ovidonce of bis relgning so long iu the play is, to say tho least, slonder. Moody and his family have returned from TBoston to thelr home at Northfeld, and Sankey gocsto Cohmasct. No definite plans have been mado for fatnre work, though Montreal, Cincin- naty, Baitimore, and other citice aro anxions to get the evangelists,- It I8 probabls, howaver, that Moody wiil begin & new scrics of meetings at os- ton In the fall, porkaps golngto Laltimoro Ister, andto Cincinaatl in January, The loston Tabor- nacle work will sarely bo conlinued next year, snd Mr. Moody will try to bring Altken and uther evangelists, The only Tabernacle moetings ane mounced for the present aro tho presching services every night noxt monthof 3sj. D. W, Whittle, who 1a recommended by Moody, ‘When all is sald about Dr, Ayer that can trathfully be sald, perhane It will appear thatbe has been tha victlm of Massachusetts snobblehnces, He bad a passlon for polltical preferment, which ‘waa nover gratlfed, and the dlssppolatment snd wmort!fication which he suffered In conscquence may have asslsted to drive him crazy. Thewman sooma to have boen & decent enongh fellow, bt Lis nelghbors could mever forgot that he made hls fortanae in the pill line. He was repestedly mufled by the political managers, although ha subecribed berally for the Camipalgn Fanll, Only a year be- fore bis Inssnity becamo fully developed he was shutout from the empty honor of the Chairmans ship of a County Conventlon, although he had pre- pated s splendid banquet for sll the membors, which was left antasted. . Mr, Roebuck, M. P., presided at the late remarksblo woman-sulrage meetinz in London, snd Introdaced himself with a apecch intended to be facetions whlch rather staciled the sssemblage. trong advocste of ‘woman suflrage, snd consequentiy felt called upon to offer some apology for his sppearance in the capacity of presiding oMcer. He sald be prestded because Mise itelen Taylor aaked him to, and sho ‘wasthe atepdsughter of Jobn Etuart Mill, *‘ihe dearest friend be ovor had,™ Ho added that, it sbo had asxed him Lo stand on hls hiead, he wight bave done 80 out of respect for the memory of Mr. Miil. AsMr. Roebuck ls something over 70 yesrs of sge, 1t ls thought the spectacio he would mske by standing oo his head would not be in & bigh de- greo edlfying, or complimentary to the memory of Alill. At tho same meoting, Miss Taylor malo & littte speech, i which d that sbe had noticed - amcog marriod coupl t when tho husband was very inferior to tho wi was 8 firm belicver in mascalina sapeclozity, bocanse, poor man, ho bsd notbing clse than the fact of hls boing a ma 19 bo veoud oty &