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

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, JULY 22, 1877-SLXTHEN PAGES he Tribune. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. MAIL—IN ADVANCE—POSTAGE PREEADD: ‘Specimen copies cent To prevent delay and tree. nifstakes. be gure and give Post- Ottice address tn sul, including state and County. Memlteances may be made cliher by draft, express, Post-Ufiice order, or in registered letters, at our risk. BERS. TERMS TO CITY SUBS‘ Pale. gelivered, Sunday gacentes, delivered, Sunday tnelude Adress EH TRIBUNE COMPANY ‘Comer Madison and Dearborn-ats. SOCIETY MEETINGS. THE ENIGNTS OF ST. PATRICK will hold thetr Secmd Annual Picnic at ters’ Park, on Thuradas, July 26, 1877. The Knights would respect- fully rewind their tricnds that no palus will be spared fo mage It as pleasant as possible for all who attend. ‘Trains will leave depot, corner of Citaton and Carroll- Bls.. atY a. Om. sharp. LA FAYETTE CHAPTER, NO. 2, 2. A. M.. Hall ‘78 “Monroc-st.—Stated Convocation Monday evening. July 23, at 8 o'cloce, for business and work, Visitors Cordialiy invited vo meet with us. yonder of M- We H. MELD, Wi. P E. N. TUCKER, Secretary. VAN RENSSELAER GRAND LODGE OF PER- FECTION—Will hud a Special Assembly on Thuraday inghext. Work on the 12th and 13th De} order of "JUN O'NEILL, T.* Po" Go ED GOODALE, Grand Sec. LARESIDE LODGE, NO. 739, A. F. and A, M.— ‘Regular Communication Monday evening, July 23, at 8 echoes, honk an cis: ea a eeree. w satis breth? |. By order = Me See y OriG RED W. CROFT, Sec. CORINTHIAN CHAPTER, NO. 69, R.A. M.—Spe- dal Convocation Monday evening, July 33. “Work on the & A. Dexree. By order of ‘J. A. CRAWFORD, H. P. J.O, DICKERSON, Sec. SUNDAY, JULY 22, 1877. CHICAGO MARKET SUMMARY. ‘The Chicazo produce markets were less active Saturday, and the lead‘ng ones. were steadier. ‘Mess pork closed Sc per bri higher, at $13. 4215 for August and $1355 for September. Lard . closed 2 shade firmer, at $9.00 cash and $9.10 9.12% for September. Meats were tirmer, at 5¢ for loose shoulders and 6%c for do short ribs. Lake freights were active and firm, at 2%@2i¢c for corn to Bafialo. Highwines were strong, at $1.08 per gallon. Flour. was dull and weak. Wheat closed Svc higher, at $1.37@1.38 for July and $1,145; for August. Corn cloved a shade firmer, at 47}c cash and 46%c for August. Outs closed !¢ @l1%c lower. at 28%ecashand 27%c for August. Bye wns active and lower, at Sve fur July and 5ic for August. Barley closed at 71c for new No. 2 seller September. Hogs were Sc per 100 Ibs high- er, at $$.90@5. Cattle were quiet and steady, andshecp nominal. One hundred dollars in gold would buy $105.25 in greenbacks at the close. In New York on Saturday greonbacks ranged at 947@! It was the Sixth Massachusetts that was fired upon by the ‘‘Baltimore blood-tubs” in 1861, and it was another Sixth Regiment that made the “Baltimore blood-tubs” bite dirt Friday. ‘The Sheriff made a run on the ‘“,bank ” of F. R. Wzsr & Sons, at DesMoines, and found—assets, $1,000. It is but just to state the liabilities reach the far more re- spectable sum of nearly 340,000. A strong argument in favor of the ‘‘eleo- tric candle,” or even a pine-knot torch, was furnished in the gas purveyed by the South Side Company last night. The feeble, flick- ering, sickly light suggested a change for the better in a return to the tallow dip “of our dads.” Chief Josern, with the remnant of his . band, is moving northward toward the Mon- tana line, where Gen. Croox will undoubtedly put the finishing touches on Howanp's work. ‘The war in Idaho is ended, saving a grand march throngh the Spokane country “for the moral effect.” “The efficacy of bullets in the event ofa riot bas been illustrated in Baltimore. ,Spo- radic charges on the Cemden Street Depot by m few hot-headed ruffians were all that marked yesterday, and these were beaten off by the police. Manifestly the campaign of the three companies of the Sixth Regiment had a beneficial effect, and their system of warfare will commend itself wien similar exigencies shall arise in the future. Advices from Constantinople locate the Russian army at Philippopolis and confront- ed by Surzman Passa with a band of un- disciplined irregulars, made up of volun- teers sent hurriedly from the Capital. The expected Montenegrin forces are behind time, and will unquestionably be cut off by the Grand Duke before they can effect a juncture with Screman. Adrianople comes next, which will bring the Russians within 130 miles of Constantinople, and still mov- ing. It has beer decided by the Commissioners of Donglas County, Neb., to bring suit against the Union Pacific Road to enjoin the disposition of the $193,000 in county bonds issued to. enable the Company to build the bridge across the Missouri at Omaha. It is contended that at the time of issue there was no authority in law therefor, and that the confirmatory act of the Legislature was un- constitutional., The original issue was £250, 099, and the bill will pray for the refunding of the money already realized on the bonds gold, including those paid. ‘The McGregor (Ia.) county officials have broken open their safe ond learned the worst. When Mr. Fraxk Krre soared off he took the safe-combination and several ancats, and, when his companions and coad- jutors in running county matters sent for the safe-dealer to open the door of the same, ‘he-called attention to his little bill of $1,300, and proposed to take the burglar-proof in Payment. As the strong box was supposed t> contain some $20;000, the officials reluc- siatly settled the bill, and when the safe was opened the sam: of £65.38 was found to re- ward their investigations, > A-still more formidable organization than that now manufacturing trouble in, Baltimore and West Virginia is to be formed. ARTHUE, Chief of the Locomotive Brotherhood, is busying himself with the establishment of an order to comprehend all train-men and every railroad for the purpose of making strikes general and controlling such wages as may be deemed proper by the employes. Tais cau only be met by a combination on the part of the roads and a steady refusal to employ Union men, which will do more than bullets to break up such organization and ihe essential outcome thereof. ‘There is no prospect of a strike at present in Chicago. Naturally the dissatisfaction at otber points has extended to this city, but the unfortunste result of the last strike is still fresh in the minds of railroad men. The loudest murmurs come from the gyound-houses of the Michigan Central snd Rock Island Roads. The MIli- nois Central ond others are tranquil, but a terrible pressure is brought to bear by communists and tramps, who see in g riot a chance for plunder, and who are straining every nerve to precipitate a row. This pressure is concentrated upon the Michigan Central, which, in the event of disaffection, will carry the Rock Island, and perhaps other roads, with it, though the out- look does not prophesy any disturbance at all, Anew branch of industry has been marked out by certain observing ‘tramps, who have formed a sort of a rear-show connection with the two great circuses traveling through the country, and who pick up the few honest dollars left by the “ cnndy-butcher” and tho lemonade-man. The mobin attendance upon one of these great moral displays of. high art robbed the good people of Elgin to the tune of $1,000 in watches and money, and the sufferers are startled by the announcement that another circus is slowly but steadily ap- proaching the town. Grent preparations are under way to welcome the camp-followers with bloody pitchforks to hospitable pine coffins. At Newark (0.)affairs are assuming a more serious aspect, though no warlike demonstra- tion has yet been made by the strikers. A ridiculously insufficient and not at all relia- ble body of troops ara on the ground, but so thoroughly imbued with the faith that the strikers are right and everybody else wrong that they will prove of little practical utility in the event of a pinch. A proclamation from Gov. Youxne has been read announcing that the trains will be moved at 6 o'clock this morning, and warning all malcontents to keep well out of the way pending the‘operation. Fresh troops areen route to the scene, and a collision is apprehended. A terrible story of riot, disorder, and blood- shed is told in the Pittsburg dispatches this morning. With a view to seriously crippling their opponents, the strikers made an effort to capture the Pittsburg “& Fort Wayne round-house, which was guarded by State troops within and without. Taking advan- tage of their position on the hill, therioters at- tacked the militia with stones. This was patiently borne until the voice of the pistol was heard in the land, when the troops fired, aiming gh. The only effect was to attract a fresh shower of dornicks, and then the battle opened in earnest. A volley Was sent into the crowd, killing fourteen out- right and’ wounding twice as many more, when the crowd melted away. As is usual, most of tho sufferers were innocent of any connection with the row. Several women and children, attracted by curiosity, or at the most by a sympathy with tho strikers, were among the victims of the volley. That there is astrong feeling in favor of the rioters is testified in the action of some of the militia companies, who stacked arms and deserted their post when their services were most in demand. Encouraged by this disaffection the strikers roamed through the town, gutting gun-shops, and arming themselves for another attack upon the round-house. They captured a battery of three guns, which at last accounts they were getting into position for a bom- bardment, and things look extremely shaky for the garrison. Three soldiers, attempt- ing to escave, were killed, and the rest are hemmed in.. The strikers and their friends are reporte]as numbering about 10,000, and the excitement in Pittsburg transcends any- thing known there since ihe War. ‘WHERE WE HAVE DRIFTED. The great trouble under which the busi- ness of the country is suffering is the want of confidence,—the want of faith that property purchased to-day will be worth as much to- morrow. There is no assurance that proper- ty, in the formof lands, city lots, warehouses, -factories, mills, farnaces, railroads, vessels, bonds, stocks, or merchandise, will not con- tinue to fall in value as it hes been doing. No man will invest his money unless he can have some indication that within a reasona- ble time he can get as much for the property as he gave for it. ‘There is a constant rise in the value of money measured in other forms of property, and hence it is that no money is now invested or will be invested until there isa certainty that property measured by money shall cease to fall, For this reason there is no sale for real estate ; for this reason men will not put money in buildings, ma- chinery, and material; the goods they make have no sale; labor is unemployed; the wages funds are no longer distributed; the means of living ate reduced, and the money value of all things keeps on shrinking away. What is needed is something to arrest this decline, something to give some permanence or fixity to the value of property, and not a continu- ance of that policy which holds out as the grand climax anannihilation of all value, and the seizure of the accumulations of men un- der the foreclosed mortgage. It is curious tq notice the means by which the present condition of affairs has been brought about.. The struggle to control the currency, and to make all changes lead to extravagant gains by the londing class, began as far back as 1865. A depreciatea paper currency was a wretched evil, and. that depreciation was greatly and unneces- sarily protracted. It served for many years asastake forthe gamblers, and its values ‘Were run up and down at the pleasure of the operators. The Government, under the con- trol of the same mysterious agency, exacted the most enormous taxes annually to pur- chase the national bonds and togive them an increased value, leaving thé legal-tender notes to take care of themselves. Ten'years after the close of the War, the country was confronted by the urgent demand of a formidable party that a return to specio values should be forever abandoned; that all bank paper should be:prohibited ; that the United States should issue paper, not promises to pay, but paper that was of itself final payment and never to be redeemed H that this paper was to be a legal tender and to be issued without limit as to quantity. Against this there was a union of all per- sons in favor of an eventual return to specie values, who were anxious to get rid of the violent fluctuations of paper money,and who saw nothing but interminable confusion in the wild scheme of irredeemable and unlimited Paper money, The result was, the adoption of a national policy having for its Purpose a return to specia payments, as onposed to a permanent and irredeemable paper currency. Congress passed a law declaratory of the Purpose to make the paper money equivalent to coin, and on that issue the large majority of the people of the Eastern and Western States united and defeated the great paper- money party. No measure was adopted for carrying out this scheme. Especial care was taken to avoid committing the country to any particular measure beyond the senti- mental declaration that in the future, and as soon as the condition of the country would warrant it, the national notes, 50 long de- precisted, should be rendered of equal value with coin, At the succeeding sessions of Congress no leas than half a hundred bills were proposed having for their purpose the supplying of legislation intended to carry out the policy of placing the greenbacks at par. At no time was it ever proposed to ar- bitrarily abolish all paper money on the 1st of January, 1879, and reduce the country to an exclusive gold currency. At ‘no time sould such a proposition have been accepted by Congress or. tolerated by the country. Yet Congress has adopted no other preparation for specie resumption, and the act of. 1875,. adopted as a mere sentimental declaration, has been men- } acing the country ever since; and, now.that it is openly avowed that that act shall be put in force some seventeen months hence, the menace threatens the country with gen- eral bankruptcy even before the date fixed. ‘The adroitness of the money-lending class in manipulating the legislation of Congress is strongly illustrated in this matter. Tho whole country was appealed to, that tho gigantic paper-monecy scheme might be arrested. ‘The declaratory action of Con- gress, then supposed to be incapable of execution without. further legislation, was adopted. A year Inter it was discovored that without the general knowledge of the coun- try, and without the knowledge of even those who voted for it, Congress had pre- viously demonetized silver and made gold the exclusive metallic money, or coin, of the United States; that, in consequence of a like proceeding in Germany, an extraordinary increase was made in the demand for gold, causing the valine of gold in silver to in- crease, and that of silver to decline propor- tionately. The scheme to give to gold an additional value was eminently successful, and simultaneously there isa demand made for the immediate retirement of all paper money aud the exclusive use of gold. There is a demand created in Germany for $350,- 000,000 in gold; and under this Resumption law there is a demand ,growing daily more near for $300,000,000 for this country. Such a demand, to the extent that it exists, has, by increasing the value of gold, diminished that of all other property, excluding invest- ments therein, aud causing every man to hoard all he can hold to meet the still greater stringency which is threatened by the at- tempt to enforce the Resumption law. Every piece of property, real estate or personal, and in bonds and stocks, is daily sinking in value jo meet that yaluo which it will have in goMf when, all other forms of money having been expelled, gold will have a value. swollen by a demand far in excess of the supply. In anticipation of this condition of affairs, all money is hoarded; nothing is now con- vertible into cash, even at a sacrifice of half its ordinary value. Credit is daily shrinking ; banks are preparing for the inevitable crash ; bank-notes must retire before their payment in gold can be demanded; the greenbacks are hoarded to be presented for gold; and the country and its business are gradually waiting for the shock that is to prostrate all things. 1! _the condition, present and future, into which, through the manipula- tions of the money-lending class, the coun- try has drifted and is now drifting hope- lessly. ‘The remedy is clear, and should be applied without delay. Congress will meet three months hence, in October, It should with- out the least hesitation— 1. Repeal uuconditionally the date of the Resumption law. 2. Remonetize the silver dollar as it was before 1873, and authorize its free coinage. 3. Repeal all the War taxes on private capital engaged in banking and business. 4. Continue the existing law for the retire- ment of a sum of greenbacks equal to SO per cent of all additional bank-note circulation, this to go on without limitation. Having done these things, the menace un- der which property is shrinking, and money is hoarding, and capital is idle, under which labor is arrested, machinery rusting, and workmen starving,—will be removed. A defi- nite policy being adopted, the character of the future will be assured, confidence will be renewed, and the machinery of trade, labor, and production will be again put in motion. WHAT SHOULD BE DONE IN THE MICHI- GAN AVENUE. CASE, It is an anomalous and not very hopeful condition of local self-government when a certain thing which the whole community clamors for, and which is admittedly in the public interest, cannot arrest the attention of the official class. Yet this is precisely the situation with regard to the proposition for the improvement of Michigan avenue by the South Park Commissioners, Time enough has elapsed to have had the avenue repaved since it became evident that the proposition has the approval of the entire taxpaying community, yet nota single step has been taken toward the formal transfer to the Park Commissioners which is necessary as a preliminary proceeding. The South Side Aldermen are apparently as indiffer- ent to the wishes and demands of their constituents as if they wero so many independent nabobs accountable to nobody; and the South Park Commissioners have sat placidly in their easy chairs, suck- ing their thumbs, and waiting for the Alder- men tocome to them. Now, perhaps it is just as well that all these gentlemen be made to understand that they were chosen simply to carry out the plans and policy demanded by the people, that they are mere agents, and that they are derelict in their duty, and will be held responsible if they perversely or negligently disregard the obvious will of the people in this or any other matter. The South Side Aldermen, and especially those from the First, Second, Third, and Fourth - Wards, are the men who are chiefly to blame for this neglect of the popular demand. They are Messrs. McAuLEy and Pransons, of the First; Baxnanp and Rosensene, of the Second; Carr ond Txompsoy, of the Third; ond Guoert and Srewanr, of the Fourth. It is the moanifest duty of these gentlemen to introduce and support a resolution transferring to the South Park Commission all the rights the city may hace in Michigan avenue, on the condition that. the Sonth Park Commission improve that thoroughfare, perpetually keep it in repair, and govern it in the same manner as other park driveways. If the Aldermen of these wards united in asking the passage of such a resolution. probably it would not encounter the opposition of ‘a single Alderman from the West and North Divisions, because the residents and taxpayers of those parts of the city will not be affected by the change one way or the other. The city, as a corpora tion, will not be committed by such a resolu- tion beyond its own rights and privileges, and, if there is any private opposition, it may assert itself in the courts. After the passage of such a resolution, it will be the duty of the South Park Commissioners to begin at once the repavirg- of Michigan avenue, thereafter keep it in repair and con- trol it as a part of their trust, and proceed just -as they did in the case of Oakwood boulevard, which was not included in the = = original park system. but‘given them by the property-owners. The whole process is simple and straightforward, and the prac- tical operation of the scheme will probably not be contested by anybody; but, if it should be, neither the.city nor the Park Commissioners could suffer any damage by any result that should come of such contest. Perhaps the most effective way to awaken these Sonth Side Aldermen to a realization of the popular demand will be to hold a meet- ing of the residents and taxpayers of the South Division in some public hall in the neighborhood of Michigan avenue and ‘Twenty-second street and invite the Alder- men’ and South Park Commissioners to be present. The purpose of. such meoting would be to impress upon the officials the necessity for the proposed transfer, the unauimity with which it is demanded, and the benefits certain to accrue to all concerned. It will not be necessary to sug- gest or discuss the technical legal objections. Everybody’ understands that these can be found to any proposition of which the hu- man mind is capable; but all such can be safely left to the courts if any dog-in-the- manger obstructionists discover themselves. It needs to be brought out at such meeting that the property-owners along Michigan av- enue. will not repaye the street, with the cer- tainty before them that it will be ruined within'a year or two; that the street in its present condition is a disgrace and a scandal to the city ; that the several millions of dol- lars that have been expended on the South Parks have been thrown away if there is to be no thoroughfare by which they can be reached ; and that the 10,000 people or more living in the South Division and Hyde Park who own or hire carriages and buggies, and who pay the bulk of the taxes, have not a single respectable thoroughfare on which to drive to and fro'between their homes and places of business. The proper- ty-owaers on Wabash avenue, State street, aud the other thoroughfares running south, should ‘be made to understand, if they do not already, that the proposed change would be in their interest os well os that of the Michigan avenue property-owners, for vari- ous reasons: (1) All the residents of the South Division and Hyde .Park who drive would have equal comfort out of the new pavement; (2) the process of assessing South Park taxes for improvements is such that the bulk of the cost would fall on the Michigan avenue property-owners, and would be divided up in infinitesi- mal sams among all other property-owners in South Chicago and Hyde Park; and (8) ‘Wabash avenue and State street would be relieved of the buggy and carriage travel which is now wearing out their Llock . pave- ments much more rapidly than the slow teaming, because trotting chips off and dis- lodges the blocks more than the steady weight of trucks with horses at a walk. Let afew of the prominent citizens and large property-owners of the South Division give a little of their time to this matter, organize the meeting as we suggest, and force the Aldermen and South Park Commission- ers to give the scheme their consideration, since these officials refuse to recognize the public sentiment as expressed in private conversation and the newspapers. NEW ENGLAND SKEPTICISM. There is no denying that the Lake Bluff camp-meeting would have lost much of its extraordinary interest and attraction had it not beén for the presence of Josern Coox, the Boston ex-clergyman and lecturer. In reality, Mr. Coox had nothing to do with the camp-meeting, nor did the camp-meeting have anything to do with Mr. Coos, so faras its real objects were concerned. Mr. Coox ‘as only on incident at the outset; but speedily the incident overshadowed the event. Of all his lectures, the last one, upon the causes and growth of New England skep- ticism, is by far the most attractive—tfor its sentiment and humor, as well as for its his- torical facts and deductions. With all his brilliant talent, however, Mr. Coox is. long and discursive. Few people, probably, in these busy days have had time to read his lecture, or even to pick out of its discursive- ness its salient points as to New England skepticism ; but the subject is so interesting, and was ‘kandled in such o masterly way, that we shall be doing many of our readers ® service in presenting them a brief summary of it. Mr. Coox at the outset is frank enough to acknowledge the existence of wide-spread skepticism in New England, which too many of his brethren in the pulpit are unwilling to admit, and he finds that “the tap-root of New England skepticism is New England freedom,” and that New England has made more mistakes in ondeavoring to found new forms of religion because she has tried oftener than the rest of the conntry. He finds one cause in the sympathy which our people had for France after her friendly ns- sistance in the Revolution. It aroused an enthusiasm for Gallican liberty of thought, and ‘the atrociously shallow and unclean but brilliant and audacious Parisian infidel- ity of the period looked attractive even to the most talented and scholarly under- graduates,” so that at the outset of our na- tional life our colleges were full of infidelity. But the ground had been prepared for the crop of skepticism long before. Tho seculari- zation of orthodoxy in New England grew out of the very desire to foster the religious culture of the whole people. As early as 1631 a law waspassed in Massachusets thatnobody could vote unless he was a church-member or had been baptized in youth; in other words, it was a law that united Church and State. Twenty-five years after, as the out- come of this theocratic measure, followed the “half-way covenant,” by which persons not professing to have entered on a new lifa at all were allowed to enter the church. In 1704 followed another effect of the strain, in Sroppanrp’s plea that men, whether convert- ed or not, should be allowed to como to the communion-service, and should be recog- nized in some senso as church-members. It was not a long step from an unconverted church-membership to an unconverted min- istry. Then followed utter demoralization of the orthodoxy, broad departures from Plymouth Rock, and the secularization of the more fashionable churches of Eastern Massachusetts. By this time everything was ready for the corruption of French in- fluences, and out of this secularization of the churches ‘‘ came their chief weakuess in their resistance to the irreligious influences arising from the French war and the Revo- Intion, and to the accessicn of the French infidelity at the moment. when LaraYErre and French liberty had bent the national soul toward France.” Somuch for Mr.Coox’s generalizations ; but heruns the subject down stillcloser. He finds that Unitarianism was born of “ the older Arminianism, tho half-way covenant, the dis- turbances of the French war and the Revolu- tion, French infidelity, the popular mis- conception of ‘scholarly orthodox doctrine, and: some crude, ond rash’ statements in | orthodoxy itself.” Unitarianism and its brilliant successes begot Harvard. College. |. Harvard College tainted the literary circles of Eastern Massachusetts, who were skeptic- ally indifferent as to dogmas and doctrines, and these literary -circles.set a fashion of talk, and thought, and belief which Boston not only adopted but exaggerated. Then came the Civil War, in which the Northern churches made the mistake of not grappling with slavery. At this time, says Mr. Coox, “‘orthodoxy lacked leaders, and heterodoxy had men at the front on Gon’s side.” - This passage is worth remembering for its plain tall: Now who in Boston wes foremos: as an Aboli- tionist in the days when orthodoxy was a little too slow to keep pace with Gop? Why, TuEopore Parken; and by following Gop he obtained a fol- lowing. not only for his anti-slavery ideas bat for those principles of his which stood in conflict with accredited Christianity. What made Tnzopore Panxen's pulpit high? The lowness of other pulpits. Why were other pulpits low?, Some of them faced tne South. [(Laughter.]~ There were South-side viewa taken in Boston occasionally by the orthodox pastors, [Laughter.] What effect had all this upon the youth of the land? If everI had a struggle to retain my respect for embodied Christianity—I never had any struggle in retaining my respect for the real Christianity as it exists In the Scriptures; but if I ever bad any struggle to re- tain my respect for embodied, accredited Chris- tianity, it was during those years of my education. in which I could look towards Boston, the seat of culture in America, and find heterodoxy at the front on Gon’s side as to slavery, and orthodoxy doubting, as if halting between Gopand Mammon, her cars filled largely with cotton and gold-dust,. and Wessren her Archbishop. e There nro other causes for skepticism which Mr. Coox cnumerates, and among them fashion and mortgages. ‘Whenever an aristocratic church insists on it that people shall have something to wear or not go to church at all, it repels the poor.” ‘‘ We have churches that, when they erect a new house, dedicate to Gop only a mortgage.” Here is much truth. in two nutshells. If the poor are to be called upon to help support fashion and pay mortgages as conditions of church- going, they must of necessity stay away, a8 they can’t afford if; and staying away, they lapse into indiffereice, and eventually fall into skepticism. Mr. Coox does nut dwell upon this point as closely as he should, and we are rather surprised also to find, in read- ing over the seven columns of this lecture, that he has omitted two very important influences that operate on New England theology: First, the east wind that blows over the. salt marshes and shrivels it on week days, and the ex- pansive bean that evory Sunday morning distends it, thus keeping it continually vibrat- ing between two extremes, unsettled, con- flicting, disgruntled. His keen powers of analysis might have traced the subtle work- ings of these ocean, breezes and inland escn- lents. He might have told us how the sug- gestions of kelp, clams, king crabs, barna- cles, slimy piers, and pitchy cordage con- tained in every breath of a Boston east wind carry contamination to Massachusetts theol- ogy, even to the Berkshire Hills, and, on the other hand, what mysterious influence is en- gendered overnight in an earthen bean-pot that duils the minister's eloquence on Sun- day and sends his hearers to a Saints’ Rest long before he reaches thirdly. It may be that Mr. Coos has not given thought to these causes which operate on the New England physique, and, through the physique, upon the spiritual man of Massachusetts, from the bean town of Beverly to Albany Four. Cor- ners, where the east wind is dispersed by the western breezes of the great lakes that refresh soul and body and make people in- crease in grace and brawn. This is a New England problem we of the West wonld like to see solved.. The columns of Tae TRrBunz are open to the great lecturer. PHYSICAL ENDURANCE IN LEGISLATION. Government theorists may well despair of ever attaining perfect methods when the great British Parliament—the original of all Par- liaments and enjoying the experience of cen- turies—finds that its business can be defi- nitely obstructed by half a dozen obstinate fellows whom it can neither discipline nor repress. We have already given some inti- mation of the purpose of afew of the ex- treme Home-Rulers in Parliament to clog the affairs of State unless the Government should accede to the sectional clamor for ‘a separate Parliament for Ireland. A couple of weeks ago these gentlemen put their threat into execiftion, and demonstrated their ability, inferior as they were numer- ically and in brains, to bring legislation to a complete stand-still. The question before the House was the voting of supplies for the Volunteer Reserves. The Home- Rulers took exception because there was no volunteer corps in Ireland ; but there was a.clear majority of about 100 in favor of the measure after a full and fair discussion. In the face of this ovarwhelming majority five members undertook to defeat a vote on the bill, and succeoded, after keeping the Houso in a continuous session till 7} o’clock tho ‘following morning. Four of the ob- structionists were Irish Home-Rulers, and tho fifth was Mr. Wasatuey, an English member, who helped them out because ho believed the session ought not to be prolong- ed beyond 11} o’clock at night. This gen- tleman might also pass for an Irishman, as it was certainly a bull to prolong a. session till 7 in the morning in order to maintain the notion that it should not last beyond 114 in the evening. To understand how this handful of men could defy an overwhelming majority, and actually prevent the voting of a measure fally agreed to, it must be remembered that the British Parliament, like the American Senate, has no rules except those of courtesy, and that each and every member has all the personal privileges he might exercise in his |" own counting-room or study. Thus, when the House sits as a Committee of the Whole, nothing can prevent any member from pro- posing alternately and without limit that the Chairman shall vacate the chair, or that progress be reported. Tho system of voting in Parliament is not i oars the roll, but by separating the Holse, the mem- bers gravely filing ont into the lobbies on different sides, actording to their votes. Seventeen mortal times did the five job- structionists compel the members to make this tedious parliamentary walking-match, aud they might have done so seventeen ‘hun- dred times if the Government had held out long enough and there had been any mem- bers left to walk over the course. ‘There was cursing and swearing, fuming and foam- ing, wailing and gnashing of teeth, but all to no avail. The obstructionists knew their rights, and, knowing, dared maintain them until the Government threw up the sponge and acknowledged that the Home-Rulers had won the match. And no wonder. The refreshments in fhe buffet were exhausted ; anxious wives and children were sendiug messengers to the Honse to know whether their husbands and tathers were dead or alive; the Government Ministers were car- ried out in a comatose state; and Irish phys- ical endurance was triumphant. - .. It has now become a question of consid- erable importance as to what can be done to obstruct the obstructionists in the future. It is to the credit of the British Parliament that, during its long career, the privileges of membership have never before been so out- -tageously abused. But the precedent having ‘been set, the necessity for guarding against the recurrence is apparent. Here Parlia- ment is confronted with the danger of mak- ing any rule which may imperil the individ- ual right of unrestricted debate and the questioning of the Ministry. The privileges of the minority have always been regarded assacred. One suggestion is, that the House shall confer upon the Speaker the privilege of turning over any filibustering member to the Sergennt-at-Arms, whenever his judgment warrants tho arrest; this means a fine of about $1,500, if sustained by the House. But this would be, an arbitrary and dangerous generalization. Another is, that no member shall have the privilege of calling for more than one division of the House during the consideration of any given measure; but this would fail as'‘a protection if there be twenty obstructionists instead of five. The difficulty has assumed such pro- portions that the Cabinet will not attempt to propose a remedy.at the present session, but will give the subject long and careful con- sideration during the vacation, and propose new rules at the next session. It would not be surprising if the old British Parliament should be forced to imitate young America with the ‘‘Previous-Question” rale, after all its experience. ‘ SOCIETY-REPORTIN Gathering unto itself great virtue, the Philadelphia Evenjng Bulletin as- sumes that the annual crop of. divorces in Chi- cago is the result of the Iarge number of weddings, and then proceeds to demonstrate that the wedding harvest is the essential out- cotne of a vicious practice of publishing detailed accounts of the nuptial celebrations by the Chicago press. If this argument be purely logical, then the steady depopulation of Philadelphia is brought about by the obituary efforts of the Quaker City newspapers. For if Society is so anxious to secure attention at the hands of great journals taat it will marry and be given in marriage, it follows that where the same attention can be arrived at.by the less complicated and more comfortable process of going to mect somebody in the cremation can, it will be sought in preference to any method ultimating in family jars. Marriare is better adapted to the growth and ‘prosperity of the cenaus than. death (except perhaps in St. Louis, where every corpse is assumed to be twins) and hence the press that encourazes weddings is a far greater civilizer than that which holds up the grave as the only medium through which vaulting ambition to get into print can be gratified, and it consequently ill-becomes the Evening Bulletin, or any other Philadcipbia bead-stono, to abuse cither “the dignified leading paper” ‘(Tne ‘Tripune) or “the cheap ard vulgar sensational sheets” (the Times and Jnfer-Occan) for encour- aging matrimonial ventures. As well-nbuse the accomplished editor of the Chicago census for annually chronicling the results. Being mounted for the strife, thé Bulletin next attacks the system of socicty-reporting, denouncing it‘as indecent, and congratulating the Eastern pres upon the celerity with which its reporters are kicked out upon every appli- cation for admission to polite. social events. “The reporter, who may have ataste and am- bition to, shine in this sphere os a describer of wedding-dresses, decorations, guests, banquets, and especially presents, can have no occupation here, ‘and he feels that his ight is under an ex- tinguisber, and can only be relumed by procur- ing a situation as a superintendent or the con- nubial department on a Chicago paper.” As Chicago is largely built up by the creme of East- ern soviety, it foflows that the trouble Hes in the Eastern reporters, who are forced to at- tack the helpless, bootless corpse for such social news as they are enabled to furnish their feverish subscribers. The eflicient and at the same time gentlemanly reporter is indigenous to Chicago. By birth and education he is a gen- tleman, and as such Socicty welcomes him.. No where else do travelers find the calm repose, the insouciance, the neatness and elegance of attire, the quict, unassuming manner, the 3oft, smooth voice, the graceful, languid gait, the erystal- lization of accomplishments, that conspire in the construction of the Chicago reporter. His habits and his assizament in life make him an integral part of the social fabric. Where his imitators fail isin an unnatural display of un-. necessary cheek. Without his cool discrimina- tion, they see no essential difference between the assurance of a gentleman and the cheek of an ass,and naturally their underbreeding re- sents his success, and jealousy nullifics what- ever of intelligence they may have absorbed from their calling. Given the. two classes of reporters, what wonder that such society as is lett in the East should refuse to have-the report- er of theirclimate around, while the socicty of Chicago welcomes its press representatives, whose place is in it, and who, by their: avoca- tion and instinct, are of its pillars and chief supports? * When the best of society and the best. of re- porters agree upon a question, whoshould cavil? If Ivan Smitnsonias and Mariapnz Jomay- ‘NES agree to marry, and invite Gostavus Percy DE Mostonencie, of Taz Trisune, to wit- ness the tying of the nuptial knot, it is emi- nently proper that he should attend, and that, being admitted, what. harm results from his action in faithfully recording the fact that. myriads of friends endowed “the happy couple ” with several gross of cake-paskets and a few crates of napkin-rings?) Wherein does he violate the propricties in remarking that Manri- ADNE * was radiant ina creamy gros-grain eut a la Princesse, with corsage ala Louis Quatorze, and hair a /ad’Alencon”? If Gustavus Percr is a connoisseur in ladies’ apparel, and ** the hap- py young couple ” (who, by the way, “ took the 5:15 train on thelr brilliant wedding tour throngh the more fashionable watering-places of the East ") have no objection to his siring his information through the columns of his paper, has he not done the State better service than if he bad waited a year or two to chronicle the fact that, - Little Ivaw is symbolic Of alt that’s good beyond the Tiae, He took a cold, and then the colic: Turned up his darling toes and died? Butis the positionof the Bulletin, that di- vorees are the necessary results of marriage, correct? Probably not. Of course marriage is a condition precedent, but the annual report of the Coroner shows that many awife has died without having previously filed a bill, and the almost daily illustration of the poet’s Enocu ARDEN testifies that the costs of Court have not, drawn upon the slender treasury of many a cheerful family. It is clear that the Bulletin has entered upon the discussion of aquestion it docs not thor- oughly understand. It is wrong in its premises and erroneous in its deductions. {ts ‘facts? | result from the miscegenation of distorted fancy and incomplete statistical information, and it would be well to examine the tendency of its local contemporaries before reaching out its.an- tenn to the investigation of journalistic prac- tices whose magnitude it cannot appreciate and whose motives it cannot comprehend. ——— The Cuban General C. J. Cook has furnished the Kansas City Times with a tragic description of the massacre of the people captured with the Virginins by the Spaniards. Details of the shooting are not new, but the ending of Lient. Quzsapa: has never been told before. The Spaniards entered the prison per to Inform Cook and his comrades of their sentence, and “Lieut. Quzsapa, when he saw Gen. Bunnigt, became go enraged that he began abusing him by calling him a butcher, coward, thief, and ended by saying: ‘Murderer! You have killed my two sisters; you have caused. to be mur- aered my {ather,.mother,-and brother, and if Gop does not grant me the privilege of . killing | you he will at least to my hal/-brothers, who are Yet alive, and will avenge us all, and I hope the day is not far off.’ Whereupon he sprang upon Buertet, bat only to receive his (B.’s) knife in his side and to be literally torn to pieces by the bayonets of the soldier guards, of whom there were over 300 in the yard. QuEz3ADa’3 heart was then cut out and smeared in the faces of Cespepes and Dex, You.” Col. Pacueco and Cook were. marched out. at 1 o'clock and placed in position, their faces towards the slaughter-house wall. They ‘knelt down, and the orders were given: ‘Primeheavy; aim, one,’ when the word ‘halt’ came from the lips of Capt. Sir Lawton Lorrame, who had meanwhile approached and unwrapped his sword, which was wrapped in the British flax. He threw the flag over Paciteco and myselij and. said: ‘I am not an American citizen, but am ~ Anglo-Saxon, the same as these gentlemen, and if one hair of their heads is harmed I'll blow Santiago de Cuba to’ell!” * You blow Santiazo de Cuba to ’ell,’ said Borntet, ‘why, inside of half an hour I will have you where you will never sec daylight again.’ ‘Yes, Gen. Bonnie,’ said Capt. Lornrare, ‘in ten minutes I may be in Moro Castle, but my ship lays out there [we could faintly see the topsof the masts] ; she draw- ing too mach water to get into the Moro [pull- ing out his watch], and if in forty-one minutes 1am not aboard the Niobe fhe ball opens. You can do as you like; you can release these men, or let it be.’"? The order for release was given, and in a few hours the prisouers were on the American ship Juniata. A citizen of St. Louis, writing to the Cincta- nati Gazette, accounts for the bank failures in that city as tollows: In the first place, St. Lonis has had too many banks. There were at the beginninz of the ycar forty-six banks in the city, all professing to do a good pasiness. all strargting for patronage, ard all forced to declare dividends recularly and vive at Teast the exterior evidence of prosperity. ‘There Was not enough basiness to enable all these instita- tions to prosper, as they claimed to be doing. Some of them, in the desire to extend operations, have diecounted paper and accepted securities such as no sa.c institution should hold. With the close times, the increaze in building, and other canses, deposits have fallen off, showing a decrease in si< months, in both current ond time deposits, of ovsr three and a half miltons, With resources and business Peay thus contracted, the weaker banks and those doing a risky business have be- come gradually straitened, and with.a new and Tigorous banking law about to become effective, Teqniring a clean’ showing of assets, there was bat the alternative for these banks to go into liquida- tion... Fora number of banks to go into lianidation nietly wa, however, a thing practically impossi- ie, with human nature as 1t is, and bans-depositors most excitable among the excitable. Tne State National Bank accomplished the feat, but the others failed. Patrons became alarmed, and the liquida- tion or consolidation premeditated was hastened by outside causes into immediate snepension. As must be inevitably the case under sach circum- stances, two or three banks really sound were caught unprepared in the whirlpool created by the sinking ones, and were themselves sucked down. Theee latter may resume business or they may not. There are stil] banks enough in St. Lor nt The English papers speak glowinzly of the Pan-Presbyterian Convention recently held in Edinoury.. The Spectator says: Presbyterianism bas made a strong muster in Edinburg, which, even more than Geneva, has come to oe reckoned the Mecca or Jerasalem of the sect. Over 60U delegates, from about forty aiier- ent countries, all observing the Presbyterian potty, and professing to hold by a consensus of the Keformed Confessions, have come together in conncil. ‘The United States buve sent a large con- tingent, vyinz in number with that from a:l pazts of the United Kingdom. There are representatives also from the Canadian Dominion, from An-tralia, from ail the principal British cvulonies, and frum well-nighevery European conntry, the oxi Wal- densian Charch, the orizin of whicii 1s lust in uncer- tam tradition, ‘sending deputies. as well a3 the latest birth of missionary zeal, the Presbyterian Church in Spain. All have pcen united in o species of Alliance or Jiund, and it is proposed to hold triennially representative mectings, of which this dg the first. The next meeting is to be held in Philadelphis in 1880. — ‘The Cincinnati Commercial having stated that | silver of the old stanaard still circulates in Germany on equal terms with gold, the New York Evening Post denied the allegation. A party who professes to kuow the facts answers the Post thus: The case of Germany is certainly one which meets the challenge of the New York L'cening Post. Both gold and silver are now ana since Jan. 1, 1876, have been circulating side by side on equal terms. In the decree that {rom Jan. 1, 1870, all paymenta shall be made in the new gold currency, marcy, a restrictive clause was inserted to maintain (te! porurily, at least) the old silver thalers in circnl. tion, and they are to be countedas cold, and equi: alentto three marcs, This ratio of one thaler sing eqnal tosthree mares is the ratio of 15%4 to 1, wnich has-been the ratio of gotd to'stlvor in Europe ” since 1003, and corresponds to a price of silver of 6033 pence perounce. Yet silvor is only worth in the London marxet 54 pence. Sv that in Germany asuperier and an inferior currency are at the pres- ent time circulating on equal terms. Honent Trzat Parse, Jn. $a, The following exquisite verses appeared over the signature of “Hugh Howard” in a recent issue of a New York paoer: Cabbage, veal. mackerel, beef, and trout, And all I loved in other dass, Gaze on me with luzabrions gaze « And torn ms liver inside out And through thelr ranks one plaintive call. From lip to lip has ever crossed: ‘*"Tis better to have loved and lost ‘Than never to have loved at ail! The reader who has been enchanted with some of the exquisite and fanciful. sonnets of Enooar Fawcett, or who has thrilied with de- light at his rapturous criticisms of American poets in a recent magazine, will be pleased to learn that the bard of the vomit, ‘““Huch How ard,” is Mr, Epcar Fawcerr. <a Mr. J. D. O’Cosxor, of this city, has written a hand-book of the war, just published by Moszs Warren, under the title of “ History of Turkey,” which is one of the best among the numerous compilations that have been made “for reference since the war broke out. It is an exhaustive “ready reference” of the geography, chronology, and statistics of the Turkish Em- pire, including also the cthnoloxy, primi traditions, and sociology of the Turks, and a gencalogy of the existing dynasties. It may also be used a8 a gazetteer of all the principal places in the Empire. We do not know of any similar work that contaims so much valuable in- formation, 60 conveniently and eonpactly ar ranged. It is issued in very neat form, ant contains some very handsome mans. a Avwriterina Boston newspaper says that he once “happened into the counting-room of the late Col. Far, and in course of conversation the question in rezard to Mr. —-came up, and in reply toa direct inquiry Col. Far remarked, *Young man, when I sce a person go into a bar. room carly in in the morning and swaliow a ful. tumbler of spirits, I make up my mind that bit habits are not only bad, bat that they are con firmed. One year ago Mr. —'s creiit stood a high as that of any man in Boston. I shoulé hesitate now to take his note for any amount: his failure is only a question of time.’ Within; year he failed.” Tnis awful example teaches uy that young merchants who want to succeed # business had better keep a private bottle 1 their desks. SS SSunEEEEen semen On Tuesday Iast twenty-seven members £ the American Parazraphers’ Mutual Admiratia Association headed their funeral columns wih the joke, The meloncolic days: have com” This was in accordance with the resulutin adopted at the last Convention. whereby a cloe season is established for jokes of a like chard ter, so that no single member will establisha reputation at the expense of the other mei » ‘The city editor of the New York Herald te other day put his head into the focal room exclaimed: “ Hu, Pat!” whereupon thirty- of the reporters stopped writing the wi “holocaust” and said, ‘Yis, sor!” Wh reminds us that once a New York Deane Procession was brought to a dead stop by ce one on the sidewalk yelling “ Mixg!” whole procession yelling as with one yo “ Phwat?? — No more gratifying evidence of. the flour#i- ing condition of the Chicagu Historical 8 can be found than in the report of the Lib submitted at the quarterly meeting. Ta night. The Society has maintaiaed its posi and. exerted a. beneficial. influence. under most dispiriting circumstances, and the fact. it has risen above the depressing effects ot #e times testifies to its inherent strength, #4 Perepavercanns