Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 21, 1877, Page 4

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Afl_m:t(um Sir Knoiguts! pecial Conclay nday, et 22, at o'clock p.1 “The Order of the Red Cross will L ieny S Stock g e Order o the Tempio will be conterred. itors are always wel- come, mau-; cordially h;\'\l(,(-fl E’m‘x’fiuflltf%fiififi" ERpLATEN 7 J. 1t. DUNLOP, Kecorder. L7 be conferred. WASHINGTON CHAPTER, No. 43, I AN 1l Convocation Thursiay evealng, Oct. 25, at 7: STToc, St ha cormer o Iandoiph aad Halsted- Fis.. for work on the Roy meeting of Cieveiund Lodx same place Friday eveins ‘pantons cordially 1nvited. 8 CHARLES B. WRIGHT, Sec. NTAL CONSISTORT. S. lar Assembly on next Thureds 25, at veloci atthe Asylum. Toe-»t.. Tor bu: & 01 the 30(h Grade. Tliustrious Kuixhts pectiully requusted to Bppear rdt 2 GUILFORD, 1L P. e dreve. 1y wtaer 1 TR N ATV A LD, 52 Deg... Com.-fo-Cllef. JAMED & T. BIKD, 32 Ueg., Grand Secretars. Spectal Conclave of .. Monday, even- un K. T order, Cistung cited. "By order o NG, i1, SANBORY, E. C. ST. BERNARD COMMANDI NO. 35, K. Speciul Conciave Wednesday eveninz, Uct, 4. a giciock. " Work on the K. T Qracr, Viiiag 3 ricoaly int o BRighty e Soanee . JUREANE, E C. J. 0. DICKERSOY, WILEY M. EGAN CHAPTER. 4 Regular Convocatiun Friday evening, UL 26. at 4.30 o'clock starp. Work un K. A. Degre 7 ) ¢ Visiting Com- welcome. By oraer of the 1. £ paaions aiwarL welcome. I NEWELL, Sec. 41, A. F. snd A M.— be “held at Orfenial X0.126, It. A, M.— GARDEX CITY LODGE. No. 1 A Regular Commuuicsiion” will Tiall oR Wediigiay eveutng, Oct 24, M. 31" Desree. Visttlag Lrethreg arg frasernally aviiéd. ILCUMB, W. CORINTHIAN CHAPT! 0. 09, T. Tegular Convocation Monds¥ eveuis, Oct. 2, o'clock, for work: By 0L CRAWFORD, L. P. 3. 0. DICKERSOX. Secreary.. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1877. CHICAGO “MARKEYT SUMMARY. The Clucago produce markels were rather un- eertled Suturday, with less doing. Mess pork closed ateaay, at§14.00 for October and ST for Jan- wary. Lard closed » shade Grmer, at $5.408.45 coshi sad $8.22@8.25 for January. Meats were steady, alG%c per O for loose shoclders and 7hic fordoshort ribs. Lake freizhts were very dull,at 4c forcorn to Buffalo. Whisky was unchanged, at £1.05 pergallon. Flour was quietand firm. Wheat closed %@ %c lower, at SLOS3 for October and $1.05% for Novemoer. Corn closed %@3c higher. &t $3%c cash and €3%c for November. Oats closed 4 @3c higher, at 233c caeh and 23%c for No- Sember. Rye was firm, st 53@58%c. Barley closed firmer, at 59c cash and SU@UUYC for No- vember. Hogs closed casy, at $1.7565.25. Cat- 1le were dull at $2.50@5.50. Sheep were tnact- ive, at §2.75@4. The exporis from New Tork during the week included 14,745 bels flour, 686,700 bu wheat, and 336,695 bu corn. There wus inspected into store In this city yesterday 236 cars wheat, 176 cars and 8,000 bu corn, 33 carsand 3,000bu oats, 6 cars rye, and 50 cars bariey. To- 1al (501 cur), 202,000 bu. Cne bundred dollars in gold would buy §102.57%4 in greenvacks a tne close. In New York on Saturday greenbacks were worth 97} cents on the dollar. Architect Hrx is busy in Washington, alternsting between an application for $800,- 000 to finish the Chicago Custom-House snd explaining to Dearborn-street property-hold- ers why the entrance should be on Clark street. Some time ago charges were made by 3Ir. Bowres (him of Springfield, Mass.) and a peper published in New York called tue Nation against Judge Drurox, of Tows, in- volving some railroad matters not entirely disconnected with an obscure railway en- titled the Central of JTowa. A committee of the Jown Bar was appointed to investigate, and while they find that there is sach a per- son as Mr. BowLes, such a paper as the Nation, and such a tramway as the Central Tows, they discover that all the Test isa 4 barren idelity. ;i Along and tedious fight between Gov. ‘Harrsaxrr and the Grand Jury, wherein the point at issue was the liability of the Gov- ernor to appear and testify relative to the July riots, has been decided against the au- thorities, and they are instructed to appear forthwith, The case will probably go be- fore the Supreme Court and that tribunal be called upon to decide whether . Governor of Pennsylvania visiting in - California is ex- pected to know what is going on in his own State, and whether he is entirely responsible for Toxt Scorr’s method of running things. At most of the primaries to-morrow there will updoubtedly be two or more tickets; one of them will be found to be made up generally of men who ara unpledged, and who will go into the Convention prepared to nominate the best and strongest candidates ; {he others will be made up of professional delegates, who seek the Convention for pay or in the interest of some one political schemer or a combination of office-seckers, Now, it is the duty of every man who intends to vote the Republican ticket to go to the primary meeting in his ward; to ascertain, a9 he can easily from his acquaintances and neighbors (if he does not know personally), which is the unpledged set of delegates, and to vote ogainst the cliques and combinations. 1t is a foregone conclusion that the Demo- cratic Couvention will be given over to ** the gang.” and the hope which the people place in the Republican Convention can only be realized by sending wmen of unimpeachsble charucter and unselfish purpose as delegates. A year ago several thousands of voters were denied the opportunity of voting for Oresident because of the inadequacy of the _4zber of election precinets, the County Board having refused 1o incresse the number of voting places. Last spring the Common " Council partielly remedied this, so far as the city elections aro concerned. but the County Board has taken no sction in the mat- ter with reference to the coming election. No citizen ought to be deprived of the right of voting for the waut of an opportunity to do so. The maximum number of votes at any precinct should nev- er exceed 500, so that every voter should be able to reach the polls within reasonable time. ' The County Board should increase the number of voting places at least to the extent that this was done by thé Council, but it might go much farther and open many new polls. The party committees should also take such action as will obtain a5 near as possible a Board of intelligent, honest, and competent men es election officers. The public safety is threatened by designs mpon the ballot-boxes, and the operations at the charter election of 1875 are promised again, and no pains should be spared in scrutiniz- ing the Boards of election officers. A few half-scared Republicans are looking forward to to-morrow as a day to be dreaded. ‘The Democrats of the House threaten a res- olution indorsing the policy of the Adminis- tration, and a portentous caucas of Republic- ans was oslled last night to secare & reconcilistion of the antagonistic ele- ments, that the forced record might show somo unanimity on some question. It was discovered that each Republican was implacable on some one question, and they separated. The Democrats insist,on forcing a vote, with a view to the division of the Republican ranks, a scheme their opponents propose to kill by & substitute that President Hayes' title is unguestioned. ‘We notice that Senmator Woonry, one of the candidates for re-election to the State Senate in New York, has withdrawn from the track. He is onme of the gentlemen whom Wrnra AL Tweep, Democratic ex- Boss, testified under oath that he bribed to vote for corrupt bills. Woonry forced a nomination to * vindicate himself” from TwEED's statement, after the statement Lad been made public. But his constituents, on reflection, have concluded to excuse him from representing them agam. Woopry had stood high in public estimation ; be was be- lieved to be honest beyond ths power of temptation. But old Tweep says that he offered him $40,000 to vote for the amend- ments to the New York Charter whereby the gang could rob the city, ad that he took the money and voted for the rascally bill. Heis now in moral perdition. It is well that Republicans should fully understand the scheme of the so-called Workingmen's ticket. Al through Obio the Workingmen's party was composed before the election of men of both parties, but on election-day the bulk of the Democrats of that organization voted the Democratic ticket, loaving the Republicans to vote, almost alone, the Workingmen's ticket. So at the coming election in thisaity. The Workingmen's party is made up of Repub- licans and Democrats, but the latter have no intention of wasting their votes on any third ticket. They will be Workingmen up to the day of election, and then they will vote the Democratic ticket from CorviN down. The only votes the Workingmen's ticket will receive will Le from the Xepub- licans who may be duped and tooled by their Democrutic associates. Any third ticket at this time must of necessity be a device to trap Republicans; the Democrats have no purpose to vote except for their own party candidates. CHRISTIAN TUNION. The Adzance, the Congregational organ of the West, expresses & very hearty satisfaction and enthusiastic enjoyment over the pros- pects of union among Christian churches. Tt finds that the diyecta membra of general denominations have a tendency to reunite, and, in some instances, like the Presbyterian sects of Conads, have already reunited. It rejoices that the Old School and New School Presbyterians of this country are together, and is strong in the faith that the refractory Southern Presbyterians will speedily come into the fold. It finds comfort in the recent Pan-Presbyterian Council in Scotland, where all branches of Presbyterians met and shook bands, ond, although they coald mot quite muke up their minds to sit down at the rd’s Table together, it cheerily and ainly says: It was something that they recog- pized one another as fellow-Presbyterians ; let us hope that at the next ieeting they will recognize one another as tellow-Chris- tians.” It glegfully rubs its hunds because two Methodist bodies also joined forces re- cently, giving new strength to the Methodist Protestant Church ; while it 15 only & ques- tion of time as to the reunion of the Meth- odist Episcopal Church North snd South. The reports from the Episcopal precincts are not quite so antisfactory to the Advance, although it declares rather jnbilantly that “not even the self-satisficd Episcopal sect w11l be able to maintain 1ts isolation without putting in o vigorous defense, if that be pos- sible, before the aroused intellect and quick- ened conscience of the Christion world.” There 1 no doubt that the Episcopal Church is smors hopelessly divided than any other, for the new Keformed Church is young, vigor ous, and defiant, and is making proselytes as repidly as possible, and, es the -drance says, s spread will be in exact proportion to the continnance of illiberality 1 the older body.” Still, the Adrance does not despair of Episcopal union, because even * the most stubborn and conceited conservatlism cannot forever maintain itself against the spirit of progress.” As it contemplates thi tendency to union, it breaks out in the foillowing glowing declaration : Then we shall husband our rerources and con- centrute our energies, and plan more for what is simply Christian than for wiiat #& Congrezationsl. or Methodist, or Episcopal, or Raptist, or Freshy- terian. Neceseity will lead to courtery, courtesy wilt chenieh raternity, and fraterulty will nipen into unity. The unity may or muy not take or- zanic form in the Gual results, but it wall rule the spirit of procedure, it will shape mearures, and it w11l do away with the chief @iszrace and weakness of Chrisuanity. Let us pray and Jabor for eo kap- Dy & consummation, assured that the prayer of Cunist for the unity of 1liis people is certain to be answered, even after these loag ages of discord. To all of this THE CmICAGo TRIBUNE sRyS smen, and in whatever way this glorious consummation may be achieved Tme Trro- o will beartily join hands with the Ad- vance to secure it. Although a secular newspaper, devoted to the worldly wants of men and to the exposition of the sayings and doings of this naughty world, the achieve- ments of science, the ups and downs of markets, the revolutions of politics, the ex- ploits of criminals, the triumphs of the drama, art, and song, and the diurnal trans- actions in the tents of wickedness, it has always teken a lively interest in the events of the spiritual life, the progress of the Church, the Sunday-school and missionary enterprises, and in all the movements of the great army of men and women in its battle with Brerzenes, Prince of Darkuess. Ithas exulted over its victories and mounrned over its defeats. Above gll, it has been grieved to see thus great army divided into factions, squabbling with each other, when all its strength should be concentrated for agenoral attack all along the line upon the Powers of Sin, and their irregular troops gathered from the ranks of infidelity. Over and over again Tre Cmicaco TrmosE has urged upon the churches to unite and concentrate. In union there is strength ; in division there is wenk- ness. -~ SATAN's troops are always united and compact, under an sbsolute commander. When the Russians in Armenia, with reck- less foll!', Fplil up their army into numerous small divisions, not co-operating with each other, MurnTar Pasaa fell upon them and overwhelmed them. When they reunited their forces and massed them sgawst the Turks, MoEETAR PasEa's army was shuuere.d into fragments. The situation in Armenia has its suggestions for the great Christian army now fighting under different command- ers and differont flags, some of the divisions absolately refusing to co-operate with the others, to unite under the ome White beuner of the Prince of Peace, and strike groat telling blows at the main army of Sin, instend of skirmishing here and there and dealing blows that fall short of their mark by reason of the weakness with which they are delivered. Under the discipline of union there would be fewer desertions from the ranks. There would be less sheltéer for heterodoxy within the pale. The cause of missions would not languish as it does now. There would not be so many poor churches, and starveling preachers, and unpaid pew rents. For instance, if the Baptists were consolidated into one powerful body, we probably should not have read in Tae ’I‘m:n- uns yesterdny that a Free-Will Baptist churcii-structure in Chicago was sold under foreclosure, and did not even bring the face ! of the mortgage. The churches could then husband their resources. Instead of wasting men and money to carry on rival enterprises, with little hope of accomplishment, the men and money would be massed upon a given object and carry it through with irre- sistible force. It is notorious that Brother Moopy has always complained that one of the chief obstacles in his way has been the division of the churches, and it has been a cause of regret to Tue Cnicaco TRIBUNE to observe that before he could move upon the hosts of Hell he has had to preface his attack by evangelical effort within the pale of the Church. In other words, he has had to revive churches before he could revive sin- ners. All this might be spared if the churches would unite for coucentrated effort upon the fundamental truths and prin- ciples of religion, banisi: all **isms,” and co- operate in the humane Iabor of saving their feilow-men. Tar Curoaco TRIBUNE is aware that this cannot be done in a day, for human prejudices are quite as strong #s Divine ne- cessities, and the origin of every new sect is to be.found in its dislike of some other sect. Nevertheless, we look forward to the day when'this will bé sccomplished. Then the Chureh, instead of wasting its blows and op- posing itsclf 2s a bar to progress of thought, will concentrate its power for great victories, and enroll Science in its ranks as one of its most trusty licutenants. ? HONEST LOCAL GOVERNMENT. To-morrow evening the Republican party in this city will select the delegates who will compose the Convention which on Tuesday is to nominate candidates for county officers. ‘The vital point st issue in this election is not one merely of national politics, but is one of Governmental honesty. Three years ago the city was practicaily bankrupt ; the political traders and their associate thieves had seized all branches of the City Government. The Tressury waos empty; a flonting debt of several miilions existed; the offices were crowded with sularied loafers. So bold had they become that they seized the Dballot- boxes aud vounted inall candidates belong- ing to their gang. ‘The people at last aronsed themselves. They, bravely sacrificing all minor questions, united and at the polls ex- pelied the rutfians and the thieves. ‘They abolished one-third of the ofSces, cut off all useless expenditures, reformed the police and fire departments, and reduced the ex- penditures of the City Governmentover a mullion dollars annually, and have been ever since extinguishing the large floating debt. The affuirs of the County Government have reached a like crisis, and from the same cause. 'The County Government bLas be- come a moral aud political abomination. It 18 hardly denied that the public is remorse- lessly robbed of every cent of which the cor- ruptionists can get control. The Board of County Commissioners has become more of a disgrace than the old Board of Super- visors, which was abolished because of its iniquities. For two or three years a con- trolfing wajority of the Board of Commis- sioners has acted dishonestly in several ways : By the dishonest creation of useless offices to muke places for 1dle dependents; by the increase of oxpenditures in the County Clerk’s office, which office is now rore cost- ly than the entire Executive Department of the State Government of Illinois; by the dishonest increase in the expenditures for Alms-House, Insane Asylum, County Hos- pital, and Outdoor Relief; by the dishonest allowances of exlraord.nary salaries,—the Counts Attorney olone receiving a groat- er annual salary than was paid the Attoruey-General of the United States dur- ing cighty yesrs of the Goverument. The expenses of Cook County exceed those of the whole Executive, Judicial, and Legisla- tive Departments of the State of Ilhmois. All the departments of the County Govern- meut are 1u the control of these men, except the ofice pf County Lreasurer. During the last year the County Treasurer has offi- cully reststed the illegal and dishonest action of the County Board, and now the sttempt is mude to seize that office also. The time Les come when the people of Chicago must give their attention to this business, or Cook County will be as bankrupt in mouey and in credit a8 was the aty in 1875, Unless the public give their attention to the protection of their own interests, the County Government will be literally a den of thivves. The delegates to be elected to-morrow evening will have to nominate candidates for County Treasurer, County Clerk, and County Commissioners ; and whether the persons nominated shall be elected or not, dopends entirely on the character of the men nomi- nated. It will be useless to appeal for votes upon party grounds, unless the candidates shall of themselves command personal re- spect and contidence. It will be useless to say to the public that the Republican candi- date for County Treasurer, or County Clerk, or County Commissioner, is not s bad as the other candidate for the same office. That will be unworthy of the Convention and unworthy of public respect. Unless the Republican Convention can nominate a full ticket, each man worthy of an election on his own character and qualifications, the ticket will be beaten. Thousands will refuse to go to the polls for the mere purpose of deciding which of two tickets is the less en- titled to election. The character of the nominations on Tues- day will be determined by the character of the delegates appointed to-morrow night, and thus in fact the nominations, whether good or bad, will be practically made at the primary meetings. There is a large mass of citizens of both parties who will vote to elect any good and competent man who may be nominated, without caring or asking what his politics may be, and who, if no such men are nominated, will not vote at all The average citizen wants honest local gov- ernment, and will vote for no oth:sr; and that party will best serve its own interests which offers to the public candidates whose character will be a guarantee of honest gov- ernment. DEMOCRATIC REFORM IN COOK COUNTY. The Democratic notion of reform, as exhib- ited by their Committee, is peculisr. It is only a year ngo that band-wagons were pa- rading the streets with * TILDEN and Re- form " and * Reform is Necessary " plastered all over them, and heralded forth by the din of cracked bugles and bess-drums; alarge number of boys wero indulged with torch- lights to arouse the inert poople to a realiza- tion of the fact that it was only through the Democratic party that honesty, ecomomy, and retrenchment in the public service could be assured ; flaring transparencies bore the same magic legends, illumined mors by their own effulgence than the dim candles that lighted them ; public sponkers barangued the people till the hoarseness of the orators and the physical weariness of the audiences could bear no more ; a brillinnt promise was held out of a political millenninm under the aus- pices of ihe Demooratic party. Gnn}x County was among those communi- ties that permitted themselves to be partially duped by the parades, the torch- lights, the fanfare, and the oratorical flour- ishes. Mr. TILDEN carried the city and county, and dragged through the Democratic County Commissioners with bim. The re- sult was to solidify the County Board as & Democratic institution, and to cement more strongly than ever the Ring which rules and plunders the county. Thisis one illustra- tion of Cook County Democratic notions of ‘‘reform.” But it is the same ‘** Reform ” crowd which comes forward this year, throws off the mask, no longer so much as professes or promises reform, and openly seeks an affiliation with the *Industrials,” with the certainty of getting the Communist vote and the hope of deceiving the workingmen, as a class, by this pretense of especial sympathy. Itis not merely in the proposition for such an al- lisnce which has been made by the mapsgers of the local Democratic party, but in the basis submitted to tlus end, that the Democratic purpose is revealed. The plan of co-operation pro- posed by the Democrats is that they shall retain the paying offices, such as the County Treasury, County Clerkship, and all the fat offices to be filled, while the *‘Industrials” may have the five places in the County Board, and moke what they can out of them. Now, the County Board is the Legis- lature of Cook County. It determines the appropriations, makes the contracts, levies the taxes, issues the bonds, manages the publi® charities, and largely dictates tho subordinate appointments in all branches of the County Government. It is patent to the Democratic ringsters that there cun be no reform in the administration of couunty affairs without first improving the character of this Board. It is also perfectly well known to them that the confessed parp of an independent appearance of the **In- dustrials " in politics is to secure what they call a “liberal” policy, which means to spend even more taxpayers' money than ever for pauper supplies and con- tract work. In the face of this knowledge the local Democratic managers propose to throw the Board into the hunds of the Industrials and Communists, to sup- port any men whom they may name, no matter how unfit or unscrupnlous, and to assist in the continuation of Ring plunder. They propose to use the Commissioners as mere pawns wherewith to maneuvre their designs on the fat offices of the County Government. This is snother illustration of the Democratic notion of reform. THE EPISCOPAL GENERAL CONVERTION. ‘The Convention of the Protestant Episco- pal Chureh in the United States, which has been in session ot Boston for ten days, is an important ecclesiastical body. Though pos- sessing a constituency which, in wealth and numbers, ranks fifth or sixth in the country, the Episcopal Church embraces much more than that proportion of the intelligence and social influence of the large cities. The cor- poration of Trinity Chuch alone, in the City of New York, wields a power as enormous ns that of a great railroad, and the character of some of the delegates now in at- tendance upon the Convention is suf- ficient testimony to the position of the laity in politics, literature, and business. The Convention is held triennially. The Bishops are gathered together in onet House, the representatives of the clergy and Inity in auother. ho approval of both bodies is necessary to the consummation of constitutional amendments, and it has been found in practice, as was intended in theory, that the conservatism of the ono body hasact- od as & check upon such spirit of innovation as may appenr in the other. Conserva- tism is, indeed, the dominating quality of the Convention. Its occupation seems to be to consider radical alterations in the polity of the Chureh, for the purpose of rejecting them in an suthoritative manner. In point of dignity, learning, and a broad, catholic sympathy with the, cause of true religion, wherever found or however manifested, the Episcopal Convention compares favorably with auy similar gathering. ‘The positive results of the Convention in Boston thus far have been small. Ithas been distinguished, like most of its prede- cesors, more for what it has refused to do than for what it has done. Beyond the mak- ing of two new dioceses in Ilinois and one in West Virginiu, we do not recall a single important chavge from the order of things ostublished when the Convention met. On the other hand, the Convention has refused to change the name of the Churck ; to short- en the service ; to permit iissionary juris- dictions within dioceses already established and to authorize a commission for the revis- ion of the constitutivn, A resolution advo- cating the separation of Church and State in England was summarily voted down, as might have been expected.+ Tho report states that a hundred delegates were on their feet in an instant to protest against the con- sideration of such a resolution. From any standpoint of denominational, and sbove all of fraternal, courtesy, such a piece of advice to the Established Church would have been the sheerest impertinence. An incident of the session of Thursdoy, rother amusing than important, was the intrcduction of a resolu- tion censuring certain delegates, ex-Gov. STEVENSON, of Kentucky, among them, who had participated in a political meeting the pight before. The argnment was that the appearance in a caucus of a churchman rep- renting the Church in a foreign city was de- rogatory of the dignity of the Convention. Since Gov. STEVENSON went to a Democratic meeting, we are not sure but the argument wassound ; if he had attended » genuine love-feast of the Republican party in Boston, however, the most captious spirit could find no fault with him, It might possibly be claimed by some that, within certain limits and up to & certain point, the interests of the Episcopal Church and the Republican party are identical. Below the surface there is an indication of the spirit of the Convention which is worthy of examination. It bas been true thaus far, and will probably prove trme till the end, that the Convention has refused to take hold of Ritualism. even for the purpose of putting it down. The subject has always bgen ap- proached with a long pair of tongs, and has been treated in the most respectful, not to say gingerly, fashion. The Church is profit- ing by the experience of the Church of En- gland. There it has been found that the more Ritualism is attacked the stronger it becomes. 1t rises refreshed and invigorated from every overthrow. It fortifies itself with the shot and shell which its antagonists throw into its intrenchments. It per:shes only when it 18 deprived of sustenance, and dies of inanition. There is another side to the question. The High-Church party in the Episcopal Church is now unguestionably stronger than ever befors. Since the reformers in the Church have been weakened by the secession of Bishops Crexey and Fat- zows, and others, the hierarchy has been more homogeneous and determined than ever before ; more clear in its kigh purpose ; more satisfied of its strength with the pao- ple ; and more at peaeo Wwith its own con- science. THE $500,000 PRIZE. The Cowvin-Lies party, the Communists, the broken speculators, the unscrupulous contractors, the blowers and strikers of the County Ring, are playing for a big stake this fall. They see $500,000 ahead of them in ad- dition to the regular annual plunder. This is the smount which the Ring esk tlhe people of Cook County to vote,—a blanket mortgage on their property,—under the possible con- dition that 1ts expenditure will be by the ap- proved Ring methods and under the super- vision of agents selected by the Ring. It was o shrewd device in the Ring to associate this large amount of money with the result of the election, holding 1t out as the chief prize in a sort of gift-lottery, to be distrib- uted among the workingmen on the Com- munistic plan in case the Ring can win it. The Ring and its agents are industriously at work to impress upon the workingmen that the voting of the $a00,000 mortgage will furnish more employment at better wages; upon the vagrant and dead-beat class, that, with this sum to devote to the Court-House, there will be more left to distribute emong the various pauper funds; upon the contractors, that it will yicld a rich harvest of extras; and upon the mass of poiitical dependents, that it will support a larger number of bummers than ever at public expense. But how is it with the property-owners and taxpayers upon whom this extra burden of &300,000 must fall, soomer or later? Whero will they find their compensation for votg 1t? If the $500,000 were offered as a reward for the apprehension and conviction of the men who have been plundering the county in the past, or as a guarantee fund that the plunder- ing shquld ceuso in the future, they could afford to vote it. But ths 3500,000 rcpre- sents that much additional temptation and a new opportunity for thievery. ‘The men who have secured its submission to the popu- lar vote (to which they were coustrained after fruitless efforts to 1ssue the bonds without popular approval) hope tc make it service- eble in gathering the support of the impe- cunious classes for the Democratic ring, be- sides thus securing an enormous fund to divide up with favorite contractors after it shall have been voted. . ‘Iho prudent people of Cook Connty must not allow this §500,000 issue of bonds for tho enrichment of the Ring to go through by defsult. Not another dollar should be voted for county uses until it shall have be- come sbsolutely certain that the Ring has been smashed, and that the noney will be honestly spent. The law gives the County Board suthority to tax the people 75 cents on every $100 worth of property of all kinds in the county, and the Ring absorb this im- menso yield to the very last penny. But they should pot be permitted to lny their hands on anything beyond that. 1f five re- liable, honest Commissioners can be elected this fall, and 8 majority of the Board thus secured for the people, there will be suffi- cient saving out of the regular tax-levy to enable the Board to continue work upon the Court-House. If any one of the five Com- missioners to be elected should join the Ring, then it is important that there should not be an extra dollar to squander or steal. All considerations, therefore, urgo prudent people to vote against the proposed issue of $500,000 in bonds, and this must be kept in mind as one of the chief features of the eleclion. PROF. TYNDALL ON FREE-WILL. The complamnt las been often urged against the theologians that they invade the domain of science, and presume to speak therein with an authority which does not belong to them. Authonty, it is sud, 1s derived from kuowledge, aud knowledge of a technical subjoct can only be taken for granted in one who has devoted special study to it. Modern science demauds of 1ts votaries a completo consecration of talents and energies. Partial or superficial examina- tion of the facts of nature js hardly more tolerable than iguorance. Arguments based on the knowledge of the amateur are little more to ba respected than the ravings of bigote. Ounly a scientific mnu can be per- witted to spenk on scientific subjects with authority. Tlie clergyman is, by the nature of lis profession, debarred from controvert- ing the teachings of science. These are the opinions of a number of scientific men, who resent theological dis- pute of the accepted facts of science as an impertinence. = We are not aware that Prof. Tyspacn himself has ever occupied this ad- vanced and arrogaut position, bnt there can be 1o question that it has been occupied in his bebalf by some of his admirers. Now, it is just as true of theology ns it is of scionce that the subject is & vast one, that cannot be understood in all its facts and laws without special professional training. The difference in reconditeness and obscurity is on the side of theology ; for there are spiritual phenom- ena which, in the last analysis, elude the comprehension of the most earnest searcher after truth. One of these phenomena is the opposition of Necessity and Fres-Will. Dr. Jonxsox's favorite argument on this fomons contradiction in ideas was that they could not be reconciled, and did not need to be reconciled, and that the person who attempted to reconcile them was a fool. Dr. Marx Horxis, one of the most emi- nent theologinns of America to-day, delights to mystify his pupils by maintaining that a man may easily accept two ideas which seem to be antagonistic, and distrust only Lis own powers of receiving the whole truth, just as facts in astronomy which have seemed in- compgtible with each other have afterwards been established. JoNaTmaN Epwarps, who | possessed one of the most luminous minds the world has ever known, treated of the Will in an essay that retains a place in theo- logicnl literaturo. He held that Liberty consisted in the power of doing what one wills. not in the power of willing without s motive. Hence he believed that, until she soml was regenerats, man would not have sufficient motives to will properly. Bishop BuTLeg, in his ** Analogy,” argued that the contliot between Fate and Free-Will need not be included in the Chris- tian scheme; on the contrary, he showed that the two theories in the end came to the same thing. Nearly every great theologian has examined the question, and probedit deeply, and the variance of views among them is almost a3 infinite as the perplexities they have attempted to clear away. This is the question which Prof. TrNpaie grappled in his last lecturs, reports of which lave just reached Amerca, and swhich will be found 1n our columns, It would be an unfair Yetort upon him, perhaps,.to say that he has strayed out of his province, and be- come o trespasser on pre-empted ground. If the ratort were fair, no student of science or theology would feel like making it; for Prof. TyNpaLL brings to the discussion of every subject wide information, sn earnest spirit, and a fascinating way of putting things. He has apparently stumbled into the Free-Will maze, not entered it with pre- meditation. The occasion which brought the lecture forth wns the meeting of the Midland Institute at Birmingham, Oct: 1. The Professor began with a depreca- tory allusion to the circumstances under which he found himself called upon for an sddress, and said, almost in a querulous manner, that other scientific men were not required to yield their time, to a similar degree, for popular discussions. With this protest ngninst speaking at all, he advanced his main proposition thus: ** The order and energy of the uuiverse I hold to be inherent, and not imposed from without —tho expression of fixed law and not of arbitrary wiil, exercised by what CaBLYLE would call an almigity clockmaker.” The two conceptions, he held, were not so much opposed to each other after 2ll. In one es- sential particular at lenst they agree. “They equally imply the interdependence and Larmonious interaction of parts, and the subordination of the individual powers of the universal organism to the working of the whole.” Inillustration of this harmony, Prof. Trypary stated briefly the present condition of the doctrine of the Conservation of Forces, showing that it applies with equal pertinence to the action of the voltaic bat- tery and the muscles of the human arm. Heat is transformed into its equivalen with as great precision in the one in- stauce s in the other. Following the inquiry as to human action, the cause was traced successively to the nerves, to the centre of the nervous system, and to a final self. * We here find ourselves,” said Prof. TyxpaLL, * face to face with a problem which 1s the theme, at the present moment, of pro- found and subtle controversy. What is the casual connection, if any, between the object- ive and subjective—between molecular mo- tions und states of consciousness? Ay answer is, I know not, nor have I as yet met anybody who kuows.” Itisin this connec- tion that moral responsibility emerges, and it is the possible loosening of this responsi- bility that so many of us dresd. Withm a certain range, Prof. TYNDALL argues for the freedom of the will, but believes we are not complete masters of the circumstances which crente our motives, wishes, and tendencies to action. Our physieal and intellectual proc- esses are woven tor us, not by us. Processes in the conduct or regulation of which we bave no share have made us what we are. “+Here, surely, if anywhere, we are as clay in the hands of the potter. It is the grent- est of delusions to suppose that we come into this world as sheets of white paper on which the age csn write anything it likes, making us good or bad, noble or mean, a5 the ayoe pleases. The age can stunt, pro- mote, or pervert pre-existent capacities, but only unjust but false. Instead of sneeripy America, Mr. THOMAS has pinned his faith 1 America to such a dezree that he has conziyyey gving concerts in this country for sears with continued loss to hiwself, and has at the gy, time declined dattering offers from Enrops b:mu:g of his confidence that some day the Peo- ple of this country witl repay bim for his sery. ices as a musiciag, and his devoted effort'to g, vance the cause and culture of legitimate gy The frequent changes made in his orchestra .1,; ot occur because of any inability of bis to ke an orchestra together. It has always beeq by policy at the end of a season to drop out plage ers who bave not given him satisfaction any g thetr places with new material The sy, ment that “be is disliked by every e siclan who has served under 1y aristocratic baton” is mads without Rnowledes, He 13 a ngd disciphinartan, but has never yet trested his men with anything but respect cept where they bave mamfested a dispositiog to Interfere with his business, or have formeg cliques against him, as s sometimes happes. ea. Thas class of plagers has found an agy. erat in Mr. Tooxas. Duning his Clicago ep gagement he fraternized with bis orchesty socilly as weil as musically. The statementy of the Revublican iv meueral are as\absurd as iy particular statement that “in Ci 12320 he oz proclaimed his ecstatic pleasure witfh the magg. al public of that city, which he yaverreq sup- ported him so much better than Hastern cities, at the same time that he was teiljpug Mrs, Ryvy. KING that her piano-playing was of his season there.” The Ij dently quite a5 erroaeously infolrmed abont thy orchestra in general as it is abut the Chingy season in particular. ’ The British colonists of r Queensland, Ags. tralig, bave their littlc troyble on account of « Chinese cheap labor ” as fvell s the Califor. nians; sud while the Losility has not yer as. sumed the phase of murzer and arson, as op the Pacific Coast, the/method of discourage. ment is no less likely to prove effectual. There arc about 30,000 Chigamen in the colony to 200,000 Europeans, all aflult males. The Goverp. ment finds itsclf unabye to control the Asiaties, between whom and thk settlers there are cop- stant squabbles, whict} are on the increase, too, in number and intensity. The Colonial Goy. ernment resolved to fmpose a tax of $30 on every Chinaman l:m:ilng in the country, a similar tax on every store Opencd to supply Chinese mings, an annual lieense-fee of $13 for mining- privileges, and a.beavy prohibitive duty on rice. Lord CARNARVON refused assent to all the provisions of: ‘the bill excepting that cop cerning the pe¥ tax, on the ground, unques- tionably tenabl % that such proceedings on the part of a dep “Jency might weaken the fmpe- rial relations th China as based upon treaties. The colonistt )¥ever, not content with this concession, {fi.ylluiu that all their proposals must be m“”.‘:'! out, and have again passed the bill. Aud »s% the matter stands at the pres- cat time. aDis not easy to see how the Chinese can get int , Queenslaud if the colonists are de- termined ; keep them out; at the same time, the pofot4E raised at an unfortunate time, when the Imfrial Government is anxious to obtain for English traders the full enjoyment of the right to travel throughout China and start agen- cies in the large towns, —————— Thus Mr. HENRY WATTERSON smiles on Collector SyITi very pleasantly: The President made a good appointment whea b placed Mr. WiLLraw HESEY Su1Tiz, of Chicago, in tha Collector s office of the Custom-Housz of that city. A Washinzton dispatch to Tie Cincao Tawness Tlie Treastury oflicials report that Collector 1Ti, of Uhicago, has insazu- va: Wittiax Hesnr rated sume very mportant reforws 1n the mesaodof conducting the business al the Custom-ouse. The Collector, by virtue of his otice, disburses ali tus aypropristions for the construction of the new Custom-touse building. cnder the new insuzzurated by Mr. Sxita, the payment ¢ arawn 1o the vrder of persons rece1ving the woney, anud NO 3CCOUNE fUr CONSTFUCKIUN 1= paid UDtii 1t hag been approved m Washington. Sy these means the disuursement of toe funds i3~ nuch betier se- cared than betore.™ Mr. SyiTh iss manof sys tematic business habits, wnd the Civil-sesvice re- form, whick wmeans conducting the Government's businues in & business manner, i speedily b fuily established if such appoibtmenis were made inall cases. — A cablegram reports the numbér of ¥6tes cist - last Sunday in France at 7,793,000; that the Re- publican vote fell off 43,000 trom that poiled in 1574, whereas the Ruyalist vote increased 650, 000. The population ot France is at least six mullious less than that of the United States, but the vote cast exceeds ours in proportion to pop- ulation. The two compare thus: . America. for President in L France, for Pachament in 187 American majority, 618,138 The vote was not a South last fall by at least 200,000, as tpat many colored it canuot create them.” Prof. Trspary's theory of Free-Will ‘is nearly connected, it will be seen, with the doctrine ot Evolution, which, he contends, is now accepted, even by the clerical world, as " the truth of Nature.” But the evolu. tion of morals is not so accepted, and will not be, we funcy, on the authority of Prof. ‘Ty~naLr, who 15 here manifestly usurping the functions of the preacher. Science is accurate, fixed, precise; it pretends to deal with facts, not with speculations. In his discussion uf the nature of Free-Will, there- fore, Yrof, 'U'yNpDaLL has temporarily aban- doned his character s a scientific man, and taken on the garments ot a theologian. There is ong element that played an im- portant part 1n the recent Fremch elections that has not been sulficiently considered. We refer to the clerieal influence that was brought to bear upon the people of France to induce them to vote for the Government candidates. At the beginning of the cam- paign, it was kept oat of sight for pradential reasons, but as the canvass progressed, and the Republicans began to develop an unexpected strength, its influence was set actvely at work. The Cardinal Archbishop of Bordeuux cowtenced the movement by bathng Marshal MaocManoN as the savior of the Church uud society, aud by offering public prayers for hum. The Archbishop of Bourges followed 1t up by issmng o circular to the oures of his diocese, urging upon them tha importance of the election, and tho necessity of their prayers for * a strong, united, Consertatire, and Christian Assem- bly.” Then was ordered the **Tridunum,” or three days' prayers, for the success of the Government candidates, with the promise of a special indulgence for those who took part in then. When the power of the Church in France is renlized ; when it is considered that this mighty Church, nctivg from Rome as the heml, with 50,000 of its cures aund followers in guthority, brought all its in. fluence to bear; when it is considered that this great army held not only spintual but so- cial and political aunthority over the pensantry of France,—that they not only had influence in the Church, bnt 1n the family and in the sehool,—it is simply wonderfn! that the He- publicans of France, who bad to combat its influences and its power, triumphed by over o million majority. The result shows that had the C.urch not used any inflaence at all, but left its people free to vols as they pleased, without reference to spiritual mat- ters, the Republican majority of France would have been so overwhelming that Mac- AManox would never again have dared to question the will of the peopl The Springticld (Mass.) Republican does THEO- DoORE T1oMAS an_injustive in saying that he *‘sueers at America,” that “he has never been able to Keep the same orchestra together any length of time,” and that ““he s disliked by every musician who has served under his auto- cratic baton.” Each of these statements is not men refrained from voting in such Statesas Mississippi, Alabana, and Texas. llinois the whole vote was not out by =] & @ K & & d e a o 23 @ -3 z on in Ohio foots up as follows: Bisuor, Democrat, for Governor. WEesT, Republicau, for Gover: 201,238 239,347 Bisiior's majority ... 21,850 Jomys Industrial "and Green- back. . . 16.8%0 Boxv. Indostria 2,450 Tuonrsos, Prohbition 1,568 Total of the factions. ... ... 34,233 Four-fifths of this vote came from the Repub- licans, who always furnish the bulk of the bolt- crs, sore-heads, and side-issue men, while the Democrats stick to their ticket, and *go the whole hog ” trom snout to tail. — e Our New York contemporaries are a law unto themselves in the matter ol news. Tney bave just, at great expense, had cabled from France a complete and very inaccurate list of the members of the new Assembly,, whicn, if it had come to them by mail, they wouldn’t have touched with a forty-foot pair of scissors. Just a week before that the Oluo and Iowa elections took place, and white Tue TRITSE received seven or eizht columns of reports from those States, with returns from every cousty, the New York papers had less than three-quarters of a column of report, and no Jetaited reports atall. Metropolitun Journalis is a big thing. Masballah ———— That perpetaal candidate for the Speakership, Samyy CoX. speaks of “Gos.” Haves. 1t is just about seven montbs since SaduT wrote to Mr. HATES an earnest letter pegmng for the appoiotment of ** Keady-witt-the-oral ** GEORGE 1L BeTLER, the hoodlum of Egypt, o5 mail agentn the Black Hills, and then, though it was Just about a weck after what SaduT calls *the consummation of the great outrage,” SAMMT addressed Mr. HAYEs as ‘Mr. President” Saumt would better do what the Juke de Mosks advised the Capting of the * Sary Jane” to do when she was pursucd by a pirut bote, viz.: go down-stairs and retre Lo the starvoanl bulkbead. — Unfortunately there is no registration of voters at the ensuing election, and the blood- suckers are feeling happy thereat. Ballot-0ox stuffing and repeating will be m order. The County Commissioners appoint the judues of election anu establish the Loundaries of the voting-precincts. The tax-eaters count con= fidentiy on the appointment of a class of judzes In the southwestern and some of the nporthern wards who will Lelp the vagabonds to get i their work. There will be need for Lallvi-box fuards and the most active vigilance to head off tuie ballot-box stuffers. —_— Itis denled thata petition bas been sent to the Czar asKing him to return home. This denial will be received with exceeding joy by those who are interested in ‘the success of the Russian arms, as bis compliance with such a petition might resalt in anotuer Grand Duke being placed at the head of an army. e It is with Inexpressible rearet that we observe sizos of an appruaching irrepressible contlict be- tween the New YorR Sun and World. The Sun has plastered mud all over the Forld’s obelisk; the World, in reply, insinuates that the cditor of tho Sun has a $12,000 plate-glass henhouse, snd