Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 20, 1878, Page 4

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SOCIETY MEETINGS. ; ITALIANS OF THIS COLONY are 1 equested this Sunday, Jr.n.20. 8t 1fall,’cor ner Clark 20'clock p. m. sharp at Glckau and lilinols strects, to adopt resolutiuns of “regretat She death of Victor Emmanuel, kingot ltal /o % The Twelfth Annnal Ball of theU. znd, F. #Soclety, which was 1o take piace the 23d '{nstant. 15 tponed untl further notice. on acci unt of the ing's death. B. BORRETTL Preetdent. APOLLO COMMAND! . 1, BN GHTS TEM- PLAR=Order of Red C: The Order of e led ‘“Cross will be conferred by this Command: sry at Asylum 72 1078 Monroe-st., on Tucsday evening aext, Jan. 22, Commencing at half-pust 5 o'clock. O ihsers of 1Bé tCommendery and candidates for thie ords ;rs.ark notined ‘e present promptly at the hour nanvea Members of otlicr Commanderics courteously nv ted. "y order ‘of the Commander. ;. DONLUP, S:ecorde: WM. B. WARREN LODGE No. 239, A. Commupicatior 6n S sturday* F. &A. evening " M. —Reguiar mpext, Jan. 24, at 8 o'clock, prompt, Every resident member 18 ucsted to be present ' is business of im- gortance will be brought before the Jodze. F.y order of the Master, J. L. DU JLOP, Sccretary. LAFAYETTE CHAPTER X R A Monroe-st. —Special Convocation ¥ fondsy e 21, 8t 7% o'clock, for work. Visi zors cord ’attend. By order of . H. ! E.N.TUCKER, Sccretary. * CRICAGO LODGE. NO. 4.B. I, 0. ELRS., SPECIAL Communiestion this eveninz u ;9 o'clock sharp. for fi(edl:‘n‘o.n\:nc social sexsfon opens st 10:30. 1y order of Ed alnz. Jan; Ly invited 1D, SUNDAY, JANU/RY 20, 1876, CHICAGO MARAET SUMMAR]'. The Chicago produce. markets wer: etesdier “Baturday in grain, and weak ou provisic us. Jcss -pork closed 2itc per brl lower, at §10.8 5 for Feb- wnary and $11.00@11. 021 por March. L trd closed 5S¢ per100 1bs lower, -t $7.40 for February end $7.45@7.47% for slarch. Me sts were 3c lower, 2t 4¢ per D for boxe d shoul- ders and 5Xc for <o short ribs. Wh isky was . essier, 5t SLO3 prr gallon. Flour wa & tame. {Wheat closed Xc “lower, at §1.03% for “January and $1.03% for Fe.pruary. Corn closed ¥3 = higher. ot 40%cepot an?, 40c for February. Oa s closed steadr, at 234%: epot or selier February. Ryewas steady, at 51, Barley closed 3c highes, at32ic asked for Febroary and 53¢ for March. = Hogs were easiey, closing at $3.85@4.10 per 100 ths. Catde were nominally steady, at $2.5¢ @4.75. Sheep were quiet, at $3.00@4.50. The packing record of Chicago includes 1,560,538 hog since Nov. 1, acainst 1,303,897 for the same time 2 yearago. Reteived in this city last week: 4,963 brls floar, ,%;41,467 bu wheat, 579,304 bu « cora, 816,175 ) oate, 41,650 bu rye, 148,163 bul sarley, 11.047 @ reased hoge, 175,276 live do, ana : (0,256 .cattlo nspected into store in this city Sa turday IOFaing: 221 cars wheat, 162 cars corn, 6 7 cars #2F18,25 cars rye, 74 cars barles. Total, 549 ¢ ws, or 218,000 bu. One hundred dollars in gold + vould buy $101.6245 in greenbacks at the close. B ritish consols were quoted at 959-16 and sterting ; ex- change at 54.80%. . The Russians brealfasted this mornir(g in Adrianople. ¥ In New York on Saturday greentacks ranged ot 98 @953 = . It is believed in Washington that there * will be a vote in the Senate on the Silv er bill within two weeks. A bill has been introduced into the : Afinne- sota Legislature probibiting card-playi ng snd L dice-throwing in saloons, and the Red-. Ribbon revival goes marching on. The cheerful intelligence comes* from . Springficld that the estate of Jacos Buwx, ~ the well-known banker, will yield a p nyment of 75 cents on the dollar to itscredito rs. The Auditor yesterday filed Lis report, s howing # the linbilities to be £912,000, and th e asseis sbout $750,000. The man who will not hold an office has ‘been found. He was elected Town C ollector 4in Wayne County, in this State, and has re- gin.sed to serve. The County Board, finding ino one to fill his place, applied #o the \State Auditor, who has decided thut the 1Collector’s books shall be turned over . to the County Collector. In the nomination of WiLriaxsoxn to the *Qollectorship of the Port of New Orlleans 4the President has followed the principles aid down in the Epxuxps letter. WrwLiax- soN i5 opposed by both the Louisianu Sena- tors, and his nomination affords an oppor- tanity for the whole question of Senatorial ofurtesy to be revived. i T A number of interesting papers on the absorbing. religious topic of the hour are opresentod in this issue of TmE TRIBTNE. ‘Among them will be found sn interview with the philosophic Joseen Coow, an ab- 'stract of a pamphlet written by a learned divine of Ircland, and various other readable articles from writers at home and abrond. After long delay the South Town of Chi- «cago has a regularly-constituted and legally- autkorized Collector, the bond of 3r. Marg . Enmary having been finally approved. From ¢ho list of rames appended to the bond, it {aill be secn that it is one of the strongest ‘docuinents of the kind that conld be made, Aand it certainly is the strongest ever pro- 'duced in behslf of 3 Town Collector of Chi- cago. Y It is a mild type of Communism that they have down Esst. In Boston yesterday spout 10,000 workingmen held s mass-meeting in the historic Common axd passed resolutions demanding the opening up of public works, in order that immediate employment might be given to the needy, the extension of out- door relief to all who could not thus be assisted, the repeal of the law - disfranchising those who receive relief 4 from'the city within twelva monthe orened. him. ing an election, the prohibition of prison labor from entering into competition with ‘honest labor, and, lastly, the presentation of 2 petition from the City Government to Con- gress asking an appropriation to pay for the transportation of workingmen to the Eldo- rado of the West, where everybody is rich, and contented, and prosperous. The Tafiff bill, regulating the duties on about 400 articles of import, has at length arrived at the first stage of its long legislative journey necessary to enable it to become a Iaw unto the people. It will bo presented to the consideration of the members of tho Sub-Committes of threo this weck, by whom it will be pessed forward to the Sub-Committee of five, who will submit it subticquently to the whole House. ~Among the ithportant changes in the existing rates is mentioned u probable increase of the duty on malt. The reduction of the tax on to- baceo has not yet been decided upon. The 7imes—or some disappointed ntiorney and churchman for it—is out ina strong de- nuneiation of the Supreme Court of Tllinois because of its decision in the CoexEY case. It will be remembered that the Rev. Mr. Cmexer was pastor of a congregation of Episcopalians in this city who belonged to the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Dio- ceso of Dllinois. Dr. CreNEy and the Bishop had differences coricerning certain doctrines, and these differences resulted in oo order of deposition against the pastor. The congre- gation, however, sided with Dr. CHENEY, and the Bishop instituted suit to oust the pastor and congregation from the property, that the latter might be used for re- ligious purposes in the manner prescribed by the - Protestant Episcopal authority. In the mexntime Mr. Cuexey has joined the organization of the Reformed Episcopal Church, and the congregation has followed Christ Church was a corporation un- der a charter granted in 1853, and the prop- erty was conveyed to Trustees, to be held by them for the church. The Supreme Court bos affirmed the decision of the lower Courts, that the corporation of that church, or the Trustees, hold the property, to the exclusion of any ecclesiastical authority whatever. The writerin tho Zimes denies the right of any body of men professing to be members of the Protestant Episcopal Church to retain property dedicated to religious purposes after the ecclesinstical suthority of the diocese hes decided that the worship in that church building has ceased to be, in the opinion of such ecclesiastical authority, the worship of the Protestant Episcopal Church. “Chis doctrine is opposed to every principle of freedom and justice known to the laws or the instincts of the American people. Where any body of men voluntarily organize a corporation for religious or any other purposes, and acquire property held by themselves in their own corporate right, the fact that they attach themselves to any religious organization, and afterwards withdraw from it, cannot be honestly, or fairly, or reasonably claimed to be a surrender of their rights of property. Their membership in the general body of” the Church was voluntary ; the property was {lcir own, purchased for their own conven- ience, and their right to withdraw from that Church and to unite with another general or- ganization can be tortured into a surrender of their property only on the assumption that we have an ecclesiastical despotism which is supreme in its authority not only over the conscience but also the property of every man who once claims membership in it. of THE FAILURES OF 1877 There was printed in this paper yesterday & transeript {rom the Commercial Agency of the list of failures of all kinds in the City of Chicago dwring the year 1877, with the amount of libilities. The number of fail- ares was 412, and the aggregate indebtedness 30,857,938, 'The table is instructive in the wide range of business pursuits of the per- sons failing. Taking out fifty-one cases whera persons resorted to the Bankrupt Court toobtain clearances from old liabilities amounting to £3,402,651, we have for tho current failures of the year 561 cases hav- ing a linbility of &2 ,307. In this list we have 2 dealers in agricultural imple- ments, 4 booksellers, 16 denlers in boots and shoes, 19 builders, 10 clothing houses, 6 in crockery and glassware, 12 coal denlers, 8 in dry goods, 7 druggists, 27 in groceries and tens, 31 in iron and hardware, owing over $2,000,000, 29 dealers in liquors, and various packers and provision men. There were also denlers in real estate owing $8,000,000, and various barkers and banks owing 7,662,000, —the last two classes owing more than half the whole sum of liabilitics. This is not the result of a sudden and un- foreseen penic. It is not the result of spec- ulation nor of rash ventures. When the panic of 1873 struck the country it squeezed ihe water and the air on! of all that was in- flated. Currency was then worth 90 cents, and the psnic reduced all values to the coin standard. There the decline in values ought to have stopped. Brought to their value in gold, all descriptions of property ought to have then maintained that value. * But the decline did not stop there. Those wrecked by the general collapse of credit and the explosion of speculation passed into bank- ruptey. Some lingered along a while sirug- gling, and tken too gave up. The recovery was looked for as soon as the wreck conld be cleared away, and four years have come and gone, and the work of 1877 is before us with its terrible figures. From winter we looked forward to spring, and from spring to summer, expecting s turn in affairs and a revival in business ; but season after season has brought additional and continuous losses, and no restoration or recovery. During these four years of declining trads tke country has been blessed with largs crops,—breadstuffs, provisions, and cotton. Despite the unusual event of four large crops in'nenual succession, the falling off in values has gone on. & ‘Why this extraordinary calamity which has fallen upon the country, reducing one-half the people to penury and want, even fo actunl starvation, arresting production, and rendering labor insufficient to support men in the necessaries of life? The explanation isto be found in the mad endeavor g in- crease the value of mouey and to decrense the value of property. 'The ordinary process of industry is to apply labor to the raw ma- terial, and sell the wannfactured article at s profiton the cost of production. What is the process now? While Inbor is fashioning the arlicle from the materials, the value of the finished ‘product so declines that it is less than the cost of production. 'The man who buys a stock of goods in April finds that befora he cen sell one-half of them their value has so fellen that they will not yield him enough to pay the nofes given for their cost. This isnot exceptional; it is the general ruls. For thres years we have been trading and labor- ing on a falling market. The falling in the valus of labor and its products is the result of the increase in the value of money. The ingennity of the money-lenders of the world has been devoted to tho accomplishment of snend. They hold the debts of mankind, and hold a mortgage on the accumulations of the world's lobor. They have decided that metallic money is too cheap; that gold and silver will not purchase enough of this world's goods ; that the dollar does not pur- chaso enough labor; and that the value of the money must be iderensed by the reduction of jts volume one-half. They have decided, therefore, that to increase the value of the metallic money it must be confined to gold exclusively, and that silver shall be univir- sally demonetized. Into this scheme the German Government was entrapped in 1870, and began to put it into operation in 1875. Our Government bas fallen into the same scheme, and for the last three years hasbeen laboring in all its departments to incrense the value of money, and, as a con- sequence, to depreciate the value of every deseription of property, and of the product of labor. This policy is shown in the two measures: 1. 'The demonetization of silver. 2. ‘The enforced resumption of specio-pay- ments in gold coin exclusively. On this question, unfortunately, the Ex- ecutive branch of the Government takes sides with the faction 1 Congress which rep- resents the money-lending mud the mortgage- holding interest. The Secretary of the Trensury is the greatest bull in the gold mar- ket, and every monns at his official disposal is employed to force an cxelusive gold cur- rency on the country, and to depreciate all property,—the accumulations of the in- dustry and thrift of the people. He is possessed of tho insane iden that he can i borrow gold enough in Europe wiu.x which to resume and maintain specie pay- ments. He ignores the fact that the product of gold is declining, and that for two years Germany has been paying from G to 10 per cent premium for gold. The moment he undertook to sell 4 per cent bonds for gold the sale of those bonds stopped. Every time Europe has to makoe gold payments to this country it sends home American bonds to be sold. All appeals or demands for gold are answered by the roturn of our bonds. But the policy of resumption in gold less than a year hence is persisted in; the demonstiza- tion of silver is insisted upon so far that it is semi-officially announced that, if Congress shall pass the Silver bill, the President will put tho national will at defiance and veto the bill. If silver shall not be remonetized then the value of gold will continue to in- crense. Lvery nation in Europe is hoard- ing every ounce it can get hold of; Ger- many is now vainly offering 10 per cent premium for it. A year hence the gold dol- larwill equal in alt kinds of property as much as would have commanded $1.50 in gold in 1874 Money of the country will have ad- vanced 50 per cent, and the value of all other property will have declined cven to a greater extent. The farm that in 1874 would have satisfied & debt of $10,000in gold in 1579 will not pay more than one-half or one- third that debt. To this gencral revolu- tion of values the country is drifting, aud the Government is waiting with seeming im- patience for the genoral wreck and ruin which are inevitable. The long list of failures, even after climi- nating the frauds and thefts, tells the story of the fall in values. The $30,000,000 of in- debtedness represents property actually held and mostly purchased since 1873, The sum representing the differenco between this $830,000,000 and the present value of that property is the sum of the shrinkage which has taken place. This shrinkage is still going on, and during the year which stands between the present and the day of resumption it will progress with accelerated rapidity, until next January there will be that general prosiration and utter ruin which will arrest business, Government, labor, and society. Must the country stand still and not protest? Must the people remain idle and witness the decay and shriveling going on and lift no hand to cor- rectthem? Will Congress or the President, in the face of all this, brave the whole people, and mock and taunt them in their distress? THE RED-RIBBON MOVEMENT. The tidel-wave, symbolized by the * Red ‘Ribbon,” has reached Chicago at last, and we hope it may sweep over the city and wash out all the dives and slums that need a cleansing. We extend tho right hand of wel- come to Dr. Rervorps, and heartily wish him success. The movement which he rep- resents has proved to be the most successful temperance crusade of the present genera- tion. The secret of its progress, we believe, has been in the avoidance of religion, in its dogmatic sense, and polities in its partisan sense. The temperance cause is not for- warded, but only retarded and injured, by a complication with either of these accessorics. Dogmatic religion deals mostly. nowadays with an uncertain future, while temperance is o matter of present habit, influence, and associntions. Partisan politics deals with office-getting and the manipulation of ¢ ele- ments " for party advantage, so that an alli- ance with the temperance movement, which must rely upon personal persnasion and good- will, only serves to incumber the latter with dissensions and disputes. Temperance is not a thing tobe enforced by law, nor at- tained by dogmatic discussions, and the pur. pose of its prime movers should be to avoid politicians, and solicit the co-operation of the preachers only under the condition that they will abandon dogma while engaged in furthering this particular reform. It should be steadily kept in mind, too, that Chicago is o big city, and the temper- snce workers should direct their offorts sgainst the most vicious form of intemper- ance rather than waste their strength by trying to accomplish too much. two classes of drinking men in Chicago, as in every other large city, who particularly need reforming, and whisky is the specialty of both. The mervous and generous Americans, who stand up at bars and treat all around, and the impulsive Irish, who in- dulge a national taste to excess, are the men among whom the Red-Ribbon workers may do most good. An occasional Scotchman and blonde Scandinavian may be reformed by the way, but the Americans and Irish are the best matcrial to work on. There are 10 others whose reformation will be equally bencficial, either for themselves or for the community at large. Whisky is their evil epint, and it is egeinst whisky that the war should be waged as much g5 possible. The # Red-Ribbon” movement includes a gen- eral swearing-cff as to beer, wine, and cider; this is well enough whenever it can be ‘brought about, but the reformers should al- ways bo willing to compromise on the aban- donment of whisky. ¥ We would not advise the * Red-Ribbon " men to expend much time or labor on the Germans with the purpese of inducing them There are | to give up their beer. - It will be * love's Inbor lost,” and the Germans will merely resent it. As a rule, the German drinkers are nble to take care of themselves, and generally they are a temperato people in the proper sense of avoiding excesses. Beer-drinking with them is a national and historical habit. It dates back as far as Jurus Cxzsan's wars on the Rhine. Tacrrus found the Teutons drinking their beer o couple of tl:ousands of years ago, and they have been at it ever since with & good deal of regularity, and with a decided improve- ment in the quality of the beverage. Mean- while theyhave progressed to almost the foremost position in Europe in military prowess, intellectunl influence, and scientific attainments, They hold strong ground for justifying their tenacity in adhering to the fovorite drink of their ancestors. The Ger- mans who have come to this country have brought their national habit of drinking beer with them, and the introduction of their beverage has been beneficial in so far as it bas succeeded in acting as a substitute for ¢ fire-water.” At all events, it is not easier to convert & German from beer-drinking than it is to convert a Jew from the Mosaic doctrines, and time and effort in.behalf of the ¢ Red Ribbon ” can be more profitably employed among whisky-drinkers, whose habits are infinitely more vicious and whose reform will be vastly more valueble to sociely. . There is ample room in Chicago for a tem- perance movement, and it is an excellent time to begin. The hard times ought to fur- nish a powerful auxiliary in securing a change of habits. The necessity of econo- mizing now will furnish & good excuse for the weak-hearted who might otherwise avoid the taunts of their fellows at their conver- sion to abstinence. Many a poor family may be saved from deprivation, suffering, and possible starvation by the reformation of its drinking members now. The work is a noble one, if honestly and judiciously pursued, and it should receive the hearty support and living example of the most influential men in ths city. BHAKSPEARE IN FRANCE. Tn the January number of the Nineteenth Century, Dr. Jorx Doray, a well-known stu- dect in dramatic affairs, contributes somo curious and entertaining information in re- gard to the introduction of SmirspEARE to the French people. Suagsrrane’s playshave never taken a strong hold on the French stage; in the days of Tarya (the Iatter part of the last century) they were more acted than they are now, though Gurzor's writings and cditing of Smaxspeanz have since then made his name as familier to the reading people of France as zre those of VoLrure and Moriers to the English people and our own. In Italy, the great actors of the pres- ent time, such as Sainvist and Rossr, rest their claims to adwmiration mainly upon their delineation of Shakspearean characters. In Germany, ScHLEGEL'S translation of Smax- spEATE's plays (probably the most perfect rendering that was ever mado of any author into a foreign langusge) has given the German people as intimate a knowledge and great a reverence for the Ling of English poets as the English and American people feel. We think it likely that the annals of the stage, as compared with those of the English and American stage, would show that there are more Shakspearean performances in the leading thentres of Germiny than in those of En- gland or the United States, while the annals of the French stage will scarcely reveal the name of one of his plays from year to year, unless it bo as the litle of an opers, for which tho themes of many of his plays have been used. Nevertheless, Dr. Dorax thinks {hat Suagsreane is now ranked pmong the brilliant dramatic writers by the French people, and, as the progress to this point was slow and tedious, it may be that he will at some future day receive a more general stago recognition in France than has been ac- corded him up to this time. B It is not surprising, after reading Dr. Dorax's story of the first introduction Smamspeane had in France, that it was so Tong before he sccured & foothold on Gallic soil. SHaxsPEARE, among his contempora- ries, secms to have been first acknowledged 88 o poet through his minor poems. *Lu- crece” and * Venus and Adonis ” appear to have been remarked during his time more than anything else he wrote. If, then, the contemporaneous literary men and crities did not acknowledge him openly as o freat dramatist, there is no reason to wonder that his fame did not reach France. CorNEeiLne (1606), MorEre (1622), and RacivE (1637) formed the great dramatic trinmvirate who 1aid the foundation for the brilliant dramatic literature of France. Even in those early days the English acquired tho habit of look- ing to France for their stage material ; and all these authors were translated, and their works successfully represented on the London stage, during their life-time. Yet Smaxspeare, greater than all, who died in 1616, before the oldest of them was 10 years old, was still a sealed book to the French. They had never even heard of him. There were two men who, at the beginning of the cighteenth century, might bave opened up to the French the beauties of SmiEsPEARE, but both were restrained by vanity. AppIisoN spent some time in France, bnt never mentioned Smaxspranr; indeed, in writing an account of the ** Greatest En. glish Poets,” Apprsox gave Drypex the su- preme place, but did not so much es speak of SuamspeAve. Vorrang, when he re- turned to France after spending some time in England, spoke slightingly of SzzserATE, and referred to some passages he quoted as “tho only pearls that were to be found by scraping on the Euglish dunghill” A Frenchman named Destoucmes, who accom- panied the Abbe Dupois to England on a diplomatic mission in 1728, translated a few passnges from “‘‘Che Tempest,” but they at- trected no attention. Tt was not till 1769 that Smimseesre found a hearing in France, and then it was through an enthusiast named Ducts. And what an introduction! Ducs was a brilliant fellow and a genuine admirer of SEAESPEARE, but he was bound down to the sbsurd ‘‘ uni- ties” of the Vourame school (borrowed from the Greeks, as defined by Amistoriz), and he deferred in the most slavish manner to the prejudices and superstitions of the French public. Several of SHARSPEARE'S plays, as translated by Ducts, were presented on the French stage,—** Hamlet” in 1763, “Romeo and Juliet” in 1772, ‘“‘Lear”in 1783, * Macbeth ” in 1784, and ** Othello ” in 1792. These translations appear es ridicu- lous to thoso who read SmAxsPEARE's plays and see them acted in English as the phrase in which the witches addressed Wusbeli— A1l hail, Mascketh "—when rondesed into French as “Bon jour, AMaclet,"—sn in- stance which is said to have ocenrred, though not mentioned by Dr. Domav. In Duers' ¢« Hamlet,” only five of the original charac- ters were retained,—Hamlet, the King, the Queen, Polonius, was made the daughter of the King as & renson for Hamlet's not killing his sweet- heart’s papa. Two other characters were in- troduced, in the guise of *confidants,” who were the dei ez machina of the French stage, and acted as vehicles for the principal per- sonages to forcshadow the action and motive of the play. Of course it would shock French nerves to - have the ghost oppear, and so the ashes of the old Jing were carried around 1 an urn to do service in striking terror to tho hearts of the guilty ones. The old Kinghad not been put away in the Shakspearean " fashion, which was yulgar, but his wine had been poisoned; which, the Queen suid, showed the advantage of an artistic manipu- lation of strong drinks. The play scene was omitted, but one of the ‘“contidants” (Nor- ceste, o sort of compound of Horatio, Rosen- crantz, and Guildenstern) was made to recite & similar taking-off of un English King in order to give Hwmlet the desired opportunity of watching his mother and uncle. ‘The dia- logue is, for themost part, cut up into the short, jerky sentences peculiar to the French dramatic style. Finally, the denouement is renched by the organizatien of a conspiracy to immolate Hamlet. A free fight ensues, Hamlet comes out first best, the King is killed, the Queen poisons herself, Oplelic is not even referred to, and, as the curtain goes down, Hamlet announces that he is “a man and King,” and that Le will *“do more than die.” "It is worthy of remark that even the elder Doaras, in & much later translation of *‘Hnmlet,” followed the French school of bringing out Hamlet tri- umphant in the end, and leaving him to live happily and in peace forever after, so far as the audience is concerned. All the other Ducis translations are full of ludicrous digressions and perversions. ¢ Romeo and Juliet,” Dr. DoraN says, ‘‘ bas nothing in common with SHARSPEARE except the namesy’ though Ducis did more than SmARsPEARE in acknowledging his indebted- ness to the DanTeromance. Jomeo addresses his mistress as ** Madame,” and she ealls her lover *Seigneur”; they commit suicide to- gether, for which Ducs apologizes by saying that it was more important to -illustrate the perils of hereditery hate than to observe the moralities by omitting the suicide. In ¢ Lear,” as translated by Ducrs, there is only the episode of the dsughters’ desertion, and, when one of these is restored, Lear is likewise restored to resson and happi- ness. Ducis only dared to introduce one witch into * Macbeth,” and used her sparingly; Macheth kills himself at the final fall of the curlain, after becoming con- vinced that Henven has forgiven him, but demunds a victim for all the wickedness that has been done. The great stumbling-block in *Othello” was the incident of the hand- kerchief. It would never do to utter so commonplace & word as mouchoir in a French tragedy, and so a ‘‘circlet of dinmonds” was substituted to bring about the catastro- phe. Later on, the dinmonds were aban- doned for the handkerchief, but then it was referred to as * that tissue” or *that gift.” Nor would it do to have Othello smother Desdemona, which wes the Shaksperean ex- pedient, though in the old novel from which Smaspeare dramatized his play the Moor beats out his wife's brains with a couple of sand-bags. Ducis ventured to permit Otlello to stab Desdemona at her bedside, but the finnicky French audience would not tolerate oven this, The cry went up from the pit: % C'est un Maure qui a fait co, ce n'est pas un Francais!” (*It is a Moor that did that; not a Frenchman!") So a comedy ending had to be substitated. A literal translation of ‘¢ Othello” by AvreeD DE VIGNY was act- ed in tho Theatre Francais in the early part of the present century, and created a great dissension between the Voltaireans and Shakspeareans. Prenee Le ToursEUR, in 1776, began the first genuine translation of SmARsPrane, which was completed in 1783, comprising twenty octavo volumes. It was he who broke the ground for original Shakspearean representations in France. The Guizor edi- tion of SmarsPEARE, which appearedin 1824, is only a revision and correction of Lx Touz- ~EUR. But the most successful French ren- dering of SmAxsPEARE is that of Francos Huco (one of Vicron Huco's sons), who has +within a few years published the complete works. Of Le Toursrun and Huco Dr. Dornan says: “The earlier translator con- veyed an idea of SHARSPEARE to his country- men; the latter really naturalized him.” Whatever Snakspeane’s future may be on the French stage, he will never agein be charac- terized as a Harlequin, or his translator as a Clown, es was the case in VoLTAIze’s time. DECAY OF THE I&%L}gABCHICAL PRINCI- Under the above hend, the London Spec- tator of Jan. 5 contains a somewhat remark- able article, setting forth the decay of the monarthical principle throughout Europe. The Spectator, however, only confines itself to a statement of facts, illustrated by the attitude of the various Europenn Powers towards French Republicanism, without seek- ing to discover the cause. Perhaps it will be possible for us, after reproducing the sub- stauce of the Spectator's statements, to sug- gest the key to this very general chango in the solidarity of Monarchism. It will not bo questioned that the once universdl idea of tho divine right of Kings to govern has disappeared, except in the minds of a very few Royal clainants and their handful of ad- herents. No people in Europe, as a people, now hold the Legitimist dogmas that charac- terized the times of Jauwes II and Louis XIV., and outside of Russia there are no people who would make any snerifice to retain the Legitimist idea in its purity. The proof of the truth of this is to be found in the record of the contest between Monarchy and Republicenism in France - during the past year. In France itself, where the peasontry were supposed to- be Monarchists, an immense majority pronounced for the Tepublic, notwithstanding the threats of the military power, the blandjshments of the Church, nnd the powerful influence of the civil service. In Germany, where Princes are still powers, the French Monarchists had no sympathy except from Ultramontanes, while the Government aided the Republicans by warlike precautions in cese of 8 Repub- lican defeat. It may be urged that this was in pursuance of the selfish policy of future territorial nggrandizement; but, if this were so even twenty years ago, it would not have so domineted the Royal caste as to have turned its influence in favor of Republican- ism. InEnglend. where society is still very conservative, not a voice was heard 1n favor of the French Reactionaries, and the Cox- servativa organs condeinned them without reserve, and rejoiced when Republicanism triumphed and MacMazoy finaily yielded to representative government. In Austris, the Court rejected the Monarchy unless given to the Legitimate Prince, while the people bad no symoathy at all for the cause. In and Ophelio. - Ophelia | Italy, the King, the Court, and the people were alike in sympathy with the French Re- publicans; whileeven in Russis there was no sympathy expressed for MacMamox or his contemplated coup d'etat. Continental Europe was in reality unsnimous in its distrust of French Monarchism, and this, too, when the Frenck Repubiic is but seven years old, and may even now be called ex- perimental. All this goes to show that the solidarity of Monarchism can no longer bo relied upon, and that there is a general indif- ference in Europe to the particular form of government so long as it secures peace, and order, and the prosperity of the people. In commenting upon this condition of things the Spectator says: No unrestrained small monarch can be sud to ve. The four little independent Kings of cden, Ilolland, Belxium, and Greece are all fet- d heis nnh{ec!e. and the big monarchs are ity welghted both by the change in feeling of whichwe have spoken, and which ~they must per- cewve, and by the endless consequences which fol- Jow their every acticn. A modern King can hard- Iy be » man of levity; and in his pew considerate- 1iess, s perception that he is not inevitable, his conviction that he must take tronble and not mere- e, i3 8 great addition to popular security. The b isstill in many countries a great factor in affarre, but he no longer feels himself the head of a party; be no longer believes i divine right. and he no Tonger thinks that Republicanism {5 a5 the sin of witcheraft, to be stamped out. Thatis o great change, for the monarchies as well as for The people who live under them. ‘What has been the cause of this change, the Spectator does not stop to inquire. If it hind pursued the subject to its ultimato issues, it might have found that, outside of the gen- erel progress of knowledge and civilization, one of the prime causes of the deeay of Monarchism is the inflexible opposition of the Republicans of Europe to Ultramon- tanism, which i§ always in sympathy with Monarchism. The people are hostile to the interference of the Church in secular affairs, and even Governments themselves are tired of priestly dictation, and some of them, like Germany, have stemped it out. They will no longer tolerate civil government whose fountain-head of authority is Rome and whose edicts must have Papal sanction. The people insist that the things that are of Czsan shall be rendered to Casa and the things of the Church shall be rendered to e Church. The Governments of Europe looked upon Republicanism in France as less dangerous to the general good, and even to their own stability and influence, than Ultra- montanism, because there are no bounds to the Iatter. It kills the schools. It elevates Papal dogmas abova civil laws and decrees of State. It keeps people in a stete of igno- rance and superstition. It absorbs prop- erty through its ghostly influences, whence it happened that after the French Revolu- tion one-half the property of that country was in the hands of .the Charch and the other half in the hands cf the serviceabls TUltramontane nobility. The people oppose it because they will no longer consent to support lnzy and able-bodied monks fritter- ing away their lives in ostentations piety and mock humility, and who would be of more service to the world fighting in armies, work- ing in shops, or cultiveting the ground. The people who are assigned to lower places in Heeven will not support this ‘class in idle~ ness who have secured prefercntial places in the better world. The fight in France was in reality between a majority of the people who would no longer submit’ to priestly domination and a priest-ridden minority up- holding Ultramontanism. The other Powers sympathized with the majority because they knew that an Ultramontane victory would have encoursged Ultramontanism in their own dominions, and they felt it was sefer to have Democracy dictate politics than Rome. The Ohio House of Representatives de- voted last Thursdsy afternoon toa discus- sion of the Silver bill. The leaders of the threo parties expressed thqir views and those of their respective parties. The resolutions wero finally put and carricd by yeas, 90; nays, 5. The first resolution declared — ‘That common honesty, true financial wisdom, and éusnce to the tax-payers of this country, de- mand the immediate restoration of the silver doilar toits former rank asa legal tender forall debts, public and private. The second resolution asserts— That President ITAYES and Secretary SHERMAY, in thelr opposition to the restorution of the rilver dollar, do not represent the views nor the wishes of the Ohio people. There is no question as to the truth of this resolution. The people of Ohio desire the unconditional remonetization of silver by a majority of even more than 90 to 5, and the opposition of the Secretary of the Treasury, and of the President, if he is against the bill, most assuredly does not represent the wishes of the people of the great Buckeye State. The act of Conzress providing for the re- sumption of specie payments passed Jan, 14, 1875, or about ten years after the passage of the act suspending the coinage of silver dollars. This Resumption act uuthorizes the Secretary of the Treasury toreceem the greenbacks not in gold but in coin. Gold is not mentioned in the Resumption act. To make this point clear we quote from that act: “And on and after the 1st day of January. Anno Domini 1879, the Secretary of the Treasury shatl redeem, in coin, the United States legal-tender notes then out- standing, on their presentation for redemption atthe ollice of the Assistant-Treasurer of the United States in the City of New York.” Bya leal construction of the act vroviding for the resumption of specic payments, the Sceretary of the Treasury is autharized after the 1st day of January, 1379, to pay interest to the public creditor in silver or gold. If this was not the intention of ‘the Resumption act, why was the word “coin® substituted for *gold*¢ TrunLow WEED points out this omission to call for oid in the Resumption act, and holds that the word “coln™ was used for the express purpose of reserving to Congress the right to order silver colued at auy time the same would promote tie interests of the Government. There is only one other explanation we can think of: that Congresss had not yet found out the fraudulent trick whereby silver had been demonctized. —— To the Editor of The Tribu: Cicaan, Jan. 18, —Will you tell your readers what were the provisions ot the Treaty of Paris to which England and Austrin combine_to hold the Emperor of Russiut and oblize A. R. JoNEs. Brictly, Great Britain, Austria, France, Rus- sia, and Surdinia engaged to respect the inde- pendeace of the Ottoman Empire; ships of war of forein Puwers were prohibited from cntering the Dardanciles and the Black Sea; the Princi- palitics of Wallachia and Moldavia (the two coustituting what is now known as Roumania) should continue to enjoy under the sovereignty of the Porte the orivileges end immunities of which they were then possessed, the Porte suaranteeing their independent administration and liberty of worshiv. These were the princi- pal conditions, and Great Britaio, France, and Austria agreed that any iufraction of these stipulations would be coasidercd by them a cusus belli. e In'the good old Scotch town Aberdeen there are simple foik. A short time azo one of the street-hydrants, being out of repair, was sub- jected to an overhauling, and the cause of trouble was found to be = number of letters which bad been carefully stuffed iutoit. Their dates covered a series of years, and all the cir- cumstances pointed to the fact that they had been deposited there by cifferent persons under the impression that the bydrant wasa letter- box. The curiosities of ignorance are manifold. Thursday of last week a large quantity of articles which had accumulated at the Dead- Letter Office in Washington were sold at anc- tion. The assortment, as can be imagingg =+ [ of the most. eterogeneous kind. - Tage ™ | £ book-marks, a child’s bib, magnifying g a serpent’s cgg, a bear skin, porops e ters, a wagon axle, & ‘set of artiflg teeth, o pair of corsets, hmbr"‘“& padlocks, Brazillan bugs, thermometery almost every imaginabie article, td the o of 9,000. Strunge as it may seem, thege been sent through the mails or depositeq out being called for fn Post-Offces, Pigigy fndeed must be the mental condition of g of these Venighted people. Think of g gt deliverately sticking Ppostage-stamp oy wngon-axle, end {nnocently leaving fp :;‘:h: Post-Oflice. But even this eceentricity fg o coedod: by that, of the man o Missou ygy - mailed a cook-stove to his wife sets. e s eremmeii— 1 The snnouncement that Queen Vicggm,: ! will spend a great part of the London sess, g Bucklogham Palace and attend to her gt dutles hos given furease gratitication to 1 shopkeepers of the metropolis. Their afey, for her Majesty approacles. the sublime, 1 ane ever unhappy when she is away at Windsg, Castle on the Thames, at Balmoral fn Scotl; . orat Osborne in the Isle of Wight.. The, why their sentiments arc sostrong s, that wpe shic Is in London the tide of fashion rayg mg; and trade is hrisk. e ——— Ex-Congrensman PATSZ, of Cleyelay credited with the remark that there are gy halt-a-dozen sound singie-standard goid meny the whole Ohio Legislature. The vote o S:nator showvs the entire truth of this obeerry. tion, so far as the Democrats are concerney, “There were only two members in that par, M both Housas who were golfl(u—cnnlmmnnihu enough to vote for him, and the two wilj proba. bly be dropped by their constitucnts st 1y -mextelecticn for so voting. & e : Secretary ScURZ told FERYANDO Woop thy he hoped the House would send him a coupleg good [nwestizatinr committees, as he woald like their assistance in discovering and Xposiog abuses in. bis department. ——— The Evesing Post, the new paper in St. Lonty, was only anc week in driving out its riva), the Dispatch, and occupying the entire field of aitey Boon journals i —T— PERSONAL. Remington, the rifle manufacturer, ig ogy of the social swells of Egypt. Good living may heve made John By fat, but he doth mot yet kick. The New York Jlerald says that John Mr. rissey's death would be a public loss. Between the Bristow crowd and the Sin. mons crowd there {3 a great iceberaness.—Botos Post. The gorgeous farniture in Dion Bong. cault’s new apartments is supposed to be bor rowed from the French. Lillis Devercaux Blake says she has no. ticed that the broad-shoaldered, genial men we thuse who favor woman's rights, The Widow Oiiver is good in one respect. | She never hooks old men 2nd bides them awspso ¢ that their relatives can't find them. Gov. Holliday has shocked the Virginies by snatting up the Gubernatorial mansion wmd ’ going to live quietly at 2 Richmond hotel. | A Democratic editorin Iowa dependently . says that printing Democratic papers in that S i} i3 about a3 profitable as would be peddling pes-u | in a graveyard at midnight. ]z i ! An envious rival alludes to Smalley, the London correspondent of the New York Tridun, 843 younz man with an enraged einger complerion and a subdued liver-colored necktie. Among - Bonner’s victims was Edmmd {% Clarence Stedman, the poct-banker. Theopens- || tion wiped out ‘what Stedman had savea byteo }! years of hard work and wearing care in the want of hard times. The story comes from Oregon thais. |i mean fellow *‘shot a country girl's pig, whithe ‘was bringing up on buttermilk s0aa to getmmey 10 buy & new gown, because she wonld not gowith him to the Christmas ball,” This was even wuse than stealing one of the Electoral votes. * In publishing his sermon on futurs pm- ishment, Canon Farrar says: **Iexpresily re pudiated Universalism as & dogma, as I alore pudiated the dogma of purgatory and condition! immortality. 1 merely gave reasons for refuslng to assert that 2 soul ia necessarily doomed to end- less torture if he dies in sin,” A shoemaker in Harom, N. H., paid st tentlons to a young lady for four years, whenthe girl's father Jost his patience and drove the dis- ciple of Crispln out of the house, snd, besides, Dbrought suit against him for room-rent, fuel, sad lights, estimating his damazes at $300. This should scrve as an awful example to tardy wooen. “Speaking of cold feet,” interrupted old Ricketts, **why, my second wile's feet wereid much colder than wny first wite's, that it required six more tons of coal during ihe winter to heatthe house, and I had to keep four stoves i fall bisst ali summer to prevent the children from takisg cold.” There wasn's much life inthe conversation ufter that. *: Can't you never let such an unfortaet 3 me alone?" whimpered Poor Jo, of Tomesll- Alone's. **Idone nothink.” Very similar was the wail of the cook of a schooner, taken into custods, Iust Tharsday in New York. When arrested under the Pirccy act. he broke down and began (0 €T *+Iain’t no pirate," he blubbered; **I'm nothiag buta tramp, " . James T. Taylor, a New York brawer sol 2 member-elec: of the Legislatare, was stricked with o sudden and eerious derangement of mizd laxt Saturday afternoon, and astonished the pel¢h borhood by ringing all the door-bells sud annousc ing that be was Kinz of the world. Next moraist he ran down Broadway without coat or shoes, bit was overtaken and conveyed to an ssylam. The marringe of the Hon. Wyndbam Stanhove, son of the Earl of Tarrington, toMbi Camille Du Bois, a pretty actress in opera_boufes inone of the standing social topics in Londos People In Clucago who patronize the lighter forss of the drama doubtless have n vivid recollectlon of the pert and charming young lady who dan ncrows the stage of the West Side Acodemy of Musicin oll the glornies of tights, and page's co8* tumes, aad other devices for exhibising the bumsd shape divine. But Camille was so far indlis nance with her name that no breath of suspicion was wafted from gossip's tongne togossip's togue regarding her private character, althonzh 0pportd® nities withont number were granted her totrash gress the Jaw of society and morality. T scavon of opera bouffe haviny ended, (50 fair Lydia trznsported herself and her bewitching companions acrows the ucean o the home of nativity, and London was soon rejoiced by thelf antics at the Folly Theatre. The siided yosl tocked nizhtlyto the dubjous entertainment. showered thefr accastomed bouquets and diamonds upon®the various members of the heel-kicEls company of syrens. In the metropolis s many & noble Lord who has nosbing better 1o do thante renta box at a theatre und lavish costly preseats upon whatever actress huppens to arrest his feete ing fancy. But 1o ol these the dark-eyed Csmlle tumed a literal cold shoulder, She continacd 12 live in plam fashion with a friend of her motbeth Her father, Mr. Reyloff, was and is yetthe musle director at the Aquarium Theatre. affected when of the stage a simplcht of dress that was highly Janda in one whose natural attractions woald ordinadlf tend to render vain and emulous of fne attire. $3¢ used to hold levees at her lodgings. which were e tended by raany a titled aristocrat, aud taey8f that, after slngng some French chanonetle famous by Chaumont, she woald give her gaesty tea, which she would perhaps furnisn la crae cups and saucers, explaining that she could BtE™ ford any better, and that une had purchased the2 from some itinerant peddier on the street suc was 5o entertaining In her vivacious converid® tion that she held them all eptravced, E¥ER the critical Lord Londesborough, brother the Duke of Beaufort, Well, one morningis fushionable world of London was thunders! by the_announcement of her marriage With Hon. Wyndham Stanhope, who had been conslder: ed 2 1004 match by many 3 momma of highBET for, Le itknown, although he s the gecond 508 & the Eurl, the eldestson and heir iy witbout el dren, and the prosgects decidedly are that the wife of the Hon. Wyndham will somo day become 1 Countess of Harrington. Perbaps it Is in vie¥ of this fattering prospect that Miss Camille Du Bt bes left the stave, %