Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 16, 1878, Page 4

THE CHICAGO TRIBU SUNDAY. JUNE 16, 1878—~SIXTEEN PAGES. Glye Tribuwe, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. RY MATL—IN ADVANCE—POSTAGE Pnsmlg'n. £ Datls Kdition, one vesr. Fariz of 8 year. per month.. another Chicngo success. 3:39| The manngementof the Iowa State Prison, % s | " 5 i e e e Ui | sitnated ot Fort Madison, has been investi WEEELY ED! ©ne cops. per G ol oo Speeimen copies sent tree. GivePost-Oft:ce nddress {n fall, fpcluding State snd Counmy. Jicmiftances oy bo made efther by draft, express, Pust-Utfice urder. orin registered ictters, at our riek. TERM3 TO CITY BUBSCRIDERS. Datiy, delivered, Sunday excepted, 25 cents per week. 1.4y, delfvered, £unday included. 50 centa per week. Adcrese THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Curner Madison and Dearborn-sti.. Chileago, Ik Orders for the delivery of Tug TRintNEat Evanston, | pedients, as i8 evinced by the fow Engiewood, and Hyde Park left{n the countlog-room | yonoras of his administration which they W fireeeive promit atientior. bave been able to save from the TRIBUNE BH 'O OFFICES. Ty CHICAGO TRMUNE has cstabifshed branch offices forthe recelpt of subscribUonsand advertisements as follows: NEW YORK—Room 29 Tribune Buflding. F.T. Mos FaDLEN, Manazer. PALIS, France—No. 16 Rue de is Graoge-Batclere. H.MauLrr, Agent. .—American Exchange, 449 Etrapd. pense of the State, and even had his wife, with the utmost regularity. Itis presumed SOCIETY MEETINGS. that proceedings will be instituted in order YAXN RENSSELAER GRAND LODGE OF PERFEC- TTON il hotd & Teegutar Asscmbly un Thursany even. | tion for which he has done so much. Ingnest. Workon the 4t an oth Degrecs, Dy order . GoODATE Gy LI BONE TL PG L g Democratic inquisitorial body which CHICAGO COMMA . T.—Stated Corclave Monday eve: S35, 8t Asylum. corner of Halsted and. ph-sts. A full atfendauce fruscaed. Wiiiog el Eulie courteously {avited. order of the Et. Comd’r. s JAS. E- MEGINN, Ree. & fortnight past, and is dignified with the title of an Investigating Commission, failed to elicit much consoling testimony during its probings yesterday. Oue witness only was D. A. CASIIMAN LODGE. No. 63, A. F. & A M.— {';fl'l;lur l‘,;;‘m;x:unnlcallun 1“ui-any ed'crfi;xrm June 19. placed upon the stand, and ke was Vork . M. Degree. Visiting: brethren fuvited. ; b 3 Gavel sounds at 8 0'Cio g, o tho individua! who at one time was A. DUTGLASS, Seeretary. | Privata Secretary to the Governor ASHLAT LODGE. NO. 0% A. F. & A. M.—Thean- | of Louisians, and who had charge nnal meeting for the election of oificers And payment of ducs occtrs on Tucsdsy cventnz. June 13, All mem- Ders are requested 10 be presnt. . 7 C. H.CRANE, Sec’s. of the new Electoral certificato at the time of its being signed. The testimony of this to the effect that the document was openly exposed on table and the Electors invited in fo sign it. The deduction from this tes- timony is emphatically against all evidence of fraud in the preparation of the re- turns from Louisiana. While the Democrats openly charge irregularity in and forgery of the Electoral papers, it is quite significant to note the fact that, in examining their wit- ness yesterday, they considerately neglected to question him ns to the manner in which Levisse's nune beeame attached, to the re- turns. They have already reached such deep water that'they cannot even hope to touch the fraud-bottom again. one 17, W wnlons are cordiully o n the Murk Degree. s W. BARNALD, H. P. 1ovited. APOLLO COMMANDERT. Xo.1, K. T.—Stated Con- elave next Tuesdny evening st 8 o'clock for bustness. Visitors welcome. By order uf the Commander. J. 1t DUNLOY, Becorder. SUNDAY, JUNE 16, 1878, In New York on Saturdsy greenbacks ruled at 994 in gold and silver coin. The Republiezn County Convention to elect delegntes to the State Convention will be held on the 24th. The interest taken, judging by the activity of the ward clubs, is far greater {han is usnal in an off year. THE COMMUNIST PARADE. Thoe Connmunists of this city propose to advertiso their principles by a parade and & picnie at Ogden’s Grove to-day. This organ- jzation makes the display in a spirit of bravado, of defiance, and evilently to pro- voke an interference, which will be accepted as martyrdom. Their purposo is to make tke “red flag” as conspicuous as it can be done, and, despite the counsel of the gen- cral managers, there will be an effort fo in- dace as many as possible to bear arms. We ndvise the utmost moderation. So long as these men commit no breach of the pence, are guilty of no acts of violence, ab- stain from offenses against persons and prop- erty, the mere flaunting of their red flag is reolly a hormless act of idiocy. Let them have their picnic and their parade; let them march, and dance, and sing, and drink to their hearls’ content, and, without a distnrbance, the whole thing will end in smoke. These creatures want a grievance. They want their procession stopped, and their flags taken away, and they want a fight, and a pretext for declaiming against despot- ism. We trust that, so long as they commit no breach of the peace, they will not be disturbed. * Let them go out to Ogden’s Grove, and stay there as loug as they desire. It must be remembered tbat the fellows who will to-day carry the “red flag,” and who will orate fearfully upon the wrongs of society, are not Americans in any sense. The great moss of them can meither speak nor read the English langunge. They are sliens in feeling and in language, and reslly are grossly ignorant of the theory and principles of American liberty, law, and government. Until they commit some act against the law or menacing to the public peace, let them play out their farce. It will be time enough to use repressive measures when they at- tempt some actnal proceedings against the lives, or property, or order of the com- munity. “We ndviso all law-nbiding and pence-loving citizensto have nothing to sy ordo with the Communists to-day; to stay away from the neighborhood where these men meet and parade, and to stny away from the grounds at the picnic. Lot the lunalics enjoy their lunacy exclusively. Leave to tho public suthorities the duty of preserving order and peace. One of the few things for which the American people should be thankful is tho fact that the Forty-fifth Congress will close its first session on Tuesday. Millions of poople sincerely hope that its second and lust sitting will be postponed until the Greek calends. It now looks much as if Smeary and Cox- ~ELLY wonld hang Friday. Their counsel bad hoped that Gov. Currox would be Lere yes- terday, and had intended to make a frantic appeal to him for o reprieve, but bhe did not turn up, snd if they want him they will have 1o go to Springfield for hum. Should thess men be hanged, it will be the first execution here since the spring of 187 GrovEr, of Oregon, whosa title to political preferment is illumined by CroxiN’s nose, 1ad a narrow escape in tho Senate yesterday. The Committee on Elections reported that the alleged charges of corryption concerning Lis selection by the Oregon Legislature were not” sustained. The office was not given to him, be did not honestly win it, bat it con- not bo proved that he did not steal it. For an illustration of the delays of the law seo the Jack STuncES case. After much liti- gation STunaES got a verdict in his favor de- claring that his expulsion from the Board of Trade in 1874 was illegal. From this the dofendants appeal, and the Judge decides that, until the Supreme Court has passed on the case, the plaintilf must stay on the outside of the Chamber of Commerce Build- ing. The Supreme Court is over a year be- ~hind in its business. The Bar Association of this city found an spple of discord when it took up the gnes- tion of the workings of the Bankruptcy law. A committee made a report which indirectly censured the Register. At asubsequent meet- ing the Associstion adopted resolutions of confidence in that official. This caused somo dissatisfaction, aud at & meeting held yesterday au effort was 1rade to reconsider that action. 1t failed, however, after n warm debate, by 8 vote of 39 to 40, aud the in- dorsewent of the Register remains. In the menntime Congress has repealed the law, and the Association has orly these side-issues left with which to amuse itself. — THE ENGLISH CRIMINAL CODE, Tho judicial reform which was enacted some yenrs ago in England, and the new jndicial establishment which has been in such successful operation since 1875, are now about to be supplemented by the redue- tion of the criminal law of England to a code, involving a radical reform of the prac- tice and the forms of procedure. A bill for fhis purpose is now pending in the British Parliament, and its passage is urged by the Disrarrr Government. The speech of the Attorney-General, Sir Jomy HoLEER, in support of the bill, gave tho history of the criminal law in England, and that history is full of interest and sur- prises. The criminal law of England is the creation largely of judicial interpretation. Beginning with the common law, it has advanced and progressed, with occnsional interpolations by statutes, and, nlways con- trolled, modified, and shaped by the Courts, has become a confused, mysterious, and complicated system, under which the lives and liberty of Englishmen are protected or taken away. The Attorney-General's speech is described as a denunciation of the existing criminal Iaw in the most un- measured terms, beeause of its mystifications aud inconsistencies, its nbsurdities and in- definiteness. He declared that it was a shame to the country that the poor, ig- norant, and helpless should be tried and punished by laws which 1t was impossible for the most learned to understand. It was impossible for Englishmen to know what were tho acts for which they wore liable to be punished, or what the proceedings to which they would be subjected. The diffi- culty of preparing a criminal code Las heen 80 great that hitherto it hnd deterred tho ablest men from undertaking the work, and the present work, it is said, 13 dne more to an accident than to any original purpose. Sir Jayms SreemeN, nn eminent Enplish lawyer, who had been long in Indis, where & eriminal code is provided, undertook the serions work of making s digest of the erim- ingl law of Euogland, This work was so A practice has grown up 1n the City Coun- <il of remitting fines, which is illegal, and Iins become scandalous. At the last meeting Mr. ToLey got up an ordinance prohibiting this practice hereafter. When men violate the luw, and sre punished, the City Council Liave no more right to remit the fino than has the Legislature to pardon convicts seatenced to the Penitentiary. A fingis o judgment in favor of the city; it is a judgment for part of the legal revenues of tho city; so farnsit can be collected it has a value, is part of the assets of the City Treasury, and 1o more capablo of being donated by the Council than is any other property of the city. Itis understood, though perhaps not susceptiblo of proof, that this business of remitting fines has long been 2 matter of profit among bummer Aldermen. A man fined 350 or £100 can well afford to pay an Alderman £5, £10, or $20 for baving the fine remitted. Itis time the illegal proceeding and the disgraceful brokerage should be abolished. The National Firemen's Tournament, to be held in this city enly in September, is a project that should enlist the most active sympathy and cordial support of our merchants and property-owners. It will be a novel exhibition of great sttraction, and it canuot fail o draw thousands of strangers to the city, and givothe Inter-State Exhibi- tion & more brilliant and auspicious opening than usual. There will be fully 150 firemen’s organizations present, that will come from all parts of the United States and Canada. Prizes have been offered that will secare practical competition in all branches of the serviee,—volunteer compavies, hand engines, hook-and-ladder efficiency, chemical engines, - steam-engines, hose-carts, ranning sud drill, tho Sappers’ and Miners’ Corps, the Insur- ance Patrol Companies,-ete. These exhibi- tions will lake_place mt~Dexter Park, and will inclade'the burning of houses erected for the purpose, and the process of fighting the firo under the differeut methods. These tests will not merely afford excellent amuse- ment for the time being, but will pretty cer- tainly be productive of excellent results, by developing the best methods of saving lifo and property. It is expected that s largo number of distinguished visitors, including the President of the Umted States, will bein attendance, and the Tournament will be gated, and several dark tricks on the part of the Warden have come to light. In fact, it lios been discovered that that officer has made the most of his position by meaus of bogus contracts, sham pay-rolls, and tho like jrregular modes of conducting business. The Committee which lookedsinto tho affairs of the prison say in their report that the Warden is n man fertile in ex- ruthless hand of time and his implicated relatives. They declare that from tho day he enfered the prison until the time of his departure therefrom he employed every im- aginable scheme to enrich himself at the ex- nieco, and servant-girl booked as guards, for which they drew their respective salaries to securs the return of Crate to the institu- has been wasting public time and money for witness was remarkably straightforward, and lic. Parlinment, to bo enscted ns a law. fenses. which are treated as crimes. erime. valuo of the plunder taken or sattempted. man who steals a mutton-chop. The Saturday Review, discussing this bill, yers and bewilder the public. Tho scope of the crime of murder is limited to tho acts of those who deliberately intend to take away life, or to do grievous bodily harm, or who have dono somoething likely to causo death, with an indifferenco as to its effects. ‘There will - reduce murder to manslaughter. fanticide is severely punished, though, when committed in a momont of shame and dis- tress, it is no longer classed asmurder. The law of larceny is thoroughly revised, and its absurdities swept away, and the law in En- gland is no longer to provide that a mon who forges a receipt for five shillngs more than bo hiay really had is lisble to penal servitude for life, while the man who alters a contract to defraud another of thousauds is punished merely by fine and imprison- ment. Hereafter the punishment is to be proportionate to-the offense. The new codo is also n coda of pro- ceduro. It condenses and simplifies. Among tho chauges tho following are named: Thelaw of venire is abolisked, and crimes mny bo tried in any county. The Courts are authorized to dircct that a crim- jual proceeding whieh is really of the char- acter of a civil suit shall be tried as an ordinary action. Tndictments for libel and nuisance will be tried as civil actions, the necused to be a witness, and costs to follow the result. In criminal cases the accused | may be allowed to make s statement, not on oath, but will be subject to cross-exnmination. T'his is regarded as a striking innovation. An appeal iu erimiual cases is to be allowed. Criminal pleading is to be recast, and there are to be no more™long indictments, but hereafter they are to be short, plain, and direct. The legal liternturs of England is im- mense, and the sentiment in that country has always been'to adhbero to old forms aud established precedents, and to the experi- ence onlightened by centuries of learning. But the timo for change has come. The ‘complications and absurdities of many hun- dreds of years are to be summarily swept away, and for tho first time in English his- tory the criminal law is to be written in plain, direct terms upon the stntute-book, and the law itself reduced to one har- monious, consistent code, aliks as plain to the layman as to the professional lawyer and to the Judge. It is expected that the code will bo enacted af the present session of Parlimment. TRADING UN CREDULITY. 'The inevitable Mr. Keerey bas turned np with his inevitable motor before a meeting of his Directors and stockholders, and, liko Ovriver Twist, is crying for more, and, like the horsclecch’s daughter, *Give, give.” There is something irresistibly ludicrous and at the same time profoundly pathetic in the gravity with which theso gentlemen, upon whose credulity Mr. Kerrey is trading, gath- ered about him and listened to his absard story. According to KeeLey, he 18 very much in the plight of the man who had a portrait ‘painted so large that he couldn’t get it into his house, or of that other mau who con- structed a bicycle so big ho counldn’t get it out. His researches thus far have beon crowned with suceess. All the trouble now, ho snid, has been in getting ““a mmchine powerful enough tostand tho intensified pow- er produced by reducing the vapor, by wundulatory reaction through the vibratory process,” whatever that may be. All that he wants now is to find a ma- chino capable of standing a pressure of -5 000 pounds to the squarc inch in sctual working, aud he thinks he can find it for about 5,000 more—or .ten pounds to the doliar. He claims already to havoe worked his mechinery up to 28,000 pounds prossure, which, considering nearly Lalf a million dol- Iars have been frittered awny upon the motor, amounted to over £17 a pound. Now ten pounds for a dollar is a good deal cheaper than %17 a pound. If he can double the present pressuro for 5,000, it strikes us it will ba dirt-cheap. Of course, the gentle- men who bave paid half a million out of their pockets to raise only 28,000 ponnds pressure have a right to growl at giving other people an opportunity to como in and raise 28,000 pounds more for only £5,000. But consider what vast results are 0 bo accomplished! If Mr. Kerrey can get this 25,000, he promises to got a tube that will produce so much vibratory action that ho can get along with a pint of water, ‘whereas his present tube would require ten gallons. Mr. KeeLy also says : The machiae will be made to move glow to show the regalarity and control of the force, as siow as, £ay, one revolution in five minutes, or three-quar- ters of a revolution in an hour: but, if it dovs that, it is clear that it could be warked ub to 3,000 revo- Iutions a minute, as the rapidity inercased the vi- bratory action and the vibratory action -increased the rapudity reciprocally. Compound reaction would be diFnstrous, but simole redaction is what we want. We will have no more doubts on the part of stockliolders or the public when we demon= strate the luminosity of the cther, s we-will, That will be the great test. Dut our vibratory. re- action i the secret of our power. We can produce 750,000 vibrations in a eecond: and, indeed, for tire’ development of the full force of the engine, 100,000 vibrations a second will be necessary. Considering the vast achievements which Mr. Kerrey proposes to accomplish for §5,000, vastly more than ho has accom- plished for £500,000, the sum is a more bag- atello, and the stockholders ought to come dawn af once. If wo are to take Afr. Keerey's word for it, it will accomplish all that e claims, and he will revolutionizo the complete and so admirably executed that it furnished the Courts and the profession with a thorough guide-book. It became & text- book for the Bench, the Bar, and the pub- It was a collection of the law as it ex- isted. The suthor of tho digest had, of course, .only printed the law as he found it; and, while this wos the limit of his labors, long and arduous as they were, they suggested the possibility of a code, snd of such a revision of the law as was clearly de- manded by an inspection of the digest. Tho Government, thereupon commissioned the suthor of the digest'to propare a code, snd this, after examination, has been laid beforo, The now code is confined to indictable of- It covers the groat list of offenses It makes lib- eral changes in tho existing Inw. It abol- ishes the distinction between felonies and misdemeanors, and the distinction between principals and accessories ; those who incite to crime are to be called by the same names and punished like those who commit the ‘The system of punishments is to be changed. Minimum pumshments are abol- ished, and the variety of maximum punish- ments rednced ; cumulative* punishments, or punishment in one cuse to follow the punishinent of auothor offense, are also abol- ished. Punishments for offenses sgainst property are to be regulated according to the The Attorney-General explained this os menning that 8 man who flonts a company to work a sham mine is to suffer more thana soys that the legal ferms ‘‘malico” and “maliciously " are no longer to amuso law- is & clear definition of the provocation that In- will bo the end of it. any other substance known in mechanics. THE FUTURE OF CANADA. ada.” Disparty, tho present British Premier, satisfaction with the present. The apparent objeot of Sir]Francis Hinoxs' article is to combat the idea that Canada will submit to boing *consolidated ¥ with the < Mother Country ” any closer than at pres- ent, or that she will ever cousent to con- tribute directly to the Imperial Treasury for “TImperial services.” Sir Fpancis, after an oxamination of the whole field, is unable {o find a renson for any change in the present relations of the British dopendeucies to the British Crown. *“ I seo no renson,” says he, *why Canada should not continue for an in- definito period in connection with Great Britain on her present footing.” And agnin he suys: * For my own part, I can discover no reason for changing the subsisting rela- tions between the Empire snd the solf- governing Colonies.” Incase a chengé should take place; that is, if the Coloniey should separate from Englaud, would they set up an independent nation, or seck annexation to the United States? On tlus point Sir Fraxcrs thus cin- phatically writes: * My own conviction is, that 1t is most unwise to discuss alternatives of nuy kind when tho stutus qua gives so much general satisfaction; but convineced as Iaw that the two alternntives—viz.: inde- pendence and Imperial confedoration—aro wholly impracticable, States.” wix Syrre and other Englishmon who have visited this country. The andsr-drift of opinion in the Dominion is that whon the British conneetion is severed those Provinces will become States of the Great Republic of North America. That is undoubtedly mani- fost destiny. * CONSULAR EXPERENCES. Mr. Luier Moxty, an Italian gentleman who resides in Boston, was for a time Amor- ican Vice-Consul at Genon, one of the Ttalinn cities. A book has grown out of his experience 1 that capacity, which is pub- lished under tho titlo of ‘ Adventures of a Consul Abrond,” and which parports to re- Iato the trials and tribulations of ** Sasven SaarrLeTON, Esqy., late United States Consul at Verdecuerno, Italy.” Under this nom de plume and the guiso of n New England schoolmaster, we have a satire that is cer- tainly amusing and ought to be instrueiive. It is primarily remarkable because a for- oigner has so successfully acqnired in Eoglish tho simple and home-like style of parration, of which the *“Vicar of Wake- field " is the Lest specimen, and has so thor- oughly appreciated and o aptly characterized the defects of the * American system ” of civil-servico politics, Mr. Suareueroy is a country-schoolmaster at the outbreak of the American War, and is confronted with the alternative of joining the army or starving, when his wife's uncle, with influence in politics, secures him the Cousulship at Verdecuerno, whith we take to be Genoa from the description given of the city. It is a §1,500 place, nud he starts off jubilantly with wife and two children, entirely ignorant of all language but his own, and under the impression that he will have nothing to do, but be sble to save 1,000 a year out of his salary, because liv. ing isso cheap in Europe. That is-about the opinion of most newly-appointed Ameri- can Consuls. He arrives at his destination and finds that the -houso formerly occupiod by his predecessor, Col. 3asoy, has been reserved for him. It isan old palace, and the rent is only $3,000 & year, as Jr. Rarmaer, the Viee-Consul, informs him. Mr. Rapmazr, by tho way, receives $600 a year as Vice-Cousul, and the office-rent is 00 a yesr, both paid him out of the Consul's salary. The New England school- master begins tfo . suspect that he hag been deceiving himself nbout the cost of European living. Further inquiry shows him that his predecessor could mnot have oxpended less than $12,6400 a year on a salary of $1,500. BMr. Sauerrroy charitably concludes that his predecessor was a man of private fortune, and then sets about Lim with characteristic New England frugality to live within his income. After despernte hunting, in which his ignorance of Italian increases his embarrassmonts, he se- cures aperiments at an English lodging- houso in the suburbs,.contents himself with the third story and a back entrance, hag clerks in commarcial houses for neighbors, transfers the American coat-of-arms from the gorgeous city offices to this shabby re- treat, and thus brings Lis expenses exactly within his income. He dismisses the assist- ant, for lack of money to pay him, and starts upon the Consular work of a port which has 2,000,000 of snnual trade with the United States, without knowing any more than the man in the moon sbout the duties of the ofiice, 3. Saen) s career is one of constant toil and humiliation. In muking his official visits, he finds himself addressed in Italian, French, German, and Spanish by the resi. dent officials and other Consuls, but is un- able to converse in anythingbut English, and must always resort to an interpreter. He 15 overawed by the English Consul, the doyen or senior of the resident foreign officials. He is invited to a dinner at the house of this sugust person, and appears in New England attire, only to find all the other gentle- men in black dress-snits and white cravats ; his wife is ignored altogether. Determined not to look like 8 stray sheep on nnother oceasion, he buys a dress-suit, though he vquld with o fow gallons of water, and moke w rich and happy. If it dont accom- plish what he says, it will at least burat mo- tor, Kervry, stockholders, and all, nnd that Theso credulous gen- tlemen who have stood a pressuro of 28,000 pounds to the square inch can stand it up to 50,000. In point of fact, such sublime and elastic eredulity as they possess will continue to stand pressure to an unlimited smount, ‘or until, some fine morning, the pressure be- comes 50 great that the motor will rise in its wrath, distributo itself over the adjacent country, snd sond Mr. Keerey to meet Dox- .ALDSON. If human credulity could bo used to seeure his vibrations, Mr. Keetey would find no obstacles to an immediate suctess, for it appears eapable of standing more pres- saro to the square inch than iron, stecl, or Sir Fraxcis Hrycrs, & Canadian statesman, has contributed an article to the June num- ber of the Ninetcenth Century, under the caption of ‘The Politicil Destiny of Can- has pssorted that the British Colonial Empire was not finally nor yet properly settled, and writers in the English magnzines—notably Prof. Gorowrmy Barrm, Sir Jurws Voorr, Lord Bracurorn, Sir Jomn Lunpock, and Mr. Froupe—have discussed what amounts to an international question, though it is one of English Impoerinl politics, with feelings of mora or less distrust of the future and dis- I can divcover mo other alternatize for our present mwst satis- Juactory relations with the Crown of Great Brituin than anneration to the United "This was the - conclusion of Gorp- uniform: to the door. the party. of tho office, he receives some other favorite. and do himself and his country somo credit. It may be that this narrative will suggest at times that there is a great deal of tom- foolery about official life abrond, but it teaches moro strikingly the impolicy of the niggardly salaries paid to American Consuls, who are more important to our Government than Ambassadors or Ministers, and the fatal weakness of an official syatem that sclects men for responsible positions abroad with- out reference to their fitness, and changes them with overy chango in the Administra- Hore wus & man, who is a fair type, though a fictitious character, that is sent to Italy without kunowing the language, and to act ns a Consnl without the slightest tion. previous preparation. Ie is expected to maintnin the dignity of the American people on $1,500 & year, in a style determined by Consuls from other nations, whose income, §6,000to 20,000, miliation, ple. suls abroud, and poor, miserable devils they are! But there are others who, like Mr. to 312,000 on salaries of 1,500. adequate allowance. THE CORRELATION OF LIFE. The Rev. Joserm Coox, in his lecture of Tuesday, attempted toshow, from the princi- plo of correlation, that theremust be an after- “Where there is a migrat- ing instinet,” ho said, *‘ there isa South to Does Gop keep his words with birds and fishes and not with men? On the doctrine of correlation Esrensoy rested in death existenco. match it. bis last essay, and Bryant agreed with him, Neither of theso mon is a theologian.” It does not appear from this report of the leci- ure, or from any other that we have seen, that Mr. Coox understood clearly what cor- charita- ble, nnder the circnmstances, to assume The doctrine of correla- relation is, and it is perhaps that he did not. tion, correctly understood, makes directly agninst him. The only correlation that we know anything about ns yet is the correla- tion of force. It is that principle in nccord- anca with which light, heat, -electricity, chemical aflinity, and mechanical force are chnnged into ench other, aud ench becomes the equivalent of tho other. When a black- smith strikes his hammer npon theanvil, and tho hammer aftorwards comes to a state of apparent rest, a certain quantity of force “seems to have been destroyed. But it is not destroyed. The motion which is lost in this casois merely transtormed. In the swing of the hammer descending npon the anvil we had bodily motion; in the subsequent state of rest wo have molecular motion. The evi- dence of the Intter is heat, which is the new equivalent of the force produced by the biacksmith's arm. Thus it is an axiom in physics that forco is incapable of destrnc- tion. The same illustration applies to all the various forms of force. As motion is changed into bent, so hent may be changed into motion; and, if the instruments are exact enough, tho change in eithier or both directions may bo accomplished without an apprecinble loss. Electricity expends itself in the production of light and hent, and light and heat, it is hardly venturing any- thing to say, produce clectricity. Heat, sound, and light are mutually interchange- able. All are caused by motion, whether of molecular-waves, air-waves, or ether-waves, and all are capable of indefinite division and multiplication. It is owing to this circum- stance that physicists have predicted the possible use of the microphone to mens- ure tho force of the concussion produced by the impact of a wave of light, or, in other words, the transformation of light into heat. Correlation as between different kinds of existenco monus, 80 far as we know, the same thing. The simple elements, such as oxygon, hydrogen, carbon, aud nitrogen, secm to have an inherent and unconquernble aversion to separate existence. Oxygen and bydrogen combine to form water, oxygen nud nitrogen to form air (the umion in this caso is merely echanieal), hydrogen and nitrogen toform ammonia. Ironin the pure ntate takes up oxygen from the atmosphere, and forms the oxide of iron, more familiarly known to us as “rust.” It is a curious thing, moreover, that when a union of this nature liag been effected between simple ele- ments they seem to rest satisfied for an in- dofinite period, if not disturbed. But they frequently are disturbed. As the gim- plo ' elements unite to form com- pounds, and compounds constitute the mineral kingdom, g0 the mineral king- dom in its turn ‘Pusses into something higker,—the vegetable kingdom. Here there is added to our previous elemonts a mysterions and subtle quality called the vital force,~n principle which has hitherto evaded and defied all analysis. Naturolists know can poorly afford it, only to find that the nest invitation—a state affair—calls for a He hires a hack, though it is an. expense he ought not to incur, which is not pormitted to drive into tha palace court-yard On the retarn visits, the Caart- officials and Consuls can only reach him through a back-yard, where women are wash- ing, ond holf-naked, dirty little brats ave playing in tho water-puddles. Nobody calls on his wife except the English clergyman and his spouse, who want & $25 subscription. An American man-of-war visits the port, and our poor Consul, with the best intentions, incurs the ill-will of the oflicers by renson of bhis ignorance as to the usual etiquette, and must perforco leave to the English Consul the honor (and the expense) of entertaining On tho occasion of a public hol- iday, ho strains his purse-strings to give his wife and childron drive ; i the goodness of his heart he asks the landlady to go along, and s0 perches himself up beside the driver, where he scandalizes the whole city, because the American Consul is acting a3 foolman. Aftor suffering a thousand laughable humilia. tions for his ignorance of polite otiquetto, and o thousand embarrassments on nc- count of his meagre income, after three years and some months of scrvice, during which, by dint of carnest application, he has lonrned the French ond Italian lan- guages and mastered pretry well the dutics a letter from his wife's uncle to. the effect that a new Congressman has been elected, and that he will probably be required to make way for Indeod, his industry and acquired proficioncy are rewarded by removal at the very time when he might have begun to serve the Government well, from salary and fees, ranges all the way from Thus situated, he can- only choosa botween snubs and blackmail ; he raust cither steal or submit to constant hu- Saycen Sawrereroy, Esq., wos honest, and preferred to suffer snubbing for himself and indignity for the American peo- Thers are somo such American Con- SaxpreTON's predecessor, spend from £10,000 A few—a very few—may have private fortunes, as 3Mr. Sayererox supposed his predecessor had; but others resort to illegitimate practices (of which wo snspect connivance at undervalua- tion in invoices i3 the most common), run in debt, and otherwise bring the American people into disrepute in order to maintain a decent officis] dignity upon sn sbsurdly in. stituents, and that it grows. tell why the infant comes into this world - Blind, and wailing, and alone, Secking the light of day. Hero there is another mystery. the others. sounsations, etables, nal volitions. snimals have, above But animals able evidence of a faturs life? anything elso, implies and word - means the between different things. signifies. chango. relations end *continuance.” same object. terialists. dition of oxistenca. It amouats to the samo by be destroyed. ropentance. .snlvation through JEsus Crrist. If the Rev. Mr.Coor’slogic were not at fault, and his doctrine of vital correlation were in every respect coherent aud intelligible, he with the life to come, it must so correlate for all the animal and organic world. session of his faculties, which makes the whale to swim and the ant to crawl, which teaches the elcphant to satisty his wants, or enables the clameleon to change its colors, must all be preserved to all cternityin an- other world. Or, if we go still farther and rench the protozoans, the bathybius, which Mr. Coox says comes from the deep sea, and those curious products, half-vegetable, half- animal, which the naturalists have been un- able to decipher,—not one of thess must fall without the birth of a corresponding organism in another and abetter world. The same is true of the vegotable kingdom, down to the forms which the microscope will scarcely suffice to reveal, or the most delicate instrument to dissect. Mr. Coox bas boldly met his dilemma in this respect, it must be confessed, by holding substan- tinlly that the hypothesis here advanced is rensonable, and that life may be preserved and transmitted s wo have imagined. But fow devout worshipers of the living andtrme Gop will follow him, we fancy, in these ex- cursions of his fancy. To most of them it will seem, as it has scemed to us, that he has spoken hastily and inconsiderately. Science is n field which it becomes man {o enter reverently, discreetly, soberly, advisedly, and in the fear of Gop. When the Clristian ex- plorer cuts loose from faith and revelation and trusts himself without due information to scientific hypotheses, he is likely to come 'up plump sagainst conclusions directly op~ posite to those which he intended to reach. 'This, 1t scewms to us, has been the Rev. Alr. Josern Coox's experience. Dax Voormess, the Greenback Senator from Indiana, was the unwilling agent of a new aid to resumption when he moved on Thursday to take up tho House bill repeal- ing the Resumption act. This motion gave the proper opportunity for introducing the substitute already agreed upon in the Finance Committee, and resulted in the pas- sage- of the following brief but important measure @ Be it enacted, sic., ‘That from and after the pas- saze of this act Unitéa States notes shall be receiv- aole the same a3 coin in pavment of + per cent bouds now authorized by Inw to be fesued. On ana after Oct. 1, 1579, said notes shall be recefva- ble for duties on impurts. The two provisions of the abova bill com- prehend about all that remains to be done to make the resumption scheme self-operative. Either one of them is equivalent to a Gov- ernment recognition of the greenback at a par value in coin, The £ per cent bonds are worth par in coin ; they are redeemable at par in coin ; the interest is payable in coin; and subscriptions have been made for some time, and are still being made, at par in coin. Hence when the Government shall begin to receive greenbacks in exchange for theso 4+ per cent bonds, gold will possess no advan- taga over greenbacks for purposcs of iuvest- that the troe possesses cortain simple con- ‘They oan aven describe the pracise methods of its growth, the cireulation of its sap, and the upbuilding of its cells. But they can no moro describe why it grows—why its sap circulates and its cells are added to each other—than they can The phenomenon of vegetable life is more com- plex than that of simple material existenco, and the phenomenon of animal life is far mora intricate and insolable than either of In addition to moro acute vog- powers of motion ond origi- and veg- otables together, as distinguished from ming- rals end simple elements, have organisms and functional parts; hence they constitute what isknown as the organio world. The great distinctive quality which, by addition to un- organic substances, makes them organic is the vital principlo. It has been held by some extreme materialista to correlate with the other forms of force,~to bein itself a form of caloric; but this is a theory that neither the Rev. Mr. Joserm Coox nor any other trua Christian can entertain for 8 mo- ment. What, then, does he mean when he says that the principle of correlation is prob- If homeans that this vital principle with which every man is endowed is transformed into some other form of energy, he departs at once from the ordinary orthodox ground. And we do not see that he can mean For correlation in itself The existing This is so far apart from the orthodox view of the rela- tions existing between this and the future lifo as to amount to a contradiction of it. The orthodox view is mot that of a corrcla- tion between one form of lifo in this world, and another form of life in the mnext, but thatof avirtual continuanceof thepresent life or soul in the future stato of existence. How broad, in the etymalogical sense, is the dif- ference batween these words **correlation ™ The one means the reciprocal or mutual relations of different objects; the other means the permanence, as of condition, habits, abode, etc., of tho There is no other than the etymological sense in which the theological use of these words can be understood. The correlation of this life with an- other mnst mean the chl{ngu in form and direction of thevital g rinciple; and if it means this we do not see in what respect the Rev. Mr. Josern Coox’s theory of correlation dif- fors from that of the most advanced ma- Houstey, Ty¥pann, or Darwix would gladly accopt snd promulgate a gospel which had for its basis the correlation of this condition of existence with some other con- thing in ths end, thorefore, whether the Rev. Mr. Josernt Cook presses his theory of correla- tion to its logical conclusion, and dacides that the futuroe state will be & manifestation of the present vital principle in another form, or whether he decides that there will be no future state, For, if the vital principle is manifested in snother form in the next world, memory of this life will there- With memory of montal existence gone will go all the human affections, the knowledge that has been stored up in the past, and even the senso of sin and the consequent capacity for Such a future hife wonld not be a future life, as we are accustomed to use the term. It might be anothier and a batter form of existence, perhaps, but it would in- volve no quality of coguition and recogni- tion possessed in this world, and would con- sequently contain no element of redemption, and would dispense at once, so far es we are able to discern, with the whole scheme of would prove too much. If this life correlates The " vital principle which keeps man in full pos- ment in Government socurities. With ths scceptance of groenbacks in payment for customs duties, the last -traca of an exely. sive use for gold in this country will haye disappeared. The greenback will gerve avery purpose now served by. gold, ang will bo preferred over coin, in that condj. tion, on account of its greater convenience, its superior protection ngninst loss, and the smaller cost of transporting and bmxd.ling, The possessors of g6ld will no longer fing any profit or attraction in hoarding it away in vaults andsafes, whero it onrns nothing, They will be entircly wiiling to let it drifg into the hands of the Government. They will beanxious to got it out into active er. ployment where it will earn an interest. With this bill a Iaw of the land, resump. tion will be nttained bofore the dato fireq in the act. The House may not concur in the Senate bill, but its passage in one body at all evonts precludes any further of. fort during the present sesaion to disturb the Resumption law. The financial utterances of the Republican State Convention of Michigan suggest one farther remark.. The time is now close at hand when the whole people of thig country, entering upon a new era of substantinl Pros- perity, will thank the Republican party for its stendy devotion to resumption at the right time. CO! ' CREED, Some of the Communtatic leaders of Chicszg try to soften the creed of their party, and draw o eauzy distinction between the principles of the Communists aud the Soclalists, but it i3 really a distinction without a difference, as they are links of the same sausaze cut from the samo dog. Socialists is the name the Communisis go by in Germany, Nihilists in Russia, and Com- munists in France, but it all comes to the same thiog. The common aim -is to abolish separate ‘property, individual freedom, persvaal rieht, ang man’sresponsibility. **In all Communistic socia- tics,” says CAMPBELL, of Milwaukee (their can- didato last fall for Governor of Wisconsin), “property is held in common; Iabor fs common, This is the very esseace of Communism; and the way to bring this about, lic says, is by three methods: (1) By voluntary consent of the par- ties in interest; (2) by purchase from them,— payment beine made by the State in seriv; (3) by force. Church and Gop are also to be abol- ished with individual property aed personal rights. ‘The Communists of New York have Issued an address in which they formnulate the whole creed. We make the following extracts there- from: . We are Communiats becanse we desire the jnst redistribution of wealth and work smoag ail men, and that the power to possess should not belong 1o a few, but to all,—to the commumity. We ire Communivts because we desiie to destroy this indicidual properly persomfied by cgotism and iniquity; because we wish to found un ocer- throwen soclety a boud of happiness and pertect equslity among men. Communism is the clearest afirmation of the revolution, and tho lnst staze of human progress, ‘We repndiate all doctrines which aum at impos- ing taxes on the fortunes, the privilewes, orthe rese. nues of the rich, becuuse this would tend to con- secrate in the bLosom of humanity incqnalitics which it is our hope to destroy. Ve ara Atlcists becouse, consequent with our- selves, cur logic refusea to admt Supreme Heing, a chimers, —something monstrous and outside hu- manity. . . . . In the new society—that to which the emotre of ‘world has been promised, that which mnst regen- erate the races, that which mus) set us free—we o not recoynize Gop: we will not have the Gop in ‘Whose name so many crimes have been committed, so much blood shed. . . . . We are revolutiontals beeanse only by means of revolntion can we hope for victory. Hecanse wo wish to gain ends without stopping st half meas- wres or for new delays, which ate bat a prolonging of the actual state of misery and an adjousrnment of the Commnune. We are revolutionists becanse wo desire to orer- turn by (oree @ aociery which upholds itsolf hy force. [ecause we know thatjwolmust conguer, at ‘whatever price, volitical power, which alone can estavlish the dictature of the proletariat snd force it to act until there shall only Eu cqusl citizens in the new foclety. The revolution being justice and equality, what- ever oppoges ils (riumph ought to be inercileasly crushed. ‘We are authoritative becanse we wish the cen- tralization of the revolutiounry forces, not their decentralization; because we desire disciptine, not anarchy; because we wish to cive to the Comtmune (the only zovernment of the people) force as tho auxiliary of its right. We shall remember the numberless atrocities of which Paris and Versailles were the theatre, and when the day of vengeance comes we will atrike this criminal and sarage soclety n its sons, as welg a5 in its property. . . . . In the army of the revolution the most effica- clous tneans to employ for the complete extermina- tion of the bourgeowie—the best arms for defense against the azsressions and ambushes of its serv- ants—arc reprisals, the relentless immolation of all onr encmies, the destruction of their palaces and their property by fire, to overthrow their tem- ples, those monnmentd which -recall human slsv- Cry, the lenorance of the people, and the reisn of the priesthood, and the bloody epopees of the sol- diers of the Empire. ‘With the Inst priest will disapoear the last ves- tige of stupidity and error. With the lnst dour- geoise will disappear tho Iast veutize of the explora- tion of labor, the last vestige of oppressionand misery. The moment draws near when eveats will bring us the occasion of revenge in thelast stengele and definite victory. Comomunists, -ithelste. Rerolutioniste, close up onrranks. Let a8 bond more sacred than the huly ailiauce unite us to advance to tne conquest of political_powcer or the complete extermination of the Jesnits and the dourqeotale. ————— “I'he Springfield (Mass.) Republican i3 respon- sible for this paragraph about the “littlered- headed cuss ™ ANDERSON: A New Orleans reporter has pot hold of a Repah- Yican who evidently was on the inside in the Lovisi- ana election business, and who gives some interest- ing bits of gossip, of which this is a sair sample: ‘*After ANDERSON was gone to East Feliciana be wrote 10 me frequently, stating the situation and asling my advice. In Speaking to Gor. KELLOGG of him I regreited having advised him to go, ex- pressing the fear that hie ambition would lead him into atlempting some rascality which would pro- voko tbe bulldozers into killing him. Gov. Rxt- 1066 _cheerfully replied that it they killed him wa would not only get rid of the little whelp, bat that 08 n martyr hé would be worth thousands of voles to us in the North, and that if they did notkill him he would manage to beat them for the benedt of the party, providing siways that he did not eell out to them, which was the thing most to b3 fearea. " ———— A Washington dispatch sags: ReTuer's examination of DARRALL Wwas ver? sovere, and succeeded in placing that individnal in # most unenviable light. DarraLt had to confe=3 that he regarded ANDERSON a3 8 very bad man, aud at the sume time tried to bold him ‘and his docu: ments over the head of MaTruews, and tnus 2eb himself foisted into the Collectorship of the port of New Orleans. This point was brought out very plainly, to the great embarrassment of DARBALL During the entire session to-aay ANpersos 0cct: pied 8 6eat near BurLru, and scowled and smiled Dby turns, according na the tide of testimony ebhe: and flowed for and avsinst him. In tho matter of intimigation in the parish where DanuaLt live his testimony was direct, pointed, and vlain. Tne Democrats tried to avold this brznch of the lum ject, but ghosts of the murdered Republicans Wi not down. ——— The New York churches bave long advertised their Sabbath services; Dow they aspouncs specfal inducements, ‘‘such as *strangers greeted,” “no collection,” seats free” “‘gentlemanly ushers,” ‘strangers volizels shown to scats,” and 40 on. Brother EDWx2 EcGLesTON loug ago instituted the plan of offering a handsome chromo for every Sundas- school gcholar, but this bid of polite ushers Is apt to prove even more attractlye, since it 15 8 standing complaint in every great city that stranzers visiting fashionable places of worahip are treated, it not with abeolute rudeness, at Ieast with humiliatiog neglect. —————— The New York World has discovered a Re- publican scheme in its own State: the Republic- ans will *induce the Temperance and Probibk tion party to meet and nominatc GEORGE F. Dasrourit, of Rochester, for Court-of-Appeads Judge,” and then indorse him. The Temper: ance and Prohibition party nominated Mr. Das- FORTL 50mE Weeks ago. ————— , The Cathotic Review joins in the hunt of ¢ New York Jierald’s * Roman Prelatey” aud points out how one of the Meraid's * estened contemporaries,” having o copy of t book from which the - Roman Pr translating great chunks of e erudition without altering the phras cven the puneutation, s enabled to red failibly o week in advance what c ¢ Prelate ” will nest deal with, the { ment be will adopt, the very words be will e N s