Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 6, 1878, Page 4

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F., EXCELSIOR E: CAMPMENT (Uniform- ed). No. Hall, Twenty-second-st., between State- st 20d Wabash-av. “The st 2d. an egrees will be conferred pext Friasy évenlng, Uct. 1L Visiting brothers fnvited. A. 1L WAGGENER, C. P. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1878. In New York on Saturday greenbacks ruled steady at 99} cents on the dollsr in gold ahd silver comn. “The Grand Jury of the Criminal Court yesterday returned true bills against Josepe St. Peres and Mrs. CLark. for the murder of the latter’s husband at La Grange a few weeks sgo, and also against Policeman JoNes for the shooting of young O'BriEN. i The, amount of building done in Chicago Guring the first nine months of this ** hard- ' times year” 1878 is something for the croskers to meditate upon avd explain if they can. TUp to Oct. 1, a frontage of nearly five miles of new houses and stores has been built, and $5,000,000 Qistributed among mechanics, laborers, contractors, merchants, ete. There were forty-seven deaths and 105 new cases of yellow fever at Memphis yes- terdsy, the heavy increase being undoubt- edly due in great measure to the return of absentees unwiliing to remain longer from home. While this foolhardy invitation to disease and death continues there is no hope that Memphis will be freed from the horrors and the crushing disasters of the plagae. A great deal of angry feeling has been oc- casioned among the members of the Produce Exchange of Chicago at the determination of the American Express Company to enter in- 1o competition with them, and the commis- sion men yesterday held a meeting and passed resolutions denouncing the Espress Com- pany for its invasion of their business do- mzin, and pledging’ themselves to retalinte by refasing to handle any produce transport- ed by this Company. TmpEN's propensity for cipher telegrams as o meansof facilitating fraud and theft is shown once more in the examination at Detroit of his counsel, “the Hon.” Troxas Harranp, upon the charge of feloniously ading in the larceny of the New York Mine books of account while the tsking of testimony in the income-tax case was going forward at Aarquette. All the dispatches containing instructions as to the mode of procedure for the nbstraction of the books were in cipher, it being calculated beforehand that this would be a valuable aid in bafiling the inquiry cer- tain to follow the theft of the books. - Of course ‘‘the Hon.” defendant will refuse to translats the telegrams, and their exact pur- port is likely to remain unknown. The tes- timony yesterdey before the United States Cowmmissioner at Detroit indicates the prob- ability that HarraxD will be held for triul in the Uniled States District Court. Exciting reports are received from the region in Nebrasks whero the hostile Chey- ennes are known to be. Col. TrorSpurcw, ‘with all the force ho could collect at short notice, is in hot pursnit, and at last sc- counts was close upon the heels of the flying redsking. Other commands were hastening from all directions to eflect & junction with him, and Gen. Croox himself is on his way to the North Platte to assume direction of the oper:uons. There seems to be no longer any danger that these rene- gade Cheyennes will escape the vigorous pur- suit that has been instituted, or that they will succeed in effecting a coalition with the disaffected Indlans of the Red Cloud Agency, which has been itheir manifest intention. The route taken in their flight leads past the Niobrara River region, where vast herds of cattls are ranged by the wealthy stock-men of North- western Nebrasks, but at the rate Col. THORNDURGE is pressing them they wili have little leisure for depredation by the way. Ounr dispatches point to the g-atifying * probability that the entire band of Chey- ennes will be overtaken to-day or to-morrow wnd completely annihilated. We fapcy the reputable portion of the Democratic party in Chiczgo and Cook County will scarcely admit that they have been fairly represented by, the Bummer Con- ~ventions that have been held under the pame _of Democracy, and we should thirk-that they would be inclined to resent the action of the mob if they have ahy party, or local, or even persodal, pride:inthe matter. With tch: ning{e ni:eepfian of their North Side ngressional Convention, their o] Lave been of 5o disrepntabléa ch!xg‘;:?::si refleci upon the whole community, and, with tie exception of one or two candidates, who Lave Leen nominated by-a bare majorify, the versons ‘who have béen:‘presented to the suffrages of the peaple are conspicuously un- £it, and should bo defeated without any ro. gord to their poliical conmections, The Democritic nominations “for - Con.. gress in fthe First and Second Dis- hqm.? were bod enough; the Legislative Dominctions weré still worse;* but worst of all, amounting to an insult to the intelligence of the people, was the renomination for the County Board of the very men who have made themselves most obnoxious to the fax- payers, and who have constantly been identi- L the worst element of the County Ringsters. The hold of the Democratic party upon this county is- not strong enough to warrant such tampering- with the interests of the taypayers, and, ubless responsible Democrats are willing to lend themselves to the purposes of the * gang,” the Demo- [ cratic ticket will be defeated by an over- whelming vote. The mob ruled the Demo- aratic County Convention a year ago, but it was not able to elect its ticket. The same condition of things this year ought to be followed by the same result. ROBBERY—AND NOW MURDER. The &chools for the encouragement and promotion of crime, especially burglary, robbery, arson, and larceny, which the Municipal Government of Chicago has so long licensed and protected, have nt last added to their studies the graver crime of murder. On Friday evening some thieves and burglars, who had robbed a wholesale store safely, delivered one wagon-load of plunderatanominal pawnshop on State street. When the wagon containing the second load reached the place of delivery a police-officer happened to be passing; he put his hand on the cloth with which the goods were covered, intending to lift it, asking one of the men at the same time, “ What have you got here?” and he was instantly answered and killed by & pistol-shot. This murder, a3 well as the antecedent robbery, and perhaps a hundred other like robberies committed within the year, is due directly’ and rotoriously to the barely-dis- guised shops for the receipt of stolen goods, which shops, with a- full knowledge of the character of their business,.are to be found in all parts of the city, and are protected in their. nefarious traffic by licenses from the city authoritics. 'This state of things is not new in Chicago. Every police-officer knows that nineteen out of every twenty shops licensed and kept as pawnshops are, in fact, places for the reception of stolen goods; that they are, in fact, the “places to which nine-tenths of the goods stolen from -stores and private houses in this city are taken snd sold by the thieves; and no policeman is so credulous and simple ‘as to Delieve that in any case the keeper of auy one of these shops is not fully satisfied that the goods he Dbuys are stolen. . Daring twenty years thers have been spasmodie attempts to convict the keepers of these establishments, and every attempt has been a failure. No matter how strong the evidence nor how overwhelming the proof, this_class of criminals has invarizbly been able to defeat justice. If we remember cor- rectly, it has not been more than four years since a family of these keepers, caught with $15,000 Lo 20,000 of stolen goods, some in their possession and some of it shipped by them to confederates elsewhere, without a loophole through which an ordinary crimi- nal could escape, was able for several terms of Court to prevent grand juries finding in- dictments, and, when the indictments were found, succeeded at last in placing men. of their own choice on’the trial juries, who refused to conmvict them. In this day of # Unions,” and *‘Protective Alliances,” and “Brotherhoods ™ there is no more infamons Association, no'more dangerous and corrupt- ing Brotherhood, than the lliance of the keepers of these shops for the receipt of stolen goods,—an alliance extending all over the country,—for their nutual protec- tion against legal proceedings. Fifty thousand dollars, or three times that amount of money if necessary, will be forthcoming to purchase sll the pro- tection against outraged law and justice which may be required to screen the crimi-~ nal from punishment. Thisis a community of crime which has for many years successfully baflled justice.” The Graed Jury within six months made an earnest appeal to the Mayor |- and Common Council to adopt some regala- tion that would limit and control these schools of crime, but the Cowmon Council put the paper away without giving it the least consideration. On Friday night an honest, faithful officer was murdered at one of these dens,—murdered by a licensed thief. et us hope that this deed will so arouse public feehng that the Mayor, Conn- cil, and police will be induced take efective steps 10 rid the city of these robber-dens, which are tenfold more infamons aud cor-. rupting in their agencies and effects than the guinbling-houses and.the brothels, which are made the subjects of police visitation and prosecution from tima to time. 3 THE CREDIT SYSTEIL The failure of the City of Glasgow Bank _reveals another chapter in the inevitable history and outcome of speculation and the attempt to substitute credit for capital. Tho revelations are of the common kind: The inducements of interest on deposits by the bauk to swell its funds; the loaning of these funds at high rates of interest to desperate speculators; the taking as collateral specu- Intive securities; the kiting of paper between various banks doing the same kind of busi. ness; the investment of funds in East Indian, Ausiralian, and even South American specalative jobs, such as the loan of money" on herds of wild cattie roaming the pampas of Paraguay! To this must bo added, of course, the loaning of large sums on ques- tionablo paper to Directors and to the friends of the Directors. TFor the fifty millions of dollars that tho bank owes it has notes, bonds, mortgages, assignments, and other cals and dogs which will yield but a small percentage at the end. of a long inves- tigation. “ In this country, and even in this city, we bave a painful experience of the worthlessness of the assets of a benk which has been plundered by its officers in a system of reckless speculation. During the last twenty-five years there has been a great change in the mercantile system in Great Britain, and the change has been largely adopted in'this country. - Previously, merchants engaged in business to thd extent which their actual capital, and a Teasonable credit founded on that capitsl, justified, and only increased their business as their capital .was increased by profits. * This is changed. Now the men .of capital do not engage per- anew elass of merchants; w6 do business on czedity snd-who~push that credit to the utmost limit. The business is vastly in- creased by this process, but-the margin of cash capital on which it is done is so small that any serious depreciation of values, and sudden glarm in credit, or heavy loss, issure 1o carzy down the operator, and, with him, all others whose credit is mixed up with his own. To this constant and universal expan- sion of credit is-due the ever-recurring bresk- downs. When credit fails, collapse in trade follows of necessity. o Banking in Scotland seems to hive adopt- ed this éredit system and carried it o ex- sonally in trade.’ ‘They lend their money t6 | ; tremities, just as it has been carried in this country. So long as-credit lolds out, so long will spéculation thrive, snd wealth, and accumulations, and prosperity assumo gigan- tic proportions. But when credit rexches its utmost tension, and there is a snapping of the cords, then it is discovered how purely imaginary were the supposed wealth and accumulations under the system of expanded credit. This country had its credit era, followed by the era of vanished fortunes and wrecked prosperity; and that mah is a public enemy who now proposes to romew the period of false values, speculative operations, and wild and frenzied extensions of the credit system. ‘There can be but one eud to this system, and thatis poverty and want. The $40,000,000 of the depositors of the Glasgow Bank have perished in the vain effort to in- fiate values by watering securities and in fiot property in the four quarters of the globe. POLITICAL BLACKMAIL. It is snid of a low-down, but wily politician of this city, who has enjoyed a good many small successes in his day, that a favorite electioneering practice of his was to go around the African quarter and distribute pennies and nickels to the little pickaninnics, and that he was accustomed to secure a good many colored votes (though a Democrat) by this cheap show of liberality. But of late the little darkies havo been swindled out of their election sweetmeats by a more sys- tematic order of blackmail. ~Pennies and nickels, and even subsidiary silver, distrib- utéd among the saloons, do not count for much in a political contest nowadays. In- stead of g little candy for the babies volun- tarily contributed, household stores. for the winter and rum-money to last over till the next election are exacted from tho candi- dates for political ‘honors and emoluments. Political blackmail has grown from a spo- radié ailment tothe proportions of a recurrent epidemic. It breaks out twice a year,—in the fall and in the spring,—and it fastens on every man who has the temerity to announce himself asa candidate for office, high orlow. It is a diseaso that attacks the packet, and its virnlence and endurance are mensured only by the capacity of the victim. The present season seems to be peculiarly favorable to its spread in Chicago. There are various kinds of political black- mail, but every variety has a distipctive and well-organized character. Tho candidates for party nominntions are the first victims to this disreputable traffic. They are not confined to those who voluntarily seel:-nom- inations at the hands of the primaries and conventions, for the bummers search out promising subjects to operate upon. - At this particular stage of blackmail the confidence operators are Republicans, Democrats, and Nationnls,—every one of them belongs to all the parties in the field, and professes to control all the primaries and all the conven- tions. The blackmailer may be a profession- al gambler, or a saloon-keeper,.or a ** slug- ger”; but he, -is a Democrat among Democrats, a Republican among Republic- ans, a Greenbacker among Greenbackers, and 50 on; he will be found at all the primaries and all the conventions, and howls, and pushes, and swears, and blackguards with- out any unfair discrimination as to parties. The candidates are divided up among these self-constituted office-brokers and victimized according to their weakness and means. In order that the material may not give out, each sot of blowers and strikers discovers a good subject and preys upon him till the last ballot 15 taken. Convention furnished a fair sample of the: modus operandi. ‘There was a wealthy Irish butcher who was persuaded that he was the proper man- for Sheriff of this county, and ihat the Democrats would nominate and elect him. According to all reports, this worthy beef-killer became convinced some weels ago that political life was his destiny, and ever since then he has contributed freely to tho- blowers and strikers who took him in charge. He was under ‘the im- pression that the Irish would rally around him in overwhelming numbers, and that the nomination was so certain that he only need reach out his hend to clutch it. But when the Convention met and the ballot was taken, the *““b'yes” evidently concluded that they had exhausted the available'means and pa- tienca of tlieir rich butcher, and so they rallied around a butcher-boy more after their own heart,—a fellow with & well-marked physique and a reputation as a fighter,—and the rich victim herdly got enough votes to Lnow he was in the field. After the mominations, the office-brokers ahd bummers divide up ‘into party lines. Some of thiem call themselves Democrats, others Republicans, others Nationals, others Socialists,—and then the candidates are made to contribute in orderto get elected, just as they had previously contributed in’ order to obtain the privilege of running. If the “b'yes ™ have succeeded in getting 4 partic- nlarly “green” fellow, with a particalarly fat pocketbool:, on ons side, they are apt to concentrate on him. This was the experi- ence of another Irishman of large moans on the North Side a .year ago, and a wealthy ' Stock-Yards man on the South Side two .years ~sgo. But the concentration on this particular candi- date does not indicate by any means that he will be elected ; it simply means that he will ‘s plundered more than his competitors. He ds expectod fo visit the saloous often, ask ‘everybody up to drink, put out a $5 bill, and not wait for the change. He is also expected to slip & small amount of money into the outstretched hands of all the fel- lows who approach him personally. But he is bled worst of all by balf & dozen men of “influence,” who generally keep saloons or run gambling-houses, and who confidentially inform him that, for self-protection, he must confide the money into their hands in bulk for redistribution ‘“‘where it will do most good.” If he yields to this soft Dersuasion, this higher grade of blackmailers generally conclude that the money ‘‘will do most good” by saving it for a rainy day or to help them over winter, and they spare themselyes the trouble of redistribution. Their favorite candidate i¢ usually defeated, which it is extremely difficult for him to understand. If he esks for an explanation, he is usually informed that ‘he hasn’t beed ¢‘liberal” enough. . . The phases of political blackmail we have wentioned are, of course, entirely ontside of the regular practice of ‘assessing” candi: dates for what are called the * legihmate ex- penses” of .a campaign. . Legitimate ex- penses, strictly interpreted, would be fne printing of tickets and hiring, of halls for meetings, with perbaps & few incidentals. Each party could probably defray all proper expenses of an ordinary local campaign for $1:000 at the outside. As n matter of fact, bowever, the candidates are compelled to Pay a good many thousand dollars, each ac- cording to the importance of the place he is seeking. The candidate for Sheriff will pmbn.bl,_y be assessed” $4,000, the candidate The late Democratic County- for County Treasurer $6,000, the candidate for Congress £1,000 or $1,500, and so on. Evén the candidates for the Council, to which serviceno pay is attached, and tha cen- didates for the County” Doard, where the lawful pay is very small, are mada to contribute heavily ; indeed, there is & wide- spread impression among the bummers that the candidates for offices without salaries ought to pay the most, on the ground that they are tho most profitable. The office- holders who are not- candidates are also as- sessed “‘for the good of the party,” and they generally contribute becnuse they expect to be candidates at some future day ; they for- get that, when they again solicit nomination and election, their contributions while in office will not be counted in their favor, but that they will be made to *come down” again.- Sheriff Keny could probably explain Liow this is from Lis own experience. " It is not practicable to enumerato all the devices for blackmailing officc-seckers, but there is one new method which deserves mention for its brilliant ingenuity. Noth- ing is more gratifying to & candidate than to be invited to speak,—especially when le is runmcing for Congress” or the Legislature, whers speech-making is the chief attraction. In former times it was the custom to invite candidates to address their constituents on proper occa- sions, and it was thought that the practice was of mutual benefit to the oflice-soekers ond the people. But it has beon left to the keen inventive faculty of the Chicago bum- mer to turn this practice into a source of revenue. In n certein disttict of this city candidates receive a polito note saying that they will be permitted to addrass the peopla at a certain time and place on theissnesof the day, with o post scriptum to the effect that théy will be expected to contribute' $5, or £10, or $50 (according to the importance of the cacdidate) for this rare privilege. Now it may be inferred from what we have said that we do not approve generally of the practice of pblitical blackmail, but we can- not withhold our admiration from this par- ticular variety of the practice. There is cer- toinly some justice in making most candi- dotes pay for the privilege of making speeches, for it affords a small compensation for the few people who consent to bo bored Dby listening to them. We caunot deprecate this phese of the disreputable business as much s we do the others, but would only suggest that the spenkers be assessed in pro- portion to their stupidity and dreariness. - THE AMERICAN COUSIN. It is seldom that the dignitied and con- servative London 7imes so far forgets itself £3 to exhibit a fretful dislike for the people and institutions of this country. It is now over a hundred years sincs that little unpleas- antness occurred between the Mother Coun- try and her Colonies which led to a dissolu-~ tion of the copartnership and the establish- ment of a business on this side of the water on account of and inthe name of the junior partner of the comcerh, and the lapse ,of time, if no other consideration, ought to be sufficient to make each party forget what- aver is disagreenble ahout the past, and gen- erously ackunowledge iwhatever is good "and noble in the career of! fhe other. This tho Times is usually disposed to do, but occa- sionally it allows thespirit of jealousy to dominate its better jidgment, and then it is disposed to search forithe mote in its Ameri- can Cousin’s eye. +{ The recent numbel, of the North Ameri- can Review contains hn article from Mr. GLADSTONE's pen, -emitled’ “Kin' Beyond Sea,” in which a pamflfl_ is drawn between the twoformsof government,and the English and tho American sysfem is contrasted with the rhetorical directnesg that always charac. terizes that learned gentleman’s literary pro- ductions. And, indeed/so much of my Lord’s article redounds to thayvhonor and glory of this country, its Constitution, laws, institu- tions, and methods, tha} the great Thundarer perniits its equanimity'to be disturbed there- at, and its ruffled tempdr is displayed in an ill-natured criticism of Mr. GLADSTONE'S pa- per. Tt is puzzled to know in tho first place whether Mr. GrapsToNE intended his essay for the edification of renders in England or America, and declarés that in either case the writer is ‘“‘redundant and de- fective,” as “ Englishmen will hardly care to be told of the rapid decadepce of their own country, and of the moral certainty that ‘they will before/long be passed sud out- stripped by their Ameriean rivals.” The arguments that Mr. GrapstoNe advances to establish these propositions the Zimes does not consider worth while to controvert, bat contents itself with trying to neutralize whatever is creditable to our people by some- thing that is decidedly derogatory. To the remark of the essayist that the American na- tion is paying off its debt with great rapidity, much more rapidly than the English Govern- ment is doing, the 7¥mes is moved to reply with intentional sarcasm that they ‘¢ confess to the whole of it, and have'not proposed any currency juggle to scals away either principal or interest.” The Times need not have print- ed its ironical reference tothe provailing fiat- ‘money lunacy in this country initalics, in order to make the sentence bite’; but the slur is doprived of its sting by the recollection that our National Government docs ** confess to the whole ” of the debt, and never has proposed to cheat ony honest creditor out of a single cent of | it, nor to pay any portion of it in what is not regarded ss money the world over. Neither the American nor the English Gov- ernment can consistently be held responsible for the vagaries of political parties until their impracticable theories are ecrystallized into law, and thus be made a public policy. 2Mr. GuapsToNE thought he saw something very extraordinary in the way in which the huge armies of both Federsls and Confed- erates have gone back to civillife and have melted into the mass of peaceful cilizens; but the Z%mes can find an instance to the same effect, ““without being driven back to CrversNaTus.” Its knowledge of history re- minds it that Croxwery's army did the same thing, and that the disbanding of Crox- weLL's Ironsides ¢ was not followed by such events as the Ponnsylvania railway riots.” TIndeed, Mr. Grspsroxe does not makea point in hislong and elaborate essay in favor of his “Kin" Beyond Sea” that the quernlous Times does not seek to offset by reference to some discreditable phase of American society, or to some incident, wholly excep- tional in its character, that is calculated to throw dishonor upon republican institutions. It even complains ‘bacause r. GLADSTONE “ has adopted the American form of -spell-- ing as often as it differs from ours” (and of course ours is the only correct method), and his offense is still further nggravated by the fact that *“queen " appears with * a small initial letter, while President is more dis- tinguished.” This is an .insult not to be passed over in silence, and is worthy of loudest thunder of *The Thunderer,” al- though it admits that the disrespectful way of spelling the good Queen’s name may have been tlie fault of an ignorant and perverse compositor, who was aided and abetted by a royalty-hating proof-reader. **But,” con- tinues the indignant Z'imes, that America is to wrest from us our commercial primacy ; that in" her very next cemsus, in the year 1880, she will be exhibited to the world as tLe wealthiest of ‘all - the nations; and that she is, indeed, passing us by in a8 canter, all this can hardly be n mera printer's freak.” No, indeed. 1Mr. GrapsToye must face this dreadful responsibility, and not attempt to shift it upon the shoulders of the poor printer, behind whom so many of ms often try to sknlk. i The whole tenor of The criticism upon Mr. GrapsroNt's very just and diseriminating article in the ZReview,by the Times, is so erroneous and fault-finding that we begin to suspect the traditional healthiness of roast- Deef ond plum-pudding mey well bo called in question; and, now that tho bank of Glas- gow has failed, we do not even dare to sug- gest that the ‘digestive apparatus be stim- ulated and the editorial temper improved by a moderate infusion of Scotch ale. THE BIBLE REVISION. The revision of the Eaglish Bible which began May 6, 1870, is now more than half done, It is probable that the New Testa- ment at least will be published in 1880, This work is the most important of its kind that has been undertaken in the Christian Church since the King Jases revision. It is, indeed, the first concerted efiort by En- glish-speaking Protestants to correct the er- Tors and archaisms of that edition, and it is the only one that has the least promise of general acceptance. It derives its impor- tance largely from the fact that all the prin- cipal Protestant denominations are repre- sented in the committees engaged on the revision. The movement begangn the En- glish Established Church, but, with a liber- ality quite worthy of the occasion, the first Committes was authorized to associate with itself in the work Christian scholars of other churches using the King JAMES version. The object of the rovision 1s said by Prof. Scoarr, President of the American Com- mittee, to be the bringing of King Jadmes’ version up to the present State of the En- glish language, and to the present standard of Biblical scholarship. The principles adopted by the Committee for its own gui- dance are o5 follows: 1. To introduce ns few alteratlons as possible in tho text of the authorized version, consistently with faithfulness. 2. To limit as faras possible the expression of euch alterations to the language of the authorized or earlier versions. _(Only one mew word has been introduced in the New Testament. ) - 3. Esch company to go twice over the portion to be revised, once provisionally, the second time dinally. 4. 'That the text to be adopted be that for which the evidence is decidedly preponaeratinz: and that when the textso riopted ciffers from that from which Lhe authorized version was made, the alteration be indicated 1n the margin. 5. To maxe or retain no change in the text, on the second final revision by each company, escept two-thinds of those present approve of the same; put on the flrst revision to decide by simple ma- jorities, 6. 'To revise the' headings of chavters, pages, pacagraphs, italica, and punctuation. ‘The need of revisign is shown in several articlos contributed by American members of the Committee to an extra number of the Sunday-School World, which now lies before us. Prof. Ezma Asporr. of Cambridge, Mass., writes on the imperfection of the Greek text of the New Testament from which our common English version was made, and our present resources for its cor- rection. He shows that the King' Jawes translators had no manuscripts earlier than the fifteenth century, whereas there are now avsailable for purposes of Biblical criticism the Sinaitic and the Vatican manuseripts, which were written as early, probably, as the middle of the fourth century, and two others,—the Alexandrine and the Ephraem, —which belong to about the middle cf the fifth, besjdes many valuable fragments of the fifth and sixth centuries. It is o matter of course that many errors crept into the text during the thousand yenrs that elapsed be- tween the date of the earliest manuscripts and the writing of thoss which King Jawes’ translators used. Many such errors have been discovered on a comparison of the originals. Most of these have been due to.a confounding of the text with interlineations or glosses only suggested as probable or de- sirable by medieval scholars. Notes on the margin made for devotional or eritical pur- poses have also beon included in the author- ized version, and have passed ever since for the word of Gop. Among the longer passages in,ths New Testament, of which the genuineness is’ moroe or less questionable, are the Doxology in the Lord's Prayer; DMatt., xviii, 11 (*“Tor the Son of man is come to save that which was lost™); Matt., xxi., 4¢ (“And whosoever shall fall on this stons shall be broken; but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder ") ; Matt., xxiii., 14 (*“ Woe unto yom, scribes and Pherisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayers, there- fore ye shall recoive the greater dawna- tion”); Matt., xxvii., 35 (** That it might be fulfilled which was spoken ‘by the prophets, They parted my garments among them, and upon my vestures did they cast lots”); Murk, Vi, 11 (“Verily I say unto you it shall bo more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the Day of Judgment than for that city™); Mark, sv., 28 (*And the Seriptures wero fuifilled, whick saith, And he waos numbered with transgressors”); Mark, xvi., 9-20 (The entire passage in Te- gard to the appearance of Jesus to Mary Maoparene, including many favorite texty); Luke, ix, 56 (“For the Son of man is not come to destroy men’s lives, but to save them”); Luke, xxiii., 34 (“Father, forgive them, for they know not whaf they do”); Luke, xxix., 12- 40 (concerning tho Resarrection); Jobn, v., 4 (about tho angel moving the water in the pool of Bethesdu); John, viii., 11 (** She said, No mau, Lord.. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee, go and sin nomore”); Acts, ix., 5-6 (the conversation between Paurand the unseen spirit) ; John, x., 7-8 (the famous text of fhe three heav- enly witnesses). Some of the ‘questionable additions are from parallel passages, where the words are genuine ; but others have no manuscript authority whatever. The above comprise all the considerable changes that will be required by a revision; but the par- ticular words and phrases that will be affected would fill 4 volume by themselves. There are in all 150,000 various readings of the text of the New Testament. Of these, Prof. Apporr says nincteen-twentieths may be dismissed from consideration at once. ¢ This leaves, we will say, 7,300. But of these again it will appear that nineteen out of twenty are of no sort of consequence as affecting the sense.” This reduces the num- ber to perhaps 400, which invplve & differ- ence of meaning often very slight, while a few exceptional cases among them may rel- atively be called important.” . Besides the errors of the text, there-are the errors of interpretation of the King Jaes trauslators. The questions arising jn this department of criticism are even nicer and more difficult of settlement than those in the former. Prof. TuaY=R, of the Aundo- ver Theological Saminary, writes on this subject in . the Sunday-School World. The King Jaxrs traoslalors disregarded verbal criticism, provided the sense did not suffer. This Prof. Tasyer regards as a grave eor. By translating the same word in the originel by different English words, distinc- tions are inevitably suggested where thoy do ‘not exist; on the other hand, by rendering different words in the origioal in one and the same way, differences in the sacred writers’ thonght are hidden from the modern reader.” Thus the New Testament * atonement ” and ¢ reconcilintion ” are identical, ns are “‘Liope " and *“trust,” and “chanty” and ‘love.” On the other hand, * Hades " and ** Gehenna,” ‘“demons ” and *‘ devils,” treuslated by. iden- tical words, are in the original radically dif- ferent things. Prof. Ta%er gives many in- stances of errors of this desoription which we have not space for. He shows how onsily they might ariss by pointing the different shades of meaning in the foilowing passeges, which in the original are identical : Betware of the scribes,| Beware of the dcribes, which (oce to go 1n long which desire to watk in ciotiung, and love salu-iong -robes, and tations in the markel-ureelings in the markeis, places, and the chiefjand the highest seats in gcats in the synagogues, sy¥nagogues, and the and the uppermost roomichie/ rooms at feasts: at fensts: which devouriwhich devour widows® widows' houses, and for houses, and for a shew & pretense wake long make long prayers.— f;nyels.—,llark 12: :58|'Luke 20: 46 sq. Dr. Howarp Crospy writes of the archa- isms in the Bible, showing that changes in the language have caused many words in the suthorized version to have for the common understanding a radically different meaning from that which they- conveyed, and were intended to convey, in King Jaxres’ time. Thus ““adsmant” is used’ for * diamond,” Segha” for “‘hurrah,” * admire” for “ wonder at,” “all to ¥ for “ completely,” ¢ bravery ” for * splendor,” .** camphira " for * cypress,” * turtle ” for ¢ dove.” Prof. SteoNa writes on the paragraphs, chapters, and verses of the Bible, showing that the present arrangement is a loss in overy respect. The sense is greatly injured by the bad method at present in use, and would be improved by a new and intelligent division into subjects, the old numbers being retained only in brackets or on the margin for reference. i The articles which wo have abstracted in- dicate how radical the revision will be, if it be carried out according to the wishes of the American revisers. The scheme is so com- prehensive that it hes already eansed some of the faithful to sound the alarm; and we find our estcemed contemporary, the Jnte- 710y, serving due notice wpon whom it may concern that the errorsof the old version are precious in the eyes'of the unlearned, who will, it is said, ** watch with jealous care even the smallest omissions.” This warn. ing, which, we 1magine, represents mnot merely the views of zealots in the Church, but of many cultivated persons, places the revisers in a most perplex- ing dilemma. It i3 a notification to them that they must either do violence to their feelings by pronouncing-true and the word of Gop that which they knew to be false, orrun the risk of having their version rejected. The condition of mind which can inducé any man to declars error sacred is perhaps more to be wondered at than con- demned. Itistoo soon yet to say what the effect of the revision will be; butit seeins reasonable to expect that it will fora time furnish much ‘ammunition. to the enemy, and unsettle ‘the minds of a few who hava hitherto supposed that the Bible was handed down with the tables of stone to AosEs on Sinai. The apprehension of this result has, no doubt, had much to do with the warnings which. the Interior and other orthodox authorities Lave Taised,—nons too soon, it seems, to avert the danger feared. CLERGYMEN AND MUSTACHES. The question whether clergymen should wear mustaches is once more, agitating the English Church pepers, and it is not alto- gether unlikely that our own religious world may be exposed to convulsions and storms over this highly-importaunt,subject. Should the question come up in ourown community whother our clergymen shall be close-shaven 8s & new-born babe or sealded hog, or wear the hirsute ornament which Nature intended, we trust they will not stop at the mustache, but demand the right.to wear full beard. There is danger in wearing the mnstache alone. Nearly all the circus-agents, negro- minstrels, faro-dealers, prize-fighters, and gilded youths of rapid style, wear only the mustache. No miuister, therefore, should cxpose himself to the suspicion of being one of this class. It is somewhat carious that any argument should ever be made upon the propriety of the full beard for clergymen, since all the sacred zuthorities favorit. Camrist is always representzd with fall beard. The Apostlos did ot confine themselves tothe mustache, or wear the odious and artificial whisker which is clipped into the shape of a mutton- chop. but wore long and flowing beards, which gave thom o dignified and venerable appesrance, Among all the maltitudinous pictures of snints in the galleries of Europe, it is hard to find one without beard,~—those without being usually saints of a cheap and ordinary kind. The close-shaven monk and the clean-faced priest are latter-day inven- tions, and are not pretty or mice. Fancy St. Plun with no beard and his head sand- pupered ! Could wa have any reverence for him, or for any other saint, with head and face a5 smooth 3 a young pig 7" “The Bible itself bears significant testimony upon Lhis question. Inlaying down his very tiresome laws, Moses was particular to ‘warn the Jews against meddling with their beards, and in Leviticus declares, ** Youshall not mar the corners of your beards.” When Ezsa reflected uwpon the abominations of Israel, the most inteuse manner in which he could display his sorrow was to pluck out overy hair in his beard. Isaram and Jemz- amam, who wore morbid people, addicted to looking upon the dark side of every subject, and croaking like two old ravens -whenever they considered the burden of Moan, wera accustomed to break out into the most dismal lamentations, rave about sackeloth and ashes," and chant funereal dirges; but in all their long catalogue of wo there was never any- thing so dark a8 their visions of the timo when }Moas shonld howl over Nemo and Mzoess, ‘“and on all their heads shall be baldgess and every, beard cut off.” One can fointly imagine, Lherefore, the manner in which these cheerful old wailers: would haye regarded some of our winisters nowadays with not a hair visible where the hair ought to grow. How differ- ent the genial Davip, who, when he smote his harp to singthe praises of dwelling in fra- love* sox did not come to grief until he fe)) fatg "= the clutches of the adventuress Dermgy went to sleep upon her shapely Lnees, : before he could wake, was all shaven g ' shorn, and exposed to the mockery of thy Philistines, who did with him as fley pleased. The benrd was the glory &:z o strength of man, as'the hair was the gragy and beauty of woman, » , ¢ As Cunist, the Apostles, the saints, thy blessed mertyrs, and ell the Fathers of thy Church, wore beards; s the Tible wowhen condemus, but on tho other Land shery. where encourages, the practice; s thera iy | no regulution of the Church forbidding if. and as ainistérs, like other men, look bette: wearing them, we cannot couceive why thery should be any discassion over the matter gt all, --The fnil beard will improve lheirlnoh and ministers ought to look twell, Tt will giva them a patrinrchal aspect and airof © dignity and venerability, and this 1s the A pect and air they ought to have. It will jr: prove their health, and this they nced very - much. .Nearly all ministers have the brog, . chitis, and hate it so bad nbout the latter part of‘ June that they have'to leave their » flocks to the wunskillful care of rural shep.. berds who are not used to. the woywardness’ of the urban lambs, however well they may. " tend the staid and decorous rural sheep, ang absent themselves until September. Now, the : full beard is & nataral cover for the throat - which wards off bronchitis, and its use would obviate the necessity of going away ta the mouatains or to Europe @every summer, leaving the sinners all alone in the unequsl contest with the Devil, who never takes va. . catlons, but works 365 days every yearand . twenty-four hours every day. It is notup’ likely some of the elder sisters might objeet, - having become accustomed. to the close. shaven face as part and parcel of the 1minis. terial office, and looking upon the mustachy and beard as worldly appendages, character: izing children of darkness; bat the yomger sisters would be delighted with the chinge, In thess daysof progress thera is no good reason why the minister should mot coms into closer contact with the world, . and adopt its ways, so far as they are not harm: ful or out of keeping with his sacred offies As the beard and mustache were specit characteristic of the founders of the Churey and all the early Christians, es thereisng Iaw in the Bible or the Church against then, and as they do 1ot interfero with gny of tae fundamental principles of theology, the miz. - ister, like the doctor, and the lawyer, anl other professional men, and like all other men of good sense, should cat loose from their silly notions and throw awsy ther razors. An extremely interesting history is given in a New York dispatch this morning of ths - celebrated JuMEL-Crase-Bowex will case, which is still in litigation, the answer of the American defendants and heirs to the bill of the French heirs‘having been filed yaster-- day in the United Statés District Court in : New York. An ontline of the events . connected with the great lawsut is essential to 8 correct understanding of its present condition, which is thatof being as far as ever from a sottlement. The enormous sum of 83,000,000 is involved in the contest over the property left by Madame JoueL, who, from beiog the frail and un- savory inmate of 2 Rhodo Island workhouse, becams first the 1mistress and then:' the wife of Srtermuy JuuEr, the rich ” Frenchman, inheriting, or nt least -scquir ing, all his vast estate, and then became thg wife of Asrox Burr. The long fight of the American heirs for tho possession of the |~ property is no sooner ended than the French ', beirs put in an appearance for the greal " estate, and it is the settiement of this latest and probably Inst section of the big contro- versy that some of the: leading lawyers of the United States and France are now en- goged in. = Dr. T. F. Foar, of Raicigh, N. C., has writ- ten o pamphlet which has been larzely circulat- ed in that and othér.Southern States, and fi said to have ‘‘made a profound impression.”. It is devoted to the presentation of an elab- orate argument that as a centenuial peace offer-. - ing the nation should compensate the South for. the losses it sustained in the Rebellion. Jlr. FoirD discusses this subject at lengtb, -declar- ing that the Government stould pay tie Rebel, claims as 2 matter of justice and right! Aiter; devoting several pages to setting forth the losses sustained by the Soutbern Rebels, he: uscs these words: * The easicst and best way, to lical them ”—the-wounds made by the War~ —*is to compensate those who lost so much in the conlict.” Tuc last vaze of this book con-: tains the Toilowing: as embodying itsaim: *, §, ‘That co-operative action be had in rhis matter, 8 form of memorial to Conzress 13 appended Lo thess, pages. Let every one woo feels an interest in te greut work copy aad ebtain the sizaatures of his- neighbors to it, aud iucivse it to one of our Sena- tors or Kepresentatives. in Consress us early 33 practicabie, and urge its adoption: g Barm of « mestrial to State of - Cotnty of —— o, 'y 5 b patd for all thair prap ¢ them by tiie Governments and arnles of dith «l-lesiass fog Le 1ate war betycen the States. Jn bondd bearing 3 . PuF cent inferest per sanum, waturiaz withls tie aext hundred years. < This Democratic scheme, it will be seen, em- braves compensation for the four millious of® cmancipated siaves, which as only $300 per”’ head would double the uationat. debt. - The other Rebel losses would add. several thousand: - miliions more to the mountain of debt, and for abundred years the nose of the logal Norts' would be held down on the grindstonc to pay’ theannual interest, and subsequent zenerations would be called on to pay tire principal and ad- ditionul interest. ' For the zake of concilfating the mourners for, the Lost Canze, we sngzest as a compromise the 3 ssulng of, sav, ten billions of 'fat-absoluce, . .’ nioney, to be recelved by them in full compensa= ¢ tion and Hquidation of all elaims and demsads they have amainst the North on ' accoun! of the thrashing and smashing it gave them whenthey weretryinztodismemberthe Kepublic. . In this way they all could be made wpole fo thelr losses without its costing the North a cent, | except part of tne expense of priating the fiat. Oar Southern bretren would then be concill- ated and thereaflter love us, and oar * Natioo-, al ™ nelglibors’ would all be enriched by.the diffusion ol the ten thousand millions of non- exportable, always-stay-wish-you, * absolute 5 money. - And, to make cversthing lovely, the remainder of the commanity, who woula not . want to deprive the * Natlonals " of the fl.\f_ ¢ money, would do their business on the basis of . coin codtracts, ahd odious, uncivilized, barba-’. 4 rous gold and silver. - i BT S Some observing fellow-citizen of -a literars - turn will write a readable chapter one of these' ~ - days entitled “Street-Rallway Manners.” He will not probably discass ' tiié relation of these corporations to the public, nor the rizhts of the . publicto decent treatment at the bands of the agzents and magagers of those companics, bot * e will note the manners " and customs of ghe, peoole, male and female, who ride in‘thecars and show thefr good or bad breedfog while Io transit. First of all, he wlil remark that the average Americant citizen fs more and more, ternal unity, could find no stronger illustra- tion than the ointment that ran down Aazoy's beard,—AsnoN, as will~ be remembered, having o beard that was superior even to that of Moszs, who used to boast himself somewhat upon its length and style. Saar- disposcd to keep the scat that he bas‘paid for. . and not surrender it to the first female, whiteor * blaci, who comes "tu too lat to sceurea seat for hersell. ~He will sce numerous well- dressed ladies standing up’ in overcrowded earsy . Tolding on to the strups overhead, while kapet . ’ turbable gentlemen quictiy remain sitting, 8o PN RO LN TR Sroa 13 " T g t E € T - s e T CoA = o o O S ¢