Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 8, 1878, Page 4

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By ¢ ¥ der. order of the Commander: § u 1UNLOR, Recorder. CHICAGH XCIL OF PRINCES OF JERUSA- Z.“"clr‘xsg-‘g?evkg{luomn\'emlon of this Council Hhibe e on Thusalsy eveulug, Dec: 12, Tor thie elecs ayment of dies, Hion o e HUSSELL, 5" P. .G, ED GOODALE, Grand Secretars. NTHIAN CHAPTER, XO. €9. R. A. M.— 2 3 unid 157 Kinzie-st.—Annual Convocation Mon- day wvenlog, Dec. o, at 330 o'eluck, for the election t . By order of sificui nd paTieat ol SR W Sk un, U, J. 0. DICKELSUN, Sceretary. SUNDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1878. In New York on Saturday greenbacks were steady at 991, Tha official recount of the ballots cast at the recent election on the Court-House bond qnestioix gives a majority of 4,746 in favor of the issue, so far as_the city vote is com- cerned. 'This majority caunot be overcome in the county. Should no injunction lie against the issue on the alleged want of notice, it is fair to presume that the present County Board will endeavor to negotiate the loan, snd apply the proceeds to the rapid finishing of the Court-House. The disposi- tion of the money will be closely watched. “The people have been robbed unmercifally in the past, and do not propose to be in the future, if they can help it. The disappointed aspirants for Sheriff and the horde of place-hunters who did not get anything propose to have a recount of the vote by which Jonx HoFFAMANN was elected. The.reversal of the generally-accepted result on the bond question has given Kenx hopes that his successful antagonist msy be count- ed ont. Itis alleged that the Greenbackers and Communists aver that several thousand votes which were cast for Drxox and Rxax swere counted for Horryaxs. The claim isa preposterous one for the reason that the other candidates on the slabsided tickets re- ceived onan averige fully as many votes as the aspirants for the Shrievalty. HoFFMANN The statement made a few days ago that the Tressury order of July lasl, regulating the inspection of packages to ascertain dam- sge allowance on importations, hed been rescinded, turns out to be erroneous. The order has, however, been modified to cover certain classes of goods, so 8s to prevent the increased 2nmage that would unavoidably ensue were the packages opened and exam- ined in accordance with its strict lettér. The goods excepted are green and dried fruits, sardines, pickles, pepper, pimento, mace, maccaroni, soda-ash, caustic-soda, sugar in mats or bags, and rice in bags. Of these not less than 10 per cent shall be opened in all cases where a damafo allowance is claimed. Another inmate has besn added to the s murderers' row ” in the County Jail. At an early hour yesterdny morning JAMES McMaxrox, a saloonkeeper on Cottage Grove avenue, as shot and killed in front of his place of business by Joi¥ C. Haxwanp, & yonng medical student, occasionally given to Arunken sprees. The tragedy hed its origin in a dispute sbout the settlement for some rinks consumed by both parties overa pro- Jonged pame of euclire. The amonnt «n- volved in the controversy was 20 cents. The murderer maintains a profound silence, and refuses to hold communion with the reporiers. Hence the events immediately precedent to the firing of the fatal shot are shrouded in mystery. The Joint Congressional Committee on the Reorganization of - the Amiy completed its labors yesterday. Its conclusions are guard- ed with the most profound secrecy, but the enterprising news-gatherer has ascertained thgt thé Committee will recommend that the army, exclusive of the Signal Corps, be limited to 20,000 men, the artillery to be re- orpanized on the battery system and con- solidated with the Quartermaster’s De- purtment, and the Staff, Adjutant, and Paymaster’s corps to be abolished, the duties of each to be performed by officers selected from the line. A reduction of officers will Le provided for'by the discontinuance of promotions, and on the desths of the present incumbents the rank of General and Lientea- ant-General will terminate. Gens. Mios and TowsseEND are to be retired. A Committee of-the Bar Association, ¢ whom had been referred the question of ask- jng the Tegislature at its mext session fo wwend the Jury law, yesterday reported that the existing statutes were not in themselves objectionable or in any special need of im- provement. The whole difficuity with the jury system, as it is carried_out in this city, is attributsble to the' mal-administration of the law. The Committee, of which ex-Sena- tor TruMburn was Chairman, the nppointment of a standing committee 1o confer from timo to time With the . Sheriff und otber .officers charged with selecting jurymen, with a view of securing a strict cowplinnce with the provisions of the stat- advised .| utés now in fofce., Tho Committee further recothmended that the thres divisions of the Supreme Court bo consolidated, and that it be-permanently located in Springfield. There is no good reason why the highest ~Conrt in | the State shoula travel from point to point like a nomadic menagerie. To locaté it.in Chicago would be still better, as fully S0 per cent of the canses that come before it for review have théir ineeption it thif city. Jomx BresLrv, one of the pet jurots of the Iate administration, ‘was yesterdny sentenced to one week's imprisoninent for allowing ‘himself to be approached and timpéred with by oue of the parties in the canse which he was called upon to try. A few more convie- tions of fhis character will do much to crush out the professional juror and restore confi- dence in our jury systew. 'CHICAGO TRADE AND THE -RATLEOAD COMMISSIONERS. If Messrs, Sy and Boaug, who consti- tute a majority of the Board of Railway Commissioners, hava not been inaccurately reported,:their only reply to public com- plaint sbout - the railroad discrimination against Chicago is an unsatisfactory avoid- ance. Thejy appear to be anxious to im- press upon the. public that they can do nothing in the matter, though théy say that the subject will come up for discussion at their regular meeting next Tuesday. Mr. Swmrra says; in effect; that the cross-roads can “*fool ” them by so dividing the through rite as to makeé it appear they are charging within the State as high a rate as the main lines. Mr. Bocur says that, when the Board seeks evidence in regard to discrimi- nation and extortion, the men who have enjoyed the benefits of 8 rebate * shutup as tight as a clam.” Mr. Swite says that ““we Grangers” are going to avail “gurselves” of the short-cuts, and that nothing can be dome till the Hlinois Board shall have jurisdiction beyond the State boundaries, which, of course, it will never have. Mr. BoouE says that Chicago's grain frade is growing in spite of the dis- crimination, as though that were a valid roason for not resenting thé discrimination just the same. Both Messrs. Stz snd Bogux unite in ‘urging that the Board has an annaal approprintion of only $35,000 (in addition to salaries), and evidently think they ought not to be espectéd . to do anything with so little meney to proceed upon! ‘As much as two years ago a good many people were curious enough to inquire what good this State Board did the State or the people. The conundruni was left unanswered at that time. A good many more peopie will feel like asking the same questionif the Board insists upon asserting its own impor- tance in dealing with the most flagrant sbuses of the railrond system, and it is not unlikely that the question will e propounded to the Legislatare, with the understanding that in case of an unsatisfactory answer so much of the State machinery be dropped out of use. Illinois has a law which purports to farnish the pub- lic protection against extortion and unjust discrimination ; the Supreme Court of the United States has affirmed the constitutional authority of the State to regulate the rail- roads; the State Board of Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners was crented for the special purpose of enforcing this law ; and if the gentlemen who make up this Board find they cannot do what is expected from them, whether by reason of a defect in the law or a defect in themselves, it is ob- viously their duty to resign their positions. These offices were not created in order to furnish an opportunity for certain people to draw salaries from the State, which is all the Railroad Commissioners can do if they con- fess their inability to protect the public against railroad extortion and discrimination or to punish those companies which are guilty of such practices. ~ The complaints about discrimination rgainst Chicago are tangible enough to admit of the collection of abundant evidence, and Chicago is just as much entitled to the bene- fits of the Railroad Iaw as are the interior points of the State, though ‘‘Granger” Sarrra does not seem to think so. Nor can the present discriminations be allowed to pro- ceed without ultimately damaging the inter- ests of the interior as much as they now damage Chicago. In this, as in all other commercial matters, the interests of Chicago and the interests of the State at large are the same. If the discriminations and rebates of the cross-lines ba tolerated for any length of time they will draw the business away from the Illinois & DMichigan Cansl, and thet valusble water-way will go into ruin and decay. The Legislature has no euthority to make appropriations for keeping the canal in repair, and to deprive it of its revenues is a sure mesns of its destruction. ‘When the canal shall have ceased to be an element of competition, the railroads which are now so liberal with their rebates will put on the screws; and the present beneficiaries will be the sorést’ sufferers. Then *we Grangers * whom Commissioner Syrra repre- sents will wish that the State Board had taken a different view of the matter. As there is to be a meeting of the Railroad Commissioners at Springfield next Tuesdsy, the Board of Trade will do well to send down. a representative who is posted about the discriminntions. This gentleman can on- lighten the Commissioners as to the nature of the discriminations, and éan also ascertain and report as to the disposition of the Board in regard to the abuses. If no help is to bo expected from these Railron® Cominissioners, it is well that the Chicago délegation to the Legislatare should know it, so that some step may be taken at an early period in the session to bring them to a proper account. THE KEENE FLURRY. ‘We have no doubt that a good many peo- plo here and elsewhere have been deceived by the sensational reports as fo an effort to “corner the wheat of the country,” in which Mr. Keexe, of New York and San Francisco, is the central figure. We pre- sume that many .persons regard him in the light of a public enemy, and we Lnow that the episode of his appearance,is looked upon as the outward manifestation of a gigantic gambling operation, -in which either he or the Chicago operators will get the worst of it, while public inferests and public morals will suffer in any ease. The drift of this judgment may be found in the following extract from an article on the subject in the Cincinoati Enguirer, in which there is a curious mixture of scrise and nonsense : At the time of ExExe’s arrival there wasnot to exceed 1,500.000 bushelaof wheat in Chicago, He could have bought every bushel of itand stilt have had half a million of hus. funds left. This would have made him master of the sitaation any- where clse bat i Chicago. But there the flexibil- ity of the marketis alwayscqual to the demands uponit. Hypothecated wheat answers the pur- poses of the actual article in all soeculstive trans- sctions, and 50 long 2sthe blank warehonse re- ceipts dian't give ont there was no particalar dan- ger of a famine, Especially so long os the Northwestern granaries stood behind ready to throw a balf million bushels & day into her lap. -And g0 the bro- jected corner didn't hold out. Chicago has one great advantage over Cincinnati in being the centre of the greatest_grafi-vroducin, United States: Tilinoje. if ealfed upon, canralse a corn-erop Lo-sapply the -wants of -the Coutinent; Tinnesots, and l0wa, and Wixconsin can produce wheat enongh to feed the entire_countrs:: while Michigan and Northérn Indidua supoly the other. raing that 2o {o vort up. All thesc arc fribatary Fo Chiicago, and-send, their coreal wealth to her searchouses for final disposition. But with theu all she inust etill overilow the limite by speculative means, and thus defcat the advantages she nutu- rally enjoys. 1f Uhicago could once and forever put f 6L0D to grain zamblini and kéep the businces in Jegitimate channels, she could dominate the grain trade of the countrs’. A6 it i8 she loscs all this ad- vantage. . ¢ As o matter of fact; there seems-fo -be as little of the gambling element in Mr. KEgNE'S operations as any wo know of on the Board of Trade, and we don’t believe that the iden was ever seérioufly contemplated by that gentleman or those associated with him of cornering the wheat crop of .the Continent. There are probably sll of 6,000,000 of bush- els of wheat in Chicago and Milwaukee and within sight, of which we do not believe Mr. KeenE hes possessed himself of more than one-third. There sre other people buying wheat, because they believe, as Mr. Kuene evidently does, that it is a good investment at the presént price, and that by holding it tifll spring, when they will get the advan- tage of lower rates to the ses-board, they will make money by ‘the opera- tion. They may realize their eéxpecta- tions or they may not; but, in the meédntime, as long as Mr. KeExe buys wheab at the ruling rate, pays for it, and puts it away, he is engaged in.a legitimate opera- tion, and he should be rédeived with the same corduality as anybody else who has the good judgment to bring money to Chicago for investment. There i§ considerable misapprehetision also about the influence of such a denl as this upon the general sale and consumption of wheat. Mr. Keexeis buying the usual grade of speculative wheat rated and known as “No. 2.” The millers have not been buying this wheat generally, because they believe it is relatively too high, or, in other words, that they .can get more flour out of the other grades for less money. The consequence is that neither Mr. KEENE'S purchases nor the purchases of others who -are Dbuying to hold has inter- fered in the lenst with the general movement of wheat. As a matter of fact, the receipts are four or five times larger than they were at the corresponding season last year, and up to the present time more wheat hos been received this season than during a corresporiding period of any previous year, not even excepting 1874, which was tho larg- est wheat year Chicago éver had. Neither the consumers nor the railroads have any reason to comiplain that the natural move- ment of wheat has been retarded in the least. The appearance of Mr. Keexe with $1,800,- 000 in his pockets, and more behind him, may have occgsioned some com- motion among small local speculators, and we believe that ¢ scalping for one-eighth of & cent " is not so frequent & practice on the Board just at present as it usually is. But there is no reason to believe that a partial suspension of this clement of trade is dam- aging either to the Board or to the public. As long as Mr. KxexE continues to buy wheat and pay for it, he should be regarded as a very useful man to Chicago and the North- west, and he will be a very sensible man to wait till ke can get cheaper rates from the railroads before shipping the wheat he owns, if he is in & position to do so. That seems to be the matter-of-fact, common-sense view of the affair. THE CUSTOM-HOUSE INDICTMENTS. In yesterday’s ‘TrmUNE was priuted the following spedial dispatch from Washington: Wasutsaroy, D. C., Dee. 6.—The offlce of Su- pervising- Architect of the Treasury has not yef re- covered from the excifement occasioned by the finding of the“indictments in Chicago. HivL has temporarily retired from his ofllce, but there can be no doub that he privately bas the svmpathyand support of cverybody connected with the ofiice, or that Secretary SHERNAN himéelf will do all that is possivle to secure for him a fair trial, and see that De is ‘protected aguinst injustice. That will be done g0 far ns language cah secure it in the instruc- tions given or 1o be given to Judge LAWRESCE. The Government uuthorities here throughout this entire busincas have endeavored to make amvystery of everything, and to conceal every poesible fact It can be asserted, however, with. ublic. nts that thése nstructions will give Juige NeE absolute control of the casc, and will Lay make him the final judge of all matters connected with them so far as the Goverment is concerned. und will particularly request him 10 insure the ac- cused a fairtrial. Another Washington® correspondent telo- araphs as follows: The Attorney-General refuses to give a copy of his instructions to Judge Lawnesce for piiblica- tion, but fromthose who have been allowed to read it the following can be stated as its substance. It gives Judge LAWRENCE sole charge of the cases, a3 Tias been heretofore stated wonld be done. 1t then goes on to indicate an nnueual interest in the man- sier of conducting the prosecution. The Attorney- General wishes Jndge LAwRENCE to understand that what the Department of Justice desires in the matier is that the exact facts shall be determined by a thoroughly impartial Investigation. e docs not desire the prosecution (0 be condncted with the sole aim of securing a conviction—that is, to make his prosecution a persccution. In other words, he wants tu¢ defendants protected against any iu- justice. Secretary SnERMAX yesterday asked Mr, Reep what he thought of Mr. HiLv's case affer am cxamination of the correspondence. Mr. Reepsaid be thought hé was an innocent man, whereupon the Secretary replied hastily that he ‘was thorougnly glad to hear it. Mr. Reep also had a conversation with tne Attorucy-General to nearly the same effect.’ Attorney-General DEvVENS 14 8150 a personal friend of HiLL's, and very anx- jons that he shall be acquitted. Mr. REED'S warm eulozy of JirLy to DEVENS, it ie reasonable to Sup- ypose, influenced the Junguage of DeveNs’ letter to Judgé LAWRENCE. Judse Frexcit, of the Treasu- ry Department, i3 a warm personal friend of both Hruw and Dey: Dr: a4 & reat respect, for Fuescn's opinions. Frexcu has esid to Devess that he-has been over the catire case, and that there is not a word in it against i1y, and that be has also greatly influenced DEV Now, a8 _to the opinion at the White-House, there marked contrust. The Président, it can be authoritatively etated, has no personal oplnion on the subject be- yond an entlre confidence and_belief in WiLriax 11Exny Switn, Who is Jargely instrumentdl in the :.:lxp"!u that have been the bases of this prosccu- jon. Thd intense anxiety at Washington, in the Tressury Department and the Attorney-Gen- eral’s office, lest the barbarians of Chicago, the Ku-Klux of Hlinois, and the rude and prejudiced United States Judges of this dis- trict, might actually convict, sentence, and punish Supervisor Hitn and his associates, [is peculiarly edifying. In these days of official purity and integrity, in these days of wholesale immunity, in these days when the absence of conviction and punishment for public robbery attests the universal inno- cence of all public officers, the spontaneous instructions of the Department of Justice to*| give these men “‘a fair trial,” and **see that they nre protected against any injustice,” can- hot be regarded otherwisethanasa warning to the public prosecufor not to permit cruel Judges and bloodthirsty juries to conviet pure and innocent men. Has the Depart- ment of Justice been terrified by the long list of convictions and punishments in tho TFederal Courts of this distriet, that its hu- mane chicf, acting with the head of the Treasury Dspartment, felt compelled to employ special counsel to secure to the in- dicted parties a * fair trinl, and see that they are not persecuted "? Has it ever entered the head of any man in this part of the country that any Federal officer indicted for violating his trust and siding the plundering of the Government could fail of having a ¢ fair trial ” before Judge BronaeTT? - Six or more individuals connected as Fed- eral officers and contractors with the Ouns- tom-House building have been indicted'by the Grand Jury for baving defranded the Government of $800,000 in its construe- tion. ~ The espénditure of that much dletrict o the | money (and more) for labor never performed aud for materials never furnished is hardly denied. There is little controversy on that point. 'There is thoe building, exhibiting the work aud the material, and there is the record of expenditure, and there is the official approval of the "paymenls. . These exhibit that there was $500,000 (and mora) paid out, illegally, dishonestly, sud corrupt- ly. A very iutelligent and painstaking Grand Jury heard a mass of facts, and in- dicted the receivers of the money, and all those who officially wero responsible for an Lhonest exccution of the work and an hon- est allowance of cxpenditure. Some of those most respousible escaped indict- ment because legal liability for their conduct was barred by the statute of limita- tions. The late Grand Jury indicted many other persons for many other offenses, and the Departnent of Justice has neglected all theso other parties, and has permitted them to fall into the hands of Judge BLopcerT and apetit jury, and never by instruction or oth- erwise directed that the Government Attor- ney shall protect these men and see that they have a * fair trial.” By what right does the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Assistant Seoretary, and the Attorney-General, or any other Cabinet officér or subordinate, assume that it is noces- gary to instruct the public prosecutor fo see that the indicted officials are ‘* protected ngainst any injustice,” and ** to insure them 8 fair trial”? Which side of the case is At- torney-General Devens on? Has he em- ployed special counsel at Government ex- pense to defend the acensed and secure their moquittal? Is there mot a Court whose de- cisions are well known to overy branch of tho Government which has bad to deal with ofiicial dishonesty? Is there not & jury to bo summeoned from o million or moro of population in this district? Have not ihess men the means to secure the aid of counsel as well able to defend official criminals as are any persons holding office at Washington? Does any one in Washington imagine that any of these men will be * per- ’ secuted,” and ‘‘not protected agninst in- justice,” and *“will not have & fair trial,"— that is, if the words ‘‘fair trial” hiave the meaning ordinarily attaching to them? Does tlie, under the circumstances, rather scanda- lous intrusion of these words into the in- structions to the prosecution warrant the im- pression that a ¢ fair trial” to an indicted officer having the confidence, personal and official, of the Treasury Department, and the sympathy of the Department of Justice, means something else and beyond ? These indicted men are guilty or not guilty, and that is to be determined by the Court and jury upon hearing the whole case. A public prosecutor has to present his whole case, and nothing short of it; if he be competent he meeds mno in- structions to teach him his duty. If these men are not to be prosecuted; if the brother officials of the indicted in the Treas- ury Dephrtment are o decide what isa ** fair trial,” nod how far the prosecution may go, and where it shall stop, then the employ- ment of special counsel and the expense of a trial in couft is a wasteful expenditure of public money. If this case is to be tried— if it has already been tried—at Washington, why go on with the firce any longer? Let the Attornoy-General go one step further and direct that the indictments be dismissed, and refuse to let his pets be tried. Let Granger Grand Juries be taught that there is an inno- cence that doth hedge about Washington officers of tho Architect Bureau which must not be violated. Innocence in the Architect Bureau, when acoused, must havé a ‘¢ fair trial,” and all that that term implies. THE NAKED ISSUE. Canadian politics have always been a mys- tery to the average American, who ordinarily takes to politics naturally. We never were able to discover any tangible difference be- tween the rival factions. Itis truo the news- papers had much to say in behalf of the “Clear Grits,” and in denunciation of the “Grits "; but who-the ‘Grits” were, and what they advocated, or whatthey opposed, or what meaning was hidden under these titles, has never appeared in anything we ever read in the party discussions of the Canadian press which an American could compre- hend. At last, however, the Canucks have a living, warm, exciting, and excit- able question on which to form parties, organize and dismiss Ministries, prorogne and dissolve Parliaments, and convulse polities. The Dominion population is a peculiarly con- stituted one. It is made up of English, Scoteh, Irish, Blue-Noses, and French,—the slow, sturdy Englsh, the cool, ¢alculating Scoteh, the impulsive and reckless Irish, and the volatile Franch, with thé love and devotion to thé belle passion which has al- ways characterized tho Gallic race. To 2 people thus made up is submitted the ex- irgordinary political. question which at this time engrosses the attention not only of the men, but agitates and palpitates the bosom of evéry woman in the Dominion. Shall the wouwen of Oaunads, when in the presence of Royalty. unveil their bosoms as they do their faces? That's the now issue. Canada hns s new Governor, .and the new Gov- trnor has a Teutonic sponse of TRoyal blood. Canada has long sighed for Royalty, and at last is gratified. British Royalty hds for. many years demanded that in its presence woman's neck and shoulders shall be innocent of covering. Royalty. upon being transplanted to the shores of Cdnada, has, as its fiest decree, declared that there, also, ini the presence of Royalty, each woman shall stand confessed in all her charms. It would be a harsh way to expréss the feeling to say that there is a disloval senti- ment in Canada. - Difference of opinion does ot necessarily imply disloyalty. The right of Royilty, however, to préscribe the terms on which it will hold converse with lesser humanity has always been maintained, and of coitrse it will assest the same prerogative in Canada. Moreover, the decrce is a woman's, and a woman will not yield to the mere ob- jection of women. ; s -Our Canadian neighbors ara. therefore plunged into political disintegration. Old parties will dissolve, and new ones be formed, on-the naked question: Handker- chief, collar, drapery, or none of theso ? An irreverent writer, discussing this ques- tion some years agu, intimated that, among- fashionable women, the question of modesty was largely dependent upon the personal charms of the-individunl ; that when Naturs had been bountiful there'was no indecornm in letting the fact be known ; but, when the case was otherwise, o modest woman conld submit herself to ba-'gazed at. course, is pure slander, though it is possible that statisticians may be sble to show that indifference on this mooted question of decorum is largely éoincident with .what modern scientists might style development. All these matters will unquestionably en- ter intothe political discussions of Canada in tho fature,—the Court: party insisting mot This, of only on the Royal prerogative, but also on the justice, wisdom, and morality of its exer- cise, The Opposition will, on the otherhand, not only sassail the prerogative, but also denounce it to be in this case cruel, indecent, and tyrannical ; while the ** Conservatives,” or those of the third party, will favor the ¢ gquare front,” with lace accompaniments. Parties will gradually drop all other designa- tions and be known' as the ** Low-Necks,” the * High-Necks,” and the ** Square-Cats ”; and under such devices as * Beauty un- sadorned is adorned the mdst,” * The chariest maid is prodigal enough if she unmask her beauty to the moon,” and * We want things on the square,” thess parties will march in processions, and yell and hurrah with all the zeal of madmen. No politics of modern dnys can be com- plete without the element of **fraud”'; hence it is likely that tho subject of fraud will enter largely into the discussions of Canada. The Low-Necks will assert that in their policy there will be nothing hidden in the bosom, but overything will be laid bare to the eyo of the inquisitive, and that the High-Necks will bo the party of fraud, of setrecy, of false pretenses, of hidden de- formity ; and will insist, in the words of the Scottish King, that the Low-Necks shall ¢ cleanse the stuf'd bosom of that perilous stufl,” which so often lends the imagination of man beyond the réalms of rensonable expectancy. Nor will the High-Necks be behindhand in their retorts. They will insist that low-neckism is the first step in the backward fall of wo.an’s life—CrEo- rarRA bégan with low-neckism, =nnd whero did she end?—and that all the followers of CLEOPATEA in all ages were low- necks. Doubtless tho rival parties will event- unlly have models exhibiting the * horrid- ness,” or, tose an English word, the * boast- liness™ of the opposing fashion. We will not consider any further the possible extent to which the fierceness of party zeal may carry this matter. The Princess will, of course, be the bright exemplar of those who will support her, and it is possible—such is party bitterness—that it will be claimed that all the shapely women/of the Dominion will be on her side. 'The Marquis, being a High- lander, will attend the low-neck levees in kLilts, and all the well-limbed men will follow him. Stripped for tha combat, the Court party, or tho low-necks, will be embarrassed but little with the toggeries of drass. The Prime Ministor—low-neck or high- neck, as the case may be—will of course have to defend the policy of his party. Par- liament will vote want of confidence in high- necks or confidencs in low-necks. All other questions must-of necessity be subordinated to thig one, nnd at each clection the people must be harangued and satisfied that their liberties, rights, happihess, prosperity—all— depend on their votes, one way or the other, on the Naked Issu PORTER ON TYNDALL. Dr. Porrer, the President of Yale College, prepared and forwarded to the Vietoria In- stituto some weeks ago a reply to Prof. TyspiLv’s late address. The paper was to be read publicly last Monday evening in London, and it has already been given to the press in this country. It is an exceed- ingly able criticism of Prof. Ty paLy, and hes the unusual merit, for a paper of the kind, of being good-tempered and respect- ful. Dr. PorTER endeavors to meet TYNDALL on his own ground, and convict him of ‘error, if possible, with words out of his own mouth. If he has not quite done this, he has at least made an argument that will re- quire the attention of Prof, Tysparyn .and other ecientific men of his way of thinking. Prof. Trspaiy argued that the animal body is a machino, which is controlled by those forces and only those forces, and obeys those laws and only those laws, which are found in the inorganic sphere. In support of this proposition he attempted to establish an analogy between the phenomenon of the correlation of forces and the interpretation of acts of will in bodily motions. He held, in effect, that the human body is either a generator or a transmuter of force, and that, if these are its only functions, it performs precisely the sameé offices as a friction wheel or a galvanic battery. Dr. Porter contends that this argument is fallacious. The body has, he says, one other function besides those of generating or trausforming force. This other function is the directing—that is, the liberating and detainiug—of force. The evi- dence for this other furiction is found in the writings of TyNparn himself, of* Maxver, and all. other physicists who have written with authority on the subject. They have accorded this special function to the neives, aid have made it over and above any which the correlation of forces can illus- trate under mechanical law in the machine or chemical decomposition in the battery. Admitting this special funetion of the nerves, it is necessary, in order to demonstrate that the body is a maching, to prove that it directs force through the nerves by either chemical or mechanical agency. 'This last, Prof. Trx- paLt does not' attempt to do. Hence heis called upon to abandon either his theory that the nerves have the function of directing force, or lis other theory that the body is simply and solely a machine. Another point at which Dr. Tonter joins issue with Prof. Txvpary is the assumption of the latter that terror, hope, and all the emotions are caused by material changes in the nerve-tissue. This assumption takes for granted that, whatever the sonl may be, its phendmena are caused at first by the impact of a material object. Dr. Porttr holds, on {lie contrary, that it is not the material ob- ject striking upon a man which causes men- tal phenomens, but that they are performed Dby the man with reference to the object. In the case, for instance; of a man who should rénd a létter and be terrified or cheeréd by it, and jiinp to his feet in consequence, it is not the letter which strikes its impaot upon the man, but it is thé man who réads the letter and thereafter acts in calculation and hope until the latch is lifted and the muscalar motion is set free. * The third, and, on the whole, most effect- ive part of Dr. PorTer's criticism is that in which he examines the new materialism withi reference to the doctrine of quantitative analysis. Prof. Tyxparn and many other scientific men insist that “the inter-depend- enco of our-day has become quantitative— expressible by numbers”; and that where law cannot be formulated by numbers, there is no science. To use thé langnage of Dr.’ PortER, ‘‘he insists in ome breath thatno scientific theory can be accepted which is in- ‘capable of mathematical formulization and experimental verification, and in the next breath adopts d theoty of life on a mechan- ical and chemical basis, the laws of which he does not profess to have formulated in ‘numbers, nor to have tested the alleged facts by expertment.” This is a vital point in the discussion ; if it shall be sustained, we do not see how Prof. TyNpaLL's reputation for consistency can stand, whatever may be the fate of Lis mew theory of tha .cor relation of forces in piritual . ex- istence. It seems time, indeed, that ques- tions of this nature, so fundamental in their relation to human condact and so difficult of anything like scientific verification, should be approached with that spirit of *modest stiliness and humility ¥ which becomes a man no less in the study of mind and mat- ter than in the dogmatic interpretation of revealed truth. TALMAGE'S SENSATIONAL BERMONS. 1t is an open question whether the series of sensational .sermons which the Rev. Mr. Tazmace is preaching in Brooklyn is not doing more harm than good, and whether the reverend gentleman’s antics do.nob merit rebuke from his sober-minded and reverential brethren in the pulpit. These sormons have besn devoted to an exposition of low life in New York. He has taken his puditors into the saloons, boozing-kens, gaming-houses, variety theatres, ‘‘pretty- waiter-girl” concerts, and eéven into the wost disreputable places of last resort, and he has drawn the details of the practices in these places, hitherto unknown to modest and moral people, with n minuteness of de- tail that hag bordered on indecency, and with a warmth of color that appears shook- ing, to say the least, when viewed in.thé sober atmosphere of the pulpit: The picttite of Makanr’s which Cousrocz wanted to suppress is certainly not any more offensive than the pictures which Tararace has drawn in these sermons. There is not 4 theatre in the land that would be allowed to place the scencs he so intimately describes upon the stage, eveni though they should be pointed with a moral, and all the villains sliould be summarily dispatched in the demouement: The pernicious yellow-covered literature of the **New York Under the Gas-Light " order contains nothing more indecorous than these sérmons, while their offensiveness is in- creased by the manner of their delivery, which, according to every authority, is that of a harlequin,—jumping, flopping, grin’ ning, and shrieking over the platform, be- tween the shrill blasts of ARBUCELE'S trampet. No one questions the existencé of vice in horrible shapes in New York and every other large city, but the majority of religious people will feel that the pulpit can launch more solemn warnings, and that ribald jests that make the congregation roar with laughter, tawdry descriptions of inde- cencies, and glowing pictures; are présenting the **monster of frightful mien” in such a shape that there is' danger young people ¢ familiar with her face, will first endure, then pity, then embrace.” Judicious religious people will sadly won- der whether this grest outpouring of peoplé to the Brooklyn Tabernacle every Sundny morning to listen, applaud, stamp, clap, and laugh at these * low-necked * sermons, and to be entertained with the Reverend Tar- amace’s theatrical exhibition of himself, is not a desecration of the Sabbath, and whether the exhibition has the tendency to reform a single sinner. It is fairly question- able whether such intimate and fiorid descrip- tions ate not dangerously attfaclive to some of the young who have never known of them before. The Reverend Taryuce is treading upon delicate ground. No other clergyman has ventured upon it. Brother Moobr, the great popular lay-preacher tothe masses, with all his excitement, impulsive- ness, intensity, and zeal, has never gone to any such lengths ; but no one will claim that Taraace can show such a list of ransomed souls-and reformed ‘mef “as: lave giyen id" théir {éétimony t6 fha ‘efficacy of Moon¥'s simple sermons and SAxxEY's simple songs. One strong motive for the composition of these sermons has recently been exposed. They help to line the Reverend TArMaGE's pocketbook. They are made to sell. For a certain niimber of dollars a week he has this pious pabulum ready for delivery on Friday o the various New York newspapers, so that they can supply it to their customers with- onit the troable or etpense of shorthand-re- porting it. Asit is the chief sensation for Monday morning, the secular papers are ready to pay thé" price fixed for it, and thé aggregate amounts to n very handsome sum. As they are shortly to be issued in pamphlet, and subsequontly in book, form, the venture will prove a very paying one. The manner in which these sermons are comiposed, the method in which they are delivered, and the way in which they are dished up for the pub- lic, are eertainly of such questionable charac- ter as to warrant the doubt whether the TReverend TALMAGE is sincere in his protesta- tions of reform; and to arouse the suspicion that he is doing more harm than good. AN OUTSIDE VIEW OF CHICAGO. Now and then there is & New Yorker who is mot so crusted with metropolitan conceit that he cannot see things of interest away from home. When one of this class gets away from home, his observations, if he be & man of observation, are always interesting. Mr. Hesey M. Frerp, the well-known editor of the New York Evangelist, that sturdy or- gan of the Presbyterian denomination, is one of this kind,—a man of genial temperament, clésé observation, and ripe scholarship. Mr. Fierp recently made aflying visit to Ohi- cngo, and, although absent but & few days, he saw much that interested him, and he hes made his trip the occasion of a very pleasant fotif-column letter to his paper, some extracts from which will bie of interest to our readers. The first impression which he foimed of Chicago was its resemblance to New York in its business and commercial aspect. Though ‘one has a million and the other but half a willion of people, he finds *the same life and adtivity, the same crowded, bitsy streets, salong which pours a mighty population, with grent thoroughfares filled with the products of the East and the West; showing that it is & ifart of trade for & vast teiritory.” This ngpect of Chicago probably strikes evena careless observer, althongh hi might not re: gard it as closclf as Mr. Fiecp, or as Mr. BEECHER, who thought every mian in Cli- cago looked as if he weré hurrying to catch a railtoad frain. Pondering over this im- pression, Mr. FreLp finds another condition that careless observers would not nofic’e,— the commercial and political independence of the West from the East. One feature of this independence he finds in the concentra- tioh of busitiéss undér & single roof, and the freedom from Eastern influences with which that business is condneted, and, were it not for local pridé, perhaps lie would have found another illustration of it in the recent successful efforts of Western business men to compel Enstern importers to conduet their commercial operations honestly. Another straw; showing the difection of this inde- pendent breeze, he finds in his inability to ey Neiw York papets on the trains west of Buffalo, and upon this point he says very sagsciously : " By the télegraphic system which s now extend- ed over the country, the news which Is received in Enstern cities up to miduight s flashed to every city in the Unlon, even to San Francisco, and ap- pears in their paperant the same-hoar asin New York. So far a3 mews is concerned, we see no difference between the Zribunc and Zimes of New _York, and Taz TrbvNE and Zimes ol i Tlaving thelf own mews, they sre. abie Chcago, their own comments upon it. and they shog - growing dispoeition to do theic own Thingy> Thus e West is retting out of lesling.arigss Tiy-aud-by” 1t may teach its teachers and lead 15, leaders, anagive 18 to the East. The “ growing dailystronger and stronger, this generation bas passed away, it wi pres Toaalng part In mOMIDE fhe Aesitan ot he ':o‘;:é;fi It.' Eflght be natarally expected that-)y. Fricv, beivg o stanch Prosbytertan, waily pay special attention fo hisown déioming. tion in this city, #nd this & does very full and in a very interesting manner, He "&rm’- ly commends the labors of the Rey. Dr, Pare TERSON, Whom he met in Chicagoin 1840 —*“a young minister of tall and commmai; appearance,” and now still standing « mggg like a cedar of Lebanon,” thongh he hag wrought there many years, with undimmeq ejé and nnabated strength; of Dr. Gissoy, Arraoe - Mrronert, JoiN AmBorr Fapy %, Dr. C. O. Watens, Dr. Griy, of the In. terior, who losked 1iké oné ko iad béeg ** a man of war from youth,” and who might offer the prayer of one of bis Scofch-Jrish, kindred, “ Lord, grant thab we may by right, for thou knowest that we arg Yéry de-t cided.” Several othér prominent Preshy: terifins; pass uitder his intelligent foview, byt the chief interest centres in Els es!i‘md(e’j of Profs. Pario¥ and SwiNd, ' With otk of whom ha dined. Freeing hiinself from any sectarian bins, he finds in both much .which commands my respect and wing my regn:rd.;. Of Prof. PatroN He days: 2 i i 0o et e ot s B et who goes sbont With 4 tomahawk ready to bray and scalp herctics; If, in 4ppeatance at Tesat, the meekest and mildest of men. Tail m has the air of seholar, almoss of 5 sedmoiTy i lives Gtiong boks' mbie {hat frions me, why pores uver antique volomes, and c WtH the Mhulierd of the Chatch thiy with T orea: ent seneration. Even when he stinds In oy palpit, he reads wWith 8y6s downcast, tent on an uacred poge OF on his thanuscript: and we cis pacs: 1y think of hitn s speaking it a lond voice of swedping gesture. Yet for these very things soms call bim evil names, 43 {f he Were of hé atalf thag inquisiwrs are madé, ~bloodless aad pessionless who condemn their fellow-creatares. alike withon: batred and withont pitv. . But 1 pelieve his worst enemies concede his ability, and his fidelity to his convictions. He ia & very Dositive man, and | can not doubt that be will exercise a great infuencs over thie young men f¥hom ho has 10 kach. His picture of Prof SwiNa is tho beit wa bave ever seen drawn, and 15 so colored with Christian eharity that it must commend jtself to every unbiased reader. Ho says: Prof. SwiNe {8 enit In altogetfier ferei mold. He I8 anofher man by hature u‘l w"éi'mg grace. Dr. PATTON comes to his conclisions by & remorseless logic; Prof. Swixe by his sympatbies, and his imagioation. What does. not accord wits Lis sense;of “right, Lis patural instinet of justica hé will ndt believe 10 be trae, and seis nimself b - form g systein in harmony with his fnnaté conv: tions. . In this way he thinks ont a cteed for hime selt, interpreting the Bible by bis owd réason and common_sense. ' Thus lie hsh gradually worked away from his brethren, till he aswands in a position of isolation which mast be pan. ful to any one, doubly so.to gne of a_matare which craves brotherly . interconrse and sympathy. But, If he loses this, he thinks he has obtairied eoinething which combersates for the loss, v1z.: liberty, absoluté independence. With a great price has lie obtafned this freedom—a frice of struggle and conflict—and he does mot mean that any man shail take it from him. While he has not carried the chutches with him; he bas car- ried a great amount of popalar sympathy, and tw- day, preaches to the largest conconrse of bearers that 1s assembled in: Chicago, while his sermons are reported every Sunday, and scattered by tens of thougands élsewhere. The decision of Mr. Frerp is, that for good or ill the work is done, and that the only thing remaining is for éach to go on his own way and do what he can to serve the great cause in his own sphere upon the broad Christian ground that *‘ planets may revolva in diffefent orbits, yek move around one ¢en- tral su.” Oné cinnot help thinking that it there were more of this broad, liberal senti- ‘ment in the world of religion denominationsl antagonism would be freed from ifs bitter- ness, and the cause of Christianity woald be benefited.,, Tho, whiole letter abounds fi . alm, unprejudiced eriticism, and is so just in its comments and pleasant in its gereral toiid that the subsequent letters which efe promised from Racine and Oberlin will ba looked for with interest. The Paris correspondent of the New York Graphic writes home a long and interesting let- tef on *How to Live Cheaoly in Paris. Here is an extract: Can livé in France ‘cheap if you live as ihe French live. . Thus: Seventh-story fioor fio but- ter; no tea: good fea S2 per pound: little coffee; comimon peonle's coffee here msde of somethins clse; little meat. Porter-honse steak s served in New York restaurant frighiens Frenchmen; Would make of it three or four conrses—soup of bones, ragont of meat, soup next day with some cafrotof what's left: soup third day of the leavings. Foorth day. scrape dinner-pot, more soup of the_debris. Raw material for soup unlimited. ~ Seine rins ful of it right throngh the cify. . . . Foeldewr in France. . Wood 1 cent a poniid. Sticks carefully nursed when burnine. Blazing fire_animowa. - Ordinary French family deems a_blaze exiravs- gant. Blaze seen in French fireplace, everyhody rushes to put it out, Smother it swith ashes. Must make stick last as Jong as possible. French man thinks he can warm hifself with match lald on the andirons. One match makes rousing fire in France, Summary and fact: Cad live in Paris on 5 cents’ worth of bread and 5 cents’ worth of soup per das. Ditto in Ndw York. Notin- clusive, however. of fuel, tea, Coffee, sugar, bat: ter, beefsteak, mutton chop, oysters, beer; lob- stere.. wine, cakes, tarts, confectionery,. fce- cream, car-farcs, clothes, theatre tickets, Whid- ing, cigars, or peanuts. All extras here are extra. 3 ———————— Mrs. MARY A. LA Bav, one of the diughters of the Inte CORNELICS VANDEZRBILT, Who bas been contesting her father’s will so vigotoisly for the past year, was married to FRANCI BERGER on Tuesday evening last, at the tiride’s residence in New York. Hé is Consul-General at New York for the Grand Dix hy M‘L"fl bourg. The wedding was n véry qaiéb consisting of the family, except WiLLIu, and 8 few intimdte friends. The JENKINS WhOWaS there says: > 2 The bridé wore i imported dress of batk satln embroidered in old gold, with trimmings to mateb, Tae trath was composed of old gold, satin, nd point-lace. The ‘newly-wedded pair will shortiy - make a trio to Eorope, but will retura afters sojourn of about six months. ———— Concerning the palaver of some of the New- York Democratic papers, aided and abetted by Ferxaspo Woob and Bey BoTiE, sbout ball- dozing voters in Massachusetts at the last elec- tion, the Springfield Jtéhublicai sazs that e will be hard to find shops in this Comigweaith from swhich ficn did Aot volé both ticKetd, A with fhe utinost freeaom of choice. Thie Massa- cliusetts voter, in this sense at least, s inde- pendent. The whole libel is a clumsy effort of Gen. BuiLeEr td sét i back fire azainst the Sonthern bulldozing:” BuTiER sdld Hig wasn't clected becausé the owners of fzctorles fatidi-* dated their employes so that they dare not voté fof him. . This is floating about in the newspapers: Hark! 1 ltear on ANGELL sind, 44°To steal is but a little thinz, " And his tones, a-ringing, 827, ¢ But awfal liard to zet diway With ill-zot Gains and not = Be gobbled up some futare d3y.” The Swect Singer of Michigan I3 \Y:mled 5 the froiit. The New Orleans Times offers & medal valued at $100 for the best poem éxpress ing the gratitude of the South toward the peo- Dle of the North for their kindness during the epidemic. S s A e We are comforted by a Washington lettér; which says: “Judge Davis does no scem 0 have lost any of liis 800 poiitds, and i a8 Joliy 1$ ever.” But how can a man be joliy who zave up ail hopes of the Presidency fu 1 T Brother:n-law Connrs thinks the report sbout the offer to make GRaT King of Bulgifisls, “t00 funny for ansthing.” For once CORBIN seems to have bit the case exactly. Cogcéssmen are,reported £ lool exceedingly e invalids able The Cleveldnd P lain-Dealer favors the nom= ination of Tojr HeNpRricks for Président be cause he 1s Obio born. Enouh said. v