Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 12, 1879, Page 4

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M.— retial Compun LUJGF‘,I::ONM&ID their. Lall, ohe LODGE. NO. 22, L. 0. 0. F.—3embers ed that T D. L. shorer, P. G.. 1 deliver aiceture before the Lodgeé on Tucs- ¥ ng. Jan. 14, 3t the lodge-room. in’ Aethodist Chiurch BIncE. An favitatlon I8 extended to all mem- Tier» ot tic Order. ALUNZO GLAFFAM, N.G. Wl CHALMERS, Recordin Secreiary. TUTLER CAAPTER, NO. 26. 0. E. S.—The nstall- EXCELSIOR e ‘notifi i : ensuicg year will be held fa S S Corier Sobey el ae next Wodnea: asy eveziuz, Compauions of elsier Clidpters aro fn- Vited tobe jresent.” by order of Worthy ¥A XEELAER GRAXDLODGE OF PERFEC- TIGN=\Vill confer. the 41h and 5th Grades of the A. & By order of I Scottih Rite on Thursday evening pezt. A N ONES T P ED GOODALE, Grand Secretary. APOLLO COMMANDELY, XO. 1, K. T.—Sneclal Cozelave Tnesday “cveniag, 59, for work. ‘e Grder of the Temple wili be conferred. Visitors are always welcome. By order of The Commander. 11. S. TIFFANY, Recorder. LAFAYETTE_CHAPTER. NO. 2. R. A. M.—Hall =4 Iource-at.—Stared Coavocation Monday evening, V! v ot H. I". SR gl THERER, Secretary. CORINTHIAN CHAPTER. XO. 69, T. A. M.— ar Convosatfon Monday cvening, Jam. 13, at 7 siiotelock, Work un fie ' 3, deprec. Vislting Com- ns are invited to meet us. 1y order of i SAMUEL KERE, X. . ST. DERNARD COMMANDERY, XO. 85, K. T.— s clave Wednesday evenlng, Jan..13, felting Sir Kuiglits are_courtegusly’iny C. F. MAUREL, £, of SUNDAY, JANUARY 12, 1879. The Chicago Bar Association at its annual meeting yesterdny insugurated a movement iun the right direction by seeking toputa stop to the system of extortion practiced Ly Justices cf ibe Peace and Con- stables in exacting ecxcessive and iile- iyl fees. A motlion looking to a proper remedy for tais eorying evil, and recom:mending thet none but lawyers shonld be suggested for the office of Justice by the Judges, met with some opposition, which Lad the cffect of deferring sction. It is yuestionzble whether the Bar Ascociation cenld abolish the evil by resolving ever so unanimously to do 9. yet the sgitation of tiie meiter is timely, and may lead to desira- Tle recults. “Let us have penco” is Mr. Srrrive- Boru's latest greeting to Uncle Sam. Two emissaries from the camp of the Chief, mow on Little River, near the boundars, are reported to have ar- vived at Cheyenme River Agency charged with authority to make overtures, in accordance with the dictates of a big council held a few months zgo. It appears ibat the hostiles are raady to smrren- der their arms and horses and sub- mit to the Agency rules if the Government will guarantes them protection. These ruaners state that had it not been for the tradess in British Ameriea they would have come in with Gen. Traey. The Ageut will hold 2 comucil atones to cousider the proposition. -The Pope's Encylical, an nbstract of which is given in our dispatches, deals meinly with the Socialistic tendencies of the time, which ure characterized as open declaration of war egainst the State and the rights of property, subversive of the matrimonial relations, sod muns at the destruction of Kings. “These siniste: agencies, says his Holi- ness, are late results of the Reforma- tion, which opened the floodgates of siepticismn, made possible godless govern- ments, and engendered a selfish and aggres- sive spirit. This nataral development has been indicated by former Pontiffs, and Pope 1.iro agein sounds the note of warning. He enjo:asthe Scriptaral idea of the subsarvience «f woman fo man snd the strict observance of the filial relations s the only sure way to make the earthly life approximate to the Leavenly. The Principalities and Powers ure appealed to to accept the Church as the nufeguard of earibly and the surety of J:cavenly things. While dealing apparently in generalities, the encylical is regarded as a eignifieant appeal to Catholics to take an netive share in political elections and crush tlie Socialistic uprising that is creating so 1auch uncasiness in tho minds of men. ‘That sprightly periodical, Puck, which is elways full of good and sometimes of severe tuings, bas a eapital cartoon in ils issue of £ih, dedieated to parents and guardiaps. It shows us the interior of a school-room. Xiae forloru-looking children, with sbnor- mally-developed heads, stuffed with history, Lotuny, aigebra, science of government, ete., snd with parrow chests and spindling arms aud legs, are sitting near an open BsEWeT, om which the foul air is filling the room, lule the skeleton scheolmaster, personify. ing Death, 15 writing upon the bleckboard sich guestiors and answers as these: ¢ Q.— What is grammar? A.—The way o destroy var parts of speech by diphtheria. Q.— ‘What is arithmetic? A.—The science of counting us out by croup. Q.—What is peography 7 A.—The knowledge of the earth and its uses for children who die:of remlet fever.” A member of the Board of Elueation on the threshold of the door hold- ing his nose completes this powerful satire. The picture tells the story as no words can, eud conveys a very lond hint to Boards of Education, as well as to parents, of the necessity of a sound body to the existence of 8 sound mind. There is a very large treatise in this very small picture whick parents and guardions would do well to consalt, According to the report of the Bridewell Tnspectors, the Washingtonian Home is an excellent chanty, but a trifle too liberal in its charges. The moneys received by the Home from the city from licenses as com- pensation for the cure of persons sent from the House of Correction for treat- ment aggregated during the years 1872 to 1875, inclusive, £9%705. In al that time, says tho report, but & single prisoner has been teken from the in- stitation for Home treatment. In 1878 the number transferred from tbe station-houses to the Home was eleven, while the umnmft paid to the institution was $15,660. ];t is not surprising, in view of this showing, that the Inspeclors should respeotfully sug- gest that this moncy be distributed among such institutions as cere for tho greatest number of patients. Biswancr’s last Parhaxentery venture has brought a storm about the head of the ¢ Iron Man” such as even the great German Chan- cellor has seldom encountered. The new measure has for its object ostensibly the in- troduction of arigidsystem of Parliamentary discipline, under which all members of the Reichsrath. would be compelled to confine their speeches ‘within the bounds of the strictest decorum, avoiding personalities, aod devoting their remarks only to the plain and unvarpished * argument of the subject in hand. Tt requires Littla prescience to detect the true intent of the author of the bill. During the late session of the German Parliament on several occa- sions, and notably while the discussion of the Anti-Socialist bill was progressing, the Socialistic element, throngh their Deputies, attacked the Government with a vehemence which, though in many instances it was void of reason, yet had the effect to greatly embarrass the Government in its work of precaution. It is against these fow hot-heeded members that the present bill is aimed. Itis believed that, notwithstanding the fact that the press as a whole is violent- Iy opposed to the measure, Bisyarck will carry his point and secure the adoption of those corrective regulations. GLOVER AS A STRATEGIST. Mr. J. O. GLovee is alawyer, and has been a Judge, but henceforth his chief claim to distinction must rest upon his reputation as a politieal strategist. What ALexaNDER and the first NaroLEON were in war, ex-Judge GrovER aspires to bein the field of politics. His sketch of the Senatorial contest two years ago, in which he reveals the plan he and other ‘“friends” of Judge Lawrence had adopted to secure that gentleman’s elec- tion to the Senate after the withdrawal of Locax from the track, leaves no doubt as to his pre-eminent sbility as a political Waz- wick. Locax had steadily received, as caucus nominee, the full Republican vote for weeks, butit was not large enough to elect him. After he with@rew his name, the Republican caucus nominated Judge LawgeNcE, in the hope that he would attract enough Demo- cratic or Independent votes to be elected. But the first ballot teken after Lawrexce's nomination by the Republicancancus showed that eleven Republicans who had previously voted for Loaax bolted the caucus candidate, Lawresce. Now, the eminent strategist, Alr. GLOVER, has been good enough o explain low this was intended to aid Lawrexce. This bolt, hg says, was * by an arrangement of the LawreNCE men with a view of com- plimenting Harves, for the purposaof get- ting the support of his [HAxxEs"] friends back [%. e., to LawreNnce]” “ Haixes,” adds thisre- markable tactician, ¢ could not have gotten one of these votes if there had been any danger of his being elected by them; that ‘was the understanding down there.” There you have the whole thing in & nut- shell! Alr, Wirwick GrLovEr was, as he says, “ sort o’ watching Judge LawRENCE's interests,” by which he means that he was directing the campnign, and he immediately gave & wink along the line that the way to elect Lawrence was to vote for Jomw C. Harves. On the thirty-fifth ballot (the first taken after the caucus had nominated Judge Lawrexce), eleven Republicans who had been working, and whooping, and voting for Logax when he was the caucus nomi- nec, end who were expected to vote for LawneNce as the Republican caucus nominee, went over to Hamves. Was this under Mr. Warwick GLover's instructions that the only way to elect LawneNcE was to vote for Hamves? However, the eleven stanch and true LoaaN-ites must have been astonished to find that LiwRENCE was not elected by the vote they gave to Harves. They probably called on the profound strategist for an explanation. “Ah, my Doys,” blandly remarked that astute tactician, ““ there were only elezen complimentary votes for HArNEs ; you can’t reasonably expect that small pumber to elect our friend Lawresce; you must give HArNes some more.” And so the ardent but confiding Locax-ites again bolted the caucus nominee, and gave Harves aizteen votes on the next ballot,—and still Lawnexce wasn't elected! Again they iurned to the cunning and adroit manager of Lawrexce's political fortunes, and he replied: “You must be still more complimentary to Hames; go it strong on Harves, and Law- RENCE is bound to come out abead.” So the nest ballot some forty-seven of Locix's men voted for the dusty miller, Jony C. Huaves, who ought to have voted for Law- nExce. But, by a perversity of fate which all of Grover's skillful strategy could not overcome, the more “ complimentary ” votes Harxes got the fewer Lawnexce received, and the furiher he was from being elected. But Gen. Groveg insisted on his tactics as mfallible, and on the thirty-ninth ballot, the last one, when Judge LawRENCE got jourteen Democratic votes (enougin to have elected Lim by twenty-five majority if he had re- ceived the full Republican vote), fifty-siz Logax Xepublicans were engsged in cesting “ complimentary ” votes for Harxzs, Then, for fear Judge LawnexcE might be elected by Democratic votes, these * friends * of his, under GraNaeR's and Smaw’s tactics, forced an adjournment, and thus gave the Demo- crats opportunity to bulldoze two Demo- crats away from HADEs ard into joining them and electing Davis on the fortieth ballot; and on which vote fifty-mine Lo- Gax-ites voted for HaNes, Of course Jony A. Logax hsad nothing to do with all this! It wes the masterly hand of Groves that directed these movements. It was Grover's finesse that suggested them. It was Grovee in his eapacity, as strategist who kept on insisting that the only way to ‘lect Luwnexce was for the Republicans to concentrete on Hamves. How it was that this brilhant maneuvre miscarried must for- ever remain a mystery. GLOVER cannot ex- plain it yet. We can recall but a single femous combst in which any strategy was loges of the mass of the people, every break- shown that can be comprred with Grovz's, - and that was in Jomy Prasix’s celebrated fight with the editor in San Francisco, when ; e held down his antagonist by ingenicusly . inserting his (Jomv’s) nose between the teeth | No det of oppreesion during the whole strug- of the other man; and JomN PHENIX was | not more successfal than our friend Groven in the general results. demand for Grovem wherever thero is a doubtful Senatorial contest pendirg. e MUNICIPAL EXPENZES. There are indications of a general pressure on all sides for an increase of appropristions for the -expepses of the City Government during the mext fiscal year, and also some signs of 2n inclination on the part of the Couneil to yield to this pressure. This tendency must be fought from the very out- set. The era of estimates never comes around but that this fight must be made, at least against tho salaried oEecinls, The practice of receiving separate estimates from the heeds of the different departments almost implies this constant demand for an increase; for ench depertment strives to get as large a slice of the public monoy as it can. But it is ex- pected of the Comptroller acd the Council Committees that they will resist these de- mands, snd insist apon a policy of retrench- ment rather than extravagance. The tax- payers of this city, after exceptional energy, succeeded in electing a Council that, two years ago, began to reduce expenscs and prepare the “way for'/the city's escape from impending benkruptey. Now, when the fraits of this policy are just begin- ning to be apparent, and when confusion has given way to something like order in the city finances, there crops out a new tendoncy to extravagance, which, if indulged, will speedily reduce the city to the same mortify- ing condition it was in at the close of Cor- vin's administration, with the differenco that it will not again be able to borrow the money to carry on the excesses. The action of the Polico Cormmittee in approving of some of the increascs recom- mended by Supt. SeavEY for his Department foreshadows the danger that the economical policy which has prevailed for the lest two years may be abandoned. Thers is no war- rant for any incrense of salaries at this time, for there has been a shrinkage of 10 per cent in prices during the past year, and the same rate of pay will yield a larger purchasing power than herctofore. Notwithstanding this fact, and notwithstanding that the future credit of the city de- ‘mands an adherence to the policy of strict ecomony, the Police Committee have shown a willingness to increase rather than a desire to reduce Supt. SEAvEY’S cstimates. That gentleman begins by asking an in- crease in his own salary of $850 for the year. It is only a few months ago since he was a Captain at $1,500 8 year, and he was very eager to take the position of Superintendent at double that salary, but now he wants still more. He| recommends similar increase for his Deputy, bis Secretary, his clerks, Onp- tains, end Lievtenants, and the Police Com- mittee acquiesce in the unreasomable de- mand. Hé also wants the number of Lieu- tenants, Sérgeants, detectives, and patrolmen incressed. |'He asks for300 patrolmen where there are now 405,—an eddition of ninety- five men,—and zltogether he £1ds to the De- pertment in numbers and pay till he makes up a total pf $024,790 for salaries which should be covered by $450,000. To this the Police Committes itself adds $30,000 for the construction of a new station-house. We advise these gentlemen to revise their esti- mates and reconsider their recommendations for increasing the expenses, for they cannpt justify their course when the appropriations come up before the open Council. We have the testimony of Mayor Hrars, given in a recent interview, to the eficct that the economical policy, so far from im- pairing the efficiency of tie various branches of the City Government, has actually im- proved them and increased their usefulness, He also expressed the -opinion that the ap- propriations for 1879 may be reduced even below those for 1878 without injury to the public service. This is the testimony of the person who is in a position to know more about the actual workings of the City Gov- ernment than any one else, and whe, on many accounts, is able to take an impartiel attitude between the texpayers and the tax- eaters. Itisvery evident that the officials lobbying for an increase of pay at this time, and the members of the Council who are willing to encourage such incresse, will fied neither aid nor sympathy from Mayor HeaTr, who mey do much to defeat the new move in the direction of eoxtrava- gence. It1s also certain that the taxpayers will not look fevorebly upon * any member of the Council who shall lend himself to a re- newal of extravagance, but will take the first opportunity to rebuke him when he shall again come before the people. 'The City of Chieago is now living within 2 proper income, has re-established its credit, and is striving to attain the true policy of paying osit goes. There is no large city in the country that will be so well off in assets, resources, and the smallness of its debt when the temporary indebtedness shall have been wiped out entirely and a surplus ac- cumnlnted that will enable the City Govern- ment to abandon the issue of certificates, But, in order to realize thess attractive prospects, it is necessary that the- present economical policy shall be maintained strictly aud rigidly. The responsibility rests chiefly with the Common Council THE BAR-AND WHAT IT IS, Judge Jasesoy, of the Superior Court of this county, has just written @ letier to the Illinois Bar Association, for which he is en- titled to the thanks not only of the Bar, but of the country generally. In that lstter (published yesterday) be frankly told the profession how shallow and groundless were its pretensions as the guide, inspiration, snd champion of humanity, liberty, and justice. In the course of the letter, he had tho cour- age and the manliness to say to the Bar: fost of the improvements in the lawe of Enzlish- Speaking countries huve heen made at the instunce of luwyers; but J cun recall no important chance in €ither the common or the slctule (aw brouht atont Ly the united efforts of the Bar. 1t has been the opprobrimm of our profession that, unlite the volaries of the other sciences,—theological, medi- cal, and natural, —it alone ks never combined jor any usesul purpose, moral, Leuevolent, or scientijic. " Indeed, Judge JaursoN might have gone forther, and said that all the important changes in the law, and all theimprovements for useful purposes,—moral, benevolent, and scientific,—that have been sccomplished, have been reached in spita of the hostility of the legal profession. The history of the legal profession has been one of stolid inertia. Like | the man who, in his efforts to maintain & per- fectly perpendicalar. position, always lesned over to the other side, the Bar, s a body, has been so conservative that its conservatism has amounted to radicalism, It has radically, if not fanatically, resisted and opposed all progress, change, and reform. Every step in the extension of human liberty, every en- largement of the civil and religious Drivie We have ro doubt : that Lenceforth there will be a universal : ing of choins upon human thought, intelli- gence, and will, has been attained in spite of Courts and lawyers, and in defianco of judicial decrees, judgments, and opinions. gle for liberty in England but hed its war- mentin the letter of the stetute-book, or in the judicial construction of the law by tho Courts, - Individual lawyers, end occasionally n Judge, may have rendered grest service to justice and humanity by fearless and ad- vanced assertions and declarations in the-in- terest of liberty ; but these examples receive their brightest lustre beceuse they stand in | such conspicuous contrast with the aciion, and sentiments, and cowardice of the Bar and tha Courts genorally of thie time. Some —several—English Chencellors went to the block because of their defense of personal liberty and their resistance to tyranny; but they were few in number compared’ with those who did not go to the block, and each of them was succecded by a Chancellor who ‘was anxious to become the servile toul of the Crown. Every step in legal progress is re- sisted by the profession, not by any open or avowed combination, but instinctively, asmen resist changes which they think may prove & personal calamity. ' In this country the law of the land is the work of lawyers. Willitheexceptionof what are known as the ¢ Granger laws,” whick wers enacted in defiancs of tho zlmost gen- eral protest of the legal profession, we can recall no lepislation having for its purpose the bresking down of special privileges and the assertion of popnlar rights of modern days. Certainit is, es Judge JaMEsON so pointedly states, there has been no com- bination by the Bar to so frame the law as to promoto any useful purpose. - The existing law is o mass of confusion,— complex, ebsurd, intricate, and largely abor- tive. What itisis the work of lawyers in the Legislsture and lawyers on the Bench. Three hundred yenrs’ experience has simpli- fied nothing. Nothing hus been settled. The recovery of a judgment for a debt of $1,000 on = promissory nots requires, even ac this Inte day, in Illinois, the employment of at least two counsel, and the time, patience, learning, experience, aud judgments ofi three Courts. The Bar has made the law what it is; the law hos been made by the Ber, and mainly for the Bar. Ordinary trades-unions make laws for the government of their own mem- bers, but never attempt to make laws for the communily genernlly. The legal pro- fession is practically a trades-union, mem- bership depending on the sufferance of the profession. Being in a condition or posi- tion to make laws for the State, the laws of the State cre fashioned to promote the ends, profits, rewards, and honors of that special trades-union. The law begins with holding out every incentive and every reward for litigation, just as the ccopers, if they had the meking of laws, would require 2ll uten- sils or hollow ware to beof wood andhooped. The law provides three or four succebsive tribunals for the hearing and determination of compliaints where one should answer, thus inducicg litigants to prosecute complaints ana defonses over aslong a period as possiole; the law surrounds the institu- tion and prosecution of suits with such fine- spun niceties of 'pleading, technicalities of time and evidence, and 50 encourages per- jury avd corrnption, that litigation is a monstreus evil, preying on the morals of society, and furnishirg food for a profession of—we will not say Valtures—but-a profes- sion which has “zéver combined for any useful purpoee, moral, benevolent, or sciex- tific.” It is to be hoped that Judge Jastesox will find a host of others, lawyers and Judges, who will see that the time is rapidly approaching when, if the Bar do not purify and elevate itsclf, public opinion will take the work into its own hands, and perhaps more forcibly than politely rcbuke the senti- ment so applauded at n recent Bar meeting,— thst the lawyer who mounted a high moral horse was a jackass, ——ens TEE NEW MUSIC-HALL. The movement whith has, been on foot so long for the erection of an elegant and com- medious music-hall in this city has now reached that point of financial success where no farther doubt remains of its accomplish- ment. Theground has been sccured, the plans are finished, the large majority of the stock bas been placed, and the openingof spring will witness the commencement of an edifice on the southeast corner of State and Randolph streets, jointly devoted to art, religion, and business, which will be an ornament to the city and a matter of pride to its citizens. I is as yet too early to give nnythi!fig like a complete statement of the details of the plans, but we may generally allude to their more salient features. The primary object of the projectors is the erection of a music- hall which will satisfy the largest demands of musical occasions, and this will oceupy the ground floor. Its construction will com.: bine not only all the latest improvements, but somo ideas both novel and original in the way of vision and acoustics, while its adorn. ment is intended to be elegant and at the samo time chaste. It will be equipped with an organ o cost mot less than £10,000. As quality is more desirable than quantity in an organ, we aore glad there is mno in- tention to imitate the mistake of Cin- cinvati, by trying to get the largest in- strument in the country. The exits will be smple, opening upon the two streets and to a large balcony in the rear only a few feet above the alley, which is almost as sprcious as the stroots, and will be so arranged as to prevent the possibility of being choked up or crowded. There will be separate en- trances and cxits to the parquette, circle, gallerics, and the aisles will not only raq from very larga lobbies, but will encircle each scetion of the sudilorium, so that there cannot be any confusion in seating or unseeting, The uppointments of the siage and retiring- rooms do not porticularly concern the public, and e need not refer to them at present. “This large auditorium will find & Sunday use as the home of Prof. Swize and his large congregation, 8o that oll who wisli to hear him can be accommodated,—a result which cannot be accomplished ‘in his present quarters at McVicker's Theatre, though its seating capecity is larger than that of any | church in the city, we belicve. Tho plans for this auditorium, as well as for the rest of the structure, Lave not been hnstily adopt- ed. They were commenced threo yenrs ngo, and have been slowly matured by frequent revision, until experts now pronounce them to be as nearly perfect os possible. Above the large hall there will be a smaller one, to be devoied to chamber music and to the minor concert troupes. Tt will be in all respeets a littlo copy of the former, with the sime advan- tnges and conveniences. These two balls will be amply sufficient to meet the Ppresent musical demands of the city. In addition to the two hells there will be larze acd elezant rooms for musical societies, smaller ones fur teachers, and’ plenty of studio-rooms with good light for artists. Lest, but not l.eust of interest to the shareholders, the main hall, though upon the ground floor, will be s0 constructed as to leave ample room for stores on the fronts. In all respects,—solidity, light, ventilation, ease of exit, safety from oll denger, acoustics, and smound.ings_ to plenso the eye,—we are assured that nothing will be left undone to secure the best. There is every renson why the new hall will commend itself to the public, and per- haps the most conspicuous one is the impera-_ tive necessity for it. Since the Opera-House was swept away by the fire, we have had no distinctive music-hall, and no fit place for musical gatherings of an 1mportant deserip- tion, whence it has happened several times that an underground cellar, fortunately now diverted to its proper purposes, hag had to be utilized. Bostor, New York, Philadel- phin, Cincinnati, and other large cities, have their halls, while.Chicago, through stress of necessity, has been without one for eight years, so thet our musical progress lins been retarded by numerous obstacles, of which this deficiency was the chief. This will nat stand in our way any longer. We shall have a hall in all respects the peer of that in Cin- cinnati; in some details its superior, so far as music is concerned. Its location is admira- ble, being st the intersection of all the sireet-railronds . and omnibus - lines, so that access to it will be essy from all perts of the city, and .at the close of per- formances the audience can step directly: from the hallinto the cars. While everything will be done for thecomfort and convenience of the public, the absolute security from dan- ger will e one of its strongest attractions. Its nccommodations and conveniences will meke it the home of teachers, societies, arlists, and connoisseurs; and, havipg a nucleus, we may ressonably expect that music in Chicago will feel new impulses and broaden and strengthen its sphere. The financial basis upon which the new hall will rest ias been carefully considered, and it is believed the building can be made to pay a handsome interest upon the investment,— the best evidence of which is the willingness of our strongest business men to take large amounts of the stock. Mr. GEoxrGe B. Can- PENTER, Who lmsl‘hud the engineering of the movement, is to'lbe congratulated upon the success which hos crowsed his energy and industry, and we'mny now look forward with confidenco that next season Chicago will be at homo to music in quarlers worthy of her musical reputation. THE RULE OF CONTRARIES. Moralists have always been fond of the doctrine of Compensation. The idea lies at the base of most religious and ethieal sys- tems. There would apparently be no use of = future state if it were not to remedy some of the wrongs of this one. Mr. Exersoy, m his cclebrated essay on Compensation, ireats this argument for a future state with pRilosopbic scorn, 1t is true, but he does so only because he goes farther than most relig- ious people. He holds that compensation is wrought out in this world. *‘Every ex- cess,” he says ‘ causes n defeat; every defeat on excess. Every sweet hath its sour; every evil its good. . For every grain of wit thers is a grain of folly. Tor everything yon have missed, you have gained something else; and for everything you gain, you lose some- thing clse. If riches increass, they are in- creased that use them. If the gatherer gathers too much, Natuare takes out of the man what she puts into bis chest; swells the estate, but kills the owner. Naturo hates monopolies and exceptions. The' farmer imagines power and place are fine things. But the President has paid dear for lis ‘White-Houge. It has commonly cost him all his peace and the best of his manly attri- butes. To preserve for ashort time so con- spicuous an appearatee before the world, e is content to eat dust before the resl masters who stand erect behind the throne. . . . On the other hand, the lew holds with equal sureness for all right setion. Love, and yon'shall be loved. All love is mathe- matically. just, as much as the iwo sides of en algebraic equation.” It is difficult to stop when one begins quoting from this brilliant essay. Though its doctrine is extreme and overstated, it of- fers a measure of true consolation to all who ore despitefully treated iu this world. But good and great men have ruled before AcaymuyoN, and philosophers before Tarensox praached the Gospel of Compensa- tion. Socmates observed the strange rela- tion of plensure to what appears its very op- posite—pain. * They will never come to- gether to o man,” he said; “and yet if he pursue and catch the one, he is almost al- ways forced to tske the other also, just as if the two were joined together at one end. And I think that if ZEsop had noticed this he would have made a fable out of it, that Gop, wishing to reconcile these two who were at enmity with each other, and not be- ing able, had fastened their heads together, and that is why, when one comes to n man, the other is sure to follow closely after.” Tho old discussion has been curiously re- vived of late by two literary and political weeklies,—the Saturday Reviewin London and the Nation in New York. The former of these periodicals, some weeks ago, printed an edi- torinl on the general subject of ¢ Disqualify- ing Gifts.” The writer tried to show that a man’s accomplishments often disqualify for suctess in some dircctions. Thus the gentle- man’s polished manners cause the vulgar to suspeet his sincerity. 'We can add to this iudefinitely: The phlegmatic temperament hinders its possessor from much esthetic enjoyment, and the ardent, impetuous one leads its owner into indiscretions. e who is slow to anger is glow to coo!, and he who is quick in wrath is hasty to forgive. A strong imagination makes one imputient of study, and the glow of pure inteliect dries up the imagination. Fluency of expression isin many cases incompatible with solidity and accuracy of thought. Intensity of belief engenders prejudice and narrow- ness; looseness of conviction prevents ear- nestness and determination. Courage lies near to rashness, and prudence to cowardice. Great will-power isapt to create stubborn- ness, and feeble resolution induces vacilla- tion. We might continue the catalogue, as we have said, indefinitely. Bat the autithe- sisis elrendy painful. Every reader can il- lustrate the ide out of his own experience. The article of the Nation proceeds from a different point of view, but reaches, in one department at lenst, the same conclusion. This article was printed in the number for’ Jun. 2, and wes entitled “ Optimistic Pessim- ism.” TIn a humorous axd satirieal way the writer showed, first, how difficult it is to sat- isfy the extreme wing of the Repub- lican party, known as the Stalwamts. The everage Stelwart is both an optimist and a pessimist. Indeed, he: is not peculiar in this. All optimists are Ppessimists, and ell pessimists are optimists, Biack js white. Water runs up-hill. The moon is made of green cheese, and nothing is certain except, 1n the words of DESCARTES, that man thinks, and therefore exists. 'The old formuls was: Whatever I doubt and question, I ‘cannot doubt or question that I myself doubt or question; therefore I am. But to return to our optimistic pessimists— the Stalwarts. Though their malady is not peculiar, the manifestation of itis. They ore gloomy whenever they think of the President’s severity in view of the Southern outrages, and hopeful whenever they dis- cuss the state of the Civil-Service and the political morality of the comntry. The bot- tom is not going to drop out of the Republic, they say, even if members of Congress are not very pure. Look at England in the days of Sir Roperr Warrore. Butit 1s evident to the Stalwart, on the other hand, that the bottom really has dropped out of free insti- tutions in the South, and the negro might as well be disfranchised or immigrate to Liberia. . ¢ It is not about the South only, however, that the optimist-pessimist exacts despond- ency. He is apt to be equslly exacting sbout any work or movement in which he is strongly interested or actively . engaged. There is no nse in your protesting that you are as much interested in the subject as he, and only differ with him as to the means of bringing about the desired end; he will not believe you. Your cheerfulness about it is, in his eyes, simply a cloak for indifference. If you were sincere, lLe feels sure you would look and talk sz{dly about it. ~Nor can you get off by pleadihg that you are sad abont something else; |that if, for instance, you are not as gloomy as he is about the Moderate Drinker it is because you are greatly depressed about the ‘little health’ of women. He knows that there is nothing in the health of women to cause anxiety to a rationnl mind, while the state of the Moderate Drinker calls for the prompt attention of the whole community, through its thinkers, its presses, its judges, and its policemen.” _There is enother application of -the doc- trine of Compensation in politics, which the Nation writer did not fairly reach, though he was aiming at it. The extent to which a high degree of intelligence and culture dis- credits 8 man with a certain class of voters is a symptom of an unheelthy condition-of politics. We observe that Dr. Horwes, in his life of Mr, MorrLEY, is disposed to insist strongly upon this point. Mr. MoTLEY was t&icé turned out of office because he wasa scholar and a gentleman, and had friends who were like him ; and it is a fact that pol- ished men have very little chance of political preferment in this country when they seek it. The people want old *“Hickory,” or old “* Rough and Rerdy,” or a Tanner-Boy, or a Rail-Splitter. The Hard-Cider and Log- Cabin campaign was a model that has been followed more or less faithfully ever since. We are not, of course, committing the supreme folly of ‘ar‘gm'ng that men like Graxr 2nd LiNcory are not often the best the nation can choose. It is difficalt to con- ceive of 2 scholar who would have gshown grenter executive capacity or a ‘more heroic | resolution than Asramay LaNcory did. But itis one thing to maintain tkis, and quite snother to argue that a scholar, because he is a scholar, should be disqualified from holding the highest offices in'a Republic. The facts are so; but for this once we object “to the facts. It is paradoxical to assert that Imowledge makes a man worse, more unfit to rule, less -capable of secing the logical cosi- nection between avents, their causes and con- sequences. If this were so, the whole fabric of our institutions would be upon = felse basis. As at present constituted the American Gov- ernment rests upon popular suffrage, and this in turn is founded upon free education. The comumon schools are the bed-rock of American politics. It is a contradiction in terms, therefore, to sey that any form or de- gree of education makes a man unfit for political life in this courtry. ‘What ought to be notalwaysis. It may be a disqualifying gift of the American peo- ple that, having so many cultivated and learned men, they ara unable to use more of them in public life, or to open any avenue of preferment in the Civil-Service to studions and thoughtful men who are willing to de- vote their lives to it. But we need not yet imitate the ecxample; of the optimist- pessimists and suppose that the Ameri- cen people are in a .bad way be- cause they will not enjoy their blessings. The diseass may provide its own remedy. If the theory of popular education is persevered in, tho hostility of *Demos”— that testy old man”—to educated men must disappear in time. IF this shall come to pass, the ex- perience of the American Republic will be different from that of the Athenien, or the Venetian, or the Dutch Republic; and the cause will be the existence of a system of free schools in America which none of the former Commonwealths koew how to main- tain. FORECLOSING MORTGAGES. - Senator Basx has offered a bill in the Leg- islature of Tilinois which is so commendable and just that the wonder is that its principle has not been long since incorporated in the laws of the State. The Dbill repeals See. 16 of Chap. 95, title “Mortgages,” of the Re- vised Statutes of Illinois. Tha séction to be repealed reads os follows: Tn all decrees hereafter to be made in suits in equity directing foreclosure of morieuzes a decree may be rendercd for any balance of money. that may be found due to the complaivant over and, above the procceds of the sale or sales, and exects tion may issuc for the collection of such baiancs the same us when_the decree is roiely for the pay. ment of money. And such decree muy be render ed conditionally at the time of decreeing the fores closure, or it may be rendered after the sale and Ine uscertainment of the balance due: Provided, “That such execution shall issto ouly in cases whors personal service ehall have been had mpon the do fendant or defendants personally liable for tiye mortzaze debt, unless their appearance, shall, be cntered in such suits. ; Ay The bill proposes to substitute for this ex. isting provision of law that heroafter in all foreclosure proceedings no decree shall be rendered for any balance of money which may be due the complnh,nnt over and above the proceeds of the sale jof the mortgaged property, and no execution shall issae for the collection of such balance under such fore- closure. It further provides -that,-if, after foreclosure is begun, the person entitled to ithe debt shall recover judgment or obtain a decree for any part of such debt in another action, on the ground that the valne of the mortgeged property was insufficient at the time of the foreclosure to sotisfy the debt, such recovery shall have the effect to open the foreclosure, ond the mortgagor may re- deom the property, notwithstanding the time of redemption mey have expired,—the suit for redemption to be brought within two years. The bill of 3r. Basz might possibly go further without violating justice and equity. It might provide that where a man gives a mortgzge for balnace of purchase-money, or for money loaned, thecreditor, havin g during the " lifetime of the debt a lien on the prop- erty, to thé exclusion of all other ereditors, must lock to the mortgrgad property exclo- sively to satisfy his claim in cage the dgbhr: for any cause should defanlt in ‘Payment, There is nothing inequitabla in thia, man who lends money on mortgage Tarely, 1; ever, loans more than 50 per cent of ':ha value of the security. If the Droperty 5 the time have 8 value equal to 109 Pereany of the loan, it will always remain equal ¢, satisfretion of the deb, ualesa thero be gy general or severe financial calemity ¢ i ing the value of money. In guch cnge, i creditor loans cheap money ; and if, .;' o time of payment, money shall have s0ad, vanced in value that the DProperty i poy equal to the sum of the debt, isitnet pressive to make the debtor yield the o, 53 erty, and, in eddition thereto, pay g balance in dear money? A mortgages g meny and special privileges. He takeg 5 pledge of property 100 per cent Breater than his debt. His lien hasg priority gy all other claims, and, whenmoneym.d advancein value 28 to consume thy 100 cent mergin, the Inw ought not to give hin any claim beyond the property incluge within his lien, The bill of Sanator Bise does not, hoy, ever, go to this extent. It confines the pro- ceedings in equity to the mera foreclosuzg, It the property sell for less than is dug o the mortgege, then the remedy is by soms other action brought for the Tecovery of thy unsatisfied balance, and such recovery: o judgment for such balance will have th, effect of opening the foreclosure and giving to the mortgagor the privilege of redecmiy, the property at eny time- within two Fears, Against such a provision of law there ought to be no serious objection in the Legislatyre, 1t will put an end to, or at least mitigats, fh, rapacious Shylock practice of forecloginp mortgages when due, or, upon default o interest, levying before the principal is dgy and buying in the property at a noming sum, teking & judgmnt, with interest, for the balance against the stripped debtor, ty hang over him for his lifetime. The pro. posed bill merely gives the debtor, in cass his property fails to satisfy the mortgrgy debt, and a judgment is taken for the bal. ance, the privilege of redeeming the Prop erty within {wo years, notwithstanding th, foreclosure. The passage of the bill ought not to be delayed a day uanecessarily, ¢ PREMILLENNIALISM, . The present and growing interest in th¢’ theory of Premillennialism will justify § brief exposition of its leading. features, The question is often asked, What is thig doctrine of which so much is now said in Great Britain and our own country?: We shall endeavor to answer this question ag fairly and concisely as possible. Many Premillenarians of this day are mem.. bers of churches termed evangelical, s} though not a few of them are Irvingites, Plymouth Brethren, and believers in'ths final annihilation of the wicked. Among ke “ evangelical” portion of them are men of distinguished learning end undoubted piely, such es the late Dean Arror, of England; the Bovags, of-Scotland ; and Drs. Steemey H. Tyxg, Jr., Wius Lomp, E. R. Cravey, and E. P. Goopwi¥, of America. * They ars’ found in almost all the leading denomins: tions of Protestants, and some of them'ars” Roman Catholics. But, of course, flxzj constitute only small minorities in their ser:* eral communions. In the recent * Prophetic Conference ” held in New York City thers were representatives from the Baptist, ths Methodist, .the .Episcopal and Reformed Lpiscopal, the Reformed (Dutch), the Pres’. § byterian, the Congregational, the Lutheras and the (German) Reformed Churches. The pecnliar views of the Premillenarians’ pertzin to Eschatology, or the doctrins of’ “ The Last Things.” They agree, for !hn" most part, with the majority of Christizns’ m regard to a literal Seccond Coming of Camist, o literal resurrection of the dead,’ a literal judgment of mankind, a literal* destruction of the world by fire in the end, and the eternity of fature ewards and pen- elties. But they differ from the received doctrine as to the order of ¢ the lest things,” . and the nature and times of the Redeemers Kingdom. They hold that the Kingdom is’ not yet set up ; that Crrisr is to come, prof- ably very soon, to establish His thronei Jerusalem, where he will reign as visibl King a thousand years, or during the 3lille nium; that the righteons dead of all natioas will be raised at the Second Coming, and’ that they and the saints still alive amosg men will be caught up mto the clondsto’ meat their Lord, where they will remain ug-" til the terrible judgments to be executed upon the grenter port of the wicked smoog the nations shall be . past, and the ‘sur-. viving Jews shall hnve been gaid ered to their own land; that, after” thegreat troubles on the earth shall.have subsided, the saints who have been: carried np to meet Cmmist (called “the Rapture”) will come visibly with Him toth earth (called *‘the Revelation”), and will ; reign with Him a thousand years; that the, restored Israelites, however, will occupy 8, superior position in the Kingdom, and willke . | the chief instruments in the conversion of ; the remnants of the ‘Gentile nations;.thst the Jews and the converted Gentiles,~both; still in the flesh,—and the risen saints in : their glorified bodies, will remain together: - on the eerth during the Jillennium, and the - people of Israel will continne to oceupy: theit own land, multiplying from generation ; to generation forever; that after the Millen- ninm there will be a short scason of warfar . ageinst the camp of the saints on the partef - encmies stirrcd up by Satan and gathesed - from the four corners of theearth, whowillbe : * speedily destroyed by fire from Heaven ; that - then “tho rest of the dead,” being the wicked " : dead, will be raised from their gravas, finally judged, and cast into the lnke of fire; that: at or about the same timo the material world~", will be burned up, and then this globe, bav-© ing been purified by fire, will be fitted up anew, to be “a mew Leaven and & DV earth,” in which the ssints will have theif - eternal abode. In relntion to some of these points there zre difforences among the Premillenarians; *. but the views that have been defined 8ro held by the majority of them, as we judge: at the present time. The advocates of the: doctrine profess unbounded confidence 1™ the correctness of their views, end acensé these who dissent from them with tenden- cies to “ Rationalism.” ik The Premillenarians ollege that thelf . opimons were zlmost universally receivedis.. .- the Church immediately after the Apostolio ; : age and during the first three hundred years - of the Christian ern. But their opponents. . contend that during the first fifty yearsof . “the second century only Paeuss and JUsTE ALinryr are kuown fo have been Prewillen- ; ariaps in apything like the modern sens 5 excepting only the Ebionite heretics, and that during the last helf of the second i centary only IzeNeUs among the orthodox can be proved to have been a Chiliast, while among the fothers of the third century o2}y » ToorurnieNy tis Montapist, HrepoLiTs i rer e e e, AL O i