Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 20, 1879, Page 4

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Hamlin's Theatre, Clork street, oppoalte the Court-louss, Varlety ene lertainment % MONDAY, JANUARY 20, 1879, — A rednotion of 7} per cont in wagos in the Liverpool, to take effoct afterJan, 81, has beon dccreod by tho Iron.Trade Employers’ Asso- siation, and another strike in an jmportont ndustry, and several thousand men added to thosa already out of employment, will prob- ably bae the result, * Tho North Wales Minors' Association is mnking betier uso of its money thanin sponding it to sustain & strike, which s not the golution of the labor question in Great Dritain. The difBenlty being one of too many Iaborors, the remedy les in a decrense . of the labor supply, and accordingly the Assacintion proposes to give out of its acou- mulated funds 8356 to overy member who will smigrata'to America, and $70 to those who choosa Australig,as their futare home. There I8 reaxon to fonr that a large portion of the remalning lifo of thd Forty-fifth Con- gress will in the Senato bo misspont in a pro- tractod ond dull Qiscussion of tho Constitu. . Hon. Benator Eaton, of Connccticut, s satd to bo meditating the introduction of a resolution rociting tte Democratio doctrine regarding tho paramount suthority of the Oonstitution in every Btate of the Union, and suy Benator caught writing lotters or going to sleep during the discussion provoked by this thrilling topla will bo jusily held to bo an object of scorn and envy among bis broth- rort; Tho Communists of Chiengo have once moro abused the privilege of freo speech in & froo country by indulging in a merics of. violent barangues in which a resori to arms is urged against a Government, which per- mits tho righling of every wrong through the ballot-bpx, and also, unfortunately, nllows anecrupulous Bocialists of the Bomizting, Gxrorreay, and Sinrxy stripe to parade their revolutionnry clap-trap without intorference, The moss-meeting of yestorday abused the Emperor WiLrtax and Prince Bissanck to its hearl's contont, and made itself ridiculons by ealling upon the United Btates Govern. ment to exvostulate with Germany concorn- Ing tho sovere measures enforced in that country toward assessine and fomouters of disturbance. They might as well oxpect s protest by some Enropean Government ngainat tho mannor in which the Bacialists under Sir1va Buwy are trented by our Gov- ernmet, The resignation of the Rev. Enwano Buz. LIvAN, Rector of Trinity Church, is an event of interest to tho Protestant Eplscopnl Church of Chicago, with whose history dor. fug the puat ten years he hna boen promi; nently identified. His reasons for desiring to accept a call from Bt. George'’s Church, Moutreal, were stated in his address yes- terday, Prof, Bwixa preached eloquent. ly at the Contral Church in Lohalf of the rising goneration in Americn, Dishop Forry lectured last ovening on the ¢ Growth and Prosperity of the Cathollo Church n the Ualted States,” haviug somo- thing of interest to soy vegarding tho at. titudes of Churoh and State toward each other in this Jand of tho freo, Moasrs, Pexrecost aud BTeonixs bugen a series of unlon revival mwotings in the First Congrogational OChurch with a far prospect of Lbringing about & apiritual awakening.. Miss Fuavoes L. Wir. raBp celobrated the occasion of tho first publio meoting of the Young Ladies’ Tem. peranos Union of the South Bide by a spirit. ed address, in which the largor co-operution of the wowen of Chicago {u the temperance work was earnestly urged. In Brooklyn the Rev. Tatumaox boldly pronounced in favor of Bensationalism ns against Stagoation in tho pulpit. Sy A ‘Tho caucus vote for Gon, OdLgany woa far balow the nawber of members who desired Lis nowlnation and had informed bim they intended tosupport his re-slection, but there were a scoro of timid souls who did not pos. scus the coursge of their convictions, A ciose cenvass on Wednesday and ‘Thuraday showed that Ocrzuy's actual strength was eight or ten short of a majority of the cau. cus. Thero were forty-six or forty-seven members who would vote for Oaurssy if ho could be nominated, but, as it required fifty. four votes to control the caucus, about twen. ty becamo frightened for their personal salvation, and deserted to the Y.oaan crowd to conceal their real sentiments und Dhide themselves from calamities which thelr lack of backbonme con. jured up Dbefore thelr imogination. 1t was this defection that suddenly swelled Looax's €0 supporters to 50, and reduced Oovrxass's 40 to the 26 who stood by hiw, In all confests in life there is a class of men ‘whose highest impulse is to be on the stronge eat xide. Looan had catablished a sort of ruign of terror over the weak and cringing kind of members, and frightoued thewm throogh Liv cliqjuers into tho belief that, nnl was no ralvation for themselves, and they would e politienlly damued, and eraven souls will live long enough to discover they have béen frightened nt a shadow. to serve a grasping, insolent cgotiat, who can punish nobody, and would not reward them if Lo could, ss hio mover pays lick. spittles for thele cravon services. grossed 1n the work of koifing Oorzany and pushing Looan into his placo as to forget and overlcok his own interests. Joxes is Penitentinry Commissionor, drawing n comfortable salary with remarknbls pune- tuality while neglecting his officinl dutics to perform Looan'a *‘dirly work.” Speakership bargaih and sale made with James, of Lake, whereby the Looax.ites ngreed to make tho latter Bpeaker of the House In consideration of his own aud cer- taln other voles for Looaw, Jonzs construction of mitteo. Connty, and ho demanded that 8. C. Bonr, of Jo Daviess, bo made Chairman of the Pen- {tentiary Committee, Burt has for that particular kind of Lusincss ather than being a facile tool of *Long" Joxes would require n microrcope cf consid- crablo magnifying power to discover. The second namo on the Committao is nnother of ' TLong" Jones' * friends,” viz,: McFre, from down in Lowoer Egypt. Joxes, having mado himeclf safo against investigation of n peer. ing and disagreenbla character, will be able (with his chum McF12) to devote his leisnre to reading Tnr ‘I'nibuxe outof the salary- grabbers' gaug which thoy have mistaken for the Republican pari, pursued tho course of tho sitly ostrich, in hiding its head in tLe sand when hard pressed, when thoy attempted to screen resolution. Bawling ¢ ont of order” cannot conceal the resolution from public gaze, nor ennble thom to dudge the point and keep off tho record in regard to the sslary.grab busi. ness. offers this resolution, nnd domauds the nyes and nocs upon it; how is ' Long"™ Jones going to help them out of the dilemma: temporary. faotures will expluin only a emoll part of the deouno of Englaud's trade, but not the univerusl distress. The London Foonomis is on the right track in tracing the risa in gold, which {u tho single monetary resource of (reat Dritaln, that journal says: **There is no doubit at prasent a gold scarcity; the world's gold product hns not beon incressivg of late, while the demund for gold has become much creased domand for gold by permanent dos an Incrense in buok reserves, besides a -withe they desorted Gov., Oovruspy, thore Theso timid They have descrted a {10 mnn “Long" Joxrs was not 50 entiroly on. “Tong" In the “ Long” to have diclated the the Penitentiary Com- He i3 himself from Jo Daviess saems What qualifications The Looaw.ites in the Senatorinl cancus themselves from viow on the ralary-grab Supposo some member of ench Houus ** Reoleed, That the Thirty-nfth Goreral As- sembly will select no man who voted for and kopt the Congresalonal back-pay, commonly known ne the salary.yrab, and no such mon 18 entitled to the support of the Hinols fouss or Senato for the next Unfted States Benalorship," Or words to that effect, The Spenker cf the Houre may attompt to rulo it out of order, but, unless a majority of that body Indorse the '‘ grab,” the reaolution can be brought to a direct vote. truo of the Sonnte, nny notion of this kind will be taken, but, if it is, those who yelled *‘ out of order,” last iFrhlny night in the caucus, will find them- Ll And the samo is We doo't know that elves in nmost uncomfortablo predicament, Toy will be obliged to goon tho record ns indorsing that dishonest and rascally act, or stultify themnolves by voting for tho grabber nnd ngainst the grab, Those who alaugh- tored Oovesny for voting and working to ro- peal the grab-law, and nominated Loaax to “yindlenta® bis shoro in that dishoneat transaction, will have a ‘comfortablo job on thoir hands for n fow years to cxplain thoir votes to,.tho sntisfaction of their constitu- onts and vindicnte thelr own disgracefnl record. that hongsty is tho best policy in politics as well as in business. .., % They will also bave timo to reficct —— ENGLAND AND DPAR GOLD. The Euglish are beglnning to make search- ing nnd intelligent inquiries Into the eause of thoir present commerclal depression and widespread suffering. | And From all sides come harrowing accounts of misery in thisland of great wealth, mincs and factorios aro either closed or run. ning on Lalf time. The banks aro collapsing and burying commercial louses in their ruina. Rich families are biought face to face with poverty and great firms with bank- rupley. out of employment by hundreds of thon- sands, and thelr families are crying for brond, In Chestor, no wonder, The Able-bodied men have been thrown Bouthampton, Birmingham, Leeds, Mancheater, and other great towns that formerly resounded with tho whirl of wachinery, thero naro strikes, lock-outs, re. ductions, and suspensions that have pro- duced uoiversal distress, Booleties aro or- ganiziog for the relief aud wid of thoso who aro rondered helpless by the general proatra. tion of industry and trade. ‘What is the trouble ? England has had no war sinee the Crimenn campaign twenty.four yencs ago. there hns been uo recent con. va'sion that would account for the present distresq or iuspire the hope that it Is morely ‘I'ho growth ot American manu. In its nuwber of Nov. 10 greater in couneqnenca of eurrenoy changes.” ‘Lliss admirsion s followed by u demonstra. tion of tho fouts I the Keonomist of Dec, 28, which follows I'rof, Jzvaxs' satimuto of the increnso of the gold supply, and consequent depreciation in its purchnsiug power, during twenty yenrs previons to 1800, Followlng pracisely the samo process in a comparison of twenty-Awo lealing articles of trade, the Keonomist domovstrates that gold Lins np. prociated at least 16 per cont during the last ton years, Tho falling-off in production ace couuts for this fu part, The averago of the world's gold production of 1853, '24, aud *3n was #143,000,000; of 1803, ‘G4, and G 107,000,000 ; of 1873, 'T4, and.'756, §U3, 000,000. Contemporancousty with this falling-off in supply, there hus been an ine monetization of silver in Germany and temporary disuso In the United Stales, which the £conomist estimates at $70,000,000, sud drawa! during the post seven years of at least §7,000,000 from the stock of gold previously sccumulated, Heroway bo found tho secret of England's present troubles, and it is confirmed by tho existence of wimilar troubles in QGermany under a similar condition of things. If it ba objocted that, if this were tho true explana. tion, Euglaud would Lave experienced the disastrous result carlier, the answer is that tho divaster was postponed so long as other nacions used silver ay money in sufficlent qusntity to maintaln its voluo sud kecp up the general monetary stock, but that the recont disuse of silver has brought out clearly tho scarcity and dearness of guld, and im- posed the logical resultsof its exclusive cwployment of money upon the country which was first and wost fully committed to that system, twont; nnd 1873, the trade of England increased 100 per cent, nnd tho averago trado of other nations abont 800 per cent; but dnring that eame period the steck of money, includ- ing both gold and silver, increased only 40 por cont. Since 1873, howovor, there is res- son to bolicve that tho world's supply of money has incrensed but very little, owing to tha decronsa in production of gold and tho disuso of silver, aud allowing for the wonr and tosr ond tho wse of metal in the arts, A reliance upon gold alono for mone. tary purpnses 18 insane folly nnder such con. ditions, It {a a violation of natural laws, and a pation can no wmore violalo them in its finanoinl relations than individuals oan in moral and physical affaira without suffering tho penalties proseribed by Nature. 'Tho time may not bo far distant whon England, ropenting of its folly and writhing under the ponalty It has brought on itsolf, wiil Jjoin in tho demand for tho universal remon. etization of silver as the only rolief from in. creasad aud prolonged sufferings, the bag was a curious one, nesscs, Dura, who had agroed to ropent hid tostimony for $500, instond of carrying out tho bargain exposed tho conspiraoy, whore. nupon Br, Minrin was induced to fake tho stand and contradict hia testimouy, and for would tha whole Tt in extimatod thy vo years intervening bhotween 1848 THE STENGER SUB-COMMITTEE'S CORRUE- TION, The nffidavit of 81. ManTiy, which exposed the irregular and corrupt methods of the Brexazn Sub-Committos in getling testic mony, has proved o bombsholl fn the Dom. ocratio camp, and annoys them to such an extout that they are moking the most des. perate efforts to break its force by circulat. ing nlt sorts of damnging storics about him to show that he Is not roliablo. however, are froitless, driven into a corner of desperation, sinc¢e his afiidavit is supported by corroboratory ovi- denco, not only from the Republican side, but from Democratio membors and officers of the Committee, volunteer to serve the Committee, but was sought for by thom, whence it follows that, if Lo js nll that thoy claim bLim to be, they employed him because they wera con. fident he would carry out their corrupt purs Poses, Tho efforts, They are fairly Worso thon all, ho did not The Whashinglon corrospondent of the New York Zimes furnishes somo very inter- esting information bearing upon this witness, and the origin of hia ofiioial cdnnection with tho Committoo, mer, whilo the Porren Committee was eil- ting in Washington, Wepen reccived a lotter from Mry, Jexxs Inquirlng about tho Bner. saN lotter, and that Wener showed the JexNgs letter to 81, ManTry, and told him he knetw nothing about tho Smenmax one, Sab. soquently ha fancled thero was money in tha business, and 1nformed Br. ManTin that he believed ho could make $10,000 by pretend- ing that ho hod found the lattor among bis dend brothot's effocts, and. had destroyed it after showjug it ‘to a witness, and that he would pny 8 he witness, 8r. Masrtin rofised to go into the arrangement, and, tho matter having come to the knowledgoe of the Committeo, S8t. Mantay was given s place iu conncotion with tho Stenozs Sub-Committae to keop him qulet, The manner of his sppointment and tho in. structions given him with regard to tha pro. ouring of witnesses wero all arranged bofore- hand. From the volumes of testimony takon before the Returuing Board i 1878, the names of Republican refugeos wora selcoted and subponas were given to Br, Mantiv to sorve on thewm. thus told by the T'imes corrospondent : It appenrs that last sum. ManTiv £3,000 it would aflem thot he wns the How the plau worked is 411¢ thoy conld ho induced ta recant tholr former testimony, they wero brought In aud lodged In the samo house with Mapvox and Canrtxi, and placed under the care of Wxnen and Sv. Manmy, in whose room they wereo Jitorally confined day mnd night. With the Hoturning-Board testimony boe fore him, MApnox prepared the recantations, whichwera carefully written ot for the witneases and glven to Wepzn. With such a recantation, Wenzn would take such witnesy {n hand aod drill hlm until ke was thorough- Iy trained. Bo thorough was this train. ing that even such questions ss wouold wug- gost themselves for thu cross-examination were propounded and tho prober snswers taught the' victims. \When a witness syasconaldored ready for sxamination, Mr, BreNagn was ipformed by St Manrin, ond tho deluded vietim was brought fore warl toswoll the rocord of perjury deveioped by this most remarkabla Commitiee, was sutlsfactorily porformod, (he money conslder- otion was given by A. M, (msoN to Mannox ve Canten, who conveyod it to tho witness through the ageney of WEBE®" Ir the work ‘The way in which the cat was Iot ont of Ono of tho wit. this received the 500 which had boon in. tended for Dura, Just bofore the doparture of the Committes, 8t. Mantin appreciated tho awkward position in which he had placed himself by his perjary, and upbraided Map. vox and Oamrxn for dragging him futo the conspirncy, and told them he avongo himself by oxposing business, 'Thoy expostulated with him, aud evon threatened that thoy would havo him fndicted in the Loufsiana courts; bnt he romained firm in his doter. minntion, wherotupon he was discharged from his officlal position and wade public his affidavit, which will Lo substantinted by proofs both from Republican and Democratic sourced, Amoug his documents aro lstters showing that, sinco his arrival in Washing- ton, offurs have boen mado to him that, if he will sign a statoment offsetting lis afidavit, Lo will be pald $¢,000, bosides all his ox. pensea whilo in Washiugton, and his oxponses from and to Now Orleans. Evory part of the *despicable work of this Comunittoo whows it to ba honeyconbed with corruption and frad, and that the Srxsan Sub-Committon Lins beon hand.iu-glove with a gang of rascals to mannfacture testimony aud to fuduco oxiled Republicans who were auxious to gut lome to recaut their former statements by the promise of money nud a snfe and speedy roturn, From what las alrondy coma to the surface, it {4 ovident that the SrxNcen Sub-Committes noods in- vestigation quile as much as tho cipher dis- patches or the Florida and Louisiana elece tion frauds, The Trrrxu Committeo wight be profitably employod in exposing the in. famous business of the Srexorn Committes, THE NEW YO ES, The two destruotive contlagrations in New York City last weok poiut & very suggestivo moral, which is, that peoplo living in glass housos should not throw stoncs, Theso two fires, following very closely upon each other, havo sggregated a loss of about §6,000,000, which is much more thou ourentire loss by fire in this city since tho sccond grest con. flagration in July, 1874, aud, if we aro not mistaken, is larger thsn our entire loss in- clading that conflagration. Thesa two Now York fircs havo already collapsed some small insurance companies, and have created somathing like & panio among the lerger ones, leading (o a rise of rates, They bave created also such su sgitation among the New England companies that they are seri. ously beginuiug to question whether propor- ty in Now York City is n safe risk, and to throw ont suggestions that porhaps the water-supply is deflcient and that the Fire Denartment ir not eficiently handlod. Of cotirse, in making any comparisons be- tween the two citins ns to their protection from loss by fire, it 18 to be takon inio ac. count that moro wenlth s acenmulated in the bustuees blocks of New York than in those of Chicago, but this dosa not affect the obvions fuferenco that either tho water-sup. ply in Iamentably insnffotent or the Firo De. partment {3 badly managed. It is perfectly honcat {o make the contrast between tho management of the recont fire in the Chien- go Post-Offico andl of the fires on Worth and Grand stroets in Now York. In the latter case, tho notification wny prompt and the Department had a clear fiold for work, and yot the destruction was complote, and ba. sides involved a serious losa of life, 1Inthe former, the fire originated in the basement and fnstantly shot up into the roof. Thore was considernblo dolay in giving tho alarm, and by the time tho stonmers arrived tho basoment nnd upper story wore in flames. Tho building was six stories in light, and tho upper part, whera the fire was ficrocataboyond the reach of water from the streot. The day was bitterly cold, the thermomaeter being 12 degrees below raro. The firemen wero conted with foe, the water {rcozing the moment it foll upon them. A stilf wost wind was blowing, and the large buildings adjoining were only separated by o very narrow alloy, And yet snch were the promptuess, resolution, and intelligence with which this firo was handled, the destruction was confined to the two upper floors, with every obstacle working sgainst tho flromen. ‘Tho Post-Office employes were ennbled fo remove nll the mails, documents, aud property of the Govern- ment, and the other occdpnnts of the build- ing lost littlo of valuo. Heavy damage to the bLusinoss intorests of the country was avorted by our firomen, and the Post- Oflice tho next day in its now quarters went ou with ita work ns usunl. Beveral persons on the uppoer flcors, eut off from descending the atairs, wero savod by speedy npplinnces, No lives were loat, the Governmont’s proper- ty was saved, and the injury to the building wos 8o far reduced that the walls remain strong, and in a fow weeks it will bo as good o4 over. This fira was subdued under much gronter diffoultics thon confronted tho Nbw York Dopartmont, whose work was princi- pally of nccount in cooling the rulns of buildings which ought to have beon saved, ond would havo been i New York had such 8 Dapartment and wator-3upply as we have. This {8 not the firat timo that attention has been called to the danger that threatons Now York by fire, and that somo dny will involve that cily in atorriblo calamity if it is not avorted, Tho fringo of wooden buildings in the southwestern part ot Chieago is no moro dangerous to tho city thantho four and a halt miles of woodon sheds, filled with com- bustible materinl, that stretch along the East Riivor are to Now York. 'Tha water-supply hos more than once beon found insufliciont in tho latter city. Iis Firo Department has more than onco proved itself incompotent and wantiog in diseiplive, In both the fires wo have montioned thers existod no good reason why they should not have been extin. guished without involving such heavy loas, hsd Noew York beon properly protected ogninst firo, Tha. commotion among thoe insuraneo companies shows thnt something 13 wrong, and that. they are fonring every dny tho broaking out of n conflagration which will seriously cripplo if it does not swamp them, ) Wo ravert to theso things because the Now York papers are in *the habit of periodically onsting asperstons upon Chiengo and socking to projudice ua' 0s o safo insurance invest- ment. Thoy habitunlly misropresent our ro< sources, magnify our dangers, belittle our Tiro Dapartment, criticise onr water-supply, which is the best in tho world, nnd advise the insurance compnnics that thoy cannot be expeoted to commnnd confidonce in the East unless thoy either discriminato agaiust us by ralsing our rates or by withdrawing thoir rizks altogother. With thess two foar- fally dostructivo conflagrationa at their very doors, it will bocome these papers to hava loss to eny about Chicago until New York has first rondored itsolf securo, As it is doubtful whathor this will bo dose until the insuranco companies compel it, tho lat. ter ought to make an immodiate move for their own protection, thoroughly investigata tho condition of the Department and the water-supply, point out their defccts, and, if thoy mro uot {mmedintely ramedled, raiso thoir rates ns they would in the caso of -any other unsafe riska. —_— A BEGGAR ON HORSEBACK. “Long" Joxxs has taken o vory Jarge con. tract on his hands, and one which he will ba anxions to lot out to somebody else before ho gets through with it, In spite of ‘the alongation indicated by bis nickname, ho will nover bo sblo to ronch as high as his bonst. Ho has proclalined the intention of suelcbing Tux Curcaco Toivune, and in his tvis of Don Quirote has ougnged one Rapre. seutative Mol'tm, from down in Egypt some. whore, to play the part of Sanche Panza. Thesa two worthies say thoy aro golog to notify Penitontlary Cowmmlissloners *‘and wlch” that thoy must drop Tus Tamuxr, and gonerally imbuo Ropublicans with tha notion that it will bo party heresy to * patronize” this journal. ‘I'iis job implics eithor that Tue Triwons is depondent for its exlstenco on thy rag-and-bob-tail of politics, of which said *Loong" Joxz4 Is a leader, or that sad ““Long" Joves and his Fulitay” squad of rotainers shapoe and control the des- tinies of the Republican party in this State ; wo aro at o loss to determiue which is the nioro preposterous of these two propositions, There {4 ons snfRcient reason, uot to men. tlon others, why Mr. *Long"” Joxzs can nover read ‘Lus TuipuNx out of {he party clique to which his fufluenco may extend,— and that is, beeauso Tax Tumuvsk doesn'’t belong to it. Tum ‘T'nivuNe is not run by “Long" Joxza' machine, and can't be influ- enced morally, nor be bulldozed politically, nor boalfected financially, by auything which can bo done or loft undoue by the mschino {taslf, and much less by a common and hired stoker like ' Long"” Joxzs. ‘There was just ong complimont which it was in the power of * Loug " Josxs aod his fellow-ringstem to pay ‘e Toisusg, and that was to wwear at it, and Lurl impotent throats at Its course. It it is possible to conceive that Tus Trmone would ever ask soy favor at the handsof those howling Dervishies of bummer politics, §t would be to solicit precisely the public an. nounceraent which they have wado, “ Long" Joxxs is a beggar on horseback, But even the horss he rides is o decrepit, sbambling, shaky old Lack. It is possiblo for him to make a véry disroputable exhibi. tiou of himself, as he is doing, und he cun succeed in disgusting the respectable partion of the Btate by his maneuvering ; but, when bo docs all this in the namo of the Repub. JANUARY 30, - 1879, lican party, he is mot contributing any strength or inflnence to that political orga zation, Al succosaful partios aro afilioted with just such parssites ns '‘Long" Joves, and juat snch oxeresconces ns lto feeds npon; but it 18 tho duty ot n jourael like Tae I'nin. usE to do what it ean to lop off ruch ex« eroscencen and brush off such parasites, and & public journal will gain now fricuds and acquire new influonce by performing that duty. ** Long " Joxzs 1s n momber of a gang that is fond of - cherishing tho delnston that Tux ‘Trinuxe, and independent Ropublionn jours nals generally, bavo no influence, ‘Thoy ige nora tha important part played by theso fournals in rescuing the Ropublican party from tho Credit-Mobilier, and salary.grab, and Whisky-Ring scandals, by helping to ex* pose and denounco them, Thoy have not the sonse to understand that thero would bave been no Republican parly to-day worth spenking of if theso same journals and other purifying influonces had not forced the Whisky Ring and the runners of the machine {o tha rear at the lnat Presidential election, Their own blind selfishness obsoures their vision to a recoguition of the faot that onlya periodical slaughter of the perasites aud an aconsionnl seraping-off of tho barnacles has ensbled the Ropublicnn party to retain in any dogree tho confidonce of tho American people, The Bpringfield Ring, of whioh “Long" Joves has constituted himself the spokesman, moy pravail for the time being, or it may not; but ita temporary success will only the move surely impress upon tho ma- Jority of the Republican party the necessity of unlonding it. Lot usrecall a case in point of *influence ” which *“Long” Jonzs will understand, A couple of years ago this samo Springficld Ring rushed through the Legislaturo a job for placing about a million dollara in the hands of Jare Buxn nnd his aseoclates, tobo used at thelrgood pleasuro in * finishing " tho Stato-Ilouse, This was necomplished in spite of Tux Trinuxs's way of thinking. But tha Conastitation, fortunately, provided that the Ring-schono conld not beearriod ont or the money flngered without the approval of the people, expressed ot the polls. Tnr Tumuxe, which bed no influ- enco with the machine, bod an opportunity for appealing Irom the Ring to tho peoplo in that case, and the result wos that the Ring was ronted by o hundrod thou- sand majority. Bo ¢ Long "Joxes and his gong may succoed in assnssinating Gon. Qovrzsny to make room for o snlary-grabber, but, if thore woro the enme opportunity to appoal to the people, the infamous proceed- ing wonld bo repudiated by n lnrger mojority than voted down tho State-Honso grab, The people of Illinols will have no such direct way for attesting in this caso the mfluenco of Tnw Tnwuxe (an iofluence that comes from honesty and independence), but they will find o way of their own fo¢ repudiating, re- sonting, and punishing the outrago which tho Ring propose to practice upon them. subject of conslderablo Interest to the poli- tlclans. Aftor forty-nine ballots in the Repub- llean caucus last week, without any apparent change i the strength of the threo promiuent candidutes, an sdjournment was carried until this -evening, when tne belllgerent forces will agaln begln hostilities, Tho last ballot stood: Keves, 81; Caurznren, 28; Howe, 20; scat- teriogy 8. That I8 about the way the vote hus stood trom the start, Nearly all the members went home to speud Sunday, and there aro good reasons for belfeving that tho first ballot this eventog will not vary much from the last one token on Friday. Each of tho aspirants scems to bo well nwarc of tho fact that it is a matter of Nfe or death with him poliiicully, and that it is now or mever: lLenca tho tenacity with . which the friends and Dbackers of eath man adhere to thelr candidate. Probe ably 8cnator Hotwn feols the least concorned about the result, as ke will have sorved in the Bonute alebtven years on the 4th day of next March, and has enjoyed tho confidonco aud sup- port of his party to adegreo not usually ace corded to any public mun lu these days of scrambling after power and place. 1f heisleft out now, he cannot vomplain: but the peoplo of Wisconsin will have the right to complain {f some une as worthy and capable ss Senator TowE is not chogen {n his place. Col. Knyxs is vonfldent of success, holds bis forces well In haud, and fs warmly supported by msny of the most Indostrious young mon In the party, Mr, CARPRNTRR appears upon the track handieapped by 80 wany adverso and ddscourugine influencos that the probauliitios of bis beln chosen are so remote that they sro scarcely worth consldering. His only chance, with tho bitter fecllng azalnat him in tho Republican party, is to continue the ‘dead-lock until the two Houses go Into joint convention on Wednesday next, when the Dems ocrats are expected to go over to his support. Oamrexten's plea for TiLDEN beforo tha Electoral Commission made many (riends for him amoog the Democrats, and thcy would no goubt greatly preler his election to any othes Republican. We hope there is patriotism and wisdom cnough in the Wisconsin Lealislature to prevent CanrenTan's election, which coutd not bo regarded o any other light oxeept that of & public calamity, —— “Long " Joxgs is naturally an oflico-broker. Just now ho ocenpics an officiul outilds position in conpection with tho Peulteatlary; be should be carcful not to scck an ofliclal relation to the Btate on the othier sldo of tho wall. The Ring with which b {s iduntifled bas been indulgiug tu certaln practices that verge very closcly upon other practives that aro dealt with (n the crim- inal statutes, They have been carrying around with them officlal commissions and using them for the purposo of influenclng Logislative votea for m salary-grabber, They ‘bave also been promistog piaces which it la not in thelr power to deliver, and, in caso they carry off thelr prize, may be charged with having obtained goods under fulso pretenses, When thelr operas tions coma to be exposcd by thosy whom they are mow decelving, ‘‘Long" Jonks may bo compelled to get down from his high boree, and among the spectators who will be found laush- g at the dismounted begear will be one Jouxs A, Louad, —— 1t Jooks justnlittlo a» §f Hxyomicks was about to tal oo in favor of souud cusrency and againat the Ohlo *idee” Tou's receut visit to Washlugton, It fs saig, lias opened his eves to the fact that Tuukaax is likely to carry off the Presiuentin nuniination next thns unless ho can be killed by the honest-money sentiment of the party, Hence Tou's talk about assuring Eastern men that the West will meet them on wrouuds acceptable 10 the bard-mouvy wivg of the party. et —ee e The Governor of Wisconsla says * The total stsenceof all scrlous complaint apstost rafl- roads shows most couclusively that the present law s well suited to the pusposes for which it was eoacted, and, under the watchful super visiuo of the Commissiouer, is belng faitlfutly obeyed." - —— e 1t costs Rhode Island but $1.83 per capita to defray the ordloary expensvs of the Btate Government, Tbe Governor ruports over Lal{ a million dollars placed in ber Stukiog Fund durlog tho past yesr. It {s a goud thblng for taxpayers to live In & little State. . e — e Murrarr bas the temerity to ssk Congress for back pay ey architect on nesrly all the pub- lic buildings he ever bad anytbiug to do witb. e e ‘The girls are rapidly coming to the front in Mauioe. There are 6,000 of them teaching in the puble sehools of that State, RELIGIO Talmage Again Makes His Hearers Stamp and Hoot with Delight. Prof. 8wing Preaches on the Ed-nI ucation and Training of. | " Children, Ilistory o}_the Cathotle Church in America Keviowed by Bishop Foley. Some Significant Utterances Regarding Its Attitude on tho Public- School Question, Eto, Messrs. Pentecost and Stebbins Hegln Thelr Evangelizing Work on the West Side The Rev. Dr, Bullivan Gives the Reasona for His Recent Rosignation—Miss Willard on the Liquor Traffic, TALMAGE, YESTERDAT. Mpecial Dispateh to The Tribune. New Yonx, Jan. 19.—Mr.. Talmage preached on **Sensation versus Stagnation * to-day. 118 text was Acts, xix,, 23— Thero srose no small stir about thut way.” The stir, ho sald, was made by Paul, who was upseiting everything by lis scrmons. The people of Ephesus had brought out about 9,000 worth of bad baoks and made a bonfire of them In answer to his ap- peals. I had spolled the business of seliing medalllons of Diana, ang tho merchants heid on fndignation meeting, and resolved that this thing must stop. Everybody was wondering what he would do mnext. Never before, mor sinte, had there been sucht a sensation, “UWIIAT 13 A BENSATIONI" asked the speaker. ** Webster deflnes it nxon exeited state of thought or feellng, and I can’t sce anything more valuable; but as the word ‘conservatism® has been twlsted from its noble senso totnean stupid do-notluneism, so the word sensation ' has been twisted to mean everything crratle and reprehensible, No one ever necom- niished soy good fn Church or State without making a sensation. Sensatlon ls lfe; stagna- tion as death, When Iam called a sensational- ist, 1 take it as acvompliment. [Laughter] [ have often wished it more trae. God helping me, I wilt mako it more true. [Avpplause.] WHEN T WAS A LATMAN T noticed that religlon was assoclated with duil- ucss, When a Governor {8 to bo nominsted, or finaticial questions are to be dlacussed, the peo- pleare all nwake, but when Chrlst 18 to be crowned, or tho cternal wealth or pauperization of thusoul are the toples, ¢ body is somno- lent. Inoticed there was somothing radically wrong with the Church. Wuo all remomber bow, In our boyhood days, wo mnnde uso of every art to remaln awake in churcn, Weate caraway scwls [laughter] and cloves, oud held = fuot up until it was numb [rencwed lsoghter], and plnched ourselves untll wo wers black and blue, or re. ¢leved astinulus from a big brother wha stuck aplu juto us [great laughter), or a look from oo clder sister that mado us sink into the eround {u shame at our lack of self-aboegation, ‘Then we luoked up at the Deacons’ pow and SAW TIE BEVEN BLEBIENS [ronrs of luughier] wio had lost thelr hold af- tor the sccond ., hoad, and thought there must 8till bo some chance for us when such good men gava way. [Renewed /loughtar.].. Y venture to say that thero Is more stceping dono In churches thao in auy other buflalnge on the face of thae carth. [fanebjer.) TUEY ARE TR UREAT DORMITORIES OF CIVIL: 1ZATION. 2t ¥ g [Renewed laughter] Men who are troubled with insomnia ot home come to church sud en« ‘Jog réfreshing shumber. What chloral and ano. ‘Qyhes cannot do, the long sermon and prayer nccomplishes, [Laughter.] Whon the minfster drawls out, ‘Now, to be brief, eightecatbly,' men put thelr hoads down upon the fronts of thelr pows und preteud to be overcome with cmotion, when the truth fs thoy cannot remaln awake any Jonger,” Here Mr. Talmage told the familiar story of the slceping Scotchman, who, belog ndvised by his ininister from tho pulpit to take a ptach of suntf, retorted that tho snufl would be betted in tho scrinon. This sentiment was received with au astonlshing outburst of HAND-CLAPPING AND STAMPING OF FEXT, that lasted geveral seconds. ‘Lho spesker cone tloueds ** WWith ali the artlllery of {Ivaven at hand, why should not a minister be able to keep s hearers awake! What' would bo thought ot aman nt a bangict who stould take his wateh out cyery few minutes to sce how soon ho might stop eatlog meringuo plel [Laugh. ter,] Yot church services are a banquet of the highest order. I have no patience when I sed thuw all ade up of napkin-ring aud fngers bowl, with nothing to satisfy the appetite of wuesta, 1say to young mon preparing for tha ministey: It you want audicnces, make a stir’ What do the general pubile care sbout the conventionalitics of religlon or the sesquls pedaling words with wolch some mintsters crawl through services! 'They do know, though, that the chicl anxiety of such is LEST THUEY MAY LOOK AT TUH WHONG rLACH fo the notot of thelr sermuns. [Laughter.] They know, too, that the soap-lock has been carefully prepared to full upon the brow at the proper thne so that ft may be brusted away with the dlsmonded hand, Thelr chlof snxiety at tho moment is probably tolearn how to pay a $500-note with $2000f movney, [Laughter,] I went to church oued whero the sermon was beautlrul, tho singlug ocautiful, the Iaterlor beautliful, the miufster beautiful, everything beaudiful [laughter]; but somnolence tuok such posscsston of mu that, although I fought bard agoinst it, It was of no uee, and I put my head down in front of the pew snd had i ONE OF TIIE MOST REFRESHING SLUMDERS OF MY LIFE, [Laughter.] 1 committed po sfn, That man in puipit with his posies and didactics, heavy as leud, was tho criminal, ‘That fs why congrega. tions arc soalim. A few come to church be- sc it was eternally dosired that they woulg come, [Langhter.] But the mafority would 83 soon accept an fnyitation to a reception fu an Iee-house or the vault of a cemetery. Tha battle to be fougbt fu the cause of religlon {s one of sensation agalust stognation, Let the church wake up. It is high timo the cavalry were sont for. TUR Bl GUNS ARE TUCK 1N THE MUD, (Laughter.] It bas been one of my resolutlons, God belping we, never to be dull. Bometines one cau’t hiclp belng dull on account of 1ilness, or some similar cause, The reason ministers are generally such heartless critics is that, on account of thelr sedentary Ule, they are victhns of fudizestion. WhenI wesa religious editor, and & bouk vame I thuucht ought to be cut to ploces, I always banded 1t to the clerical assistant, who bad the worst dyspepsia, and it was cut to pleces luvartably, [Lauzbter.] Thers is nothing avallable in the parlor or vn the platform that 1s not sppropriate to the pulpit. 1 intend, ono of these days, to preach a scrinon on tho sar- casmy of the Bivle. It ls full of 6. If a preach- «er savs somethlug SFECIALLY INTENDED T0 MAKN PEOVLE LAUGH, he 15 reprebensible; but if what bo says taso trua that thoy caunot Lelp laughiog, that is an- otber thiog. A minlster should rausack overy- thiug. I have always tried Lo svold explainiug what I aid uot understavd wmysclf. I belicve tlicre are three persons in one God, and that Cliris bad 8 diviue snd humas nature, 1 CANXOT BXPLAIN UOW IT 13, and won't trv to. During the first yeare of my 2 miutstey T did try, nnd found the wreatey dxd calty I the task, Sontetfmer, wheny Thay n‘ Iahicd, and was conmoling MKt with the o that my hearcrs underatood wlml.l“‘l»um' better than Iaid, some platn man at the f, H of the pulpit would ask me n question g, woull throw me Into the greatest cuvmm‘l and § would have to tell him, *I'll see m..,(::‘ ollier time.’ . [Ureat lnoghter.] Thers “e great fics In my honse the other day. v 1 RUANED bP ) MANUsCRIT RERMON,, [Laughter.] When I began preaching | “.‘m wtite out every word 1 was golng 1o sy, ! these wero the results. They contafned grg, nations of the mysteries of religlon ang o{‘ = dactrine of election that were about as glogy,, 8 Scoteh miat or a 8an Francisco fog [Inuz)ner“- but T thqnzm, a8 thoy lay in the grate, “: thero was MORE WARMTIL IN TITEM THAN EvER ‘Thera I8 nothing In romnnce so enchanyy, religion If wa look at ft fairly; but it we mh 1t upon tha diskecting table and rip jgg bn‘: out, we make 1t loAthsomio anda corpe, lias alwaga' beenmy resolutian to amite f reckless of tho consequences. The re. flourishies Is that jtfa not ecallod by the righy vame. Ministers should Do artillcrisy should let othors provide the omby The reasons my scrmoua mnnke such o sl i that they are true. 1f you firo a stone af sy of dogs on a common, WIlICI ONR 13 IT TIIAT HOWLs! The ona titat Is hit. [Loughter] It 54 slgn of the thnes that 50 many ministers by made to shut up. You sulght s well try lo tha yellow-fever by saying notuing abot , When I began to preach about thegices of y, great cltles, 1 went In person g P what they wero, Some people thongly I should have stobped on Drooklyn Tighy loaded my gun with blank cartridge, Dpofute] at the Fourth Ward of New York, shut my ejey, turocd my bead back, pulled the trigger, made for Buswick. [Great loughter.] Bessry T didn't mans ministers became frantle, Froy What iy dear brethren say, it would o thoygy that I was thie frst minlster that ever peneirtsy the shums. 1 could namo some of the beg cvangellsts of the two cities who preceded m, The pulice who touk me around told me b, had taken thein too. {Roars of laughter,) 1 WOULD MAKE A BIG DISTURUASCR in some congrogatlons If I wanted to toll 1) but I won't. [Renewed laughiter.] 'The differegy between us hus been that they suid nothp, about what they saw, while I told my peu, everything, and uttered o warning to yog men to look out. The bar of God will decgy which was the best plan. Bomwe years 0l nreached a series of sormons on the avemy Augrican theatre. Afterward Iwas told g I had talked of theatres os they existud 3y years ogo, 1If L recur to the subject Iwig thy rounds aud seu for wysclf, I IAVE DONB LOOKING TIIOUGH OTHCR P PLL'S SPECTACLES. [Laughter.] Uod has glven me a palr of gl oves, und 1 am going to use them. I hareq ways sought” the most startling and orouls; themes I couldt find, and I will alway do v, Whers Scusation i3 tho plamti® o] Btaguotion the defendant, 1 witl atvags by found ncting an attorney for the plainuf, {Lauzhter| 1 have tried to preach sermoy Ahat would not leave my hearers in the lors, We don’t wunt a rellzion that will taken smuoothly over the foew milos of ruad on ity carth, and then put us out on the wq\x-binh( tho mrave, You wlll bear witness ™ that, durics the past ten years, I have preached Chrlstad lLave not hidden any of m,e old truths.” pUTY o MINORS. SRUNON DY PROF. 8WIXG. Profi'8wing preachod yesterday morniogd the Central Churcly, taklug ns bis text: Traln op a child fu the way ho should go, ul when ha 18 old he will not depart from 1t ~Frar, s O “The converso of this familiar text Is as truey the direct statement: Traln up a cllld oty way he should not go, snd whon he isoldk will not depart from it. It ho s reared nids néas of In vice, or under tho Infdenco of oty ggames and pleasurcs, ho will not depart Ing these modes of wasting life, The middlosd late years arc colored by tho first yesrs, Asew lauguoge s gofued In carly life, and asvey rarcly can the lps and tongue learn tospat well o new language fu after years, so out pbp feal’ and mentat Labits' and tastes aro bullis fu thdae'same casly days, and be thoy goola bad, they ‘rémain by us to theend, Theren many aphorisina Lo this effect. Tha expressits “'The child s fatherof the mon,” aud “Jot 08 the twiz I8 bent the trew’s tnclined,” are spd mens of tho wanver In_ whichithe wisdom ofal ages has oxpresscd itacit over ' thi¥, question~ thie rearing of tho young, When tho, pégtall, #1Ts education forns the common mind, ks did not pausc to defing educatian, for portt never define thoir terms, but tho great trathd the verso Is to b found fn tho {dea that wlibs surroundings of carly 1ifo are educatlonal,~tr ture, and books, and labora, and piays, and wer pantons, and thet by these tha twle is bent,sd thus Is bent or made eroct the old osk of st quent centuries. How periectly dependent the last yeam vt upon tho Airst twenty, may be inferred nobody irom what Sclomon has sald {n our test, B from what other decp students of educatid fave said In thelr ‘calincat hours after yeand the most paticnt study. Aristotlo says “1 who have meditated on the art of govert mankind have beon convioced that the faed empires depends on tue educatlon of Sml} Tho Latin’ Quintilian says: %1 conclude ¢ there uro great resources to be fouud f chilie which ara permitted to vanlsh with tho yoi¥ tul years. It {s uyident, therefore, that not natire should we cuinplafu, but of our o9 neuligence,” That fs to sy, If a nation & itaci( voor In good, aud truo, and brave weal uved not bluwe Nature, but may take tolud the reprosch of not baviue formed Iuto m wen Its multitudes of children. As wepd down from auclent names the utteratice ts thils polut bucume more numerous until, Ilhfi a volusue might bu tiiled with the pellectioes statcamen aud philusophers oyor the relabd of the Btate to educatlon, Edmund Bu suid, * Educetion Ia tho cblef defenas of o tlous,'” and Navoleou said, *Puplic inatrussd stould Lo the first objoit of govervmest These oru_opinfons cuough to lustrate } least, tho thuught of all times, when the tlons of youth to ago, of childhood to o4 huod, Lave posscd under reviow, It Velug coufussed now by us all, and dos less without le dlasenting volce, thatsd education of thio youug muat precede ua acsd all suceessful forms of socloty, wa should s Stmutive whiat is thls educution which so s the State, and the Church, and all the variad# perlence of maukind? 1t cannot bu that acd won {nstraction {n reading, writing, aud m;‘ metic can exhaust the meaning of the ¥ educativn, uor can b be tuab care of ko which 1s gald to briui such cood and safctis national life, While this commuon-schiool o cation pousc: great power, ft cannot it y detinition of the statesinen whon they MY valion saves the Uovernment; and wheo o tillan sald that there are rosoupees i ln‘ which 8 country neglocts 1o its loss, ho did® mean that our ¢hildren shoutd possess the b vle power to learn to read, and write, and ] with easc and accuracy, Whon Solomod¥ that the mau would not depart from 146 8, which be had heen brafucd to go, \IIJM smiean that our old wen would uover forzet B 1o read ond write after they bad onee hars those arts. Nordid our modern poet mmndn if the modern twiz was bent toward res and writiug, the old tres would fncline 1 direction. - Nof In ull " theso wise “““"""“|, garding the education of youtd, the word & catton signifies a broad mental and moral ‘kt i opment of which tne study of Laoks In & 5 or college s only a vart, o Jarge part Iudna‘ but not the whole. 'Fhac education of the yod which witl help fieat the youuz and then o 2 clety must bo a developuient of il the 1A% Pum:n of youth sad a subjection of all 4 hariful powers. Detter for mankiud ab “{;‘ and {or the tudividual s an education 1 schiool of honor and Jndustry than tn th 8¢ of the classles ond sclences, if wo cosld Rt only onc siape of this deyelopment, A ",.x ™ at lilatory will show us that iaukiad is % ed ot oily ta great scholars, but als L0 ";ni charucters, and that .we have drawn &3 & bicssinus from noble Luarts s wo Lase e profound sntelicets. It s antazlug how 5 af those Whow wlcall berocs—uud Lo e one who lives for obberi—come to us 1ot mn i1 ruiment of the schoals aloue, but u the 237 love, and sclf-dental, snd {nteerity. e Wu periaps deceive oursclves by calllod Broyy which tho public's children flnd fu tbe POE schiools uducation, - It 1y su error much Ik S of men who folu g cburch gud ever aftery feel that tbea aud there thuy tound nb&ty Vo arg 1o0ad tnt 4 danmanaae snenrt] b b