Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 5, 1879, Page 12

: PARIS Father Hyacinthe on ‘the War- Path in the French . Capital. - sugnration of the Gallican-Catholio Crasade—Opening of M. Loy- son’s Church. Boandalous Proceedings—The Prospects of the Movement—Oatholicism and Infldelity in France. Sacred Pusic in Paris--.Tke Hippodrome and Con- Hugo, Zola, and de Goneonrl, Speetal Correspondenca of The Tribune. Pas, Feb. 12.—M. Hyacinthe Loyson, other- wise Father Hyacinthie, may be—and 1 {n- cline to believe fs—an honest man. That ho fs cloquent, ardent, and energetic, { necd not say. But what zood he csh hope to do his country- men or the world {a yeneral by the lnst vonturo of his in Paris, I must confess 1 fall to under- stand.. You have heard somne whispers of this new Galtican-Catholle crusade. Lika avother Don Quizote de la Mancha, the gallant priest hins buckled on his armor and gone forth to tilt at the venerablo corruptions of the Roman Church. Last S8unday his own church was opened. It is u modest butlding, of small pro- portions and extremely uonttractive appear- ance, situate in the unsavory street Koviwn ns the Rue Rochechouart, cloge to the Rus Lufay- ctte. Befors the coming of Gallicanism, It served the profano purpose of o third-rate cafe- chantaut, und bore the name of Folfes-Mon- tholon. I have dravk more than uno Rlass of ale within the walis which now echo the sound of pralse and thanksgiving; and 1 remember espectally baving on severs! occaslons lstened with much delight to a pretty littlo operetta entitled, I be- liuve, * Lo Pomuuier’ des Amodrs,” which at ono time was the chicl item in the Folics- ‘Montholon programme. Can it be wondered at. 11 the Parlsfans, nut very reverent at the best, have already found o mocking title for Father Hyacinthe's temple? They call it TAB * FOLIBS-LOYSON"} and, to spcak fruth, the greatest admirers of the eminent prdacher und Clirtstian who ts thus deridled could hardly deny that the Gallican cruende is ‘‘rather foolish. Its object is o noble one,—true; but this attempt to reform Roman Catholiclsm comes too late by threo centurles, What passed for revolution tn the troubled days of Luther und Melancthon nuw seema ‘reaction’” to the mass of Frenchmen, ‘This natfon has gone far beyond reforinations since the mighty convulsion that marked the close’of the Eighteenth Century. Men bere are now ranged inlo two camps,—indiffcrent or -trreconcilable. On one slde are o few—a very - few—fapatical Catholles, of the kind wo style Rowan ~ or Ultramontanc. On “the other 18 n vast multitude of Voltulrians, plilosopliers; Comtiats, skeptivs, and Atheists,—whom their opponents scornfully nud sweeplngly nome the Free-Thinkers, Be- wween thein atund all the women of France,— outwardly, still Catholics luwardly, jprowing less Cathiolic every day, How can Fatlier 1lvas B the hope—nay, does hu in his heart even hope —tu reconcilo these two particat ‘There s uo room for Erotestantlsm lu France in the Nine- teenth Century, You may regret it or rejoivo At it,—you may weep or not weep over the per- versity of the murlu; the fact remains, eluring, t_to the Jeast careful observers snd, thongh Father Ilyaciinthe spoka with the voleo of a prophet, he would be powerless to stem the current. At the ntinost, he can but win a tran- slent tamo Ly his preaching. Hisadmirabie clo- quence, hfs” zeal, bis reputation, wul bring croweds to heor him for n fow weeka, months, or vaeues; he will be s " nine<lays’ wonder,' umd fill the papers for n scason? nur arten? will he hmye changed the heart of one bigot, or drawn asingle Athelst back to- the Churchi Aot r I know nothing of France, The philosophic Delst will smile’ ut his mild eolu- tions wid compromises, Thu Athelst will laugh hiw to scorn, or pass him by with a shrawe of the shoulders, ‘The Ultrnmontanes will hote Tm eveu more intensels than nows; und that §s saving a good deal—for, it ever there was n man heavtlly weil hated hy Mother Chureh, Father Hyocnthe tn._ Prior to Inauguratog the chiurch Ih the Rue Rochechouart, he wrote o loni and very respectiul letter to Mgr, Gui- Lert, the Cardinal Archbishop of U'ais, inforni- ing him of the step he Intended taking, That estimable Prelats roplied fu the most onte rageoits und insultlng terms, heginniug by the remark that e wus ataloss to understand what intercst the letter of an excommunicatod priest could have for him, and winding up with .~ @ plous prayer that the rebel inight bo per- mitted to ‘sce the error of his' ways he- fore he loft this world for whother, Thia fs the sort of treatment ho wnust expect from ano stde,” What Lo miay expeet from the other ho may partly guess It fio read the pepers ;vlllcl;reporl- his proceedings under the,heud- fuga “THEATRIOAL NEWS,", and if ho saw anything of the Jukhu.i and ribald- Isaw at the ‘openliys ceramony last Buaday, e mieht have soen Jourunlists walking up and down In the lobbles (that onee led to the stage entrance of the Folics-Manthiolon, und that ow Lorder ou the sanctuary whers stands the sitar), smoking nnd Iaughingas If they were fn a cafe, 1le might have heard people jesthng about himself and’ Mme, Loyson—who™ was 1 the building, by-the-by—with & freedom and gross. ness verehne on the leentious. Ana, If hu was near the door sbout hall-past 8 o’clock fn the afternoon, Mo would have scon hnndreds of furions ticket-holders flzhting for udmittance aud swearing au the white<ravated Ameriean geutlemen who, I their character of chirch- wardens or nasters of the ceremonios,—thelr cxact poslition remalus o mystery,—vainly strove to bar the passage by force und persuasion, Al- 'togethier tho scenc way BXTREMELY PAINFUL, ‘The church had only room for nbout 1,200 po ple, but there may have veen 2,000 crowded | to ft when the cholr stood un to sing the ln- sugural hymu, ‘The leat was stilling, Order thera scoued none, Ladics fatnted from time to time, and had to be carricd out Iato the street, Whilo Father Iyacinthe was spenking, | with My OWn eyes saW WO newspaper-nien (uunhle to penetrato into the body of the building) calmly ceratehing the paint off nwindow In thi lobby lookimg on to_the altar, in order to got n view of the proceedings. As to the discourse Juscif, it was, as o matter of course, carnest, cloquent, und interesting,—though perhaps critic might have objected that it was sume- thinz too personal, Next Sunday there fs to be public worahip at the Gallican Church for the flest thme. 1t 18 kafe 10 proptiesy that there will b no such crushing then us the'other duy. - I8 fttrue, or fs iy untrue! 1 con searcely sredie ft, and yet it Is positively nsavried, by person who should be well inforined on the subject, thut Father Hyncinthe's religious cam- Palgnis a MEKE BFECULATIVE ENTERIRISE of an Awerlean assoclation of Barnuins, chiefly uf the Hebrew * persuasion,” who are backing he Gallican preachier with a hope of muking something ot of the collections, The bheads Barmu, L aw assured, i M, B—, a German- Amcrlean, 11 not s hundred miles from the Purls Bourse.” “his would go far 10 account for the exiraordinary futerest apparently telt in the rellglous movemnt by the Amerfeans here. Not only was the church crowded with thein, but, ns 1haveulready mentioned in pussing, the directlod ol the proceedin! eined to bo very much In thiekr hands,—which, upropos, might bave been o littto tenderer, “The Barnum assoclation—it asseclation there bo—appears bent on making music oue of thelr trump-carda in the new speculutfon, 1t waa do- cldedly good on S8unday, both as to the vo! the cliolr, und the urfmnltl.'. but, wien thy . dees begin, {1 s likely to be better, Neverthes ! there §s not much chance of Father Hya- e'a drawing sufliciently to TOPAY & very hieavy outlay, Heectier and hls millions ore fm- possible fu France. GOOD MUSICAL SERVICKS arc not g0 couuon fn Farls as might bo sup. pused, ‘Tho execution is satisfactory at alinost all the ciurches, aud the organs will bear com- E:‘n‘dmn with the best In Germany s England, t the music sclected for oxecution Is rarcly, 100 rarely, Jutercstlug, We aro seldom treated - - 10 the mnuaterpieces with which Mozart, Chieru- tunl, und Weber enricbed the religious reper- tory. Rousini sud Gounod wo do oceasfonally heur. “The greuter pare.of the chureh musle is, however, In French und modern. Ono evenlng, i rcmuufim. having wundered futo the Made- lewe as the summer twilight was fadlig. futo wih, Tdid bear (and with what pleuurcv) tho ~u aweetness of & Gluckian theme st & B | Bearly overy day during the journey, rvice, '1he cholr wi ging n & ‘midg ¥ or ' Iphigenia en Auled: which. hen {t ended, 11eft, ‘The forld triv- inlities of modern sacred musie would have been brinful after the stately melody of the old opera, Gounod is one of the few native: composers who I8 able to write truly relizlons music. The venury of composers in” this fleld {s easily ac- counted for, 5 ‘T'welfth Mass of Mozart, or the “Messiah* of Hanilel, one must feel n holy faiths merc talent i insufllcient ; gemuaitself, however it may triumph | fp profane compositions, rarely succevds herd, ll’crnoz'. “Requiem ' Is an exception. Of Vurn.(. 1 kuow tuo hittle to speak, Roesint’s ¢ Suh:\zL 1 hmmbly prophesy, will he forgutten cre flity vears be past, How can justice be dunc to the Joftlest and noblest form of musical composl-; tion unless the workiman feels and belieyes o’ the grandeur of his subject? ] CONCRRTS. i Gounod 18 to conduct the orchestra at tlie next Festival-Concert nt the Hippodrome. The programme will ba entirely made up of his works, Tals will bethe last festival but one civen hy M, Vizentine this sewson. At the final vonzert. M. Rever, the woll-known eritic, and composer of * L,n Statua " and * Slewed,” will: direct the cxecution of setections from Hector Berlioz's " Benedict aud Beatrice? and * Romeo el Jultet,” & A uew overture by Arthur Sullivan was ex- ectited at the Conservatoiro on Sunday. and will Lo repeated at the same place nextweek, So it will be scen that the Exhibition-Concerts have at least opiened tho ears of musiclans here a little. ‘This {s the socond Enclish work per- formed at the Conservatolre Iately, The other was Allred Holmes' Symphony, of which I tude mention at the tine of its production. IN LITERATURR, the stagnation of the last month or twois stortly to be changed. Victor Hugo's new puent, ** La Pitlo Supreme,” 1s in the presss wnd thosu realistic champions, Emily Zoia aud E. de Qoucourt, havo each s new novel in preparation, Zol's 1s entitled “* Nova.,” It is a continuation of the famous ** Azsommofr,’ nnd 18 devoted to ihe adventures of the daughter of Coupenu aud Gervalse, with whose wiscrable dentl ' As- sommolr’” ended. M. de Guneourt’s novel is nomed “Les Freros Dendigo.” The *Bendizoe Brothers' are clowns: **Nana,” at oue mo- ment of her carcer, s an actress, ‘Uhe curlous in theatricak. watters may therofore look fore ward 1o the appearsnve of hoth books with la- terest. Hanny MeLrzer, THE ELECTRO-MOTOGRAPH. Edison's Now Telophone Recelvar—Dispense Ing with tho Electro-Magnot—FErictlon on n Cylinder of Clinlk Vibrating sn Enlargad Dinphragm, New Tork Herald, The Cuinard steamer Algerls salled for Liver- pool yesterday, havingz on board Mr. C. P, Edi- son, who has taken with him oo of the greatest Inventlons of the uge. On learalng that the Professor had succeeded in perfecting a great fmprovement in the telephons recelver, n Herald reporter went to Menlo Park to learn the pature of the Instrument. Prof. Edlson received the reporter very cordiaily und ut once set about Kiving him all .the detalls of his wonderful in- vention. He sald he discovered the principle of the clectro-matograph eomie {ive or six years nzo, but did ot apply it to the telephione re- velver until quite recently, ‘I'ie description of the apparatus is as follows: A diaphsagm of infea four inches in diameter {s held in asultable framework, A hand crank fs to rotate o small chalk evlindor (previously im- pregaated with the proper chemieal solution), with a continuous forward snotion directly out- ward from the face of the dlaplragm, Ong und of u metal bar is fustened to the centre of the diaphragm and the other end rests upon the chalk cylinder, belng held down very firmiy by u springz. ‘The lrenlt 18 made from tiis metal bar, throueh the chnlk cylinder to the base, As the exlinder Is rotated cithier by hand or other power the friction between the metal bar and the chalk exhinder fa vory cousiderable, and the diaphragm Is druwn or bowed outward toward the eylinder. This operativn is purely mechani- cal aid loenl. — When the eleetrle waves are transmitted from the distant station by the speaker (who uses Edisou’s car- bon transinltter) over the wire o ths recelver, sach wave as {L passes through the chalk eylinder cllocts by electro-chemical de- composition more or less ueutralization of the friction between the bar,mnd the cylinder, ne- cording as the wave may be n strone or weak one. The resultont offeet'of each wave 8 the freoing of the dlaphragm, permitting it to re. £rin hs normal positfon. Thus n series of eleetric waves, with thealternate space between, effects a vibretion of the diaphraem in perfect aecord with the voies of the sreaker, the nctlon being solely eleetrleal awd chemteal, ‘Fhe ele- ment of sline 18 nota factor, as in the clectro- mugnetie nstrumunt, where, as is well known, n pereeptiblo degres of time Is requisite for a charge and discharge. 1o thls new telephone apnaratus Cdison dispenscs entlrelv with the electro-maguot, heretofors used inall telaphone receivers, substituting the electro-notograph principle. ‘This, by its great deliczey and povrer, s mode to vibrato a very much larger dluphrngn than 18 posstblo with the electro. magnet, thus glvlng greater volume of sound, mnl onviating the necessity for holding the tele- phone to the ear. By it the voice of the speaker Is transmltted to the alstaot statlon without the loss of volume, In fact, at times, with a very considerable {ncrease, tho teleptione apeaks londer than the person talking ot the truusmitting statfon. It aleo produces the highest wmusical notes with the sline per- fectlon'ae tho Jower oncs, something that was found fmpossible in theold muchive, Theso pofuts of “superlority over the electro-magnet are dua to the fact vhat while in the electro- magnet the vleetrle waves, constitute the force ‘wwhich vibrates the dlaphragm of the recelver, tn the now maching they only control it, the foree uscd belng strictly local, elther the' power of hund or clockwork. The two instruments taken to Europe by Mr. C. I’ Edison were tested at the lavorator ‘Tuesday night, uud found to work in a most ad- snirable munner. ‘Uhey will bu used by Prof, Lyndall durlni his leetures on Prof, Edison's, Iuventions, 'l roporter was shown all the fu- teresting features of the Inboratory by oncof the nesistunts, Lverywhero could be scen tho fm- plements used by tho Professor in hls experl- mentg on the eleeirie light. Mr, Rybinson 1 at prescnt hard at work manufacturing two large phonopraphs, one to be presented t'u the Em- peror of Brazil wnd the other to the Emperor of Gernny. The ong for the latter personnge is nearly complete, and now und then gave evl- denco of its oxlstonca by shrivking out when- over rovolved tho words of Hamlet's sollloquy: *“I'o be, or not to bo; that s the question,” WESTON'S WALK, Ho Loses His Wager with Slr John Astioy. New York Warld, Lonnon, Feh, 28.—\Weston, at 11:80 o'clock lost night, feft Windsor to walk a tncasured mile fu an endeavor to yegaln his arrcars, liny- Ing sixty-five miles to cover. At 3:90 this morning he had guined tifteen miles, when hy rested for threc hours for sleep. By 8:50 @'elock he had added ten miles to his gam loay- Ing forty mlles of arrenrs, Weston hus reached Slough, [l thousand hours explred ut 4310 this afternoon, when the actual distancs cover- ed was 1,0775 milea, » Weston delt London at 12:05'a, m. Jan, 18 to watk over the turnpike-rouds of England, 2,000 mlles fn 1,000 consecutive hours, binding humself, however, not 1o walk durlng the twenty-four hours of each Sunday, which left bim only 850 hours, or thirty-tive duys sixtoen hours, actual time, to_do the task, His route wag tram Lowdon to Doved, thenve to Brighton, Portsmouth, Balisbury to Plymouth, where he rested the sccond Bunday, From Plymouth he went through Cornwally and thenea north to Bristol andt “Gloucester to Warceater, whera he waa due the third Sunday, Keeping atong towarde the futerlor, his route was through Birmtigham to Rurewsbury, thence to Chester, Livernool, und Manchester 1o the extrome northi of Euggland. “The fourth Sunday was spent near Newcastle, from whonce his route was dus soutli, passhine through Durbam wud Yorkshire tonear Shenlewd for the fitth Sunduy, ‘Thencu throueh Lincoln and Norfolk to Tvswieh In Bullolk, where he was due last Bunday, From thenee towards the interfor, vin Newniarket, to Oxford, wml thenee to Windsor and London, ‘The task 08 b whole was such » one us bas never before boen nttempted in England, Thut Weaton talled was in no way his own fauli; In every town and ity during the first half of the ‘ournuy he lost tlme owing to the rund belni: blockaded by the dense crowds, whict on moro than one. uccislon Wers 60 rough that Weston was thrown down and (uiured, In fact howot to be soafrald of the crowds that he would take refugo in theaccompanying omnibue, while on ather occaslons, to keeo by heumrc s Lagctoents, bo was forced to ridu varjous ids- tunces, from tew to forty miles by rail, all o1 which hud 1o be mude up; o was ot o tinge neurly 200 miles behfnd, wuch of which distancy he made up 1 walkini through the compsratives 1y sparsely scttled castern countles. 'The wall us o speculation [s said to have becu a succesy, {or olthough his bet of £160 axalnst £500 made with Bir Jobn Aatley is lost, Weston did so well with Lis lectures, und by the sales of photo- craphs and pamoblets on walklng, that it ks thought Lo will clear several huudred pounds. Auother cause ot failure muy be atirtbuted to bad weathier, elther suow or raln baving fullen i To compose warks like the [ o THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY. THE PLAGU The Great German General Von Moltko's * Observations of It in Con- stantinople, .| ) v How the Plague Acted---Con- : veyed by Contact and in Clothing. ‘Bingular Conduot of the Turks—How the -+ @reoks Treated Frionds and s Visitors, The following transiation of one of Von Moltke's lottera from Turkey (the twentioth Jetter) will be read with particutar Interest at the present moment: CoNsTANTINOPLE, Feb, 22, 1837.—1 hava just tinlshed my survey of Coustantinople; there s tdoubtless no other Capital In whose strects I could have dona my work ‘with so littte inter- ruption ashere. Towards the end, however, I was compelled to look up the movements of the ground under the snow which covered it} never- thieless it Is remarkablo that the weather should have continued so uuiuterruptedly fine tifl the beuinning of January as to cnable me to uso my planc-table In the open alr, Now the spring storms are come upon us; but the whitethorn, the cherry, and the almoud trees are in blossons, the crovus und the primrose are shootlng up, and [ would send theo a Constantinopolitan vlolet, If it were not certaln to be selzed and detained at the Imperial-Royal frodtier hy 1he quarantino outhorities as an object capable of trauamitiing the plague. As the plugue Las now ncarly ccascd, or at leaat the danger is vow no longer greater than that in whichevery onelives everyhour of hislife, I must write thee a few straight{orwara words on this subject, in order that thou mayost be spared unnecessary anxiety, for one always dreads nn unknown danger most, because one exagger- ates it. Whether the placue comes from Egypt or from Treblzond, or how aud where it hes ts origiy, about all that [ do uot intend to say o word, because neither I nor any vne else knows it. .The piague Is an bitherto undivulgedsecret; it {a the riddlo oropounded by the Sphinx that kills overy ono who undertakes to solve it and fails. This {8 what happened to the French medienl oflicers of Napoleon’s army in Egypt, and very lately toa young Gierman doctor who exposed himselt during thirty days to every tmagfoable test, tluully went fnto n Turk- fsh steam-bath, Jay In the bed of «a vatient sulfering from ~ the nud was dead in twenty-four houra, It fs Nighly probuble thut all 1he large cltics of the East, with thefr uarrow streots, and wishin the Ilmits of certuin latitudes, are the reat hotheds of the plague; but w very highor a very low temperature ure hoth unfavoratle to tho dis- ease. Tt hias searcely ever abpeared o Persia, aud, howaver severely it bas razed ot the moutn of the Nile, it has never sseended to the high country above the cataracts.* 1n lie manoer, the plazue can be brought Into Europe; but the cxrcr!enuu of 8 huudred years, sluca the estab- Jishment of regulnr quarantines, proves that. {v never has its orlgin there. It is also boyond doubt thut the discase is communicated by tho touch, winl most of those who woald deny this would curcmllf wyold contuct with a patient sullering from lt. But the discage is communi- cable by cantact ouly within vertaln very nac- row limits, Even the unfortunate case I have Just meutioued proves Ihis, There lived in the plazue hospital of the Christians at Pern for mnany seura a Catholle pricst whio not onl Fun‘urmcd for the slck all the olices of refizlon, hat touched then, clanged their vlothes, nursed. and buried theis, ‘Fhils brave man 13 stout and fat; aml I must con- fess that his courateous uud tru ]y rellifous tlon appears to me to be more berole than mary # famous deed of arms, This pricst believes thst he sullered from the malady in his early youth; but it has been proved hat this fs no protection uguinst subsequent attacks. Cortaln it fs that u somewliat prolonged contact with the skin when ti waro state, wnd in ndditlon to this a predisposition of the whole body, are re- quired fur the provagation of the diseasu; il 1t 18 precisely for this reason thut inanimate objecth (such’ ue clothing hedding, ete.) arc more dangerous than human - belugs. ‘T'he great malority of casea have their ariein jn articles that have been purchased, such us old vlothes ana cotton jroods hawked by the Jows. 1t would require au unusual combiuation of unfortunate neeldehits to render the mere meeg- inu with u person sufferlng under the disease in- fectious. Durlng the plague of this year (1857), the most vivlent thut has raged for the lnst tiwenty-five years, I suent whole days fn going abuut In the nurrowest streets nid passages of the city and suburbs, [ went even [nto the hospitals, where I was usually surrounded ¥ 'a crowd of people bent on satisfy- lig their curlosty, [ met the dead und the dyling, and am convineed thut in so doing [ exposed” myself to very littls danger, The ereat sceret Is cleanliness, Immedfately on reaching my own houso & chunged all my ltnon and clothies from head to fool; und the latter yere lelt hanzing In the open windows all nighe, “The very great valuo of the almplest precautfons is proved by the very smull number of victlins ta the plagite that are carrled off umong the Franks, whilo the Turks and the rayuhs (nutive Christlaus, ete.) dle by thousands, Notwith- stunding the wide ditfusion and virulonce of the plagus of this year (1837), which has been un- cqualed in these veapocta “sinco 1812, only from olzht to twelve Franic families wero attacked by ity and then it was almost fnvaelnbly the serv- ants wud children, For centuries since the dragomans (Interpreters) have had to do with the ‘Turks, only ope fnstance Is recorded m which one of these ofticlals was seized with the Jiscase. A stranger can searcely avold uutlmi down on a divan just whero some raggel dervish has just “been “scated; ho mitst also smoke the pipe of some Turk who never uses the sligh precaution; und still ho cacupes{ufection nlncty-uino times outof o Bundred. But if one Krauk ia onvo caught moro nolsu (s nadeabout it thun whon a hundred Turks succumb to thele kismet, or destiny, Wher- ever the disense has once uppeared the most serlons mcasurca should ho adonted, Al clothing, beds, and earpets must be well washed, all papers fumigated, the walls whitewashed, atul the floors kcoured. What ull thut means in n larze housshold thou eanst well {magine; whouver 18 once **compromised,” to use the techuleal expression, 18 as badly off as it his hunse hed been ire. Amony the Turks the matter is quite dlffer- ent. ‘Flicre no one puts the question to himself, whether one gets the plage from coutacs with o person sulferigz from {t; but rather, Can any mmount of Luman foresleht provent an carthly evilf 1t {s astunishing bow strongly they ure convineed of the contrary, In a battery not far from this a hospital for !»lm:uu patiunts was sot up; almost two-thirds of the battation died. [ haye woro than once met the soldiers who had Just burled n comrade, sauntering homo singring thelr fslmple songs, with the vall slunge carcleasly over the shoulders of one of the party, When they got futo barracks thoy divided the clothing of the defunct amaongst them, nnd wero greatly pleased 1€ they ot o Jacket or pair of trousers, which verv probably caused thetr death in two or three days, ‘lie dreadful nartality, llmdullf' recurring examples, the patent praofs of Infection—nons of all this was cavable of deoriving these peoplo of thelr behuf: ** Allub kerlm "—God fa mercliul—und destiuy cannot be shirked, ‘Tha blmbashi of the batialion, who had been’ corrupted by futer- cpurse with the Glaours, Introduced all kinds of precautions, The soldiors submitted only with the greatest oversions - all thut could Lo done was to nall o verso from the Koran to the burruckirate. Mobammed was no doubt quite rliht when, after Audbyg that ho could not save 1us people from the dreadful plague, ho inspired lllL'!n with a supreme contempt for i, To the Moblem the plazue 18 not a visitation, but rather a special zraco from God, and those who dle of Itnrugxf\lcluv termed martyrs by the Koran, Dread ol the plague uud all precaintions aatnst it are therefore uwot only supertluous, butsinful, “ Way," gaid the mollah the other dayto bis bearded nuditory {n the coffee-house ut Buyukdere, “why have so many solticrs died!” Because oll manoer of foolish procau- Héus have beew taken, Nouo of you who uru nat afrald of the plagus and who taok no pre. cautions died of it “‘I'he plague will continue to cxlst as long as thers are ulemas, and u san- guinary reaction will bavo to take place befora there can be auy {dea of sanitary police, With all this fatallsm the Turks are tolerant towards us, i such mcasuro s only a spiritunl superiurity which confers su unshaken utd up- shukable “conylction can be, % Don't go near biw, he s afrmd," says the Turk in ail kind- ness und without derfsion—at tho worst witha Httlo compasmon. Tho hawnals or porters urr,s tho sick to tha hospital on their shoulders, a tho dead from the huspital to the arave, In ery atrong grounde for belleving that sud perkiaps aldo cholera and gluns eldom if ‘aver occur abovo cerjala altudes oves the Jovel of th Transiator, discase, MARCH 5. 1879—~TWELVE PAGESR' which they ara latd without coffh thén at the * utmost two out the mamo of the dend man thrice orif ho does not know it addressea him as Son 3: Adam, and tells him to go straight into vara- 8 Somctimes the doga tear up the Dbody [ fre the lame If once kindled must continue Lo burn dying out enly, or almose only, tor want ef material, 9,000 persana dled fn one week is contradictad Dy 1ts own exnggcration. But from what | tave had an opoortunity of seclnys In the ofllclal re- 0rts of the hospitals at the Scraskierato (War Mintstry), I shoutd fmazine that not fewer than 20,000 wid not more than 30,000 parsone died of the plague Iy the ity and suburbs of Constant!- nople. "I'he plaguo Iasted in great intensity from fone ta five months: and {f we tako tho population at 500,000, about one-twentieth part of {t perished. But evena severo plaguo seldom 1usts 80 long as this ane did: ond there lllno.!llg a couple of years' perfect immunity atter sucl violent outbrenks, ) t I8 o rematkablo phenomenon, {oo, that praportion, the nunber of Turks ttnrked I‘n 8 Inuch greater than that of Christians, while ten tlines fewer Christiana than ‘Furks arc eured, Thie causo of this nust be mental, “The Turk resizns hlinscl{ at once If seized with the plague, and s long as he escapcs it he dues his best to lgnore fta existeice nltogather, e never pronounces its proper name ¢ Dishiniul- ehuk," but says at most * Hastalyk,” the slck- ness; for (o call the cvil by its real name is to Invoke it, 1f ouo wero to ask a Turk to-dav whother there has® been vlngue in Constant- nople within the Inst threa months, he woula only draw wp his heavy eycbrows, i give a sort of chirp with his tonmie, ns miuch ns to say, "“Heaven forfend.” 1L is certnin that the ‘Turks die of the plague, bub the Frouks suffer from {t, Pera (near Constantinople) exhibits, to any one unacquainted with such scenes, a most dls- mal pleture. Before vou enter it you scc right and loft on the hillsides misoribie huts of plunks and tents, ragged figur tarved slekly faces, and yellie “childyen, "These are the Ifnmilles that have been robbed by the plague of a futher, a mothey, or the breadswinner of tho family, il who are here in yuaranting while thelr dwnllhl?'a and gouds ura behy purified, ‘The Grecks olten neglect the purifieation alto- gether, und_bope that If they have exposcd thumselves for forty days to every kind of mis- ery und the Inclemoncy of the weather In tonts, the protecting Mather of God will be snre to have pity on them. They return to thelr houses, and new coses of sickuess almost novitably fols low. 1In the streets themscives tho Franks qun'zc about srapped up {n dreadful-lvoking oll-cloth tloaka$ every onc fs nervously anxious to avold beings touched by others, whlch Is qulto impossible In these narrow strocts. All of a sudden a funcral cofies round a corner; friends aud relations have deserted the dead person. If a Greek, only a priest marchies bufore the body, with a long biack stafl to warn the passers-by. 11, however, It t8 o Mostem, even strangers push forward to carry him n little distance; for by as wmnuny paces as the true beliover sccompanies the depurted ooe, by a0 mauy does he himself advance nearer to Paradise. It encjmeets un acquaintance the ereat subject of conversation s, ** What news of the plaguel Huw mnny new cases in the Inst weck{” Pante rolens everywhiore to the fn- terior of famities; and the pour women who are exposed least of nll others are the worst, for anxiety [s generally ¢ ccater where (he danger is the lenst, No one’ shug themselves up com- pietely and _entirety, nud it one goes an brood- ing one finds the possibility of Infection every- where und I everything Vet the houscs are shut up Iike xo many fortresses; und if you pay a visit It throws the whale taoily Into an agony of terror. Firat of all'you ara shut up nto & fumigating box; then vou are shown into a sa- laon that has nelther sofa, carpet, nor curtatus, —nothing ~but straw-buttomed chalrs and plain wouden tables covered with olled cloth, things that are supposed to be incapable of re- tafning infoction, Perhaps vou bave a lettor of Introduction: it will be taken from you with 5 pair of lire-tongs, eavefully fumigated, and read with suspiclon. You funcy thib the master of the hiouse will now offer you his hand fu wel- vome; but he dare not touch you, You beglu o conversation; 1t turns inunedintely on the plagzue. You hooe, nerhabs, for a rubler at ‘whist, but fn valus the cards pass from band to hundy - The lndy of the house drops her hand- kerehlef: vou ‘take it up; you could scarcely havo douo warae, tor wow it must bo washed before she can touch it. Theatres, balls, partles, clubs, readine-rpoms, ote.—in a word, ansthing lke soclal fntercourse—are quite out ol the question. Such s 1he nnrcnrnnuu of the socinl, or rather dosoclal, 1ife of Pera during the plague, N CURKENT OPINION. Dreadlully Decont. New York Tribuna (Zen.), It Massachusotts fs disgusted ot the prospact of another Butler raid it should reflect upon the fact thnt without the General the polities of the Old Commonwenlth would be so readfully decent as to be stupid. Money. Memphts (Tenn.) dsalancha (Ind.), Hendricks appears ta be dropping out of sight. ns n Demovratie Prestdential probanility, and ‘Thurman fs sliding backward gently, Bayard I8 working nway wnder o steady pully but the pright, fresh, youthtul ‘Tikden bounds forward Dike an India-rubber ball, 8. J, ‘1\—1880— bar’l $. o Dotectives Datect ? Ztoston Qinbe. The doubt whether detectlves detect fs rapldiy becoming a certainty. Malne, New Uampshire, and Vermont illustrate the theory that It re- quires more Inbor and talent 1o prevent the hanging of fnnovent menyor the dutunation of a ool man's memory after death, than to catel the original erimsinal, Duc, Patiadelnhia Timen (Ind, Dem.). The writers of comic parageaphs {n the Heen- tlous newspapers have temporarlly dropped Commisslover Lo Due, to poke fun at the red- tnpo business about Private Nincs’ pantaloons. It 1s not anywherc near aa humorous o tople, but the Acrlcultural Commissioner needed a reat, and lie bas wisely token advantage of the Jull to vlant suine Japaneso fans for next summer’s crop. 4 Jon, Vicksburg (ies.) Herald (Dem.), We beliova that Joft Davis' election to the Benate would do more to strengihen the ex- treme radicals than any event that could hap- ven, We belleve it would tnjure his State and the whala South for years to vome, 1t would alinoat certainly resultin Gon, Grant's election for the third” term, something not likely to eventuate if the South scts with conservative political wisdom, ° Iitiuols Finances, 8t Louty Lesublican ¢ Nem.), The Btate of Ulluols Is in au enviahla nosi- tion eo [nr 48 Its oblizations are concerned, 1ts whole bonded debt s but Jittle over $500,000, und 1ts rovenues yield o q'ulllrlunl. surplus to maoke 1t an casy task to wipe every hond out of existence by thie Ist of January, 1531, A State without a dollar of bonds outstamling is cnongh of u novelty for Ilinuls to be very valn of the prospuct thut it witl soan enjoy that distinction, Why Doesn't thoe South Do 1t, Then? New rieans Pieayune (Den.), We do not see that the people of the South- cru Btates can do any better thun to support anamendment to the Conatitution absolutely vrohibiting, iu future, the payment of uny claims arising out of the Cvll War, The xist- enco of these clafms, and tho pertinacity with which they ure pressed, ure o continual soureo of drritation ta the country, nud are calenluted ta bring unjust discredit "on _the South, The baro fact that they ore called Southern claims s enouth to arouse’ sectlonal, feeling and revive suctional anlinosity, “ Bloated ondholdoers," Lhitadetunia Press (Rev.), ‘The above vulzar enithet, so frequently used by demagoiries who ¥ keep the word of prom- 130 1o the ear to break it to the hope,” will now searcely apply, ‘Fhe saviug farmer, the small trader, und the thrifty workivan havo all be- come or are becoming boudbolders., The Gov- erument Yas just made ts ninoticth call for the redemption of thy 5-20 bouds, while the sub- scriptions to tho new 4 per cent loan reach $250,- 000,000 sinco the tirst of the year, Tha chiet and most promising feature of this 4 per cent Joun {8 ts diffusivoncas, ‘There aro now (n the country probably froms a hall to a whole milllon holders of Goverument bunds, Would there wero five millions, rovresonting oue-bult cur population, It would be just so tmuch addition-, al socurity in favor of pesce, good order, aud sound fuancial legislatlon. *Lord Bacon has pithily remarked, % Io that hath childron hath Kiven hostages to fortune,’’ Sa it sy uot fu. ufilly bu sald that he woo beeowes a creditor to the Governmeat—Iit majters pot whether to o small or great amount—hath eivon hostazes to law aud good order, v of _necesslty hocomes feet of earth nro thrown on tha corpse, and the muerin calls n ot night, The hurinl places look like plowed flolds, ‘Thus it is evident thnt T'hc ansertlon of the newspapers that -cast in this State 152,000 closely concerned In dll that makes for the pre verity and stability of Goveramont; In all that upholds national falth and hovor. A Dignified Spootncle, New York Tribuna (Rep.). What s dignified spectacta the Democratic party presents in the Scuato of the United States! Ite three loudest, It not mostaifted lenders, stretch- Ing: their Jungs In a grand competitive display of slmulated Indignation againat a law whoso sole Intent I8 t6 preservd the nurits of the . ballot- box! Reducing thelr uproar 4o harg facts, they are detorinined to do all {n thele potvor to make ballot-hox-stufMing easy nud_ untitinishable; nnd are willing to stop tye wheels of Govurnment, if necessary, to suceced, Bayard ‘slons tries to hold thein back, HIA offorts are very much like those of n man who should try to'stop an cx- press-tralt, golnf at the topof its specd, with a und-brake on'tlio rear of Lhe last car. Bick ‘of 1t, “New York Times (Rep.). We are sick aud weary of the shallow political philorophy swhilch sees in every act of thes Nab tlonal authority an encroachment on popular rights, and which undertakes to supporl by such nanies os George Mason and James Madison doctrines that would make the labors of thoso foundlng our Governmant utterly vain, We had supoosed that the War for the Unlon had taught all rcg:mnln‘( men that the Nationat Goyernment, ns much as any State Governmunt, uwl more than eome, was “of tha neople, for the people, by the people.” ‘The publie man who van perceive nothing in the noble fabric of onr National organization but a device of ven- tralizatioo, s dangerouely biind awd {znorant, Tqually so is ho who “cannot .understund timt hunest Congresrfonal clections, in Florida as fn Mansachusctts, In Mississippi as In Ohlo, arg u National elght, which the Nation huss given to Congress a dlstinct power to assert and protect. Mra, Suyes Vistorlous, Washington (0.’ C.) Star, Mrs, Haves Is beluy strongly reinforced on the wine queation by all who attended the enter- talnment of Taesday evenlng, since the univer- sai comment is, that the order preserved in the etpper-rooins was fu such agrocable contrast to the fndecorous behavior at many partics, even small ones at private houses, glven during this and other seasons, swwhere wiue was served, At same small parties it has even become neeessary toremove the decauters alter they nnd heen vih the tuble, Surely, {u 18 bettur not to offer winu tu oue’s gueats than to rebuke them, even tacit- Iy, by witldrawing it before the evenltuyg Is over. widelv-clreulated uccount of intoxication ut a recent landsomo ontertalnment, nitd gross vio- Iatlon of decorum fn the supper-room, s men- tioued wheneyer the events of the season uro discussed, and the conclusion of all such von- versation fs, *Mrs. Ilayes Is right, after all, about the wine," Contaglous Discnses In Schools. New York Hevald, Ifow contagions dlseases ara ket alive In o community in which 100,000 children attend the public schools, i nat - diffeult to understand; but nn experience just made known in Brooklyn exblblts how 1t is there, aud 1t ts the same here, with the one difference that the cvil operates with us on a grander seale. In the month of Junuary, forty-four children, pupils ot the *Brooklyn public schools, wera reported 1} with contaglous discases. In the families of which theae puplls wers part there wero 145 other childron who went to the public_schools; and in houses fo which the sick ones llved, but not iu the same familics, were 225 other childron, n all, therefore, there wero 800 puplls to go to und fro for a certaln pumber of days butween © 0 of discases nnd thess vast gatherings of the city children. But the law requires that the cages sball bo reported by the health authorities to the teachers, and that thev shall not permit tho attendanco of children from houses in which there {8 discasc, Notwithstanding this, the authorttles In Brooklyn have found that about one-third of these children went to school just as usual, and the socdas of discase were spread with a little less enorgy than if all the childron had gone—bue sufiicleutly. A Rollgious Heandal, New York Times, ‘The Immenae debt of Archiblshop Purcel, of Cincinnatl, now reported to be over $4,000,000, should be & matter of the gravest concern tothe Roman Catholics, nok onily ot thit elty und Ohlo, but of the whole Cathollc world, It s not an affalr conflued to any locallly or scction, It af- feets the wholo Church as a body, and so long as the thousands of poor people, nostly manual Inborers, are unable to et back the money they deposited with a Prelate they belloved to be in- fallible us the creed be represents, the Church must suffer, not merely in tho eyes of Prutest- nnts and Radlcals, but of {ts'own mombers, !¢ 18 4 retiglous scandal of the most serious aort; and no efforts should bo sparcd Lo quict it at fhe carllest possible moment. The Roman Church has been the mother-beggar of all time; and {t hes begged to little purpose It it caonot, and will not, spply some of 118 superaluudant alms to the carly relief of onc of {ts most prom- inent Prelates in the Weatern World, Arch- bisbop Purcell caunot, we presume, be chargad with any greater sin than the sin of gross imprudence and dlnanelal goorance; but this s, -under tho clrcumstances, a grievous sin to bear, nud should bo stoned tor, 50 far as may be, by the pecuniary generosity of the Chureh, ‘The Catholles In the maas are so noto- riously poor in this country that they can ill af- ford to weet the obliations reckiessly incurred by the Archbisnop, nnd the Church in fts ceclesi- natical cavacity shonld relleve them from the neeesslty of auy such attempt, It Is sald that the Catholle workingmen und servant-girls of Cinctnuati have been putting their Hetle noney fnto the custody of Arclibishop and Blshop Pur- call for thirey years and more, with no mura doubt of its absolute security than of thy power of the confessor to forgzive thelr sina; and the dlscovery thut he I8 as fallible as any man Iu the keoplng of money bus ziven them i stiock that is positivoly stuniniig. ‘The trusting of money by humbio Catholies to their pricats is asserted to bo quite .common throuchout the country, At 1t be, the murtifying fallure at Cincinnatl shiould prove the risk ot the custom, and uct as a warniog aguiust its continuance. Policy, If nothing else, should fnaure prnmrmude in ro- lieving the Roman Church of the shametul posi- tlon fu which It has been. placed by the extreme Indiscretion of Archbishop Purcell, The Domocratic.Greonback Coalitlen In Mlohigan. Detrais Post (Hep.), ‘The character of the comlug political campalgn In this State Is now deflied, The Republican party {8 confrouted by a fusfon’ of the Opposi- tlon, bosed upou a pusttlanimous surrender which thousands of Domocrats wlll repudiate, yet planned to promote those Democratie scheres for, securing national supremacy which thousands of Natiguals will refuse to advance, ‘The proceedings at Lansing show low utterly ragged are the edgea of thd conlition, aud the popular commants on the method and character of the negotlatlons make the fact still mory prominent. Under the clrcumatances, the augu- ries of Republican suceess could not be more favorable, ~8till, it s o first princisle of good gencralship not to underrate the enemy's strength und resources, or magnify the signill- cauce of prellminary skirmishes, The coalition represonts orgavizations that in November last votes, |gzl:|sdt 136,000 e for ‘the Republicans. It s by & politiclun «f no ordinary’ skill,” an adept In monagoment, unscruoulous, a tharough organizer, ana the posacssor of neans, Heo bos a8 his Licutenant'a mon w plausibility makes a bigoted parii 18 1n tull symputhy with bis party's new depart- ure, and who 1s afso well equipped in - political ekill und personal woalth. .'[lis ticket .1 weak, und ropresouts nothlug except the tendencles that wmnterialized in precisely this kind of coa- Mtion, but it docs nat es elnllr invite criticism excopt fn theso polnts, ‘The platform s adrolt in {8 suppresslon of what it really mosns, and 80 worded ns to appesl temptinfly, to all dema. Rgoglual lnstincts and to certain shades of class- prejudice, Clearly, whils the coslftion Is not to Do fearcd, it canaot ba safely. despised, 1t will fall fram the fact that Fleld and his follow-con- Apirators on buth sides will not he able to de-' Ilyer the votos which havg been fucluded in their barealn, Many of those ballots will be iziven to the Rtepublicays; many tmore will not bo cast at all. ‘The result wlil be, that to Republican vie- torles over its enewles in detatl wil be added a victory over the eneiny united. _ ——————— A Norve-Puner, An Italian clalms to have made & valuabls discoyery, Hosays he hias learned how to tune up nerves, lio tho chords of & violln, und bring them fnto wony, The peryes lose- their tooe, hu thinks, llke any mugical Instrumout, and it thiey all run down allke; it i of 1ittte’ fm- vortance, as they will still act together. But Wwhen the goueral harmoay ls destroyed, by ac- cldent or uneyeu straln, the wholo sysicm Is distutbed, und Lealth seffers. This difficuls, he clalma power to rectlly, and calls himey! “a nerve-tuner,” TIT FOR TAT. + Reck Case. . **Prairie Dootor,"” EMuston. A the Bditor of The Tridune. the unfortunate Margarst Reck, your corre. of vur luest papers of some dava previously. +Arlends. I waa never promtsed puy or dny other TRIBUNE, In connection with thiut euse. TiisuNg with an article that was remarkable, Incolicrency;, bruviated ands, 1alse nrumunnh[r, Il a8 o lack ol und general incongruity, as wel commun sense, wWas unablo to reluten single statement -I wade. Indeed, if anything, he made the case much worse for the alde he es- poused, and succeeded bevond nll question of doubt fn proving to the inteHizent reader that he is deplorably fzuorant of subjects of the come monest Kind pertainiug to his ussumed pro- fesslon, surname was Houtze, and not tHowze, as ‘i ‘I'ne TRIBUNE, 1 looked into the State cnl Reelstor to avold mistake. The * physician in that bouk. to bo o gruduate of Jefferson Medieul , College, ligis not recogalz ed.! “And yet he has been allowed to practice?” *Why, yesi you sce he Is known ns what wo call n *prafrio doctor'; ke seitied down thera twenty-five years ago; there was nothing to prevent that class froin practicing mediciue there," "%f::w do the doctors hero generally regard “Waull, Idon’t like Lo say. Iora long time they manifested adisposition to bu friendly with Lim throurh professfonal courtesy, but it was finpossible; ho puid no regant to the code of ethilce of the Medical Assoclution, nor has he shown any dllnosluou tu haold vonsultations or intercourso with sny regular plysiclan, vven at t:lm cn‘rncn. request of the sick under his charge.' “ Ix it not to be duplored that the provislon of the act regulathys the practice of medicine in the 8tato of lllinois excmpts euch doctors trom befme subjected to an examination, or from holding certificates of competency?” *Yos, I azres with yous for, ns it s now, many valuable hives are comparatively at the mercy of quncks.” **By the way, what do articlo on Margarct Reck {r’m think of Houtze's Here the gentleman went fnto s Ait of pro- longed Inughter, fn which I was compelled to Joln as thouxh by sheer sympathy. Well, Uve laughed myaeif sick over that ar alarming duration. Alter many cfforts to roatore s equanimity, aud many outhursts of fresh lnughter, he succeeded fn suying that * Houtzu's urtlcle was too rich as an einpiric of- fuslon on gatholozy to allow it to pass without Jettin;g lum sco thut ¢ would-be-phyatelans? must kuow “somcthing_moro thua a mere uhlllt{‘ to read wr. Chase's family recelpt bool before they rushed fn print. on subjects with which scholars unly can deal. If the language 1 thut artlele,” he continued, *wure not so shockingly vu\gnr, it might ba used to wood ad- vantago in some of the lower rooms of our dchools for the chiliren to correet. But look at its nbsurdity, Houtze clalins that the girl was idlotic at the aze of 15, Whou her fatir brought her to hiin. ho discovers thst sho is suf- fering: from dysmenorrlien! How did he uscer- tain that! e could not have known 1t without asking a numbor of questions of the girl, which aho must have underatood. intelligensly aud answered wrreml{. Is that an evidencs ot Idivey? Can idlots understawd fntellectual questions nnd resurn intellcetun) answers { “That disvovery was & most lamentable one for the Doctor whien he ascertained it to oe an liereditary complaint! He tola the girl’s futher that {t wos one of those cuses, ut that nwe of female life, which very often ¢ grets® beyoud the skill of the nedical man; that physically she mlgm recavery but meutally never, ' **We have hoard of somo physfulogists that havu been known to locats a vital contre or in- tullizence fu the heart ns well us the Lrala; but Houtze 1s uudoubtediy tho flrst whom wa ever lieard of as lovuting it in the uterus,’ Aud here my informant burst agatn {nto a ryar of lnugd:- ter, which, fearing the contagion, 1 avolded by beating a hasty retreot from the room, Since the publication of the Doctor’s article I haye again visited several of the relatives aud nclghbors of the unfortunate Mansaret Reck, with the (ntention of acknowledring and make ingz honorable amends for any- statement { may have tumdvertantly made. \Vithuut an oxce, tlon, they fully fudorsed everything stated fn my article of the 17th, and . from what 1 have Leen further informed fn‘connection with the early history of the girl is thut she was period- feally subjact to fits of ploumy despondency, attributable to uwkind treatment ot home ‘Fhiey deny that she was idtotie, or of ever hav- ing heard that her mother was so; sid some of them knew the mother ia Germany, Dr. Houtze admits that Margaret wrote a note and leftit'un the table, on that ead wedding day for her, when she luft her homo to visit the Sisters of Charlty in Peru, 8he was then n her 20th year, und consequently some (lve years aftor thu lesrned doctor had pronvunced hier an adlot for whom there was no hope, Ilowever, u thought euters her brain that day; she had cvidently made up her mind to go nind ses the Blsters of Charlty. "The [ntended visit must have been ut the sui- gestion of thuught, writhyz the note was not autowatie, hencen will nmuununF from thought, ‘The words, *“Do not be uneasy about me,’ show that she was not unmindful of parental solic- tude, nor lacklng In respect wnd affecilonate re- gards for those to whow she wrate, Are thess not unquestionable proofs of thought, mental resolve, nnd reasoning too? Yot the **physician regular aays sho was an lilot for vears before. ‘rom il that I enn learn, Margurct Reck wos noidiot when sho was Incarcerated fn thut 7x13 room, s not 7x16, as Houtze makes it, I kave sutficlent ovidencs to feel satistled that her case was thiut of ncute munia, resultiny from solltury confinoment, but whon it munifested {tself fu thut form I have falled to ascertaln. It might have been brought on by fright the frst night ol her conflnement, or at uuK time during the fivat year, It {a » mystery to her nearest living relatives at the presont da‘y. Dr, Houtze's Viturperativereply was o culopy on the Reck family, a-bullying fiuuflmu\m of the vile treatment of an ‘unfortunate buman buint:. What thie public regard as asin in the sleht of tiod, an outrago on socicly, snd u re- Yolting shame in the eyes of humanily, be up- holds und commends, What thai doctor's ideasore of Giod nud humanity I leave to the publie to judge, ‘The publication of Margaret Reck's condition was at least productive of ono good, It Las no- cidentally brouglit to light the one who, in the abaence ‘of her father, {8 rosponsiblu for the licartlcss treatment and long solitary conting- moot thut resulted fu'the total ruin of an intel- lect of averave grade to helploss idiocy, and thut onais Dr, W, (f Houtze, b‘y Lis own confessiou. ‘Tho girl’s fathor consulted him on the propriety. of his scnding his doughter to u lunatic asylum, and ke, the doctor, did not approve of it. % He was doubtful of her bulng bencfited by it.” Do the laws of the Btate tolerate thatf: Yet the doctor must know, for fn the ubscuge of paticnts be picks up an occuslonal cllent uil dubblus ju law, Now thattheore ls a clew to the mystery, It 3 to be boped that imaiediate steps will by takon to havo the euds of justice nick [+ Another Chapter of the Margaret Our Correspondsnt Whoops Up the What a Real Physician Snfi of Houtze’s MENDOTA, 111, Feb, 28.—1¢ (s really too bad that your correspondent, in laging the history of the unfortunate Margaret Reck’s (neatceration for sixieen yoars in allving tomb before theread- tra of 'Tne ‘Trimexe, should have sruuacd the virtuous indignation of W, Q. Houtze, of ‘Troy Grove, * physiclan regular fn the Peter Reck family.” 1tis a loug time siuce any article on 80 serious a subject evoked so much mirth and laughter as did that of the * physician regulnr “In liis verslon of the case in Tng TrINUNE of the 24th inst. Were the Dovtor ua well known to the generallty of your reaclors us he is in this sectlun of the country, he mizht be treated with the contempt his vulgar articlo merits; but ae he ts not, and us a'creat wrong hus been donw apongent {s disposed and. lu duty bound te have the public understand that the history of the vasd as published fo Tae TRisunx of the 17th inst. I8 true, aud can be fully substuntinted, nutwithstandivyg Dr, Houtze's stateinent in your publication of the 24th, and bis threata it onn As your correspondent, and In thut ecapacity unly, have I visited Marguret Reck: 1 was not requusted to do so by eftlier her relatives or her reward, nor do I exoect eny, exvept from Tne ‘Thera- fore, L had no objeets {u vicw, no unde to meot, no prejudices against any of the parties con- cerned, tio motive ‘to write any other than a {nir, unhinsed account of an outrage that, after beholding 1ts victim, I felt my uttar inability to portray or even to give an. adequate Idea of the conditlon to which cruel tyranny had reduced n “helpless young girl. ‘e account I gave waa from what L saw and beard from such authority a8 eannot bo disputed. 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