Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 12, 1880, Page 4

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"Marta," Hamtn's Theatre, Clark trot, between Wastington and Inndolp. ‘Engogomunt of Frunk B.Alken. “Under tho Arch; or, Tho Love That Livi Olymple Thentre, * Clark streot, botwacn Randolph und Lake, entertalnmant. —_—_—_—— oo ‘. MONDAY, JANUARY 18, 1880. Vartoty A oneat strike fs to be Inaugurated in the cont wines near Pittsburg to-day, when 7,000 men wi} unite Ina suspension of work in consequence of thelr failure to obtain an ad- vance of one cent a bushel for mluing conl. t will be, in polnt of numbers, the most formidable strike ever known in that region, ‘Tue first of aseries of Sunday lectures ir Cfieinnati, designed to furnish an attraction which shall draw young men from disreputa- ble resorts, was delivered yesterday by Mrs. Mary A. Livermore in Pike's Opern-louse. A small admission-fee ty exacted, and the plan is, in a generat way, slinilar to that of " the Dime Sunday Lecture Course of years past in Chicago. ——_—_— Tue first gun for Grant ts reported to have “gone off” in the vicinity of Pittsburg Sut- urday afternoon, At the Republican Con- yention. of Beaver County, Pennsylvania, three delegates to the State Convention were chosen, of whom two were avowed Grant men, and a third Js for Blaine. The Conven- tion voted down an anti-third-term resolutiin by a large majority. \ Tne Barksdale family in Misstssipp! are osing.a great deal of valuable thue by their fallure te apply the shotgun plan to the * Senatorial question in that State. Thelr neglect in this regurd has already neces- \ altated atx ballots in the Democratic eancus; and while Mr. Barksdale leads his two com- petitors, Messrs, Waltham and Singleton, le ‘Is still uanble to command tha number of votes necessary to give him the caucus noml- © Ration, ard it hag been found necessary to continue the old-fashitoned and very tedious ‘aystein of balloting, ‘Tris sald that Second-Assistant-Postmas- ter-General Brady Is. fully prepared to meet ant'answer all charges of extravagauce In connection with the “star” route postal service, He claims to bo able to demonstrate that the increaso was authorized by law In every particular; thit it was necessitated by the sudden access of prosperity reatized by the Northern and Western States during 1870; ‘and that he ean show that in every case the Incrense of service has been mude at tho ur gent demands of members of Congress rep- resenting sections of country in need of larger postal facilities. He Is preparing a statement to this effect to submit to the Com- Ree that Is about to Investigate the sub- ject, + GEN. GRANT’s path through tho South Is Not altogether strewn with roses; here and there a thorn sticks out which hysn tendency to, prick the “boom” full of holes. Some vofithe Southern journals are outspoken in helr censure of the people for luvishing Honors upon thelr * former oppressor”; and HN inreconstructed editor gues su far ns to leclaro that there are plenty of retsons why , Gott Grant should be distasteful te the people of tha South, and why, In conse- pence, they should let him conspienously “and severely alono on this trip. Never- thelegs, there remain down there enough “people of good sense and non-partisan hose plitabléness to make Gen. Grant's journey very’ pleasant and his welcome extremely coydial, ae nw | “Ig Protestantiam a Failure?” is the auea- tion asked answered very emphatically in the negative ina sermon by Prof. Swing, printed herewith, ‘Che question Je consid. . €red In Sts relation to the fact that it has been fou. ' impossible to secure through Prot estantism anything Nko unity of religious thought and opinion; and tho conclusion {a Yeached that tho charge of failure does not hold good on tat account. In our colunns this morning will algo be found sermons of Autereat by the Rey, Dr, Holland, of Trinity Eplacopal Church, on the meaning of tho , command, “Rojolee In the Lord nlways’; hy the Rey. R, D, Sheppard, at Grace Meth- odist Church, and by,the Rov, Mr, Popo, at ui Trinity Church, in memory of the late Bishop Hayen; and an account of tho resignation, because of Il-health, of the Rev, John Ab ? bott French, pastor of the Fourth Presbyte- Fan Church, [—_______} ‘From the tone of the remarks at yester- day's innss-meeting of the striking packing- "| © house operatives tt 1s obvious that the strikers i are now ready to surrender unconditionally and ‘ta beg'the privilege of returning to work _ Wherever thoy can find employment, without reference to the question whether or not non- ‘Union men are employed. ‘The sirlke has miserably, Iamentably fotled, and before two days-haye passed every, Union man who gan’ find work will take it eagerly, * the only hope of the Union being that the ; {° gipartor skill and efficiency of its members will gtye’'them tha preference over tho less skillful non-Uiiton workmen now employed, ‘The extent to which they will succeed in dis- placing the men whom they have tried to prevent froin earning ving during their own idleness will depend in great measure upon tho willingness of the packers to recede from the requirement of overy man’s resi gna- tlon from the Union as a condition of his ob- talning employment. SS] Tar Ute Indtans and thelr interpreter now in Washington will be unprofitable subjects for the wiles of the newspaper Interviewers, as they are positively forbidden to talk by Seeretary Schurz, who would of course be placed finan awkward position {f the guile- less savages should be entrapped into the expression of opintons not fit harmony with the polley of the Administration, It 1s asserted that a new departure Is to be taken regarding the removal of the Utes from Colorado, tho atest plan contemplating the surrender by tho Southorn Utes of their reservation and thelr removal to farms of 160 acres each in the Grand River Valley, where they will bo out of the way of mining interests; while the White River Utes are to bo banished to Utah whethor they like It or not, the Government to forego all further demands for the surrender of the murderers nud rovishors, and leave them to be punished, under tribal disefpline, It is sald that this scheme—excepting the punish- inent part of It, doubtless—is entirely satis- factory to tho Colorado people, as it will result In reducing from 12,000,000 down to 100,000 neres the aggregate area of land held by Indians In that State. Frrnanvo Woon, Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, has prepared his bu for refunding the outstanding 6and 6 percent bonds that fall due within the next twelve and elghteen months, amounting to nearly 800 nillions of dollars, Of these $27,400,550 bear 6 per cent Interest and $503,440,350 bear 5 per cent interest, or $41,500,000 per annum, Wood proposes to take 100 millions of gold out of the ‘Treasury, and purchase an equal amount of the 6 per cents, “hat would stop six mililons of interest. He then proposes to sell fifty-year 314 per cent bonds at par, and with the money redeam the remaining st millions of OU and 5 per cents. But grave doubts are expressed whether a 3!g per cent bond can be sold at par. Ie thinks It ean; others think not above 95 or 9. John Sher- man wants the new bonds to bear 4 per cent interest. But itis polnted out that the pres- ent 4 per cents are selling freely at 103 to 10, which {Indicates that oa bond drawing Iess than 4 per cent would bring par tn the market. It 1s proposed by several members of Wood’s Comittee, and by other members of Congress, to make the now bon draw 3.65 per cent Interest, whieh is Just one cent aday on 2 $100 bond, and that rate makes It ensy to compute the inter- est for any time on a bond of any size, Any- boy enpable of transacting business could calculate tho Interest ona bond at the 3.65 rate, It Is believed that a fifty-year bond drawing 3.65 per cent would be popular. If adper-cent bond having only twenty-seven” years torun ts worth 104 in the market, it Is believed that 0 3.65 per cent bond having fifty years of life will go off like hot cakes when offered to the American people. If this scheme is carried out, the amount of interest saved will be equal to 18 millions a year, Tim people of Cleveland were astonishec ng well as gratified to learn that their de- ceased illllonaire, Leonard Case, had befora lis death made a trust-deed of property worth at present about a mulion and a half of dollars to endow and build a Sehool of Applied Seience, The rental income of the property amounts to $45,000 at this thie, and will be further Increased, ‘The property set apart for this purpose includes the fine City- Mall built by Mr. Case some years ago at a cost of $400,000, and the bluck of ground on which St stands, and for the use of which the elty pays $80,000 n year. ‘There fs other value able and productive property In the gift, and a plece of ground ealled the Case Common, near the heart of the city, containing about twenty aeres, on which the Selentific Acade- my will probably be erected, the donor hav- ing verbally expressed that wish, For the control and use of the property the Trastecs are to obtain an act of incorporation from tho State under the name of the “Case Sehool of Applied Selence,” and in the Institution so organized nro to be taught mathematics, physics, meehanteal aud elyil engineering, chemistry, economic geology, mining and metallurgy, natural history, drawing, and inodern Inngunges, the expenses of the InatHation belng provided for by tho fund, ‘The donor expressly states that he imposes no conditluns or restrictlons on the Trustees, but that Jt Is his wish that no part of tho property should ever be allenated, aml that the expenses should not be permitted to exceed tho Income, No moro useful bequest to posterity has been made by any rich American in Muany years, Tho Institution to be founded and supported by the magnifleent donation will be of Inesthnable yalue-to the rising genern- tion, Tho memory of Leonard Case will live long In the grateful heats of the disciples of selenve, CHICAGO AS A CONVENTION CITY. Chicago has long been renowned, owing largely to Tue Tripune’s agency, ag a desir uble summer-resort, ‘The mild: wenthor of the present winter, along with an abundance of metropolitan attractions, has given this elty.an Important clitm as a winter-resort. In point of fact, It is becoming adinitted the world over that Chicago is a delightful place to visit at all sensons of the year, and It is certainly more accessible from all parts of the globo than any ryal ‘city, The Repub- Hean Natlonal Counnlttes shawed Its good Judgment, and also a commendable consider ation for the comfort and well-belug of Re- publicans everywhere, by selecting Chicago ag the Jocation for the Presidential Conven- tion next summer, ‘The Natlonal managers of the Greenback party promptly approved of this selection by following the example, And the people of the whole country who are Interested in the next Democratls Con- vention aro now anxlously walting for tho National Committee of that party to deter mlno tho same question, tha populnr senti- ment belug divided between the hope that Chicngo will be chosen and the feur thot it miny not be, ‘There Is some talk about Chicago and INli- nols Democrats interosting themselves In the effort to secure the location of the Demo- cratle Natlonal Convention in Chicago, This is proper enough on the ground thot it is always commendable to encourage people to do right, and generous to desire to share with others well-known advantages, The nagita- tion in favor of Chicago whenever a conven- tion is tobe held should, nevertheless, start in other sections of the country, ‘The acces sibility aud the secommodations of Chicago for gathering and tuking care of a large crowd are universally recognized, and a pop ular vote among those obliged to gu away from thelr own hoines to attend a conyen- tlon would always be overwhelmingly in favor of thls city, The only opposition ever made to Chicago for convention purposes is prompted by narrow and selfish motives, charucteristlo of proyiucial towns which hope to make some money out of the assembling multitude, There Is no such Psu! und mercenary splrit about Chi- THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE cago, which paralleled facilities to any and all crowds slnply for the sake of suffering hu- manity. Unless the Democratic managers Intend to betray their party and give both the Republicans and the Fintista tho ines- timablo advantage of n Chicago send-olf or big boom, they will apeedily decide to hold thelr Convention in this city, and thus allay the terrible apprehension felt by Democrats everywhere that selfish intrigno may secure the cholee of some other and necessarily In- ferlor location, It wotld be o work of supercrogation to enlarge upon the advantages of Chicago asa conventton ely. ‘There {s no phase of popu- lar information so general and widespread ag the knowledge of Chiengo’s superior accom- modntions and attractions, Nearlyeverybody hag been here, and those who have not are dying to come, It is the hub of tho rallrond system of this continent, and its hotels aro tho types of amplitude and good cheer. It fins the largest and handsomest hall in the country available for great popular mect- Ings. It has sights and attractions In % cominereial, religious, social, musical, dramatic, and convivial way that alone war- rant a journey. lithor at any tine from any part of tho world, 50 that the delegates and visitors to any National Convention will be »satistiod with their trip, no matter what tho nominations may be. The advantages of Chicago for holding a political convention were never better Illustrated than by the reply which an ant!-Grant Cinefinatt paper mde to tho assertion that the Ohio Influence lind been thoroughly neutralized: by locating the Republlean Convention in this elty; it found ample consolation in the reflection that Chicago Is Just ns accessible for Ohio people as is Cinelnnatt, and Infinitly more attractive, While It fs useless to dwell upon the noto- rious advantages which Chicago possesses over al other elties for large popular agsem- blages, there iy one distinctive political fent- ure about this community which no set of convention-makers ean afford to tgnore. Chlengo Is 9 politieal chameleon thatehauges: its color in sympathy with its ‘surroundings. It isnot unusual for Chicago, within the space of a few months, to change a Repub- Ucan majority of several thousand Into a Democratic majority equally large, and vice vers, We only mention this tn {illustration of the peeullar faculty of this city to adapt itself to cireumstances, politically as well as otherwise, It ix safe to say that, during the period of the Republican Convention, all Chiengo will be Republican, It is equally safe ta say that while the Democratic Con- vention’ is in session all Chieago will bo Democratic. Tho city will even take on ® greenish hue when the Green- backers shall assemble here. ‘This remnarka- ble faellity for changing complexion per- vades all classes. Our hotel-clerks, railroad employes, hackmen, restaurant-keepers, and allothers engaged In entertaining a political crowd are guaranteed to be Republicans, Democrats, Fiatists, or anything else polltic- ally which the proprietics of the occasion de- mand, Even the newspapers haye a_kuack for making every part? and every class be- Neve that Chicago has been built up capecial- ly for thelr necommodation, ence, if the Democrats desire to start off the next Presi- dential campalgn with a boom commensurate with that of rival parties, Chicago Is simply indispensable to them. When we have said that Chicage can accommodate itself even to a Democratic Convention, we have exhausted the Iniits of its udaptability and endurance, —_—————— THE GREEK FRONTIER FARCE, Were it not for the provoking neglect of Greeee by Great Britain and her equally ill treatment by Turkey in the matter of the ex- tension of her froutler, the negotiations to seftle the line of that frontler would be re- garded the world oyer as the most Inughable and enjoyable piece of Invmor which aiplo- macy has yet produced, [twill boremembered that Greece prepared to enter tho struggle between Turkey and Russia at a very oppor- tune tle, and when she might have rendered the Intter Power such ald ag to have entitled her to the territory sho coveted in recom- pense for herservices. She had even massed her annies and moved them to the frontiers, and some slight skinnishes had taken place between her troops and strolling bands of Bashi-Bazouks, when England induced her to withdraw and remain neutral upon the ex- press stipulation that nt the close of the war the treaty should contain a provision in her behall for tho rectification of her frontier linc. She withdrew her troops, but the most that she obtulned was a representation In tho Berlin Congress without voice, and a clause in tho trenty to tho effect thnt the Powers recommended Turkey to enter Into negotla- tlons with Greece for the extension of her northern frontier, Tho Berlin ‘Treaty was signed in July, 1878, but it was not until 1879 that Turkey paid any attention to the Grecian elniin, and even then not until Greeee had repeatedly called for a conference and tho Powers compelled Turkey to grant it, It then took a long tne for the Porte to fint the proper Plenipotentiarles, This settled, the Porte named 0 village as the place of meeting which wag not laid down on any map, and which actually could not have been found without the assistance of an explor- {ng expedition. or sclentific survey. Fresh negotiations then ensued to obtain an necessible locality, After much delay place was found and the Plent- polentiaries met, A wringle of several weeks followed to decide whieh party should first open Its case, At last the Powers beeame finpatient, and demanded of Turkey that she should no longer delay tho negotiations, ‘Lhe Plentpotentiaries onco more opened discussion, and, after an interminable thie, they got so far os to «eelde, not without protest from the ‘Turkish representatives, that the recommendation in the ‘Treaty of Berlln should at ‘all avents bo mado the starting- point, though not the gonl, of negotiation, which brought the Greeks, like a bont salling round in a fog, exactly to the place where they fivat started. It soon beeame apparent thatno agreement could be reached, and the Conference nijourned sine die, A fresh one Was oppoluted after more delay, and the new Plentpotentiaries started where tho old oneshad left off—namely; tho lie lald down {n tho protocol to tho treaty, Then it wns proposed by Turkey that the menn- Ing of the Congress should be ex- plained, Greece stated her construction first, Turkey followed, and, of course, her view of the matter was diametrically opposit, Greeeo traced tho Ine one way and Turkey another, and the more they araued ft the wider tho lines diverged, At last the Turk- ish Plentpotentiaries bolilly took the ground. that the Congress did not jntond that Turkey should concede any territory at all, but lett {t optional, the clause In tho treaty merely being Jn the nature of adyles, which the Porte might follow or not, as it saw fit, ‘The Greeks opposed this view, and thus the discussion drifted back trom the geography of the boundary Mne to the meaning of the Congress Itself, At this point the Turkish Plenipotentlaries have stayed proceedings to submit the question at Issue to the Porte, which, of course, after fresh delay, will ba afilrmed as the Turkish Plenipotentiarle: understand lh. : It will bo seen from all this that Greece is no nearer the result she covets than she was when the Borlin Treaty was algned, though “over a year has been wasted in negotlation, renerously extends tte un- | Itis evident enough, and has been from the atart, that Turkey does not propose to sure render nny territory to Greeva unless she Is compelled to. Meanwhite the clause in the treaty’ remains, and what is to be done about it? The London Times, discussing the ques- tion, makes the following suggestion: i “To oxpeet of Oreck and Turk that thoy should benble umicably to settle netween themaclves how large the slice of Turkish flesh should be and whence tt 16 to be ent woutd Loto anticipate ats precedent to tho concession a fecting which it 1s hoped may be ita result, Tho offer to Tet tho two ‘Powers try to mako thelr own bare gin was 1 ry, howovorcertaln to be futile. Now, at all nits, that tha attempt has bad ita naturnl consequences, It ia high timo that the signatories ofthe Troaty of Herlin should inter- pore, and deelare authoritatively whether thoy meunt anything by their recommendation, Elthor to continue to muintain silence or to res fertho question, whole and undeelied, to tho Constantinople Legations is practically to con- fuss that thoy mennt nothing.” It would be more tothe purpose if England would first explain whint she meant when sho Induced Qrecee to withdraw from the war on tho promise of compensation, and, Mf she meant anything, compel ‘Turkey to concede the territory named tn the pro- tocol, As'the other Powers Have no interest In the inatter, it Is not Hkely that they will render Greeeo any*miterial assistance, and thus tho end will bo the frittering away of more time, and tho gradual consignment of the whalu question to oblivion, TREATY OBLIGATIONS, Anarticle in the January nunber of the Priaccton Review, on “The Fulfillment of the Berlin Treaty,” Is likely to attract con- siderable attention In this country and in Eu- rope, not only on account of its futrinsic merit and the fame which Its author has earned ag a historian, but more especially for Its, bitter attack on the foreign polley of the present British Cabinet and the manner in which the writer proves that the Berlin ‘Treaty In many of Its most important proyls- fons not only never has been curried into ef- fect, but that it was never Intended that it should be, Be Mr. E. A. Freeman,the writer of this diatribe against Lords Beaconsfield and Sallsbury, classes himself with the “sentimental poll- tlelans,” as opposed to the “practical poll- tielans,” “for? he says, “the great doc- trine from whieh the practieat men started was thatthe mere signing of 2 diplomatic document could of Itself work physical and moral miracies, ‘The opposit doctrine of tha sentimental men was that things were much surer to turn out as rerson and experl- ence, the workings of man’s nature, and the common laws of cause and effect made It lkely that they would turn out’? And Mr. Freeman proceeds at some length to justify the positions taken by those whom the British Premler lind sneeringly termed “sentimental politicians.” The catalog of omitted obligations, nulli- fled provisions, double-dealings with ‘Turk and Christian, and underhanded stipulations which Mr. Freeman hag compiled fn connec- tion with tho British interpretation of the famous Berlin Treaty is not so formidable from its bulk as from the sareastle manner in which he has arranged its contents, “The Turk was to hold the Balkan passes, and he did not hold the Batkan passes, ‘The Greek frontier was to be rectified, and the Greek frontier was not rectified, Above all, the ‘Turk was fo reform, and the Turk did not reforin.” ‘These are a few of tho failures Intd at the door of Lord Salisbury and his lender. Itis very evident that Mr. Freeman has no Jove for the Turkish nation and noconfidence {n any of their projvstntions, aud he growls most lustity when Ne'satirizes the statesman who fn the nineteenth contury trusts to the word of a Turk, evon though the Moslem fs promising “reform.” ‘Southern Bulgaria ig peaceful,” Exactly go, says Mr. Freeman in effect; it ls peaceful, because the Turk has not ocenpled the Balkan passes; has not, therefore, complied. with the provisions of this treaty which spoke the “will of Europe,” and his not yet taken advantage of the very point to secure whieh Lord Salisbury was ready to go to war, But Mr, Freemnu’s great grieyance—and, if he ts right in his conclusions, his cause of complaint is one that should be shared by all frlends of freedom—ts this: that the clauses of the Berlin ‘Treaty which dealt with tho Greek frontier stil] remain as far from ful- Mlmentas they were on the duy tho treaty wassigned, “The Turk, so far from setting free a rool of enslaved Greece, is heaping heavier still the fetters and barring closer still Ue grate over the people of the land which Europe had commanded him to set free, . . . Tho prouslses made to free Greece were cast aside by Lord Benconafield anid Lord Salisbury in exchange for the honor and glory of making thelr sovereign a trib+ utary of the Turk.” Such Is Mr. Freeman's charge, and unfortunately his facts appear to fully substantinte ft Greeca Is not free. ‘Thessaly and Epirus are still under the rule of the ‘Turk, and yet their freedom {8 one of the artieles of the trenty with which the English Ministry appenr to bo so well snt- istled. But Mr. Freeman goes ono step further, and declares that the abandonment of the cause of free Greece was ducto the “ ceasion of Cyprus,” a measure .tha necessity for which or the wisdom of which the English nation does not yet cppreelate, We commend this article to all: interested in the devious ways of European diplomacy, It is an able—though withal somewhat prej- udiced—effort to show a great nntlon proving false to Its own most solemn declarations, and violating the most sacred obligations of International Iaw—the provisions of a treaty ~at the will and beck of two unprinelpled Mintstera, And, if we aro to believe Mr, Freeman's assertions, wo shail bo obliged to agree With hhn that “ frea Greece put trast in the honorof English statesmen, and found that it was a broken read on which she was leaning.” MRS. BCOTT-SIDDONG’ PR! ALLEGED IMPRO- The grave and learned Professors at Asbury University, Greencastle, Ind, appear to be severely oxerelsed in the matter of the charming Mrs, Seott-Slddons, who real there n few nights since for the benetit of the Unt- versity, The ontta of her offense did not He In her readings, nor In herself ag a reader, but rather in hor appearance in full, or rather half-party dress, She had donned her costume tn compliment to her audience, butas the advancing waves of fuahion do not seem to have struck Creencastle yet, and ag the Professors in question wore gazing for the first thne upon a low-necked dress since very tender oge, the display of feminine charms shocked and palned them to such ¢ degrees that the next morning at prayers the Indy was sovorely criticised, and the prayers wiich were addressed to the Throne of Grace were unusually fervid and unctuous, though It is to ba fenyed that they made but little Impression upon the worldly-minded students of fushlonable tastes who lstenelt to thom, dazed - with’ reminlscences. of Mra, Biddona’ beauty, instead of revolving tn tholr minds the vanity of earthly affairs and tho temptations of the world and the flesh, Wo boldly assume that thedry old Profea- sors of Asbury wero not protesting against Mrs, Siddons' ¢harina ppon their own ac- count, If they were put upon the rack we fancy they would blushingly confess them- selves to have been deeply moved, and that IONDAY, JANUARY 12, 188, thoy then and thore hhd vislony of bygone days when the female figure was ns mich a thing of Intoreat to them as is now a Greek root or conto section. Won fancy that, If tho truth were known, there was something like & suapping of sparks {1 thelr gray embers and a regret.at the Might of tims, Ifad thoy been In the flush of youth thoy would have admired the divinity before them with ns much gusto ag thoir pupils, but caution born of expertence and duty born of senility wero Paramount {n thelr minds, ‘They knew that the Devil fishes best when he batts hts hook with o lovely limb. ‘Thoy knew that recluses and snchorites, since become saints, were most sorely tempted with the female form, ond barely escaped perdition, They re- membered how Tannhauacr struggled in the = Venusberg to brenk — the toils in which he was enmeshed, They remembered how Cleopatra’s sun- browned charms allured Antony from his duty. Perhaps each one of them remem- bered some faraway day when a ripe mouth or trim ankle drew him with frreststiblo force away from the path of study and plunged him Into an cestatte condition that wos destructive to the squares of right angled trinngles and the construction of see. ond aorists. Tenee tho severity of thelr reprehension of the unwitting offender, who was all the more offensive to them by reason of her beauty, It Is another cheerful Instance, however, of the perversity of human nature fn tho aver- age youth with relation to female charms that neither lectures nor prayers nade any hinpression upon the students, On the other hand, it mrde them her zealous champlona, and they rallied to her defense with all the ardor and impetuosity of youth, The Facul- ty seemed to have forgotton the rule of life ns well ‘as of filosofy: that tho surest way to urge Iwman nature in one direction fs to try to drive it In the other, especially when the object of ad- iiratton is a handsome woman. So, while thoy seek to exorcise tho fair tempter with prayer, and psalm, and protests, the silent cloisters of pale-faced students will be bright with her memory, and visions of her beauty will appear in tha dim Nght from thelr mid- night off, flitting before them, until Dido, and Tlelen of Troy, the ox-eyed Juno, Aspasia, Tenelope, Hebe, and Siddons whirl past them liky the shinunering figures in akaleldo- scope, and they retire to their pallets to dream of curriculum in which senile frigidity and prudery ean erect no bars, It ts somewhat curlous that no intimation Is given In the announcements of this calam- ity as.to the views of the female element In Greencastle. Not being nfllicted with tho emotions that disturb the male mind in such nerists, their opinions would be entitled to great respect as determining the exact mens- ure of Mrs. Siddons? gullt, as well as the reat divergence made by the boll and glddy elocutionlst from the line of pro- pricty. There are certain conventional se- erets of cut and bins, as well asof illusory blinds and gauzy palliations, which would go far towards inltignting Mrs. Siddons? eulpa- Dility,—secrets of the tollet, In fact, which the Asbury Professors, with all thelr Jearn- ing, cannot be expected toknow. Until such testhnony {s forthcoming It would be unfair to condemn the alleged improprictics, It 1s hnportant to know the material, trimmings, pattern, and general style of her costume, whether the disclosures it made were mera {lustons or actual realities, and, above all, whether to the women of Greencastle Mrs, Slddons was too lovely for anything ora horrid fright, before Intelligent judginentean be passed upon her. If it shall eventunte thet they have no cause of complaint, and that the moral standards of Greencastle have not been lowered, we have the right to con- elude that the Paculty of Asbury have been needlesly exercised, and that nothing more serious than a mouse his been agitating thelr mountain, Meanwhile, if Mrs, Siddons de- cides to go thera again, she might avoid all possibility of trouble by nppearing In tho costinne of & Turkish Odallsque, arrayed for precipitate immerston In the Bosphorus, — A. P. Gounn, of Maine, who was one of ex-Gov. Garevlon’s * Council,” Is the lawyer who framed tho questions for Gareeton, to be subinitted to the Supreme Court. Te urged Gareelon to submit them, and the latter fol- lowed his .advice, All the Supreme Court Judges wilted in an opinion against the legality nnd constitutionality of the technical quibbles and pretexts upon which the seats of seventeen duly elected Republican mem- bers of the House and seven members of the Senate wero given to beaten Fusionists, and five cities were disfranchised which elected fourteen mombers of the House, After thus advising the course which the Governor pur- sued, Gould has gone back on himself, and had written s letter to a prominent citizen, the substance of which is ns follows: “Say toall, that, In my opinion, the Governor and Council should bo chusen bofore action Is taken on filling any yacancy, Talso think that tho opinion of the Judges of the Supreme Court should be- enttrely: disregarded! We must hold the State Government at all events, if it can possibly be done. Let not a Republican be seated {n elther Touse it he enn be exeluded upon legal {auibble] grounds. This letter shows that Gould 13 a scoundrel, playing the game of “Tends Lwin, talls you lose.” Tho mistake tho Republicans haye made Is in not having taken possession of the seats to which thoy were elected, and orgnnized both Houses and proceeded to business, They have enst an alr of legallty over tho nctlon of thelr thloy- {sh opponents by thelr weak, nerveless con- duet, Tho Fusionists had no case after the oplnion of tho Supreme Court in response to tho Governor’s questions, They were non- suited and out of court, and should have been kept out. ‘The course of the Republican lead- era and advisers the past week has been alin- ply-pusillanhnous, Tt cannot justly be char- acterized by any milder name. —— Thore Is reason to fear that the strike in- angurated by the Butchers’ Unton, and already maintained over threa weeks, has Inflected an Injury upon tho pork-packing business which'could not now be made good by an immediate and complete surrender of the strikers, ‘This Injury must be divided between the eniploying packers and the work- ing butchers; but the latter, who are raspon- sible for !t, wlll be tho grenter sufferers of the two classes, It ts estlugted that there has been a loss to Chicago of Letweon 400,000 and 600,000 hoga, which would have been re- celved, slaughtored, and packed at this point during tha present season $f the strike had not occurred, This loss cannot be made good, because the trade has been diverted. Tho packlng-houses aro nearly able, with their present diminished force of laborers and green hands, to work up all the hogs that are currently recelved at tho Stock-Yards, and, {f the Union men wero to announce to-morrow thelr willingness to resume work, it is probable that only a small proportion of the 8,000 men who (ore ‘yoluntarily idlo could find employment. “They have . compelled the hog-riisers, the railroads, the bankers, the packers, and all the other classes interested in the handing, -kiljing, arid manufacturing of hogs, to make afrangoments for the pure’ suance of the business at otlior points to as Inrge_an extent ag, possible, and these ar-, Tangements cannot. be ahopdoned almply because tho Union butchers at Chicago may confess thelr folly. Tho longer tho atrikers | hold out the worse, of course, tha situation will become; but even now the prospect of general employment ean no Jonger be held out to them a3 on Inducemont to abandon the strike, a Tue Indianapolis Journal sent ont some 4,000 ofreulars to nil tho nottve and pronounced Republicans of tho State, requesting cuch to {n= dicate his first cholco for President, Nearly ll who wero addressed mado repiics. Tho-funt ro= sult Is us follows: For James @, Ulatno, For U.8, Gri For John she i. 1, HI For 1. 1. Bristow, For Hoseoo Conkling: For John ©, Fremont, For George P. Edman For W, T. Shermun, For Alexunder Ramsae For John A. Logan, For Joseph 1. Hawles For W. A. Wheeler. For Froderlek Dow For R. J. Oglesby’, For Nowton Hoot: For nominee, or expressing no preferonco., 193 TOtALsiereceescesse sees esenenenenee canes DpBIS Commenting editorlully upon the results, tho Journal saya: Tho strength of Shorman among tho Repub- Neansof Indiana ts a great surprise to many, and especially following, a8 tho interviews do, fo soon after his report recommending tho wboll- tion of tho legal-tender quality, of the greon- backs 18 to all contracts muds subsequent to the passage of tho net. Itis alsa noteworthy fact int a large number of those who are apposed to Sherinan’s nomination bnes thelr opposition muinly on hia want of nvalladility, and the class: that prefor him as the nomineo ure largely, buainesg-mon, and not tho most netive in poll- tics, It 1s a matter of still grentor purpriro to nd- voeates of Grint’s nomimition that the opposi- tion to him fs 80 great, and imainly biged on a consoluntious opposition ton third term. ‘Tim advico of the New York Jfatl—for the Western Republicans to keep quiet on the cir. reney question and let tho Eastern monoy-lend- ors and golilites dictate the policy of the Gov- ornminont—la superiiuous and gratuitous, Tho Western people ure an aggressive forco in Amoerlenn polities, and aro not to be Ignored or brushed aside with a “Shoo-tly-don’t-bodder- me" wave of thohand, Thoy havo not only a deep interest In tha Republican party, but uso adcep and abiding interest in the development and prosperity of the whole country, aud they do not propose ta give tholr consent by thelr Bilonco to Bcheme of finance that a tmpolitia and huzardous at the present time. They have suifered too much from tho business depression that bas oxisted since tho great prnlo of 1873 not to hall with gindness the renewed activity in. nll branches of trade that haa made tho yeur 1870 u white one tn tho commerctal history of tho United States, and thoy insist that Congress and tho Administration shall let well cnough alone, ‘The arroganco of tho newspaper press of tho East upon this subject has been churnetcristie, but nono tha less offensive on thut nccount, Noithor Mr. Hayes nor Mr, Sherman will bo al- lowed to setupa golden calf for the people of the West to worship, and whenever It fs at- tempted thoy will get the same resolute answer that was given to n would-be dictator in ancient tines: “ We will not worship tho goldon Smuago which thou bast set up.” Trwas nota bit ike Grant to spenk dis- parugingly of Gen. Sherman, 0s ho Is reported tu have dono to somebody In South Carolina, Grant has always been execedingly generous towards his subordinates, and was never accused. of Jealousy towards them, never bellttled thoir deeds, but was over willing to accord them the meed of praise, Sherman's march to the sen was too important un event In our Civil War, ‘and contributed too much to ending tho Re- velllon, to enil for adverse criticisms on tho Union sie from any quarter. Waris cruct at best, and 1 pitched battle is one of the most savage and brutal pastimes in which cfyllized men can engage; but a burned and desolated home Is not so sorrowful 1 sight 18 tho mutilated forms of the dead and dying, The rulned home inay bd rebuilt, but it can never be mindo glad by tho return of those who perished on the red. field of carnige. Sherman's march meant dee struction to Rebel life and Rebel property, and to blame him now would be ag mean og to curse Lincoln for Issuing the Emancipation Proclama- tion. Grant's yrent success was achieved by downright hard fighting—nover parleying, but © moving Immediately upon the onemy’s works," and his enemies called him “a butcher." That ho disparaged one of his greatest Moutenants ag reported Is most likely a Io. Tum Cincinnatl Commercial of Jan. 8 printed a facximile of the handwriting of Gen, Jackson while President, Itis in the form of a memorandum-note to Amos Kendall, defining Jackson's views of tho righta of States, It reads: Nullification fs revolution—and {f 9 Stato nt- tempta to nulllfy tho laws of tha United States. by force, it is rebellion, and if sho possesses the pltsieat ower to resist successfutiy, thon she iis tho right to establish her own government, and [f'thy hatnnee of tho States hnye tho phigic- al power, thoy havo # perfect right uimlor this confederation of perpetual & perfect Union, to coerce her to obedience, For a State to go out of tho Union peaceably shu must obtain the con- sont of that number of the States which the Con- atitution gives tho power to alter, & amend it, The people being the fountain of all sovereign pawer have # right to alter & chang their government; and the confedernted & perpetunt unton formed by thomselves, upon which the more perfect union, the constitution of tho united atutes, fs based, provides how it can be altored or desolved—nany othor modu to ulter it ig, revolution, £ ar, It will be noted that this from Old Hickory ia Bigniticunt,—the clearest statement that hus been miude of hls yluws of tho rights of States, and rends ike prophecy, Tho ortyinal MS, fs in tho possesslon of tho Ohio Historicul Society, —_— Tite Ionest-Monoy Lengue of Mitwaukeo held 1 mocting a tow evoulugs ago and ap- pointed n committec conaistiug of men of both polltical purtles to proceed to Washington and urge upon Congress tho grent necessity of nbol- ishing the legal-tonder quality of the greenback, 'Thoy will probably convince Congress that busi- ness at tho West ts really nt n standstill because those notes aro on a pur with gold and silvor, and thut overything is languishing and walting for tho passage of the Bayurd resolution, That Conunittea of goldites will represout the seuti- ments and the wishes of tho businosa-mon of Wisconsin on tho currency question, or this aspect of It, about us much as Gov, Garcelon represonts tho sontimonts and desircy of tho Maulno Republicans, ‘Thelf appearances in Wash- ington on such a misston will be simply an Insult tothe Intelligent and level-hoaded Ropublican delegation from Wisconsin, who need no ine structions from tho Honest-Monoy Lungue of Milwaukvo on a question that docply concerns thom and thoir constituents, ———— A Goon den] of wind has been wasted by those who hive ample timo to attend to othor peoplo’s business over tho immense amount of mondy spont at the Grout reception in Chicago, Be {t romombored that tho City of Chicago, in its official capacity, nover yoted a cont out of tho public treasury for such a purpose, but that tho whole expense of tho domonstration was choo fully borno by gonorous citizona of all partics, ‘The only favor that tho Reception Cummittoo asked of tho City of Chicago was tho loan of ita brillant and eloquent Mayor ta muke the wel- coming speech, But not so in Philadelphia, Thero the City Council appropriated $15,000 for oxpenses. Tho city paid $100 for the band which furnished musto ut tho realdence of Mr, George W, Childs on the evening of his dinner to Gen, Grant, being sont thore by the Commilttoo of He- copdon. It also paid the hotel bills of tho Cumorpns, ex-Seorvtary Robeson, and othors of the invited guosts. % reese + Tig profound lawyer and eminent jurist who cdits the Indlanapolia Sentinel has boon readlug the opinion of the Mulné Buprome Court ontho questions propounded to it, and states hia condomnution of ite position iu briof and omphatic language, “He declares that “a mad: bullinaghina shop could not have broken tho crockery moro offcotually than the Maino Supreme Court has sought to demollah law, and: {his it husdonoin tho intorestof Ropublican rascals who ought to be in the Ponttontiary, and, If juatico ts donc, wil be there in Jess than threo months.” It ie manifest that tho Sentine man has mistaken bis profession.’ He would bo un ornaimont to the Supreme Bench. 2 . amare A Wasutxatoy letter tells how “Demo- voratlo Benstore carry out the rules of Clyil- Bervico reform. It states that ucarly every “ Dorhooyatlo Benntor hna provided for on ofvli fnitgchold, and glyes those Instuns Th sutvofBenator Morgan la clork of bis fathore edinmtifes, Tho son of Sonitor Baton, of Con nectlout, ts clerk of his fathar's committee, The son of Benatar Vourhces, of Indiana, fs clerk of bia futhor's committee. Tho son of Bennt, Saulabury, of Delaware, is alerk of bis fathers committed. Tho son pf Renntor Vanco, of North, Carotinn, ts clerk ‘of his fathor's cormintites, Senntor Withers, of Virgintny hos his sonsinetay for clerk; while Senator Lamar, of Mbssiasipp, provides the clarkship of hla vommilttes for t} brother of Sonntor Jones, of Loulsiina, and alsa has bis couain a clerk undor Adama’ tn thy House, ‘Tire colored population of Richmond fig dn nervous condition from , the alacovery of % many graves of thelr peoplo bulng robteg supply the dissecting tables bf the Anvdical go, legea. Grave-rabbing is one of the ftuportant industries of thut yonerablo city, and if i nw continuo for tho benoft of solence, tho datkin fro determined that thore ahall be no Olstiners * onnecount of color or pravious condition Fi servitude, ‘hoy nre opposed to the culur Une belngdrawn over tho graves of thelr sort of folk every time, and they have: organized party inthe Virginia Legislature to Oppose all appropriations to medical colleges thit lye erlininate in favor of culored subjects acctlon, eves AN exchange paper wants to know it Bob Ingersoll will nominate Blaine in tho Chicago Convention tn June next, ns he did ao effectively at Cincinnati tn 1870. Perhaps. And i¢ the Grunt mon wikh to counteract tho effect of In gersoll’s tutgis eloquence, let thom get, OL - Vilug, of Wisconsin, who thrilted tho audiences at the Palmer Horse banquot with a most Temarky. bie speech, to pregunt tho General's nume, Hy eloquence fs matehtess, nud he §8 0 strong: Grant man, though a Demoernt. It might ben goof opportunity to buptize Vilna into tho Re church, : pti Tur Chester County (Pa.) Republicans in form Mr. Don Cameron that thoy propose ty elect tho delegnted to the Nattonal Republica Convention without any outside holp—whiea must astonish tho Chairman of tho Nattonal Committee, Thero are certain indications of unrest and revolt in tho old Keyatono Btate which look gif Mr. Cumeron would have some Uttle difleulty in crowding the wholo Ist of dolegates to the Chicugo Convontion ong bh hip-pocket. , Sour Republicans at Albany, N. Y,, have & orginized an antl-third-term club, and cltein F the declaration of their purpose the resolution Adopted in the State Convention in Now York la 1875, which pledged thom ng “unalterably op. Posed to tho election of any President for g thin term." They quoto from the Republican plat forms of Ponnsylvanin, Massachusotts, Ohio, own, and Wisconsin similar language, and they cae the Republicans of thoso States to stick - ny Cononess did not take’ hold of work after its long holiday recess as if {t Intonded to get through and adjourn at an early day. It’ did next to nothing Inat week, and pitbilo Intercat {fo {ts proceedings wad logs than in the Maino im brogilo, and in tho fools' congress, where the blathorakita Kearney raved and blaaphemed The Nutional bippodrome ought at least to furnish the people with amusement Sf it basno more serious function to perform. Tue Health OMeer of Milwaukeo {s thor oughly wedded to the opinion that proventfoa is better than cure. Having had his attentioa called to tho Athy and unhealthy condition of the First Ward Publlc Schou) bullding, ho. Fisit- ed {t, and found {tin such a atate as warranted hitn in fasuing un offielal warning to the author cs thut, if it was not at once, put in decent order, ho should feel it his duty to close it aa public nuisance. Tie Milwaukee Sunday Telegraph speaks of a personnl fricnd of the editor as a good maa for Governor of a Territory after ho retires from bualnices, whiok, it says, will bo thirty or forty yenra hence. In forty years from the yearof grace 1880 thoro will bomlghty tow Roreltonet| fo this country that will bo in need of Goyeriion, ‘They will all bo ndded to the glorious constelle tion of tho States beforo that timo elapses, ‘Tuene will be an Agricultural Institute at * the Ilinoly Industriel University, Champalya, * from Jun-27 to Jan, 50, fuclusive. The progran which bus been prepared fa an excellent one, Reducod rntes nro offered on tho Ilnols Cen tral, Wabush, Champnign, Havang & Wester, and indinnapolis, Bloomington & - Western Rall roads, To obtatn them, however, a certificate must be gotten before starting, from Prof, Morrow, of Champatg pd "Tits New York World's reportor has inter viewed Mrs, Surratt's daughter in Baltimora, and, ag wondorful ng tt my socom, tho daughter does not approve of the hunging of ner mother Neithor docs sho approvo of tho part which Gen. Hancock cut In tho affair, und tho Sun necuset tho World of trying to hurt the Hancock boom beeunso it (tho World) Js warmly enlisted in favor of Mr, Bayard. Mn. Trtpen pledges himself to oppose the cloction of Gen. Grant for a third term with all his mind, might, and etrongth. It muy be safo- ly nasuined that ho will as vigorously oppose the election of any other Republican for a first term. Mr. Tilden fa in tho position of tha follow who furbude tho bans nt tho wedding becuuso “be Wanted the girl himself.” Tu Garfield men in the Ohto Legislature aro to have a wet suppor, otherwise culled 4 banquet, in Coluinbus to-night, at which Ges. Garfield !a expected to be present and returd thanks for yatue recolyed., When Matt Carper ter was elected lnat winter he bad bis supporters photographed in agroup with his own phila ia the centre, Joun Suensan’s friends tn Ohio have # meeting at Columbus this evening to soc what enn bodone in the way of atartlog n Presidential buom, Hnyes hua done so well in looking out for tho Ohio boys, and providing moat of thei with soft places, that the politicians would be glad to have the Prestdency full to Oblo met forever. —_———— Somm of the newspapors aro’ printing & pithy temperance address and attributing It authorship to Col, Ingorsoll, when the truth Is that sald extract waa written and printed bofore Mfr, Ingervoll was born, ae Tum Milwaukee Sunday Telegraph sayt that ‘Tue ‘Tripune'a now dress ig “ tho neatest yet," and adda; “bis splendid paper ranks No J nmong alt the papers of the country, . Thaok you. Tue Loulsville Post says that Gen, Ga field delivered tho beat Republican ceunpalyt apecches of any man in Congress, " except Dad Yoorhecs."" | PERSONALS, Tho Popo signs himealf “Leo PP, XH" ‘Tho mother of the late Bishop Hayon Isatlll alive, uged 03 yeara. Happlly for other parts of the world, Pav! Doyton ts in Florida, and Capt, Webb in Englane George Ellot’s health 4s much improved. and abo will epuud tho rest of the winter tu Law jon. From the testimony taken at Leavenworth {t would goum that Gainbrinud could hardly have boon 4 bettex mun in Pattl's place, Young men contemplating bankruptoy will find an oxcollent opportunity for carrying out tholr plans this week, An Itallan opora-troup? gin town, A railrond tleket-agent has peen elceted Muyor of Huyre de Grace. Perhaps wo next be tronted to tho alght of a Congrossionst sowing-maching agent. Ged, Grant has ordered his Ethan Allen colt, vow at Washington, to bo sent as a preseut to the Mikado of Japan. Mike will look well 10 a alxty-fourspound eulky bobing an Americas trotter, © th i ° Mrs, Grant has appeared in Washing- ton in some quaint Hastorn uttiro, presented 12 her by Rer mothorein-law—a dresa of sume Woo" derty}. Ortontal fabrig—and a number of flindor stanoe ornaments, including banglos which el most concealed her faring frosy Wrist tq elbow. Miss Roxanna Brighain, the maiden lady 0 Marlboro, Muas., who refused positively to ea! any food for nine days, died last Saturday morn: jug from starvation at tho age of 77 yeurs. 5! 1