Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 16, 1880, Page 4

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M.—Reg- ‘cular Communication Friday evening, May 31, at 8 o'clock, at hall 12? La Salle-st. By order. WA. GARDNER, W. M. CHANLES CATLIN. Secretars. CHICAGO COMMANDE! Conclave Monday evening, May isiting Sir Knights welcome, Vis inent Commander, eas ommand’® 3a1AM 'T. JACOBS, Recorder. GOURGAS CHAPTER OF ROSE CROIX—Regular Conclave Thursday evening next. Work on the Iith and Isth Desrees of the A.€A.Scottish Rite. By oraer OF EW. CHAMBEBLAIN, BL-W. & PedL, ED GOODALE, c SUNDAY, MAY 16, 1880, ‘Tne French strikes are of a very mildtype. ‘They are not used to that kind of thing in France. Tue Seventeenth Congressional District Of this State will send two Washburne delegates ‘to the Chicago Convention. - SPAIN pays a pretty high rate of interest for money. To mcct Cubun claims she has pro- Jected a loan, offering 9 per cent Interest. THE warehouses at Rosebud, Dakota, in which the Indiun supplies were stored, were demolished by a cyclone Wednesday. Sm Jony Lusnock, who was defeated for redlection at Maidstone Inst month, will in all orobability succeed Robert Lowe as a member trom the London Univer: Aw explosion in an English iron foundry ‘Yesterday resulted in the death of fifteen per- fons. About twenty-five others were seriously “ujured, some it is believed fatally. La Pens, the French Minister of Public Worship, has intimated his intention of resign- ing. The enforcement of the anti-Jesuit laws isa task which he is not willing to undertake. Secretary Scuvnz yesterday reported to Congress the names of cight Indian Agents ‘whom he had removed or suspended on account of corrupt practices and fraudulent transac- ‘tions. THE wife of a Lexington physician, while in a fit of temporary insanity, poisoned her B-year-old child and then attempted to commit ®uicide, She has been confined in the lunatic Asylum, : ‘THE Wyoming Territory Republicans met “Ww convention yesterday and elected two dele- Fates tothe Chicago Convention. They acted very impartially, one of the delegates being for Blaine, the other for Grant. AmonG the important measures pending Snerore Congress, and which many membors are dosirous should be disposed of this session, are ‘the Electoral Count bill, the Chinese Tmmigra- tion bill, the Inter-State Commerce bill, and the Wariff bile For the thousandth time, perhaps, it is an- winced that the Pope and Bismarck have agreed asto tho statusof the Catholic Church in Germany. It would be useless to state the busis of agreement, as doubtless a contradiction “will follow in a few days. A panty of filibustering patriots has land- ~ed inCuba. They sre said to be provided with large quantities of dynamite and blasting-pow- der, and a goodly number of excellent rifles. ‘There is a pretty fuir percentage of Americans YFeported among the part WILLiAN THo.wson, a seaman of the New York burk Annie Burr, stabbed the second mnute, Henry Metcalf, on the 24th of Marcb, dur- aug the voyage from Liverpool to New York. *On thearrival of the vessel at port yesterday the iurderer was taken to jail. _ , Tue McHenry County Convention yester- 1 day selected its nine delegates and instructed :for Blaine. This gives 2 majority in the Fourth “Congressional District against Grant, and there- ‘fore secures the selection of two anti-third-term AAclegates to the Chicago Convention. Tar French Public Meeting bill has been ss0 modified that it proved satisfactory to the ~Hadicals and passed the Chamber yesterday. -By its provisions the police authorities are per + mitted to attend meetings, take notes, and may “warn orators who indulge in too strong language against the powers that be. Tue Whittaker investigation at West Point was continued yesterday, and evidence exceedingly damaging tu the colored cadet was “forthcoming. The experts all agreed that the smote of warning was in the handwriting of { Whittaker. It was further proved that it was ptittevon Dart of a sheet of paper of which the other part had been used by Whittaker to commence a letter to.his mother. Whittaker himself was cross-examined, but his testimony: did not materially differ from his first state- ment. THe Conventions held in Grundy and Woodford Counties yesterday resulted in the selection of Grant delegates. The Washington County Convention selected three Grant dele- gates, one for Binine. and one for Washburne. McHenry sends nine Blaine delegates to Spring- field. Tue brickmakers’ strike has extended to Milwaukee. About 150 men quit work at one yard yesterday on the refusal of the proprietor to advance their wages, Other men were readily secured to take the strikers’ place. An attempt to intimidate the new men was suppressed by the police. Gasmetra, through his paper, the Re- publique Francaise, denies that the Ministerial party was threatened with defeat on the Public Meetings bill, The Ministers have, however, withdrawn the objectionable clause of the bill, which indicates that they are not willing to take the chances on its passage. A comBrxaTion is said to have been formed between the Spanish Liberals and Royal- ists for the purpose of overthrowing the pres- ent Premier, Canovas del Castillo, and his Cab- inet. This combination, it is said, will result in the return of the Royalist party to power and to ag reactionary and conservative policy. THe Liberals of England have announced their intention to remove the restrictions on the native press of India which the Tories two years ago imposed by the passage of the Ver- nacular-Press law. It was during the discussion on this measure that a section of the Irish mem- bers earned the title of Obstructionists. Tue defection of the New York delegation from Grant continues: It is now stated by per sons who profess to know that twenty-nine dele- gates from that State will vote against Grant on the tirst ballot. An effort is being mude, it is rumored, to consolidate the delegation in favor of Hamilton Fish, ex-Secretary of State. Txe Chief of the Bureau of Statistics re- Ports the exports of domestic breadstuffs for April at $21,679,115 against $14,168,630 for April, 1879, and for ten months ending the 30th ult. $207,306,615 against $149,088,266 for the ten corre- sponding months of the previous year. The figures indicate a very gratifying state of things. Miss CHARLOTTE JoINneER, of Huron, O., is a plucky girl. An intoxicated German at- tempted to force an entrance into her house while she was alone Friday night. She called on him to desist, but he refused, whereupon she took down ber shotgun and lodgea the contents of itin his body. Theintruder diced of the ef- fects soon after. Mus. Surru, of Angola, near Fort Wayne, Ind., went toa ball Friday night, leaving her three children, two girls and x boy, at home. Late in the night David Fry entered the house ina drunken condition, upset a lamp, thereby setting fire to the house, which was soon burned tothe ground. Fry and the three children per- ished in the flames. THREE more of the missing boats of the sbip American which foundered on the voyage from the Cape of Good Hope to Liverpool were picked up on the 25th of April by the bark Emma Harriman, which transferred the passen- gers to the steamer Counza. They were landed at Grand Bassin and taken from thence to Senegal. Only one Jife was lost. A coaririon between the extreme Repub- Hcan members of the French Chambers and the Bonapartists and Orleanists threatens the over- throw of the present Ministerial party in France. ‘The Radicals think that a new election would improve their chances to obtain office, and the Monarchists are of the opinion that any change would materially improve their prospects. ‘THe Spanish.Colonia! Minister promises to intreduce an Improved system of education into Cuba. Agricultural colleges will be established in the island, and other educational facilities provided. The same Minister says that, owing ‘tw the political disturbances, he cannot think of introducing measures in reference to the police regulations or the ecclesiusticul affairs of the island. ArT acaucus of Democratic Congressmen held last night it was resolved, on motion of Mr. Springer, that the vote by which the House agreed to adjourn on the 3ist should be recon- sidered, as many important measures were pending before Congress. It was also resolved that the Political-Assessment bill should be called up in the House at an early day and Pressed to a vote. A RESOLUTION has been introduced into the Colonial Assembly of the Cape of Good Hope, the passage of which would mean the censure of the Colonial Government for pro- claiming the Peace-Preservation act throughout tae Colony; also for ordering the disarmament of the Busutos. Since intelligence of the Lib- eral victories reuched the Cupe the Colonists have assumed a more independent and defiant attitude. 5 : Tue Canadian Government is reported to be ready to give the projected Goss-Ryan prize- fighting expediuon a warm reception when they touch on the soil of the Dominion. [f their ex- pedition persiston landing after being warned by the authorities, it is suid that they will be fired on by the Canadian militia, who will be on hand. An attempt will also be made to seize the tugs which convey the party and to arrest the Cap- tains thereof, Sin Barrier Frere entered on his duties a3 Governor of South Africa with brilliant pros- pects before him. but never has man so dis- appointed expectation. His career at the Cape has been an unending blunder, and he hus maintained his place up to the present only through the partiality of Lord Beaconsfield. He bas wisely tendered his resignation. As soon as he heard of the disastrous defeat of his Premier friend, he came to the conclusion that South Africa bud need for him no longer. Lanoucurne is bound to kesp before the public in some enpacity. He has figured sev- eral times during the past year as defendant in Jibel suits, as the victim of a horsewhipping at the hands of a larger man, as a rebellious mem- ber of a fashionable club, and as a successful candidate for Parliament. ‘The jury brought in a verdict in his favor yesterday in the libel suit instituted against him by ono Lambri. It is not improbable that he pays the cost of those suits, as they are the very best kind of advertise- ments for his puper, Truth: ‘THERE seems to have been no foundation for the sensational reports sent forth as to charges made by ex-Scnator Christiuncy against his wife in order to procure a divorce. It now. appears that, notwithstanding the Jady has been shadowed by detectives ever since her re- turn from Peru, so circumspect has she been that nothing but the most trivial churges can be adduced against her. The sum and substance of the causes which have led to the jealousy of Christiancy and bis subsequent proceedings seem to be that Mrs. Christiancy, being aspright- ly, intelligent young woman, attracted the at- tention of younger men than the ex-Senator, and that her cheerful, gay manner was exceed- ingly irritating tothe old man. There is a pros- pect that the case wil be thrown out of the District Court at Washington for want of juris- diction, Mr. Christiancy not being a resident, ——e A Tue politicians have already begun to gather at Springtield, the candidates being the rst in the fetd, a round dozen of them having put in an appearance yesterday. The orguniza- tion of the Convention and the question of what shall be done in reference to the Cook County delegation evoke more discussion than the chances of the candidates for the State olfices. Indeed, any prediction as tothe succcss- ful candidates at the present time is useless. Combinations will probably be made which ure Not yet even thought of, and which will mater- jully change the aspect of affairs. There will be & meeting of the State Central Committee on Tuesday, at which the temporary organization will be discussed and probably sgreed on. Although the Committee is largely in favor of Grant, it fs believed that “Long” Jones’ pre- tensions in reference tw naming the Tempo- rury Chairman will not be listened to for a moment. There isa growing sentiment against Logan and his henchmen, which will prob- ably lead to the selection of a presid- ing officer who, though a Grant man, will bo sccoptable to all parties. There fs no doubt that any attempt of Logan or Jones to control the Convention will meet with stubborn resistance from a large section of the Grant men who are disgusted at the political methods of the Egyptian statesman and his man Friday. GEORGE Pru a colored man, was an em- ployé of Mr. Black, a Cincinnati tobacconist, and having been discharged on the suspicion of theft, went to Mr. Black's office and shot him dead. Ho was tried last week, found guilty, and . sentenced to be hung. A petition for commutu- tion of his sentencc—on what grounds it is dif_l- cult to see—has been put in circulation and pre- sented to Judge Longworth, who presided at the triul, for signature. The Judge refused to sign it, but promises to provide for the murderer's wife and family as long as they live. In this he has shown greater humanity than if he had signed the petition. Tne loss by the Milton (Pa.) fire is placed at $1,700,000. The msurance, as far as can be ascertuined, is $654,000. Over 600 houses wore burned to the ground, and nothing remuins but the smoldering: ruins. Money, clothing, and provisions are being liberally supplied to the unfortunate inhabitants, the Pennsylvania olttes vying with each other as to which shall con- tribute most generously. Owing to the many attempts of incendinries to tire the buildings which were left standing, the Governor has been called on to send some companies of the State mititia to protect the town. It is not.improba- ble that the number of incendiary attempts bas been exaggerated, as the first reports ex- aggerated the losa of life: So far as known, only one person, an old gentleman of 8 years, perished in the flames. One woman has since died of fright. By a vote of 121 to 90 the House of Repre- sentatives yesterday agreed to adjourn on tne 3ist of May. This determination was arrived at in order to prevent any reform of the present tariff system, and the fesult was accomplished. by a combination of Protectionists of allclasses; the iron, Protectionists of Peunsylvania, the sugar Protectionists of Louisiuna; the friends of the New York salt monopoly and of the New England paper monopoly; the South Curg- linians, who dreaded a reduction in the duty on rice; and Gen. Garfield and Mr. Frye, who are upposed to any change whatever in the pres- ent system. Notwithstanding this vote it is got at all certain that the udjouiament will take place on the day indicated. The appropriation bills are in a very backward state at present, and there are several very important: measures pending before the House which it is very essential shall be dealt with this session. ‘The Senate, too, may not concur, and the indica- tions ure that they will not until some measure in regard to the Electoral count is adopted. THE “UNIT RULE” IN ILLINOIS. Information has been conveyed to THE TRrBune that, in case the third-termers shall beable to secure the majority in the State Convention next Wednesday, it is the pur- pose of ‘Long?’ Jones and John A. Logan, the managers of the third-term movement in this State, to impose third-term instructions upon the district delegates as well as the delegates-at-large, adopt the “unit rule,” and apply it to the entire State delegation. We are not disposed to credit this state- ment, because it seems scarcely possible that the desperation ‘of the third-termers will drive them to this suicidal policy. Illinois has never yet subscribed to the State- supremacy doctrine which this program always implies. The Republican party in this State has never yet sought to snuff out the sentiment of its voters as expressed at the district caucuses. The Congressional districts havealways been permitted to select their delegates to the National Convention according to the majority’s preference, and these district delegates have never been ex- pected to vote in convention in any other way than a majority of their particular con- stituencies indicate. 1f Senator Logan shall emulate in this State the example set by Senator Conkling in New York and Senator Cameron in Pennsylvania, he will bring down a storm upon himself and the third- term movement that willdo more damage than an Jowa “blizzard” or a Missouri tornado. The Republicans of Illinois have not yet sold themselves out body and soul to any one nan, and Senator Logan will do well not to display any bogus bill of sale at Springfield. Even if the third-term managers should de- velop the necessary strength and inclination at Springfield to pass instructions and nomi- nally adopt the “unit rule,” such action will not be considered binding by the districts, which will proceed to appvint their: dele- gates, as they have the right to do; and there is no question but the Chicago Convention will follow the Cincinnati Convention and previous precedent by sustaining the right of every individual delegate to vote as he chooses. Hence the third-termers will gain no advantage by resorting to the State-sovereignty plan of running the State Convention, if they prove to be in the majority, but they will have con- firmed the wide-spread suspicion that their purpose is to rule or ruin, and will create 2 revolt against their usurpation that will sc- riously endanger the chances of the Repub- lican State ticket, The Republican party has higher claims than the “ machine” managers of the third-term movement, and these claims cannot be stamped out with impunity. The announcement of the third-term pur- pose is not calculated to aid the third-termers in securing a majority in the Staté Conven- tion, which will only be possible by recog- nizing bolters as having superior rights. If the State Convention, under the whip of “Long” Jones & Co., shall take this unpre- cedented course, its subsequent action will really be of small significance; for the influ- ence of Illinois third-termers will be com- pletely broken in the National Convention. There is but one of two results possible in this State so faras the National Convention is concerned—viz.: itherthe National dele- gates will be divided pro rata according to the manifestation of Republican sentiment throughout the State, or the disfranchising of the anti-third-term sentiment by giving bolters rights which no party has ever recog- nized will lead toa contest in the National Convention that will be fatal to the third- term movement. Perhaps it is in the hands of the third-termers to decide which of these two courses shall be taken. The composition of the State Convention on Wednesday will show. But if it shall prove to be in their power to decide the alternative we have in- dicated, common prudence as well as com- mon justice should prompt them to take what they may be entitled to rather than to risk the loss of all their hopes. THE CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY. Mayor Harrison, in his late message to the City Council, referred to the Publie Library, its value in a property sense, and. to the danger of its total loss in case of fire. The Mayor said: il ‘The pressing want of the Library is a safer and more acecssible building,—one that shall be Practically tire-proof and nearer the ground. I 4m not aware of any other instance where a city library is kept in the third story of a rented building occupied by twenty other tenants, and Hable ut any moment to be burned up. Incase of a fire it would be impossible to save any con- siderable portion of the books, which, independ- enyof the associations connected with many of them as gifts contributed to the city ufter the greut fire. hve # pecuniary value of over $100,- 0. A building or any combustible material may be exsily replaced, but a library destroyed is bard to replenish. Our Library is the pride of our city, the repusitory of -many rare, choice, and valuable works in history. poetry, scienco, and art, and their destruction could not be fully yalued in dollars and cents. Should the building in which the Library is lucated be destroyed, the indifference of the authorities would be con- demned in unmeasured terms. While it is yet time to provide aguinst contingencies, I would sumyest to your honorable body that some safer and better location be secured. All tuis is entirely true, and it is a re proach to the City Government that it is true. The fact—criminal fact—is due to the action of the city authorities, and’ the continuance of the matter, as described by the Mayor, is also due to tne neglect of the city authorities. After the great fire, and the establishment of the Public Library, there was a general desire to provide a suitable and permanent building for it, The old Post-Otfice and Custom-House site was considered as the best location in the city for the purpose. 1 was understood that that site would be altogether too small for such new building as the Government might want, and, being no longer needed by the United States, it was deemed advisable to procure it, if possible, for our Public Li- brary. i For this purpose an appeal was made to Congress by the city authorities, and, in con- sideration of the condition of the city at that time, Congress directed an exchange of that lot for an unimproved lot owned by the city on the river. When this legislation had been matured it was discovered that,the lot on the tiver having been school property, the Board of Education claimed the deed from the Gov- ernment to the old Post-Office lot. The Board of Education persisted in the claim, refused to allow the property to be used for public library purposes, and, having ‘no money at the time to improve the lot, sat down, after the fashion of the dog.in the manger, unable to use the lot for school pur- poses and refusing to allow it to be used for library purposes. The result has been that the Public Library has had to lease quarters in private buildings, paying high rents there- for, while the Board of Education, after leaving the old Post-Office build- ing idle for some years, found a ten- ant, who, in consideration of a cheap rent, patched up the old building, and has been and is now using it fora theatre, The lot was obtained from Congress upon the ex- Press promise that it was to be devoted to the uses of a public library; and had it not been the understanding that it was to be de- voted tu-that public purpose Congress would not have even listened to the proposition for an exchange of lots. ‘The Board of Education acted unreasona- bly in the matter. It is true the lot was technically “school property,” but it was nevertheless public property, and the library is an important partof the educational system of Chivago, and is supported and patronized by the same taxpayers who support the schools. ‘The exclusionof the Pablic Library from that lot has cost the city for rent of other premises perhaps more than the amount the School Fund has ever realized from it. The suggestion was made that the building would be large enough: to furnish the Library sufficient room and leave enough space for suitable offices for the Board of Education, and thus stop therent the Board is paying for hired quarters; but the high und lordly Board at the tine scouted any partnership occupation, so the public has ever since been taxed to pay rent for the Library rooms, and also to pay rent for the extensive rooms of the Board of Education. This is a clear il- Justration of the abomination of “ Board” government,—a minor departmentsetting up an inuependent proprietorship of public property, and compelling the. whole city to submit to its irresponsible and stupid dicta- tion. The Board of Education still exists, but its membership has changed, and we suggest to Mayor Harrison that he wrestle with that Board on the subject. Let him ascertain when the present lease of the theatre ex- pires, and on what terins that ~ ard will al. low the building to be used permanently by the Public Library. We concede it is master of the situation. Thdéugh he is Mayor of the whole city, his authority does not in- clude the Board of Edjication, except to ap- point its members. ere may, however, be some members of that Board reasonable enough to comprehehd that the use of the building for a public’ library will contribute as much to general instruction and education as its use by a theatre} that the Library is in daily danger of being destroyed and lost, and thata nominal rent from the Library will satisfy the demands of the law, and at the same time relievethe Public Library and the city from a present heavy charge for rent. That building, with reasonable annual e: penses, could be readily adapted to the uses ofa public library; it would answer all the purposes and meet the wants of the public for twenty-five years to come; Its location is the most central that could be found, and every consideration of public convenience, Justice, and propriety suggests that the prop- erty asked ot Congtess for the Library, granted by Congress for the Library, and grabbed by the Buard of Eduvation from the + Library, should be now devoted to the uses of the Library. If the building is not at the disposal of the Board, that body may now take such action as will give assurance that it will be given to the Library atthe termina- tion of the present lease THE CINCINNATI FESTIVAL, 3 The great event to which musicians and the musieal people of this country will look with interest this week is the fourth bien- nial Festival at Cincinnati, which opens on Tuesday and closes with an extra concert complimentary to Miss Annie Louise Cary on Saturday, before leaving for Europe shortly to fulfill her operatic engagements with Mr. Mapleson. In all its features the Festival promises to eclipse its predecessors, brilliant as they were. The chorus will nuuuber 600 voices, which is about the size of the previous choruses, and presumably the material is about the same, though we may expect better work from it, as Mr. Thomas has been on the ground continuously, and with the works of the fathers of music, Bach, Mozart, and Handel, represented in their order by the Cantata Burg,” which Mr. Thomas has adapted for performance; by the C major symphony, popularly known as the “Jupiter”; and by the great “Jubilate” which Hande! wrote upon the command of Queen Anne to cele- ebrate the Peace of Utrecht. The second Program will contain but two numbers,—the Schumann D minor symphony and the great and majestic Second Mass in D major of Beethoven, to hear which is the musical event of a lifetime. Dudley Buck’s prize-composition, from Longfellow’s ‘Golden Legend,’” the colossal overture to Berlioz’s “King Lear,” and two scenes from ‘‘The Gotterdimmer- ung,” the third act of Wagner’s famous Trilogy, will be performed. cert is termed a ‘Beethoven night,”—a species of nomenclature first employed by Mr. Thomas in Chicago, when his Bee- thoven and Wagner nights were so famous. the always a popular one, a repetition of the Mass, and will close with one of the series of four “Coronation Anthems” of Handel, called “Zadok, the Priest.” purely business part of the Festival is con- cerned, that also is beyond doubt of success, as the receipts from the sale of seats have al- ready exceeded the expenses, so that the Festival will result in a handsome profit to the Ass city in the increased trade it will bring from the crowds of people who will attend. “Ein Feste At the third concert “Scenes The last con- The program will include Fifth Symphony of Beethoven, So far as the ‘iation and to the merchants of the Chicago will be represented on this oc- easion by a very large delegation of our musical people, question why we cannot have a musical fesil- and this again brings up the We have the hall and we have the singers. It is just as easy to bring solvists and an orchestra to Chicago as to Cincinnati. It will be easier in the future for Chi- cago than for Cinciunati to secure the serv- ices of Mi goes to Cincinnati a dozen would come here. The only thing that stands in the way is the business management. In every other musical particular except that of great festi- vals, Chicago is in advance of Cincinnati. What we need is an organization of shrewd, enterprising, energetic, men to forma Board of business manage- ment and handle the business details, like the Cincinnati Festival Association, which is composed of business-men who are willing togive their ting matter. case, it can be made a matter of profit in -dollars and cents. sidering ? ‘THE CLERICAL QUESTION IN FRANCE. For one person who . Thomas. wealthy business- and their energy to the Leaving aside the esthetics of the Is it not worth con- The National Quarterly Review for April contains a very powerful article on the clerical question in France, contributed by 2 French writer who is evidently thoroughly acquainted with his subject and handles it in a masterly way. The article is the first of aseries, thus showing that he proposes to treat the question in an exhaustive manner; but it is sufficiently comprehensive to in- dicate already that the passage of the Educa- tional bill is but un incident of the struggle, and that the real issue involved is the old- time contest between Republicanism and Ultramontanism. To present even an ab- stract of such a closely-written and philo- sophical paper is difficult in the space at our cominand, but we may succeed in sketching some of the more salient points. At the outset he lays down the broad gen- eral position that this struggle has been re- newed again in France because the clergy have been allowed to increase their influence until the harmonious working of republican- ism had become almost an impossibility, and because, while the Church and despotic gov- ernments can work amicably together, being closely related, democracy and moral despot- ism cannot be long at peace, having no com- mon basis of agreement. In France the hos- tilities were opened by the clergy, as the law passed by the Chambers regulating public in- struction does not interfere with concessions previously made to the clergy, nor does it introduce a single new principle or disposi- tion into French public law. “It does strictly nothing else but to reassert those principles and dispositions of the public law of France which were violated for party purposes in 1850 and 1875 to please the clergy.” And again: ‘It is not a simple privilege which is withdrawn by Govern- ment, but a real abuse of the law, which must be stopped. The enormous multiplica- tion of religious congregations under the Empire had become at the same time a great evil and an abuse; and it is perfectly absurd lo say that a government should not inter- fere with abuses because introduced by the clergy.” In answer to the argument so often made that the teaching of children belongs to those who can give guarantees of morality and ability, and that itis a violation of their liberty to prevent the clergy from opening educa- tional institutions, he shows that the clergy are not prevented from having such institu- tions and that they possess many of them. ‘The object of the law was to prevent Jesuits and others never incorporated by law from forming educational associations, as it isa well-known principle in law that all associa- tions must derive their legal existence by in- corporation under the law of the land, At the time of the passage of this law there were more than 25,000 persons organized into es- tablishments in France without a legal ence. How they have succeeded in thriving and acquiring wealth is shown by the follow- has thus been able to devote himself to his work without iuterruption. that he has been more exacting in his re- hearsals than ever before, apd that his singers have not failed to respond to his demands, however rigid they were. orchestral force, numbering 155 pieces, the basis of which is the New York Philhar- monic Orchestra, with reinforcements from is not only the best but the largest body of players ever assembled on any similar occa- 0 this point there can be no question, and those who attend pleasure of hearing better playing than they have ever heard before, or possibly may evér hearagain. ‘The solo talent has been very judiciously selected, and with special refer- ence to the works on the programs. It in- eludes Miss Amy Sherwin, soprano, who has already been heard in this city, and who has Sung with Mr. Thomas in heavy works in New York; Miss Annie B. Norton, a very bromising young singer of Cincinnati anda pupil of the college in that city, soprano: Miss Annie Louise Cary,.alto, whose name is a household word in this country; Miss Emma B. Cranch, of Cincinnati, alto, a very accomplished artist; Signor Campanini, un- questionably the greatest of living tenors; Mr. Harvey, an English tenor, of whom rumor speaks well, but who has yet his rep- utation to make; Mr. J. F. Rudolphsen, basso, a teacher in the Musical College in Cincinnati; and Mr. M. D. Whitney, basso, whose presence Is indispensable in any large musical festival. The programs are con- structed with that rare degree of skill and consistency that always characterizes Mr. Thomas, and for the evening concerts include only large works,—the matinée programs, three in number, being composed of smaller and what may be termed as “popular” works, The Festival will appropriately open It is no secret His that has have the rare ing illustration: ‘Two yours ago. in one of the central depart- ments of France. a congregution of nuns wasask- ing for an additional allocation from the muni- cipality of the city where it had its seat. for the muintenance of an asylum. As ustial, it repre- sented how poor it was and how impossible it would be tor such a poor congregation to main- {uin the asylum without the help demanded. Some dificulties having arisen between the municipality and the couvent before the ulloca- ton was: voted, a member proposed to bave an inquiry made into the jpecuoiary. condition of the convent, and it was discovered that the poor congregution so earnestly soliciting help was actually possessed of property in two ur three adjoining departments representing a little over cleven millions of francs! What is true of that particutar institution would undoubtedly Prove truce with almost allof them. The une hundred and sixty religious congregations of Belgium, owning ‘between. them nearly four thousund institutions, ‘have amassed property, since the revolution of 1330, amounting io about two hundred and fifty millions. The re- ligious congregations of Frunce would, un- doubtedly, more than quintuple that amount. The clergy took advantage of the weak- ness of the tottering Empire to place them- selves above the law, and now that a strong Government has come into power it resists it, first, because such a Government will not tolerate violation of law, and second, because the future of the Republic lies in the direc- tion of its control of education. Under the Church, education is hostile to the Govern- ment. Children are taught to hate liberal- ism and to refuse obedience to their parents if they do not agree with the political beliefs of the Professor. “Young men are taught in the higher classes that the principle of. the sovereignty of the people is both ‘an im- piety and an absurdity’; that the sole ‘fount- ain of truth,’ even social and Political, in this world, is the Pope; that no law is bind- ing upon the conscience of Catholics unless approved by him.” To show how ab- surd is the charge that the object of the new Iaw is to prevent Catho- lics from educating their children in religious institutions he produces Statistics proving that after al! the unauthorized con- gregations are closed there will still remain 600 educational institutions and 900 congrera- tions of women with 3,200 educational insti- tutions, besides eight universities and ninety episcopal seminaries under the control of the Church. , The real cause of the anger against the billis that the Jesuit colleges will have to pass into other religiouskeeping. At one time this would not have excited -comment, but now the Church in France, according to this writer, has been Ultramontanized, and to touch the Jesuits is to touch the Church. He draws the following strong picture of the relations between the two: Ultramontanism fs the Prince, and Jesuitism the Minister. Ultramontanism is the institu- tion, and Jesititism the secret machinery through which it is spread,worked, and managed atl ov the world. Ultramontantsm is the very essence of theocracy, and Jesuitism is moral bondage carried to perfection. This is the reason why Ultramontanism looks upon Jesuitism as its most precious jewel, because it is its most powerful instrument’ of domination. Without the secret action of Jesuitism among the clerzy as well asamong the yreat body of Catholics, nutionul churches could never have been made to abdicate their autonomy into the hands of the Pope as they have done. The closing portion of this article is de- voted to astatement of the real situation in France as regards the workings of the clergy which will createastonishment. The Bench, the army, the public officers, and the colleges of the State are filled with the tools of the clergy, whose energies are devoted to an at- tempt to paralyze the efforts of the republic- an Government. An actual ring has been formed between the clergy and nobility and influential Catholics, which has succeeded in getting an immense number of its protégés in every department of the Administration, and even in having them appointed in pref- erence to those who have not received a cler- ichl education. Some time since it was found that the’ Chaplains of regiments had organ- ized a religious association called the Le- gion de St. Maurice, which was to be relied upon in case of a coup d’etat, and when its dissolution was ordered by the Minister of War it reappeared under the name of Notre Dame des Soldats, whose ostensible object ‘is to put the soldiers under the pro- tection of the most holy Virgin and to pre- serve their faith and morals. But its mem- bers were lately asked in a most pathetic sermon to join with the defenders of la bonne cause against the ‘atheistic? law regulating the system of education.” In the composition of the Bench he claims that the Catholic ascendency has grown into a public calamity, and that “avery large number of judicial decisions within the last four years, but mainly under the publicly disgraced Ministry of the 16th of May, 1876, have been perfectly scandalous,—all principles of law, justice, and common fairness being set aside whenever clerical or monarchical ambition and interests were at stake.” In conclusion this writer asserts what any candid person will admit, that it is the duty of arepublican Government to organize its system of public instruction in such a way as to bring those who do not entertain the same religious opinions as nearly together as possible. And he ends his paper with the following strong declaration of the views of the Government: The French Government had no other views but these when proposing the present lnw to the Chambers; and jn dispensing with the unauthor- ized congregations as teachers of children, it is only dispensing with the enemies of union among men of dilferent creeds. It is itsduty as well ng its right to do this. It is only applying the old doctrines of the Gallican Church, which admitted the supremacy of the civil power over the social status of religious corporations. No doubt the old “liberties of the Gullicun Church” were destroyed by the invasion of Ultramontan- ism; but they were the real foundation of the Concordat, which maintained the tull independ- ence of the civil power. Those liberties also atfrmed the subordination of the Pope to the Council. The Bishops have beea prevailed upon to commit that great prevaricution of making the Church the servant of the Pope,—as was claimed by Cardinal Cajetano, —but that was uo reason why the Government should do away with principles whose abandonment would at once nilow the Papacy to become an actual the- oeracy. The Bishops, like Esau, have sold their birthright. Governments will not imitate them, but will prove more fuithful to tueir duties. he statements of this writer present the subject in a different light from what it has appeared in heretofore. From his point of view it isnot so much an attack upon the Jesuits as it is a protest aginst Ultramon- tanism, its violation of law, and its interfer- ence with the Government; and the facts and citations which he brings forward will go far to confirm those statements and to arouse sympathy with the Government in its strug- gle with Rome. ASTRONOMICAL.’ Chicago (TrrBuse office), north latitude 41 deg. 52m. 573.; west longitude, 42m. 18s. from Wash- ington, and 5h. 60m. 30s. from Greenwich. The subjoined table shows the time of set- ting of the moon's lowerlimb, and the official time for lighting the first street-lamp in each cir- cuit in this city, during the coming week, unless ordered sooncr on account of bad weather. Also the following times for extinguishing the first lamp: Friday. Saturday... i May 23...... 358th ‘The moon will be in her first quarter Monday at 4:33 a. m., atnearly heraverage distance from thecarth. The full moon, which falls during the night following next Sunday (May 23), will bo an unusuully brillitat one, the mown being then very nearly in Perigee. She will beneur Uranus to-morrow night. ‘The sun's upper limb rises Monday at 4:37% A. m.; souths at Uh. 56m. 13.58. a. m.; and sets at Th. 153m. p. m. The sun’s upper limb rises Friday at 4:33 a. m.; Souths at lh. 56m. 25.6s. a. m.; and seta at 7b, 1934m. p. m. Fioraa! time Thursday mean noon, 3h. 55m. O1.7is. Mercury now rises before the sun; at about 4 o'clock every morning of the coming week. He is slowly appronching superior conjunction, which will occur June 2. Venus is 2 morning star; also rising at very nearly 4 o’cluck each morning of the coming week. She is near Mercury. The two will be in geocentric conjunction the night of Wednesday. Mars is an evening atar, southing Thursday at 3:44 p. m. and setting at 11:17 p. m. He is now about equal in brightness to a star of the second magnitude, and slowly moving out of the con- stellution Gemini towards Caucer. Wednesday night be will be 5 degrees south from Pollux and only 1 degree 35 minutes south from Kappa Geminorum, a star of the fifth magnitude. Jupiter isa morning star, rising Thursday at about 2:30a.m. He iscntitled to be culled the morning stur, the others being too near the sun tobe prominent. It is uow possible tu watch the eclipses and occultations of nis satellites be- fore sunrise; but few landsmen cure to look for them at that time in the day (night). Saturn 1s ulsv west of the sun. He will rise Thursday at about 3:06 a.m. Hisring system is now widening out, and will be an interesting study through the telescope a little later in the year. Uranus ig an evening star; barely visible with the naked eye; but easily seen through ’an opera-glass; a little more than half a degree uortheust from rho Leonis. Neptune is an unimportant object just now, southing about an hour before the sun. x _————— Tue third-term bolters’ organ asks Mr. Willard Woodard whether he is “ready to hava the precedent established in Chicago that candi- dates shall not be represented in the State Con- vention according to their votes.” ~ Mr. Willard Woodard asks the organ why thi anti-third-term Republican yoters have ‘been deprived of representation in Jo Davicss and Stephenson Counties, where there was no bolt. —— We ask THe Tripune and Ji i question, and wait patiently for ae anes 2 it true, as you have stated, that the Grant men bave in no single instance &iven uny delegates to uny other candidates where they have con- trolled conventions? Let us have & Square un- swer, now, to that question.—Inter-Orean. We'll Spare yeur patience. It is true that In no county‘where the Grantites had full control asasmell of the beer-mug. It is also true that in one or two cases where local candidates for Governor ran the convention in their own ine terests they have seen fit, for policy sake, to? give the othor candidatessome of the delegation," but they have nut always even done this." Tho returns show that in fifty-one counties where the Grantites got control of the conventions they seized the entire delegations, ‘They have played “hog” in every casé where it’ was in their power to do it, from La Salle, ” with sixteen “instructed” delegates, to Hamil. ton, with two. Where the Grantites wera in the minority they coaxed, honeytugied, “compromised,” “conciliated." and sneak. thiefed the other side out of a partof the dele gates. By these tricks and devices they huve { gouged the Blaine men out of some fifty dele- gates, and given nothing in return. Their game from beginning toeud has been one of fraud and deceit, In this anti-third-term county they tried to break up the Convention ina row, and { bolted becuuse the majority applied their own tule to them. a Amone the fifty-one county delegations grabbed solid for third term are the following: Christian 8 ; mgt H Stephenson. Winnebago 4 | Wi 12 La Saile. w { coon ‘Why should not the Grantites be required to! “conciliate” the antis in those counties, and ” turn over ubout forty of the delegates to Blaine and Washburne? There are vastly more anti. third-term Republican voters in those counties than there are of third-termers in Cook County, If there is to be compromise and the rule of pro» portion forced on Cook County, tet there be an * equal measure of compromising und pro-rating * exacted from those counties. No“ solid" Grant ‘ delegation in uny county has a right to vote for a “divide” of the Cook County delegation un- less they are willing to apply the sume rule t themselves. : Tne “spontaneity” of the thira-term movement in Cook County may be judged from, the fact that an avowed Grant ticket was mn at but one of the four primaries In North Chica- go, and it received just 66 votes to over 4 { against it. In.two wards there were two Wash- burne tickets running; and in one ward g , Blaine, a Washburne, and a nondescript ticket , with the numes of Grant men on it. The Grant ticket was run in the Eighteenth Ward. These four wards, in which an avowed Grant ticket received 66 votes, cast the following Repub- lican vote for Huyes in 1876: Ward. Fifteenth.. Sixteenth. 8. venteenth. zughteenth. Total... ..0.00+-2-00. eesesee. 2 voee D008: From these figures any man of sense may’ Judge how likely the third term would be to get aid or comfort from the Republicans of Cook County in November. : : Whew you hear a “third-termer” talking about wanting to “ compromise” and divide ths Cook County delegation with the Granites, just ask him how many of thesixteen delegates trom La Salle, or of the twelve from Will, of the seven from Jo Daviess, of the eight from Stephegson, of the eight from Morgan, of the eight from Macon, of the six from Chris- tian, of the eight from Vike, seven from Randolph, or of the eleven from Winnebago, making ninety-two, have the Granites given to ¢ Bluineor Washburne? Hereare ninety-two del- egutes, equaling the entire Cook County dele-* | gation, packed and Instructed for Grant. If [Cook County is asked to yield up one-third of ber representation to Grant let these counties turn over an equal number of their representae tion to Blaine and Washburne. What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. p $m Tue organ of the bolters asks members of the regularCouk County Convention whether they are “ prepared tosay that the voters for two candidates shall be represented at Spring field, while the supporters of a third shall be dis+ franchised.” The members of the regular Cook County Con- vention might ask the organ whether the voters for one candidate in La Salle, Will, Jo Daviess: ! and Winnebago Counties shall be represented at Springfield, while the supporters of another candidate shall be disfranchised. ~ a —$ OxE of our exchanges remarks of the cheeky demand of the Chicago third-term bolters: ig Strange this beautiful theory of “ giving each candidate his propurtionute share” of dele- gates did not impress the third-termers while they were making solid Grant delegations wherever they could, but should strike them a3 being so “fair and equitable" as svon us they found themselves snowed under in Cook. By the.way, ure the third-termers in favor of the abandonment of the unit rule in Pennsylvania * and New York? Mr. Kerru is asked by the bolters’ mouth- Piece if it is his idea of reform “to deprive his . fellow-citizens of Cook County of any expression in the Nominating Convention.” Mr. Keith asks the boiters’ mouthpiece if it is the third-term idea of reform “to deprive the anti-third-term fellow-citizens of Christian, De Witt, Douglas, and forty other counties of any expression in the Nominating Convention.” Tre question is, says the bolters’ organs “Are the meu [in Cook County] who voted ¢ for Grant entitled to have their votes fairly counted?” The question Is, answers the regular Conven- tion: “Are the mon in Macon, Morgan, ands score of other counties who voted uguinst Grant, { but did not bolt against a majority, entitled to have their votes fuirly counted?” ——— “Let the men who are attempting to dis- | franchise one-hulf the [tepuulicans of Chicago be marked and remembered,” says the bolters” organ. “Let the men who are attempting to disfrane chise one-half the Republicans of one-half the counties in the State because they are op, toa third term be marked and remembered,” is tho obvious reply. aE ‘Tire contest should be settled and the vote of Couk County distributed on a fair and equit- uble basis, giving each candidate his proportion- ate share.—John C. New, Indianapolis Journal, And by the same rule should not the tifty-on6 solid Grant delegations of us many counties be distributed on a fair and equitable basis, giving each candidate his proportionate share? If not, why not? It is poor rule that only works 006, way. ——<——__ “Wuy should Blaine and Washburne be represented in Cook Couuty and Grant not? Ask the bulldozers that!"” Why should Grunt be represented in Du Pages Marion, Rundolph, Schuyler, Shelby, and other counties, and Blaine or Washburne not? Ask the third-term bulldozers that! a “No honest Republican can afford to deny bis associates fuir play,” says the bulters’ orgale Is that intended as a reflection upon the third- termers in counties where they have disfran- chised the anti-third-termers? No expry talk now about “disfranchise- ment.” The bolters ‘“disfrunchised” them- selves by running away, without a cause, from the only body that was authorized to give them representation in Springfield. —<——————$__— “ Iv we can’t represent the anti-third-term districts as well as our own,” says tue G men, “we will bolt the ticket!” Is bolting on such grounds to be rewarded by the Springileld Convention? — ‘THE Palmer House bolters ask the State Convention to go bebind their own returns and their own credenti:ls and give them votes which they did not cust and could not obtain for the third term. i ————— Tne talk about “disfranchising” the “re- lays” of Grantite Democrats is bosh.—the third-termers propose to disfranchise the Repud~ licans of Cook County in a Republicun Stata Convention. * So Wuex Long Jones & Co. whine about bulldozing, a host of witnesses rise up against them in every cuunty of this State. Me. Lowe is credited with a new sarcasm. When some one remarked to him that history meyer knew of such promotion as Montagy .