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GLASGOW, Scotland—Allan's American News Agency. 31 Renfleld-at. LONDON, Eng.—American Exchange, 49 Btrand. Besry F. Gitta, Agent. WASHINGTON. c. F street. SOCIETY MEETINGS. APOLLO COMMANDER’ . 1, KT.— Special Con- clave ‘Tuesday evening. June 15, 38%, at 1:3) o'clock. ‘Whe Order of the’ ‘Temple will be conferred. Stated Conclave same evening at 8 o'clock. Visiting Sir Kalshts are always welcome. Company 2 will mect for rill Monday evening, June Ii, 15%), it 7:30 o'clock. ny No. will meet for drill Wednesday even- ‘Compai ing Bt 8 o'clock sharp. ‘By order of the Eminent Com- sg HS, TIFFANY, Reorder. CORINTHIAN CHAPTER, NO.(, H, A. M.—Stated Convocation Monday evening. June 14, at $ o'clock, for business and work on the SL M., 2. M., and Sf. B. Be, Destece. ‘Visiting Companions are conrieousiy tn- order 0 7 oniet CROBERT MALCOM, AL E. IL P. JOBN 0. DICKENSON, Sceretary. LINCOLN PARE CHAPTER. No. 17, R. A. M.— ali corner North Clark and Centre-sta. ‘Special Con- ‘vocation Monday evening, June 14, atSo'clock. Work onthe R.A. Degree. Visiting Companions tnylted. ~ THOS. CHOMLISH, H. PL ~ Hi, 8. BTREAT, Secrotary. LA FAYETTE CHAPTER NO. 2 R.A. M.—Hall, Fi Monrve-et, Stated vonvocation Monday evening, Jane 14. a8 o'clock, Visiting Companions always wei- come. By order of ‘WM. K, FORSYTH, M. E. IL P. WM. J. BRYAN, Secretary. ORIENTAL LODGE, NO. BA. F. & A. M.—Iter- lar Communication wil! be bell Friday evening, June 3s at 7:30 o'clock, at ball 1% 1.0 Salle-sc. By order WM. GARDNER, W. X. CHARLES CATLIN. Secretary. CHICAGO CHAPTER, NO. 127, R. A. M—Hiatl 134 Twenty-second-st. Special Convocation Monday evening at 8 o'clock for work on the Mark and Past Deerecs iplning comnanigns cordially invited. order 0! : i ELI SMITH, Secretary. LADY WASHINGTON CHAPTER, No. %, 0. E. S., ‘will give their Annual Picnic ut River Grove, Thurs- day, June 17. Cars icare Northwestern Depot, corner of Canal and Kinzin-sts..at$ o'clock nom. Hy order of, NETTIE B. CAMPBELL, W. M. - KATE CREED, Secretary. A.& A. SCOTTISA RITF MASONS.—There will ben. xerular Assembly of Van Rensselaer Grand Lode of Rertection. ‘und Gourzas Chapter of Rose Croix, =, On Thursday evening next By order. 7 $b. GUUDALE, Grand Secretary. ino 1A, at Visiting Sir od. | By order, Calik, Commander. D.C.CREGIER LODGE, NO. 68, A. F.and A. M.— Recular, Communication Wednesday evening. June 14 ut Ro'cines sharp, for work. Visiting brethren cor- diully invited. By order ENIY J.D, WODRICH, Acting W. SL. SOMN GINOCHIO, Secretury. CHICAGO COMMANDERY. NO. 19, K.T.—Special Conclave Monday evening, June 14, 16, at 7:3) o'clock, Work on the K. er. Visiting Sir Knights wel- come. By order of the Eminent Commander. HILAM T. SACOBS, Itocorder. SUNDAY, JUNE 18, 1880. Tue Emperor of Germany will commence hisannual ‘tour through his dominions on the Tith. ‘Tus thermometer stood 96 in the shade at Peoria yesterday. One fatal case of sunstroke is reported from that cit SEVERAL persons were prostrated in this city yesterday forenoon by the oppressive heat. ‘The thermometer reached § at noon, Tue President sent the nomination of John Nazro as Collector of Customs for the ‘Milwaukee District to the Senate yesterday. Dr. Aupricn, of Allentown, Pa., was shot at, but not seriously wounded, last evening by his wife, who then fatally shot herself. Jealousy was the cause. Tris believed that the French Government will proclaim an amnesty to all political offend- ers on the lith of July, the anniversary of the ftorming of the Bastile. Tae French Council of State has decided against the claims of the Communist Humbert, ‘who bus petitioned fur che seat in the Municipal Council of Paris to which he was elected. Petenrspune, V., was visited by acyclone yesterday, which leveled the fences, crops, and many barns and outbuildings, and unroofed sev- eral houses and factories. lives were lost. Bayanp’s Marshals bill came up for dis-- cussion in the Senate yesterday, and would probably have passed but that Senator Hoar objected, and his objection carried it over under the rule. A younG man named Moss was killed by lightning at Grand Rapids Township, La Sallo County, in this State, Friday evening. Moss was plowing corn in his father's field when the sad accident occurred. AGRAnD Rapips hotel was destroyed by fire yesterday morning. A beam from the burn- ing building fell and struck H. I1.Compton, a prominent business man of the town, and it is feared that he will not survive the accident. ‘Tre Senate yesterday increased the House appropriation of $100,000 fur the completion of the Chicago Custom-House to $135.00. The 25,000 additional is to be upplied to completing the approaches and for grading and paving the sidewalks, ete. Gusrave Cotnnet, who instizated the Pullmg down of the Column Vendéme during the Communist outbreak in 1871, was fined 300,- 08 francs, bemdes being imprisoned for his part in tho transaction. His sister, who is his sole heir, bus petitior fora reduction of the fine, Gneaz excitement prevails in the London money market on account of the failure, for large sums of money, of two brokers doing business on the Stock Exchange. One of the pirties was adenler in Americun railway securi- ties, Alarge tea-house failed in Loudon, also, for the handsome eum of £350,000. Tr fs stated in Washington that Secretary Sherman will try to prooure the removal of those Treasury Officials whd antagonized his ,candidature or gave him but a half-hearted support. Among the possible victims are Green B. Raum, Commissioner -of Internal Revenue, and Collector Tbhymas, of Baltimore. itis further asserted that Fulton, the Philadel- Puia Collector, was made to give way to ex- Gov. Hartran{t because he was not loyal to John Sherman. Tue wind and rain storm of’ Friday morn- ing seems to have extended all over Eastern and Southern Minuesota. Northern Iowa, and West- ern Wisconsin. All the villares slong the Mis- siesippi River from St. Paul to Winona were flooded, and much damage was done the prop- erty, of the merchants ut these places, The _freshets swept away fourteen bridges on the Winona & St. Paul Railroad, and trains will not beable to pass over the truck for some time in | consequence, Great damage was done to farm Property, and the overflow of the Wolf River did much injury in the Wisconsin lumber region. The number of persons killed during the storm, 45 fur as ascortained. is six. Ir is believed in New York that Tilden will do bis utmost to defeat the nominee of the ‘Democratic party in November unless he him- selr is the nominee, or is allowed to name the man. It is sald that Payne has becn discarded by Tilden, who has taken up McClellan, ..THE Chippewa River in Wisconsin was six- teen feet above high-water mark yesterday morning, and 200,000,000 fect. of logs, jammed above Chippewa Falls, have been swept down the riveras far as the Dells dam, near Eau Claire. It is feared that this dam will give way, and the entire tot of timber be swept into the Mississippi River, : ‘Tie Seminole and Creek Indians are con- siderably excited over the belief that their cat- tle and swine are being bewitched, and are look- ing about in every direction for the witches. The Seminoles have tried and condemned a negress for practicing the dark art, and but for the intervention of the United States Marshal would have hanged her. ‘THe recent rain-storm, though doingmuch injury to property along the Minnesota rivers, has greatly benefited the crops in that State and Dakota. The weather for a considerable time previously had been very warm, and the ground wns parched, and the grain crops were by no means vigorous. Since the rainfall there is every Prospect of an abundant harvest. ‘Tne inhabitants of one of the townships of Essex County, Ontario, became so angered at the presence in their midst of a colored man and white woman who, though not married, lnved together ashusband and wife, that a few evenings ago party of them broke into tho house in which the guilty pair lived and horribly mutilated the unfortunate wretches, Tue Bercg, a Russian semi-official organ, Snys that the purposes and aims of the Rus- sian Jewish Socialists are to destroy the Impe- rial Government, inasmuch as they think there is no chance of reforming it. Not being pow- erful enough at present, the Bereg says that the Nihilists are now spreading their doctrines and organization, so as to be prepared for de- cisive action. ——— Tose Democrats who fondly imagine that Tilden is out of the Presidential race will doubtless change their,opinion on hearing that his house at Grameity Park has, during tho past week, been a rendezvous for such political Ughts as Abe Hewitt, ex-Senator Barnum, Mayor Prince of Boston, John G. Priest of St. Louis, and several other wirepullers of tho party. ——— THE Mississippi River continues to rise, and was last evening within five inches of tho highest point ever known. A large number of ice-houses along the banks of the river have been swept away, and it is estimated that 60,000 tons of ice have thus been lost. The “ loggers” doing business along the tributaries of the river are large sufferers. Also, many bridges have been swept aw: Tne latest reports from the Oregon election indicate that the Senate will stand seventeen Republicans to four Democrats, and the House thirty-nine Republicans to twenty- three Democrats. As the Senators. elected this year will hold over, it looks as if “Gobble” Grover would be retired to private life in 1882 in orderto make way for a Republican United States Senator. Ar3o’clock yesterday afternoon a tank of distillate exploded with terrible force; and the fire consequent thereon endangers the lower part of Titusville. The wind, too, bas taken an unfa- vorable change, three uther oil-tanks are in dan- ger of taking fira, the tiremen are completely ex- hausted, and the whole town is in great peril. ‘Tho hent is intenso and the smoke so dense that it Isdificult for personsto iend much aid in checking the flames. ———— GEN. Anrnur was serenaded last night by tho Young Men's Republican Club of New York. Much enthusiasm prevailed. Gen. Arthur re~ sponded in a happy specch. Congratulatory ad- adresses were delivered by the Hon. Chauncey M. Depew, Gen. Anson G. McCook, Gen. H. A. Bar- num, and others. A ratification meeting, under the nuspices of the Young Men's Club, was also held in the Cooper Union, which was addressed by Judge Choate and the Rev. Dr. Howard Cros- by. Among those present was the venerable Thurlow Weed. One thousand armed citizens of Leadville paraded the streets of that city yesterday to demonstrate to the striking miners that no more bulldozing or terrorism will be permitted. All Places of business were closed, and the citizens expregsed a determination to protect persons willing: to work at all hazards, and to make it exceedingly interesting for those who have so Jong dotied the law. In the afternoon Mooney, the leader of the strikers, was arrested by the Sheriff, and'no resistance was ufered. Fears of a collision between the citizens and strikers are entertained, —_—_— Tne Illinois Supreme Court rendered a de- cision yesterday in the case of the Illinois Cen- tral Railroad vs. The People, being an appea} case from the Douglas County Court, which held that the State Legislature had a right to pass laws to prevent extortionate passenger and freight rates, and sustaining the Railroad act of 1873. The Supreme Court affirmed the opinion of the lower Court, but Judge Dickey, who, curi- ously enough, wrote the decision, disagrees with the majority of his brother Judges. The decis- ion, as rendered by him, is obscure, and, to say the least, is one of the most novel which lawyers will have an opportunity to construc. Sr. Lous is nothing if not sensational. St. Louis has pretensions to society airs, and apes the manners and customs of the European aristocracy. Ata hurdie-race in a park near thateity yesterday, in which only gentlemen riders were allowed to participate, there were just three starters. At the first hurdie one of the young swell3 came to grief; at another hurdie a second swell was thrown head foremost over hishorse’s neck; and at the last the third gentleman’s horse turned hislegs skywards and fellon his rider, who narrowly escaped very serious injury. The three gentlemen riders, whomay be taken as fair specimens of St. Louis gentlemen ‘horsemen, it is to be presumed, then wrangled over who should have the largest share of the prize-money. Ex-Gov. SerMocr sent a telegram toa Prominent Democrat at Washington yesterday which has cast great gloom over his party. The Democratic wirepullers have been making ar- rangements to Insure Seymour's nomination at Cincinnati by an all but unanimous vote. Hen- dricks was to be given seoond place so as to se- cure Indiana, Now comes Seymour and declines. The party isin a quandury. Tildea 1s not yet out of the race. The New York sVorld, which hitherto has strongly urged tho nomination of Bayard, bas changed its tactics and wants Judge Field nominated, and Bayard stock hns conse- quently depreciated. Fleld’s strenzth, it fs said, will go to Tilden in case the Judge himself can- notsecure the nomination. The brethren are in trouble, and they have not yet discovered the Way out. ‘i —_=__ Tue long lull in disasters to human life is atlust broken by an appalling catastrophe on Long Island Sound. The two large and elegant Sound steamers, the Stonington and Narragan- sett, crowded with passengers en route for their summer enjorments, collided off the Connecti- cut River, the former striking the latter amid- ships. Fire added its horrors to the scene, and the Narragansett soon sank. She had 300 passen- gers on board, who rushed from their berths on deck and flung themselves overboard to escape the fire. The Stonington’s life-boats were low- ered, but, as usual, only after long delay. The steamers New York and Providence also came to the rescue and lowered their boats. It is known that some 200 were picked up. ahd it is hoped that others may have been saved, but at the present writing it would scem that nearly a hundred lives have deen lost. The weather was very thick when the collision occurred, and there was no intimation of the catastrophe until one boat had struck the other. At present writing it does not seem that any one was to blame: but this dees not lessen the horror of the occurr7nce. But for the furtunate appearance of the other Steamers, guided by the light of the burning Narragansett, the disaster would have been still more dreadful. Asa rule, however, the nights on the Sound are very forzy and the sailing of boats very reckless, as many can testify who have traveled that treacherous route. The cir- cumstances, "it least, warrant a most searching investigation. ——— ATIONRIBLE tragedy took place one day last week about eleven miles east of Indianapo- lla, the victims being John Williams, a colored farmer, and bis wife. Williams was killed, but the wife still lives, though {n a precarious and unconscious state. The circumstances con- nected with the outrage hardly give a clow as to the perpetrators. The woman was first dis- covered in her cabin bleeding from several dan- gerous wounds and bruises, and from the an- swers given to questions addressed to her it was thought “her husband had committed the deed; but the discovery of Wiliams’ dead body about a mile from the, house with the head crushed in a shapeless mass, and In such @ way that suicide was out of the question, dispelled this idea, Some trouble existed between the unfortunate couple and a colored neighbor named McClure, und suspiciou points to Me- Clure’s son as tho murderer. ——e A BEFORM IN POLITICAL CAMPAIGNING. itis probable that Gen. Garficld’s speech in which he presented the name of Secretary Sherman to the Chicago Convention will pass into the permanent political literature of this country. It was the effort of a calm and dis~ interested statesman, appealing to the better judgment of men who seemed to be carried away by the enthusiasm of the moment. It may be regarded as prophetic in view of the Convention’s ultimate choice. Itshould be accepted as an outlineof the campaign which Gen. Garfield would have made In behalf of his friend, and it sould be followed in the same spirit by his own friends in making a campaign forhim. Perhaps the most mem- orable passage in that speech is the follow- ing: . Not here, in this brilliant circle whero. 15,000 men and women are ussembled, is the destiny of the Republic to be decreed. Not here, where 1 see the enthusiastic firces of 156 delegates wait- ing to cast their votes into the urn and deter- mine the choice of their party; but by 5,000,000 Republican firesides, whero ‘the thoughtful fathers, with wives and children about them, with the calm thoughts inspired by love of huine and love of country, with the history of the past, the hopes of the future, and the knowledge of the great men who. have adorned und blessed our Nution in days gene by,—there God pre~ ares the verdict that shall determing tho wis- jom of our work to-night. Not in Chicago, in the heat of June, but in the sobor quict that comes between now and November, in the silence of deliberate judgment, will this great question be settled. Now that the heat of excitement in the Convention has been changed into the caloric of the atmosphere which cannot be escaped, political excitants should be avoided and the people should be encouraged by newspapers and leaders to make the campaign with cool, sober deliberation becoming the choice of a Chief Magistrate by a great Republic. It will bea blessing to this country scarcely second to the election of Gen. Garfield if that election can be brought about without a cam- paign of slander and a tournament of noise. The Republican candidate fs a publicist of just the character to appeal to the unimpas- sfoned judgment of a people who seek to place the Government in charge of a safe man. He has never been identified with the managing and intriguing politicians. He has never aspired to “boss” any State or National Convention, nor to whip in any un- willing constituency to his dictation. Ie has been and is a student,—a student in politics, in literature, in religion, in science, and in sociology. It has been his life-long habit to retire to his family and to his closet when his public duties had been discharged. Uis public speeches have always contributed valuable informationto anysubject under dis- cussion, and they have been singularly and without exception free from personal reflec- tionsupon hisopponents. Hehasneversought for unworthy motives among those who dif- feted with him. Ho has been as charitable towards others as Ne hasbeen frank and open in his own views and utterances. Such a man ought to inspire even his opponents with an ambition to treat him fairly, and to beat him, if they can, on the principles he advocates, and not by slander and abuse. It seems to be assumed that a nomination for any office, but especially for the highest office in the land, is suflicient provocation and sufficient excuse for leveling at the nominee all the offensive epithets of political slang, and for charging upon him all the iniquities that are possible to a public career. On the day after Gen. Garfield’s nomination the New York Graphic, an independent paper, forecast in the following words the probable repetition of the usual vitupcration of partisan opposition: Mr. Garfield will, of course, from this time until November be a target ut which will bo almed innumerable shafts. He will be assuiled tor offenses of which he is innocent; he will be accused of crimes of which he knows nothing; he will be denounced ns one not only not fit to govern, but not fit to live. But this torrent of vilification, which has already began to flow, will be of no avail. Mr. Garlicld is a pure man: an excellent patriot; a sagucious statesman; o practical man of affairs, and one who, like Abra- im Lincoln, owes his present commanding position tohis own unaided efforts. The canal oy of Obio will be as popular as the rail-splitter of Illinois, and will probably make os good a President. But what sense or reason fs there In this sort of cainpaigning, after all? ‘fhere is not an intelligent Demecrat in the country who will not candidly admit to himself the belief that Gen. Garfield is as pure a man as there is to-day in public life. He has always shown himself responsive to public sentiment, and the intimation that he has at any time nade a mistake has always been followed by a readi- ness to look the matter squarely in the face and rectify any error that he could be shown. to have made. Ina public career of twenty years he has remained a poor man. Mis plain tastes, studious habits, and unpre- tentious family surroundings have aided him in the avoidance of all intrigue for money or place which he has been naturally inelined to avoid. Following immediately upon his unexpected nomination for the high one of President, he returned to the obscure College where he had once been an in- structor, took part in its Commence ment exercises, and conducted himself as unconstrainedly, joyously, and boyishly as if presiding at the Alumni meeting were the most distinguished honor he had ever enjoyed or ever expected to enjoy. There has been and is no harm in sucha man, and the dignity of the position for which he is a candidate at the solicitation of his party, and not by his own efforts, ought to protect him against vilification and abuse. ‘The tendency of the newspaper press and Politicians to run into slander during a Na- tional campaign has been well illustrated in this city by the Chicago Times. That journal, boasting of independence, started out by deprecating such a campaign in the follow- ing language: ‘There are some indications of a disposition among the oppouents of Mr. Garfleld to make the pending Presidential contest a cumpriga of mud-throwing. [tis a confession of the weak- ness of a cause, or the Inck of a cause, when the disputants on eithor side descend to the low practice of hurling personal epithets and n¢- cusations against their adversary. The Times eurnestly deprecates such conttuct. Itis adegra- dation of journalism, disgraceful to journals and writers that engage init. Itis a belittling of the proper dignity of politics and politicians. Itisamurk of ignorance, low -breeding, and luck of respectable intellectual endowments. There is no reason in an epithet; no ai ment in un assault upon personal character; no sense inany sort-of dirt-throwiog. It is time that Amuericans engnged in the vocation of political teachers ahould try to’reforin this bad habit of dishonoring an honorable pursuit. The above paragraph was timely and in the proper spirit. But the very Democratic journal which printed these words followed them up by rehashing the one or two ex- ploded charges that were brought against Gen. Garfield years azo, and presenting ther to its readers ina shape which concealed the fact that no substance was found in them upon mature investigation. There was an evident disposition to treat Gen. Garfield with the consideration and decency which his long public career and clean record should assure to him, but the force of habit was so strong that the old and disgusting methods of misrepresentation and slander were re- yived for partisan and sensational purposes. Gen. Garfield will live and triumph over all the abuse that may be poured out upon him, There 1s no public manin America better prepared to stand in that “ fierce light that beats against the throne,” to which he referred in his speech advocating another’s claims. His election or his defeat will be governed by conditions entirely independent of personal injustice. But it would be a boon to the public, an encouragement to official honesty, and a signof progress among the American people, if the fishwife style of campaigning were abandoned. THE SALOON-LICENSE LAW. A petition numerously signed by most re- spectable citizens of Chicago was presented to the City Council on Friday night asking that the rate of safoon licenses be increased to $500 a year. Of course nothing will come of that petition, The request is unreason- able, and one which, even if granted by the Council, would fail in the execution. Nolaw ean be enforced whichis not sustained by the prevailing sentiment of the community in which it is enacted. It is impossible to execute a law against which public opinion protests. If the petitioners had taken a more prac- tical view of the case they would find less objection in the way of having the License law amended. There are two classes of saloons inthis city. (1) Those which sell beer and wine exclusively; and (2) those which sell alcholic beverages almostexclusively. All of these may under their present licenses sell both kinds of liquor. There js a wide differ- ence between the two classes of saloons, especially as to the effect upon consumers of the beverages they purchase. The quality of the article known as beer is generally good; the iaterials are pure, and the beer: produced, if not used in excess, is as harmless as anything that has ever becn invented as a popular beverage. It is so generally regarded in this light that its use in families and by peo- ple in delicate health has become almost universal. Its use as a substitute for alco- holic drinks is in the direction of temperance by the avoidance of intoxication. Drunken- ness, as 2 general thing, is the result of using alcohol: it rarely follows the exclusive nse of beer. On the other hand, the use of alco- hol leads to intoxication, with all its result- ing evils to body and mind and to the destruc- tion of health and fitness for business. To the extent that men are influenced to abandon the use of spirits by the substitution of beer, a great reform is accomplished. We are not advocating the use of beer by any one, but asasubstitute for alcohol the use of beer ought to be encouraged by every man and every friend of temperance reform. ‘The sale and use of alcoholic drinks are the more injurious to personal health because of the villainous compounds which are sold under the names of whisky, brandy, and other forms of spirits. The poisons thus sold must inevitably prove destructive to those who consume them. Hence, from a moral and social point of view, there is a wide difference between the beer and the whisky saloon. In some of these saloons men can, by paying a large price therefor, obtain pure spirits, but when spirits are sold (as they mostly are) to men of small means, and who prefer quantity to quality, the decoctions are most infamous. Now, if this most respectable body of peti- tioners had asked the Council to discriminate between the sale o! beer and the sale of spir- its, and had asked the Council to fix the rate of license for asalgon for the sale of beer exclusively st the present rate of $53 per year, and the rate of license for the sale of spirituous liquors at twice that amount, the Probability is that such a measure would re- ceive the hearty support of the community generally, and also of a majority of the sa- Joonkeepers themselves. Such a law could be enforced without difficulty. All the sa- loons whose principal business {fs the sale of beer would abandon the sale of all forms of alcoholic drinks, and to that extent the sale of such spirits would be abated and the evil proportionally reduced. The increase of the rate of licénse on salooas authorized to sell spirituous liquors would not be objected to, but would be approved by one-fourth, at least, of the saloons of that class; it would be objected to but complied with by another fourth; and the rest, especially the low dog- geries, where the foulest poisons are sold, would be driven out of the business, or, at- tempting to defeat or avoid the law, would be closed by the law. The attempt to levy a tax of $500 on each saloon would excite a controversy, would meet with determined opposition, would lead to political combination, and, being op- posed by the prevailing public opinion, any Council that should pass it would be swept out of office at the first succeeding election. On this point the experience of the past ought tobe a useful and instructive lesson for the present,and for the future. The City Conneil is composed of repre- sentatives of their constituents. The repre- sentative cannot rise above his constituents, ‘The people of Chicago are not in favor of a prohibitory liquor law, norin favor of a li- cense tax that would amount to prohibition, though they are in favor of such wise, tem- perate, and rational regulation of the traffic as would divest it of much of the abuses and evils which attend it. Such an ordinance as we have suggested, recognizing the wide dis- tinction between the shops for the exclusive saleofbeerand those for the sale of all liquors, would be sustained by public opin- jon, and could be efticiently enforced. CHICAGO AS A CONVENTION CITY. The St. Louis Globe-Demverat continues to be much exercised over the amount of noise in the Chicago Convention, and seeks some consolation for the defcat of its favorit by the misstatement that the “ anti-Grant managers took pains to fill the Expositidn Building with people unfriendly to the can- didacy of Gen. Grant.” ‘The fact is, that the Grant men chiefly were responsible for the rivalry of noise by startingit. They put the Blaine men upon their mettle, and lost at their own game. Among those who were conspicuous in leading the Grant yell was Mr. Jo B. McCullagh, the putative editor of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, who got upon a chair or table where the newspaper-men were located and yelled as loudly and waved his handkerchief and hat as long as Conkling gave him any encouragement to doso. There was certainly not much sense in the ob- streperous part of the Ohicago Convention, but the notorious fact is, Grant partisans were more responsible for it than were the antis. Itis manifest folly to charge upon the Chicago people responsibility for any of the noise and confusion in the Convention which ‘was occasioned by the galleries. The method adopted’ for distributing tickets discrimi- nated directly against Chicago people. After asmall proportion of admissions had been allotted to the Exposition Company, which furnished the building, and to the citizens who assumed the local expenses of the Con- vention, amounting to about $25,000, the seats were distributed pro rata among the Na- tional Committee and the delegates from all: parts of the country, and 500 seats to the ‘Veteran Association. There were only six district delegates In the Convention from Chicago, and these gentlemen had just forty-two tickets in all. The great bulk of the crowd in the galleries was composed of visitors from all parts. Aside from the small proportion named, Chicago people se- cured admission only by purchasing tickets from outside delegates, who sought to cover their expenses and do a good stroke of busi- ness by this means. Of-the 10,000 auditors there never were 1,500 citizens of Chicago “in the building at one time.” Mack is very much mistaken when he says that no moré Conventions will be held in Chicago, On the con- trary, the experience of the Inte Republic- au Convention will probably induce the man- agers of all parties henceforth to locate their monster gatherings in this city. There is no other place in the United States where a six days’ convention of so exciting a character could be held at this season of the year with so much comfort for all engaged in it. Chi- cago’s central location, its enormous railway facilities, its ample hotel accommodations, its cool weather, its manifold outside at- tractions, and the lively, vivacious American spirit of its people, make it the Convention City par excellence. The Democrats who meetin Cincinnati next week will bemoan their fate that they were not sent to Chicago, and will find comfort only in the reflection that they would be worse off at St. Louis. Chicago Conventions are always buccesses, 8s Garfield’s nomination will prove again. St. Louis Conventions are uniformly fizzles. Tilden was nominated there. Even the Greenbackers succumbed to the soporific in- fluences of St. Louis, and had to transfer their Convention to Chicago in order to gain some new life. Chicago will always be the great Convention City,—a fact which is more of a blessing to those who take part in con- ventions than it is to Chicago or Chicago people. MARRYING A DECEASED WIFE'S SISTER. One of the questions to be acted on by the new Parliament of England is that of legal- izing marriages between widowers and the sisters of their deceased wives. This is an old question,—one that has been discussed and agitated in England for centuries, It has been presented to Parliament every year for many years, and though bills repealing the disability have passed the House of Com- mons several times they have been objected to and defeated in the House of Lords. * Strange to say, the only class of persons in England objecting to the legalization of such marriages is a faction in the Established Church, All other Churches favor the bill, as outside of Great Britain and {reland such marriages are sanctioned by the laws and by the Churches of all other nations in Europe. The repeal of this prohibition of marriage with a deceased-wife’s sister has of late years become an important matter ina social as well as legal sense in England. Thus the English law recognizes the validity of mar- riages contracted in foreign countries in all cases where such marriages were legal un- der the law of the land where they took place. The consequence is that versons of Means, desiring to contract a marriage of that kind, go over to the Continent and are married, and their marriages are recognized aslegalin England, while the same mar- riages, if contracted in England, would be declared illegal and incestuous. But the desire for the great majority of marriages between widowers and the sisters of deceased wives exists among persons in humble clr- cumstances,—workmmen, laborers, and per- sons of small means. The cases are such as where a man marries and fas a family of children. He is at hard labor, and the wife, as is often the case, is employed at labor as well as her husband. Under these cir- cumstances she takes a younger sister into her family, to help. with the housework and take care of the chil- dren. If in such case the wife die, the husband finds himself with a half-dozen children on his hands whom it is impossible for hlin to take care of, and the wife’s sister, who has taken care of the children all their lives, is naturally retained as their foster mother. In time the man wishes to marry her, but the law forbids this as a sin anda erlme, and the result is that the parties live together as man and wife without being married at all. Every village and town in England has cases of this kind, the men and women living together with families growing around them, and who would willingly be married if the law did not prohibit that relation. Public opinion, however, is In advance of the law; and per- sons thus situated are recognized among their neighbors as living moral and discreet lives in spite of the ban placed upon them by the law. ‘The legal disability, however, exists; these children are in law illegitimate, though their number is annually increasing. The disability of such marriages exists no- where outside of England, and there it is considered a hardship needlesly inflicted upon an honest and decorous class of people. The prejudice which insists on maintain- ing this disability is deeply rooted in the Established Church, of which body the great majority of the House of Lords is composed. ‘They fear that in the surrender of this pro- hibiuon will be surrendered some special Principle on which the doctrine or history of that Church rests, and no Church ever sur- renders anything, especially a prejudice of long standing, until compelled to do so. The Presbyterians, Methodists, and all others rated in England as “Dissenters,” and the Roman Catholics make no objection to the removal of the legal prohibition of such marriages. Even a large body of the Episco- palians have asked its repeal. Among the eminent men in England who have atvarious times asked the passage of a law legalizing such marriages and legitimizing their chil- dren are churchmen of all creeds. Here is some of the testimony. The Prince of Wales, addressing the House of Lords, said: My Lorps: I have to resene a petition, signed by 3258 tarmers of Norfolk, praying for the legalization of murriage with a deceased wife's sister. I present it, my Lords, on local and general grounds. [t is my firm conviction ‘that, if this bill is passed, it would be of advan- taye to the community at large, and I therefore give my hearty support to the noble Lord who moves the second reuding of the bill. Thave rend, with great attention, the pam- phicts you were so good to-send me on the mar- riage question, and I cannot conceive how any intelligent and right-minded person can resist the force of the arguments they contain. I con- sider it cleur that the Old Testament directly permits marriage with a deceased wife's sister. —Sir David Brewster. In verse 18 of Leviticus xviil., the prohibition is only against marrying the wife's sister during the Hepes os the first: mite, whiletn of aelf, une plies the liberty to marry the sister after her denth.—The Rev. Dr. Chalmers. Ig the marriage of a widower with his late wife's sister within the prohibited degrees? In all frankness and honesty I am obliged to answer No. Itis interdicted neither by express veto, nor yet by implication. Canonical aus- terity is not to be identilied with moral purity or matrimonial fidelity.—The Rev. Dr. Eadie, late Professor of Biblical” Literature in the United Presbyterian Church, Scotlani. Tam decidedly In favor of a change in the law regarding marriage witha deceased wito's Bis- ter. It appears to me to be at present fn a posi- tion most unsatisfactory, both in point of jus- tico and policy; and I “have: never ecrupled to express that opinion. We have no right to cre- ate sins; and I believe such marriages to be the sins of mone rentins, not God's. ment against them trom Scripture has alwa} appeared to me to break down utterly. And ma : experience of social life among the poor ina Northern town leads me to !ument the existence of any arbitrary hinderance (such as I believe this to be) to the legal union of two persons whose illegal union js the certain alternative, —The Rev. Dr. Vaughan, Master of the Temple. Do you construe that passage in Leviticus (xvill., 18) a3 prohibiting marriage with a de- censed wife's alster, or merely as saying that a man should not take two wives together, at the same time, being 60 related? Certainiy. that yerse appears to have the latter meaning, that two sisters should not be living together in the same house as wives of the same person. Is ‘The argu- sucha marriage held by your Church as pro- hibited in Scripture? Certainly not. It is con- sidered a matter of ecclesiastical legislation. —Cardinal Wiseman. Mr. Gladstone thus expressed himself on the subject: For many yearsI have felt the pressure of this subject to be extreme. Among certain classes the change proposed would not be with- out adisturbing effect on domestic relation: but these classes are limited and select, and it is the mass of the community we must look to in dealing with suck a question. When I cousider the weight of testimony given by ministers of religion, among the most respected in their sev- eral communions,—men among the Roman Catholics, the Noncomformists, the Established Church, High Church, and Low Chureh, includ- ing sucha man as Dr. Hook, who might, per- haps, be described as the first parish minister of his ‘day,—when I consider the pressure of motives which have induced so many persons who have had practical experience of the con- sequences produced by the present state of the law to support the proposed change. I do not shrink from the responsibility it would ental. Some twelve or fourteen years ago, I formed the opinion that the fairest course would be to legalize the marringe contracts in question, and legitimize their issue, leaving to each religious community the question of attaching to such marrixges a religious character; and the honor- able and learned member,for Marylebone (Sir T. Chambers) has shown a wise judgment and con- cillatory temper in reducing his demand to a minizum, and introducing a bill todo no more than obviate the ru{nous consequences of the present stute of the law. John Bright also advocated the bill: He had beard thie question discussed many times in the Society of Women,—women of cult:- vation and admirable in their lives.—and yet he must giv that he never heard in that Society any of those fearful-vaticinations which he ba beard from the Oppostion side of the House. Ho held that personal freedom should be the great rule in these cases. Men and women were themselves tho best Judyes, on the whole, of the matrimonial contracts they sbould make. He asked the House to support the bill on grounds of comnton justice, as between the rich class and the poor. He asked the House by an em- phutie vote to affirm the prineiple—for this was all he asked—of personal liberty for the mon and women of this country in the chief concern of their lives, 23 against a iaw {n respect of which there was no pretense that it had a foun- dation in Nature or received # sanction from revelation. A lady, the Countess of Charlemont, dis- cussing the bill from a womaun’s standpoint, said: There is one argument, and Lady Charlemont considers it a strong one. in fayor of such mar- riages, which is, that now the foolish opponents thercof say that a woman would never feel safo iu admitting ber sister to her house as a resident if after the wife's denth a marringe between the widower and the sister were possible. This is sheer folly. Why, such a degrading idea would prevent ua woman having 2 cousin—often dear us n sister—or n friend to stay with her. Now, if akind girl goes to nurse and comfort her dead sister's children—for. whom she must have a natural affevtion—old gossips shake their heuds and malign ber, though, as the Inw stands (not, we hope, for long) she is in her brother's house. Who would cherish the motherless things like her? A stranger? Well, the kind aunt would bo thrust aside for some giddy girl, who would have no love for them, perhaps even a feeling of repulsion. In this country there has never been any controversy on the subject. No one has ever argued here that the sentence from Leviticus could be tortured into a prohibition of such marriages, The utmost freedon has been al~ lowed in such mistters, and no social or re~ ligious objection has ever been raised. In England, however, it is considered as involv- ing a deep principle of revealed law and of Christian morality, and after a century of active discussion the advocates of personal freedom’in the matter have been unable to overcome the deep-rooted prejudice that con- trols the ruling power in the English Church. THE ENGLISH BURIALS BILL. ‘The advent of the Liberal party in England to power is already signalized by the agita~ tion of the Burials bill in Parliament, intro- duced by the Lord Chancellor himself, Lora Selburne. The Liberals are making a strong assault upon that antiquated and bigoted practice which forbids any service but that of the Church within thechurchyards. Year after year this assault has been made only to end in defeat, but now the Liberal majority insures its passage, and religious caste will be banished from the graveyard and all the dead will sleep on terms of equality, so far as man’s puny efforts can secure it, The dead would probably rest just as well with or without service, in consecrated or unconse- crated ground, and they in the Potter’s Field are justas comfortable as they in marble mausoleums. But some regard should be paid to the feelings of the living who do not belong to the Church of England whobelieve there may be entrance into Heaven without its indorsement and who think that St. Peter will not demand of the newly-fledged soul at the gate that it shall presenta Tory certificate of burial as a condition of admission. ‘The Burials bill establishes absolute free trade in burials, and extends to cemeteries as wellaschurchyards. The gates of the long home are thrown wide open, and the dead Dissenter enjoys equal privilege with the dead Churchman, There may be church service, or non-vhurch service, or no service at all, whether ground be consecrated or un- consecrated. The relatives of the deceased may employ any person they please to read the funeral service, provided it be Christian and orderly and the service is not di- rected against some other form of service. It furthermore allows the established minis- ter to vary his own forms to suit particular cases. For instance, if a Dissenter or a per- son not a member of the Church, should ap- ply to an established minister to pronounce service over a friend who was not in the odor of sanctity, the clergyman can arrange a form suitable to such an unfortunate person. 4s the Spectator says: “The bill makes a great step In the direction of liberty on two distinct sides, By enabling the friends of the deceased to dispense with the services of the official clergyman, if they choose, it renders it possible, without any injustice, to enable the official clergyman to dispense with forms which he thinks in- appropriate, if they do not so choose. Thus it sets him free from any duty he regards as oppressive to his own conscience in the case of those Dissenters or Church people who think fit to require him to perform the duty nevertheless.” The organs of the union of Church and State are discussing the question with great bitterness, and with no love or charity for Dissenters, who from their standpoint ought to be salisfied if they recclve burial on the highway or at the crossroads. The Saturday Review sneers at almost every feature of the bill, and declares that its triumph would be a triumph of the anti-Church section of the dominant party, and that the Dissenters might claim to occupy a part of the churches with just as much propriety as a part of the graveyards. To Ameri- cans such a discussion is almost incompre- hensible. It shows a tenacity of sectarian intolerance and narrow-minded bigotry that has never been witnessed in this country, and never can be. There have not been wanting displays of bigotry in our own country, but they are usually individual in their manifestation, and pertain to the living. They may be found sometimes in the home and in the church, but they stop short of the graveyard. The dead of all sects rest peace- ably side by side. Even Mr. Ingersoll, at war with all sects and denying God Himself, has the satisfaction of knowing that he may sleep by the side of the most devout Chris- tian in any Protestant graveyard. Such a question of posthumous ostracism could not stand in this country an hour. The Ameri- can seuse of liberty and equality would never allow prejudice to invade the churchyard or disturb the dead. It shows the weakness, stupidity, and folly of the union of Church and State, and if, as the Tories claim, this is the first step towards disestablishment by the Liberals, the people of this country will hope for the speedy passage of the bill, and for further steps in the same direction. Screnrists have beguh to explain the fail- ure of the British crops. The geological forma tion of alarge part of England and Iretang makes excessive rainfall specially unfavorable to grain crops. There ure thousands of squarg miles of soil in Ireland and large areasin Ep- gland which rest upon beds of hard limestone, Rritstone, granit, slate, or basalt. The soil ig good, but the rock is not far beneath the sur- face. In these areas water is not absorbed in large quantities, but remains aboveground, and rots out all vegetation which requires cultiva- tion. Itistrue the British Islands have Pro- duced bountiful harvests in the past, and will again in the future, but the crops there ara more subject to accidents than in America, Mr. Cairns and Prof, Playtiir now urge British farmers to stop grain-growifig and turn their attention to other staple productions more suited to the climate. The London Times par- tially approves and seconds the suggestion, and even the Edinburg Review secms disposed to fall in with the idea. ASTRONOMICAL, Chicago (TRIBCSE office), north latitude 41 deg, 52m. 57s.; west longitude, 42m. 183. from Wash- ington, and dh. 50m. 30s. from Greenwich. The subjoined table shows the time of set- ting of the moon's lower timb, and the official ume for lighting the first street-lamp in each cir- cuit in this city, during the coming week, unlesg ordered sooner on account of bad weather. Also the following times for extinguishing tho frst lamp: Day. Soon sets. 31201: 4:01 p. m. next Tuesday, and increasing towards the full during the remainder of the week. She will pass nearly six degrees tothe south of Uranus to-night. The sun's upper limb rises Monday at 4:24, m.; souths ut Uh. Om. 7.03. p. m.; and sets at 7h, 364m. p. m. The sun’s upper limb rises Friday at 4:24% a, m.; souths at Oh, Om. 59.23. p. m.; and seta at Th. ym. p.m. . é Sidereal time Thursday mean moon, 5h. sim, 25.288. Mercury is east of the sun, and would be an “evening star” if prominent cnough to be easily recognized. Thursday next he will set at 8:57 p. in. His apparent distance from. the sun will increase till July 6, the dute of his greatest eastern elongation. Venus is west of the sun, but too near him to be of interest to the gazer. Thursday she will rise at & m.,or only about half an hour be- fore the sun; and will south at 11:30a.m. Her apparent distance from the sun will slowly de- gress til July 13, the date of superior conjung- lon. . Mars will south next Thuraday at 3:04 p.m, and set at 10:20 p.m. He is now among the small stars in the eastern part of Cancer, mov- ing towards the sickle ot Leo. He will be below the head stars of the Lion (* Ras al Asad” in the Arabic) about three weeks hence. He ia now a comparatively unimportant object in the evening sky, being ratber low down at sunset and scarcely equi! in apparent brightness toa fixed star of the second magnitude. Jupiter will rise Thursday at 0:53 a. m., and South at 7:l4a.m. He is now a brilliant object inthe morning sky, belng high up at sunrise, but bet near any prominent ilxed stars. He isa little South from the western part of the band that conneus the Fisues of the Zodiac. Tucs- day at4:234. m. his first satellite will pass off from a transit. Thursday at 4:01 m, the third satellite will be ocoulted. Friday at 0:56 a. mi. tho sucond tatellite will pass into eclipse. Suturn is @ mozning star, and rapidly coming into promluence ty increasing his appurent dise tance from the su. ‘Thursday he will riseat 1:28 a. m. and south 07:57 2m. The apparent loagth of his ring system is now about fouE times its groatest breadth. He is now abcue three-quarters of a dexrce southeast from rad cron Piscium, a star of th. ronpth rat Uranus will south next Th. x m., and sot at 11:26 p.m. He lay ab 4: gree, or twice the apparent breadth’, O7e ben moon, to the northeast by east from Ro, 14s, the position of which we have previously det scribed. . Neptune will south Thursday noxt at 9:01 a, m.; about twelve degrees above the principal stars in the houd of the Whale (Cetus). pecans Ea aa pe ut one e Sroxres like this are sufficient answer to the cowardly and lying statement that James A. Garfield was not a brave soldier: ‘When about to Iead the final charge at the battle of Middle Creek, Gen. Garfield pulled of his coat, tossed it up into a tree, and turning to his men cried: Come on, boys! Give them [fail Columbia!” ‘The boss in bine threw up their caps with a wild shout, rushed at the enemy, and drove them from the ficld, the intrepid Gar field always at the head of his forces. The little News says that in this engagement nota man was killed on either side. But the Official reports show that ninctecn dead were buried on tho field. Garfield was afterward mado a Major-General for “gallant and merit- orious services at the battle of Chickamauga.” What those services were may be leurned from the following extrast from the history of the Forty-second Ohio Infantry, page 18: aryteg vainly to check the retreat [ee Rose fay en. Gartield was swept with his chief back beyond Rossvilie. But the Chict of Staff could not concede that defeat bad been entire. He heard the roar of Thomas’ guns on the left, and gained permission of Rosecrans to go around to that quarter and tind the Army of the Cumberland. While the commander busied him- self with pepartag a refuge ne Chattanooga for his routed army, his Chief of Staff went back, fecompunied only by a stalf officer anda few orderlics, to find whatever part of the army still held its ground and save wi was lost. It was a pepilous ride. Long before he reached Thomas one of his ordorties wag killed. Almost alone he pushed on over the obstructed road, through pursuers and ‘pursued, found the herole- Thomus encircled by fire. but still, firm, told him of the disaster on the right, aud explained how he could with= draw his right wing and fix it upon a new line to meet Longstreet’s colurnn. The movement was made just in time, but Thomas’ line was to short. It would not reach to the base of the mountain. Longstreet saw the sap. drove bis column into It, and would have struck Thomas’ line fatally in the rear. In that critical moment Gen. Gordon Granger came up with Steedman’s division, which moved in heavy columa, threw itself upon Longstreet, and after @ terrific 8truggie drove him back. The dend and wound- ed lay in heaps where thoge two columns met, but the army of Gen. Thomas was saved. night closed in around the herole Army of the Cumberland, Gens. Garfleld and Granger, 00 foot and enveloped in stunke, directed the load= ing and pointing of n battery of Supotens guns, whose tiash, ag they thundered after the ree treating column of the assailants, was the last light that shone upon the battlelleld of Chicka mauga. ‘This ride of Garfield's was one of the gallgnt estactsof the Wur, and so recognized at the time by the Government and people. It earned Garfield the lasting friendship and regard of Gen. Thomas and all associated with bim, and gave hima name as a brave soldier which 00 malicious scribbler can now take away. 2 Present Cuapnovrye, of Wiliams College, was called out by a serenuile the day of Garfield’s nomination, and this was the response: Gentlemen, I shall not spend much time in making a speech to you now. All my force shall be used in making speeches this fall. It scoms but a few days since [used to call Gen, Gardelt up to recite. and he never flunked. When the Duke of Wellington visited Eton Colleze, after the battle of Waterloo, he said, * Boys, the vic, tory of Waterloo was won upon this ground) And so the foundation of Gurtield’s successful nomination was laid upon this ground, and think the Democrats, if they are wise. will also nominate on alumnus of this college. Stephen J; Field. In honor of Gen. Garfield's nomination: now aonounce a boliduy, to extend from prayers this evening until Thursday nooo. THe rapid-transit roads have been usiDg the Battery Park in New York, free of charge, 88 a “temporary accommodation.” Suddenly they have recelved “notice to qui: by a unani- mous vote of tha Park Commisstoners. The roads mustgo. Public opinion is strong against them. They have shown no disposition to.8c- commodate the public, and the public will not give them any further favors. The rapid- transit companies have made large profits. ‘They can well afford to pay fora down-town terminus: ‘and the people for once will be gratified to 560 them taxed for their own improvements. <<< Tr was stated in the Washington dispatches afew days ago that the Government bad notl- fled Capt. Howgate of the unfitness of the steamer furnished by him for the proposed Arc> tic expedition under his name. Tals will be & serious, if not a fatal, check to the enterprise ‘The fact is specially unfortunate because 10 other Arctic expedition with equal promise of success has lately been thought of or plarined The scheme was to have a party of picked men put on the fce fn the highest attainable latitude, ‘with provisions for several years. Frame dwell- ings were to be taken on shipboard in sections