Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 22, 1881, Page 4

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THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE has established branch ‘offices for the recelpt of subscriptions and advertise- ments as follows: NEW YORK—Room 2 Tribune Building. F.T, Mo- FADNEN, Manager. . ‘ GLASGOW. Sootland—Allan's Americsa News >‘ Agengy, St Henfeld-nt L4MNDON, Eng.—American Exchange, 419 Strand, “Hewny F. Giuuie, Agent. WASHINGTON. D.C. TINGS. A IMANDERY, NO. fhaiie, com Uncle Tabaiey eran, Sar IS at fav Oelock. Visting Sir Kntsits are al- ! rays meleong, ‘The drili carve Will aysombie in the May 9 SI. at 7:34, for ‘i Apuliv Commandery io rendezrous at the Agr wy jaifternoan, | Miay 3k TAS. at HEA) 3 dliy quipped. GC they ave _ santos ptberrine ise jn Stine san dress, for the purpose ofatendinz ascension Day. services, which will be held tn Grace Episcopal Chureh (kev, Dr. Locke's), on Wabanh- sa ear Sixteenth-st., Services at the Church commenos at Socios” Visiting Sir Kntahea re courteous iyo’ to join with Apollo on this oc~ casion. Mombersof Apollo can obtain their invita- Hons at the Anyium Tuesdar evening. Hy order of Emin Commande: she Bratnons Com il. S. TIFFANY, Recorder. ors ,Alongay,,eyenine,, nigh SRICAGO COMMANDERY, NO. 1s. KNIGHTS TEMMLaie—a Gounel of Hed Coons Knits ‘ormenizad on Monday even! fae tie kine id ing. pose of eanferting the filustrious Grder of tha Ore OF ahs or savor Couns; miso scjourn= dug Knighis, are corgia}is incites ta ye present. ‘Tbe ‘ll appear in faticne dress. mombers of this command will sppear in faticne drow Zorlnsyection bs the proper Grand Oiicer o trick _Asconsion-Day services next Thursdny, 2th at the Reformed Episcopal Church, corner Carpenter and West Washinzton-sts. "Bir, Kinizhts aril assem Dleat lumatd p.m. sharp in full di A Reiebuly ineiislon is excended to Sie nvekts ter Gommanderies co. untie with us on tui3 occasion. A general inviation ae extended to Cratt ne an ir familjes to attend service Churchatsp-m- Be ondorof | i. H. POND, B.C. DAVID GOODMAN, Recorder. i APTBH OF HOSE CROIX, 18 DEG:. P wer tecarayys MASONS—“The annual ‘Conelate ‘Qf this body for the electi offivers and such other business ag may properly, te brousit before is yluin. 4 Monrae-st, on ‘Thun 7& PM, ‘wii be held at the apy 108, I. 0 9. arg requested 10 appear in fatisue dress “at the ten corner Ciurk and Washington streets, next Friday evening, Biny S,rhe, Yarst, Second. and Thine Desrses will be conversed. and F iniporiant business Visiting ‘Petriurcts - Shea. 'BPorier SSO PARKINS, CP. TE. D. RELNERS, Serive. = pr Notlce js hereby riven that: the fnneral of gurlate brother, John Witt, will be held at ll West Yake street. a12'p. m. sharp, Sunday, Say 2. The of dicers and membors of Court Gurden Clty, No. L, 4. O. He and members uf the Onder are requested to it~ tend, Perorder of the C, it. KHAVINNING LODGE, NO. 311, A. ¥. & A.M suid bo mipet at thalt halls? Bla= to attend the fyneral of our e, from his residence, 361 Ful- Yon-st, Carriages to Rosenitl 3. MIDDLETON, W. M- ‘H.S. ALLEN, Secretury. EXCELSIOR LODGE, &_K. of P.—Recular- Convocation at thelr Hall, sontuwest corner of Madi syn and Jedermon streets, Friday evening, May 27, 8 nird. Visiting breths JAMES WARMINGTOS, C. C. For? DEARBORN DIVISION. NO. 1. C. Every member of this Division % requested to repre ay duty at quale een fa a ey i lon-st, on sfunday re ink. at so'cioel sharp. AND, Commander: Ten cordislly inyit CORINTHIAN CHAPTER, No. @. R.A. M.—Stated Convocation Mondas evening, May 22 até o’cluck. Work on the P. f. Derries. rv ‘siting compan= Invited. | By 0 : ARTUR WS AMINGTON, crear. LP. ,, WAUBANSIA LODGE, No. 10, A. F.& A.M—Regu- Commanication Fidss evening. Business and rothren welcoma. KG PORTER, Secrotary, NATIONAL, LODGE. A. F. & A.M, NO. 53;—Stated Communication Tuesday evening, May 2. at 8 ovclock. Master Masons are cordially invited to be present ‘and witness our work. J. W. OSTRANDER, W. ML LAFAYETTE CHAPTER NO. 2, KH. A. 3L—Stated Convoeation Monduy evenin Say 2 oh at f a’clock. Yisiting companions welcome, BR POMS Se BHP. ‘WAM. J. BEYAI, Sccroiary. = 2 SUNDAY, MAY 2, 1ssi. “THE XEW TESTAMENT EDITION, + Oapics of Tre TureoNe Revised New Testament. edition, in single wrappers, ready for mailing, can be ‘obtained at the counting-room. ‘Che price is 5 cente. Large orders. will be filled at wholesale rates. ai * —_—_————— POSTAGE ON TO-DAY’S TRIBUNE. ‘The postage on to-day's Tampne, including the Wew Testament edition—thirty-siz paycs—ts five tents, which must be prepaid. The postage on the New Testament cdition—sizteer pages—ig three ecnts. Persons mailing copics of Tue ‘TRIBUNE will please bear in mind that unless the postage is Prepata the papers will not reach their destination. ‘Tue yalueof the breadstuffs exported from. the United States during the ten months end- ing April, 1651, was 325,155,801, as compared with $233,44,587 worth exparted during the corresponding ten montis of last year. ——___ OxE man and three boys were publicly whipped at New. Castle, Del., yesterday. Comment on the brutality of whipping boys is hardly necessary. It should be remem- bered that the punishment was inflicted in Bourbon Delaware, the State of Bayard. i “APPLICATION has been made to the Treas- ury Department by the holders of $209,453,- 80 worth of the 5 per cent bonds for their continuance at.33¢ per.cent, In most in- stances the bonds have accompanied the ap- plication.’ Secretary Windom thinks that the limit of the $25,000,000 worth of the Teg: istered 5s which can be convertea into 334’s vill be reached -by next Saturday evening, and Reople anxious to: guess still closer put it at Monday evening. “4 xew York gentleman, who has just Te: turned from Mexico, says that ex-President Grant will not receive the concessions which he desires for his railroad projects, ‘and that -he is returning to his home discauraged, ‘This centleman’s statement. seems to differ very materially with news receiyed airect fram Mexico during the week, which is to the effect that all the ‘concessions that the ex- President wanted, with the exception of one ‘unimportant. one, "were very likely to: be granted. ©: ——. East GnanviL_e, the English Forel; Secretary, has addressed a communteation on the ‘Tunisian question to Challemel La-: epyr, the French Ambassador at London. | He commences by caustically alluding to the inconsistencies of tha language of French Ainisters and of the reasons given by them. for. the. course pursued: in . the mat- ter, and then goes oni to say ~ that “it gan hardly “be doubted that the Treaty with: /Tunis - ‘goes far beyond any question security to frontier, and awounts practically to a protectorate.” The = |-English’ Minister then “proceeds” to“ warn’ Be Trine. France that the Convention of July, 1875, be- tween England and Tunis, which securesto British subjests, vessels, ‘commerce, . ant Davi ‘igation certain favors and immunities, re- mains in‘force, France may or may not heed the warning. -France does not seam 1 to he much afraid of England, ‘Foaraer al n the Jews in Southern and Central-Russia are threatened, and many of the much-persecuted race are quitting the country, while others are depositing valua- bles in the banks for safety. From advices regelyed ‘in Cracow and Vienna, it appears that'in future outbreaks in Russia the Jews will-not be the only: sufferers. The rioting Russians having partaken of the goods of the Hebréws, are now anxious to partake of the. goods. of their wealthier and more fortunate Russian- neighbors. Wholesale plunder and destruction is threat- ened, and friendly: parties have advised Austrian merchants to remove from Russia any goods they may hayo in that country. —_—_ Lorp Saxissury, the new, Tory. chief‘ ‘speaking at a banquet ‘Thursday night re- ferred to the Irish Land bill, and to the status of the Houseof Lords, In reference to the lat- ter body he said that it would be better that it did ngt exist than that it should only exist To register the’ decisions of the House of Commons, and he said in reference to the Lund bill that he regarded it as a conces- sion to an ebullition of Communism which was too ridiculous and contemptible to be seriously discussed, and significantly added that there were cases not unknown of the ‘Mause of Commons being at variance with the opinions of the constituencies which elect- ed_it, which might be taken as- Indicating that Lord Salisbury thinks that a general election'at this juncture might result in‘ the accessjon of the-Torics to power. The Lan- don Standard, the chief organ of the Tories, severely criticises this speach of Lord Salis- bury as.uncalled-for and Injudicious. It says “it may be spiiited and heroic” for the Lords to reject the Land. bill, but it is not statesmanlike for the Tory. leader to praeice such 3 cours: Tue adjustment whieh the English Gov- ernment recently made with the Boers, though it was substantially in fayor of the latter, and inyolyed, in the opinion of the To- rivs, concessions which were not compatible with English honor, by no means works smoothly. “Dispatches to the London Times indicate that as soon as_ ish rule is with- drawn the natives wi lack the Buers, and that nine of the Chiefs in the Boor terri- tory have determjned to remain under En- glish rule, and deny ‘the authority of the Boeys oyer them. If the new line, to be es- tablished under the Treaty bya Commission, includes them as British subjects, all will be well, itis hinted, but if not, they are de- termined to defy the Boer supremacy. . On the qther hand, the Boers will. resist. the es- tablishment of such a line, so that’ between the two the prospects for peace in South Af- Tica are by no means assured by the conces- sions made by the English. Both in the ‘Transvaal and in the Free State, great dread is expressed of eyen worse horrors than have yet occurred, should a fresh war break aut. Tue fraudulent newspaper. concern on Wells street. printed a week aga a bogus “cable dispatch” purporting to contain the principal changes in the Old and New Tes- taments made by the Comittee on Revision. Its shallow trick’ was immediately exposed by the American reyisers, so far as the Old Testament was concerned, by the simple j Statement that its revision was barely begun. Its forgeries in the case of the New Test: ment are now proved by indubitable ev dence, A comparison of its fraudulent ver- sion with the true yersion printed this morn- ing shows that the former is false in nearly every instance. The following specimens taken from Matthey afone must suffice for the present, but a careful comparison of the twa texts will show that the alleged “cable- gram? must haye been a fabrication aut of whole cloth: ‘Times Forgeries. True Version. ‘MATTHEW ITt., 1. In those days coueri} And in those days John. the Baptizen,|cometh John the Bap- Preaching in the wilder-|tfst, preaching. in the ness of Judea. wilderness of Judiea. MATTHEW IV.. Then the devil taketh! him up into the holy; city, and setteth him ou THE pinnacic’ of. 4 MOUNTAIN, Then thovdevil taketh him into the holy: city, and be set bim on the pinnacle of the temple. MATTHEN VI. 6. and saitnunto pim, if|" And saith unta bim, If. thou be the son of God,/thow art the son of G cast thyself downy ‘or it|east thyself down: for is written, fie shall givelit is written, He sball give his angels charge congerning thee: an their bunds they shall Up. ear thee upon, lest time thou dasb thy foo: axply thou dash thy against 4 stone. foot against a stone. + MATInEW Vv. 10. Biessed WERE they| Blessed ars they which WERE persecuted/that have been perse- for righteousness’ suke,|cuted for rirhteousness’ ete, iseke; for thoirs is. the Kingdom. of beaven, MATTHEW XVII, 25. He saith “yes. And| He saith, Yea. ‘when hewas come into} the house Jesus sPoKe FInsT, ele. bis angels charge cou- cerning thee: und ox dicir bands they wWItt| bear thee up, lestat nny And when he came unto the house. Jesus appeared frst to hini, saying. MATTREW ae 3. and be saith -ynto| He suith ynto them, fiom; Xe, shall driniciaty eup indeed. yo shall indeed of my’ cup, andldrink, but to sit on my be baptized with thelright band, and on my ‘baptisin that [ aim bap-/left, is not mine to give, zed with; but to sitan|but'it is for them for. Hight hand and on{whom tt is prepared of ny left, is not mine tu] my Father. rive, EXCEPT TO THOSE tor who it is prophe- sied of my Father. ‘These specimens are from Matthew alone. A similar coniparison extended through the other books of the New Testament: shows as many discrepancies in each of them. ‘The alleged cablegram was wholly spurious when it did not print revisions of the text that had previously been given to the press of Europe and America, , Tue details which. are coming outso rap: idly as to the circumstances of the death of the late Sultan Abdul Aziz are fairly melo- dramatic in character. will Dé yemem= bered that his death followed closely upon. his dethronement, fiye years ago, and it was given out to the world that he had committed: suicide. Everything combjned to make the theory so plausible that it was accepted without hesitation, even by the physicians who made the post-inortem ‘examination. ‘The Sultan had been a man of melancholy temper, and, like the late zar of Russia, his. | melancholy often brought him to the erge of insanity, His talk at times had hinted of , Suicide, and he once remarked ‘he could not understand how Louis’ Napolean or any monarch could ‘consent to live dethyoned. A man bordering on the verge of madness Would have no scruples about violating the Mohammedan tenet, which forbids suicide, He lived in a palace of his‘ own chotee, syr- -rounded by attendants Whom he ha also chose, and- his. Chamberlain was his friend.’ There were no eneinies, personal oy political,’in.tho household. He borrowed a pair of scissors of his ladies, as he was often in the habit of doing, to trim his beard, and’ these ladies occupied the next apartment. The wounds inthe arm, and there were no other wounds on the body, were plainly made by scissors, and the ladies heard no noise in his apartment. Circumstances like these would have, » Warranted any jury of ingu in finding a verdict of suicide, and yet it now appears that, instead of taking his own life, ¢lidwas murdered by Tuffians at the instiga- tion of the Minister.of War at'that'time, and that’. two “brothers-in-law’ of the present Sultan yere-also accessory to. the crime. All and” the . details of ; the ‘murder have * yet been " discovered, iput enough has been ascertained to know that the -hired _|-bravos passed the Chamberlain: without dif- ficulty, chloroformed. the Sultan, and ‘with the scissors alone procured his death, proba- bly by épening some artery and keeping him under the influence of the chloroform until he had bled fo death.. Itis strange, that tho cause of death of a monarch who’ at that time: was. occupying . the. publi¢ attention more intently than any. other.in the. world should have remained'secret’so many years, especially inan Empire that° was rent with factions, but now that the secret is out the. present Sultan, the nephew of the murdered past can hardly hold the throne without dis- e if he does.not avenge the crime. . ‘HE Gospels according to St. Storey are curious and amusing, but we.do hot see that they have historical or literay value, To say nothing of the typographical absurdities in which they. abound, the. “ enterprising” editor seemed to labor under tho impression that there were but seven chapters in Luke and five in John, “This is a niistake. There are iwenty-four.,chapters in Luke and twenty-one chapters in John. The mutilated version of two Ggspels and parts of two other Gospels. printed in Mr, Storey’s fraudulent newspaper are of no account to auybody. The people are not paying money now to get a re- vision of the New Testament by the able Greek Sgholar who inhabits the fifth story of the Wells street building, and writes cable dispatches across the pbs, like ‘Wilkins Micawber, to his employer. Tus Cu1oaGo Tumune hag taken hold of this matier, and it will meet the just expecta- tions of this community. It does not pro- pose to give any partial reprintof the revised New Testament, wor to admit any fabrica- tions of the Gospels to its columus.. It lays before its readers this morning the whole Testament from’ Matthew to Revelation, without the omission of aline or word. Thus it gives for five cents, in addition to its usual reading matter, 2 yolume which is selling in the cheapest form in New York for 13 cents, and which js not on sale in Chicago to-day at any price whatever, except as it can be ob- tainedin Tue Trmunz. We leave the-peo- ple to judge of the-relative merits of that “enterprise” which would put them off with 9 tenth -of the work, and the other kind which gives them the whole. of it, without errors or omissious. f 4 THE REVISED NEW TESTAMENT. ‘Tre Tripuns presents to 63,000 purchasers and 200,000 readers this morning, in addition to a regular issue of twenty pages, the re- vised edition of the New Testament entire, The whole work, without the omission of asingle chapter or verse, is contained {n six: teen pages of the size usually issued from this office. There are journals which would find a publication of this kinda considerable under- taking. But Tae Trrpvne’s typographical and mechanical resources are such that it can issue any volume of ordinary size at. a day’s notice. Tha public may be inter- ested to know that the first type of the New Testament as it appears in our columns to- day was sat at 10 o’clock yesterday morning, and the last page made up and stereotyped atl0o’clock last night. The job was com- pleted, therefore, in precisely twelve hours. Ninety-two compositors were employed in setting type, and five in correcting errors uoted by the proof-readers. Meanwhile, twenty- additional pages of ad-. vertisements and reading matter were set up, corrected, put in forms, and stereotyped; so that we are enabled to issue thig morning thirty-six: pages, not one line of which had been put in type at 10 o’clock yesterday morning. At-+o’clock in the afternoon many of the compositors engaged upon the New ‘Testa- ment were required to set advydrtisements. If the whole force had been employed con- tinuously on the first work alone, it would haye been: finished in something less than eight hours. This issue of Tire Trreuxe will open tho eyes of many newspaper readers to tha amount of reading-matter contained in its ordinary editions. The New Testament Is setin type to sizes larger than that used for advertisements. If agate type had been used, the whole Bible might easily have been printed in Tue TrrevNe of this morning and plenty of room have been left for news and advertisements. The New Testament might have been put in ten Pages of adver- tising type. 4 Tue Trmune is not inclined to boast of its present achievement. It believes in doing thoroughly what it undertakes to do at all. Tience it has not undertaken to give man- gled extracts from a few books of the New Testament, but to print the revision in sueh a shape that no reader of Tue Trinune need ever buy acopy of it unless he feels dis- posed to do s0 for special reasons, This journal was the first to announce the publication of.the whole New Testament. - It may haye imitators. It expects them. But it can have none. who will be any more than feeble copies of the original, It is accus- tomed. to. having its ideas plagiarized by journalistic sharks that follow in its wake and pick up its leavings, But jt-intends al: Ways to lead the way and be the first in in- troducing novelties to the Boonie of this com- munity. THE: INTERNATIONAL BANK CASE, The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has’ directed a. settlement of the claim of the International Bank of this city...The bank was charged with haying: made false re- turns of the amount of its funds on deposit. It seems that the bank made its regular re- turnsto the Government from time to time of its doposits, the amount thus’ returned being the basis’ of the demand made by tf ‘Treasury for the tax on bank deposits. Du: ing the sane perjod the bank made re: ports of its current deposits to the Clearing- House Association of this city, The wide, repeated, and ‘consistent discrepangies be- tween the statements of deposits contained. in these repdrts eventually attracted aitten-, tion, were reported at Washington, and led to an examination of the books of the aie by the Government oficers. ‘The report was adverse ta the correetness af the bank’s offi- cial reports to the Treasury, The pewalties were prescribed by law, te which. the Jaw added, in case of conv ‘iotion for: false swear- ing, certain statttory. punishmont: a inst the officers making oath to the:returns. The International’ = torneys’ to Was! ington to labor ‘with ‘the Comniissioner of Internal Reyenue to defend the bank- against any criminal purpose to. defraud the Government, and, of course, against’ any charge of intent to commit any statutory crime. The attorneys argued the case undoubtedly yery ably, but they failed to convince the Commissioner of In- ternal Revenue, and failed to satisfy the legal officers of the Treasury, that the bank ing returns “of ‘ deposits -subject to- taxation. Finally the Commissioner made his “decision as tq the ‘money liabilities incurred ‘by the bank to'the Government, and thelr agereente was thus made up: Penalty therafor: Fines for eleven rales tupns, $1,000 each. Total.......2 > This sum, which was: the civil liability, the bank promptly paid to the Treasury. Atis understood, in fact officially announced, that in consideration of this immediate pay- ment of civil penalties prosecution of theoffi- cers under, the criminal Jaws. was remitted: ‘The Government got its money, and the bank officers were released -from criminal prose- cution. There were eleven returns made by the officers, all of ‘which were found to be false and fraudulent, and each of them was accompaniéd by theoath of one or more ofli- cers; consequently there were eleven cases which, under the law, were indictable, and in case of conviction punishable by. fine and imprisonment for false swearing. _ The payment of the-fines and penalties will of course be accepted. -by the public as an admission of the charges made by the Commisioner of Internal Revenue, and for which he imposed these civil penalties. In justice to the bank it should be stated that they justified or gpologized for the char- acter of their returns on the ground that they received certain classes of deposits—as, for in- stance, those of the Treasurer of the City of Chicago—on which ‘they. paid the depositors interest, and that, Not feeling disposed ‘to pay taxes as well-ag interest .on . deposits, they had omitted from their list of taxable deposits such money as was deposited with them on interest. ‘The Government did not recognize the legality or the justice of this system of bookkeeping, which it seems has been peculiar to the International Bank of Chicago, and not practiced or attempted by any other of the several thousands of Na- tional banks in the country. It is useless to argue against the public sentiment. which will condemn this settle- ment of this case with the bank unon merely. acash. basis. Public “opinion has been too frequently outraged and astonished by reve- lations. which qreate’ the impression . that. erjmjnal laws are not enforced with impar- tial justice. Thousands of. persons will pro- test that the Banking Jaw and the Reyenue Jaw, though more rigid. perhaps. than any other statutes in their treatment of violations, forever break down rand fail of their purpose in the yery hour of their execution.. It is this impression; whether true or only partially true, that fur- nishes Communists with material in their ef- forts to break down all respect’ for law and justico and to reduce society to a condition: of anarchy. We are not informed of any of the cireum- stances which pertain to this bank settle- ment which have nat been given to the pub- lie. “We are not advised as to why the Goy- ernment abandoned all, erlininal prosecu- tions, and Yet we -hayo heard of other cases where the offenses were flagrant, and even the proof was supposed ‘to be conélisive, but which, at tha Inst moment, broka down through wholly unexpected defects: Some years ago a city officer, whose duty was to make.a sworn: statement of. his ac- counts every. month; made and filed such statenient for more than forty consecutive months. On ‘its face each of these state- ments, certified te by a Notary Public, was considered a clear case of false swearing. ‘When the offended ‘law undertook to vindi- cate itself by indicting the‘officer for falso swearing, it was in proof that ini no instance had the officer made any oath, though the paper was certified to that effect by tho Notary, Inanother case, atter rigid investigations’ by several Grand Juries, one of them sup- posed it had at last got’ conclusive evidence of willful and deliberate perjury in no less than’ nineteen cases of the most eyident and successful plunder of the County Treas- ury.. In no less than nineteen cases an indi vidual obtained money from the County Treasury upon bills’ of confessedly fraudu- lent character, and attached to each bill, it being essential to his getting the money, was the certificate that the man had appeared and made-oath, ete,,.ta the truth of the bill. Ifthe man could. not be convicted of rob- bery, the Grand Jury concluded to indict lim for his perjury or, false swearing; but when the, Notary gppeared he confessed that he knew the bills were fraudulent, and therefore in no case had he ever adminis- tered-an oath, but had attached his certificate nevertheless, Tt has- occurred to us: that sometimes, in the prosecution of crimes for perjury. aud false swearing, when the prosecutions break down and are abandoned, and the Govern- ment, State or National, is accused of weak- ness and smpathy for crime, that there may. be reasons why such cases are not pushed to conviction, which justity such action, and that, too, without any fault of the ofiicers of thelaw. We donot make this suggestion with ‘reference to-this case; but wholly independ- entofit. What has been successfully perpe- trated in one case, and we haye given too no- forioys ones, may Ue as successfully com- mitted in any of the ten thousand official. or semi-official oaths taken in all parts of the United States every day. THE SLAUGHTER OF THE INNOCENTS. ‘The Grand Jury in Philadelphia. has re- cently been inaking an investigation of the management of the Blocksley Alinshoyse in that city, and the developments which it has published as to the condition of the Found- lings’ ward in that. institution are simply horrible—so horrible, that it, would be almost impossible to give credence to them, were they not in the reports of an impartial and official body. \ The eatise which Jed to the in- ve estigation wasa reinark which was casually made py sone one that not a single cnild had ever lived in that w: ard, and the investigation proyed that the remark was correct, astonish- ing as itmay seem. Some of the children Jast year were ‘adopted, others escaped, but those who continued as: inmates died before the year expir Nor was this slaughter confined to last year, for they have been dy- ing for years past'in the same number and The unfortungtes were not deliber: ately killed bythema nagers. In that case they would have been apprehended and brought to justice for. the perpetration ‘of crime, thongh why they have.not acted jn a crim nal manner that-should subject them to ar: rest and: punishmeiit it is not easy to see, The meins by which the children were put out of the way were quite’ as effectual ag |" though they had been drowned or beaten to death; indeed, the latter modes of exit from wonld seém to be preferable to the long: suffering and slow torture that preceded their. death, for, so long as death was: th inevitable fate, it would have been a mercy to have made their existence’ as free of suf- fering and ag brief .ag. possible...The sur- roundjngs' of, these little victims were fatal in their influence, and it would be. absurd to say that what the Grand: Jury recognized at a‘glance could not be seen y out by ‘the managers, US malaria, the buildings standing ‘upon asta nant stream, into which a considerable por- tion of the city sewage was drained. The second cause was foul air and want of good ventilation, the only ventilation had been'-warranted in“its* system of mak-" 1 the: ward.:.-received - being from ~a laundry’ where’ tlie spiipers? :clathés « were’ dried. - The third cause was improper nour ishment. It; WAR shown. that the. children were fed upon Sony imilke and were nursed | 7 siokly,” The fourth aeiagt ‘of {proper medical attend | xpérienced doctors young ‘graduates were employed who had had no experience, because their seryices could-be had for: com- paratiyely nothing. , In. thelr incompetent hands‘ their’ way" to ‘thé Potter's field was inade shorter,;' It is possible that’ the ‘mann gers felt no gompynetions about, their sui ceséfitl death-rate, as their’ wards ‘were’ ni body’s children, but as” there is a: ‘differant: state: of feeling- outside -the. asylum, it is probable—at least’ it is” to be hoped— that some reforms ‘will ‘be ~adopted~ so “ that Lorganized: in a. Christian | city istian people for a Christian purpose shall not be turned: into ‘a slaughter- house: Itis 4 question however whether.the public ig not to. blame j in this matter. to large ex- tent. A paper in’ the Worth American Re- view not long since, by an eminent author: ity on insanity, assigned as one of the causes of the abuses and cruelties which had been perpetrated in asylums in New York and. elsewhere, the exclusive and secret manner in which they are managed, and evidently this was the trouble with the Blocksley Almshouse: in. Philadelphia, The public knewnothing about its management because the public did not go there, and” if’ it had gone its visitation woyld probably have been regarded as an intrusfOn and accordingly re- sented. The first demand of the founders of | a charitable institution should be its accessi- bility at all times'to public inspection. The absence of such an. inspection and the con- signment of the institution to official routine will impair the effiegey. of ‘the best of them, ‘howeyér. “well incaning ‘managers may be. Chicago has been. -largely- free from complaints of this kind because the Board of’ Visitors are: very regular in theli attendance, and vigilance, especially in the case of private charities, but our own alms: houses ‘and lunatic’ asylums ‘have not’ al- ways, been: free..from_ intimations: of .bad management; ‘In Europe all public institu- tions are liablé to visitations at any time, but in this country the public are not only not admitted, except atacertain hour on a cer- tain day, and then only to ‘sec relatives or friends, but visiting boards have some diffi- culty in gaining access to them, and rarely if ever see “the true inwardness” of them. ‘The first step. in the reformation of these in- stitutions must be to make them public in the truest sense of the word compatible with- the good of the inmates,, If they are sealed institutions, managed and conducted: in se: erecy, by officials responsible to no one, then. such horrors as thasg exposed in the Blocks- ley Almshouse must be expected, and ought not to occasion surprise, PRACTICAL EDUCATION. The President of the Chicago Board of | Education, in:his repors for 1878, says: “Warden McLaughry, of. the Illinois Peni- tentiary, states that‘of'1,167 convicts In ‘his charge last Septe: 8 and write, but onl. per cent knew any- thing about.any useful branch of labor.’ Commenting upon this fact, President Sul-’ livan-well remarks: “A system of educa- tion which confers the power of knowledge for good or for eyil, but neglects to direct that knowledge into some useful channel, is incomplete, because it fails to accomplish one of the prime objects of instruction.” A. prime obj f our public. schools js (1) to make of tlié pupil-a good ¢ » and (2) to fit him to win fair success in life; but, ac- cording to’ the statistics of the -Illinois Penitentiary, they fail of the desired result in both particulars. These statistics, however, furnish a hint of the nature of the defect in the methods of public’ instruction. Of the 1,167- convicts, 038 “could read and write.” It is plain that simply knowing how: to read and write does not save inen from the Penitentiary. But among these 1,167 con- yicts'thete were only 140 men of trades,— skilled’ mechanics. It is plain that skilled workmen, Inen . who are practically ac- quainted witli the use of the few universal tools,—the hammer, plane, saw, chisel, file, and square,—are not nearly so likely to get into the Penitentiary as their fellows who, although they, may know how tu read, write, and cipher, “cannot tell the size of a brick.” If we assume that. 1,073 out of the 1,167 convicts (the 993 who “could read and: write,” but knew nothing of any branch of uscful labor, and the 140 who pre- sumably could read and write as well as earn good wages in a machine shop,—if we ns- sume that these all attended the public schools, we find the chiet defect in the sys- tem to be its entire lack of provision for practical instruction—manaial training. To putit strongly: knowing how to drive a nail orshoye'a plane is 2 better protection against yiee and the Penitentiary than knowing how to read and write, In other words, the graduate of the public school is in danger on falling into vicious ways and criminal practices until he: hardens. his palins~ with honest work. Let us not be under— stood ns condemning the public schools. It is a splendid thing to know how to read and write, and the public schools teach these accomplishments, and many more. What we want the public schools to do is to teach their pupils to apply their intellectual ac- quirements to practical..uses, The higher | schools of learning—the colleges and univer- sities—are as deficient in this regard as the comnion schools. ~.A Chicago: practical busi- ness man who takes a deep interest in edu- | cational matters says the-most utterly help- less class of persons ‘with whom he is} brought in sani are college gradu- ates,. “Full ~ culture “to the — brim, they. ‘pone. he says, not. a single requigit to a successful career in life out- side. the learned’ professions, wliich are overcrowded. - In face of the simplest busi- ness proposition, or, most ordinary: practical question, they are as helpless as infants. This is the age of great practical achieye- ments. - In the van of: the progress that has been made during.the Iast_one Shundred and fifty years stands the Anglo-Saxon. It is un- deniahle, however, that.to the English he- longs the. honor. of haying taken the first steps in advance in the‘ practical arts, which have .reyolationized the world; and. these steps were taken in the’ workshops of Great Britain during t the appren ip. era, “But the apprenticeship system isin its decay in England, and it-can “scarcely pe said ever to have had an- existenc here.’ Some’ systé eu to take the place if the schon! of: mechanics, which has existed inthe workshop, but ‘no longer. exists any’ For the law of. heredity. te nono in-me- chaniesas in eve: bred and:. taught the:d perpetuated the’ “teac ching. that a pointer “is- born-with. the pointing, a retriever is born:with the instinct of retrieving, and sheplierd log is: with a- tendency ta rin’ round<a' fioc sheep and keep them together.. Yet all ‘of our slogs have sprung from: the wolf:and the jackal.” All their traits’ haye been bred in them by man, and haye become” “hereditary. ‘Training is inherited among men in the’same way. Among the Esquimaux the son of an * Enfeabled and! sick from) the first the civilization is. nothing bufia. congummnata system of training, applied first'to the gross: est instincts of the savage, and gradually ex- tended until it finally includes every en- nobling and ‘human soul the edycational system of the present.age, 50 decidedly-practical, the @lements of tral ing of the and and the eye to skill in the arts’ is youth ofthe country, but country itself. * Chicago is justly proud of “her” giowth ‘in population and wealth, proud of her indus: trial prosnerity, proud of her educational system, and may well boast of her=liberality in the expenditure of vast sums of money in support of the public schools. But she has no Polytechnic School, no ‘Institute of ‘Technology, no manual training school, no institution where a technical knowl- Louis,‘ ‘and. “in addition that city: has for years maintained the. kindergarten sys- tem of education as part of her public-school establishnient. Certainly ‘a comparison of the two cities in ‘the matter-of educational systems is not favorable to Chicago. Who will take the lead in an effort to. rescue this city. from her position of inferiority in a matter of sugh vital importance to her future well- being? THE PROGRESS OF. INFIDELITY... t is idle for the people of a religious habit, aud especially for those who are charged with nursing and promoting plety, to ignore the. progress which infidelity’ has been making” during the past fow years, ‘The contrast be- tween tha crowded auditorium in which Ool. ing with the sparse-attendance which await- ed similar appearances a few years ago -fur- nishes a striking evidence of this progress. When ingersell first came’ to Chicago to preach irreligion, tho propriety of open- ing a hall to him was~ questioned; and it was regarded variouSly as an act of cour- age or a sign of depravity to listen to his lecture. Tu TrruNE was severely criti- cised in many quarters because it printed, in its capacity as a newspsper, a full report of what Ingersoll had. to say. - But the edge ot protest against the apostle of infidelity seems to have been dulled, and the spirit of the. Chureli has ceased to exereise the restraint it formerly exerted. When Ingersoll is an- nounced now there is a rush for places to hear him, and thousands are kept away from the largest halls from. lack of accommoda- tion... The public desire to hear him is a sur- prise to’ Ingersoll himself, for he says-he never expected to live.tq see the day when infidelity would pay. . 2 =" A large part of Ingersoll’s personal success is undoubtedly due to his great gift of ora- tory. It may be that, had-he taken up any other theme of popular concern, he might have invested it with ‘so. much interest and Nevertheless there is food for reflection in the fact that startling propositions to which he gives the bluntest expression do not oyer- whelm and stun his auditors, but are re- esived, on the contrary, with’ boisterous ap- plause and .unmistakable signs. of response and approval. There is a large drift of pub- lic sentiment with him, It is ‘ho longer the investigators, the scientists, and the protest- ants against obstinate and unreasonable dogme.who alone apprehend and sympathize with the religion of doubt which Ingersoll preaches, but also “the common wayfaring people who formerly either ware. content with implicit faith or went along quietly in the usnal forms without much thought as to the spirit which these forms symbolize. Ingersoll no longer terrifies or-shocks them, but attracts and delights them. ° . / The progress} of infidelity, as’ signalized |; by Ingersoll’s suceess, likewise denotes. the growth and spread of irreverence. » Perhaps this is the most deplorable incident of the new order of things, The danger of irreyerence isits invasive tendency. Beginning with forms it soon extends to the essence; start- ing with dogma it is apt to proceed at a rapid rate to principle, society, and the family, The infidel must. provide his own morality and impose his own restraints, No man or Kect i is his guardian, and his code of ethics as of his ownmaking. ‘The modern spirit.of Sprogress is creating sad havoe with the tra: ditions and precedents: which might con- jtinus their influence even when the inspira~ tion of the scriptures is doubted... The re- ! vision of the Biblo is to some extent an aux- iliary to Ingersollism. The great’ mass of neopie do not pause to remember, even when they Know, that the Old Testament: came to us {llrough the Hebrew and the New Testa- nit through. the Greek... - Their uliarity * with the Scriptures, be: great- or little, is © associated’ with the texts they learned in their own t language at the Sunday-school or in the home-cirele. If a Committee of wise men eun remodel these sacred «verses, and not merely adopt new words, but in some cases : change thesentiment,—as, forinstance, when. love is substituted for charity,—there is a° natural tendency to doubi the inspiration, if not the authenticity, of what has been re- garded asa Sacred Word, The process _in- terferes with the implicit, unquestioning faith with which the Scriptures nave been re- eeiyed.- It brings “contemporaneous and human judgment to bear upon a work that. has been associated with Divine origin, ‘Lhe religious Scholar can argue away this ‘seem- ing interference, but the logic of, the avez- ize man stops short at the fact that-some- hing which seems to him like irreverence’ ‘has been sanctioned by the high authorities f the Chyreh itself, ‘There is naturally great diversity .of opin= idn as to the.effect of the palpable growth of infidelity that marks our age, The ag- gressive infidel like ‘Ingersoll believes it to be an essential .and valuable part of the world’s progress, To him it denotes the downfall of supers ition and the spread of reason ant enlightenment. Th onseryatiye doubdter is inclined to deprecate the: con- tagion of infidelity. He believes. himself and most of those who have exchanged their. doubts’ with: him to be eapable of’ shaping their morals in the right direction, but fears that the removal of restraints will lead the masses to excess and riot of free thought and irresponsible actions. The churchman condemns without ‘ any, quali eation the new departure as sacrilegous | and wicked, leading toall the penalties in this’ life and the fut- uré which the strictest coonstruction of the Church ‘tenets imposes upgn the infidel and i it may be restrained: by moral .and_ social in: fluences, for; the day of. the rack and the thumb-screw, ‘the terror of the cross and the stake, are gone forever, y - One reflectior order as to the barriers which may be erected against the admitted progress of infidelity. So long as infidelity claims to proceed hand { in hand with reason, it will not suflice to expert seal-catcher’is’ almost always 4n ex-" pert: seal-catcher, even though the - father died in the boy’s infancy, and therefore could- not have taught him,” -” Nv Onin: Jenta from the savages and t the ‘|. without ° promoting & ‘splrit:o! to leave ta chancé: not only the future of the: future of. she, edge of the ‘arts may be obtained, or’ where -that - knowledze “may. “be” practically. applied. “Ail « these . may found in the‘ neighboring City of * St.” Ingersoll delivered his lecture Friday even-~ brilliancy .as to attract large. gudiences,- Summon up the ctres’ of superstition tot stay its march. ' Bob Ingersoll writes in ante ‘graphi-books nowadays’ as his creed: ep ‘school-house is my cathedral.” No Oh r-sect’ ¢an afford. to be ‘less liberal disposition ta free ‘thought cannot be! i and an added Jonging for liberty, ac ioe ma; literal, onstruction, old tradition: thréats of the< old-time Church, and the tiquated methods generally will not preyag i837 against the spirit of intidelity. The clergy, must meet liberality with liberality, and’ vestigation with investigation... ~The’ try; es worth of morality, the charms of future lite = the sentiments’ of hopé and charity, Muehs2* more than that of faith, must be invoked take the place of the ironclad theories wil which the Churches in the past enfo) orcad a their’ authority.. There has. beri’ mueh*: progress among ‘the Churches in ‘these re. spects, and there must be more if they Would:= combat infidelity... Those inclined to unbe- lief take'a practical view of things, and they: can be reached and influenced much mor by candor and the advantages of the presen life, clouded by uncertginty.as to the fut than by suppression or the penalties of soms future existence. “THE HAND OF BISMARCK. The ‘hand of Bismarck, which was go DO? ree tent in manipulating { the Berlin Congress: directing its results to suit the policy ot many,.seems to have lost:none of. its poteney: in dealing with. the policies of Europ States. It holds the reins in ‘Vienna ‘as firmly: as in Berlin. ‘Since -it dictated thé “alltangs hetween Austrig and Germany, if ‘one swish 0 to know how Austria will act in any given: emergency he has only to wait and see how: Germany will act.. The latter expresses-the opinion and anticipates the action of the fore, mer as unmistakably as Sirs. Bagnet, thé of girl, acted in. the same capucity for,her mili tary liege lord, If Austria aynounces q Bok, icy in connection with the present disturb condition of Europe, it'ls because it is Bigs marck’s policy. It Austria makes a fur thars’ moye towards Salonica, as,it now Seems, parent she will in case of trouble between: Greece and Turkey, it will be because B narcx has told Francis Joseph he can And neither Magyar, Slav, ‘nor’ Bohemia takes any exneption to the hand that is m ing him. and The hand of Bismarek i is alzo apparent in. Russia, though not to such an extent as it is? in Austria. It-will be remembered that:we printed some time since thé details of a Mi isterial Council. in-St. “Petersburg, at which’ it was. voted, the Gzar concurring, that ukase should be issued. granting to the peo- ple fhe right of deliberation ina Tepresents- tive body upon all matters concerning them,” subject, however, to the vetp of the Czar, and the duty of issuing this ukase was intrusted to Gen. Melikoff, the author of the proposi tion. That ukase has never been issued, and Gen, Melikoff -has resigned.- his seat in ‘the. Ministry. The secret of this sudden actior® is the hand of ‘Bismarck; which has. inter ~~ vened in Russian affairs. All it had to de was to notify the Czar that Germany was Ta luctant to' see anything = Ii tutional government established sia, becayse. such a political. changr. would Témove the © present grievances, of the people, would pacify’ if not altogether’ terminate Nihilism, \*:woul unite’ the people more firmly to the Gavern ment, and would restore peace anil’order in * Russia, thus enabling her to regain a condi tion of national strength and to develop re‘. sources which would . inevitably: mengeg Germany. At sight of the hand, reform W: immediately checked.” The péople were dis appointed, and now ‘terrorism has increased. tenfold. - - ‘Tha hand of. Bismarck is. now. engaged i directing the French oceupation of Typis. Bi has urged the French on. from the very out- set. Ithas cunningly notified’ them that th acquisition of ‘Tunis is a fair compensation for.the loss of “Alsace-Lorraine, and that if England had the right to take Cyprus’ they. have as good.a right to take Tunis. The hand has.seizéd the Anglo-French alliance *. and is rending itin twain. France and “En- gland are drifting farther and farther apart, and each day’s resuits make it more and mo: certain that they cannot be’ united azaing: The London Standard in a recent article, plainly sees the hand of Bismarck. . It say: ‘We must zo back to the Spanish marsingae for a parallel to the bad faith of Fruace. Ic 1s plaje, . that France has the assent, or rather the can- aivance, of Bismarck, but he is quite {nenpable *- < the naked and clumsy talsekood which pre=! ceded tne chastisement of the Kroumir. - Pared Empires see their interest. in ignoring the barefaced’ violation of public. law Teraetrated in our time, and-the cansequent disraption. of European concert reduces our Government ‘au®. Gladstone's well-known principle to jmpotence It is quite certain that if [taly: felt hersall. Strong enoygh she would deciarg war. befort twenty-four hours are past. In the same connegtion the hand of qe Marck is visible in. Italy. If I strong enough to do so, she would be i war with France before the week is out, Bismack did notrestrain her. ‘Che most that Italy could do, and England wo wid have sus tained her if it could nave been done, -was to send a note to the. Powel asking them to. meet in conyenti consider the Franco:Tunisian treaty... It wag, presented.to Germany first, and “Bismarck! hand at once suppressed the scheme. Ital: retired, and--England had nothing mo: spy. . The French will go. an until they. hi substantially annexed Tunis, which consummation Bismarck desires, since itn only weakens France, but keeps: Englat and herself apart,” The hand’ of’ Bisma seems to be potent everywhere, except in bi own Parliament, which. yotes’ against’ him~ over and over again on his own pat me; ures. * By a vote of 155 .to 127 it: recentl voted down his bill for quadrennial in: ofannual nett oe aerate . His prof: “agai it him. “His: next move, “the Tat nopoly Dill, is likely to. meet ‘wi same fate. it beging fo look as if ‘the that the people af the, Southerg. States hi short memories, and he has foolishly sought t0 lifetime. ...'The truth is, the ex-Ci nfederates di not cherish a tithe of the affection or esteem fOr. him that they do for Lee or Jackson. Mili renown was always thoir test of true‘ ‘greatness: and Davis not only. lacked this, but his ctyil d= ministration was a gonspicuous f failure: late speeoh of the ex-Confederate. New Orleans {!s by no means unanii Proyed by the Southern press. Tho: August’ (Ga.) ) Chronicle, Gnd Constituttonaltt 3058 es is ‘We think that the people of He spared, the 1 might, perhaps, haye Confederate President the pesesslty. por ea ing what Is best, at this time, uouttered Dyas ip He bas written abonk in justification of. and big ca ‘That should suffice. Ail c kinds © of” irritation ‘are’ uncalled “for,” sor portune, and’ “misplaced. Tho’ South. Js « expected: to .confess treas the graves of her bernie soldiery. But this! i riodical production of Mr. Davis to sen ne a his undying belief in the Confederacy, which ni one doubts, is baruly ‘ Just to. him-and does 10) t, howe re good to any person-::;.° ... We suspec! er, that the misconduct of only tao many af own peopie In public life bas done more: t jure the cause of the’South than.the * ‘weapons of z the enemy in war; and it has been suggested 05 ve one of our own brethren that while: the sou bad a just cause she may not have heeq nee worthy of it, or there was a providence ht feat that promised greater and grander. tl than ‘successful Datiie, Wate" Nearly in the same strain writes Henry Wa! | terson fa the Louisville Courier-Journal, but he +