Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 21, 1881, Page 4

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Iowgate, of course, says that there is no truth in the charges of extrava- gance and malfeasance; that he is the victim of designing knaves, who either forged his name to checks or raised those given by him. It may be added that this defense is regarded as rather weak. ‘Tue announcement that the British Minis- try has determined to reward half a dozen Irish members of Parliament who have given them a thick and thin support during the present session will tuke nobody who has read the history of Irish parties for the last fifty years by surprise. The. Emancipation act brought into politics a queer class of persous,—bankrupt ‘Squires, tuft-hunting attorneys, and tradesmen who got rich mostly by accident, and penniless adventur- ers. These persons spouted cheap sedition fora while in order to attract the attention of the gullible electors. They next ap- peared ascandidates,—intensely patriotic and. intensely Catholic ones. Once elected, they became the most subservient supporters of the Ministry. The penniless ones secured Colonial appointments, the tew rich ones Peerages. The persons selected for reward by Mr. Gladstone are excellent types of their class. Mitchell Henry isa rich man, vain, pompous, blustering. He has yearned fora title. In order to be elected to Parliament he became 2 Home-Ruler and a Nationalist. He ends asa Whig and asa Peer. O’Connor Power, an out-at-elbows gentleman, has been a Fenian, Home-Ruler, Parnellite,— but always a humbug. The other persons mentioned are of the same stamp as Power. to in to: in mi di re to follow en comes the deluge: If. the advance in breadstuffs and .produeo had been more gradual and legitimate, there would not be the same dangér of reaction. Wheat and corn may ‘ultimately prove to be worth the prices now fixed for future deliv- ery; but that possibility does not exclude the chances of a panicky break in the meantime consequent upon a nearly, common impulse among those who have bought to realize im- mediate ‘profit on their speculative invest- ments. . : Tur Trmune has no desire to influence anybody either to buy or to sell; and, in- -deed, speculators are not often governed by the reason of things. But it is well enough look ahead to a revulsion which is cer- tainly not uncommon under conditions like the present, and'to anticipate the how! that will be set up in case it shallcome. In this way. the responsibility for such a disaster may be coolly fixed where it properly be- Jongs.. The amateur speculators who rush on small capital to make big profits by simply betting on the future can blame no- body but themselves if they get wiped ont by piling up investments upon investments, bets upon bets, until the market becomes heavy aud tumbles over. FUTURE BRITISH REFORMS. The British Government has just passed through an agitation which resulted in ma- terially changing the old feudal land system Ireland,—a system which has resisted and defied the progress which long since re- ferined the same system in France, in Ger- any, in- Austria, Holland, Belgium, Sean- navia, and even in Spain. Jt was 2 great moral as well as economical victory for Lib- erty, all the more remarkuble because the English feople have never been moved by any particular affection for the Irish. The fact that this great boon was extorted TuE Tnripune a few days ago published the announcement of the completion of the Douglas Monument, with a description of The initial proceedings looking to this monument date back to June, 1861, so that from the beginning to the com- pletion covered exactly twenty years. 1t the finished work. from the landed monopoly of England is an indication that English conservatism, or the standstill policy, is no longer able to resist the radical or progressive demands of ne age, and that one after another of a series of re- form measures: may be expected to agitate the public mind of England, and that event- must be remembered, however, that it was subjected to innumerable delays, and the eredit of the undertaking is due to the ef- forts and labors of the artist, Mr. Leonard W. Volk. To him it has been a matter of love,—love for the work as an artist de- ‘ous of completing such 2 successful and finished specimen of art, and love for the memory of the statesiran whose name and u n m ually they will be adopted. Fortunately for ne Liberal party in that country, they have at the head of the Government therea man of great. power and ability, who has the courage to Jead wherever justice and truth may demend. Mr. Gladstone, lrowever, is ow 72 years of age, and the severe de nands on his strength and health during the ; last few years may not permit nim to push fame are thus perpetuated. The completion of this monument. and we statue by which it is surmounted is 4. event in the history not only. of “Mr. ougtas, but also’ of Chieago. The trast of land, embracing all Greeland Park, was pnr- chased. by Mr. Dovs!t8 for something less than $3,000, Wi~? he Jaid off the park into blocks and d-*eW4Ys he retained a site on pT hime : * @, sen he died she conveyed it to the State of gl ‘Alg—Stated Conclave 3 Bett worciock: The surder, be conferred. Visiting Sir Kalebis ay DAVID GOODMAN, Reconier. ORIENTAL CONSISTOR: sated. ‘Assembly will ba he 3g Assban bly wll 4 ‘Aug, 8 in Comsbstorad all PATETTE CHAPTER, NO. % It A Mie fates een ere eats, ME i Vistting Contpanlo®ya, ke PORSSTIS WM. 'BRYAR, Seery’ WAND’ Setucaday aren= aes LUO COMM vieve Tuesday 1 EOE wore will Vege Che Fumnent. Come ing, Aug. 3, Isl. Be TIFFANY, Recorjer. > = F. & A. M. fe: * COVENANT LOD% t Kinzic-at, Friday cial Communleators Giciock. Important business. evening. AUS OS Balty invited. ting brethren O-."” HUGH MASON, W. SL aL WAIDTe: SUND.» AUGUST 21, 1851, ‘Tame wil the late Mrs. Millard Fillmore - the we ie President Fillmore, was filed -m the Prate Court at Butfalo yesterday. It bequest? t? Public and charitable institu- tions at-t $50,000, and disposes of an estate valued’ $300,000. Ty French Military Commission which hhageen appointed at the request of our orument to participate in the centen- | j way. The break in wheat for delivery in nj celebration of the surrender of York- +*n consists of Gen. Boulanger, head of 4é Commission, Col. Bossan of tho dragoons, “wieut-Col Blondeil of the artillery, Maj. epusy, and Capt. Masson. Iris reported from Berlin that the German Ultramontane leaders have lately received instructions from theatican to support Bis- marck’s candidates at the forthcoming elec- ‘tions. Acting apparently on these instruc- | about $1.3! tions the Catholic journals are recommend- ing their leaders to support Conservatism in ‘districts where the Ustramontanes have little chance. The Socialists will hardly elect more than half a dozen candidates. They will muster sufficient strength, however. to > necessitate second ballots in many districts. At the second elections they will be more likely to support the party of Bismarck than the Liberals, because of the former’s prom- + ised support of semi-Socialistic ideas, Ocn foreign dispatches announced a few days ago the betrothal of King Louis of Ba- varia to the Archduchess Valerie, the young- est daughter of the Emperor of Austria. As the young lady in question is but 13 years of “age, and her Royal suitor 36, this incongru- ous engagement, if it iscorrectly stated, will have to.be set down as another of the Ba- varian King’s eccentricities. He has been upon the throne seventeen years, aud is rull of crotchets and general nonsense. His principal ambition isto hear Wagner’s op- eras by himself, to accomplish which he has royally subsidized the composer of the fut- ure. He studiously conceals jiimself from his subjects, lets his Kingdom rule itself, Bleeps all day, and amuses himself rowing on i alake at night and playing the flute. Llis grandfather was the silly and antiquated lover of Lola Montez, and -his father was a promiscuous lover of everybody. The pres- ent King has all along been supposed to be a woman-hater, but this absurd alliance shows that at last he has succumbed to the univer- ‘sal passion, and with exactly the degree of sense that might be expected of this Royal ninny and quite too utter esthete. Forrser examination and investigation of Capt, Howgate’s administration as disburs- ing officer of the Signal Service leave little doubt that that gentleman has used $100,000 of the money of the United States for his ‘own personal purposes. Like all. persons | who have made free with public funds, it j appears that Howgate has. lived in most’ luxurious: style, entertained his friends --most royally, and paid extravagant prices for everything which he used. He sold a steam yacht to the Government for $20,000, for the ostensible purpose of Jaying cables. It was never used for that purpose, however. . It was fitted up as a ‘Pleasure yacht, in which Howegate and his “boon companions and friends had many a merry time. It was elegantly furnished. ‘Uncle Sam paid the bills, An island at the mouth of the St. Mary’s River, owned by the Gay Club, of which Howgate was a member, hhad a house erected on it at the expense of the Government. The medical stores fur- nished for the Signal Service by the Goyern= jment were not good enough for the gay Cap- tain, He bought $500 worth froma friendly i | {illinois as a site for his grave and for this } heavy break. It was just about this date of j Which we refer after allowing for a-depre- monument, now completed. The remainder of the tract is now covered with improve ments, and the loton which the monument now stands is all. of his once extensive: es- tate in this eity with which the name of Mr. Douglas is identified. The monument with its statue fitly preserves his identity with the city and the State he so ardently loved and so long served. It was Mr. Volk’s good fortune to be personally and intimately ac- quainted with both Mr. Douglas and Mr. Lincoln, and his abilities asa sculptor have been shown in his admirable representation | of their persons in marble. His own fame is commemorated in his representations of these two great Miinoisans. m hi th wu THE WILD SPECULATION IN GRAIN. There has been extraordinary speculation durjng*the past few weeks in the grain mar- kets everywhere, but especially in Chicago. Prices have been run up at a rate almost un- precedented in rapidity. Wheat and com have been the leading features in the trad- ing, but the craze has extended to nearly kinds of breadstuffs and produce. The ex- perience of the past points to an early and ti a : v the month nine years ago that what was known as the Lyon corner in wheat gave | August was more than 40 cents, and the de- cline in price of wheat for delivery the next month (September) was about 12 cents ‘per bushel, within two days. On the afternoon of Aug. 19 of that year there was a decline of 2 cents. The highest price touched by wheat at that time was about 81.57 per bushel, but gold was then worth about 115; the present price of August wheat is per bushel on a guld basis, or very nearly as high as it was at the period to By wi sy loaded the bulk of their wheat by selling for September delivery (and the fact,that such a course would give them a handsome profit in their deal is a reason for believing that they have done so), then the persons engaged in that deal will not be so much interested in warding off the anticipated break, and will certainly uot invest their profits in an effort to avert it. If such a decline in the market as is an- ticipated shall come about within the next few days a universal how! will go up against th | | i { i i ! { | fraud andaswindle. ‘The fact.will.be, nev- | | Chfeago and against the Board of Trade. That has also been the experience of the past. The fleeced lambs will bleat pitifully, and the whole transaction will be denounced as a | G ertheless, that Chicago and the Board of Trade will be entirely innocent of all re- sponsibility for the disaster, and that the people who may lose weir money can prop- erly blame nobody but themselves. It may be admitted that there is merit in high prices for grain in view of the short crops of both wheat and corn; but the extent of the for- eign demand is still an unknown quantity, and no condition short of an expected fam- ine would warrant the insane rush for grain which has pushed up prices for present and future delivery at so precipitate a rate. Neither the “Cincinnati clique” nor any other combination of operators could have manipulated the market in this fashion by themselves. What is known in Bonrd-of-Trade slang as ‘the country,” which means the outsiders living In Chicago and elsewhere, has been buying the stuff ever since it reached a figure sufficiently high to ni a ch But the old doctrine of fucilis descensus, ¢te., applies to the Board of Trade operations as well as to Hades. The downward rush is always more formidable and perilous than the upward rush. The lambs scramble to get ahead in the effort to sell, and trample each other underfoot in the ensuing con- fusion. Ina period of excitement there are always a great- many “limited orders,”— orders to buy ata certain figure which seems low, and to sell at a certain figure which seems high. Brokers buy and sell’ for a commission. When a nun- ber of‘ their customers unload, which } may be depended upon at notable signs of weakening or under limits that have wi a been fixed arbitrarily, a stampede is almost si Parliamentary laws by the remov: legislation, and prevent a vote. apportionment needs a radical revision, Board of Magi these reforms 10 2 snecessful accomplish- nent, But should he be spared to his coun- try several measures of refuzm may be con- dered as certain to be propoled, and as cer- tain to be earried, by the force aad power of the illustrious Minister. One of these reforms is the revision of of the whieh jeefoposed to build a residenee for pewer of a minoriay to control the muiority. imse-' This lot he deeded to his wife, and | There is no proceeding known in the En- lish Parliament as the arrest of debate by a vote demanding the previous question. The tinority at present may by dilatury motions and interminable debate prevent: the House of Commons ever coming to a vote on the passage of a Dill. members it is possible for minority to ex- In 2 House of over 600 aust the time of a session, and suspend all A. modifica- ion of the American “previous. question” whereby the House may be brought to a vote has become a necessity in the English Parliament, espeei; y if any enlargement of he Constitution by reform legislation is to be had. A second reform is that of reconstructing the Parliamentary districts, 2 reapportion- ment of representatives, and the abolition of the rotton boroughs. The last reform in English representation was in 1852, nearly fifty years ago, but the representation at this me is most extraordinary. Here are some of the’ inconsistencies: There are forty- three boroughs, witha population less than 000 each, and with only 31,672 voters com- bined, which elect forty-three members of 1) Parliament, while the City of Shettield, with population equal to all the forty-three bor- oughs, has only two members in Parliament. hirty-three other boroughs have 273,020 population and thirty-three members, while seventeen cities, with a population of 2,204,- $89, have exactly the same representation. here are 191 boroughs, having a population of 8,191,929, who have 246 members of Par- liament, while \ sizfy other with -only 114 members. county representation the same gross injus- tice is shown, ions, with a population of 7,896,287, have 164 members, while fifty-seven other, counties, boroughs, population of 9,500,000, “have In tho distribution of a Thus, 102 counties and divis- ith 10,582,000 population, have only. 19 embers, or, aggregating counties and bor- oughs, there are: | ciated currency. The experience of that Represen- time is certainly a fair indication of what | | Districts. Popwation, “tation. may happen, and a heavy break in the mar- | jg Conor ae : Ftd ket is undoubtedly anticipated by the pro- — fessional operators and brokers. If it be Dota esgsieee aa) true that the ‘Cincinnati clique” have un- | 60 boroughs, ete. Th 37 counties, ete 19 ‘Total. 0,088,893 It is needicss to say that such a system of A hird measure of reform, intimately con- nected with the one Inst mentioned, is a further revision of the suffrage, and either the adoption of manhood suffrage or an ex- tension of a amore liberal qualification to all the voters of the Kingdom ali Jar basis will necessarily follow the reform in the representation. An en- ement of the suffrage upon a uniform A much-needed reform demanded by the people of the counties is a change from the rand Jury government, as in Ireland, to the ‘ates, as in England; or a ore radical change from these to County Commissioners or local Legislatures, as. in this country, Canada, and Australia, Among the measures now pressed upon public attention by thé more radical part of the people of the Kingdom is one looking to the subsiantial abolition of the rule of pri- mogeniture and entail, and a simplification and cheapening of the processes for the sale and transfer of Jand, matter of practical nece: where, by the Land bill just passed, there is This will become a ty in Ireland, strong inducement held out to landlords to sell and to tenants to purchase the lands. At present under the English law the cost makes a transfer of land a most oppressive proceeding. In the absence of any registra- tion of titles the purehase of land requires a legal investigation of the most thorough haracter, the mortgages, liens, settlements, and other charges upon the property being attract general attention. When the out- | secret, and not matter of. record. siders rush to buy the markets go up; when | ‘This will require an enforeed ree- they wish to scll the markets go down. | ord, . which is precisely . what the landowners do not want, as it will expose to the public eye the actual condition of estates hich are now only suspected of being large- jy embarrassed by these settlements. Such record, however, will destroy one great source of income to a class of lawyers, and reduce the cost of the transfer of rea to acomparatively nominal sum. ‘This re- form will become more imperative as part of the other and kindred measure, which can- not long be delayed, and that is a bill extend- ing to England and Seotland the reforms in the land tenure recently enacted for Ireland. estate All these measures arg of ,the most. pro- | &ressive character, They are naturally and properly connected to the extent that the adoption of the one must prepare the iy for i | fromtio end of their re: the others, The reform of the representa- tion in Parliamentof necessity includes the reform and enlargement of the suffrage; these reforms will resulf'in the great increase of the represetitation of the large cities, and and other give .to the farm laborers now disfranchised population a _polit- ical power now denied, and giving to the Liberat and ‘Radical parties a large preponderance in Parliament. With this se- cured ascendancy inthe House of Commons, the other ineasures facilitating the transfer of real estate and removing from the tand of -the whole Kingdom the list bonds of feu- dalism will be a matter of course. s No part of these reforms, however, will be accomplished without a struggle such as England has not witnessed since the date of the Reform bill in 1832. Should Mr. Glad- stone have good health and strength he- will manage the reform on behalf of the people without any doubt of its success. But with- out him it may require time to.develop the statesman and the leader who will be able to supply his place either in point of ability or in public confidence. CONCERNING THE NEXY PANIC. A paper on “ Panies” was read at the late Convention of the Bankers at Niagara Falls by Mr. John Thompson, who is said to be the oldest member of the Bankers’ Associa- tion, Mr. Thompson sounded a warning of danger; he thought he discerned the “ signs of an approaching ‘blizzard,’ ”” and declared that “‘panics oceur every decade.” Com- umenting upon this statement, the Lvening Postsay But then he fs mistaken about tho period of recurrence in panics. It is ten years in England; inthis country It appears. to be nbout twenty: years. If wenre to judge from the history of American panies, the ext ought uot to come before 18), or thereabouts. It is very probable that the War and the abundance of irredeemable Paper precipttuted that of 1873, aud that in the ordinary course of speculation’ we should not have bud it before 1877, or_ twenty years. from that of 1857, as that of 11857 was About twenty years from that of I8ii, Tho reason of the greater staying power of American specuiators is probably to be found. in the more rapid in- crense of population through immigration, and the greater extent and productiveness. of the tields offered to capital In this country. These two things, combined perhaps with the inore sanguine temper of the people, sustain speculu- tion twice us long us in England. Just now these agencies are more than us powerful. Immigration is going ou on an and tho etfeet of existi production Inthe F n addition to this, too, not oaly has the produ: cing power of the South been greatly increased, but, what is perhaps of more tmportance in i bearing on panics, its consuming power has greatly incroa: Tho nese Ket ns buyers with varied wan money to spend, And we must not overlook the faet that the rate of interest Js for this country still unprecedented! low, which shows that though the speculators insy be alrendy display- ing great. reeklesness they are still u long We liave quoted this paragraph at length because itisa remarkably strong presenta- tion of the reasons for believing Chat the next panic will not cume for-several years. The conditions in resard to immigration, in- creased consumption, development of the country, especially the low rate of interest ; which prevails, are all more reassuring than the clement of periodicity, which certainly cannot be fixed with any accuracy. Another excellent ground for the hope that the next panic may be averted beyond the period at which the panic of 1873 vccurred isto be found in the fact that our eurrency is in much better shape thin it ever was beforg at any time since the country was settled,—a | condition which is caleulated both to post- pone a panic-and to break its foree when it shall come, The nearness or remoteness of the next panie, however, will be largely determined in Wall street. Mad speculation will hurry it up; a conservative course will retard it. only thousands behind them, and by their betting force stocks up to fictitlous prices, they are doing all they can to precipitate a panic. The assault on the President, though deplorable from every point of view, was an accidental agent in restraining the Wall street gamblers. It seemed to open their eyes to the sensitive condition of the stock market. It is to be hoped that the brakes have been put on, and that the speculative machine will “slow up” alitue. In such an event the menace of a panic will be post- poned many year THE NOBLE RED MAN. It is not to be denied that the American people, so called, y, the descend- ants of the Old-World colonists who seized and possessed the country,—have made an exhaustive study of the noble red man. They have “traded” with him and cheated him in the bargain; pensioned him and then robbed him of the peusion money; made treaties with him and broken them; given him reservations and bought them back from him. They have tried to Christianize him, tried to civilize him, tried to shoot him. Churechmen have prayed for hin, and-been scalped in the very!act of pious devotion. ‘The Government has sent Envoys Extraordi nary and Ministers Plenipotentiar and he kas inurdered them at the council board. Cooper made him a hero of romance in many a charming story, and Longfellow has transformed the string of paleface scalps at his belt into a chaplet of savage glory encircling his bronzed head. He has been the medium through which taxes have found. their devious way from the purse of the cifi- zen to the pocket of the Indian contractor; has adorned literature, illustrated the uncer- tainties of diplomacy, and constitutes an enduring memorial of the beauties of undis- criminating Christian charity. Meantime travelers among the savage tribes who have eseaped with their scalps have told us of the noble red man’s habits and customs, of his myths, legends, and superstitions; and archwologists have studied his history in his mounds, statues, itiscriptions on rocks, and the remains of his idols and temples, his rude weapons, implements, and domestic utensils. At last a Chicago author, Mr. Rushton M. Dorman, has, with infini ins, compiled, superstitions, and legends, and n to deduce therefrom the fact that all primitive people, however widely sepa- rated by space, have started from tha same mental and moral puint,and,other things being equal, traveled the same road of progress. Of the “red race” he says: “All stages of progr are faithfully represented among them, from the most sa e root-digger to the most civilized Peruvian.” . “ALL primitive religious belief is polytheistic. AI suyage tribes are full of the terror of invisi- ble spirits which have been liberated by death. These spirits fill all nature, animate and inanimate. “hey are in the air, the wind, the storm; in the rock, the hill, the vale; in the river, the waterfall. They transmigrate into human beings, animals, plants, and even into inautmate stones, idols, | and heavenly bodies, which are supposed to be animate thereafter. Hence originates the worship of ancestors, and also of ani- mals, plants, stones, idols, and the heavenly bodies.” Longfellow has given expression fo the sentiment in the line: I houses wherein men have lived. and died ure haunt- ed houses.” To the noble red man’s appre- hension the air, the water, the forest, the mountain, the valley, is the abdde of multi- tudinous spirits, Those spirits inspire him, awe bim into a state of abject fear, and exalt him to a state of savage, remorseless rage. Says Mr. Greenhalgh: “Att night we heard a great noise as if ye houses had alliallen, butt itt was only ye inhabitants driving away ye ghosts of ye murthered.”” “The Ohio tribes were accustomed to haye When men bet millions who have | i | & system of rewards and punishments. coffin over the eyes and mouth to let the spirits pass in and out.” ‘The spirits are malignant or benedicent, accord- ing to the faney of the living. ‘They attack their poultry and cattle and cause death, or become harmless fairies, thousands of them finding shelter in a flower,.or are transimi- grated into: insects. The Ojibway detects their tiny voices in the insects’ hum.” But the uiris as full ofdemonsasof fairies. The Devil of the Indian is notso magnificent as Milton's Satan or Githe’s Mephistopheles, but he is quite as malignant. He is the. author of all evil, and the savages believe in him and tremble. Ile intliets pain, and pain is “the evil spirits’ arrow.” The Indian believes in The brave warrior goes to the land of the bnffalo, but the coward who has no sealps dangling at his belt is consigned to the abode of rep- tik ‘The good of Yucatan repose beneath the umbrageous shade Of the evergreen tree, but “the wieked are hungry and cold.” ‘The different tribes provide different roads to the splrit world. ‘The Chibchas had a reat river that souls had to pass over on floats made of cobwebs.” With them the spider was consequently a sacred insect; they never killed it. “In the burial cere- jmonies of the natives of Alaska if too many tears were shed they said that the road of the dead would be muddy, but a few tears just laid the dust.’ ‘The theory of the transmigration of souls led to queer customs. “ Algankin women Who desired to become mothers flocked to the couch of those about to die in hope that the vital principle, asit passed-from the body, would enter theirs,” and “many tribes buried dead children by the wayside that their souls might enter mothers passing by, and so be born again’? 2... “A young Eskimo woman had been a whale anda seal. When she wasa seal she was caught, killed; and her head thrown beneath a bench. From ; thence she slipped into the body of the wife of the man who harpooned her and was born ahuman being.” The) us worshiped the spirits of the dead. ‘they cut their flesh with knives, and prayed to and conversed with the spirits, which were supposed to be present in their skulls Widows brought their work and sat for hours in company with and talked to the skulls of their late husbands. The Peru- Vians had a custom of carrying the dried cory of their parents around the fields, “ that they might see the state of the crops.” Living persons are worshiped on account of some physical peculiarity, “ In the centre of the Chinpanese army was a woman, aged and immoderately fat, who was. esteemed by them a goddess, and had promised them the victory.” -, The sayage’s religion abounds in instances of immaculate conception. Montezuma was worshiped as a god by the New-Mexicans. “He was immaculately conceived by a drop of dew falling on the exposed breast of his mother as she lay asleep in a beautiful grove.” According to the Dakotas the Cre- ator made man in this manner: *“ ‘The earth being finished, he took a deity, one of his own offspring, and, grinding him to powder, sprinkled it upon the earth, and this. produced. many worms, tnd these matured into infants, which became full-grown Dakotas.” This j creator is represented as most happy “when he beholds scalps warm and reeking - with blood.”” ‘The Okauagaus have a legend somewhat like the story of Noah and his ark. There was war and tumult, and no peace in the is! and home, whereat Scomalt, a female god, was wroth. ‘She rose up in her might and drove her rebellious subjects to one end of the island, and broke off the piece of land on which they were huddled and pushed it out to sea to drift whither it would. This float- ing island. tossed to and fro and buffeted by the winds tillallbut two died. A man and woman escaped ina canoe and reached the mainiand, and from these the O kauagaus uredescended.”” ‘The savages were devoted to idolatry. “To Supply the demand of te natives of the West Lndia Islands for idols one island near Hayti had a population of idolmakers.” ‘The Ojibways had a touchingly pathetic custonl in memory of dead children. * When a child dies among the Ojibways they cut some of its hair and make a little doll, which they call the doll of sorrow. ‘This lifeless object takes the place of the deceased child. ‘This the mother carries for a year. She places it near her at the fire and sighs often when gazing on it. She carries it wherever she goes. ‘They think that the child’s spirit has entered this bundle and ean be helped by its mother. Presents and sacriiicial gifts aremaie toit. Toys and useful implements are tied to the doll for its use.” From constructing idols that could speak (by the mouth of the pri came to fancy that their idols could: walk, and they had to contine some of then to pre- vent them froin running away. Their idols consumed food, or the priests did it for them. ‘They were supposed to possess the sagacity, the wants, and the passions of human beings. ‘The story of Standing Rock on the Upper Mi wi is more touching, if not less tragic, than that of Lot’s wife aud the pillar of salt, “A young Aricara woman, wife of a eclebrated brave, was spirit-broken be- eause her husband took a second wife. She went out on the prairie and sat broken- hearted and refusing food until she died, and was turned into that rock. All of the women of the tribes located thereabout re- pair to this rock and- make their offerings whenever they are afflicted with domestic «diticulties,” {t is not without reason that Mr. Dorman maintains that the noble red man is much like the noble white man in the primitive stages of his development. A MUCH-MARRIED SWINDLER. ‘The career of the swindler and bigamist, Merritt, with a dozen aliases, who was re- cently arrested at Lynn, Mass., by Pinker- ton, woukl point a very important and sig- nificant moral, 1f only there were anyone to heed it. This scoundrel has lived for years upon his wils, and madea gvod living ap- parently. He has had no local habitation or permanent abiding place, but has traveled over the country upon passes, either forged or obtained upoh false pretenses. In 1879 he swindled a bank in beloit, Ka In the same he swindled banks in A bama. Three years ago he swindled several people and banks in Missouri, and when ar- rested his trunk was found full of burglars’ tools and forgers’ implements, and dispatches showlng he was about to issue counterfeit money. This precious scoundrel’s operations were not confined to obtaining money. by swin- dling and forgery. He was an adept in mar- rying, and he inarried governesses, widows, young women, and respectable middle-aged women, and lived with them just long enough | to be able to forge drafts upon their friends and relatives or borrow money from them, and then he left them. The record.of his marital adventures is almost ludicrous. -In “May last he advertised. for a governess, and received ‘answers from 2a Miss Turpin, of Richmona, Va., and Mrs. De Hart, a minis- ter’e widow, at Lakewood, N. J. Ie made a proposition of marriage to the former, and to bind it settled upon her by wil! $30,000. ‘They were married July 20, and he imme- diately secured Miss ‘Curpin’s brother's in- dorsement on forged drafts amounting to $1,000. Meanwhile, during his evurtship of Miss Turpin, he was making arrangements } aqui for marriage with Mrs. De Hurt, end ef- fected it July U1, nine days before the Turpin wedding,’ and crowned his nup- tials by borrowing a considerable amount from his unsuspecting father-in-law. He then took his Lakewood wife on a bridal trip, and left her in Washington, saying that he wished to go to Fredericksburg and see his sick child. He went straight to Rich- mond and married Miss Turpin, as we have said. ‘Then he took his Richmond wife on a bridal tour, and with all the coolness in the world jwent to Washington, where his Lake- wood wife was waiting for him. Ife left the Richmond wife on the train, saying he would be back immediately, and went to see tte Lakewood wife. Meanwhile the train start- ed off with the Richmond wife, and he tele- graphed her he would mect her at Jersey City. Then he sent the Lakewood wife to Lakewood, saying he would soon rejoin her. AtJersey City he met the Richmond wife and took her to Albany, where he negotiated some more forged drafts. Thence he took her to Albion, N. ¥., and sent her home to Richmond, saying he would soon join her. Instead of that, he went to ‘Toronto and swindled some more banks, and finally turned up in Lynn, Mass., where Pin- kerton grabbed him. -Besides these two women, he married two women in New York City and borrowed money from both his mothers-in-law, a woman in Paines- Ville, O., a woman in Jersey City,.a woman in Philadelphia, a woman in Little Rock, py Ark., and had he not been arrested would have shortly married the daughter of an ex- Governor of Missouri. In all, this venerable scoundrel, verging on 60, a grandfather in years, and with no hair on his head to speak of, has married fourteen young women in | about three years’ time, and never lived with ! any of them but two or three days, though in that time he has succeeded in borrowing i money from their “sisters, cousins. and thei aunts,” and even that ordinarily unitapressi ble elass, his fourteen mothers-in-law. So far asthe marrying carcer of the rascal concerned, however pitiable it may be to hi dupes, it is impossible to consider it in any { { the jaw of Morrison { spectrally, of rights to which they were ce: . was u callow youth whose entire out gated and weapons bad been pald for by tho vee eed zens whom he was 0 industriousiy enmeeet™ insulting. If a pienie-encampmentis aiene® 1y essential to the happiness of our soldien < private property be selected for the seene of ned event. Long Jokn’s farm would answer oe? Purpose. ‘The boys could roam over ity eT aeres, chuse tho bounding Durham bullsere eet meudows, and batho in the limpid waters cre? rippling canal whieh flows near bg. Me ee? Worth Js a publie-spirited citizen, ant we doubtless be pleased to have dou © the bors pay hime ‘Tite following are some of the express of approval of subscribers to the Cool atts : slapping the mouth of Bill Morrison: | et for Witattxetoy, 0., Aug, Cincinnati Commerciai for tive 5-100 dollars ( It Herewith find ttt 3) tO apply om the fund for the rel ¢C. @ bundred and five: genuine names. . The matter wi entiongy ue our Soldiers’ Reunton ‘Neatloned afternoon, aud the peaple Hoe! setgrtay undersigned thicker than arokey SfeuOd thy wagon Of u cireus,—ice quit from haustion. A great any insisted oo money. ‘IT could bave assured coe T ex. Beopl i would nev meas thom contribute what they Dleised, Ceo i have never wanted for uny home 4 spot in this country where thers qlee leat friends of our President than in Chee mee ty. ‘The reunion was grand syuton Voun- subscription paper was healed as followsy «yt hereby azree to give one cent for the sarh? of paying the tine and costs of C. A. Cone os slupping the motith of the villain Georg 22 son. We sincerely hope that tho slay sos such a nature as to Keep the mouth of ns, oe ina sting the bulance of his neural tee se spectfully, Gronce Dest CINCINNATI, Aug. 5.—Inclosed ph i one veut, us'my Subscriotion to tho scatd Cook: Fund.” It isa pity that Ste. Cook beg gt 4n fron fist, so that be could have his “ae subject for Hudes” out in more style,” Stil What be did, he deserves credit, and ip eee fined $1,000 tor the same ofense a few man’s Work ou Peart etreet could easily raise ees amount. Should bo plewsed to send yon get of rope for the next engugement Your ot WH Baepen Gneesrrecn, 0., Ang. &—Thore wi devout wis amcniet those whom we gst sivi { upon that the pergonal injuries | } rison’s bead, and eave to - mouthed Morrison bid been much grantee the only fuult found with Col. Cook was for no doing the job up ina more complete manuee Had be started un embryo tunnel through Mor | inn tew of his ribs the subscription would buve been much larger’ Te 4 nutber of eases the subscribers wanted to bay more thanacent, but, with thar modesty ‘other way than a humorous one, fora man } who'can get ahead of fourteen mothers-in- | law In three years’ time has achieved « feat | which can only be relegated to the highest | walks of comedy. i ‘The arrest of the man, however, dispels all | the illusions, and now the moral stands out | plainly. The fourteen women-whom he has | recently miurricd were all young, and good- | look! und respectable, bit they were eager | and willing to marry this old man, though he Was a stranger to them, without inquiring | who he was, or what he was deing, or where he was going, or what were his family con- nections, or what was his character, merely beeause he professed to be rich, and they thought they were about to move into a sphere of life where they could sport their silks and diamonds, and ride in their carriages, and make a sensation in soviety, and live without work. To all appearances their friends and advisers, were equally indiffer- ent, and only looked at his financial preten- sions. . Ile was 2 good catch, and fourteen of them caught on, and now have the poor consolation of knowing that they were silly gudgeons who were hooked by a vulgar swindler, forger, and counterfeiter. ‘The nar- rative ot his career only shows that there is try. and respectable women too, who are crazy to live without work and to make asplurge that they are ready to jump at any it that appears to be gilded, and to marry anything in man-shape that pretends to have money, without stopping to inquire into his antecedents or real character. The ratio in this case of 14 to 1 shows that there is a surplus of this silly, reckless class, and that when the ostensibly rich person appears, though he may be old as Methusaleh or ugly: as Caliban, he has only to solicit matri- ; monial contracts to have them filled, all over the country, without ‘any in- ies. as to the party of the first part. And, vice versa, the career of the precious rascal and the conduct of his dupes intimates that this same class of very good and very respectable women think that they would demean themselves by marrying a poor man upon his merits and running fhe risk of haying to work. The amount of un- happiness, even under the most favorable circumstances, of regret, and of bitter com- punction that the victiins of these one-sided and injudicious marriages haveto underzo seems to be-no bar to others, howev Where there is so inuch temptation lying about they seem to fancy they are derelict if they do not yield to it, and so rush blindly in, and where one succeeds in getting her prize the others pay a bitter penalty for their rashness and silly ambition. Merritt’s fourteen - victims ought to be warnings agal: marrying for money, but the silly game will go on all the same. : AN English journal has the following ob- servations on the medical qualities of despised buttermills: Fora summer beverage there can be nothing more healthy and strengthening. than bytter- milk. It is excellent for weak or delicate sto: uchs, and far Letter a3 a dinner drink than tee, teu, or water, sud, unlike them, does not retard but rather aids digestion. A celebrated physician once suid that if e one knew the value of buttermilk as a drin would be more who drink so. essively of other beverages and further compared its effects: Been the sys- tem to the clenning out of a coo! ‘store that aving hus been clozged up witk nshes tha i through, fil up every crevic + Sayipg that the human system the stove, and collects and gathers re: ter that cun in no way besexterminat the system so cifectually as by drinkh milk. It is also a spevitie remedy: tor dig soothes and quiets the nerves, and is very nolent to those who are troubled with sleeples- 5 ‘ is like se mat erg There fs something strange in the fact that persons who are fond of buttermilk never tire of singing its praises, while those who ure not fond of it never weury of wondering how some people can drink it, So far as is possible, poo- ple should overcome their aversion to it. and learn to driok it for bealth’s sake. One gentie- mith of our acquaintance is so extremety fond of it that we knew him one time to drink about | three glasses, then set his glass dows’ with a thud, exclaiming earnestly a8 he smucked_ bis lips: “That's food and raiment botn.”. While another buttermilk enthusinst made the state- ment once that where the liver has become tife- less from torpidity and inaction, und is too dead to perform its functions, buttermilk will enus x new one to grow in. Whatever exaggerate statements may have been made cogcerning Duttermilk, 1t3 medical properties cannot be overrated, and it should be more freely used by all who can zet it. Every one who values good health should drink buttermilk every day in} sate weather, and let tex, coffee, und water alone. For the benefit of those who are not already aware of It, we may add that in the cuurning the first process of digestua {8 gone throush, muiking it one of tho easiest and quickest of all things to digest. it makes gastric juice, and contains properties that readily assimilate witb tt, with little or no wear upon the digestive orzar a THe Governor has informed the State militia that on xecount of a non-appropriation of funds for that purpose the usuul ennuul en- cammpmicnt of the troops will not. be held this year. On the whole, this decision, although an unpl t one to some of the younger citizen- soldiery, will really be of benctit to the major- ity, Anencampment of militia is praeticaliy a huge picnic, and productive of no possible good. ‘The citizens of Chicago take a pride in the two. militia regiments of this city, and have always been found ready to contribute Uberally for thoir support, but the cncampment at the South Park two years ago created a very disazreeable impression in the minds of muny.. The eatch- penny 2i-cent admission-fee arrangement was in exceedingly bud taste, especially when’ tho {uct that tho cump was pitched on public ground is tuken Into consideration, and tho spectacle of: men who pald thousands of dollars in taxes every year being prevented at the point, of the bayonet from entering a park which be- Jonged wholly and exclusively tu the public was not an edifying one, especially when the ‘person who thus debarred people from the enjoyment and honestness which characterize all reporters, | Ctscixnatr, j the conduct of Ci we refused more thay the limited amount, Tho subscribers take ug thelr appreciation of Cook when he slapped the mouth of George Morrison for saying he hoped President would die, and thoir detestationot the spirit uf the inasistrate who fined him, and who could not see in the act of Capt. Cook an expression of the seatiment of tho America people, Democratic as well us Republican. Wicarss Buicx, this means of om Tipe and { WaAysNEsvVILte, Ind., Aug. 9.—T have the honor to inclose $1, with a list of 1 names, subscribe } ers to the U. A. Cook Fund. ‘Tnis is ourgecond | Ust. Our fret, by some mistuke, was credited in i this day's Commercial to Cincinnati. Very few + bave declined subscribing, and most all wished | to be able to do tore. ‘One stuld old Quaker | said that his only objection to the whole matter thut ne did not hit him hard enough. ‘Truly. rs, J. A. Keanyer, —What should be Aug. 6 Fatnvovsr, W. Va ; done with the villain Georse Morrison? “May be j De eaten by a serpent, the serpent by a ‘skunk, 4 | the skunk in the Devil's belly, the Devil in Hel | the door locked and the key lost; and may he chained in the south corner of Hell. and may the | { northern winds blow ashes in. his eyes forever und forever, aud may God forever damn him. " Own Sorprer, Of the Seventh West Virginia Voteran Volunteer Ine ; fantry. ———— : IxpiaNavotis, Ind., Aug. 19.—This even ing Frank Nye, the swindler, horse-thief, ete, ‘over whose ture tha authorities are exult! nt for a Times man und said to him: Miya name ig Fred W. and in 1873 twas the vest { known man in the City of Chicago. Atthattime { Twas beud-centre of the mechanics’ trade | usion, Torgunized that grand parade on the | Sith of May of that year, and after the proces | sion had waited for aa hour anda half on Hale j Sted strect for Mayor Meshll to take bis seat 10 | the carriage, as he had promised, it was T who | galloped over to his ollice, wuere’ the committe was begging him to cote, and it was me that , took bint by the ear anu shoulder and forced hin to the earriaxe. Two days before that te | gladly uceepted the invitation extended to bin, { butatterward the capitalists ot arvundbin : made hin believe that he wus toadying to | the tawless elements if he rode with us. For - 1 that reason we were determined he should ride { with ns, and ride he did. He not only sat in the carringe, but he made a speech, and to hare j beard him tulk you would never bave thought he bad any objections to taking the rid well known was'l at that time that Gen. Sheri- dan placed his horse at my disposal for that parade. 1 wielded more poiitical intluence than | Anybody else. Logau and other men like him { sought my favor.” } | aconsiderable class of women in this cow | anabominable falsehood, as he did not delay the procession two minutes nor decline to take hig seat in the carriage provided by the Commit- tee. The line of march as reported in the clty | Papers at the time extended along Halsted | street to Eighteenth, tnence east to Wabash ar- enue, down that avenue to Twelfth street, | West to Clark, north to Washington, and thence | West and south to the corner of Harrison and ; Thrvopstreets. The Mayor joiued the head of the procession near the City-Hall at Adama | Street, Instead of at Halsted ns Nye states, and doubts if he detained the march two minutes. ! No “capitalists got around him” or tried to diss | suade bim from addressing the trades-unioa | mecting. He promised the Invitation Commit tee to ride with them at the head of the proces | sion, after it reached tho vicinity of the Mayor’a j ollice, to tho speaking stand, and address to assembled workmen, and be fulfilled tho en- gagemient to tke letter, unhesitatingly, and promptly: he never felt more honored by any invitation than that-one. t1¢ spoke words of long editorial on Vice-President Arthur: ree exe ey wil nttempt no changa in the policy or in the personnel of the preseat | Administration: for to do or uttempt to do aay oF these things would be to invite ritin upon bis own head. We believe be will quietly take up’. the reius as they n. Gartieid’s hands. } No duubt the presentCabinet and probably some of the otherimportant oflicers of the Government willetfer him their resignations. ‘his would bea proper course for them to pursue. But we are equully certain that Mr. Arthur will at once a3k them to continue in oltice, and it will be thelr ; highest duty to the country to do so. If Mr. Garlield shoutd unhappily die, there will De no { extra session of Congress; there will be no Cabl- j Net changes; there wili be no new policies st ; tempted, but the country will .co on and the public busiuess will go on justas before. Thero 1S no occasion for alarm. ns i PERSONALS. Mr, Tilden is reported to be getting ‘his barrel built for thecoming campaign. | Mr.and Mrs. Whitelaw Reid are in Paris. They will return in time for Mr. Iteld to inaugu- rate tho fall style of pants in New York. } The people of Chicago are expecting to hear of him in New Yurk us Cartcroviteh Har- | risonsky the tirst time the Nihilists have a ple i nie. | Perhaps it would be better to ‘change the | name of our Peruvian Minister to Pagaacy. He doesn’t seem to have acted much like a Chris- ; tian, ‘The handsomest man at. Saratoga, accord | ing to the Clevelund Leader, is Col. Nick Smith. j Mr. ‘Tilden, ft will ve remembered, is speadiogs tae summer at Long Brauch. 4 A Boston paper says that when a New Or- leans man wanted his picture in a hervic atte tude tho artist painted nim in the act of refus ing todeink. In Chicago, under similar circum stances, the subject is always represented 28 coming buldly home at2 a. m., and wot remove ing his boots before going up-stuirs. While waiting for thee near the tall elm trees ‘Tho sony of » bird eame flouting to me. Hi Enraptured {sut, and f listened long, : AAs she poured forth ber soul ina woudrous songs, i A quiek, cazer cull to the mate I heard. ‘aressingly soft, she repeated it oft— “ Sweet, sweet, come to me, sweet.” But my heart grows faint a3 the day wears ony The gindsome light of the morring is gone, And u mist creeps up from the cold sruy Seay In its chilling embruce it is tol Teall, and I listen, and I wait in vain, P With a burning thirst and a hungry pain. “ Sweet, sweet, where art thou, sweeny? + —Susan B, Anthony, So far as this story refers to the ex-MayorItis And my eager tone bas changed to a: moan :..: And then, like a flash from the throat of the birds | -; truth and soberness on tho relations of capital é and labor, aud his remarks were well received. ;, 4 What putit in Nye’s head to make the ridicu= 2 lous assertions stuted in the dispatch is incon 2 eeivable. * me ———— F Tu: New York Herald thus winds up & H