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FOUNDED BY HORACE GREELEY.
BATUBDAY, M AUCH 31, 1877.
WITH SUPPLEMENT.
THE SPITS THES ht011 SISG.
Foueion.?1'i.yjit and Tunis hnve sent munitions
of war and mitrailleuse batteries to ths Sultan.
? Tlie protocol is to lie M?(.ne.l immediately.
- ? Consul Suffer lias been Imprisoned at Aea
pukoby one of President Diaz's (saetals.-? An
insurrection has broken out in Armenia.
Domkstic?A great many conference** were bud in
Wi-Mliiii'-ton yo_|.-i(lay by Hampton an?! ('Iiaml? r
lam witb Cabine. e-Beata and ethesaj al Mr. ttoyesfs
re?)ue,st t'liambeilaiii lias subniilted plans for a Bet
tleiiiciit; a Ciibinei BMet-Bf discussed Soutlierii
affairs, and manifested a stroni. ?K-_.ii?? for witli
dranal of the troops. - ._ A minor was circulated
yesterday thai Mr. Tilden liad nerv? ?la wiil of tot
warranta on Mr. Hayes, but it proved ta he false.
-- ? " Joliii r. Stoiktoii was conlirined Attorney
General ol New-Jersey ; tlie C,overnor's iiomiiiatioiiH
of Distrii t Court Jedges were all tioaiissed except
for one court in J.isev City. . Mr. i'o.t's State
rrisons bill passai tlie N'ew-Vork AsKeintdy.
C;ity and Si inKtiAN.?Northern trunk line oAcers
say that the Kaltiinore and Ohio's bad faith caused
the renewal of tbe, railioad war.-? The, lnter
colleiriat.* LiteraTJ Association adopted its new
constitution. _r^__;_Five haihUags-in Qieenwieh-st.
were burned, with an estimated loss of ,*.?o.0(?0.
~ The i'oli??- and Park (.'?iiiiini.s.sioneis differ on
a question of |eiis?H?iHon -latiawsli-n Qood
Fiiday mrieeawsw held in Rosaaa CathoUeaad
Protestant Bgiseopal eliurelies.
Tiik Wkatiii-.k.?TuiiuxK liKiil observations in
dieate a fair morning, followed by gradually in
ereasing cloudiness, and ultimately rain. Thi-r
momet.-r yestenlay, 'A7 , BO**, '.PA0.
Gov. Ili-.mptoii has not only conRtru?-t?'?l his
own .State (. ?iv?-iiiiii?nt, but lie has organized
his own iM-iscniil furor. He ha? earned hit.
recoKuition.
Tbe Hon. John P. Stockton, who fell from
llic Senate ?iliout the time of the Salary Grab,
is agaia slowly ctbabiag up -fhg laddeor of
New-Jersey politi?'?. Lm?t year lie elbowed his
way into the St. Louis ___kgat_0__? now lie has
b.-?-n mail?- Attoiney-liencral. At this rate, he
may eventually iibjiiie to the L?gislature.
There h?*?'iiih to lie no further room for
doubt that the l'nit?d States will be formally
r?-jtr?-s?iit? tl ?it the Paris Kxhibitioii. Th?- ef?
fort? of the press and of public-spirited ( ?li?
sent, to this end have made action by Con
gress at the comiiij,' w's.si?ui almost certain.
This much Im?iik assutcd, the coiii|)osition of
the ('oiiiinissioii which is to hav?- ?haiv'e of
the matlt-r becomes of the greatest importance.
Some vuluablc _n_g(ea_i__M on this a'id other
jxiinta are in.ule in a \Va.?hin_-ton letter
ptinti-d on ?mot?n r page, and with it will be
found a stati-inent by some lu-omincnt ciliz?iis
of their ?flbrts to MIMIC an adeqthite ?epre
__.utatnui of American __M__M__rigf.
Tliis is a phasant doctrine on the subject <>i
arresU put forward by the Park ('ominis
suuiere. If the police cannot makt ?it
rests in the parks becau.se liny aro
within the jiiris?li?ti??n of the Park De?
partment, th?is? ph'.isaiit pla_.es will .peed
ily change their character Instead ?>f
playgioiinds for iiiiJoc?-iit youth and sunny ri
sorte for the contemplative tramp, we _____
have in the midst of the great ?-ity oa?? s ol
crime, cities of refuge for fugitive, from the
law, asylums for lliose whom th?: police wish
to put where they will ?lo the most gisnl, gie.n
pastiiits where pi?'kpock<'t.s may li?- d??wn and
be at r?-st. No, no. An occasional policeman
will help the apiiearauce of the landscape.
It appears that the Direct Cable Company
cannot place itself under the ooutrol of the
Anglo-American without going into liquidation
?a acheiue requiring the approval of three
fourths of the htockholders. The company
will do Wttll to heed the warning of its uiaii
aging director, and refrain iiotn taking that
peiilou-. .-? t ? j ?. (luce in course of disisolution it
would lo*?.? the moral support it now enjoys,
__ud uiny be tu.riously c_ui.au_i_v.fU bhouid the
Catiiiiliiiu (iovernineiit insist upon the ful
nu-ut of it.**? ?liait? r. Ibsides, tli?- spectael
a corpmiitioii deHberatelj winding up
affairs in order to break faith with tlie pu
ami the h*<i*slature lo which it BWOI <*>
ein*?-, must bring discredit upon ?ill nitei
tional schemes organised in London?
The appointment of Mr. Layard as Hri
F.mbassadoi* hi) the Porto tloi-s not i/ive BOBM
Satisfaction IB Kurland, although the pu?
nte willing to iircept almost any ?me in pi
of Sir Henry l-'.lliot, who was mon- Turk
than the Turku during Ml stay at Constai
imple. Mr. Layanl lian attaine?l his ?">
year, and lias had extensive, expolie
as n diplomatist. His discoveries aiBOMff
ruins of Nineveh anil llabylon pave him ?iri
fame, which was increased hy his visit to
Clinic;?, nuil his earnest efforts for military
form. He owed his political promotion to
Whigs and Liberals, ami on that MOOUBt n
feel at liberty to puisne an indent -iident ?
progressive polley at Stamboul when diplos
tic relations art* n ?stabli-licd.
Faven a polieetnan has rights. The wli
force should not be condemned in the pal
estimation because some brutal nun in b
have boea thrust forward of l?it?* as its rep
Kcntatives. With Deary and Lewis on trial
their respective cities on charges icspottiy
of savage riiulty ami savage insolence, i
pabHc is in some danger of forgetting that i
poheeman who keeps out of the newspap
must usually lie u putty good offlccr, ami tl
the BWabCf wlio do keep out is very lar.
Bat now and then one gets into print \vh<
good deeds almost ntone for the ruffianism
some of his comrades. Ollicer Lh il, who :
OCived ?i testimonial yesterday trom Ihe Co
missioners for his bravery in saving li
certainly comes nmler this head. IJ?s roa
of li\efi saved SOggeatS James Lambert. .M
his tribe increa.se 1
Gen. Benjamin F. Butler must be Mgl
flattered In s?-?- that his js the liest name whi
Suggests itself in connection with any n?
demonstration of political wiokedaess. He
mentioned in Waafatngtoa as the leader of t
carpet-bag coalition which proposes to aasui
Control of both houses of CongTCOS and t
its hand at running the Governmei
We beg leave to doubt the repo
(Jen. Butler never goes into ? eoaiiti?
unless be is quite sure ol success and of
reasonable profit, and he is too shrewd not
know what the effect would b<* on the libel
Dem?crata of the Bontfa of an attempt l
carpet-bag treachery to hurl both branches
Congress against the Southern policy of Proi
ideal Hayes. Such a scheme is so clearly pr
destined to failure that Gen. Butler can safe
be counted out.
No words ean fitly paint the horrors of tl
famine in Imlia. It is a picture which eamii
be overeolored. A correspondent furnishes ?
another page some of the larger details of th
great calaniily, and also narrates some of h
personal experiences in the afflicted region.
is pleasant t?> know that the British (Joven
ment is makiBw noble efforts to relieve the ?ii
trees, though when the best that is poaaiUe
done, many thousands mnst starve. Of tbe si
famines that have taken place in India il m in
the past 04 years, the present is in son
respects ihe most formidable ?me. It is ex?
ilent that the recurrence Of famines in (li
East must be expected at intervals in the fu
ture. In Tiik Tbibcbb of March 17, und?
the head of Bciencc for the People, an acooui
was pi ven of a discovery of Dr. ?V. VI, Ihn
ter, Director-General of Statistics in Indi;
which seems to make certain a connection be
tweea these famines and the periodic diminn
bon of spots upon Iiie sun. When sun-spot
are fewest, the drouths oOCUr that bring o
famine, The discovery is likely to prove o
the highest value, sine?* ?t may enable futur
famines to i><- foreseen, and provision to I?
made against them many months in advaiuc
It is getting to be the fashion for Governor
to seold their Legislatures. Gov. Bedle no*?
takes the cue from Gov. Bobinson, ami read
his Senate a aermon. He had an exeellen
text, and delivered an excellent discourse
though wc doubt if it had any great elf?-?
upon his congregation. The Governor's mes
sage shows that i committee of his awn part;
in the Senate waited upon him some time agi
and informed him that they would not vote t<
confirm Republicans for the new judgeahips
It is ;i pity that this insolen! attempt at ?In
tation ditl not move (Jov. liedle to give tin
Republicana a larger share of these appoint
mints than he did, and it is a pity, too, tiiat ii
bis message he, should have thought i
necessary to show that the Democrati bat
sot nearly everything) but the action of tin
Democratic Senators was so flagrant that ii
left no room for criticism of (Jov. liedle. Dm
i;< publican was confirmed because he airead)
hehl one ?>l these positions, but the other vim
ri,i?-?t?-d, and, being rcnoininated, was again
rejected, as was also another Republican
nominated in his place, simply because be wai
a RepubUcaa. This exhausted ihe Governor'i
patience? and be politely told the Senate t<:
ko home. This it ditl. It is a good riddance
of a bad lot. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
SENTIMENTAL POLITICS.
It was natuial for several icasOUS that the
Republican party, during th?- fire) years of
reconstruction? should be disposed to eatertain
very strict ideas of its duty toward the ??ll?
ore?! people of th?" South and to put a rallier
liberal ? oust met ion upon the constitutional
limitations ??f the Federal authority in dealing
with them. The liberation of the subject IBC0
was the ?Town of the Republican path's long
Contest] the defense of their political rights,
won at such tremendous cost, was essential to
the preservation of the fruits of the war if
not to the safety of the Union itself. And
it was plain, very soon after the parren
der Appoiiiatlox, that the frctdnien
c -nid ni-ep no rights which the General
<Io\? rum? nt did not defend for them.
Tlie lust men of the South, accepting the re?
sults of the war as final, and too chivalrous
to continus ?IS Struggle by assassination after
\ they had been conquered in the open ii? !?l,
! sulked in their homes, ami left public affairs
' to the Ku-Klux and th?- White League. It wa?.
I absolutely accessary for tin- Federal power t?>
( Interfere, Th?- acaro was helpless. We had
eoaferred certain rights upon him by Procla?
mations and Acts of (' mgieSS, but he was ut?
terly unable ?it that time to eiifnue tlnui, and
lie baldly knew what tiny were. T?> leave bim
at the mercy of tin- most vi??l?'iit and unsi rtipu
! ions ?las?, of Southern whites the dam which
? iiiiuishid the hated 'Slave-driver*' ot pl.inta
I ttoa days, erad t>? ihe hands and despised by
?tlie maslels?w?)iil?l have been tin-ie luulai
Irony. It must have l? ?1 to a new bondage,
worse than the old, bociUSfl fasting upon lei
torism liis'i?d of law. ?. .ui policy anil p-od
fading both rcipiii-.l that w?* should use the
whole power ui the -JuY'.iauicut, wherever it :
was m-ccfwary, to secure for the freediuan his
???piality of ritfht under the law.
A policy Which rest.s upon Philanthropie con?
siderations is always liable to Ik* ?allied to
extremes- ami tha "enforcement policy" at
the South has bien especially expOSSd to this
danger. Many true Republicans have gradu?
ally convinced tiusnaarres that the first duty
of the Fedeial (iovernineiit is to protect and
bold up tlie colored v??ti*r in all his ways, to
stand by bis side when he vote?, keep p-nard
over his political im-etiiiRs, pick out candidates
for him, see that nobody disputes his ?daims
to oilice, and lin?l him a good scat in the rail?
way car and a first-class grave in the ccnie
tCty. The Federal soldi? is to lxi for the
????lined man a sort of gunrdhu BBgel with a
musket. Then is no action of the e?ilored
man's life which this beneficent warden is not
called upon to mijmiintend. It is upon this
theory that some very honest politicians in
the Northern States are now exclniinini; against
the mcilitated "descrfhin" of l'ackanl and
Chamberlain by the 1'residcnt. tho Republican
State (ioverninents of Louisiana and Bottth
Carolina 1-epWSCntingi in their inimis, the prin?
ciple of protection upon which the South has
been ruled ever sine? the war, ami a IcfUsal
to sastaia them by the army being ?-?piivaleiit
to a saeriflce of "the nation's wards.1*
Their remonstranees do less credit to tlmir
heads than their hearts. Bentimentnl consid?
erations have BOnlnCC in the st?rn business of
polities, and the people of the Tinted States
have now bcgUB to realiz?- that the liiiardian
ship of the freed people has been carried a
liltle too far. The extracts whmli we print
iin.- morning from an address by the Hon.
Btanley Matthews, delivered two ami a half
years a^o, CXpreW the current opinion of
to-day. "We have done our whole duty,*'
said Mr. Matthews, "when we have cslab
"hsiml ami enforced in favor of thefreedssea
"equality of right umler the law. The rest,
" whatever it may prove to be, he must do
?'for himself.'1 If he is not able to hold a
position in society ami politics in competition
with the superior training, education, ami pos?
sibly natural capacity of his white neighbor,
that is a condition of tilings which tlie Gen?
eral Governmen' lias no right to disturb. Con?
gress and the President have no duty and no
authority in th?- premises except t?> guarantee
equality of right "under th?- law." If the
freedlBBB with this ?-?piality Cannot take the
first place in Southern society, he must sink
to the second ; and we do not know that any
ham will come either to the Slate ?>r to the
colored man himself by such a eat mal process
of adjustment No man is tit for a posilion
which he has not strength to hold. A Mate
in which a ?lass unable to maintain themselves
alone are kept in authority by an extraneous
armed force is not a free government and has
no business in the American Cuion.
THE LOOT DP THE MATTER.
The mistakes of just men are dangerous. A
mistake into which very many just and sin?
cere men have fallen, ami by which their
course in an important emergency may 1m?
governed, has been slated with characteristic
sharpness by the well-known correspondent,
.Mr. Redfield of Ihe Cincinnati Coniinerciitl.
To him, recognition of NichoUs or Hampton
means abandonment of Impartial suffrage.
Hut recognition of Packard or Chamberlain
means a contin?anos of thai corrupt ami
odious rule which can be upheld only by the
bayonet. Hence be cuts to the Ixuie of the
mailer, as he understands if, with one keen
sentence: The North must face the real ques?
tion, shall carpet-bag ruh-, with all its in?
famies, be upheld by the bayonet, or shall we
allow Democrats to stamp ant negro suffrage
in Louisiana ami South Carolina as th?-\ have
in Mississippi and Georgia 1 Ihe mistake be?
neath this reasoning is precisely that which a
million honest voters at th?- North are in dan?
ger of makiag to-day. It iindcilhs all honest
opposition to th?- policy of the Pr?sident,
Let it be granted that, if troops are with?
drawn, negro sn?kagc vail be stamped out ss
to the vital ISSUS upon which parties at the
South aii- now divided. Southern \\ hit? s want
local self-government. They ?-are for nothing
else. Tbey do want that the Slut?- or ?iiy
?hull be ruled by its own property-owner.*-) and
tax-payers and eitiseas, and shall not be ruled
by Irresponsible ali<-iH. fastened upon it by
Ted? ral troops. On tiiat on?- matter the whites
of the South are practically united. 1 hey are
not united about Saythmg else, and never can
be. s<? long as tho controlling question in all
politics for them is whether the Federal GoY
emment shall continue to uphold a set of
earpet-baggers, who by colored votes and
Federal bayonets have wrecked and robbed
Stales ami cities, the whites of the South aro
and will be practically unanimous. So long,
they wi'l control the colored vote for their
own defense just as far as they aro able. So
long, baud will be met with hand, and bayo?
nets with revolvers, and the South will con?
tinue to be the unsolved problem in politics
and the chief danger to free institu? ions,
Tlio mistake is iu supposing that Ihe daagST
will remnin when local self-government is
conceded. The instant carpet-bag dominatkm
is no longer Upheld by Fed. ral force, th?- in?
stant it becomes m? longer desirable for South?
ern abites to get control of the Federal Gov
ernment in order to secure local self-government
for themselves, they will divide on evny
question that can be named. OU antagonisma,
of principle rather than of party, will control.
Whigs and Democrats will flght for ancient
ideas. Those who are called South? ni Demo?
crats ?u?- not united to-day in rasped to any
feature ?>f Bepabttnui polity, good <>r l??ni.
excepting in regard to the ass of troops to
maintain BO-caDed Republicans m power. Able
ami sincere men at the South will contend for
tin- right of colored dtiseas to vote freely and
to bold oilice. Such men will demand ?duca?
tion for ihe Colored mail as the only safety
bu' tin* State. Do ne talk ot the currency T
Hard-money Dessoeratsal the smith havesho-wn
aa much courage aad persistency as anj defenders
Of pUblk honor at the North, of either parly.
Is ihe tarilfaii issue 1 The South lias thousands
who will battle for the ideas of Cliiv, ami
other thousands who ding t<> th?* doctrines of
c ?ilioiin. If Interna] Improvements are pro?
posed, Bouthera Whigs will appeal te Southern
Interest, while all th- taachiags ami traditions
of Democracy will bs revived to defeat them.
Nui a single lusas san be nsmod ?>r Imngim d
upon which tlie whiles of the SoiKh will be
united. Inevitably tbey will divide*] Inevitably
?ach ciernen! will strive to Bcenre that colored
vote which will tarn the seals iu any .Mate.
To secura, each party mast defend and pro
t??t Um colored voter? Ami thus at last im?
part?a] BUftage will Im-, not abandoned or
stamped out, but defended ami upheld by
every sano man of either party ?it the South.
The sssenee of thapaUsg ?ii President Hayes
i- that it will put out of th" way the only
question upon which Soul In iu ahites can Ik*
milted to n'sirtt the Colored men. If it suc?
ceeds, it blou out tin. color Hoc fot-atar-, lk-ro
and there, when new issues arise, turbulent
and brutal men may try to control the rohired
yote in the interest of one party. But they
will be met, defied, hunted down, and pun?
ished, not by Federal cavalry, but by South?
ern whites, tax-payers and property-owner?, of
the other party. Tho thing will never be tried
twice on any county, after a r?'sp?*ctablo body
of Southern property-owners make it their
husiiu'sfl to protect the rights of all citizens.
One such man can do more than a regiment, of
cavalry to stop bulldozers anil punish assas?
sins. Whenev?'r tho South ?livides, it will be?
come a necessity for each party to defend the
right? of colored men. The South will divide
whenever it has gained lo?*al self-government.
Take away P?t?leral troops, only requiring that
lawful and p<-aceful measures shall be resorted
to, and the cohired citizen will lind himself,
within a y?*ar, Ix-tt.'r protected in all rights of
person, property, and citizenship than he ever
could Im*, if a thousand Federal bayonets were
iu every county.
SOUS!) tSEST BY WIRE.
Hot] Cloud and other Sioux chiefs, when re
forting to a tokfiaphk message, have always
deaeiibed it as " talking through a hollow* wire."
If tin- ?peaking telephone becomes a familiar
instrument in ordinary use, th?: fanciful phrase
of the Indian will somewhat nearly coincida
with the fact. Students of ?lcctiicity have
shown cans?? for lM-lieving that the current in
Ordinal} telegraphy ft transmitted not by the
??ore of the wiro but by its outer lib? is. In
calculating the ?-opacity of the metal for carry?
ing a current, the elcctrici.-iti regards the wire
as if it were hollow. Hut neither in the pictur?
esque phrases of half-civili/ed man nor in the
boldest llights of fancy or tradition is thorn
anything quite so weird as the speaking tele?
graph. In all the Bggten legends of magic,
people win* are placed wide apart never coin
?ranieate directly with each other by >p?Mb.
AlU-r the niagiciiin has drawn his circh-s in the
Kami, anil Ughtod the mystic tin', anil spoken
the cabalistic words, he may perhaps summon
the dislaut ?in?; by occult Influence or through
the agency of a genio. It la a thousand limes
more astounding M a mere conei plion thai the
voi??-, the ton<-s, the very utb-rance of ?t friend
who is miles ?m miles away, may be distinctly
heard by the listener who holds to his ear tin*
trumpet of tht telephone. Compared with thi--,
the trau, mission of music by telegraph, won?
derful though it is, Menu a minor achieve
inellt.
There has been, however, a very gencr.il
misconception in the publi?' mind on this very
point. The confusion arises from the circum?
stance that there are two distinct inventions,
each known as a telephone, and c.ich capable
of transmitting musical bines. Both this?- in?
ventions have been exhibited to large ?iinlieiices
in other cities; I'rof. BelPl speukin.. telephone at
the Kast, Mi. (J ray's music telephone al th?- Wi -t.
As the latter of these is soon to Im> shown to
a New-York audience, our renden will doubt?
less be interested in a detailed account of
the mode o? tiansniission. In other col?
umns are preaenl this morning ?m explanation
of tin- methods by which ?-ach of these instru?
ments does its w.uk. Kach is valuable iu its
own field, and the most of what either on?*
can do, the other cannot do at all?at present.
The speaking telephone oan, ?>f eoorae. trans?
mit rocal mnsk as easily ns speech ; the other
instrument can only s?*nd such niu-ie ?is is
played noon its piano k?*ys at the further end
of th?* line. Hut how far the capabilities of
either Inatramenl may lu- extended, nobody can
glll.SS.
It i? already obvious that by means of Mr.
Gtaay'i telephone ordinary t?l?graphie mes?
sages may be sent !<> any one distan! station,
?uni not be repented by the instruments ??t any
other stations on the line. This is a decided
ad van! age. As tilings are now, the most enn
iitlt-ntial communications between ?listant points
may be tapped at any ofllee in the circuit.
Donbtleos manj of our readers who have stopped
while waiting for a train, to bare a chat with the
telegraph clerk at a way station, have heard
him mention that his instrument, ticking
away in lively style, was repeating a message
iu which he had no concern--a _M_aage be?
tween other platan on the Hne, In war limes
a lively business need to be done by "tapping
" the wires." Mr. (.ray's telephone may dis?
pense With the need of taking all llii* tele?
graph operators on a cir?-uit into one's con?
fidence, narrowing the matter down to two,
the sending anil receiving opetatois. Prof.
Hell's telephone may dispense with Ihe tele?
graph clerk altogether, and ?-nable the sender
of a message to talk into the v?-rv ear of Ih?'
receiver. Hut then suppose, in the latter
caee, that eomebody who has no business in
the affair applies his telephonic funnel sonie
Where along Ihe line while a very confidential
message is passing. Qmnter scandals than
were ever pound into the e.ir-tiumpet of
Dame Elinor Spearing may be absorbed by
the telephone tapper, it is y?-i too soon to
predict whether the new inventions will fully
aecore what is most of all needed, the sacred
privacy of telegrams.
A MAD WOULD, MY MASTERS f
Botne of our more kind-hearted entcnipora
ri?-s think that Lee, the Mormon luuiih rer,
must have been insane. There ate a few peo?
ple who hold th?- same theory about the well
known lawyer who lately ami mysteriously
?li..app:-a!i-d. The BOT? Zebiilon Phillip? having
absconil'-d from Amsterdam, N.Y., with a great
?ptantity of other people's money, after having
for a long time enjoyed the admiring confi?
dence of the coniniiinitv, it is now inclined to
the opinion that the Rev. Zebiilon Phillips
must be a lunatic. Perhaps it is creditablo*o
the world that it never gits acenatomed to
(hege instances of moral breaking down. It
still heueren respectability t<> be reapeetaUe.
No mattet how many clergymen may brin?
scandal upon the cloth, society wants pleach?
ing, and goee to hear it from those who have
not bist their good reputations.
This theory of lunacy in MM w-nse is a just
one. Kvcry moral oblitpiity has its mental
siil-, inasmuch as horn-sty is the best policy,
and the wione-doer never reasons accurately ;
and this is why so many ?>f them are caught
j ?mil piiiii_!i(-d. Henee the popular notion that
tin- devil deaerta his own at laet, Bhrewdneai
is at fault; precaution blunders; cunning
makes mist.ik? ? ; cleverness goto traps fog it?
self. In this sense wi- may fairly say that the
Kev. Zebiilon Phillips was not iu his right
mind. Neither was the bookkoepet who van
i?he?l the other ?lay with the money of the
Brooklyn Hank, and who behaved in such a
prepogh nui., way. So, too, juries ihink mur?
der to ho such an utterly ?national thing (as
i consider? ?1 fii-in one point it tituloiibt? -lly is)
i that the del', u.-c often pours its theory of ui
I sanity into perfectly willing ears.
A man may, however, be somewhat insane
and at the same time morally impos?
sible. Admit this, aud the trilling wtiit.lt
hits disgraced our criminal jurisprudence
will umxu\%BA*pBt, It is a great mistake to
suppose that even tho inmates of lunatic
asylums have no moral sense. Some of them
are there b??caii8c they have persistently culti?
vated a habit of disregarding it. They did
wrong so frequently that finally they lost the
power of doing right. If tho Rev. Zebulon
Phimpa had never tampere?! with consiience,
he would not h:iv?i turned out a thief. Insan?
ity, or what we call insanity, is oftsa nothing
more than a continued habit of doing wrong.
A great many st?-al because they cannot help
stealing, but they are locked up all the same.
COL L EU E G Pi A YE- DIG G ISO.
? Vatliek," the marvelous Eastern tale, which
Byroa pronounced to be far superior to
" Rari-selas,'* was written at a single sitting of
three days and two nights. The paCS was too
fast for a young man of four-and-tweiity, and
Beekford paid the penalty of nervous presura
tion and a dancreroiis illm-ss. The killing stride
which he took under the spur of imagination
and literary excitement, American collegians
fall int?) very naturally through injudicious
courses of training ami the incautious zeal of
teachen ami friends. It is a national ? harac
teristiS to do too much too quh'kly, and no
win re are the evils of this dumrcrous habit
more apparent than in our schools. We re?
cent lv had occasion to preach a lay sermon on
the tendencies of the forcing process as illus?
trated by the melancholy sumido of young
Bchwerdtfeger, an ates walked stadeat of Cor?
nell University, and ?)tir remarks have called
forth two coiiiiniini'-atioiis, ono of which will
li?* found in our columns of correspondence
from the people, while the other is appended
hen :
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Hin : I BSVS often ft It lik- thanking y?iu fur the BBfSB
ym liiivc s|ii?ki-ii itifiilnst I lie pernicious system of forcing
Bta?salS ?util piiiiiiiiii-iicti ut tlie risk of their present
health mu? future cunt.iitiiiiiit. Yet I tlilnk that yoa
i.iiil yiiur pnssoss mu? sasearagBflMm tu mi aMociation
cii'.eii'iiitfil tu prii'liicc, in tliclr ?.vn'-it form, SO the evil?
which you tit plore. In view of tho recent sail occiir
BBBSSi which is directly tBaSSSMs to the intcreolle
Kiate literary contest of a few mouth* n?:o, I auk you,
in (In- iiitine of liiinianity, to use your iiillntm*,*, tintiiich
tin- t-tiiuiiiiM of Tas Tai?oas as well bs pessBeagy, to
|tri*veiit u rt-itetltioii of what caumit bo callctl hy any
imitier BSSBS Ifeaa munier. Yale.
Sew-llurrn, March 21, 1^77.
If "Yale'' will read the letter which comes
to ns fnmi Schwerdtfeger'S intinmte Mead he
will be OOmpelledi like ourselves, to admit
that this suicide cannot be justly ascribed to
th?' forcing process. The mind ot this bril?
liant stadeat seems to have beca daaded with
morbid fancies. He inherited a taint of insan?
ity, and appears to have cherishe?! thoughts
that were as unwholesome as Ophelia's dressas.
He had a presentiment that he was to die as
Chatterton had ?lied. He brooded over the
fate of th?* wretched boy-genius at Bristol.
Among his papen has ben found a ski'Udi of
a tombstone With an (ascription recording his
own death at the ?hit?' which would have made
his Bge accord with that of Chatterton. He
had ill-health from the outset; his associates
held him back rather than sparred him on ;
ami his suicide seems to have resulted from a
morbid impulse. The direction of so phenom?
enal a nature was a delicate task, ami we do
not see that ths professors and friends acted
injudiciously. Abnormal tendencies and in
herited taints ceased hia death * overwork may
have aggravated them, but it was at the worst
an indirect ??gent. His fate is a strange psycho?
logical study.
While w?- wrote under a misapprehension of
lln* facts of the case, as th?*y are now rev?ale?!
to us, w?* said nothing to justify the onslaught
which our New-Haven correspondent makes
upon the Intercollegiate literary contests.
Beekford stnu-k oil' his romance at too intense
a heat ami was sick unto death; does it fol?
low that literary g?'iiius should not bo tired
with enthusiaaml Several of Mr. Moody's
converts have been crazed by religious cx?-ito
mtnt ; does it follow that there should be an
abatement of religions seal ami an abandon?
ment of revival services? The awards of
the Inter??illcgiat?' Literary Association foim
a species of scaffolding by which Students can
attain the bights Of scholarship ; shall the frame?
work 1??- torn down because a reckless climber
has mount?*?! too fast, overstrained himself
??ml fallen to the bottom ? Is ambition to be
repressed simply because it sometimes " o'er
"lcaps itself and falls on the other sitie?"
Even if young Sehwerdtfeaer's death could be
traced directly to overwork in connection with
the recent competition in this <*it,v, we should
hesitate before condemning th:- intercollegiate
literary contests. Intellectual labor will never
kill a student so lona as it rests upon a physi?
cal basis. If he attempts to work lik?* a tlis
embodied spirit, he will lean very soon that
lie is in th?- flesh. Nature will warn him to
ai range his life so as to lind time for rest,
recreation? and exercise. The most ambitious
brain-WOrker can labor as many hours as did
Leonardo da Vinci, if, lik?? him, he never for
gets to take his horseback ride, and lets Na?
ture have her own way for the rest of tin?
?lay. Neglect of exercise, Impaired digestion,
daggish vitality? chronic nervousness, and
physical exhaustion?these are the fruits
of a dang? rous forcing system which not
only overheats the student's ambition? but
chills his faith in the eflkpej of exercise and
rest? and, by shutting him up all day with his
books ami keeping him up two-thirds of tho
night, starves out tho natural man. Brain
work will not kill so long as the faculties are
not strained daring periods of physical ex?
haustion. Disregard of rest, exercise, and re?
creation?that is the fatal habit. The later
collegiate contests promote thorough scholar?
ship in the ?lassies, mathematics, metaphysics,
oratory, aad literature. It is a legitimate and
intelligent BBCthod of quickening intellectual
life in our eoOegeO. Tboos v.lio take part in
the Contests have formed habttB of study and
life in their own colleges. If graves are dug,
they dig them themselves.
THE SI OSE AT IHE SEPUIA HER.
Yesterday Christians gathered beneath the
shallow of th?' ?lark cross on far-away Cal
vary? while hosts of otber people? professing to
be neither good nor Christian? looked i>.i?*k nt
it with an awful doubt. Was it indeed this
which could ?ii?l them through their every?
day Worries ami through that strait of death
Which must come to them Bl last? To-morrow
all ChristiSBS will rejoice in the ris?-?: Lard?
ami ?ven .-lieh of us an ?lo BOt ?U'knowh'dgc
Him iu words will think of His triumph over
?I? ath with unwanted tsadsraeas? simply because
then is not one of us who has not laid down
a mother, a child, or a friend in that solid
yellow clay under foot, and our hope for ever
limliiig them again rests iu that old story of
the Nasareaa?
Upon this day He lay buried out of sight,
as our ?had ?lo now. Tim tumult which He
had kindled throughout the Roman piovineo
had been sharply cheeked. Nothing more was
to be hoped or feiueil from the son of the
carpenter. He was not the ?Messiah who was
t?) break Cii-siu's yoke: He was not th?' great
prophet Kbjah retaraad to had the people out
of ?iu?because He wad dead. It was true that
the earth was shaken when He died, that tlie
sun vailed it* face: but He did die. Nothina
remained but to lap the body in a few pf(0r
spices. to weep over it, and there was the up?
We can see how, on this stunned, bmntHaa
day, ev?-n His ?______? missed in the crowd?*!
street* the tall figure in its seamless robe, t\i?
visage more marri'd than any man's, in w.n--|_
even th?*ir dull fn-nso had told thetn a Ru?
went by. There WM His mother, too; John
whom He had loved; the blind and ?leaf w|)0la'
He had cure?! ; Lazarus, himself brought bae,
from death, wandering through the "rocky hill?
ami tlu-ir dreary gray olive groves, or in th?
narrow streets of tlio great Oriental city,
linding them all vacant. There is no evidence
that any of tln-m Ixlieve?! that He would ris.
again. .Joseph, a rich, w?-II-meaning friend 0f
Jesus, beggi'd His body, paid it all honor, but
rolled a henry stoue to the ?loot of t_?
sepithher.
Now nobody can read this story without
pet Wiring how closely alike the condition of
the world is just now to this intermediate day.
Very few of us doubt that Christ was her?
alive : very many of us doubt that He ,?
h?:re alive now. Thinking men tell you that
if the truth, the stem integrity, the broad
brotherhood ?if humanity which Jesus of Naz?
areth preached, could work like leaven in this
world of to-day, it would purify and elevate.
Hut they do not tind ?he linvit Teacher. 11?
is not iu the street.-, among the "dangerous
"tla.ses;" He is not in the prisons, nor iu
Wall-st. You do not lind Him at massacres in
Seivia, in Indian wars, in political jobbery or
government corruption. The jxxir man
looks into the costly fashionable church
where he must pay his y?*ar's im-ome to
buy leave to bear of Him, and he is certain
that the lowly Savior ?s not lln-re. Is He ?had,
theii? Many think so; and others think that
the ?lay for His teaching is over, ami they put
Kant <n? Baseiaon or Darwin in His place an
the world's helpers. Hut the great mass of
honest b? lievers and of all clear-mind?-?! thiuk
ttk know that He is alive, that the only ad
van? ?-s made by the world in civilization have
been made by adhen-nce to His teaching, and
tho only retrocessions bft.ro been from denial
OT corruption of Christianity. I'.ven in heathi'ti
countries we lind how their progress toward
civilization has heen caused bv those religious
doctrines which they held synonymous with
Christianity?as in many in the cn-eds of
Confucius and Hiiddha. In our own political
history even the skeptic must acknowledge
how quickly prosperity has followed cverr
light wand ami right action?as, for instance,
within a few weeks after years of wholesale
corruption the b?nit of the people responded
instantly to the first movement toward plain
integrity of action on the part of an honest
man, and declared it to be the highest states?
manship.
It is the cheer and stn-ngth of the world
that Christ is alive. It is its shame that Hi?
friends, will-meaning and ofti'ii rich M Joseph,
roll henry stones to the ?loor of His sepuh-lu-r
and keep Him out of sight. Money spi-nt to
gratify their ."esthetic tastes on carved stones
and stained glass, while thousands of His poor
are starving in back alh-ys in soul and body,
is a stone. Blind bigotry, the bitti-rm-ss of
sectarianism, the Pharisaic pride which bars
its ten-foot f?dd on the l?*an gheep within and
scuds the myriads without straight to Indi
ale they not all stonesT So dead the Christ
lies wii h in that there is but fgcMo hope t hat
He will rise again. There are none of us, iu
short, who, in His name, speak a false word
or live a sham life who do not lu-lp to bar
His sepulcher. He will rise as surely as to?
morrow's sun. But it will not be wo who _____
have rolled away the stone.
Thore is nothing very laaghaUs about it?at least
not to MOM people?and yet >t is impassible, to r.i.l
it without smiling some. We mean by "it" tli?
list of the electrotype plate?. Besets of the well
known book house of John Ii. Ford ?... Co., with th?
values put upon them by a member of tin? tirai ia
his testimony before tho l{?gi?ter. The list made a
distinction between sash rains and future p..?sii>i6
businoaa value of tin- plates, aad of a certain book
it is thus irreverently reported: "Man's Immor?
tality?of no value either way," which MOM to
Indicate rather a short life for a hook sheet immnr
tabty. Wa'are else rather shocked to read "Life
of Christ, by Henry Ward BOOO-MM Sp.ciilativi?
no present minet" but it is eaeanrnghMj t<> know
that this HI Stalled production has a future posai hi?
bti_ncs8 value of .fo.tMK). "Christ iu Art. mort?
gaged to Moray ol Beaten." is worth nothing now,
hut may be worth $10,000. One s.-n.-.i.f Mr. lhv
.iiit's "Poetry and .Song" is also in the lim ho of
nortgags, but will bo worth *r??,t)0t) ay eedhy
The plates of " A Good Mutch" are worth what they
will fetch aa old metal. So are those of the w?u*_..
of " Kli Parida-.-* though the appraiser is of opinion
that Mr. Pirkin. may by-aml-by go up to $100.
There is more reality than romance ??bout tli?' fact
that tho hook called " Romance and RealitiM " is
only worth what it will bring as typo ui-tal. IhstO
are other books worth "nothing either way;"
among them Pastes Ilalliilay's "Little St.?-el
Swi-i per." Soin?? of the valuations are MjnstorioaO?
Thti. the work called "Patten's Coiici-e History"
is worth $100 now, but has no future possible biisi
nt-sj value. Son,et unes the terms are railed. Thus
it is said if A.sistant Pastor llallmay's "Arousing
Souls" that it is worth "nothing at all." now or
prospectively, which is stating a ?bsagreeahl?- laet
rather curtly. Hut the Assistant Pastor is iu good
nompany. for wo are pained to ?ay that " Sir Philip
Sidney" is also valued at "nothing at all." while
the "Overture of Autels" by Mr. Hci.ry Ward
Beeches is only worth what it will bring from th?
type founders le b molted These aro roelanfihnly
?lepreciations, but when "Our BOVOO Chiirchcs"
ate put down as good for nothing but to be otut to
tho pot, what can wo expect f
This is a good year for The l_non Aimavac.
I-'ivo 1 iu?- editions have been sold since Jam Sty,
and a sixth will be on our counters this morning.
The secret oi Ito unprecedented sale lararyelaiplsi
it is a good Almanac, and contain? what people want
?the political news and ollii ?al statist.es of the
year, accurately compiled and conveniently ar
ranged. The Appendix leaned with the tilth aid
sixth editions contains an outline of the lii.tury
whia-li the American people have maile ?luring th?
ezdtiag Winter that nageleasd. Within the bob**
paae of sixteen pagne ure eMbcaeed the text of tho
Electoral Commission bill and the pmeeeiiaf- of
tho Tribunal and IhotWO HonOM in relation lO the
ele.ti'ial count ?r un lirst lo last. The ?no-ss uf the
Appendix has been as niaikcd n* was that of the
earlier editions of Tun AimaN'ac. glaflgs tmnicr
uf NbeeriheH who and ahead! pntehnosd Tus
Al.m ?sac have sent for the biipplcnieiitaiy edition,
which is issued ?it the same price - twenty - li v ? ? cents
?copy. The favor with winch Tun Al MS-MO mtk
been received is very gratifying to us, a* we has?
taken great pains this year to secure accinacy iu
cxe.iilion, conipletencM in form, and proniptn. - - in
publication. Tho changes rendered neccssar?. l>T
the New-Hampshire election and the choice of two
Senators gad fang OeOgM-OMn have been nu/.*-in
the sixth edition, so that the regi..tci of tue -VI.\ th
i '?.._..'?-?? is now ?.u.?i ' ie.
The eccentric lties of th? Emperor of Brazil
have Im-cii ?iiiich talked about m Home, and great
amuMt.miit ha_ been cr?*atod by a ca. le-ile-Vi.nt?
which be pu-?ent-Hl lo Count M am nui i, beariug ths
autogiaph "Piofessor Dom l'.-tln? de Alcantara.
His most ivtnaikable exploit, howover, wa-iuvilm?
to an em.rtaiiimout tho Jiploiuuti. oorpa acci*.*<ii.ed