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NOTES.-The Antwerp Museum has acquired, at the price of 200,000 francs ($40,000), the picture by Rembrandt, known as "A Portrait of a Dutch Burgomasmaster," which was prior to 1789, in the Orleans Gallery.- -It is intended to hold a photographic exhibition at Glasgow, in the Corporation Galleries of Art, during July, August, and September, 1886. The exhibition will comprise: 1. Illustrations of the history of photography, early daguerreotypes, calotypes, etc. tographic instruments, materials, and appliances, lenses, cameras, chemicals, etc. 3. Illustrations of modern processes in photography. 4. Applications of photography, portraiture, landscape photographs, architecture, reproductions of pictures, drawings, etchings and engravings, photo-lithographs, photo-gravures, copying plans, maps, mechanical drawings, illustration of books, decoration of glass, pottery, etc., astronomy, meteorology, microscopy, etc.- -Those who have drawings by Frederick Walker should treasure them. The little drawing of "A Street Scene at Cookham" sold at Christie's on Saturday, brought 860 guineas; ten years ago it was sold for 450 guineas, and not so very many years previously the artist parted with it for something under £50. At the same sale, Sir T. Laurence's "Nature". a study of two little girls-brought 1,800 guineas, and Sir E. Landseer's picture of "Sir Walter Scott Seated in Rhymer's Glen," which some years ago was disposed of for about 3,000 guineas, brought 1,950 guineas.- -The country needs a correct likeness of Mrs. Cleveland.

DRAMA.

NOTES. The corps de ballet of the Paris opera comprises 1,027 women, exclusive of the hundred-odd employed in the five workshops where the costumes are prepared. The humblest priestesses of terpsichore, the rats, as they are professionally termed, receive forty cents per performance; the ladies of the quadrille have $40 a month; the coryphees from $50 to $60; the sujets from $60 to $120; the premiere sujets from $120 to $300, and finally, the stars have annual salaries of from $5,000 to $6,000. Altogether, the Government has to foot a little bill of some $900,000 a year.- -Augustin Daly's company is the great "hit" of the London season. The Strand Theatre is crowded nightly, and all the papers are loud in praise of the completeness of performers and play. He and his people are rage of the theatrical world, and he has eclipsed all other performers and performances. -They are having a Greek play, entitled "Helen of Troy," in London.. -Mary Anderson sailed for Europe last week.- -Mrs. McKee Rankin is said to be one of the pluckiest and most hard working of women and versatile of actresses. Every day of her life from 10 to 4 is spent in active rehearsal, and she plays at night and goes home to study until 4 a. m. Added to all this are the cares of a household and a thousand little details which go make her life one of uncommon activity and usefulness.

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LITERARY.

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NOTES. Dr. Schiller Szinessy has issued a fifth edition of Romanellis' Travels in Morocco.- -Signor Guiseppe Racamielli, a Jewish publisher, of Cafir, has translated into modern Greek the ethics of the Fathers, and has dedicated the work to the Prince Royal, of Greece.- -The proposed Anglo-Jewish exhibition, to be held in the spring of next year, in London, will consist of four classes of objects, relics, records, archives, letters and autographs, title-deeds; portraits and prints of English rabbis, and members of best Jewish families; pictures of Jewish places and objects of interest; pamphlets, biographical memoirs, history of provincial congregations, Hebrew works written in England, periodicals, etc.; scrolls of the Law, etc., seals, coins, medals, ancient and modern, Hebrew music; synagogue embroideries, vestments, curtains, Hanukkah lights, Passover utensils, etc.The University of Cambridge has conferred on Dr. Wendell Holmes the degree of LL. D., and tendered him a banquet. -Houghton, Mifflin & Co. announce an entirely new and complete edition of the writings of Longfellow, in eleven volumes. The large-page edition will be limited to 500 copies.- -A limited edition of the works of Benjamin Franklin, in ten volumes and edited by Mr. John Bigelow, is promised by S. P. Putnam's Sons. Heath & Co. will shortly publish a new and enlarged edition of Prof. W. O. Crosby's "Common Minerals and Rocks.". short story by Mr. Stockton will soon appear in three successive numbers of The Century. -John Wannamaker, the millionaire merchant of Philadelphia, will shortly publish a new juvenile magazine, with many illustrations in colors.- -It is generally known that The Century company, of New York, has for several years been engaged in preparing a dictionary of the English language, of which Prof. William D. Whitney, of Yale College, is editor in-chief-the purpose being to make a more comprehensive work than has yet appeared in popular form: to include, in addition to a very full collection of individual words in all departments of the language, all technical phrases not self-explaining in law, the mechanical arts, the sciences, etc. Special features of the new work, which will be called "The Century Dictionary," are: a very complete system of cross-references, embodying in itself a dictionary of synonyms; unusually full definitions of the uses and meanings of words, with a large collection of new words; copious illustrated quotations from standard English and American authors; finely executed cuts, which will number 5,000; and careful typography, the printing being already contracted with De Vinne. Some thirty specialists have been employed upon the work, with fifty assistants. It is estimated that upwards of a quarter of a million of dollars will be spent upon the Century Dictionary before it is ready for publication.- -Mr. Frank

Allen is about to leave England for a tour in America.. The newspapers are industriously circulating a rumor that Mr. Andrew Carnegie has bought Carlyle's old home in Cheyne Row, Chelsea, and proposes to transport it bodily to the United States. The Critic wrote to Mr. Carnegie to ask him if there is any foundation for this report. He replies: "Not the slightest. News to me."- -A translation of the principle works of Nikolas V. Gogol, "the Russian Dickens," will be published immediately by T. V. Crowell & Co. The first of the series, "Taras Bulba," will be ready early this month.- -A recent fire destroyed many of Mr. H. H. Bancroft's works of reference. The plates of seven volumes of his great series have been ruined. Besides these, Mr. Bancroft loses the whole edition, in Spanish and English, of a biography of Pofirio Diaz, and the greater part of the bound edition of the fourth volume of his "History of California."-The house in Dumfries, where Burns died, having been repaired in consequence of its dilapidated condition, the woodwork of the bedroom in which the poet breathed his last has been secured by Mr. Elliott Stock, who proposes to bind in it the fac similes of the first edition of "Burns' Poems," which he is about to publish, and of the surplus to make cabinets in which to issue the large paper copies of the reprint.- -Practical articles on the sports and pasttimes of the season will be a feature of Harper's Young People during the next few months. Most of them will be writ. ten by persons who have distinguished themselves in connection with the sports about which they write.Albert Jackson, an English bookseller, lately purchased a parcel of books for four shillings, at a sale at Saffron Walden. It included a very fine uncut copy, in its original boards, of the first edition of Keats' Endymion," worth many more pounds than the shillings he gave for the lot. Mons. A. Millaud, in the Paris Figaro of May 6th, devotes a leading article to the subject of reporting and its unhappy influence upon journalism in France. He says: Journalism has killed literature, and reporting is busy killing journalism. Nothing will kill reporting; it will die unaided. It is the final expression of the literary decline of a period. * * * It is clearly from the Americans that we have borrowed the art of reporting. In the United States reporting is the god of the hour, for, as a reader, the American is still in his childhood, and incapable of understanding great things in art and literature.' -Judge Russell Bartlett, author of "The Dictionary of Americanisms," died May 28th.- -A series of philosophical papers is being published by the professors of the University of Michigan. The first number is on "University Education," by Prof. George I. Morris.- Red-Nosed Frost" is the title of a daintily-bound book from the house of Ticknor & Co -John Burroughs is tramping about the South. Just now his walks are in the neighborhood of Lexington, Kentucky.- -Miss Edgeworth's "Absentee" has been added to Harper's Handy Series, and Macaulay's "Francis Bacon" to Cassell's National · Library. "Cousin Pons" is to be the next volume of the Balzac series published by Roberts.- -A. J. Symington, who knew Carlyle very well, is about to publish some favorable personal reminiscences of the "Chelsea Sage"- -Four authorized editions of Dr. Holmes's "Breakfast Table" series are announced in England.- -The little prayer book which Mary, of Scotland, read on the scaffold, was sold at auction in London the other day. The prayers are the handiwork of some rare fifteenth-century scribe; they are written in latin on vellum. The pages of the missal are exquisitely illuminated with elegant borders of fruit, flowers, and birds; they are also decorated with thirty-five miniatures by a Flemish artist— pieces of elaborate workmanship. The little book still rests in the original oak boards, covered with silk now much worn, in which it was originally bound.——— Philip Gilbert Hamerton says that Robert Louis Stevenson, "is, in his own way, one of the most perfect writers living." -Edward Eggleston's health has so improved that he is now again at work upon his history of "Life in the American Colonies." While in Italy last winter he wrote a novel which he may, perhaps, bring out on his return to this country.- The Pall Mall Gazette says: "We understand that the important work upon American institutions-the nature and working of the American system of government-upon which Mr. Bryce, M. P., has been engaged for a long time, is necessarily delayed for a few months by his appointment to the Under-Secretaryship for Foreign Affairs. The manuscript, however, is nearly ready for the printer, and as soon as the pressure of official work relaxes for a few weeks, Mr. Bryce will be able to complete and revise it, and the first volume will be issued immediately."- -General Fremont says, in the preface to his forthcoming "Memoirs": "Concerning the Presidential campaign of 1856, in which I was engaged, statements have been made which I wish to correct; and in that of 1864 there were governing facts which have not been made public. These I propose to set out. Some events of the civil war, in which I was directly concerned, have been incorrectly stated, and I am not willing to leave the resulting erroneous impressions to orystallize and harden into the semblance of facts.". -M. Taine has almost completed his " Bonaparte." In this work the critic institutes a long parallel between Napoleon I. and Cæsar, recognizing the greatest intellectual faculties in both, but laying stress on the complete absence of generosity in the French general. He regards him as "an Italian adventurer of the sixteenth century, fallen at the end of the eighteenth into the midst of extraordinary circum. stances." A few chapters from this new book will appear in the Revue des deux Mondes before the issue of the volume at the beginning of the winter. 'C. D." writes to the Boston Advertiser in regard to Longfellow's poem of "Truth": "I am inclined to think that Mr. Longfellow was quite willing to let this early poem die. I once asked the late John Owen, who for many years was Mr. Longfellow's most intimate friend, if he was aware that Mr. Longfellow ever published some verses entitled, Apostrophe to Truth.' He replied that he never had seen them, and was inclined to doubt the fact. I told him that I had copied such verses thus entitled, attributed to him, from some magazine into a scrap-book as early as 1835. And they now confront me. They will be found, published under the title of Ttuth,' in the first edition of the Boston Book,' p. 106, published in 1836, by Light & Horton, of Boston.The Marquis Tseng, the Chinese diplomat, has kept a diary during his residence in England, and intends to publish it in that country. He has resolved to omit all personal allusions-which will exasperate his English readers.— "Don't" literature is getting to be a rage. "The Parental Don't," by Serious Senior, is already on sale in England,

WIT OF THE WEEK.

"WHAT a lovely woman!" was the exclamation of Chief Justice Waite, upon passing a first-class beauty, when walking down Pennsylvania avenue with a friend. "What an excellent judge!" said the lady, when her sensitive ear caught the flattering decree of the Chief Justice.

HEAVEN will be very pleasant to capitalists. There is no knight there.-The Rambler.

VAN DAUB: 66 By thunder! that tailor is maddening. Whenever I am busy painting some modern masterpiece, he comes moseying around with his measly bill."

Critical Friend: "I'll tell you how to get even-paint his portrait."--The Rambler.

As far as we have noticed, there has been thus far no organized movement for an increase in "The Wages of Sin."--Boston Record. As "the wages of sin is death," will the Record tell us what a 25 per cent. advance would be ?-Lowell Courier. Residence in St. Louis.

VARIOUS CAKES.

For the delinquent creditor: Short cake.

For the singer: Do(ugh) cake.

For the sailor: Current cake.

For the tramp: Sponge cake.

For the drunkard: Drop cake.

For the farmer: Hoe cake.

For the cow-boy: Plain cake.

For the man with bunions: Corn cake.

For the house-builer: Raisin cake.-Rambler.

FASHION NOTES FOR SPRING.

A HEMP cord worn around the neck is considered recherché for anarchists. SASHES are considered essential to every properly-constructed window this spring; SOUP-PLATES make very jeu d'esprit buttons for street dresses.

A SWEET thing in false teeth is made of celluloid with a ruching of imitation coral representing gums. This style has been called "The Folsom," and it is destined to be popular.-Rambler.

AN exchange contains an article headed "How a Journalist Outwitted a Queen." The journalist, we suspect, swung the king. We have seen it done frequently.-Ex.

Doctor (to patient): You are all right physically, but you must take care of your mental self. You must not read anything, and must not allow anyone in talking to you to engage your attention.

Patient: But how must I manage it, doctor?

Doctor: Are you acquainted with a deputy sheriff?
Patient: Yes, sir.

Doctor: Then get him to summon you as a juryman.-Arkensaw Traveller.

CAUGHT IN THE ACT.

Southern Missionary: Why, Mr. Clay, you are surely not going fishing this beautiful Sabbath morning?

Mr. Clay: Wha'-what, me go a fishin'? Me? Oh no, boss; I'se gwine ober ter de cotton gin ter rassel wiv de Satan, en I tek de pole 'long fer ter 'fend mahself wiv.

WHY was Eve like Sunday? Because she was the first of the weak,

MR. ROSENHEIMER-Where you get dot old hat, Mose?

Moses-A gase fell on der floor unt busted, Mr. Rosenheim, unt dot hat got grushed.

Mr. Rosenheimer-Vell, neffer mind, Mose; put it in der vindow. Perhaps dot Mister Evarts mighd go py dis morning, unt it mighd attract him.-Puck.

ONE little girl was heard to say to a playmate: "When I grow up I am going to be a school teacher." "Well, I'm going to be a mamma and have six children." "When they come to school to me I'm going to whip them." "You mean thing! What have they ever done to you ?"

IRISHMAN (relating his exploits): "I walked up bouldly to wan o' the inemy and cut off his legs wid me sword."

Listener: Why didn't you cut off his head ?"
Irishman: "That was already off."-Life.

WHEN we consider the belligerent attitude of Greece against the defenceless European powers, we can't help thinking what an awful thing it would be if Rhode should rise up in rebellion some day and wipe out the United States.— Somerville Journal.

THE other morning at the Tombs, says the New York Sun, before one of our mast courteous police justices, a war of words waxed hot and furious between two distinguished lawyers of that locality. Sir," said one, in a vigorous aside, " you

are a confounded liar."

"Sir," responded the other, "you are an infernal fool."

"Gentlemen, gentlemen," entreated the courteous judge, "you will kindly address your observations to the court."

WHERE THEIR MINDS ARE.-Mr. De Garmo: "I suppose about this time of the year you young ladies who are going to graduate are engaged all the time in preparing your essays. Um. By the way, Miss Eugenia, what is yours going to be ?' Miss Eugenia: "Pale blue, trimmed with real lace."-Tid-bits.

EVENTS OF THE WEEK.

THURSDAY, JUNE 3.

DOMESTIC.-The General Assembly of the Knights of Labor closes its session at Cleveland with an address to the public, to the trades-unions, and to grangers. The President and his bride at Deer Park, Md. The New York Chamber of Commerce indorsed the spring election bill, and the law abolishing protracted imprisonment for debt. Charles A. Buddensick, the builder of criminally-dangerous houses in New York, taken to Sing Sing.

CONGRESSIONAL.-Senate discusses the fishery question and passes the bill to tax rall. road grants. The House passes the oleomargarine bill, with a tax provision of five cents per pound, by 70 majority.

FOREIGN.-The English conservative press agitated over Mr. Blaine's home-rule speech. Mr. Gladstone named Monday, 7th, for a division on his home-rule measure.

FRIDAY, JUNE 4.

DOMESTIC.-Mr. Manning resigns as Secretary of the Treasury and the President refuses to accept it. The first bogus butter prosecution instituted in Pennsylvania. The North Atlantic squadron ordered to Portland. John Stevens, a mulatto, is reported to be charged with the murder of five persons, residents of Coffeyville, I. T. Two negroes hanged at Winchester, Va., for the murder of a young white man.

CONGRESSIONAL.-Both branches in session. The Senate passes the Chinese indemnity bill. The House debates the report on the Warder investigation.

FOREIGN.-Cable dispatches announce that the injury to the Governor of Madrid did not arise from an accidental discharge of a pistol, as at first supposed, but from an attempt at suicide. Two anarchists in Brussels sentenced. Lord Salisbury replies to Mr. Blaine. The bill for the expulsion of the Orleanist princes from France reported to the French chambers.

SATURDAY, JUNE 5.

DOMESTIC.-Henry Ward Beecher reported dead. The grand jury of Chicago report on the anarchist conspiracy, finding the arrested men guilty of premeditated conspiracy. Governor Rusk of Wisconsin put on the witness stand at Milwaukee to testify in the case of Alderman Suezirski. General Hannard buried at Burlington, Vt. General street-car strike at New York, Brooklyn and Long Island city. John Kelley buried from the cathedral, N. Y., with impressive ceremonies. The first Saturday half holiday of the year. H. M. Brooks, alias Maxwell, found guilty of murder in the first degree.

CONGRESSIONAL.-Both branchesin session. The Senate debates Senator Ingall's resolution of inquiry into Commissioner Spark's recent circular. The House debates the Union Pacific railroad funding bill.

FOREIGN.-Munich excited over an exhibition representing the crucifixion. Prince Torlonic of Italy married. England intensely excited over the home-rule bill division set for the 7th inst. Greece raises blockade.

SUNDAY, JUNE 6.

DOMESTIC.-Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland attend church at Oakland, Md. Graduating sermon at West Point. Before preaching his sermon, Mr. Beecher referred to the sensational report of his death, which he attributed to some connection with the strikes. Ten anti-Chinese rioters indicted at Seattle, W. T. A Brazilian prince arrives.

FOREIGN.-Riot at the funeral of young Curran at Belfast, Ireland. Cable announces that an alliance between Greece and Turkey is possible in consequence of the attitude and policy developed by Russia during the past few weeks.

MONDAY, JUNE 7.

DOMESTIO-The President goes fishing near Deer Park. Convention of International Typographical Union commences at Pittsbuggh, Penn. Eight persons burned to death at Chicago. Six passengers killed in a train accident in South Carolina. The Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Boston celebrate their two hundredth and fortyeighth anniversary.

CONGRESSIONAL.-Both branches in session. Senate-Consular and Diplomatic Appropriation bill passed; victory for the friends of the Oleomargarine bill; offensive reference in Mr. Brown's report to Unlon soldiers. House -Bill authorizing the construction of the Arthur Kill bridge passed; bill to repeal land laws passed.

FOREIGN.-Mr. Gladstone's home-rule measure defeated by a majority of 30. Minister Pendleton's son and daughter arrived in Liverpool and were met by their father. Cables give accounts of three remarkable criminal trials now going on in Brussels.

TUESDAY, JUNE 8.

DOMESTIC.-The President leaves Deer Park and returns to Washington. A mammoth torpedo tested at Buffalo. Mr. Geo. W. Childs and Mr. A. J. Drexel presont $5,000 each to International Typographical Union. The greater portion of Rawley Springs, Va., destroyed by fire. A dangerous foreign element of society attempt to buru the residences of the officers of militia who were engaged in quelling the recent riots. The Canadian vessel Nipigon released by order of the Government. Mrs. Garfield wins a suit for damages in Cleveland.

CONGRESSIONAL.-Both Houses in session. Senate-Bill to restore cadets to the Navy lald on the table; Mr. Morrill introduced a bill providing for an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. House-Judge Kelley replied to General Wheeler's attack on Secretary Stanton; debate on the civil-service provision of the Legislative bill.

FOREIGN. Mr. Gladstone announces that he will appeal to the country. The French Government disagrees on the Expulsion bill.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9.

DOMESTIC.-The Gloucester fishermen are intensely excited by expulsion of fishing vessels from Canadian waters. Ex-Secretary Turner, Knights of Labor, denies the reports of opposition to Mr. Powderly. The Maine Republicans nominate J. R. Bodwell for gov ernor. The Alabama Democrats assemble in delegate convention and adjourn till tomorrow. The Rhode Island Legislature completes the election of Nelson Aldrich_for United States Senator. Chicago is excited by reports of bribery in the city council. The publication of a letter written by Edward M. Stanton, Secretary of War, in 1862, in relation to Gen. McClellan and the Peninsula campaign, attracts general attention. In Oregon the Republicans have elected the Congressman, superintendent of public instruction, and State printer. The Democrats have elected the governor and treasurer. rest of the ticket is in doubt.

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CONGRESSIONAL.-The Senate passes a number of unimportant bills. The House devotes the day to debate on the Legislative, Judicial, and Executive Appropriation bill, most of the speakers dwelling on civil service reform.

FOREIGN.-The English Parliament is to be dissolved by the Queen about the 28th, if the supply bills get through by that time. An Orange riot occurs in Belfast, quelling which a number of persons are shot by the police. An inferual machine is thrown against the door of a house in County Connagh, Ireland, which explodes without fatal results. Patti and Nicolini are married at Swansen, Wales.

VOL. I.

POLITICAL.

THE AMENDED EDMUNDS BILL.

On the 8th inst. Mr. Tucker, from the House Committee on the Judiciary, reported back the Edmunds polygamy bill, with an amendment, and submitted a lengthy report, from which we extract the following:

The committee do not hesitate to express their dissent from the twelfth section of the Senate bill, the effect of which would be that the conduct of the corporate "Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints" would be controlled by trustees of the church in conjunction with trustees appointed by the President. This union of trustees of the church and those of the Government can not be distinguished from a union of church and state and "a law respecting the establishment of religion," nor can it be other than a limitation on the free exercise of religion when a majority who control in matters of faith and discipline are appointed by the President. This section would really resemble, if it be not in fact, an establishment of the Mormon church by law, to be controlled by the Government.

COMMENTS ON THE BILL.

Salt Lake Herald (Dem.), June 9.

THE House Judiciary Committee has at last reported; and to say that the measures it recommends to the consideration of the House are infamous is putting it very mildly. If the Edmunds bill that passed the Senate, with the amendments attached by the House committee, should ever become law it would simply strip every Mormon of every political right and franchise however innocent he might be of having broken the laws. Should it become law, it would give the President power to appoint, with the consent of the Senate, the members of the upper house of our legislature, to consist, as now, of thirteen members, one to be appointed for each council district. This means, of course, that we shall have a council directly opposed to the interests of the people of Utah. And such are the provisions of other parts of the bill that the lower house will be of the same complexion, for every male person in the Territory is required to go before the clerk of the probate court in the county where he resides, and register his full name, and take an oath that he will support the Constitution and obey the laws of the United States, and especially the laws defined in this and the original Edmunds bills; and that he will not directly or indirectly aid or advise any person to commit such crimes. If any person refuses to take such oath, he is not allowed to vote, sit on a jury, or hold any office in the Territory. The Mormon who believes that God has revealed the system of marriage taught by his church can not take that oath, because it requires him to enter into a solemn obligation that he will not practice that which his God commands him to do, and no Mormon who has any faith in his religion can enter into any such obligation. The result will be that the overwhelming majority of the male population will be disfranchised. It will accomplish all that the Idaho test oath now does in that Territory. It will have the same effect though arranged in a little different form. And as the act strikes the ballot from the hands of the females, it leaves the lower house of the legislature to be elected by the same element from which the members of the council were appointed. Both houses would be made up from the non-Mormons, and therefore, we may say, packed against the interests of the people of Utah. With a legislature of this character, what infamous laws would they not enact? Would not every political and religious right of the Mormon people be outraged by such a legislature? Nor does the infamy of the thing stop here. The President is authorized to appoint all judges, justices, and selectmen of the county and probate courts, and the courts shall have authority to appoint clerks and registers of deeds, wills, and other papers required by law to be registered. The governor is authorized to appoint, with the approval of the council, all justices of the peace, sheriffs, constables and other precinct officers. The House committee appeared to have a contempt for that feature of the Senate bill which provided for the management of the property of the Mormon Church by a board of trustees appointed by the President, but it has made it possible to accomplish very nearly the same thing in an indirect manner. The President appoints the officers of the county court, and the county court is authorized to appoint the trustees in the several counties who are to have control of the church property, and while the theory would be that they would appoint members of the church to control its property, it is possible that they would appoint non-Mormons. These are some of the main features of the measure now brought before the House of Representatives, and it remains to be seen whether body will pass a thing so monstrous and absurd as that. We can not believe they will do it; but if they do, we can only mourn the departure of that respect for republican principles that we thought so firmly implanted in the American heart, and conclude that they have eaten of the insane root which robs men not only of their reason but of their patriotism as well.

No. 10.

States ought to bring the chiefs of the Mormon church to their senses. They can not say that they have not been fully represented in Washington; they can not say that they have not been patiently listened to. Their case was managed first by as able counsel as could be employed, and when these had exhausted their arguments the Mormon people, in the persons of Cain, West, and the female lobby, were represented. In Congress, too, they had the moral support of some mighty corporations, and the local press of Washington was kind to them. The opposition was confined to a single man and such help as one volunteer woman could supply him. The result is before the country, and it is fathered by a distinguished Democratic lawyer and Congressman. Two facts must be apparent to the dullest Mormon mind. The first is, that if it was not possible for them, with all the advantages they possessed, to prevent the introduction of such a measure into Congress, there must be something in their system which excites both the indignation and the fear of men. The second is, that the Democratic party, no more than the Republican, can be counted upon to shield and protect them in what there may be illegal in their creed. They must reflect that if such a committee as that Judiciary Committee finds it necessary to father such a bill, there must be something about Mormonism which antagonizes civilization. They can not say that committee is composed of carpet-baggers; they can not say that the members have a secret design to rob the saints; they can not call them ungrateful adventurers; they can not say they were carried away by popular clamor, for the press and people have had less to say on the subject for the past six months than during any winter for the past several years. The truth is, that the committee found, on investigation, that Mormonism encouraged a family relation which is repugnant to modern civilization, not only encouraged it but included it in their plan of salvation, and they found, further, by incontestible proof, that Mormonism means, in its broadest range, the overthrow of free government and the building up of a despotism which assumes not only the temporal rule of men, but the welding of shackles and chains upon their brains and consciences. When they reached this conclusion they did what every patriotic American, who understands this system, demands. They prepared a bill to strike political power from their hands. This may seem to the average Mormon harsh and cruel, but it is a mercy to the Mormon people, nevertheless. It is a notice to them that they must, in order to take part in American politics, become Americans. The fair men of their organization will have to admit that even this bill is merciful compared to what they would prescribe for those who opposed them, had they the power to execute their decrees with a majority of 500 to 1 in their favor. They represent a foreign and hostile government in the midst of this Republic; they must change their system or their residence.

Washington Post (Dem.), June 9.

Among all fair-minded persons, whether they are in favor of the anti-polygamy legislation proposed by Congress or not, it will be conceded that the Edmunds bill, as it comes, or is about to come, from the House Judiciary Committee, is in a much more creditable and presentable shape than when it left the Senate. Under the careful and statesmanlike manipulation of Chairman Tucker certain objectionable features, which savored rather of narrow proscriptiveness than of sound policy, have been modified or eliminated; and this without in the least impairing the effectiveness of the measure. Not even the most implacable hater of the Mormon hierarchy can find fault with a bill that provides, as this does, for the wholesale obliteration of Mormonism from the face of the earth. The most ma

terial changes made in the House committee are those relating to the testimony of the lawful wife of a person accused of polygamy and to the dissolution of the church incorporation. In the one case, the wife, under the original bill, was compelled to testify; under the bill as amended she is made a competent witness, but is not required to testify against her will, or permitted to give evidence in any confidential matter contrary to the rule of the common law. This, it will be seen, is a change in the interest of humanity and justice. In the other case provision had been made for the appointment of fourteen trustees by the President to act in conjunction with the thirteen trustees of the Mormon Church in the administration of its affairs, which would be a most ridiculously roundabout way of securing a majority and a most preposterous exercise of power. As amended the bill summarily provides that the act of incorporation be dissolved and the property disposed of according to equity. With these and other changes, which simplify without weakening the operative force of the bill, it comes before the House for action. The question is one of much importance and will give rise to great length and latitude of debate, the chief points át issue being whether a duly incorporated church establishment, because of the polygamous practices of some of its members under authority of the church, is liable to confiscation by the Government as a measure of repression, or whether it is not the duty of the Government to proceed first against the individual members of the church who are guilty of polygamous practices, on the assumption that the church itself has certain rights under the Constitution which, excepting as a last resort, are exempt from forfeiture. Florida Times-Union (Dem.), June 12.

THE more the question of Mormonism and polygamy is investigated by the grave makers and unmakers of laws at Washington the more perplexing they find it. All the propositions made and laws passed thus far have failed to perform their mission. The Church of the Latter Day Saints has become a cancer on the body politic, and

every time the knife is applied the sore is apparently widened in area. To-day Mormonism exists in all the Territories adjoining Utah, and it is likely to exist in them in spite of all that Congress can do to the contrary. The fact is that, whereas the system of religion in question was conceived in fraud, brought forth in iniquity, and fostered by the lustful appetites of depraved fanatics, there are now thousands of men and women who conscientiously believe in it and would suffer themselves to be hung, drawn and quartered and burned at the stake after the manner of the ancient Christians, before they would be coerced into giving it up. It has become a sort of fanaticism with them-bone of their bone and flesh of their flesh-and like Paul when he was in bonds of sin and persecuting the followers of Jesus, they verily believe they are "doing God's service," in fighting for Mormonism. When a man gets inoculated with such an idea you can't force it out of him by the use of jails, thumbscrews, or fagots. This is what the House Committee on the Judiciary dimly hints at in its report on the new Edmunds anti-polygamy bill. The committee is right, undoubtedly, in condemning the plan alluded to in "the twelfth section of the bill," which virtually puts the United States into partnership with Mormons in running the Mormon church. The idea is a preposterous one and in antagonism to the freedom of worship and anti-church-and-state principles laid down in the organic law of the Union. It seems to us that the best way to get along with the matter is to have as little to do with it as possible consistent with the rights of the anti-Mormon population of Utah and the other localities where Joe Smith's followers prevail. The Government has a right to break up the Mormon immigration scheme and it is its duty to do so. It is also its duty to protect the Gentiles, as they are called, in Utah, to disendow the church, and to enforce, as far as it can, the law of the land relative to marriage. Further than this it seems to be useless to try to go. The conversion of the deluded Mormons to right ways of thinking can only be accomplished by the use of those moral forces which have Christianized a large part of the world. The experience of ages has demonstrated that the gospel of force has not been successfully used in making men better. The sword and the gallows may put an end to a man's life, but their influence does not save his soul nor their use induce a pious frame of mind in the victim's friends. The firm execution of the laws which the Constitution of the United States carries into all the Territories and the elevating influences of Christian charity and Christian education are the only reliable and effective means than can be used in the suceessful solution of this question.

New York Times (Ind.).

WHEN the law shall have been made complete, when the machinery for enforcing it shall have been perfected, and when it shall be within the power of the courts to convict and punish every person in Utah who has violated the law or who may be violating it, will it be necessary or expedient or lawful to go further? Ought the Government to punish a religious organization because some of its members have broken the law and been sent to the penitentiary? We believe that the law against polygamy should be perfected, and that provision should be made for a rigid enforcement of it, but we are unable to see that the Mormon church should be taken out of the hands of its officers and governed by a Federal commission. If the church has broken the law of 1862, by acquiring and holding more than $50,ooo worth of real estate, that law may very properly be enforced by compelling a forfeiture of the real estate held in excess of that limit. All propositions looking to the punishment of the church by new laws should be studied in the light af forded by a consideration of the Government's duty with regard to polygamy as a crime committed by individuals. If all polygamists have been or can be punished by prosecution under the law as it exists, or as it may be when perfected, the Government should not lay its hands upon the church. It is the crime, and not the belief, against which legislation and executive action should be directed, and it seems to us that the crime can be suppressed without proceeding against the religious organization with which the criminals are connected.

The Nation (Ind.).

WHAT we hoped would come out of this anti-Mormon movement was a constitutional amendment, putting the whole subject of marriage and divorce within the jurisdiction of the United States, and giving the country a uniform marriage law. It is quite safe to say that the difference of the State marriage laws is on the whole as great a cause of scandal and immorality, and does as much damage to the family relation, as the Mormon polygamy. American society suffering far more to-day from the ease with which monogamists get out of their monogamy, than it suffers, or is ever likely to suffer, from legalized polygamy. What we need is a law which shall surround marriage with exactly the same legal conditions, and follow it with the same legal consequences, in all parts of the Union, so that no American citizen shall ever be less or more married in one part of the country than in another, and no American shall find it easier or more difficult to get a divorce in one part of the country than in another. An amendment providing for this would, of course, make polygamy as unlawful as an amendment specially directed against polygamy. The amendment reported by the Committee contains some very odd things: among others, a distinction between "polygamy" and "polygamous association or cohabitation," after defining polygamy as "the marriage relation by contract, or in fact, by one person of either sex, with more than one person of the other sex."

New Orleans Times-Democrat (Dem.).

THE Mormon lobby in Washington fully appreciate the situation and recognize the fact that some legislation against the saints is almost certain at the present session of Congress. What they are aiming at is to secure a merely declarative law, such as a constitutional amendment prohibiting polygamy. Such an amendment would be mere words, and without any means of being carried out. On the other hand, what they fear is an act that will seize and settle up the Mormon estate and convert the property of that church into a school fund. If they can secure a division between the House and the Senate, they will achieve this and postpone any decisive action against themselves. It is to be regretted that the House Judiciary Committee could not have favored the Edmunds bill, except such sections in it deemed impracticable. It will be fortunate if the two Houses can agree on most

THE House committee on the judiciary recommend an amendment to the Edmunds anti-polygamy bill to repeal the charter granted by the territorial legislature to the Mormon church. Now this looks like business. Polygamy is entrenched in the church. The women accept it as a part of their religion, and not because they believe it right or consider it desirable. That is the only reason why they vote for it. Now, will it not be far better to break up an organization founded upon a false doctrine than to deprive of suffrage the innocent as well as the guilty, It can not be urged in defense of the church simply because they are, women? that the people have a constitutional right to worship according to the dictates of their own consciences. Marriage is not worship, nor does the law recognize it as an ecclesiastical or religious matter, but simply as a secular contract. Any chartered church, therefore, which sets up a practice that is against public morals can not be protected by its delusion or false pretense. If it would live it must be decent. Break up its organization, and perhaps its members will begin to come to their senses.

Chicago Inter-Ocean (Rep.).

THE Washington Republican records the fact that a Mormon lobbyist, especially commissioned to look after newspaper interests, offered the correspondent of a Philadelphia paper $5,000 if he would use his paper to oppose the Edmunds bill. It does not appear that this missionary of depravity has been more successful with other newspaper men than he was in the instance cited, and it is hardly to be presumed that the representative in Washington of any important newspaper could be bribed in so shameless and palpable a manner; but the attempted corruption shows to what extremes the Mormons are prepared to go in the furtherance and protection of their nefarious schemes. If the bill now before Congress becomes a law in

spite of inside and outside opposition a very strong lever toward the overturning of polygamy will be provided, and it is hardly to be doubted that, armed with specific authority, the proper officials will hesitate to perform their duty not only to the extermination of Mormonism, but, if necessary, to the utter annihilation of Mormons. Columbus Dispatch (Ind.).

THERE is something attractive about the heroic means which the committee recommend for the cure of this loathsome sore upon the body politic. The letalone policy, so long in vogue, allowed a steady growth of the disease. The Edmunds act has served to check it, but it still remains malignant and defiant. If the means proposed by the House committee can be constitutionally adopted-and it is at once plausible and ingenious-it will certainly be effective and final.

New York Sun (Dem.), June 15.

FOR M. de Ereycinet, the lesson of last week's vote in the Chamber of Depu ties is that he can perhaps retain office just so long as he consents to meekly register the wishes of the radicals, and no longer. The motion to expel the representatives of repudiated dynasties was carried by a majority of over 100, which means, inasmuch as the 200 reactionists are certain to have opposed the bill, that not more than 25 professed republicans can have voted to continue that policy of toleration for which the premier vehemently and successfully contended only a few months ago. It is well known that the exclusion, which ́M. de Freycinet is now forced to advocate from the tribune, was intensely repugnant to him and M. Grévy, and was only accepted in deference to the inflexible determination of a majority of his cabinet colleagues. He only saved a rag of dignity by securing the adoption of a clause leaving the proscription of the brother and uncles of the Comte de Paris to the discretion of the ministry for the time being. This ostensible proof of confidence is quite as likely to prove a snare as a gain, for if the Duc de Chartres and the Duc D'Aumale, from whom alone annoyance can be apprehended, are not summarily dealt with on the first disclosure of disloyal intentions, the premier will have to bear the brunt of republican resentment.

The Courrier des Etats-Unis, June 13.

[Translated for PUBLIC OPINION.]

Two projects were submitted to the chamber; the one, emanating from the ministry, demanding that the principle of expulsion should be sanctioned by parliament, but on condition that its application should be left to the judgment of the executive power. The ministry, per contra, verbally pledged itself to make immediate use of the new powers conferred on it by expelling the pretenders and their direct heirs; the question being held in reserve in respect to other member of their families, to whom a sojourn upon the territory of the Republic should not immediately be interdicted. The project of the committee was, properly speaking, only an aggravation of that of the ministry. It sanctioned, likewise, the principle of expulsion, but rendered the measure obligatory instead of leaving its application to the discretion of the government, and it demanded that it should include, indiscriminately, the different members of the families of former dynasties,

After the stormy session of the 27th of May, in which the ministerial proposition was referred to a committee, it was expected that the final discussion would be yet more tumultuous and excited. There was nothing of the kind. On Friday the closing debate took place, opened by a vehement speech of M. Maret against the princes and conservative institutions generally. Others followed amidst a feeling of comparative indifference, the attention of members being diverted in anticipation of the speech of M. de Freycinet, who mounted the tribune in the midst of the gravest silence. After, this speech the chamber proceeded to a vote, the result of which leaves, upon the whole, intact the situation of the premier, which the affair has, for an instant, placed in great peril. Meanwhile, it would be puerile to suppose that it has been greatly consolidated, and that this solution is productive of more than a truce between the cabinet and its opponents. The crisis has manifestly been provoked by the Radicals against the chief of the ministry, at least as much as against the princes, and it may be predicted that the agitation fomented by Mr. Clemenceau and his friends will be renewed, at short intervals, upon any subject of a nature to form a more compact and powerful coalion than that which has just miscarried.

L'Eco d'Italia, June 15.

[Translated for PUBLIC OPINION.]

IN the French Chamber the mountain has triumphed, and the radicals carried the day. Launched upon the incline of concessions, Prime Minister Freycinet was obliged to roll to the bottom. The French ministry and Parliament are assuredly the best judges of what is best suited to the interests of their country. Perhaps they have done, or at least believe they have done, a good work in preserving the Republic by a tyrannical measure. For us we do not hesitate to say-we are of an entirely different opinion. The expulsion does not please us, because all tyranny, whether proceeding from above or below, is repugnant to us. It does not please us, because the Republic, in manifesting so much fear of the princes, has laid bare its own weakness. In treating the princes as pretenders, when it could and ought (if it have the consciousness of its own power) to treat them as private citizens, and meet the occasion with the appliances of the common law, the Republic has subserved the cause of the latter persecution always inures, in the public mind, to the advantage of the persecuted-and, consequently, has prejudiced Nor is the detriment properly restricted to the advantage resulting to the exiles from making pilgrimages throughout Europe, their foreheads adorned with the always-attractive aureole of martyrdom. A far greater disadvantage, in our opinion, is that France, the only Republic in Europe, after this recent act, will feel its own isolation largely augmented, and will see, more and more, accentuated the distrust with which she is regarded by monarchical governments. As for the rest, for one century to the present hour, the history of France has always been the same. repeats itself constantly at determined epochs; and given certain contingencies, one may foresee the successive phases of every revolutionary period. It may be confidently asserted that the Count of Paris has never felt his aspirations as pretender to the throne of France so well-grounded as at this moment.

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The New Yorker Staats-Zeitung, June 12.

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FREYCINET has again won a victory, the Chamber, as opposed to the report of the committee, not making obligatory the expulsion of the princes of the former ruling houses, but leaving it to the discretion of the government. We doubt, nevertheless, whether Freycinet has occasion to congratulate himself on his victory, especially if he remains constant to the programme evolved from it; and, if he expels only the chiefs of the different dynasties, namely, the Count of Paris, as chief of the Bourbon-Orleanists, and the two Napoleonides, as heads of the divided (as everybody knows), Bonapartists. We have but recently put forth in these columns the grounds which brought us to the conclusion that if the measure of expulsion was in itself a political crime, its restricted application, at all events, was more dangerous, to wit, a political blunder. Besides, the numerical strength of the minority, which declared itself opposed to each and every expulsion, gives food for reflection to French Republicans.

Cincinnati Commercial-Gazette (Rep.), June 14.

It is hastily assumed by many writers for the newspapers that the French Republicans are showing weakness and fanaticism in expelling the pretenders to the throne. The truth is that the pretenders are all conspirators against the peace of France and must be. Their trade is conspiracy. Their assumption that the country belongs to them is offensive. Recently in France the monarchists have been ostentatious and defiant-holding receptions in which there was great pains to treat the Orleans pretender as a king. The sycophants shuffled about and backed out from his presence. The monarchists of France are the worst lot of fools in the world. Their impudent folly has caused the expulsion of the princes. Perhaps a few dukes should be sent after them. The Republicans of France have acted in self-defense and have done right, and if the lesson of exile will not be useful to the blood-suckers who presume upon their privilege of princes, there is a harsher medicine of sure efficacy.

Omala Bee (Rep.) June 12.

IT IS a confession of weakness on the part of the republic to propose their expulsion, and the weakness has been earned by the crude and violent policy of the republican leaders ever since the resignation of President McMahon.

THE expulsion of the Orleanist princes is an exhibition of cowardly persecution far beneath the dignity of a great nation, a confession of weakness on the part of the government which can only have the effect of strengthening the small remnant of royalty remaining in France.-Troy Telegram (Rep.), June 14.

THE question that arises is whether these princes are more dangerous within France than they would be freely operating from without. To expel them may produce the very effect sought to be avoided.-Chicago Inter-Ocean (Rep.), June 13.

THE French republic ought to be strong enough to tolerate the presence of the Count de Paris. That there is a popular sentiment in some republican quarters against his expulsion is a hopeful sign.-Pittsburgh Dispatch (Ind.), June 14.

REPUBLICS can indeed become cruel despotisms, and by just the processes which seem to be preferred by the republican leaders in France.-St. Paul PioneerPress (Rep.), June 12.

If there is any vitality in the pretensions of these throne hunters, exile will fan it into a flame instead of quenching it.-Atlanta Constitution (Dem.), June 12. THE French government is doing everything it can to make these pretenders popular.-New Orleans States (Dem.), June 12.

SUICIDE OF KING LUDWIG.

MUNICH, June 14.-King Ludwig, who was recently deposed from the Bavarian throne, committed suicide at 6 o'clock yesterday evening. He had gone out for a promenade in the park of the Berg Castle, accompanied by Dr. Gudden, his physician. The King suddenly threw himself into Starnberg lake, and was drowned. The physician jumped into the water to rescue the King, and was also drowned. MUNICH, June 15.-A careful, thorough, and scientific autopsy has been made on the remains of King Ludwig. It reveals an abnormal structure of the skull, and the existence of a degenerative process in the membranes of the brain, due partly to chronic inflammation.

New Yorker Staats-Zeitung, June 15.

[Translated for PUBLIC OPINION.]

King Louis' death was just as strange as his life. No living witness can inform us how he came to his watery grave, and his guardians will never be able to divest themselves of their responsibility in leaving a brain-sick man with a single attendant, the dead physician, so long alone and unwatched on the lake shore. That the clerical party have hitherto found in Luitpold's line (less in himself than his sons) the support which they sought, is incontestible. Whether they will continue to find it the future only can show. The Liberal party, not alone of Bavaria, but of the whole German Empire, at all events, fear it. According as these apprehensions are justified or not, the future of the country, and with it, perhaps, of the whole empire, will appear. It is not reassuring that the catastrophe should occur exactly at a moment when the supreme authority of the empire has been obliged to capitulate before the forces of ultramontism. Even the formula of courtesy, in which the Pope has expressed his congratulations to the new regent on his elevation, and his best wishes for the future maintenance of good relations, appear ominous under the circumstances. The perspective of the consequences of the Bavarian catastrophe is, in fact, so lowering that for its own sake the tragic exit of King Louis might well be thrust into the background.

Washington Post, June 16.

THERE is no sort of doubt that King Ludwig's death was intentional, for six times he had sent to the druggists for poison, and twice he had tried to spring off the tower at Hohenschwangan; but there is some doubt of his insanity. To be sure, he spent oceans of money, but Louis Napoleon did the same thing, and Sentor Blair wants to. He flew into paroxysms of passion, but William of Orange became so violent in his fits of rage that they had to lock him up, and old Frederick I had so little restraint that twice he came near killing his son, who became Frederick the Great. Ludwig was "queer;" but so are thousands of people who do not pass for lunatics, and he has certainly done no odder things than the Roman Emperors used to do in their bacchanalian freaks. And it is well-known that the Prince's party had every reason to wish the extravagant and eccentric King out of the way, and that medical opinions can be had cheap.

The Courrier des Etats-Unis, June 15.

[Translated for PUBLIC OPINION.]

THE career of King Louis, of Bavaria, who has figured so much in Europe by his eccentricities, in late years, has just ended in a denouement which somewhat resembles the conclusion of a romance in middle life. He has thrown himself into the water and been drowned. It were idle to discuss the character of this unhappy monarch from a political point of view. He was as much a stranger to public life as his position admitted of; and he carried into it the same incoherence the same disorder of mind and inconsistency of character that he did into his private concerns. His whole life was a series of aberrations, which ended in madness and suicide; and he leaves no other landmarks than fantastical palaces and colossal debts.

Der Deutsche Correspondent, June 15.

[Translated for PUBLIC OPINION.]

Louis II has made short work of it: on Sunday evening he sought and found

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