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lilt. 1 1 EEC HE It ON SCOURGING.
From the A. J'. Tribune,
Hr. l!cecl)r, r.tnniii' (in the N. Y.
'Ledftr) to the ml votary of flogging ah a
necessary jnrt of tlin intimation of children,
writes upon the tmliji-ct with a lightness of
manner which nmy leiul thosit! who Act not
know him toqncHtioii Lis Muoeiity. With all
his cultivation, and all that nldll in contro
reray which the diatiuguiKhed gentleman has
exhibited, it appears to hh thot he docs not
f ally comprehend the diflVronce between an
opinion and a notion. In this we admit that
he is not alone. More than a rnoioty of the
men and women who undertake to discuss
questions of publio interest are content to be
illogical if only they can be brilliant and en
tertaining. It is not difficult for them to
whom nature has given the faculty of jesting
to laugh away the whole soul and sincerity of
a question, as Mr. Beecher tries to do in the
following frivolous passage:
"The 'wayward children' are not so mnch to
blame, It seems, as the parents. A bad buy snatches
til slater's doll and plumps It Into the lire; that's
his mother's fault I Bill runs ofT with his younirer
brother's Bled, and when the defrauded urchin cries
after It, he get 8 'rubbed' In the snow and kicked;
and that's his father's fault I A thievish boy eats up
all the doughnuts set apart for supper, and then de
nies that he touched them, and puts It off on a poor
bound servant girl, and gets her Into disgrace, and
suborns his younger brother to Join la the deceit;
and all this Is the fault of bis parents !"
We believe that reason, not less than re
velation, long ago determined that a con
siderable portion of juvenile obliquity is con
genital. The sins of the ; father are visited
upon the children. The passion of the parent
for sour gTapes sets on edge the teeth of
several generations; and it may often happen
that the fault for which a child is flogged,
and the hot wrath which stiffens the arm of
discipline, are substantially identical. The
child is obstinate; the parent is not less so;
and the conflict speedily becomes no better
than a mutual trial of physical strength, in
which the elder, of course, is the viotor, until
years have brought to the junior bone, and
muscle, and an immunity from degradation.
When a boy can say, "I will be beaten no
longer," the parental hand must be stayed,
however closely the parental theories may
coincide with those of the Itev. Mr. Beecher.
In one blessod State of this Union, however,
the persuasive influence of the whip is still
exerted, without regard to age. The body
politic of Delaware, standing, we presume,
in the position of one of Mr. Boocher's
parents, llogs the well-grown thieves and the
adult vagrants; and Mr. Senator Saulsbury
himself, in defending the whipping-posts of
his small but Spartan commonwealth, might
argue for the physical discipline of men and
women, as Mr. Beecher argues for the physi
cal discipline of ignorant boys and girls.
This, indeed, was the morality of the planta
tion. The negroes were but beasts; the over
seer literally drove his trembling gang afield;
the sharp crack of the lash was the even-song
of the quarter-house; the cowhide furnished
the mistress of the great mansion with a
never-failing persuasive. Why was not this
all right? These sable children of a larger
growth, incapable, as they were held to be,
of any other than a tutelage of stripes did
they lie, or steal, or fail to accomplish the
allotted task, how absurd would have been
the attempt to lead them in the paths of rec
titude and industry by that "silken cord of
love" at which Mr. Beecher sneers with so
much relish.
Perhaps, however, we give Mr. Beecher a
credit which he neither desires, nor dsserves.
He may be of the same mind with flogging
captains at sea and with flogging majors on
shore. He asks, perhaps seriously (although
it is hard to tell when he is serious and when
he is jesting), whether "physical motives are
not laid aaide too early ?" This is a doubt
which did not at all embarrass a well-known
patriarch in a well-known book the philoso
phical gentleman, we mean, who flogged
Eoor "Uncle Tom" to death. But we are
appy for once to agree with Mr. Beecher.
Our own idea is that it is just as wise and as
Christian to flog a man as to flag a boy. We
are with the pastor of the Plymouth Church
in tnis; nor must either or us be astonished
to find himself in company with the late
lamented Preston Brooks. He thought,
with Mr. Beecher, that "an adult might be
' greatly benefited" by corporal punishment,
lie also held what Mr. Beecher calls "my
wholesome theory." He thought if a Senator
could be soundly whipped that "it would
be worth a thousand speeches;" and there
is no lack of wicked people who hold
that the excellent pastor whose doctrines we
are examining would himself be not at all the
worse for a sound rib-roasting. We can well
remember when tne physical disciplinarians
of Alabama or Mississippi yearned to paddle
him, to pickle him, to tar and feather him,
and even to hang him.' These were but repre
hensible aspirations on their part; nor can we
suppose that their operations, had the oppor
tunity been afforded thorn, would have been
marked by that light elegance which doubt
less characterizes the f u.iligatious in Mr.
Beecher's parsonage; hut. bloody-minded and
brutally murderous though the planter-patriarchs
may have been, it is but justice to say
of them that their idea of any soul in the
human constitution was limited and indefi
nite; nor did they quote Scripture very often
(unless they happened to be Cumberland
Presbyterians) in defense of their coarse
morality. They were, indeed, sheer animals,
Let us in charity, and somewhat to their
credit, admit that they did not pretend to be
anything better.
THE FUNDING BILL UNACCEPTABLE
TO THE COUNTKY.
From the A. Y. lmin.
The Funding bill, as it passed the Senate,
is not received with much favor in Wall
street, nor is it likely to be acceptable to the
country at large, unless very materially
enangea in tne House of Kepresentative.
ine oojecuonauie iemures relate to tne va
riety of new bonds proponed to be created; to
- the large annual ami perpetual aDprooriiiuon
of one hundred and fifty millions for gold in
terest and payment of principal; to the in
crease of the peronnent gold-bearing debt
by funding the greenbacks, and to the sub
stitution of a further issue of national xnk
notes for greenbacks, to be ouneellwl at the
same time. These are the popular exiep.
tions to the bill. Ibe national bunk people
make the further objection that they ought
not to be compelled to substitute 4 and "1 per
cents, for their present C per cent, securities,
. without beintr relieved of the present tat
of one rer oent. Der annum on their oirou
lation.
It seems probable that the bill, after it
reference by the House of Itepresentatives
to the Committee on Ways and Means or the
' Committee on Banking and Uurreuoy, wn
not be heard of again for several weeks, and
it would therefore be folly for the trading or
bankincr commumtv to pause in tneir umv
w m
i.
Ihitig will ultimately be done by Congress, in
Ihe present temper of tho House of llepro
trntatives, to sanction the contraction of the
currency or to precipitate specie paymnnts
tij-on the Treasury or the national banks,
bt iore they are fully prepared to make such a
measure easy to the public, and entirely suo
cehfcful, bejond the possibility of a reason
able doubt, to themselves.
The purpose and views of Trosident Grant
about reducing the annual charge upon the
publio debt, so as to authorize a liberal re
duction of taxation, are directly postponed,
if not wholly defeated, by this measure. He
would reduce the gold interest on the debt
below one hundred millions, leaving a margin
on that sum almost if not quite equal to an
annual sinking fund which would extinguish
the new stocks about to be created at low
rates in less than forty years. Mr. Sherman,
adhering to his own prepossessions against
all sinking funds, would entail the heavy
charge of iir0, 000,000 in gold per annum on
the customs revenues, for interest and in
diminution of the principal. Tho annual dif
ference to the tax-payers is nearly equal to
the sum which the President would relieve
them of as soon as refunding at low rates of
interest is an accomplished fact.
Aside from the head of the administration,
we are far from believing that the bill is left
in an acceptable shape to the Sooretary of the
Treasury. He has not urged any new arrange
ment of the sinking fund policy, and least of
all one that would entail an annual charge for
interest and principal calculated to defeat or
indefinitely postpone all hope of lightening
the burden of taxation. Nor can he really
desire to call in our greenback legal-tender
circulation, floated free of cost to the Gov
ernment, and to the entire acceptance of the
country, beyond an amount that may seem to
be needful when we more nearly approach the
specie standard than we are likely to do at
present. In the assured event of specie pay
ments, there would be no real necessity for
the withdrawal of greenbacks beyond their
return upon the Treasury for gold in the
ordinary course of business. The fact is
they would then be equal to $300,000,000 or
$350,000,000 of so much gold, and as an
acceptable and most convenient substitute
for gold in the receipts for customs and in
ternal taxes, the redemption of national bank
notes, and the payments for interest on the
public debt.
THOMAS IN THE CABINET.
From the Christian Union.
Not long ago we had something to say of
Thomas in the Senate. On this occasion we
shall confine ourselves to the case of his
fellow-unbeliever in the Cabinet.
On the 20th of January, 1870, Secretary
Fish sent a despatch to General Sickles, the
United States Minister Kesident at Madrid,
in which occurs the following passage:
"1 otiserve you think tho Spanish campaign In
Cuba has thus far failed. Your standpoint of obser
vation is a good one, and I trust you will keep the
department constantly advised of Madrid opinions
ou this subject, especially as the news received
here, though fluctuating, indicates, In the main, the
reverse."
It will be freely admitted that General
Sickles was in the best position to learn the
truth about the Spanish operations in Cuba,
and that his testimony should have had great
weight; in fact, that it was but one remove
from the official utterance of Spain herself,
his knowledge coming largely through officials
who were sure to knew the rt al state of Spanish
affairs in the Antilles. The Spaniards in Cuba
could not falsify to their home Government
as they have falsified in this country for the
sake of preventing the recognition of the
Cubans as belligerents. But when Mr. Fish
said that "the news received here" indicated,
"in the main, the reverse" of the failure of
the Spanish campaign in Cuba, he must have
forgotten the official information which he
had received but a few days previously from
Mr. iniiiips, tne United btates Consul at San
tiago de Cuba.
In the correspondence of the New York
limes of January 23 a paper that has sup
ported the Fish policy since our neighbors
rose against their foreign oppressors we were
told that the Spanish Government in Cuba
was "nothing" that it was "a mere cypher."
But successes strengthen the powers that be.
Decided defeats of the patriots would have
made the regularly constituted authority of
Spain supreme. But the despotism of that
organized mob the volunteers and their
blood-thirsty and ruthless barbarianism, have
been standing proofs to tne world that the
regularly constituted Spanish Government in
(Juba nas been a farce witness the moderate
Dulce driven from the island and that the
cuuse of the patriots, naturally strong, has
been gaining ia strength with time. More
over, when (Secretary 1 ish put his opinion
agninst that of General Sickles, whose advan
tages for arriving at the truth were admitted
in tho Bame communication, the SDanish
general rueno nad been absent on a move
ment against the patriots in the interior for
more than a month, and according to Spanish
accounts, had not been heard from. But in
the 1 ribnne, and other papers of January
2-lth two days before Secretary Fish had
committed himself to such n strange opinion
ine aeieat oi rueuo, with a loss ot 1300 men,
in Lis odvnnee against Guaimaro, and his sub
sequent retreat, were reported. This
account, with the failure of General
Goyeneche in a similar movement, was shortly
ul tt-rwai'ds confirmed. Tho same issue of the
'J'ribvite had accounts from Santiago de Cuba
of other patriot successes; of deep dissatisfac
tion and large desertions among the republi
cans in the ti oops that had lately arrived from
rpain; anaoi mat npauisu lie, which wa an
other sign of conscious weeltness the for
pery of un order of surrender from the Cuban
junta in New York. Secretary Fish had
every reason to believe, with the United
States Minister at Madrid, and the Spanish
Government itself (if the adventurers that
have Spain by the throat can be called by
such a name), that the winter campaign of
the Spaniards in Cuba had so far failed.
And now will neither Thomas in the Senate
nor Thomas in the Cabinet believe that Cuba
is fighting hard for her freedom until the
bloody drama, prolonged needlessly, Bhall
have been rounded out into viotory, without
one sympathizing word, or one act of simple
justice on the part of the Government? If
Thomas had believed himself infallible would
be not have denied even the testimony of his
senses? But God forbid that either a Sum
ner or a Fish, or a Cabinet or a President,
should keep a free people from their duty.
These men are the nation's servants, not the
dictators of the national policy.
How long shall this cruel, useless war, with
the constant murder of innooents that accom
panies it, go on at the very door of the re
public? And how long will our Government
continue to ignore what Spain has been
forced to recognize? And how long will we
continue to give the enemies of democracy in
Cuba all possible advantages, and rigidly
withhold them from the struggling patriots?
The least that we can do and it must be done
promj tly to save the national honor is to
put the belligerents on an equal footing.
Tiess movements on account of this measure.
We have not the sliKhtest belief that any-
IMMIGRATION TO THE SOUTH.
rom the St. LouIh lieintblienn.
A few days nyo an iihsiiciatinn of Virginians
for the purpose of inducing iiiiuiirauta from
Switzerland to setlie in their State addresid
the Consul-Getieial of the Swiss republic at
Washington city, brg;;itig his co-operation.
The Consul-General auawi red tho request by
examining the whole question from the flino
retical standpoint of a certain class of Swiss
republicans who are educated as freemen and
expect to be treated like refined gcutlomeu.
He savs that althovmn some ox tue metuDor.-i
of the new ininiinratiou society are highly
respectable and prominent merchants and
politicians, it is nevertheless possible that
their enterpriso is only regained us a goo i
speculation. He quotes os au example a new
colony, lately estubiisaea at uoinsnoro in
North Carolina, where the Swiss immigrants
were assicned the huts which had previously
been abandoned by negroes, who had left
them in going further south; and he assures
the members of the Virginia association that
his conntrvmen will not leave their homes
and settle in Virginia without being com-
pletely assured of being properly received. If
they are not certain that thore are no fevers
on the land offered to immigrants; that the
soil is useful for vineyards and orchards; that
it is cleared and fenced; that a good house
stands upon every piece of five huudred acres,
or that houses can be built "without much
expense aud trouble, the Consul declares
they certainly wiu ao come to ogiuia.
The old consul general of the Swiss ropub-
lio is himself a most excellent gentleman, but
in spite of his long sojourn in this country he
seems to know very nine oi me ine oi new
immigrants. So much is certain, at any rate,
that if his advice to foreigners had prevailed,
not three hundred immigrants would have
come to this country, instead of three hun
dred thousand and more who leave their
homes every year and try their chances in the
United States. At the time oi the nrst settle
ments in the West, there was nobody at all
who could answer any questions about fences
and fevers and the cheapness or difficulty of
building houses. And yet hundreds of thou
sands settled there, and among them a large
proportion of Swiss. In spite of their re
publican education (which means in regard to
f. . , A 1 ! 1 - 1 A-
the poor wno almost exclusively emigrate
from Switzerland), they had to struggle pre
cisely as the former subjects of German
and French monarchs. Until they had built
their toe houses, they bad to live under the
roof of the firmament; they had to clear their
own land and to split the rails with their own
hands by which their land wus put under
fenoe. They had, in one word, to create
everything which the good old consul-general
would like to see entirely done before the mi
migrants from Switzerland should start from
home. The negro cabins which were assigned
to the late Swiss imtuigrunts at Goldsboro are
evidently betttr thau no houses at all, aud we
know that many Swiss immigrants in the
State of Illinois at this very (lav live in cabins
which cannot be much excelled in size and
primitiveness by the average log cabins in
North Carolina. And yet some of these im
migrants in Illinois of whom we spoak have
been upwards of fifteen years in this country.
I he lite ot the nrst settler is hard; it is
subject everywhere in the United States to
severe trials, of which suffering from inter
mittent fevers is not the worst. From these
hardships no one is exempt, whether pre
viously a citizen of a republic or the subjeot
of a king. By diligence, perseverance, energy
of character, and muscular and moral
strength, they are almost always overcome,
however. We concede that the sufferings of
the first settlers may be a little more acute
than in the new regions of the West. But it
is folly to believe that the preliminary work
of immigration societies can in any case
change new comers at once into well-to-do
farmers. The independence of the American
yeomanry is their own work, and in the
West, as well as in the South, tho new immi
grant must make himself free and rioh and
independent by his own labor and endurance,
Only those who help themselves can expect to
be helped by others.
MANHATTAN VERSUS TAMMANY.
From the Syracuse Journal.
The two Democratio foes have met face to
face in the Legislature Manhattan beards
Tammany in its den. Manhattan has carried
the war into Africa. The forces are moving;
the smoke of battle begins to arise; the
leaders are dashing along the lines. Look
out for a mutual slaughter of the heroes.
After weeks of agitation, well stirred up
by the organ of the Manhattan Club, with its
columns of editorials calling for another New
iork charter to take the place of the one in
troduced.in the Legislature by the lam many
Ring, a charter which should be framed so as
to usher in the era of political purity and
transform the 6houlder-mtters and re
peaters" of the metropolis, into masculine
angels; and enable the upright members of
the Manhattan Club not Ring, of course not
to dispense justice, administer the laws as
they were never administered before, and do
nil sorts of things which should convert .New
York into a garden of morality after weeks,
we shv, light breaks upon the brute.
And now, out of the throes of the Tarn
many organ emerges the loug-berahled char
ter. Its godfather is John Monisaey, and its
godmother is Sam Tilden. The child was
conveyed to the presonce of the legislators
by Mr. Freer, who urged the importance of
adopting tho foundling without delay. This
foundling has a long line of friends who are
ready to acknowledge relationship. It must
be admitted tbut they are quite miscellaneous
in their characters; for sharp journalists,
prize-fighters, and political tricksters press
its claims, and are ready, if need bo, to fiht
and bleed in its cause.
Our readers will remember tSat the Tam
many Rino introduced a new charter some
what earlier in the session, which died of too
much mortality. Tammany never will forget
that death never There were dark hints
that the Manhattnn ref ormers had something
to do with its tuking off. Now, what can be
expected of the latter prowny to which fllor-
rissev stands eodfather. and which is under
the protection of the house of Manhattan
The foundling will be straogled! "Murder,
mnRt foul, will be committed !
We have looked in vain for the reformatory
provisions in this new charter, which we were
led to expect would be incorporated in it. It
is "diamond cut diamond" with the Taui
mnnv men. Manhattan figures for a balance
nf nnuior. Tammany not only has that
rnlnnn hut means to hold on to it.' Man
VinttoT. uttpninla to devise a respectable mode
nf imnrnnrintiria snoils: but alas, immediately
a clique of prize-fighters, like Morrissey and
Aaron, are ready to major-general the charter
through by "Striking square irom tue
urmnbW" The Demoorats from the in
terior of the State should pointodly
inouira of the New York World if those are
the moral reformers who are to rescue Gotham
from perdition. The rural Democracy have
been repeatedly urged to go up to the help of
Manhattan against the "Ring.'!. .But the
rural Democrats Bhonld notice that .Manhat
tan's knichta are no better than those of the
''Itinff." Whichever wnv thv turn lmtni-n '
tl nt-v two factions, they witness champion
u -j J ,
of the "Riiib," intent on selfish ends. Tltey
huve been tLreatei.ed that unless they sup
port this charter they noed expect no holp in
ciirryit g their own measures. Threats of
this hind are potent. But Tammany has a
voice, and its reassuring tones are comforting
to the rural Democrats, who are now waiting
liKetbe "grasshopper on tho
vino."
sweet-potato j
IGNOMINIOUS END OF THE TREASURY
INVESTIGATION.
From the Lancaater Intell'yrncer.
The much-talked-of Treasury investigation
has come to a sudden and untimely end.
When the Senate ordered a warraut to issue
for the arrest of General Irwin, we took it
for granted that he would at last be brought
to the bar of that body to answer for his
refusal to testify. We never dreamed that
the same men who voted to maintain the
dignity and to assert the lawful powers of the
higher branch of our State Legislature would
within twenty-four hours deliberately record
their votes in favor of a reconsideration of
the action they had so publicly taken. Why
this hasty retreat? It certainly could not
have been caused by considerations of publio
policy. The interest of the State demanded
a full and complete investigation, and the
people expected that at the hands of the men
who had ordered it to be begun, uoes any
one need to be told that some potent influ
ence 6f a secret character was brought to
bear upon members of the Senate ?
Imperfect as tne investigation necessarily
was, with General xrwm standing mute and
Mr. Mackey refusing to answer material ques
tions, enough was elicited to establish several
important facts. It was proven that the sink
ing fund, which was set apart as a sacred de
posit for the payment of the State debt, was
robbed of over a million and a half dollars; it
was shown that an average unexpended bal
ance of a half-million dollars of the money
thus stealthily transferred was loaned by
Mackey, Irwin, Kemble & Co., to banks and
private speculators; and it was rendered clear
that principal and interest on the State debt
were permitted to remain unpaid, to the great
damage of the taxpayers, in order that the
State Treasurers and their friends might make
fortunes by an illegal use of the publio money.
Mr. Mackey declined to state what interest he
received for the moneys he loaned to banks
and private individuals, and General Irwiu
chose to refuse to be sworn, but the mute
confessions of these two men is as conclusive
of their guilt as an open admission would
have been.
The investigation has shown that a com
plete and thorough reform in the manage
ment of the State Treasury is imperatively
demanded, but the action of the Senate as
sures us that it cannot be had at the present
seion. The question is one of prime im
portance, and it will form an issue at the
election next fall. Let the people see to it
that no man is returned to either House who
is not pledged to a radioal reform in the man
agement of our State finances.
HOW TO DEAL WITH UTAH.
From the A. T. Sun.
"When the Republican party, in its early
organization, pronounced slavery and polyg
amy twin relics ot barbarism, a great truth
was uttered. But, while slavery was the
result of violence, polygamy is the creation
of ignorance. Now while we may, as we
nave done, use force against violence, we can
only employ education and persuasion against
ignorance. Towards the last, force only ag
gravates tnat wnicn we seek to destroy.
i'olygamy is in sucn deadly antagonism to
the Chiistian civilization of the age, that it
can exist only when tar removed from its in
huence. iingham Young and his deluded
followers fled from the midst of civilized life
to the depths of an almost unbroken wilder
ness, bo long as they eould live cut off from
the moral and social influences of the outside
world, they flourished; but the moment the
railroad stretched out its iron arm and
touched the pollution, polygamy began to
fail. The publio sentiment of the country
says to the people of Utah: "What you do
is not reasonable, it is not decent;" and al
ready we learn that a grave division has oc
curred in the Mormon Church, that a large
portion of the Mormons are out in opposition
to the degrading praotiee, and that every day
the ranks of the malcontents grow stronger,
I his railroad is a great enemy of Isrigham,
The trains arrive crowded with likely young
men on their way to the mines; and the Mor
mon girls, seeing the supply, are not inclined
to take part of a man when each girl can
secure to herself a whole husband. Under
these circumstances common sense would
teach us to leave the evil to its natural and
speedy death. But Mr. Cullom, of Illinois,
introduces a bill in the House of liepre
sentatives at Washington confounding the
crime of bigamy with the insane religious
belief in polygamy, and proposing to punc
ture it with the bayonet. This means
war. All attempts to correct religious error
through force result in war. The revolt
now raging in Utah against Brigham, and
gathering strength every day, will end at
once on the passage of such a bill, and the
Moiiuui.s will once more present an unbroken
front to the enemy. The prophet will cut
the railroads; and our lute war has domon-
Btrttted that, in face of such a force as the
Morn on leader can rally, forty thousand
trooj s could not keep open our lines of corn-
muMcatun. Venre threatened with an In
dian war, and Brigham would not bo slow to
take udvantage of the situation. Our remote
settlements would be destroyed, our frontiers
disturbed, aud the entire Pacific coast once
more separated from the Eastern States. And
lor whai do we run these risks?
ro man can answer. We have put up
with iioljcamy for twenty years, and now
that it bids fair to die out of itself, we sud
dt nly rush into this crazy action. Is it that
tbene railroads have made the mormon pro
pel ty di sirable, or that certain gold and silver
mines lately opened by old Brigham have
been found to be so exceedingly rich as to
stir up our religious enthusiasm t
Utah is said to contain over a hundred
thorn-and inhabitants a very sober, hard
working, thrifty people. The better way is
to admit her as a State, and leave the immo.
rality of her people, as we do the immorality
of the miners and border ruffians, to tie
schoolmaster and missionary, who will find
less to do there than with the people of any
i - j -
aojoiuing region.
TnE MIKADO'S PIANO.
From the K. Y. World.
Recently we chronicled the approaching
advent of horse-oars in China. To-day we
record the appearance oi a piano in J apan.
Musical enthusiasts may infer that the days
oi tne gong wmou me .tycoon usea to exe
cute tender little voluntaries upon, of the
bronze bugle which the daimios blew from
their terraced hilltops to summon their fol
low rs together, are numbered; we hope they
may be, ana snoma into to anuoipate the
time when the sounding ootaves of titeinway,
Erard, Broadwood, and Chickering will be
heard thioU;hout the Orient islands. But
though the Mikado sets the fashion, we ar
not at all siiriiiiiie as to its result. A li'"r d
Ant-Irian has given him tin itisi runic c.t upon
l.icb, in intervals stolen from ttio iii'rt
frivolous pursuit of government, ho is rn
J'Uttd to improvise a good de-d of disivii'd.
Whether the result will be a revolution in
rnuficnl taste in Japan or not remains to be
seen. If such should be the sequel, the Aus
trian s gut would exert n more potent civil
izing influence than many missionaries. But
we iippreheud that the Oiiental oar is too de
praved to find delight in any melodious con
course of sounds. It revels in jangling aud
dissonance. It prefers the scream of tho
peacock to the musical murmur of the night
ingale. It would rather listen to n tom-tom
or the blaze of a kettle-drum than to Apollo's
lute. It would rather listen to Butler to
"The lung, dry sc-saw of hla borrlMa bray"
than to sveet-voiced Sappho, with her myrtle
garland and her face of pain. So the Mi
kado's piano will doubtless turn out a
foilure. It will be strummed on with
some diligence by inexperienced henna-dyed
lingers, and its tones will
bewilder and bore the bystanders. It will
get out of tune, aud the result of Japanese
effort to restore it to rhythmio and harmo
nious cadence can easily be foreseen. It will
become the terror of the palace, and will be
shunned as the fairies shunned the casket of
the afrit. As we desire to stand well with
Japan, and maintain our friendly relations
with her, we are clad that this perilous
gift did not proceed from au American. It
would, In such case, have some time rup
tured the relations of amity which subsist be
tween the nations. As it is, Austria is sure,
sooner or later, to come in for an overwhelm
ing harvest of Japanese resentment. A piano
does not at once develop its full capacities of
torture. It may be a year or two before the
Mikado becomes aware of the wooden horse
which the wily alien has smuggled within the
walls of his island Troy. It will dawn upon
his faculties some time, and he will doubt
less transmit to his successors the injunction
to tear the Austnans, even when they bring
gifts.
A "SACRAMENT."
From the N. T. World,
There is in this city a paper, the identity
ot which it is not necessary to indicate fur
ther than to say that it is the Daily Mouth
piece of Twaddle, which has a Washington
correspondent who terms the admissiou of
Revels a "sacrament." "a religious rite," a
tuking of the admitted one into "fellowship."
All this hne talk on a yellow fellow lugged
into the Senate. Now, let the Mouthpiece
listen. By the same processes by which this
Ohio negro was sworn in, an Esquimaux, a
wild Chinaman, a Camancbe hot from scalp
ing, a horse or an ape even, might have been
admitted, lhe legality of the one transac
tion is the legality of the other; and neither
are comparable for a moment to the lawful
ness of Cslignla's inducting his pet steed into
omce an induction, by-the-by, which we be
lieve was, in Caligula s time, likewise called a
"sacrament. By the Roman code, what
pleased Ctcsar was law; and so far the Caligu-
lan admission was above the Congressional.
Terhaps there is another point iu which the
Congressional power of creating rulers for us
is not quite coextensive with that possessed
by this worst of the Roman emperors. The
Mouthpiece's correspondent seems to hint at
it when saying, "I do not think that person
ally all the Republican Senators are jubilant
over this admission." And why are they not
jubilant ? Is it not that this thing has yet to
come before the people of these United
States, and that those people are not yet
ready to be the first of the white race in the
world's history that ever admitted au African
negro to be their ruler ? Possibly there may
be some who think it a hne thing for any
man who has buried a slain son to sit in the
Senate chamber and feel, as he gazes on the
negro who now rules him, that not in vain
fell his dead boy. Others may doubt the
beauty of the "sacrament" when looked at in
this view. Home dim perception of this
seems to pervade even the correspondence of
the Mouthpiece. Perhaps even so harlotizing
a pursuit as writing for that journal cannot
utterly obliterate tho fear of retribution and
the sense of shame.
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