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Show I MURE CHICAGO NOTES- (fcDITOBUI. COBBroNUKX W.) ', Ciik'auo, April 22, 187-1. A "live" town like Chimco cannot ' exist without regular additions, .hist I now, in this place, llioy are nf a religious re-ligious character. Last week l'lor-unco l'lor-unco McCarthy was the trouMp; ibis week it is l'rofcijsor Swing; Mac. waa 1 :i ckm of royalty (Iru.i); Lbul Swing . laims no such distinction. Mae. had by some means got woanod from tho usual frith of Irish royalty, and was a Baptist, but his powers of comedy were unappreciated by a majority ol his clerical brethren, ai d he is now indulging in comic lecturing, with a host of Indies laughing at, and swearing swear-ing by, him! Mr. Swing has the for-tuno for-tuno to ho a Presbyterian, and has had tho misfortune to have' uttered aeutoncoa considered by somo of his brethren to bo not so orthodox as were those of John Knox. Like Mr. McGrath, in Nevada, who lately outraged his Methodist friends by maintaining that if a man lived a good life he might look for a commensurate com-mensurate reward, it appears that Mr. Swing outraged tho entire Presbyterian Pres-byterian theory of doctrine by expressing express-ing views in a somewhat ambiguous way, indeed of ft kindred nature. And Professor Swing has boen hauled up before the Chicago Presbytery. But why Professor Swing should not start a new church is not clear. Ho certainly has as good a right, as clear authority, and as many adherents as Messrs, McCarthy of Chicago, or Hep worth of New York. The public may quietly "point ihe moral." Mr. McKee, from Mississippi, or somewhere, the ostensible parent ol the most notorious of the late Utah bills, has been trying to "whale" an editor in Washington, who spoko of him in a disrespectful manner. Mr. Mac not McCarthy, bui McKee should invest in canes. Ho is not likely to ever sit in Congress again, and there are yet people who, using public pens, will tell men holding public places what they and others! think of them. But how obedient to1 j law, how law-abiding in every way, j this person who is so anxious to have "the laws executed in Utah" shows himself! Is it any wonder that every decent man holds himself outraged by such fellows ? He, clamoring so loud ly for the execution of the laws in a Territory, and holdirg tho high position of Chairman of the Committee on Territories, thus defying defy-ing the law and public office, makes himself ati object of reprobation to every friend of law. A I expect to visit Washington in a few day.-i with the view, of courso,of aiiting Mc.-srs. Cany, Maxwell, Mcrrilt and Gilchrist Gil-christ this publication may bring Mr. McKee's wrath ujjon mo. But even if it should, for tli3 Hlraxd is read there, the const fjuein cs must lie accepted, and a man who outrages a law which he admits to bo lawful, must le held up to public exc-mtion. K. L. S. |