Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 15, 1875, Page 4

i 1 4 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: TUESDAY; JUNE 15, 1875. TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. RATEN OF STDACRIPTION (PATANLE IN ADVAXCR), Pantage Prepald at this Ofee. *'r’,%'.’('»‘.'.(&%’" Bundey Wil doabla Parteof s, VARTED—Une sctive agen) in each town and villags, Special arrangomenta made with sucti, Epecim, t freo. To pracent deln; ©ffice address in full, Including Ktate and County, Temiitances may bomado elther by draft, eapress, Post. ORcoordur, or in reglsterad lettoms, at onr tisk, TERMK TO CITY AUBRCIINEN, Dilt, delivered, Sunday escepted, 23 vonta per weck, Dotly, delivarod, Sundar Includod, 1310 cents por weok, Atdresn THE THIBUNE COMPANY, Curnes Madison and Dearliotn-sts,, Chicago, 1L TD~DAY’S‘AMUSEMENTS- NIVICKIINE THRATRE Mudion sttear, botzten Stato. . Ttugngonient of o ot Rt AT ass Tiice(rs Company. Tha lig Bonaaza. IR’V OF MUBIC—Hniatad atrast, between Aade At unrsar of the Jisyour." ADELPHI T PATRE - roo, Vavety Entertatamon 0OTUY'S_TURATRE Tandoloh steaat, hetoen s&fi".'-n‘aus-xle. Tugagomont of Tony Pasior's Com- on. ecta] Gonclaro of 5 Cagatayy oven- Heon K T, Onlory i aror of Rocordor, Togol LODOT, No o9, A. F. & A, M.~Togolae AR et A Sasior Asaoirs Deroes’ Th S eordiaty nvitede o O M. CIVAN K Bao'y, [ TS B L L ) The Chitags Tiibune, Tueslay Morning, Juno 15, 1875. The end of tho Peunsylvania miners' triko is ot hand. Alveady two or {hroo of the larger shaits are being run to theie fall ea- pacity, and the miners aro constantly sceking oxcuces forintarviows with the operntors to tho end fhat gome compromise may ho effect- ed. The most eiguifieant fact in conneetion with the troubles the lack of unnuimity omong tho strikers, which i manifesting itself in somo eeses to tho extent of open re- Dellion agninst thoe rules of the Miners' Union. Al indications point tofnu early resnmption throughout the entire anthracito region. Our Washington correspondent has been nt some paing to aseortain the naturo of the repost submitted by the Chicago Custom= Touso Examining Commission, and, with the nssuranco that his information hns beon ob- nined from relinblo souvces, sintes that the Commission will not only coudemn thoe foundations and muperstructure ns inadequato and unsuitablo, but will also roport unfavor- nbly upon the Buena Vista stone farnished by Munizrn, It is thought thot the manuner in which the contraci was obtained and the work was performed will entor into tho report, and ihnt the conclusions therefrom will Lo any- thing but gratifying to the partics respon- siblo for the job. A commitics of the 8t. Louis Marchants' Exchange went out for to sce, not a reed abakey by the wind, but ono eaten up by geasshoppers. They saw it, and also huge trees girdled with all o woodman's skill and precision, and bedges with no more folinge than: o conrse comb. One thing was found that tho boppers would not fouch—milk- weed; but, ns tho useful purpose served by milkweed is to cure warls, and, os it does mot transpiro that warts are o prevailing epidemio in that vicinity, it in not easy to percefve the merciful disponsation in thecase. In sparing the milkweod, the grasshopper was avidently sctuated LY pri- 4o lower, closing at £8a cnsh, and G6jo for July, Ilye wna quiet, ot about Ube, Barley wns quict at £1.05@1.05% for September. Cattlo wera a shndo finmer, Ilogs wore netivo and 16e per 100 Ia lower, at $7.00@ 7,80, Sheep wero quict and atronger, It ig reported that Commissioner Prrspre v1LLy, of the Board of Tublic Works, comes back lo Chicago from his inspecting tour with the conviction that ho hns discoveréd a pavement mado of asphalt which Is mueh su. perior to anylhing we now have, and which enn bo laid at considernbly less cost than waooden pavements. Wo hopo that he mny not be mistaken, but provious experlence in other eilies of this country suggeat very cau- tions and inexpensive experiments in this vato reasons, and was not moved thereto by any considerations of tho publia good. Still, the millewoed remains, and the fact will be duly perpotuated in the archives of the Mer chants’ Lzchange, ‘There ha3s been some conspicnons inac- curacy somewhero in connection with the re- ports and doninls of Collcotor Wanswontn's rosignation. 'Tho latter deniod the forward- ing of anything which could be, by any pos- sibility, construed 08 a resignation, but it appesra that he wrote a long letter to tho President, and sobsequently sont o telegram to Commissioner Pratr stat- ing thot tho Presidont was at liberty to con- sidor that lettor a resignation it ho thought proper. This permission was used by the Prosilent with all possible hasts, nnd hence the report that WapswonTu's rosignation had been forwarded and so- ceplod. Unless the Collector can show that no such dispatoh was ever sont to the Com. missioner, and that the Intter has lied, his numerous denfals will not improve the situn- tion, nor increnso the respect and confidence which his courso has moterially diminishod in this community, e —— Ars. Woopuowy is roported to lave snid, not long sjnce, that, when the Bercnkn trinl 13 over, the evidonco will just begin to come in, TNecent developments scom to confirm the engacity of this remark. Sinco tho ovi- Qenco in the case has boon closed, there have beon soveral statements of considerable im- yortance, some of which would not not have Yeen admitted as ovidenco in the clvil suit, oud some of which are said to have been nn. Yuown to Mr, TiLton's counsel, Firut, thore is o statement, which remaing uncontradicted, that Mrs. I'sutoN confessed ndultery to Mr, uud Mre. Ricuanps, her brother and siater- in-law, in addition to the others named by Mr. TizroN, 'Then camo Mr, Carrenter's statemont in tho Now York Graphis, which places Mr. Brronss in the position of hav. dug told two or threo falsehoods, and baving confessed to Mr. Canventen by fmplication, Now the New York Herald clnims to bLave discoverod tho apothecary who gold Mr. Beronen prussio ncld with which he iu- tonded to take his own life, oy Mrs, Mourron eald, And it is aleo said that o Brooklyn up. Lolstorer cowld have givon evidenco of the most dircot beasing on tho charge, concern. ing what ko saw while he wns dolug gomn work in Mrs, Trron's house, If there is suythivg in ull thess statements, thoro will bo an opportunity to give them the weight of evidenco in the criminal proceeding against *urox for sonndal, for which Mr, Dexcugs Lad him indleted. ———— The Chicago producs murkets wore yhri. able yestorday, Mess pork was active, aud declined {0@4%s por brl, closing at 19,00 @10.06 for July, sud S19.25@18.80 for August. Lord was dull and deolined 2fig yer 100 s, cloging st §18.10 for July and $13,80 for August, Ments were inactive and casler, 8t 7}o for shoulders, 114c for short ribs, and 1140 for short clears, Highwines wore quict aud steady, at §1,17 per gallon. Lake froighta were lesa nctive, at 240 for com to Buffalo, Flour was quiot and tame. Wheat waa active aud 20 higher, clpaing at $1.01} onsh, and $1.034 for July, Corn wasin falr demand, 8ad olosed jo highor, at 68}o cnsh, and C03c fos July, Oals were modaratsly activa aud line. Tho nsphalt doposits of Switzerland make admirablo pavemonts, used largely in Paris, but tho asphalt ia lakl in its purest condition, Wo can searcoly think that it can Lo imported and Inid in this country in this nnnuer ot any reasonablo cost, aud the mix. tures from which pavements called asphalt havo been made hay proved in New York, Washington, and elsewhero to be undesimn- ble nnd costly. It is nlso exceedingly doubt- ful whether the puro asphalt, such as is used in thic Parision pavements, which is very sus- coptible to atmospheric influonces, wonld sustain the sudden changes of our climate. Wa shonld be glad to partake of the enthu. sinsnt accredited to Mr, Priypiviney in this matler, but prefer to await demoustration, The ordinance conferring upon tho City Tailway Compnny the right to lay double tracks on Wabnsh avenuo stipulates that ““the tracks of said railrond siall not be ele- caled abore the surfuce of the strect, and shall bo Jaid with modern improved rails, and shall bo 50 Inid that carringes and othor vehicles van casity and freely cross said tracks ab any and all points, and in any and all directions without obstruction.” Tho tracks which Tiwve beon Iaid upon Wabash avenue south of Congress street aro considerably above the present surface of the strect, though not perhaps obove what the surface would be if the street wero newly paved on tho present legal grade. L'hie street hay worn awvway, how- over, and the track is so laid ay to defeat the provision of the ordinance wo have cited ; for earringes and othor volicles can not ensily and frecly eross the tracks, as required by tho ordinance, Whether the track is to be left in this condition, and the aveunuo rendered practically impassable except for horse-cars, remaina {0 seen, At all ovents, the public may compel the Company to comply with the ordinance in the purpose shich the above provision was intended to sccure, BAMPLE COMMUNISH, The CGermens, wo sbonld judge from a Ietter vecontly published in T Tninuse, avo apprehensive of a growth of socialism which does not go further, in mnuy respects, than the reccgnized principles of & Repub- lican form of government in Switzerland and America, What would the.Germans think if on audience of 2,000 persous gathered to- gether in o public meeting in ono of their prineipal cities to liston to such harangues o5 were dolivered Suniday afternoon in Chicago by Mesars, SuiMeNs, McAvLirr, WINNEN, and others? If such meetings and such nt- terances wero possiblo in Germany (they would be dispersed at the point of the bayo- not before organization), they would spread like wildfiro nnd aronse tho fears of tho Gov- ornmont, the officials, and the lnw-abiding peoplo everywhero. That thoy have como to bo of ordinary occurrence hers, and are permitted without interferanco or pro- test from the authoritics, is an cvidonca cither of the indifferance of the poople to their malign influences or of a popular and official confidenca in the sirongth of free governmont. Perhaps there is something of Loth theso sentiments which accounts for tho immunity given to the Communistic agitators nud ihoir incendinry uttorances. Tho popu- Inr indifferenco mny Lo partly owing to the disposition of the American pooplo to depre. ciato dangers and discredit impending disns- ters; tho mnss of the people refused to be- liove that thero was war in the Jand until after tho battle of Bull Run, Thero is also an abiding faith in the permanency of our institutions and thelr powers to resiat inva. sion from within and without. It is the com. bination of these two sentiments which ena- bles 2,000 mon to gather in public and liston to harangues calenlated to excito the worst possions, to bring law and authority into con. tompt, to threaten the soclal harmony and political structure of our people, and to en. dougor the life and property of all men dis- posed to dofend their rights, Mr, MeAvrzrr s the most dangorous, bo. causo the most intelligent, nmong the con. fessod Communards of Chiesgo. We will tako his utterances, therefore, as the fairest of tho class, The refrain of his speech was to crenta an antagonism between labor and capital, aud to incite Lis hearors to arm nnd equip themsolves for an open conflict with tho new Chicago regiments as the defonders of capital, In view of this open confession, wo imngino that tho organization of thess now regiments will receive a mow impulse, and that tho merchants and property-owners of tho city will gladly and speedily furnish tho necossary fundy for placing them upon an ofliclent footing, If thero is any likelihood that Mr. MoAurire's predictions shall be verifled, or that his Incendiary harangues shall havo the effect thoy aro intended to produce, it is well that tho new Chicngo rogiments shall be in a condition to repel the meditated attack upon property-iuterosts, and to erush out promptly such practical applications of Communizm as the coal-hcavers recentlyat- tempted. The sophisms of McAvrLww's speoch oro a4 transparent os his advice is perilous, Ilera 13 0 sample of thom: Labor bad & market value, and tho workingmen as Topresentatives of Isbor muwit alio bava & merket vulue, Tetthem wes how they wers valuod n this grestcountry, If they went to a livor) and lired o horso they were choryod $1, whils tho sman who attendod the horse got from §t 10822 day, The labwr uf the workiugman was valusd st about ouo-balt of that of an anlmal, They rust elevats the an %0 that lio Lecomes of at least 88 much value as the horso, MoAuLiie s too intelligent o 1an not to know thot this is & misrepresentation of the relations betwoeu capital and Inbor. If the incomo from the horss is $4, and the laborer who carcs for him is paid £2 a day, e knows porfectly well that tho difforence does not represent the owner’s profit on the horse’s sorvices, ns bio lod his hearers belleve, The owner lins to losa the interest on the money investod in tho horso ; the cost of keoping; tho loss of time when the animal is not em. ployed; tho wear and tear; the risk of acel. dent; the rent of his stable; the cost of licenss, taxes, and insurance; and finally, the dea‘h of the horsa nud the necessity of replac. inghim, Allof theso itoms must bo computed and deductod from the sppareut profit of tho ownar before the sotusl roward of the horse's labor is ascertained, How little the latter is Ay, MoAviier could peadily asvertnly fyom the ownors of livery.stables, many of whom are not ns well off at the ond of the yoar as the laborers thoy employed. Tako another instanco: McAvrirr, whilo Justifying tho violence which was used by the conl-henvers recently to acenre tho rate of pay they demnnded, complained that they had not gone far onough, e said that the raij. ronds onght o liava beon blockaded and the ships scuttled, so that the coal could not hnve been brought into Chienge, o intimated thnt the Penusylvanin miners ought to have st Nro to tho mines and destroyed the possi- Dbility of any other set of minors taking their place, and 8o have pub o ktop to the produe- ing of coal. Now, suppose Mr. Medurirr's programme bad been followed, Cer- toinly there would lhave been no work for the coalheavers in that case at any prico, oven if thoy had eseaped tho penally of their crime, Tlheir idleness ‘would have ocensioned want and sufforing among their families, Coal would bo searce and dear the coming winter. It would bo n ntrain on tho people with mouey to buy it ; Lt the coal-heavors, nnd others thrown out. of employmont by roason of their eriminnl intorferance, would be unable to buy it at all, and their families would cithor freezo or de- pend upon the Reliof and Aid Society—upon tho charity of the very peoplo whosa property they hnd destroyed—for suflicient fuel to sus- tain lifo, All of Mr. McAvrwrr'a sophisms could be punctured a¢ easily as thoso we have named, but wo doubt whether it is worth while, Ife probnbly knows ns well ns nny one how ut. torly fallacious they are, but will continue all tho same to excito the animosity of unem. ployed classes whenever ho ean get their ear. Thors js little use in argument with men who declare that they are not bound to ohey any Inws except thoso they ore familiar with and subacribe to, and that it ig their right and duty to present an ermed resistance to any body of men who undertake to snstain tho laws. Wo do not think that Mr, Mec- Aurre's hearers will follow his ndvice to get muskota and enrtridge-boxes, and drill for the nppronchiug conflict, for obvions reasons. Tho groat mnjority of those who sympathize with theso sentiments do not work enough to bonble to buy a musket, aud they would rather spond their time in beer-saloons than in drilling. It is well, howover, to Le pre- pared for any overt ncts if unserupulons leaders shall ever suceced in exciting theso poor dupes who listen to them to violent at- tncks on life or property. 'The way to assuro this protection is to perfect the organization and efficiency of the militia regiments alroady fuitly started. MR, ALLEN AND HI3 PARTNERS. The stetement published in Tur 'I'risone yesterday by Messra, Srermexs and BLensen. uassETT, the New York parinen: of Mr. B, F. Avrey, the President of the late Cook County DBauk, was of intereat to the general publie. It will be perhinps of somo cowmfort to those who liava loat their money in Mr. Arnex's banks to have s suggestion as to what became of that money. Messrs, Srerneys and Brex- NERHASSETT defond themselves from thecharga of heving inspired or of being acquninted with any of the questionable proceedings of Mr, ALrex; thoy admit that they wero de- colved by him to the extent of 958,000, whico thoy ndvanced to him, and for which he exceutod to them » mortgage on all his property. What tho exnct valuo of the mort- gaged proporty will prove to be will be ascor- tained only in time. So far as this business is amatter of account betweon Auren and his partners, the public have no interest in it, excopt that, to securo than, he exccuted a mortgngo which out off all bis othor eredi- tors. ‘What the pnblic are moro intorested in than anything olse is how much of other pao- ple's money Mr, Arnen got through with, These partners do not profess to know the exnet figures of these losses, but; from thoin- formation in their hands, thoy feel warranted in pntting down somo of them as follows : Tlio BTURIES-ALLEN corn-corner A wheat speculation, A Yoms in slock in Cook Cuubty Bank atocl T.ons on stock of N, Y. B, Canada Southern construcion, Total 103804.s4eereveeens This array of losses within o fow years fa emphasized by tho ndditional statemont that, when Mr. ArieN built aud farnished his houso at Des Moines, all he was worth was invested in that house, All the rest of the * immense wealth " which he has beon Land- ling, and which ho lost,ens the money of his depositors and other persons, This last nansertion thiess gentlemen make on the mu- thority of what they call an investigation of AvveN's affairs at Dos Moines. If this be true, then this man, when be came to this city and over since ho has been here, has boen nothing more than an advonturer, with no money of his own, but dealing oxclusively with ather people’s funds. This s in perfect keoping with the sct of pying for a majorlty of tho stock of the Cook County Bank with o check on that bauk, and paying the choock out of tho money on deposit, ‘We do not know the authority upon which Mr. Atex's late partners put tho losses in tho Stunors corn-corner at $180,000, This i3, wo beliove, the firat exposition of that transnction, It will bo remembored that Mr, Srunacs oporated a corner ; that, in place of cash, bo put up 64 wmarging ALLEN'S cer- tifleates of doposit in tho Cook County Bank. ‘The corner falled, and Mr. SBtunors resorted to various means of delay, which delay, it ‘was thon bolieved, was In tho interest of the bank to got timo to meot these outstanding tickets of Syunars, Finally, ke got an oxten. sion from his creditors, and turned overto them Arszn's certificates, amounting to something liko £98,000. The bank failed befora the Srunces paper fell due, If this slory be {rue, ns stated by the New York partuners, then ArLen was really altompting o corner in the corn market of Chicago, not with his own money, but with the monoy of bis de- positors, In the light of all this informntion, when Mr. Avnrzy bad already lost $1,420,000 of othor people's mounoy and had none of his own, Le had, according to hisown atatement, made a succossful negotiation through a job. bing politician for the transfer from tho State "Crensury at Spriogfield of a large sum to tho empty vaults of his Chicago bauk, Whether that cranefer was defeated by un sccldent, or by any other causo, tho State haa ronson to bo gratoful, Locanse, ns is now known, every dollar of it would have been absorbed to pay croditors who were clamoring at the door of Lis institution. gA half.million of tho State funds would have enablod him to kito along for s fow weeks moro ; but the result waa in. evitable ; there was a limit to the monoy he could beg and borrow, and it was only a question of o fow days when ko would be abruptly cloted, We question whether, in the nunals of bankiog, theso bas boow sush & suoconatullys ninintained operntion as ronning o National Bank without a dollar of monoy, aud tha de. posits and capital and immonse ontside lonns all lost in bold but unfortunato spocu. Intious. 5 TAE BATILE OF BUNRER HILL, Thevs never wns such abattles yot it {s en-. shrined iu history. It wnsa faflure anda fight; yetitis now rogardoed na o glorions victory, Tho day after, general slhiamo and mortifieation wero felt over what wns de. nounced as a shameful blunder and nmilitary erimey now no such feeling oxists, and n triumphal shaft of granito commomoraten the nntional glory in what was onco called the natioial ’hame, The eoutennial of this rave bundle of contradictions will bo celebrated Thursday, June 17, st Boston, with a zenl and enthusiasm that bid fair to make it the most motornblo eentennial of onr time. The story of tho fight has been told in dozons of books, Threo or four of them, devoled ex. clusively to this ono theme, havo appenred within the last ten days, Rejecting the do. tails apparently dictated by partisan malies, by peraonal jealonsy, by anything mave the spirit of truth-seeking, we tell to-day tho tale of a hmudred years ago, In June, 1775, an army of British regulars was besieged in Boston by n motley collection of provincial .troops, represcuting the four New England colonies, without uniforins, in- difterently well.ammed, with n multitude of Gonprale, A Committes of Safoty, appointed by and representingthe * Provincial Congress of Massachuselts,” oxercised a nominnl con. trol over the military mob. It hindl ity hiend- quarters at Cambridge. On the 16thof June, Just n contury ago to.dny, this Committeo re. solved (hat * Bunker’s 11311 Lo maintained by sufiicient forces being posted thercon.” Writ- len orders to this oifect wero fssued nnd wero deliberately disobeyed, ns we shall seo, A column of nbout 700 men was drawn up on the Common at Cam- bridge, n littlo before sunset of Juno 16, Presidont Laxeooy, of Harvanl College, offcred na forvent and impressive prayer; Col, Wirraax Prescoir, tho veal commander of the whole affair, took his placo at tho hoad of the colnmn, with a Sergeaut carrying o duric lantern on cither side of kim; and the march began. When tho Americans ronched thy skirts of Bunker Hill, their attention was altracted by n little hillock, much nearer Chmles River and so nenver Boston, and only about lialf tho leight of Bunker Hill. 'Lhis hillock Lins sinco beecoma known as Breed's Tlill, but seoms to have been nname- less until aftor the battle. Prrscorr held a congultation with the three or four officers of high ranlc—PoTsast, Gnioney, oto,—who werae with him, Thoy agreed that his orders gwe him diseretion to choose whatover point he proferred, and tho little army wns foolighly condicted to Breed's Hill, Thera they worked, hearing the “All's well” of tho British sentinels between the strokes of the pick and the whispored words of tho ofilcers, Work was begun about mid- night, By daybreakof the 17th, n redoubt about 6 feot high and 30 long had been thrown up on the braw of the Lill. As soon as it was discovered, the British vessels lying in Charles Rivor opered fire upon it. I is said thnt tho provinoils were amazed to dis. cover their renl position, since most of them thought thoy hind beo: working on Bunker I0ll, Treachory was suspected, Still they worked on, strongthering and extending their deofenses. When thoie were finished, at 11 n, ., they consinted of n redonbt which formed three sides of a squarg, o low breastwork, and 8 nondeseript fortifienton consisting of two lines of rail fonoes set near cach other with the space.betwoen them filed np with new- mown hny. This last line extonded to the Mystio River in order to prevent any successtol attompt uron tho left flank of the American forco, but there wns s con- siderable gop between it and tha brenstwork, and through that gap the British fionlly got whon they woa the day. 'The henvy cannon. ado kept up during the wak on the defenses did searcely any dnmage . One man, Asa Poruanrp, was killed by it. . Paescorr ordered him to be buried at once, in order ilnt the sight of his dead body might not terrify the raw troops. ¢ What 1" sid the officer who receivod tha order, “lury him withont prayer?” An officious chaplain insisted upon performing the rites of his chnrch before hia burial, and several of the soldiors whom his prayera drow tathe hpot deserted at once, unable, as Pnricorr had feaved, to stand the sight of blood. By 1 a'clock, 2,000 British troops hed landed at Moulton’s Point, at the junction of tho Charles ‘and Mystio Rivers. Thoy were soon reinforced by 1,000 more. An: abundant dinner and pleaty of grog were served ont to them, in order to inspirit them for the fight. Thus primed, the attacking forco separated into two columns, one of which, uuder Praor, mmched straight up DBrocd’s Hill, whilo the otber, under Howe, advanced along the Mystie towards tho rail fonces that covered tho loft of the Amorican line. As tho two bodies moved forward, they wore saasailed by scattering shots from the Village of Chinrlestown, which was at onco set on fire, Our orators have expatinted on the barbarity of this act, and Dr, Horues returns to the chargo in his Centonnial poem on Bunkoer Iill, Lut it was in a military gonse a porfectly legitimate war monsure, The senrlot line camo stendily on to within thirty pacesof tho * rebel " redotbt and fence, The provincials had been instructed to ‘*fire low," “alm at tho .waictband,” * wait till you see tho whites of their oyes,” ** alm at the hand- some coats,” aud * pick off tho commanders.” A few of them fired at longraugo. Prescorr spoke sharply ; PoTyaM sworo; and a sub- ordinnte officor ran along the breastwork, knocking up tho guns rested on it, in ordoer {0 save nny more fruitloss iring. At last the moment came, Ono blazo of fire flashed from the old flint-looks, and the grenadiors reeled back to the water's edge. The provincials cheered sxultautly, and conld scarcely ba re. stratned from a pursuitof tke foe, Tha King's troops reformed and advanced again upon Liberty's troops. Tho first firo st closo qnarters failed to check them, but the second shattered the solid colunns into Dbloeding groups and runnipg men, Iowz had overy ono around him shot down, and his silk stockings were dyed red with the blood of his soldiers, By this time tho Americans had only powder enough left for ono more volley. Thero was n supply at Cambridgo, but some- body's ineffiolency kept it there, For the third attaok, the English were divided into threo columns, one of which pushed in be. tween the fence and tho bronstwork, The one volley was fired ; the advancing line only wavered, 'Then, In thelr desperation, the sbofled provincials threw stones, shattered, weapons, and cartridge-boxes at tho terriblo rank that swept over thelr worke, ‘They wero driven out, aftor & moment's hand.to-band confllet, Paracors, surrounded with encmies, parried thelr bayoust-thrusts with his sward and es- owed. “Ho did not run,” says an old chronicler, ** but slepped long with his swonl up.” As koon aa the grenndiers wors falrly in possession of tho redoubt, they formod ranks and began a dendly fire on the Amorl- cane, wlho were then retroating in confasad masaer, It wns ot this time that the groatest losa of lifa on our side occurred, It was then that Maj.+Gen, Wannen foll,. e was the President of the I'rovincial Congress, a mnn of grent attainmonts and universully belovod. ‘When he arrived on the ground, early in the afternoon, he hind been offered the command, on nccount of his superior rank, but hind declined it, saying, * Wo are all Colonola hero, and one Colonel is ns good as another." On the 16th of June he lad officiated ns President of tho Congress. On the 17th, when he set out for the fight, Ersmax Genny remonstrated with him. Ilo answered with the old motto: * Duleo ct decorum est pro patrin mori.” Threo hours afterwards the half-prophecy wea fulfilled by his death, ‘Tho man of most nota killed on tha British side was Maj. Prroamny, at whoss ordars the ‘“Loxingtoa Massacro” wns bLegun, The total loss nccording to the official returns was, on the Ameriean side, killed, 140; wounded, 271; prisoners, 80; aund, on that of the English, killed, 226; wounded, 828, As tho Amoricans ran and tho English chinged, o faint attempt o rally tho formerwas mndo on Bunker's Hill, whero some defensos bad been hastily jmprovised. This was o very disasirous venture, A few provincinls wore shot down, and the rest ran fastor than ever. This inglorious episode was tho only part of the battlo that took placo on the sito now glorifled by the great granite monu- ment. & The feoling thronghont the Colonies aftor the fight to which we now look back with such exultation is thus deseribed by an his- toricnl writer: *It is n singular fact that on the 18th of Juno, 1775, thero were fow who would have cared to claim a share in the transactions of the provious day. The at. tempt to occupy so exposed a placo as Broed's Hill wns prononnced rash in coneeption and disereditable in the execution; thers was a deep fecling of disappointment and mortification jn the Colonies, snd the complaints wore loud and many of the Inck of good conduct ovinced somowhere. Years elapscd beforo any ono clnimed for himself or for a friend the honor of having commanded on the oceasion; and other years elapyed before thore was a gon- eral notico of the anniversary,” Tho notico this yoor is to be more general than gver beféro. Tho wholo country near Boston will make holidny, The Hub expects 300,000 visitors, exclusivo of the thousnnds of soldiors who will come from other citics nod States to take part in the procession, Somo 80,000 troops will apponr in this, which will bo hieaded by tho Ancient aud Honorablo Artillery, a militin company 247 years old. Tha famous Now Vork Seventh will parade, and South Carolina will offer the olive-branch to Massachusatts by sonding the Wash. ington Light Infontry, of Olarleston Other Southern troops will be the Fifth Maryland Regiment and the Norfolk (Va.) Blues, After tho procession comos tho inovitablo oration. It ia to be by Gen. Dxvexs, who must be o bold man to follow Wenaren on the saeno of Wensten's groatest speech. A burnt city dreads tho fire, 80 that Boston will have no fiveworks, Inatend, tho whole eity will ba brilliantly illuminated, and caleium lights will blazo from: the dome of tho Stato Houso and the summit of tho mon. ument until midnight. Altogether, it will be a grand occasion, and the citizen of Chicago with nolblng prossing to do can takoe the af- tornoon train to.day and spend Tharsday in celobrating the centennial of the ¢ Battle of Bunker Hill." . PRANCO-GERMAN JOURNALISM, A vory rash and rockloss man, Prof, Hemx. n1ox WorTes, of the University of Leipzig, has just published a book which throws con. siderablo light upon journalism in Gormany, and how the German newspspers which are favorable to Brsuarow's poliey happen to be 80 unanimons upon all poluts, and appear simultaneously with the same commonts, criticisms, and recommendntions. According to Prof. WurTez, there is o contral burean of the press in Berlin, managed.under the nuspices of Bismuncx. Itisan endowed in- stitution, the Government having turned over to it the confisoated property of the King of Honover and the Eloctor of Hesse. It is particularly active in Hanover, Ba. varis, Baden, and Alssce-Lorraine. .Its funo- tious are to supply news and opiuions, to furnish writers, to buy old papors and start new ones, and run those already in existonce, . like tha Augsburg Gazette and Cologne Ga- 2etle, for instance, which are said to bo man. nged by it. With sach an institution as this, worked by Government machinery, it is ensy to account for the unanim. ity which scoms to provail' through. out Prussin upon’ national ‘monsures and the unification which Bieaanox has accom- plished in tho German Empire, ond for which ho has been nccrodited as the first statesman of the ago. Ou the othor hand, however, it olso indicates o most remarkable degree of venality and subsorvioncy upon the part of one clss of Gorman newspapers, and will horaatior deprive these papers of any valuo ns moediums of popular communication or popular opision. It can now bo understood how ono day all these papers simnltansously ottack Franco, and the next day blaze away ot Ultramontanism ; why overy mecsure that passes tho Prussian Parliament is invariably indorsed by the same papors; snd why. the Gornian press of late has carned an unsavory reputation for corruption and irresponsibility. This is the condition of one class of Ger- man newspapers, The condition of tho othor olass,' which 18 not undor tho control of tho taskmaster, iz too well known to meod dwelling upon, The power of the Government ia as complote over it as ovor tho subsidized class, It dlo- tates to tho ono and suppresses the other, The ona is a lackey; the other, a elave, The Inckey gots paid for his sorvico liko any othor moninl, Theslave gets tho lash, Ho paya fines, Io goes to prison. Ile loses his nowspaper. Consors watch all his utter- onces, e writes with the whip hanging over him. Ashe cannot speak in pralse of the German taskmastor and dares not speak sgainst him, hia paper becomes a nullity, 1f lie over grows restive and dares to critloise or express an opinion which was not manufac. tured for him in the Berlin Schlammbader, or + mud-bath,” as the Germans call it, there ls an ond of him and his newspapor at once, Thia bolug the condition of things under tho rule of German Absolutiam, is Fraoce ony botter off under Ropublicaniam ? France may not have a mud.bath in Parls, whore popular opinjon snd newspsper idoas are manufactured and distributed, but, if the bill now pending in the Aseembly pass. es, {4 will nod neod the mud-bath The bill taslf will answer all purposes Thld billdeclares thostato of sioge raised.—that is, thera i an ond of martial law, nlthough, ns & suggostivo warning, President MacManon re- viewod on Sundhy Inst 30,000 troops nt Long. champs in tho presonco of $01,000 apoctators. Tt provides that attnoka on tho form of Gov ornment and the President of the Hepublio shall be punizhablo .with imprisonment for uot lers than two months nor moro than threo yenrs, and fines of from £100 to 31,000, It nlso attaches severo ponaliies Lo the pub- lication of false nows, or ovon of petitions asking for the modification of the Constitu. tion, The bill {s ns sweeping In its pro. visions aud as certain, if adopted, to crush out every spark of independenco in tho Tronch press, nay Dismorck is cerloin to crush it out of the German prosa. If this is to bo the mannor in which the Fronch newspnpora are to bo ragulated, wherein lics the difforenco between French Ropublicanism and German Absolutism ? How much better off in Franco with a President whose ndministralion cannot bo eritioined, than Germany wilh an Emporor whoso nd- ministration eannot bo eriticised? Or s this bill drawn up and desigued to pave the way for an Empira? It will bo agorry day for Prance when the Republic and its military Prosident are placed boyond the roacy of eriticism, and oven the right of petition is suppressed. In such a cago thore I8 no choice botweon MaoMAnoy with his buronu of cen- sorship and Bistanox with his Borlin Sehlammbader, Both are nbsolute in tho samo direction, FRAUDS IN OANNED GOODS, A recont investigation in Now York shexs n goneral aystem of frauds in canned goeds. It oxtonds to ovory desoription of fruits, ments, vegotables, nnd fish, At this oxami. nation it was found that in the ense of clams, tho solid contonts of a 1-pound can wuighed 8} onucea; 2-pound cuns containud 167 ounces. Two-pound cavs of lobstor showed 24 ounces of solid conlonts. Cansof con- denged milk turned out 18 ounces to tho pound. Tho contents of cans of mushrooms, ofter having beon drained of water and squeezed dry, did not oxceed 6% ounces to tho pound. Corned beof in caas mado tho following exhibit : Six-pound cem, 5} pounds of beef; 4-pound can, 8 pounds and 7 ounces of beof, All this is tho result of dishonest compotition. Oanned goods aro sold by the can, the prica graded upon tho honost woight being put into the cnns. Another packer puts his goods on tho market at 25 per cout per can loss, and pits that much loss frait or fish in the con. He, in turn, ia undorsold by some other per- son who puts still less in the cans. In this way, the man who puts o pound of lobster in a pound-can is roadily undoersold by thoss who, putting only half a pound of lobster in the can, can soll with increased profit at two- thirds tho standard price, Any housckeeper can tell how much ha or she is swindled in ¢enned goods by weighing the can before it is opencd, and then weigh- ing it and the water after tho solid contents have been taken out. - Nothing is more com. mon in tho canned goods trado than to have sovornl brands of the same articlo selling at difforont prices. This diforence, in a mn- jority of cases, reprosents tho shortago of frait or fish and the water in the lower-priced cang. ‘This trick provails In other trades. A yoar or moro ago thero was & convention of manu. facturors of wrapping papors hold in' Ver- mont to try and correot nbusos of this same kind, nnd at that convention there was a gonoral roprobation of tho frauds. It was stated that the paper waa sold by the roam ; that in ordor to undersell rivals paper would be put up with 20 sheats to a quire; others would put up’ less ; and thero woro oven in- stances whoro thero wers but 11 sheots in a quire. This paperwas of conrso sold at much lesa than an honest ream could be sold for. In visw of tho extent to which this kind of frand hag been carried, the packers of canned goods. in tho Eastorn States have oalled a convention to meet fn Philadelphia this wook to adopt some measure to put an end toit. Tho trade—that is, the great body of the refailors in the country—fully undor- stand tho business, They know the standard prices at which honestly.packed goods can be #old, and they understand the roason why one brand can be sold for less. It is the con. sumor who ig the victim. When a man buys a pound can of any goods for 5 cents less than hé baas beon paying for the samo articlo, ho may, as a general thing, nasume that he ia gotting from 8 to 10 conts’ worth of solid flsh ar {ruit or vogotablas lesa for his monoy. And yot agsin the ruthless hommer of the iconoclast has smashed anothor idol,—a ven- erable and lovely idol, A fow weekaago ha do- stroyed Anzrarp’s and Heronw's grave. That was his st exploit. Now he comes in tho shape of the Philadelphin Historical Bocioty, ond tolls na ‘there was no treaty sigmed by ‘Wrnzzan Pewn with tho Indinne. Bays this Society : * There was no written instrument poasing botween the particsto tho treaty. It was only this, and nothing more : a big talk and a good time, No purchase or considern. tion whatsoover othor than friendship passed botwoen Wizrzas Pewy and the sssomblogo of Delawares, Mingoes, and other Busquehan- natribos aa thoy mot in November, 1082, undor the spreading branches of the groat elm tros, now marked by a monument, and congented to what Vorzame styled ¢ The only troaty never sworn to and nover broken.’” All thia mnkes bad work no$ only with Vor. TaIRE, but also with My, West's familiar pio. turs, the school-books, the historios, the advo- cates of philanthropy, and the admirers of tho noble Indian, But oven this can be endured if we could fool at all certaln that the icono- clast would ever come to an end of his idol- smashing. The sad foature of the business is the nncertainty and confusion ho crontes, It Wintnae Tzen can b proven a myth, why not Narorrow Bonsrarts, Gronae WismmiaroN, and Oamsan? If Anzuawp's snd Herowss'a grave contains a couple of nobodies instond of the immortal lavers, may not Annauin's grave contain Jemosa- Puat Satrry, and DANTE'S tomb hold the body of Grovawnz Buown? If there was no Peny treaty, how can wo feel sure that there was a Magna-Ohattor or o Doclaration of Indopend. enco? Whero is this thing golng to stop? How long will it be before the past is entirely obliterated? Is it not time to bid the idol- smasher ceaso his work, and leave us our 1dols; aven if they are only myths? 2 e—— How much beiter the French do some things than we! We may criticise thelr leve 1ty, their fcklonoss, and thelr fondness for triflos and shallow displays, but when it comes to some of the praatical matters of life, they drop all thelr levity aad attend to them with » degres of earncstness we could well afford to imitate, For instance: The Parls correspondent of the London T¥mes writes oo {the 98th ult, thad Avorrma Omatrwiv, the Frofeet of the Selnsy bas besa tonvicked of . sion was imporfect, and that the poraon who frauds to tha extent of 40,90 franes, 1y, correspondent rayn: In November, 1870, durlog tha aleps, the Praes wan warnod Lt thers wan n deficit of 20,0001, o}y acconuts, Citantsat at fiesk loduced U e anothier depariinont to xdvauco uim Uiat surs, an ¢ this devlca heing discaverad o profenscil puch e . trition tat ua auperiors woro matafod witk bin roy.. tutlon of ke mouey, Durlng tia Communn 1.200,0c, in Catanteaw's dopartiaent fell Into th hands of § insurgents, o roceived 199.000F Auorlly nfiorwar 'y 1rom tho colloctora of the markols, and afier the fa]) »f tho Communo §§ waa at flzat muphioseil st sy, 5 hiad boon also eefzd, but on the contrary belng ¢ v <cavered, io rofunded the amownt, Homne bowds of ( 1 Parls Loan boing i his charge, bs earlid thos whe 4 were drawn for ropaymcut at par or atn premgy and replacod them by others, thus appropriating gy, 00.,, which Lelonged (0 the oWnices of tho bonds, ‘Thus far the easo runs parallel with nug . ons cases“in this country,—that fs, defal.p. tiona and breaches of trust occur in tylg country ; they aro traced np, and the amoray 1s definitely located and the details ara pub. lished. But hero the similarity, ends, for Avorrnt Citasteau was promptly tried pad convieted, nitd, althongh ho had only app.o. Ppriated $8,000, ho rocoived n sentenco of (o years' imprisonment. What defaulter or ¢ p. bezzlor moets with a like fato bero? (ng can stenl n wholo bankand approprinte all jtg doposits without being any nearer Joliol oy that account, ey Prol, Jostrit Wisrock, Director of the Oh. fiervatory at Cumbrldge, Mass., died suddenly og JFridsy morniog. o wan n native of Kontuc ky. Ho waont to Cambridgo many yeara ngo, tofaye chiarge of tho work on the Amarican Epliomeriy, under tho direction of the Coast Survoy, In 1886 ho wan appointed to succood Gromar I, Toxp as Diractor of tha Observatory of Hauvard Colloge, Phillips Profeesor of Astronomy, aul T'rofoseor of Goodoay. Mo was ono of the best aatronomeorn of whom the United Btates c.uld boast, Itwas somotimos objected that hie dig not care to work 8o long ot the inatrumont, ry somo thonght desirablo; but ks contrivutioys to tho selontitl litoratura of the duy prove thus Lo wad o Linrd aud closo thinker, and that all lus work way done mneatly and well. e aclic sod more In the caueo of scientifio rese.rch than thoso who obsorve mors, bitt tuink lesd, Tta wao oepecially akilled in tho application of ua- tograpliy {u colestlal obsorvations, and race.tly undertook & very voluablo sorles of viowe pf snu-gpots, planetary appearances, ote. Ho ob. sorved tho toenl eclipse of tho aun Aug, 7, 119, from Blolbyvillo, Ky.,, and had chargo of tha Amorican oxpedition to Spafn which obse: cel the solar eclipse of Deo. 22, 1870. ‘ho rotults of his obasrvations on thena oocasions wora jube tished by tho Govornmont, nud furm soma of tug mont intoresting roports tade of thoso ] Lo- nowens, ———— Tho Commonwealth of Massachnsatls & 1 strikingly noat and gandy thing ono day whe: :t rosolved to gild the dome of tho Stato-Houac all over, sud givo it & bright and brassy aapoot. At & vast pxponas tho extarior of the domo waa ol Ishiod to look like a glant warining.pan. 'Tha vulgar plohs admired it. The young patrici g of"ho Hub, with moles npou thelr noses aud haira in thoso molos, also admired it, Itwrsa sourco of popular admiration all round. Thiro waa ono placo from which tha beauties of thua brazon domo could be soen to advantage. It tho oupols above the dome, and bera tho adtaire ing orowd would gathor and survey ths wondr jus outlay banosth, Now thawindows of this cujla hove boon nailed dowo, and all adoration maxt bo indulged in bolow. ‘Tho oternal tobacao-juics lisa posrod In coplous streama from the lips ot thousauds upon tho polished surface. Wl.ora tobacco and maliva blend, polish must rot'ro, And o protect tho rost of the domo, tho visitor 1s dobarred tho privilegs of lookingupon it from above. It i to bo foared that M. Trisx's mis- contly peuncd & long defense of the Amorican vico of spitting waa an eacapod inmate of an in- eano-agglum. ‘Tho Culengo Tinies roporia that, tn the foter- viow of ita corrospondont with Gon, Bnxax .y, that oficer statod that bo placed Gon. Howann in command of the Army of tho Tennessce, in proferenco to elthor Gon. Beate or Gen. Loaax, bacaaue the latter were politicians; and justifiel bis cliolce by thoe fact that thoy both retursied home, and, sinca the War, hava made mcuy spocches. In viow of this oxplanation of Gen. Buxnuan's, it 13 wortby of romark that, sicco tho War, and while etill bolding n commisaion ot Brigadior-enoral in the regular army, Gen. Howanp has probably made more spasches, da- livored more sermons, and, In fact, talked mere in publio, than elther LouaN or Bram, notwith- standing that thoy are professional politicians, and Howanp is supposed to be s profession:., or, &8 Qon, BuzuMaN says, “a technical wole dlor,” PR S et ARTHONY CoMaTOOR, tho Special Agont of tha Treasury Dopartment, who has been lacgely in- strumental In supprosaing the circulation of ol.- soens mattor through the mails, is now himseif an objoct of sttack. 1t is chargod that his za: | s carrled him boyond bouuds, and that the v« quisitorisl systom eatablished by him has io- flicted sorious damago upon logitimato buxinawy. Tho work in which Mr, Couaroox fa engsgel waulfeatly nesds publlc ancouragement, sud, I wany controversy between him and vondors af patont medicinos,—such as s now raging In tho Eastern papors,—pure-miuded mon will not beai- tate whom to favor, e ST S—— The perversoness of tho grasshoppers ie illus- trated in the fact that they flow sway just about the timoe it was discoverod thstthoy could be rande loto highly palatable and nutritious soups — POLITIOAL NOTES, Tho Tows DIrohibitionists morn mluchiet, They will on no account aliow tho election in that State to go by default. Joseph E, Johnston has boen nominsted for Governor of Georgls by & country newapapor of tlat State. The respouscs are not many or oo thugfastio. . In tho pending political campaign in Ohlo, Juage Tafs, of Cinclunatl, will take the stump for tho firat time during his lifo, in bohalf of the Ropublican ticket, Tho Council Bluffs Nonparell Is not an sd- miror of the Hon, D. A, Maboney, It says of hia romaval to Ohlcago: *Tha Garden City must be an awful wioked place to merit stich an intliction.” ' - The election of Moses Calyor to the vacand #oat oo the bench of the Bupreme Cvurt of Cons nootiout lias been appraved by all partias. The Domocratio cauoud which mado the nomination dosorvos full crodit for its action. ‘Thonoxt Benstorial contest 1o Michigan prom= lacs to be as lively as tuo one of Iast fall. Z. Chandler and Gov. Bagley aspire to Mr, Forry's Boat; and Mr, F.isin the bavda of hla fiiends and an all-wise Providenos for anatber term, The Leavenworth Times bas discovered that the Independents aro dlsgustod with the Domao+ raoy; which fs tho same thing as saying that s al ot Intelligence sud patriatism with Ignorsuce and corruption has beon proved ime practicable, Benator 3lorton declined to say anything aboud the Tuird-Term question to & New York Tribune roportor, because **The latter of the Prosident anud the aotlon of the recont Republican Qonvon=" tiona have fally seitled the qaestion, and there 18 nothilng more to bo sald abous ¢, They say that the Albany (N. Y.) Eoming Journal would not Aind time Laoging Lisavily o its handeif Gov. Tilden shiould tako it into Liw bead {0 exsmins tha Btate-printing coniraocts. Meanwhile, it 18 not prudent of the Journal @ complain of delay in the canal fnvestigatian. Mru, Emily L, Miller assuros the aditor of the Jowa Hale Journal thal the dofeat Of WOmADe suftrage in Miokigen last fall was only & Bunkes” Hill after ali,—ths women represcolleg ihe pabriond alde, Mo oot alraid 9 Lisw oves