Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 2, 1875, Page 4

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: FRIDAY, JULY 2, 187G. TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. RATEA OF KUDNSCRIPTION (FAYABLE 1N ADYANCE) Postage Frepald nt thin Ofece. .8 1.0 kish 4 1.»3 1400 ) {"‘u»(x‘." Band ‘donb) Parts WaAKTED—Une actire Bpeesal aerangementa made with such. Epecimen coples sent fren, To prevent dalay and mistakes, bo sure 30d give Poat- Ofice addrens In fult, Including Stata nod Coonty. Romi.tancenmey bomade eithes by draft, express, Post Ofceorder, ot In tegittered letters, wt oor rlak, TERNMS TO CITY AUNSCRIREAS. Daily, delivered, Sunday excented, 25 cents per week. “Dally, detivorad, Sundas Included, 31} cents por waok Audress THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Cornes Madieon aud Dearbornesta., Chicagoy Il . TODAY'S AMUSEMENTS. 7 ADELPII TIIEATRE] 00, Variety Entertalnine: bora stroet, carner Mon- OF MUBIO—Halsind atreat, batwasn Mad- “é‘cl:mz N Totron Ve Ak Twaln or, Taocents Abrosd,” '8 THRATRF—Randoinh strast, hiatwaen S ARatin, Togagoront af Mre. Oates' Eagileh pany. ** The ] slucess Treblzande.” MVICR 'S ot, hetiroen t of tho Now Yurk THEATRE- = London Assurancs' ¥ Comp ORIENTAL LODGE, No. &, Qommunication this (Felday) v Btluoss and work oo tha £, As order of o Mas WASHINGTON OHAPTER, No. &3, R. A, M.—Tag. olar Gonvacation thie (Felitar) sveping AL 7400 Lor busls . . recs, 1 dor of 3ok fad work on . B O HRIDGLY Beaye BUSINESS NOTICES. FOR TWELVE YRARS TilE RUPERIORITY OF O et Y ahe: torall othor Bauiiers s boon admitted, and siuco the ducfiion of tho fusrd of oalth it bas b.ou reoognizad ae tho only baslows cose motio, Soid by sii drugglste. The Chicage Cribune, Friday Morning, July 3, 1876, The decrenso in the public debt during the month of June was £1,431,249, and for the Ascal year ending June 30, 14,399,614, A Canadisn Bishop enjoins the Episcopal slorgy to refuse to marry oll persons who ro- tuga to come inside the church door to be married, In the United States a ficklo groom 08 no such refuge, aa the gentlomen of tho sloth aro quite willing to perform good acts ontside the church, 1t is diffioult for tho Nebraska poople to tell what sort of pets may be safcly fondled, £a both the wolves and the shunks have got tho hydrophobia. One of tho latter specics of agreeable companions bit a gentleman on the nose, and the party bitten aubsequently died in grent agony, with all tho horrid symp- toms of hydrophobis. It will be a painful surpriso to the publio to know that they can- not frolic with their favorite polecats without incurring great danger from & new sonrco, A small portion of the creditors of tho Cook County National Bank, Board of Trade operators who Lold claims against Stumors and Arpex in connection with o grain corner ‘which was unsuccessful, now seck to obtain their money by sucing the surcties on tho bond furnished by Azrry to secure tho mar- gin deposits. Tho defense to the action is based chiefly upon the assumnption that the “‘corner” transactions wero nothing more than gambling contracts, or bets upon the price of graln, and thereforo the law will not enforce the claim against the bondsmen; while the plaintiffs claim that the bank had nothing to do with the nature of the con. tract, but was morely o stakeholder or deposi. tory, bound to pny over the money to the parties entitled thereto under the contract. A Bavannah (Ga.) paper, in sponking of the melon crop of Florida, says that it will ba ox. ceedingly large this year, and that the grow- org aro puzzled to know how to disposs of them. The Superintondont of the Atlantic & Gulf Railrond has como to their rolief by writing to various parties in Westorn cities offering to place melons in n fresh condition in their markots at very low rates. The offer has been accoptod, and now tho Floridians make tho startling proposition to have 200,000 molons ready bofore the Gth of July! More startling still is tho following from the same authority : The first train of seven cars left Live Onk yostorday, and goes direot to Chicago., A second of fourteen cars haa gone down to load, and will leave Tuesday morning, and as many cars as can be bad will bo laden with this fruit and be for- warded. On tho 28th of this month a mon- ster train of molons will bo dispatched, which will also take with it a delogationo? the Flor- ida fruit-growers to Olicago, who go for the purpose of looking around, and making this & permanent business,” What s our Board of Health doing? 1f all the watormelons and watermelon-growors in Florida are coming Loro, ia it not time to establish a quarantine ¥ Dooa not the Board know Chicngo cannot stomach such a procoeding as this? Tho roport, published yesterdny by an evening paper, that the jury in the Bescnen case had notified the Judge that they stood 11 to 1 in favor of a verdict for the defendant, proves to be entirely incorrect, The benight- ed idiot who sends talegrnms to the paper in question uttorly misaspprehonded the purport of a communioation by the jury to the Judge, in which it wna stated, not that there wero 11 for the defondant and 1 for tho plaintiff, bot that 11 hed becomo fully com- vinced that it was uscless to deliborate longer, 0a an ngreement wus impossiblo; while a solitary juror, by namo Tavron, who hos never been accused of & predilection for thie TiLron side, sont in an independont note, in which he expressed confldeuco that an agreement wna possible, There was no in. dication whatever of the standing of the jury, and tho probability of a verdict 1s a8 remote a8 over. Tha attompt by tho Bercuen parti. Ban press to fasten upon TrwtoN and hiy counsel the odium of the LoavEn-Imice affidavita will not succeed. 'Tho testimony of Mr, A, H. Daxa befors the Magistrato yostor. oy shows that the plaintlff und his lawyers nerely took steps to avail themsolves 8 what they had. good reason to rogard o8 important and truthful evidence, Ifit waa true, as they believed, they had o right, and it was their duty, to make use of it, and, 8o far a8 now appears, thoy were as much disguted and annoyed ns the other side upon finding that the two upholterers Liad committed perjury. The Chloago produce markets were lrregu. Iar yesterday, the leading feature belng wheat. Moas pork was quiet and essfer, closing at $10.46 onsh, and $10.60@10.65 for August, Lard was dull, and 10@150 per 100 Ibs lower, oloaing frmer at §18.20 cash, and §$18.40 for August. Moats were quiot aud firm, ab 8jo fus shouldes, 11j@134e for' shush 2lbe, and 113e for short clenrn. Iighwines were quict and steady at £1,16 per gallon, Lake freights wero moderately netive and firmer, at 2@2}0 for wheat to Bufialo, Flour was moro active and strong. Wheat was active, and advanced 262, closing at 1.0440 cash, and $1.04]c for Angust. Corn wna in better demand, and 40 higher, closing at 684c casl, and 70jo for August, Oats wereqniot and §@10 higher,clos- ingat &0} for July, and #9)c for August. Ryo was quiot and stronger at 90@01e. Barley was quiet and ensier at $1.02 for Soptember. Hoga wera active and ateady, selling at $6.00 @7.25. Cnttlo wero stendier, with sales at $2.25@6.75. Sheep were unchnnged. The whole country, pretty much, In agajnst the Obio ropudiath n plsiforiu, sdopted by the Democratio party,—Cineinnuft Gazette, “The * wholo country ™ s the country whict. can be neen from the steeplo of Trinity Church, in Wall strect. Heyond it the people are for it,.-Cincinnat Einguirer, A considerablo territory can be seen from the steeple of rinity Church. The eye will range over New York, Brooklyn, Jersoy City, most of Lovg Island, abont s third of New Jersey and at equal part of Connocticnt, and some portions of Southern New York, beyond the city limits,—the whole containing por- haps threo millions of inhnbitants, or more than the State of Ohio. With the Btates of Now York, Counecticut, nnd New Jersey agninst any Democratic eandidate on a re. pudiation or inflation plaform, it will puzzle tho Enguirer to tell how ho is to be elected. that tha chartor which enables them to do it was adopted by frand, and that the Mayor and Connil do not accopt the fall results of tha charter of 1872, These are two things 1ot to be forgotten nor forgiven. Thero is no renson why the peoplo of Chicago should be forced to submit to a charter which wns really voted down, and ouly de- clared by maenans of Liallot-box rtufling, coun- spiracy, and an open violation of the orders of n competent conrt. And if finally forced to submit to such an ontrage, there is still no renson why the present City Government should only accept so much of tho chirter of 1872 ns suits their selfish purposes, and to ignoro and reject all tho rest. This is practi- cally what the Mayc + and Council are doing, ‘The most consis.ent and tenable construe- tion of the charter, relative to the offices, was that given by Mr. Cuanres H, Morsz, and sont into the Council by Judge Dicrxy at tho time he gave his own opinion and thoso of Messrs. TuLEY and Roox or th pow of the Council to abolisk tI Polic Boa::s Mr Monss holds thnt, if the charter bf 1872 wng lawfully adopted and s mow in force, then there is mno such ofice ns Police Commissioner, nor any other Commis- sloners who wore membors of the old Bonrd, but that all theso Boards were wiped out by tho adoption of the charter of 1872, These Bonrds were all crented by special acta of the Legislature, which could not be repealed by the Cu-:ucil g0 long o8 tho old charter was r‘ained. But they wore repealed by the Legislature itself when it passed the Genernl ‘aw of 1872, to go into effect, na far as Chicago is concerned, when tho city should decide to reorganizo under that General law. This must have been the intention of the Legislature in passing the law-of 1872, for it exprosaly stipulated that the city should have five offices, which were thva put be- yond the control of the Council, and that the council should have the power to create all other offices. Aa thesotwo stipulations cover the entire ground, tho General law of 1872 must havo contemplated the abolition of all othor offices crented for the city by former Legislntures. Becs. 72 and 73 of tho charter ot 1872 are as follows: $£0, 72, Thera shall bo elected ‘In all citfes organized under this act the following oflicers, viz;: A Mayor, & City Counell, a Clty Clerk, & ity Attorney, and City Troasurer, 8£0,73, The City Councll may in its discretion, from time to (mo, by ordinance passed by vots of two-thirds of all the Aldermen elected, provide for the electlon Ly the logal voters, or the appolntment by the Mayor, with the approvalof tha City Counoil,of a Qity Gollector, a City Marabal, a City Buperintendent of Streots, u Corporation Counsel, & City Comptroller, or any or efther of them, tnd such other oficers as may by sald Councll be deemod nocessary or expedi- ant, eto, If the Legislatare did not intend to abolish, under these sections, all the Boards which it liad previously created for Chicago, then it wos simply absurd to pretend to give the Council the largo discrgtion defined in Sec. 73, for the Counoil could not exercise it, be- ing bound by ets of Legislature which it hins not tho power to repeal. Nor would tho Legislature have enumerated five offices in the net of 1872 which the Council were bound to nccept, if it had intended to pre- serve nll the offices it had previously created. Therefore, tha only reasonable construction of the law of 1872 is that, the moment it is adopted, the several Boards—Police, Fire, Public Works, Education, and Health —no longer exist, and it is the privilege ond duty of tho Council to crente offices for the exorcise of the functions pro- viously oxerciesd by the Boards thus abol- isttd. This is tho construction that would be insisted upon, and undoubtedly sustained by the courts, if 1t wero felt that tho charter of 18722 bad been lawfully adopted, 8o long aa this is doubtful, the people will not inaist upon anything oaleulated to ineronse the complications of the City Government m caso the Supreme Court shall direot & roturn to the old city charter. Tho Mayor and Common Council are pro- ceoding to construo the Inw of 1872 by an entirely difforent method, They desire to abido by only so much of the charter ns is usoful to their personal ends. Just now they want to get rid of the Board of Police and Fire Comissioners in order to put theso do- partments respectively in the hands of Reuas and Hrvonera, But they proposo to allow all the other superfluous and irresponsible Boards to stand and continue to adminiator tha functions formerly pertaining to them, though they bave no lawful existenco if the charter of 1872 is legally in forco. Itisnot a viclous system which the Mayor and Coun- cil aro attacking with the help of the charter of 1872, but cortain persons obnoxious to them, whom they desire to remove without breaking up tho system. This is the real condition of things; and, desirable na it is that the Polico Bonrd should bo abolfshed, it is equally desirable that the wholo system be thrown over in a regular and lawful manner, and not that it be used to carry out the tem. porary and personal purposes of the Mayor and & majority in the Council, THE ANNUAL CITY APPROPRIATIONS, The Common Council on Wednosday night, June 80, concluded its labors on the annual appropriation ‘ordinance. As well as wo can make out, tho appropriations are as fol. lows, compared with those made in 1874 : i 1876, Htreet fmpron Steewt opent Bridge-touders. .. Tunnels aud puun Tublie butldings. Topuiring Water-wWorks ire Departme: General mnklug Health Dopartment, Touse of Correctlon, exciuaive of Publlo Library, Tateln,. 5,576,051 $5,M0,518 The Council deserves public commendation for the prudence and economy practiced by them in making these appropriations, The outside pressure and demand for liberal ex- penditures was great, and hence the courago and fidelity of the Council have been nll the moro commendablo, Much of this is os- pecially due to the Finance Committoe, which Lody have resolutely battled with the subject, and, having the confidence and re- spect of the Council, was nble to oxercise a restraining influence. Tho estimntes of the various departmenta for the year called for an appropriation of sbout $8,000,000; the Comptroller estimated for £5,277,000, and tho Council havo appropriated $3,340,000, To produce this sum, ut a valuntion of $900,000,000, will raquire a levy of 17 mills in addition to the miscellancons revenue. Bhould the city, however, abandon the reckloss and sonseless system of collecting its revenue under a-specinl Inw, and have it collected by tho State authorities under the goneral law, there will be a saving of $60,000 in expenditure, nnd thero will be » much larger saving in interest on special loans to supply doficiencics caused by taxes which will nover be colleeted under that law. DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND, Injunctious aro again the order of the day at City-Hall, though if the last is not better obsorved tlan tho one which preceded it, it will not materially change the complexion of affains in that unsavory locality, ‘The com. plications incldont to running tho city under acharter which was nover legolly adopted, and which the present city oficers do not understand, ara likoly to thicken in any caso, Tho war betweon the Mayor and Common Council on one alde and the Board of Polico on the other will grow fiercer instead of bet- ter. Mazz Busnipax, the Presldent of the Bonrd, has tho fondness of his race for a shindy, aud, whother hoisin the wrong -or not, ho has both tho ability and tenacity to rnke it vory unfortunate for the of. I0WA REPUBLIOARS, ficlals who havo nrrayed themselves | The Republican Convontion of the Stnte aguinet him. Monnwhile, the Police | of Iown, at thelr Convention on Wedncadny, Buperintendent, Doputy-fluperinleqdunt, and Clork, auxious to retain their fat places, do not know whom to obey nor what to do. 'The police forco itself can scarcoly fail to be- como demoralized still worse than they have been under such circumstances, and the longer the muddle and strife continue the more detrimental will it be ta tho interests of the city, pnrticularly since both parties aro nctunted by selfish motives, and care little or nothing for tho public welfare, No seusiblo person would object to tho abolition of the Police Board, if it were dono lawfully and properly. To wipe out this and the other wupertluons and frresponsible Boards was the priucipal inducoment for the Citizens' Arsoclution to proposo the reorgan- ization of tho city under the Goneral law iu tho first instance, The Police Board has been especially obnoxious to tho mass of right, thinking peoplo. It has constantly hamperod both the Iire and Police Departments with its rod-lape, its favoritism, and its farcical trialy, It has been impossible to discipline elthier forco 6o long as the Board stood in the way. Its cxistence has simply served to rolieve overybody of responsibility for the tailure to preservo order among tho dogge. ries, and to rid the city of the gamblers, con. fidence men, thieves, and burglars. If tho Mayor was called to account, he would put the blame on the Board ; the Board would tranefer it to the Supexintopdent appointed by the Bayor; the Buperintendent would claim that his hands wero tied by the Board, and that he had no control aver the discipline of the forces, and so responsibility has shifted frow one to the other; while law and decency have been et at defiance, the people have been plandered, aud the city disgraced. The abolition of this nulsanca is caloulated, thare. {ore, to enlint pyblio sympathy; but the fight moade by the.Mayor and Oouncil to attain this end abould not induse poopls o forgds nominated ex-Gov. Kirkwoon for Govornor,— a most excollont choloe,—a man well and favorably known to all the people of Towa ns an officor of strict integrity and of strong common sonue. With him-were placed in nomination other gentlemen of bhigh personal and political character, selected because of their fitness,—the whole making on unusually strong ticket. The platform js o model one. It consists of o dozon short, tersely written resolutions, all of them clear and sound, except the third, which declares for o *“tariff for revenuo so ndjusted as to oncourngoe home industry,” “I'his is lioblo to misconstruction, ordoubls or varied interpretation, Does tho adjustinent mean to encourage home industry by reduc. ing taxation or keoping it war rates? Does the “‘home ludustry” mean the manufacturers of certain classcs of goods, or the great body of the producers of Iowa, whose intarest will bo best encouraged by the largest freedom of trade and the lowest possible tarift ? The people of Iowa are all producers, Thoy producs largely in excess of thelr consump- tion, ‘They have & large wurplus to sell and export, and to exchange for what they do not produce. Thoy are interestod, thereforo, in receiving the largeat amount of exchange goods in return for their own products. The tarift appoiuts an officer to cut off four yarde out of aevery ten yards and four pounds out of evary ten pounds of morchandise entering Tows, fu exchange for Towa productions, In other words, the surplus products of Yowa are exchanged for four-tenths leus of other producta than they would ba in theabsence of tho high tariff, Does this resolutions mesh that the ‘‘home industry " of JTowa shall be compalled to exclhange ten bushels of their wheat or corn for the value of six bushola? Or does it mean that the tariff ahall be “s0 adjusted ' that they ahall recelve in exchange for thelz goods dollar for dollar in olhigs lenst of oll in *'The Thunderer." worthy of notice, the bravery exhibited by the British troops, It says: power nnd patronage. goods? Asitrends, noone exceptthowriterof it can tell what it means, All thoother planks aro clenr and good, including those on the ourrency and the public schcols. AN ENGLISH VIEW OF BURKER HILL, Thé London Zimes of the 17th ult. con tains & romarkablo editorial npon the conte- nary of Bunkoer's Hill, in which it gives a graphio sketch of the battle, accompaniod with some comments of a nature we hardly expected to seo in any English nowspaper, The sketeh of the battle only recites what is well known —the rapid an® almost magical mauner in which the strong earthworks wero thrown up on Breed's Hill by the Colonists; the concen- tration of the American forces notwithstand- ing tho watchfulness of the Dritish; the burning of the City of Charlestown Yeenusa '* they found thomselves exposed to a galling fira from n body of riflemen posted in the housea”; the triple charge of the Dritish agnine® the earthworks, and their finsl sue. coss, In commenting upon the battle, the Times makes four pointa which aro espacially ‘The first {8 with regard to It it be » question of courags, of endurance, of duty at its sorest trial, or & question of mere victory, then 1t fs bard 10 xay why tho palm shonld not be ad- Judged o the British force which remalned I poases- slou of th gronnd, and ouly gave (¢ up when Boston Itsclf was fiually evacuated., \Wbatover the success, ‘whatever the luse, and Lowever frultlesa ti fice, thora never was a Leaver deed of arms, never any tnors herole snd rueritorious ; aud It that bLe the polut, then has England much mors claim to celebrate the Centenary of Dunker's HIll than they who reaped the eventual barvest of thosecd then sown, and who now hold the soll, We doubt not that this trilute to the valor of the English troops will find an echo in this conntry among those who havo studied this Lattle from both points of view, and who bear in mind the facts that tho Americans were superior marksmen, that they wero shel- tered behind au earthwork, and that the British were aleo oxposed to a galling flank firo from tho sliarpshooters in the adjacent housos. which induced the British to make tho attack 50 suddenly and persistently in the faco of adverso circumstances, the Z%mes not only shows that the question of the gvacuation of Boston depended upon the issue of tho day’s fight, but it nlso briugs out another reason which has not usually figured largely in the historical records of the battle, namaly, that thoro was war in Fogland as well as in Amorica, In commenting upon the reasons On this point it says : Whila tho great majority of the Dritish people, as represented in public opinfon and In hitorature, was on the American side, the Government and the majority in both Touses of Parliament were absolutely proot 2gainat evary conaiderstion of humanity, prudence, or common sense, Thay had become incapablo of make Ing an estimate on the proportion or applicabillty of menns toan end, Commandiug the seo, commanding & few soldlers, and an abundauce of Lrave officers thirsting for distiuction, commonding, stilt more, tho fulleat Exchequer, and the best credit in the world, withi 10,000 profitable sbuses at atake, they could ouly houndon the dogs of war, aa many as they could get, 1o the wost imposuible aud the most unprofitabla enlor- yvicos could dered 1! o importauce, and oxpeds good, and might, sy tho event prowd, be stfended withs great 1084 and harm, Bunker's HiL, the firnt thing thoy Aid was to rake Europe for merceusries, and to send a Teglment of cavalry to Doaton, whers there waa nothing for horses to do, notling for them tn est, hardly spare ground for them to stand upon; aud whera both soldiers and citzlens wors already on ahost commons of bad food. 1f any method ia 1o ba found in the madnoss of the Britfeh Governmaut, it fe that they thought it just ‘possitla ta frighten, bully, and cajole the Americans into aubmiuaion. They iaued wordy proclumations which ewer 10 purposo but to provoko; thoy or- deateuction of ports and tawns of 70 strate- # that could do no resl On rocelving the news of ‘The goncrosity of the T7imes is showm in its tributo to the American imilitin, and tho bravery they displayed on this oceasion, concede that thoy “ proved themselves not only brave men but.:sonsibly men, with 8 proper valuo for tho lives they were ready to stake, and a determination to sell those lives den,” and thot the English now are compell- ed to rate more highly tho scientif 0 audacity shown on the American sido then tha bull. dog cournge ond audncity of the British, It takes advantage of this characteriatio trait of the Americana to enforco tho lesson that, in order to destroy life, *“all have to loarn first how to cconomize it, and that the only cour- nge worthy of o rational boing is that which includes tho highest exercise of remson.” In dloalng finds lation over the results of that eventful day, and thinks that not only America, but England and the world, have substantial roa. sons for & grateful remembrance of it. soca in tho succesa of the American Revolu. tion the trinmph of popular reforms and the complote development of the democratic in. stitutions with which tho British throue is It its article, abundant the renson for Timea congratu. It now surrounded, among them popular repro. sontation and no taxation without it, self- governmont by popular municipnl instita. tions, the independence of the judicial benoh, and completa responsibility in tho excrolsa of The Times says No doubt the rense of this added to the reckless and inbuman obstinacy with which ihe Dritish Gaverne ment peratated In the strugyle, long aftor every man at liberty 0 use hie senses and reason on the question saw that it was hopeless. The politicians then at the Bead of affairs, and the people by whom they woro sur- rounded, know well that thelr owu posltiou depended on (holr successfully maintaining ths principles of ut- ter absolutlsm, both st home aud in the Colonios, and thiat 1f thioss principlos fatlel, their own fall followed, They {ought for dear Life agalust Chatham and Durke, and, as they wall knew, againat the trus peoplo of Ene gland, Meanwhile they had o do all the work, whather for peace or far war, by secoud-rate men, Theextracts which we have printed from the articlo will givo the reador ita general tonor, 1t is n calm, cloar, generous view of the opeu. ing battlo botweon tho United States and Great Britain, and inferentllly of the whole rovolution in all ita aspects, ns well as in its results at home and upon the world at :large, 1t affords another proof of the fact that the prejudices engondored by the losa of the Col. onies and the natural hunilistion and bitter. ness growing out of defeat *have passod awny to such sn extent that the leading paper of Great DBritain can discusa the questions involved in this struggle with so much of historipal nccuracy and so littlo of prejudice as to award impartial vordicts, and uvven to congratuate the world upon tho great benefita which: have accrued from this memorable disasfer to Britiuh arras. The Cosmopolitun of June 7 has an inter- cating article upon Aworican gilver, indicat. ing its effect upon the greot Aslatio trade, and showing that it la alinost entirely ab. sorbed in the gerniclouns oplum busiuess ‘which was forced upon Obina by the English, ‘The Americans supply the silver to the Chi. nese, and the Chinese sond it to India for opfum. ‘The American dollars, however, nover enter into circulation in Indis, but go into the Caloutta mint and come out 6s ru- pees, since colnage tobe used in India must have all forelgn marks obliterated, and bear the stamp of the British mint, with the na. tive obaraoters on the obverss side as an indl- cation of value. After belng stamped, the silver olroulates from the Indlen Ocean far beyond the Himalayes in exchange for sllks, shawls, and other products, Tho fmmensity of this opfum business may be seen from the fact that the roturns of the Chinesio customs servico show that the amount of opinm imported from India fnté China oxceeds in value nny othor import. Tho amount roturnod for tho lnst eight yenrs, exclusive of tho amount smug- gled, which would probably double it, 1s 97, 440,930 pounds, 'Tho amount of American milver which snnually goes to India from China to pay for opium—the Cosmapolitan estitnates at £100,000,000. Thus American silver is indirectly causing more mdsery 4han all the tobacco and spirits used among the ‘Western nations, THE MAN WITH TWO COUNTRIES, 1t is a pity that E. E. HaLe's pathetic hero, “the man without n country,” 1a not in eox- istence, Horr Srrivxauser, of Wiesbaden, who is supplied with two countries, might part with one and bestow it upon poor Pusrir Norax. Ilis anomnlous position, which prosents knotty probloms in international 1aw, 18 due to tha wanderings of his father, ‘Tho Iatter mmigrated from Prussia to St Louis in 1848, was naturalized thero in 1854, and had A son born to him soon afterwards. Tka boy was, of course, an American citizon, But when Sreivzavier, Br., had led aslug- gish axistenco in St. Louis for ten yenrs, the monotony and inertin of the town becamo un- ondfirablo to him, o therefors moved to the comparatively lively and energotio City of Wiesbaden, in Nassau, Germany. o aud his, including the young American cite izen, bave sinoce lived thore, History, Attorney-Geneoral PierneronT, and TneCaica- oo Tnisune would never have got hold of him, if the infant American, now 20 years old, had not tried to shirk military service in the Fathorland by pleading thatthe United States wns atill his Motherland, The plen wos silently ignored by tho German authorities, who notitled young SteINEAULER tO present himself, on such a day, for a throo years' drill and diseipline. Then the father apponled to Davis, our Minister at Berlin, who inquired, in roply, whetler the unwilling soldier could givo nny assuranco of his intention to relurn to this country within a reasonable time and tako up his residence hers. Ho could not, said the father. Thercupon Ministor Davia roferred tho matter to Becretory Fism, who turnedit overto Attorney-General PrerreroNT, who has just submitted an intoresting report upon it. Nationality, hosnys, is cither natural orncquired. Young STEINRAULER is suppliod with both sorts, Ho is naturally an Ameri- can by nationality, but he is & German by ac. gnired nationality, After his father had re- turned to Germany with the intontion of re- siding thore permanently and hnd actually lived thero some time, ho lost his American oitizenship and ceased to be on alion to and in his naotive country, When he became a Gorman oitizen again, his minor children, of whom the soldierly STEINEAULER was one, also became Germans by tho principles of noturalization yocognized in tho lnws of all civilized countries. The Berlin Government is thoreforo fully justified in requiring mili- tary sorvico from young StriNgaurkn. On the other hand, no power on earth can rob him of his birthright. Ho is atill an Ameri- con citizen, o can come back here and run for President any tinic ho wishos to do so. Ho is at once an American sovereign and tho subject of the Gorman soversign. THE END OF A KOBLE LIFE A dispoteh of this morniog tells a sorrowfal atory. Ropzrt Darx OwEX has become insane, After o long life of earncat, unselflsh effort for the good of mankind, thia terrible infliction comes. The csuso of it probably does not lio many months back, When the hoaste lesa imposturs of tho Horues mediums, tho Philadelphia conspiratora with **Katle Klog," was exposed, the shock to Ar. Owzx was tromendous. He bad accopted thoe pretended “manifestations™ of thean rascals with impliolt fatth, Ho !ved some timo in Philadelpbia In or- der to misa none of the seances, The repoatod apparitions of **Katie” wero to bim conclusive proof of immortality, Ho pinned bhia faith ln tho lifo hereafter, in rounlon with his fathorand his wifo, on what Spirituslism, and espocially upon what thls protonded epirit, showed bim, Readers of his article in tho Atlanhic Monthly upon “RKatle King" wlill remembor the sylio- glsm which tho good old man painfully con- structed tharoin, by which he proved, to his owa porfect satisfaction, that tho visitor waa indeed a disombodied bit of supornaturalism, Tho day before the article appeared thoe fraud was ox- posed. Mr, Owzx wept bltterty, it {a sald, when o conviction that lo had boon made the dupe of a trdo of koaves forced ftsolt upon him, He telegraphed to Toston to cut out thaarticle, but it waa too lato, The magszine was already printed. A thin ulip of paper, disclaiming any editorial responstbility andthusruthleasly inoreasing that of tho author, @ prefixed to the skotch. And thua it came to pasa thy Bonewr Dare Owen's syllogistio proof toat *Ksto Klug" was o spirlt aud * Katle's” own confession that she was & fraud woro pub. lshed together throughout the country. The mind once &a vigorous could ot stand the blow that shoolk the faith of half a lifotime. Tne In. eanity foared at that time has at laat come, The sun that rose in splendor sets fu gloom. ‘The lito 80 gorrowfally onded—for inesnity is denth, or worse than death—-began in 1804, at Now Lanaik, an induatrial settlomont near ‘Glasgow, Beotland, which was long » mopumont to tho plulanthropy of hls father, Rovzar Owe¥, Tue son’s fsmo bas nover oqualod that of tha sire, but he has buen oven moro seif-sacrificing in his efforts 1o benofit mankind, When the fathor camo to Americs in order to carry out hls Communistic dreame, tho son waa hia faithful masistant. e edited the paper.tuat served as the organ of tho + New Hurmouy" colony., When that brave, faolivh experiment failed, siftl the eldor Owxy roturned to Eongland to conduct like failures thore, to 6ow the soods of co-oporstion, labor- leogues, and ohartium, to found infant schools, snd to proach Bpiritualism, RupErr DALE ro- mawed in America, He was by naturs s politi- cian of the old school, tha good sohool, and ho wasg soon in the Indisos Logialature, whore he succesded fn omancipating womon from the alavery of tho common law, thon .iu Congresd, and floally fn the diplomatio sorvico of tho country. Prouldent Prence, who sent HawruonNe to Liverpool, aud ao indlrectly endowed the world with * The Marble Faun ™ and * Our 01d Home," made OwgN Minister at Naplea. Biuce he retired from that position in 1838, ho has been a -student, writer, smateur politiclan, and professional puilanthroplat, ¥is publislied works fill neacly s dqzen volumea, No one, we presume, reads nowadaya his unpopular # Populsr Tracts,” his * Plank-Rosds,” aod his * Pooshiontas, & Drama.” Wa trust that no ons will try to read his ** Boyond the Breskera.” Dut book-making was uot his forte. A kindly, genial, whole-sculed man, the predestined prey of plansi- ble rogues, the friond of every scheme of re- form, comblning the purity of childhood with the vigor of manhood,—he Lias met a fate worse than donth, & fate for whioh a trio of sordid swindlers aze probably responaible. ——————— s . The angular distanco batween tF: centre of the planet Mars, sud the fixed iar known as No. 8 fu the Constellation Bygittariue, a1 11:48 p. m. Tuesday Isat, was rusassured atihe Deare bora Obeervatory in this clty, The obsorved diatance was 88.6 seconds, The two objsots wi tben In conjuncilon L: Bight Ascsnalon, The prelimiuary calow #¢ published ia Fua Tamune of the Ihch aite gave tho distarca as 81.8 neconds. Tho difforenca between the ealen- Jation aud the observation was, thorafore, anly 2.1 seconds,—about ojqual to tho anglo which would bo subtended by au objoct ona tnoh in dlameter, altnatod at the diatance of a mile and & balf from tho eyo of the obsorvar: or the thick- niess of & human hair at the distance of 80 foot. ‘This differonce, which may bo catled * orror," {ntho smail quantity desirod to bo corrocted by the obsorvalious of last Tuesday, It ls come pounded of tha orrors of our provious kuowl- odga in rogard to the placs of the star and tho movement of tho planot. Tho Intest obssrvations from which the motions of tho planet and star wero comptitod woro made nol loss than fiftoen years ago, 80 that tho planct has mado eight rovolutions ainca that time, and vot iau doviatod by only that amall quantity from tho place ne- migued by caleulation. Tisis only ono out of thousauds of instances that might bo adduced to prove the complotonass of the methods em- ployed by astronomers in grappling with the complicatod probloms of celeatial motlon, THE GREAT SULLIVANT FARM, The statomant in & minor editorial paragranh in this paper, somo days ago, that the grest Sur~ LvANT farm in Ford County, Ill, had passod into the possossiou of Mr. Hinam Sinrey, of Rochieator, N. Y., proves to be wholly erroneous, Wo woro misled in this mattér by the New York Erpress, which roviewed the history of tho S8vL- LivaNT farm in n leading editorial artiolo, & fow days beforo the paragraph appearcd in Tag Tam- uxe, ‘Tho truth fe, that Afr, Bonravat still owna every acre of the farm, and wo havo the highest authority for naying that tho land.instead of having depteciatod in value, ia worth morato- day than it was ever before, Alr., Binrey's at- torneys, in a card in TAe TRIBUNE correcting tho item in question, ptated that tho lands hed not passed into tho handa of their olient, but ro- mammed in the ownorship of 3r. BULLIvANT. ‘Thoy added that Mr, Siorey had loaned some monoy to Mr, BoLLvANT, who ‘‘had euffer- ed & loss the lsst #cason from drought and an unfortuuate oporation on the Board of Trade in this cisg.” 'his lattor statement s al- togetlier erroneous. Alr. SULLIVANT himuelf, in a lottor which we have seou. saya: ‘I hsve nover loat & dollar on tho Board of Trade,ns that august body knows as woll a4 Ldo. My lossow wora only in failuco of crops, which the presout season promiss mors than to maxe up.” Alt farmers, whother lJargo or small, aro liablo to losa from failure of crops aud bad sensons. and tho vast eatate of Mr. BULLIVANT proves to ba no exception to the rule. Howevor, taking the chancos of tho seasons, it is probably the fact that tho farm ownod aund operated by Mr. BuLLt- vANT {8 tho largest mnd moat valuablo in the United Statos; at all evonts, thara are fow farms tn North Amerlea woich can oxhibit 18,000 acres of growing corn aud s fair propotlion of otler crops, or that sets 240 plowa in motion in the spriog to prepare the ground for the sced. CONSCIENTIOUS STOMACHS. “I havo often changed a boy's mors) disposi- tlon," says & certain groat physician, ** by sim. ply applying leechos to the inside of tho noao.” This opens up a grent flold for tha future troat- mont of erime. Tho Stato, fustead of building jutla, will broed lecches. Bentenco will bo parged upon hardoned crimiuals sormewbat {n tbis fashion: * Prisonor ot the bar : Tho son. touce of tho Court is thut you sball bavo four leeches spplied to ench nosiril durlug n vear; and may tho Lord have meroy on your nose.” Tuls sort of treatmont mill not bo rostricted to courts. Parents will practico it upon children ; Tusband upon wife and wifo upon hunbaod; and ecboolmastera upon their pupile, Mr. CavbLy will transforta bis sponse into a mild-maunered angel by means of & brace of leechies, sud tho Judictous tenchor will stimulato both tho meotal aud moral dovolopment of his acholars by a graduated scalo of blood-suckers, Tho hosd- oy will have ous or two atlachod to lum, aad tho dunee wilt look like s red-quilled poreupine. Tho loach, too, was uaed only as an {llustration. Tho doctor's saylng {a tho oxtreme oxpression of the doctiine that body and brain are so closely united that improving the first improves the sec- ond, It beloogs to tho theorios of **uncon. nclous corobration * sod ** human automata. If it aud it 7or consequences sre trug, the great thing noodod fu to devolop consclontious stomache o msukind,—stowachs which do thelr work well, without grumbling, wth- out manufacturing bad blood, without irritating the body sud producing tho pressure ou tho skull that makes tho bowan autowaton & drunk- atd, or the reatrangement of particlesthat forcos himto murder another automaton, To bring this about, otuer wodical {natruinentalities be- sidos the laech can be used. Derbaps the timo sy come when the coraptured drunkard, tot- tering befora the Juatico after a night's foverish carousa, will hoar tho storn words: ** The prie- oner will talko a brandy-and-soda at the manici- pal drug-store overy Lalf-bour during the mora- {og” Or a wan, bhalf-starved littlo child of mn, brought up for steslivg a loaf of bread, will bo sentonced to oat = boarty breakfast, The Justis, his fair round belly with fat capon lined, will at- tribute hia eown , disiuclination to sin to that faot, and will therefors aim to produce tho samo happy stato of stomachio consclon- tioueneas in tho oulprits brought befors him, When this milleonium sball bave dawned upon as, tho cririnel laws uf the country will olte, {n place of tho mntiquated vicos of to-day, the helnous crimes of oating Welsh rarebits, de- vouting lobsters, and otherwiye Interforing with tho digestion of auy partioular automaton. Such speoulstions, no-wildor thsn many to bo fonnd in the works of profossed mastors of science, Lriog up the nld, old question that has yexed and must vex mon forever, Whatiabe? Amld the fall of old boliefa and tho clash of now ones, with sclonce carving, mad digging, and dedusclng snd Inducing unpalacable truth from oartl, aud flesh, sod airy thoughts, thore are thousands of mep and women wha aro playlog the part of flzine's watchor by tho ses, The young man, standiog alone in tho uight, ssis olouds, nad wiads, and wavea: ‘ What am I?" “#Whenco come 17" *‘ Whither go' I?" And tha winds blow, and the olouda drift, and the wavos boat, beat upan the shoto,— Und dor Narr wartet suf Antwort sl st OBITUARY, BIR WILLIAX E, LOOAY. flr WrLian E. LooaN, the eminent English goologlet, disd in London on the 23th ult., aged 78, Il was born in Montreal ln 1793, was edu- cated 1n Edinburg, and in 1849 began praotical engineering and mining at Bwauses, Wales, Ho romained thore until 1835, studying tho lsws of tho formation of coal deposits, and in 1841 camo to tho United Btatoy nnd visited the cosl miues of Ponnsylvania and also of Nova Beotis. In 1842 the British Governmout made bim Uhlef of this Goological Burvoy. He iras alio the Cana- disn Qomnussionor to the London Exhibilons of 1854 and 1802, and to the Parle Exbibition of 1838, Ho was Knightod in 1850, . ANTOINE LOULS BABYE. On the ssma day as the avove, Antortx Lous Daurg, the Frouch sculptor, died in Parla. He petfocted bis early studies under the emicent artista Dowso and Guos, and i 1834 aoqaired s widely-axtendod reputation by his group of » tiger and crocodile, mowin the passsssion of M. Tuirss, In 1850 he beoame & teacher of the art of designing subjecta i natural history at Vers sallles, and be afterwards taught in the Louvre. He produced a Isrge number of worka relative to mythologloal and historical subjects b basu greatly sdmired. ornzss, Among other prominent men who have dled within tha last fow days aro Hexay H, Riomanp- so¥, the junlor partner in the book publishing frm of W, H. Riousanpson & Co., New York| Txxay Oxrnicus, the sgent of the North Gore man Lloyds Bteamship Line, {o New York; Grouor O, WiLps, who st the time of hls death bad bean Clesk of \ls Bupseme Judiolal Qourt of Mnasnchunotis for 43 yearn: Saxurt Cnuss of Utiea, N, V., tho inventor and pronoer raanue facturor of tolograzh anparatus; Baron Ghonax Vox Viveug, an eminent Gorman poltician, who tiwelve yenrn ago was tho Libeval loader in Prus- wing and ox-Linut, Gov. Hyans, of Loufmana, ®ho was for mauy yoars 8 promiaont Olé-Line Whig politiclan, aud in 1854 tho Democratio leador in that Htato. — i Tho Mikado of Japan han {esned s proc’ams- tion announcing a furthor advanco towardn rop- rosoutativa govornment. Not contont with the moittensuco of tho five princlples, he nrop soes, ashorays, *to enlargo tho circlo of doniestia roforms.” For this purposo, two naw Cham- bors, possoasing rathor vague and undofiued funce tlous, aro astablished, Tha corrospond- ent of the London Times ocau.lons Europosus against supposing that Japan bas, or {8 yot 1n a candition to have, roprosentstive governmont of tho kind which wo call cons.itu= tional, TlLo new Chombora formed by tha Miliado appoorio have su advisory eapacity. Thoy aro nomed the entro-in and the Dal-thine in. Tle correnpondont declines to commit hims Bolf to any theory of the dutios of those bodies, and sags that he docs not beliove there ls any foreigear fo. Japan who is thoroughly infor:aed on the anbfact, ‘The best oxplanation at present obtalpablo is that tho Gentro-in will conatituto o deliborativo assembly, whoso resolutions will bo forwarded to tho Council of Stato for ape proval. If the (tovernment 80 orders, the ro8o- lutions will then pass futo the Dai-shin-in, to bo draftod into Jaws, Tho Chambors ressmble the Qermau Parliament moro than any other lrgise Iativo body, but diffor from it fondament:lly, einco tho mombora are chosen by Govarnmint, and tho Japaneso pooplo aro a8 far as eves Zan the soat of powar, ——— Tho uninitisted may imaglno that ** the bull's. 8yo," a0 often roferrod to in the raporis of the Intornational Rifio Matoh, is somothing larzer then o pin-Leady and smaller than a good-akied bat, As o matter of fact, tho ball’s-eyo at Dolly. mount waw3 foet square. ‘Tho targot was 6 fosl high by 13 feet in width, and “ tha contre,” io- cluding tho buli's-oyo, & foot square. Ib would be a foat for an ordinayr markeman to hit *tha oantra” at thu 1.000-yard rango, Tho conditlons of tho match excluded all adventiticns nids, such 08 vests, slghts, etc. Ma). Foszon, who mnde tho bout scores at the ehort rangos, {a considerad the crack sbiot of America, o takes a poculiar position when glicoting, lyng down almost flat upon bis back, crosmug his lege, pressing the stock of his riflo closo agalast his check, and holding the batt with his left bhand, wkich {8 presed sround under tho bead. The rignt hand ia thuw left froo to pull the trigger, and tho crossed lega forman edmivablo rest, All tho riftomon reclino elther on the belly, baok, or slue, when shooting. One of the poculiar aud unoxpectod dovelopmenta of the match was tho napetiority of tho Amerioans at the %00 and 1,000 yard ranges. The Irsbmon supposed that the lovger tho range tho better thoir chances of anc- coss, whilo the ovont praved that the contiary was tiue, POLTLIOAL NOTLD, The Philadelphia Inquirer would obfeot te enlnrging Gov. Tiiden's epbero of usefuloess 1f noy of Poter B, Bwoenoy’s Riug-epoils sbould by teacod to Lis handw. The flon, 3. C. Kerr's Laalth is ontirely res atorad, and ho i tu o condition to breathe woll auy contestants in tho race for the Speakership next December, - ‘Tho 8t. Louls Globe-Democrat does not blame any man for eutertainiog Presidontial sapirs- tions wmce it has heard that Morton aud Conk= ling are putting up lightning.rods. Psbaw! There's no tresson in making wne upon Mr. Keyeas, of tbe Ropublican State Central Committee in Wisconsfn, They do eay, though, that doath loves & sbiniog mark; and, in that ease, M. Koyes will be likoly to remaln long une distarbed, Wondoll Phillips, Bonjamin ¥, Buller, and William L. Kolloy havo mado ono couvert among thew, Tiis namois Hurard, his residence Boge ton, and his mission the ecutablisbment of % greonback clubs" throughout the Unitod Htatos. 3Ir. Mugh Hastings, of tho Now York. Commers cial Advertiser, wmns his Republican friends that the Democratio party always 1lves up roe frosliad from any bit of a row between Tammany sud antl-Tammany, Trust not n those hollow professions of reform. An honeat Democrat hss written an obltuary of his party for the Cincinoati Gazelle. Ho says the Domooratio party of Obio bas coased to exist, and ia ita placo has come an orgatzation, two- toirda ot which is made-up of Catholice, and one= third of ealoon-keepers. The Sandusky Register has beon {nformed that Benator Thurman is o regular subsoriber to the Prohibition Campaign Fuud, bohoving that to be s moat offoctive method of defoating the Repub- licans, He bad bottor subscribe to some Old Ladine' Home, whoro ho might expect to reap tho rewarda of his lborality in thia life. The Repnblican Btate Committsn of North Caroling hou issued nn addruss strangly denounoe {og the action of the Domocratio Legialature in calling & Convention to amoud the Conatitution of thu State, The Committao urges sl good Ro~ blicans to elect candidstes to the Convention who will pledgo themselves to vote for immo- dinto adjournmont. Tho 8Bt, Louis Times a dmits that the nominse tlon ot Bhephard Leflor by the Iowa Democrats was not tho strongest that could have boen made. In fro', the nomination was about the worst that could have boon made. Lofler{s an old Huokor Domocrat, an wnmigrant from Virginis, & proe slavary champlon, and s Boothiern sympathidur, An Iows nowapapor says that the nomination of Chief-Justioo Tanoy's ghost would hiave baon s appropriato, . Conogoticut romaina with the worst method of ropresentation porth of the o Grande, mearel? bocausa the hard-beadod Yankees of tho count:y woro joaloua and envioua of thecities. The New York Ttimes says that the proposition to change the numbor and boundarios of the diatricta **was {ntrinaloally just, becauso tho preacnt distriots aro of very unequal population ; it was no detri~ ment iu any way tothe country, booausa the oountry *vould stlil have control of the Legislye tura; it was & good party moasure, by whioh the majority fu the Legialataro would gain.,” Datit was not approved, Ono of tho signs of tho times in Chicago lu tho sudden rlaing to the surfaco of sffaus of the Young Democrats, What with Uoolittle, Jr., Heslng, Jr., ‘Trombull, Jr., Holfman, Jr., Wente wortl, Jr., and other juniors too insignifcant to mention, it will be a great wonder if politica ate not elevated and puntied before Jong. The chief difficulty in the way of auch's reform is, It must bo coofossad, almost [nsurmountavle, A1 yot tho young men aro oply allowed to stk toe old follows stand back, tho samo as ever, sl puil the guiding-stringe. Gen. Charles W. Roberts, Domooratio caudle date for Governor of Maine, has been soariog ® an untamod bird of Ifberty, aod, by the wsf making observations of this ujnds **Let thed the ‘minute-men’ ba warned, the watoh-fired speedly kindled upon the hiiltops, snd every true patriot, and every sincera lover of individusl liberty, boup snd doing, brepared at tha sousd of the flzat sigual gun promptly to respoud W the summons and zeady to sirike o manly blo¥ against tbe birelingd who bave well nlgh fuduced tho atuidy yeomaury of tbe Dirigo Btate to be leva that they are incapabla of atrikloy for thens* sslves.” Our Demooratio brethren {n Ohio afford 83 smusing lostauce Of that same fnoonsistends which at pressnt sppesrs to te regarded 84 . fawol iu the noses of fals conventions withodd Qisaretion. Having nomiusted Mr, Allen 038 rag-money plstform. they procesdod to srrsy 08 it liberal-lquor plavk Mr. Bamuel F. [ who bas basu for years & tsmperange man sl Aho kioard of Az Jobn Ak Goughe We bavef