Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 6, 1875, Page 3

THE CIINCAGO TRIBUNE: TUESDAY; - JULY 6, 1875. TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. RATES OF RTRRCTIPTION (PAYARLR TN ADVARCE), Postage I'repnbd at this Onter. RAH) | Wenkly, 1 1.03 Pl ‘u.a‘m Five cople, S Lan Bumday copios 1il00 dnablis sheet..... .00 Partaof & yons at the same rate, WANTED-Una sctise sgent in sach town and villags. Sinecial arrangomanta mace with such. Epecimen copiea sent frea, ‘Lo prevent delay and mistak, Oft:ce addreas fn full, ineludin lteml:tances may bamadaaith ©fl.ce order, or in re, b roro and give Post. te and Coanty, 7 draft, rxpross, Past- red lettors, at nar risk, 8 70 CITY KUDRCTY Dhily, delivored, Runday cxcepted Laily, delivered, Bundar Included, Aadress THE TRIW Corner Badieon aud Dearhors nta per wank, () conts por weok, COMPARY, ta.. Obloago, 1l TODAY'S AMUSEMENTS. MOOLEY'R THEATRE—Handolnb strant, hetween Otark snd Lasalle, | Eozagoment of the Unlon Bquare Company. ** The Two Urohisn M'VICKKR'E TIIRATRRE—Madlson strest, betwasn Deatborn and State. Engagement of tho Haverly’s Minsuesls. ADELPHITHEATRI e, Variety Entortain "SOCIETY MEETINGS: ATTRSTION, SUR_KNIAIITS.~Stated Oonclave of Apollo Commandery, No. 1, K. T. (L L RO e v s Ko, 1t Order. Visiting tr 157 order of tha T Go - 1, e (¥ trtaonsly fncit CKK. Itscorde The Chicags Tribune, Tuosday Morntag, July 0, 1875. Tho awful scones which occurred in con- nection with the grent whisky fire in Dublin were but poorly portrayed in the cabloe dis- patches, A graphic account, furnished by the correspondent of the Loudon Times, is given in another column, A dead-lock between tho city anthoritics and the insurance men in Kansns City, on the subject of tho water-works, resulted yestor- day in tho dostruction of about £10,000 worth of property. The flames originated in tho explosion of a stock of firoworks in n fruit store, and thonea sprend to 8 warehouse, Owing to some dispute nbout the water. works, tho city authorities refused to allow the water to bo nsed in putting out the fire, The Scandinavians have an important his. torical rominiscenco attached to the Fourth henring Mr. Moopy exhort and Mr. SanNreY sing, although nearly one-half of them wanted to do so, Notwithstanding tho fact that Eton is an ancient and aristoeratic institution, it was rather small of it to shut out the revival- ista. 1f, s Knatounvrt-1luaessen claimed, their religion is apnsmodic, it cortainly would not have harmed any of the young Eton blue- bloods if they hnd canght it. A very rare hook, of grent interest to Amer- icans, is in tho cclobrated *“Jonx Canten Browx Library " at Providence, R, I. Itiss Dateh translation of the ** Letters of AMERI- cus Vesrucius upon the Islands Discovered in His Four Voyages." Thero aro only two capied of tho original Italinn tract of 16 small pages in existence, Ono of themis in the British Museum and one in a private library in Paris. 'I'his is the only known copy of the Duteh translation. It was ordered by cablo by Mr. Brow~ from its owner, tho bookseller Muser, of Amstordam. The dispatch reached hitm just fonr hours beforo o lettor from another American collector did. The boolk wag sent, and Mr. Brown had the pleasuro of gotting for 2433 gold, or about 27 a page, this uniyue specimen, It has n fow rough waod-cuts of naked savagey armed with bows and arrows, An English translation is to bo issued soon. Tho book stands in the library by the side of the origival edition of the let- ters written by CoLtsnus announcing his dis- of July. It wnson July 4, 1825, just fifty years ago, that tho first small colony of emi- grants set sail for America, and their follow- ers and descendants now form an ele- ment in the populntion of the United States at onco numerous and impor- taut, There aro about 30,000 Scaudinavians in Chiengo, and most excellent and valuable ; citizens they are. A largo number of them yesterday joined in the celebration of the Fourth, both out of respect to the day ns ‘ American citizens, and in glad romombrance of the day when tho advanco guard left the Norso land to try their fortunes in the New World. Dr. Jases R, Nicuora contributes a paper 10 the Boston Journal of Chemistry, in which - he gives some now views of tho causos of the rocont mysterious explosion in Washington streot, Boston. -.Ho claims that the explosive force was the vapor of cther, which he has known to lift and prostrate heavy buildings ond walls of masonry when it was present in no larger quantities than would be generatod by the ethor keptin the laboratory of the building that was destroyod, if by any acci. dont o S.pound bottle had broken. Dr, Nicnors, who spenks from the experionce of o quarter of a contury with chemicals and ex- plosives, says that ¢ when mixed with air in the proportion of ona to six or eight, this vapor oxplodes with o terribly destructive force, and with tho peculiarly rumbling sound which waa henrd at Boston,” The sccond letier of our correspondont in the grasshopper region is printed this morn. ing. Having taken espocial paina to visit and converso with the people in the various loeal- ities which have furnished such extraordinary stories of grasshopper ravages, *Harryth” lias boen nblo to presont an accurate, impar- tial statement of the situation. Ho finds that the portions of Nebraska, Knnses, Tows, and Missouri which have been the principal suf- ferern ombrace a district oqual to sbout 20,000 aquare miles, in which from one- Lalf to threo-fourths of the growing crops bave beon dostroyed, involving the loss of sixty days’ labor of nbout 200,000 peoplo on- goged in agricultural pursuits, Replanting bns taken place once, twice, and thrice in some of the districts, nnd, now that the grass- lioppers have disappeared, fair crops are looked for if the weather is favorable and the fall frosts ore late. Therois no destitu. tion or sulfering this year, and in those por- tions of the States not dovastated the orop yield will be larger than ever beforo, Fourth-of-July celobration, having occu. -pied uearly hslf a week, is finally over. In Chicago, the wenthor permitted for the day waa divinely beautiful, and it was not until evening, when everybody should be ot home, that sharp showers came a3 n reminder thot patriotio plensuro-seok- iug could not last forover. Tho observ- ance of the concluding section of tho triple holiday was unmaiked by anything extraordinary in our city, unless we may call extraordinary the spectacle of 400,000 people entirely given over to recreation, Perhaps the most notable foaturos of the Fourth out- zide of Clicago were those at Joliet, where the Fourth wag celcbrated by the prisonersin the Penitentiary, who were placed upon their good behavior, which was 8o admirable as to prove the convicta worthy of the unusual lib. erty allotted them for this occasion only ; and elso at Atoka, in the Indinn Territory, whero 8 gonuine aboriginal blow.out was got. ten up. 8,000 Indians listening to & sprend- eagle address ju the Choctaw language, and nfterwards partaking of s picnio dinner after the manner of civilized people. ‘We print elsewhere some interesting corre- spondence touching the recent attewmpt of Moopy and BaNEEY to get a heariug at that venerable seat of learning, Eton College. ‘The first letter fa from Mr. E. H. Knavcmpuii. HooxsseN, & member of Parlinment and a literary man quite well known by his fairy wories this sldo of the water, who has chil. dren at Etou. He expresscs his surprise at tiuding a large teut erected ou the grounds and the report currant that a rovival.-meeting 16 to be held. He therefore protests against the introduction of these * semi-dramatic” Yerformances, and againet the exposure of the Eton boys to & */spasmodio and seusa- tional religlon," and further objects that, it Moony and Bankey are allowed *‘to per- form " by authority, it opens the way to cvery class of preaching. The actlon of the College authorities s slready known, Mr, Kaarcnnurr-Huaessxs carrled his polat, and ths Eton boys were deprived of tha novelty of covery., 'I'ho Intter was printed in 1494 the former between 1506 and 1509, Tho American Missionary Associntion thinks the nation is still in danger, and bas published a tract with this hendline, The dnngor it sees is ignornnce, Tho census of 1670 shows that in the Southeru States 25.56 per cent of tho people over 10 years of nge cannot read, while 3.8 per cent of tho samo class in the Enstern and Middle States and 3.4 ju the West are in the same condition, The following table shows the population and the expenditures for education in the different sections which spends most for this purposo is Maryland. Sha pays ot §6.65 for cach person botweon 6 and 16. 'This is 2 conts less than tho smallest expendi- ture nt tho North,—that of Maine. These facts show that the West, with asmalier popu. Intion than either of the other two sections, spends moro than cither of them for educa- tion and has less illiterates than either, But the Southern outlook is gloomy. If tho pros- perity lost for the sake of tho Lost Causo is Kixaster was converted ton belief in com- pulsory cducation by eeeing, to his great surprise, that English worhingnien supported it heartily. T'his, indeed, has ap+ peared from the workings of the Exdueational act of 1870, which nllows compulsion under certain circumstances, ‘This permission hna been engerly utilizel, - Mr, Nontinor say: “Iivery town in England with 20,000 inhabi- tants which has a 8chool Bonrd hos adopted compulsory eduention,” Education s now enforced wmong 78 por cent of the town population of England. Mr. Fonaren, the author of the Educatiounl act of 1870, said in the ouse of Commons lnst March : After all, compulslon {a morely a declsration by the ttato that 1t 1a the duty of the parent to nes that hix child I educated, Tho right Lo compol & father to fecd and clotho bis child 1a admitied, and we have now ar- rived st a point of civflization st which %e can doclare that 1t {n bis duty to sce that educnted, The solo meaning of compulsion I thls fu the dutyof every parent, and that it fs the buslnces of the State to secure the performanceof that duty, and, if the psrent 15 dlsabled by poverty, then lo help bim from local roton or imperial funds, 1t Las boen mald: * e must wait for publie opinfon,” Well, pudlic oninion ‘has dectared fteelf, for every town that by faw was nble to do k0 han put the compulanry aystem fn force, The fact i, thot the-arguments {u favar of compuinion aro averwhelining, and larliament should now make cot- pulsion universal, The moral of all this is short and simple. Trast the people. Compulsory education has been delayed because the average politician Lins believed that tho poople wero incapable of taking a fair, unprejudiced view of the iden, and has feared that a votoe’ in ity favor would raiso a souselesa clamor that would cost him bis seat. In the long run, toz populi is nearer ror Dci than anything else is, 'The Amorican people will not allow an nnmeaning verbal projudice, a dislike to the word ** com- pulsion,” to prevent their adopting and en- forcing a system which will double and treble the efliciency of our common schools, COLLEGE-BRED POLITICIANS. Ona of the most hopeful signs of the times is the growth of an intelligent intetest in politics among the educated young men of America. In tho purest epoch of our poli- tics, a large mnjority of the men at the hend of affairs hiad received a liberal education. Every member of Wasuivotov's Cabinot, the first Cabinet of the United States of Ameriea, was a well-edueated man, All but one, it is anid, had recoived » regular college-training, and the one possible exception was a man of prodigious attainments, who knew moro at 22 than most men know at 50. It would Le folly to sny that o college graduate is necessarily a botter statesman than an alumnus of the plow or the counting-room, but it is safo to ever to be regained, lfibm- must be made hon- orable and universal, the Iand must bo sub- divided, and education must bo strenuously urged. Theso aro not easy reforms, but they aro absolutely necessary. , 15 COMPULSORY EDUOATION PRACTICA- BLE? No law denying n parent the power to de- prive his child of its inalienable right to an oducation can accomplish its end, unless the people heartily sympathizo with it. Compul- sory education is nu_ impossibility, unless tho great mass of the people believe in it and nid it. A beliof in the truth of the theory is rapidly gaining ground smong thoughtfal American politicinns, but its practieability is serionsly doubted. 'The question is, ** Will the peoplo stand it?"” If they were known to bo not merely willing but eager to “stand it," the avernge politician would take a very difforent view of the matter, and compulsory- education laws would bo the order of the day. The truth is that these lawa are mainly for tho benefit of tho mnss of tho poople. They diminish pauperism nnd erime, and so lossen taxation nnd increase the common ge- curity and the general wealth. They offer tho children of tho very poor the only means by which moro Mthan ono in & thousand of thom can ris above tho wrechedness into which they are born. Thero is no moro compulsion upon the poor than npon the rich; and the lattorpay most of the taxed,—which they can well afford to do in consideration of the goodresults. Where edu- eation 18 compulsory, the school-tax doosns much to protect life, limb, and property as all the other taxes put together. These truths have of lato becomo more widely known. Peoplo aro recovering from the prejudice caused by tho unfortunate word “ compulsion.” They are beginning to sco that the State morely compels a parent to re. apect o right nlready existing in Lis child, when it sgys to him, *Youmust pay the per- son for whose existence you are responsible the dobt of oducation which you owe him; here are books, eachers, and schools provided for him; if yo veannot or will not send him clsewhers, at lcast you shall not provent his coming here.” FExperience hns shown the wisdom of Ficutr's words, spoken when education was being made compulsory in Germany : It ia the first step that costs; the first generation will ba thoe only one upon which it will be necessary to use constraint, for those who will have roceived the proposed edueation will voluntarily send their children to school.” This saying has been proven truo by the oxperionco of Germany, Bwitzerland, En- gland, aud America. It rather underatates the truth. Less than the life of a gen- oration has been necessary to bring nbout the change which Ficure pro- dicted, Mr, B, G, Nowruzor, Connecticut's Commissioner of Education, says, in a recont article in the Independent: *‘The working- mon of Conncctiout believe in maintaining good schools, and insuring attondance upon them ; a8 a class, thoy strongly favor the legnal provention of illiterncy.” The same result has been reachied in Massachusotts, where the laboring classes are now practically unan. imous in supporting the systom which thoy were expocted to oppose. Tu Gennany, compulsory education isovery- whera looked upon with thogreatest favor, A resident of Dresden sald to Mr, NonTanor: “Wero the question of compulsory attend. auce to be decided by a plebiscitum to-mor. row, it would be decided by an almost unan. umous vote,” Bwitzerland, after enforcing education for years in eighteen of her twen. ty-two Cantons, has now made the law uni- versal. The frecst State in Europe, she knows that compulsory education is a guaz- antee of future froedons, ‘The resolutions passed by varlous labor-or. ganizations mdicuts that the working classes, the mass of the people, favor the protection of infant rights to education. The last Con. gress of the Interpational decided, after full discussion, that * eduoation should be univer. sal, compulsory, and nationsl, but uot de. nowminational.,” The platform adoptod ot the Gotha Congress, last month, by the two ro. tnited wings of the German Bocialistss jn- dories compulsory edacation. The last Gon. @rens of the Euglish Agrioultural Laborers’ Union expressed the same belief, The Na- tional Educational League of England haa for its motlo, ** Education must be universal, uaseotarian, . and . compulsory,” Cuinuzs say that of two men of equal natural talents, the better educated will be, as n rule, the fitter to be trusted with the powers, du- ties, chances, and responsibilities of high otice in a Republic. Universal suffrage and universal education should always go togethor. Tgnorance cannot ndminister complex affnirs of State. Any sign of a political revival among educated Americans must be received with genuino satisfaction by lovers of their country. Tho signs of the times now point to such a rovival. This senson of commeneo- ments hos thrown out a good many straws which show that the wind is blowing very straight towards the ship of Stato in a good many colleges. The commencement programmes are full of political sub- jocts. Ono new-fledged graduate discusses “Civil-Service Reform "; another handles ““The Future of International Arbitra- tion" & third sponks on * Universal Suffrago” ; while a fourth has **The Fallacies of Protection” ns his theme; and a fifth has something to say on ‘‘Municipal Govern- ment,” Thero has acarcely been a com- mencement this year, in a collego of sny note, which Lins not embraced the discussion of from ono to half a dozen such eubjects. T'his innovation must have been a welcomo relief to tho nverngo audience, which usunlly knows as littlo about the subjeet under dis- cussion 88 tho sponker does. Orntor and hearer can both enjoy ‘& politieal speoch, purified from tho vulgarisms of the stump, freed from parly passion, and fervid with noblo plans of noeded reforms, American colleges show the political revival in other ways besides commencoment speeches. The post-gradunte courses, by means of which tho larger colleges are expanding into univer- sities, give rare chances of political study. At both Yalo and Harvard, there are distinct- ively political courses, wisely planned, thorough, interesting, attended by numbers of students, Theso lectures reach many persons outside the college limits, too. In Now Haven, and we presume in Cambridge, citizens attend them ; and the political and cconomic discourses of Profs. Svanen and ‘Warxer, of Now Haven, have renched tons of thousands of renders, during the last year, through Tue Teivuxe and its New York namesnke, ‘Wo have hnd, of Inte, too little intellect at work upon national, Stato, and municipal problems. Politics and brains make a good mixture, The ward.worker and the nourcau riche mey snoor ot the oducated statesman, but Tnosas Jervenson oud Cany Scmunz make o convinoing snswer to this vulgar out. ery. ryl'ho offoct npon education of the re-entry of educated men into politics cannot but be good. By cronting now prizes for knowledge, it will stimulato it. Better still, it will place dovoted friends of education in places where they can exert n powerful influence, Had not Jerrensox boen President of the United States, ho could not have founded the Uni. versity of Virginia, the truest **university " in tho country. Thera aro fow finer pictures than that of tho ex-President working for this beloved object and menuwhile superin- tending the studies of the young men who apent years near Monticello for the sake of' his wise advice, And we all know that the inseription he propared for his own tomb. stone commemorated threo incidents of his lite, his authorship of the Declaration of Independence, and of the Virginia law of roligious freedom, and his founding the Unl. veraity of Virginia, On Sunday last, the Rev. Dr, FaLrows, of Bt. Paul's Episcopal Church, in, thia oity, preached a sormon which was printed In Tux | TRibUNe of yesterday, the motive of which waa “ How to denl with Skeptics,” The s mon {8 somewhat remarkable for its exposi- tion of the various forms of skepticism, and of scientifio inquiry and investigation, and explainsg very lucidly why so many people are doubting, and why this is an age of unbelief. ‘Tha remarkable feature of the sermon, per- haps, is contalned in the indorsement of Joux Wxsixyr's modo of dealing with skepti- clam: ‘' Condemn no man for not thinking as you think, Lot every one enjoy the full imd free liberty of thinking for himsolf. Let overy man use hisown judgment, since every mon must give an account of himself to God. Abhor every opproach in any kind or degree to the apirit of perscoution, 1f you cannot venson or persuade & man iuto the truth, never altempt to foroe him into it.” 'This slows progross. Formerly the skeptic was persecuted, exiled, burned at the stake, tortured on the rnck, torn to piccen by wild bensts, and exposed to every possiblo form of cruelty and every hor- rible modo of death. Thoro was no reason- ing with n doubter, The only argu. ment was, “ Boliove as I do or die 8inco that time, howover, the world has mnde progress, and it has becomo n sottled fact that ono man mny differ from anothor without being butchered for it. 'The liberal, tolerant mermon of Dr. FArrows is a cheer- ful sign of a kindlier focling setling in, and of an admission upon the part of a chnrch- man that other men may have views and opinions to which they aro ontitlod of right, and that those views end opinions, whatover they may be, cannot expose Lim to assault or pordonal persecution o long as ho conducts himsclf as s good cifizen. THE ENGLISH A3 MONEY.LENDERS. Wo have au idea tiat the Euglish and Ger. man capitalists put upon the Americans moro than their just progortion of the blame that nttachos to tho corforate bankrupteies and repudintions in this country which have cost them go denrly, Moch of their loss may be traced directly to their own’ inordinate greed for gain, which led them to promote entor- prises that did not :ensonably promise suc- cess. 'Thia sontimoat was nlso abotted and encouraged by the resident English and Ger- man agents, brokers and bankers in Ameri- ca, whoso duty it vas to reprosent the homae capitalists especinlly, but who betrayed their iuterests in trost to.gain the exorbitant com- missions paid by impecunious specnlators who required and accepted money on any terma they could get it. Tho English nnd German money-lenders ignore tha considera- tions which influenced them when they placed their money, now that thoy are called upon to sustain the cost of their folly, The financial relations between England and Turkey have brought to mind this phase of the money question. Thero is a cnso whera tho English certainly cannot claim thnt they were swindled or deccived. If they were, they swindled and deceived themsolves, The Government of Great Britain first rescued ‘Turkey from the pounce of the Rus. sinn Czar; aud, having spont millions of money in a war to sustain the indopendence of Turkey intact, the English proceeded to advance money to build up the necessary ad- Juncts of a solid, first-class, and powerful nation, Turkey has borrowed about 150,- 000,000 pounds storling, full two-thirds of which is ield by England. The money hns been squandered in riot, dissipation, and plundor. Tho sernglios have been keptup in oll their magnificenco; the Turk has en- joyed his dolce far nicnée with true Oriental indifference; the Turkish Ministers have had rich pickings from a plethoric treasnry; tho money las been enjoyed hugely whils it lasted, and the enjoymont hins been in no wise marred by tho thoughts of repayment. But, while the Turks have been dancing, contrary to their national custom, Joha Bull has beon paying tho piper. And now ho finds he may whistle for his money, o hasn't even the poor satisfaction of cursing Youkeo deception for his Turkish losses. IHe can blame really nobody but him- self, Tho recklesy, slothful, aud dishonest character of the Turkish people and Govern- ment wero fully known in England before the money was advanced. As a mttor of fact, the Turks themsolves would scarcely havo had the ‘“‘cheek” to nsk that their crodit should bo strained to the point now ronched; they would have had no faith, in view of their bad reputation, in their ability to raise any such amouni of money. But the English brokers took hold of the mnatter themselves, and tho Turks had nothing to do but sign the bonds which tho English drew up and engraved for them. The En. glish still have those bonds, and are likely to keep thom; but the railronds and publio im- provoments which were to be built with the money are nowhere to be found. And now tho English, aud so many of the Fronch eap- italists ns thoy draw into the snare, have nbout given up all idea of gottingtheir money back. The English money-lenders have lost nono of the principnl they have advanced to Stato Govermnents in this country, and heartily wish now that they had taken more of the nationnl obligations of the United States. ‘Their losses in Americn have been with pri. vato individuals and joint-stock enterprises, whiol they went into on the representations of their own agents and hrokers, Theroisa strong probability that they are as much re- aponeiblo for the losses they have met with in Amoriea s for their greater losses in Tur- koy, As the Turkish question is now tho subjoct of discussion in the British Parliament, thiere may come a proper approciation among the English capitalists of their own responsi- bility for reckloss investments, and, to that extont, the good name and credit of the Amorican people will bo enhanced abroad. A BIAMESE SCANDAL, 8iam has bed s scandal, and o royal scandal at that. How it originated no one can tell. ‘The first the world know of it, it waa in full bloom. There were no preliminary state. ments, no letler-writing, no declarations or counter-declarations, no Mrs, WoopnuLy nor Henoy O, Bowen throwing out vague hints of what.thoy might disclose if they were prossed todoit. In pointof fact, there was nothing of the Brxcuen flavor about this blue-blooded scandal, sud not & white soul, or a ragged adge, or a cave of gloomin it. The happy Siameso have not yet reached that fashion of occidental oivilization' which can originate, and tolerato, and masticate, and digest a soan- dal of this sort, Bingularly enough, there does not appear to havo been o woman in the Siamoso scandal, notwithetanding tha point- blank assortion of the Persian poet that there has never been a row without a woman at the bottom of it. As we have said before, no oue knowa the cause of the trouble,— at least no one bhas ever discov- ered it, possibly for fenr of losing his head #f he were so indiscreet. The parties to it were the First and Second Kings of Binm. The First King has a name which will alwoys be a terror to autograph- hunters, aud would fill any ordinary muto. graph album from title-page to colophon. His first name scems to bo Boupecs, and his last Yuovua, and the whole of Mr. Yumua's pame is na follows : Boupeou Pans Paraminos Maua CuuLsLoNG-EOBN PaTiNDR Dxoia Mana Monoxur PukvenssaTNe Rasanawiwovosz WanuTaaONOSE PaniBaT WARAXHATTIANIEA- ROTAMA CHATUBANTAPABAMAMARA CHAKBABAB TIDAZABANOKAS Pamamapmamuma Mimama. Japuisais ParawaNanta Panrra Pasa Crura COuox-xrow Cuow Yvuumval For short, wo moy designated him hereafter as Sowprcu Yvmva, The Becond King, how- ever, had no such long-winded sponsors as Sowproy Yumvi. He Is simply Kzou Puza RausawaNe Pawanstoaw Monoor, and does uot have his bank checks out upon the lberal pottern of Bompxox Yumud The trouble first camo to the aurface last wintor and soon assumed snch portentous dimen- siona that Krom Pnna fled for safoty to the oftico of tho British Legation. Now, Knost 'una had an eccentricity which is shared by many who are not Hinmose, Although of thoblood rayal nnd overy inch aKing as mucha i nssocinto of the mauy names, ho was dom- ocratic encugh to run ¢ wid der mnsheen,” and was Captain of a hook-and.ladder coni- pany, like tho late Kamemameua, of the Bandwich Islands and blessed memory. More- over, ho waa so fond of running with his hook-nud-ladder truck and of secing fires, that it was shrewdly suspected he set fires, or ordered them set, for the purposo of gratify- ing his incendiary appetites, nnd did so re. gardless of expense or ineurance. Now Sompren Yunwa knew Knom Pnm's wenkness, nnd cunningly thought he could take advantage of it to draw him out of Li¥=hiding-place. So he pncked tho streets and alley-ways leading to Kroxt Puna’s palnce with his murderous minions, in- structed to reizeand murder him, aud then geiz. ed a torch and fired K! P’ palaco. DBrilliant. ly the flames leaped into the air and illumin- ated the whole city, The firo-bells, if Siam bas fire-bells, rung out their wild alarum to the midnight sky, The whole population turned out to ges Knox Puna's palace burn, and shortly Knox Pana’s hook-and-ladder truck came dashing down the strect, but Knoa Pana, the Captain, was not in his cus- tomary place, urging on his mon, He was too sharp for Sowpzcnm, and the murderous minions had to go home without Knox Pana, either dead or alive, who, whilo his palace was burning, enjoyed the spectacle from the Legation windows, over a pint of * arf and arf,"” with tho Br tish representative. Bhortly after this, however, tha British representa- tiva himself brought the two Kings to a compromiss, and a covenant of good will has been made botween them which has been signed by all the uncles of both Kings, the late Regent, nll the Ministers of all sorts, and by the two Kings themselves, the docutnent being almost ns long ns the Kingdom of Sinm itself, It is pleasant to know that the scandal has been set at rest without six months of testimony, six weeks of lawyors' talking, and 1no end of nowspaper criticism, IHappy Sfam, where such things are not allowed, and whore the Iuckless wight who should presume to dis- cuss or comment upon the scandal would suddenly find himself without o hend. Long may the pollysyllabio Sompecr Pnna Pana- MINA Mana CruzavoNaronN PATiNDR Densia Mama Moxokur PURUSIARATNE Rasanawi- WONGBE PARIDAT WARARMATTIARATANIEARO- TAMA CUATURANTAPARAMAMAMA CHARRADAR- TIRATABANOKAS PARAMADIARMGMIEA MaHARA- JADHIRATA PAnanANARTE Panitn Para Omura Cuoy-xzow Cnow Yunva to wield his royal sceptre, and long live Kunox Pauaa Raza- waANG PAwARSTHAN Monaon to run with his hook-and-lndder truck, and long may arson flourish in his realm, There is an intoresting debate in progress in England, inside and outside the Houss of Commons, on the provalonce of bribery in Parliamentary eloctions, Members have been gronning over the wickedness of constituents who would debase themselves by being brived, and now the constituents are suggesting tLat there are always two parties to o caso of vote-selling, and that if candidates did not try to buy votes, nobody would or could soll them, ‘FThis plain truth has mado o commotion, A committes nppointed to inquire into the mat- ter roported tho othor day in favor of severely punishing members who bribed. But this hns been decorously shoved into oblivion. Tho practice of bribery seoms to be on the increase. The Judges aro busy in investiga- tions ; several important boroughs hava been threatened with disfranchisement; all but ono of tho membets roturned from Stroud at the rogular and speoial elections since 1805 have beon unsonted for bribery; and Jonn Brionr read in the Houso of Commons, a fow days sgo, a letter from a prominent citizon of Norwich, who said that that city wasin thehands of 600 or 800 electors, who sold their votea shamelossly for *‘monoy and beer.” Then a Tory, Mr. Bextinex, de- nounced the hypocrisy of such debates, and snid that ** there was really no feeling in or out of tho House against the practice of bribery.” The House laughed heartily at this raro jest. The statemont has been con- firmed by many outside authorities, so that tha mattor soems to be a clear case of potand kottlo, Tho Kezry-ites show nn unabated faith in the now motor. The only trouble, they say now, s that they find it difficult to got sny machinery strong onough td stand the enor- mous power, 260 times that of steam. Thoy have raised tho devil and cannot bridle him, ‘Wo see no way out of this except to have Mr, Krevy invent a now motal to match his new power. However, rockless promisos aro being mado, A train of cars is to be run from Philadelphia to New York, * within six months,” with the power genorated from &s mucl water as can bo held in the palm of n man's hand, Tremendoua things are to bo done with the new motor as a substituto for gunpowder, A rifle that fires four cartridges at once out of ons barrel at arate of speed that far outstrips the lightning has already, * thoy say,” beon porfected, As the Govern- meut ia in the business of supplying the In- dians with the guns they need in order to murder the frontior settlers every spring, it would be a good idea to give them this sort, which will probably be more dangerous to the shooter than to any one else, Squaw-Bcarres propelled to the happy hunting-grounds by the Kezry motor would be a pleasing sight. Qeorgia has of late been distingulshing her- gelf by the wholesale manner In which scme of hier matrons have been contributing to the cares and respousibilities of their married life. Now, perhiaps, the huabands of the Btate will ba com. forted. An aesursuce need not be given that thie compotition awakoned by some of theae per- formances will ceaso, after the following de- scription of four Infanta given birth to by a colorod dame One of them bad two perfectly-formed buman Lissda and a body like 1hat of & 00g. Another was more uin- gulsrly furmed ; 1ts Lody was abaped- ke ihat of a chicken, and was covered with liters) pin-festbers, whlle its bead was thst of o perfect pig. The other two hud U ¥ory remuarkable features save that botd of tuom Liad each four perfectly-formed lege snd arms, ——— The Republicaus of lows bave meted very wisely In ignaring the question of prohibition in thelr platform. Heretofore they have incorpo- rated it o thelr platform ooly to suffer for It While {t never reformed adrunkard nor made them a single vote, it loat them many, Afier sealng the results year after yesr they have at Iast docidod that it i worse thau folly to attempt to prevent nine temperate men from drinking {o order (o resch the tenth man who s intemperate, and baye adopted the disoceet polioy of Ignoriog the question altogether s a political isaue, and relogating it to the Church and the philsatbro. pista as 8 question of religlon sud morals, snd one uot to be settled by partissa osuoysey and Conulables’ clube. e —— An exhibition of sntsrprise by the New York Herald Is not 30 extraotdinary s thiog that it domerven very particnlar mention, snd it la theroforo rathor for the information of the pub. lo, thar for thie bonafit of thn Herald, that we altude to tha last inatanco of tho kind. This in ‘he running of a special train evory Hunday duting tho searon from Now York to Haratogs and Niagara . Falls. Ity ibls arrangemont, tho Herald loavos Now York at half-past 2 o'clack in the morning of Bunday, overtakes the rogular train st Buffalo, and arrives In Chicago on Mon- day morning, over the Michigan Eouthern & Lako Bliore lino,—twenty-four hours in advanco of any other Now York papor of the sawe dato, —_————— A New York rentauratour igs & nowdevice for attracting custom, in & sucoession of placards testifying to tho quality of bis dishes, The plac- arda do littlo credit to the hitorarv taste of the rontauratour, but hoy undoubtedly anawer thoir purposo from the culinary point of view, Among them aro the following: “Come and O me;" “*A Royal Banquot Dinoor ;" *Juat you look, 25 disliea for 50 Couts;" * All the Dolikaasies of tho Heason in flve coursen for Half s Douar;" **Only tblok of it, stewed lamb and peas, La- nanas, and gopulne strawberry atiort cake, and 15 other dishes;™ ** A 8lap Dang Diuner;" ** The graudeat diaplay in the city ; ** A loyal Fesst, bow in this for bhigh?" Thoro iaa hint for our Culcago restaurateurs in the shove. POLITICAL NOTES. ‘The Republiosn candidate for Bapreme-Court Jadge in Towa {s rald to belinve in Woman-Suf frage, Hia wifo ls woll kuown as & prominent advocata of the couse, Tho Hon. Charles Foster, of Ohio, has been appointed Trustoe of s railroad; but the Grangers do not murmur. It is thought, bow- over, that he will hear more of it next winter, when (he transportation question comes ap in Congress. Is It truo, ag reported at the East, that the St. Taul Pioneer-Press hes promised to mupport Pillebury if hie {a nominated for Governor by the Minucsots Ropublicans ? The statoment noads vorification; though, to be sure, it is not of much consoquence. ‘The Youngstown (0.) Tribune has shocked the sonaibilitios of some thin-skinned Domocrata by saying: “'fom Ewing i{s amiitious, Gov. Allen a fool, and Seusator Thurman a coward ; and tho man of ambitiun, by dupiog the fool, overawed the coward, and captured the Domocracy of Ohlo,” Thero are throo *Greenback Clubs" {n Yonng- Atown, 0., whera tho Hon. William D. Kolloy fa to speak July 10, Aun argument for inflation i that town will bo a clear wasto of raw matorial, Judge Keltoy ought to speak in Iioston, snd Cherles Fraucie Adama might do sometbing for Youngatown. Tho Loulsville Courier-Journal warns Gen, Bherman to bewara hiow ho apeaks of tha Bouth, elnca he will soon be dependent upon Confoder- ato votes (o Congress for his annusl pay and al- Towances. Thia is & procse definition of the sit- ustlon, and very humiliating it muat be to loyal Democrata. Mr. Morton s expeoted to stump Ohio this fall. A joint debate betweon him and Ar.; Will- iam Allen—formerly koown, we bellove, as **Balllon Bil1"—on the financial doctiine pro- pounded by the Democratlc State Coovontion could not fail to b8 of thrilling intereat.—Spring- Jield Republican, Gov, Tilden han beon insulted by an invitation from the Oblo inflationists to prove Lis devotion to Democratic priveiples by golug out to Obio aud taklog the stamp for their candidates. The Now York T'ribune eavs ho is not preclsely tho sort of man who thinks vital principlos aro of no acconat whan the party is in dangor, The Hartford Courant intimates that Secrotary Delano will resign as soon aa the newapapers hove done oxpressing satisfaction at tho pros- peot. If this be true, a doadly hush on thia one subject ought st onoe to overtake the world of Journalism; amplo estisfaction can be obtsined when tha resiguation 18 oflicially announced. The Eastern Domocrats attempt, as the New York Post iays, *'to palliate SBenator Thurman's approval of the Ohio Domocratic platform on the ploa of * Just once,' But this very ploain fatal to tho culprit, *Just once' may some- timoa bo set up to oxcuse unconscious orror or a mistake fn judgment, but never & wiliful fanlt,” Mr, J. B, Casaaday positivoly rofuses to be & candidato for the offico of Attornoy-General bo- fore the Republicau Conventlon of Wisconsin. He {8 etill, bowaver, in full sympathy with the party, snd especially miuce “the Democracy of Obio have struck a blow at the honor of the na- tion, and tho best intercats of labor and bus- inosa.” Mr. Ignatins Donnelly i disturbod because “Tho agricultural Btato of Minnecsota {a gepre- sonted_dn the United Statos Honate by s couplo of lawyers, who scarcely know the dilferance bo- twaen potatoss and turnips groylng.” Porhaps 1t {a not too late forthe Benatord to take & course at the Agricnltural Colloge,—which bas an eatab- lished reputation as a hiot-bed for atatesmon, Afr. Delano {4 & ohronio office-holder, and it 18 Lis misfortuno that e has long bad the unonvi- able reputstion of making tho most out of avery ponition he has aver ocoupled, There can be no doubt that it would bo a good thing for the Ad- mlolatration, for tus Reoublioan party, sod for the Tadlaps, if Mr. Delano should resign, fold his tents, aud quietly ateal away to his own natlve wilds of Oblo.—Philadeiphia Inquirer (Rep.). Col, Gill, of Madlson, in & rocont spesch at Chippows Falls, declared that the railroad legls- lation of Wisconsin was ** simply fofamous, and a dospotism that no free people should tolerate,” Tho Madison Democral foumates that these sentiments are exactly opposite to those ex- pressed by the Colonel a yearagoj if so, we bave bore an Indication of a decided change in opinion on this Important mubject among the people of Wisconsin, It la romarked ‘upon as singular that Gratz Brown's argument for s depreciatea currency la contemporaneous with the appearance of water- melons,—known of old as the deadliest poison to the Missouri orator. Pure mathematics may avail inpolitical apsaches ; but we do not know that thoy are‘an antldota to water-melons. 8till, 1t may be that the treatise on pure mathematics whiok Mr, Brown ls composing will bave suporior sud hitherto undiacovered qualities, The chargo sgalnst the Democratlo candidate for Governor of Maine Is, thathe realgned from the Unfou army be: he sympathized with tbe Rebellion, We know that he did resign after the aecond battle of Bull Run ; that bie was in good health at tne tima ; and that his resigna- tion was most reluctantly accepted. His Ropub. Hlean competitor literally stumps the Stats on crutches, haviag ved through the War, and rleen from the ranka to s Brigadier-Generalship e was severely wounded in battle. The Now York Tribune strikea another blow In its own housebold by imputing to Gratz Brown, who may be remembered as the junior partoer of a pollucal alilance, * profound and pheoomensl 1gnorance,” because he jotos fo the cry tor more irredeemablo.curvency. The desige nation is well applied It e tortunste for the country that it pertaina to an almost forgotten politiclsn ratber than to the Presldent of the United Btates, s might have boen the cass had the Tridune's influence smooe American voters boon ae potent aa U imagined It tc be.—ew York FPost, i Qen. 8. F. Cary, Democrstio csndidate for Lieutonant-Governor (o Ohln, delivered tho opening speech of the campsign st Baruneaviile Iast 8aturday, He said that for morae than forty years hie bad not tasted » drop of intoxicating liquor, and never (ntended to. Hae would not driuk a glass of liquor to be Lisutensnt-Govern. or, or Govervor, or President, It ,was not a were sentiment with him, but a coaviction. He wi temparacce man ¢ bus, while bs controlled bis awn appetite, he did not proposs to control others, He hed been called 00 as su 0ld teme perance mao when the women's crueade waa ine auguraied, but he did nob sppigve hat, move- ment, and to-day stood aqnaroly on the Demo- cratic platform, and that was ail ho propowa | to msy on tho subject, If hin hearors thougiit s man who did not drink was not._qualifiod to pro- #ido ovor the Ohto Henato, ho hopod they would not vote for him, a3 he would not drink to yerat- ity anybody.—1lio troubls e, that, as Mr. Cary han changed hin mind a8 to tho oxpedioncy of controling the appetiten of others, ho may alao $urn about aud give froo indulgeuce to his own ——— PERSONAL, Liszt won't Liszt-on to any offer to como oul to Awmerica. v Beuator R. J. Oglesby, s registered at the Palmer Houso, Indlans Lima discoverod a Mammoth Cavo of Gloom, Comments are unnocossary. Prof. Fawcett, boing blind, has to tako hin wifo's word for it that sho fa not a-bluo-stockiug, Merars. W. H. Henry and Jobn Hayes, of the New York Herald, aro sojourning at the Palmor, QGounod, the composer, ia discomposed. A London lady whom Lo talked about Las suol bito. In theso greon-frult days, blackberry brandy, bast of auythlog, fetoles your *true inwarde nosg," Tuo courts will adjonrn until the banlaece round thio throats of patriotio orators can Lo dis- ponsed with,s Mr. J. J. Borland, tho lumberman, Las fust roturned from a year's sojowrn in the difforont countrios of Europo. “fho Lifo and Letters " of Lud Macanlny ate shoitly to be publishied. Mr, Evarta has been retained to oxplain tho latter. Norwhore olse but In Irsland would they dream of celebrating Danfol O'Connell's birthdny 22 tho 5th, 6th, and Tth of August, . Bankey is ' tho aweotest mod loudest singol through his nose * that the London Court Jour nal was avor called on to criticisa. F. D. Ciark, QGonordl Manager, and W. . Bwain, General Freight Agont, of the West Wi~ consin Railroad, sre stopplog at the Grand Pa- cifle. Bo many jonrnalists aro dring of brain-d.sonsy nowadaya that tho * tall-towored young edgitor ™ is getting to be quite an objoct of professionsl suvy, ‘With Montague in Ban Francisco and Goorra Clarke in Europe, the tailors’ dummies fu Nev York aro ouca more regainmg thoir otd prow- inence, Balsbury, EA Marble, and the other * Trouby- dours,"” are dolug gaily; which is notioten ind to imply soy unkind treatmout of ono of their uumber, Bayard, of the Brooklyn Argus, hasa keen eyo for s coincidence, and now sasociol s De- lane's resignation with that extravagant pu . f +Queen Mary." It thoso misorable Chinamen don't improvs their conatications, Yanglug in Californis will 1o played out. They dio s0 easily now ti.at tue crowd docsn't get any fun out of the thing. A cherry, tncompletoly ripe, s little busiucss did for him, And 50w, screucly free from grips, Hb {8 o bob-tafled cherublm, Ia George W.'s vory lateat, Mlle, Mars, tho great aotross, brake Lior en. nragoment at Dijonbacause thoro wasan oloohinat slowing in tho esme city. The economic K- goativonoss of his singla trunk was too much for Ler, A certain minstral-mansgor advertses in ona of the sporting papera for a tenor singor ** who ¢ vocal abilities are firat-class, and who knows hrw to work up s laugh when tho end-man is go:tii ¢ off & joke." % Franz Liszt obtained a writlog-desk * froa the King of Holland at Loo,"” snys the Nev Yori Tyibune ; which leavca a distict and dminsgiag improssion that the vico of gambling atiocu bt Chatch and Btate. Doleliauty and Henglor, tho original pirve- trators of that munstrons orima ogainst bims i ity,~your “double song and dnaoce,"—huve atepped down aud out of & tou-year-old pirtiue- shtp. It was too much even for themselvas, It takes time aund pationce to move a cou stove, for the expiesaman s Bure to ask ita weight, and the denomination of thotons. Theie are four for welghing Iron: Nat, groes, eand, and bloom ; and they ranga from 2,000 to 2,iu0 pounas, Frederick Dates, of Worcaator, Maas,, fel! from & wood-pite and was picked up for dead, [t wne nothivg, however; for, a8 soon as the daotors straightenod out his spine, he ‘deliborataly asunterod home and reassured his sorcowing frlonds, , Literary Intelligence,~The following new novels have just boon lssued: * Exlateacs In & New York Garret,” by tho authar of *Old Con 't Lite in Francae;" **8ent Up,” a sequel of * Fatud to BaFreo;"” "*On the Roggad Edge,” by tio anthor of “Off the Skelllggs.” Red Cloud is cno of tho most veraatilo siv- agos on the faco of tho oarth. Onoshort monty g0 he resombled Harriot Beecher Stowe, aid now his Brooklyn brotbren find that ne looks ko Julla Waid Howe. Thore's hopo yut for Red Oloud if hia onward progresa la marked by such rapid stndos, The intelligence that * Pes-Boup Jim," an the Now York Zlerald mon darkly atyle their pri- prietor, 1a rhortly to return from Europs, uue wodded to any of the numorous Princesusn who have yearaced for an alllance with him, fills tua wholecoterie of “intallactual” exiles from Maye nooth with dire apprehension. ‘The Nev, Honry Sorgan, a sensational prossii= or of Doaton, offors $300 to anybody who cun anewor tha conuodrum, * Why do not men ga to ohurch 2" The tall editor, from tho summit of his young tower, replica: ** Take the moantee banka and incapablos out of the pulpits, and put in thelr places men of Christisn meoknoss and intallootual culture, and the pews will soou flL up.* ¥ HOTEL ARRIVALS, Paimer House—, M. Thayer, Wyoming; A L. Pl In-,Ban Y;Jrl L. E. lor ?u‘ léx‘m E' 2i‘!l. I-\fl l;i opperl, xas} P, A, Qlark, Naw Youk § Francisco, Oal,; Jack Hatnmoud un | ¥, W, Newlall, Sau Francisco, Cal.; A, T, Tultl., Counectiout: Joun O, Bpooner, Wissonsing J, M. Iully, Unitod Btaten Army; Jobn G, Nuttink, Liver ilenry Miller aud fantly and Mre, FLi ctaco. .., Grund fuctio—L. G, Mason, Musk ank, Jr., Haooibal, Mo,; H, Oute . 31, Traveau, Pittaburg; I, P, Clanc s Cleveland} A, B, Harels, Madiaon;’ T, M. ity . Hartfords’ John' D, Btare, Baitimore; L. I, Weat Vlrginia,,..Sferman’ Housé=The Hop, J. A, Otlett, Poud du Lac, Win; Dr, Ostander, Mitwaukoe, Wis.1 Hon. '@, P, Pabior Moaby,’ MemEuley Toronto, Can; [ Tena; the 1, 2., Gouthwiek, Woodaigel . 1ur? per, ;pount Vernon, 0. ; Con R, 3baler, Gmaha, Haty, Tevs dremont Houss—E. A, Dorr and wite, Galesbirg s h H, Denuls, Indisuapolis; J, Y, Roberts, Winoe George W. Bmith, New Jersoy § I, J, McBrideand , Wiscouatn ; Dr, T Stoddsrd. Das Molnes on, N, Joi oo} Wiliam Gould, Now Yorkj N, K, Sulier, Ao York; H, Lowell and wifs, Galveston, Tex, . THE CROPS, Hau u, 1, Kalarma. v MISSOURL, Bpectal Dispateh to The Chioago Priduna, 8r. Josxym, Mo, July 5,—The ratus which have fallen here for the Jast week areuu- paralelled in lute years. Yestarday tha wator fell in torrents, and continues to coms yet. Of all the raironds entering our clity only tke Kansaa City, Bt. Joseph & Narthern remains fa running ordor, with trains on time. The Hanail- bal & 8t. Joseph-has s large by ihe Chariton Bottom, ag also I The extant of the damage on the othor roads 14 not known. ‘The westher is, however, axosed. R luzuriant with youp ast. The grasshoppes a10 all gons, lB’\i onru'v‘nmln are not floulglhr wg. —_— SUICIDE, Bpecial Dispalch 1o TAs Chicage Tribune, Hawrronp Cstv, Ind,, July 6.—Eligs Young, ayoung wowan, realdiog about two miles from bere, celebratea the Fourtn of July b;’ mm:‘u herself 10 a tree with & rope, Whea discover sud cut dows Lo bad bovo.n exbiush for sowd s, \