Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 15, 1876, Page 6

™ THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, JULY 15 1876—TWELVE PAGES: i r The TEibane, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, PATABLE IN ADVANCR—TOSTAGE PREPAID AT 'n’ns OFF ally Fltlon, postpaid, 1 yea $12.00 *Arts of A year, per month.. 1.0 lflflg (0 Any sddress four we L Bunday Kdiclon: Literary an TreRR, o R Vedkiy; posiim Fhria of & year, per 5 WEER] ons copy o year 8 130 July of Bve. .. 0,00 ubof twent] 20,00 Tostags presii, Bpecimen coples sent free, ‘To prevent delay and mistakes, be sure and give Post- Office addreas [n full, Including State and County. Tem!itances mny be mada either by draft, oxpress, Post-Ofce order, of In rogistered letters, st our sk, TERMS TO CITY SURSCRIDRNS. Tafly, deltrered, Sunday excepled, 23 centa per week, Itly, deltvered, Sunday incinded, 30 cents ner week Address THE TIINUNE COMPANY, Corner Madtson and Dearborn-ats., Chicago, ik —— TRIBUNE FOR TIIE SUMMER. Parties leaving tho clty for tho summer con havo Tie DasLy TRIRUNE forwarded to sny sddress upon Jesving orders st our vouating-room. The paper will ba promptly maliod fn a single wrapper, postage pald, oz $1 por month. ANUS] 5 Ilonley’s Theatra. TRandofph street, between Clark and LaSallo. **Cone acience.” Afiernoon and evening. Wond’s Musenm. et s rhe 8 street, bet: Dearborn and Rtato. * T e e Torpin sad Tom Kinz." Al 4rnoon and evening. Wabash Avenne M. R, Chureh, Twabash avenne, carner of Ponrteenth street. Con- cort by the Tennessce Jublice Blugers, SATURDAY, JULY 16, 1876, Groonbacks, at 'tho Now York Gold Ex- chongo yesterday, closed ot 80} e A proposition for the total abrogation of tho laws restraining tho frecdom of the press swas brought to a voto yesterday in the French Assombly, and was defeated by a declsive majority. Bushop Canscy, of this city, fa nrged to accept the position mode vacant by the death of Bishop Ouansme, but as this would in. volve tho sevorance of his connaction with Clirist Church, ho will not aceept without the consout of his congregation. i L aa—— Another of the monster war.vessels of the Tritish novy hos como to an untimoly end. Tho Thunderer, whilo making a trinl of xpeed yesterday, burst her boilefs, instantly Lilling twenty-one persons, and wounding pixty, of whom twenty.six are belioved to bo fatally injured Nearly nll tho news from tho scat of war fn Turkey comes by way of Coustantino- ple, and of course consists of nccounts of Sorvinn disnsters and roverses, Thers is probably a good deal of exnggeration, not to say gentine Ottoman lying, in tho reports, though it is to bo fenred that the insurgents aro faring poarly nt tho hest. ‘Haywoop Grant, a crime-stained villain who was hnoged for nrson at Rome, Ga., yesterday, confessed to having committed four murders, one of them being the killing of Gen. Hrwpuax, at Helena, Ark., in tho summer of 1860, Gen. Hivpwan was fired upon through an open window by an unknown pasnssin, and tho murdor hus remained o mystery up to this timi Somo little progress in the matter of logis Intion was made by Congress yesterday. Tho Sonate concurrod in tho Houso Lill for the issuo of silver coin, and both bodies passed tho bill amending the Bankrupt act. There is serious talk of au adjournment next weck, which beging to appear all "tho more proba. blo from the fact ihat a large number of ‘Wastorn members are making preparations to adjourn in their individual capacitios, and without regard to joint nction. In spite of repeated nssertions of confi- denco ot army headquarters in Washington that no harm has belallon Gen. Cnoox's -command, not o little unonsiness js felt on nccouat of the non.arrival of any intelligence concerning his whorenbouts and oporations, T'he appearanco of & courier has been hourly expected for tho past threo days, and but for the reliance placed upon Gen. Croox's great capncity and prudenco as nn Indian-fighter, scrious apprehensions for his safoty would become quite genernl, Tho evangelical gentlemen in attendance npon tho Young Men's Christian Association Convention at Toronto occasionally meot with discouraging incidents in their efforts 1o spread the Gospol in that city. A stroot- proacher and various dolegates, in attompting }o conduct services in & rough quarter of the rity, were subjected to violent ill-usage at Jho bands of a mob of rufians, and, curiously suough, when a policoman appeared upon tho sceno of the disturbance he promptly pmitted to arrest tho roughs, but threatened to 1ako in tho prenchor unloss ho cleared out. Xie mnfstako made by tho Y, AL O, A, delo- gates was in not begiuning their Iabora ot polico headquarters. A lettor has beon recoived at Fort Lincoln, D. T., from Col, Poranp, commanding the Bixth Infantry, reviving tha rumor that Brermia Buet was killed {n the battle of June 25, when Custzn and his commsud wore Maughtered. Tho story was brought by n 3mall party of the hostlle Sioux, who report- »d thot 800 soldlers and 200 Iundinns were killed, among them Srrrivo Bust aud other Chiofs. The roport s not fully credited in military circles on tho frontier, It is ostl. imated that tho Bioux warriors at the battle of the Littlo Horn must have secured from $15,000 to $20,000 in money and, jewelry from Custes and his men, os the command biad been but recantly pald off, It is not plessant to contemplato the purchase of a good supply of ammunition with the monecy snd valuables plundered from tha bodies of tho murdered soldiors, but s is probably tho truth about tho matter, The Chicago produco markets were moder. ately active yosterday, aud generally firmer. Mess pork closed 160 per brl higher, at B10.65@19.67) for August, aud $19.87% for Beptomber, Lard closed 250 per 100 Jbs higher, st $11.07}@11.10 for August, and §11:17)@11.20 for Beptember, Meats ware quiot at 8o for boxed shoulders, 1030 for do short riba, and 11¢ for do ehort clears, Lako freighta were dull at 1jo for corn to Buffalo, Rail freights were unchang. ed. Highwines were unchanged, at §1.103 per gallon. Flour was dull and ensy, Wheat closed 1o higher, at 9o for July and 97ic for August. Corn closed jo higher, at 40{c for July, and 4630 for August, Oats closed easy, ot 28c for July or August. lye was nominal at 62@63¢. Barley was dull, at 72jo for now seller SBoptember, Hogs were nctivo and averaged 5o higher, with sales at §$6.25@ ©6.70. Cattle were quict, and for comwon to &ood grades the warket cased off 10c. Bheop wers dull and lower, common to choice sell- ing at $2.60@4.00, One hundred dollars in gold would buy $111.37} in greenbneks at the close. m————— The Government should make some pro- vislon, beforo the final retiremeut of all the fractionn! currency, to rolain a few millions in circulation for the accommodation of thosoe who have to sond amall suma throngh tho mnils. Tho nocessity for this ia well kuown, and silver colns cannot bo folded up and put in an onvelopo for trausmission from ono city to anotlier. Wo romomber that, bofora the War, when tho only small chango of the conntry was silver, Tuz Tarn- ung used to receive 80 many postage.stamps through tho mails that jt was obliged to open a broker's offlce in the counting-room for the salo of postoge-stamps, ond atiract por- chnsers by making a small discount. The {nconvenionces and disadvantages of all this will recur, oxcopt as relioved to somo oxtonk by the uso of Post-Ofice monoy-orders, when thsore shall bo nothing smaller thau a dollar oxcopt insilver. It will bo woll, thereforo, to Leop out always a comparatisoly small issuo of tho fractionals, m———— Eant Denng, in roply todeputationa which called upon him yesterday, spoke quito frooly concerning the policy of the English Gov- ornmont tonching the Enstern question. Ho stated thot England could not agree to the Berlin programne for tho reason that such sgreomont would not have suited cither the Turks or the insurgents; that tho note was not entirely satisfactory to tho agreoing Pow- ors thomsolves. o doclared it to bo tho intorest of all tho Powers to abstainfrom not. iva intorforence in thonffairs of Tarkey, Tho Earl ncknowledged that there waa a largo party in Russia in sympathy with tho Scla- voniong, but, 0s that party is not in power, and the Czor is strongly in favor of peaco and non-intervention, thera is little cause to fonr that Russia will take suy important step without consulting the other great Powors. England’s desiro waa to keep tho conflict within its prescnt limita, *‘Great Britain,” says Denpy, *‘has guaranteed Turkey ngainst murdor, but not against suicide or suddon denth,” Eungland will hold herself rondy to mediate botweon tho Turks and insurgonts if opportunity offers. e ] TILDEN THEAUTHOR OF/CREDIT MOBILIER The great Re-former, who n few days ngo said to n Committes in Now York, *‘ I have had much experienca and labor in Reform,"” turns out to have beon the man who dovised tho cuoning expedient of the Crodit-Mobilier froud It will bo remembered that the Osxes Aurs organization of the Credit Mobilier was n corporation within the Pacific Railfoad Company ; that it stolo £37,- 100,000, nnd stols the capital stock of the Company, corrupted a great many people, and demoralized public sentiment. It now turns out thot the ingenious gentloman who wanaged this business, and doclared it to bo eminently proper and legal, wos the eminent Sax Tiroex, who is insisting on personally ¢ veforming " things. Intho official report of the investigntion of the Credit-Mobilicr business beforu tha Congressional Committeo (Witsox's), page 292, we liave the testimony of Oraven Aszy, thoe Lrother and pariner of 0axes Ayes, who wad presont nnd sasenting, After explaining Low the two companies wera worked by the same men,—tho Credit Mobilier swallowing wup the other,—tho testimony readss Ty Mr. Hoan—Were you not Informed by tho counsel who drew the contract that this was avi- olatlon of law? Anes—We were Informed by counsel whom we consulted that this lasuing of stocl (to the C. ML) o8 8 payment upon tho contract for bullding tho road was [n entlre compliance with the law. Q.~—Wbo wero the counsel that gave you that ad- vice! A,—=Mr. Sanvee J, Ticves, Mr, Cianies Tracy, ond Judge ALLEN, Q.=—All of New York? A,—All of New York. On pago 328, Jous B, Aniey, another of tho Credit-Mobilior oporators, was question- cd on the samo subject, with tho result asg follows: Q.—And further, Tunderstood you to say that you wereInstructed by eminentcounsel, npun whose advice you relled, that the course you touk was o compliance with the law? A.—Yes, slr. Q.—1iave you ever seon, or do you know wheth- erthat opinion of eminent counsel fe in existence now, In writing? A.—I do not know, 1 donot know whether it was given in writing. Q. —Was It glven toyou by theso eminent counsel? A, —Mr, TiLoEN, Iknaow, told me that he regorded it na o compliance with the law, Mr. Conneraus 8. BusuNerr, snother of tho prineipal Credit-Mobilier managers, gave teatimony (psge 64) of the lawyers who hind boen consulted by the Credit-Mobilier Com- pany, and names Bax J. TiLpeN. The same witness, ab pagea 665 and 556, is recordad ns testifying: Q.~T will ask you & question which T nsked Mr. Avurey. Do you know of any legal advicy having Deen taken by the gentlemon engaged in this trany- action in reference to the question whether these contracts, oud the takingof the stock underthem, was o subatantiul complisnes with the provisions of the law requiring the capital to bo pakd fu cash? A.—1 can anawer that we wera infarmed by the beat le- gul talent, as wo supposed, that we could do so, and that we wero complylng with the terms of the law, (. —Can you furnfsh to the Committes the testl- mony of any counsel of eminence to the fact that, atthe time of these transactions, hu gave you any wuch advicor A.—It Jv my opinion that I can, 3ir. Hoat—Yon moy of muy not, as you please, nama the counscl whom you have (b your miud as Tnving given you that opinion, Wirxkss—I will name weveral gentlomon, who, 1 am propared (o sny, advised ua that tho courso which we (Credit Mobllier) wore taking was Jegal anda safo course for us to adopt. 1 will name Tracy, OLusTEAD & Co., of New York, Itls my opinfon that a gentleman who is now u Judgo of the Conrt of Appeals in New York, Wittaax ¥, ALLEN, ndvlaed us aleo to that eflect. 1 think that Judie Jraz Lrscx also au advised ur; und M Banvee J. TILLEN, This Is the great Neformer. When tho Crodit Mobilier wanted legal advice as to how to perpotrate their enormous robbery, they got the advice from TiLoxy how to doit. Eachof the throo witnesses nomes TiLoen astho man who advised thom to do it, and Low to do it Considering the fact that tho mammoth raitrond corporations are now begging of the Government cash snd oredit subsiiios smounting to several hundrod millions of dollars, to enable various Construction Com- panies, of which the Credit Mobilier was tho originul, to perpetrats liko yobberies, is it & tima to place thisold railroad lawyer, the professional adviser of tho desperato and un- scrupulous railrosd jobbers, ob the hend of tho Government? lu thero any man who ju willing to accept the author and instigator of the Credit Mobilier ay tho man to ¢ reform * tho Government ? A severa contest is raging in the County Board of Education on tho question of ap- pointing & new Principal for the Normal Hchool at Englewood. HHalf the Board wish to rotaln the services of Mr, D, B, Wenz. wourgt, who has been tho Iead.Centro of the Cook County Normal School for many years—ever sinco its origin, in fact, a dozen or more years 8go; and the'other Lslf insist on employing Prof, Pauerrs, the present Su. perintendent of the Minuesota Normal Beliool, who {8 claimed to Lo a well-gducated man aod @ successful teacher, The fight betwoon the partisans of thoso contostants 1ins bocomo very bitter and aorimonious The quarrel has, unfortunately, taken on romotling of n seotarian nspeot. It is charged on the WasTwonTn sido that tho offort to oust him hna ita root in a desiro to seouro tho sorvices of o Principal whois moro favorablo to tho dogmas of the Catholica than W.is, On tha othor side, it is alloged by that good Christian, W. F. StonEy, in his dailies, thnt the school “has Leon turned into n props. gonda for ovangelical cant nnd entveling hypocerisy.” Many other charges are made on both sides, and the partisanship is flexce and unrelenting. Tho real point in issue, liowever, i3 spoll. 'Tho salary attached to the offlce ia excessively large, nud should Lo cut down at lonst onc-half, and thon thero would bo less heat and excitemont displayed, nnd not so much pulling, and hanling, and eloctioncering for the offies, Throo thou- sand flve hundred dollars n year is an outrngeons componsation these times for superintending a bandful of children and fledgling teachers. Wa have taken no part in this quarrel, and don't intond to, The opinion of Trng Tnis. vne was oxpressod long ngo, snd has not boon changed, that 8. Cook County Normnl Bchool is not essentinl to tho public welfare, and that the cost to the tax-payers far ox- ceeds the benefits conferred npon the public. The proper thing to do is to close tho school, and keep it closcd nntil such times a8 the State may purchnse tho property for n Northorn Tiinois Normal School, and if the State rofusoes to buy it, then it might be con- varted into a publio school for the people of Englowood, or into an Insano Hospital for this county,—anything, in short, to make it useful. MORE INCENDIARISM. 1t is well, perbaps, that those who do not estimate the uttoranoes of the Chicngo Z%mes at their roal valuo should bo told how it comes that, from day to day, the most reck- less and villainous articlos aro printed, nd- vising an abandonmont of City Government and spponling to property-owners not to pay their taxes in order that this may bo brought sbout, These articles are written by one MaTzESON, Who has grown to be n Junatic on the subject, and is recognized and treated ns such by those who happen to kunow him ; they ore printed by Bromax becauso ho hos dragged the sloughs of sonsationnlism so thoronghly that Lo koows of nothing elso tho Z'imes can do that would occasion a rip- plo of excitoment or comment, Bo far ng CObieago peoplo are concerned, theso articles, coming from tho sourco thoy do, will work mno injury; this is nok hoped for by the suthor or publishor, but it is expected and intonded that thoy shall govern outsido opinion, and so defi- nitely destroy Chicago’s crodit and force an nbandonment of all the protections for which communities organize into what is called local government. Thoe motive is dis- reputablo and the object to bo attained is littlo less than flendish. The situntion is this: The city has to pay out cortnin sums of moneoy to firemen, policomen, and bridge-tenders, and for straot- repairs, gas, and othor necessary supplics and services. A certain amount of monoy is ap- proprintsd for the prosent yoar, 1876, but 1t is not collocted until the middle of next yonr, 1877, Thereis not a dollar of tho tax- levy of 1876 in the City Tressury out of which to pay the ourrent exponses of the year, nnd there will not be till aftor the year has passed. No man so disposed could pay his taxes for 1876 before Docembor, be- cnuse tho processes of assessmont and cqualization will not have heon com- plated before thot timo, and it will not bo kuown whot tho tox is on the differont individuals,. The difforent persons rendering valuable sorvices cannot and ought not to bo asked to wait cightoon months for their pay. The only practica. bl way of peying thom, tharefors, {s toan- ticipate the collection of tho taxes and bor. row money on city revenne warrants, drawn against and payablo ont of tho tax-lovy of 1870. The question of the right to do this was submitted to the Courts and the process npproved. The rovenno warrants issued by tho City Comptroller under what is known as the popular loan) are made outin strict conformanco with the opinion of tho Court, Yot the Chicago T'imes, with thé motives and purposes aforesnld, assumes to take a final appenl from tho Courts to itself aud to pro. nounca theso warrants unlawful ! But Broney and MaTTESON aro not contont with trying, by misrcpresentation, to pro. vent the negotiation of the salo of these war- ronts to pay the cwrrent exponkes of tho city ; but thoy go still furthar, and appeal to the citizens of Chieago not to pay their taxes, so that tho revenue warrants cannot ‘o pald nor tho services ongaged which are necessary to the presorvation of life and proporty. To undorstand just how far thoy go in this matter, it must be remembered that citizens of Chicago caunot refuso to pay or contest the payment of city taxes without likewiso resisting the payment of Btate nnd county taxes. Al taxes nre now assessed and collected by the same machinery and officers, sud paynble togother and at the same time, 1f, therefore, the peoplo of Chi- cago wera insane enough to follow out the suggoestions nade, Chicago would bo inevi. tably turned over to the criminal classes of the United Btates, and there would not Lo Governor, or Sheriff, or Police-Jus. tices, any moro than policemen or firomen, to protect lifo and property, Tha bridges would be swang opon for ships to pass, and stay there, 'Theogas would bo turned out. The water would bo turned off. Insuranco com- panies would withdraw, *Thoe banks would cloda their doors and lock thelr vaults as the only menus of safety. Volunteer vigllauce committeos aud firo compnanics might be or- ganized, but tho struggle would bo an une- qual ono; Chicago would be plundered, sncked, and burned, and tho loss would be tenfold, perhaps o hundred fold, greater than he mnount of taxes withhield. This {s tho plain and logical rosult of the policy which the Chicago Z'imes commends to tho people ot Chicago,~—that of neither borrowing tempo. rarily to anticipate tho collection of taxes, nar the paying of taxes in the end, To bolster up this insque dootrine, the Dimea continues to refor to tho old outstand- ing certiticatos as illegal, and to intimato tuat they will nevor bo paid. This is false. Tho outstanding cortificates are irrog- ular in form, becauso they wereissued before any decision of Court had dotyrmined just how they wero to be lssued, but they are not illogal in the senso that their paymont may ba avolded, The City of Chicago has no de- sire to refuso paymont of these cortifi. cates, but it could not do so if it wanted to; their paymont can be enforcod if nccessary, Dut the objection to tho old certificates does not apply to tho now revenue warrsuts, be- cause the latter aro Issued in conformity to the instructions of tho Courts, for the pay- | et of tha surront oxpenuns of 1876, and to bo redesmed ont of thetax-levy of 1876 when collocted. All this falsification, however, in mado with an incendiary design, and thero 8 no other largo And respectablo community which wonld permit a nowspaper to so fla- grantly nbuso its privilegea; the Chicngo people stand it becauso tho Times has edu- cated them to it, nnd beeautso they have long sinco censed to bo influencod one way or the othor by any of its erazy niterances. DISHONEST LEGIBLATION. The Miscollancous Approprintionbill which 18 now pending botwoen tho two Houses of Congross hias 80 far progressed that the only quostion now in controversy s on the adop- tion of tho following clause: Trotided, That all of the proviaions of Title 20 of the Rovised Btatutes of the United States in te- lation ta the registration of voters and the appoint- ment of Bupervisors of Electlons and Deputy and $pecial Doputy Marshals, and touching the supere vialon of clections, aro hereby repeatod. ‘This was put in the Lill by the Houso; the Benato refused to agroo toit. The Houso insists on it, and tho Benate rojects it, Tho clanso in question is not an appropriation, vor is It pertinent to nn appropriation ; it is legislation to repeal the law of the United Btates to protect {ho purity of oloctions, Tho Democeratic House want that law re- poanlad, and thoy want it ropenled beforo tho Tresidential election of 1870. They regard it 08 absolutely essontial to tho succoss of TiLpexn that every logal restraint upon and ponalty for violenco and intimidation shall Lo repealed in order to carry overy Bouthern Btate by driving tho colored votors from the polls. But thoy want this law ropealed par- ticularly for tho City of Now York, whero, under that Iaw, the Democratio mojoritics havo sufferod a materinl doctine. The * free- dom of the ballot-box,"” such as was enjoyed in 1868, when TiLoeN and Tweep so manipa- lated tho roturns ns to give tho vote of the Stata to Sexaoun and Horryman, is what the Demoeratie Houso is now domanding. To nccomplish this end, thoy have, against all rulo and Iaw, put the ropealing provision in an appropriation law. Thero is n lawof tho land, bosides o jolnt ralo of Congress, prohibiting any legislation in an appropriation bill. Tha renson for this is obvions. The approprintion bills are es- sential to the support of the Governmont. If they fail, thon the functions of the several dopartments are brought to an abrupt stand. No money can be expended which 8 no proviously appropriated, and the failuro o a0 appropriation bill is the stoppags of such branches of tho eervico as that bill provides for. Thero is, therofore, s nocessity forsuch bills to pss,~—n compulsory obligation to pass such bills,—and thoy of nocessity must pasy. TFor this renson the law provides that no log- islation shall bo included in such bills, be- causo that would compel one or the other House, in order to save an appropriation bill, 1o consont to whatgver measure the other House might think proper to adopt. Thus e Houso might attach to an appropristion bill o new tariff act, or ono reorganizing the varions departments, or reorganizing the Judiciary, or smending the Bankrupt law, or a low fixing tho rates of rallroad froights, or ono purchasing tho telegraphs, or granting a subsidy to Toxt Scort, or paying back tho cotton tax, ora bill on any other subject, and tho Bonato, no matter how much it moy bo opposed to such an amondment, must either adopt it or defent the appropria- tion, 'Tho Domocratic House now demands that the Senato shall ropeal the whols Eleo- tion lnws of the United States, or defont the approprintion and closo up various branches of the publio servico. Tho Sennte resists this invasion of its rights. The Democratic House does nob enro whother tho Approprintion bill pasges or not; if it cripple tho Government or sus- pend somo of tho conrts, so much the bot-, tor, from the Democratic standpoint; st all ovents, that party places the responsibility upon the Benate, and, in tho name of logls. tivo indopendenco and of good govern. ment aud fair clections, the Senate should take tho responsibility and rofuse to pass this ropeal thus fraudulently incorporated in the Appropriotion law, . "Tho House has hoen in aession aver soven months, and in that time could have passed o dozen bills ropealing the Election laws; but this would hiave left the Bonate freo to posa auch an act or not; this is not what the Democerats want; they want the Eleotion law repealed in order to carry the elections this year, and hence thoy have put the ro. peal in the Appropristion act, and demand that the Senato pass it, or take the responsi- bility of defeating the Appropriation bill, This ls, wo suppose, part of the *‘reform"” proposed by the Democratic party, but it is novaertheless not the less infamous nor scan- dalous, Tho dishonest schome should bo defeated, or thera will be end to honest or independent logislation, THE SILVER BILL. Tho effect of the Bilver bill adopted in the Houso by a large 1najority of Domoorats and Republicans voting together, which is likely to pnss tho Benato and become n law, is simply to substituto silver coin aa the small change of tho country inatond of tho ragged fractionnl currency. Thab is all thoro is of it as a motter of fact, and on that nccount it is o wiso and timoly monanre. The offect is not going to bo immediate, That Is, oll the silver {3 not going to come out immediately, nor is the fractional cwrrency all going to disappenr fmmediately, But the fractional currenoy outstanding will disappear s rap. idly as it wears out and s presented for re. demplion at tho Treasury, and before it shall havo disappenred tho $50,000,000 of subsidlary silver colns will have beon issued. ‘Thero will be an actual but not porcoptible inflation of tho volumo of tho currency to the oxtent that silver may bo is. sued boforo tho rotiromont of tho samo amount of fractionals, but tho only effect of this will bo to increaso the amount of small change temporarily, and for this there is a do. mond, Whon the operntion of the presont law sholl have boen realized, it will have given the couutry $50,000,000 in sllvor cofns, sud in addition thereto there will como out o considernble amount of gilver coin that has been konrded in ono way and auother for tho last fifteon yoars; together thoy will givous amplo small change of su intrinsio value, and very much more satis- factory in kind than that which we have boon using Iately. ‘T'he offect of this bill on the valuo of silver bullion will bo to arrest somewhat the rapid decline that has boen going on over since the demonctization of silver in Germouy, The Govornment is authorized by the bill to purchaso $20,000,000 of sitver diroct out of its surplus revenuo, which will absorb & part of the surplus created by the Germau demonelization, Bilver in this country will also nequire some little additional valua by reason of its cir- culating character as money, aud the result will be to help equalize tho values of the two meotals at their present welght and standard in Amorican coins, and check the decline in value everywhore. Bilver assumes no charactor ag a legal tondor by this bill which it dld not have be- fore. Tho effort in this direction was prop- erly and succossfully resisted. 'Tho status of silvor coin waa fixed by the law of February, 1873, Binco tho passago of that law, the silver dollar, formetly logal tender, can no longer bo colned. It provides that tho silver coins of the United Btatos shall bon trade- dollar, n half-dollar, a quarier.dollar, and n dime. It furthor provides that theso silver coins shall bo & logal tender at their nominal value for only five dollars; but tho gold coing of tho United States were mado a logal tonder in all pnymenta at their nominal value whon not bolow tho standard in woight. The fact is, thorofore, ihat, if the legal-tendor character of tho Tronsury notes wero abol- ished, tho United States, liko Gormany, Bilvor wns demonotized, in the common accoptation of the word, in 1873, though the change was not noticod for the ronson that silver nor gold circulated ; sifvor ia now practically re- monetized for small chango purposes, to which it ought to be limited both by reason would hiave n singlo gold basis, of its bulk and on account of its vacillations. Tho proposition in thelHousa to mnke silver colnn logal tondor in oll paymonts, oud to dischargo tho interest on the public debt in silver at the prosent standard of coin- age, was proporly characterized by Mr, Gan- ¥1ELD 05 dishonest, Bilver of the weight and stondard of tho'American dollar isnow worth not mora than 80 conts in the gold dollar, It was nlways the babit of the country, so Jong 88 the bi-metallic system was main- tatned, to equalize the values of the gold and silver dollar. It wonld be impossiblo othor. wise to keop them in circulation side by side. Now, in keoping with this policy and with good faith, the Governmont could only ‘make silver a legal tender in allamounts, and pay off the interestnnd principalof thebonds in silver, by incroasing tho woight of thosil- vor dollar about 20 por cent, In this way along could the faith and: honor of tho Gov- ornment, and the rights of creditors, be maintained. The coin doliar was the stand- ord. It wns of n certain weight in gold, and of a certain weight in silver. In such a do- preciation of silver as lins ocourred dnring tho .last year, tho old woight in silveris not equivalent to tho atandard dollar, and it would bo dishonest to require a creditor to take it for a dollar, The samo objectiondoes not apply with the same force to the uso of silver of the old standard meroly for subsid- fary coins, and aa n legal tonder for only a small amount, and o the bill that hins passed will serve to reliove the necossities of the country for small change, and supply a bot~ ter small chango than we had before,withont further complicating the silver question or dragging the United States into tho same embarrassing condition aa France, Belgium, Switzorland, Italy, and Grooco bave suffored since the decline in the value of silver. STRENGTH OF THE TURKO-SERVIAN AR~ The Allgemeine Za‘tung‘ has recontly print- od some details concorning the- Turkish. army which are regardod as rolinble, being farnishod by tho military attache to ono of tho embassics at Constantinople. From his statomont it appoars that the rogular forces at tho disposal of tho Sultan, as ascortained from tho bost sources, are 80,000 infantry, 20,000 eavalry, 10,000 field artillery, 12,000 gendarmes, horso and foot, and 38,000 en- gineers, The organization of tho reserva is not complets, and although nominally it represonts 800,000, not more than 100,000 can be placed in the fiold. Bosides these, thore are about 100,000 Bashi-Bazouks, Bedoulns, militia, ete,, who are not fit for netual servics, but aro usoful to tho Porte for murdering womon and cbhildron. Altogether, thorefors, Tarkey ecan placo in tho flold 200,000 men capablo of moeting trained European soldiors, and 100,000 irregnlars copable of killing old men and fighting women sud childron. Additional informs- tion furnishod by this writer shows that tho Tarks have sovoral military schools, & con- siderable numboer of large and small for- tresaos, tho strongest being Schumla, Varna, Silistria, Rustchuk, and Widdin; some well organized arsenals, two gunpowder factories, an artillory establishment, and a cast-stool factory. 4 How strong a foreo can Sorvia and Monto- nogro bring against this army? Boveral statemonts havo rocently beon mads of tho Sorvian strength, which confliot with each other, but the most rolinble and consistent accounts, gloaned from Rusalan and English sources, show that there are about 56,000 mon in DBulgeria and on the gouth- cnstorn frontior, 44,000 on tho wost. ern frontier, looking towards Rus- sia and Horzegovins, and 40,000 men occupying the fortrosses in tho intorior of 8ervia, who are the reserves. Offiolal po- pora stato tho strongth of the Montenegrin forca at 16,700 men, divided-into threa corps of ovor 5,000 each, armed with broech-load- ors, but having only 20,000 mountaln guns, Agoinst the Tarkish army of 800,000, all told, regular and irregular, Borvia and Mon. tonogro combined can muster ounly 146,700 mon; and this, a8 wo understand it, ox- hausta the reserves, while in Turkey, where tho wholo Mohammedan population is liable ta military duty, the reserves can bo atill furthor increased. Whilo tho Bervian forces may be slightly inorcased by nccesaslons to their ranks of Bulgarian, Bosnlan, and Ior. zogovinian Insurgents, it must bo remom. Lered that theso troopa aro only it for guer- rilla warfaro, and aro not trained to mect European soldiers, The odds, theroforo, agoinst the Belavio allies are about in the proportion of two to one, &o far ag numbers aro concerned. In materinl of war, the Belaves ara greatly outweighted, Every Turkish regiment of flold-artillery has sixtoon batteries of aix guns cach, and all the guns of tho horse-artillery are riflod Armstrongs, ond five of the strongest Turkish fortrcsses are armed with rifled cast-stocl guns of tha Knuer make, kindly furnished and pald for by England. Iu this estimato wo make no account of tho Turkish navy, numbering twenty jronclads and seventy stoamners, a portion of which are already on tho Danube, between Widdin and Belgrade. 1If one Belave ean whip two Turks better armed than himsolf, there ia hopo for the Ohristian cause, The brightest hopo, perhaps, is that Russia will not allow two Turks to fall upon ono 8clave, The Bt. Potorsburg Galos, a somi-official organ, throws somo light upon this when [t sayst ** Tha farce in tha taste of OrrzNnack’s oporettos goiug on at the seat of the Turkish Government is far from belng ,at an end, bat will produco surprising de- volopmenta not foreseen by the general pub- le [ — A Bpringfield correspondont of the Bt Louls Times mokes an elaborate canvass of the eligiblo Confoderate candidates for Gov- erpor of thls Btate. Flo speaks of one who sooms £o b hia favorite s follows : Col. Josn ALLex, of Carbondale, fa froely spoken ofssa sultable man tonuminate for duvernur. Ho has many devoted friends {n sl partsof tho Btate(1), but morv espoclally tu Bouthers Iitlnols, whero ho In host known, 1lo Is a lawyer of fine abllity and 8 good speaker, Tefore the \War ho waatho partner of Jous A, Looan. 1o waa the white man of the twvo, They wore both hot Dema- crata—more Inclined to Brecrinmipuz than to Dovaras. ALLex remalned conaistent, hut Loaan, na overybody knowa, tuened o tromendous somor- aaultin Jess than sixty daye, coming np o more violent Republican than he had boen A Democrat, Juidgo AuixN {8 a brave, honest, trne man—thor oughly In sympathy with the masses and competont to i) any station in the gift of his Slate, Ho wasa delegate at Inrgo from Illinols to the Convention at 8t. Lonls, and has hold many other posts of honor when there was need of pure Democracy and good sonse. Josn ALLEN was a good deal moro ¢ in- clinod” to Baroxmninan than to Dovaras aftor tho latter eame out on tha Union side of tho strugglo. Joam espoused the *‘Lost Causo,” which lio thon thought would como out of tho fight victorious ovor tho ruins of o dismomberod Union. Ho therofors fol- lowed BecriNRiDoE as far as tho Provost Marshal would lot him, on this side of the lines. Tooan followed the example of Doua- a8, which tho Confodorato writer calls o ‘*tromendons somersnult,” whioch fa an or- roncous description of what ho did. His party camo to whoro the road forked to ihe right nnd loft, ' Ho took the right-hand ¢ fork,” which led into the Union eamp; Arrex fol. lowed tho left liand, and which led into se- cession and treason, ALLEx “remained true ond consistont” only to tha extent that it waa the duty of Northern Domocrata to bo Copperhends and disunionists, and to prefer o divided Union with slavery in ono.half, to a unitod Union with tho * sum of all villainies" abolished. Wo hopo the Confederate Stato Convention will nominato Josz Auues for Governor. 'To bo * true and consistent” to their rocord, they ought to do it, g THE FENIAN ESCAPE. Tho London Z%mes, which is wont to trent all questions from ahigh philosophical atand- point and to discuss them in genuine ez cathedra stylo, secms for once to have Qropped down from its olovated position in cuuuenting npon the recent escapo of tho Toninn convicts from Australin, Tho eseapo hos evidently nettled the Thundorer and stung it protty badly, but it makes o note- worthy effort to appear unhurt by assuming 8 voin of indifforonce and playful badinage. After making most unusual offorts to appro- hond and convict these Fenians, aftor Parlia- ment had rofused over nnd over sgain to re- lenso thom, upon tho ground that thoy wero political prisoners, but that tho political crimes which they had committed were com- plicated with murder and military troason, ftor refusing to listen to the resolutions of monster meotings at homo and appeals from abroad for their relonse, if we are to belisve the TVmes, the English people are sincero- Jy glad that tho OCaptain of an Ameri- ean whaler Los done for them what they would not do for themselves nor allow any ono else to do. Says the Zimes: #Thogo of tho prisonors, howevor, who wora confined in Australin have, ns wo said, escaped ; and, if we could bo sure wo had got rid of them without any fault of our own, and should never hear of thom ngain, 1o one would have been vory sorry, and wo should not have boen too curious ns to tho means by which they wero sab free,” It goos still further, and socks to congratulate tha American pooplo upon tho naw.aceession thoy are likely to have: * Wo miglt objoct to persons of such questionable social value being dischiarged on our shores ; but if in- habitants of Massechusotts or of San Fran- cisco think §t will bo for tho advantage of the United Statos for thoso criminals to bo {ntroduced to thoir conutry, all we noed ask in that they would bo good enough to keop them." Tho hearty satisfaction with which tho ZT¥mes appenrs to accopt tho loss of tho Fenian conviets might imposo up- on us as a geuuine article wero it not that, ‘a8 soor ou il gots out of its seemingly merry mood, it at onco falls foul of tha Amoricans for rolioving England of ita elophant, It growls becauso tho prop- arations for their escapo wore mndo ‘ovor two yenrs ago, and no one in America let out the sacret ; beeauso the monoy necessary to carry out tho plot waa contributed in Amori- ca; becanso when thoy arrive at San Fran- clsco they aro likely to moot with a publia roception; becauso **the Amorican flag has ‘boon used to covor their cscapo from just punishmest of murdor and military troason.” It growls boeauso of theso and divers othor rensons, ond thon rather impudently fur- nishes us with tho gratuitous news, in regard o nny claim for them, that ** The question s in no rospact ono in which wo should be in- clined to'insist on formal rights. Should wo wmnko any reclamations, we can well andor- stand with what . sincority all .responsi- bility for tho ancts of this whaler would bo disavowed.” Tho ZWmes lav- ing ossured the American pooplo that the English do not caro a straw for the loss of thelr Fonians, it may bo somo comfort to tho Times to learn that the American pooplo caro less for thom than tho English. If thoy safely roach this country, they will soon bo absorbed in the grost whaole, and fill some sphero of usefulness or usclossncss as other pooplo do, They may carry hods, dig sewers, run for Aldermen, go to the Penstontinry, or distress the Queen's Own and skedaddlo. back and forward over the Cnunadion frontior. Whatever they do, no one will bo interested in it, and, so far pa tha littlo arrangement betwoon them and thelr friend, the Coptain of the American whaler, is concerned, by which they secured their relenso, tho American people caro ns little as they would for tho escapoof a pau- per from a poor-houso, Tho Thunderer makes too much fuss over this 1little affair. Ita oxtraordinary offort to sppoar jolly makea it apparent that the escapade hns hurt the Dritish Lion in some very tender spot. THE TOUGHEN. DISCOVERY. ' The recent discovery of a mothod of tough- oning glass, mado by A, ne A Basriz, o Fronch manuficturer, hns boon tested with such srccossful results that the process, which consists of plunging the glass iuto boiling lard or fat mixed with other substances, ata certaln temperaturo, is being adopted with remarkable rapdity. An artiole from the TLondon Times, printed in our issus of yester- day, statos that tho glass-mokers all over France and Germany aro using it, sud that it hss also beon adopted by the Americans in Brooklyn and Boston, and also at thoe Bellairo and Wheeling works, a8 well as at other works in smallor cities. As this process of tempering or toughening glass makes it ton times harder than before, and s simple and cheap, it must of course come into very general use, and will prove to bo invaluable as a building material. Every ona kpows tho diffioulty of obtainlng good roofing. 'Tin Is the best, but tin is costly, comparatively scarce, aud rusts out in time, Zino is a poor substance for this purpose, Tron ruste easily, B8late is Lrittle, and on a fiat roo? breaks ensily, and at best, on a stosp yoof, is full of looso joints, Tilels heavy,and, like all clay material, sooner orlater will bo lgoky. ‘Tar aud felt, with gravel strown over it, which iy tho cowmon roofiug material in Ohicago, lnata for a littlo while, but, unde tho influonce of storms and wonthor-change, vory toon has to Lo repaired. Thia '-fmsh'. oned glasa wonld soom to answor ovory qualj, fieation for roofing purposes. It does noy percoptibly expand or contraet in tho diffor, ont monsons, It is hard enough to walk oy without brenking.. If neccasary, it can by mado impervious to light, or it can by mado trangparent, so that nny dogrey of light mny bo obtalned through it. Ttcanboput on in platesof any sz, made with ridges or flanges 20 that it can bo grooved together in sny form desired, ond it iy fire-proof, For flooring also it wil| provo of groat service, as it will make anfee, oloan surfaco, and can, if necossary, be o Inid as to corry the light from the ruof all thirough tho building, Tor graporics, groen. houses, and all protoctions for plants and vogetation, it will bo admirablo, aa it will nop bo affeoted by vibrations, and . will not b broken by hail-storms. Every gardener knows the troublo ha has with brokon glass, but by the tempered glass he will avoid all this tronble and savo a hoavy bill of expense, In the moro item of stroot-lampsalone, which aro constantly being broken by stones and storms, the city could save a heavy bill of expouso. For overy purposc whore glasa fg now used, and for numerous purposes where ‘brittle glass cannot bo used, this tempered glass must specdily come into use, It promises to be one of tho.most important discoverios over made g an essontinl of lifo, and to take a prominont placo among the Lonefactions of seienco. s Judge ITiroN comes off victorlous In the firat contest with the numerous heirs of the late merchant prince, A. T, STEWART, who seccks ta lavo the latter’s will sct nside. 'Tho attack was made, not upon the will “{tsclf, but upon the probate of it. The object was, ovidently, to throw upon Judge Hizron the burden of es tablishing the valldity of tho will. 8o longar the ordor of Court admitting the will to pro- bate stands, the contestants will have to prove afirmatively its invalldity, Tho questlon was, therefors, most important as involving thochiolet of the legal vantage ground of getting position from which thero {8 mothing to do but walt for tho opposing party to make out o better case. Tho ground on which It was asked that the order of probate ba sct asido was, that it was made without notlce to the helrs, not in Court, but at tha Judges privats restdence, and hastily on the cvening of the day of STEWART'S funeral. After full argu. ment, tho Burrogate refuscd to act aside tho or der of probate. Lesa weight will attach to the decefsion than otherwlse might, since 1t Is or dered by the very Burrogate whoso alleged frregularityin probating the will was the ground on which it was asked that the order bo set aslde. 'The result, however, {s tho dofeat of the {nnumerablo relatives of the lato SrewAnt in thelr effort to capture his millions. On appecd thoy will, of coursa, renow the contest; but, meunwhite, Judge H1uToN remains secure in tho possesslon of the vast persomal catato ol BTRWART, . —— ‘There may be fun In stealing o kiss, but not in Texas, to judge from what followed such ¢ theft a few doys sinco In the Fifth Ward of the City of Houston, as reported by & local paper, It happened at the corner grocery, whither Mrs, DoxOVAN went to got a box of matclies, when o man there asked her what she would charge for 8 kiss. Before he had timo to steal it, she selzed o welght and placidly informed bim sho waa golng to knock his teeth down his thront, whereon, in s turn, hie drow o big knifo and proposed o reduco her to bush, 8ho went homa and told lier husband about it.. Mo gave her o revolver, and the twain returncd to the grocery, Thero he knocked down the fellow ‘who wanted the kiss, whereon four of hils come rades sct upon the busbaud. BDlrs. DoNovax herself then took a haud, cocking the revolver and leveling Jt at the head of the man her hus- band had koocked down. Just asshe pulled the trlgger hier arm was struck up, but the bul- let grazed the fellow’s head, intiicting an ugly wound, At this, the melee, which had becoma general, quicted down, and the fellow who tried to steal a kiss and got shot for his trouble, and s comrades, wlo also received hard koocks tho fight, got away, pondering doubtless how much safer it would have beon to steal o horso or rob a bank thon attempt to steal o kiss from 2 Tcxas woman. 5 e ————— X’ . 0 the_Editor of The Triduns. Nutic, 1L, July 12,—The TiLurx men clalm tint you misrpreasiit tho Hon, Joitx FARNWonTIL 10.your leaue of tha 10th fnt. - They inalst anxNawonti) did not ko GREXLEY spocches In 872, and that ho was not a candidate for -nomina. tion In thoe Republican Convention of this district {1 T672, but tha o was an Adminiatration Jepub. Jican until after the Cinclunat! Conventlon, A Llaves Max, It {6 very certain that ho has not been an Administration Republican” aloce 1872. Ha 7 P has been “down on Grant” certanly for five * yeors, In 1873 tho Republicans of his distrlct nominated Gen. HurLbur over him, because ho was not ¥ sound " on GraNT. In 1874 ho ran a1 the Liberal and Democratic candldate for Cone gress againat HUnLouT, and was only beaten by 1,203 mojority by the Administration candidate. It hie has been an * Adminlstration Republlcan " slnca 1872, wo bave not heard of it; but hia old radical fricnds confidently counted on hia sup~ yporting IATEs and WrzxgLens, as they were not aware that lic had committed Iimeclf so far to the Confederates that b counld not get back into Dhis own party, in which he hud been born and brought up. —— It was reserved for McCLERNAND,—our own Gen, JonN A.,—in his speech st Gov. TiLouy, notifying bim of Ris nomination, to deplet the torrible coundition of the country in this Cen- teunfal year, in the midst of the horrors of which the 8t. Louis Conventlon nssembled, ot o time when," in McCLERNAND'S phruse (a'ter entaloguing horrors too numerous to ment o)y when gaunt famine, as tho consequence of ine voluntary idleness, was dogging tho heols of tho lsborlng classes; when In fact the whole country was writhing and grosning In extrem- ity Ot course Gon. MCCLEENAND wouldn't have sald 8o If such wasn't the fact. But why dtdw't he go on and tell whero in this broad land gount famine is dogging the heels of the labor- ing classcs? Thou big-hearted chority might reach out to succor tho famlshing, and on alluw- anco of cold victualsmight even be served out to Gen, Joux A, himself, so as 1o keep tho wol from his door, e ——— ‘There has been war betwoen tho butchiars and beet-caters of Aun Arbor, Mich, It was all ancnt tho question of slaughtering cattle within tho town llnits, which tho Common Councll by ordinanco bad prohibited. On the day when tho ordinance took effect, thoe butchers, who clalined that the town had grown up around the slaughter-houses when it might have kept away, and therefore couldu't force them to move, proposcd to fight it out on that linc, and closed thelr shops one aud all, cutting off the beef-caters’ supplies, and waitéd for the Com- moun Counell to yepeal the slaughtor-house ordinance, Thoy waited in vain, Thut body of law-makers met and adjourncd without doing anything, and the beef fumine was continued. Finally tho butchers relonted upon condition thoy bo permitted to usotlielr presont slauglter- Louses until they can bulld an abattolr outside the town, and tho beof-caters ogaln are bappy. e —— ro that n b bR B R ow the 3 Tt B R pbticea tieket, — Springfeld Regleter. The old ssylug 13, * One must go away from hoine forthenews.” Therelsnosuch ¥ report ! u Chicago, Mr, Hxsixo has been offered & pardou on no condition, His frlends are proe paring & petition, which fs belng numerously sigued, praying the President to reduco the torm of his spntence, on the ground that it i too sovere fn compariion with others fouod guilty—-espeeially fu contraat with that of Reuu, Tho cdisor of tho SlaslsZellung bhat