Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 8, 1876, Page 4

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Tandolph street, botween Clark and LaSalle. Iav- erly's Minatre] SOCIETY MEETINGS. ' No, 508, Ao F. and A, M.~Regular Ot Ty ovenlng 1194 T nty ne ond: st Work on M 31, Derrve,\Viniiog bretiren cor- S 5 “A. 2. ERRICK, Sec. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1870. " Greenbacks at the Now York Gold Ex- chango yesterday closed at 90, The roturns from the Vermont clection, now mearly complote, show o 1wnajority of 24,085 for the Republican candidate for Gov- ernor—a gain of 4,785 over the vote of 1874, £« Maine votes noxt weck, snd will give an . equally good account of herself. Befcrence to our Louisinna dispatches . tbis morning will show that the Democrats <. ,ute shaking the bloody shirt Lopefully in “ that blissful region, and industriously reduc- « ing all Ropublican opposition by the ju- - dicious use of powder aud bail, with an oc- , - casional dirk in cases of ** argumenta” with Tlepublicans’ wives. It is now definitely ascortnined that the recent conflagration of St. Hyacinthe, Quobec, . waa caused by an incendiary shoemaker, who lind vainly calculated on realizing money.on policy insuring the lifo of a focblewife. The policy had expired n few days before his wifo's denth, and ho thought it expedient to next operate in fire risks, An ignorant thoughtlessness regarding the condition of the weather led to a losg by his neighbors of $2,000,000, If the shoemaker had not been detected, his schemo would Lavo notted shim about §G00. One Rivaery, o trapper, who claims to hiave been o prisoner in Srrrmve Bowy's eamnp at the tima of the CusTER massacre, gives on aocount of the one-sided battle that resulted in the annihilation of the little band of sol- diers, Ifo declaros that one-linlfeof Cusren's . mon wore oither Killed or disabled ot the first /.. Indian volley, and tbat all of thom but six * +were Lilled bofore RzNo commonced his nt- tack at the other end of the camp. Those -slx, Rivokwy snys, were taken prisoners and burnod at the stake in the Indian camp, the victims, in addition to the horrible tortures of such a denth, Leing pierced with red-hot nrrows as the flames wero doing their terrible work, ‘The roception of Cany Scuvaz by his fel- low-tountrymon in Chicago more than real- ized general expoctation. He was wel- comod by thousauds of our German-Ameri- can citizens, and the grent auditorium at McCormick Hall was far too small to contain the people who dosired to be present and listen to the speech of tho celebrated orator. 1lo spoke in Gorman, discussing the impor- tant questions of Administrative reform and finance in & manner that appealed with pe. culiar force to tho intelligence of his audi- tory. The Germans in Chicago are especinl- ly sound on tha currency nud ocivil-sorvice reform, nnd their enthusiastio rocoption of Mr. S8counz and his specch last evoning may bo taken as evidence that for the most part “they agree with him in belioving that their place is in the Republican party in this cam- .+ palgn. A dotachinent of the Missouri banditti seems to have found its way to Minnesota, judging from the boldnoss of a daylight at- + tack yesterdny upon tho bank at Northfield, Qlice County, which, in desporate daring, ras equal to the most celebrated exploits of the James and Younaen brothers, At 2 o'clock in the nftecenoon, eight horsemen, armed to tho tectls, entered Northfield, a city of sbout 4,000 iuhabitants, and proceeded with great coalness to sttempt the robbery of the bank. 'Tho cashier, J, I.. Haywdon, with extraordinary bravery refused to opeu the vault, although a kuifo was held at his thront andinstant death was threatoned, Hishorolsm oont hiwn his life, for in another moment one of tho robbers placed a pistol to his temple aud shot hum dead. * Another employe of the bank was shot in the shoulder in theeffort to escopa n worse fate. 'Ihon the citizens came to tho rescue, and in the firing that ensued two of the robbers wera killed, and a third wounded, the latter boing carried away by the other five, so that six escaped, having Leen unsuccesiful in securing any plunder. The surrounding country was immediately aroused by the tragio ovent, and the chances are excollent for the capture of the greater wuwber of the bandits. The Chicago produce markets weie moder. stely solive yosterday, and irregular, Mess ¢ pork closed 800 per brl higher, at $16.16@ 16.17§ for Septomber and $106.15@16.20 for October. Lard closed 20c per 100 lbs bigher, at 1080 cash and $10.16 for October. Moats were flrmer, at 6o for boxed shoulders, 8o fordo ehortribs, and §3c for do short clears. Lake freighta were «quiet, at 2}e for corn to Buffalo. Rail freights ware unchanged. Highwines were steady, nt $1,08 per pallon. Flour was loss uctive and firm, Whent closed 4o higher, at97jo for Beptomber and 97}e for October. Corn closed dull, at 48}c cash and 48}c for Octo. ber, Oats closed jo higher, at 82}o cash and sellor October. Rye was steady, ot BY@B8jc, Barley closed stronger, at 730 cakh snd 74a for October. Hogs were in good demand, and the market was firmn at 5@ ‘100 sdvance, .with sales mostly at §5.60 " @8,18. Oattle wero active aud stronger, soll- ‘dng o} 2LO@LT5 for poor to fancy grodos, Bheop wesw {n good demand ot $2.50@ 4.60. One hundred. dollars in gold would buy $109.87} in greenbacks at the close, Qur dispatches Wednesday morning reoit- ed tho fact that three Louisiana Ropublicans had been forced by Democrats to flea for their lives from a Convention to which they wora delogates; that thoy took n skiff and rowed down tho Mississippi, fellowed for 18 miles by the Demoerats, who frequently fired at them. The New Orloana T'imes of Wednes- day aaserted that the wholo business had been planned by the persons putativoly pursued, who had hired negroes to do tho shooting, for political effect. This statement was do- nied in o published eard Ly Br. Souzr, one of tho delegates referred {o, and the author of the 7%mes article soverely reprehended by Souer. Saurm, the antlior of the 7'mes ar- ticlo, yesterdny procceded to publicly horse- whip Bouen, and, to do the thing clinically, was accompanied by a large number of reporters who had never horsewhipped their mon. The partics met at the corner of Canal 'and 8t, Charles streets, New Orleans, Mr, Snrr's first and second wounds were in. the thighs, but the third took effect in hia- right side, and he will probably die, Mr. Burru aleo did somo shooting himself after o while, but inflicted only two wounds, from which Mr, Sovzn will recover, 'The Congressional canvasa in the Fourth Tlinois District has resulted in the davelop- ment of & great amonnt of bitterness and animosity between the fricnds of Mr. Latn. nor and Gen., Hununur, the rival candidates for nomination, The strong opposition among prominent Republicans - of the Dis- trigt to the roturn of Gen. Huaunur for an- other term in Congress has been met by the most stubborn determination on the part of his supporters to force a renomina. tion at whatever coat to the par. ty in the shape of divisions and disagreemonts, and, as appears by the pro- ceodings of tho Convontion yesterday, this determination hns beon persisted in even to the extont of a refusal to abide by the will of the majority, The Huntour men, find- ing themselves outvoted, withdrew from the Convention, which thereupon proceeded to nominate Mr, Lararor. It is earnestly hoped that the breach may be healed at once and the Republicans of the Fourth District brought together once more in harmony. 'I'his i8 no year to fritter away the advantage of p strong majority in personal strife on ac- count of the success or defeat of any partio- ular candidate, I‘nn!dunm-vto the proceedings for mn in- junction to restrain tho Board of County Commissioners from executing.the Court- Houso atone contract, tho financial condition of the County Government is in a fair way to be thoroughly sired. It is the interest of the Ring Pl Commissioners, contractors, and go-betweens to make it appear that the ‘Tronsury is fairly bursting with money and bonds, and that the construction of a Conrt. ouse costing from 8,000,000 to 35,000,000 is actually needed in order to relieve the pletbora. This is the impression to be de- rived from the ofiidavit of Commissioner Howpen and the argument of County-At- tornoy Rountnee, but upon a closer examina- rtion a very different showing is made— viz.: that there is no fund in the Treasury with which to pay for building a Court-House, that the tax-collections are no more than sufficiont to meot currentexpenses, and that it will be necessary to run in debt for tho entire amount to bo expended on the Court-Tlouse. Judgo Fanrwenn lolds that tho proof of froud on the part of the majori. ty in the Board in the award of the stone. contract is not such ns to justify the grant- ing of an injunction, and that the fact of an agreement between the gity and county au- thoritics which thoe latter lhave violated fur. nighos no ground for judicial interference; but the finnncial question is ono of far more importance, and upon its docwsion by tho Court will dopend thoresult of the injunction proceedings, Judge FArwELL has taken this branch of the subject under advisement, for further examination and proof. THE CONFEDERATE CLAIMS, Mr. Mruton Savrer i the Represontative in Congress from ona of the two Cincinnati dis- triots, e was choson Speaker pro tem, when Cox loft the chair to electioneor againat Tis- pey in the Bt Louis Convention, and he is now a candidate for tho vacaucy caused by Mr, Kenn's death, Those circmmstances have ennbled one of Mr., Barien's constitn. onta to address him some embarrassing quos- tions. .After recapitulating tho Confederate claims for the allowauca of which billa have been introduced into Congress by Confoder~ ate membors, and which figuro up anaggre- gate amount larger than tho present national debt, this gontloman demands from Mr, Bay- Len categorical answors s to whether ho will give those several claims the aid of his support and influcuce, and, if not, whethor he will advocate tho passage of logislation to prohibit their payment for all time, Now, tho poculiar embarrnssment to Mr, Savren consista in thiu: If he says ho will support the Southern claims, his an- swer will certainly defeat him in his own district, where ho i8 o candidato for .re-sleo- tion; if he says ho will not support them, his answer will dofoat him ns o candidate for tho Bpenkership, 'The loyal people of Oin- cinnati will not permit a man to be clocted to Congross who ia in favor of voting away the poople's money for the benefit of tho Tebols; but the Confoderates in Congross, who control the Democratio cauous, will not allow any man to bo elected to the moat in- fluontial place who has declared against their claims, which form the chief incentive for their gaining nscondoncy. It would not be o bad idoa to addross a similar series of ques- tions to all the Copperhead Congressmon and cpudidates in the Northern States, and com- mit them one way or the othor, The only troublo iu that, evon if they should pledge themselves sgainst the proposed scheme to plunder the 'Ireasury for the benefit of the vx-Rebels, the Confederates, being still the ruling power in Congress in case of Demo- cratio success, would ‘bo ablo to get their claims through in spite of such pledges. A brief recapitulation of the clalms com. prehiended in the bills that have alrendy been introduced by Confederate Congressmen will give somo idea of the monstrous plunder actually contemplated. Ilouse bill No, 282, introduced by a Georgian Confedorate among the first bills of the scssion, provides for re- funding the cotton tax lovied botween the yoars 1863 and 1808, audto pay it off in Unitcd Btates 5 per cont gold bonds. 'The amount of tho claims for this tax is $63,074,., 888, aud the aggregato amount of intorest that will have to be paid on the bouds is $102,108,570, wmoking in ol 170,180,058, which will bo added to the burdon of the tax-payers; tho bulk of it will fall upon the people of the North, who bavg alroudy paid 80 dearly for the Rebellion of the Bouth, while the Bouth will thus be relieved of every dallay of (axation it ever pald on so- ¢ I % Yipd e count of tho War. Two other bills intro. duced nt thelate session of Congress contem- plato a still mors serious raid on the Nation. al Treasury, One of them (Honsa bill No, 653) dircots the allowance of compensation for stores and supplics taken for the army of the United States during the War; nnd the other (House bill No, 2,864) authorizes pny- mont for the use and occupation of property Dby tho United States during the War, Neith- or bill makes nny distinction betwean tho loyal and disloyal mon; indeed, the former having been alrendy abnndantly provided for, both bills are exclusively in the interest of the disloyal ; and to make matiers espo- cially easy no proof is required oxcopt an af- fidnvit of tho loss or occupntion for which the claim is instituted. In ono bill the dis- cretion is placed in the hands of the Bocre- tary of War; in the other it rests with Southern courts and juries, An ingenious but acenrate way of ascertaining the amount that would be required to discharge the claims of ox-Rebels for losses incident to the ‘War they brought on Las been adopted by a comparison therewith of tho claims made by protended loysl citizens of the South s previously authorized by Congress. There wero 22,208 of thesa loyal claims, ainount- ing in the aggregate to $60,208,160. Now, it is reasonable to eatimnto that whero one 16yal man at the Bouth suffercd a loss during the War st lonst fifty Rebels suffered, and that the claims of the Rebels for property taken, used, or destroyed would be flity times Inrger than tho claims of the loyal men. This is within bounds, because the loyal men of the Bouth were mostly **poor whites,” while the wealthy and aristooratic people nearly all went into the Rebellion, If this cstimato is fair, then the.claims under these two bills wonld amount to $3,012,007,-* 500, or half as much again as the entire national debt at present. A smaller but not less reprehensible proposition ia to restore to the Bouthern Stntes (Honse bill No. 8,145) 2,402,110, which was the amonnt they had paid in on their proportion of a general tax of $20,000,000 levied on the whole country in 1801, beforo tha Rebellion was openly de- clared. Theso are samples of legislation that will ba favored by a * solid South " in case there shall be a ** solid South " for the Democratic ticket. 'The Democrata in certain sactions of the North are secking to mislead the people into the belief that there is no danger to be apprehended from these claims, be- cause their payment ia prohibited by the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. This is false, Tho soction of the Fourteonth Amendment to which they refer rends as follows : Nelther the United Btates nor any State shall ns. sumo or pay any debt or obligution Incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion ngainat the United States, or any clalm for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligatious, and claims shall Le beld illegal and vald. Now, nons of the claims set up by the Confederates for the allowance of which bills have already been introduced are **ob- ligations incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion” ; that part of the section refers plainly to the Confederato debt. But thore is no prohibition against the paymont for property used or destroyed by the United Btates army, the best proot of which is found in tha fact that such claims have already been paid when maode by loyal citizens of tho Bouth ; the Confederates now desire that the disloyal citizens shall bo placed upon the same footing,—a ‘courso which, as wo have shown, will considerably more than double the presont national indobtedness, Thero is but ono way to avoid for all timo the payment of theso and similar claims to ox-Rebels, or their heirs and assigns, and thatis by ndopting another constitutional amendment of similar import applying to that class of claims. After tho experience with the late Confodorate Houso of Ropresentatives, wa have no doubt that auch an amendment will be proposed if tho next Congress shall be Republican ; but if the Confederatoa shall attain the control there will bo no lawfal way to provent them from carrying ont the schemos they have al. ready foreshadowed. G0V, TILDEN AS A PHILANTHROPIST, Gov. Tizoex has recontly had occagion to bring himaelf bafore the peoplo in a now sphore, There was a so-called * Conferonce of Charitios” at Saratoga the other day, meeting contomporancously with the Asso- cintion for the Advancement of Bocial Science, and Gov. Tiroey, in the capacity of * Chief Magistrato of the State of Now York,” as he put it, and of courso not aa the Domoazatio candidate for President, was on hand with an olaborate address of welcome, in which ho particularly counseled the spplication of the samo scientific investigation to the subjeot of charities which has alrendy boen np- plied to the politieal and social prob- loms. This advico was ontirgly safe in view of the faot that it was for this express purpose that the Conferonce had been called. But it hns occurred to us that Gov. TiLoex might bettor have sorved the cause of charity by giving the Conforonce an sccount of his porsonal experienco in o long carcer of phil- anthopy instead of vaguely mixing up pstronomy with pauperlum, geology with crime, and chemistry with jusanity, If, in- stend of descanting on Kerren, Newrow, Pniestry, Lavorsmes, and Davy, and seeking to connect them in some undoflned way with the dispensation of broad to the hungry and relict to the sulfering, he had elucidated his own solontific principles of charity in his own modest way, he would probably have con- vinced hly bonovolont and sciontifio henrers aliko thot “virtue is its own roward" snd that * charity covors a multitude of sins,” ‘We are not very familiar with&lr, ‘Tinoen's personal charities, for we fancy that he has nlwaya followed the Scriptural injunction : “When thon doest alms, et not thy loft band know what thy right hand doeth.” But, though Le has not advertised his bonevo- lence to the world so that & singlo instanco of his charity cun be cited prior to his belng a Presidentlal candidate (unless ho used Boss Tween's check for $G6,000 in o charitable way), yotnoman of his philanthroplo and kindly nature could have acoumulated several millions of dollays for his individual backelor use without dispensing alarge part of his carnings for the benofit of his follow. creaturos. Sincoe he became a Presidential candidate, however, Gov. TiLoex's charities have bocome so geueral and liboral that it hos been fmpossiblo for him to conceal them, A fow weeks ago he sont a whole * barrel of monsy" down to the impoverished Oity of Bt, Louis aund trusted handed Joun Monmussey to distribute it. That Joux placed the monoy where it did most guod, which may be said to be tho fundamental principle of charity, the rosult leaves no doubt. Thorois reason to believe that it was divided largely (under 3r. Tizoew's explicit directions) among the unfortunate and unpecunious Bouthern gentlemen who had gatherod at 8t. Lould in the discharge of their highoat po- litical duties at a great personal sacrifice. This was thoughtful, geusrous, counsiderato. the froe- . THE-CHICAGO 'TRIBUNE: FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER '§; B70¢ Tnrkoy is brokon and the Christian is freed from Turkich tyranny. If the quostion is solved by war, the Turks will be driven be- yond the Balkans, If a pence is made by tho agroemont of England and Russia, that agreo- ment will exclude the Turk from adminis- trative control of the Sclavic Provinces. In either ovent, therefore, the Bervian war has not boon fonght in vai: Tut the bread Mr. Trrorex cast upon the tur- bulent waters of Democratio politica returned to him a hundred fold in tho Lonors that wore shortly after heaped thick upon his head. Moro recently, with the care nnd dis- crimination of n scientific theory of charity, Mr, Tiuozx has changed the stroam where ho casts his broad, and it is very generally be- lioved that ho has sent a wholo hogshead of money into Indiana. BSuch opeu-handed benovolonca’ as this certainly ought not to go wunrequited. It is oven bolioved that Mr. Trroxx, following out his sclentifio principles of benovolence, hea in- dicated how this money shall be distributed. That unfortunate class of nomndic monads known as '* tramps,” who Lave boen appeal- ing to the tender mercy of tho Indisun farm- ora by robbiug their hon.roosts and ravish. ing thelr dnughters, are to bo colonized with the aid of Mr, Trupex'a charity fund, and are to be given permanent employment with light work and good pay until aftor eloction, Could Keeren, NewroN, Pamestny, or La- voisten have applied sciontific principles to charity more sclentifically than this? Dut Mr, TrLoeN's systomatio and comprohensive plan for distributing his charities goes even further, it is sald, and renches over into Ken- tucky, to several thousand of whoso voting citizons it is proposed to furnish the health- giving opportunity for an excursion into Indiana nbout clection-time. There is no doubt that the henlth and the finances of the Kentucky people will be notably improved by this plan, and the Democratio vote of Indiana Jargely nugmented. . Our confessed ignorance of the manifold snd mysterious ways in which Mr, Troex has dispensed his bounty to tho poorest sot of creatures on earth—tho Democratic poli- ticlana—ronders it impossible for us to illus- trato as fally a3 wo would like the peoculiarly scientific mothods which ho has adopted, and wo can only wish that ho had availed himself of tho Baratogn Conference to enlighten the philanthropists of the world, Wo are sure that this personnl narrative, if Mr. Tinory's native modesty could have been sufficiontly overcome to induce him to spenk freely, would have revolutionized tke theories of scientific benevolonce. THE DEPOPULATION OF FRANCE, The sterility of the French population is beginning to attraot attention, not only throughont Europe, but also in Franco, and the Government in that Republic is already looking about to nccount for the causes of the decrensa in population, and to discover, it possible, somo remedy. In 1866, the pop- ulation of France was 88,000,000, and in 1872, it waa 86,000,000, Deducting the num- bor of Fronchmen in Alsnce and Lorraine, who wero Germanized by tho cossion of those Provinces after tho war, and thero still romnins a losa of 870,000 in six years, Com- pared with the inoreass of population in other European countrics, the figurcs are very significant. In Great Britain the in- crenae from 1801 to 1871 was 8.8 per cent, that of Prussiu from 1867 to 1871 was 2,78 per, cent, and that of Baxony in the same years 5,86 per cont. Tho incrense in Ger. many is all the more remarknble when it is eonsiderod what a large cwnigration takos plhce yearly to escapo the rigor of the military Iaws. Notwithstanding this largs emigration, tha population does not suffer diminution, but on the other hand increnses, showing that wore it not for this omigration there wonld speedily be an immanse oxcess of pop- ulation. The impotency of the French peo- plo is startlingly shown in another manner. It hos beon caleulated on tho basis of the proportion of births and depths that Eurc. “pean countries would double their popula. tion as follows: Norway, 51 years; Austria, 02; England, 63; Denmark, 78; Sweden, 89; Germany, U8; and France, 834 years! Lho statistics also show a vory mnterjal de- cline in the vigor of young Frenchmen.. In 1878, 803,810 roached the ago of 20 years; 296,204 in 1874 283,708 in 187§ ; and only 277,000 in 1876, *The decline in population is ns trua of the French colonios as of ¥rance itaelf. The Roman Catholio Bishop of Wellington, Now Zealand, calls attention to the faot that at least 80,000 British emi. grants aro pouring into that colony every year, aud that its popaulation now exceeds 800,000, and says: ‘**Iad Now Zenland been a Fronch colony, as at the {imo it wis nearly becoming, tho Europoan population would probably have been counted by hundreds instead of thousands,” In con- firmation of this, ho calls attention to tho Marquesss, to Mayotto, and to Nossi-Bo, the gatoway to Madogascar, a8 woll'as to other French possossions, and affirms that it is an open queation whether these islands, which the French have hold nearly 40 yoars, must not be altogother abandoned, since no French- man oan bo induced to settlo on them, and the native population is fast bocoming ex- tinct., The London Z¥mes, in discussing the sub- joot, assigns as a very prominent reason for this decreaso of population the exhausting weries of - wars waged by tho First Naroruon, tho conscriptions for which took off tho strongost portion of tho peasantry, and the vitality thus enfecbled has been transmitted, growing weaker and weaker in the transmis- sion, ‘This waste hasnot been repaired, eithor by tho natural growth of the population or by streams of immigration. A correspond. ont of a French papor calls attention to an- other ronson, which he gives as follows: Our Inferfority is clearly demonstrated, and the cause {8 o mystery to noone; it is an inevitabla consequence of the compnlsory subdivision of berltages. To thuse who doubt this, it will Le suficlent to observe that tho comparative sterility of marriages is in France an ¢vil pecaliar only to thoso who have possesslons, and docs mot touch thoso who sre without heritage. Artisans, work. men, all who live from doy to day, do not .dread havinga family; the patrimonial inheritance suf- forano injury, as It would do in the cases of wall- to.do familles, BLnut the decline of the Freach popalation is not the oniy injurioya result of the forced partition of herltages. There sro other ovll results, such as the indcfnite parcelling out of landed proporty and the ruin of small herltages by low expensce. Thess evils have become so- great that Government 18 beginning to thiok of a remedy, May the secondary facts not keep ant of slght the main fact of, all,—~the appailing aterility of the Krench population. Whatever may be the reasons, the fact is a momentous ono from this point of view— that European countries in order to maintain their superiority must keep up their military power. The Franco-German war demon- strated an obvious loss of the French fight- ing quality since tho days of the Empiro, and also the jmmense German superiority in numbers, strength, and espocially endurance. If she is going to hold her place among the+ Europoan Powers, she muat regain her lost military power ; but how is she to regain it whon her population ia continually diminigh. ing, or, in other words, the raw material out of which she must build up hor arnnies? With the population of the other Powers constantly incrensing and her own as con. stontly diminishing, with other armies con- stantly growing larger and her own s con- stantly growing smallor and doteriorated in physiqus, hor outlook for military asoenden- oy i8 not very encouragin, THE WAR OLOUD. Important events are crowsing upon each other rapidly in connection with the Turco- Bervian war, snd, from all outward appear- ances, tha Great Powers seom to be drifting nlong towards war. There can be no doubt, notwithstanding its denial of defeat, that Servia is crushed by the Turk, aud that the Intter is turning upon Montenegro with all possiblo dispateh, in order to hava rovenge upon the ally of Servia beforo any terma of peace nro made, The battle of Aloxinatz on Friday last, which lasted from 8 o'dlock in the morning until 9 at night, was thoe crown- ing blow of the war. It was desporately fought on each side, was attended by fearful carnage, and resulted in the rout of the Her~ vions and the occupation of the foriress by the Turks. Olosely following upon this evont, the Turks oxpressed themselves will- ing to negotiate n peace, but Rusaia stepped in and interfored, demanding on bebalf of Bervia an armistico of a month, The Turks undoubtedly took their step rolying upon England’s support, England haviog been tleir champion and the apologist for their atrocities in Bulgaria. In tho march of the ovents to which we have alluded, however, thero hasbeon a revo- Intion in England upon the Turkish ques- tion, growing out of theso very atrocities and the manner in which they have been troated by Disnaerr and the Tories. The English peoplo move slowly, but when thor- oughly aroused their powar is irresistible. The power behind the throno has spoken in no uncertain manner, Jonx Bpiour in & re- cent speech said: ‘ England should clear horsolf of all partnership in the interests and polioy of Turkey. It is a partnorship un. neceegnry to our intorests, and - degrades us in the ostimation of every Christian nation,” GrapsTone has written a pamphlet full of indignant denunciation of the Tory policy. Eaqrl Russger has writton to Lord Granvoue urging an sutumn session of Parliament, and calling for an alliance of the Powers of Eu- rope to combino in one firm and resolute troaty ngainst Turkish tyranny iu Europo, closing with the following significant declar- ation : ** I care not whethor Russians, Aus- trians, Germans, or Itallans sucesed them, England will only require to have the paxsago into tho Black Sea free to all ships of war and of commerco,—the passage to Odosea and Varna open.,” The Bishop of Manchester, in a lettor to the English people, ssys: * Come what may,—and I do not sce anything {s likely, or ovon posaible, to come ‘which can eadanger the position of England, —1it seems impossible, if we nre to have any regard for our Lonor or our good name, that we should any longor throw, or even allow it to bo supposed wo throw, the shiéld of the protection of England over o power which, relying on that protection, has done deeds which have startled and shocked the con- sclence of the whole civilized world.” The London Z'imes boldly says: **We have, not worally only, but as a matterof international law, the right to see that justice is done the Torte's Christion subjeots. Another fallacy 18 that to waintain unabridged the authority of the Porte throughout the Ottoman Em- pire is in the intorest of England and an es- sential condition of every peace to which we could be a party, Thoso who nssert most strongly this nocessity of upholding the Porto's nuthority spoak of it na the policy of England, and refer to it as u tradition of the Lighest wisdom of tho last generation. No statement can bo move historically untrue.” The whole English press has spoken with oqual boldness and directuess, and the English people have given the Government to undorstand that, whatover its polioy may be, thoy will uo louger allow their honor to be tarnisliod by supporting barbarism in Europe, The Lory Governmont has beon unable to withstand the pressure, and has yielded Yo tho peoplo by notifying ‘Turkey, through her Ambussador, that, if the war continues, the 'Turks must be propared to see Russin giving support to Servia, and that Eugland will not support her in the case of such an Interference, ‘Tho attitude of the Powers may be sum- med up us follows: Hervia Las asked for an armistice, Turkoy lia refused it. Rusala has notitied Turkoy that she will sustain the request of Borvin Eugland has notified Turkey that she will not support her in refusing to -grant the avmnistice. Germuny is suspiciously silont, but there is a strong probability that there isan understanding botween Bissanck aud Goars- cuaxoys, Austria alonoe rewains faithful to the Turk, and the Austrian Ambassador at Constantinople has weoured the confidence of the Porte which tho English Ambassador has heretofore enjoyed. But what can Aus. tria do, in the event of Rusalan interference, without an ally? The question at {ssue must ba solved eithor pencsfully or by the arbitra. mout of war, In alther uvent the power of TOF, ORARSHOPPER BUSINESS, It {s now stated that In some of the frontler States the grasshopper eggs deposited early In tho scason have been hatched, and the young hoppers are beginning to show theimnselves. This i regarded as a favorable incident in the plague,~us a sort of provision by Nature for the dyiug out of the bug. The theory Is that the ¢ggs are deposlted in the oue season, and do not histch out untll the nexts that the fusect re~ peata the ege-laylng process, proteeds to proy upon vegotation, and dies with thocold weather, But If the eggs mature and the young hoppers make thelr uppearance fn the same season, the second crop of hoppers do not reach that mptur- ity essential to depositing eggs, and they perlsh, leaving the gerns of no poaterity to succeed them, It is argued or assumed that, If all tho grusshopper-cggs deposited In the season of 1870 should hatch outhoppers in Beptember and Octo- ber, thera will be o total fallure of hoppers in 1877, It 1s ouly the egg that does not hateh thl spring that promises any pest for the future, The prociamation of Guy, PILLSBURY, of Mla- nesota, lu regord to the ravages of the grass. boppera and the best means of checkiug, them, suggests that public meetinge bo held o that Htato for the purposs of sccurlng such concert a8 oy be necessary winong th people Interest- ed. Meanwhile, the Governor gives tho results of recent inquirles as to the best methods of attacking and destroylng ‘gruashoppers. There are eight of these methods, most of which pru- dently apply ouly to tho insect In the egg, or in tho fufant coudition. Crushing by rollers is recommended. The plowlng-under of the eggs has been found effctive in some localities. Co-uperative actlon fu the burning of prairie- grass destroys tho larvie, us doca alio the burn. ing of looso struw In or ncar the hatehlug- places, After batching, it fa dificult to deal safely with the grusshoppers, but they have been caught, when very youug, in deop ditchies, dug expressly for that purpose, and they bave also been caught Dby the shmple procesg of ghoy then up from the ground, after which they cafl bo exocuted acandlog to Jaw." Tho Governor shows his helpleasnesa when he comes to speak of tho full-grown hopper, For them ho has only the ordinery remedy of playlng the tom-tom, burning smudges, and making es many discordant noises ns posaible. In concluding his proclama- tion the Governor warns the pooplo againat re- 1ying upon public afd in the shaps of supplies of seeds, food, or clothing, It is especlally. de- sirable, he thinks, that the haobits of self- relianco of the people should not be weakened by any general expectation of Government aid, and he thinks, morcover, that the offorts of the Government should be turned rather in the direction of proventing further damage by the grassho,pers than towards the relicf of suffor- ing already inflicted. —— Jonx FonsyTn, the editor of the Mouile Reg- fafer)one of the most prominent Democratic newspapers in the Soutl, sald in a recent artlele In that paper: ‘What is to bo done to get rid of the negroasa voter? Soomer or later, with more ur less dis. patels, he will be dlefranchised and thrust out of politics. White men of all parties and of ever grade of religlons or moral conviction may as well come quickly to the consideration how fo get the negro out of politics with the least confuaion and cost, 1le must go and there 18 no profit in stand- ing long upon the order of his going. How the Southern Democrats propose to dis- franchise the negro §s shown by tho testlmony of bundreds of. wituesses before the Oxford, Migs., Grand Jury. We selcct that of Gronon W. Wiirs, colored, o candidate for the Legisla- ture, Mr, Winrs testiied under oath: One weelk before the election I waa going to Binff Springe to_speak, On the road 1 ot Dr, d. H. Grzen, He stopped no and triod bard to provai| on me to como off_and support Gen, TUCKEN for the Legisiature. I told him I wonld not doso, He told mo that I'would be responsible for the blood that would be ahed on the day of the clection. lle asked me i I thought, after they hsd gono to 8o much exponso, that thoy intended to aliow us to carry the election, He stated to mo that they did not futend that any colored man should hnve an office; that it would inake no difforence whether he was clected or nat, Tio sald tho Democrats knd de- termined to carry the election ot all hazards—uot only in Chiczasaw County but throughont the State, Dr, ueex Qnally asked me it Twas qoh: ta Oko-~ fona on tho day of the eloction. 1 told hiin I woa, Hg ndvlsed me not to go, And said that If Tdid go T would be shot down; that_they wonld think no more of shooting me than If T waa a hog, He then asked me how many gans T (lwught they hnd at Okalona. 1told hiin that T thought perhips 300, Tlo snid they had gone to 4 great expense to provide \a, And (hat they were fully dotermined (o carcy the election; that no colored man ought ta have an oftice, and that they did not Intand that lie shiould. Dr. Gnexx told mo that ho would mot_shoot o himaelf, but that there wero plenty of Domocrats that would do it: that ho was not a Democrat, but an_0ld-Line Whig. There were hundreds of witnesses who tes- tified to facts similar to the above before this Grand Jury; and yet not a true bil was found, beeause their lives had been threatencd if they brought in a single indictment! — ——— The New York Natlon has made the mistalc of treating Mr. TiLDEN'8*conduct In the Terre Houte & Alton Raflroml case asif it could be dfsposed of by mere fliopancy and ridicule. It secma to assume that becauss many campaign 4 eharges ™ are idlo or false none should be considored. Bo far haa its own partisanship car- rled it in this affalr that it has seriously made au argument to show that Mr, Tiupex and. his coadjutors were justificd in dividing among themselves such aecurities ns remained in thelr . hauds after tho claims of the now bondholders wero satisfled. Mr. G. W. Contis, in Harper's Weekly, knocks this position into flinders. Ho cites the well-known legal principlo that, If there be any surplus in the settlement of an cstate after-paying all tho legatecs, such surplus docs not in any event belong to the ndministrators, but must go to the lcirs-at-law. We agreewith larper's Weekly when 1t says that tho position of the Nation with regard to the present cam- palzn Is an olarming symptom of the demoral- {zatlon of tho press, which the latter journal hias been 80 quick to detect and deplore. ————— Notwithstanding the gravity of the situntion of the relations of England and Russfa, the sparring between the newspapers of the two countries {s very amuaing. The Englisk papors are constantly taunting Russia witha loss nf her military power and her financlal Incapacity, A promincut Moscow paper, the Novaya Vrenla, puts the following large-chip on fts shoulder which it requests Mr. GLADSTONE to knock off: The Liberal leader, who has during the last fow yeurs devoted himself to the study of thcology, has evidently not kept up lis knowl- edge of politics, and s totally ignorant of the great progress wo have made in natfonal pros- perity and power. It was not, we suppose, be- cause he had a low opinion of our strength in 1870 that he calmly bore the diplomatic:blow wo inflicted upon him in altering the treaty of 1850, Was It not rather because he was con- aclous of the powerlessness of England to clip Russia’s wings?” ————— Bex Hizt i3 at it again, On the 25th of August last ho made speech In Atlanta for TiLDEN, concorning which the Augusta Com- monwaIM. o Democratic paper, says: Mr, 111}], in alluding to tho Unlon, explalned whereln ho bolleved trueloyaity conaisted, and the reasons why wo are never to have an hunest Gov- ermment. In anawor to the Iatter he sald it conld mever be brought about until vhe Northorn people recognize that tho Houth shed .her blood for o true princlple, and whilo they wore imprudent in thu choice of a mode, yot they were for our true Mberty, and for tho Unfon, "It is generally con’ coded that the effort of last night was ono of the grandeat evor made by the coming Senator, It will be observed that Mr, Hiun occuples prectscly the same ground as TiLpEN. This was the Perjurer's favorite tay of reasoning during the War. If thereforo TiLpeNn should e alected, hggould anly secure an, hopest Gov- stuwment by recogolzing the right of sccesslon. The 8t. Louls papers arc all agog with excite- ment over n 10-story hotel which ‘*a wealthy gentleman from England* is golng to erectin hat city, with 2,100 windows, 2,000 rooms, two batteries of steam Woilers, 24,000 cuble fect of gas In tanks, a cooler to hold 1,200 tons of {ce, eight elovators, “a conservatory blooming with tropleal plants," and *‘a fountain to scatter its coollng spray over the sbaded walks. The wealthy gentleman from Eoglaud was to have commenced operations Sept. 1, but lina not yet arrlyed, and one of the 8t. Louls papers has the temerlty to doubt whother hie Is ever coming at all, Ifheshould come and the 1C-story mon- ster should be' bullt, there will bea rush of strangers for tho'tenth etory in order to be as far away a8 possiblo from 8t. Luufs, ——— The Bt. Louls Globe-Democrat contains an obltuary notice of the death of & widow named Banan JonnstoN. Her husband was kitled by an explosion, and she maintained herself and children for u time by sclling pius and ncedles. Bho was fually taken sick, aud after an {lincss of five weeks died without u friend or relativo sbout her. The saddest feature of the story is, that she dled of actusl starvation fu the City of 8t Louis| PERBONAL. The New York Tribune asysthat Mr, Schell at Saratoga **emiled like the wholo Mediterra-' nean Sea, from Joppa to Glbraltar,* The Now York World wants to have Wagner's tetralogy produced in, New York, and suggests ‘Theodore Thomas as & Ot man to undertako the work, Mr. Qeorgs W, Childs, proprictor of the Phila- delphia Ledger, ontertained Mr, Murat Halstead, of the Cinclonati Commercial, at dinnor Weduesday evenlng, Alius Bmiloy, the proachier, Is writing a ** Com. mentary on the Lifo of Joshua," which already i1ls 500 pages. Iler scoretary says ho cannot tell what it fa all aboat. Mr. Frank Pottor, the American Consul at Mar. sollles, hoa pleaded his privilege as a representativo of the United States in buar of sctions for debt ‘brought agalust him, ‘The German muslc-tescher In Danlel Deronda ia the watiricul counterpait of u fomoua composer. s longing for the widenlng Lorizon ls decidedly I Waguer's best vein, Mr. Davld Siuton’s propositlon 1o construct and give to the City of Clncinnat! & forum and rostrum, Laving receivod no encoursgement from the Clty ‘Governmont, has beeu withdruwa, ‘Tho Iaterior notices that the expensos of college- students aro in proportion to the endowments of the institations they attend, Thuw It costs $800 per annum {9 atteud @ $400,000 fustitution, and 82,000 per puuwa W!’W at & $3,000,000 nati- hon tho endowmorils have reacheq ' five millions, ** contfhues tho writer, **it will prob. ably caat from $3,000 to 85,000 per annum to bill. fard and champagne a young man through, " The Interior Nppantly says thit Tir Tninunmy charactorization of Prof, Bwing's last sermon ay *‘fresh and crlep' is anggestive of winter 2abbage, Prof, Bwing's cabbage Is ahead of the Jnleriopy culture, Bevoral Apache Tndlans nttended Almee's per. formance of Girofls-Glrofla, at 8t. Louls, Monday cvening. They took a deop Intorcat in the capture of the horolne by plrates,—~sympathizing with the pirates, of course, . Lord Thornton's son, while traveling in New England, modestly asked to have a wholo car placed ontirely at hi osal. Ilo was informed that Lord Thornton himself couldn't havo a car on that road to hinysalf without paylng for it. An cccentric Parslan dines in wolltary grandons in the open alr, near the Bofa de Bonlogne, eyery plensant d. Crowds gathor to admire his beay. 1iful dreas-coat, his unoxceptionablo whita cravat, his massive silver plate, and hla monnments] cheek. 1t 1s #ald that the Servisn officers aro 5o deaply Impressed with tho reports they have heard of ‘Turkish atrocitics that they always endeavor to reservo one ball in thelr rovolvers 80 28 to blow thelr own bralns out as soon as thoy fall into thy hands of the encmy. The murder 1s out g0 farne George Ellot's new novel s concerned. Danlel Deronds marrieq Mirah, snd devotgs his life to the work of re. natlonalieing the Jews, Gwendolin ia loft lonely and sorrowing, All this, written In very choleq English, 1a published this day by Harper Brothers, Tho New York Erening Post challenges Mr, TRobaon, tha actor, to name any critica connecteq with respectable nowspapera who have accepled money-considerations for thelr opinlons, as ho nlleges they all have. It now becomes Mr. Rob. son's duty cither toprovo his statement or to abag. don it. Mr. James Usher, of New York, Is regularly engeged §n the business of expanding books by Ine serting rare and precious cngravings {linstrating the text. 1t isanew kind of business, which hns been herctofors largely carrled on by amatears, ‘but has had thus far little encouragement from thy professlonal book-malkers, Orpheus C, Kerr says ho la not going to lecturs, notwithstanding the free advertising he has re. celved of late. 5t must be, then, that he I8 golng to joln a clrcas, or to bring out a highly sensational ond uscfal patent medicine, We scarcely think jt possible that he i to appear in opera, or that he has written o book, However—not to be too curf., ons—ivo rejoica that he is well and happy agaln, ** AnIllinolsan " who has been sojonrning at the Motropolitan Hotel In New York writes to the papers in complaint of whatho considersan exorbltant washing-blll. o was charged 35 cents each for his wife's chomises, eight cents each for his own collars, and 15 cents per palrof socks, Berves him right! Lot him in the future come to Chicago, where all the luxurics as well as the noce essarles of life can be obtained at reasonablo rates, The following tribnte to Mre. Ellon J. Fostor, a temperanco locturer, sppears In o Davenpory paper ¢ & X2 50u sen her Coi x) u will know her by hor ! mpie Hor tongue ¥ oot s postly, elcar, il i Yo almost Wik your Sar sbad bite” Bugar for Bhammy: A test voto for Prealdont was yestorday taken at tho gathoring of high-toned cltizens in attendance upon the sclentlfic eplsoda botween the Hon. Thomas Allen aud Joscph Goss, Esq., resulting oa follows: For S8amuel J. Tilden, 4D7; for 1t, B. Hayes, 3, - It s hordly necessaryto . stato that the minority took good care to put a safe distance between themselves and the loformers before the latter had an opportunity to dlsplay ‘t’zolr peculinr arguments in support of thelr candi- ite. An English gontleman realding near London re- cently appllied for s summons against a nelghbor whohad a cock which commenced crowlng at 1 o'clock in the morning. Tho magistrate advised tuo applicant to sond an officer to the owner of the fowl and explain that It was a great nuisance) then, if no attontion wero pald to the notice, sotne actlon might be taken. At the time the last steam- or salled, tho bird's 1fe was not thought tobe worth insuring, The subject {s & fine one for ¢ Saturday Revlew editorial. : A An cxcursion of tha Tibersls of Lelgh and Tyldesley visitéd Mr, Gladatono at Mawarden Castle recently. During the festivities which took place Mir. Gladstono mingled freoly with the excuralons ista, An excurslonist cxpressed the hope that Mr, Gladstone would be Promier of England again; bul he replicd: ** He's too old, sir; that's my apinjon.® Another volce exclaimed: ** We'll mako him ax Earl when we want to get rid of him," This was followed by much laughter, in which the right ‘honorable gentloman joined. The Free-Dreas Reform Club fn Philadelphia manlfested an amusing reluctanco to uso tho word trousors, merely declaring that thore should be a proper **garmenture™ for women, and that **thls garmonture should be of dual form for the legs." ‘The New York Zimes notices that tho refurmers 'boldly speak of thelr legs amsomethlng which can neither bo pailiated nor denied,” and thinks thut, ‘fo view of this clrcumstance, the skittish | avoldance of tho word trousers must be duc to something more than prudery. . The London papars keep standinga head entltl **Consclence Money, " under which acknowledg- ments are mado of money returncd by persona who Lavo defrauded the revonue, Most returns af. this® Xind, wo observe, are made by persons who have evaded the ‘income-taxr. Tux TIINUNE s pro- pared to establish o department of this description for the benctof Guv. Tilden, low happy the ‘people would be to soe 8 puragraph to this effect: +*Tho Becrotary of the Treasury acknowledges tho recelpt o $100,000 from 8. J. for incoma-tax." . 1t has becn suggeated that the ofice of Lord Privy Beal, which Mr., Disraeli has avenmed temporarily, might well be smalgamated permancntly with thst ot Flrst Lord of thé Treasury, which he also holds, 'Thq reasond urged for the new arrangement aro that 1t could bv caelly occomplished, only a Minlsterial order bolng required; thut the salary of £2,000 would be a welcome addition to the £5,000 now enjoyed by the Flrat Lord; that tho change would bo advantageous in a political and adminlstratlve ‘way; and that It wonld bestow upon the PrimoMine feter the rank and precedence to which is position entitles him, Tho Iay-Fever Conventlon at Bethlohem, N. 1., cems to have beena humorous gatherlug. Judge Qoodrich, of Chicogo, howerver, preferred totake it in earnest, and consequently gave a vers futeresting uud valuablo description of the symp- toma of the nialady and the best metliods of trest ment. Dr, Deers, of Now York, sald he had labored hard to catch Hay-Fover, that he might havo a case un hand to experiment upon, but It vain, Mr, Henry Ward Boccher sald: ¢ Whoeat &y that Lhis ot o progresulve Formerly people had the Foveronly in June, Now at twe sof the yearitoppears. No doubtin thng shall vole to havelttho year round. Hasye Fever, too, is gettingeducated, and ovor dovelopt wome new Lralts of character, Judge Goodrich had wtage-conch; #o had he, He Dr, Beers make an luveatiga- 8, and seo If thoy did not bring Mr, Beecher uald, further, that Hay-¥over was an fntollectual discase, caused by & supertinity of brainy, # UOTEL AKRIVALS, Bherman Ifouse=Tho Hon, T. 8. Galt, Sterlings the Hon, J. §, McDonald, Fond du Lac; Col, Wilt- fam Hiewart, Pitsburg; ¥, B. loberts, C. W. Chase, and ¥, G Holtun, New York; the ifon. i1, B.'Nopkina, Peoria; Dr, Stiliman, san Fran- clscai M. 'T. Hanford, Laullvlllls 3, & Williams, b"ndl:fll&; Heury Mall, Phlladelphis....7vemont Hous o, J. . Omaha; €. C Reed, Detrolt; Pollard, Bos= tonj the llon, Reed, 1 ¢ B, Holt, Albany; Oum'tfu Now York; ¥, J. Wise, 8t. Louls; llrnh Wisconsin; the Ilon. Jobn il olt; ; the Hon. A, G. Anderson aud Uen, J» U ohn " 1 i, McCudy, Claveland; lsnd, N, Z.; !I..‘\. Ferard, New Zealand} Younug, Salt Lake} W, G. Bharp, John S8harp, Edwin' Hunter, Bali Lake; A. J. Cluck, York; Jobn ' Q. %, ‘Doston; Lymaa D, brown, o, c. Townsend, Marks, London; Dr. J. I, Warrens 1. Price, Bt Gardned ne, New Orleans; J, G, Jones, Newton, Moaa. ; J. 8. mmt Michlgan City; Jancs Kuuox, ilebron, iod.s A. Led, Northnield, Mion. enry Hook, Usklund; 8, Wadhan, Hau Francieco E. Johnson, Bt Louls; Afles Belle' Bunu and Mres Tennant, Clovelard..., Palmer {louss—E. Bachs roy, N. Y,3 Lud Richler, Vicuns 7, 8, Bydney, Lendoni f. E. logon, Dubtin| J. Bigek, lvag Kougs deorge £, Paterion, Glase d; the lon. B, 8. Ferria, Princeton] 'R, V. Plercu, Butfalo; Schwars Flemunings Botlin} A. K, Marsh, New York; the Tlon. Talloy, Now Orleans} A. J. Dovel, Maulvteo; Coradovitach, Rusyin: Scrge Drazal, St. Potere Vurg, Russin} . M. McAfeo, Mount Carrolli Ne T Bhepherd, Lyan. Mass, ; 0.8, Foster, St Louls{ J. K. Worthiugton, Philadelphta; 7. M. Ll Whashingtun; the llon, Jobn rich, Cumd-n‘ J.; Dr. W, B, Ulrleh, Cheater, Fu.; Samuel X Vislcl, Pittaburg. K7 &