Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 15, 1877, Page 4

4 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, APRIL 15. 1877—SIXTEEN PAGES, elements of civilized government. Her own Davis, JAT CookE, Boss TWEED, BRIGHAM The Tribuwe, " TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. BY MAIL~—IN ADVANCE—POSTAGE FEEPAID AT THIS OFFICE- Daily Edition. postpaid; 1 e r month. dress four weeks for. Fomcepreomid. Specimen coples sent fre 'Ir::reram “delny and mimakes, be mre and give Poit- Oftce address in full, including State and County. Remittances may be made efiher by draft, express, Tost-Uttice arder, or fn registered letters. azour risk. 7ERMS TO CITY SUBSCRIBERS. Datly, delteered, Sunday excepted, 25 ceats per wrek. Tatly, delivered, Sunday Included, 30 cents per week Address THE TRIBUNE. COMPANT, Chicago. 1L Coruer Madison and Dearborn: SOCIETY MEETINGS. ’OLLO COMMAXDERY, NO. 1., KNIGNTS TEM- Pk i Enights! Siated Conclave at ‘Arvium. 72 o 78 Monroe st.. on Tuesday eventag next, ril 17, at8 o'clock, prompt. Affiny it Kalehis bAring Sxprowed o desire tobe 20 work will be donc, hut the Commandery will open and close in full form, after which the Sir Knights will retire tothe armory for drill. Kamples of equlj ments will be exhibited. A full attendance is requested, Visiting Str Enights courteously invited. By order of the E. C. J. RDUNLOP, Recorder. D. C. CREGIER LODGE 0.643, A. F. and A. 3.— Hall 278 and 270 Milwsukee-av. Heguisr Commnnica- Uun Wednesday, April 18, at 8 o'clock p. m. sharp, ork on the} “'3,‘5 Degrec. | Viitiag brethren cordlal: of W Aptarited By onder of INOCHIO, Secretary. YETTE APTER, KO. 2, R. A, M.—Hall, 76 u’;:rsg—u. Svg'l] Convocstfon Monday evening, Vhiiore coatcsmans loiica ‘B orio o N . BT e i %! z‘- N. Tlll:m's:mury. ‘W.H. REID, H.P. [ANDERY NO. 1P, K. T.—Atten- S B B Epied Conciare | ondsy eviin: A tiog B Ko conrioomiy Tartcen. Y oot . ORI . BANBORN, . €. JAS. E. MEGINN, Record: EN CITY LODGE, NO. 141, A. F. & A. M.— A%:-N Commantcat o it s held at Oricisa1 Hall go Wedneaday evening. April 1. Nork e the .31 4 i H. F. HOLCOMB, W. L. L. WADSWORTH, Secretary. ‘GOURGAS CHAPTER OF ROSE CROTX. A. snd A., Soottish Rite Masons, will hold a regular Conclave oq Zhursdsy evening next, Work on the Seventeenth aad . By order of e ST CHURCH, M., W.. & P.r. M. ED. GOODALE, Grand Secretary. ET. BERNARD COMMANDERY. KO. 35 K. T.— Con! tion Wednesday evening, April 18, at Py u‘i e K ;_r.’ Grdre!idtlog Sir N urteo: L order. Hoigutsace o % W, M. ”’URBAK& E.C J. 0. DICKERSON, Recorder. ORINTHIAN CHAPTER. NO. 69, R. A. M.—Special Contotaton londay ereaing, Aprilia, ai fotcioel. etk enterimid. Ea AWFORD, I P. SUNDAY, APRIL 15 1877 CHICAGO MARKET STMMARY, The Chicago produce markets were active Satur- day. and higher, being excited by the war news from Eorope. Mess pork closed 60c per brl higher, 21 §14.85@15. 00 for April 2nd $15.00@15. 023 for May, Lard closed25¢ per 1001bs higher, 5t 39.75 for April and $9. 80@9. 82i% for May. Meals were 5@ Xcbetter, at5¢ for loose shoulders, 75c for do short ribs, and 8¢ for do short clears. Highwines were quoted at SLO5% per gallon. Flour was active and higher. Wheat closed 4c higher, at $L 41 for April and $1.44X@1.44% for May. Corn closed 2c higher, at 45%c for April and 48c for May. Oats closed ¥c better, at 35%c for April and 384c for May. Rye advanced to 76@77c. Barley closed hicher, at 50@60c for April. Hogs were activeand 5@10c higher, with sales at $5.35@5.75. Cattle were in'200d demand and firmer, at $3.00@ 5.20. Sheep were guict, at $3.75@6.00. One hundred dollars in gold would buy $106.75 in greenbacks at the close. In New York on Saturday greenbacks wers a trifis lower, ruling at 93§@94. The development, within a few days, of great revenue frauds inst the Govern- meat, and the restoration of certain Bamrow officers'who were removed for discovering and opposing thosa frauds, indicate that honesty is to have a chance under the pres- ent Administration, - and dishonesty an army * of enemies. It is thus that extremes will meet. There is no doubt that the Southern Hotel fire was partly a massacreby the Fire Depart- ziient of St. Louis. /fi'hs Globe-Democrat says of this dflplrtm,vfit that, “In view of the hundreds of liveé intrusted to their keeping under such perflona conditions, nothing can atone for a zflimnnagement or a foolhardi- ness which resulted so disastrously.” This is a sorrowful epitaph for the victims. —_— The withdrawal by the President of the United States troops from Sitka, Alasks, seems {o be overlooked by his opponents, Yet how can the people in that country sus- tsin themselves without the troops? ~There will not be a carpet-bagger in all Alaska in six months if the soldiers are removed ; and the fat contracts, which resulted from their -occupancy, cease to afford sustenance to the men who have endured so much to uphold tho “old flag” in that country. Their des- tiny will be sealed far-ever. —_— After the burning of the Brooklyn Thea- tre, Chicago made a vast amonnt of noise with a great deal of wind over an inspection of the theatres here. An interview with the Building Inspector shows that no reforms were made, save in one or two cases, in com- pliance with hisinstroctions ; and that, while be has unlimited sway in the matter of in- vestigating and instraction, he has no power to enforce noeded changes in theatres in order to make them safe. Amusement-goers are requested to appreciste the situation. Nobody else can. — e The stand assumed by Turkey in its em- phatic refusal to accept the Protocol and its defiauce of the European Powers would soem to be the bresking down of tho last barrier between the colliding nations and war. In insisting upon the prosecution of a line of action deprecated by the other Gov- cruments, the Porte virtually declares for ‘battle, and, bound as they areby the Protocol, the other nstions must stand aloof while Turkey and Russia contend, the one for existence and the other for supremacy, The langusge of Turkey's note is sharp and the expression of the Porte’s views unmis. takable. It states in very forcible terms that the recent disturbances within the Turkish borders have been instigated by external influences, leaving a very plain in- ference that Russia is to ba held responsible for the troubles. — — The business downfall of s man honored in society and admired in the commercial circles he has adomed carries with it & les- son that commends “itself to thinking men. Mr. Jomx F. Tracy, Iste President of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Rosd, was looked upon, up to a short time ago, nsa man almost financially infallible. He wasa millionaire, and one whose influence was felt and respected. But suddenly his judgment appeared to fail him, and he Pplunged into reckless schemes of speculation that have finally stripped him of his wealth and seriously impaired his reason. By some wonderful combination of unfortunate selec- tions, everything he tonched involved him deeper in financial distress, until he went into & Wall-street pool, when his sorrows culminated in the almost complete wreck of his property, leaving him shattered in Hicxey bill was rather owing to these defects than to o purpose to prevent the people of Cook County from gettingrid of the Ring. At the samo time, there aro indications of an effort to give the question a partisan aspect, which it has notas amatter of fact. All the votes against the bill except about half o dozen were Democratic votes. It is to be hoped the same spirit will not prevail among the Democratic members of the Houss when the Rosrvsox bill comesto them from the Senate. Though it is true that the County Ring consists mostly of Democrats, its members plunder Democratic taxpayers as mercilessly os they plunder Republican taxpayers; no distinction is made on ac- count of politics. Nor is the move- ment to bresk bown the Ring a Republican movement; it is backed by . the better element of the Dempcratic party in this community as well as the Republican party. If Mr. R. E. Gooprry, who was for- merly Corvey's Chief of Police, and who seems to have accepted the Springfield agency of the Cook County Ring, has made any other representations to Democratic members, ho has belied and maligned the respectable Democrats of Cook County. The best proof that it is in no sense n party matter may be found in the fact that the entire Cook County delegation, with s single exception, are in favor of a reorganization of the Board; the delegation is composed in part of Democrats aud in part of Republic- ans, and they would scarcely unite in this matter if it were a question of party advan- tago on either side. The simple faci is that the taxpayers of Cook County have appealed to the Legisla- ture without respect to party differences to | free them from the plunder of the Coun- ty Ring. There is no way to escape from the foils except by interference of the Legislature. The present law author- ‘izes the choice of only five Commissioners— one-third of the Board—each year, 0 that it is' simply impossible to dislodge the Ring, ten holding over and either dictating the choice of the other five, or overriding them as a small minority. The taxpayers of Cook County have found this out, and in thewr helplessness scarcely take the painsto op- pose the bummers in the annual election of one-third the Board. Whatis asked is the privilege of electing an entire new Board and starting over, and then the taxpayers are confident they can protect themselves. Mr. RonrvsoN's Senate bill offers this opportuni. ty, and it should not be defeated on the mis- representation of 8 man like Goopery that it will give the Republican party an sdvantage. This is false, and Gooperz, in, making such representations to influence the Democratioc members of the Legislatare, does not speak in the interest of the Cook County Demo- crats, but in the interest of a villainous Ring, which is engaged in plundering Demo- ,crats and Republicans alike, bealth, spirits, sud fortune. If his fate shall teach men to hesitate and consider before embarking upon the dangerous. streams and currents of Wallstreet life, perhaps Mr. Tracy may not have suffered in vain. The spirit of - the age—the passion for the sudden accumulation of millions by the manipulation of the fortunes of other men— is deeply imbedded in the generation, and it may demand violent revolutions and ruinous explosions to eradicate the seeds. = But such cruptions, though they prove deadly to those who invite them, will be beneficial in the moral they point, if men’ profit by the ex- perience of their unfortunate neighbors, and ponder well before entening upon projects the miscarriage of which involves nnmerciful disaster and utter ruin. . As an indication of the revival of trade nnd\ steady increase in the volume of business, the advertisement pages of this morning's TrIBUNE may be introduced in evidence. An established newspaper not only reflects the political and sicial sentiment of the community that supports it and Tecognizes its influence, but also the most delicate vari- ations of its business interests. The paper becomes the pulse of its constituency, and its ocolumns illustrate with rigid accuracy the éxtent of embarrassment or prosperity which the various lines of industry or mercantile endeavor reach. A glance at Tue Trisune of to-day will en- coursge the people of Chicago to believe that their hopes for the infusion of new life into all the channels of trade are about to be renlized. Every branch is represented in the myriad of advertisements spread before the reader, and Tae TrIBUNE congratulates the people upon their manifestation of en- terprise, and pledges itself to assistin all laudatle undertakings. The-Board of Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners of this State have arrived at what seems to be amostunrighteous de- cision in the barley case recently submitted to them. The owner of receipts for about 40,000 bushels of No. 2 barley in the Galena ZElevator finds that the grain is no better than the No. 8 in other houses, and asks for redress. He is coolly referred to the ware- houseman for damages. Inasmuch as the State law expressly forbids the warehouse- man to interfere with the inspection of grain, it ishard to see how he can be made responsible for the delivery of good grain in place of the poorstuff which has been mis- graded by a bungling or careless State offi- cinl. The sbsurdity of such a decison is only equaled by the statement that the warehousemsn has a remedy in an action against the Inspector and. his bondsmen. The Board ought to know thatit is prac- tically impossible to collect damages from the Inspector. Meanwhile the holder of the property, who bought it in good faith and paid full prices for it, is obliged to stand the loss, 4 “I WOULD ROT LIVE ALWAY.” The venersble Dr. Mumiensrno, after a life of unostentatious charity and kindly deeds, has passed away, but has left behind him a hymn which gives not only the re- ligious but the true philosophical view of death. It is the well-kmown poem, I would not live alway,” and it breathes the sentiment of a man who has formed the noblest conception of life, and the most complete recognition of the kindly offices of PaTTERSON iS the name of one of the two gentlemen who represent South Carolina in the United States Senate. He may be caljpd the non-resident Senator. It is because he does not reside in the State, probably, that he has determined to find fault with Presi- dent Haxes for adopting a policy which has led to the pacification of South Carolina. If it were mot for PatTemson, we should hear no more about South Caro- death, lina matters; that State would re- i 0 % lapse into sbout the same sort of | 'The ono thing that & man least likes to do is to die. ‘The supreme object of life is to avert that necessity, although one man in the millions of men is of no more importance to the world and is no more missed than one drop from the ocean. Take the one drop away and still the great ocean rolls on. One man drops out of life to-dsy. The grent world goes on just the sams, and to-morrow he isforgotten. Mankind recks as little of his goingas of his coming. Occasionally some poor, Sick soul, unutterably tired of life, to whom Nature will not bring the re- lief of death, shuffles off ths mortal coil, careless of the hereafter, and flies to the unseen world rather than suffer longer the miseries of ¢ stale, flat, unprofit- sble” existence; but it is the rule that men and women fear death, and waste their puny existence in seeking to bafie Atroros, who always cuts the thread at the appointed time. There are great souls like GoEraE Who can recognize the Fates in the air weaving the web of each human life and severing its strands; but most men regard Death as an enemy, fighting him blindly, as if they could repel a foe that is not only on the battle-field, in the whirlwind, the earth- quake, the fire, and the epidemio, but also in the drop of water, the breath of air, the perfume of the flower, in the very atoms we tread under our feet; as universal ag life,— for every instant one is born another dies,— and just as beneficent in its offices. Suppose, however, that mankind had its wish. Suppose that men could keep on liv- ing one, two, five, ten centuries, ‘What a burden life would become ! Suppose that a man could not die, hat exquisite torture ex. istence would prove! Dr. MurLeNsERG'S hymn presents the religious view : I'would not live alway, thus fettered by sin, Temptation without and corrnption within; In a moment of strength, if I sever the chaln, Scarce the victory s mine ere I'm captive ngaln. Carry thisthought to its ultimate limit from the moral point of view. The very worst men at one period of their lives have been pure and innocent. They have reached their power to do harm, their culmination of depravity, by gradual development. Sup- Pose, then, that the vicious, growing worse as they grow older, should keep on living to the ageof the patriarchs or longer,—with what kind of monsters would the world at lsst bo peopled? How would society be regulated, except by universal hanging of all the aged—if there were any hangmen? Can there be any more horrible view of life than that in which the miser goes on developing his greed, the uncharitable growing colder- hearted, the murderer increasing his thirst for blood, the tyrant devising new forms of persecution, the mean, the selfish, and the cruel growing more mean, selfish, and cruel 8s the years increasa? To what condition of depravity would the criminal classes degenerate? To what degree wonld they multiply? From this point of view death i merciful. It purifies the world of vice. By the continual infusion of fresh elements and the removal of corruption, the world is saved from decay, and perhaps the race from ex. tinction. Under the operation of the con- tinual increase of corruption and the hereditary transmission of ‘vicious monstrogi- ty, the race wonld sooner or later decay and disappear, as forests have turned into mold. From the philosophical point of view, death is the natnral outcome, the symmetri- cal end, the harmonious purpose, of life. A seed germinates, and from it springs a stem, with bud, blossom, and leaf. The stem waxes into the tree, and the acorn has be- come thé osk, nourishing other vegetation in its ehade, sustaining other life in its quiescent condition a8 Arkansas, if there ‘were no PATTERSON to yawp about it. Even Cravmerrary, baving quietly withdrawn when there wers no troops to sustain him, has nothing more to say. ParrEmsoy has not been able to make up his mind for more than one day at a time what course he would take. He began by abusing the President and announcing his intention to act with the Democrats. Then it was reported that he sought the President to give him assurances of his most profound consideration and hearty approval. And now PATTERSON turns up sgain in a Washington newspaper of yesterday as & malcontent. The fact is that PATIERSON'S Opinions are of very little con. sequence in thig affair. No one ever heard of him before he procured his election to the Unites States Senate by ways which are said to have been dark and tricks that were not invain. Nobody has heard of him since his election, till the recent change in -the con- dition of South Carolina affairs, which prom- ises to consign ParrersoN to an obscurity from which he never should have emerged. PATTERSON must grumble now or never, to be heard. SHALL THE'COUNTY BOARD BE REOR- GANIZED ? The defeat in the House of Representa- tives of the so-called Hicker bill for the Teorganization of the Cook County Board does not indicate, we hope, an intention to defeat any and every measure that may come before the House for the same purposs. There were objections to certain features of the House bill which may have been suffi- cient to Lill it, in view of the fact that n better bill on the same subject had reached & third reading in the Senate. The Hiokey bill had been loaded down by an amendment requiring the question of reorganizing the Board to be submitted to the people of Cook County at a special election. This was a superfluous and unnecessary condition. The taxpayers of Cook County are almost a unit in desiring and demanding a reorganization of the Board, and such a provision would ouly give the present Ring, having the power to appoint the election-judges, an- opportu- nity to defeat the taxpayers by marshaling the bummers and stuffing the ballot-boxes, The proposition for a reorganization might be defeated in much the same way as the new City Charter was carried two years 8go at a special election which the bummers controlled. Indeed, the date fixed by the bill for such special election wonld have been exceedingly favorable to the Ring. It wonld be difficult to arouse the business men of the city or the workingmen of the country dis- tricts to an interest in a special election in the middle of July,—the dog-days ; nlarge Pproportion of the city taxpayers most inter- ested in the reorganization of the Board would beoff summering; and the country tax- payers would be engaged in their vegetable- gardens and hay-fields. Still another objec- tion to the Hicsey bill as finally voted on was, that it wonld not go into operation till a year from next fall, instead of next fall, as the people desire it. The bill provided that the question of reorganization shonld not be submitted to the people until July 17, and it would not be operative till after being ac- cepted by the people. But the Constitution providesthat all new laws, unless provided ‘with the emergency clause, shall not go into effect till the July following their adoption. This law, then, would probably not have enabled the people to elect a new Board till November, 1878, and would have extended the power of the present Ring a year and a half longer. We prefer to believe that the failure of the branches, and sowing other secd, and then decays and dies, to be reproduced. Man fol- lows the same great kindly natural law. Heis born, grows to maturity, and passes aWaY, that others may live, and his span is * enough for life’s woes, full enough for its cheers.” Any infraction of thislaw would involve a moral, mental, and physical hor- ror, 2 loss of all appreciation of -happiness and pleasure, and intensified susceptibility to- pain and misery,—na fate akin to that which in the myth follows AEASUERUS, vainly seeking in the tempest, the battle, the plague, the fire, the volcano, and the earthquake, for his best friend, Death. . It is in accord- ance with the physical and moral natare of man that he should die, and in both in- stances death is a benefaction, purifying from corruption, arresting decay, reproduc- ing life, and lifting the curtain that hides the unseen world from our eyes,—that curtain we are all the time trying to remove, and yet with singular inconsistency sedulonsly striv- ing to shun the only friend who can draw it aside. THE TURKS IN EUROPE. Five hundred years of history have, we think, satisfactorily determined that it is impossible for the Turks and the Christians to live together without the degradation of the Christian races, and their abject slavery, while at the snme time the Turks themselves retrograde rather than advanmce in civiliza- tion. - The Turk of 1877 is even more bar- barous, uncultivated, and. uncultivable than was the Turk who followed Ormaan and OzcrAN from 1500 to 1350. The aggressive days of the Tarks were marked by all the devastation, cruelties, fanaticism, and revolt- ing infamies which had rendered the previ- ous conquests of Zrvems Kmax and his sue- cessorsso “ glorious™ and yet so destructive ; but the Turk from the earliest day has been a man of violence, and he is the same to-day, limited, however, by his capacity and bis means. Unlike the Saracens in Spain, and in various other parts, who did 8o much to promote learning and the arts, the Turk gave himself up to war, conquest, bloodshed, and barbarity. The history of the conquests in Asia and in Europe be- fore the final destruction of the Greek Em- Ppire and the occupation of Constantinople i filled with his daring, his fatalistio courage, and his barbarity. The fact of the fall of Constantinople was due not only to the war- like character of the Turks, but to the weak- ness of the nations of Europe, and their jealousies of one another; and it may be now said that the existence of Turkey as one of the Sovereign Powers of Europe, and even the recognition of Turkey as a civilized na- tion, has been due to the same two causes. For a long time after the Turk ectered Con- stantinople, the nations of Europe were singly too weak to engage with Turkey; and the attempt at a combination has been de- feated by the jealousy of the rivals. The Christian world has been unable to unite, Catholics and Protestants have refused to de- liver the Gr@k Christians, and, until the rise ngth of Russin, there was thody of Gred#k Christians to in the enslaved Christian Greek Empire§for nearly 600 years, though their capture.6f Constantinople was delayed much longer. During all thgt period, all the States and provinces in Enrope embrac- ing Greek Christianity have been the virtual slaves of & monarchy which has no written law save the Koran, whose faith involves and declares the Christians to be forsaken and outcast by Gop, and fit subjects for murder orany other barbarity by the faith- ful. No words in our langunge can convey to the mind the depth of contempt and in- famy implied in the term * Christian dog,” asused by a Turk in referenco to a Chris- tian. For 600 years the States of Greeca and the Slavic provinces have been ruled by an absolute and despotic Government, one which has treated the people usso many beasts, and with even less humanity than they treat their own beasts. The local Gov- ernment is o mere fiction to give license to all forms of robbery and barbari- ty. The Courts bear no resemblance’ to anythirg known as courts in any other Iand; the local Judges in a land where there is no law are arbitrary despots. Even in Con- stantinople these Judges make no disguiso of selling judgments for the highest price; and if this be done there, what kind of Judges are likely to rule in those distant provinces where the people are of the hated and pro- scribed race and religion, and who are deliv- ered over as fit subjects for extortion, con- fiscation, and all manner of outrages upon the person and the family? Property is held by no tenure save that of the personal will of the local ruler, and the lives and persons of men, women, and children of the native people are equally at the mercy of the ruling race. That they have not been ex- terminated has been due to the rapacity and not to the mercy of the Turks. These prov- inces have furnished rich fields for plunder. The ordinary tribntes exacted have been enormous, but the irregular ravages, the ‘wholesale stripping of the substance of the people on every possible pretext, have been terrible in their severity. In all these long years it has been the custom to reward an army by turning it loose in some of these provinces, with license to gorge itself in blood, in lust, in cruelty, and in plunder, upon the unarmed, helpless people. Aninstance of this happened last summer: Under the pretext that a rebellion was intended, a corps of regular troops and another of Bashi-Bazouks were turned loose into Bulgaria, and there committed the atro- cities which have shocked the civilized world, and which have had the strongest effect in arousing public sentiment in England against the hereditary affiliation of England with Turkey. It was not until Russis, in the early part of the present ccutury, made an attempt to relieve the Christian people, that any thing serious was done to mitigate the barbarities inflioted npon the Christion subjects of the Turkish Empire. Greece wes moved and encouraged to strike for freedom. English jealousy of Russia, dreading the effect of the Eastern extension of Russian power on the permanency of British rule in India, here intervened, and compelled a peace which only recognized a part of Greece as inde. pendent, and left the rest of Greece in the worst form of slavery. Had it not been for England then, the Turk would have been driven out of Europe. Again, in 1853, Russia was moved by the sapplications of these people, all more or less of kindred race and all of the same religion as her own people, and again the selfishness of England provailed in-behalf of Turkey. She was able to induce France to join her to protect the Turk, and the two were able to compel Rus- sia to abandon the war. Turkey has had a respite of twenty-four years, in which she has remained _stagnant, while the world has ade gigantic progress. During that period | Turkey has literally grown worse in all the people have degenerated; Lheymhopfaless- ly ignorant; they ars as fanatical and mf:ol- erant as ever; they have spurned education as effeminate, and have cultivated the most implacable hatred of all other peoples. They have borrowed immenss sums of momney from the British, which they have expended for fortifications and on a navy, which debt they now repudiate. The eventsin Crete ten years ago and in Bulgaria last year show that the Turk is the same ferocious and implacable monster he has ever been, and that there can be no peace and no humanity, no civilization and no agreement, between him and the Christian subjects who are under his dominion. There can be but one deliverance for these unfortunate peo- ple, and that is to expel the Turk from Eu- rope. He has no place in Eurcpean civiliza- tion. His Government is a reproach to hu- manity, and one for which England is daeyly responsible, because of the long probation she has given, and which her Government even now is most reluctant to abandon. In the war which Russia is about to pre- cipitate upon the Tarks mankind will gen- erally sympathize with Russia. She asks no aid; she merely asks that neutrality which will leave her to deal in behalf of the Euro- pean Christian States with their Turkish des- pot. Her cause will not only be that of liberty,—of the personal freedom of the Slavic and Greek States and provinces,—but the cause of humanity. She will deliver these millions of people from a slavery such as has not existed elsewhere in modern ages, —a slavery such as might be imagined if the savages on our frontiers should be made rul- ers of the whito race. That the war will be oneof grentmagnitude, there can beno doubt; that it will be a short one, a decisive one, and a final one as to the further existence of theTurk in Europe, should be the hope of all {riends of civilization and peace. Nature scems to be continually evolving new diseases, and the doctors to be finding new ex- cuses for them. * Katatonia ™ is the latest out- cropping of disturbed minds, according toa New York doctor, and embraces in its phases one which the suflercr indulges in *a pathetic delusion of grandeur and a tendency to act and talk theatrically,” and to bebave like the comic stump-speaker. The world owes s debt of grat- itude to this doctor; for without this exposition it would never have known how -to classify the men who thunder upon the stage or rant upon the rostrum without'sane purpose or sane prices. It was a kindly man who invented kleptomania for the rich who steal, and emo- tional insanity for the rich who kill; none the less philanthropical is this new man to the front ‘who excuses the specch-making vagaries of our acquaintances by showing: that they are afilicted with katatonia. Political campaigns are, then, but the aggregations of katatoniacs, and slight attacks of the discasc are liable to befall even Governors, restive under ‘exceutive dumbness, and themce down to, the cditor pushed to tramping and the cloguent vaga- bondage of the hustings. It may be understood now why s0 many good men have carried flags in their bats aud flags in their mouths to unroll oceasion demands; why there Is a GEORGE FRANCIS TrAIN, a DEaN, 8 DALZELL, 2 PrATT, find the Interjective ora- tors who fit between 4s occasion demands. We understand now what ails the ladies in their talkative humors, and to all can give the charity of the old disease with the new name warranted, as the trade-marks bave it, to *“keep in any cli- mate.” In fact, a little more ot discovery and we shall begin to understand human natare. ———— One of themost impudent men of the time is Senator PATTZRSON, of South Carolina, who proposes-to drill the Administration with Dem- ocratic tactics. He ventilates what Ze is going to do in Congress, ,as if the fate of the nation depended upon bjim. It Is onlya conple of duys ago that hegaid: “We—that is, the Re- publican party i}v the South—were created by an act of Congfess, and the negroes assocate the Government and the troops with the party.” Who taught ?hem that association? Not the Government,/not the party In the North, not the people. Take away the troops, reasons PATTERSON, and the negroes will believe the Government has deserted them. To which he calmly adds that he is going to vote for BurLER, the man who killed the negroes at Hambure. And yet that is the kind of Senator who calls the President inconsistent ! ——— BLAINE butter for Administration toast— **Iam equally sure that Gov. Packarp feels that my heart and judgment are both with him in the contest he is sthll waginz azainst great odds for the Governorship that he holds Dy a title as valid ns that which justly and lawfully seated RuTuzrForn B. HAYES in the Presidential chair." The cream frof the “milk of human kind- ness ”” which Mr{ BLAINE once kept in his well- stocked dairy, soured too much by the po- litical storm of 876. Or, perbaps, the absence of rotary churng in the unew political system fs what aflsthe butter of his speech. Ile mis- judges the market, does Mr. BLAINE. No such product is wanted. It will not even grease to silence the squeaks of the machine politician. “Oll upon troubled waters” does mot; mean {rowy butter warmed for batter, emollient, or Esquimanx pomatum, e — The Philadelphla Times, commenting on the fact that the decision that the $1,500,000 loancd to the Centennial Exposition Company must be repald, says that this is s severe blow to the permanent Exposition Company, whose capital consisted of shares'of the old Company’s stock, which was mtgl at 80 per cent of its face value. It sugeeésts that Congress give ald to the new enterprise, 0sif that body werea sort of suction-pump ‘between - Philadelphia and the | Treasury. What has Congress to do with the ventures of private citizens in private corpora-~ tions? 1If the United Stateshas $1,500,000t0 spare (which it has not), let them be given to public improvements. ——— The value of a thought is to-day rated aecord- Ing to its setting, whether n the penny press, in the more dignified and expensive daily, in the Iearned monthly, or in that consummation of either wisdom, stupldity, or lifeless mediocrity— a book. SOLOMON'S sayings would be as silly in 079 Journal as fts editorials would generally be inlarger and more important contemporaries, Readers estimate reason according to the com- pany it keeps. Diamonds in brass and -glass in gold are both misjudged and held to be conn- terfeite. Thoughts fare little better in the gen- eral valuation of the public. Mr. F. F. Browxe, formerly editor of the Lakeride Monthly, has sssociated himself with the Alliance, Prof. DAVID Swing's journal, and 1t is said to be the intention to add considerably to the literary attractiveness of the Ppaper by secaring contributions from well-known writers, Mr. BROWNE {8 2 gentleman of good taste and large experience in literary matters, and ought to be a material acquisition to the Alliance. — ‘The man at the crib sald his prayers twenty- four times a day until an examination Pproved its foundations to be secure. Now he skips about his quarters whistling ** Hold the Fort» to the tune of *0Old Dan Tucker” with all the assurance of the man whose house was founded upon & rock. Thus do circumstances alter cases. —_— The 108 soldiers in Alaska having been with- drawn, and the way to an autonomy being es- tablighed, it i in order for fce-men to apply for the Territorial .and Federal offices. The right s0rt of men can get rich out of this $7,000,000 piece of property, and their wives can wear seal- skin cloaks the year round. —— —— RiCHARD GRANT WaITE says: “ Our large cities have produced very few of the men who have exercised any. great ipfluence npon our public affairs,?” The truthfulness of this is proven by ymfl_: men a5 JaMEs BUCHANAX, JxrR Youxg, and others too numerous to meation. Wo accord with Mr. Wurrs's assertion in toe criminals in the citics may be deflected to the country, with which they can grow up. —— ono of the heads of the Hydra “gobbles.” An organization in which at least one of the heads did not “gobble would be inconceivable to the gentle shepherds of that paper. e ——— farewell ™. pérformance, string—of qiestions. The old gentleman was that mother-in-law. —— Boston Bohemlan pachyderms. ments of old-fashioned underclothing begin to appear and shred off. - He will get where they live after a while. — —— It makes the old Journal mad to have its #leaders” on vegetables copled in Tme Tain- UNE; even when it gets ‘“due credit” them. Down South they call him “King” ALEXAN- DER H. STEPHENS, becausehe “never dies.” says'* Governor” now i South known whom he means. When a m: Carolina it Theré has not been much “staring at vacan- cles ” since the President came in. e ——— The silk impérts at New York seem to have been cut biasand against the West. it et sl PERSONAL. Annie Louise Cary's father died recently at Dar- ham, Ae. But 8100 have been sabscribed toward a monn- ‘ment to Owen Marlowe, the actor. ° A whale ninety-six fect long was driven ashore Dy the ice at Schooner Pond, Cape Breton. ‘The Buffalo editors have accidentally discovered that a contribator has been palming Mra. Hemans' ‘poems on them for original. Let us be just to Chicago. Let us say that Chi- eago would have a population much larger than St. Louis if it wasn't for the murders. —Bochester Dem- ocrat. The Rev. William H. Jeffries, late pastor of the Carlinville (Ill.) Presbyterian Church, has been fired out **for repeated and aggravated violations of the seventh commandment. ™ x Mr. Rose, the Englishman who fell into the hands of the Sicilian bandittl, .and bad to pay $25,000 to get away from them, is now telling his story in London eocicty. The bandits promise him the freedom of their country hercafter; lus big ransom money purchased him a Iife ticket, David Mikesell walked into the parlor of the r'e- troleum Hotel, Pittaburg, accompanied by rs. J. M. Careon. Shortly afier Mr. J. M. Carson walked into tae same parlor, accompanied by n plstol, with which he shot a hole in the countenance of Mr. Mikesell, whereof he died. Jealousy. Stonewall Jackson's widow says of him: *‘He Wwas one of the most courteons men imaginable. He never passed a lady on the street, whether stranger or-not, without raising his hat. One thing I remember of him: he never looked into a room that he happened to pass when the' door was ©pen-not even my own."" Miss Annle Louise Cary astonished the Hartford people by u gorgeous exhibition of diamonds at her concert the other evening. The Times of that clty describes the geme, and aads, in an admiring way: ¢ Her hair was dressed simply, with heavy braids, and ornamented with nataral flowers, held by a large diamond butterfly, which was not visible from the front, and was, as Miss Cary naively re- maried, *for the beneSt of the chorus.® One of the strangest trials on record occnrred at West Gnion (W. Va.) the othernight. A morder- crnamed Thomas Powell, confined in the jail at that place, was allowed to become one of & drink- ing purty which the jaler had called together, and, after all hands had Lecome thorvughly hiiari- out, a trial of Powell was instituted, with Judgo, Prosccuting Attorney, ctc. Aftera hearing, Pow- cll was adjudged not gnilty, and the prison-door ‘was tarown open, through which he made his es- cape. The jaller has since been arrested, and a reward for Fowell's recapture offercd. The trial of the Rev. Alvah Wiswall before a Committce of the Trustecs of St. John's Guild, New York, on charges of ill-treatment toward his wife, developed a fine aspect of conjuzal felizity. ‘Wiswall swore that when he went to us dally work his wifc would write letiers to his friends saying he had eloped. She would post notices on the front door, stating that he could be found at the houses of certain Indies. Postal cards were her best hold, and she wrote him some ternblo messages therc. upon. Finally he left her, and then came the row. There fa every proapect that he will be honorably discharged. In the Gundagai (Australia) jafl, Charles Lo Grande Redmayne islocked up on a charge of stealing a ring from Jumes Ford. He was a stroll- ing magician, swallowed the ring, and conld not getitback. While Le is waiting, Dr. MeKillop is trying to take a large steel Albert chain from his stomach, The action of the organs has broken one link, and emetics have brought up several amaller chains, brass rings, and penknives, but the larger chain has 80 far baflled medical skill. Two pounds of jewelry have rewarded the physician's labors; bat Ford's ring has some way become entangled with tne chain, and has not yet come to the sur- face. Oneof Mrs. Hayes' old schoolmates says of her: “She was generally kind and Ppopular, but not ex- cezslvely fond of any one. She was always self- reliautand capable, and I think has retained these characteristics. I mether several yearsago for, the first time after we had parted at school, and ehe did not seem to have changed a particle. I suid to her, *Why, yonare the same Lucy as of old.” *Why shouldn't I be? was her laughing re- vly. Then she told the number and names of her children on her fingers, and the laughter was changed to tears as we talked over the friends who Were no more. Itis just like Lucy to go to the Foundry Charch. She always despised shams and ostentation. ™ Daring the War Mr. R. M. Moore, Mayor of Cln- clonati, was placed in command of a detachment guarding a body of 100 Rebel prisoners, and one day one of them, & great favorite, died, and his body was sent to his family, who lived only a few miles distant, bat inside the Rebel lines. On the morning of the funeral he drew the prisoners up in aline, and offered to take them all to attend it, under 1o cscort bat himself, providing they would Pledge im their honor not to attempt to escape. ‘They all jolntly accepted the offer, and he marched them into the Rebel lines, took part with them in the funeral exercises, and retarned at night with. put the loss of a man. Tho procecding, though humane, was 50 contrary to the rales of war that & court-martial was for a long time threatened, The Berlin Post of the 20th of March has the following: ‘‘The American painter, Healy, has been sojourning for some weeks in Berlin In order to paint a portrait of Prince Bismarck for Ministor Washburne. Mr. Washburne was during the slege of Paris American Minister in that city. and bis ef- forts in behalf of the Germans there wore 8o active aud gelf-sacrificing that the German Government felt impelled to “express its recognition of bis services and its gratitude therefor by tho presenta. tion of a decoration ofa high order, artistically Wwrought and of rich material. This, however, vas courteonsly declined on the pround that It was contrary to the spirit of the American Government. Atthe same time Mr. Washburne expressed the wish that Prince Bismarck would sit for his portrait 10 an American artist of distinction. The Princo consented, and has already given Mr. Healy sev- eral sittings, in spite of his pressing daties and of his well-known disinclination 1o bave his portrait painted. The Graphic takes up Tthe cudgels for Amna Dickinson and sails fnto the New York critics in fnecstyle. Ttsays: **The public will remember the crucl and brutsl attacks upon Miss Ciara Morris in the Tridune, Times, and other Ppapers, and will also recall the lack of sound judzment ehown by these critica upon nearly every new. play produced in this city. ‘We believe that there Ly searcely an instance of & ruccessfal play having been approved by the young fellows who represent the critical departmentof our morning papers, Wwhile the veriest rabbish has been ‘Wwarmly recom- mended. A casc in point is that of Anna Dickin. son's play. Those who have scen it know it tq b an excelleat drama, well digested, coherent, fa) of poluts, and, in the catimation of all actors who bave seeri it, likely to hold the stage whenever Miss Dickinson chooses to relinquish it. Yet, al- most without exception, the young men who mis. Tepresent the morning papers have et o e ve pronounced it a hope that in this way the ambition of rising The *old reliable” insists that the Pelican has no “shoulders,” but firmly maintains that Ore BuLr has been fnterviewed. It wasa 3 cxecuted on ont all harmon¥, and with not a sharp note about Moopr is still throwing shot at the et Already frag- for THE SOUTH PARKS, Investigating: the Stories of tions Given to Papers, Mr. W. H. Eddy Contributes His gy of Information on the Subject, - And Makes Some Statements Which 4 * Promptly and Utterly Denieg, Judge Beckwith Tells About His Oonpy, tion with the Phillips Tract, Messrs, Cornell and J. Irving Peary . Also upon the Stand. MORNING SESSION. : 2 JOIN M'CAFFERT. i The Legislative Investigating Committes mety the Grand Paclfc vesterday mornig, al the mey. bers present except Senator Morgan. Joha g, Caflery made o personal explanation as to the by of Mr. Adams for gravel. He had formerly myy that he thought Adams’ wasa. straw-bid, bat sing then had seen reason to alter his opinion, Witney ld not know who J. HL. Shepterd, who made ty, other bid, was. A certain J. H. Shephera washy his employ, but, 8o far as witness knew, he g not bid. He bad asked Shepherd about it, but thy he should have baif of the p .u:led De did not know who was the present ownerof laiter conld not remember. Witness. desired py state thatno Park Commissioner had at any timg 20y fnterest in any of his contracts. And- he by never borrowed money from the Iilinois Loan & Trust Company. Mr. Mason wanted to know if the witness didnot gravel Wentworth avenue for the Town of Lakeat therate of $2.10 per cublc yard The witnesy conld not remember, and did not thirk that thig contract was carried on at the same time asthy Fifty-ffth street one, for which $2.75 peryard way paid. Even if the prico named was that received, the reason for the difference was that thers way less expense for hanlage on the Wentworth-avengs Job. By Mr. Truesdell—Witness got one contract 1g pursuance of blds which were advertised for, Pos. sibly had about ten contracts in all, these. made by agreement. Couldn't remember the exset number of contracts. The Commissioners sent ont requests for bids, which were simply effors to find out the prices, and aquceze witness downio low figures. Then they would give witness ths contract, and he had to get his money the best wny he conld. By Gen. Rowett—Considered that the Board were not practical men as far as regarded contract- ing, and that they advertiscd in order to obtain in. formation. DIid not know in what lignt other egp. tractors looked upon the bids. i JUDGE BECKWITI - was then swornand cxamrned by Mr. Mason. Hy testified as to his connection with the Phillips tract, elaborating slight'y on the points contains in witness' letter to the Committee already pub lished. phillips was afraid he was goingto los hisland, and came to witness with the complsin that hie 1788 going to be robbed. Witness made s personal comtract wita Phillips that ‘hg should prosccute the latter's lezal - claim, and receive one-foarth interest on the claim, This intercst was afterwards transferred to the Park Roard, who, having acquired Phillips' i, excepting the claln of Aikins, eatered fnto ression of the property, canceled the tax titles, 1ud turned out Kerr. ~Philiips, who was to receive $u0V per acre when the title was perfected. then went {o sleep, and Kerr took to walking the floor, declaring that ke had been robbed. . By Judge Dnirey—Did not kuow anythinzaboat a claim of Cornell's on the propertys ihought that Mr. Thompsun had some claim for fces. ~Under- £tood that there was some contract batween At- Kkins and Phillips, bat did not kaow the exact n1- ture of the cetails. By Jr. Maron—Some smnll sums of money might ‘bave” been paid to Phillipps on account, There were some tax titles purchased. Witness did not know what expeases had been entailed by litigation. and did not know who was to bear the lezal expenses. He knew nothing more about the caze than that he made the contact with Phillips for the benefit of the Park Commissioners, aad’ with their concurrence. Witness procared ail the deods hic thought necessary. L Senator outhworlh—Phillips was the original owner of the Iand up to the time when Kerr ob- taincd a judgment. sadject to a claim of dower by Mea. L. F. R Kerr took the property usscl, under the judgnent sale. ‘The Judge eaid the land was too low to make dry ronnd, and too lizh to make & pond, but hillige, who was well aware that the ' Park Commission wanted. the land, asked at some fabnlons figure, §2,000 or $3,000 per acre. Finally ke came down t0'$500. The witness was to haye a quarter-interest under the original con-. tract, and when this was trapsferred to the Park Board it just caine to this: that the Park Boird had to pay SB00 an acre for the lnnd, aithonzh the nominal ‘price was $500. All expense of litiga- tion to perfect the title was to be deducted from the price paid by the Bourd. The contract between Witness and Phillips was probably destroyed in the re.. He was unable to identify a document duced by Judge Dunlevy, and purporting fo bes copy of the contract. $o far as he knew hisfirm did not charge the Park Commission anything for legal “services in this case, the matter never having sone far enough for that: ~ It wasa mere form that witness was to have a quar- ter interest, that hnrini been turned over tothe Park Board. Phillips knew that sach was the case, and there was no obligation on the witness fo do more than render his legal services in the per- fection of the title, 3nd to see thac Phillips was not left out in the cold. (Mr. Kales demanded that the document pro- duced by Judge Duulevy should be incorporated m the record, and that they should be farnfshed with 3 copy of it. Their reason was, that the paper bad previously beeu pruduced in the Federal conrts and withdrawn. Mr. Truesdell eaid it shonld go on the record. Ue wanted to follow the matter farther. Judge Beckwith eaid the whole question 2sto Obtaining title was discussed over and over with the Park Board. He informed himsclf as to the etate of the title, and spoke to Judge Wilson, whom he considered one of the best real-estata Inwyers in town, us to what he had ascertained. Judre Wilson wns at that time President of the Board, Cornell was a lawyer, and Bowen and G: were supposcd to know something about titie real estate. Mr. Trueadell wanted to know whether Phillips coald not force the Purk Board to pay him 3500 per acre, according to the face of the contract. The witness’ said that they held his quarter- interest, which would certainly go as an offset.’ Mr. Tracsdell—That would give validity to your contract. Judge Beckrwith replicd that there was & precau- ., tonary provision against Phillips transferring bis intercst except subject to the quarter-interest and all other claims. The transfer to the Park Board Yas inade about the year 1870, long before the fire, The paper offered by Judge Dunlévy was 5 bogus one. _ It was ot a copy of the contract. : Judse Dunlevy—T wrote it from_recollection and Infurmation derived from Judge Beckwith in con- vegsation, ‘The witness further stated that Ju ‘Wilson, Messrs. Bowen, Cornell, and Gage mess mears Of the Board when this contract was made., Judge Wilson understowd that the price was 3600 per <. Mr. Truesdell—Do I understand you, Judge, that you claim both this contract and ita indorsement 2 being bogus? Judze Beckwith—I certalnly do. The contracs which I made was signed in duplicate I think by mysclf alone. My copy was destroved in the fire, and Phillips has on inany occasions since that ¢vent said that he had lost his. Whether the Board have- attempted to replace the contract. 1 havenot met with the Board since the y Jr. 4dell—Phillips had clalmed several times that witness bad no Fight to. subesitass sif one to attend to his interest, and insiated that wit- Dess was required to attend personally in coart when any' motion in reference to the matter came up for a ent. Then the Yitness asked him to produce the paper aho that he was «o’ bound, and Phillj; answered thal be had lost it. Witneas had given Fhillips some advice in regard to the title and to obtaining deeds from Martin, Burton, and vther sapposed holders, Inorder to be able to fight the Kerr titte. He un- derstood that the Martin title was held in trust for Phillips. Witness had_known Phillips ten years Defore, and had done busineas for Phillips, who Claimed that all his lawyers, except witness, had gold him out. It was provided In tho original can- tract that " whatever part of the property might ~ be acquired by the Park Com- missioners should not be neld by them sdversely Phil-ips, —that Is, that whenever he procared & gonveyance to them of any interest in the land, Such infereet ehoula be %el:dlto belonz o Phillyh conveyanco by Phitlips to perfect his title, and that the Park Commminsioners shoald ot clal g.enll?xenu:}nul couveyed to them adversely to pa. L& was explaincd that some lots had been scqair- ¢d and that the title was n unit a to the -hm 200 Jcres. Judge Beckwith sald that it had been stated that he was to be questioned as to TOE KDIBARE TRANSACTION, 4nd he was ready to o ahead. Mr. Mason eald ha bad nothing to inquire about, but Gen. Rowets desired the witness to tell what he knew. Judge Beckwith said he was consulted in 1870 Mr. C. T. Bowen abont & payment of $1,000 to Imbark on account of the Kimbark tract. 15 which Bowen represented oue-haif interest. There was trouble about the title here, the Park Board refas- iog to buy unless Kimbark wonld guarantee them :'?inlt all adverse claims. This Kimbark rcfused do. Aclergyman named Eaton claimed, and the matter was fonght oat, witness conducting the [uatter on behalf of Kimbark on an agreement that. In answer to Col. Judge Beckwith: - Thompson, contract for the Eaton title, Col.