Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 28, 1877, Page 4

WHA UslUAGO 'TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, APRIL. 28, 1877—-TWELVE PAGLS, i Ol Tkbmme, 271 TERMS OF SUNSCRIPTION. atly Faition, pos:paid: g.;.{a( I yeur! pef moath, Malied tq Ay sddreey four Eupday Edit rheet,’ fatiminy E 3 e\ eekiy, post g ’arts of m year, per month., rinenee WEEKLY RDITION, FPOSTIAID. aneco L per year, e i Cinbof twi Tosage prepata. Frecimen coples rant free., ‘Torrevent delay and miatakes, bo mre nnd cive Poste - Cfeeaddresain Tull, including Rtate and Counte, Tost-Uflice urder. or In registered lettera At our risk. 7ERMS TO CITY SUBSURIDERS, Tafly, delteered, kuhdsy eseented, 23 cents per week, 3xily, deilvered, Sunday Ineinded, 30 ecnta per week Aditress THE TRIDUNE COML. Loruer Madteon amil Dearborn: e T i, Vntear oA, Opers Gana ngageme Al cnf-rfimm. hiee Boara. hvealog, - B cArchiduc.” ) MeVicker's Thentres Madicon street, Detween ~ Dearhomn and Rtate, Engasemeat of Mim Mary Anderson, Afiernoon, *‘Lady of Eyoun. Evenlng, - Macbeill.” * Museum, Monros street, hetweon Stato and Dearbora. Vaude- villeand novelty. Afternooasnd eveulng. New Chicazo Theatre. 2 Clark street, between Lako and Raandolph. Rice's Minstrels, Afterticon snd evening. Adeiphl Theatre, Manroe street,. eotner Deathorn, Engagemeat of Georze W, Thimpsan. **Yacup,” ‘Afternoon and evening. WML B, WAUREN L] . Fo AND A, M.—Fegular Comniuniea Eaturday) evening ymil 24 at & oclock eharp, for busiiess and work. ¥ ordet of tha W. J. . DUKLOP, Secretary. APRIL 28, LGDOE NO 200, A, Lion this SBATURDAY, 1877, OBICAGO MARKET SUMMARY, Tho Chicagn produce markets wero steadicr yes- terday, and moderately active, 3less pork closed anchanged, at $10.000210,05 cash and $10.174H@ 16,20 for June. Lardclosedashade casiér,at$10,10 yer 100 s cash and $10.2344 for June. Meats wera easler, at b!je per D for locse shoulders, 8¢ for do rhort ribe, and 8ie for do short clears, Iligh- wines were firiner, at $1.00%@1,10 per gatlon, Tlour was nctive and firm, Wheat closed 3@3tic Ligher, at 81.70 for May and $1.73 for June, Coruclosed firm, at Li%e for May and G8c for June. Qats closed %@1c higher, at 403c for May and 423¢ for June. Iyo was easler, nt N2QRHge, Diarley wasnominally firm, at BO@85c., 1logs wera quict and casy, at Thursday's declinefsriilng at 5, 0R5. 85, Cattlo were dull and unchanged, Vi #ales at $2.76@5.50, Sheep wers firm. {ine hundred dollara in gold would buy $107.12% /1n greenbacks at tho clos ¢ —————r— Greenbacks at the New York Gold Ex- change yesterday closed at 03§, — The bill for the refunding of town and municipal indebtedness at n lower rato of i interest, and providing for the establishmont of n sinking fund and the psyment of in- torest through tho collection of taxes by the State, yesterday passed the Honse, and, hav- ing roceived tho signature of the Govornor, | isnow a law. ¢ Gen. SuEnuaN's opinion ‘of the war in Earopo i that itwill be of long durstion, and * involvo other combatants besides' Ilusain ' sud Tarkoy. Ho states that American offl. cera dosirous of visiting tho scene of opern- * tiops can only obtain lenvo of absence on holf-payif at all, nud that they will be de- ‘barred from engoging temporarily with either army, . Ex-Confodorate soldiers now residing in Now York City proposo to joln in tho cxer. : oises of tho 30tk of Mny, and attend in a body on the occasion of the decoration of %, the graves of Federal and Confoderato dend on that day. At this rate it will not be suany years beforo tho veterara who once wora tho gray will have forgotten which side thoy served on, or that there were two sides, i in foct, . The end of tho Vaxpermer litigation was not reached when the compromiss of a fow Tho favorod son in tho old man’s will wisely concluded that pythe shortest way to a settlement of the .:{"aanlcst, and the surest way to keep the , 2 1hulk of tho estato from oventually gotting 1. Into tho posscssion of tho lawyers, was to arrango the matter with the differont heim upon an anticable basis, ‘Thero Aeems fomo- 0w Lo have been a serew loose in tho nego- tiations with Cornvevtus, the ne'er-do.well whom his futhor ent off with half a million, iend who now brings sult against Wirsias 3, H. 1o enfarco the contract by which ke was 14, to bave a ronnd nullion. There s, there- “foro, somu clianco that the Inwyers may not ibe lelt altogether comfortlens, § —— e » \ It will ovontually dawn upon the percep- i) tions of the whisky-thioves that thoy have . k" llittlo to hopo in the way of lonlency from ] 'tho present Administration, ‘hero are to . Do no moro pardouy; such of the thioves os '7. were not liberated by the outgoing Exccutive W nust sorve out their sentences. Morcover, the pending suits ogainst distillers and “y vovenuo obflelals aud thelr Londsmen g aro mot to be dropped, but: must i+l b vigorously nud ivdustriously pressed & in the courts. Buch are tho iustructions . 4 embodied in a letter of the Commissionor of Vo tho’ Internsl Rovenns to the Distriot.Ate Ly torney. ‘Tho intention is that the Govern- 31" ment sball bo reimbursed to the Jast dollarin i 3. Wl cases of civil indomnification, nud that i f1s do-notking polioy of the past cightor 2n months shall give placo to onergetio i} ueavures. i Tho decision of . Judge Scuazrrrs, an. 48 qounced yesterdny in the divorce cass of N Eviza vs, Yuiosax Youna, places the } 'i r but unfortunnte plaintif in an unplens- 1 ot predicament in the eyes of fhe law and \ . 1 society. It is held that there waa no i narriage between the pagties, and that Ann |, fiza is not entitled to s docree of di- ! orce. For the menial sorvice which y he rendered unto the Prophet during + §i he yesnt of their joint polygamous career a3 / asn aud wife de fucto she wonld be en- itled to rocover & rensonablo compensationy ‘ut, as she has alvoady vecefved in the form {# 1 alimony duriug the pendency of the litign- i ‘) n 8 suin i excess of the value of her serv. s us shown in the proof, she has exbaust. A berlegal claim upon Boiouaw's estate, nd must look to the lsw for no further con. Olation. busive and disgraceful Janguago uttered on . 40 floor of the House on Thursday was so irong among the mewbers of the Legisla. wo yestordsy that the usual supply of ‘hicago dailies was quickly exhousted, and 10y were reduced o tho unecessity of i ¢ ptoping to tho readivg of the seport by i v. jo Clerk ot the noon recess. . Having ¢} ept over it, the sore-headed law-makery luat have felt intensely cheap at the pub. A ¢ Remittances may benade elther hy drath, expreas, . lished record of their asinina folly in sus. pending tha business of the session to devols their time and talent for foul langnage in belaboring A mnewspaper reporter who had simply done Lis duty. Evidences arenot .| wanting that the House was thoroughly ashamed of itself, for an eqnal amountof straight-ahead work has not been done in any one day daring tha session, Tne Tnis- uxz's exposure of absonteeism has thus borne good fruit already; the shirkers have boen shamed into attending to the peoplo’s busi- nesa, A dispatch comes by cable, which sadly needs confirmation, that Austria has called upon England to fulfill her engagements un- 'der the {ripartite treaty of 1856 for protect- ing the integrity of tho Ottoman Empire, "and that the English Cabinet, as the firat stap, will mako a formal roquest to Ilussia to state tha objeot of ber oporations ngainst Turkey, and to deflne the extent of thoso operations. There is o possibility that in the prosent un. ensinoss of England es (o Russin's ultimato design she may ask for a categorical stato- ment upon the annoxation question, bt that Ausiria hns serjonsly entored npon an alli- ance with England to help the Turks doca not appenr probablo so soon after the sign- ing of tho protocol. Russia never would havo sent her troops over the Turkish fron- tleri? sho had not hiad positive assurances of the attitude of Austria. Inasmuch, how- aver, ns the whole matter isbut a correspond- ont's rumor, it will bo time for comment when it is officially confirmed. Tho Chicago ZV¥mes, in-answering Tne Trinuxe’s assertion that it had appeaved as a partisan of Turkey, roverts to its old moth. ods of blackguardism and personal jnvective as a reply. An epithet, even if it be ra. peated n thousand times, answars nothing. With how much of fairness the Zimes pro- puses to treat the Russian side of the ques tion may be judged by tho following oxtract from the snmo nrticlos A sponge cannot be rubbed over the faco of Enro- pean history for the pnrposo of wining ont the cruel record of Ruaaln in ordor to supply her with s preity motive in descending upon tho Danube. Poland Nlea In her rulns, a ghastly monument of Russlan buichery. Stberia ralscs its whitened head to protent azainst tha idealization of Russian policy. The walls of the children whom Svova. norp put to the sword nre not allenced yet. ‘Wherever and whenever Itnsslan forocity has been free to yleld to s savage Impulacs, the carth has groaned with the enormity of ts crimes. To ac- credit the Czar with o purely hummane desire In crossing the Pruth le simply nonsenaical, What he wants {s 8 mora convenlent water-way to Westorn markots. This ho fs bound to have, though Con- stantinople be neccesary ns s sentry-box for Nus. sian Interests in the Bluck Sea and the Mediter- rancen. The mismanagement and oxtravagance of the Board of County Commissioners, coupled with tho recont heavy advance in broadstuffs and provisions, hnd precipitated a serions crisia in the county’s affairs. The contractor “who has furnished flour lo the Hospital, In. sana Asylum, and Poor-House is about to throw up his contract, being unabloe to carry itout at the increased cost of flour in the markot, Ile is afforded an easy escape out of tho now unprofitablo contract by the fact {hat the Board buos fafled to fulfill its part of tho contraot,—that which provides for the payment of tho contraclor's monthly bills, The Treasury is drained dry, and as the county hns not the cash with which to Luy in the opon market, thors is & prospeot that tho rofusal of several of the contractors to go on with their contracts will necessitato tho closing of the Hospital and Insane Asy- lmn. To this condition the county finances have been brought by the Ring majority of the Board, and since the Legislaturo refuses {o abolish tho Ring becaunso it is composed of Domocrats, tho prospoct of immediato improvement is gloomy‘\enough. Tolegrams from the seat of warars prin- cipally burdened with accounts of the move- ments of troops and the operations of the T'urkish navy on the Danubo and tho Black Bon, togethor with the political indications— the latter, from tho genoral lack of suthor- ity, belug worthy of litda credeuce. Chiof among the =sensational reporis is ono pointed in tho Liverpool Courier which credita Great Britaln withn policy tlnt is at variance with every former utter- ance from Tondon—that of direct Intervon. tion in the struggle botween Russia and Tur- key. 'This correspondont also declares that Austeia s disposed to join England in her effort to stop the advance of the Rus. slon legions. In contradiction tothesornmors come dispatches containing lost night's proceedings in Parlinment, which savor rathor of neutrality than war, and also a messogg from the Ozar to the Emperor Franots Josern in roply to 8 complimentary deputation to tho former, in which the Czar luys much ulress upon the fact that the re- Intions betwoen the two countries aro entirely satisfactory., The movements of the invading avmics aro necessarily very slow, tha roods being in many places in an {m- passablo condition, There is little doubt, lowevor, that several considerable detach- mouts of Russion troops have obtained a foothold on ths sorth bank of the Dauunbs, where they will throw up intrenchments and ewait the coming of the main arny. The Turkish navy In the Dlack Bea ix roported ta have commenced the bom. bardment of soveral Russian ports, ono of which,a small oity in Asictlo Russis, has been burned by the fire of the enomy's way- vessels, Latest dispatches from Bucharcat leave little doubt that the Roumanian Cham- bers will sido openly with Ruusia, s S ki There {a one important contingency in regard to the whent supply of Russia which American speculators thus far seem to have iguored: They have assumed that Russian wheat would bo cut off altogether by the blockading of the porta on the Black Bea, But Russia has alarge railroad system, which is under the absolate control of the Govern. ment, There aro 14,000 miles of trunk-line rallroad in Russia, which have been con. structed since the war of 1853-'6, and were located Ly the Government with gpecial ref. erence o strategio and commercial necessi. ties in time of war. ‘Ihree of theso main linea connect Contral Russia with Germauy, so that, bosides the Russian port of Riga on the Baltic, Russia bhas an outlot through the Norih Gennan ports like Koenigsburg and Dantzio, The Russian wheat exported to Germany for German consumption has been for soms years transporied by rail, and the same facil. ities may be used for expor} to Great Britain from the Baltic ports when the Black Sea poris are closed. The longest dlstance which it would be necessary to carry the wheat by rail in taking this direction to a Baltic port to Great Britain does not exoeed the distance from our Northwestorn grain-fields to New York and other Atlantio seaports, and the séa-voyage will be very much shorter, High prices will undoubtedly bring out in this ‘way all the surplus wheat that may remain indlussia. If the war continues, it may se- duce to some extent the amount of Russian production, bat as long as there are tricudly .tion a8 a careful nows-gatherer and a graphic rolations between Russia and Germany, the nssurances American grnin-growera will by no meana have a monopoly of the British demand for Lrendstuffa, sary to moko thero order to have them accepted and sllny English snspicion. 1In his Livadia Apeech, the Czar aflirmed that Russia had no designs mpon COonstantinople. As if to strengthen this declaration, he sont dis. patches direct from Mosrcow to tho Quaen THE TRIBUNE AND THE WAR. In ordoer to provido its readers with the best and earliest information of the war be- twoen Turkey and Russis, Tax Trinuxe has dispatched tg, Europe one of its staff, Mr. Grosae Eowano \Watont. The absorbing intorest manifested by the public. in the do- tails of the pending strife has made this effort in journalistic entorprise & neces- sity, and in sending 3r. WnronT Tue Tars. uxe bns selectod a gentloman of extensive European iravel, an_accomplished lingnist, and a correspondent of established repula- Russin had no intentions upon the English posacssions in Asin. The sameo assurances ‘wero made in the most positive and solemn manner by Prince Gonrscnaxorr to Lonl Densy. ‘The Ozar has recently sent an au. tograph lottor to the Emporor of Austrin re- peating the assnrance that Russia wishes for -no annexation. Tho protocol virtunlly re. afliema it, The mavifesto declares that the 20lo object of Russia {a the amelioration of tho condition of the Sclaves, and tha whole spirit of it 18 in consonanco with this decla- ratlon. If the English do not believe tho Tussian Government now, would they be sy more likely to after another assnrance? How could any promise made in the mani- festo strengthon the promises already made? At tho veryfirst movemont of the Russians into Roumanin, tho old joalousy and hatred ariso, and the 7'imes says, and all the lcaser organs re-ocho tha sontiment: ** Russin has hnstoned o stop W1 further nogotintions and to act na if she alone hiad an intorest in the tranquillization of ‘I'orkey.” This Is only soplistry. Rnssin long ago gave Earope public notice that, after all negotiations hiad failed, if the othor Powera did not unite with bor to onforce. the roforms, she should ot independently and nlone. The negotiations were certainly oxhausted. One after the other, the English, German, and Austrian notes wore contomptuonsly rejected. Then ihe Powers met in Conforence and presented an ultimatum, which was also refected, al- though tho demands of Rusain wero mate- rially modified to accommodate the Porte. TRussia would have boen justified even thon in deolaring war nnd crossing the frontier, Dat still delayed until the Turks actually be- lieved that sho did not intend to fight at all. Once moro sho went boforo the Powors and asked thom to nnito with her in enforcing tho reforms. They declined ; but at the sug. gestion of England upited in a protocol call- ing upon Turkey to accept the decision of the Conferance, and assuring her if gho did not they should leave her to her fate snd not interferc in her behalf wholover might hap- pen. The declaration of the protacol in fact woa tantamount to saying to Turkey: “If you do not give guarantees to carry out re- forms in accordanco with tho declsion of the Conference, negotintions will be closed, our rolations with you will be euspended, and Russis shall bo froe to enforas thom if she is 80 disposed.” The prolocol was as con- temptuously and summerily rejected as the programmae of the Conferenco had beon, and, now tiat Russia has marchednto tho old Turkish province of Roumania, in violation of nb trenty obligations, for the Treaty of Paris was virtually abrogated by the pro- tocol, England suddenly fancios that she hns walted too long. Constantinople in Russian hands rises’ liko n horrid vision before her fancy, Hor old nightmare of tho Russian Dear crossing the Bosphorus and threatoning tho outposts on her roate to Asis oppresses her. Bhivering with dread lest Russin may havo control of the Dardanelles, and find & way for futuro powerfal flceta out into the Moditerrancan, threatening tho Suez Canal and tho Indies, she groans, ** We have beon tricked and dupoed by Tartar diplomacy.” A more pitinblo exhibition of suspicion and jeslousy has hardly if over boon exhibited than the following attempt of the London T'imes Lo prejudico Russia in the oyes of Eu- *rope and excito a hostilo fecling agoinst hor ¢ ‘What waonld Europe say it the first victory was celebrated by the tictor throwing off @ mask, and procluming a conquest in place of @ crusade We are all miota ar Iess concomed In such a violatlon of public morality, but wo' far as rogards the im- medlato conscuuences, thers are those who are muth more nearly and aurely concerned than we aro, Thrownas weare {n the mid seas, with o people atioat in every ocean and estublishied In cvery continent, it {s not wo who need tremble for arlver, a fow miles of coast, a port, or a elngla harhor. Weo aro not landlocked betilnd dreary plains and impassablo monntaing. If other pations are content to louk quictly on whilo Lits of vantago #a Naturo has glvon them pass oat of tholr hands for conturics or for ever, that Is more thoir affalr than ours. Wo may besorry for them, yot wo can- not but remember that it ia fmpoasible to help thote who will not help themeclves. 1t any inference at all can bo drawn from such an oxhibition of doubt and distrust asg this, it is that England world voluntarily continuo the Turkish tyrauny rather than trust a Russlan promise ; that sho would al- low the Ohristians to bo ground down into tho dust by the Turks, to be robbed, plun- derod, and butchered, ratherthan exposo her Asiatio posscesions evon to a suspiclon of damngoor a {uturo possibility of loss from Russian supremacy. writer. Mr. Watonr loft for New TYork ‘Wednosdny, and sails for Liverpool to-day en roule to London, whers he will openn central burean, from which he will send oble and experionced assistanta to accom- pany the armics on both eides, - A perfoct line of tologrnphic communication will be opened by him, onabling him to secure the earliost intelligence of warlike movements, which ha will {ranemit by cable to Trne Tainuxe, Be- sides these dispatches, ha will jnstruct his corps of nssistants to furnish, by corrs- spondence, full details of battles, as well as complete nnd suocinot atatements of the po- litiea! situations fnvolved by the war, making a completo history of thecontest, ils aspects, and results. . This step fs renderod necgssary by the de- mands of the reading public, and, in comply~ ing with such domnnds, Tus Trmuxe in- tends that its columns shall bo a reflex of all of any importance that mny be evolved by the confiiet! The establishment of Tam Tamuxe barean at London, with its ramifica- tions in tho East, will bring its readers in close communication with the stirring events of the times, and place this journal on an equal footing with the Now York press, and beyond its Chicago. contemporaries in the freshness and reliability of its nows. SILVER A% LEGAL-TENDER IN ILLINOIS It is o matter of considerable significance that the Ilinola Senate has passed a bill, sl most unanimously, which only needa: the concurrence of the House to becomo a law, declaring that oll the United States silver coins of all denominations shall be legal- tender in paymont of all debts, public and private. If this bill becoman law, then ol dobts contracted after the 1st of July next and betweon citizens of Illinois may ba dis- charged by the tender of United States fractional silver coin without roferenca to the 85 limitation of the present United States Inw. Tho bill, of course, cannot af- feot contracts mado prior to the date whon tho law shall go in operation, nor can it be enforcod ad against citizens living in other Btates whero there is no such law, and where the limitation of tho United Btates law’ will apply. Jast how much influonce such a Jaw would havo on tho silver circulation in Illinois would necessarily depond on tho ecircum- stances that regulato the amountof silver coined and ita rolative valuaas compared with. the legel-tenderof the whole country. As the United Btates law now stands, there ia no provision for tho colnage of the silver dollar, tho * trade dollar" i only minted for California and exportation to China and Jopan, and the amountof subsidiary eilver coin {s limited to §60,000,000. Thisamount i not more than ia necossary for the supply of small chango to the nation, so it is not likely that any disproportionately largo part of it would be nttracted to this State, oven though silver should remain nowinally at o lower valus than groenbacks. While it would bo on object for dobtors to tendor silver as the cheaper money, any draft npon tha rost of the country for coin needed olse~ where as small chango would immediately in- cronso the value of silver, and it would coase to bo the cheaper monoy, and lose any ad- vantago it had previously for the discharge of debts. The influenco of this law, if paased, is moro likely to assert itsclt in tho National Oon. gress. Tho Illipols delegation ju Congress will fecl almost bound to advocate and insiat upon the adoption of a United Statos law re. storing miver to tho piace it always occupled in tho colnagoe of the United States prior to the bad law of 1878, Tha now Congress will have its first opportunity for legislating on the silver question during tho speolal session which will bo convened in June, This Con- gross will also focl differently from its prode- cassor sbout the silver status. Nearly all tho membors of the Iouso and the mew Benstors clected during the winter have had the popular demand for the restoration of the silvor standard forced upon them. It waa not an issue in the late Presidential and Congrossional eampaigu, because thors was no disagreemont between the parties on the subject. Tho great massof Republicans and Democrats aliko of the West and South favor the remonetization of silver, and the new Congressmon can soarcely have failed to rocoguizo the popular sentiment. It is more than probable, therefore, that the silver question will be fully considerod at the specinl sestion, and not unlikely that alaw will bo passed providing for the coinage of tho silver dollar, and making it a full legal. tonder in all smounts a1 soon as the Hiinols law, if passed, can go . injo effect. In that event there will be no spacial operation of the Minols law, but the Nlinols Legislature will enjoy tho satisfaction of having anticl- pated tho formal Congresslonal expression of tho sentimené of pretty much the whole country, THE ENGLIS! USSOPHOBIA. The jusane jealousy which Eugland has always manifested of Russis has again crop. ped out, ond, notwithstanding the popular sentiment of aversion towards the Turks, ‘which the latter have aronsed by their butch- eries and persecutions of the Christians, by repeated violations of their promises and ob- ligations, and by their repudiation of their indebtedness to England, the entire press, reflecting we presusme the opinion of the peo- ple and the Government, is giving the Turk. ish butchers the benefit of its moral support by misconstruing tho acts of Rusais, and secking to prejudice her in tho eyes of Eu- rope. 'The cause of this sudden outburst of jealousy i clearly enough shown in the daclaration of the London Times: **The omission of sssurances against annexstion from the mavifesto is a grave error, The Czar's manifesto and Prince Gonrscuixorr’s clreular are dissppointing in their reticence, and betray a hastiness of action which in- vites sovere condeianationt” As an offset to thig declaration, tho Czar might well sk bhow many fimes it i neces THE PRESIDENT AND THE PROLETARIAT As exnggeration js one of the most strik. ing characteristics of American humor, Mr, Jonx Porx lobxerT, formerly of Dublin and Ohlcago, who hns been loungiug around ‘Washington for several yoars, may properly be rogarded nas one of the Great American Humorists, Mr., Hooxerr las frequontly given tho public epecimens of his humerous faculty in this regard, and day bofore yes- terday brought this characteristia to tho President's notice by asserting, ns oue of & delegation of * mixed laborers,” that there are 20,000 * workingmen” out of employ- ment in the Diatrict of Columbia, The hu. mor of this statoment iz apparent to all who aro familiar with Washington and Wasbing- tou life, . The District of Columbia conslsts mainly of Washington, and Washington con- sists mainly of threo classes, viz.: The peo- ple who live on the Government in some capacity or other; the ‘people who go there expecting to live oo the Govern- ment by officeholding, jobbing, or lobby. ing; and, finally, the people who provide the living facilities to those supported by tho Government,—such as hotel and boarding- house keepers, butchers and bakers, retail. ers, hinckmen, house-servants, vto. Thero is no such class 8 workingmen in Washington in tho same senso s in commercial and manufacturing cities. There is no cow- merco io Washington except in politics and office-hunting, and nover can be from the natnre of ite location and its condition as the National Capital. It may bo that a certain number of workingmen were attracted to the city duriog the progress of the maguificent and profligeto system of publio improve wents inaugurated by *“Bosa” Suremenp, but, aa this system became bankrupt and wns closed out three or four years ago, pretty nearly sll the genuine workingmen must Lave goue somewhere elso to find em- ployment. . "The idea thet there are 20,000 workingumen out of employment in the Dis- trict of Columbis—that is, men who are willing to earn tleir living by honest labor, ten bhours per day—is one of the most humorous things Mr. Hoowxzrr ever sald; and the fact that such as aro out of em- ployment thers are about the same atyle of workingmen as Hopyxrr himself does not in reafirming the atatement, nnd adding that detraot from the unique and nnctuons humor of the assumption. Mr. Hopxerr, nnd his follow ““working- men"” who visited tho Prosident, petitioned for nn *' enlargemont of tho scale of internal improvements so na to give employmont to idle labor,” and the *reatoration of suf- frago to the inhabitants of tho District.” They wanted the President to uso his influ- ence with Congress for tho appropriation of millions wiich wonld bo required for both theso changes, Wa think it is salo to say, from whnt is alrendy known of President Haves as tho Chiof Executive, that ho ia not that kind of man. Ile is not likely to be misled by the sophistry, nor bullied by the importinence, of the Proletarint. It isnot the busincss of GCovernment—and no- body understands this better than the Prosident—to furnish. employment for mon who are not at work, A goeneral syatem of internal improvements based on such a fallacy would resnlt as disastronsly for the nation rs " Boss ® Buernzan's prolligate Washington systom resulted for the unfor- tunate taxpayers in the District of Columbia. The men who want the Government to fur- nish them with work do not desire it so much beeatise they cannot earn a living by working for privale persons as becanse working for .the Government affords the largost pay for tho shortest day; beoauss it 1a regarded ns so muoch patronage* which ean Yo secured by political and not manual serv- ico; and becauso it afords golden opportu- nities for tho dead-bents who disgrace and damago the causo of roal workingmen by claiming to bolong to thelr clnss, As small sn amount of Government work, thus sbused, as is consistent with the nceds of {he country, will nnquestionably be the rule of the présent Administration. As to the demand of ** Workingman" Tioonerr and his associates for n reatoration of tho suffrage in tho District of Columbia, thia is but another phase of the samo groed to get something for nothing. The demand is simply for n rostorntion of municipal gov- ernment of tho order which ** Boss " Sner- nerp instituled, which nearly bankrupted the Diutrict, which abstracted imnillions from the National Trensury, and which was per- haps the worst disgraco of President Grant's Adminiatration. Mr, Jomy Porz Hopnerr ond his kind of workmen may wantare oatablishmont of that 7¢gzime, but tho robbed property-owners in the Diatrict do not, nor do tho robbed taxpayers of tho country. Any man who thinks more of the right to voto than of the priviloge of living in the District of Columbia (though & good many peoplo would simply regard it as a chofca of ovils) may ‘remove from tho District; bLut, ns Congrosa is pretty likely to be called on to support tho National Capital in one way or another,—by direct npproprintion, by guaranteeing bonds, by deficiency bills, by publia improvements, by oflico.making, oto.,—it is just as well not ta give the migratory population of tho Dis- trict any new facilities for voting away pub- lic moneys. The great majority of the in. habitants of Washington Lelong to a class educated in the belicf that Goveramont in an institution orected and designed especially for their support, and it is by no means wise to place it within the power of such people to vota themselves their own supply of Gov- ernment provender, TURKEY AND T RUEBIA. S Apropos to the war between Russin and Tarkey, and, indeod, the war in general, the following from the correspondence betwoen tho second and third Presidents of the United States is not without interest. In n letter dated Monticello, June 1, 1822, Mr. JerrrusoN wrote to Jory Avams of the war then just breaking out in tho east of Europe in theso worda: ‘To return o the newa of the day, it secms that tho cannibats of Enrope aro zolng to eat ono an- othor again, A war between Itussia and Tuckey (a llke tho battle of the kito and snako: whichever destroys the other, leaves s destroyor tho less for tho world. 'Thia pugnaclous humor of mankind scema to bo tho Iaw of his nature; ono of the ob- stacles to too groat multiplication: provided In the wechanism of the unlverso, The cocks of the hen-yard kill one another; Lears, bLulls, rams, do the eame, and the thorse n his wild stato kills nll the younz males, until, worn down with ago and war, gonio vigorous youth kills him. . . . . Ihope woshall provo how much happler for man the Quaker policy 1s, and that the Wife of the feeder in botter than that of the Aghler, And It 1s consolation that tho desolation by theso mantaca of one purt of the oarth I the means of jin- proving it In the otlier parta. Lt the latter be our oflice; and lot u 1nilk the cow while tho Rusalan Lolds lier by the horns and the Turk by tho tash, ‘This extract forma morely the conclusion of Mr, Jerrenson's letter,—a letter which touches, in a very intereslivg way, several other matter, and which Mr, Apasts, in his roply, doclares to bo *tho best letter that ever was written by an octogenarinn,” Mr. Avaua' letter la dated June 11, 1822, Coming to the snbject of war, he says: This globo 1a o theatro of war; Its Inhabltants are all heroes. The lttle ccle in vincgar, and the anfmalculea in pepper-water, I belleve, are quare relsame. The beca arc ns warliko as the Romans, Tus , Drltons, or Frenchmon. Ants, cnter- pitisre, and cankorworms sre ihe only tribos among whom I have not scen bal d Heaven ftealt, If wo bieliere Hindoos, Jews, Christlans, and Maliometans, has not always buen at peace, We need not troublo ourselves about thicso thingw, nor. frot ourselvos becauso of ovll-docrs; but wafely trust the ** Ruler with Hla skles," We are inclined to think that, if ho were now allve, Mr, Jerrenson would not find it 5o diffficult to chioose betwoen the two great belligeronts across the water,—that he wonld not rogurd the contest as quite on o level with n strugglo between o kite and snake. Thore has, indeed, been no good cause fora woro favorablo opinion of the Turk; heis to-dey the same proud, insalent, cruel, and fandtical creaturo ha was then. While the condition of the people under all the other Governments of Lurope has been amelio- rated, some of them to a very great degree, that of the subject races Ju Turkey is 58 wrolched now as it was a halt century ago, And thisnot. withstauding repeated aud solemn propises of reform from the Bublime Porte, The truth is, as Prof. Fremuaw and otbers have shown, the equitable government of tho Chrlstian peoples nndor Turkish sway is & simple impossibility. Buch government is inexorably excluded by the religlous law, tho ouly written law which the Turk is bound touphold, - With Russis, on the other hand, the case is for different, Hey Government is ceriainly not an jdeal one. W should be loth to ne- cept it asa modol for ourselves. But itis capsblo of making progress. It has mado progress. 1t has made decided advances in ocurown dsy. Witness the liboration of its serfs and other improvemonts, - ‘Chese things would, wo are sure, appeal to tho mind and heart of the author of the Declaration of Iu. dependonce, - Nor would ho be igsensiblo to the many friendly offices our country Las received from tho Russian Government sud people. Iu view of all which, we be- liove that both Apams and Jerrersox, wero they alive to-day, would sgree with Mr. Oae- LYLE, 8¢ the unspeaksblo Turk should be imwmodiate)y struck out of the question, and — the country left to honest Eurapean gnid- nuce ; dalaying which can be profitable or nagrecablo only fo gamblers on the Stock Ex. change, hnt distressing and unprofitable to all other men," And yot wo find, in conversation with meny ittelligent friends, much the same stato of mind tonching the groat strugglo just boginning in tha east of Europe as that which in expressed in the first of the above oxtmeta, Dislike of Turkeyia fully balanced by dislike of Rudsia. DBut we can nll agree with Mr. Jerrrnsox in the wish that, since the war’ls inevitable, wa may get some good aut of it. In his own homely bat expresaivo words, “Let us milk the cow while the Russisn holds hor by the horns and the Turk by the tail.,” ——— cumx?b l'lnnf.sfl'fil"'sn?‘—cfl"'"fifl‘ give any lausible reason for eo many Hapiiblicans going nck and cursing President [IAYES and_his Sonthe orn poticy? 1Is it not the true principle enunclats cd by that party over since ita arzanization? In fact, 1# ho not enly earryiny out tlia late Prosident Laxcorx's policy?t Picase auswer and oblige a fteal many peoulo. A, 1l Hosnen, If thereare many Repnblicans “golng back on andl cursing Preaident Harza for his Southern “poliey,’ the reason tan ouly bo aacribed tu thelr ignoranee of the facts, [Ie Lins carried out pre- cisely the polley tndicated In the Ciucinnat! Re- publican ‘platform and In his letter of accept- ance, and 1ald down in his inaugural mossage. DBut what were thoso hot-headed fault-finders dolng during Gon. GRANT'S Administration 1 Do they want to hold him responsiblo because Bouth Carolina and Loulstana had three-fourtbs pgono intothe possession of tho Democrats beforo hewas Insugueated? Iayes found Crasnen- LA and Packanp “hanglug on by the verge® when he came Into the Presfdency; those Btates, to all intents and purposes, wera lost, and tho corruptions and misgovern- ment of carpet-bagrery had caused that result. HATES has mado tho very best of the situation as he found it. He bas exhibited tho highest sagacity and statesmanship in handling the case, and nipe-tenths of the rank and file of the Ro- publiean party percelve and acknowledge fit. And beforo n year passes the remaining tenth will confess that tho President lins acted wiscly and well. [t isnow toolate to undo what has been dono. The mischief ana misconduct of the carpet-baggers cannot be rotrieved by travellug backwards, Tho President has accured the col- ored people {n all thele political and elvil rights by effecting & reconciliation between the two races, 1o hiss obtalned for them far better pro- {ection than tho carpet-baggers ever gave them withi alf the nid of the Federnl army and navy. Are not peace, protection, aod sceurity in thelr tlghts tho things that the Republicans desire tlie blacks to havel How can any Ropublican consure tho President for achieving those cssen- tlal cuds by peaveablo mcans 1 e ——— OnThursdaynmajority of theablo-bodledmem- Ders of the Legisiaturs deveted half aday of the people’s timo to a scurrilous and filthy attack upon the correspondent of Tits CiticAGO TR1B- UNE,. Tho assault was characterized by the profanity of the prize-ring, by th¢ obscenity of tho bngnio, and by o brutality which was as cowardly us It was beastly. It was In keeping with the gencral character of the nssault thay the gangz was led by tho champlon blackguard of the House, CATSRIN Kmannpy, who was ex- pelled from the Cook County Board of Buper. visors, upon the motlon of the Hon. A. L. Mon« Risox, for recelving or demanding one or mors school lota from BansEY CAULFIELD befors hy would favor the present location of the Normal School, and for acceptiog a catskin muft from Hanny Bryiwes, plumber, in consideration of securing the Iatter o job upon one of the wings of the old Court-ITouse. It was on account of the latter transaction in folino immorality that he {8 now knownat home ns CATSKIN KEARNET, tho appellation aptly characterizing tho chcap- ness of the price for which he was for sale. The respectable mcmbers of the House ows It to their sense of decency to reprimand CaTsxiN Keanxzy and other abscene and nasty-monthed members, and If posaible purge slicmsclives of such flth, ——— ‘This {s a pretty tough Item to bellove, but wo find {t in tho grave London Spectator of April 8, amoug its nows ltems: An unuual accident on Monday night frightenod the whole of North _Londog. ‘the proprietor of tho Welah Harp, Ilendon, elther perinitted or engazcd o diver namod TATIAX to let off a new tarpodo {n tho great roservolr at Kingebury, two iich torpedocs were carded Wilther ‘In 'a black bug. " " Efther by somu nceldent, or In & reckless wpint of fun, Tarnax cxzploded ono of thow on shoro, and tie eftect was folt throughoat North London as far as Enfleld, | 1fighgate, lismpstcad, anl Barnet, posed that a powdar-milll had uxplolled, he nolghborhood of tho Wolsh [lary fteelf fun dreds of windows wers shattered. When the ground wan examined, it was found that the tor. pedo had made & chusm in tho ground elghty feet i circumference and aix foet dosp. 'Ihe force of the exploalon hud in fact heen expendod vertically, a clreumstance which accounts for the otherwlae miracvlous escapo of the great crowd—2,000 pors #ons, it |s sald—gathercd within the groonds uf tho i, ————— ‘Tho followlng oxtract from a rcport of the proceedings of the Board of Cook County Com- misslonces was copled Into Tur Trinuns of Wedneaday from the New York world: Commlssloncr Gursrizn sald everybody was on tha make, and jntimated in & gencral way that the architvct wus a 1litle liwlined that way, Commivsioner PitzuknaLp—Do you mean to say that you would not trust Mr, Boax? Cotumfueluner GuexTitca—1 dan't trust nobady, T don't trust wysel?, 3f auybody offered me a thousand dollars, Ly G—p, 1I'd take It. It Is but justics to Comnissloner [ fostata that ho put his pricoat half a mifllon dollars fnstead of u paltry thousand. And fur- ther, that ho was only joking when bo fixed it at the larger sum, é —————— ‘There is & promising movement In real estate. It {s 1L CrAY Duan dusting hlinacif i the Now York Sun. He attacks the men happy enough to bo bondholders, fortiiizes nis, Democracy witls layectives, abuses mankingd in genoral, and says that real catate in the West s covered with mortguges. 1o may'tell the truth so far ua hio s coucerned, thougn even his best frionds cannot have known no was in pawn as security, Mr. Deax undertakos the role of reformer when o kindly people Lad so far forgotten him as to think o wus dead snd nipped .by dalsy roots rather than tho spasms of a collcky virtue, It Is a mistako which thoso who read muat pay for. e em— ‘The [nstitution of cheap postage and clectrls telegraphs must be questionablo blessings to distingulshed personages {n & country so fond of homely felicitatlons as Gormany; We ate sssarod by tho London: Times spandent sl Herlin “that the Ewmporor, on the cightiuth anniversary of Lis birtuday, recelved 1,858 congratulatury telegruws, aud nesrly 33, 000 congratulatory lettors, ~say 4,800 congratulations u ll,~which, evon at the 7alo of openlng and dis- poming of one per minute, it must have tekon just ¢lghty hours mnk 10 ra an hour for ever car of hislife. Atthls rate the Emperor will ave to make folicitation & misdemeanor, orat lossl to pass & FALK law sialust the promulgation, without the sanctlon of the State, of & sentence of congratulation, e e—— corte- 70 (Ae Editor af Trs Tribune. Cuscaca, Aprit #7.—1 leave it to your consider- atiog, would "t 1ot bo as woll to substitute right and left banks to the Danube, fornorth and south banks? AncoNyy. Wo use porth and south banks because the Donube runs from west to east, from the Aus- trian terzitory to the Black Sca. Tho Russians arcaloug the north bavk for 400 or 500 miles, trylug to cross the great river, sud the Turks aro ou the south bank endeavoring:to prevent them. Wo tuink north and south banks makes tho situation of the belligerents more futelll- glble to the general reader than thejterms right and left bankg would do. ———— . The Bey 6f Tunis Las decorated several gen- tlemen conuected with thio lato Centonnlal Ex- position with the order of Nisham ¢l Uftihar. If 8177130 BULL bad had anythiog to do with, the Extibition, his decoration would have becu the same, only differcutly spelled, to-wit: No sham ! 'e-lift-he-halr, ———— Tle Erening Podt, referring tothe doluge of Hllth duog at Tim Trisux®'S correspondent by the shricklog skulkers, remarks: = He [the corrvspondent] s in Epringfield dolng varkhlnuuuuj:. anu courss of usinoss Lo formarded allstof fallures to ¥ote on the part of certaln members, taken from theilause journafs, * 1in had A right todo thin, The members, aome of them, ought to bo ashamed of the record, Ia dlin't make the rocord. They did it. 16 oniy copled and_pobiished it For this offense hin way skjected, for an hour ot wo, 10 8 torrent of persan. #1abnen, to which, of conrea, ko conld not repiy. Ao whole affair was & aliamo and a diagrace, ot 10 rectify it by rome action In rezard fo the mare obscene and dirty membets will bo an ontrage upon the public. e t—— Tho Memorial Diplomatique of Feb, 14 says that, although Russla had not yet begun tie war, tho sufferings of the people were extreme, Industry had alackened or stopped, the work. ng-classes were it great miscry, and what way . worse, public opinfon had turned against the financial policy to which It attributed its woes, The Memorial predicts that the change of Goy. ernment In Constantinople will bo repeated Bt. Petersburg, the Capital of the unly nbso. luto monarchy to- n Europo. —————— Tv he Editor of The Tribune. CnicAco, April 27.—i\vas ox-Mayor Gasvor, of Toston, ever elected Governor of Massachaselts) ‘What year, and on swhat ticket? . Jdaxza Coxtax, In, Mr. GAsTox was elected Uovernor Dn the Democratle ticket In 1874 by a majority of 7,033 over 'TALpot Republican. The election turned malnly upon the prohibitlon lssuc, TALBOT be. ing an advpeate of tho most stringent nicasures restrictiog tho sate of intoxicating drinks. ————— A subscriber in Randolph County, 1ML, writeas ‘*As my subacription is about: expiring, I thought it botter to have some mnre company for the next year, and so I scnd you teu new names of my nelzhbors, as follows: . . . I want to say that every person to whom 1 spoka Lecamo o subscrlbor without coaxing. Weall fndorse the President’s policy of peace, vecon- t:l"lflol:, and good-will betweon the races in the Boutl," — Thursday was orayer-day In Minnesotaagalnst. tho grasshoppers. Tho effect on the insects has not yet been reportéd; but there are many peo- plo who wait with curlosity the effect of tho fn- vocations, If prayer has the power to save an fusect-ravished Jand, it certainly ought to have a beneficlal eficet upon human evils; and we bellevo that even Col. INGERsOLL would pray It Lo folt assurcd that as n result thero would bo ono less rascal in the Jand. —————— Ona CALLON, a Copperhead of Morgan Coune ty, who was absent at 104 roll-calls, and dodged his duty half the time, offercd & resolution de- nouncing a nowspaper reporter for drawiug one per diem compensation for clerking for four standing committees. Is this tho samo CALLON who has been *purloining ** 85 per day from the 8tato Treasury for the time ho has been dodging and skulking! Let the Commit- teo of Investigation inguliré., s emcz— The people of Illinols were frightened at the prospect of giving a fow thousand dollars more to completo thelr beautiful (1) Capitol Building, But inw debato fn the New York Legislature, Tucsday evening, a Senator stated that it would coat the Stato $20,000,000 to complete ita Capi- tol. This will be encouraging to thase of our lcgislators who hate to loss a good thing. It furnishies o precedont. ‘Whata pity that ANTuONT COMSTOCK was not In the House of the Iilinols Leglslature last Thursday! He would have found in many of the members .more obscenc literature than he could have suppressed in @ month of hard work. And Chieago did hier share in circulating it. e Hamyis protests acalnsy publle censure; but Hanrwa explaius uothiog. Wy does ha nat sua tho uty for *‘extras™ which the architect will notallow? That {s whut tho peoplo wantto know. In future, pray to be kopt out of Haunus' way. The Doorkeeper of tho United States Scnate, Capt. 1sAAc BasseTT, went Into that body in 1833 as a page. From the way he hos stuck ho proves to have been n page well sewn and dog- eared beyond precedent. e —— What the skulkors wers playing for was an extra scaslon. That was the reason they kept back business, broko up guorums, slid off on ‘Thursday or Friday, and fifty of them not even gotting back on Tuesday. —————— CianrLzs Franos Apass will, it {8 rumored, soon visit Dublin, It is uoderstood that, sincs his Jetter to Mr, TILDEX, Mr. ADAM3 has been brogan-hearted, snd that he will reform by doublin’ on his course. e —e——— It was generully obscrved that none of the ninety-cizht stalwart statesmen who voted to condoran a reporter for performing his duty de- nied that they ‘pocketod 85a day for the timo thoy dodged thelrs, ——— It there Is any truth (which wa doubt) in the cablo dispateh that England s to take o band fo tho Russo-Turkish war, then sho will play, ac- conding to Hoyle, #thinl-hand high." ———— Tho English Cabinct to the Muscovite rifle- man: “What's your almsin this warl® And Russia answera: * Tho Turks, of courae.’ | Blackzuarding a reporter will not throw dust In the eyes of the coustitucuts so as to prevent thelr scelng the gullty reason for it. i “Neat, but not gaudy,” as Comptroller Krwuy sald when he marked Twezp's talowith tho Junar cautstic of truth. f Turkoy in its study of syn-tax las, it Is stated, arrived at that polnt whero she wants Lo declin war, It used to be tha ‘“hand of war, but the Czar bas made it tho ** manifest-toe." et ‘Tholatost caso of **suspended animatlon Y& The Democracy, It *hangs fire." f Hopotul peoplo declars the Sloux war at an end, but do not state which end. BAx RanpaLrt fs **s man overboard.” wants “ter speak-creship.” That Loulstana Commisslon went cheap—al- most five for a NicuoLLs.g Russia [s determined to make the Turks ox- crescenta of Europe. o | A enrrent toples The tide of pubile opinfon. After pacification in Loulstana—Tox Scorz. e eee— PERSONAL. In his last leoturs on Shakspears, Mr, John Welas sald: ** Bome critics who have won- dered ‘at the alsence of plctaresque Sbakupeare's plays overlook the admirable act by which he consigud to us the making of the land. scapes for him, " Almea fs ta bo here Monday week, and sho will not bring her diamonds with her. Sho ‘Wears paste on tho etage, and keeps her geouine gems locked ap at New York, paying 80,000 Inter- cat per annum for the sske of baving in her pos sesslon articlos so preclous. ‘Whatever clse may bo alleged against Tam Trisuxz's correspondent at Springfleld, it cannot be charged 1hat be bas boen sn abesntes, Tio hos been st his post and sttending to his dutles from the opening of the sesslon until the present timo, which I more than can bo sald of his self-appoint- od critles, ‘I'ho misochief of the trial against Bradlaugh and Anale Besant lies in its boing peported, if not {n full, fo & maunerthat iy fithily suggestive byall the papers. Youug peuple who never bieard of the Malthualan doctrine will begin to fnquire fnto ity and {o the meantlne **Tho Fruita of Pullosophy ' has Lad a circaiation that It nover would have had but for the Bradiaugh interterence. : Mr, Howells' theory is that the novelist i3 successtul fn tho preciac ds fu which be pleasce ‘*the young lady element,” sud Nonce perhaps 1he finical tone of bls writinze. Parvon Murray, of Doatos, ou the olter hand, believes the young lady element is not at all pecessary to tho success of good atory, and he proposcs 10 make the ex- werlwent by writing an Amcrican fcticn fn which seither women nor children ghall be futzoduced.