Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 29, 1877, Page 4

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APOLLO COMMANDERY, Xo.1, ENIGATS TEM- AR—Special conclave at Asylum. 7210 78 Moprue- i.. ou Tuesday cvening next. May i, at o'clock, arompt. and stated conclave at 6 o°clock. when the Or- 3er of the Temple will be conferred. A full attendance }f,"“,}',"'};“' 21 importagt Lusiaess ifl be broukht be- re the Commandery. Dy order of the E. J. R. DUNLOP, Recorder. ST. BERXARD COMMANDERY, NO. 35, K. T.— -Atiention, Sir knights—You are ordered o sppear at ihe Atylum Tucsgay evening. May 1, for drill. - Work on the Order of K. T. Wednesday evenlng, 3ay 2, at8 gclock. ~ Visiting Sr Knights are courteously {nvited. By order _ W. M. BURBANE, E. C. J.°0. DICKERSON, Recorder. CORINTHIAN CHAPTER, XO.69, . A. M.—Spe- cfat Convocation Mondsy evening, April 3. at 7:30 Degre: o'clock. Work on the R A" 3. 0. DICKERSOX, Secretars. . C. CREGIER LUDGE 0. 643. A. F. and A M.— i Communieaton. nexi Wedneadsy. 8t . . ghatp e al s g Rk e aly ovioed: B oraeror 5 UTTAMES REATS, W. M. JOHN GINOCHIO, Secretary. 3 "R GRAND LODGE OF PER. A o P A L etion Rite Masons—There will Fon Sy sl o Mimen s e 3 ih 8 Work on ke XU 6 N O'NEILL, T.% I G L ED GOODALE, Grand Sec. AGO CHAPTER, No. 127, T. A..M.—134 Twen- ty‘-:g}:%d-n. Ttegnlar Convocation Weddesday even- g aL7:300'clock, for business relative to an amend- meat of the y-Laws Al memoers notified to de preseat. By o . E. H. P, erorthe M. £ K- 541 syura, sec. KETSTONE LODGE. No. 639 A. F. and A M.—Hall, Nos. 62 and 64 North Clark-st. Regular communlea- Hon Wednesday cveaing, ay 2, for work on the M.3L Visitors y in 5. AR, Sce S, PFLATM, W. M. TTENTION PAINTERS—An adjourned meotiar of oAum:)m‘In painters wiil be held on Wednesday even- Nk, Mag . at 260 Soutl IMalsted-st.. corner Of Iiar- rison. Ail journeymen palaters are requesicd to at- tead, 8 o'clock. AGO LODGE. No, 437, A. F. & A. M.—Spcelal e Rkt Moraay evoning. Apdl 30, 8t 7 o'clock, a1 Oricatal Hall, for work, " o ne oy ce. By order CRAWEORD. H. P. SUNDAY, APRIL 29, 1877. CHICAGO MARKET SUMHARY, The Chicago prodace mariets were steadier Sat- urday, with a fair volume of busincss. Mess pork closed a shade Jower, at §10.00 per brl cash, and £16.15@16.17% for June. Lard closed a shade ensier, at $10.10 per 100 Tbs cash, and $10.20@ 10.2234 for Junc. Meats were casicr, at 53¢ per 1b for loose shoulders, Thc for do ebort ribs, and S4c for do short clears. Highwines were firm, at $1.10 per gallon. Floar was less active and firm. Iheat closed 3¢ lower, at SL.69% for May, and $1.723 for June. Corn closed 1@1%c higher, at 57cfor May, and 59%c for June. Oats closed Ic Tigher, at 42c for May, and 43c for June. Rve was casier, at 02%. Barley was quiet, at 80285¢ for April, and 3¢ for May. Hogs were quictand easy. at $5.30@5.70 per 100 Ibs. Cattle were sleady, at §3.50@5.50. Sheep were firm. One bundred dollars in gold would buy $106.62% in greenbacks at the clos In New York on Saturdsy greenbacks Tuled at 93]@933%. ———— After approaching the subject with con- 4derable caution, the House at Springfield igreed yesterday nupon an adjournment sine Jie on the 15th of May. — It must be Turkish humor rather than Turkish trath which gives to the world the statement that ulgarian massacres, by Turkish were instigated by Russia. Instead of showing the shriekers for Civil- Service reform *“ how not to do it,” as most of them hoped and expeptéd, the President is showing them how 46 do it, to the grati- fication of oll ho! men. Mr. Haves is the disappointment of the da; A confident foe can afford to be msgnani- mons. As the Russian army advances, proc- Christien to hold their peace, and promising immunity from punishment to all concerned in the atrdcious cruelties practiced by the Mussulman except the ringleaders therein. Those who have declared that a new party will be formed based on the creed, *‘He serves his party best who serves his country best,” will be disappointed i the attitude of the President, for he declared for the old party which honoreg‘him, and as against any other. In fact, flie Republican party is anew party, m: such by an active prac- ticc of what Lfve been only ornamental theories heretplore. The suit brought by the English stock- holders in the Emma Mine against TrExor ‘W. Paxnx and others terminated yesterdsy in averdict for the defendants. Mr. PaRk, the dispatches state, was overcome with joy- ful emotion,—a fact easily comprehended when one reflects that the amount involved approximated five million dollars. The verdict vindicates Mr. Scmexck, and will have o tendency to teach the bold Briton that some bubbles (limited) can be perpetrated as well as others. A bill was filed yesterdsy in the Circuil Court by WrLiax FITzGERALD, one of the County Commissioners, to prevent the Board from issning an order in favor of Farmer ‘Hanus for the £34,000 worth of extras which the latter claims to have furnished on the new Court-House. - Mr. Frrzorzarp alleges that the architect has already fixed the amount due Hanus st 314,378.13, and that his decision is final. A temporary injunction was granted by Judge FARwELL, who quietly remarked when he issued it that the County Board was not called on at present to be liberal with their mone; Mr. Exnor's energy has secured the pas- sage of another bill in the Senate which will be of substantial benefit to Chicago and all the other cities organized under the general act of incorporation, by providing for regis- tration at the charter elections in the spring, A similar bill was defeated in the House, but ‘we hope this one will have o better fate. It is in the shape of an amendment to the In- corporation act of 1872, and provides that no person shall be permitted to vote at any election held under the provisions of this act who i5 not registered as is provided for in caso of State elections ; and the manner of conducting, registering, and voting at elec- tions to be held under this sct and contest- ing the same, the keeping of polllists, and the canvassing of the votes, shall be the sawme, as nearly as may be, as in the case of the election of county officers under the general lIaws of this State. The judges of . election shall appoint clerks when necessary to fill vacancies, and the judges and clerks ghall take the same oath and have the samé powers and authority as the judges and clerks of general State elections. After the closing of the polls the ballots shall be counted and the returns made out and returned under the seal of the City or Village Clerk, as the case may be, within two days after election, and there- upon the City Council or Board of Trustees, as the case may be, shall examine and can- vass the same aud declare the t of the election, and cause a statement thereof to be entered upon its journals. As the law now stands there is no protection against repeat- ing and illegal voting, except such as the vigilance of the people may provide for them- selves. An instance of it may be found in the statement that 3r. Rrorpax has already run down 164frandulent votes in the Seventh Ward, constituting more than HILDRETH'S pretended plarality, and he conld probably find several hundred more if the search were pursued. Registration is tho best protection that has yet been discovered, and cities need it in their elections as much s, if not more than, the State. — During the last two years, ‘horse-racing and base-ball playing have given an impetus to & business which has degenerated into gambling, and which supports & numbex: of disreputable places for exhausting the timo and depleting the pockets of young men in- “terested in these sports. They are known as pool-rooms. The House has passed o bill, propared by Mr. THOMPSON, of the Cook County delegation, which is designed to break up pool-selling, and provides that any person who cngages in the business shall be fined not exceeding $2,000, and imprisoned in the County Jail for a term not exceeding one year. The bill has also been wisely made to reach the owners of the building who shall kmowingly permit it to be used for the purpose of selling pools. As pool-selling differs from other gambling in necessarily being an open business (its success depend- ing upon assembling a large number of per- sons), the owners of buildings can scarcely plead ignorance of tho traffic, and, by sub- jecting them to the same penalties as the pool-sellers themselves, there is a hope that the business may be completely abolished. e Ewidences of the profligacy and scoundrel- ism of our County Government are accumu- lating rapidly. The County Treasury is de- pleted, and the employes of the county who honestly earn their living are hawking their orders about the streets, selling them to the curbstone brokers for what they can get. - A motion for closing the County Agent’s office has- already been made. There are rumors that the work on the Court-House will prob- ably be suspended in a couple of weeks, be- cause the contractors can get no money from the county, have none of their own to keep ahead, and cannot borrow any, under the con- tingency that their contracts may be tainted with freud. And now there are threats that the contractors for furnishing flour, bread, meat, coal, groceries, etc., intend to throw up their contracts,, because, though their prices were good at the time the arrange- ments were made, the contracts are no longer pmfilable'\mder the recent rise in supplies; they probably ean do this legally, since the connty has failed in its part of the contract by being largely 1 arrears to all of them. In case these contractors retire, the closing of the Poor-House, the Insane Asy- lum, and the Hospital, will probably follow, 88 the connty could only buy for cash, which it doesn't poesess. Now why all this em- barrassment? Simply because the funds have been squandered and stolen. Under the rule of the Ring the countyis in the condition of a thriftless, dissipated fellow who has eaten up his income and exhausted his credit. Itis bat a repetition of Tammany in New York, ‘‘Boss” SHerreRD's rule in ‘Washington, and Colrinism in our own City Government. Will the Legislature give Cook County a chance to elect five honest Com- missioners next fall on a general ticket? WHERE THE RUSSIAN ARMY I8 NOW. A glance at a good atlas orwar-map will give the reader 2 very clear idea of the present position of the Russian army pouring into Roumania. The Russian headquarters have been at Kischenev, which is on the railroad line leading from Odessa to Jassy, Capital of the Province of Moldavis, and sbout mid- way between the Dniester and the Pruth TRivers. The army was originally concen- trated at Kischenev, near the Roumanian line, but the base has since been_established at Jassy, which is in easy railrond communi- cation with Russia, and from which a rail- road and two or three good public roads run down to Galatzi, on the north bank of the Danube, not far from its mouth. The left wing crossed the frontier at Bolgrad, made sure of the railroad-bridge across the south, at its month, near Galatzi, in anticipation of the Turks, and are now in position south- west from that place towards Brails, in the direction of Bucharest. The centre crossed the Pruth at Huschi and Faltschi, about thirty miles north of Bolgrad, where it wonld strike a good highroad running from Jassy to Byrlat, and branching at _that place, ons branch running to Gelatzi and the other to Bucharest. The right wing crossed near Jassy to the valley of the Sereth, whence a good road runs down to Tokschani, about thirty miles from Galatzi, so that the whole army turning on the pivot of the left wing comes into posi- tion between the last two named places. This disposttion of the army and the fact that the Russians are building a cross-cut road from Byrlat southwest to Butzan, tap- ping the road from Galatzi to Bucharest, shortening the distance very materinlly to the latter place and relieving their communi- cations from any danger of interruption by the Turkish gunboats, disposes of the im- pression that the army was to cross the Danunbe between the bend and the mouth into the Dobrudscha, or northwestern strip of Bulgaria, along the Black Sca. There is no available crossing place on the Bulgarian shore of the Danube. The bonks of the river in Tarkey are high and even moun- tainous, and thoroughly command the oppo- site, or Roumanian, banks, which are low and marshy. The only available crossing places are at Silistria, Rutschuk, Sistova, ond Totrokan, and all of these are com- manded by powerful fortresses. In addition to the patural and military defenses, the Turks have a flotilla of sixteen iron-clads of light draught, carrying twenty-four heayy rifled Krupp breech-loaders. The disposition of the army points clearly enough to the Servian frontier as the crossing place, with which there is direct railroad communication with Bucharest. The passage will undoubt- edly be made at some point between Widdin and Gladova, where the crossing is available at almost any point by pontoons, and where the Turkish gunboats wlll find the channel thickly sown with Russian torpedoes. The first serious- opposition will come from the Turkish forces either at Kalafat, op- posite Widdin, or on Servian soil, pro- vided the Turks brenk the treaty with Servia by marching their forces ito her territory,—a breakage which will undoubtedly occur, since the nbmg?twn‘ of the treaties as a military necessity will be considered of little sccount. The passage st this point is a matter of absolute certainty, for it disposes of the two great natural defenses of the Turks,—the Danube and_tha Balken Mountains. It ensbles the Russians to avoid the one and turn the other.. The greet battle of the war, Lherafore_,xf the Russians succeed in transferring their army over the Danube into Servis, must be lnnke.d. for south of the Balkans, between Sop!us and Constantinople, the route over which the Russians triumphantly traveled in 1827 i d——a oy — ENGLAND'S SHARE OF THE SPOIL. As the earlier stages of the war progress, it becomes more and more evident that En- gland, sooner or later, ‘must become involved either in its active operations or in its final divisions. If England and Russia come to blows, it is evident that the former will un- dertake three things. The first of these is the seizure of Egypt. It is only natural that it shoiild fall to England as her portion of the spoils. Egypt is her rounte to the Indian Empire. The management of Egypt's reve- nues is in the hands of Englishmen. She is really mortgaged to England to secure loans of over a hundred million pounds. The chief offices in the Egyptian Cabinet, the administration of her public works, the di- rection of her railways, the principal com- mnads in her army and navy, are in English hands. The exports to Great Britam amount to nearly fifty millions of dollars per annum. Seventy per cent of the Egyptian commerce is with England. She sends her per annum 5,000,000 bushels of wheat, and between 400,000 snd 500,000 bales of cotton, and & large quantity of raw silk. The Khedive is virtually only a British agent, like some of the East Indian Princes. In any division of plunder, Egypt must naturally and of neces- sity fall to Great Britain, and there would probably be no serious contest over it on the part of anyof the Powers, uniess it be France. Even were there no war progress- ing to hasten partitions of property, Egypt would very soon pass into English hands, through the operations of debt, commerce, the Suez Canal, and natural causes. The second move of England would be to seize the Island of Candis, or Crete as some call it, which is in chronic revolt against Turkish tyrannical authonity. Its strategic- al position - is immensely ‘important. It blocks and commands the exit from the Grecian Archipelago, and its possession, since the English alrendy hold Malta and Gibral- tar, would give them the command of the Mediterranean. From Malta to the Suez Canal, a thousand miles, there is no stopping place but Candis. Itis the half-way house between Malta, Constantinople, and Alex- andria. It has several deep-water harbors, capable of powerful defense from the high shores, and capable also of holding large flests. Itisa position which Great Britain needs, as it is a long distance from Malta to Egypt, and which she will therefore take, although it is not probsble that she will annex it except for military and naval purposes, and of course as a men- ace to Russis, which is the impelling force of every step that England takes with reference to the Eastern Question. The political con- trol of the island, except the fortresses, would undoubtedly be handed over to Greece. The third movement of England, contin- gent upon the seizure of Constantinople by Russia, which has been several times hinted at, would be the occupation of a point on the Dardanelles in the neighborhood of Gal- lipoli, which is situated on a mnarrow tongue of land, with bluffs 500 to 800 feet in height, commanding the Dardanelles on the east and the Gulf of Saros lying back of them on the west, thus cutting off any dan- ger of a flank attack from the Russians. The English never will consent to the control of the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles by the Russians unless they are compelled to by irresistible power; and if they can success- fally hold this point, which is a strong natu- ral fortification of itself, the Russians, even if they hold Constantinople, are still nesrly as badly off as they are now, as they can never get from the Sea of Marmora into the Mediterranean without Brit- ish consent, which is the ome thing sbove all others that Russia desires to nccomplish, snd which would at once establish not only commercial but military supremacy. The grabbing, however, will not be con- fined to England. Already it begins to be apparent that Italy is preparing to seize that portion of Albania which lies between Mon- tenegro and the old Greece proper, or Epirus, known in ancient times as Hlyricum, and now settled by the descendants of the orig- inal Romsn colonists. Italy salso wants Tunis, on the African shore. That Austria wants, and will have, Herzegovina and Bosnia is well known. The only province whose ultimate ownership seems to be in doubt is Servis. Whether sho will fall into Russian hands or be set up as an independent Power remains to be seen. HILDRETH'S LITTLE GAME. The self-convicted revenune-defrander, Hir- prern (who had the shamelessness to run for Alderman in the full flush of his infamy, having been declared ineligible on account of his criminal record, has sbout made up his mind, it is said, not to press his “ claims " to a seat through the Courts. Ifhe has come to such a decision, it is not because he has suddenly acquired o sense of shame, which 15 entirely alien to his nature, but because he Imows that he could be kept ont during the entire term by tho law’s delays, and in the end would be informed by the Courts that, as a convicted, half-pardoned felon, he has no claim to a place in the City Council. He thinks he knows a trick worth two of - this. He wants his case hurriedly disposed of and a special election called for the Seventh ‘Ward, which he can manipulate in tho inter- est of some tool of his own, equally corrupt, but not bearing the bar sinister of criminal conviction to exclude him from an Alder- manic seat among decent men. The Council will probebly refuse to gratify Hrprere's desire in this particalar, and take time to escertain definitely whether Hrr- prerE actually received a plurality of the legal votes of the Seventh Ward, as the re- turns seem to indicate on their face. If he did not, then thers is no necessity for call- ing o special clection, as Mr. Rrozpax, his competitor, is the legally-elected Alderman. Alr. RrorpaN and his aitorney think they will be able on a careful canvass of the votes to prove that Hruorer did not receive the plurality he claims. Those who are fa- mflimfilhthahfldnhwternfahlge part of the inhabitants of the Seventh Ward, and with Hmprers’s methods for carrying an election, will not doubt that several hun- dred fraudulent votes were cast for him. His seeming plurality over Rrornax is only 112 votes, .and MMr, RiompAN claims that “he has already traced 164 voters who have no local habitation in that ward, men who registered themselves as living at streot numbers wha're there are only vacant lots, or as residing in barns, or as sojourning in saloons, the pro- prietors of which swear they know no such men. It isnotlikely that any or many of these fraudulent votes were cast for R1orDAN, who mads no effort to get them ; and, if that number be deducted from Hmprere's vote, it will leave a plurality for Rionpax. Tho Council has the power under the charter to institute a judicial inquiry into the legality of the vote, and will probably proceed to do 0 as 500n 05 on ordinance can be adopted for carrying out the provision of the charter. This will be the proper way to proceed. The Council has 1o right to call o special election if the man who received a plurality of the votes can qualify legally. There is lit- tle doubt that Hmorerm could run such special election to suit himself, with the roughs and repeaters at his command and the respectsble citizens of the ward quiescent, and elect 2 man who would serve his ends as fully as if he himself wero in the Council. It is wise to avoid a specinl elec- tion, if it cen be done fairly. Mr. RI0RDAX, too, has claims which the Council cannot justly ignore. If he got more honest votes than Hiuorera (which we hope. is true for the credit of the ward) then the soat is his by rights, and his claim should be thor- oughly examined . before a spocial election is called. PROTECTION FOR BANK DEPOSITORS. Our dispatches note the passage of a bill for the protection of confiding and defrauded State bank depositors by the Illinois House of Representatives by the overwhelming vote of 99 yeas to only 30 nays. This is a fair reflex of popular sentiment on this sub- ject, and we should think it would impel the Senate to a prompt concurrence, notwith- standing the greater influence which the bankers are alleged to exert in that body. We cannot conceive of honest State bankers opposing this measure. It cannot possibly affect them injuriously. It simply reaches fraudulent bankers. It simply provides that 2 man who steals money under the name of banker shall be punished by imprisonment in the Penitentiary, like any other thief. There is nothing so sacred about the calling of the banker that he should be exempt from punishment when he robs. In pointof fact, he is rather more infamous, if anything, than the burglar or highwayman, be- cause’ he steals under the cloak of hon- esty, and betrays the confidence of his fellow-men. The objeotion to the clause making the acceptance of deposits within thirty days primae facie cvidence of an in- ‘tent to defraud as being too severe is not well-founded. In ordinary times it is prima Jacie evidence of an attempt to defrand. This clause merely forms the foundation of an in- dictment and trial; if there has been no in- tention to defraud, and the deposits were ac- cepted in the belief that the banker was sol- vent, the books will show whether thatis true. If sudden suspension is made neces- sary by unforeseen accident, as during the panic of 1873, the Courts will take cognizance of it. This bill simply enables the people to reach the fraudulent bankers who are con- stantly robbing them, and indirectly it will bo a protection and a benefit to the banks and bankers who do an honest business. The operation of this bill, if it become a Iaw, will be especially beneficial in protect- ing that large clsss of people who work hardest for their money and place their sur- plus earnings in private and savings banks. In a large city like Chicago there areso- called savings banks scattered in all quarters. Most of them are started without' capital, and operate entirely on the confidence and deposits of their customers. If their invest- ments are good they make money ; if not, it is their depositors who lose it. Most of these concerns are close corporations, gen- erally run by one man who bullies ignorant men and weak women, who pleads the sixty- day statute on the slightest provoeation, whom the bankers generally know nothing about, who takes in all the money he can get, no matter what the condition of his bank may be, and who sooner or later closes s doors and swindles everybody who has trusted him. We speak now of the small, obscure concerns who solicit business by scattering circulars about the streets, offer- ing interest on deposits they cgunnot afford to pay, and controlled by men who have no standing in the commer- cial or financial - community. Scarcely a month passes in a large city when some such concern does not collapse, showing its manager or manipulator to have robbed his depositors. Under our State laws there is no way of examining accurately into the af- fairs of these two-penny schemes for plun- dering the workingmen, the clerks, the seamstresses, the ignorant, feeble, snd poor. 1t is high-time there should be a way to pun- ish them. Their crime is as black, henious, and sneaking as any defined in the calendar, and if o fow of them could be consigned to the Penitentiary, where they belong, their number could be materially diminished and their opportunities for fraud considerably contracted. The actual conviction of some of the scoundrels who deceive the unwary and plunder the unsuspecting under & high- sounding name they give to their institu- tions would soon purify the banking busi- ness of the frauds that attach themselves to it. THE POLICY-HOLDER THE BEST INSUR~ ANCE SUPERINTENDENT. ‘When the magazines take to printing articles about life insurance it is evident that the subject lias great popular interest. Scribmer's Intely had a paper full of interest- ing information sbout the history and methods of tho business. The International for May—June discusses the insurance crisis, and the last number of the Galazy contains o very intelligent contribution on the same topic. The article’is anonymonus, and is evi- dently written by some one familiar with the crooked ways of life insurance. Policy- holders who have been indnced to change their policies for those of some new form will here find explained the motive of the companies in proposing the trade. When an insurance company does not care to resort to the brigandsge of ‘¢ freezing-out” its policy-holders, as Frost and Hainroxp did in the case of the Continental policy-holders in California, it will employ a secret method known as * changing.” Iis agents are sent out to persuade the policy- holders that some new form of policy is more desirable than the one they have, But the old lamp is worth more than the new one. In the exchange the policy-holder lets go the Teserve that has been accumulated on his old policy, and this money is distribnted between the agent and the officers of the company. “Every policy-holder,” emphatically says the writer in the Galazy, * who is asked to surrender his policy and take money for it, orany other policy, may rest assured that there is a fraud at the bottom of the transac- tion, and that, whoever will make money by it, he will not.” The pi r of the management of State Supervisory Departments makes it plain why, 88 all pol- jey-holders found out, it was of no use to go to them wanting **toknow, you know.” ] ?.'he purpose of these departments is supervision; but they have long since become empty forms. At the same time, s full head of steam is kept up as far as show and expenses go. A large body of clerks is kept busy in the agreeable task of receiving, folding, filing the reports of the various companies, in receiving applications for licenses from agents of foreign compnnies and issaing them, in furnishing printed copies of thecharters of companies and their reports to all who apply for them. These clerks sre adepts in col- lecting fees and writing Delphic letters to policy-holders who evince that curiosity so distasteful to officials of the Circumlocution Office. The Superintendent Lkecps himself busy the while in picking out of the re- ports of the companies the paragraphs for his annual report. These annual reports, bound in gilt covers, contain *¢ year after year faint and delicate sugges- tions 88 to amendatory laws, opinions that thereis doubt of the legality of amalgame- tions, and other twaddle, not a word, how- ever, denunciatory of the frauds being per- petrated under the very nose of the Depart- ment, and which every man in the State can see quite plainly but himeelf.” The frauds and mismanagement that the Department ought to uncover and prevent are number- less, and have been made only too familiar by the disheartening revelations of the last few months. The public have found them out before the Insurance Superintendents. The theory of State supervision, which has fallen into disrepute among students of political science, has lost o great deal of ground among practical men since the failure of the New York Superintendent of Banks to protect savings depositors from a-single one of thedozen and more insolvent savings banks of New York City, and the failure of the Superintendent of Insurance to save the’ policy-holders of the Continental and Secur- ity. Whether or not a good system of State superintendence is practicable, we are jus- tified in rejecting that of New York as bad in principle and practice. What shall the public look to for protection? The sugges- tion is made that the officers of an insurance company are trustees, and consequently with- i the jurisdietion of Courts of Equity, which can compel them to account for their trust at any time, and can hold them responsible for its breach. The natn- ral protector of the interests of the policy- holder is the policy-holder. The principles of human nature that are shown by recent disastrous experience to work against the in- terests of policy-holders in the system of State supervision will work with it, when the policy-holder is left to take care of him- self. At any rate, if he isswindled and ru- ined then by his own blind trustfulness or want of care, he cannot charge his misfor- tunes to betrayal by others, and his self- reproaches will be a powerful force towards greater care and prudenc Just as Russia is plunging into a war with Turkey, France has footed up her bill of damages for making war on Germany, as follows : The claims which have been paid to private par- ties for losses sustained during the German inva- sion amount to nearly $S0,000,000, and another $100,000,000 bos been absorbed by the requisi- tions made by the German armies on cities (340, - 000, 000 on Paris alone), the expense of providing for the German army of occupation, and other damages. This is but a part, of course, of the total expense of the German war to France. It doubled her national debt, raising it to the fright- ful sum of 4,500, 000,000, or two and onc-fourth times as much as that of the United States. The annaal interest charge of France is $200, 000,000, or more than twice as much as_that of the United States. . Mr. Lres, the County Cierk, who takes more stock in the County Commissioners’ Ring than is compatible with professions of honesty, is down on Commissioner FITZGERALD. Said Lies to areporter the other day: Now, whatever peoole in general may think of Mr. FITz6sRALD'S intentlons and qualifications as a reformer, the officers of the different depart- mients of the County Building consider him a windy blatherskite and an jgnorant blackguard. Ever since he has put his nose into the Conniy Board, he has acted the bull in the china-shop, prancing about and kicking up his hecls in 8 man- ner wonderful to behold. Ile was not particalar as to whom he hit or kicked, 80 long ashe wasa county official. . If Mr. Clerk Lres will contain his soul in patience until the morning of Wednesday, Nov. 7, 1877,—that is to sar, for about six ‘months,—he will find 2 man elected to the office of County Clerk, and his name will not be HeRyMANN Ligs, and he will not be the tool of the Ring, and this new Clerk will be in perfect aceord in relation to county matters with Com- ‘miseioner Fitz6ERaLD. There will also be four certain, and most likely five, new Commission- ers who will be worse bulls in the Ring's china-shop than even FrrzeeraLp. They will smash the Ring in a manner * wonderful to be- hold.” ———— Many confused notions prevail as to the effect of a state of war on maritime rights. The Springficld Republican undertakes to clarify the muddle in this manner: As to commerce, the settled law of modern times is, that frec ships make free £oods, —that Is, that the vessel of a nentral nation h the utmost free- dom in transportinz merchandise to cither of the belligerents, whether it is wheat or Smith & Wes- won revolvers, provided the neutral vessel does nolattempt to enter a_port which has been daly proclaimed, and js in fact, blockaded. If a vessel of cither of the belligerent navies were to enter our ports and take on military supplics or recruit men. such action woald be a clear infraction of our nentrality, if permitted by us. Naval vessels of nations at war are also not permitted unlimited stay in nentral ports. This principle is of course intended .to prevent men-of-war from taking refase for lonz seasons in ncatral watcrs. The Ttassian fleet can hardly be eaid to he taking refuge mm our waters at the present time. as there is no Turkish man-of-war in the_neighborhood. We apprehend that, like the last Enropean war, this is not likely to afford much fun on the ocean. ——— HayrTON, of South Caroling, forgot to men- tion the President in his late message. The President, on that account, will not forget Hawmrrox if e fails to kecp his promiscs. If De does what he has agrced, the Natfonal Executive will be no'more disturbed at his fail- ure to recognize him in his message than the Ll:catur is at the omission of any recognition of ]hs person and work in the Constitution of the United States. Little Hawrrox and his little baukrupt State take up far more space in the newspapers than their importance justifics. - ————— Ex-Ald. SCHAFFNER, in discussing the Sonth- ern poliey of the President at the Grand Pacific, ‘last_cvening, exclaimed in vehement tones, *“We have had a TrLER, a JONNSON, and a HAYES.” SCHAFFNER, it should be remarked, was a disappointed applicant for the office of United States Marshal. * That's what’s the matter with HANNA1 JANE.” ———— For pun-itive purposes,—that is,war purposes,— the question is, whether to sclect “Johnny Bull” or * British Lion” as the symbol for England. Buli and Besr are susceptible of much paragraphic twistification; bat then, again, a great deal of cheer and vivacity can be jerked out of the word ‘*‘lion.” This subject will bear study. ——— The Post gays that ‘It has transpired that Mr. Moses WeNTWORTH, bachelor member of the House from the First District, and nephew of ‘Long Joums,’ who - is flapping his wings and crowing so vivaciously over the fact that he has missed but one vote during the Lerislative session, is not the patriot the pensive public has fondly sup- vosed. The other members returned to see ‘be assiduously courting the amiable daughter of an eminent political gentleman resident in Springfleld! No wonder he remains on deck. But to try and play the CAsABIANcA under such circumstances s a little toochildlike and bland. The fact is, WENTWORTE could not have been dragzed outside the corporate limits of Spring- field by a six-mule team.” —————— One branch of the Iilinois Legislature has passed a bill forbidding pool-selling on anything from base-batl to the future price of wheat; and the bill forbidding pool-selling on race-courses has passed the New York Legislature, not a vote being cast against it fu the Senate, despite JouN MORRISSEY'S protest that it would destroy $10,000,000 in New Yorkand work to the benefit of New Jersey and Pennsylvania. He asked to be excused from voting as an interested party. A the pool-selling gentry ot Gotbam will mi- | grate to Jersey City. e ———— A cable dispatch informs the L-0. that the aged eunnch, who was to be sent by the Sultan, a8 a remuneration for its suppert of Turkey in the war, killed himself yesterday, as he saw nothing but starvation ahead of him. The ¢ bag-trousers” are on their way. Nrxox will wear them when he goes for the Pension Agency. Inthat way he expects to secure the influence of Dr. MARY WALKER, and other advanced women, and so oust Miss SweET. ———— The colored men of Loulsiana and elsewhere in the South warmly approve the President’s policy. But this is nothing. How can = “ nigger” be supposed to know what is good for him? The places in which the question can be properly studied and determined arc Bangor, Me., Des Moines, Ia., and other localities where the subject 1s removed from its surroundings and is lifted into the domain of the cold reason. ————— The St. Lonis Globe-Democrat is finally pulling 1 the HAYES team, but it ronchesits back a little toomuch. A truly zood mule always holds its spinal column level when pulling is to be done. There ought not, usnally, to be over six fnches of daylight between the ground and the belly of a thoroughly trustworthy mule when it is “down toitswork.” Aword tothe wise is sufficfent. Joxce, the St.Louis whisky crook, must serve out nis sentence, as it has been resolved to pardon no more wmsk_r-n;i;v{«'mfi he is the only oneleft in limbo. “For ptime he is secure against duns, lightning-rod ,fnd book-peddlers, and the canvassers for t] ( directory for which St. Louis has become famious, JOYCE ought to be happy over his privileges. 2 Senator RmpLE has sccured tho vassage of his bill in the Senate, changinz the General In- corporation law so that villazes shallelect seven instead of six Trustees, and thus have an odd number on the Board. There is little doubt of its passage in the House. The prescnt number of six has worked inconveniently, as it continu- ally produces ties in the Boards ot Trustees. i = Even the “HavEs Policy” can’t get a fight outof theold Journal since An TArrLOR and ArTHUR DrxoN knocked the wind out of her. il gila s sy Russia may whip the Turks, but can she beat the British Lyin'? That's the question. ——— « A drop too such "—the Russian “drop™ on the DamV AP I PERSONAL. Mr. John L. Lick will receive $525,000 from his father's estate of $3, 000, 000. Ex-Sheriff Jimmy O'Brien has made $60,000 by the riso of breadstufls in New York. He started in specalation with borrowed money. Mrs. Gen. Sherman has received by con- tributions from the Catholics of America $230, 000, which will be presented to the Pope on the fiftieth anniversary of his clevation to the Episcopate in May next. Mr. Horace Maynard now has a fine op- portunity to make a reputation for himself in Constantinople like that which Mr. Washburn achieved in Paris. The Tarks can certanly be no more difficalt to deal with than the Communists. The quarterly dividend of 2 per cent on New York Central stock was drawn by the Messrs. ‘Vanderbilt on the 15th inst., to the amount of about a million of dollars, showing that they own ‘more than half the entire capital of $90, 000, 000. Oaly ignorant and vulgar-minded persons confound violins with fiddies, as if they were just the same. The fiddle is 2 coarse instrument cost- ing only & few shillings, whereas no violin worthy of the name can be obtained for less than from £5 to £10. Two Paris murderers, Moyaux and Mad- ame Gras, attempted to cheat the scaffold by starv- ing themeelves to death; but the jailers injected broth and milk into their stomachs through the nostrils, and at last accounts both were eating heartily. A yenr fromthis time a noted English Epis- copal evangelst will begin o series of reviral ‘mectings in Boston, and he has been promised the assistance of Mr. Moody. The name of the En- glish preacher is not given, bat Mr. Moody says he s the finest preacher he ever heard. ' Young King Alfonso, of Spain, has been playing the part of the gay deceiver, allowing his ‘honor to be pledzed to the elder daughter of the Duke of Montpensier and his affections to the younger. Thereis a disturbance in the family, and the vase of sisterly affection has been forever shattered. Charles H. Adams, late Member of Con- gress from the Albany (N. Y.) District, was mar- riea Wedncedny in Washington to Miss Judith Crit- tenden Coleman, of Louisville, Ky., a dauzhter of John J. Crittenden. The marriage ceremony was performed by the Rev. William C. Young, of Chi- ¢ago, a cousin of the bride. Macmillan's Magazine for April contains a readable article by the Rev. C. Halford Hawkins on some performances of Shakspeare's plays in the Melningen Theatre, his description of the repre- sentation of -*'U'welfth Night" reminding the reader in its eamestuces of Charles Lamb's de- lightful acconnt of a performance of that play. Mr. Frederick Martin, the compiler of the *tStatesman’s Year-Book " ig engagsd on a bioz- raphy of Mr. Carlyle, as whoSe sccretary ho acted forashort time. Mr. Marun is sa1d to be paving special attention tothe ** description of parentsand environments,” which Mr. Carlyle himself has declared to be the true history of 2 man's child- houd. The Rochester Demacrat has been reading the letter recently published in the Chicago Times abont that guadroon ball, and says: - We hear of seseral parties who yearnto be a Southern Com- miesion.” But the Commisston did not attend the ball. It was the Northern correspondents who kept up the honor ot the country which they rep- resented. . Charles O'Conor sont n suit of clothesto a needy Confederate prisoner at Elmira during the War. Shortly afterwards he received a similar re- quest from another prisoner, and made the same replv. Then came a third letter, the writer of which referred to the two previous applications, and said that, understandizg Mr. 0'Conor to be in the clothing bumness. he would see to it that his store was well advertised in Tennessce after the War, if he would extend credit for still another suit of clothes. Mr. O'Conor told thestory to many gentlemen of like sympathies, snd they made up a handsome subscription, from the avails of which many prisoners at Elmira were well clothed. It was not peshaps a patriotic action, bat it was humane. The London Spectator has an article on **Microacople Extravagance,” showing how large ashate of the income of 3 man in moderate cir- cumstances zoes to pay for the small luxuries of life. Mr. Ruskin's announced determination to live in his conntry house on £360 a year cannot be adhered 1o, the Spectator says, nnless he ia willing to deny himeelf the ordinary comforts of life. Any man of fair income in Engiand spends two-thirds of thc‘ln{nl 'l,nenlli!oned by Mr. Ruskin, or 2220 s year, in trifics alonc, his daily outlay be reckoned in this table: g e Py accmoanc® Bryan Waller Procter (g CornwalD--=Distinguis;eq Friends, - Letters from Emerson Rnd Longfellow. - Lord Byron and Don Jua -Lamb---Adelaide Procter, Swinburne Sings a Requiem, From Our Own Correspondent. Bostox, April 26.—The life of Barry Corny of which I spoke Ina previous letter, is now _before me in advance sheets. To look fnto it st Toois into & mine where are not only the finest gemy of thought, but most of the jewels of greatness, who made up that precions society of which Chasjey Lamb was the centre, and through which By, fashed belliantly from tire to time, The cprn piler of the various motes, reminiscences, ete. which make up the principal portion of tha‘ book, docs ot call it **a life, " but simoly gives Iz tny titleof the author's namie, Bryan Waller Procte (Burry Cornwall).—the latter being the pocty. + nom de plume, by which the poet was best knowy by the public of his day, and constantly ad( even in private by his near personal friends, Ty general reador and verse-lover of to-day, ss \y, Procter’s blographer truly says, knowa lttle of this poet's ‘‘most characteristic functionsas apost.n But this is spoken of English readers. T shoulq say that from whatI have kmown, the yomger American reader—I do not include the ‘student of literature—knows still less of Barry Cornwall aay poet's name even, for his *Songs™ are notgreat, nor specially orighal, like the strains that havp floated down to us through the centuries, from Herrick and Lovelace, Montrose and Waller, agq “rare Ben Jonson.” But neither are they we or borrowed plumes. . They are full of eweetneiq all their own, and have a_suffclent strength ot fibre to call forth from Lord Byron * . THE WARMEST ADMIRATION, Tn a private conversation with Lady Blessington, he eaid of these **Songs™: They are *‘fallof 1mogination and beauty, possessing s refinement and delicacy that, whilst they add all the charms of woman's mind, take off none of the force af 2 man's.” 5 As a dramatic writer Byron and others thanght still more highly of him. After readingone of the +Dramatlc Frogments,” which Mr. Procter bat then published, Byron wrote to him, ** Why don't you try the drama again? There is your forfe; and should you set to work seriously, yon ‘have the field to yourself and are fully able to keepit." And Charles Lamb declared that, *there was ot one of the [Dramatic] Fragments to which, had by found them among the Garrick Plays in the Britisy Museam, he wonld have refuseds place in hig Dramatic Specimens. ™ ; Carlyle, too, the grim and flerce critic, spoke praise of Mr. Procter's dramatic talént. A dJeflrey—Lord Jeflrfiy. of whom 3Misa Martinean tells such tales of Edinburg Reriew savageness— Jeftrey, who. according to Wordsworth, did so muaa mischief to his (Wordaworth's) pocme, in that sams Edinburg Review, that the &o;ms for years failed to bring more than £100 to this anthor—Jeflrey, - THE GREAT RODAMANTHUS of his time, writes to his **Dear Procter " in cop- stant notes of admiration,” and entreats for his contribations. And Harriet Martinean. in her An- tobiography, says: ‘*Itwas delightful to know the Barry Cornwall, who won his first fame when [ _was living on poetry down at Norwich, and when ‘his exquisite metres were onmy mng':t or in oy head day and night;bat all I found in him_ sup- rted and deepened the intercst with which I met im. He was always so kind and co s, e simple and modsst, so honest and agreeable, that Tvalaed his acquaintance highly, and have con- tinged to do so o this day. And here in America Emerson, and Longfellow, and Hawthorne were his admirers, and wroe cor- dial acceptance of his book. Longfellow—this and others of the American letters are dated in 1874— writes _in this strain on receipt of the book of En- glish Songs: **Nostrangers to my freside ars these sonzs; we have loniz looked upon them as among the best in the language, and ips the most traly lyric of anyn-.mF it has to boast. For me they are_more snugest(ve of music_than any modern songs whatever, that the three Kingdoms bave produced. In this point they are rivaled only by & few songs of the olden time, found in the dram- atists or the pages of Dryden.” AND YET AFTER SUCH TESTIMONY AS THIS; after being for his day eo hizh in the hearts of such admirers s these, we find_him almost unknownat the present date. And it is only thirty years ago! At 79 yearsof age Mr. Procter began o long- contemplated series of aketches, which he no ol meant to elaborate at length. Dut they are giren t0 us now as mere sketches, rough drafts under the title of ** Recullections of Men of Letsers.” These, with the letters to himself from literary {riends, form the most _eatisfactory portion of the ook, though we are also given several hithertopa- publizhed poeme. Bat whether it is becass of ths Frowth of intensity in exprossion within thess lir- ty years, the pre-Raphaelite tendency to details,or whether Mr. Procter’s verses were overrated be- cause at that time poetic expression of this sart was less common, may be, perhaps, a guestion. The mine that Mr. Procter worked has within these thirty years had soch workers as Browning, and Tennyson, and ROSSETTI AND SWINBURNE— with their greater powers they have most like) overborne this quieter singer; for to read thei ‘verse beside that of Procter's now makes the lit- ter weem, fine as it is, pale beside their rich and passionate colors, and timid and vague in expres- sion. But it in scarcely with his verse that onehas t0do now, with this oook before ome. 1t is the record of a fine character, and the incidental fntro- duction to the intimate acquaintance of Caslyle snd Lamb. and a host of other celebrities. Tae record is brief. partiy owing to the quiet life of the and partly to the choice of his biozrapher—3. who himaelf feels that he js unsuited to the work on account of having lived out of London and spst from Mr. Procter, but who fecls also that the re- ueat to do this work is likea command, andwho erefore undertakes jt. But thoogh We may miss some details, there is 3 fns presentution of the character of the poet, whichis extremely subtle and_interesting. The openins words of the memorial show_the quality of thif biographer's appreciation: **A man may eamis gratitude of the world by speaking, writing, of acting admirably, but is most delichted and en- during thanks are given to individuality of chamc- ter; in other words, to a living addition to the visl- 1bI¢ scope and vaciéty of bumanity. > = Andit is this individuality of character whkh Mr. Procter posscssed that made sach. A DEEP IMPRESSION " S upon everybody wno came in contact with hiz. And the Diographer very truly goes ontod: **The tradition of such a character has the rm of lingerinz in_the world, even when the life bas been 80 nneventful as to leave little scope for biog- raphy or even for anecdote. And the writmgt which are the outcome of that character are flosted down by such tradition to_a postesity which might never bave heard of them but for this proof of theif gennineness. 1f we get few events of tho peraonal life of Proc- ter, we zet glimpses of the swectness and light, &4 Maithew Amold would say, of more cele men. Tue biographer perceives of how mnch worth this when he says: **The *events' of Brys Waller Procter's ife might all be told {nd very few pages—unless, indeed, his friendships may be re- garded as its events.” And judging from what we find in this book of the variety of theae friends, and toe great in of their letters, we_may well conclude that soch friendships are the best events a person could well have. 1lere, for instance, Is part of & letter from Lord Byron, when Byron was in Genos, in o ** With regard to ‘ Don Juan,’ there are nine cads tos, seven of which are in England. The resson the delay is a quarrel with Murray (on Hunt's ac- count originally) snd a demur with the frads iz general—excited by the Arimaspian of Albemarle street. The said John M., Esq., Who IS werfol in his way and in as done and will “do all that he 10 perplex or impede. As to what D, J, maydois Enzland—you will see. ~1f you had bad . the expe- rience which 1 have had of the grande monds i that and other countries, you would be aware thab. there is no society 30 intrineically (thouzh BTPS critically) intriganie and profiigate s Evelish gy lite. 1 speak what 1 do know, "‘““.‘h"%n ave seen and felt personaily in my youth,— what [ have andergbne and. been made (o TAderE%: and from what I know of the whole scene 1o 622 eral, by my own experience, and_tbat. of othersy and’my acquaintance was somewhat extensire. b speak of seven years ago and more; it may be be! And Carlyle writes bim, and Jefirey, and Lelgh . § Hunt, and Rogers, and Landor, and Tom and Cbarles Lamb, all from out thelr ‘Shefth hearts.” Of all of them, Chatles Lamb's THE MOST DELICIOUS, because so fairly onidoing our idea of Ela: Exrrecn. Monday.—Deaz P—: 1 haye mors 3% £55in my House, and am Independent of @ not having received my pension. Pray se! ‘Ull. the matter with 3r. Taylor. I 1lLs, but most gladly will 1 R, for Mary {3 very anxl Lnio'sny litigation, iy desk for want of use. M-—, tell S— when yousec him, but Mary Ja¢ "Sceount, not mino. i ever and two evera, S Sy Do {t smack atonice, and T will explatn to ¥moed Ididic. It isstmply done to ease hermind. WHEaZog Rave acttled. write, and I'}l send the bank-notes @0 752 twice, In haives. ldeduct from it your share 1o brotes bottics, which you being capital in your hitx, K8Xs 300, twoshlllings. Do fas you love Mary and me- Elia's bimself again. ot In the autoblographical fragments e bty ‘very flattering portrait of our American no']'mf Cooper: **Cooper was invited to dino at the e of Devonshirc's, but he was affronted becadsel s Duke had not called upon him. 1 forges WAeHHES e went ornot; bat I believe he did. Hewess Lord Spencer's. At dinuer he did not takedy thing: and on Lady S, Inquiring whether B8 K8 /.. not eat, he replied that *He cxpected the i to be brousht round to him.’ Lady Soenceriy.. that this was not the castom here. : that {t waa the custom at Paris. England three times before, and had greater partof his life at sea and in Americsh nzeasy: 50 Iay It to ¢ g