Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 2, 1877, Page 4

: June. i fordo short clears, $1.10 per gallon. . tion of tho President calling an oxtra session . Efgogement of : RN 2 Monroe street, eorner Dearborn. i tho Biack 11a. Atieraoon And eventog. he " glar Communication st'Aasonic Temple, corner Itan- H s Dy omeror +' i greenbacks at the closo. \ tho mewspapers or he would have taken " Direclors of the Lake Bhore & Michigan ; nine * cighty-threo, and five who died subsoquontly * somo and healthful than a diet of fine wheat 4 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 1877. systom wna established something like a hundrod years ago, when the’ pensions wero comparatively fow in number and small in the aggregato of money reqnired, and it has ocenrred to Mr. Bentna that the $30,000,000 now appropriated can be disbursed withont the small army of Ponsion Agents and clerks now employed at large salaries and entitled to fat feos and perquisites. It is The Tribyne, TERMS OF SBUBSCRIPTION. BY MAIL—IN ADVANCE—FPOSTAGE TREPATD AT 'INIS OFFICE. 12.00 1.00 LAl .00 anany .so | proposed to reduce the number of Agents faunday bditlan, A 3 | from sixty-cight to twenty-two, consolidate Firinor a geare pir mont 30 | thoir districts, and reduce the fees. ‘WEEBKLY ED - grasopr.por el 1% | The dofort which tho Board of Trade Clubof twent; 20.00 Grain-Inspeetion bill suffered in the House yesterdny shuts off all hopo for any im- provement in the prosont system during this sosslon of tho Legislatare. We had acarcely anticipated any other result. Tho country membern arelargoly infeoted with the singular delusion that there is some mysterions benefit to tho farmers in interforing with the natural laws of trade in Chicago, and maintaining a system of political inspection which s a burdon of ono or two cents a bushel on all grain handled in this city, whether raised in Illinoia or other States. All efforts to en- lighten the rural legislative mind on this matter have failed, and it will probably take nyear or two moro to make the avernga country member underatand that an unneces. sary deprossion of the prico of grain in Chi. cngo inevitably roacts npontheproducer. Wo understand, howover, that the Board of Trado intend to ignore tho State inspection as toall graln which comes to this clty, clalming, and very properly wo think, that tho Ilhnois Logislature has no right to fix the prico of grain sont here from other States, whatovor it may do in regard to Illi. nois grain. ¢ The Frank Apaus back-tax bill has now: pnssed both Houses, and requires only the signatura of the Governor to make it a law. Tho bill was first passed in tho Benate; when it wont to the House, smondmonta wero added which made its terms applicable not merely to Chicago but to all cities which had been collecting taxes under Bill 800; theso amendments have now been concurrod in by tho Sonate. = Bo far na Chicago is con. cerned, this iz by all odds the most im- portant measure which has been passed by tho Logislature. It will enable tho re-nssess. ment of tho taxes succossfully resisted in the courts upon the samo property, and, unlees defented by the courts, will save nearly £3,000,000 to Chicago which would other- Postage prepatd. Epecimen coples sent free, Toprevent delay and mixtakes, be rure snd give Poste Offce addrers In full, Inclnding Rtate snd County, Rgmittances may bemade either hy draft, express, Oftice order, or fn regfstered lettera, at onr risk. TERMS TO CITY BUBSCRIRERS. Tofly, dellvercd, Sunday excepted, 25 centa per week. Deiy, deltvered, Bunday Inctuded, 30 cents per week Adadress THR TRIDUNE COMPANT, Corner 3fadison and Dearborn-sta., Chicago, Il TAMUSEMENTS, " Haverly’s _T,I?nlrkl. 4 Lasalt \dol street, hetween Clarl and_ LaSalle. Taetehe S the Rtk orey nCinerd opern Fronpe: rooon, **Bohemian OIFL™ Evening, ** Martus.)” Madls it m:“;!k"" T'l‘,"“l:fle‘ 81 Btate. son _ street, tween earborn i1 3 mxp,nufenc T8 St Shory Andireone ™ odF dsunee: Muscum, Monroe strect, between Btato and Dearborn. Vaude- 1ilie and novelty, “Engagement of Den Tompaon. **Joshus Whitcom| Afiernoon and evening. Adetphl Theatre. **Texss Jack fn Now Chicago Theatre. Clark sireot. between Lako and Randolph. Rice's rets, SOCIETY MEETINGS, HESPERIA LODGE, NO. 411 A, ¥, & A, M,—Teg- doiphand lialated-atr.. this Wednesiay arening., Stay rhird De Visiting brethren cordiaily {nvited. oratrot T ClAS NEATH BRENAN, W, ol 1AS. F. FOERSTEI, Secretary, WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 1877, OHICAGO MAREET BUMMARY, ‘The Chicago produce markets were generally ac- tiva yesterday, and very weak. Mess pork closed @3¢ per brl lower, at $14,65@14.70 cash and $14.00 for June. Lard closed f0c per 100 Ibs Jower, at $0,554pD.00 cash and $0.70429.%5 for Monta wero 1e lower, at Gic per Ib for Toose shoulders, 74¢ for do short riba, and 7Xc 1iighwines wero active, at Flour was qulet ond stesdy. Wheat closed 14c lower, ot $1.53 for May and $1,55% for June. Corn eclosed Go lower, at 5lc cash and G62%c for Juno. Oats closed 14@%c luwm"i nl]lofi: cashand 41%c for Jlune'.! h““ wiso have been lost to the city. Tho re- clored 7c lower, at 85@86c. Darley closed tame, at70c far May. Tiogs were dull and wenk, and | A80sment and colloction of these unpald \clofed s shadolower, st $5.3005.60 for poor to | taxes may be mado this summer. chalco. Cattlo wore.quict and cnsy, withsalesnt | To somo oxtent the law may be | 83.50@5.75. ‘Steep were inactive. Last Satur- ‘day ovoning there was In stors in this city {351,303 bu wheat, 3,740,428 bu_com, 410,300 , bu oats, 283,174 bu rye, and 670,770 bn barloy, 1One hundred dollars In gold would buy $100.02% resisted by those who originally fought the tax ; bat, as the bill provides that thoro can ba no appeal from the judgment of the lower Court without a doposit in the bands of the County Colloctor of an smount of of monoy equal to tho amount of judgment and costs, it is not likely that the delny will bo 5o great s usual in tho caso of resisting o taxdevy. The collection of this money will cnable the city to pay off its floating indobtedness, conmstruct ncolled school- houses, and provide such sowers ns ought to have beon built from the funds withheld, It will bo a great blessing to this city if it operates with tho efficiency expeated of it. Greenbneks at the New_ éf;k Exchange yestordny closod at 933, The coin balance in the Trensury is $105,- 489,74, incinding $14,828,250 held for tho redomption of called bonds not presented for payment. The smalleat rascal in tho country is the Cashicr of the Union Banking Company of Philadelphis, It was discovered yosterday morning that ho was a defaunlter for only 26,000, It is plain that ho did not read THE CITY FINANCES, Tho very olear and buainess.like message to tho City Council on Monday evening hias boen undoubtedly road by every citizen in- torested in tho progressive recuperation of tho credit of Chicago. Tho trouble is, of courap, tho old one: tho uncolleoted taxes of 1878 and 1874, and tho delay in the pay. ment of curront taxes, Tho Mayor speaks more, It.;- thought probable that the proclama.' of Congress will designata Juno 15, instend of Juno 4, os the date of tho commencomont of tho scsslon, Tho subject was discussed at a Cabinot mecting yesterday, and the de- cision will probably be made known by the isauo of the proclamation about next Friday. Iature for tho colleatlon, of thio bagk,taxes of 1873 aud '74, and thinks that if this bill be possed and be .judiclally sustained, the city will bo relioved of all its embarrnss- ments, The Mayor points out, as anillustra- tion of the happy offocts of the colleotion of theso back taxos, that it would enable the city to purchase eight sites for schools nnd poy for the orection of thirteon school bulldings for which appropriations have long since been made, and furnish nocom. modations fo many thousands of childron now oxclnded the schools. Thess ap- proprintions have never beon expended, the monoy intended therefor nover having been collocted. This is equally trmo of otior matters, There are £600,000 appro- printod yoars ago towards building the Conrt- Tonse, and {t standa on tho books of the clty to tho credit of that fund. The money, how- over, is not in the Tronsury, and cannot bo put there for that purpose until theso back taxcs shall be collected. 'If this old uncol. lected rovenue woro collectod, all the out. standing certificates ropresonting oxpendi. taroa of past yoars could be taken nup and cnnceled, and the city would be no longer embarrassed by an accumulation of overdue papor, The Mayor poluts out the fact that much of tho nprovoment in tho credit of the city has been the rosult of a reduction in the ox- ponditurcs, The last Common Council had the conrage not only to reduca the objects of oxpenditure but to reduce the rate of ox- penditure. It not only abolished officers bu} it reduced the salaries of the remaining onoa, The comparative appropriations for 1875, 1870, and 1877, wero as followa: T3 S 123,005.20 1870 (nine’ mon 015,520,27 1877 (twelve month 012,002.20 Tho appropriation for 1877 includes an ap- propriation of £301,000 for sewerage, whilo that for 1876 included only $16,000, Bome of the itoms of reduction aro worthy of espacial commendation. The reductions of expenso in the Noard of Publio Worka by dismissals woro $77,600 a year; roductions ond savings in salaries, $92,600 o year. Polico forca redaced from 565 to 482 men, Reductions in the aunual expense of polics, $140,000 per annum, with n great increase in the offfclency of the force, Reduction in the consumption and cost of gas, $300,000, The provious average consumption of gas per lamp was almost 19,000 feot. 'This has boon reduced to botweon 12,000 and 18,000 foet por lamp. ‘The Mayor, after nlong and laborious ox- perienco in the City Government, looking back upon the reforins of the past year and the economies which nccessity compelled in mavy fnstances, uscs this emphatio Innguage: The Councll have, in all those matters of econo- my and reform, Alled the cxpoctations of the com. munity, Ourdnancis) cundition is now heslthy and prosporous. Tho credit and good name of our clty aro restored. ‘The cxpenscs of all tho dopart. ments have been reduced without Impatring public service Iu sny particular. On fAd coatrary, 1t must be apparent to all who bave examined the question that the large reduction in the number of city omployes has benefited tho soveral depart. meats and increascd tholr eMiclency. ‘We commend these words, the result of ripe experience, to the careful consideration of all persons interested im governmonts, uational, State, and municipal, One of the perplexing questions of government, espo- clally in all large cities, is how to keep ex- peuditures from increasing. and how to se- Tho national dobt statemont for April showa n roduction of $4,315,600, which is much botter than waa nnticipated, and sounds woll for the sccond month of the now Admin. istration. A closo collection of the revenno and sovero economy In oxponditures would ennblo him to ropoat this liquidation of the debt twelve timos por annum, The last vestige of the conflict botwoen tho Haxrrox and OnaMpERLAIN Govornmonts in Bouth Carolina was yesterdsy romoved, and the possession of Gov. Haxerox is now undisputod and complote. Tho withdrawal by the Republicana from the action In the Bupremo Court to test tho titlo to the Stata offices nllowed judgmont to be entered in {avor of the Haxrron Governmont, ——— The nunual rc[\;flt of tho Prosident and Houthern Railrond Company gives thoso particularsof tho Ashtabula disastor : Nam. ber of porsons on the traln, 149, including children ; number killed ontright, of their injuries ; hosidea theso, sixty-threo wore injured In variona degress of weverity, and out of tho entiro 15, only eight escaped uninjured. Tho report declares the causo of the accident to Lo wrapped in mystery, and virtually disclnims any responsibility on the et of the Company for the terriblo catas. tzopho, ‘The price of broad 1is be; considorablo attontion in Chieago, hero whero food should be choap if anywhere, A very scnsible suggestion to the consumer comes from the bakers—which is, to buy larger loaves, and thns save both ju the shriukago by drying and in the profit of the rotail grocer, who insists upon a margin of one cent per loaf in his favor, no matter how largo or small the loaf may be, The advico to buy larger loaves might be supple. monted with the advice to buy less of them, and to eat more corn-meal and oatmeal, which are not only cheaper but mora whole- bread exclusively. . Hivoreru has applicd to the courts for o mandamus to compel the Common Council to roccognize him as an Alderman of the Boventh Ward.® The fellow hns no sense of shamo, Ife is not wanted by the Council, nor by the citizens of Chicago, snd, as the office i3 not decontly one of profit, and there is no possible honor iu it for a convicted and confossed whisky-thief and porjurer, it would scem that tho game is not worth tho caudle. The law makes the Common Coun. cil the judge of the qualifications of its own members, and also makes the crime for which Hiozern was convicted and sen. teuced a ground for his exclusion for in. eligibility, and it is not easy to see why the courts should fecl called upon to interfere. A very material reduction of the expenses of the Pension Bervico is now under coo- sideration by Becretary Bcnusz, who can see 10 good reason why eo large a proportion of money aunnually appropristed for pensions should be pocketed by disbursing offcers in the shape of salaries and fees. The present hopefully of the bill now before the Legis.. curo honest and officiont government. The oxamplaof Chieago, confirmed by experience, is now furnished, as offering an answor {o the question, That examplo wna tho aboli- tion of a long list of officos, and tho redno- tion of ealaries of all the others. A yoar's oxporionco warrants Mayor Heata in de- claring that tho oxpenses of nll departmenta of the City Government have not only been rodnced without fmpairing the publio sorv- Ico, but the largs reduction in the number of city employes has benefitad the several depart- menta and inereased their efficiency. The Gov. ornmont at Washington rocently dismissed some (00 of its employos, and it is understood that under the reduced appropriations other dismissals must take place at tho end of the year in Jnly. The reduction in Chicago was somewhat enforced by necessity; and it runy be that the experfence of the Govarn. mont at Washington may prove to be like that of the Government of Chicago, and that tho large reduction in the number of omployes has benefited the soveral deparl- ments and increased their efficioncy. At all ovents, the experimont may be profitably tried. Tho Mayor urges an adhorenca to the policy of tho paat year, and to even carrying the reduction of expenses still further whoraver the publia sorvice will ndmit. The efciency of the service hns beon further promoted by the discontinnanco of oll Aldermanic support of offico-scekors. Aldermen no longer dic- tato nppointmants, nor ara they undor obli- gntions to find places for thoir friends, Tho Mayor, having the public service only in his mind, selects tho men best fitted for that duty, and roquires of them that thoy shall striotly perform it. A year ngo the city's poper was under protest, and loans could not bo had nt any rate of intercst. To-day the Mayor hns a choico of loans far oxcooding any want of the city at 6 per cont intorest, This is the result of the popular interest in publio affairs shown last year and agnin this year in the cloction of honest and responsi- Lle mon to govern tho city. HOW TO BUILD THE SOUTHERN PACIFIO. Itis vory evident that *‘ Home.Rule" is not all that the South has to ask from the Government. The "old flag” s mnot enough, unless supplemented by an ** appro- priation.” Tho sottlemont of local political complications will give ample time and en- able a formidablo combination to presa the construction of the Southern Pacific Railrond upon the attontion of tho new Congress. Tho scheme will presont {tsclf in the shapo of a petition for a Government guaranteo of in- torest on bonds at a rate varying from $26,000 to 885,000 per mile for a trunk line and con- nections amounting to 2,305 miles of mail. wny. Past experionce warrants tho conolu- slon that thia will ba no more nor loss than an assumption by the Government of the principal and interost on tho sum which is to bo exponded in the Credit-BMobilier system of construction, with allowances for bribery and other inoidental exponditures and profits, Withont counting compound intercst, the lowest investment which the Governmont can make, if it goes Into this scheme, will bo s follows : D ats a1 80, 000 ot il s, o8 41,645,000 Donds for 8an Diero connection (100 miles) at $30,000 per mile... . 3,000,000 Donds for eastorn extenslona milon) 8t 425,000 por milo... L.... Interes !nuhlnayuu-mpcucnl, at the rate of §3,400,750 per ye Grand total..... This sum {8 80 far boyond the limits of the ordinary comprehension that it is useless to enlarge upon its cnormity, Nordo we now caro to ropeat the familiar and foreible nrgaments against the Government's inveat. ing in any railrond onterprise, and most of all Mr. Tox Hcorr's particular schomes, Buch arguments, no mattor how cogent with impartial and disintorested persons, would not he listened to by the Southern peoplo, who look forward only to the great benefits which they think tho completion of a rail. road from Vicksburg to Ban Diego will give them, 'The point to which we desire to dircot the attention of tho Bouthern people now is that their road will bo built more surcly, more quickly, more solidly, and more economienlly if thoy can induco Congross to hold its hands off than if they invoke all the ald and monoy from the Gouoral Government which Tox Bcorr asks, The Southern Pacific Road is actually being built now by the owners of the Central Pacific. A yearor two ago, it will be remembered, Mr, HunTinoToN, tho man. oging man of tho Central Pacific, who waa not on such good terms with Tou Bcorr as he is now, formnlly offered to construct tho entire Southorn Pacific Railway with privato capital if ho could get the land-grant alrendy given to Tox Bcorr for that purpose, This was no ompty boast. Itwas made bya Com- pany—the Contral Pocifio—which already owns about 3,000 miles of railroad, and which conalsts of some flvo or six gentlemen who havo an aanual income from thoir rail. roads of about $1,000,000 cach, It wasmade at n time when*this Company was actually constracting o railroad on the line projected by Toxt Bcorr from the West. Bince that offer was made, tho two intercsta have come to the conclusion that it will be just na well to flecce the Government through the delu- sion and by the aid of the Bouthern interests in Congress, sllied to the methods by which o cortain amount of Congreasional assistance innlways obtained for schemes that reach the National Treasury, They have conso- quently joined forves, and thelr combined lobbies will make tho attack for tho snbsidy, Ponding these negotiations to got noarly two hundred millions out of the United States Treasury, the Contral Pacifio have actually built about 750 miles of railroad running south and east from 8an Francisco, about one-half of which is on the line of the proposed Bouthern Pacific, This road hoa now been completed from San Franclsco to Fort Yuma,—a distance nearly as great as from Balt Lake to Ban Francisco, or from Chicago to Baltimore, It was started to tap the granariea of the California Valloy, but the further it went the greator the profit was. It was oxtended to tako in the fruit regions of Los Angeles. Once that far, the tomptation of the Arizons mines presented itself, and the road was pushed shead to Fort Yuma. Now tho Col- orado River is being bridged ot that point, and it 14 the intention to build tho road to ‘Tucson, Arizous, which will be reached prob- ably durlog next winter. That will complete one-fourth of the road for which the enor- mous subsidy is nsked from Fort Worth to Fort Yuma, Al this is being doune by pri- vato enterpriso aud with the boundless re. sources of the Central Pacific Company. All the Government has got to do to assure the construction of the Bouthern Pacific Railroad {s to hold its hands off. Once as- sured that he can got no subsidy from Con. gress, Mr. Tox Bcogr will not long delay in arranging with tho Central Pacific people to complete the road, with the aid of the land. grant of 7,500,000 acres which the enterprise already bolds from the Btate of Texas and Djunis, n fow months ogo, when he roated tho Bervians and dislodged Temennaverr from his fortifications. He is considered an honest, good-natared man, and, like MovTxe, is babitually taciturn, though master of many langunges. Ho roscned tho Turkish troops in Herzego- vina, and, after his march from Gatchko the General Government. Tha entirs road from Fort Ynma enat to Fort Worth ean bo constructod nt a losscost than the road already built from Ban Francisco to Fort Yumn, for that part of the road already finished had to traverso and tunnel mountaing, whilo that which romaina to be built will cross n great plain. If permitted to ba built by private enterprise, tho rond will represent a mini. mum of cost with the maximum of excel. lenco, while precisely tho reverse will be the easo if n eubsidy bo granted. If built by private capital, it will bo ipnshed forward rapidly and energetienlly; if on publio capi- tal, it will be delayed to givo opportunity for tho stenlings. We appeal to tho Bouth whother it ianot belter to allow tho Sonth. o DPacilo to bo constrncted 08 n bnainess onterprise (as it will bo with- ont question if the Government grants no smbaidy) than to ‘incrosse tho publio debt £200,000,000, and inangurato a now era of corruption, bribery, and oxtortion, to serve tho sarho result ? e THE TURKISH GENERALS, The Commandor-in-Chief of tha European Turkiah army is Anpus Kernst Naoin Pasm, ‘born at Tehirpsn, in Bulgarin, near thoacono of tho recent massacres. Ho ontered tho sorvice in 1828, and, after recoiving his com- missfon, studied in o military school at Vienna. Aftor an absenco of several yenrs ho roturned to Turkey, and gradually rose to the highest rank in the service, Ho served in 1854 with grent distinction nnder Oaan Pasna, first upon the Danube and then in the Caucasus, His principal battlo was at Mo is past 70, Hia Chief of Staff is Nepsrn Pasna, who recelved his military education at Brussels, and is con- siderod the most ablo Genoral in the servico. to Bilckn, was mado commander of the provinolal forces, Ho was in the consplracy against Anpur Aziz, and after Muzran's acoossion was mada Chief of Btaff to Aopur Kennyt, Ho is only 46, and la mar- ried to a Christian from Bosnia. Anoun Kennt's oxecutive officer is Acmmep Exun Pasma, who waa brought up at the Constan- tinople military school, and made his first important succeas at the battlo of Djunis, which was fought under Anbur, Kxnm's in. structions, o is 48, nnd owes his position to the euocess with which ho suppressed some of the Arnbian rebols, Denvisu Pasna is o Bulgarian, and celebrated in politics, butchories, and war, and has been prineipals 1y engnged in puiting down robellion, as it is callod in Turkey, which moans murdor and massacre, Ono of the finest Tarkish officers 18 Yaven Pasua, o Oircassian by birth and a groat infantry leador, who distinguished himsclf in Silistrin in 1854 nnd wos Minister of War in 1871, Tho threo remaining officers of prominence are Husserxy Pasma, commanding the Tork. ish forces in Asin; Murnran Pasma, who served in Horzogovins last summor and {snow in Kars besieged by the Russlana; Sarver Pasma, tho butoher of the womoen and children of Bulgatin, who was promoted for his hideons cruelties, and whom the Rus. sians will hang, if he falls into their hands, THE OAUEE OF THE RUBSO-TURKISH WAR, A correspondent writes us dosiring n briof statement of tho cause of the war between Tussin and Turkey, Thore ars two causes,— tho direct and indireot. The direot may be stated in n vory fow words : The oppression and persocution of thelr Christian subjocts by the Turks roached such a point of cruelty that the victims broko ont in open rovolt a yoarago., In rupprossing this rovolt, the Tarks were guilty of such inhuman tortures nnd massacres that Europs, with Russia at tho head, protested, and after meeting in Conforenco domanded that the Porte should givo gunrantecs of reform. Tho Porto ro. fused, and Rnasia, as the champlon of the Christlans, now takes the flold to socura these roforma by the sword, and to ameliorate the condition of the Christians, ‘Tho indircot cause of this war ia that tho Turk {8 an alion in Europe, an enomy of ‘Western civilization, a sangninary fanatio by nature, & ruler whose Govornment s not u Government of law but of plunder, and that thorois n very gouoral fecling in the civil. izod world that it {s time for this Govern. ment to bo overthrown or removed to its original Asiatic sonrce. The clement of law does not enter into tha idea of Turkish Gov. ernment. Its Constitution iz an uttor dead letter. It has no machinery for enforcing lawa, It has promised to mako reforms over and over again, which promises remain un. fulflled becauso it cannot enforco them. Tha governing power of Turkey isin tho hands of a caste that doos not number one-sixth of the Empire, which exists as an armed camp of Asiatica in the midst of Europo, not to lay down laws, en- forco obedience, and administer justico, but to terrorize even to the extent of ex. tormination, if necossary, and in any event to a dograe that will make resistance impos- sible, Thin caste is not responsible to any nuthority but its own, If {ta agents commit outrages, there {s no redresa. Not one of tho fiends who perpetrated the Bulgarian horrors has ever beon punished; on the other hand, tho bloodiest butchers have boen. promotod to higher scats of honor, Mr, Maccory, in his recent work on Turkey, spenka of the conditlon of the Bulgarians a4 followa: The Christlans have in most provinces, and notably in Bulgatis, fallen into the tempor of alavos; that resistance to the gendsrmerle 1s con- sidcredimpasalble, the Governmentand ita soldiery invariably supporting them, untiltho armed po- licemen can do absolutely what thoy pleass, andin a country whero chastlty is consiaored of the highest lmportance and women ars rovereuced os In lIreland, the honor of familiea In sbsojutely 8t the mercy of any viilaln wlo may bo admitted Into tha ranke of the defend- eraof urder, ‘The poople, aware that the slightest complaint will be the signal for masacre or tor ture, have been degraded bolow tho huwman polnt, till when assalled In tha way which makes even slavoa realat, they only occastonally have the en- ergy to join the brigands, though, strange tosay, when they have foined thomn they Sght to the death. . . . . . Itlscnoughlo say that In all roral districts, whorover Turks aro sunoyed, orrealsled, or even affected with » caprice tyranny, the villages uncoonter tho fate of cf taken by storm i the worst cycles of middlo- warfare, Tho men aro murdered, aud {ho women violated st will and with impunity, No redress to oven hoped for, the authoritics sll slde with the gendarmerie or soldlers, ond tho worst offenders arc the Pashas scnt to malntaln order, The Chrls- tian who complains is tortared ontll he leaves off complainiog, and the Pasha who tortures him s comsldered an energeticoficer, sud rapidly pro. moted. ‘The Turkish Government lives not only by cruelty but by plunder. It is predatory in character, not judicial. It eats the sub- stance of ita victima ; it they objoot, it ex- terminates them. It takea with no idea of returning. It borrows with no idea of pay- ing. It promisca with no idea of fulfilling, factorics on tha American sido, they can ‘the world, aftor all 7 It livea among civilizod nations as tho black- mailer, and thiof, and swindler live in so« It wonld have no subject unloss as & claty. slavo; if it cannot enalave him, it kills him, ravishes hia wife, solla his children, and burne his homo. A Mr, Maccort says in another part of his work, spenking of tho ovil which this war ia intonded to romove: It fa the existence of & an-called Government aver at the very least alx milllons of Christlans In Farope and three milllons mors in Asla, which ro far from sceneing evon tolerable peace for domontic and soclal life, and rondering it probable that the buman belngs born In Christisn communitios stiontd grow up with the ordinary confidenco in in- dustry, conrage under wrong, self-reapect in con- duct, aflections in thelr homes, and good-will towards thelr nelghbors, of average mon, actively preventa any aach resnlt, enbatitntes organized plander for tazation, favoritlem of the grossest kind for justice, cown all the manlinces ont of the mon, and all the womanliness ont of the women, replaces the noblest affections by the florcest and the meancst passions, makes dread chronic, servil- ity the only assnranco sgainst wholesale wrong, andapathy the one remedy sgainst ontrage. ‘To suppress such an evil as this Russia on- tora tho field, and hor legions are now scour- iog over Roumania and Asin Minor. No horrors of war can oqual the horrors of Belavie persocution. No loss of life can ba £O terrible as the evil that occasionsit. Ita removal at any costof life, money, or misery will bo & blessing to the world. AN ECONOMIC WABTE. Tho conviction Is rapidly fastening itself upon practical ns well as sofontifio men that n great natural and available forco, equal in power to the utilization of the entire coal product of the world, is being allowed to lie idle in the Ningara Falls, when it requires but capital and enterprise to make it-sorve tho nses of mankind. Tho Ningara Falls differ from all other possible water-powers not merely in volume, but in tho evenness, stoadiness, and permanency of their charac- tor. Niagara River does not rise or fall mora than twonty inches during tho ontiro yoar; the tremondona volumo of waters rushes over the precipico at all soasons nonrly the samo, and, ko Texnysox’s *‘Brook,” will go on forover. How to turn this vast power to economic use will bo ono of the greatest prob- loms of the futurq. Dr. Biemens, F. R, 8,, in o lecturs delidred befors the Iron and Bteel Instituto of London, abont six wecks ago, gave the subject scientific consideration, nnd some iden of the extent of the power whasted may bo formoed from what he says of the Horso-8hoo Falla: The smount of water passing over thia fall has beon cstimated at 100 million of tons per honr, and its porpendicnlar descont may he taken at 160 feet, withont connting the *‘raplde,” which represont a further fall of 160 feat, making a total 0f 800 feot botween Iake and lake. Dut the forco repreaented by,the principal fall (the Horse-8hoe Fall) alone aniounts to savontoen million horsc- power, an amoant which, if it had to be produced by steam, woula necensltate an oxpenditure of not lesa than tio Aundred and alxty-siz million lons of coal per annwum, taking the consnmption of coal at four pounds per horso-power por hour. Dr. Bieatens, asauming that thera is neither mincral wonlth nor inducemant for the estab- lishmont of manufactories in tho immediate vicinity (in which wo think he is mistaken), made romo interesting speculations as to what may be dono by using the Falls to gen- erato electricity, and carrying this force n grent distance. But thero aro good reasons for thinking that it is not necessary to wait for the development of this force, and that the power may be profitably utilized *‘by means of turbinca and wator-wheels eroctod on the shores of tho deop river bolow the Falls, supplying thom from canals cut along the banks,” which he admits to bo entiroly feasible, Now, a8 n matter of fact, an onter-. prising American, Honice II. Day, the owner of o large troot on the American shore, has already domonstrated this, Ina lottor which he recently addressed to Lord Durrenv, Govarnor-General of Canada (that he might offioially bring the mintter to the at.’ tontion of tho British and Dominion Gov. ornments), ho says: 1 have mysolf and others hava practically demon« atrated thatthe water-powor can be convenlently and cheaply applied to mills when located even miles away from the Kails by the agency of com. prossed alr produced by the water-fall, and util- fzed through the common steam engine, the air paseing throngh a pipe to any desirable locality for plncing the mille, ‘Tho mills,to fliusteate, may be placed up atroam npon the banks of the river, where voatols would float to their aido, and load and unload by tho use of the same powor. + . . Of course mills will always be so located that rafl road tracke nlso pass through or beside thom. « + « Again, vessols may reach these milla by passing from the month of the Welland Canals at Lake Eric down the Niagara River, or may come in a short stralght line from the Welland Canal, s dis- tanco of ton miles, through a small stream which empties into the Nlagara River at Cippewa. ‘The point which Mr. Dax urges is, that the completion of the Oanadian canals will mako Niagara as contral and desirable n loca. tion for cotton.mills as any {n this country (and Lio might as woll have-included woolen and linon factorics), nnd that English capital connot afford to ignoro this natural and cost- less power, whera they can manufacture for all the world, with tho chespest transporta- tion of both raw material and the manafac. tured articles, He shrowdly throws out n balt in hinting that, by the location of their avold the United States dutics and enjoy o freo market in this conntry, Desidos thia capital idea, the American sido has the advan. toges of location in a vast plain, whero the factories may bo erected. The Governor. General has promised to bring the matter to tho attention of the Home Government, and Canada's intorest in the increasod Lusiness of her canals will prompt her to encourage the gigantio schomo contemplatod. What it Niagara should become tha Manchester of S Tho adulteration of cotton goods by the English manufacturors is still o live topic with tho British press, The London Timea prints o lotter from Mr, G, ParLiirs Bevax, who has beforo raised & warning voice about tha dangers to the supromacy of his country in manufacturing, Mr, Bevax says that the now openly-admitted practice of sizing cot. ton goods with china clay, alum, baryta, and arsenic has become 8o general as to sa. rlously disoredit tho roputation of Lancashire cotton goods iu the East, the purchascrs and wearers having found by sad experience that they do not last as thoy formerly did; and tho Chincsa press haa often called sitention in strong language to this sdulteration, and warned English manufacturers of the result ‘which must ineyitably follow in the shapo of doclining trade, Mr, Brvan points out that English industry suffers in consequence of theso adulterations, not ounly in the disgust of its customers, but in the domoralization of the workingmen, who think it all right to give bad work to the employers whom they ses selling bad goods. In the last number of the Revue dedroit International, M. G. RoLny Jarquexrxs, one of tho leading European authoritics in the specially of the Zoevus, takes up the Eastern question iu ita international aspects. The OConstantinople Conference aund the events that proceded it are fully described, and tho paper s valuable for its full record of tho diplomaoy that preceded the dsclara. [ tion of war. Tho argumonts, or rather nn- gry nssortions, of the English journals like the Pall Mall Gazetle, that the Czar has no right to puraua the courso ha haa taken, have tha gronnd takon from them by the logio of Japquestyxs. Ho shows that the Great Powors, by their participation in the Confor. once, have openly avowed the right of in- torvontion between tho Bublime Porte and tha Ohristians it is oppressing. Iaving done this, they eannot, by now refusing to go forward themselves, deny to Russia its right, as ono of them and tho noarost noigh- bor to the oppressed, to go to thoir aid. 3L Jarquearrns does not think another Crimean war among the possibilities of tho futare. — Postmaster PALiER has done ono meritorions act at laat—ho has released Ald. Lawrer from his obligations to the Postal Department, in order that that gentioman may devote hiscntire timo and talents to advance the unlawful am- bition of a hall-pardoned whisky thief who secksaseat In tho City Councll, which sclf- confeased crimes and misdemeaners debar him under the statute from holding. Ald. Lawter can hereafter put fn all his time In the intorest of criminalg, bummers, and tax-caters. 1o has struck Iis gait, and will travel along nlcely as a tail to'the anti-roform dog. CGood-by, LAwLER! Hope you will have a nlce time in your new vocation ns representativo of the scalawag olo- ment of the Scventh Ward. Ald. Ouiven represents the Eighth Ward. Next spring tho citizens thercof will glye him a colleaguo like himselt in sentiments and principles. ——————— The art-world has suffered scveral lossos of Iato In the deaths of prominent artists, among them 8. W. Tornay, one of the most famous of the English water-colorists; M. Leox Brryy, a French painter of conslderable repute, whoso works hiave attracted much notles in the Sslonj Crnantes NraTx, tha English planist and 'col- liat, who held high rank In the days of Dussex, FisLp, and CnaMER, and was Intimatcly asso- ciated with Dretioven; M. BaiNTE For, the distinguished buflo of tho Taris Opera Comique; and OAnoriN® UNGER, the celebrated contralto. 8ho wis born as Vienna in 1800, and made her debut in that city in 1810, as Cherubino in the “Nozzo di Figaro.,”" It was she whohad the honor of singlug tho contralto solo in tho first performance of BErTiiovex's Choral 8ymphony &t Vienna on May 7, 1324, She left tho stage In 1840, and after marrylng o Frenchman, M. SADATIER, scitled at Florence. —— A correspondent of the Now York Sun writes: The Postmaster at Springflold, 11, who has hold the offica bt one term and 1a a good offcer, i to [H out soun, and Dave PaisLirs, of the Journal, is to b put In his piace, Prhitrirs han had no postal oxperience, has a0 much business he can give the office nio perronal nttentlon, and will ba lll]i?lnl!d moraly for the political power hoe will give Liayes. {am in the State. ‘Wao think thls rerort quite likely. Pmirvirs Journal has been giviog the President's South- ern pollcy a gencrous and slncers support under the ifth rib. ———— Marg TArLeY-ism (follincss under all clrcum- stances) scoms to bo practiced by Federal office- holders. For example: It being hinted to Mr. Crare, Publie Printer, that his resiguation would bo nceeptable, ho informs tho President that “{t affords me pleasure to meet your wishes promptly and cheerfully,” Weo can be- llevonow thatin old times martyrs went to cxccution singing joyful songs, for an office- holder resigns * promiptly and cheerfully.! ——— Thera !s a littlo town inTowa, off the rallroad, and whero tho Dea Molnes Jeeglater is tho only paper takon, whero, it {s said, a couplo of boys thoother day pounded each other toa jelly ‘because they could not agree whother PACEARD or CIAYPERLAIN was tho trun Messlal. The Regiater waa really reaponsible for this. It has mixed tho matter up so that oven older peoplo ®et confused us to it real oplnion on this vital question. o ‘The Z.-0. editors now part thelr halr and thelr salaries at tho same place that the paper parts its nome. Recelver NixoX is bound to have symmetry in the concern. There {s no kicking at parting the hafr as directed; most of them did it before, oxcept a few who ara barefooted on 'the top of their heads; but parting thelr salarles, while conducivo to proportion, s not regarded as a partiog blessing by any means. ——— Prato made man like a plucked chicken, ‘TwaeD proposes to-show that a plucked man is not a chicken by any means, Tlo wants a new lawyer, it scoms, in placo of TowxsEND, who appears to have left him floundering against publicopinfon, Confession doos not scem to have been good for Tween's soul. It has not even saved him from hia fricnds. ———— ‘Thegerma of a hundred divorces were planted yesterday, whero bofore * two hearts had beat asone.” It was *“moving-day,"—a day which keops husbands at home, and revealsall thotrue- inwardness of connubial diablery, If o couplo can get oxer moving,without a ** tifY, they will go through the rest of the year liko coolng doves. —— Republicans would have s mafority in the Bouth Carolina Scnate it oneof them did not voto with the Democrats and another was not In jall. Thoe moral dopravity of theso two leaves tho voto a tle. This may do for Gov, HasrTon, but CAMBERLAIN would have ar- ranged matters differently. ——— Docoration-Day Is near at hand. Weo trust all our cx-soldiers will be In our nidst to particl- pate in the exercises. Ex-Gov. Deverinae, it you could spare the time to come home and par- ticipate, it would do your friends good. They fear that protracted wacht um Oustom-House will injura your health. e — ‘The Charleston (8. C.) Newsand Courler thinks a Democracy *diluted " with negrocs can never save tho Bouth, Nothing ever had u falver trial than this *dilution” busincss prior to_the “wah," and yot Demodracy still lives and somo of the negrocs,—the latter in a somewhat discol- ored conditlon, however. ———— Byt Bowwes thinks it s not richt to criticlse his cditorials after rcading only the captlons, That dopends upan the object of the criticism, 1f Bowwrks s to be hauled over the coals, the caption s suflicient; It Cuarnss Francis Abaus, the case s different. Is constitutes the body of the articles. —————— Gon. Lino s reportad as saying that he ro- fused the offer of #ix lots near the Bouth Park some years ago for his “{nflucnce.” It must have been a good many years ago, or the six lots must have been of small value. Bix cents would bo a high figuro for his Influence at present. e —— ‘Two murdcrs by colored people have been perpetrated in this city einco Ssturday. Wo trust certaln of our exchanges will not charge this to the romoval of the FACKARD-CHAMBEL- LAIN negro protectorate. 8o far as appears, the murders arc devold of political signiticance, e e —— ‘Tho Bouth Carollna Democrats have conclud- cd to go futo tho traction business. They will draw strict pasty lines, so a dispatch from Co- lumbia says, in order to save their party, That, aud drawing thelr pay when offivials, wil con- stituto their heavy work until next eloctton. ————— The Porte will, it {s announced, excrelse, 1f it chooscs, tho right to scarch vesscls at soa. It will 50 far as the Unlted Btates is concerned, for wo have no navy to protect ourselves and no merchantmen to need protection. We're not a maritime, but 8 bebind-time, natlon. Ezxperienced lifo-insurance operstors say that ft costs in sdvertising about $125 to get an sverage religlous newspaper to luform its read- ers that any given company is “one of the best; $250 Is the figure for the observation that *this company 1s unsurpassed "' ; and about $500 will Jead to the deovout exclamation, “To insure n this compaoy is a Christlan duty. ~an ofticisl ceromony, Pastors, urgo 1t upon yonr flocks,” Thess statementa show how cxperienced life-insuranca operators will llo—when they feel funny, e — Bzx Wane declares that hls Parnren letter was confidential, It certalnly read as if f¢ ought tobe. Now, if Mr. Wann will write one that is not confldential, he will oblige a mnlt- tude who would like to know what the differ. ence in sentiment is likely to he. = — A Now York Borox proposcs to enact by statuto the number of ounces which shail niake a dozen eggs, calling tho weight eighteen ounces. This will be unfair either to geess or bantams. That sort of feather-welght should be protested against as fowl, e —— The Des Molnes Regiater has finally been brought to confess that it did horrow money of Arrex and his bank * about seven years ago,” This Is hopeful. Keep on with this open con- feaslon. Itis good for the soul, If not for the reputation. . # More laws to break! Bills to prohibit nools selling have passed ono branch of the Leglsla tures of Ilinols and New York. Thls, too, In the face of the fact that to clrcumvent the laws 1s already the study of teo manv people. —————— Col. Bortarexen, who might have got $100,000 for his Electoral vote, fecls doubly repaid for his Roman virtus in resisting - the offer as ho contemplates the glorfous work President Harzs is doing for the country. ————— Gov. CuLrom, it is sald, will go to Washing- ton for a few weeks after the Legislature ad. Journa. Cnane, Postmaster, and Col. Prit. rirs will doubtiess go with him, cach taking an orm—and an ear, 4 If people want 1o keop track of the Russo-Os- manll movements they nre advised to preserve their Tninuse of yesterday, contalning tho only respectable war-map yot published in this city, 4 Ex-8cerctary Zack COANDLER {8 ‘‘as quict asa nursery,” Even a Michi-gander ought to make more nofse. Perhaps his zooso has been cooked and he {s mourning her loss. * #Mr. Haves' policy Is certalnly party-wise," says the New York Natlon. , Just as the Prest. dent predicted, ** o serves Lis party best who servea tha country best.” ‘The Tarks have bottled up the Black Sea by closing the Dosphorus, because it was no longer Russian cordlal. # 4 Parson Brownrow was the last of the Whigs Ho fought his guns gallantly for half a century, + ‘The wheat market went back on the bulls yes. terday, and sat down on somo of thom, PERSONAL. f Bitlofr, the murderer lately guillotined, bo- queathed hisanuf-box to Presldent MacMahon. A number of London clergymen, including Desan Stanley, of Weatminstor Abbey, aro abont to fssue s manifesto In favor of opening the mus roums and picture-gallerics on Bunday, Bir Francis Grant, President of tho Roya® Academy, lsvery lil. Tle is anold man, and al- ready the art clubs aro specalating on his snce censor. ‘The most popular candldate wonld be Mr, Lelghton. Baron Grant's pictures sold for 450,000 under thejhammer; they cost him $750,000. It la #old this magnificent but iznorant patron of art never saw his plctures togother bofors the day of thelr sale. The now policy of Prosident Hayes s hearing good frults already, 1t scems, among the Indiane. Thoy havo heard that he lsa good man, and Intends to pnt a atop to the Impositions of the rascally tradors, A Doston papor anys that a lady asked a peni. tent dry-goods clerk in that city, tho ather day: **Arathena real Englishlaces? Toropllod: **They were untll Moody came,” They aro likely to bo again after Moody haa been away six months. Tho Fino-Art Boclety of London has pur. chased Miss Thompion's ** Returning from Inker- mann" for tho sum of $15,000, for purposcs of ongraving, The work will not bo ready for the Academy, and it ls even said tho owners will cone fino Ita exhibition to their own gallery, Tho Rev, Mr, Hawols, well known as the nuthor of **Muslc and Morale,* appearsas a lead- ing figare In Mr. Long's pletaroof **Tho Egyp- tian Feast,” just placed on exhibitlon. Ia soma other leading pletare of the year. Mr. Willlam Black, tho navelist, has & place In tho character of on armed knight. d ‘Thomothor of Licut, William Van W.Reflly, who fell with Custer in the Oght on tha Dig Torn, hassecured the seal-ring which her son wore, and ‘which was taken from his body by tho Indlans. 1t was found on the finger of ono of the 1,500 Chey- canes who came in the other day for thelr annual supply of forgivencss and smmunition, Tho Costa ‘Rica Miniater to the United States had » disagreement with a hackman in Dattls moro recantly, which rasultod In tne Jocking-up of the former. lle was aftarwards released on his own recognizance. The Minlater from Conta Rica saya that be will never in tho futoro atiempt to converso, clthor In Knglish or Spanish, with a hackman. They do these things botter in Rumain. ‘When a nowspaper thero auggests an investigae tlon, the Emperor simply suppresses tho nowse paper, Ilence, no doubt, the anxlety of certain American politiciane 1o tako service in the Rusaian army, where & spongy officor may have a good chance to absorb something withont committing the unpardonable sin of belog found out. Soit waa in the Crimean War, John Beaufain Irving, tho Now York artls; recently deceased, left all his property to his wife, **to bo used most sparingly by her solely for the maintenanco of hersul and our youngest children, That is, to speak more explicitly, not one dollar is to be used for any purpose whatevor except for shelter, food, clothing, and such like necessaries of Mfo for hersolf and our younger children." Tha estate Is estimated to be worth abaut $9, 000, The Pope has made thirty-two Cardinals since Tome became the Htallan Capital, but has omlttod the ceremony of bestowing the hat, con- sidering himself & prisoner (1) and not free to act in Tut to prevent objections to tho hatlcas Cardinale In the Conclava which ls to follaw the death of tha Pope, ho has consented (o walva his ecruples and confer. the red hats, Some of the candidates hava beon given thelr hats sl- ready, and othera aro soon to repalr to’ Rome for the purjose of recelving thom, ‘When Alfred do Musset was 8 years old ho had a grand passion for a young lady much older than himeell; 80 vory grand wae it that when sho married he was kept for years in Ignorsncy foct. e was an eager and reatless child, new blography just published oy his brother. A characterlatic story of bis infancy tolle how he ‘was prescnted with a now pair of shoes, and how he was impatient to go out, cryln, mother, **Mako haste, before my new s are old." A late number of Punch containg a clover satiro of Mr, Honry Irving's learued commentary on the part of the TAlrd Murderer in ** Macbeth," Punch profcsses to have leaznod from tho highest sources that the part was really written in to pla- cato one Tymkyn, who had great favor with the galleries, and swore by tne nino gods he would cause the piece to bebdamned unless gentlo WHI gave him more Jines than thoso usually allotted to tho altendant, ‘Thus, as the burleaque of Emerson puts it, does the ** commentator become s potens tato." Wong Ching Foo, the Ohinese misslonary to America, 1s & jolly old soal, and lntelligent withal. Ho atill hes groat reapect for the relizion &5 woll as for the charactor of Christ os he elso has for tbo religion and cha acter of Buddba sad Conufuclus, Lut he s Buddhan and Confuclan, and {s soxious to proto to tbe American poople that Chincse are in- telligent and refined, and bave happy hopes and bigh civilizetlon; and, more than all, that they bavea good religlon, and worsbip God and hope for bappincas hercafter, It ls not 8o much his ob- Ject o make Buddbists ssto teach tho Amerlcan Christians what the priociples of Christ really are, and to show them that the people thoy call heathen sre lotclligent worshlpers of God. Itwill boa Mife-long work with bim, ss he cannot retara to his own constry, and bas declared bhis intentlon of becoming an American citizen. He bas made arrangements 1o dellves his rst lectuse in New York next Sunday,