Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 3, 1877, Page 4

THE -.CHICAGO TRIBUNE: THURSDAY, MAY 3, 1877. s =9 by ousting s good Postmaster nnd putting In poor one, it will be s great cncouragement to such papers as the Des Molnes Register. The editor of tho latter will soon establish a clalm to bo a Cabinet officer {f he keeps on. ———— The Des Moln to show that both Aasirin and England can combine to prevent her tsking Constan. tinople, securing control of the Dannbe, or permanently acquiring territory in Tarkey in Earope, bnt that no Power ean stop her prog- ross in Armonia, Austris, Francs, Italy, and Germany have no interest there, and it and procisely what had gained voters for the Ropublican candidate, They can scarcoly axpect to excite any sympathy by carping at reforms which it is evident the conntry ap- proves, They cannot even hops for co-op eration from that small class of radicala who resent tho now depariure in tho Southern dared, they sought to whitewash the Com- | missioners on the ground that thelatter wero ignorant and inoxperienced, and woro de- ceived by the architect. Accepting even this feoble apology, the Commissioners should promptly resign or bo removed. The Com- mitteo recommend tho dismissal of the uld yield ¢ $55,000,000 of rev- | UTLET, of Wisconsin, should have Brazil and ::\m u{fx.. :}x:;:::;,g:nl 05,900 =5 W:m:;x.n Pnn.un’ Austriz. Whether the It onnnot be said that:we ars paying our Commoniwenlth intendn to hint that the worat debta by this process. The bflndll:ru msmx, enemes of the Administeation are recefVing the o8t * pap," or whether it means to intimate changing hands,—paasing from forelgn to :)‘m mz g‘nllflent would do well to send the American holders. 8o far na the corpors- | malcontents out of thio country, is not quite tions and municipalities aro concerned, their | clear. @he Tribwne, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. eglater goes on with the now BY MAIL—IN ADYANCE—TOSTAOR PREPAID AT ble work of confeasion. It now says it borrowed * < i = 4 X, Lt did not take any s orFICE fa boyond the power of England to prevent | architect, and that. the salaries of the Com- | policy, indebledness remains just tho same,—thoy ———— noney of ALLES, but tha PlEnien m::",:,'l‘f‘i‘,",,!;"; "?fifi it. Itishisopinion that, whethor the Rus- | missioners be anspended. Why not let thora | ‘Tho fact is that the Democratio party ia nll | have borrowed and expended thefg rovonuo A littte bill sltd through the Iitlnots House of | «gratnitously.” Well, not exactly ** gratultous. Ref In theinterest of | 1y, but the next thing to It, probably, It gai Bty Bdion: Lirerary snd eh 450 | #inn8 establish o protectorste fn European | all goontof office togethor? The Comumis- | at sen. The foundation upon which the | in ndvanco of ita colleotion. Amer@hn securi. | Ieprescntatives the other dag, In o4 he 1 g tolh, p y Yo Eheet 3 country newspapers of the dominant party in { its note! “ 1 Batnpiai 3% | Turkey, annex it, or withdraw from it al- | sloners know how much money they hind | Demoorats have been building for tho last ties other than nationalanda few of ine | gioie or wnnfyf which proyides: e ——— L o %2 | together, they will secars Asia Minor and spont, and how mueh they were anthorized 10 expend, and no architect could decolve them on these points, To guard tho ex- *penditures, and koep them within the limit of tho constitntional anthority, was the spocial duty for which the Commissioners wera appointed, and they have neglected that duty, and involved the State in an addi- tional exponditare which will in the end fully smount to $1,000,000. The people of the Stato are not unmind. ful of the facts of this business, and we aro satisfied they will not voto n dollar ndditional tobo exponded on the State-House if the present Commissioners aro to bo continued in office in tho faco of their wanton and dis- graceful failure to porform' the duty com- 1mitted to them, 3 % four yearn has beon swept from under them. Thero is no longer any Bolknapism, Bab. cookism, Nopotism, or Grantism for them to howlat. They are forcod to eontemplate a reform within the Ropublican party of all that needed reform,—which thoy sald was impossible. They sce retronchmont, pacifi- cation, and purification of the public sorvice going on withont their assistance, and, as implacable partisans, they are reduced to tho contradiction of caviling at what thoy Lave herotofore demanded. Their policy 13 extremely short-sighted and suro to ba ill- fated.. Not only will they be abandoned by the Republicans who went over to them, and who notw aqg the insincerity. of thoir pre- tensions, but by large numbers of former Democrats, both North and South, who think more highly of country than of party. The time for Domoernta to make political capital ont of faunit-finding is passed. The “bloody shirt” will no.longer servo their purposes any mora than it will tho purposes of the * machine " politicians who lived upon itsolong. Thoy cannot afford to antagonize retronchment and purification of the publio service. It they want to hold so much as tho attontion of the country, they must come forward with measures, and cease bickering and complaining, Ono Houso of Congreas is under their control. Lot them advance propositions for improvement in the tariff, in the nsscssment and collection of rovonuo, in foroign relations, in the mode of olecting the President, in the restoration of bi-metal. lic ourrency,~do something tangiblo in bo- Lalf of bettor government, if they hope for continued existonce as a party., They cannot livo on fault-finding any longor. ‘WHERE THE MONEY 18 GOING. ‘Wo have repeatedly published the figures showing the falling off in tho import trade of the United Btates. This, added to the ineroaso in tho exports, exhibits a regularly. incroasing margin of differouco botween onr exports and imports, or what is called a Iarge *‘balance of trade" in our favor. The state- monts of imports and oxports for soveral years, and for tho eight months of the pres- ont year onding Feb, 28, thus comparo ¢ = Brcesanf T ARTaie s 201 a0 T s 839, D05, 153 UILOM, 76T ~ 1Y, 14, 014 ATCUTTTL GILD0400 109,276,333 500,357,691 487,213,706 180,716,355 1,037,002,803 2,479,789, 07 §352,785, 270 Horo we bavo the record that in tho three yoara and elght months onding Feb, 28, 1877, we havo cxported and sold domestio products to tho amount of $56562,785,276 in excess of the value of the goods we havo purchased. What has been dono with tho monoy? In tho first cight months of the present flseal yoar wo have sold nearly 200,000,000 more goods than wo have pur. chased. Whero does the money go? What are we recelving for 1t? That question fs not cnsily answerod in dotail ; but genorally ‘we may assume that it is spplicd abroad to iaking up the various forms of local indebt. cdness, During the War ond following the ‘War, and down to tho vory day in 1878 on which Jax Cooxe closed his bank, tho Amer- ican people wero actively and industriously ongaged in the manufacture of debts. The Bonthern States sncceodod in lssuing nearly $800,000,000 of State bonds; tho cities of the Unitod States issuod all the bonds for which they could find purchnsers, Even little rural villages fssued their 10 per cont bonds, and sold thom, or gavo them awny, or had them stolen and sold. Tho sgricultural dis- triots of this State sold over $15,000,000 of bonds, bearing an averago interest of 8} per cent. Tho municipal debts in Illinols alone oxceod $40,000,000. It waa the samo evory- whero, The railronds were industrious in the issue of bonds, Oash was discarded nd & means of building rilways; railways wore built by construction companies. Btock was subscribed and paid for in bonds; the rail- road companies pald the construotion compa- nies in bonds; the construction companies pald for grading, and bridges, and for iron, ond for carg, and for coal, and locomotives, in ‘bonds, Bonds wore tho universal investment. ‘Every laborer or mechanio on a railway, ev- ery man who furnished teama for grading or ties, or stone, or lumber, had his bonds lald awsy. The bonds wore inexhaustible so long 88 thoy could Lo printad nnd people would tako them, - These bonds were disposed of as rapidly ns possible, Agonts of foreign capi- talista picked them up in the market and sent them abroad, In one jmatanco no less than 9,000,000 of the bouds of o singlo and unfinished rallrond in this Stato, which wero sold in New York st what. ever could bo got for them, wero collocted and sold to the baukers of Frankfort, at 80 conts in gold! Wo wore exporting bonds by the cargo. From Tom Hcorr's Construction Company in Toexas to the vil- lago of 400 inhnbitants thero was a stroam of bonds issulng, all bearing high rates of in. tereat, Wo wero piling up dobt most reck. lessly and laboriously, q ‘We are now buyiug that debt back, but, unfortunately, are not paying it. A very large portion of the dabt that waa held at homo has boen sponged out of existonce, More of it 1s of dublous or very smal! value, ‘The rest of it was held abroad. ‘The foreign Lolders of theso bonds have beon sending them to this country to bo sold. Tho hold. ers of the $9,000,000 railroad bonds which we have mentioned.sent them back aud got'| au average of 8 cents on the dollar of the principal, With the proceeds, $1,440,000, thoy purchased wheat, aud that was what becawe of that much of our exports. Every time thero is a default in the payment of intorest on tho bouds of some city, county, rallroad compnny, or other corporation, thero is anolher batch of American bonds sent back to this country to be sold at whatever they will bring in cash, or con. vorted into breadstufls, cotton, provisions, or other American products, Ietaining our national bonds and thoso of & few Btates of untainted credit, Europe is un. e loading every other form of American fn. | {’fi‘lffli‘.."x’.‘{.'.‘..fl‘n -l}.h 'A’flx’fi: E.“,’:f‘ ’.‘}.";;{l.". - debteduess on this country, and our surpluu’| PERmG LR WItet Oy 88 Juteh 050 BHiws SF At exports ars takon by them in exchange., At the i{ouse of Cowmons with Irish metm- the timo of tho pasio thero wero prubably | pot BLEALESLLS 1o cucets i, e, Facls not less than $1,500,000,000 of European | thess two obstructives is really very serious, ani money lnvastad iu this comntry fa al | GHAICT st rsiedy, Whatiryvatlls o ke the forms of American securition Theso | —to mskv ihe Iatier Fidicuions ia iriah eyer havo boen fn {ho process of retum fo | THCH MO siop ineusuus sacuin Litlabiest this country, in oxchange for our exports. | duliess, ridicuie sevms to have lost ita sfog. That will account largely for the ¢ balance ot trade " which has sot inin our favor, How far it is profitable to this country is & wmatter of speculation. In the meantime, thesa bouds pay no duty, and are consequently no source of roveuue, The importation of $100,000,000 more of dutiahle merchandiso hlgh‘;cuidn Btates g;mtnoc eommmflrn That the rates for all "'“";l":.:fifr“',sn'fil'gu‘l‘::; markot in Europe again for some ticie, In [ M notices, propasals, an d Aiala vl raons on the moantime, tho bonds will bo with us; Dennit zh:' 'g; afll‘n:l,ounile&::c 43',:":11',!1?.?."%5 tame. m 8 from thoro will bo no searcity of them, and wo ( 55 YA% T8 JiP . ol Foifomwa: Kof oacly lino of non- e et e ot o | AEwand B8 30 et b e o fal cffort made to reduco theso dobls by | gachsibecqnent insertions but when the ine atall pa) t. Persons anxious {o know if the bv‘lvfn':err sh-n a8 :&m:‘ I!ll:’ln:!,;tgli‘lcn:u‘ ;1‘1:':1“ l‘:n o A natiolf is not f]:‘l::l;’ rick fmmuflfl ';WP“‘“ Fhe dovernor shall e pover ta difcet tn what oxports may mako thoir own estimate asto | nowspapers such pul oug phal made, ant tho profita of tho cxchange of coton and for in the following manner, to- be WItL The partios who have publlshed such jroclac breadstuffs for railroad, municipal, snd other | mations,a vertivoments, notices, proporals, or other s publiea on In the naturs of an ndvertisement, or bonds and securities, publication required to be made by law, shall file < witts the Auditor of Public Accountes voucher, duly Tho Richmond Znguirer is dotermined, if :flfi:x,ifi‘rffl,g:y]x‘lfi .2“2‘55???%‘{' fifnfi'&’{a}.’;‘g‘:“:‘}: v overnor: where. T o o gl e Bt | B et Sl i B it sod conaiutiona Jalsclontion to bor, | Mt HENETS, ISR IR, AR & y 1aw, out as the most serious and threatening em- barrassment to the rehabilitation of tho Southern people. It would be a curious way to dofond the Southern whites in this matter by ropeating the nasertion that the South hna thus far boen ongaged in driving out the carpet-baggers as proparatory to work, no mattor by whom the argument should bo ad- vanced ; butit s espocially unbecoming in the Richmond Enguirer to talk in this way, For noarly cight years—since early in President Graxt's term—Virginia has not boen pestered with carpet-baggors. The Stato and locel offices have been in the hands of the native Virginians or such men as they chose; the Democrats Liave had undisputed possos- sion, and carpet-bagism hns long since ceasod to bo evon an excuso in that Btate, Yot it is tho testimony of thoso who visit tho cities and towns «of Virginia that the old ante-War habits seem as strong upon the white pooplo ag ever; that they loaf about the stroets, and hang around the railroad de- pots, and sit on tho dry-goods boxos, and spond their time in gossip, vory much na of yoro; and that, with tho excoption of & certaln soction of the Btato settled by somo thrifty Ponnsylvanians, all the work that ig done thero is done by the negroos. This s tha charge, and it can't be answered by the old cry of carpet-bagism 1n a Stato whero there have beon no carpot-bag politi- clans for years, ‘The Loutsviile Courler-Journal says that Bris. Tow doesn’t want tho retiracy of » Judgeship, but prefers active politics,and “has hMseye ixed upon another preferinent.” What the lattermay e I8 Jeft wrapped in Wattersonlan inystery. —mt— . WXEKLY BDITION, POSTFA fme copy, b Club of tweniy. Postage prepat Specimen corles sent free. Torrevent delay and mistakes, be sure and give Poste ©ftesddrens in full, Including tate and Connty. Remittances may bemade elther by dratl, expross, Tost-Uttice order, or n rexistered fetters, at onr riek, TEUMS TO CITY SUDSCRIDERS. + Dslly, deliecred, Sunday excepted, 23 centd per week, t Leny, delivered, Bunday included, 30 centa per week Adriress THE TRIDUNE COMPANT, Coruer Madison and Dearborn-sta.. Chicago, Il keep it, and, bofora they conclude a poeaco with the Tarks, will secara certain rights in the Holy Land. Tho strongth of the army which the Governmont has thrown upon the borders of Armenis, tho celerity,which has charncterizad its movements, and the force of the blows which it has alrendy struck, favor the theorios advanced by the writer, Tho real danger to Constantinople may yot come from the Russian Army of tha Oau- oasus. $ 1,23 100 2000 It Is very sad you sce fora New England Pharisce to scll arms to enable the great enemy ot Clirlstendom to oot those whio are trylng to The Davenport TVmes says that a certe!n pae per *has left the Republican party for the sake of a Post-Office; the Des Molnes Heglater has not.” Noj the Register feft becauso It couldn's et an office, Jonx C. Cocnnaxg & Co. made a'good thing of it on the 8tote-House building, viz.: $83,000 admitted to be pald them for commissions, and no proof that this was all they gof AMUSEMENTS, Two of the correspondents of the London Times, one writing from Berlin and tho other from Belgrade, have mnde estimates of the strongth of the Turkish army which so near. 1y corvospond with each other that they may ba aceeplad as probably correct. From the information gathered by both correspond- ents, it seoms that Turkey can bring into action along her whole European and Asiatia frontier about 800,000 men, divided as fol- lows: For the Danube and the Balkaus, 100,000 mon ; for Asin Minor, 80,000; on the Groek frontier, 80,000 the remaining 10,000 being scattered aronnd the frontiers of Ser- vis, Austrin, and Montenegro. In nddition to this, they hiavo A lnrge number of irregu- lars, who ara only of value in burning vil- 1ngos and killing women and children, The Bolgrado correspondont says of them that thoy *‘aro only an incumbrance in modern warfare, eating the provisions which shonld go to sustsin the really efficiont troops, arousing latrod and discontent amoung the rosident populations by their lawlossness and utter worthlessness in action, invariably run. ning away at the first fire.” Hnveriy's Thentre. Randolph street, between' Clark ~ sd LaSalle, . Rogagement of the Richings-Bernard Opers Troupe. **Fra Diavolo.” McVicker's Theatres H Medison street, between Deatborn and Btate. ' Rogagement of Miss Mary Anderson, *'Macbeth." | ———— Une of the favorite false criticlsms upon the Tresident’s Bouthern pollcy by the Implacables is that he has thrown nway South Carolina and Louistana, Dr, ReprixLp, o Southern Repub- lean and a closo obscrver of men and toings, 8ays on this point in & recent letter: ‘The sharp criticiam of Havzs, by accusing him s they do of throwing away the Republican party in South Carolina and Loutsiana, makes no Im- resalon upon thowo ncqualiited with tho facts, Ee ‘srath fs by mo posaibitity conld thota Siotes liave been carricd sgain for the Tepoblican party as that party was overated. The whole United States army ‘could not hate done i, for wo knaw thist {n the Jnat election tha Democrata made the heaviest galng where most troops were stationed | o go aloy the old way was unly to keep o few carpat-baggors In oftice & ‘whilo longer, and sulject the poor blacks to tho futy of the' oxaspcrated whiter, The old policy was neither sensibie nor humano, The fear that the new policy will lead to 4 Noll South in 1880 is of no consequence, whon we know that it would bo under the old systom., With the plan of pacification fully earried out, there is a chance that tho Solld Bonth may he broken, and color-line politics in part abolished. In any ovent, maiters caunot bo worse than in the past eight or ten years, \Whatever changu thero Is will be for the better. e — An cditorial parsgraph {n tho Amerfcan Regis- ter, published In Parfs, states that ** Col. ManN's boudolr slecping-cars will now be run on all the raflvay lines in France, The Paris, Lyons & Mediterranean Rallway Company have just completed arrangements to have the above cars attached to thelr Marsciiles and Nice tralns, which arrapgemont will begin carly in April."” Col, Maxn was formerly of Michigan; after the War lie scttled in Mobile and published the Reqlater there for a time; and afterwards went to Europe to introduce a cheap, modiled form of the PULLAAX palace sleeplug-car, Ilescoms to bo succcedlng, | WHAT wxix._'i'nxn DEMOCRATIO PARTY Everybody who has obsorved the course of political events in this country for tho past four yoars, aven suporficially, will ad- 1mit that the strength shown by the Demo- cratio party ot the last Presidential election conslsted in the recrnita that had been made among the Republicans during the last term of Prosident Gnanr's Administration. For twelve years tho Democratio parly had been hopelessly in the mivority. In some Btates it had all but abandoned its party organiza- tion. The acceptance of tho nomination of Horace Gnrrrzy, who had always been a radieal Republican, was a powerfal con- fession of ita helplessness and hopolessnoss ot that time. But from tho firat yonr of Prosident Grant's second torm, the Demo- orats bogan to count largo accesslons from the Republican ranks. Many of the Re- publicans who had supported Grezrey in their personal opposition to Gnaxt felt con- strained to act with tho Domocrats there- aftor becauso the Democrata had noted with them, But many more Republicans who biad refused to opposs Gnant whon he was renominated for a second term, and who weroe disposed to give him and thoso surrounding him s further trial, subsequently becomo alionated from tho Administration by roason of its many orrors. Tho Democratic party had an excellont opportanity for appealing to the people. Tt was felt that thero was n nocos- sity for reform; tho Democrnts ralsed tho Roform standard. A roduotion of the public cxpenditures was universally demanded ; the Domocrats promised rotronchment, ' Thero ‘waa o gonoral outery against ofileial corrup- tion ; tho Democrats rominded tho country that it' had long been under Ropublican rule, and that a chango would be negossary tosecuro o purification of the public service. Thore was n popular protest against the dopredations of tho Rovonue Rings, and the Domocrats made the most of it. There was o growing sentimont, North as woll as Bouth, ngainst the continued political disturbances in certain of the Bouthern Btates, and the Demoerats promised pocification. * Thou. sands of Republicans, disguasted with the abuses of the last Adminiatration, and fenr- ing that the same clnss of ““machine” poli- ticiana would run ‘the next Administration, if Nopublican, acted for the time being with tho Democrata to the oxtant of voting for their candidate for.President, With all their advantages and all thelr ac- cessories, the Domocrats barely failed of success, In their rage and disappointment they conducted themselves in n way to for- foit the confidence of many of those who had como over to them. They made it manifest to tho country that it was not so much ro- form aa the spoils they were alter. They showed themsclves capable not wneraly of the worst nbuses they bed charged upon thelr opponents, but seriously inclined to disrupt tho Government and bring on clvil war rather than submit to o docision of the Prosidentlal dispute according to thoe laws of the couniry. Batween the day of eleotion and tho inauguration of President Hayes, it would probably have been found, it thore had heen any way of testing tho mntter, that the Domocratic party had lost thousands of thoso who had acted with it In votiug for Tipen. Bince the inauguration of Presi. dent Haves the loss has buen still moro con- ‘siderable. The mnew President started in with utterances which found a response among tho mass of the poople; he called sbout him a Cabinet which every man had to admit to be capable nnd eminently worthy of respect; he rid himsel? of the * ma- chine " mon from tho outsot, sud gained applause from all except those whoss politi~ cal welfare depended on the running of the ‘' maohine.” From that on, all of tho Presi. dent's actions have been calculated -to bring back those who left the Republican party on account of tho abuses thatlad grown up undor the previous Adminlatration. o has succeedod In abandoning the vicious policy of natioval interfersnce in State Govern- ments by armed troops without precipitat- ing trouble betweon the opposing factions ; indeed, ho hins sccured in a peaceful way pledges for the protection of tho colorod raco which the army nover succeeded in en- forcing., He hos wet practically abont the work of reforming the civil service by weed- ing out tho sineoures, reducing the number of employes, cutting off perquisites, aud ¢s- tabling & tenure of office during good be- havior, Ho has not oven brought upon him- self any formldable opposition from those who composed the officoholding olass of the provious Adininistration, for he has niade no ‘wholesalo and aweoping changoy,—retaining the practical oud useful men in the service, ond ouly romoving for cause or atthe expira. tion of commissions, His groat advantage has beon iu haviug no personal sims to serve and no personal dependents and friends to provide for, Now that President Hivzs has doue all that the Domocrats promised they would do, thoy have as a rule no words of commonda- tion. They continue to obuse and mis. represent him in very much the old fashion. ‘Thiose who are not inconsistent coough to condemn the very things on the promisa of which they expeoted to secure the adminis- tration of the Government keep growliug at him as s * Fraudulont Prosidunt,” and how! at him for being a traitor to his party,—as though it were treason to any party to cor rect its errors and romove its abuses, The New York Sun sounds the key-uota which the smallor Demooratig nowspapers take up. Now whatdo they 1 ope Lo gain by this Lyper- critical, captious, aud inxdnoere criticism? They certainly cannot expoct to retain the Re- publicans who went over to them by abus- ing the Administration for doing precisely ‘what the Domocratio party had agreod to do, A Washington proverb: 8pit out of your window and you'll hit an office-seckor, Mascum. Monroe street, betwecn 5tato and Dearborn. - Vaude- lle and novelty. Engsgement of Den Thompson. 'Jostius Whitcomb, § Scrvia is neutral. 8ho believes in the * Con Hervia-tion of forces.” Adelph] Thentre. Monroe street, corner Dearborn, **Texas Jack {a *! the Disck 10" | ‘What sort of a war-baby is England when skt Is a noutral in arms? PERSONAL, Mr. Wallace, in his new book, says of the Russian woman: **}or halr {a Jong, but her mind fa short.” Ars. Riohard Cobden, widow of tho late. uminent stateaman, died in Sussox a fortnight sgo, She lcaves a family of four or five daughters, “My Godl" sald Mr. George Francls Tralnin his Jast lecture, ‘‘Let any Now York paper dare to say to-morrow morniug that I am & lunatic, and I'll go up to that office and make it hot for them. One of tho daughters of Robert Bouthey, namely, atrs, 111)l, dlad o few days since at Leame ington, In the 00th year of her nge. This lady was often sffectionately nlluded to In the poet's corres spondence as **Little Bertha," Parson Brownlow was far from beingsa ' wealthy man, but hls family s comfartably pro- vided for, having & homestead, an intercst inthe Whig and Chronicle newspaper, a Mfe-insurance policy for 85,000, and some othicr property. ‘THo eatato in England to which the Law. rence-Townley helrs aro Iaylog clalm Is satd to be worth $600,000,000. ‘Tho **true helr® is Mr. Willlam ' Lawrence, of Toronto, 3lis case has ‘been pronounced good by eminent chancery lawe yora on both aldes of the water. Mr., David Dlakely, formerly of Chieago, haa become the editor-in-chief of tha Mloneapolls Ecenlng Tribune, That paper,. until now a tender of the 5t Paul Ploneer- Preas, has entered upon an Independent existence, belng the property of & ‘pow corporativn compased wholly of citizens of Minneapolis, Hester Ann Sutton, n girl 19 years of ago, dled at Plattekid), N. Y,, recently of congenita bydrocehphalus, ller head meazured fifty-fon Inchos, or four fect anda half, in circumference ‘The facts ore testified td by tho afidavits of medl cal mon publlshed In tho New York World, Ne such case was ever before heard of. Mesurs Moody and Bankey closed thel regular throe months' engagemont n Doaton San- day, god will spend some fow days visltiog & Northfield, whenco thoy will prouably go to Am: herat Collego for several daye, Whiltle and Nteb- bins now go to Boston for a season. Mr. Moody will also be thera the last two weeks of this month, laboring with individual churctics. Tho Jrish World hopesto seo the entanglo. ment of Eogland in the European war, in which case, it says, thore wonld bo **a spcedy transitof £0,000 or 10,000 emigranta acrose ¢he blua to sea whatcan be dono In the green.” The emigrants would probably find a warm reception If they should make the expedition, 2hey would dye the multitudinous bogs Incarmaling, making tho green ono red. A The now Assistant Troasurer at Cluncinnati 18 not, as roported in some untriendly nowspspers, | 8 classmate of Webb Iayes, tho Presldent's son, but the father of that clasemate. The ofico Is worth §5,000 o year, and {s consldered an fmpore tantone. It was thought strange that the Preme dent should give It 1080 young & man as (ho classe mate of Webb Hages must Le. Tho person ape pulnted {8 Stem, Sentor, an old ond highly respect- ©cd merchant of the Queen City, whosa capacity and Integrity are testifed to on nll hands. Mr, James Gordon Bennett is now in Europe, and ls conducting negotlations of tho most dellcate ptlon upon which he dosires that “+1lie soal of secresy ™ huuld be kept & few days longer, But it fe imposalble longer to yratify him o (hie respect. Wao are violating confidence, then, but glving the newe, lu saylug that ho proposes to settle the luternational diiculties botwoon Turkey and Huesla by a game of polobetween the Sultan, Abdu} Kerlm Nadir Pasha, snd Mukbtar Paehs on the one side, and the Emperor, the Grand Dake Nicholas, snd the Grand Duke Michael on the otber. fho Philadelphin T'mes dosircs to have the exhilarating spelling-bee revived for the bene- 1t of students of the European War. Tho name of tho Musslan Chief-of-8tust, it suggests, la s good word to begln with, One important fact tho TTmes has overlooked: therearo about three correct ways of apelling tho namo of evory town n Euroe pean Turkey, and the entertalnment can be varied atany time by s dieputo 83 to the beat authority, Webster's Unabridged Is o court that no King can corrupt, but its Jurledlction docs not extend over the war-maps. Rod-Cloud isafine fellow inmany respacts, ‘but as a master of English composition e does not rauk with Addison, Burke, or Mscaulay, Hls last eplatolary effort. direcied to aUnlted Statesofticer, 1a 1he following: **A Pril 16th 1877 8ir My Dear 1 have met soma Indlans on road and thare ssy the indiaus on bear Jodgs croek on 1Gth april snd I thought let you know it. And 1 think Iwill let you know better after 1 got to the campso 1 sent 1he young man with this letter be bave been to the camp before his name {s armo blown off Rsd Croun." Gujt Hamilton hos written another scathe Ing lctier on the Nation for the New York Tribune, showlng bow tho former paper traduced Prof. Bealyo morely because he differed with 1t on the question of the Geneva sward. *“Jdonot charge or {nsinuate,” shie writes, **that (e Nation has ‘been subsidizqd by tue Insurance cumpanies, but { do both insinuate aud charge that there s just s nuch reason for Insinuating and charging that tho Nution s becn subeldizod, as theee i fur fualng- ating that Prof, Keelyo's moral gulit ls such as to unfit bim for s coile) rdency, and for charge Ing thet he has gone over o repudlators and swindlers." ThoChjef Engincer of her Majeaty's ship Toormslipe cut his throat on the 27th of Janusify In sheor deapalr at the incurable defects In his ves: sel's machluey. The sccidents begau almost m- medistely after leaving Eugland, and costinued uncoasingly until the vesssl had nearly reacted tue Cape of Good Hope. Neatly every Impartant part of the engine was out of order at one time or an- other, The enginocrwas In constant employment, and found little t/me for rest. liia soxlety atlset 80 preyed upon bim that be committed sulcide. Qreat blama 14 attached to the Admiralty for sends 1ng the veasel 1o svd without suficient tests (0 83+ certain its uuscaworthiness, A new fashion in diuner-parties is bscom- ing kuowa in London. 1t requires the dlsmisasl of tha scrvanty after the fuh, aod the bestowiug of proper attentions upon the guests thoroafter by the 1adies of the famlly, The custom ls sald to b8 growing fast smong the weslthiostand best peovle. 1t tends to make the dloper-party less stig sud furmal, snd gives & boniclike sir to it which cans notpossibly prevall during tbe presence of the servants; for your strange vervant, who hoars bub apeaks not, and who records on the tablets of blf ory for prival o the {dle conversation of the dinner-table, fearful creatare. Belog une trammeled by tho Jawa of Bospitality or a sense of dlscretion, ho bolds reputstions in bls unscsapus lous graep, aud plays with them i mouments Of zelaxation as the child does with marbles of 154 Joggler with keon-sdged blades. New Chicago Theatre. Clark street, between Lake sod Randolph, Rice's - Mimatrets, | THURSDAY, MAY 3, 1877 At CHICAGD MAREET BTTMMARY. I b i‘ 4 The Chicago produco marketr. wera ateadler yes- 1§ torday, except wheat, with moderate activity, i 1 Mless pork closed 40c¢ per brl higher, at $16.07@ i i.10.10 cash and $15.27%@15.%.0 for Juno. Lard & 'iclosed 273%c per 100 Ibs higber, at $0.00 cash and $0.07%@10.00 for June, Meats were steadlor, 8t G3c per Ib for Jooss honlders, 7¥c for do ort ribs, and Ticfor do short clears, High- fnes weroin fair d:mand, at $1.10 per gallon. r Flonr was quictand steady. Wheat closed 44@ Ge higher, nt $1.60 for Jupe. Cornclosed ic + higher, st 52¢ for ‘May and 6350 for June, Oats A closed Yc bigher, at 41c for May and 42c for June. Rye waa dull, at 83@8U. Datley was irregular, at T0D85c for moller May to cash No. 2. Hogs were dull and weak, at 10@15c de- cline, closing at &5.2095,55 for poor to prlme grades. Cattlo vzere dull and casy, with sales ot $3.0085.50. $ncep were firn, at $4.00Q0. 25, 3 One bundred diollare in gold would buy $107.00 in greenbacks) at the close, ‘The arithmatic of life-insurance has always secmed so complicated, and the promisos of tho companics so simple and satisfying, that most peaplo have taken their insurance on trust, and psid without a question the pre. miums they wore asked for. But thero is a different spirit abrond now, and pérsons who aro putting their money into insurance com- panies instead of savings banks are begin. ning to nsk why they, who aro insured, can- not understand the {ransaction as well as thoae who insure, Tho truth is that insur. ance men have muddied their waters, like tho cuttle-fish, and for about the samo reason. The mystery of jnsurancoe mathematics is an artificial one. Tho Hon, Etzor Waionr beging in his third lotter, printed on the sixth page, to explain how the insurance companies caleulate their risks and compute tho premiums for policy- holders. Mr., Wriant holds tho gingular but not unreasonable opinion that ‘both parties to an insurance contract ought to understand it, and if our readers will follow his lucid explanation they will soon be able to nego- tiato intelligently with companies that offer their policics. Greontvacks at tho New York Exchange — s Yesterda's closed at 98}, The Cincinnatf Times thinks the reason the Loulsiana Domocrats elected SroryoRrDp Scnator i3 not because be was a Connecticut carpet- ‘baxger, but rather for the reason that he turned Southern Democrat. 1t sdds: We donbt if Tus Trinune hea ¢|o‘ uite to the bottom of this thing, Wo doubt If Facxanvand the rest Nave to rewain in the Btate for twenly Jgars longer 1v ordee to cesto tobe carpet:baggors, ore {s an onsier way ont than that, All they will bave todo s to submitto & political conversion and regeneration, Thelr aing, though they be ne ncarlet, wonld be forgivan if they wonld “profess tho Democratic faith. They would be admitted 4nto good soclety, invited round with the swells, and probably thelr aapirations in politics would be gratified. CHAMBEULAIN conld bean Goy- ernor or Senator of South Carolina would only have fllun up hie 1tfo-long convictios ind ranged bimself with the Democracy. Packarn might havo been Uovernor of Loulsians, if he had been as wive snd thrilty as tho immizrsnt from Connectlcut. We aro free to admit there isa great deal of truth in this ylew of the matter, and that bere- tofore & man could with difficulty retieve him- self of the odium of carpot-bageing except by changing his politics. 8till thers witl belesain it hercafter. Jt will gradually ceaso to be “odlous” or *“disgraceful” for a white man to be a Republican In tho Cotton States. Oneof the good effccts of the new policy wilt be to re- move such stigma and the soclal ostraclsm that attached to it. As long s the politics of the Boutl continued to be a race fssus between the whitcs and the blacks, auy white man who op- poscd his own race and supported the blacks would Inevitably be stigmatized, But abolieh the color-linoinpolitica, and let the whites of tho South divide into two partles, as they will, and then lot the blacks attach themselves to eacl, and there will be heard no moreabuse of North- ern men because they are Republicans. The TRepublican party will cventually become as popular and respectable In the Bouth as tho Democratic party. e et—— According to the report of the Bpecial Com- mittes appolnted by the Senate to Investigate the Btate-Houso Commlissioners and their job, tho Incidental expenses were: Commisaioners’ ealaries, $44,152.05; amount of the secretary’s salary, $15,820; nttoruey's fees, $5,200; archl- tect’s commisalon, $33,000. The report recom- mends the Immediate removal of Joux C. CocunaNg, tho architect, and whitewashes the mfsconduct of tho Commissioners who allowed the architect to expend all thy moncy on three- quarters of the work, e ———— With the Democracy, economy In war matters ‘means prodigality in peacc moasures. It was the laat Congress which cut down the army nnd navy appropriations, ordered the printine of over a million coples of Congrossional reports, sud restored the franking privilego In order that they might be sent away, Fhe postage lost by this restoration amounts on agricultural re- ports ulono to over 800,000, Democratic re- ‘trenchment means only dangerous obstruction of the Guvernineot's operations. )" The ‘war news by cablo is rathor mesgre this wmorning. Everything pointa to the ‘ently throwing off by Roumania of the “'mogk of neutrslity and the declara- wtioa by that tate of active and offensivo olianco with Tussin agninat Turkey. Austrin i8 now discussing tho torms of a ‘proclamation of nentrality, and at the snme following tho oxamplo of England in pre- ;paring to chock any Russian oncroachment that may bo regarded as detrimental to hor 'interests. ., Anotler good day's work was put in yos- terday by the Tllinois Logislature. Among + the bills passed was that introduced by Mfr.* Neawn in the House, providing for tho punishe ment of organized bands of strikers who im. + pedo orobstruct tho operation of any railrond s or other busiuess corporation, firm, or indi- .vidual, by a fine of not less than 220 nor ""miore than %200, and imprisonment not less ..than twenty nor more than ninoty days. In * the Sonnte, Mr. Kenoz's bill for the purifica- ;vfion of primary slections was passed. THE STATE-HOUSE MUDDLE, Among tho other **institutions” for which tho State for n numbor of years haa been making annual appropriations is whatis called the * Board of Btate-Houso Commissionors,” Thero are only four * inmates” of this insti. tution supportod directly by the State Trons- ury, but thero ia o host of dependents fod by the crumbs from tho table, The direct ap- propriations for tho support of the threo Commissioners and a secretary amount to about $12,000 annually, This expenditure has been going on now for nearly cight years, Theindirect ox- pense of the justitution is much groater. The people of IDlinols placed in tho hands of these Commissionors $8,600,000, collected by taxation, with instructions to build, con. atruct, complote, aud furnish the now State- House for that sum, That preciso sum waa fixed by the ostimates of the architects, and ongcers, and the Commissioners, after tho rovision and correction of the plans, ‘The money was paid out upon the requisition of the Commissioners, and two years ago, thera then being $700,000 of the monaey un- expended, the Commissioners applied for that sum, asaunng tho Legislataro that it was amplo to coverall future expenditores in the completion of tho State-House as re- quired by the Conatitation, On that assur. ance the Commiscionera silenced sll in. quiry and obtained the monay. It s now notorfous that, at the time they made this declaration, thoy knew that their represanta. tion was untruo, or that thoy, aftor spending nearly three million of dollars, knew so littlo of tho busineas in tholr hands as to Lo nearly a million dollars outsido of tho mark. In either caso thoy forfeited the confidence of tho publio, * If, when thoy roported that the $700,000 in the 'Troasury was all that was necded, they knew or did not know, and it is immaterial which, that a full $1,600,000 ‘was requirod, then, without imputing auy corruption, thoy forfeited all confidence in their capacity or attention to business. The Commission spent the last dollar of the $3,600,000 nearly a yoar ago, leaving soveral debts unpaid and the building un- fluished. The Commisslonurs in Jauuary roported that it would require $700,000 more to complote the building, even in the cheap dollar-store style they bave adopted. To appropriate that monoy will require the au- thority of an affirmative vote of the pcople in November 1878, an appropriation by the Leglelaturo, and the lovy of a tax, which!tax cannot be collected bafore July 1880, There has not been the elightest duty for these Commissloners to porform slnce last July. ‘They bave uo money to expond, and cannot contract & debt. A committoe of the Lagis- lature and aclork and o yoporter was np. pointed to investigute the conduct of tho Commissioners, but no roport was made until yesterday, The Commissioners have not resigned. They are still drawing thelr salaries, and they propose to draw. their salaries until they can got the money in 1880 and expend that. Propoaitions have been made, upon these motorious facts, to sbolish the offices of Btate-Houss Commis. sloners, at least until work shall be resumed on the State-House, but all these proposi- tions Lave been voted down by tho majority s fost as made. ‘The Republican party Lo a majority in the House of Representatives and the Democrats a majority in the Senate, ‘There is, thezefore, no avoiding the respon. sibility for the continusnce of this bold and shameless fraud on the Treasury, The froud of continuing these Cominlasioners in office is too plain and too confessed to admit of any deceptiou. If the men have not the deooncy to resign, they should bo legislated out of office by the unanimous action of both Houses. Yesterday, while this was writing, the fom- mitteo 1ada a report, in which, so farsff they ——— To the Bditor of The Tribune, . Cnicago, May 2.—In accordanca with the last treaty with Germony, has thy Ualted Slates the right'to send back ** deserters ™ ffllllé thelr iyt u HCHIBEIL, ‘The United Statos has not the right, and it is not reuulred, to send back deserters from the Qerman army; but any persun owing military service In Germany who should roturn to that country and resido there would be lable to the German Government, whetlter he lad been uaturalized in the United States or not. e — e Why don't the antl-Administration organs at- tack Col. Higainson's letter! The writer 1s a Radical whom it would bo an honor to sbusc, o supports ths Tresident's Houthern poliey with the same vim that b fought for the negro during the War. e Is honest and cou- sistent, Elybrid politiclans Mugerlug dolefully between thistles and the loaves uf office ought to klck at the Colonel a littly to afr their heels, —————— " The many uunfavorable newspaper com- ‘Juents ovoked by tho lotter of Bz Wank , condemning the Sonthern policy of President Haxzs have once moro brought out the vot- eran from his rotiracy in n lettor to the , Clovaland Leader, in which he brands as o willful and malignant falsehood the atory - - that ho waa o party to o conspiracy to de- . poso Annanax Livcory from tho Presidency, + and Install FoesoNt or Wape as Diotator. e also ronflirms the sentiments in the letter ' to Mr. Parxten, aud absolves that gentle- , man from all blame in pormitting ita publi- cation, Itis evidently a hopeless case of fmplacabiljty. ————— A correspondent, signlog himsel? *Manufac- turer,” writing from Menasha, Wis., on the subject of American manufactures, says: Many, I think, do not understand the difference between tho dutics Imposed on manufacturcd woods imported into Englaud snd the United Histes, Lan you not give us an explanation of what_styles of wanufactured goodsa duty is {me pused upon whea Imported Into England? Englaud levies noduties on auy {mported man- ufactures, except spirits, vinegar, spices, wines, aud some- kinds of sirup, Eogland taxes tea and coffee. Al the raw materials of cotton, wools, balr, Jeather, stone, iron, steel, copper, sudof every otlicr kind, as well as tho inanu- factured goods, are mdmitted free of Quiy. Amerksn cotton goods are admitted freo of duty, No DBritish manufactures are *pro- tected " by any tax on the forelgn goode, norls ownership In British vesscls contiucd to Britrsh subjects. The citizen of any country may own an {atercst In & British vossel. British subject way purchase steamors or other vessela wherever they can Sod them, and haye them enrolled a8 British vessels ; while an_American 1s prohibited by the tarilf from bulldlog a ves- sel for the forelgn trade st home, and is not al- lowed to purchase one elsewhers and lave it enrolled as nn Adferican shlp. England's policy Is to invite trude; ours to repel it. We tax all theraw materfal needed by Amerjcan wanufacturers, while Britlsh manufacturers re- celve thelrs freeof tax. Woe tax our manu- facturers to preveut. them produciug suythlog tosell abroad, while Great Britain encoursges and promotes manufactures by admitting ua. terlal free of tax, and hav{nz vast quantities of manufactured goodsto sell. —— Wa spoke some days ago of the policy of ob- struction adopted by sutne of the ultra * Home- Rule " Irish inembers of tha British Parhament, The London Spectater enutneratos thobills to be #obatructed” by long-winded speeches, calls of the roll on all kinds of frivolous smeudments, aud other dilatory motions permitted under tho rules of the House of Comnmons, where they Luve no “previous question.” 1f the Howe- Rulers persist fu those tactics, the House will be obliged to adopt the American device of tho previuus question and restriction of speeches to Uye or ten minutes cach. Says the Spectafor? Mr. Digoan (M. P. for the County of Ci hse placed on the urder-book of the Ho: Comiuons nutices of Lis inteatlon to move o fection of the Prisons (Scotland) bill, “the Pyblic Health (ireland) bii, the Vaslustion of Propetty ) bll), tue Nosds sud Bridges (Scotlsnd) Marine Motiny bill, the Mulloy bill, the Hotse Uccuplers® Diaqualisestions feimoval bl the Suprewme Court of Judicature (lrelsnd) bil), tue Patents for Inventions bill, the Threshing Machines b, the rocrae of lraland blll, the Lega) It s said that Gen. Banks has not yet made up his mind whether be cun support the Presi- dent's Sonthern pollcy, There is no need for the Goueral to hurry fn the matter, The coun- try fa not depending for peaco upon which way ho jumps. Hecau take another month to de- clae. The peuple have formed vpiufons on oue slde or the other,und his delay will make no Qifference with them. It is enid that among the Southern men ‘now in Washington the expectation ia quite general and positive that the Prosident in his forthcomiug mcssage to Congress at its ex * trn session will recommend the adoption of tho Toxas Pacifio boud subsidy scheme, If . the policy of Bouthern Pacific-ation Lias been + ¢ interpreted to mean anything like this, it is “quite certain that a sovere disappointment is in storg for the friends of Tox Scorr's enor- mous job. Thoy will probably find that tho President knows whero to draw the line in . bis friondship and good will toward the Bouth, and that 1t will not be the Texss + Pacific line oither. i Qen. BuTLER is atill undecided whether ho is triendorfoc to the Southern policy, ;A Washlng. ton telegram sarcastically intimates that le fs very busy in that city arrangiug for appolut- ments to ofiice. Tho Ueneral’s cure was always one of strabismus in politics. There need be uo fear but that he sevs already the winniog side. e #The Federal arm is now onlys New Urleans Times (Do, ). Yet 1t would bo well voough for the Zimes to remember that Y Comlng events cast thelr .shadaws before? Whether the substance fol- lows the shadow will depepd on whetlicr there is o shadow of truth lu Southern * honah,” ‘The one is ** shadowing " tho other just now. ——t— e adow,"'— ,~ 'The railroad-war ot the Lafayette crossing pas terminated in favorof the Lafayette, Muncio & Bloomington Road. Now that tho . trouble is over, it might not Le amiss for the ‘,ontestants to conslder tho risk thoy have nincurred in the obstructionof the United States mails for several days, and for ralirand isputants in future to bear in mind the fact that, where their quarrels lead to a forelblo blockade, they may be hold liable under the Enforcement act for obstructing tho mails, A cowpany or two of Fedoral troops upon +ho scone, and the arrest snd conviction of a aumber of the contestants under the United il - 3tates law, would be an unpleasant variation ‘0 the usunl order of exorcises at these cross- b8 disturbances. Tc ts reported that a bill s belng preparcdwith the object of reduciog the srmy to 10,000 men, Wonld it not bo provident to lot the Indlans and perhaps the Bpantshs in Cuba creato tho reduc-’ tion? Thisls not the frst time Democrats have been afrald of an army, It is not Lecessary to o farther back on thelr record than 1859, e ————— e hope there will be uo delay In calllng that extra sessfon of Congvess, for thero are alot of Cungresamcen flzeling st the mouth with specclies that they connot retafn wuch longer. Tu mercy tothem, and for safcty to ths country, let the time be hastencd when they can uncork. Tho indictments returned by the Grand s ‘Jury of the WUnited Btates Diatriot Court . gainst B, F. Arcew, and A, M, CLzaverann body o long list of serions charges of «'raud apd emberzlement allegad to bLave _0en perpetrated by tho great Towa financier 1 " wnd the obliging Cashier of the Cook County Natioual Bank. The various countsin the ‘ndictments will bo read with a melancholy nterest by depositors, who bave never ex- sctly understood where their money went, :d who msy now have the satisfaction of mowing some of tho partioulars. Itgwill dso be noticed with satisfaction that the 3rand Jury has taken cognizance of the false 'md fraudulent rcports which ALizN and Juxavaraxp cooked up to send to the Comp- roller of the Currency, Thelr trial will be ‘vatched with peculiar interest s a test of .bhe power of the law to proporly punish ‘rookedness of those mognificent dimensions. et The remark which Mr, Exxusox Is represent. ed to have made to a visitor who hoped be did not fntrude was to the effoct that that depend- edon how much they had fn common, Aug that is about the poaition which Pugland holds towards Russia {n Turklish matters. e —— Extract from a letter from Atchison, Kan.s “The ground Is tremendously dry here; the big ralu of last week did not reach thie ground; the grassbioppers stood on thelr hind legs and drank the water as fast as ¢ fcll! 8o Iam Infurmed, but this msy not be truc. e —— The Zimes states that *“one other paper' and itscll hiave given very full accounts of itussian and Turkish war bistory. ‘the *qther paper to which it refers is published In New York,ana the Times reprints its contents ucarly verbstim and calls it “enterprise.” e ——— The Davenport Caxlle speaks of the Des Molues Jeglster as * The newspaper in this State which has earned bad cmloencs by its eflort to open wide s division lu the Republican ranks.’ The Fond du dLac Cummonwealth does not think it is wise to definitely haad over cither the wisston to Austria or Brazil to Geo. Logax uutll * greater pressure ' cau be brought to bear upou BEx Waps. It thioks ** Oblo must be entltled to at lesst one more sppolutment 5 Lut if WaDs will not accept, theu it thinks Col. 7 Qen. Guant Dore Lus written an article 1 the Ninelenth Century upon the Eastern * quostion, in which be arrives at tho con- “Jusion, from a political survey of Russia, .1~ - hat berreal objectis rather to gain advan- i— “sgesin Avia than in Europe. He goes on [P REA Col. Purrries would do weil to take a ls of his Journal with bim when he goes alter that Springfield Post-Ofice. If tho Adminlatration desires to reward tha kind of support it uffers