Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 12, 1877, Page 4

1l UnICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1877—TWELLVE PAGES. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. BY MAU—D¢ ADVANCE—POSTAGE PREPAID AT TIIS OFFICE. Plfly Edition, poaipaid; lg Matled ta any sddresa four i ONA COpY, DET YEAT. CRmorfen. . Clubor twent; Postage prep: ; Brecimen coples rent free. Torrevent delay and mistakea, be sure and give Poste Oftce addresa jn full, including State and County, Remittances may bomade elther hy draft, ezpross Tost-Otlice order, or in regfatered letters. at our risk, 7ERMB TO CITY SUDSCRIDERS, Dafly, deltrered, Bunday excepted, 23 cents per week. Lafly, delivered, sunday included, 30 cents per week Addrers ‘THE TIRIBUNE COMPANT, Corner Modison and Dearborn-sts.. Chicago, Il ————, « PES ms 838 2833 833 AMUSEMENTS. ’ 1iaveriy’s Theatre, Randoith street, beiween Clark snd LaSaite. Eogsgement of the Almee Opera-Bouffe Troupe. Aftess noon, **LaJdolle Parfumeuse.” Evening, **La Fetite Martes. DMeoVicker's Thentres Madlson street, hetween Dearborn sud Btate. **Bweethearta and Wives” and *'Tom Cobb."” After- +noon and aventrg. Muscunt. Monroe street, between State and Dosrborn. Vauda- Yilie and novelty. Enzagement of Den Thompson. *'Joshua Whitcomb." Afternoon and evening. Adeiph) Thentre, Monroe street, corner Deatborn. Varioty perform+ suce, Afternoon and eveninit. Tianc-Ball Park. * Twenty-thind and State strcets, Champlonahip gamo Detween the Chicago and Boston Clubs at 3:45 p. m. 5 Herahey Iall, BNo. 83 Emst Madison street. Milltary Concort by Fuplls of the Milwaukeo Musica! School Boclety, ———————— SOCIETY, MEETINGS. WM. B. WARREN LODGE N0 2, M.—Regular Communication, thts (on ‘Socie, AL Al 731074 Mook B6d workc. & full MtEndRGes 18 Feqnosted. Viltoms mers A rosaty iness Comed. By order of tho W, My ¢ el J. T DUNLOP, Becretary. BATURDAY, MAY 12, 1877, UHIOAGO MARKET BUMMARY, The Chicago produce markels wero moderately nctive yeaterday, and moet of them wero firmer, Beed pork clored 1214e per brl higher, at 814,073 @16.00 for June and $13.12% for July, Larl cloked fin por 100 Ins higher, at 0,674@0,00 for Junc and $0.073@1.70 for July, Meats were dull, aticper b for looso shoulders, 7%c for do whort rits, and 73ic fordo ehort clears, Tighvwines wero . qulet, at $1.10 per gallon, Flonr was qulct and steady. Wheat closed 6!5@0c higher, at 81,7215 for Mayand $1.74 for June. Corn closed 2¢ higher, 81 65'4¢ canh and 50%ic for Juno. Oata closed %o hicher, at 44%c cash and 4t3c for June. Rye was 1@ lower, ol 80@87c, Barley was quict, ut 75@ H0c. Tloga were dull and 10c lower, closing nt 85,00@5.60 for poor ta extra. Cattla were In brisk demand and averaged 10c higher, with sales at §3.G2!4720.05. Sheep were firm, One hundred dollaraIn gold would buy $107.25 fn greenbacks at tho closo., — ‘ Greonbacks at the New York Stock Ex- change yesterdny closed nt 933, @ - — L The Levant Herald statos that the Tarkish army nt Rustchuk is greatly dissatisfied with the Commander-in-Chief, Apun Kenry, who, according to the statoment of the soldlers, is unfitted for his position by age and infirmity, The dissatisfaction has becomo so gonernl that tho Turkish soldicra have signed a peti- tion to the Government ssking that ho slll be put one side to make room for a stronger mau, Tt-isBaid that the Russlan Government Lias a sottled disliko of nowspaper correspond. onts, and hins stendily rofused permission for the representative of any European journal toremain at army headquarters. For all that, tho correspoudents manage to be near by when anything of consequenca happens, and the ronder of Tur Tninuxe is informed each morning of the events of tho Ppreceding day with approximate corroctnoss, T e—— A pair of Parisian editors have beon maqe ;1o feel that the Fronch Press fiws are not so « liberal and indulgent as to tolerats the prac. " tico of violent nnd abusive attacks upon which some of the minor journals depend for thelr success. Thae editors of the Radical nnd Rocueront's Lanterne have each been sentonced to pay a fine of 2,000 francs and to boe Imprisoned for two months,—the former for insulting the srmy, and tho lattor for printing intemperato articles subvorsivo of social order. Roumanis, which a few days ago was on tho point of proclaiming her indopendence, now sppenrs much perplexod, not feeling certain us to tho puliey which will best comport with her interests, Thore s un. doubtedly a strong Austrian influence at work in the Roumanian Capltal, " and while Prines Canves is oagor to oponly ospouso tho couso of Russla as againat tho Torte, tho Chambers have a majority favor. ing o moro conservativa course, Under ox- isting circumstances, it will hardly be possi. ble for tho provinco to postpone a formal decision much longer, ian shore bat- terles and tho Turkish iron.clads in the Danubo at Tbrail yesterday, one of tho largeat. of the monitors, with o crow of 300 on board, and Learing also tho Turkish Com- . wander Iassa¥ Diy, was struck by a shell and ipstuutly sunk.: The cable dspatohes ' glve no nccount of thé loss of lifo, but there fu littlo room for doubt that ‘tho ivon-clads " were severely worstod in the encouuter, The battery that did tho effective work wns musked by a viveyard, and in an hour from the timo it opened fire upon the mouitors tho big threc-master was at tho bottom of the Danube, e A war among the coal monopolists is one of the gratifying possibilitics of the near future, and with it a general comjpotition such 05 haa not been known for years among * tho coal-wining ocorporations, By a com. Lination which has hitherto borne all the shocks and strains of the times, thoy have been able to control absolutely the market ate of anthracite, but there are sigusof a falling-out which, if it comes about, will completely disrupt the monopoly, and make bitter encmies aud rivals of the groat com- pmuies which have heretofore noted in con- cert for their mutual protection snd com. ' won intercut. ‘Threats of a vigorous policy of compotition are discovered in the sotion y«fa!erdly of tho Directors of the Pennsylva. nia Coal Company in conferring upon their executivo officers full power to nct as clrcum- #tances way require, aud a refreshing season ' of cheap coal is mnong the probabilities. ‘The debate in the British House of Com- mons ou the GapstoN resolutions pro- ceeded yesterday in a spirited manner on the " Liberal side. The Liberals justly claim the oredit of having "been instrumental in effect. ¢ ing a chavgo jo the Ministerial programme ; that tho itroduction and discussion of the resolutions offered by Mr. Grapsroxe and subsequently modified so a3 to provent the threntened split in the rauks of the opposition hove been the direct means of holding in check the war party, and of limiting the declarationn of the Gov. ernment to a policy of strict neutrality and closo watchfalness over British interests. To hiavo made England & neutral instead of an ally of Turkey will be of itself a grand po- litical victory for the Libernls, and if they succeed 1n this, as it now appears tbey mny, the canse of peace and humanity will owe thom & debt which the world will recognize. Tho * coincidence of temptation, frailty, and opportunity,” is what ails a large num- ber of the clerka and employes of the Now York Custom-Houso whose positionsare such 8 to ronder their services valuable in holp- ing to defrand thio revenuo, Coincidences of this kind havs been so numerousand of such regular occurrence ns to have made that in- stitutiona by-word for all that is cormpt and rotten in the public servico, and the Government Commission engaged in investigating tho nbusos has undertak- on to discover where fraud ean be checked and extravaganca rostrictod. They aro taking testimony on the subject, and among others Mr, A, B, Conyent, Naval Officor nt New York, has given his viewa ina lotter which is included in the dispatches this morning. Ho recommends grenter care in tho selection of persons to fill tho posi- tions exposed to temptntion, the enforcement of such discipline and surveillanco a3 wonld reduco to o minimum tho opportunity for temptation, and prompt and rigorous punish- mont in every case of dishonesty or impro- prioty discovored. Our dispatchos this morning givo n detail- ed acconnt of the torrible casualty at Itock. ford yestorday, involving the death of eloven ond the wonnding of ten men, all of them employed in and about the now Court-Iouse in process of construction. It appoars to Liavo boen a case of criminal incompetoncy and negligence somewhers,—the walls of & new buildiog suddenly crumbling boneath s weight that thoy wore nover suitably constructed to boar, and burying in tho rnins a score of people. Tho fenrfulresponsibility rests botweon tha archi- tect nod tho bailder, and one or the other mpnst bear the burden of the cruel slaughter of life aud the dostruction of property. ''he builder claims to bavo followed fmplicitly the details and specifientions of tho archi- tect in the construction of tho walls which supported the: heavy domo; and the architcet nsks for & suspension of public opinion until tho facts can be offl. cinlly devoloped, This is the sccond case of architectural manslaughter that hns occurrod within ten days, the fatling in of the roof of tho Now York Poat-Oflice boing Lhe result of o crimg, or of o blunder nmounting to a crime, of tho samo character as that which Las plunged the beautiful city of Rockford into horror and grief. ‘ THE FIRST TWO WEER3 OF THE WAR. Tho first two weoks of the Russo-Tarkish war are at au ond, and beforo entering npon the third it will be of interost to sco what hos been accomplislied in the past fortnight, Tho Army of the Danubo crossed the Pruth April 24, the Seveuth and Tenth Corps, or loft wing, at Bolgrad; the Eighth and Ninth Corps, or centre, at ITuseh and Faltsl; and the Eleventh and Twelfth Corps, or right wing, ot Jnasy. By one of tho most woudur- ful forced marched of modern tiunes, the ad. vance occupied Gulatz on the next day and snved tho ralirond bridge ncross the Horeth from destruction by the Turks., Hetween April 25 and May 2 tho entire Russlan nrmy, awinging around tho left wing ns a pivot, occuplod tho whole bend of the Dunube from Tsmnil to Bralla, thus threatening the Dob. rudycha,—the narrow strip of Northeastern Bulgaris betwten. Roumania aud the Black Soa. Feoring that the Russinns intended to force o pnssago at this point, the Turks con. contrated their forces to oppose them, weleot- ing tho milrond from 'Pachernawoda to Kostondje as their firat line of defonse, and the quadrilateral commanded by the strouy fortresaes of Silistrin and Rutschuk on the Danube, Shwmla in the interior, and Varnn on' the-const, i their wecond line, On ke 3d inat. their advance was in Baolin. rest, On tho 4Lk, a portion of the left wing liad pushied on to n point opposite Sillstria, aud on tho same diy the ‘L'arkish gunboats commenced to bombard Reni, on the Ualntz bend of the Danube, Trom the 4th to the 7th, artillery duels across the Dauube be- twoen Braila and Roni wero fraquent, with- out inflicting any particnlar dmnage on cither sido, On the 8th, the Ruasian advauce was at Glurgovo, opposito Rustchuk, and on the Oth the 'Purks comsmenced a vigomus bom. bardment of Dralln, but without cffuet. On the samo day, the Cosazk cavalry crossud over into the Dobrudscha and destroyed some Turkish property, and bands of Bashi. DBazouks crossed into Nowmavia, ahead of the Russian advaunce, but were driven lack by tho peoplo with such weapons a3 they could hastily improvise, Hinco that tino Russian engiucors have reached ‘Turn-Sev- erin, and the advancs is in the neighborhood of Kalatat, which Is now defended by Itou- manians agalust attack from tho 'Turkish fortross of Widdin. Durlug thoso two weoks, thercfore, whilo no battles have boen fought in Roumanis, the Russiaus have succeeded in bringlng their army into admirnble position, the main army oceupying n stelp of territory fn Roumaniy which would be included in n somi-circlo in. tersocted at Ismall, Tokschanf, Ploeschti, and Glurgevo, with the Danube for the atring of tho'bow, the advauce guard being woll on to the Bervinn frontier, whero Wid- din and Kalafat are uow pounding away ut each other. . ‘The mareh of the kussians Las been a romarkablo one, not only s a phyw ical military feat, but also us a feat of milita- ry tmnsportation, the Ruuslans astwilly throwing away the miserablo solliug-stock of the Roumauian roads, changing the gauge to suit their own stock, and building cross-cuts to shorten distuuces. It is mow reported (from Tarkish sourcos) that tho Russlans ado their first attempt to bridge the Dan. ubo and cross it on the Yth at Renl, which i on the bend of the river a few miles east of Galatz ; that the bridge was brokon by the Turkish infantry and -artillery, assisted by their gunboats ; and that the Russlan dofeat ‘was & very severe one, It is always well, howaever, ‘to discount intelligencs received from Turkish sources. The Russlans may have been repulsed in their first ef. fort to cross, but it 'is wot at all probable that there has been anytbing like a general Russian dofeat, The Tussians have croused it before and will cross it again. The failuro of one division to cross at a certala polnt is but au fucident in the general plan of forcing the passage, ‘The first shot of the war was fired ju Asia. The Army of the Oaucasus crossed the fron- tier into Armenis on tho samo day, April 34, that the Anny of the Danube crossed the Pruth into Roumania. The right wing ad- vanced townrids Batoum, on the sonth shora of tho Black Sen, and on the 2ith the advanco bad a skirmish with a Turkish force from Trebizond, and were forced back with n loss of 800 men. On the next day tho Turk- ish flect bombarded Poti and Fort 8t, Nich- olas, near the frontior, The ropulse near Patonm was insignificant, and had no effoct upon the movementsof tho mnin wing, which, leaving n sufficient foree to observe Batoum, hins inco trended to the southonst to co- operate with the centrs in its movement against Erzoronm, Tho contre marched di. rectly from Alexandropol to Karaand fought a sovero battle with the Tnrks nnder Mounx- TAR Pasna on tho 20th and 30th, driving them from their position with severe loss, nnd forcing them back to tho fortross, tlie investment of which was complated on the 6th inst., leaving the main portion of the centro freo to continne its advance. The left wing marched sonthward, and on the d0thof April eaptured the strong position of Bayazid, near the Persian frontier, about soventy miles south of Kars and 137 miles southeast of Erzeronm. Advancing from this poiut, a Turkish forco was encountered and forced Lack, whilo the Russlan army kept on to co-operato with the centro, Erze- roum is ‘the objectivo point of all three divisions of the army, and the Sougsuln Mountains are the key to Erzeroum. The right wing may ba able to turn them, butthe left and centre must forco the passes, ond at this point tho noxt groat battlo way be looked for. WHAT, THEN, DO_THE IMALCONTENIS MEAR1 The average American citizon is a practical man. Evon in politicahe demands a rational end ns tho thing to be accomplished by any proposed nction. This is ghown conspicu- ously in the party zeal which looks forward to office a8 the fruits of the trinmph of eternal principles, and which regards the falluro to get office ns imperiling the safety of tho nation, ‘Thero is in lowa a sort of organized hostility in the Republican party to the President beeause of the course ho adoptéd in securing protection for the colored peoplo of Louisiana nand South Coarolina, instead of protecting . the carpet-bag oflccholders and leiting tho former suffer. A lke opposition was falntly attemptod n certain' localities in Konsas and Nebrasks, is now shown to o feeblo extout in Northern Ohio, waa quite in- significont in Indisus, and, though perhaps romewhnt extended in Illinois, has failed to rench organization bocause of the over- whelming tide of publioc sentiment in sup- port of the Presidont. In Mnaine it reaches na sort of importanco bocanse it was oston- sibly fathered by o popular local leador, That it has not been more successful is not bo- enuso of any want of sonred, disappointed,or otnbitious mon among the ** leaders™ of the party, but because tho lendors have not been ablp to seo any evidence that they would lhuve followers, Thero i enotigh discontent, disappointment, and mortified ambition aris- ing from various csuses incidantal to human hopes and Linman wenknosses to get up a ro- volt in tho party, if it could be concentrated, oud if o common protext could bo adopted. All this discordant sentimont seoms to have agreed to fgnore orshut out of sight the private and real griefs, and to select tho President's Southorn policy as tha objoct of assanlt, Beforo these dissatisfied Ropublicans go ony further, it would be wall for them to nsk, What is_it that they proposo to do? To liavo n ro\lawlng, they must agree uponsomo programma whioh thoy can offer tho country 08 6 substitute for the peace.poliocy which tho Prosident has put in operation, % The Prosident has withdrawn the troops from tho South Carolina nnd Louislana Btate. Monses. A3 n cousequonce,, Mr, Cuaxnen- LAIN, ono of tha claimants for the offico of Governor of Bonth Caroline, retired and gutliered up his personal property, and, with hix fanily, loft tho State and has engaged In ths practice of the law in one of the North- ecrn citles. 1lis ansociates, the other earpet- bag Stata officery, either resignod or formally withdrew from all cluim to the offices they hold. '"he Legilaturo convened and ree organizod itself on a now political basis, and the State Govornment which succeeded that of Mr, Omasoenuary bhas gone into active operation in all its depnrtments, In Louisiann, ns soon ny the troops were withdrawn from the State-House, Mr, Pacx- atio disbauded his Lody-guard, abandoned the St, Louls Hotel, which ho hnd used as a State-House, and consed nll pretense to act a4 Governor, ‘The Logialature which divided in January last iuto two bodies, each claim- ing to be the only lawful Legislature, ro- assenblod; oxcluded all those who had been cuiled in to giva n color of numerical legality, nud reorganizod itself, The two sots of Stato otlicers moltud iuto one, and the singlo Btate Government, comploto fu all jts departments, rocognized ull over the Btate, and unopposed, has gone successfully futo oporation, Thess ara accomplished facts, Those Governmonts aro in aciunl operation, and sgainat thom thero is not the least popular or legal oppo- sition, Tho two Statea are onjoying a polit- ical peace aud tranquillity which they have not experienced for many yenrs, This s the rexult of what the President has done in terminating the military ocen. pation of the two State-lonses. While the mass of the Awerican people are disposed to rojolco at the restoration of peace, and of coucilintion botweun the racos, audat the ro-citablishment of oivil Qoverument capa- ble and willing to protect the woak and de. fonsoloss colored pofinlation,—the extrome, uurowsoniug party men, who think more of tho carpet-bag oficoholdars than of the pro- tection and prosperity of tho black Republic. an massos,—thls wtra class, wo soy, chooso toregard it a4 the swrrender of two Repub. lican States to the Domoorats, and to insist thiat the fruita of the War for the Union Lave been thrown away, and the blood of patriots shed fu vain, Senlimentally, this is all yery well, and the stalwart Republicans of Malue oud of Dus Moines, Cleveland, and Omala, may fod iu the 1dss of two Ropublican claim. ants for Governor smple cause for mising the staudard of revolt and for dividing the party, but the rank and file, before thoy cagage in this ruvolt, will jusist upon kuowing what Jix Buamvg, and ‘Wexpen Paiiuies, and Bex Wanz, and the others proposo as a remedy. Mero denun- ciotion of tho past will avall nothing. To or- goulze & revolt thero must be an avowed pur- poso to be sccomplished, —au eud to be ob- tained,—and what do thess discontented por. o3 proposs to do ? Do they proposo that the Prealdent shall be compelled to return the troops to New Orleans and Columbia; that Afr. Omax- pzaLamy shall bo taken from New York and carried to Colambia, ayd thero by Jorce roin. stalled as Governor: that Haxrrox and the State Government be dispersed, and the late carpot-bag oficars who have roturned home to the North bo recalied and reinstated ; tho dual Legislatures again reorpanized, an1 the Stateof Bonth Carolina ba once more mado & “Republican State " nnier tho protection of Federal bayonota? Shall Mr. Packarp be restored to tho St. Louls Hotel nnd hailed a3 Governor ? Shall the truvops disperse the Nicrior.a Government and roconatitute the half Legislatnre, and Gen. Avaun be in- struoted to make Louisiona n ** Republican Stata” and keep it so by force ? It this be not proposed or intended by Braine, Paiueirs, and thoir associates who desira to creato a division in thn Republiean pnrty and to oppose the President because of his Bouthern polioy; what, then, do they mean? Do they menn to nct like children, and make faces at the President? Do thoy propose to howl and yell at the Prosidont nnd call him names beennso he is protecting the blacks withont tho use of Federal troops? Tsit to boa mere barrén and meaningless wail of disappointed and uncomfortablo politicians, determined to find fanit and at- tract notoriety? Unloss theso men aro pre- pored to oppose to the Prosident's peace- policy measures to undo what has taken place, and to re-ostablish the Cumamnzrram and Pacxanp quasi-Govornmonts, thon their opposition tathe Prosident will be factions, a mere exhibition of porsonal spleen and petty malice, and, whiloit may gratify a por- tion of tha Democrats, will provoke the con- tempt and indiguntion of all rensonable and candid men, How large a portion of the Ropublican party would have undono what has taken place in South Carolina and Louisiann? The Ropublican party eight yesrs ago had ten Republican States ot the South. Tho policy: of main. {aining the carpet-boggors in office by military forco, under the idep of proteoting the negroes, hnd the support of the country and tho support of a President who was not affticted with any soruplos a8 to using mili- tary force. Tho polioy wna never successful in proteoting the blacks, nor was it succoss. fal in keoping the States Ropublican. One after another, under tho very bayonets of the troops, oight of thoso ton Btates becamo Domocratic, snd whon Mr. Harzs was inaug- uratod President thero were but two States in all the Bouth claiming to be Ropublican, Tho nse of the military, therefore, had failed both to protect the negroes and to keep Southern States Republican. That polioy hiad become so edlous and disreputa- blo all over tho country, and was such n total and confessed failure, that Gen. Grant declared it had always been a mistake, and that if ho had continued ns President ho would have discontinued it in Louisiana and Bouth Caroliva, Do any Ropublicans in Jowa or Nebrasks, oreven inMnine, desire to rolurn to that policy, and again to put the Stato Governmentsat thoBouth under tho con- trol of the military, with power to dispossess and constitute Governors, and Legislatures, and Conrts at plonsure? If these Republic- an malcontents do not moan this, what, thon, do thoy mean whon iy propose to mako war on the Presidont bocause of his Southern palicy ? THE SBTATE-HOUSE ¥ARCE. As tho mattor now stands, the State-Hounsa investigntion, after all the time spent upon it, aud aftor all the evidence accumnlated to provo the incompotency and profligney of tho Commissioners (which was sufficiently maplifest from the single fact that they had exhausted the constitutional fund of $3,500,- 000 and domanded $700,000 more to com- plete the building), has degonerated into a mere farco, 'The Sonate Investigating Com- mittee, though letting the Commissionera off much moro lightly than they deserved, and shouldering n large part of the blame on n dead architect, Lis senior pariner being atill alive, wero still compelled to joln unani- mously in a condemnation of the extrava. ganco and inferfority of the work, and reo- ommonded that the Board of Commissioners bo abolished and the architects dismissed, It was tho duty of the Legislature to act promptly in scoordance with this report, which tho evidence more than sustained, Instend of doing this, the Bonate tabled a resolution abolishing the Board, and took action which not merely re. tains the old Commissioners, but really provides for a continuation of their salaries while profesaing to suspend them until work shall be resumed, This 1s no moro mor less than an insult to the intelligence of the peo- ple of Nlinois in presuming that thoy will vote three-quartors of a million more to bo expended under the direction of men who have alrendy ignored the constitutional lim. itatlon, and probably wasted a cool million of the public monoy, Moreover, tho sotlon of tho Scnate in ap- propriating the additional sum of $28,000 is as unconstitutional as woa that of the Com- missfoners In falling to complete the State. Houso within the £8,600,000 limitation, This now appropriation is ostensibly mado to reimburse tho State-House Fund for cor- tain lawyers' feos, oxtra architects’ fees, and other exponditures ordered Ly the Legisla. ture which the Commissioners 'olaim should not have been paid out of that fund, As to this, it is probatle that the Legisla. ture would not have ordered the payment of these items in this menoer unless it was satisfled that they wero proporly chargeabla to the Btato-Ilouse Fund; it is very strange, too, that whilo these moneya wore paid out five, s1x, and seven years ogo, it is now dis- covered for the first timo that they should not havo been taken from the Siate-Housa Fund. Tho fact is that this is merely o pro- tenso to evado the constitutional prohibition of approprialing money beyond $3,500,000, sud the 128,000 is nppropriated to sustain tho presont Commissioners, their Becrotary, and dependents during the two yoars which must clopse st tha best bofore the work on the State-House can be resumed. Ths pre. tended effort to suspend the salaries of the Commissioners pending the interval of idle- ness §s palpably deceitful. This proviso is inserted in the Appropriation bill, and ia conscquently inoperative, The Constitu. tion requires that no bill shall em. brace moro than one subject; in a Lill under tho titlo *¢ Appropriations,” thero can be uo lawful legisiation changing offiocs and sslaries which kad been previously cre. ated by independent legislation. The result is that the Board of Commissioners s re- tained in tho fuce of th exposures, and vision Is made for their salaries, though the fund is exbiausted from which they can con. stitutionally draw, Bome of the Benators who voted to bring about this condition of thingy msy have done &0 uuder a mivspprehension of the real oper- ation of the bill, and supposing that the 28,000 will bo used o provide necessary protaction for the sham concern that remains unfinjahed. DBut thoso who enginecred tho watter uoderstood perfectly well that in kill. ing the bill for the abolition of the Board thoy yetained the presont Commiasioners with npthing for them to do; and, in sp- propristing $28,000 under the preteuss of restoring that amount to & fund from which e e e o e e b b ol S » SR SRt (S5 S S i 0 ol e ool st s i ek S S e S A Bl S St i i s A Sl W A R S SNl it i S el SO e = A b e P Rl S b it shonld not have been taken, they intended to tarnish the monoy to support tho Com- missioners, Becretary, and dopendents who will have no occupation for two yoars, and who onght not to be employed even if thers were anything for thom to do, RESUMPTION AND THE ADMINISTRATION, 'The postponement of tho exira sesaion of Congresa till Oct. 15 will give tho Admin. istration abundant time for framing a policy on varions matters of vital public importance which it may bring to the attention of Con. gress, and with which the time of the na. tional legisiators can be much more profita- bly employed than in hot-headed debates over the old and worn.ont Bouthorn question, Among these the smost conspicuons will be the mothod of resuming specie- payments. Thero {8 on the statute-books n Invw passed two years and a half ago pledging the Gov- emment to rosnmae specie payments Jan. 1, 1870,—n year and a half from now. That law contemplated certain future prepirations for the retiroment and redemption of the national currency, without which it will necessarily ba a doad Igiger. To pursue the old plan of purchinsing”outstanding bonds with the surplus revenuo and passing them to the credit of the sinking fund, and aceu- maulating merely enongh gold to pay thein- torest on the bonded debt as it becomos dna, will leave the Government powerless to carry out the terms of the law. Up to this time there have beon no systematlo proparations for rosumption, It is evident that the pow- cors conferred by the law upon the Becrotary of tho Trensury, viz.: the hoarding of gold obtained by selliig bonds and the devotion of tho surplns revenua not otherwise nppro. priated, will bo altogether inadequato If con- strued in the interest of the Government, and altogether unwise if litarally followed. Tha project of acoumnlating 2350,000,000 of gold in the United Btales Treasury within the space of a year and s half would make resumption too dears luxury to be borne with patience by the people,—for the drain upon the gold markets of the world would oxhanst the power to scll bonds for gold at par long befora the necessary amount could bo obtained, and would require n sac- rifico of millions upon milliens of dollars in discount and intorest, It will bo necessary, then, if thoro is the slightest intention to’ rosume in 1870, that Congress shall pass ad. ditional legislation admitting of other prep- srations, and it Is to this that the Presidont will probably direct its attontion, with ree. ommendations 88 to what measures, in his judgment, should bo adopted. There are sovoral methods which could bo advantage. ously combined to the common end. 1, Under the prosent law the United Statos can resumo in gold alone. This is duato the law of 1878, which quietly dropped the silver coin of decronsed valae, and Jeft gold the only lawful money of tho country, ecx- copt the national notes which it is proposed to redeem and retire. This shuts the Gov. ernmont off from the richest and most abundant nativo product of specle, which was at the timo of tho issuo of the green. backs and had beon from the beginning of the nation's careor full and equal legal-tender with gold in due proporiion of weight to the dollar. Tho first step toward resump. tion is to rostore the full means for redeem- ing the Government notes in specie which the people supposed would bo nt its com- mand for that purpose at the timo the Gov- ernmont notes were issned, Resumption can only be effeated with gold and silver, the constitutional money of the United States, and not with gold alone. The fancled ter- rors and tho actual diflicultios of resump- tion will be lessoned by moro . than ono-half by declaring the lawful specle monoy of the United Blates to be what it always was prior to 1873, and what everybody still supposed it was up to n year or oighteon months ngo, when the sur- reptitious demonetization of silver firat be- cameo known to tho general public. A law reatoring the silver dollar to ita former place as the unit of American values, and provid. ing for its free coigage along with gold, will be the Jongest step toward resumption that can bo taken by Congress, It is estimatod that the gold and silverproduct of the United Btatea will be nearly $100,000,000 for tho prosent yoar, the whole, or nearly the whola, of which will be retained in the country, Here is n basls for rosumption such as no nation on oarth ever enfoyed bofore during a stato of suspension, 2, Tho issuc of bonds may bo employed with discretion, and, under prudent limita. tions, in two ways with reference to resump- tlon, and perhapa in about equal parts, First, bonds may bo sold at par in specie for an accumulation ju the Treasury of o cortain part of tho gold and silver bullion and coin lying idle with which to redcem sn equal amount of greenbacks Jan, 1, 1879, Becond, specie bonds may Lo offered in tho meantime at & gradual rate for the funding of greenbacks at the option of the holders. There s no doubt that, out of tho large amount of groenbacks now lying idle, these bonds would bo in act. ivo demand, and the only consideration for the Government would bo to limit -their iasue 60 s not to make the contraotion of the greenbacks a strain upon the business of tho country. This would be largely avoided, however, (1) by tho fact that the currency market is so palpably redundant, and (2) by the privileges of the Danking law whigh conables the National Banka to provide all the currency the country demands. By provid. ing for the accumulation of §100,000,000 of bulllon specio withiu the next year and a half (which may be done atpar perhaps if the specie product of the year equals that amount) and the funding of $100,000,000 of greenbacks within the samo time, the problem of spacie resumption will Le pretty nearly solved, 8. A valuable auxiliary to'the retirement of the greonbacks will be found in wuch legislation ns to authorize the ‘Becrotary of the Trussury to apply in national notes the #um required to be set nside for the siuking fund during the next year, instead of pur. chasing bonds for that purpose, 'The annual addition to the sinking fund required by law is 1 per cont on the outatsnding debt, and an amount oqual to the intercst on the bonds slready in the siuking fund. Tho amount in the sinking fund now probably spproximates (without having the more recont figurcs at hand) $180,000,000, and the interest thercon isnearly $11,000,000, whils 1 per cont on the outstanding .iudebtedness wogid ' require $20,000,000 more. Instead of purchasing ¥81,000,000 of bonds, the principle of the sinking fund would be retained aud the publio debt decressed to that amount by tho retire- wment of §31,000,000 of greenbacks, which ‘would proportionately lesien tho burden of rosumption. Wo have stated bere only general features and noi discussed the comparative use whioks may be mado of the various measures spg- gested. The combination is one which will wpdoubtedly make resumplion possible, aud way m\&u it easy if the detaily of the scheme are wisoly handled. There is littla reason to appreliend any damage or inconvenienco from contraction. With the gold and silver already in the conntry, with a promised in- crease from the mines of $100,000,000 with- in o year, and with the corlainty ahead that specia will como to this country from Europo in payment of exchange for the products 8old, instead of boing taken from this coun- try lo pay differences, there will bo enough of it to supply the reduction of the eurrency represonted by the retiremont of greenbacks, which will be offset to somo extent, of course, by the incroaso-in the National Bank notes fo the extent that the business of the coun- try demands, Undor the conditions we have named, resumption with probably not be so diffionlt a matter as has generally been sup- posed. THE COMPOSITION OF THE PRESBYTERI- AN GENEBAL ASSEMBLY, The three Iargest denominations of Prot- ostants in tho United States nre the Baptists, the Mothodists, and the Presbyterians, The first two aro a little superior in point of numbers, but are inferior to the last in point of wealth. At tlio timo of tho Rebollion, the Prosbytorians of the South withdrow thoircon. nection with the Presbyterians of the North, 80 that the Presbyterian Genoral Assombly, which convenes in Chicago noxt Thursday, reprezonts only the churches of that ordor in the *‘loyal Btates,” with the exception of hero and thers a church in the Bouth which lins boen organized since the War. Accord- ing to Inat year’s statistical report, tho num. bor of communfoants in this Church was 600,000,—or, in other words, about one per- son in overy sixty north of the Ohio River is a Presbyterian, ‘The unit of organization in this Church is tho Bession, or Board of Elders, Tho elec- tion of Eldors and the formation of a Session ia the formation of a church, The Session is the perninnent nucleus around which and through which tho church grows, Thero ara flvo thousand of those churches scat. tored ovor our country in almost overy State and Torritory., Even China, Japan, India, Persin, and Brazil have churchos in them conneoted with this ecclosiastical body, The churches that are contiguous unite togother for purposes of co-operation and mutual aid, and form a Presbytery. Thers oronow 101 Presbyteries, Tho contiguous Prosbyterica unite together and form a Bynod. Of thesa there nre thirty-six, - The General Assembly, which meots once 4 yenr, iamado up of delegatea from the va- rious Prosbyterios, the Byncd having no dis. tinet represantation, it being a kind of fifth wheel in the conch, or 8 body which mooets simply for purposes of discipline apd of mutaal stimulus and encoursgement. 'The ratlo of raprescntation from tha Presbyteries is determined by the voto of tho General As- sembly, At presont there scems to be some inequality in this representation, the larger Presbyteries having the adventage. Each Presbytory, however small, is ontitled to two Representntives or Commissioners,—ono a minister, tho other an Elder,—and it must havo at least twonty minfstors on ita roll bo- fore it can send more. This position of Commissioner is sought for, aa it is nbout tho only honor in tho gift of tho Presbytorian Church bestowed gon- erally in the’ smaller Prosbytoriang upon its membors in rotation, so that at least once in his life n ministor may go to the grent con. gress of the Presbyterics, take part jn its debates, imbibe its spirit, and como back to his peoplo & now man, having had a vacation aof two waoks and his oxpenses pald, In the largor Presbytoriea tho spirit of equality can Lo observed, while at the samo time one of their nbleat men may bo sent two or thres times in succession, if any special emorgency seoms to demand his vigor in debate or per. sonal influence to help through a projoct. The permanont officers of tha Assembly are the Btated Clerk and Treasurer and the Pormanent Olerk. The Moderator of the 1nst Assombly holds over until the new As- sembly is organized and his successor olect- ed. The Bocrotarics of the varlous Doards, such ns tho Board of Home Missions, of Foreign Missions, of Charch Erection, eto,, are ex-officlo members of the Assombly, en. titlod to n full participation in its debates and ita work. Theso are gonerally men of fiuo ability ond of ripe judgment, They and tho Moderator usually give character,to tho Assembly. At any rate, it depends on thom moro than on all others what the spirit of tho mooting shall be. If they"are men of wisdom, enthusiasm, and devotion, they leave an improssion on their brethren of the Assemnbly which will be carrled to every Prosbytory and felt in every church, The Republican daily press of Tuwa are dtvided In opinfon over the President’s Bouth- ern polley of protecting the colored people rather than protecting carpet-bag ofliceholders, but the preponderence s strongly ‘in favor of the blacks, us tho Hst ehows: Erefer the colored peo-| Prefer the carpet-bag- e, L [Muskey nqlnurnal. lowa Clty Renublican, Ottamwa Courler. (Dea Muines Reglater, Davenport Gazatte, Durlington Hawkeye, Keokuk taleCily, Dubuque Times. Clinton ferald, % Council Blufts Ann,mlnll l,iltonxhull,u .Iou;]nn 3 arshalltown Zlnes, Cedar ltapids Republican). —————— There s encouragement for the Bpringfiela (11L) Journal man in the following from Col. McCruss, of the Philadelphis Times, who has been studying tho sltuation at Washington: It {z the provailing convictionTabout the depart- ments of power hero that some individuality of opinlon aud action is rather commendablo sthan otherwise {n & public ofiicer.” To bo aure, the Tiliuols Colotiel has no office yet, but {f he will only “slang-whang” the President a little more he will show that ho s qualificd as to #{ndividuallty of opinfon and actlon to hoid suy oftico on that basis. — It {s sald that polltics make strange bed- follows, but there are other strange things In politics which It 1s difficult to understand ; for iustance, how an Illlncis editor of a leading vountry papor can assall tho Fresident's policy ot protection for the colored people, sow tarcs in tho Republicau wheat-flelds, and produce all the discord and division possible, and at the sama time be an Importunate candidate for a $4,000 post-oliice at the Lands of the same President whom he {s trying to undermine and break dowu. -Such thiogs excite our speclal wonder. e— The Blonmlngton (11l.) Leader, like a pyro- technical grasshopoer, fuels that 1ta short fuse is ou fire, and begins an article sbuslug Tum Tmpuns by saylog that ‘*As far as the Leader 18 concerned, {ta vecord of Republican- fstate as zood as that of Tnx CuioAco TRIBUNE, to say the least,” Humph! We never knew that the Leader had say record. It belongs to tho short-horn variety of bovine politics, ——— ‘The fact is, bowever, (hat llarsa had nothing to do with HuriE's case. Ho was .Nfi"l d and diami by & Democrst, Daviv M,” Kir, Post- master-Genersl. The [nferenco ls obvious, —df. Louis Lepubhican, 1t wasa Republican sntidote for a Democratic poison. The lnference 16 moros than obylous. fo=iis o~ st Tho recelpts from tho postal service of Great Britaln tor 1870 wero $30,500,000, aud the ex- penditures were $16,817,805, showing s clear profit of $14,163,705 for ono year. The poceipts frow tho telcgraph scrvlow wero l6,§00,w0. and the outlay for the business was §6,164,070, showr. ing A amall balance of profit. Telegraphing s done In Great Britain st astonlshingly low rates, e —— HIATEs’ pollcy Is for the protection of thy colored peaple of the South in thelr lives, liber. tles, and pursult of happincss. The former policy was for the protection of carpet-bag officeholders fn the pursult of spoil and bonds, The machine politiclans may sympsthize with tho latter; the vast majority of the rank anq fila fndorsc the former. ———— The President of the New Joraoy Central Lite- Insurance Company, arrested for fraud anq balled out, has failed to appear for trial, and hig ball-bond is forfeited. He is sald Lo bo themost Norzssome pestilenco fn tho life-insurance busliness. The Globe-Democrat ssys Trm TRIDUNE does not want an office, but s doing its best to de- servo ono. This just reverscs tho casc of the G.-D. It docs want an office, and is dolng its best not to deserve ono. * ——— Mr. Gosnorx, the arch-conspirator of the Fhiladclphis Exposition, was prescuted with o Ijbrary of 5,000 volumes yesterday, WHL & not. bo sumething of a come-down, now, for him to’ turn book-keeper? f Madame CrrisTiNg Ninssox is eald to be a, mar-t'her rheamstism. That {s natural. v, all right; Bbe is married. Maternal duties, ele,y ete,y ote. 4 Joaquin MiLLER says that "*the great Amert. can novel Is In tho far future”” Yet overy novellst squirmes with the ides that ho fa that future, f Ponuy trumpets are at & premium sinca bank. rupt newspapers commenced puolishlog cable dispatches written in the counting-room. 0 Dznor's communication to Russia has tickled tho Bultan. It is strange what a little lotter in the English alphabet can accomplish. i Canvyre's Inst letter proves him lo’bu the Browpix of lotter-writers. In daring it ho excelled his **Bhooting Nlagara." l The Detrolt Post says: *Now for united actlon for a tunmcl.” Its motto s, Hic La- boreest. - | ‘The Russian bear scems to have beon wall baited on the Danube last Wednesday by tho Turks. Mr. HAvzs' policy has elcetrifed the Bouth, It is & new dlsplay of * Northern Lights,” PERSONAL. f } Bishop 8palding, of Peorla, colebrated Lls first mass in New York City Tuesday. Three noy- icea wors on this occasion given the black veil of presentation nuns, " ‘o1t is pleasnnt to seo,” romarks the Pall Afall Gazette, *'that the R Government never entors upon the business of slaughter except in & devoat spirit.” Tho statoment that Kate Claxton had ene goged rooms In the droenman House, Intely burned In Bt. Panl, I8 incorrect. It was the result of a joke, started by somo facetlous newspaper man. Mr. Jenkina' new pamphlet, ** Janus ; or, ‘The Double-Faced Miulstry," Is descelbed as conrse and yalgar attack npen the British Ministry, Jenkins liaa done no good work sinco tho publica« tion of **Glnx's Baby "'; he ia the Eli Perkins of England. The London papers, in rovengo for ‘tha Parllamentary refiections upon the accuracy of thelr rogorts, threaten to print some of the speechies verbdtim, They think tho grammatical etrurs which occur Jnmany of them would horrity the Kingdom, Mr, Valentine Baker has boon appointed Commandor-in-Chief of the Turklsh gendarmerlc, with power to reorganize the police force through- out the Ottoman Provinces, and to place English officera in posta of dircction, auperintendence, aud inapection. 3 ‘The New York T'imesis gratified by tho roe port that Jamea Russell Lowell §a to be made Min ister to Austria, Ihis appointment would be balied, it says, na proof that the country haa begun onca more 1o sond a8 Its representatives abroad ita men of genius as woll as ita succesaful pollticians. Mr. Robort Browning has just completed a translation of the '*Agsmemnon' of Kechylus, which will soon sea the light. 1t is extromely lit- eral, Br, Drowning having rendersd the original almost word for word, 1t fx sald, and evon en- desvored to preserve the oxact order of words. Dom Pedro shocked the social sense of the Berlinera by belog out when the Kalser calleq on him at hls hotel by appomtmont. Hae appeared aftermards, and spologized by saying ho bad been delayed by a conversalion with lchnholz, Ime perial reverence for Intullect seems got to bo ape preciatod In Berlin. A copy of Boaumont and Flotohet, former- Iy the property of Charles Lamb, has heen bought for the Dritlal Museum, Many notes by Colurldgs arein it; one runa: **N, B.—1 shall 20t belong hore, Charles. 1Rone, you will not mhd my hav- ing spoiled & book In order to leave s nilic, 8, T. C., Qclaber, 1811," ‘Young Logan, who married Adnirat Par. kor's daughter, Is an Ohlo man; hence the disgust of all the young officors who envy bis happlness. 1t be had como from any other Btate his good for- tune might have beey endured, but It Is too much for'human patence that Ohlo shoald cirry off all tho prizes, matrimonta] as well as politial, The brother of the Princess Nrthalie, ut Bervia, dled & short time sgo at Odesss. Having no parents, and having quarreled with hii rolatives. he lived at Odessa in the paternal haue withs privato tutor, Howas 17 years of sge, and had not too much elther of intetligonca or education. ‘The Keahko family is therefore naw exiiuct In the mualo line, and the incows of cach of the thres daoghl is Increasod from 15,000 to 30,000 ronbles & yesr, Gon, di Qesnols, the discoverir of the Oypriate antiquities, wasfor eleven yiars Coneul at Cyprus, and hotold a New York mporter, the ofher day, that bo had no desire to return, Secro- tary Sewanl secured the sppointmest for him, ‘When Cesnola asked the Bocretary's support for the Consulship, tho latter asked, *'Vhers do you ‘want Lo go?™ ** Cyprus,™ sald Cesnol. **That's & d—-d bad place," romarked Seward and there« upon mado out the appolutment cheerully, Mr, John Fiske, Assistant-Liorarian of Harvard Colloge, once known #s s phiosopher, bas been engaged In & most unphllosojblcal contro- vorsy with a Hoston editor. Ile callshis adversary & **fiy-gobbling pen: ner " and *‘a scurrilone blockhead '; and th tor retortas upon him ss ¢+profoundly and stolldly ignorant of newspsver matters," aud 88 **a pervon to wiom we owe no Aindnoss, or. we ahould suppress hs foollsh docu~ mout, which adds nuthing to the discusglon sod does 50 1u bad taste, ™ Mr. Honry Tyre Brown, s well-known Brooklyn musician who was to haw been fostalled * ssorganiatof Mr, Beccher's chirch fast Sundsy morning, has mysteriously disampeared, ngg ba ing been seen slnce Thursday uornivg. the 1aorning of bis disappearsnce he ashed & check for a conalderable sumof money. Habad s wifesnd family, 1lis habits were stricly temporate. He was 1o bave supplanted John Zundell, for mots than thirty years the organiss of Plymouth, but now to be retired on § pension of §1,600 per annumi, Mr. Brown was for five years the organistof the Itev, Dr. Tyng's church, snd of lats bas hel: similar position lo the Clintar A tlonsl Church, of which the Jev. pastor. °, ‘The Iferald corvesponlent telographs from London: **The engugemms botweea the Duke of Conpsught and Lsdy Josamond-Jape-¥rances, second daughter of the Juka of Marlborough, is announced. When the frince went to Ircland last November to joln the garrison of Dublis, it was given oat that he wm o stay for less than #ix montbs. Now he {stostay on,snd willgotothe Curragh camp for (he aunual exerclaes, which sre to be held thers ovew year in tbe beainning of summer. When the Bupesor of Germsny's birth- day was at haund it was tho speclal wish of the Queen that the Duke of Conzsughtasbould go to Berlln to ropresent hir on the ausplclus occasion. She wrote 10 iz hericlf statiug her wlab; bat the lover-Frince wroto tack thst bis dutics n Ircls were of such & naturs that ba could not bsent bis- ool