Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 16, 1877, Page 4

._ The Tribmne, i TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. 5 k] f DY MATL—IN ADVANCE—FOSTAGE FREPAID AT THIS OFPICE. ly Fditton. ponipaids 1 yea A Aafied ta Ay sdlreen our ; £uncny Fdition: Literary and felly Baturd tweive poatpatd, § Jear. "arta of & year, per inonth.., WEERLY EDITION, POSTPAID. fllli Pflrh per Cinbof ten. Clubof twe; Tostage prepatd. . Brecfmen coples eent frea. Tagrevent delay and mistakes, be sure and give Post- Cficeaddrem tn full, including Rtate and County. Tiemittsnces may bomada either hy draft, express, Post-Ofuce order, or In registered letters, at our tiak. TENMS TO CITY SUBSCRIDERS, Tolly, del!rered, Sunday excepted, 24 centd per week, 14i, deitvered, Sunday Included, 3t centa pep week Aciirers THE TRIBUNE COMPPANT, Lorner Madison and Dearborn. Chicago, Iit. TAMUSEMENTS. MeVicker’s Theatres Madison street, between Dearborn and State. Epgagement of Rose Eytinge. '*Led Astray,” Hinverly’s Thentre. Tandolph street, between Clark and LaSaile. Engatement of the Almee Opera-Bouffo Troupo, **Girofle-Glrofia." Muscnm. Monroe street, between Stata and Dearborn, Vaude.® viile entertainment. Enzagement of Den Thompeon, **Joshua Whitcomb,” Afterncon and evening. Farepangh’s Clrcas. Lake Park, foot of Washington strest. Afternoon anderentng. ase-Ball Park. Dostons v&. White Stockings at Twenty-third-Btreet Grounds nt 3:43 p, 1. ‘WEDNEDAY, MAY 16, 1877, OHIOAGO MARKET BUMMARY, The Chicsgo produce markels were genorally famo yeaterdsy, and weak In the morning, but firmer in tho afternoon. Meas pork cloeed fic por brl lower, at $14. 274 for June and $14.40for July, Lard closed Ge per 100 Ipa lower, nt $0.30 for Juna and $0.40@0.42% for July, Meats were steadier,at 4% ¢ per Ib for loose shoulders, 7c for do short ribs, and 7)c for do short cleara, llighwines were ¢ lower, at 8L.08 per gallon. Lake {freighta were steady, atdc for corn to Buffalo, Flour was quiet and weak. Wheat closed 23¢ lower, at $1.64X cash and $1.65X for June. Corn closed 1%¢ lower, at 51%c cash and 623ic for June. "Onts closed 1%c lower, at 41)c¢ cash and 42%c for Junc. Ryo wan 1c, lower, at 0dc. Barley was_nominal, at 76¢ for May. Ilogs were dall, weak, and 10c fower, closing at $5.00@5.50 for common to extra. Cattla wero active and casler, with sales at $3.50@0.00. Sheep were nominal, only two car-loads arrlying. Last Saturday even- ;7 Ing thero wan in store in this clty 1,700,400 on wheat, 3,860,444 ba corn, 158,058 b oats, 160,831 bu rye, and 372,474 ba barley, bolngn decrease 1n all excopt corn, One hundred dollars in gold would buy $107.00 In groenbacks st tho closo, RN e Groenbacks at tho New York Stook Ex- change yesterdny closed at 934, e ————— The bill approprinting 260,000 for tho cemplotion of the Douglas monnment yes- terday passed tho Benats, and with tho sig- nrturo of the Governor will become a Inw. The samo is true of tho bill makingita penal offenso to exhibit childron on trapezo bars or in other perilous positions in publio shows. Tho Governor of Massachusotts has vetoed all the liquor legislation of tho present Leg- hlnh\lru of his State, and the laws regulating tho traflio remain withont change. Thisisa dofeat of the cold-water extromists, The presont prohibitions surrounding the salo of spirituous boverages in Maasachusetta are, howover, gonerally considered fairly prac. " tical and salutary, Blongro reports are received of the forward movemont of that portion of the Russian ! forces nearcst to tho mouths of the Danube, i It appears that a crossing was offected yes- terday into the Dobrudscha, and that a Turk- ishforco of 16,000 was dispntched in great hasto to meot and ongage the enemy from the ziorth bauk. No intelligonce of a battle ot this point is yet at hand. The possibility of the oocurrence of tidal waves upon the great inland sens of America was yosterday illustrated in o startling man- nertotho poople of Port Stanley, Ont. A wave five feet in height came rushing over Lake Erio with a loud hissing nolso in tho direction of tho town, and although no damnge was done, the cvent was suffictont to suggest tho calamitous characteristics of o wave four times ns high, — Ono part of the Russinn press shows little rogard for Germany. For Instance, the azctte, of Moscow, has on article on the ‘Wendes, & branch of tho great Bclavodamily, " which, to the number of 200,000, live in Prusaia and in Baxony, on the banks of the Elbe, Tho Russian shoet recounts the ef- foris that Prussin has made to Germanizo theso Bclavos, and declaro them entitled to the fullest sympathies of tho Russians, The statuo of Frrz-Greexx Haxvror,which bias been presonted to the City of New York oy o number of gontlemen desirous of per- petunting tho fame of the poet, was yestor- day unveiled in Central Park by tho Presi. dentof tho United Btates, and by him formally presented, in behalf of the subscribers to the statue fund. A poem by Joun G. Winrrien, aod nddresses by WitLian Currex Bryant and Wittnay Avwsy Buries, and a military end civio display in every way worthy of the occasion, wero the features of the exercises. Following in the flery footsteps of Bt, « Jobun and 8t, Hyacinthe, thelittle Oity of 8t Btephen's, in Now Brunswick, has been smit. ten with the woful dovastation of a general " conflagration. The first reports stated the . number of buildings destroyed to have been soventy, but after-dispatches put tho figurea at 150, besides many coatly wharves and a schooner. The insurance is sald to aggre- gate $150,000, and to have been hazarded largely by American companies,” Accom- panying this stalement is an estimate that the totel loss will be $300,000, which would seem relatively insufficient unless insurance ia mors general in those regions than lLerea. bouts. No loss of lifo attended the calannty, And.only three men wero hurt, The attempt of the disaficcted miners at Btreator to poison, sixty men who had taken thir placessis one of the most cold-blooded ;. wd disbolical picces of villainy on record, 3 sore fiondish even than any of the outrages | that have choracterized the Pennsylvauia Molly Maguires, The cause of the quarrel '+ originated in the depression of the coal busi- ness, the dullness and low prices of the mar. ket, and thoe {nability of the proprietors to pay what their employes msked. Other miners offered to do the work at the proposed rotes. Bome of those who wounld not work because the prices were too low then made the fiendish attempt to murder those who Dad taken their places by mixing poison with thelr food, with what results has not yet beon ‘diabolical and without the shadow of pallin. It tho miscronnta aro ever found, their ease should bo considered npart from any connection with the labor tronbles, and their shrift shonld be n short ono. Tho villasins who wonld coolly por- petrate such an ontrage as this are nafit to be employed at nny labor except for the tion or jnstifieation. Btato during the natural term of their nn- natural lives, S——— Miss Cmmors, who displayed so much heroism in the defense of hor father when nitacked by tho mob in the Kemper County, Miss., Jail, has died of tho wounds received on that oceaslon.’” Tho utter heartiessness and lack of human fecling shown by these law- less wrotches pursuod tho yonogiady to such oxtremos that it.was impossible for her frionds o procnre proper surgical attention, and rendor this murder one of the moat fiendish in tho nnnnla of crime. She will tako her place in history aa o true heroino, and tho community which approved of the murder, and deprived the poor wonnded girl of tho medical assistance that would have saved her lifo, will ncver recover from tha lorrid dirgraco of her eruol death and that of her younger brother, The decision by Judge Frexcr, Assistant Becrotary of the Tressury, in tho case of Jaxz Ry is foreshadowed In onr Wash- ington dispatches, and it appears sottled that the chief conspirator among the Chicngo revonuc-thieves is to escapo with tho very light punishment which the jomt labors of tho counsel on both rides woro able to se- curo for him. It {s found that the civil suit ngoinst Remyt is in tho natare of a sccond criminal action, and ns he hna alrendy boen tried, convicted, sontencod, partly punished, and wholly pnrdoned for this offense, the eivil action for damngos cannot bo'maintained. The question of the promised immnnity cuts no figure, the de- " cision rosting wholly upon the theory that the civil suit is in fact & proceeding to inflict farther punishment, Secretary SnEmean hins yet to roview tho decision of Judge Frexenm and concur in his view of tho caso Lefore Remy can consider himself altogothor out of tho woods, C 'The decision of Secrotary Smenstan on the question of n proposed compromiso of what is known na the * second batch " of the-Chi- eago whisky-thieves nffords small comfart to that band of unfortunate squealers. The Becrotary is not to be moved from his do- tormination to insist upon the payment to tho Inst doljar of the uncollocted taxes and penaltios standing ngainst the partios whoso criminal liability hns already been romoved by Presidential pardon. o rogards their pecuniary obligations na o sncred dobt to the peoplo which must bo paid,—a dobt the forgivoness of which involvea n stretch of power nnd leniency even greater than that which cut short the terms of imprisoument of tho convicted whisky-thioves. Tho Sac- rotary is not disposed to deny tho * second batch " tho privilego of appealing to Con- gross for a cancellation of their aebp to the Government, but in the moantimo District- Attorneys aro to bo instructed to prosecute tho civil suits vigorously, and obtain Judg- ments that shall protect the lien on tho property or assota of tho defendants. —_— The House of Ropresentatives at Spring. flold has done what it could to farther im. povorish tho Public Treasury by passing a bill to establish a State Board of ‘Health and ordering to p third reading the Senate bill for eatablishing n Btato Board of Stonog. raphers, nefther of which wonld bo of any more pnblic service than n State Board of olephants, Wil some one of thess SBovoxs oxplain to us what is wanted of & Blate Board of Iealth, or what it will have to d6? The poople would like to know. They ara tirad of Boards, Tho BDoards they already have, notably the Railroad and Warehouse Board, harassing business and injuring the markat, are all they ean endure, and now, for tho snko of increasing State Institations, crenting more offices, and. developing the capacity for tax-eating, corruption, and plunder, they are to be saddled with two more! The members of the Legislature scem to bo totally ignorant of the sentimont of thelr constituents, and at the same time unawaro that the peoplo regard the creation of Bonrds simply ns new outlets for the wasto of tho public money. It is not fm- possible, when the session is ovor, that they- may bo justructed in a vory practical way by the pooplo whom thoy misropresont, k It requires no knowledgo of theorles of taxation or'tho principles of political econo- omy to understand the meaning of the ftem of nowu published by Tne TrinoNe with ro. gard to the withdrawal of bouk capital in this city, Bofore the 18t of May four of the Nationnl Banks of Chieago drow out of their business §2,400,000—an aversgo of $600,000 onch—becauso they wero ynabla to use It profitably under the burdon of taxation im- posed by the State, This withdrawal of banking ecapital 16 #aid to bo preliminary to one still heavier, if somo relief is not aforded by the Legislature. Banks are discriminated ogoinst in our system of taxation, as if money-lending at intereat were still regarded 08 o crimo, a4 it was in the days of Mosrs, ‘This {s o singular procedura on tho part of a tato liks Illiuols, that noeds more capital, The great want of the West is more capital. Every dollar that it can bor. row isa precious instrument of roproduc- tion, yielding a roturn of many fold, The Legislature should nct with adl intelligont purpose to foster capital, not to banish it, The taxation of ‘capital employed in bauking should bo cqualized with that on capital in other enterpriso, It should be rondered im. possibla that, while citizens of Illinois en. goged in banking have to pay taxes on about $000,000 of their $1,000,000 capital, citizens of Illinois ongaged in commercial business witha capital of $1,000,000 pay taxes ot only $8,000, Buch contraats nctually exfst, Fur. thermore, the taxation of banks should not be duplicated o4 it is, Bauks are taxed on their real estate, and a second tax is then collected from the stockholders on the sume property, The were statemcnt of such a state of affairi ought to provail with our wise and public-spirited legislators at Bpring. flold for its redress. The Legislative Committee yvstorday made their report on the South Park juvestigation, Tho Committeo find in tho eight years of transactious in real estato two or {hreo itoms for sharp criticism ; they also roport that the business ot times in some partioulars was loosely mansged. In the matter of Bowzx, they charge that there was a defaloation by bim,—that s, the jmproper use by him of the money of the Park Commission. This is a docision in favor of tho Commission os sgainst the bank in New York which op- plicd Bowzx's unauthorized ckecks on the park funda to Bowzx's private indobtedness to the bank. The Committee expross the sscestalood. The act was in every respuct | opinion that this defslcation might have THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 1877, been provented had the Treasurer rosiated interferonce with hia acconnts, 'fho Treas- urer mado his deposits with tho American Exchange Bauok oxclusively to pay in- terest on the bonds; the money was not snbject to check for any other purpose by any other pemon. Tho Exchange Bank and Dowex “used this money for their own purposes, withont the nuthority of the Tronsurer, nnd mhst abide tho consequences, The Committee make no recommendations, simply roporting the evidence. Considering tho magnitude and, the nnmber of the charges preferred, the investigation sub. stantially acquits the Commissioners. At all ovents, the Corrnoun-Dunvrevy party have not promoted their scheme to have a now Bonrd appointed under legisiativo instroc- tions to buy their swamp.land at the rate of $5,700 nn acro. The investigation has thoronghly exposed the charaoter of that combination to plander the publie, and lonves its enormity n matter of record, That combination las prebably wrocked all its liopes and oxpectations by, this investigation, and the public have renson for congratula- tion at the rasult, No Commissions, in the light of this investigation, will purchaso that land at tho price clnimed by these men, e e, BRISTOWISM AND BLAINEISM-—A RETRO- BPECT. = Gar Hasrwron ' (Miss Many A, Dober) in o relativo of Mr. Jaxes G. Braixe, and, wa bellave, Lias been an inmate of his houschold for many years. Bho exorcises tho privilogo of her sox in scolding those who hava not been 80 enthusiastic in thoir support of her idenl statesman na she has boon. Another peculianty ia developed in the concealment (inveluntary, wo présume) of tho real offonse of those she nttacks, '‘Gain Hamrrox” hns not confessed in any one of her articles in vindication of her relativa that vindication is her purpose, nor that tho animosities sho is ventilating are based npon hor relative's failuro to get lhu&rcs(dunlin! nomination at the Cincinnati Convention. Porhaps her womanly faith in a family idol Las not por- mitted her to discorn how perfectly apparent it i to overybody elso that cliagrin and dis. appointment ara at the bottom of hor abuso, To come 8o near the attainment of the high- oat political prize in the nation, and one of tho highest in the world, and thon fail, is cortalnly n sufficiont protext for resontment, which the women of 8 houschold are likely' to feel oven moro keenly than tho hend of the family, Mr. Braing has hold what may be called ** Bris- towism " reaponsiblo for his defeat at Cin- cinnati, and, as a consequonce, his maiden -relative sénds her arrows into tho Brisrow rank and file, 'Tho Bristow pooplo gencral- ly, and tho cditors of the New York Nation, 8pringlicld Republican, and Tre Onuicaco Tnipuse in particular, are the victims so far, and wo presume Harsteap, of the Cincine nati Commercial, Sautn, of the Gazetle, Geonor Joxes, of the Now York Times, Gronar Wirias Curris, of Jlurper's Weekly, Warrens, of the Boston Adoertiser, nnd after thom tho particnlar frionds of Mortox, - Coxxring, nnd Ilantnanrr who joined the Basrow men for IIaxes in a compromise agoainst Mr, Buaine's cnndidatnre, moy ox- poct to sao their picturcs in ** Gair Hamn,- ToN's " * Rogue's Gallery " somo time in the near future, Perhaps it is just as wall that “Gar's " relative shonld work off his spleen by proxy, and it {s rathér novel.and interosting that an anclont fomale cousin should be seleoted os tho agent. Atgthe samo timo, tho roalmorits of the controversy, which.Miss ¢ Garn Hasrron " cannot rea- sonably bo expocted to discuss, should. bo briefly stated, Tho growth of Brame and Bnistow as Presidentinl enndidates was_pretty nearly contemporancous. BrAme's pretensions be- gan with his debato with Bey Hriy on the Amnesty question, Ho rested his claim maluly on this tilt. The debato cortainly carried. tho whole country off ils foot. Brimve wna thenceforth the “plumed knight” whom Col. Inarnsory deseribed so oloquontly in tha Cinclnnati Convention. His apponl to the people of tho country was chivalry, and it was a brilliant and powerfal claim upon the sympathy of tho North. Bew v, 1t I8 true, gained as much at the Bouth as Lraive didat the North, and both wero rowarded by their constituents by an clovation to tho Semato, Mr. Brame ox- pected a higher prize, and it might have come—-or nt least the party nomination for the Dhighest prizo—had it " not beon for subsequent events. Tnr Tninunz, wo ' remombor, was as onthusinstio in its ndmira- tion and as warm in its praisen of Mr. BraNg for a timo a4 oven n fominine rola- tion could demand. Then camo the scandal about his railrond and slock-jobbing career, ‘Wa have no disposition to discuss its morita, and liave always . hoped thera was no sub- stantial basis to the various storics that were atarted in and out of Congresa about it, and do nat think that any or all of tho porsons who have beon hung up, or ara likely to bo hung up, in “ G Haautons * Roguo's Gallery " wers rosponsible. for it, The scandnls, however, started and became sensatjonal, Thoy spread throughout the country with tho samo impetuosity as Mr, Bramve's attack on Jerr Davis, but it was not cal:ulated to arouso the samo enthusissm for hint a8 o Presidontial candidate. It be. camo evident that, if ho were nominatod, that scandal would be the busis of tha campalgn, with the Ropublican party on the defonsivo ngainst the nttacks of the TiLoen party, who had assumed tho role of the Re- form party, Mr, Brase's lottera and Mr, Muriioan's testimony yould have been pushed forward at every step and every turn witha demand for explanation, It would not have boen easy to carry on a ¢ chivalrio " campaign under these tonditions, and that wasr, Braine'sgreat personal atrength, Meanwhilo, Mr, Batstow becamo the prac- tical, active, foarleas exponent of Reform, Ho attacked, and followed up, and ran down the most formidable combination ever known in tho listory of political corruption,—the great Whisky Ring. Ho was never appalled aud never faltered ot the vast power of a Ring which ramified throughout the entire country, which Jind millions of stolen reve. nuo with whicls to dofoud itself, and whick reached out to tho vory portals of the White Uouse. "o Ring controlled and sultained daily newepapers, engagoed the services of, the best legal talent in the laud, socured the co-operation of persons unscrupulous vuough to swear away the character of ita prosoou- tors, threatonod Congressien whom it had clected, and held down offcials who Lad placed themselves in its power by sharing its spolls. Al this would have been enough to engage the partisanship of the Reform element of the Ropublican party. But this advocacy of Baisrow*and the principles ho represonted was also juade & nocossity by the perscoution they excited within the Re- publican party, Tc have | abandoned them at a time when ‘the whole country was aroused in indignation at the peruistent efforts to break fhem down, ¥ | [ would havo becn to leave the Republican party nnder tho stigma of protecting the rovonne-robbors. That would have been cortain defeat, with Mr, Braise or anybody else a3 tho Republican candidate. The only hope for the Repnblican party was in a sin. cera disposition to reform the political nbuses and corruption of the time, and all thore was loft for the Reformers to do was to go to Cincinnati to nominate Bristow, whone name was a synomym for Reform, or,'lnlllng in that, to nominato a man who conld inspiro public confldonca in his purgose nnd ability to carry ont Bristow's policy, Such a man ‘was found in Rurnearonp B, Hares, ns the result has proved. Mr. Bramxe could not have beon taken ns the ropresentative idea of Bristowism, to say.nothing of tho scandals, becanso of the circumstanca that the majori- ty of tho machino and anti-Reform politicians of tho party had concentrated thoir force on him in order to dofeat Baistow. Of cours Misa ** Gain Hasmrron” will not give this broad viow of the controversy any considoration whatever, and perhaps it would not be possible for any fominino rela. tivo of Mr. Braiz to comprohend it. She will continue hor attacks with a disrogard of logic, and indulgo the omotions to the exolu. aion of the facta in tho case, Novorthcless, looking back over the political ovents of the Inat yoar and a half, 1t is not ensy to sce how tho Reform Ropublicans, whothor as Re. formors or as good parly men, conld havo choson otherwiso than aa thoy did fn tho sin- glo altornativo that was presonted to thom,— tho machine cloment of politics, or Bristow- ism, standing s a plodge that the Ropublic- an party would nbandon the Rings and de- voto taclt to the policy of rotronchmont, an lionost collection of the revonues, and the pacification of o country wofully distracted many years after the close of the War." Wo wish Mr. Brarvz woll. Ho possosses many qualitics to challenge mon's admira- tion, and wo will not cloim that ho had any sympathy with tho anti-Reform clement which rushed to his standard for the purposo of benting Baistow, and thereby did him harm rather than good; but ho will excuse us for doubting tho wisdom of golug over tho discussion at this time, and digging up tho buried tomahawks of Inat yenr's partisan contests, oithor s a vindication of tho past oras a proparation for the fnturs. Prosi. doncles aro not gained in that woy. A much morg prudont and creditable method for Mr, Brame to adopt, either as to pnst embar. rassmonts or for horeaftor ambition, will be to join heartily with the gront mnssof the American poople in snpporting President HAxes' ponce and roform policy, and the straightforward administmtion of the Gov- ornmant in tho intoreats of the people with- out reference to any cliquo or combination of politicians. But that is for Mr, Bramz and ** Gar, Hamsuron * to docide for thamaolvos, e — THE ASIATIOC BEAT OF WAR, Tho Provinco of Armonla, in which tho Russian Army of tho Onucasus is now oper- ating, betweon Kars nnd Erzeroum, is com- paratively an unknown land. Off tho gen. eral routes of travel, but little information has beon farnished concorning it, the latest perhaps being Cunzon's skotoh of hid travols through it, just provious to tho Crimenn war,—a work to which wo aro indobted for thofaots In this article. The auclent Ar. menin {8 now divided betwoon the Russiang, Porsiang, and Turks, the larger part boing contained in tho Turkish Province of Erze- roum. It is wild and mountainouns in char. acter, and has no connection with tho ses, nnd, although not of any speoial commercinl importanco, hasnlways beon an object of contention between Turkey and Porsin, as thio hugh road betweon thoss Empires passos throngh it. The population s somewhat over1,000,000. Erzeroum, the Capital, hans 80,000 ; Kars, about 20,000; Van, 20,000; and Moosh and Beyboort 8,000 cach, The groater half of tho populntion are Moham. medan :Iurlu, the Ohristions comprising & small numbor of Greoks, Nestoriaus, and Roman Catholics, the greator partof these bolng descended from the anclent possessors of the soil, and professing thoe Chrisplanity of tho Armenian ‘Church. In manners and customs the Armeniana resemble the ‘Turks, The women live in a harem, scparate from the men, and dross liko the Tarkish women, Ths country poopla live in peculiar undor- ground houses, aud aro h agrioultnral poas- antry, hardy and notive, and acoustomed to oxorciso and endurhnce, Tho general history of Armenia, .althongh intricato, owing to the interruptions of dy. nastles and tho changes from Kings to Gov- eruors, Princes, and vassals of othor Em. pircs, prosonts littlo of interest. The first person styling himself King of Armenin, ofter Cunier’s time, was TimipaTES, Who re. colved his crown from Newmo, Soveral Princes succeedod him who were mero vas. sals of the Noman Wmpire, Timinates II. was placed upon the throne in 259, em. bracod Christianity, and died in 814, Armenin was honcoforward distracted with rovolta sgainst the Persians and Ro- niaus untit abont 700, whon it was governod by o long succosslon of Dukes and Counts, their reigns being charncterized by the fruit. loss efforts of the Patriarch of Constantino- plo to break down the religious subjoction of tho Armenlansto thoir horotical Patrl. arch, The first geuorally acknowlodged King of modorn times was Purnaneres Brnavouance, who flourished about 1080, Thosixth in tho line was Mivo, who made hinmelf fanious for his stubborn wara agalnst the Knights Tomplar, who defied his powerd Thencoforward the history of Armenia is marked by almost coustant war, Lro I. fought the Knights Templar, Arroy, in 1270, conquered tho Saracenv, Lo, hisson, wasi fn constant war with the Sultan of Fgypt. Ossny, in 1820, was at war with Sicily and Cyprus. Leo V.. was'in continual war with the Baracens. CoNsTaNTINE, the next King, was at war with his own subjeots, and re. duoed the Kingdom to the nost ntter con. fusion. Lep V., of the family of Lusianax, was {he last of tho sovereigns, and in Lis reign Armenia wns conquered by Turkey. 8ince that time its soil has been fought over by Turks, Russians, and Por- slans, with varying results to themsolvoes, but with constant loss of territory to Armonia. From timoe imumorial it has been the thoa- tre ofgwar, aud uow sgain Russia and Tar- koy a%e fighting on its soil, with tho pros- - poot of another division of ita territory, ‘I'be most intpresting subjoct in connaction with Armenia is its religion. The seeds of Christianity wore sown there by Saints Bag. raoLouEw and THomas, and Baint Grzaony the Nluminator established it and converted TixtoaTEs, who became the first Christian King of Armenis. In 350 aross Afxsmos, Mascapors, who extinguished idolatry, ar- ranged for the first time the forms of the Armenian - liturgy, and made the first complete version of the Bible. Up to this time the Armenian hierarchy had boen @ branch of the Groek, but after the death of Mxamon tha people soltled down futo the heresy of Exryouxs, and in 535 n achism took place, soparating them from tha Churoh of Constantinoplo. Tho Council of 554 confirmed the sohism, bit the Conncils of £92nand 1143 condomned it. Inthe fourteenth contury Pope Jomx XXIL ront the Dominican friar, Bantnoro. uEw the Little, to presch the dootrines of the Ohnrch of Rome, but the heresy was not then, and never has bees#, disturbod, The Armoniana of Constantinople nre Roman Oatholics, but tho Armonians of Armenia propor remgin horotics, notwithstanding all the thunders of the Vatican, The Patriarch of Armenia is tho hond of tha Ohurch, and is stylod *‘Qatholicos.” Ho holds under his sway throo Patriatohs, at Jorusalom, Con. atantinople, and Diarbokir, and forty-seven Archbishops, who reside in’ the mon. astery, nnd nct as a mort of conrt around the Datriarch. Tho forms and ceromonfes resomblo thosa "of the QGrock - Church from which they are derived, nud the vestmonts ars moarly tho samo. Tho parish priests are permitted to marry, but thoy cannot bo promoted to the highor orders 80 long as tho wife survivos. Tho Bishops, Archbishops, and Patriarcha aro elected from tho monastic bodies, who tako tho vows of colibnoy. - Cunzox says of their dootrines : ** In their doctrine of the Holy Trinity, thoy beliove that the Holy Bpirit procoeds from the Father alone; that Cuntar doncended into holl, from whence He reprioved tho souls of sinners till the day of judgment; that tho souls of tho righteous will not bo admitted to tho beatific viston till after the resurrection, notwithatanding which thoy invoke them in tholr prayors. Thoy make usa of pictures in thieir ohurchos, bat not imnges; they use confession to the priests and administer the Encharist in both kinds." Thair Beriptures contain more books than those of the Weat- orn Churches, having in addition, * The Testnment of the Twelve Patriarchs, tho Bons of Jacon"; **Tho History. of Josern and of His Wifo Asgxatn"; * Thoe Book of Jrsus, the Son of Smaon"; the * Epistle of the Corinthians to 8t. Pavy," followed by 8t. Paur’s * Third Epistle to the Co- rintbians,” Tho wholo country is charhetorized by ig- norance and superstition, Its population hos rapidly deoronsed. It produces nothing Itself, and commoerclally is only of impor. tance a8 boing tho highway botween Europo and Asia that mnust bo fraversod by -tho rich- 1y-laden caravans on their way castward and wostward, From a nation of warriors that for 2,000 yours. fought Saracens, "furks, Templars, Porsians, Romans, and Groeks; it has dwindled down to o comparative hand- ful of herdsmon and peadants, whose terri- tory is now overrun with two armios, nelthor of which it can help or oppos S——r———— WOES OP A HUMORIST. . Mr. FREDERICK DouaLABS has been ovortaken with deep griel Iu consequonce of o lecture he delivered recently at Baltimore. He meant ohly to bo humorous, and, choosing for his subject Washington socloty, he pleturcd it as ho sup- poscd 1t to cxist, with kore and there a fow em- belllshmonts demanded by tho occasion, He said that Washington was not a zood city; that ita churchies wero somo distancg from the spot to which their splres polnted; that it had a bad beginoing, and had nover produced any ‘states- man or philanthroplst; thatitalded with treason scainst loyalty, and was foralong time the Leadquarters of slavory; that drinking and gambling svero provalent under the dome of tho Capltol, - and the place filed with “polsonous weeds® and serpents; that the Washingtonians wore lazy; that thoy wear thelr hats over their cyos in “a sombro, sinlster fashlon; that thoy havo o strong ne- gro pronunciation, and that many of themare ugly and discontenjed. Now, we who know the peculiar vein of humor fn which Mr, Dova- LASS often Indulzes, understand that part of his remarks concerning Washington and the poople thorcot were truo, and tha other part only alry pleasantrics thrown off by him fn & jocular way. Ho did not reftly bollove, for natance, that tho Capltal was filled with * polsonous weeds" god “scrpents”’; this was morely a softencd allusion to the tobacco and rum which are so freely consumed fn the nelghborhood of the halls of Icgtatation, When he'spoks, too," of Virginia as *the grandmotherof States,” no meant only to pay reverencé to her remarka- ble dignity and historic grandeur. But these utterauces arc differcntly rogarded in Wash- ington. Thoold familivs and tho * swell-heada " there seem to bo utterly destituts of the senso of humor, They declare that Mr. DovaLass lias insulted them; they want to hold indigna- tlon-mectings sbout the matger, and to haye him turned out of his Marsbalship. One of the heavy men—a Democrat—~proposes to witharaw his name from the bond of the Marshal, .Wo hope the aristocratic gontlemen of Wasnington wlil think better of the matter. They can belter afford to sustain a personal aftfons than to dis- cournge the growth of American humor; and Mr, Douarasa has himsclf been good enough to publish a card, in which he explalns, kindly bu firmly, just how funny he futended to be, It s clear, moreover, that ho. was | some measure a victlm of clreumstanced, . Ho had to use strong languace, or his Jocturs would not have been listened to. Who cares In thesa daya to hear a simple and unadorned une folding of the truth! And who—in Baltimoro particularly—would patiently cndure a culogy of Washington, & nelghboring city and s pros- perous rivall Mr, DovaLiss was only follow- ing In the footsteps of iilustrious predecessors In tho' locturo-ficld; and, If ho can be pardaned for dellvering a lecture at all, he ought to be forgiven the moat flagrant errors of statement fn tho Intercst of mative American humor, ‘What Is the ra:pu\mlon of ono city, after all, as compared with tho developmont of the re. sources of the nation? oY 3Mr,. DovoLAss 1s forgiven by everyboty oute side of Washington already, and he ought not to appeal {n valn to the magnanimity of the peopla there. His accuestion of narrowness, provincinlism, and raco-prejudice, uttered only in the Pickwicklan sense, would be fully justis fied if he should be deprived of his officg on that account. Mis two grest faults, we suspect, exlsted somo time beforo he delivered his lec- turo at Washington; one of them was the fact that bo was born with a black pkin, ana the other his elevation to an office of soclal {mpor- tance by President Haves. He has ot said too much or too dtrongly what he belicved; and ho truly great city would condescend to makea disturbance about such an affalr, Only we hiope this will be & warning to Mr. DovcLiss. Lot bl learn, as Mr. OLIVER WENDRLL HoLxns dId many years ago, how dangerous it fs for some peopla to be ns funny as they ean. The conse- quencos in the way of newspaper abusc are In themselves considerable,—suflicient, no doubt,: to punish amply nuy igdiscretion of whaich the speaker may have boen guilty, It is well that the punishment siould rest at this point. The Dewspapers aro cqual to the occaslon; or, if thoy are not, thert is always (Gain HamiLTON t0 bo bad, with a ready and large command of vituperation. She can bring Mr. Dovatass to account in & divine way, and %ellpve tho Pres- ident of the disagreesble duty of interfering di- roctly inso small & matter. The country will not, we are sure, sppeal to her fn vain. ———— As might paturally be expected, old S8toREY of tho Times no sooncr found that GaiL HamiL- 70X had been flluging mud st the editor of Tux ‘Trisuns than he enters foto lively competition with that sprightly sbter-inlaw Jn the mud busincss. When snyone excels in now styles of viruperation, It eacltes his cavious emulation, and he starts in to show that he can still keep shead, GaiL's recent attempt has stasted bim off agaln, snd, like a spavioed old nag, with ears a5d tall up, bo kicks up the mud sud fAlth with \lion editor, and qulckly dispatched him, all the Induatry ho can compass with his decay- ed legs, Tho attempt, however, is a wretched fallure, @At beats him oaslly in the expletivs businces, Thospavined old horae had hetter go back to his pasture, and no longer try to com< pete with younger and liveller mud-throwors, Ho I8 toc ol to accomplish anything. BUMMER VAOATION OF THE COURTS. ¢ Last year, at the rdfjucst of tho Dar Assocla- tlon, the Judges of the soveral Courts adopted tho followling resotutlona: I?!lo{Ffll. Ny theJadgen of tho Clrenit, Buperior, and Federnl Canrta hold {n Cook County, that thore #hall bo no compuisory call of their calendnrs for trlal, or comnuianey hieating of any matter cxcept dofanita and necesnary bnaincas at chambera, from the 1at day of July untll the frst Monday of Sepe tember in‘each year, Resolved. That, during the month of September of each year, there bo a call of the calendar of snch coirta as make nupa calendar, for trial, bnt that whenever the Court in satisfled that the connsel of eithorparty in & case called for teial during thst maonth 8 actually engaged in the trial of a case in the Buoreme Court, or in making neceasary prepa. rations therefor, snch cana rhatl bo Bnued anthl ::n c:“l:n of such passing the same shall Imvo cossed oxis At ameeting of tho Bar Asgoclation on the Btk Inat., Wittiam C. Goupoy, Witntam H. Kino, and'Ezna B. McCaan wero appointed a committeo to confor with the Judges for the nurpose of offocting tho same arrangement for the prescnt year; and at a meoting of the Judges with that Committee on tho 12th [nst, it was dreided that the nbove resolutions ap- plled to *‘each year," aas therein expressed, and that no actlon was nocessary, unlcss for the purpoeo of making somo changn or changes thereln, and that, 24 no good reason oxlsts for rescinding or changing the resolutlons, they shatl remaln in forcs and binding on the Courts, as herotofore. i ————— Unless tho Shrow can bo tamed, a goodly 1lat of victims will be tanned. GAIL HAsiLTOX hine undertaken the enterprise of punishing all thoso who wora supposed to stand in the way of her brother-In-law's (or cousin's) elevatlon to the Presidency, Bhe commenced on the Va- The next victim of her rage was Bowres, of the Springfiold Nepublican. 8he made short work of that individual. Tho third editor to be fiayed alivo, wo beliove, was CURTIS, of Harper's Weekly, or ho of the Boston Advertiser (It cither has cacaped, the punishment ia only postponcd). The fourth to be tomahawked was tho editor of ‘Tnn Tntoune, Tho ffth and sixth victims of remorseless ferocluy will be tho cditors of the Cincinnatl Commercial and Gazette; tholr im- pending fate 18 8o sad that wo fecl unablo to: mention them by name. Gav. Morton's brotheg- In-law, Col. Hottowar, of the Indlanapalis Journal; Col, CoMLT, of the Ohlo Stale Journal } and Bicr1Ax, of $ho Dayton Journal,—all gulity sinners; and how™we pity them when Anioars, gets round to thems Then there is Gronas Jones, of the New York Times,—perhaps the head-centre of all the offenders,—what sins he Thas to account for, and how fearfully ho will bo made Lo attono for them whonthe *Iron'vitgin s clasps him! Ap1oa1s is evldently giving to him tho same favor that PoLrrnemus is eaid to bave nccorded his favorits victim—that of belng last devoured. Aftor the cditors are dls- poscd of, tho statésmen who stood lke llons in #ic pathway of the pligrim to the White House will bo taken In hand and put whora they will do—the Jeast harm hereafter. There arce Scnator CoNkLiNa and ex-Gov. Mon- 0AN, of New Ygrk ; Gov. HARTRANFTAnd Scnator Don CaMenox, of Pennsylvania: and Scnator MonTon, of tndiana. But the greatest offender of all {s Gen. Bnisrow, ot Kentucky, When Ga1w reachies him, therowill boa cruel massacre. The climax of her indictment will fall on his devoted head, and the lady’s armory of ‘sublima Invective will crosh through the- skull of the wretched object of her resentment. ' Had ho let tho Whisky-Ring alone, and not undertaken to play the part of a reformer, he would not have been .a candidate at Cincinnatl nor have recelved nearly all tho votes of the Now En- glana States,—except Maine,~and tho happy result would have been the nomination of—not Haves, and the election of—SAx TILDEN by as many States as voted for GRANT. i A Washington corrcspondent Intimates that our troubles with Mexico are to assumo n differ- ent shape very spocdly, and'that® Mexican rald- inz must stop. Alroady the clalms of our eitf- zens amount to millions of dollars, which it {s understood that the Moxican Presidents, de facto and de jure, are willlng to have pald, A hintls thrown out that the northern provinces of Mexico may passto the United States by an- nexatfon to complete tho scltloment, It Mexico really owes several millions for the valus of property stolen in these ralds, it is very certain that the monoy never will bo pald. The only thing todo fs to take real estato in settloment, Givo thom time, and tho cattlo-thioves of that Republic will steal tholr own country for us. et ——— The fourth annunal Convention of the Millers® Natlonal Assoclatlon will be held fn Buftalo, N. Juno 18. The subjects of insurance, Transportation, Patent Rights, cte., will como up for discussion,” Any miller may joln tho As- soclation on the payment of a feo of $5, and any person not a member Interested In the subjects 1s Invited to bo presont and participato in tho proceodings. : ———— Tun TRIBUNE yosterday spoko of Miss Apt- oA Dopax ns Beoator BrLaixa's sister-lo-law, while. the Cinclnnati Commercial of the same date calls hor his cousin. It 1s possiblo that Tas TRIUNE s agaln in error as it was fu” re- gard to tho namo of the Clfurch to which hie wife belonged, and when the spinster hears of it thero Is little chance that tho offender can Dobas the Gat 1t will agaln ralse, e rec——— Counsrt, the French artlst who knocked down the Golumn Vendome for a Communistic song, haa thirty-threa years in which to pay his fine. Anybody but a Frenchman would be in deapair. CounnrT proposes to palnt it out in satires in oil, and to make tho people pay his finein that way, unless the pext Commune caucels tho debt. ; ———— *“Thero seems to be a growlng suspiclon even in Ohfo that Mr. Ilavasis not the Republican party," says the Des Molnos Jieglater, Andibers Is tho Bedt of knowledgeamong scnsible Ropub- licans that the disappolinted office-beggars in Oblo and Iowa do not know what the Republie- an party Is, now they find that it ls not to boa party of plunder, ———— DaxixL O'CoNyELL, fu his famous scolding- match with a Dublin flshwoman, finally called hor & bypothenuse, and won tho contest. The proof-readers of ‘Tum Trisuxs, in changing “*super-zealous sister-in-law of Brainm * Into “super-calous,” evidently Intended to use a term beyond her comprehension, and so tame the sbrew, ——— It would be mors hionorable for tho TYmas to imitato {ts Lake ptrect nelghbor, and manufac- tureits own cable war news, than to steal thé specials of the Now York Merald overy mornlng and pass them off on its readers as original mes- sazes procured aud pald fop by Its enterprise aod money, This conductds as mean as dirt. —————— The Chicago Z¥mes has much to say sbout honorable and entorprising journatlsm, but ite vreaching and practice are sadly at varianve. It steals the New Yark Herald's cablo war news, publishes them in postscript supplements, and atiempts to palm off those dispaiches s orig- fal to itself! $ g — A Soma curioaity has bocn cxcited by the ukl:s away from the Treasury Department of sever valusble swords belonging to Gen. GmaxT. Probably e has ouly emulated Mooxrs in his **To Greece we give our shining blades,” sndso took them out 1o be ofled. - ° ———— . It steallng spocisl cable dispatches were n Penitentlary offense, the New York Herald could put the venerablo rogue of the Chicago TVmes Into Btate's Prison for seyeral years. e — Three Btates riso up to claim the borning of Judge Brorroxp, the new United BStates Benator-elect from Loulstana. It must perplox tho Judge (o find how badly he was diylded .o \ athis birth, and to know that ho s chargeq with being a villalnous carpet-bagger, and far worse than Hoxan in the myatery of his birth places, and fn tho trampings that distingutsh himy—all according to the {rroconcilabies, —————— An apologlst for Mal. Rexo has been foung in a Bt. Louls paper, which conslders the “woman in thocass” to be to blame, That sentlment may do for 8t. Louts, but not for ather communitics. — The dome of the Capltol at Bfringfleld 1 rumored to be unsafo, Of courss a concern hay. Ing three milllons of dotlars under it Is likely ¢ {nil. In fact, it has been suspended over since 1t 'was completed. > —— Tho Times must be very anxious for tha * Roostan veralon "* of tho war news when it pllfers the Jlerald's cablegrama and conceals from ita readers the fact of the larceny, + f Will tho Times answer the question, Why g rofuscs to give credit to the New York Herald for the latter's cable telegrams which It cabe bagest What sort of journalism fs that which steals the cablo apeclals of*another paper, and palms them off on its readers ns orfginall | } Arconr theatres safo?l Not so long 88 wait- ing loafers lino tho sidewplk and vestibute, —————— PERSONAL, Richinrd Wagner, tho colobrated oummner,. 18 now on a visit to England, Ex-Gov, Tildon waa Invited to the Cham. ber of Commerce banqnet at which President Hayes was a gueat, bt declined the Invitation, Their Roynl Highnesses of England, Prines Albert Victor and Prince Georgo of Wales, will bo apeclally examined at an early dato for sdminsion as naval cadets, and will not walt untll the next periodical examination, Ex-Burgeon-General Hammond took the oceasion of his doughter's marriago to throw his influence againet **the unphysiological and barbar- ous™ custom of bridal tours. Hia daughter went dlrectly from hez old home to her now one, The suicide of Alfred Rand, of Roston, wan duc to brain-troubles srising from excessivn etudy. 1le was gradunted from Harvard College in 1870 with high honors, lle had been studying medicine, and had complalned of loss of sleep and headache, - U Cortain ladics of Cincinnatti havo taken up the work of ostablishing an art museum there, There has besn soma endeavor to dlaconrage them by pointing oot the magnitade of the work, but they only reply that they will” workithe harder to accomplish what thoy have sct about. The BSpirit of the Times s nuthority for the statement that Mr, Moody, the ovangelist, has bought a trotter, by **Young Amerlca," for $1,000,—probably an Inventlon of the encmy, Mr. Moody has nat 81,000 to spend for such s pue- pose, lvamuld not gpend 1641 bo had It, 8ir John Lintorn Arabin Simmons, the man spoken of as’tha active eommander of the British forces In case of war, in only 50 years of age,— rather young for & Lientensnt-General. Tie served 1n tho Crimoan War,"and afterwards fn Asla Minor, and s thoronghly familiar with tho scat of waras woll in Asia as In Earope. Dr. J. Marion Bims has writton n book toshow that Dr, Crawford W, Long, of Georgls, was the ronl discovcrer of anmathetics, hasing antedated Wells, Morton, and Jackson by scveral years, Dr. Sims anggests the appropriation by Cangroes of $100,000 to be divided between the {amilies of Long, Wells, Morton, and Jacksan, ‘Tho highest prico obtained for any single work the first dayof the mals of Daron Grant's plctures was $185,750, for John Phillips' **Spanish Lottery,” which is ifty-one inches by sixiy-scven inches Inelze, Stanfiold'a magnificent ** Battlo of Tovaredo," for which Mr, Grant is eald to hava pala$20,000, went for $12,000; and hia ** Eddy. stone Lighthouse," which 4vas painted for Charles Dickens, brought $3,035. Mr. Edward Atkinson, of Doston,—well known for his writings on sabjeets ‘pertaining to political economy,—Is about to take a tour In Europoe in tho {nterest of hls hoalth, In a note to the editor of the Commerclat and Financlal CAronicle he writes: **Ihave burnt my candle at both ends a little too long, and my peevs has given out; my head Is weak, and T musb rest. On thow 20th 1leave In the Germanie for threo months’ rest or change. " ¢ America " inquires: ** Was not the play called **Our Boys," first written and played by Mr. Thorne or Mr. James, of theVaudeville- Btrand, Londan, and has it not been playing thero forover 700 nights ' Tho play. was written by Hogry J. Dyron, and It bas been playing for 750 nights consecntively, ~tho London paperssay there .scomx to be no wood reason why runof it shonld evor stop. Thorne aud James are the man- sgers of the theatrs, not the anthors of tho play, The true memorial of Aloxandoer T, Stew. art, saysthe New York Sun, will be the clty founded by him,—a city that will own [tsclf; a ¢ty in which every honseholder will pay hls rent «into the corporatlon treasury; a city without a dobt; a city whose revenuea will nltimately cover not only the expensos of a great City Government, bot, also, In tholr vastneas, warrant ita corporate anthorltios In founding libraries and galleries of art, porhapa withont rival in tho Western Hemis- phere, * B Lucy Btone objects to the announcoment of & widow's death as that of a **rolict™ of some- body,—**a plece that {s left of the man she bo- Jongs to.” How would It look, inquires Lucy, to have a man alludod to as the *‘relict™ of his late wifet To this the Springfeld Republican, with maliclons glee, retorta: **Lucy will have the pleasure, if ahodics befors Mr. Blackwell, and then comes back In the eplrit 1o read his obitusry notice, of notleing something very much tothat effcct sald of him." The Boston Saturday Gazetls commisor. atos the'sad condition of the editor of the New York 7ribune, who has assumed responalbliity for the utterances of Gall Jlamllton. **This bearing tho burden of a scolding woman for [ says the Gazelts, Is ‘no trifiing mattor; has entered upon s programme which makes it not sure bat years may clapsa before the load ls lifted. ‘The Tridune 18 to bo commisersted upon teking this middic-sged maid npon its shoulders, It 18 the modern Hindbad with an sggravation." A Bt. Louis paper thinks that something of the *churlish celibacy " of Tildon descended to his successor, Gov, Iloblnson, and caused bis **superfiuone and idiotic veto " of tho bill giviog women_the right to hold ofico as mombers of the Bchool Board. Wo are not so much Intorcated now in hearing aboat that veto as in Jearning what kind of a thing **churllsh collbacy " and whetber collbacy of the unchurllsh kind can have any exlst- ence, and whether sn unmarriod and unprotected Governor has no rights that the St Louls papers sre bound Lo respect, Mr. Robertson, manager of tho Royal Aquariam, writes to us, under«dato May1: It may fnterest some of your readers to knaw (hat & detalled statement of the captara of the scs ser- pont at Oba having sppeared n some of the daily papers (not In the Times), I immedistely telo- graphed to Duncan Clark, Writer, st Oban, offer ing to purchase thesame for exhibition, and re- ,ceived the followlng reply: *The whole thing 18 & shamefal hoax, deserving no atication except 10 punish the anthor,' —London Tunes, A correspondent desires Tuz Taipuxe to state the name of the autbor of fhe iine, *'Con- sistency thou arts Jowel.” Tux Tmauns would bo glad to comply with this request, but in the ab- sence of Information on the subject, 14 obliged 1o decline dolng se. One authority ssys that the ex- preasion, }ike Topsy, never was born, but **Just growed" like thoss other populsr ezpressions, +Be good, snd you will bo happy," or, **Virtus lsitsown reward.” Another explaustion of the phrase 1s that It Is derived from & somewhat sim- 1lar expresnon in one of Dr, Donne's satires, but bas been 20 abbroviated as hardly to be recogaiss® ble now. 8 A negro named Bnipa died of consumption on Coosaw Island, off Beaufort, 8. C., but on bis desth-bod charged Dagood Hagood with havisg played Youdoo on him by coming behind him & !!" wmonths befors, and placing » hand lightly on !hrl: sboulder, askiog at the same time: **Whoislt Balpe's friends bell this notlon of his nnfl““; tlonably truc, and jury of inquest, in dcBance 0 the Instrocilous of ihe Coroner, ibtes umlél brought & verdict of murder agalnst Hagood. 18 sccordance with which the luckicss man is gow 1o Jatl. - The low conditlon of fatelligence among the Begrocs of South Carollns indlcated by this circuins tance 14 & prelty strong srgument ig justification of Mr. Wads impton's policy.