Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 21, 1877, Page 4

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Monroe street, corner Dearborn. Engegement of Haverly's Minatrote, MONDAY, MAY 21, 1877. OHIGAGO MARKET SUMMARY, ‘The Chicago produce markets were generally doll and weak Saturday. 174o per bri lower, at $14.0514.07% for June and $14.17%@14.20 seller July. Lard cloeed 6@ ‘7% per 100 Ibs lower, at $9, 26 for June and $0.35 for July, Mente were quietyand steady, at4xo per D for loose, shoulders, 7c for do short ribs, and 7c for do short clears. Highwincs were un- changed, at $1.07 por gallon, Lake freights were qnict, at 3c for corn to Buffato. Floor was quict end unchanged, Wheat closed 6c lower, at $1.00 cash and $1.61% sellerunne, Corn closed 2c lower, at40ic cash and G0c for June, Oats closed 1c Jower, at 41¢ cash and 41\c fordone. Rye was qniet, at 80c. Barley was nominal, at O5@75e. Hogs were steady, at $5.00@5.15. Cattle were quiet, at $3.60@5.50, Sheep were nominal, at 00@0.25. One hundred dollare in gold wonld Duy $106.87 fn greenbacks at the close, Greenbacks at the Now York Stock Hx- change Saturday closed at 964@96j. ¢ ‘Tho British Consul at Itustchnk has come in conflict with the Turks concerning the re- fusal of the latter to permit the landing of an American missionary. ‘The Consul inter- fered vigorously in behalf of the missiona- ry—so vigorously, itis anid, that he struck aninsolont Turkish official, Hope he knocked «him down and blacked bis oye. Alrendy tho wholosalo removal of officials in sympathy with the Republican majority of the Assembly has boon begun by tho now French Cabinet. An order has bean pro- mulgated removing twonty-one Prefects to other places, diemissing twenty-five outright, and reducing sixteen others to half-pay, Naturally this course is viowod with distrust and alarm by Germany, and it has been found necessary to hasten the return to Berlin of the French Ambassador, in ordor that assurance may bo givon that tho new Cabinet will not interrupt tho poncaful for- eign policy of ita predecossor. Itis certain that no assuranco of this kind will allay tho uneasiness which is felt in Germany on ao- count of the sudden accession to power of tho Cloricalista and Ultramontancs, The crop reports which print this morn- ing are, os a rule, vory favorable. Wat weathor hag delayed the corn-planting eome- what, ag well.as hindered the sprouting of that already put in, and replanting will be nocessary to n considerable oxtent; but, on the other hand, winter and spring wheat and , Gross never looked better, and overything is favorable to an exceptionally heavy crop all ‘ around, The reports which sre givon m ‘Tne Tamons are obtained diroctly from tho formezs thomsclyes—a foot necessary to tho guidance of the reader when ho is confused by conflicting -and contradictory accounts which have been palmed off upon unsophis- ticatod corrospondents who doriva ‘their knowledge of the condition of the crops chiefly from what they seo and hear on tho railroad traina, " To offset a diapatch by way of Constanti- nople, giving the dotails'of a small ongage- mont near Sukum-Kaloh, in which the Turks ‘were victorious, an official account in ro- ecived of au important Russian success at Ardahan, a strongly fortified town about mid- “way between Kora and Batoum, Tho offi. ciatroport of Gen, Mrzimory, sent to tho Grand Duke Micuant, the Commander-in- Chicf of the Anny of the Caucasus, reciten the splendid assault by the Russian regiments upon the fortifications after the wortillery had already preparod the way by ‘making a breach in the walls, The Turks fled, leaving tho town and its defenses, and large stores of provisions and ammunition, in tho hands of the victors. The capture of Ardahan is of great importanca to the Rus- sian plan of oporations in Armenia, os it ro: moves one serious obstacle to tha advance of that wing of thoarmy operating to the north- ward of Kara in the direction of Erzeroum and Trebizond, While his countrymen at homo are en- gaged in the attempt to lUghten the terrible inflictions suffered by the Christians in Tur. koy, a Russian in Paris, M. Pavn Janvocn- xory by name, bas undertaken to lighten the world at largo by the invention of an electric candle, on account of which, copied from the London Times, is printed thia morning in another column. The English pross gon- erally prophosy great results from the inyon- tion, which promises to supplant gas almost wholly as an illuminator of streets and tho interior of large buildings, Tho material of which tho candle is made is a scerct, but it is known that “kaolin,” the clay from which hard china is made, enters largely into the compound. Nothing is sald of the rolative cost, but from the very im- portant fact that fifty brilliant candlos can Le lighted from ono ordinary electric battery it is to'be supposed that economy is one of the valuable features of M. Javtocusors's great invention. EE Something like 200,000 people in tho West Division on Saturdsy oveniug wero driven from the cool air of their porches and forced to take refuge in the heated in- teriors on account of tho perfect avalanche of stench which the south wind brought from Bridgeport; nearly half of the popula. tion of Chicago were forced to suffer inde- scribable annoyance in order that perhaps twenty men may carry on the buainess from whence proceeds thisfoarful infliction, There must be somo help for this. If the Mayor and the Health Commissioner are unable to at once sbolish this horrible nuisauce, then isthe present municipal administration o fallose; forthe people, if given # choice, -Wwould rather be taxed to death than stunk Mees pork closed 150° to death. Mayor Heafn and Dr. D'Wour munt attend to this matter; for them to per- mit another summer of tho Bridgeport atink would be a neglect of dnty which the people wonld not forgive or overlook. The public patience is weary, and something must be done forthwith, VETOING APPROPRIATIONS. Tho Governor of tho State of New York has given a memorablo illustration of the wisdom and excellence of the power vested in him by the new Constitntion of that State, and which is not wa beliovo verted in the Governor of any othor State in the Union. ‘This power is tho right to veto auy items of appropriation biila without vetoing the whole bill, Tho wisdom and efficacy of the Inw woro strongly shown in the instance of tho veto of Gov, Ronrmsox. Tho New York amended Constitution was framed aftes tho now Constitution of Illinois had been adopted nnd put in operation. The New York Convention adopted many of the new reform provisions of the Ilinois Con- atitntion, especially that ono prohibiting special legislation. This loft open for abnso by the Legislature tho appropriation bills only. In the meantime, Mr. Torry, when Corporation Counsol of Chicago, pre- pared alaw known as the “Mayor's bill,” in which he incorporated a provision authorizing the Mayor of a city to vato any of the items in an appropriation ordinance without vetoing the whole ordi- nance. The Legislature of Ilinois passed this law, and within a year this power was exercised by the Mayor of Chicago. It was 8 salutary law. The practice had been for tho Common Council to load down the ap- propriation ordinance with all manner of jobs, and, posponing fina action until the last hours, left the Mayor no alternative but to approve the ordinanco, or, vetoing it, defent all tho appropriations for tho year. Some mombersof the New York Convention, attracted by the comments in the papers on this law, applied for and obtained copies of the Mayor's bill. Tho result was tho incor. poration of tho principle of that law in the Constitution of New York with referonco to the veto by the Governor of items in tho appropriations passed by the Legislature. Experience baa shown that such a provision in the Constitution of this Stato would have been a wise measure, The Govornor of Now York returned the annual appropriation bill with his disapprov- al or veto of numerous items, amounting in the aggregate to 5 million and a half of dol- lars. These items embraced appropriations for o variety of subjects: 1. A large num- ber of private claims. 2. A largo number of improvements, ranging from $500 to $20,- 000, for bridges, roads, and repairs, properly chargeable to tho local communitics, 3, Wild ,and extravagant approprintions for State “institutions,” homes, asylums, for new and enlarged buildings, and for furni- ture. 4. An appropriation for the now Btate® House, The third and fourth closs of itoms will be understood in this Stato, where tho present Legislatare has ever exceeded the action of the Legislature of New York. The Governor, in his messoge, takes up eachitem in order, and bricfly givea his reasons for disapproving it, Hero isan example: ‘*¥or the construction ef the centro balding, for plumbing, water and sewer connections and water voller, for steam-heating apparatus and con- nections, for lowering boller-room, setting boilers with connections and building coat vaults, for brick-draining, pavement around bulldings, for food-car, tramway, and hotsting-ilft, and for deflclencies and cxtras perialning to tho eeveral contracts, the sum of one hundred and thirty-four thonaand dollars,** This item fa objected to and not approved for the rearons given for, the dleapproral of tho ap- propristion to the Willard Asylim, for new build- inga, and for the further reason that the expendi. tures upon the asylum at Poughkecpale havo been lavieh and extravagant, to 9 degree nowhora equaled exceptin tho new Capitol. There. ta, moreover, a largo smount of previous appropria- tlone unexpended, and with thle the mansgors can go through anothor year wilh more enso than the people cau pay additional taxes fora building and furniture so expensive that the Inmates coat the State 8 the rate of about 25,000 each per annum. ‘This item,’ which iz ono of several, rends wondrous like some of those voted by the Illinois Legistature, aud which, if tho power existed, Gov. Conzom might woll veto, giv- ing snbstantially the same reasons-givon by the Govornor of Now York. New York, has, like Ilinots, a Stato Capitol, which, aftor the oxpenditure there- on of noarly twico tho amount originally estimated, remains unfinishod, and turns out to bo a fraud both in design and execution, Tn votoing the appropriation of anothor mill- jon of dollars for this work, the Governor says: The new Capitol vs great public calamity, At Mts commencement. the people of the Btate were aroured that it would be completed for $4, 000, 000. ‘There have already becn expended upon t $7,723, - 605.18. No rellance can be placed on any esti: mate which can be obtained as tothe cost of com- pleling it, There ta no probability thet it can bo tally Hniahed according to the original plans for Jews than from $15,000,000 to $20,000,000. If tho taxpayers of the Stato had not been deceived, If they hed supposed that the whole oxpenditare would reach what It has already reached, {t {snot likely that’ thoy would ever have permilted the commencement of the work. Itie without a pare allel for extravagance and folly. It covers more than three acrea of ground. Its proportions sre enormous, It fs more than double the alze needed foraCapltol. At covery step of ite progress one {dea hae held supremo control, which was to make ite exterior a great and magnicunt architectural display, which should dazo tho oyes of ai! behold- era, without the least regard te the interior ar- tangemente for practical use, ‘The new Capitol, Nike all tho other public build. Inys upon which the State has recently expended such extravagant amounts of monoy, was tho out- growth of a vicio item of finance and of the folly and madness which accompanicd it. ‘The in- evitable dieaators which always come of such fol- Nesarc now upon sain full force, and are everywhore felt with crashing effects, They admonish us If we procecd at all todo it with moderation, J# 4 surely no time to increase appropriations when the power to pay fares greatly diminished, Yet, on examination of the supply bit, bt witl d« Sound that in this period of Ananciat embarrassment, the appropriations for alt tha public buildings, ‘and consequently the taxes bo ba levied for them, are very largely in advance of those of the preceding year, Ig is euroly Ume to pause in this carcer, All pra- dont businoss men in the managoment of their own affalrs move more slowly, and thousande are unable to nove at all under present circumstances, ‘Thore fs much in these comments of the Governor of New York upon the Albany State-Houso which bas a strong application to the condition of things at Springfield. ‘The present Legislature of Illinois boy ap. propriated a million of dollars moro for general purposes that the last Legislnturo did, ond that was a recklessly extravagant body, Novor was it moro difficult than now for taxpayers to ind money with which to pay taxes; rents, incomes, wages, ond prices for al} commodities are so low that taxation is intensified. Yet the Legislature, disrogarding all this, has gone on appropriat- ing incroased suns for pew charity buildings and homes, and creating new offices aud Boards, ‘The Legislature hag also refused to abolish the offices of State-House Conunissioners, though it is confessed they havo ignorantly, culpably, and blindly violated the law, ex- pended the three millions and a half of dol- lara wastefully and extravagantly, and have _THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: mode an abortion of the State-Hotse. Like that at Albany, it may bo said that the Ilii- nois State Capitol isa public calamity. When tho peoplo como to vote on the bill making additional appropriations for the State-Tonse, they will probably postpone the invostment of any more money thoreon, content with the present loss, until such timo as tho standard of official insegrity shall become more ele- vated, and mon can be fonnd who will bo faithful to their trust, evon in the expomli- ture of public mone: rs THE POSITION OF SERVIA. ‘While the other principalities of Enropean Turkey scem destined to be involved upon one side or the other in the pending war, Servia ia more fortnnate. Although the army ia still on a war footing and Gen. Oxarros has resumed command on the Drina, where he wna so severely handled by tho ‘Turks last summer, the position of the army {a only that of observation,—a position, by tho way, for which the Servisn army is bet. ter qualified than for fighting. A dispatch in our last issue says tho: Austrian Govern. ment has received simultaneonsly from 8t. Petersburg and Belgrade a formal assurance that Sorvia will not tnke any part in tho war, and that the Prince Miran will not go to meet the Czar when ho ronches the front. The Memorial Diplomatique of May & throws somo valuable light upon this point, Iteaya: “It now seems ns if the war betwoon Tarkey and Russia wonld not be carried into Servinn territory. Aus- tria’s policy of noutrality is limited by cor- tain conditions, touching tho vital intorests of that monarchy, sudono of these is the non- trality of Servia, Tho Russian Government, which has ovory interest in tho attitude of Austria, busied itself the day aftor the Con. forence at Constantinoplo in engaging Servin to make pence promptly with the Porte, and it judges it nseful now to observe an an- alogons attitnde in what concerns tho mill- tary oporations of its armies, Tho entry of Russian troops into Servia would provoke the entry of the Ottoman forces. Tho pos- sibility of snch ovents as these, which would oblige the Cabinet of Vienna to dopart from ita role of spectator, has been mado by it the subject of appropriate representations to tho two bolligerents, The Sultan has agreed to renounce any occupation of Servinn ter- ritory, provided the Ozar would do tho samo, To this demand the Cabinot of St, Potors- burg has yielded, and honce all danger of conflict in that dircction may bo considored dissipated. For all that, it {s cortain that if Servia should show the Icast desire to enter tho lists, sn Austro-Hungarian corps would cross the Danubo and occupy the principality.” As this statement exactly tallies with the action of Sorvia, os indicated in tho dispatchos in our last issue, it may be accepted as correct that sho will tako no part in the war so long as her terri- tory is not occupied by the respective com- batantg, although thore is nothing that bara Austria from an occupation at any timo hor interosta are ondangered, By reference to the map it will be ob- served that an occupation of Sorvia is not oasential to the Russian programme, even if they wish to cross tho Danubesoas to turn the Balkan Mountains, A stnp of Turkish territory, of which Widdin is the command- ing point, lies along the Danube ns it do- flects towards Servin, whoro the facilities for crossing aro just os availablo as further up tho river towards tho Iron Gate. The Rus- sinns, however, scom to bo in no hurry about crossing. Thoy aro determined not to mnke 9 misatep by sending a column across only to be cut off, or to transfer troops to the ‘sonth bank to subsist themeclyos with com- munications closed. Munitions of war and supplica must bo brought up, for, after they are over the Danubo, thoy aro out of tho country of railroads, and supplics must be carted. The Turks, meanwhilo, though act- ing on the defensive, oro stralnod to the utmost for subsistence, while tho Russians aro nt no moro expense in their present posi- tion than they wore when. they crossed tro Pruth, having the resources of Roumanin as woll as their own to rely upon. Tho Fablan policy of tho Russians is almost ns disastrous to the Turks aa dofeat in the field. And yet, when it is considered that it is less than four weeks since thoy crossod to frontior, and that thoy now occupy the wholo north bank of tho Danube from {ts mouth to Servis, with. their headquarters in tho TRoumanian Capital, it will bo seon they have moved with amazing colerity, MALICIOUS FAULT-PINDEES. Zaon Cuanpezn's ‘personal organ, the De- troit Post, joins with tho other machine orgons of disappointed office-seekera in making the Kemper County (Misulssippi) murder the pretext for dishonestly ond mweanly miereprosenting the Prosidont's Southern policy, and demanding that ‘ the United States Government shall protect its loyal citizens against political assassination." ‘Woro there any genuine sympathy among this entire crew for the mau who waa shot almost to death, for the boy of 13 who was killed outright, and. for the herojo girl who lias since died from the wounds she received white clinging around her father’s neck, they would not baaten to make tho massacro the occasion for manufacturing some new political capital againet the President, They would join Tor Turnunz and the decent people both North and South in shoving Gov, Brows and tho authorities of Missis- aippl into prompt efforts to punish the mur- derers, and they would help arouse a public soneo of indignation throughont the laud that would compel the State Government of Mississippi to protect ita citizens, enforce its criminal laws, and bring its outlaws and ruffians to speody justice, But Zacou Caanpuxn’s orgon and the class of machine malignants with which it fs associated re- gard the murder in no other light than an occasion for donouncing an Adminiatration which has been wise enough to dispense with their counsel of hate, . Will Zaca Cuanpien’s organ, in demand. ing that ‘tho United States Governmvnt shall protect its loyal citizens against polit. ical assassination,” explain what President Gnanr would have done in this case if he wore still Prosident, and if Zacu Quawpizn wero etill at his elbow as chicf eounselor in Southern affairs? Would Guawr and Guann. ura march the United Statea troops into Komper County to scour the country to ap- Prehend the fugitive assassins? What did Gnawr and Cuaxpzzy do in tho caso of mur- ders in Missiasippi during the six years of carpet-bag rule to bring political criminals to justico? But especially what did they do during the last two years and after the Stato of Mississippi hed passed into the hands of the Democrats? There were murders then,—plenty of them,—and all political murders, Did the United States Govern- ment, under the administration of Guant and Cuanpixn, sep in to arrest, try, and punish the marerery or check the outrages? Did Caaxprzs instruct Guanr what might be done in this direction? Would Guanpres instruct Gnaxr what to do now? Let his organ tell un what the Michigan statesman wonld advice, and how he would proceed if ho wero running tho Government. Having stated what Zaon Cranpiza would do to carry ont the domands of his organ, will that organ forthor explain under what section of the Constitution or what statnte of the United States Prealdent Hares ean interfere to punish the Kemper County murdorers? Thore is not tho slightestdoubt in the world that, if tho euthoritios of Mis- Bissippi fail to bring those outlaws to justice, President Harzs will be glad to take the matter in hand, if thor is any legal authority for his doing it. Have the Fedoral District, Courts and Grand Jaries jurisdiction of mur- ders growing out of political quarrels com- mitted in Mississippi or Michigan, Maryland or Massachusetts, for instance? Is there anything in the Constitution or lows of the United States which author- izes the General Government to proceed to punish local crime in Mississippi which would not warrant its interference for the samo pnrposo in Michigan? There may havo beon murders in Michigan that havo grown out of political fouds or dissensions, and also murders that havo gone unpunishod. There cortainly have been such cases in other Northern States. Now, suppose a partisan of Zact Cranpien's should be murdered by @ gong of his oppononts in some back county of Michigan, and tho assassins wore not brought to justice under the laws of the State, will Zaon Cuaxpten'a orgon state under what faw President Harzs could order the United States Marshals and Federal troops to take the Michigan munder in hand ond hang tho offenders? If not in Michigan, then what law authorizes the President's in- terferance in Missiasippi? Zaon Cuanpurn’a organ must answor this explicitly, and point ont to President Hares what ho can lawfully do, or else cenze to how! and enorl at what he is not doing. If Gov. Sronz should mako an offort to captura the nssnasing, and tho State authority should be success- {nlly resisted, thon ho might (in the absence of the Legislature) call upon tho Prosident to enable him with tho strong arm of the Governmont to overcome that local resiat- ance, and thatstrong arm would bo reachod out very quickly, But, withont such invitation, what can President Hares do? Tho En- forcemont acts have been construed by tho Suprema Court to apply only to such politi. eal crimes as have been committed againat freedmen, because thoy are the wards of the nation and owe thoir freedom and political rights to the National Governmont. But all the partics in the Komper County affair wero whites, and natives nt that, and, never hay. ing beon slaves, wore not emancipated, wore not wards of tho nation, and therefore tho Ku-Klux lawa did not apply to their casca, Such is the substance of the decision of tho Supreme Court, rendered within a year or two. Now, let some of the Implacablos say what tho Gonoral Government may Inwfully do, or hold thoir pence as to Prosidont Harzs' Southern policy. SPECIE PAYMENTS. In canvassing tho circumatances and condi- tion of the country and the credit of the nation, with roferonce to the practical estab- lishment of a uniform value for tho various forms of notional currency, the Secrotary of tho Treasury recognizea the onco extended and .even now strong popular objection to the rotirement of the legal-tonder papor money. The popular delusion on this sub- ject which a few yoars ngo domande d an un limited issno of notes, the abandonment of oll promise to pay or redeom thom, and the general exclusion of motallio currency, has largely yiolded to tho discussions of tho question.’ Tho introduction of silver into elrenlation, aven in limited quantitios, hod the offect of overturning much of tho dovo- tion to the Irredoemable paper currency, while the advance of groonbacks themsolves to 06 conta in gold iltuatrated the absurdity of assuming that any calamity would follow their advance to par. Tho general welfare of tho nation and any gencral return to prosperous tradeand produc- tion, and any genoral resumption and per- manont increase of our export trade, neces- sitato that our commerce, foreign and domestic, shall be conducted on a uniform atondard of value. Tonccomplish this end without any disturbanco of interosta is of course the object of good governmont, and to that ond there should be general direction of policies, Wo will not assams that thore ars any in- telligent mon who now deny that it would be better that the greenback was worth 100 cents on the dollar in gold. The groonbacks have within a year or two advanced from 85 conts to95 contson the dollar. The addi. onal four o five cents in their value would work no evil but do incalculable good. ‘It would remove the clement of uncortainty from our curronoy, and bring all the gold into ciroulation to reinforce tho paper money, While the desirability of such o result may bo conceded, there is a widespread difference of opinion os to the means best adapted to bring about that result. The strong objection to the contraction of thecur- roncy dates back to the timo when greenbacks were worth but 60 to 70 centa on the dollar, and it was argued, aud with great force and plonsibility, that tho withdrawal of the greonbacks would compel the payment of all existing debts in coin, increasing the obli- gation of all debt to that extent, This ob- fection has been mitigated; greanbacks have gradually inoreasod in value until the margin between them and the metallic currency night disappear in a week or month, with- out scarcely noticing itor any serious dis- turbance of contracts, The objection to pro- viding for a Govornmental redemption of groenbacks has never—apart from the in: croase of their value to par with gold—had any rational foundation. Greenbacks have alwaya had a gold redemption,—not by the Government, but by the brokers, They would have no purchasing value whatever were it not that they were exchangeable for such gold as the brokers would give for them. Though nominally we have done business on the paper standard, we have, in fact, based all our traus- actions on the amount of gold which could be got for greonbacks. In California, Oregon, Nevada, and tho Pacific Territories, the greenback has nevor been reckoned par- money, but has alwaya been taken in busi- ness st its gold value only, according to the quotations from day to day of the brok- ers, In tho same way greenbacks have cir- culated in all the Canadian provinces at their discount value m gold, andin all the cities in Europe they can be exchanged for coin at their value in gold, At home, their purchasing power haa been limited to their value in gold. ‘The grent evil of all this has been that this gold value of the greenbacks has been fluctu- ating, often varying 5 to 10 percent in a dey or week, and all transactions and prices were burdened with a margin to coyer these pos- sible Auctuations, Tho redemption of the MONDAY. MAY 21, 1877. greenback by the Government would only be to substitute a permanent rate of 100 conts on the dollar nt which the notes could be exchanged, for the varying disconnt rates which have oxisted from the first which tho brokers have paid for them. Wo have now coased to export gold and silver, or, in other words, our receipts of theso metals are greater than our shipments, We have over $150,000,000 of idle gold in the country, and the amount is increasing, Our exports of domestic produce so largely exceed our importa that we aro not called on to export coin to sottle batancos. Our minos produce of the two metals $100,000,000 a year. The advanoo of the greenback to par In gold would libornte from idlenesa the on- tire gold accumulated and received from the miner, and throw it into circulation na car- rency. The remonotization of the silver dol- lar would advance that coin to the valuo of the gold, and the nation would have a metal- No currency in addition to the paper to an amount euch as hes nover boon previously enjoyed or experienced inthiscountry. Nevor were tho circumstances and conditions of the United States so favorable for the immediate restoration of the whole currency of tho country to a uniform yatue, and plenty of it. ‘Tho problem the Secretary of the Treasury is trying to solve ia, the best and casicat mothod of raising the greenbaoks four or five cents moro in value, and holding them there at tho gold level, in order that the product of onr mines may enter into circulation as money alongside of the paper ourroncy, which cannot be the case while the soft money has loss purchasing power than the hard. The cheaper currency always drives ont the moro valaablo, ‘Tho conntry gonerally is inolining to the judgment that the soonorthe greonbacks and the coin have an equality of value the sooner and more permanent will be the recovery of commorelal prosperity. THE MEXIOAN SCHEME, ‘Tho sonsational romors about Mexican in- trignes have now resolved thomsclvos into the statement that thero is 5 proposition for tho annexation of tho northorn Mexican States, and the assumption of the Moxican bonded debt as the price,—the bonds being lorgely owned in this country with small prospect of payment in their present form. Good Lord, deliver us from.any such inflic- tion. If necessary todo ono or the othor, it wonld be botter for the Government to ans- sumo the debt without theterritory than the territory and inhabitants with the dobt. Any scheme of annoxation would naturally in- elude tho five northern States,—Tamaulipas, Nuovo Leon, Cohshwla, Chihuahua, and Bonora,—and the peninsula of Lower Call. fornis, which would otherwise be cut of altogether from its Goverment. Now theso States are of the same general charactor na Arizona and New Mex- ico, and aro inhabited by the worst speci- mons of the Moxican Greaser. Soonor or Inter, annoxation would contemplate thoir recognition as States of tho Union, which would add twelve ‘‘ Rotten-Borough " Sena- tors to the present number, nnd locate tho balance of political power in the hands of the mont degraded sct of people that inhabit the Amorican Continent, Tho six new States would be as follows : are miles, Population. 225 140, 0 3, O35, 178,87 Cohshuils, 10, R90 ‘08, 307 Chihnabas qae Btatos Benators, and onch State having o population of from one-fifth to ono-third os many people as Cook County, and on terri- torial nron corresponding to the smallest of tho present Amorican States, is not a cheor- ful political prospoct from any point of vicw, With arid land and o class of inhabitants that are not much botter than outlaws, the prospoct becomos still leas flattering. Tho United States Government has now embar- Tossments and trials enough without adding adistrict anda poople that will make the balance of political power a mere matter of barter and sale, to which the Moxican Greasers would quickly reduce it; torritory that would be a waste; people whom it would be hard to civilize; and a debt for which there would be no value recoived, ‘Tho loss said about any such schoma as this, the better it will be for the country, THE IMPERIAL FAMILY OF RUSSIA, : To the Editor af Tae Tribuna. Cnicaoco, May 1U.—Tus Tatnune, in its taane of Frida: ue, li, reprinted, anarticle from the Phil- adelphls Zeleqraph giving a brief outline of the history of Rnesla, in which tho following atate- montis made: *' In 101: Micuan. Roxanory, a descendant in the female ine of the house Iturlk, wan placed upon the throne, From Alm the present ruling dynasty ts directly descended.” All Informa. tlon regarding the actors in the present Eastern complication boing just now cagerly sought, it Ie important that anch {nformation should be ace curate, [wish to call the attention of yourreaders foan orrarin the article quoted. The reignin; house of Hussia te not the honse Romanoff, which became extinct in 1789 in the person uf neti, bot tho bonse Holatein-Gottorp,—the J ily a descendant in the Romanoff, a The dyn val change which placed the house Holstein-Got- tocp upon the throne of Russia took place in 1702. Paten the Third, frat Emperor of the house Hol- atein-Gottorp, was s aon of a sleter of Exixanati, the daoghter of Parse the Great, and, though therefore a descendant in female line of the house Romanof, neither he nor his successore claims to ‘epresent that house, and his succeasion to the throne marke the sccession of his own houso, that of Holatein-Gottorp, which has continued to reign unlnterraptedly sinc y giving space to these Unes In your valuable paper pia ‘will oblige a G ONSTANT RGADER, Our correspondent is correct, excopt that the Une of descent Las been unbroken, though the German blood has been largely introduced, ‘The first rulor in Russla taking the titleof Crar, was Ivan, or Joun II., who reigned as Grand Duke and Czar from 1403 to 1505, He was of the house of Rurik, He married Sormia Parotonve, a Princess of the last Christian Imperial family that had reigned at Conatanti- noplo, and was adaughterof Joux Pauro.oous, who was killod at the capture of the city by the Turks in 1453. On account of this marriage bo adopted the double-headed cagic as his stand- ard, thus showlog even at that timeaclaim by Russla to the old Groek Empire as against the Turks. Ivan IV., who relgned from 1583 to 1584, married Awastasta Romanory, and had one son, Fropogs, who died in 1508 without. children, and was the last mals of the Runix fanlly. An usurper, Goposur, ruled for seven. years, and was deposcd. in 1610 Lap- isLas, of Poland, was clected to the tbrone, and abdicated in 1613, In the meantina Nixira Romanory, a brother of Awmasrasia, hod married the Princess of Susdal, &@ remote branch of the house of Rugix, and thelr grandson, Micuase Froponovirz, was in 1618 elected to the vacant throne, In 1725 Pures the Great was succeeded in order by Catuzaing L, bis widow, by his grandson Pstss H., bis niece Annz, bis nephew Ivan V., and his daughter Eutzansru. These leaving ov children to inherit, the succession fell to Prtsz, the son of Axwu, daughter of Parga the Great, who bad married Cusntxs ¥uepaxiox, Duke of Holeteln-Gottorp. Prince Cuancus was tho nephew of Cnantus XII. of Sweden, and s remote descendant of the Kings of Denmark. Parsxill., the son of this mar- riage, married Catuanins, a Princess of An- halt-Zerbet, in Upper Baxony. Tho faztly, then, aro German by both tho paternal aud materoal ancestry of Peter and Carusuu. Of the subsequent Emperors, Pau I. had two German wives ; Nicnoxas I. married a Russian Princess; and the presen} Emperor, ALBXxan- oxa IL, married a Princess of Hesse. Discard: ing cvon all the questions concerning the paternity of CaTrErina's son, Pat, the family fs German, and the blood of the Romanorrs may he sald to be extinct; nevorthcless, the direct Iine of descent bas not been broken. — TM the Billtor of The Tribune,” Crtcano, May 19.—You wonld oblige many Han: gariana by anawering as the following questions: {1} Bo you think, if Austria and England will get entangled and declare war against Knsnta, that Hinngacy will make an effort to stragele for her In- dependence? There will be no help to Austria, and Iike ae tn 1840 the Huncarians would conquer the Austrians, (2) Will Poland try to make an Insnrrectton and put np-a Kingdom again, which wan no mlscrably demolished at the end-of the laat centuryt (3) Would the United Staten of America aeniot Hnngary and Poland in thelr atengglea? There Infor bath countries at present @ better chance than they ever may Ret. Do yon think, a6 Witttan HL. Boken, ‘the Amorican Minister to Rusein," etaton, that the Kmporor Witttax raid he will declare war upon France as eoon aa England will be at war? By answering these questions you would oblige Ortore Lasos, And many here residing Hanyatians. (1) As Hungary secured her independonce by thodecree of December, 1887,we do not perceive what independenco she could now struggle for, or has yet to gain. The Austrian Monarchy was divided at that time, and Hungary socured herown Parliament, which eita in Pesth, hor Capltal. She has her own Ministry, makes hor own Iawe tn her own language, Icvies her own taxes and spends them to sult horself. The Emperor of Austria is only King of Hungary, and {g obliged to obey the Hungarian Conetitu- tion and laws. Thero fs only an alliance, not a unton, existing botweon the two nations. Aus- tria, which fs German and Sclave, docs not want to go to war with Russla; the Magyars of .Hun- gary do, because they sympathize with the Turks, whom thoy claim to be cousins by blood and descent, and at the ame tling they hate the Russtans. The Bclavic population of tho Kingdom of Hungary number about one- third of the whole, or fivo and a half millions, and thelr sympathics are with the Russians, because they are of the samo race and many of the samereligion. (2) Aportion of the Poles,if thoy eawa fairchance, would undoubt- edly try to make an {nsurrectlon, and set up again the Pollsh Kingdom; but there docs not ‘appear tu be any prospect of an opportunity occurring, as the country fs covered with Rus- sian forts and troops, and many of the Polish peasants have become land-owners and recon- eiled to the Russian Government. (8) The United States will interfere in no foreign complications. Tho fixed policy of this country is non- Intervention. No political sentimont {6 stronger with Amezicans than to keep out of ail en- tangling alliances. It may be qulte safely stated that tho United Statcs will not aid elther Huugary or Poland to fight tho Russians or holp tho Turke. ——= The work of redeeming the fractional cur- reney and replacing it with silver change was berun by the Government about a vear aco, At first It went on rapidly, The mints could not turn out silver chango enough for the damand. After $10,000,000 had been tesuod, the fractional Totes became scarce and came {n slowly. Tho Government then offered to exchange silvor for greenbacks at pat; and since then silver has been thrown into circulation quite freely, untll now therois not far from $00,000,000 of it issucd. But there aro yet $29,000,000 of frac- tlonals unredeemed, and they have almost ceased to bo presented for . redemption,—only $50,009 or $00,000 a week beine now presented tooxchange for silver. Tho Jfawkeye thus re- Jotces over tho transformation of the fractional currency into silver: Yes, the little portale, with tho grave vteagen of WaALnnn, Fraarspex, McCuttoci, and other Sec- retaries, have moltod away, $22 000,000 atrong, from brown: paper five up toG0-cont pleces, In wil forme of decay: and the pocketbooks which know tho Althy, greaay, and raugod little wretches ahall know them no more forever. Who dovs not recall divers controversies over them at the grocer's counter, the butcher's block, the market-worman's stall, and the orange-giri'a baaket?—hov tho post. al, ragged and unaiehtly an the beagar Lazancve at tho rich man's gate, wae held up suapiclously fuvixt thumb aml fngor, and narrowly acrutintzed, under a fusilade of uncom: somaras like these: **That looka Ilke a counterteit; think [could pasa thia thing;" **Seetf you haven't Fotsoma other change ahout you,"—the dispute often torminating In ainbizuous hint that the pont. al was quite as genuine a8 tho butter for which It wasoffered,andovery bitas groaey; or, that it wasn't & bitatalor than the beef, or theencumbers, or tha Forehance these fractlonal disputes, trivial as thoy raay reom, havo broxen off market fricndeblps and custom of long standing, and caused many 8 market-woman'a tempor te bacome ga sour as ono of herlomons, Or, if the butcher haa taken fora tender anh er steak a villainous. looking 60-cont piece which he could not work of acain, how be remembered the loss whenever the ctistomer who it returned to his atalt, and how he cheated ever aftor in light weight to mako goad hia old ‘Truly, the fractional alin- plasters havo much oil to anawor for, But wo bave got in thotr etead bright, clean, and steht ullver coinage, from the mincs of Nevada and Utah, with a treseed esgic on ona aldo spravitiig an agridiron, as though the fowl wasabout to be brofled for the brvakfant of the young woman who sitaon tho other side Jn her night-gown, with 8 dilllard-cuo tn hor hand, taking an abacrration of the atara, which gied her ina cesestial acmi-circle. Itina beautiful colnage, adorning the pucket-books which they quickly cut to pleses on thelr sharn edges, Tie cloud of $22,000,000 postal currency Is rolled up, and wo shall not roe it nnfold agains but the pyo Ja dazzied with ite allver Uning, menta Tho question is whether it Is negligence on the part of a guest at a hotel to go to bed with- out locking his door, while leaving on his dress- Ing-table a watch worth @200, threo rings,—one a diamond,—8235 tn money, and a caso of in- struments, Such waa the question which tho Lord Chicf Baron had to decide in one of tho English courte a few weeks ago, * altting alone in banc, and unable therefore toconfirm or modify bis own vicws by comparison with thosc of any judicial colleague," Says the J’all-Mall Gazettes i It is aatisfactory, howover, to find that the learn- ed Judge was able to arrive at a confident concla- sion onthe two questions before hin,—one of which was of a more strictly legal character than the question of negli ence, indeed, ho found himacif at the close of the argument | quite un- able to entertain a donbton either point." The hotol-keoper had exhibited in the vestibule of the hotel the usual notice restricting bile Habllity to £30, nndor the Act 26 and 27 Vict, c. 41; but the Plainth® had not seon it, and it was found on In- spection at the trial that the word **act” had been. omiticd, #0. 8¢ to repreacnt the defendant a Tas ble forthe wholu amuunt of lures in the case of default ana eR SDE only, and not In caso of willful act resalting In such loss; and thie the Lord. Chief Haron held to he fatal to the defendant's -plea in Hmitation of bia ltabitity; Inasmuch | ne he jhad = not conforme: to the diroctions of “the act by giving cor- rect notice of ita provisions. On the polnt of ner: ligence Sir Fitzroy Kztty's opinion was equally decided, Looking at the practice of the generality of people, at the excuse alleged by the defentant— hisfearof firo—for not taking the precaation al- eget to be incambent upon him, and at other con- sideration wet forth in the judgment, the Lord Chlet Haron thonght that it would be milechlevous to hold that there fs any duty imposed npon a man to jock the door, There was, therefore, In his opinion, no contributory negligence on tho part of the plalntif, and the verdict in hie favor—for the whole value of the goods stolen—was uphold. This decision, it will bo acen, is one of very great im: portance to all hotel-keupers and to their custom- « ae There are abundant appearances of an early spilt in the Democratic party of Texas. Says the Austin (Tex.) Daily Leader of tho 11th inst. Notice $ ready givento Hancock, Tunocn: MONTON, CuLBeutson, and their adherents, that henceforth they will have to occupy back goats {nthe Democratic teaple. Thess especially obnoxious the moi They bave coumitted the unpardonad! ia which can- not be forgiven. To love country more than party Isa crime eo black, according to the ethics of Bourvonism, that he who commits it is with them politically damned. Whether Musste. CuLaent- gun, Tunockwonton, and Hancock Intend to tamely submit to this proposed ostracism, re- mains to scen, We are mag to be- Move that the day of Bourbon role in Texas is 1 passing away. Our Stato Is fast ailing p with bnew sinae of people, and soon we may hove to see the moss-backed Hourbona who have so long kept our Btate iu the background, who bave entail- ed on the people ap alinust unbearable burdua of tazation, whu retard immigration to our borders, and jatelligence. Wo hail this war maxe ty Woure Lone on the conservativo and liberal men of the Democratic party 83 an aucury of guod forthe future. The day is fast dawning when the con- sorvative, liberal, progressive people of the State will unite in one’ party under the banner of the Union, local self-government, refarm of the admin- istration of our affaire,—ioca}, State, and National, ald for the development of all oar great re- sources, and a public-school #7 tem that will guarsnteo a sound cducation to all uur children, eae A The New Orleans Jtepubiican says: “The Re- publicans in Louisiana must organize the few offices left for them by appointment of the best acd most unexceptionabls men of the par- ty. This will at least protect the party.from prejudico and scdudal."" The good effect of the Southern. policy. sppeare from the abors . The Emperor, like his father, Paragraph. Both political partisa are now competing in New: Orleans; that one which makes the best record will Ret the moat votes, and there fs already an unwont. ed zoal for purification all around. The Zepus. lcan well says, in the editorial from which the above extract fs taken, "The price of continued aacondency in « Republie {scontinual progress," 8o it urges in New Orleans a better and Durer Post-Oflice, Customs, and Internal Revenue service, This fa the right spirit. Let the con- test zo on and wax hot, so long as it is between, good behaviors, A correspondent who has recently returng from Russia states several things,—among others: takes badly, “His cheeks aro ennken and hin eyen tele Gull; ble carriage has lost mach of ita femnees ang dignity he Iq prematurely aged, ‘This may te cated by hard work aa ranch as by anziety, tor he works now a8 hard as, of porhaps harder tin ‘Any of his Ministers, fety morning he tlsen at y taken hle walk on the Palace aay at8, and from that hour antilO at night, with the exception of one hour for eating, he Is at work tn his Chancale Jerlo, Io has been drivon to warlike meamie by tho party powertal in Runsla poilticaliy ang financially, The numerical majority favorable to peace have no yolce. ‘The prime Inetigator of the policy of Russia haa been Princo Gonrscrarorr, who boasted that, because he mada #0 good a stand against combined Enrope In 2884, the same effort can 10 repeated in 1877, Hut on tho imminent ay. proach of the atrnzgle, the old man hesitated fo confront Torkey alone, Ho has outlived his time, end inno longer fit to enie the policy of the Em: Piroat such wcrise, Infact, ho baa reslanod hie office. and hia resignation has by thia time, no doubt, been accepted by (he imperor, and either Gen, laxatiney or Mr. WaLovigrr (the preeent Minlater of Domains, who foe many years was Min. itor of tha Intoriory will bo nppointed in his place, Tho Emperor hesitated at frat between Count Scnouvatore and Mr, Watourerr; but it le nneer- tain whether the latter will not conalder himsel¢ too old fur the reaponaible position, ——————_ ‘Things are still kept lively fo and about Lim. erick, and the sclantific use of the shiltetsh is evidently not forgotten Tho Cork Examiner thus describes the shindy between sume of tho soldicrs of tho Ninetleth Regiment and the roughs of the town, culminating fn a rlot on Sunday night: ‘The unfortunate aflatr appears to have bean com. menced oy the euldiers, eighty or ninety of whom assemble: Bank place acout G click armed ind ata given algnal began an {nile id brutal attack upon every cirilien found in the nelghborhood. Men, women, and children were beaten in a savage manner and rey. eral of them sovercly injured. For a short time tne soldiora wore masters of the rituation, but large numbors of ablo-bodted civilians ‘soon patherod in and turned the tablea after rome hard ygitin ‘Tho aay Was going neainst the soldiers when the police arrived on the xcona and separated he combatants, arresting nbont twenty roldiers ant cight clyiians, The cowardly and premeds- tated conduct of tho milltary produced deep ex. asperation amongst the people, and any soldiers found In the atrecta during the night found smal! mercy, Sovorat public hunses frequented by them Were attacked and ono made a complete wreck of, Eg Spoaking of tho strait or river called the Nos- phorus, which cunnocts tho Black Soa with that of Martmora, an English paper says: The very nania of the Bosphorna exercises 9 strong hold upon the imagination. It $s redolent of antique mythology and. thoeo: weird traditions which"ara embalmed in the poctry of Hoxen and aMactiteca, The word **Bosphoran” ricnites **the passage of the cow," for it wus here, as the old jable ran, that poor Io, when Zet's or dcriten changed her into a cow, was driven by the torment- ing gadily to awins across tho rtrait. These shores, and those of the Euzine heyand them, are haunt: ed, too, by tho mystic rominiacences of the yoya.0 of Jason and the Argonauts in quest of the Goliten id the tragic passion of Al«pra ns well as hors of Inuccien and other heroes and It is probablo that the superetitions seamen in those early oven of the dom!-goda, feara of tho world had been excited to such wonderlns fancies by tho sinattlar conformation of the strait’ and the perplosiny variation of Ite currents, ———— Baysn speclat from Vienna to the London Times: The Rusalan Journals are In ccatasies at the appolutinent of Prince Itnvss to the post of Gerinan Ambassadur at Constantinople. Prince Raves, whom they perstatently describe asa noar relative of the RoMaNorr family, be- cause bo marricd the granddaughter of a Rue slan Princess,—a Indy of pronounced German patriotisin,—ts called by rome Ruesian journals thofuture representative of Russian fntercsts at Constantinonle, and, a8 such, the natural and necessary antagonist of Mr. Laranp. Thst Germany, fur many years,the bele noire of the Rnesian press and tho butt. of the eevercst Journallatic attacks during the French war, may have Interests of hor own to ropresent, {6 con- veniently forgotten.” a Provious to tho fnauguration of President Tlarss, the number of ‘colored people killed cach month in tho South, for political reasons, ran from ten toa hundred,—averazing, perhaps, fiity. Since the introduction of the new pollcy of peace and f{rlendship between the two races there haye been no negroes killed for polltical reasons; and yet the Implacables ard discon- tented. What thoy desiro sls a fiberal destruc tion of blacks for the good of the cause of machine and carpct-bag politics, and in order that thoy may magnify themselves as tho cham- pions of tho “rights of man.” With the ccs aatlon of negro-murdors, the wind is all knocked out of thelr satls, and they denounce Hars for destroying thelr occupation. Ee Favoritism bas been rife in some of the de partments at Washington. Part of it has beea broken up, but there aro abuses yet to be dis- covered. Zack CuanpLxa reformed a good many things in tho Interfor Department, but left considerable utitoicned that Scionz is un- earthiog. Many clerks, who do a low class of work, get rated for a high degree of salary through the favoritism of tho Bureau Chief. In one casc a lawver of ability was paid Jess salary for bls opinion on delicate questions than the woman who copled them. In another case, a0 official, alter conducting what purported to bea competitive examination, marked up one of the contestants, at the request of a Congressman, a0 that bo got tho place over better men, — The President's Southern polley fa to Jet the Demoe: ofthe Southern Btates govern those well or ill ae they choose, free {rom Interference.— Detroit Post. Asaaample of idlotic lying this fs sbout a good ae any of which the laws of Nature allow the utterance, Ifthe writer of the aboro bad substitated “people for “Democrats,” he would have been right, in the main. The per ple of Loulsiana have as much right to govern thomselves as have the people of Michigan And this policy of Mr. Harzs {fs Republican policy, Democratic policy, and the policy of the Constitution. If it were not, we abould have # monarchy or worse, Mr, Rupyigxp, the well-known correspondent ofan Oblo paper, writes that the Hars policy “has greatly strengthencd the Republican party in the border States whero there is a good aubstratuin of white material,’ and that with- out that policy the South would be more solid than itis, Such pills of truth as these arc whet choke the small throats of microscopical editors of the microscopical organs of the contractlog implacables. ee The Detroit Post thinks It inconsistent for Tux Tatsune to advocate the President's Bouthern policy and at the same time Inslt that the Cuisonu murderers should be brought to Justice, through Btate agency If possible; by national intervention if necessary. ‘Tbe incon- slatency does not appear from anythiog the Post gaye; but iitcan be made to appear, Wo shall bave to stand it, that’s all. —————— ‘There are rumors that the Eastern war {6 cer~ tain to assume such preportions that the 10- mediate partics to it halt for a moment, dread ing totako tho inevitable plunge. There 1s # possibility that the magultude of the struggle {pending may appall Europe into a peaceable adjustment. When the fasua Js certain to no war or a general war,the chances are ip favor of no war, a It is sinde the Czar is s0 indignant at the ar titade of Great Britalo, thet he bas ordered bis daughter, the Duke of Edinburg's wife sod Queen Vic's daughter-in-law de jure, to ras from English soll, He thinks sho will bea soll dove if she stays any longer. If reports are true, the daughter aforesaid will bo more than willing to obey the order if 1t has beco given. Bhe bas not been over happy in her matrimo- nial life, Shebss now aud then been # little too Czarsy to sult ber mother-in-law. It will bo remembered thatwhen her father visited ber