Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 23, 1877, Page 4

© und were firm, Last Saturday evening thero was , Surtor fn thla city 1,729,575 bu whet, 3,812,- “tho number of killed af scven and the . «f the Btate over the destinies of which Gov. 4 . ' THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 1877~TEN PAGES. the paleof tho Union. To theend that tho peopla of tho whols . country may bo dnly apprized of thesa importaut conditions of things, the denizens of the logging region aforesnid have solemnly resolved that the mero matter of n fow sticks of timber in dis. pate between the citizens and the Govern- Thye Teibmne, | TERMS OF SURSCRIPTION. . T MAIL—IX ADVANCE—POSTAGE TRETATD AT THIN OFPI 1nily Faltton, postpatil: 1 ye: $12.00 | ment of the United States shall not dis- . 4 I i J gi:':f‘!: iy ‘.’vfff- "fi-(-'.:' i’;{i{; e 1.3 | turb the pescetal relntions now happily ex- R 2% isting, nor ahall {t eorve to interfero A erkir DO paTd. ‘:y“" Ztw | with the promises made by the Esceutiva of 3 J'artaof 8 year, per ot WEEKLY EDITION, POSTPAID. Qre cony, per yoa . Clabof ten... Clnbor Lwenty. Powtage propa Specimen coples ent freo. Tapresent deiny aod iofstakes, be mrsand etve Post ©f.ceaddress in foll, ncluding Fate and County. Temittancea may be nade”efther by dratt, express, Tost-Oflice order, or {n registered Ictters. st our risk. TRRMS TO CITY SUDSCRIDERS, Dolly, deltvered, Sunday excepted, 25 centa per week. Laily, deilvered, Sunday included, 50 cents per week Addrem THE TRIBUNKE COMPANY, Corner Madlson and Dearborn+sta.. Chicago, Iil. i ey the Statoof Lonisiana to the Exccutive now ocenpying the White Houeo; thereforo the good citizens of Calcasion, in tho most public manner, inform tho conntry at largo that the angry passions of ihe timber men, if any such are mado apparont, shall be cutbed by the peace.loving elemont which inspires theso resolutions, Which is kind of Calcnsiou. ————— The Presbylerian Assembly dovoted yos- terday to the consideration of Homo Mis sions. As tho Commissioners ontored the Lall and canght & viow of tho largest and best map of the United States over made,— “pa present from the Government do il- lustrate itsolf,” as Dr. Dicxsox brilliantly gaid,—~they conld not but feel s glow of patriotism which wns a fit preparation for the subject of the day, When the compre- hensive and weighty report of the Commit- teo was rond, they reccived 1t with' marked intorest, nnd unmistakably recognized it as mecting the demands of tho occasion and the theme. When sllusions wero made to the nonoticed, solf-denying labors of the men and women who Isy the foundations ot the Church in home missionary fields, the Assembly responded with AMUSEMENTS, MeVieker's Theatra. Madiron street, between Dearharn and State. Eogagement of Rose Eytinge. **Camllle.” Taverly’s Thentre, Tandolph street, between Clark snd LaSalle, Engegement of the Deskin Lilioutian Company, * Jack the Giant-Elller.” Afterucon aud erening. Adeiph! Thentre. Monroe street, corner Desrburn. Engagement of In. Afternoon and evening. OSTAPTER. No. 127, Tl A, M.—134 Twen. cond-at. Bpecinl ConvocationthlsWednesday even- 1fg at Ao'clack for work on the . and M, E. Destees. Vlutting compsnions cordially lnvited, 11y order of the M E, b P, ELT SMITI, Bec, e} WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 1877, the part of hnndreds present, who for yeara had known what solf-denial meant, The nd- dress of Dr. Kexpary, was engerly listened to, knowing, ns his listoners did, that they should gain new views of the work and have thoir hearts touched by his manly utierances and Christisn tenderness, Dr. Dicgso, by, his admirable goneralizations, and wisdom, and wit, so decpencd the impressions nlready made, that there is not & member of .the As. sembly, ministor and elder, who will go back to his homo and not feel that Home Missions and home missionaries onght to have and must have a warmer place in the henrts of Prosbyterians, It wns very evident that the home missionary pulse beat strong sud full. S ————— QHICAGO UARKET SUMMARY. The Chlcage produce markets were steadier yesterdsy, with more activity in grain. Mess pork closed 10¢ per brl bigher, at $13.775@13.80 for Jupe and $13.90@13.92%4 for Jnly, Lard closed 12446 per 100 1bs higher, nt $9.27%@0.30 for Juno and $0,40 for July, Meats were stcadier, at 4Xc por D for looso shonlders, 6Xc for doshort tibs, and 7%c for do short clears. Iighwines were un- changed, at 81.07 per gallon, Lake frelghts wero qulet, at 3¢ for com to Buffalo, Flor was qulet and casler, Wheat closed Xc higher, at $1.65 cash and 8$1.G5Y for June. Corn' closed Ko higher, at 47%4c cash and 47%c for June. Oats closed %¢ higher, at 40%¢ cash an 40%¢ for June, Rye was weak, at 70@71c. ,Barley was nominal, at G5¢ for May or Seplember. llogs wern fairly active and unchanged, with salcs at $4.75@35.20. wattle warc active and firmer st tho close, Sales weru at $3. Bheep were in falr demand The Comptroller roports to the City Coun- cil that in fact there is no money in the Troasury to the oredit of the Building Fund. Novertheloss, tho money must be found. The city used that money, aud a tax was lovied to reimburmo the Fund. Of this tax $160,000 has been collected. It twill not, do to say that the Building Fuud yas consumed by tho Gao and Voy HoLrex defalpations. No systom of bookkeeping will justify tho supplying of thoso deficiencies out of tho Building Fund. Only snch pro rata share as may be proper can be taken for any such purpose. 'The city has probaobly used the money properly bolonging to the Dnilding Fund tempornrily for other uses, but it must nevertholess bo ready for the construction of bu corn, 100,040 bu oata, 180,488 bu rye, and G bu barley. Total fn store at principal cities, 5, 644,182 bu wheat, and 11,160, 307 bu corn. Oue hundred dollars {n gold would Luy $100.87% in grecabacks at the close. Groenbacks at tho New York Stock Ex. chango yesterdsy closed at 933, e A henrt-rending calamity ocenrring’ yes- terdny nt Chester, Pa., converted into a sick- ening horror an occasion usually of the most joyous and agreeablo nature. At’the laangch. ing of a large iron stcamehip bnilt in the Chester yards, a number of workmen who ‘wero under the hull failed to hear the warn- ing given, and when the blocking was knocked away the great monster passed :);:u C:l:lt;:iom \::x::;:m‘x; lhl; C':’ aclt down to the water over the manglod remains | \yon the now Tax law goes ‘f:a; of tho unfortunates. Latost nccounts pub | yyece thoreceipts of back taxes will incronse tiis Bnilding Food largely, sad it will bo ‘poor economy to leavo the work on the City- Hall not bogun while tho other half of the building is in courso of construction. ‘The wounded at threo, The lettor which we print this morning trom o correspondent at Bloomington ia not tho first intimation reccived of s stato of things ot the Boldiers’ Orphans’ Homg re. quiring prompt attention. Other lotters hove been forwarded in which similar charges wero made, but without assurance equally positive of the ability to sustain tho charges. Tho suthor of tho letter printed to-day declares his rendinoss to prove tho truth of overy nssortion made thoreln, and it is therefora time that publia attention were directed to the abuscs com- plainod of. report of the Comptroller stand unchal- longed. Tho fact is established that the tax hns been collected ; and, being collected, it must bo expended and should Lo expended this sonson whon all the . circtimstances- for beginning tho work are so advautageous. , The fonr Eastorn railrond lines have per- focted'a pooling combination on the rocelpts of all froight shipped from New York to tho West, 'The dispatch states that the revenuo .of the westward-bound freight-shipmonts aro to bo placed in a pool and the. plunder divided nmong the four partners in the fol- lowing proportions : . Bimuanck has arrived at Borlin, and vory opportunely, too, Lis counsol boing espocial- 1y desired in connection with tho recent im- portant political evonts in France, A report was current yosterday that the Emperor had sent for the Chancellor to confer with him on the subject of MacMason's romarkable performanco, but it is eaid, later oh, that Tssranck's roturn to Berlin was in pursu. ance of a traveling programme long ago ar- ranged, This may be true, but it is quite o remarkablo colncidonco that ho should turn up at o time when his presonce was wo pe- culiarly desirnble. 33 per cent 3 per cent 425 per cent. oo « U percent "This division of tho spoil is on tho freights shipped from Now York. Wu sappose thot o freights shipped from Baltimore ovor the Baltimoro & Ohio Road, aud from Philadel- phia over the Peunsylvania Central Road, aro not pooled or included in the foregolng anangement. Tho dispatel furthor states: A general agent is to bo appointed whuso duty will be to superintend the sipning of all bills of Iading, aud to sce that the agree- ment Ia carried out. . 8hippers are to bo al- lowed to designate which ronte they wish their property sont over. No further con- tracts for carrying freight ave to ba made herenfter, o4 the pool will control tho rates,” This must bo excoedingly gratifying to ship- pers, b8 it ontircly relioves them horenftor from nny voice or influonco in the rato per cent which thoy shall pay; thoy will havo no care or responsibility in regand to the toll taken out of - them, How very kind and Dbenevolent the General Freight Agents Jhiave beon. fowards them! Tho Grand TMrunk Rosd of Cansda hos mot yot joined the combination, but itis confl. dently expected that it will soon bo sucked into the whirlpoo!. 1In tho meanwhilo the shipping public must not overlook the fact that common carriers on tho compoting wo- ter-route to New York are not members of this gigantis combination, and that thoy offor {0 transport merchandiso very chieap until Decembor next, If this pooling combination proceeds to put up freights, the Hudson River, tho Erio Caual, and the Great Lakes furnish a ready and certain means of convey- anco that will avoid and defeat oxtortion and oppression, The Legislature will practically close its labors to-day. It has beon a wasteful and extravagant body, It has assumed a moral superiority to which it had not the alightest claim, Its arrogance esud protentionsncss bave failed to disguise the ignorauce of a large portion of the mambers and the mali. clousness of others. It began under unfor- tunato circumatances. Tustead of being & Legislature of the people of a great Stals, it dwindled into a mere- log-rolling convention toplunder the public. Ouc-hslf the mem- bers began their official lifo by resolving that the 280,000 Republican voters of the State should not be represented in the United Btates Sonate unless they should accept o particular individusl. In othor words, they declared the party was reduced to one man. They voted awsy their chamcter a8 representatives, and reduced them- selves to the condition of mere dépendents. Sinco this lamentabls complication, those engaged in it havo vainly sought to hide their own folly and shame by o spiteful malevo- lence, One-balf or two-thirds of the time of the members paid for by the State has been wasted, aud the wost of the remsining time has been devoted to the invention of Tho Governor's oto sent to the Houso yesterday, It related to tho bill pussed providing for tho organization of building and loan associations, which the Governor thinks is opposed to public polioy, besides being clnss-logislation, ‘There are suveral other Dills already passed by both Ifouses which Gov, Corrox might properly wvoto fn tho interest of publio policy,—among them tho bill establishing in the Appellate Court another toll-gate for lawyers on the rond to the Buprome Court the bill estab lishing o State Board of Health, and any number of cxtravagant nppropriation bills, 'he present Logislaturo will pass into his. tory as a body of men who achieved a bad notoriety for enncting laws that were worse thau needless, and for failing to enact laws that the peoplo earneatly dusived, A tour among the commission merchanta and dealers who Landle tho vast shipmouta of fruits sud bérries marketed in Chicago discloses a very general sentiment of appro. bation of the ordinance just passed by the Commen Council for the provention and punishment of fraud in the measurement and sale of fruit, It is clalmed, how. ever, and with some show of reason, tuat tho latenoss of tho ordinance will work a great bardship and in. jury to the dealers, because the latter Lave alrendy obtained a supply for the entire senson of tho berry-boxes and peach-baskats iphibited Ly the ordinance. There is, we believe, no disposition to proscoute dealers who act fairly and honestly with purchasors, oven though guilty of o technical violation of tho ordinauce. ' It i3 the swindling ped. dlers and cheats, who knowingly and de- iberately sell a pint for a quart, that wilt chiefly feel tho weight of the penalties pro- vided. ‘I'ho logging region of Louisians, which the sawe iy in the Parish of Calcasieu and therenbonts, has been agitated for o week or uore by an event which, in the annalsof that scetion, if they have such things, will take rank with the cepture of a tenfoot olligator or the discovery of u raleaded durkey. Calcasleu County, s s shown by the procecdings of & publio nssomblage, acknowledges the sovereignty NicnoLis now presides, aud iucidentally this public gatbering desires it to be kuown by auca thot the Parish of Culcasiou is withia o mincerity born of actual experienco on It in evidenco of the purely artificial growth of Council, thorefors, cannot afford to lot-this,| ‘the point of production will always have a protexts for expending publioc money and incroasing taxation. There have been some able, attentite, and intelligent men, but the mob has overraled and defeated them. The expenditures voted aro n disgraco to the in- {egrity and common senao of the General Assembly. Among other disgracefal pro- coedingn was tho mnlignity shown towards thig city. Tho entire peopla of Chicago, of all parties, asked the Legislainro to re- lieve lem of on intolernble burden in the slapo of n notoriously and con. fessadly dishouest, disroputable, and cormpt County Government. The people nasked that tho power of electing this County Toard be given them this fall, and annually thorenfter. Tho Legislaturo refused to pass such abill. In tho wholo.délegation from Chicago thero was but ono man who op- posed this bill. This man himself was ex. pelled from the County Governmont & few $enrs ago for disreputablo official practices. "Though tho bill was up in ropedted forms, the mnjority of the llouse hns on every oo- caslon defoated it. It intorposed tho pro- tection of the Stato to o gang of official thleves, whose enormities have never been equaled in this State, and who under the cover of this proteotion will plunder the peoplo of this connty by contracts and other. wise at leaat $3,000,000. And for this mall. cious action, for which the membera of the Legislatare aro personally responsible, the solo protext wos to punish the respectablo peoplo of Chisago. to represont the same valne to the working- mon. The English calculations are based upon tho maintenanco of the American Pro- tootive tarlff which increndes the cost of liv- ing. But this is not conntad upon in Amer- ica. The Protective system will not have the ndvocates in the fnture that it has had in the paat. Tho laboring olasses have discovered that it may not be depended upon to keep up vages, though it does incroase the coat of living. The manufacturors have discovered that commercinl freedom . is essontisl to the opening of forelgn markets for thewr goods, and that foreign markets are essentinl to their permanent welfare. Tho politicians have discovered that there is a lack of confl- dence in the Protectivo systom where it formerly fonnd tho most uncompromising support. . While Americnn labor will un. doubtedly be batter paid wihen business shall have revived than it is now, a part of the in- crenso will be represonted in the future by decreaszd cost of living incidontal to n modi- fication of the tarilf rystom ; the interest on capital will bo reduced, becasss American capital will acoumulate mpldly with foreign markels at our command ; the rates of trans- portation will bo zelatively lowor : and the English manufacturers cannot safely connt upon A roturn of the old order of thingw that prevailed undor the unnatural condition of hot-houso enltivation, wild speculation, a *¢ cheap and nasty" currency, and other pe- culiarities of the post-bellum and aute-panic frenzy. i In regard to tho immediate resnlts of the compotition botween English and American manufactarers of cotton goods in supplying the markets of India and China, tho greatest advantage tho Amorican goods will enjoy isto be found in the admission that the Lancashire manufacturer is dishonest, and that the cotton fabrica cxported from England to those countries conslst largely of flour, tallow, and China clay, ropresenting n falso weight which disappoors at tho first washing, | Thae American goods, on tho other hand, aro admitted to be just what they pratend to be. ‘This differenco in the quality of the nrticles, once domonatrated, will give tho American goods n footing which it may be difilcult for tho English manufacturers to displace, what-- ever their future ndvantages may be. er——— ENGLISH AND AMERICAN COTTON GOODS. The prospect that American manufactured goods will in the future come in competition in tho foreign markets with those of English manufactura bas at last dawned upon tho English people, and it is now a matter of serious discussion how much success will at- tend the enterprise. Thio secking of foroign markets bas heon the natural result of the stimulation of the manufacturing intorosts under tho Protective system, followed by a sudden decline in home consumption in- cident to the panic and subsequent hard times, The inflaence of the Protective sys- tom in bringing about tho American panio i vory fairly described by tho London Satur- day Review as follows: Tho natural and Inevitable result of the bounty offcred (o manufactures was to tempt into them an immoderate proportion of the copital, Iabor, and cnterprise of the country, 1t has for many years heen a standing complaint with American obantvers that tho rural dietricts wero heing exhansted for the benefit of the nrban. Indeed, the sfeaily migrae tion of tho sons and daughtors of the farmers Into GRAIN IN BTORE. There {s much anxioty in commorsin] cir- cles in reference to tho condition of the corn now in store in this city. It is widely feared that the grain will not bear ahipmont to the seaboard in good order during the hot weather of next month, that Deing the ger- minating season, when the least particle of moistnre will nasert itself, nnd give riso to what i technieally known na *hot corn” Thero s little renson to doubt that wo havo in atoro in Chicago o grent deal of corn that in open to this suspicion ; but it belongs to the lower grades, aud was rated when in- spacted into store na not dry enongh to bo depended upon. 'This fact, however, fur- nishes no gronnd for fenr that the grade known as No. 2 will fail to pnass tho test. "Tho inspection of corn during the past few months hag been 80 rigid as to call forth fre- quent complaints fvom recoivers, tho ques- tion nt issue Deing chiefly ‘with re- gard to tho presence or nbsence of moist~ ure in the grain. Considerable quantities wora rejected only becanse not deomed dry onongh to keep, 'Tho consequonco i that our No. £ corn ia o first-clasa articlo, so far as condition s concerned, ayd nothing has yot bioen dbsorved that warrants susplcion, rome rumors to tho contrary notwithstaud- g, The great point mado by many parties in tho trade {a that corn shelled in winter moy . Beem to-ba dry, whan tha, original moisture. is only frozen iu instead of boing dried out. But it should be borne in mind that the great bulk of the No. 2 recelved hero last winter hns already beon shipped out, so that thero is little ground for lack of tonfl- denco on that score. It is tho gonernl opinion of those partios who nctually handlo tho grain, that winter- sliclled corn is n treachorous article, -1t would bo much botter for the trade, in the end, if no corn of the Intest crop were nl. lowed to Le inspected s straight No, 2 be- fore spring. ‘That is the way it used to be, and the change, mndo in the interest of spoculation, hns roveral times caused great damago. Itshould bo undorstood that new corn received into storo in winter ia not always to bo depended upon. The result would probably be o limitation of the corn movenjent in winter to a volume suflicient to meot the demand for curront cousumption, This ono of the gifts of Providence would not then be spoiled for use by nrtificial troat. ment at the hands of the reciplonts, towns wna one of the evile which tho Granger movement was Intended to redresss and it Is noto- rious that un undue proportion of the emigrants ateo scttled down in the cltles. In fact, the arntl- ficinl preference given to munufactuces aver aerl- caltnre had fhe effect of multiplying munafactures untaly, As long na foredgn capital continued to flow steadily In, the consequancos were recognized. Americans did not percelve, or wore unwilling to ncknowleace, that their .proapority was due to foreign contributions of men’ and money, and they flattered themselves that their country was excmpt from tho Jaws of political economy. Dut the end was all the more severe for heing long postponed. Four years ogo thero was a panie wiiich destroyed the prosperity that had scemed so vigorous, und cver since trade hus been stagnant, anid manufactures ot a standstill. Fortho moment, atany rate, production, which had #o long, Leen subjected 10 the forcing process wo have been do- acribiyig, finds itaelf far in exeess of the conawm. ingpower of the population, In tholr distress manufacturers aro looking out fornew markets, and aro endeavoring (o ostablish an export trade. these {ndusteles that even In the prosent depressed state of businesa they are unable to nndersell for- elgn competitors In forelgn narkete. Howover, the American manufaclurcrs are persevering, snd the most rocent proposal is to compate with Lan. cashire in cotton goods for the “custom of India £&ind China. Bomo ndvantages aro admitted to boon the side of the Americnn manufacturers at present ; others claimed by -tho : Americana: are disputed ;'nbd, dgain, it is ossertod that most of the present American advantages ore the outgrowth of an oxceptional aud abnormal condition of things, and will not ontlast the present era of depression. Firat, it is cloimed that tho proximity of Americon manufacturers to'tho point of pro- duction will enable them always to procuro tho raw matorial for cotton wanufacture nt a price three-quarters of acentper poundlower than tho Laucashire manufacturers ean buy it. It Is estimnted that in cotton gooda the cost of the row materlal is an item from twica to four times as great as thy cost of Iabor, so that any such advantago as this would enable tho American splaners to pay 43 per cent higher woges than tho English spinners and stil bo on a plane with them in the market. On tho part of England it s donfed that. this advantago is permanont, for the reason that the. distance which the raw materinl must be carried from the point of production’in.the Bouth to the manufacturing contres in New England is proactically os far a8 from the Bouthern parts to Liverpool, allowing for the ordinarily ligher rates of American {ransportation. It is also stated, with a good denl of force, that tho permancnoy and stability of the Liverpool market, where there is n cortain salo at -tho market valuo for alt the nuw cotton that can bo sent there, will always give it an sdvantage over other markets, In all this, however, the ultimate location of cotton manufactories at the South., where tho raw material {8 produced (and this is an cssontial "fenturo of the rebabilita. tion of the Bouth) ia left out of acconnt, and it cannot bo disputed that nanufacturers-at GLADSTONE'S ESSAY ON ' MONTENEGRO.” One of tho most notablo contributions to tho AMny number of the now poriodical, the Nineteenth Century, is Mr, GLADBTONE'S 8- sy upon ** Monlencgro," which is written in the form of a roview of two recont works upon that country. Thestory of that coun- try, of its continual struggles with the Turks, of tho victorics of mero handfuls of theso hardy mountaineers over tho leglons of Islam, of.the stern, devoled manner in which they have preserved freedom on their monntain heights for 400 years, is oa thrill. ing s n romance. It is imposeible in our brief spaco to roproduce anything like a complete summary of tho article, but a fow of its salient points will possess a peculiar interest Yor our readers, especially as reflect- ing the views of such an ardent lover of freedom ns Mr, Grapstone. Montenegro (Black Mountain), m the Selavonio tongie #Tgernagors,” was one of the Bervian lands that from the very outset resisted the wave of Ottoman conquest that five centu. ries ago swept over Eastern Europe. It then had a seaward frontler, but in 1478 Boutari ' was captuyed on the south,.and the ancestors of the Herzegovin- tians on the north submitted to the Turk, Ivan, the Montenegrin horo, rather than .submit, took lus people, left the fruitful valleys, and rotired to the rocks and moun- tains, As the'centre of his mountain home he built a monastery at Cettinje, and then and there the Montenegrins voted a funda- mental law that ‘‘no son of Tseruagors could quit the fleld without the order of his Chief,” and that every coward should be dis- graced, and banished, aud hunted away from the country by the women, and for four cen- turies that compact has been kept, Ivaw died in 1490, and was succeeded by hig eldest son, Georax. His younger brother, Sreerry, went with a band of companions to Constan- tinople, and proposed the betrsyal of his country to Basazer the Becond, Fhey were required to tura Mahometans, which they did, and then, setting out with an Ottoman force, songht to conquer the country, but ‘were defeated by Gxonar, who took back the renegades, and allowed them the free oxer- cise of their religion. On the retirement of Grozax, in 1616, the sovereign® power was made over to the Metropolitan, snd then be. ‘Ran and lasted for 836 years *aneccleaisatical declded advantage over thoso located at a greot distance, in the cost’of raw material. It may also be roasonably expected that the rates of American transportation will rule much lowor relafively in the- future than thoy bave in the past, so that the location of msnufactories in New England cannot be safcly regarded as practically the same distance from the point of production as the English manufacturing centres. 1t is admitted that just now the cost of 1a- bor in Now England is as low as that of En. gland. The fact that more steerage passen- gors went from America to England last year than came here from England, would indicate that wages are really lowor in this country; this is probably true when the cost of living is reckoned. But it is replied that this condition will not ondure, and that, with the revival of business, with noew mar- kots for manufsctured goods, and the actual running of. all the factories, wages will ad- vance. Thisis true, though perhaps not to the extent that the Euglish manufacturers count upon, judging. from the past. Wages moy be increased in value to the working people in a proportion greater than is repre~ sentod in the advance paid to them. The payment of a dollar to them msy in the fature represont as large o cowpensation as a dollar and 8 half in tho past in the jncreased pur~ chasing power of the doliar, Several things are likely to bring this about, The currency will hopefully be of a specie basis, and, hav- ing a permanent nad steady value, there will bé no need of @ margin 'for fuctuation, which: is always allowed with a varying .cur. rency. ‘The prospoct is, too, that the cost of living will ho less in tho futurc, so that it will not require” tho samo amount of wagsa Government in miniature over laymen, far mors noble than that of the Popes in its origin and puror in ita exerciso, ng well ns in some respects notiless remarkable.” The ronegades, howsver, whom they had taken Dack, daring theso conturies, provéd to be a serpent in the bosom of Montenegro, That sarpent must ba steangled or Montenegro must lose ita frecdom, Ono of their Bishops was cruelly tortured by them whilo conse- orating a church, and then it was determined the renegados shonld ba slain. On Christmas Eve of theyoar 1702 the deed was accom. plished. All who wonld not return.to their falth wero put to tho aword, and, ** gathored in Cottinje, the people hailed with songs of joy the reddening dawn of the Christmas -morning; all Tsernagorn now was freo.” The claim to their Iands which was then on. forced has nover beon given up and never will be. From 1710 onwarls Russin and Austria have used the Montenegrins for their own purposes whon at war with Tarkey, and England did tho same during the war of the French Revolution, although they owe no gratituda to cither England or Austria, who sought to exclude them from nccess to the ses. Russia, however, has requited their services with n small aunual subvention, After an allusion to the size of ils conntry and its population at various ecpochs, Mr. GrapsToN® refers to the various abortive attempts of the Turks to overpower this little band of mountaineors with overwhelm. ing forces and by sheer weight of numbers, In 1712 the Turks with 100,000 mon invaded Montenegro, nnd Daxivo assalled their camp with 12,000 men, and routed them. Witha loss of 318 mon, ho Alew at the loweat esti- mata 20,000, In 1713. the Turks entered Monlenegro agaln with 120,000 of their bost troops, and, although thoy carried off many women and children into slavery, could not hold tho country. In 1722 the Turks, with 20,000 men under Hussziy Pasua, worg de- fonted by 1,000 Montenegrins. In 1727 an- othor Turkish invasion was similnrly sup- prosssd. In 1732 Toran Omtax Pasma marched against them with 30,000 men, but had to fly with tho Joss of his camp aud baggage. In 1768 tho country was invaded ngain with an army varlously estimated nt from 100,000 to 180,000 mon, nud agaln the littlo Montenegrin army of. 12,000 men tsoffected tho scarcoly credible slaughtor of 20,000 "Trks with 3,000 horses, sud won an incredible booty of colors, arms, munitions, and bLaggege.” In 1782 Pgren the Baing camo to the throno, and for forty-eight yenrs earried his country safely through alinost constant struggles. Tu 1796, by his authori. ty, a code of laws was promulgated; in 1798 he appointed o body of Judges; und in 1803 ho added n supplement to the vode. He was succoeded by his nophew, Rapato- Mono, n glant in staturs, on iucorruptible Prince, and a cnltivated man, At the head of &0 men ho defented a ‘[urkish army of thousands, and under him ten men in 1833 “goized by n coup de main the old Castloyof Zablink, onco the Capital of Zota, eld it for four days ngainet 3,000 ‘Turks, and thon surrendored it only by order of the Viadikn (or Bishop), who wes anxious to avold a war, Nenrly nll his battles wero victories.” In 1651 ended the dynnsty of Bishops on the accesaion of DaNivo, tho mephow of the de- coased Vindika. ‘Tho chango was offocted by his attachmont for a yonng girl in Triesto whom he could only marry by avolding Episcopal consecration, which entailed the obligntion of colibacy. ‘Tho Senato snpported him in his detormination, and thus ended tho live of tho Visdikas, ** who hind dono n work for freedom, as well as for roligion, never surpassed in nny country ot the globe.” In his war' with Oxan Pasua (185258 ho moiutained the military reputa- tion of is predoccisors with inforior avms and numbers, and in May, 1858, defeated tho Turks in {he remarkable battle of Grabovo, in which, without artillery, nud with very {n- forfor nrms, the Montencgrins wwept ‘down the hills and destroyed tie Turkish gunners, The Great Powers of Europe then came to $ttho help of the Porte nnd ita huge Empire ngsinat tho liliputian Btate that is scarcely n spack upon its wap,” In return .for some small acoretion and access to the sea, thoy domnanded that Montenegro should definitoly ncknowlodge the suzeraluty of the Yorte, which she positively refused. DaNiLo wm shot by an nasassin in 1860, and was succeed. ad by his nopho&. Nigrra, the present Princo, With hls rccord slice the outbreak of the Terzegovina revolt last summer, onr roaders aro familiar, DBulgarin has boon devastated, Borvia has ‘been defentod, Bosuia and Herzogovina hiave been overrun, M&nunegm haa boen con- stantly victorlons with inforior numbers, The entire Turkish force dirvcted ngninst her ‘was 180,000, while she brought iuto action, all told, 26,000 men, Tho slaia are reckonod on the Turkish side at 26,000 mon; on the sido of Montenogro at 1,000 men, Buch a record as this is nuparatioled in the history of the world, The population of Montonegro does not reach 200/p00, Tho Empire of the Porte numbers 30,000,000, and for years it has been unable to conquor this little Bwitzerland of Eostern Europe, Such record justifies the tribute of TxNNYsoN: Groat Tacrnagoral naver since thino nwn Black ridges drow tha clouds and brako tho storm Haebreathed a raco of michtler mountaineors, It justifies Mr. Gravstone's elogquent dec- laration: ‘“Montenegro, which has carried down through four conturies in the midst of & coustaut efege of perils a charmed life, wo may say with confidence, will uot die, No Tusaian, no Austrian eagle will build its neat in tho Black Mountain, 'The men of Tser- nagors, who have never allowed the very shodow of a Turkish title to grow up by silont preseription, will olaim their portion of an airand soll gonial to man, ‘and of froe ige to and fro over the land aud sea ‘which Gop has given us.” Before Hares' guration the Tmplaca. ble newspapers all said that they wanted the carpet-baggers kopt in office in order that they might protect the blacks and prevent the White-Liners from killing and perse- cating them, although the c.-b's had noto. riously never done anything of the kind, It was the safety and protection of the negroes the Implacables all declared they sought. They *‘wanted the murdering of the blacks stopped,” they all asseverated in chorus, To this end the army and navy must he employ- ed to uphold and keep ia office the carpet- baggers,—the grand aim being the good and the protection of the freedmen, President Haxxs supposed they were sinoere in thesa declarations of purpose. Accordingly he dovised a plan whereby the murdering snd perscontion of the blacks could be stopped without the employment of the srmy and navy or of carpel-baggers; he put the plan into practice, and it has worked to s charm.., Bince then not a col. ored man hag ‘been killed or maltrested for political ‘reasons. The abuse of the blacks throughout the entire Bouth appears to have completely ceased, and peace and y tion Letween the two races provail in the tourteon States south of -the Oblo and .people ju the South, aud therelure 1t has noth~ the Potomno. Do the machine organa praise the now policy which has wrought such marvals in 8o short napaco of time? On the. controty, they nre deeply chagrined and ex- saporated; they rave and roar becauss tho destrnotion of negroes for political canses has been stopped ; the more the blacks are not killed the madder the Implacables be- come, and, unless tho SBonthernora shall got up a fow ¢ bloody murdegs” of blacks, it is difienlt to tell how the malcontents are going 1o contnin thamacives, A hboral dis- tribution of TPost-Officos might pactially reconcile them to the deprivation of negro maasncres. Nothing elso can, and Harxs must either toss them offices or abandon his policy of anti-negro killing, it he wants to gain their support. Presldent, 1t 18 reported, the appolntm his lead clerk. Tha editors of tho Jour. g 1,-0, seem to b In Juck. ' Ts thero any good reason why the surre ing and surrendered Indlans should n:? ir; niads Into an effective hranch of the army 1 Koy would they do for Blouz-8loux? | } ‘Why isn't TWEED released? It wonld be pol. fey; for if he fa kept in much longer he mnyp::g mad and tell something important that had bet. ter be kept secret. f MacManox has not yetheand fromthe F, ‘I;odles ;nd:r tha blouscs, It fa thoy who ::::I er and:who are dangerous, and not the and the Loft. * T | The Government must take immediate actjon on the French Exposition buslncss,~In onler tn ;‘{lnnl ,:ho Commissioners timo inwhich to learn ‘renc 1t 1s almost incomprehensibla to the denizen of & Iarge and enterpristog American city, where the saving of time and facilities for rapld translt are among the most {mportant conslder- atfons of metropolitan life, that A great com- mereial community like that of London should have tolerated up to this late périod a dozen toll-bridges across the Thames, London s bullt on both sides of the Thames, and the dls- tances belng 80 much greater than can ba esti- mated by a comparison with our own distances, a dozen toll-bridges are o very much greater annoyance,and oceaslon very much more delay, than the ssme number of toll-bridges would across the Clicago River. These London bridges were tonstructed by privato enterpriso a8 business schemies, and the tolls have been from onecent for foot-passengersto fourcents for yehfeles. The loss of time lucident to charging tolls must fnclude that wasted in golng around to frea bridges Lo ovold payment, thedelay fo making payment, and the frequent blocking of the Uridges growing out of this delay, Thers is now a bill pending In ghe Britlsh Par- Jlament, and supposcd to be ncar ita passage,- which suthorizea the Board of Works fo pur- chase these bridges .from their owners and make them free highways,~the oxpense to be sustalned In part by the City of London, and in part by tho adjoinine Countles of Middlesex and Burrey, with which two of the bridges con- pect. Itis estimated that thero will be nob merely an incaleulable saving of time, bat that tho establlshment of frce. passage over these bridgoes will exert an impurtant {nflucnce on the overcrowded districts in Loudon. It {s stated that this toll-systom lias made a residence on tho Surrey side of the Thames cost about $13 a yeae mora to the clerk or workingman. whose empluytent §8 on the London side, and the con- sequence fs that the eity districts havo become overcrowded with tencimonts, Tt is believed that d relense Irom this extra Lurden, which so many of the working class cannot aflford to bear, inuy bring jereat relief to the overcrowded seee tions and be of great benclit to the Lealth snd cumfort of the comunity. | Wonldn't PALMER or TRUMDULL Iike to gnon that French Exposition Commiasion! Think of ml lfllman, gentlemen, after that octoroon i ‘Doctors and lawyers constituto the aristocra. ¢y of Thiladelphia, says a lotter from that city, Do they hold {t by fees or diplomas-cy) | HALS of Malno abandons BLAINE and sets up for himsclf In tho business of politics, The shadow abandons the shadower. LS A, Commssioner McCarrReY I8 opposed to the press.. Its pressore ia too much to tho square {nch for & man of his calibre. fi ‘When QAL HAMILTON wrote * Twelvo Miles {rom & Lemon,” d1d she dream of being pressed fnto afd for Mr. BLANel PERSONAL. Thera {8 a lond eall for a rovival of Chris. tlanity among the Mothodist cditors, who are now belaboring oach other ia true infidel fashlon, The Queen has granted the three Misses Defos, lincal descendents of the anthor af **Rob. Inson Crasoe, ™ pensions of 8375 per annum each, The statement that Benator Obristiancy’s ron recently falled to pass the ‘examinstion foran appointment in the Pension Ofiice is Incorrect, e did pass tho examination, but was arsigned to doty in the Patent Offica; Lence tho mistake, Mr. P, T. Barnum hes offered a rowand of $10,000 for the restitution of Charllo Rtoss, snd has promised Immnnity to the persons making the surrender, Mr. Christlan Ross, tho father of tae chlld, has sanctioued the arrangement, Clara Morrls was criticised in Boston for pronouncing ' Respecturfol,” *'Tho best o frionds, " **Look " **Mor chlldren," ¢ you seo it s nort sbe,” and tho like. **It constanlly Jarn upon thb ea; nys one critic, **distracts the sttention, and mars the pleasure that would othere wise be without alloy wiila sho s on thostage,” The Garrick Clab, in London, hins lately made & namo for iteelf hy oxcluding actora from membership, and there han consequently beena disruption of the organization. There lgmmw. thing ludicrons, a correspondent well remirks, In the idea of & club benring tho name of Garrlck ro- fusing o eloct Lunored meutbors® of the dramatle profession, ° Mr. Honry Tiyre Brown, the arganiatof Mr, Beecher's chureh, who wo mystorionsly dlsape neared, turned up In time, 1t will bo remembered, | On the mation of Mr, Eastox in the House, to suspend the rules and take up the Cook Connity Commissloners' bil} which had passed the Henate several weeks oo, CATSKIN KEAnNEY tawled * Ouject,” The roll was then called on the motlon to suspend, and the Cook Cuunty cinbers present yoted as follows: Tu TAKE UPTHE BILL, AGAINAT THE BiLl. Ayea—14. Noes—2, Danne, Catakin Kearaoy, Easton, Speridan. Hlckoy, i¥ot raling—4, Tho Must: 2 vade Retlew now hints at the causo o Houlus, Plelleiay telck)e hie dlsappearanco, The had been **drageed,” itie Jiced, Buiith (absent), intimated, lke many & good Inan.before him, witt Hextdn, Hiolbsars woadnt), atimulating drinks soothing to tho palate, but mos fim’u»mm . injurious to the mmun_«md the head. ™ Tayloe, ‘Phe rentonco of Mr.-Hernard J. Reilly, n :l’:hu"lv!"fl- 2 ' 8. Louln lawyer, to two years in tho Penltentiary Thumas, “for ewlidling o widow ont of $20,000 trust.fund Wentworth. " provokes the speclal wonder of the Mllwankee Sentinel, which suya: **1t 1s doabtful if any precedent can bu found for th nction of the conrt and jury. Surcly If this becomos epidomic It may be o dangerous (hMig 10 becomo o dofaulter." Bpeakiug of the opening of tho dobflo on the Gladstons resolations, tho London TVmes aays: +4/The acene in the llouse of Commons last night before Mr, Gladstone moved the remaine of his resolutions was one of the most extraardinary, and was certainly ono of the Jeast croditable, that have heen witnessed within living memory, It was mora ke the tumnite of the French conventions tlinn the decorna ealm of the English Parltament. - Tha snbjunctive mood has lataly heon the ubject of & trnenlent assanle through tha calamne vf the New York Lrening J'ost, In consequenco of which, It fs understnod, great apprehensan cxlate nmiong the other moods, 1t fu feared that thero may be au affort to consolldate alt the officea into one,—which will be a nort of Boojum or Jab- berwalky, thus depelving of the incads of support & uumber of deserving ataten of feellng, We look to Mr, Lowls Carcoll to expand this idea. The welcome aacorded Herr Richard Wag- nor at the fizat of tha concorts in the Royal Albert Hal), Lundon; Monday, May 7, was of tho most finttoring description, The nrogramine cantalned excerpta from ** Das Rhelngoid, " ** Tannhauser," “* Jftenet," and the pumpous ** Kalsermarch.* Tho priucipal vacal parts were taken by Mume, Materlua and Ilerr Qeorg Unger, hotn of whom carned laurols at Bayrenth, At tha second cone cert, on the fullowing night, the chicl attractivn waa the Arat act of the ** Walkuere," In New Havon there haa beon acasa of condlgn and crool punishment in the pobiie schools which has clicited from ono of the nuws: uapers thare the oplnjon that putling a grown gied by tho rars and slapplug her fuco is a proishment +seyidently not as much as well-ordered parents nflict whon necesrary,” Thero seems lo be @ pretty unaulmaue dissent fzom this opl the **grown girle® of New England. {ham. over whove head fifty sumimcrs have lightly fied, weites a buenlng Tattar about It to the editr, There aro some grown boys, editors of papers, who would e the better for & fauiliar and Judiclous Lox on the cars, ‘The Philadelphia Times is piniog for 8 ight of two Important political fetters, The rvt wan writton about tha 18th of March by Presdont slsyes to Chngrossman Uarfeld, and urged the Jatter not to atavd In the way of the clection of Btauley Matthews to tho Sunato, It ls Jnsinuated —but notbelleved in woll-Informed quartera—thal Ciurflold sarrendercd the subatance of the Scnators - ship for the shadow of the Speakensiiip, Thoothee Jetter was weitten by Congresaman Tusscll Brretd . to Garficld, when tho formor way salicited by the Iatter to support Wim - for Spoaker. ftis sald that Krrstt, who I8 & strong bellevee In tho tirant pole fey, nod +* Isugwidgo * of the most ternfyiug de aceiption, Mr, MoGay, of New York, wad fnscinated by the charma of an sctres in fhat city named Josle Davenport, aud ncglected the wifo of his bosom, That wife discovercd his treachier)y traced him 1o the houss af the actreas, and con- tronted him more {n suger than in sorrow, ‘The nexs day Mr, McGay retarned (o bls home In 8 contrito spirit, sud played at the piano. '\ by did ¢ho loave mer" and otticy ferelcvaut but plalst- tve melodies. The nighi pesscd withont 8 recons ciliation; the morning came, aud hia wife had left the honss bafora hia pialpg. Whea lie returned to dinner the sacond nizht & dreadful vight ot him, The house had beon swept clean of furniture; Ihu. wife, who owned all, had clsimed gverytbingi and tho wretched husband, desoricd at once by bls wife and his essy-chalrs, fell falnting to the foor, on which thers was no carpet ta mijigate bis ml'i ferlugs, Lot us draw a curtaln—Mr, McCay wou gladly have dono vo_ that svrrowful evenlnz—e“: fhls sffecting’ scons, and hopo that tho awfu warolug wil) not bo anhecdsd by busbande. “iere has been an odd lawsult in Philadel. phia betwoen & ‘ballet-dancer, Mile. Roserh and the Mesars, Kiralfy. She sued fur damsges of 2,000 francs causcd by 8 breach of contract. Tha Judge's decision waa Iu favor of plalotid, and cune tained the following passage, which gives the case some local interests +*Tbe right of ymmu'm recover depands on the question whelber the de- fendants bad the sight to discharge her for her fallurs to dsuce at the Adelphl Thestre, Chlcago, ou the night of the 4th of December, 1876, It -appears the defendant so refuscd to dauce he- %euso sbe bad been, pluced In the ballet before Do Joss, who bad the last whirl, aod was theredy ac- ‘cordad ths place of houor. 'The testlinony showed (hat Roser} was coguged as » ballet-daucer of she yame rank with Do Ross, snd waas entitled to the same privileges. Thd jeslousles exlating the leading dsuicers 0f this troupe were of the crage futcnsity. A extrsordluary lettcs was scot by one of thew to Tus TRIBUNE, bat it neveraw tho Hgt, else the consequences wight ‘hare beea more setlous than they wers. i The country members voted {0 takoupthe bill ns follows: Ayes, 433 nocs, (3. Thus it ap- pears that Catskiy Kmanxer, who was ex- pelled from the bl Board uf Supervisors for recelying bribea and lovylng blackmal, has moro ullucnes with the country members thau the fourtcen Cook County mewmburs who supported tho wotlo, Thosy sixty-two ‘‘houest rurale, 1t they can't get u huud In the piifering and plundering of the taxpoyers of Cook County, so sympathize therewith that thoy prevent any re- 1lel of the robbed and any Interierenca with the robbers. They want tho stealing to go on. It would bo well to know whethor their constitu- ents approvoof the protection they huys extends ed to the gang of thioves who aro deyouring the taxpaycrs of this county. et Mr. 8. F. Carr—onco of tho firm of Conren & Cany, architectural designera of & greenback Presidency—ratties his futernals. in wiathiat Gen, furnman's late statement that without our army and our Govcrament we aroa mob, * Millfons are crying for bread," groans Mr, Cany, and then arcues that beeause no mob gobbles that bread the country has been slan- dered. If the members of Mr, Cany’asmob, would stop cryini snd go to working, even on s Dalf-acse farm, it would bo the becinning of an existence fur higher and nobler than to domis uate os & squutter soveralgn on public eharity: R ‘That was all & mistake about CroNix's nose, His feionds huve guthered courago enough to eay that it 1s 1lke any other noae, and that it Is not built with a MULLETT truss, uor is it of such # ahapo and color that an spple can ho shot oft it ina dark night. Tt ix well to kuow theso thiugs, even i€ history bas to be despolled of fts protuberances. Boun, doubticss, wa shald have proots that CroNix did not organtze himeell, We cau believe almost anyihing since CianLxs Francis went into the puintiog busluces of putting fraud, e —————— Gov. Young' told the President a day or two sinve that there were not o thunsand Republic- aus In Obio who were upposed to his polley, * it it I o suicvess.”” ‘Tucy ure & good deal Jike the Frenchmnan who didn’t want his money out of the bank, but aid waut **the grand contidence " futhe bunk, When It is & sugvess, there will st be a thousund Republicans vorth of the Oho River who wili nut awear that they favored The Preaident may aswell know it now ss luter, that i he wants to reguls the support of the Bpringlohl Jowrnal hs must wllow some negro murders for politleul reasons to tako place fu the Bouth, or make & ditferent dlstribu. tlon of suwe of his 84,00 Post-Ollices lu this, Btate, Will the Omaha fepudlicun ba honest enough for oneo Lo conless thut the tuuse of Ita malig- pity towards the Presidunt’s policy fs that it has stoppedd the killing and waltreatiug of colored ing more to huwl aboutd e —e e Tho editor of the Boston Congregationalist is the Afth portrult inGai's * gallery.” Wonder what he did that was worse than “crooked whisky or smuggling."” Somethloz Braxa QId not like, of cuurse. Very likely Lic exposed & steal or spotted a fraud, e m— - # Politics,” remarked Bry Wans, in a late In- terview, *is not & very nles busiucss, nor avery pariog business, I s done with It." Ju other words, he does 1ot propase Lo bave avy more axes ground ou Litm. —————— In the East, now-a-duys, when a rich man dles, the question i not 1uw wuch was bo wortht put How many wives did he leaved and then the inquirers calmly walt for returns from the back- woods. They remove the *alien element™ from the’ politica of Mississippt by shooting it *prudest- Iy* from around the corners of houses. Judgo CrisoLs was an alien. He was & Ocorglan. e —e A Washington dispatch statcs that Mr. Fraxx GiLaxar, editor of tho Chicego Joursal, was agrecd upon ycstendsy by the Cabioet, sfter a full snd carcful canvassol the relative merkg of candidates, forthe offico ot Bub- Treaqurer at Chicazo. The offico ls the oue now beld by GEonas Baxes, who urged vn the