Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 31, 1877, Page 4

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Monros sicest, corner Dearborn. Haverly's Min- strels, New Chicago Theatre. Ciark strect, between Lako and Tisndoiph. Cammandear Cazenenve, the * Prestidigtiatenr.” 10 THURSDAY, MAY 31, 1877 Two very disastrons flres aro roported in the dispatches this morning a8 ocenrring yostorday,~n¢ Montreal, where a large dis- trict was dovastatod, with n loss of about $150,000, and at Ogrcoda, Mich., whore the saw-mill, flonring-mill, and a large quantity of lumber, tho proporty of Lowp, Gax & Co., woro burned ; loss, $150,000, A large portion of our space this morning is dovoted to nccounts of the manner in which Decorntion-Day was obsorved in Chi- cago and the rost of tho United States. The beautiful custom of sunually giving up a day to tonder and gratefal tributes to the silent army of ' heroes whoso lives woro tho prico of an undivided country was very gonorally renewed yeatorday in all sections, and not tho lesst among the pleasant foat. urcs of the day overywheru was the fact that 1o ouo questioned on which side they fought whioso graves were overlaidl with flowers, Full particulars aro roceived of the mink. ing of tho stenmer City of San Fraucisco off tho Mexican const. Tho nccident proves to linvo occurred substantially as at first roport ed,—Dby the vessol's striking under full head. way n concaaled rock, tho existonce of which bad never before boen suspocted by the most experionood pilots and navigotors. The theory is that an earthquako of n fow weoks ogo causod such an uphoaval of the rock ag to bring it within striking range of the ghip’s hall. Great credit is given to the officars and crow of tho steamer for the Dbravery and porfoct discipline displayed in attonding to tho safoly of the passengors, all of whom wero safely landed on shore, thaugh they saved nothing but their livea and tho clothing thoy wore. ‘Tho Memopial Diplomatigus bolioves it 4o bo cortain that the Russian Uabinet, faithfal to tho promises of tho Emperor ALexaNDED, will not, if the Russian arms are successful, attompt any conquost of European Turkoy, but will domand the transformation of the Belavio provinces into indopondont Btates, with Christion ralors ; Bosnia, Horzegavina, and Bulguria to bo organized liko Borvia and Roumania, and complotely freod from Turk- ish domination. Such g, nt lens, tho com- bination prefarred by the Oabinet of St, Po- torsburg, Btill, a sorioua difficulty wmay arfsa out of tho ovident indispasition of the Cabi- " nt of Vienna to allow tho establishmont of . Indepondont Belavio Btates, which could so ' ensily becomo inconvonjent and dangerous noighbors for tho Austro-Hungarian mon- archy, |4 " What tho causo of liborty and frocdom lost in the removal of Juies BntoN from tho Promiership of the Fronch Osbinet is gained + in tho scquisition of a powerful pen for tho * Republicsns agdinst the intrignea of the Ultramontancs. M. BrytoN has assumod the ¢ management of the Felo, andin the columns . of that nowepaper will bo able ta carry for- i ward the good fight. No man knows better ., or moro exactly the lnwful and constitutional Hwit inside which the press of France " is confined Ly the present illiberal laws, and tho censorship of the Kelo will add freshporploxities to Dr Broara's position at tlo hend of tho Ministerinl Counail. Anoth- . er good stroke by the Ropublicans is tho se- Jeotlon as tholr acknowledged lesder In tho , existing crisis of Tutzns, who wns carnestly Te urged by Gauoetra to take the front, and has cousonted, About two weeks ago a report wasrocolved by cablo from England giving tho more an- nouncement of the destruction of tho City of Tquiquo, on tho southern const of Porn, by an jmmenso tidal wave. This roport is now confirmed and some detalls given Ly dis- patchoa from Ponamn dated May 91, from which it appears that an enormous amount of deatructionof lifo and property ocemrred on the 10th inst, along tho coast of Peru nnd o portion of Bolivia. Tho Citles of Iquique, Callso, Arica, Antofagasts, and othor points on tho coast were visited by an uphoaval of tho ocean rushing shoroward at frightful volocity, the wave belng sixty foot high ; and " $tis quite probablo that this foarful convhl- slon ot mature was the direct ocossion of . ' bringing noarer 1o the surface the rock in the , Pacifio Occan on which the stoamoer Ban "+ Francisco struck and was sunk. It is estis mated that from (0O to B0O lives have been * Jost, aud it will not be surprisingif later + information largely incrensos this estimate of . fatality. Gov, Qutroxt hos vetaod tho bill to make '+ silver coin o logal-tender for the payment of ! debts in Illinois, ond ns tho Legislature ia ;" not in scasion to puss the bill over his voto, i the mensure fails of becoming a law by the 1 withholding of tho Governor’s signature, 1! though it received tho approval of almost i the entite Assambly in both branches, 7his ! ununimity nnoug the reprosentatives of tho i} poople uccurntoly rcflectod. the degres of 3]1 unanimity emong the peoplethemsslvesin tho 3, dusire that silver should ba remonetized in '«’I, Blinois, In his superior wisdom Gov. Cun- i, 103 bius conjured up & host of reasons why .| the people of this State should not bo grati- | fied in their very earnest wish fo take this “1{wportant step towsrds the resumption of. #/ gpecio paywents, these reasons being chiefly | bused on tho sssumption of the effect of ! oundition of things which 1ight cxist in the i future, but which does not umow, and iy not 1.1 likoly to exist, viz.: the issuo by Congross of amapply of snbsidinry silver coin larger than is noeded for the wonts of businesn. Equally for-fotched in the objection to the bill on tho ground of its conflict with the Btate and Nnationnl Conssitntions in its impairmont of existing contracts. This part of the question might have beon eafaly lett to tho conrts, which would be quito cer- tain to restrict the operation of the law to its constitutional scope—that ia to sny, to contrnots hereafter mnde, 'Thero is, in short, the enggestion in the veto mossage of o confirmed individual hostility to the bill, w detormination to defont it ot all haz- Tho Europesn presa s debnting the ques- tion whother Russin's doclamtion of war baa annulled the Parls trenty of 1848 and tho London treaty of 1871, Tho Memorial Diplomatique thinks thero cannot ba tho losst doubt of the full validity of theso tronties, signad, as they wero, concnrrontly by tho Great Powers, cspecinlly as a specfal clnuse of tho London protocol of 1871 posi- tively forbids any reponl or change withont the previons unanimous consent of the con- tracting partios. This viow is known to bo that of tho Cabinats of the loading countries. Among others, the Austrisn Cabinot bns wamed the Governments of Russia and Tarkey that it considers the presont situn- tion of affairs on the Danubo abnormal, and that aftor the ceanation of tho war tho stato of things created by the treaties must bo ro. catablished. What is truo of {ho novigation of the Danubo is truo of all the other stipn. Intions of theso trentios. i Se— Tho commission mon who handle berries and fruits are arranging to prepars o stales ment for tho publio setting forth their situn. tionin reference to the ordinance recently passod. They nssert that they are helpless in the matter, ns tho *' anide " boxes aro sent to them filled by the frnit-growers, and that the lattor have purchased o full supply for tho soason of tho fllegal packngos, nnd will be unable to procure others. 1f this is the caso, o snuggestion mado by ono of the dealers ot yosterdey's * meoting offers n modo of complying with tho ordinaneo, nnd at the same timo of piacing tho loss precisely whero it of right belongs— upon the dishonest froit-growors. This is, that evory box of borries bo sold for a pint {hat is loas than an honest quart. Thero s no fear that anybody will prosecuto the dealors for giving too full mensurs; they have gonged tho public so long that they ought {o do penance by practicing something moro thau baro honesty—selling fivo gills for o pint one senson. ——— THE DIPLOMATIC THEORY, It our London dispatohes are correct, the Russian delay on the morth bank of tho Danubo is not alono caused by the dificultios intho way of concontrating the army in sufflclont forco to insuro n pnasage, but by o diplomatic interpesition which has beon mada for tho purpose of ascertaining En- gland's cxaot interosts, and whorein tho Rus- sion advanco will bo lisble to affeet them, In other words, beforo Ildssin pounces npou Turkey, sho would like to know when she cnn hit her, whero she conhit ber, and: how hard eho can hit her, without injuring En- gland. The gamo which tho diplomnats have commenced to play in the very amoko of the Lattlo, howover, must rench deopor and in. volve moro monontous issnes than this, Tho mastor hand of Biswanox would not again take control of affairs merely to obtain nn anewer to euch an unnocessary interpols lation. Russin knowsnow, as well ns sho has always known, what English intercats aro ot stake, and how far sho can go without affecting thom. The Ozar know thom so well that oven before the moeting of tho Constantinoplo Conforonce ho hastoned to assuro tho English Governmont Russin lad no design of Intorforing with them, In tho protocol and the’ deolaration of war the samo disclaimer wng mado prominent, Tho debate in the Houso of Commona upon Mr, Grapspone’s motlon brought ont n declara. tion of English interests from the Govern- mont party as oxplicit as any whioh Lord Dennr might moko in a Stato paper, The statements of snoh men a8 Lord HantivaTon and Bir Wirtiax Hancounr, that * what we must gunrd i, not Turkey as n - political orgnnization, but certaln points of Turkish torritory,” cover tho wholo ground of En- glish intorests which may bo affected by any now dovelopmonts of thy Eastorn quostion, ‘What those * cortaln polnts of English ter- ritory " aro, Russia knows, sa ovory school- boy knows—tha control of tho Dnrdanclles by the occupation of Coustantinople, tha control of tha Buez Canal, and, remotely, the occupation of the Valloy of tho Eu- phrates, The diplomats, if they are ronlly at work again, are playing o deoper game than this, ond one that looks beyond the meyo offort of Russin to coerce Turkey. Tho game is not to solvo tho problom of English intorests but of Enropean allinnces, and it is more jmportant for Nusuia to know what those alliances may bo befors her armies erosa the Dnnube than to obtaln a reitoration of En. glish opinfon. AfacManon's sudden coup d'etat in changing Cabinats, in doflance of the' mojority aud the desperata effort to hand the Govarnment of France over to tho Bona- partists and Ultramontauiats, has introduced o uow eloment into Europents complications which has alroady effocted’h moral allinnes betwoon Italy and Germany and has aronsod a dangerous mintual animosity between Gor. mony and France, to which the former haa lready glvon expression by materially strengtlening her garrisons in Alsace-Lor- roino, Again, so far as the Eastern war is concerned, it i85 no secret that thero is A perfeck understanding betweon Ger-s! many and Rusafa, It requires no gift of prophecy, thorefors, to foreseo that in o certain general contingoney Russia, Germony, and Italy will bo in allisnce, Againat thiy allisnca there con ba but one other, that of England, Austris, and France, and to forostall this is uudonbtedly the in- tention of Uisuamox, If the dispatches ar ocorrect 08 fo diplomatio interposition, they foroshadow tho exsot dimensions of the war should it become gencral, and, it might bo ndded, thoy foreshadow the result of such n war, Tho alliance of threo such Powers au Russia, Germasy, and Italy would bo formidable enough to defy all Europe. Rusul and Germany are the military ginuts of the O1d World, and taly fiss papldly do. veloped into a first-claxs military Power, ‘which must be taken into account in every diplomaticsmovement. Esash ia strong, com. pact, and undivided in itself. Against this combipation would be arrayed three Powers, one of which caunot fight without al- lics, another verging dangeromsly nesr to civil strife, and the third rent with jm- placable dissonsions between its different uationalities, ono faction sympathizing with Rusala and another with Germany, and both hating tho third. The ultimate result of & collision of ‘this character can hardly boa watter of doubt, I, sy the dispatches in. timnto, Russia {a delnyod on tho bank of tho Danube by diplomntic intorposition, it must appear vory shortly, as the timo for the visit of tho Czor to the frout is fized for the second week of June, It ls more likoly that he desires to bo informed as to Earopean alliances beforo his narmies sre over tho Dannbo to strika docisive blows than that o Is hnlting his army to proponud questions to England, which in the light of the’ events of the pnat fow montha would only be ironie- al ot the best, The following extract from the Londou correspondence of the Memorial Diplomatique shows that Russia is not so much interested to know what England wants as England is intoreated to know what TRussin {8 going todos The Cablnet of St. James rests 1ta policy for the fntaroon a single hopd: that the Czsr will not #elze Constantinople. Whi that hopo be veal {zed? The diplomatic agents hera of Rueala ghva 1ho most formal atsurances that the hopa will be fulflled, bat all thele confidances are not worth as mach aa a simple declaration by the Czar would be that ha tenannced all projects of conquest. Wo ate informed that the Austrian diplomats in con. cert with Lord Lortus have labored with Princo Uonrsciiaxorr to obtaln thia declaratfon, which would reassure tho wholo world, The Czar re- mains ominonely allent on thia cssontial point, not. withstanding all sollcitatlons, and Gonrscitaxore takes rofnge bohtnd the **praprielies, and pleads that the Czar wonld woaken himselt it ho replied diceetly ta tho sharp arraignment by Lonl Dnny, ‘The Foreign Ofice will evidently fall n its attempt fo get a paciflc manifeato from tho Czar. PR A THE LARGE ECCLESIASTICAYL BODIES, Tho scsslons of the Genernl Assembly of the Prosbyterian Church, which have beon leld for two weeka past in this city, natu. rally calls up the qnestion of the ndvantages and ovils connected with theexistenve of large eccleginstical bodies of this nature. Our reference ia not to tha religious denomina- tlons thus represonted, but to tho grand judicatory which rales thom as a contral power. Thae leading denominations are organized with such a supervisory body. Tho Presbyterions havo their Goneral As. sembly, tho Mothodists their Goneral Gon- ference, and the Episcopalinna thelr Goneral Convention, while oven tho Congregational- {sts have a National Counoil, though puraly for consullative purposes and dovold of power, 'Tho efTeot of theso gatherings must be influentinl in various directions, and it will ropay oue to stady it, in & somewhat broad manner, a3 bearing upon religions and upon secular inforests, The ndvantages of thesa controlling ecole- sinstical bodies nre obvions. 'Thoy bring out tho strongth and mako mnnifest the charno- tor and respectability of the soveral denom- iuations. Every spoctator who enters the liouso whero such an Assembly, or Confer- enco, or Conncil is in session, i3 impresssd with the ovident ability of tho membors. Tho gray hairs or bald heads, everywhero conspicuous, tell of thewisdom of oxperl. enco, whilo tho discussions bring ocut ihe varied intellectual qualitios of tho leading clorgymen and laymen, Intolligonca and Bagncity oro agonts to charnctoristio abir- butes, and cach sect, from tho Eplacopal to the Congrogntional, is proud of its contral body. To the soct itsclt such n body is es- sontial, in proportion to the growth of num- bors and tho wide geographical dispersion of tho local churclies, It affords a needful bond. of union nnd a method of cultivating fellow- ship. ‘Tl slone does each sect come to cousclonsness of ita power, and to a full sense of its possible imission. Thore Is o coming togethier of the distant brothorhoods, andahealthifol comparison of the thoughtsand feolings of those who, if soparated continu- ally, wonld dovelop diversely. This necesai- 1y indnced tho Congrogationalista, who pride themselves on the independenco of the Jooal church, to organizo a National Council, as n magpifeatition of tho followship of their churohes, which, no longer confined to nar- - row Now England, now epread from ocoan to oconn. Of conruo such gathorings socurn 1full reports, statistically and otherwiss, from overy part of tho land, and open tho way for nn cfliciont supervislon of benovolont and ec- olosinsticul work! Whora they aro clothed with logislative, jadicial, and administrative control,—na they are in most of tha donoml. ‘vations,~thoy can take influential mensures for the consolidation of their interests, and for tho steady onlargomont of the denomina. tion, Tho rapld growth of tho leading socts daring the contury of our history juat closied boars witnoss to this fact. Contraliza- tionin Church os woll aa in Btate carries power nund favors propagation, aa the emi. nent examples of tho Church of Rome and of tho Mothodist Episcopal Church prove. To neglect organization is to court weaknoss, "There aro nlso certaln incidental and part- ly secular advantages in thess ecclosiastical arrgugemeonts, ‘They promote a conserva. tivo steadiness In the charactor of tho peo- plo, holding them to fixed principlos and methods, from generation to generation, and nocessjtating prolonged discussion prior to any important change. Under the American gystom of no unfon of Church and Btato, thoy also secure an important balance of power betwoon tho rival acets, by develop- ing eacl into self-protecting and infuontial strength, which {s bronght into prominence wilh evory sasemblage of its ropresentative, contral body. This represscs any dlsposi. tion to bLestow political faver on cortain sccts, Roman or Protestant, each in turn coming in prominent sclf-assertion befora tho public, especially in these days when the nowspapers sproad ecclosiastical pro. ceedinga befora thelr readers, It {a also truo that our National Union receives {m. yortaut support from the relations which thesa contral ccclesiastical bodion hold to all sectione of tho land, The political secos- sion of the Bouth, becauso of slavery, wos !nmlyulowod by tho division, a fow years provious, of theso nationally-bounded eccle. siastical organisms which, mow that the cause of discord is removed, are gradnally rouniting. They have thus alded, first to defer the catastrophe, and then to ropalr tho dsmnge and to prevent ita recurrence. Bat are thero no accompanying evils and dangers ? Certainly thero are, or human naturo would no longor bo itsolf. With the air of respoctability and the conscionaness of strength to which we have referred will go o temptation to denominational pride and salf-concolt, which are not exactly Christian virtues. There is likely to bo, also, an in- tousification of the cectarian spirit, Days, and sometimes woeks, spent in glorying over denominational statistics, and in laying do- nominational plans, are nok apt to leave the mind in a liberal framo, or to léad to con. clusions favorable to bresdth of view and unlty of action on the partof the various divisiong of the Cbristlan host. 'There is danger, therefors, that only sectarian intercsts will be cared for, and these at the expensse of the Church at large. Another temptation, when the Chureh is organized after tho manner of the Btate, is, to tho cultivation of ecclesinstical poli- tics on tho part o ambitious ministers, ‘Whero there is power to bo exercised, thero will bo bands stretched forth to grasp the soepire, and in cach of the contralized eccle- sisgticlams will usually bo found ¢ number of men who, in the lower bodies and in tha supremo tribanal, sock over to bo leadors, to heod partios, to fill prominent offiices, and to carry favorita measnres, As personal rival. rion aro thus engendersd, and as theologieat differences aro doveloped, thero arise conton. tlons more fiorce than edifying. It was this snd rosult, in the wars botween **Old Behool ” and * New School” in the Preaby. torian Church a generation sinco, which led tho ovangellst Frxnxy, who was engaged in revival work, to say, rather severely, that “holl had a jubiles Whonever tho General Assombly met.” And thon the dangor is that tho strife for predominance and the senso of injury exporionced by a minority ot the hLands of a majority, armed with the ecclesiosticnl power of: the denomination, will resnlt in division, and the disgrace of schism beforo tho world, Ilistory hina fllnstrated this liability so often that we necd not qnote illustrative particu. Inrs. And thon tho natural tendency of these great central bodics ta conservatism, srhilo doubtless a check upon wild {nnova. tion, is oftentimes sn obstaclo to noeded wrogress, especially on questions of denomi. national belief and practico which require the action of tha supreme controlling organ. fzatfon. This woa found ,to be true in con- nection with tho eltempts to purify the various branchos of the Church from slavery, Those moaved most slawly, or failed to move at all, which had supreme ecclosinatical power lodged in a Genernl Conferenco or s General Assombly. Fesr of disaffecting a Bouthern minority ond of weakening tho denomination held oven good men back from appropriatenction. And so we aee how needful devotion to pure principloe is on the part of those who belong to theso great or. gonizations, that a help may not turn intoa hindrance, MICHIGAN AVERUE. As might be expectod, tho lawyers disagres a8 to what may bo done in the proposed transfer of Michigan avonuo to the South Park Commirsionors for the purposes of its improvement and reservation as a bonlevard or pleasuro-way, Among the fow Iswyers intorviewed by Tas Trmure, the divergence of opinion is already so wide as to warrant boliag that furthor interviewing would do- velop at once antherity for doing anything in the world with tho strect, and likewiso authority for proventing anything in the world trom baing done. This cantendiction is not so romarkable in viaw of the fact that the Supreme Court, on this as on a good many other subjects, canuot ngree with itself, but has furnishod opinlons on both sidos. BMr. Turex cites an opinion of the Buprema Court which apparently so lim- its the power of the Council sa to ronder it poworless to part with the contral of the street, whilo Mr. Rony cites other opinions of the samg Conrt which convey tho impression that tho oily has absolute control of the strests, and cas do asit plonses with them, scting in il corporata capacity. Then Mr, Roor steps forward and quates from the new ohavier to the effoct that the Common Counncil bas power “to lay out, cstablish, open, nlter, widen, oxtend, grade, pave, or othorwise improve siroots, alloys, avenucs, sidewalks, wharves, parks, and pub- lio grounds, and tacale ths same” This sooma to bo tolernbly comprohonsive, e nlgo cites nn not of tho Legialaturo, which appeara {0 a layman to authorizo the Park Commissionors to acquiro titlo to ond exor- clse control over Michigan avonuo. A1t ‘Thero s one dangerous suggestion that has grown out of the discussion of this matter, viz,: The propoaition that tho city shall re- povo Michigan avenue ont of the Goneral Fand, Whilo tho clause qtioted nbove from tho chartor would sppear to give aathority ‘for such sction, it is a ptecedent which must bo avoided, no matter how much inconven. jenco nnd annoyance may result. If the Council over siarts in upon this businoss, thero is po telling whero it will end. Tho lobbying for the repaving of stroots will ba more poraiatont, formidable, and ocostly than all tho lobbying for gos, water, and sewors. It will be o moat fortilo' clomont for Aldor- mania Jog-rolling, and the city will have to pay too doarly forit 1o warrant the indul. gence of a pecullar case like that of Michigan PAZIITY Ono thing is admitted on all sldeas Michi- gnn avenuo onght to bo paved at onco, and somo measures should bo taken to keop off tho heavy trucks which would ruin a new pavoment within o year. The “proporty. owners will not voluntarily inocur tho cost of paving, and they can scarcely be blamed for it, sinco it would bo for the honeflt of the heavy teaming which almost monopolizes the stroot when it is ot all possable, The bost suggestion 1s to turn over the stroet as o patt of the pork system, if it can bo done, In that evont, tho cost of repaving can be apportionod on the entiro SBouth Divislon, nccording to velative benefits derived from the improvemont, and kept froo from the trucks, We can scarcely imagina that thero 18 a single property-owner or resident of the olty who will interpose an objection to s schemo so desirable on all accounts, 8o thed any copstruction of law that warzants the transfer will hardly bo contested. TO0 MUCH CONCILIATION, Assome of tho extremists of the North carry their policy of hate too far, so therois danger that some of tho extremists of tho Bouth may demand more concillation than tho most genorous theory of pacification can ocontemplate, This scoms to bo tho mistake of Mr. Mogaax, rocontly elooted United Btates Sonator from Alabama, it the letter which he haa written to Attorney-General Drvexs has becn properly reported. . This lotter rogards the suits lnstituted by Jeas Hazarson, a colored member of Oongross from Alsbags, againat the paople who swin. dled him oat of ro-slection. These auits were brought in the Unitod Btates Court under the law authorizlog the appoiniment of United Btales Bupervisors of Congres- sional elections. It is said that Baxusy (Hasirson's opponent) and many of his friends were discovered in the most fiagrant frauds on the ballot-box, and that it was by this menna that Hazazaon was dofoated Ina district that is overwhelmingly Republican, It is now reported that Benator Momaan writea that the policy of conciliation should include s pardon forall past political offenses, and that if the Administration expects any support from the Demoorata of Alabama it must discountenance all further prosecution of theso suits, Meanwhile, Hawarson's lfe 1s 1ald to be threatened it ho returns to the district to pursue the contest, ‘This is & notion of concilistion that may be sald to be peculiar to extreme Bouthern Democrata ; it will not flud any sympathy outside of a class of men who take what may ba called a * strablsmus view of palitics. 1t Benstor Momoan thinks that the present Administration desires to conclliste anybody in Alabams ‘by discountenancing lawful snd proper prosecution of ballot-box stullers, ho s very much mistaken, aud the mistako ia not croditable to his sonso of politionl honesty, thongh it may be to his Domocracy. The jden of conciliation eme ‘bracea tho oblitoration of thie seotional and race hatred that has provailed in tho Bonth, and js based upon the assurance that good feoling and protection of the blacks wonld follow upon a withdrawal of tho United Btates troops and a roturn of the Bouthern Btato Governments to the control of thoir own peopls, Wé do not underatand that it means protection for political scoundrels and ballot-box stuffers, and wo are surprisod that any honest mon can 80 construe it. Buch suita na Jens Hanarson may have bronght in the United States Court are not likely to re- gult in the conviction of any innocont mon; and, as the guilty men desorve tobe conviet- ed and punished, the Administration will probably mot interfers to provent i, It Sonator Monaan or pnybody elso desires to disputo the authority of the United States Court to try thess cases, the same right ob- tains in Alabamn thet thero is in Illinols to tost tho question in the highest court of the land in a regular and lawful mannor, DBut if Bonator Monoan has the intorests of Als- bama and of the Bouth at hoart, he will not odviso any course that looks like condoning the erime of ballot-box stufling, and ho will do his utmost to provent any attempi nt maurdoring HARArsox for proseonting his rights. Instesd of asking tho Administea- tion to interfero to condone crime and pro- taot criminals, the Bouthern people should begin to show n battor disposition to punish them. Conoilintion, according to the Louisi. ana and South Carolina compromises, was to be a mutnal affair, THE LATEST COUNTY JOB, It has boen common talk about the County Building for two or throe days that somo of the Ring moembers of tho County Board are trembling in their boola ns to the prabable action of the Grand Jury now in session with reforenco to their notorious jobs.. But the pction of tho Committee on Public Build. ings indicates that the groed of the Ring is groator than itsfoar. The profit of certnin jobs is presont and cortaln, whilo punish- ment for malfeasanco in office is only pro. spactive and, judging from past exporienco, excoodingly problematie. Undor the very nose of the Grand Jury, therofore, the Ring has procesded to carry out a palpable job which has been exposed and denounced for soveral weoks. ‘Thoro was warning of a now swindld whon tho intontion was anuounced of substituling granito for limostono for the pilnsters, steps, pilinrs, oto,, of the now Court-tfouss. The contract for all tho stone-work had alroady, boen lot. Ar, Warxen, the real owner of tho contract, haa made no objection, showing that ho is satisflod ho will lose nothing by the change. Indeed, hia contract will bo loft 0 it i3, ond the result will be that he will draw 08 much monoy for the smaller amount of atone and work he will furnish as he wonld have deawn for tho entire job. In tho menntime, arrangements are made to pay out 160,000 more for tho propescd supply of granite—and thera will be bills for extraa in two stone contracta instead of ono, which will ylold new plckings to tho Ring, Tho cost to the county taxpayers will not fall short of $200,000 in the end; nnd this sum of $200,000 is votod awny in ovder to afford an opportunity for the Iting to grab $50,000 or $60,000, including tho contractors’ sharo avor and above thoir legitimata profits. 1t was bad onough to order tho snbstitu- tion of granito undor tho circumstances, but the subsequont proceedings amount nlmost to an opon confession of the stoal thoro is in it. Tobegin with, tho Ring was only forced to advortise for bida by tho oxposurs of its purpose, and thon such conditions wero im. posed upon blddors that' it was' almost 1m. possiblo for any but ono contractor to com. ply with thom,~—tho solection of tha granite being limited to the Fox Island quarry, The suocessful bldder—Mr, Hixsparz—got the contract ot $149,070, thongh there ware sove oral lowor bids, and notably que—that of Gowax'a at $130,000, or $20,000 loss~—which proposed tofurnish proolsoly the samo granita from anadjoiningquarry, and offored tho most satiafactory guarantos of rosponsibla men for carrying out the contract to tho latter. Now, tho difference hotwoon the Gowax bid and tho one that was accepted—$20,000—is just the amount which it s atated ia to bo dividsd nmong the Ring for making tho change and awarding the job as agreed upon, Itis to be hoped that the Grand Jury will havs time bofore adjourning ta giva this job 1ho benofit of their investigation, It {s pos. sible that Commlssioner' Frrzarnaip (who left the commitiee-room in disgust, declar. ing that it'was of no uso for an honest man toput in a bid)msy be mblo to placo the Grand Jury on the right track to discaver the “truc inwardneas ” of the job, as it is statod that Mr, FrrzoznaLp was himselt approached ‘with the purposs of making him a party to the transaction, It may not bo possible to sooure sufficiont evidonce to warrant the in. dictment of tho Ring members in this case, but every offfial axposuro will help to arouso publio eontiment to tho necessity for dis. lodging thia Ring, or refusing to voto the monoys for continuing the Court-House work. Capt. 1, W, llowaaTs, of the United Statos 8ignal Scrvice Bureau, 18 still vigorously pushing his'scheme for exploring the North Polarregions in the hope of reaching the Polo Itscll. Ho pro- poses to charter a schooner, properly equipped {or thesgrvice, and prepared ta prosceute whale fiahing, which may cover the cost of the ven- ture, and perhaps realize something more, An Esquimaux party is to bo gathored at somo point on the comst of Greenland, from which ‘valuable asslstanco will be obtained. The tutal cost of fitting out the expedition is estimated at about $10,000, and an effort will be made to raiso this sum by subscription, The Ob- server in Chiesge, and we presume thoso at other stations o the coun- try, are authorized to rocelve contributions towards the fund. It has alroady been stated in Tun Tu1oUNE that the Idea of Capt. How- AT 8 to take & now depsrture fn the work of Arctic exploration. e proposes 1o tatablish a depot on tho most northerly availabls point of land, from which parties canbe sent outihe next summer iu’ aledges fa search of tho Pole, There a reason ta bellovs that such & systemat- ic effort would be successful; but If not, the fn- formation galned by the cbaervers at the basoof operations would eld lnmensely In extending our knowledgs of atmospheric currents, and probably in cnabling sclentific men to undor- stand the lawe which govern those miavements. ‘The commerclal idea of Arctic dlscovery bas long sluce beenrelegated to the domalnof dream- 1and by senalblo men, but the sclontitic {mpor- tance of thoe thing is only just beginning to be understood ; and It is alucercly to be hoped that Capt. Howaara will bo abla to scnd out his party of explorers 1o the Arctlo reglons. ——— It the Mon. B.F. Burisx can understand when he fs hit, the following passsgo from tho Ictter to bim by the Hon. Warns MacVEaou will da mioro thau make a tom-tom echo on his yeaerablo Lide, Burima hsd sccused Mac- ‘Vmaou of the improper use of monoy for golit- feal purposcs fn Néw Orlcsns, which tho latter don %4 bass and cowardly falschood,” addingi “;mm meney of iy own o spare, and it Is only a military commandant at New Orleans in time of war who can safcly appropn- ate any considerable quantity of tho proporty of others to his awn use.'” That I8 a good, neat shot. Dut Mr. MacVeaamn could have put it all In one word Spoona." e — . The Uhleago Times saya: *Tnz Taiuxa gatblea an articlo from the Times concerning the Rockford murders In order that It may have opportunity to defend the contractors. It secms Blrango that s man who catecma himself Lo be so brilliant that ho can afford to hur) the epithet " Idiot * after the promiscuons fashion fndulged (n by the editor of the Chicago Times should need ta have plain English Interpreted for him. Mowever, there )s nothing mean sbont Trz TRIBUNE, aud, having furnished the article, It will now furnlsh an ex. planation for the bonefit of tho Timé. The "article in question that sppeared in Tna Trinune did not appear efther as a defense or an accusation of any of the Rockford parties. 1t was ahnply and only a alatoment of facts and 8o exposure of tho sophlstry of tho Chleago Times, Tin Tinusa merely staled thad the plea of *niggardly cconomy " put forth hy tho Times was no plen, sinco it was not justification fordishonestwork. Thero wasnoattempt made to show how much or how little blame might rest ipon architcet or contractors. ‘The whola object of tho articlo was to exposa tha sophistry of tho Zimes In protending that the crime of putting up a buflding that would fall down and kill dozen men lay at the door of those who ‘*forced tho contractors to tho lowest possibie b Tix TRinuNa clafmed that there waa no Jaw compelling thess men o coptract to do work thot they could not af ford to do at the fiyures named; and Titn Trinuxs first stated, by {mplication, what the Times now announces, with a wild flourish of truinpots, that “the question of parsimony, or tho roverse, on the part of the Rockford officiats, torma no essonttal portion of the question of reaponsibility.” As to swhy RICIARDSON'S aflaches sail anythlog about the bullding, or why there wers men on the jury who ought not to lave been there, Tnx TriDUNE hns notas yot made any attompt to oxplafn, and tho cxplanation does notin any wiso alfect the fact that the Times was gullly of sophistry, and Tus TainuNg detected and ex- poscd that sophlstry. Any attempt.on the part of tha Times, to dodgo tho lssuc docs not alter the true state of tha casc. ——— ‘Tha Boston Glod¢ declarca that * The sconer wo bave a Minister to England who §s noither n gambler nor a gill-cdged flunkey the botter, A vaat amount of sifting would have to be dona 1f the above disquallfications aro to be omitted from Civll-Servico Reform and politicians® por- quisites. Men can't bo expected to break oft thefe bad habits ot & day's notlco, and s perfect Miufster abirond {s as scarce ns good ones at home; and aglit-edged flunkey 8 better than ono Wwithout the glit. Give Pizasront a chanee—to come homo, ———— — It tnkes tho Detrolt Fost toderive aolld com- fort fram Bcnator MonTon's letter; and It does 1t In n column and a half editorial reitcration of tho gasertion that tho Scnator Is against tho Bouthern polley. Now, £ tho foat will take that policy and argus on it it will have no difi- culty, sccording to lts style of comforting, In demonstrating that the polley I8 agalvat the Prosfdent, There must be o good deal of satts- faction for the Mot In that sort of nmusement that leaves off just where it begun. ——————— ‘Tho whirliglz of time brings ita:rcvenges, as Gen. Unant will know Lo his sorrow when ho gots to Loudor and Is compelled to Heten toa spocch from Minlstor tsrneroNtT, Wo shall aco how brave our General really ia 22 ho con- fronts this windy Nexesis of our forcign elvil servics when, in- company with tha Ytince of Walcs aud otlers, ho scats himsol?, Juno 81, at tho dinner-tablo of ‘Mr. PiEnnronT, e —— It {s TiLDEN who s trying to organize Sax RanpaLL for victory In the Speakership cone test. Was it TiLpEN's Llterary Bureau that wrote SAn's letter Lo the Galveston morchants on the Texas Paciflc subsidy? Ho isfor that subsidy,~when ho {s down Bouth,—~a fact which Western Demncrats may study at thelr lelsure. ——— Aw-Amorican pecultarity’in -politics hos leays epcd that of France with a touch of simplicity, and MacMazioy refuses to resign, That stub- bornneas would secm tho proface to the stability of tho Hepublic; but it will not do to forget that in Krance, as {n this country, now partica n power deposo if they do not destroy, —— \ Itis reported that there are as yet no signs ot & break-up in the Democrstle party In North Caralina. Only s fool would expoct it. DBut it wos ond is hoped that the Ropublican party would galn by what might pertinently be called amoral fuslon of the better eletnents of both factions, A Custom-Houso welgher ls described, accord- ing to the testimony of an nsslstant of ono of them, aa & being who “reads tho newapapers and talks politics, Thero are a large number of people In thiacity who aro elthior quallficd for that poaition or clso arc weighers out on F .vacation. f How sad {t would havo been had thal new party (paternily. nscribed to Brainm) been twins. It did not have clothos enough as it was, and that baby-show was s fallure {n con- scquence. ’ It will b a happy augury for machine politt- clans it Qen, Looan gets the appointment ol Collector of this port, Tho General profers this wuy to the Beoato rather than via Brasil. . | Bon INarRsoLL says that the SBouthern pollcy s undoubtedly the creation of My, Haxzs, It faachild that will not bring him gray hairs, it {indications count for anything, | QGen. Cousrock has gone to Enrope to study triangulation. As developed in our orcheatrss, 1t did not have s proper foreign tone. | Our Moxican policy is to bo a loriat policy. PERSONAL. | Mr. Boechor says he never atlacks formu- Ins or doctrines; {t{s only when they attack him that ho defends himsolf. o, Col. George Butler has written to Postmas- tor-Genoral Key, aaking to be heatd in vindication of himself as agalnat (ho chargo that he got drunk on his way to the Black Hills, Miss Jeflrys-Lowls, the leading lady in Daly’s Pifth Avenva Theatrs, attended Plymonth Church Banday motning. After sorvice she walk- ed arm fn arm with Mr. Bescherto bis resldence snd dined with him, Mr, Bidney H. Morse, of Boston, has just finished In clay an excellent bust of the Jate Dr. Chanuing. 1o bas, too, in his studlo & fine bast of Thomas Jofforson, racently made, After & por- trait in the posscsston of opeof the family, ‘When only 20, Abdul Kerim, now Com- mander-in-Chief of the Turkish srmy, eloped with & pretty Moldavian Jewess, the vivandlers of his rogiment, and the lovers witharew into s remote village, whora they were discovered s yoar after, o waa degraded and roduced to the rsnks, The Rev. A, I. Walker, n Baptiat clergy- man of Brooklyn, baptized ten persons n the swimmiog-tank of a Tarklsh-bath establlabment. ‘The brothiren took turns, and waited In tho hot room—temperature 105; I§ was s foretasto of the Boreattcr which all so eagerly dealred {0 shun, “If Mr, Halo gots in Mr. Blaine's way,' says the New York Sun, " **clther ln Washington or at Auguata, bls prospecis of belng stepped on sty excellent. It Mr, Blalno steps on ar, Hale, we may add, the chanceqare thet the former will ll:“ & large plece out of the calf of his leg. lale tes. President Chadbourne, of Willlams Col- lego, is the author of {hres dlscourscs in momory reapectivoly of Prof. Albcrt Hopkins ) $ha Rov, Dr, lo, aud Prof. N, 1L Guifin, which have be 10 & Mitle buok and publisbied by G, P, Patusm's Sons under tho title, ** The Hope of 1ho Rightooss.” Profs, Uopkins and Grimta will Ve remombeted 88 membury of the faculty at Will- 1ama Collcpo by sll the ofder alamnl of the coltege, aad Dr. tlalo's nama and faco were atmont an (s, millar, owing to his trequent vialts tn an offiels) capacity as President of the Doard of Trustees, A friend of Thackeray, after prafaing ‘¢The Newcomes' eenerally, objected tn Mra, Mackenzle~the O1d Campalgnee—as very clevor. bat such an exsggeration s to ApDest unnatursy and fmpossible, **Impossiblet™ echoed thg sothor, ‘‘why, Mrs, Mactkenzie was my owp mother-in-law.” Mr. MoOluro ia anxlons that the Pronidont should be carefal in iling the vacant Draziifan Mlaston, Alnce the Emperar of that great cauntey, wo have had recent opportunity of learning, fs 5 discorning man, and he wonld be quick to see the difference between & mere placo-hunter and a. Min. inter worthy of the {nterests concerned, Thaunhappy ex-Mayor Lambert, of DBrook. fyn, waa recontly subfected to the disclpitne of Dy, Cuyler's church for misusing the fandsof & widow, ‘Who thereby fost hor Snheritance of $30,000, Lagk Bunday, after the sermon, he was required to ex. press his contrition pablicly, Now we hope to req him prove his repentance by working with might and matn to reimburee the widow. Ton thousand persona eaw tha decoration of Abraham Lincoln's statae, at the Proapect park Plaza, Brookiyn, lnst Bunday, Tha baso of the pedestal was heaped up with lving flowers, apg evorgreon festoons dacked the bronze figure gng {ho emancipatlon scroll 1n its hand, The cors. mony of decoration was completed by crawning thy status with & wreath of white roses. Judgo Orrin O, Pratt, of the United Stntes District Court of Californis, was arralgned In the Jofterson Markat Polics Court, New York, nn. day, ona charge of being found In tho nremuses of A bunko-gambler. e refuscd to give evidonce, and waa relensed. 1t 18 prosnmed ho was Innocent of any offense beyond that of belng daped by run. ners for the gambling-catabltshment refecrad to, § The T'acker Institnte in Brooklyn is a Pprosperous boarding.school for girls. ‘The Prinel. pal thereof, Prof, A, Critlenden, fa fooliahly at. tempting to destroy its popnlarity by secunng the Indictment of & young man who firted with ono of the girla. A pernon of his experience anght to know that flirtation {s one of the condltions on which bosrding-schools for girls exist; and at many of them, Judging from tho resalts, no other seslons oconpation is pursaed. When 8ir Samuel Bakor, tho African traveler, wns (aking feavn of Kamrasl, King of Unyoro, that potentats asked h'm, as & Darticulsr favor, to leave Lady Baker behind. This coo) re. queat raised Bir Snmuel's iro, and in high Indigna. tlon he told the King that §f ever he made auch a request again ho would shoot him. The King was sarprised, and offercd generous torms In the way of exchange of wives, and Sir Samue! did not fos called uon o Jump at the bargain. The Graphis hoa a cartoon on tho * Amer. lean-Gntindiator," copied aftor Goromo. 13 o1, bowaver, In {ta classical allaslon, The turnlng down of the thumb was the aignal for sparing the victims, and tho fact that Mr. Dlaine’s patriclan thnmh 12 so drawn must bo accepted 24 a good omen, Isthis his way of holding ont the olive. branch,—of proclalming graco, morey, and peace, as ft wora? They say that Mr, Dlalng, ltke Irovie dence, moven In a myatorious way. Princoss Demidofl, o young Russian Indy weating the Ml uniform of n hussar and moanted on & magnificont charger, rode st the headof a #plendld regiment of eavalry through tho outskirts of Bucharest not long ago, 8he is the dsughter of the honorary Colonol and proprietor of the regle ment, who 1a reported as spcnding 830,000 8 yeat apon it. No Jtus«an cavalry ja wo well mounted, the horses averaging rlxtoen hands, comprisiog chestnuts, whites, browns, and bays respectively, Thero is to bo an anusaal performanco of **Romea and Julict ™ at Tootl's Theatro 1n New York next Thuraday aficrnoon, for the benett of Mr. (corgo Itignold. Bix Jublets will ‘appear on tha ataga daring the progress of the play,—~namely, Misa Noilaon, Miss Fannin Davonport, Miss Ads Dyas, Mlns Moud tiranger, Mins Matle Walnwright, aud Misa Miunfo L. Cummwings, Tho last-named Iady made hor fleat appoarance fn New York Mon- day night. §he haa Leon heand from in Chicago Lefore now, Tha porformance in question (s as objectionable In polnt of tastons {tia novel In form. Nobody who can consent to such violenca to Bhakapearo 18 worthy to Intorpret his works, Poter B, Brigham, an old bachelor, disd in Doston Iast wook worth soveral mfflions, When poor boy ho went Inte tho Old South Charch and took & acat, from which tho soxton surlily furncd him out, Tho boy nover agaln enterei s placo of worship until ko was worth in the noighborhaod of fivo millions. The henovolent poople wha ars now terlog to eava the O1d Sauth frony the commerciaf uses.to which it ias. beon devated wish. that the. . acxton of olden timea bad been more tonder with the poor boye, ‘This Leief tala contalus a moral far soxtons; Jel those important officials in tho fu. tare scat the poor Loy who have no trousers to spoak of, and turn tho cold shoulder to the poor boys who wear the latest fashions and neglectto pay thele tailora* bille, : Judgo Digman—one of the men made famous by Mark Twaln's **Innocents Avroad''— has naturally no high opinlon of tho author of that Intordstg work, which, he says, ls **a low pub. Mcation that can only excite the contempt of wiso men and tho godiess laughter of foola,™ The ¥'Judgo" told a roporter how tho book was writ ten: **Why, ho'd lle dawn on his stomach on tho floar, with a whiaky bottle and a tamblee and Ifftle pleces of paper acattered all around the room, And he'd have an old stump of & pencil, and s his ideas came to hiim ho'd crawl around from onc bit of paper to another, and knock over anybody that coms {n tho way, I remonstrated, but ho eald it was bls way of writing, and he couldn't bring vuv hia tdeas on » difficult sabject like our Journeyings in tho East except justin that way.” - The Rev. O, P. MoOarthy, a Univoersalist clergyman, 1a on trial before & church commlilea In Now York onnine charges preferred by the Rev, Mr, Bweestscr. Tho accused was charged with drinking beer and mot paying his debts. Ilste. plied that on the only occasfon when he drank beer prblicly 8 member of the Committee trying him drank with him, snd cslled for wine instesd of beer. Moropver, he expressed his entirs willing- ness to pay hls debts, It the ohurck would seltle the arroars of his W terso statoments throw the Committeo iInto con- fuslon, and, after a briof consnltaticn, the charges referred to wore abandonod, Mr, McCarthy sald ihat the other charges were Instigated by hls pro- decessor {n the paatarsnlp, the Rey, Mr, Bweotser, whom ho described as *a brothor with whit wforal llver” and ‘“an excessively unmarricd man,” McCarthy himself ls an excossively married man, and ke caard nat 811 the place in tha hearts of ‘his young female parishioners which had been so camplately occaplod by Bweotser. Tho defense of Swoetser to the serloua accusation of bolng **exe cesaively nnmarried* has not transpived, Unless 1t Is aatisfactory we must absndon Bwoetser forths with, in spite of his sscchariue and looihsome neme, e i a moral monater, whom It wero base flatiery to call a parson, THE " TIMES' " HISTORIAN. 70 (s Bditor of The Trivine, Cr1oAa0, May 80,~=Tho Tiines of this mornlog bas tho following scntenco; “Mad Dr. Vau Dyke doclared his hecetical bellef in tha salva- tion of juvenile pagans in the hearing of John Calvin, that servant of the Lord would have rosated him alive as promptly as ho did Serves tus, Zwinglius, and six or seyen other rocalcitrant herestarche, Zwiogll was kille ed in battle in October, 1831, when' Calvin, » young man of 23, was aull studylng theology in France, Calvin did not go to Genova until fve years later, The {ron ceformer has been often charged with tho death of Bervetus, but only tho brilliant imagl- Datlon of the 7¥me historisn has syer accused him of *roasting" a man whom ho neyer kncw and who dled in battlo whoa Calyin was s youth. As to the “six or hunn other rfifi- larchs,” thoy were prol :?r:"n hle.;u" & mers ,hlndlul to juako wel;{m!’e as history beard of m:ll& m‘d oot and et | L) ap encyclo) tors to stus ity lustead of attempting to :elolvrc.huwr;l{m‘ of its very uutrustworthy consciousscsal ¥ ——————— JOURNALISTIC, t0 The 711 Dipasch duna, anom. May 80.~Cbapman & Lindsusy bave made arrangements to remove thelr Tus cola establishiacnt o Winops, Mion, A msd by tho name of Walls, from Indians, has bought the Jowrnal subscription list, aud proposes printing aa fudepenaent Kepublican paper. Pho ion Howard bas purchased the Tuscola Heview, o s s Bl g, il . W, Cran ¥ 0 gocs ou the Danvilie Zims as aseoclate editory Vico Maj. Miller, zui