Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 5, 1877, Page 4

- The Tribmare, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. BY MAIL~IN ADVANCE—POSTAGE FRETAID AT ’ TH1Y OPFICE. 2 ids 1 $12.00 it SR e mahiy e tatied t0 sy eddgons tour i tion I 2.50 Baturdar £ X rl-¥eckiy, portpaid, § o0 Parta of 2 year, per mont! o aat one $ 1.23 Ci 1.0, ikt 20,00 Fostase prepald ‘Bpecimen coples sent free. To prevent delay and miatakes, bo sure snd give Post. Oftca wddress in foll, fncinding Stato and Connty. Tiemittances may bemade either by draft, exprass, Fost-Odlice order, or {n regietered letters, at our risk. 7 7ERMS TO CITY SUDSCRIDERS, Tally, dell rered, Bunday cxcepted, 25 cents per week, LDy, deitvercd, Sundsy Included, 80 cents per weak ress THE TRIDUNE COMPANY, Carer Madleon and Desrborn-ta,, Calcagor ik AMUSEMENTS. Flaverly’s Theatre, TNisndolph sireet, hetween Clark and LaSalle, ¢ Eogsgement of Den Thompson, ** Joshas Whitcomb.™ Adelphi Thentro. Monroe street, corner Desrborn, Varlety per- formance. New Chlcago Theatre. Clark street, between Lake sand Raudoloh, Coammandenr Cazenouye, the Prestidigitatenr. Le ‘Tho Tahernacle, Monroe street, between Market and Fraokiln. Cone «<art by the Apollo Club. Base-Ball Park, Btsts snd Twenty-third streets. Champlonship game between tho Chicago and Clnclanat! Clubs, S TUESDAY, JUNE 5, 1877, FO OHIOAGO MARKET 8UMMARY, v The Chleagy produce markets wero less actlve BtV yosterdsy, and most of them rather weak, Mews ‘., pork closed 30@35c per brl lower, st $13.00@ * 13.02% cash and $13.10@13.16 for July, Lard \ closed 16c per 100 s lawer, at $0,07%c cash and 1 $0,16@0.17% for July. Meats were ¥@XKc low- . or, st 4%c per D for looses shonlders, Gi4c for do short ribs, and 6Xc for do shortclears, High- wines were nnchanged, At $1,07 por gallon, Lake frolghts were less activo, at 2¢ for corn to Baflalo. Flour was dnll and unchanged. Wheat clased Go .Jower, at 81.456% for cash or June and $1.40% seller July. Corn closed firmer, at 45%0 for June and 40x¢ for July. Oats closed Xo lower, at 17%c cash and 37%c¢ for July. Rye was qulct, at 70c. Darley was nominally dull, at 60@0%. Ilogs were falrly active at a declino from Saturday of 15¢, closing at $4.00@4.86. Cattlo wero In do- mand at last week's prices, aelling at §1,00@0.00, Bheep wers unchanged. One hundred dodars in i gold would buy $105.82% in grecnbacks at the close. Greopbacks at the Now York Btock Ex. chango yoaterday closed at 943, A lottor from our correspondent at Bucha- « rost is printed this morning, and will be rend with intorost. It describes tho arrival of ¢ the Grand Duke Niomoras at Ploosti, the i headquarters of tho Army of the Danabe, i and his recoption by the clorgy and civil au- thorities, and contains many facts of inter. ost concerning tho railway facilities north, and tho utter lack of them south, of the Danube. {. Meagro particnlars are recelved of atern- i} ble calamity which yestorday befel the Town of Mount Carmel, IlL, the county seat of ‘Wabash County, A tornado swept over tho . placo, destoying property to tho value of 3600,000, and killing and wounding a large number of people. Two churches, two sohool-houses, the Court-House, and many -atores and residonces wore reduced to ruing, +and the breaking out of a fire atill further sdded to tho disnster. s Grodually but surely the lawis restrioting the trades-unions in tho exercise of their tyrannical powers, and ths good of the many is held to bo paramount to tho selfish- j.ig ness of the fow. Tho 'Longshore Union of i+t Now York undoertook to enforce a rulo that t no membor should work for lcss than 40 "3 conts per hour, and expelled some 800 mem- ~31 bers for violation of the rule. Judge Dan. . 1 BETT yesterday rendered a decislon to the .\, effect thatsuch a rule is void becauso op- posed to public policy, and that the mem- ‘bora'oxpolled must be relnatat The Grand Duke Niomozas, brother of tho i Ozar and Commander-in-Chief of the Rus- sion armles, is roported to bave summed up the diplomatic question in the following . t4wrso nad unequivocal languege: Neither s.Jt Bramancs nor Earl Derny will prevont tho ¢l Russians from entering Constantinople na ,j‘ tho Germans ontored Paris—only to leave it 4t{ agnin," TRussia has no designs of perma. nont ocoupation, but she does not propose thnat anybody shall dictate the manner in which her conquests shall be goined. It , will be time enough to discuss tho Lalance , of powor and kindred topies after tho Turka ffg‘ aro whipped and tho war is over. ‘Western men who have bad an intorview with the Prosident on tho silver question are surprisod ot his porfogt familiarity with the subject. Ho is aald to have commented un- favorably upon the aotion of Gov. Currost 4 in votoing the bill passed by the Illinois "| Leglslature, expressing his disapproval of the voto on the ground that it was very 1{ ovident that tho poople of Dlinnls enrncatly f; desired ap opportunity of trying the expori. i,| ment of a gradual remonetization of silver, 7 Prosidént Haxes himself wonld like to sce I: tho experiment triod, and is sald to be con. | ident that it would work sdvantageously to i the interosts of busincss. If he had boen ) Governorof Itlinols he would probably have i deforred to the wishes of the people of tho ! Blaty, and signed the Silver bill which our [ { superior Governor vetood. & A Judgo in 8t. Louis yesterday ruled that $3 the insortion of an udvortisamont in & news- paper soliciting practica in proouring di- vorces, and promising to secure decrees of i {1 lberation a vinculo matrimonit without pub. ) licity, is slauder upon the truo methods of proceduro in courts of justice, tending i to induco the public to beliove that the ) edvertisor possesses cortaln facilities and Fil privileges enabling him to obtain ju- dicial decrees with & dogree of ] secrecy fatal to tho good roputation of the &) fudiciary intrusted with the sacred duty of ‘44 according justico to those demanding it, 1 Justice, thus slandered, the Bt Louls Judge holds, may purge herself of the stigmn by such pssessment of penalty as shall effco- tually extirpate the divorce shyster from the logal profession, sud snuihilate bim in the fgj pnblic regard. Tho recent General Assein- i «‘1 Lly of this State passod a law forbidding the i “ publication of advertisements of thia char- +acter, but the view that common law bas a {remedy for the iniquityis believed to bo % somewhat novel and interesting. ——— + 'The Now York Custom-House Commission yesterdsy bad a consultation with members *of the Chawber of Cowmmerce, tho object . being o roccive sugyestions from the mer- *chauts with & view to securing reforms and " improvements o the collection of customs k] L9 dnties. Mnuy propositions were made, both ‘with rogard to the rules now in force and tho laws governing the Trensury Department in its asdministration of this branoh of the sorv- fece. Tho changes nnd modifications, twenty-eight in number, mostly look to the simplification of the daties of tha customs officers, while at tho same time they will, if adopted, from their very natnre, ronder the perpetration of frauds upon the Govornment or importer much moro difficult than' they have been un- der the presont rogulations, The principal and most fmportant changes ip the laws rec- ommended is the substitntion of specific for &d valorein duties, and the aboalition -of the numerons small fees which have served only 83 an incentive to the rascaily officers to rob and hoodwink the merchants, thereby bring. ing the service into moritad disgrace, Sm— The granite-steal wos yonterday executed by the Bonrd of County Commissioners—a clear steal of §20,000 on its face, since the contract to furnish tho granite work for tho Court-House was awarded to HixspALE ntn sum $20,000 in excess of the proposals of other and perfectly responsible bidders. Tho latter, however, wero not in partnership with the Ring majority of the Commis. sioners; had made no arrangoments to di- vide the profits of the contract; had con- tributed no money for Rountnem to tako to Bpringfield and lobby against the passago of the bill to legislate the present thieves ont of office. Upon the flimsy pretoxt that the Board did not consldor Mr. Gowax a perfectly rosponsible Dbidder the contract s awnrded to HiNspare ab o prico $20,000 above Gowan's proposal, althongh the Iatter expected to mako $20,000 out of the contract at his figures. This matter of responsibility is the stereotyped excuso of tho Ring robbors for plundering the taxpayors, the cover forall their big stealings, Tho public heve como to nnder- stand perfectly that whon the Ring majority objeat to a bidder on tae score of his ro- sponsibility it is anothor way of saying that he haa not fixed things with Peniorar. EX-PRESIDENT GRANT'S ' FREE-TRADE" RECEPTION. Gon. Gnaxt has met with even a moro cordinl and enthusisstic recoption in En- gland than his best frionds and most ardent admirers conld havo anticipated. Heo will probably wish before he gels through with it that ho had not been.welcomed 60 benrti. ly; no man ean hopo to go throngh the long and uninterrupted sorfos of dinner partics that have been 1aid out for him without pny. ing denrly for the enjoyment in the way of indigestion ho will be fortunate it he shall escape a lifelong attack of dyspepsis. It will bo a case of suflering for his conntry. Indeod, it may bo sald of Gen, GranT now that “ jt is swoet and proper to dine for ono's uative land.” For, it is not merely to Granr 88 ex-President or ns the most successful General of his time, but to OGmawr ns ‘“ono of tho ohiefest represont. ativo citizens of tho United States” (as Dean Braxzey put it), that this ovatiin is offetod. A proof of this may bo fonnd In the constant alinsion in all the epeecches made to him to the Protaction system of this country. *T'reo trado” has boen fired off at Gen, Gnant evorywhere ho has been, and on evory possible occasion, In Manchester, tho #x-President came back at the fling with tho most delicate and graceful allusion to the special friendliness of the Manchostor people for tho United States daring the War, and an inferential dig at tho coldnoess or hostility of most otlior scotlons of Englond. It was the most successful and cutting public nttor- anco that Gmant bas ever mado; and it should have been anough, we think, to warn tho othor apocohi-makors to gnard ngainst o ropetition of the manifest impropriety of the discussion. Bat the English do not quickly apprehend, and thoy keop inmmering ¢ freo trade” into Gou. Gmant ot overy halting. placo. It cannot bo regarded as anything but o disagrecablo taunt, and nag such it ia almost importinent, certainly in bad taste, It is vory much asif on ox-Promior of En- gland or the Prince of Wales, on & visit to this country, should bo regaled everywhero by tha Alayors, membors of Congress, and civio authoritios with a rehoarsal of tho manifold blessings of the Protection systom, sud charged with the common high-tariff as. sertion that British gold has beon freely uscd to bribo an abandonment of tho system. An Englishman in this country, occupyingasim- ilar position {o that of Gon. Grayr in En. glaud now, wonld cortainly resent any such welcomo, and it wounld bo rosented at home on hisbehalf, Yot this is precisely the treat. mont to which tho English are subjecting Gnaxt undor the guise of distinguished hos- pitality, Ho far ns English solf-interest goes (and this ovidently cuts soma figure in the mat. ter), it is a mistnke to impresa upon tho Americans in this or any other form tho boueficoneo and virtuo of free trado, Bup- poso the Amoerican Congress should take the English at thelr word and adopt a tariff for rovenuo, Suppose tho United'States duties on cotton and woolen goods, iron and steel, crockery and cutlery, machinery and shipa should be reduced to what they are in Can. ada~from 15 to 20 por centj and, following Eugland's example,weshould placeall raw ma. terial needod in the varlous manufactures on thefreolist. What would be tho effect? The English think that it would open our market to them in such a manner as to absorb all tbelr surplos manufacture, but they do not tako into account the advance that has been achloved in manufactures in this country within tho lnst fifteon yenrs. Our looms, and anvils, and furnaces, and foundries, and wills would thon bo on an equal basls with those of England, with the advanisge in somo fnstances of being nearer tho point of production. Qur factorics would no longor need protection to competo on equal terms in the homomarket ; not merely that, but their products would go abroad in free ships to all the markets of tho world seeking a froo ex. change with tho products of other lands, England would not now be the gainerof a froe-trade departure In this couatry; the English manufacturers would be no better off than they are now in the American mar- ket; and ln other forelgn markets they would encounter the competition of Ameri. can manufacturors, which they now escape, Our manufucturing iutorests are now handi. capped aud crippled by the tariff, which at the same time makos raw material too costly, increnses tho cost of living, enforces retrench. ment In consumption, and shuts out forelgn marketa which prefer to buy whero they can sell. . ‘Weo object to the persistent manner in which the English are thrusting their free trade into Gen, Gzant’s face, not merely be- cause it is in bad tsste, but because their persistent efforts in this dircction will have a tendency to strengthou tho erroneocus no- tion in this country that a movemesnt in the direction of reducing the tarif ig primarily and ospecially in the interest of Great Bri THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: TUESDAY., JUNE 5, 1877, tain. The very reverse of thisia trmo, nad necording to present appoarances tho manu facturers will bo the first smong nll thoso who Liave been infected with the Protection fallncy o discern and acknowledge It It is o pity that Gon, Gmaxr is not onough of a spoech-maker to give England an answer to this eeot; It might reduce the Eaglish an. thusfasm for n repoal of the Amerienn tariff, but such an abatoment wonld only help to remove a false impression which exists in this conntry as to England's inlerest in tho matter, FAILURE OF THE TORKISH CAMPAIGN IN ASIA. It may bo sot down already ns an ne- complished faot that Morxran Pasma, tho Turkish Commander-in-Chief in Asin, has been completely outgeneraled by the Grand Duke Miczaer and his dashing Ohief, Gen. Merixorr, and that tho Turkish campaign in that section is virtually at an end. It is now only a qnestion of limo how soon the TRussinna will occupy Erzeroum, which as a foriress is mot noarly as strong as Kars, which is now invesled, or ns Ardaban and Dajazid, which bave alroady been captured. When Erzeroum falls, then Trebizond, Kars, and Batoum, to which it is thae key, must fall also, and all Armenin will pass into the hands of the Russians, who will most undoubtedly keep it by virtuo of pos- session, and oven if a peace should be speed- ily made, as an indemnily for their tar oxpenses, Ingome degroe, of course, the Turkish failuro {s due to tho wrotohed condition of iis army, It is vastly inforior in numbers to tho Russian. It is poorly of- ficered, and badly armed, clad, and fed. Its communications with Constantinople are en- tirely by sea. While tho Russians have im- proved the time since tho Crimesn war in perfecting their railrond communications, the Tarks, olthongh they havo had muilfons of monsy from England, have not constructed n milo of railrond in their Asiatio posscssions. Thoy have squandered the money, and have no moro facilities for war than they had ono hundred yoars ago. Tho Russians have beon quick to percoive and improve their ad- vantage by striking their heaviest blows in Asin, whilo tho Turks wers looking for them in Earopo, Besides this, Mururan Pasna has been complotely outgeneraled. The hopes which were built upon - the firo' in the renr fomented by the Turks in the dissflected Cancasian provinces have all disappeared. Theso in- surrections have boen quelled with compar. atively slight loss to tho Rusainns, Mean- while the oporations of tho Iinasians at Batoum, who have kept a strong forco thore, Lave evidently beon only n feint to draw off tho attention of Munxran Pasma from the movements of the loft and centre, and they liavo succeeded, Immedintely after the fall of Ardahan it wng ovidontly the bolicf of the Turks that tho Russian forco which had boen {nvesting it would. procced at once to Ba. toum. snd, to offsot it, MumeTan Pasma weakened his army by sending refnforce- monts thers. The Russian force, howover, swept down to tho routhwest to co-operate with the contre, The extromo loft, metn- while, after taking Bnjnzid, commonced mav~ ing northwest, and thus threo strong columna of Rusalans were converging npon Erzeronm whilo the oxtremo right held tho forco at Datonm in check. Tho right and loft wings of those columns having turned the moun. taln passes, whera the Turks expected to mnke a stand, thoy havo been obliged to fall back to prevent being surronnded, until thoir hendquartors are alrendy boyond Erzeroum, with the Russian advaneo within a few houra march of tho place. As Erzoroum in com. paratively defenseless, being opon to attack and not surrounded by natural dofonses liko Batoum and Rars, its spoedy fall is an ab. solule certainty, and with it will end the camipaign in Asla, THE PAPAL JUBILEE. In all the largoe citics of thoe United Btates and in many of the snaller ones there were imposing colobrations on Sunday last of tho golden anniversary of tho opiscopato of Prva IX. Inall parts of Enropo thore wero slmilardomonstrationa, ProsIX. hasrenched that advanced sgo which, with his personally blameless 1fo, disarms ecriticlsm., Tho Christian world rospocts him for his many smiable qualities of. licart, his long life m the service of the Chburch, and joins more or leas ju tho veneration dno to n man of his romarkable sge. Fifty yoars sgo he was elovated to the rank of an Archbishop, and nincteen years lator he was elected Pope. Tho membors of his Chnrch the world over rogard him with eapoclal veneration, and his semi-centennial as Blshop has beon treated litorally s a goldon ons, From all parts of tho carth thero have been sont forward trib. uto in the shapo of gifts, snd in this offering of gold to tho Papal troasury America bas ‘oon most liberal. Tt so happens that at thia very season oo~ cur two of the most devotlonal of the many fonsts of the Church, so that on tha 8d of June the dovotional feelinga of tle Ruman Catholio population were intonsified by the concurrent celebration of - the Papal jubileo, ~—the oclebration of the fifticth anniversary of tho Pope's eplscopal elevation, Under this doop roligious fervor and en- thusiasm thero was more or less in various parts of the world a political sentiment. ‘Therestoration of the temporal sovereignty of tho Pope {4 not now asked or urged by any Governmont; bat nevertheless there ix a son- timent among tho lalty which looks forward to that restoration as among the noar possi- bllitles it not probabilities. In Trance the Church has nlways been a powor fn tho Btato, Though Church and State are no longer offfcially united, the Church has always . been potential for good or for avil in political affairs. A large portion of the prelates and of the minor ¢lergy and religious orders in France have not only favored the restoration of temporal power to tho Pope, but have exer- cired such on influence over the popular mind that both the party of the Bourbon Princes and the party of the BoNararTE asplrants to the throne have honestly or treacherously sought alliance with the Ultra- montanes, in the effort to restore Prus IX, ‘to his political sovereignty. It was under this impulse that President MioMaiuoN was induced to his rupture with the Republicans, and to sttempt by a popular election to secure an Assembly in France prepared to take up army to rostore the Pope. This of course involves o war with Italy and with QGermany, and could only have been suggested by tho possibility of an alliance with England, Austris, and ‘Tarkey. In the gen. eral coavulsion of Europa by such a war, it hasbeen expectod that in some undefined way the temporal sovereignty of the Papacy msy be re-established as part of the read. justment of peace. In some localities in Germany, and in Spain, Belgiom, Hangary, Ireland, Englsnd, aud Poland, this political sontiment may have formed pa.t of the as- pirations of those who shated In the ocele- beations of tho Papal jubii¢e; but this po- litical sentiment in all these places was sup- presaed, and, if oxpressed at all, was but faintly exhibited. In France alono was it mado conspicnona na an end to be roached by atrong and immedinta notion. Outside of France, the restoration of the Papal sovet. oignty was more of » hope than an expec. tatlon, and, boyond a pions expression of a desire that it might bo bronght sbout, no. whero reached the consequencs of a design to apponl to arma to effect it. Mnch indeed of the dovotional ntorest in the ronawal of the Papal sovereignty is coupled with the wish that it bo restored to Prus IX. as n personal gratification to him, rather than as a noed or banefit to tho Chnrch itaelf. The 1ast yenr hins been almost a continnous succession of tributes to the Popo person. ally, and ho seoms to have enjoyed theso visitations from all parta of the world of devotad and zenlous admirers. Though ad. vanced in years and afilicted in health, he has struggled always to meot these pilgrims, and with kind worde and earnest prayors thank and blesa them for their zeal and the substantinl evidence of their affcction, On Bunday last ho made an unusual effort to greot the multitudo of pilgrime In Rome, and it is more than probpblo that he did so oxpecting that it would bo the last anni- versary he would witness. Tho threatened complication of war in which France s to bo theleading participant in o crusade to restore the temporalities of the Church gives inoreased interost to tho health of the present Pope. Ilin demise in the prosent disturbed state of Europe and tho cleotion of hia succossor can hardly fail to complicate the wholo question with in. crensod difficulties, Bat wo think the threatencd war by Franceewill be averted by the good sense of tho peoplo of France, who will repudisto MaoMamox's schemo, At all ovonts, France I8 much nearer a oivil war eonding in the oxpulsicn of tha Monarchists and the wholo Ultrnmontane faction than sho I8 to a war with Italy to rostore tho tewporal power of the Popa in Rome. e —— ROUMARIA'S REABONS, The Politische Correspondenz, ot Vionna, prints tho official toxt of the Noto sent by tho Roumanian Governmont to its agonts, oxplaining the ronsons which indnced that principality to make an alliance with Russia in tho prozont struggle,~rensons swhich assumo on additional importancs now that Roumnnia has followed up the allianco with a doclaration of indepondence, The Nata shows that Roumanin, in pursuance of the advico of tho Great Powors, maintained an attitudeof strict neutrality from the very- Lieginning of the Enstern compliontion, nnd oven during the war between Tarkoy and Servia and Montonegro. As sho had pro- sorved her noutrality through tho earlier stages of the war, when trouble Lotweon Russin and Turkoy beoamo apparent, sho tursod to the Great Powers ugnin for a definite statomont ns to what Ler noutral dutios would be. Astho Powers doclined to make nny statement, she was throwt upon lhor own sesonrcos and waa compollod to chooso her own conrse. At this juncture came a proposition from Russin, with roference to the passago of troopa across her torritory, conched in torma which distinctly avowed no intention of in. terfering with her political status,and sotting forth na n convincing roason that Russin woa tha grand moral agont of tho Groat Powers propared to exeonts a cortain misslon which had boon agrood upon by all these Powers assembled in Conforence, Tho Note pointa ont that in the conventlon bétweon Rou- manis and Ruesin the latter scrupulonsly kopt hor promise by declaring in the very firat soction her recognition of the territorinl integrity and individunlity of Roumania. The convantion furthermore rocogaized the rolationa of Roumania to Turkey by rofor- enco to the Europesn troatica sanctioning theso rolations, Roumauia could not ocon. oludo a similar convention with the Porto, as that would have oxposed hor to the jm- modinte hostility of Russis, nand solf- proservation is alaw of nations as woll as of noture. According to this explanation tha theory of thea Roumantan Government is apparont, Tho convention was signed not for tho purposs of severiug her rolations with Turkoy, but s tho only method of pre. serving hor neutrality, and the Note aflirms she would have malntained this neutrality had it nob been for sggressive ncts. of tho Lurks, liko the invasion of her territory, the seizuro of n large number of her commorelal voasols with thelr freight, tho bombardment of her towns and villages, and the insults of- fored to her agent at Constantinople. In the faco of this nttitude of the Porte, the Noto declares that it **fnlfills & duty by set- ting forth to the Guaranteelng Powors, and to Europo at large, that it was Turkoy who broke the bands conneoting her with Rou. wania. The Roumanian Government'thore. {ore trusts to the sonso of justice amogg the Powors, who will s0e that Roumania can no longor remain nn indifforent spectator, and that it i her duty to take measnres caleulnted to ropol acta of aggression on tho part of the Ottoman Governuent.” Technically, and ns a plece of special plending, the Roumanian Note is an effective document, but stripping it of all jts diplo- watio verbiage it is simply an announce. ment of a compulsory alliance with Ruasia, growing out of the nocessities and instincts of solf-preservation, The RNusaians crossed the frontler of tho Pruth to Roumanien territory beforo any couvention was con. cluded at all, and, onco thare, its soil was ns completely undor Rusaian control as is the soll of Armenia in Asiatio Turkey, To havo offered any protest then would have been to completely endanger her identity os o na- tlon and to bave placed hersclf in the olutches of Rusain, without hopa of redress or compensation. Thoe Turks recoguized tho fact that an imme. diate alliance was absolutely * certain, and after the Nussion nrmy bad occupled Roumauian territory treated her as hoatile. Roumania then followdd tho only possible coursa loft by throwing herself juto the arma of Rusals, declaring her indopendence, aud incorporating her anny with that of the Russiaua, As it was impossible for Ruasia to fight Turkey without ocenpyiug Rouma- nia, a8 Austria would not allow her troops to cross thq Carpatblan territory, Roumania cliose the sofer conrse in Ler dilemma by casting in her lot with the strongest Power, —a course which Servia also would gladly pursuo were it not for the Austrian complica- tions which stand in her way, As an offsct to any hostile critiolsm from the oiher Powers, Roumania can boldly defend hersel? by polating out their refusal to define her meu. tyality whon she asked for it —— After all tho disoussion aboat the project to transfer Michigan avenue to the Bouth Park Commisaloners in opder that the latter may improve It as a boulevard, the only ob- jection from a resident or property-owner that hascome under our notice is that of a cor sespondent whosays that ko prefers thebsavy trucka and scavonger corts to the rcing of horses that would probably follow ti chango in tho condition of the street. This gentle- maon has evidently given little thonght to the subject, or it would have occurred to him that horse.racing will he prevonted by polico rogulations as offectnally as thoe trucks -wiil be kept off tho street. In point of fnat, fast driving would be moro snroly prohibited, and tho dangors therofrom moro certainly averied, under the perk managomont than if the street wore repaved and Joft to the control of tha city police, Tho evidonco is that the sontiment of the entire city, but partioularly of tho Sonlh Division and the residents and property-owners of Michigan avenue, is oxcoptionally unanimons in favor of the proposed change, and the project should bo pushed through just as soon as legal authori- ty for the transfor can be satisfactorily de- termined, As to the authority of the Park Commissioners to assume control of the ave. nue and improve it, if ft can bo given to them, thors is a precedent in tho case of Onkwood boulevard, which lies botween Thirty-ninth and Forly.fitth slreets, and conneots the Grand and Drexel boulevards, As we undorstand tho caso, this driveway was not included in the original pork system, but was dooded by the propor. ty-owners, assumad and improved by them, and now controlled and kept in order like the othor boulovards, If this could be done in tho caso of ‘Onkwood boulevard, thers s no roason why it cannot bo done in the case of Michigan avenue, if the Council has the power to vacate tha street for that purpose, PRACTICAL REFORM IN THE FPUBLIC SERAVICE. The country hna Aeard n good deal about ¢ Civil.Bervico Reform " during the last fow yeors; it ia beginning to scannd foel it under President Haves' Administration. Both tho political partics have mada freo usoe of the phrase for platform purposes, andsome formal attgmpts havo boen fnaugurated fromtimo to timo to develop theories for permanont re- form. President Haves, howevor, and his Cabinet, who are in full sympathy with him, havo set abont a practionl improvement of the service within thoir immediate porsonal control, To start with, they wero free from tho personal attachments that wore conatant stumbling-blocks in the wny of the preceding Administration, nand thoy construed the party pledgos to bo made in good faith, From the very boginning, thorefors, thoy have endeavored to lop off the superfluons officcholdors, to cut down ecxpensos, to replace inofilclont mon with capable sorvants, to: give tho faithful and competent officials nssuranco of a ten- ure of offico daring the term of their commissions and thelr good behavior, and to inculcato averywhero, by deed as woll a8 word, n confidonce that, durlng President Hayes' Administration at lenat, the public servico shall bo mannged in the interest of the people rather than in the interest of . the peoplo’s omployes, or that of parties, oliques, and faotions, Tho prompt, direct, and thorough method of thepresont Administration is mors forcibly fllastrated in tho case of the New York Ons-'| tom-Houso than in any provious applieation of tho now policy. It haslong heon an open socret that the New York Custom-House has beon used as a vast syatem of patronage for the benefit of a certain cliqua of New York politicinng, and it has been suspected that this uss of it has lod to the employment of a much larger forco than would be necessary it employes wero selected with refercnce to their capobility. Tho Commission which was appointed somo weoks ago to investigate the . Custom.House affairs found thnt the systom of political appointment bad introduced n numboer of inefMclont per- rons, and that ‘compotont men, by extonding the hours to ordinary business hours, could perform the required acrvice better aftor a reductlon of 20 per cent of the forco (cutting off nbout 200 employes) then it is now performed. As this report advisod o precodent which would affect moro or lese nll othor departments of the public service, Becretary Buenarax did not onra to aot upon it of his own motion, and referred it to tho Presidont for diractions. The Pres- ident's reply camo promptly, and, as it would bo impossible to condense in a shorter spaco than his lettor the principles which are to govern the service under his Administration, e reproduce it Exzcurive MaxsioN, Wasnmoetox, D, C., May 20,~The Ion. Jahn Sherman—My Dxan Sin: 1 havo road thio partial report of the Commission ap. polnted to oxamine the New York Custom-llouse. 1 concar with tho Commisslon tn their recommend- ations, Tf s my wish that the collection of roy- enncd should be **frea from partlean control, and organized on a stnctly busincss basls, with the aame guarantees for eficlency and fdelity la the acloction of chief and subordinate officers that would be roquirc® by a prudent morchant.” Party leadera shoald have no more indaence In appoint. menta than other equally respectablo citlzens, No assesaments for polltical purposes on ofiicers or aubordinates shonld bo allowsd, No uaclessoff. cer or employa should bo rotained. No officer ahould bo required or permilted to take part In tha management of pulitical arganizations, cancunes, conventions, or election campaigns, Thelr rizht to vote and expreastheirviews on pablio questions, either orally ar through the press, is not denled, provided it does net interfere with the discharge of thelr official duties. * Reapectinlly, R. B, Harzs, All thisis in kesping with the practices of tho early Adminlstrations of the Govern- ment, emphatically enforced by Jerrenson, and formulated in an official order by Gen. Iannisox, If Haves'life bo spared to him, ho will accomplish all that Hinzison hoped to achleve; nud the accomplishmont will bo the speedier and more offective becausa he may rely upon the hsarty co-operation of those whom he has assoclated with him in the chief Governwont offices. Tho depart- ments of Washington have alrendy boen stripped of hundrods upon hundreds of su. perfluous omployes add worthleas clorks; arrangemeants havg beon made for a reduction of tho army and the consolidation of the Pension Agencles; and now the Custom. House abuses aro to be remedied, Itisall dono in & business-lika way. As a business man, in these timos, reducos his working force to the smallest efficlent number; aa he employs mon without reforence to soms ex- tranoousservice they may have rendered some. body else, but with regard to their merits; as be does not permit them to fritter awsy the time Lo paya for in dolng other people serv- ice; as he sdvances those who show them- selves most efficient and faithful in his bes half, and drops thoss who lack,the ability or fidelity to serve him,—so President Havza proposca that the United States shall bo served in its Governmental capacity, Men ambitious to go to Congress must find some other asylum than the Government depart- ments for their blowers and strikers; the manipulators of local conventions must look for their sgents outside of the Custom- Houses and Poat-Offices; partisan service in running caucuses, packing primary meetings, and diotating nominations will henceforth be & disqualification instcad of a recommenda- tion for public employment. President Hayza is n04 a candidate for re-cloction, aud monel allver from the legal circulation of any State or ni duces canfusion of values. can gorve his country rather than his own political aspirations, For tho actual reform of the public sorv. fco, practico is infinitely botter than theory. The country knows that it will now onjoy tho benefit of an improvement in tho publia offices, of n rotronchiment In public expensos, and of a purifiention of party politics during the prosont Administration. The practical benofits of this change, already apparent, will bo striking by contrnst before the timoe for tho next Presidential nominations. Tho people will hiavo learned by exporienco the ndvantages of the new system, and will not be likely to permit it to bo d{splaced by the old. The new rules will have takon go strong a hold npon the country as to provail, inall probnability, against $ho machinations of the professional office-huntars, who will ba protty well demoralized by that time. Ervon the next Congrens that shall be eleated may be composed of mon so thoroughly in sympathy with the new scliool of politios that Cinil-Servics Reform may be given the force and pormanenoy of law; nand it will -not be surprising it President Hares' prac- tical, individual efforts, sustained by the chief men associated with him and the pop- ular sentiment of the country, may plant the new seeds no thoroughly that it will be fm- possible to provent their growing and boar- ing fruit for the future as woll aa during lis Administration. EX-ATTORNEY-QENERAL TAFT OF SILVER. Ex-Attorney-General Tary has lately been glving expresslon {o his judgment upon the question of remonctizing tho silver dotlar. He declares tnat In his opinion the act of Congress demonctizing sllver was a mistake; and, whilo not supposing the law was passed by stealth, publlc attention was never ealled to it {n such amanner as to sccute any considerablo delib- ecration on tho subject. In the Great Haves. ALLEN campaign of 1875, {n Olily, the question of specte rosumption was tho solo lssuo of tho eampatgni yet Mr. Taft declarcs that thoss who discussed the. matter of paper monoy and currency generally in that campalgn "woro hardly aware that silver was not a legal tender without Nmit."" After an carnest dis- cussion of scveral polats, Mr. Tarr concludes a3 follaws: Now, if we recnr to ghe world's carrenc) nfg:!d and allver, which from tline immemorial has been tha moasure of all yaluesd, with auch exceptions as our recent experiment with papor-money, we shnll find that onr ideas, and the world's ideas, of valne havo ail been fonnded upon she guality of the nreclons metala that have boen made “avallable by the Industry of man. 1€ that quantity bad been greater, the price of all propert g‘lhmnghvul the world wonid have been less; 1f that quantity had been leas, the price of all property would “have been less, Not that all tho silver arit gold in tho world s er!unl to all the other properiy in the world, but that It has formed the measure of all values, and if silver hadnevor been nsed as manfl{ and gold liad been tho only medium, prices would have becn proportionadly lcss,' Now, wa may ossume that the quanti of avallable gold and sliver tn the world 1s about $10,000, « and that silver conatitutes in ' valua 000,000, about anc-halfof that amount. 1If sliver were to Do atruck from the currency of the worlil, leaving goldalone, it fs nufle:uzcle‘ru my mind that the values of all proj e"l‘ ronghost the world wauld be, yery materially affected, - Prices mightnot bo rednced in the proportion of one-hall, but they would ba_very materlally roduced throughont the watla, and whaaver should te (o debs when sach reductlon took place would hava to pay more than ho contracted for. Now, although It is trne that nelther England, nor Uermany, nor the United States has powor to demanetizo aliver throaghoat tho world, snd faus to affoct the valuea of ll'fllfi{ would bo aftecied hy the univorsal de- zntlon of that metal, yetthoe striking of on tends In the same airection, and pro- It egoms to mo pars 0 pa ticalarly unwiso for the United States to roject siver from the clrcalation, and thus depreciate its value, for tho roasan that ¢ greatest sllver-producing natlon in the world, and ho United Htates fa the 2lso because we ara greatly Indobied, at this pres- ent time, to Enpland, which Is the greatost gold- producing conntry in the world. My beliof Is, that by the romonetization of the silver doliar (s yalue will soos: be found to be cqual to the gold doilar, In this I ml‘ Do mis- taken, but we are fairly bound to try the experle micne, For when, throe years ago, thesllver dullar was demonetized. it was ‘more valuable than the gold dollar, and I knoiv of no plan by whicli we can ancertaln truly the relative valne of the aliver and gold dollar, with the ratio of sixteon to one, which Is onr American ratlo, except by re-enncting the law whick was ropeal ——e—— Collector 81mstoxs, of Boston, was appolnted through the influence of Gen,"Butren, aud” Lias since beon spoken of in many quariors as the representative of that gentleman's intorests. 1t was expected that President Harms would hasten to ordor the rumoval of BimMoxs, on tha score that ho Las been too largely engaged in packing caucuses and nominating conventions. But tho President has {ssucd no order for re- moval, and tho Bostan Advertiser Is disposed to inquirowhy, and to expresadisappointment at the protection afforded by the reform Adininistra~ tlon toso unworthyan officer. Tha causeof the present rotention of Stmaons is given by tho Boston Qlwbe fn the shape of a copy of the memorlals and letters of credit nddressed tothe President on his behalf, Among those who ap- pear as the sponsors for Srusons are Cov. Rics, Lieut.-Gov. Kwiont, ex-Gov. Gasron, Gov, Cuzxnr of New Ilampshire, Gov. Cox- NoR of Malue, Gov.-Elsct DPrmscorr of New Hampshire, tho President of the Massa. clhusetts Benate, the Bpeaker of the House, all tho members of tho Governor’s Exccutlyo Coun- cl)y tho Mayor of Boston, the Ropublican mem- bers of the City Councll, and 800 merchants of recognized standiog in the community, ropro- sonting nearly all the forelgn commerce ot the city. Thero has eeldom been a larger testimonlal to the cofficlency, of a public oflicor; and the Presldlent may well hesitato, in the face of such an cxpression of confidence In the integrity of S8imusows, to order his removal. - Many of those who have now written to the President on behalf of Bix- MONS wore earnestly opposed to the original ap- polntment, which secms to prove that the Col- loctor has not been 8o serviceabloto BUTLEE as ho was expected to be. S —————— b 1t {s s mournful truth that Gam Hamuron will nevor unravet herself, Her scold No, 7 was published In the New York Tyibune last Batur- day, It Is atwo-column article,devoted, for the sccond time, to the Journal and the Advertiser of Boston, The first broaiside dfd not hit any one, 8o she fires agaln. Gair's tangled skelnnt hate shaws lcr to have an impish, implacable, and Irrcconcilable thirsting ™ for vengeance against Mr, BLAINE'S opponents, et 1What we, the people, desire to kmow,"” says Gaw Haminron. ' Bpeak for yoursell, Qaitl ‘The people want to know only why you infitct them with Caudle lectures, aud what claim you lave to sct yourself up as & censor of polities aud the press. Tho *pettlcost barricade’ of Bax BowLxs has becowa 8 fortress; buta man's shoes atlck from .under the works, and work from slds to slle to show thelr owner la not dead yet. ——— The Mexican question being settled for tho time, now for Cuba. Becrotary Evarr is dolug nobly, A littlo more practice and we can dou- bloour diplomatic fists under the diplomatic noscs of all the Buropean Powers. Tue brosd- ax style of the Administration fs most remarka- Ule. It {s better than the ponkoife system, which did & vast amount of whittling with a very small amount of chips xs s result. r—— TWEED has swallowed himself, 84 the Attor- poy-licneral of New York has returncd him lis confession, according to the New York Tridune, snd will not use bim as 8 witness, Besides the ‘process of extraordinery deglutition to which ‘we vefcr, tho. venerabla prisoner of the Ludlow Btroot Vatican leaves an unenylablesmirch upon a good many reputations. Mr. Twaxp is to bo copgratulated on hils aigestion. et —— ‘Tho “machine politiclan* bas at last found s gefender, Tho Deover Tribume defends him., Hora Is a bit of its plea: + The machino politician ls, m?. Just now the wiost abuscd man in the coontry, Yct ho 1s ove of the nocessary phyeical furces in the operation of sll scacmes of political reform. Ha is. ‘a8 1t wers, tho material supploment 10 the morsl force sup- plied by the puf, aplrit. . Isws well to diguify party campaiguers and . raporty to sach an extont | party generals and generalships. It is woll, alto, Lo changa officers and to promote from the ranks. Under machine politiclans this never happened, and the old fellows held tho forts of power and preferment antil they dled, Is it possiblo that tho Denver Tribune cditor hns been degraded to the ranks that he thus op- poscs tho radieal reformation which the people demand In party management? —————— No bummers’ mectings for France, Mao Manon knew what deviltrles thoy could pro- voke, and a0 prohibited political gathorings of aver twenty persons, and elfminated ward poljs tics, French style, with the dash of bis name, A littlo of this MacManon-ian daring would bo a blessing to this country, —— Mr. TILDEN nuthorizes the New York Sun to deny that he over approved the Elcctoral Com. mission scheme, Who cares for Mr. TiLDEN or hisapprovall Notasoul. And the Sun would have denfed tho astatement just as quickly if Mr. TiLpax bad kopt quiet, ———— The Becrétary of the Navy, In company with the hends of varlous Departments, wiil atact this week to Inspect Northern mavy-yards. It is within the memory of man when such an. nouncements really meant fishing excurslons, to siate it mitdly, ——————— Mr, Bunsxr Cox {s described as walking “the Niagara of affairs lika a canary-bird.” Just sol He makes no {mpression on thoso afairs, and therelore and because he (s liko canary-bisd he cannot ba a statesm| — Boston has been outraged. [Lho great Ricr- CooL1pon scandal casa {a to be teled (n private, This reservation of n vast amount of nauscous informntion will disappoint many venerables of both scxes. ¢ i 14Tho sight of sin softens and subducs,” eays A. DronsoN AzcotT, ‘the conversatlonalist, That will not apply to our city and caunty plunderers, so far as the robbed public fs cou- cerned. f The Milwatikee Sentind i pralsing the Prest. dent lavishly, Its editor probably wants & pass. port to Ears-room, f Nuraing bottles are not wanted at Washing- ton. The now partics don't live long cuough to need them. f Good-by to the word ‘Czar! Tzar fs now ala mods, May ho prove a T-zar for tho Turk! | Wil justico grah tho “ Ring * thioves with a 1 ompty haud ia tho question of tho day. PERSONAL. % A son of tho late Francis P, Blair, Jr., will graduate st West Polnt this year, ranking twolve in a class of soventy-seven, 5 Monsrs, James R, Osgood & Co. have put up & tolephone for use between thelr counting. room and thelr printing-office. This Is the first in stance of tho practical application of tho new in- ventlon. b Ono of tho Now York ohitnary writers eays that the Harper periodicals bring in an annual profit of half a million, while the whole manufac- turing businossamounts to §3,000,000 yearly, one- third of which is profit, . A Mr. Luoius Robinron, of New York, hng been appolnted‘General Mansger. of the Montreal, Portland & Boston Railroad; and thero {sconsider. able anxloty to know whethor this {mportant per. son cau be alsa the Governoe of the great Stateat ‘Now York, who has tho same name, Mr. Ernatus Byooks, who retired Friday from tho New York Exprese, afterasorvice of forly. one years, Is,'with tho excentlon of Mr, Dryant, the oldest journalist In tho city, ITe saysin his farowell that 113 daily nowspapers have stazted nnd fatled ln New York City sinco hio Legan, ‘Tho Hon, J. H. Oberly has loased his news- paper 1or the term of his offico as Rallroad snd ‘Warehouse Commlssioner, Thials sathor an un- usual arrangement, 'Tho ralnc of nowapaper prop- cely s g0 enally affected by bad management that fow praprietors care to taka tha risk of s lease, Mr, F. T. Palgrave writes to the London Timas onnouncing his intontlon to retira from the contest for the Oxford Poetry Professorship. lio would not have entered upon it had ha known In Febenary last that *'a candidate with qualifca. tions, both literary and porsonal, s0 high as those of Principal Shalrp, waa coming forward,” #*When should I waar thia dross?” asked alady of Worth, the Parls man-mililnor, **It is too high for evening, too alry for a promenade, and not light enough for dinner,” **Mademe," replled Worth, ** I mado this drcas to bo worn bo- tweon 4 and 8 o'clock; mota momont befare, aud not a minute aftor." Mr. Le Clear, tho paintor, has just finished & three-quarter 1ife-size portralt of Mr, Ocorgo Dancroft, the bistorlan, which was formally pro-~ sented to the Century Club, at whose order It was painted, Saturday night. Tho New York t'ost says: **The portralt v a noble plece of painting, snd challenges comparlson with Mr. Le Clear's beat work.” Gen. Grant will not be, as stated, tho first American to recolve the frocdom of iho Cliv of London fa & gold bux, that office having been cone ferred mpon AMr. Georgo Peabody, The Englishe men did Mr, Poahody honor, however, for hls serv- Ices to England, and to London particularly, whila in the csse of Gen. Grant the bonor will be con- forrod for hlascrvices to his own country and the world. Mr. Larkin G, Moade, the sculptor, shows {0 Room 21, Erening Post Building, & dosign for comploting the Washington Munumentin Wualing- ton, D. C., without oxpending mora than tho $200,000 niready appropriatod, A 'atatuo of Gen. Washington standing in military costume,soventy~ five feet Ln helght, is to surmount the shaft now partly completed, and make the cotire atructuro 254 feot high. Gen. Granthad a vory enthusiastio recep- tfon in England, but it §s to bo hoped nobody will forget on that sccount how 200 Liverpool mer- chants fited oat, mannod, and provisioned tha. Dritish pirate Alabama to proy upon our commerca dating oar Civit nd, on recelpt of the news of Doll Ran, Ia o Averpool Exchange-room, nine heasty choers wore given for the Boulborn States of America, Dr. Charles F, Dooms, pastorof the Church ©of tho Btrangers In New Ynrk, explains thatha ls able to preservoe health becsuse ho observes Baturdsy sscredly as rest, Bunday ls for him, as forll clergyinen, a dsy of work, and ho roakea np for the Joss by sleeping from late ¥riday night unitl Saturday afternoon, Jt1s to be Inforred that Dr. Decme regacds slceping s & proper way of observing the Babbath, —a very scnsible opinlon. Mayfair, the new English weekly, has this frrevorent paragraph: *‘Once mors the New ‘World haa been called fn to redress the wrongs of the Old, and Mr, Christlo Murray, afior having his offers as s special war correspondent tejected by somo London dally nowspapers, has become tho chle! comor-stone of the Cbicago Times. lHo set out for Aula Minor on Thursday night, and bls chamber-door now bears tho legend, ‘Gous to Datoum; back a¢ half-past 2.'** The declination by Mr. Schneider of the mission o Bwitzerland |4 unfortunate in mors than one reepect, Though Chicago goins In not lostng him, {8 1o possiblo that all readere of the Atlantio Manthly will now be called upon to mourn for Mr. W, D. Howells, who was an unsuccessful cane didste for the office when Schneldor was appolat- cd. The 8t Louls Glods rematks mallclonaiv: */0f course Mr. Howells is a native of Ohlo. Ho was born {n Ashtavula of that wonderful State, and Mved there until & few yoars sgo.™ In & new Look of reminiscences by Col. Wickham Hoffman, ‘enfilled **Camp, Court, and 8lego, " a charactorlatic anccdote fa told illustrat- Ing the diferonce between the principlesof Qea. Grant and those of Gen. Butles. Grant held (hat no commanding officer could in the end bo succcss- ful if he were niot honedt. Butler Insited, oo the other bsud, that he could usa the ability of dis- honest mon while protecting the publio sorvice froms bsrm from their dlshonesty. *‘One ovea- fog," says Col, Hoffman, *‘ss we aat befure his tent, Grant obscrved that he bad (hat doy scod orders to remove & certain Genaral frow high com+ mand in the Weat. Icxpresscd wy sarprise, aod sald that | bad aiways anderstood, and from army men, too, that the officer in question waa ouo of tho bast of our voluntcer Qeaerals. Graut tovk his cigar from his mouth, and remarked, in his ulu‘knwu. ‘He's t00 much mized up with cote oz