Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 17, 1877, Page 3

THE CHICAGO The Tribrne, s TERMS OF SURSCRIPTION, BY MAIL—IN ADVANCE—TFOSTAGE PREPAID. Pally Rditton, ane yeas s Tis Of & yOSr, per me «IK) Mied to gny mi i Bunday 3:38 690 gt WELKLY EDITION, POSTPAID, Qne copy, per year., Clubof ten.. ‘To prerent deiay And misiakes, he sre and give Tost. Ofice address in full, includiog State and County. Remitiances may be mado elther by draft, express, Tost-Ofice order, or In registered letters, at our risk. TERMS TO CITY BUHSCRIDERS, Dally, delivercd, Sunday cxcapted, 23 centa per week. Datly, delivered, Sunday Included, 70 cents per week. Addrees THE TRIBUNE COMPANT, Coraer Madison and Deatbo Chicago, Tt SOCIETY MEETINGS, APOLLO COMMANDERY, NO. 1, RNIGHTS TEM. TLAL-Kpecial conciave ay Asylam, 72 to 73 Monroo. L, on Tuewiay nfitrnoun hexi, June 10, eommencing 3 oclock prompt. Alw, ‘siated conelave o the at's: evening at Rocluek. During the afternnon and evens ing thie Order of tie Temple whl he conferred Hpon eluht candidstes, mid It s hoped (hat as maoy Eir Enightoof s Commandery as can make it eonveni- ent wiii be pres o1 l:le :lfllccfl in thelr work, Sir_ .l siranger BIF Knights alw sister Cammanderies and welcome, 11y order of the & DUNLOU] Kecorder. Coltimn Ludie, N cordfally invited: WM. NATIONAL LODGE, No. 300, A, F. and A, M,— fiated Communication will bo held ‘st thetr hall, eor, alsted sod Handolpt-ate, Tuestay vening, Jube i ats o'clock. work on thie M. M. Degree. ‘Vislting vestbpraoonlinily lntived. YgoRiss el o BLATR 1LODGE, NO. 303, A, F. and A, M.—Speciai ‘ Mckilon Monda7. 18t inet.. A4 i, . Regulkr Efi?flfi'x’g“fifl&"fi " Work on the Third Degree. Visitlng brothiren weleome: o 1) ONNELL, Becretary, GOURGAR CIIAPTER OF ROSK CROIX will hold a HERS AR S AN AL T T B R, S o e B e ED. GOODALE Grand ectetarr. CORINTHIAN CHAPTEI NO. 63, R. A, M.— oL, Ok e T A D e pr e 868 e 1A % e i ATCRAWESRD, 1. P. J. 0. DICKERSOY, See. JUNE 17, BUNDAY, 1877, CHIOAGO MARKET 8UMMARY. Tho Chicagy produce markels were rather qalet Satarday, except In wheat, and generally tended downwarda.” Mess pork closed 2b;c per brl lower,at £12.006,12.62}5 for July and SI2.724K@12.76 for Angust. Lard eloscd 7%4c per 100 bs higher, ot 88.75@R. 7734 for July and $8.85@8.87% for Angust. Meats were firm, at 43¢ for loose shoul- ders, G%c for do short ribs, and 6%¢ for do short clears. Ilighwines were unchanged, at 81.07 per gallon. Lake (reights were dull, at 20 for corn to Buffalo. Flour was quict snd casier. ‘Wheat closed 3@7%c lower, at §1.403 for cash or June and $1.44% for July, Coru closed % @3 lower, at 44%c cash and 46)c for July. Oats cloned easy, at 38!4c cash and 37c for July. Tyo was dull, at 64%@03c. Barloy was offered at 85@00c for mew, acller September, Ilogs were 10¢ per 100 s bigher, at 84.0024.00, Cat- tlo were dull and casler, snd sheep nominal at $3.0025.00, One hundred dollars in gold would boy $105.12% in greenbacks at the close. . In New York on Baturday greenbacks wore worth 954@95} centa on the dollar, —_— The Indian Burcau at Washington might notice the Konuck fashion of fighting rod. gking, When tho savages kick over the traces in Canada, they sond a policeman to arrest them. Minnesota's tornado appears to have dona more damago than at firet roported. Honses and barns “wero carried away or nnroofed, and farmers in thoe track of the whirlwind suffered heavily in the I e — Tha sholition of the offico of Coroner in Afossachusetts scems to have created some littlo spprehionsion in the mind of Mr. Dietzsca, who argues well against an oxton. sion of the schema to inclnde his bailiwick. 3r, Apa, of Newburg, having been noti- Sed from Washington that ho could not col- lect atamps ns President of the Common Council and sell stemps o8 Postmaster, re. marked thot ho didn't core Apax for the wmunicipality, and resigned. o i — The Presbyterinn General Assembly nt Tnlifax are trying the Rev. D, J. McDoxy. weeL for lack of faith in the eternal punish- ment of the wicked. The Doctor replics, in substance, that ho does not entertain a doubt that the uaturally depraved go to—Halifax, An intelligent correspondent at Constanti- noplo hn discovered that the crafty Russian is whooting ducnts into the pockots of the mild but treacherons Mussulinan, and that to ikis pombardment aro to be attributed the inetliciency und want of care and the bad eouduct of th rkish forces, Kexyerr Raron, tha new Holloltor of the Treasury, is 70 years old, and for somo time hius buen a resideat of Mississippl, In 1839 he was clected to Congress by the Whigs, and just before thp expiration of Gen, Graxt's term he wos nowinated ns one of tho Commissionors to Rovise the Statutes, but the nomination was not confirmed, — Grent preparations aro under ‘way fora grond yackt race in front of the city noxt Haturday, Prizes aro plentiful, and the pros. " pect tluttering. Chicago now Loasts nearly twenty good yachts, and the impetus to the sport given lust year by the race between . the Frolic aud Ina is already manifest in the interest slown in this siason's campaign, Tho Attorncy-General having dooided that the Trensury can replaco lost or destroyed fractional currcncy with silver, provided the .#ilver and the currency in actual circulation do not exceed £50,000,000, Becretary Bnes- ax hos issued an order in accordance with the decision. Up to 3May 31, 1877, the issua of fractional curronucy was o little over 821,. 000,000, snd the amount destroyed nearly £9,000,000, A rogged bandit named Mremanpo having had tho functions of the Mayoralty thrust upon him by Esconzpo's capture of El Pazo, Mexico, riscs bravely uuder his load of temporary rospectalility and says he can, if Lo likes, drive every American out of the n. It may Lo necessary to send a couple bles over from Toxas to protect rom outrage by this bold he Mexican army. bullets, Firxnnix fled, but was soon after- wards found, with a piztol ball in his head. The murderer and suicide was a wealthy man, but it is a pity he conld not have been spared to tell an admiring audience that liguor brought him to the gallows. With a view to avoiding n painful scene, Collector ArTaun skipped off to bid Covxrive good-by, while his private sccrotary organ- ized himself into an inquisition and knocked off the honds of four deputics. The reduc- tion was in accordance with the recommenda- tion of tho Custom Honse Commission, but tender-hearted Antnus shrank from the per- formauce and buried himself in wmore con- geninl pursnits while the heads wero rolling about. A sort of holy wnr,'nrh ng from a discus. sion as to whether the Indians shall bo saved in the Protestant or Catholic faith, is rnging aronnd Oka, Canada. Not eatisfied with the complication in which the case had been in- volved by loarned comusel employed by tho savages, the members of a tribe have en- deavored to precipitate n settlement by bnroing & church and scaring n priest. A large force of police, nrmed with breech. loading warrants, are in hot pursnit of n chance to got away, and the matter has been turned over to the lawyer, who complncently dacides that it will tako five yoars to offect an arrangement, — An article appeared in Washington yestor- day, said to be semi-official and to reflect tho Prosident’s. fiuancial polioy. It represents that, whatever coursa Mr, HIAYEs may pursuo rogarding tha silver ‘question, the business intorests of the nation will bo protected; that, in the present depressed condition of finances, it i8 deomod wisdom, by postpon- ing the speedy payment of the public debt, to reduce taxation; that the rcsources of the country should be developed by exten- give public improvemonts; that the public sccurities shonld bo popularized by low rates, and that long.term bonds shonld be encouraged; that tho silver dollar should bo -romonetized and tho greenback redeemnble therewith, and that all bonds issued before or since 1883 shonld be payable in gold coin, —_— Aftor a careful review of tho situation, vessel-owners on tho lake have conoluded that something must be done to reliove themeclves of the present pressure, but the question is, What ? At a moeting yestordny two pooling plans were submitted, not dif. foring widely, but standing on their merita for practicability,. One was tho systom adopted by the Buffalo Conventlon, to with- draw about one-half the tonnage, each own- or to pay a percontage of recoipts into the hands of a treasurer, and the pool to be dis- tributed among tho vessels in proportion to carrying capacity, The other plan pro. posed that the propeller lines with- draw tonnage proportionate to the amount of eail capacity in oxcess of the demand; that all vessels bo registered, n tariff of rates bo -established, and & superintendent ap.’ pointed to charter vessels in their turn, Not a great deal of interest wns manifested in oithor scheme, but the Buffalo plan was adopted with apathetic nnanimity, — IREVITABLE OF PUBLIC ROBBERY. A prineiplo of retributive justico seems to follow tha dishonest acquisition of wealth, and this {s conspicnously illustrated in the cnges of the men who have plundered tho publio gince the War. Théero wers mauny and large fortunes made during the War, and many of thess havo long since beon dissi- pated. W disclaim any purpose to queation gonorally tho honesty of tho means by which wenlth was 60 rapidly acquired during the War. Even in transactions directly pertain- ing to that period thero were numerons and profitable instances of fair dealing. Thero wero fortunes made in legitimate trado, and in speculative ventures of all kinds. Some of these hava survived the ups and downs of financo and trade, but many of them have long since departod ne suddenly as they came, It is not in respect of these cases of the acquisition of wealth that we writa; the casca to which we refor at thiu time are thoso of men who havs got rich in oftice and.out of it by plundoring and robbing the public. The money thus acquired seetns to carry with it tho most destructiva propertles. 1t faily to stick to the hands that have grasped it; it scems to tako wings aud fly away, or to decay or evsporate; atall events, to diminish or disappearrapidly, It seems to attract to the owner the cspecial attention of those intent on plundering him, ,Tho owner of dishoneat wenlth seeks to purchase friend- ship, aud to purchass friondship 1s but, ju the language of the police, to give himsclf awny, 1If ho stand in nced of mny service, the knowladgo of Low ke got his monoy in- vites extortion. He is considered lawful prey to all who live by proylng., Though he wny circulato freely in society, and by virtue of his monoy be welcomed and recoguized in polite circles, evory thief will estimato him at Lis true merit aa a thiof, aud treat Lim as ono of the fraternity. From a consciousness of this 1ast fact there s no escaps. 'Tho man kuows what ho is, and knows that through the thin veil which is interposed between his real cliaractor and soclety there ars but few who do not seo that all e has is due to dishun- esty., Though no man ever roproaches him, he reads or imagines he rends reproach and contempt in evory face he meots, The monoy is forover burning holes in his pocket, Buddenly acquired, not by labor, or toil, or abilily, but by meroly sinking Lis monhood, and through false swearing and the forging of o fow fgures, this wealth, to which he hind been a stranger, and which far exceeds his anticipations, becomes a burden, Naturally he plunges into expendi- ture. One extravagance begets another, un- til, with new labits, the outgo becomes a lurgo and rapid one, Then come the barples who demand a divislon,—his less fortunato accomplices in crime, men who can, if so dispoaed, *squcal,” and lay bare all bis transactions, and subject him to vulgar ac. cusations, trials, and suita in courts,—to these he has to pay out with a liberal hand, Thoy are literally avengers, not of the Gov. ernment, but of betrayed aud outraged jus- tice, Lot any man call over in his mnemory the nemes of thoso whohave within the last five years become conspicuous for their frauda upon the Government ju whisky and in municipal steals. It was estimated that iu Chicago and St. Louis, during the oxist- euce of the Whisky Ring, the Govern. ment was defrauded of not lessthan five mill. ionsof its lawful rovenue. This was divided | mmong the participants, extending from the revenus officers at Washington through all the nitications of the service, and to all those ged in the business. Where are thiose socketed this fund, snd what has be- "1 enormous sum of money? In municipal frauds, covering a apgregated not less than dollars. Whero are the Fdxin money, and what has ey itself? For a time the ded in woalth, They lived \ TRIBUNE: BUNDAY, JUNE 17, 1877—SIXTEEN PAGES. \ N, in the most extravagant and riotona man. ner, The jll-gotten gains seemed to bo ineshaustible, Then cameo the arrest, tho broaking up both of the legitimato and the illegitimnte transactions, then diegrnce, humiliation, and in niost eases abject poverty. It haos fared no better with tho. municipal thieves in New York, For a whilo they were millionnires, and lived as millionaires do who believe that the main use for money is to spend it for personal gratificntion in dress, Inxnrious living, and in display. Tho world did not offer sufficient objects to meet tho ambition of these men on which to spend their money, 'I'WEED was nn object of pity as woll ns of derision decked out in a dinmond pin rivaling in size the Kohinoor, Then came the inovitable break, the flight, tho exile, the pursnit, the disgrace, the com. pulsory restitution, aud tho reduction again to poverty nnd, in some cases, waot, Providence, or somo other power, sesms to hiave raised up another clnss of citizens to complete whataver mny bo lacking in the or. dinary oporation of rotributive justice in the casg of those who plunder the publie. Wo havo roferred to tho Whisky Ring and the New York municipal gang as illustrations, but the same rosult atten:ds il similar prac- tices wherever and whenover they tnko place. Itis as inevitable in onr own munie- ipal affaivs as it has proved to bo true in other places, Tho class of persons who are called in to finish the work of retributive justico in cascs of this kind ave the members of the legal profession. When the brenk takes placo in the successful progress of tho public robler, counsol have to bo em- ployed. The assels of the {mplicated party aro lnstily but thoroughly mar. shaled, and the counsel secure to them. selves smplo compensation, Then onsues a struggle ovor tho remainder, and day after day the contest progresses, until at last, whatever may have boen the dishonest gains of tho accused, thoy are absorbed by those who are engaged in conducting the legal pro- ceedings for or agninst him. Financially, the substantial resuit is that the publio re. covers nothing, and the prosecuted mon is stripped of overy dime of his dishonest goins, and {s tarned out bankrupt in charac- tor and means, It will bo difcult to recall tho namo of any of these persons who have cnriched themselves at tho publio exponso who has boon ablo to retain nny of it: what his own extravaganco, recklessness, and new- Lorn tastes have spared has generally, whers legal proceedings Liave been instituted, fallen into the hands of those members of the legal profession whose wervices have boen engnged. Tho legal profes slon, therefore, may be considered ns the inovitablo receiver of the residuum of all money stolen from the public which may not have been madoe awny with beforo legal prosocutions aro {nstituted. When these lo- gnl procecdings stop, it may bo considered all the money is gono; so long as suits are pondiug and vigorously defended, it may bo considered thot thoro is something left of which the man has not yot been stripped. The moral of this is, that the man in office or out of office who contemplates frand upon tho public, may take it aa inevitable that, ovon if he succeed in enriching himaclf dis- lLionestly, bis enjoyment of the money will be a painfal and remorseful one; that fore ovar after ha will be incapacitatod for honest labor; that his menns will flow from him by a hundred unforeseon channels; that, if he es- cape public prosccution, his lifo of wenlth will be n brief ono ; that, if he bo prosecuted, sil that ho hns will be taken from him and divided among the ministers who have volce in the temples of justice. Is this aresult for which a man should sacrifica his man- hood, charncter, reputation, and life, with disgrace and poverty na legacies to his family? THE COUNTY THIEVES, Tho long and faithful investigation of county affairs by tho specinl Grand Jury whoso term expired last night has resulted in the indictment of pretty much all the persons who have been {dentified in tho publio mind with the frauds that have been notoriously committed on tho County Troas. ury. ‘The first indictment found was against Hixspary, for obstructing publio justice and for perjury in connection with his examinn. tion concerning the granite contract of a few wooks ago. There was a second batch some days ogo, including Preniorar, Forsrrm, Wargen, Knwuzney, and Oanrextes, which omounts in nlargo part to arevival of the prosccutions which had to bo dismiseed, owing to the disappenrance of the witness Caneenten and tho privato secount-book which kept track of the supply. swindles, BoNers bas also been indicted for perjury, Yestorday a sort of omnibus bill is under~ stood to havo been returned, including all the Commissioners belioved to be involved in tho rasenlity of the Court-House stons con. tract, Theso indictments are probably based upon the tonspirnoy statute, which is as follows : 1t any two or more pereons conaplre and sgree togetier with tho fraudulent or moliclous fntent wrong(ully and wickedly ta Injure tne person, chare acter, business, or property of another, or to ob- tain money or olher properly by (alse pretenaes, or to do any filegal act Injurious to the public trade, health, morale, police, or adminfetration of publie jnatice, or to preveny competition in the letting of any rontruci by the State or the authorl- ties of any county, clty, town, or village, or to Induce auy person not to enter futo auch competle tion, or to commit any felony, they shall be deemed gullty of a consplracy, and every such of- fonder, and cvory person convicted of conspiracy at common law, shall bu Imprisoncd In tho Penl. tontlary not excecding thrce years or fined not ex- ceeding 81,000, . This statuto is. comprehensive enongh to include noarly every variety of public stenl. ing to which tho County Comumissionors, or thelr co.conspirators outside of the Board, may have resorted. It reaches both the principals and agents, the Commiseloners, contractors, and go-betweend, 'fhe difficul. ty will bo to securo ovidonce that will suftice in Court to eatablish a conspiracy which evory taxpayer in Cook County really knows to have exlslod for years, ‘There is one man who is ontirely familiar with all the opern~ tions of the Ring,~Prriotat,—as Lo has confessedly occupied about thesaime position in tho County. Ring that Jaxe Reuy did with referonco to tho Whisky Ring in Chicago. At ona time thero was an indication that Penio- vaT would expose the whole conspiracy, but it turned out that ho wauted to revoal only so wmuch a8 would implicate his former partuer, Forayn, iu the supply swindles, and at the same time protect those with whom he is 6till on good terms; so the Grand Jury pre. forred to hold him as a crimival rather than give him immunity as a partjal witness, The case ogainst Pratorar, under the above statate, will probably be a protty strong one on Architect Eaan's evidence alone, so that he may yet perceive his personal advantages in turning State’s evidence. Besides, the expmination of witnessos with particalar reference to tho county eteals has been moro thorough and exhaustivo than ever before, and thero is reason to Liopo that the testi. wony taken by tho late Grand Jury forms basia and gives & clow to a cbain of evidence which shall either convict somo of the chief conspirators or send some people to the Penitentiary for perjnry. If the Court-House stone contrnct is the main incident which haa led to these indict- ments, it was selected not becansa it wns the only case in band, hut becansa it was later in dnto than somo of tho other ateals,—be- cause it entailed subsequent criminal ar- rangemonts for plunder, and becanse it afforded better resonrces for evidenca of gnilt, This was the contract for all.tho stone-work on the county part of the Court. Honse, which was finally let in the name of McNreiL & Sos, Aug. 24, 1870, for the sum of £340,000. It was at first tho intention of the Ring to let thia contract to Eo- wiX Wanzen for the sum of 2693, 000, or nently ' 2130,000 more than the McNem bid, and steps were nactually token 1n that direction., Dut thers wasso much public clamor ngainst this apparent frand that Waikes and McNern were pere sunded to enter into an arrangement, and the McNe bid was nceepted with n mortgnge on Watren'a quarry. 'Tho arrangemont be- tween the Ring Commissioners and con- tractors is understood to hava been that thero should be n subseqiont allownnce for oxtras that would in tho ond bring the contract pricoup to the figuro of Wargen's original bid,—thus leaving & margin for $150,000 of stealings, Tho nllowance of extras certainly began some time ngo, witha fair prospect thnt they wonld rench the original amount. Benides this, n contract has beon lot to Hina. DaLE for supplying certain of this stone.work with granite without providing for nny rebato on tho McNe1w contracton nccount of tho largo amonnt of material and work that wonld bo saved under the original contract Ly tho substitution of granite. This is all that is publicly known and ens- pected of the county indictments that have been found, buttheroia certainly n batter pros- peet now than ever beforeofactually convict- ing some of tho men who have been plundor. [ ing the county for years. If it shall not bo possilie to ntlain this degreeof success, there will be evidenco enongh fortheoming to im- press more strongly than ever upon the peopla that thoy are being robbed, and that they con only save themselves in the futaro by beginning next fall to oloct men of charactor and integrity to the Connty Bonrd, AN OUTRAOCE ON THE FOURTH OF JULY. The Common Council at its adjourned mecting on Thursday evening pnssed an ordinance which is ealenlated to fill the im- pressiblo sonl of the average small boy with a tonder melancholy, if not with an inexpres- siblo fecling of disgust. Twenty-four out of twonty-nine Aldermon, without any disens- sfon, deliberately ordnined that from and aftor the pasango of the ordinance— No person, firm, or corporation shall aell or offer for sale any squibs, rocketa, crackera, serpents, or other firoworks contalning powder or other com- bostitde or explosive material tovided. however, that this ordinance shall not apply to the sale of any such articlo when sold In the original packages Imported; and any person, firm, or corporation violating this ordinance ahali bo subject to a fine of not less than §25 nor more than 100~ and furthor declarod, *It shall be the duty of the police foros to immediately arrest and proporly proscoute any porson found violat- g this ordinance.” ‘Fhis ordinance will en- ter into every house whore thero is a small boy with the direct and disastrous effect of n bombshell. It will throw a wet blanket over the juvenile patriotim which evory year commences to kindle up about this time. It will dissipate plans of early rising and ma- tutinal celebrations, based upon cracker and squib, as effoctunlly ns the sua clears off the mist. The small bov who has mads n des- purate effort by sonsons of abnormal good- ness, by diligent running of errands with a display of enthusinstio though perfunctory alacrity, by snlos of old iron and rags, by regular attondance upon the Sunday-school and refusal to ‘“hook Jack" from the day-school, and other proper acta which ordinarily dieagrce with the emoll boy, to accumulato n heard of ponnies sufficient to supply himself with n bunch of fire-crackors and thoe accompany- ing punk, a handful of squibs, and, if he Lias beon extraordinarily good, even a rockot, now fluds himsolf with his investment in band, but without ‘opportunities for it ex- ponditure, and the galling suspicion in his mind that tho fond pareut may insist upon its deposit in tho bank on the mantel-picce, which cannot be checked npon aud pays no interest; or, worse atill, that tho good mother may Ruggeat an avenuo for the super- fluous cash caleulated to delight young un. breeched hoathen in foreign parts whom the small boy would like to encounter in a fair fleld with no grown up intermeddlers in the immediate vicinity, so that for once he conld have an opportunity of oxpreasing his views on the misslonary question. ‘I'he worst fenture of this ordinance is tho foct that it is tantamonnt to s discrimina- tiou against the avernge small boy in favor of tho exceptional emull Loy, While the former will not get his bunch of crackers, tho latter will get Lis box, ' In othor words, there being forty bunches in abox, tho ex. ceptional small boy Is not only forty times botter off - than thie average smnall boy, but his opportunitics in the way of inassacre and incendiorism ore forty times improved. ‘There are elghty crackors in overy bunch, which gives him ou unlimited sweep of op- erations with 3,200 crackers, much to tho envy of the averago small boys of hla nelgh- borhood who kindly gather in his back-yard or on his front stoop to assist him in his arrangements for a holocaust, What a small boy + with 5,200 fire-cruckers ean't do I8 lhardly worth men. tioning, We doubt the . wisdom of concentrating patriotism in this manuer. Forty boya with one bunch are not so ex- uberaut or effective as one boy with forty buuches, In order to thoroughly improve his opportunitics he must spread himself ovor tho widest possiblo srea, and make ex- {stenca a burden for a block around. IHe must exhaust overy possibility offured by combustible material in the woodshed, étraw in the barn, the kitchen stove, famnily cat, pnassing horses, and other material that bears direct relation to fire.crackery on the natal day of freedom. It does not admit of & doubt that he will improve these opportuni. tiea to tho maximum, even though he may be gathered up in frogments at sun- down, for the amouut of patriotism that the small boy will develop when bis opportunities are Increased forty- fold is simply beyond mathematical calcula- tion. It is an open question, therefore, whether the City Fathers in the plenitude of their wisdow have not made life forty times more unendurable on the Fourth than it has over boen before. The New York Board of Underwriters recently calculated that every firecracker imported into this country has been responsible for $100 worth of damage. If this be true, hasthe Common Oouncil been sagacious in giving to the ex- ceptional small boy possibilities in the way of financial damage amounting to $320,000, oot to meation bis oppartunitics for blowing out the oyes and blowing off the fingers of tho whole neighborkood ? The suddon grief, however, which the pas- sago of this ordinance will occasion in the heart of the avernge smiall boy may yat bo mitigated. o will find a ray of comfort in tho reflection that the ordinance may not be enforcod after nll. Thore is an ondinanco that berties shall be sold by measurs and that they shall be sound, but thoy arc not sold by menaure, neither nro they alwaya sound, There is an ordinance that bread shall be sold by the pound, but it is not sold by the pound, novertheless. If the rotail dealor in berries and bread cnn dodge the ordinances with impunity, there is no special difficulty in tho way of the retail denler in crackers, There {8 hope for the average small boy yet. Thore is, in fact, every prob- ability that he inay establish satisfactory business rolations with the vender of Chineso diabolism, and that the small heathien in for- eign paris may wait in-vain for the cash he hina nccumnlated through his senson of com. pulsory propriety in order that he may give fitting expression to the patriotic sentiments that stir his youthful henart. THE NEWBERRY WILL CASE. The NewnEnny estate, nud the final dispo- sition of tho property undor the will, have au unusual interost for the public from the fact that onc.half of the property must oventually bo set asido for the eatablishmont of a Freo Public Library, Tha present pro- ceedinga in court aro likewiso of publiccon. cern, becauso tho deciston will either enable tho Trustacs to start out immediatcly npon the Public.Litbrary schene, or cnauso its in- doflnito postponemont. In order to give an intelligent notion of the present condition of affnirs, it is necessary to rocall briefly tho terms of the will, and the eventa that have transpired since Mr. Newnenny's death. Mr. Newnenky loft a widow and two un. married daughters, and provided in his will that, in case these daughters should dio without jzaue, then, upon the denth of his widow and tho danghters, his cstate should be divided into two equal parts,—one-half to go to tho fonnding of a Public Library and one-half to his remaining heirs, consiat- ing of his brothers and sisters and their children, Doth daoghters have died, and the widow has rofused to accept the condi- tions of the will (which left hor n house and 1ot and nbout $8,000 a year), and falls back on her common-law dower, which gives her n largor interost in the estate than she would enjoy by the provisiona of the will. Tho heirs to onc.hnlf the estato now make an application to the Court to have tho estate divided, on the gronnd that they are no longer contingent hoira (the contingoncy being removed by tho death of Mr. Nzwnerny's daughtors without issue), and that Mrs, NEwnenny's renuncis. tion of tho will has relieved them from tho condition of waiting till her death, This ap- plication is resistod by the trustees, mainly on the ground that the heirs at the time of Mrs, Newneanry's nctual death may not Le the samo aa thoy aro now, and hence fn- justico may bo done by o division of the eatato at presont. Tho one.half of the ostate which goes to the Meirsis not to be divided among individuals in equal ports, but among families. Thus there may be now n family of half o dozen persons who are en- titled to n share ; it tho estate weore divided now, and their portion distributed, persons would receive and onjoy their proportion who might die before the domise of Mra, Newpenny, Indeod, ot the death of the Intter, thers might bo oo heir in the family whers thera are now soveral; but in the meantimo his or her patrimony might be eaten up by tho others, if distribnted now, or at any timo bofore Afrs. Newpennr's denth, This is the ground on.which the application for a division is rosisted, ‘The proceedings in courk are understood to be ontirely friendly, and the points in. volved are legal and technical. A division of tho estnte at the present timo would ap- penr Lo be in the interost of all parties con. cerned, if it oan be sccomplished lawfully, Mrs. Newpenny would probably. prefer her dower now, The Nzwsenny heirs aro cer- tainly anxious to tonch thoir part of the estato, ond thore i now no doubt of its going to them sooner or Iatar, The advautage to the city would be in the opportunity thus alforded for imme. diately entering upon the construction of n Library building, The case has been orally nrgued for both sides, and wrilten briefs aro nlzo to be submitted ; o decialon can searcely be expected for some weoks. By the terms of tho will, the trustees— Mesgrs, W, I1, Braprey and E. W, Brarontzorn —have full coutrol of the Public-Library project, restrnined only by the -condition tiat such Library shell be located in the North Division of the eity, The estate is variously estimated at from 22,500,000 to £86,000,000, 0 it iu anfe to nasume thot the Library will havo an endowment of %1,5600,- 000 or 82,000,000, Of course an effort should be mado tomergo this Library with the Publia Library already fonnded by the city and sup. ported by genoral city taxation, The only concession the city will be bound to make ia to consent to the location of the Library bnilding in the SBouth Division. Whataver objections there may bo to this—the businesa portion of the Nortl Divislon being the ob- vious centro of tho city—will be more than offsot by the Nzwneany donation, amounting to as much, probably, as will be raised by taxation for Library purposesduring the vext twolve or fifteon yenrs., With this donation and tho annual tax authorized by law, Chi- cago will become the posscssor of the most handsomo Publio Library building, and the richest free collection of books, in the coun. try. Wo have no doubt tho Newnenay trus. teeswill fully recoguizo the public udvantages of merging tho two schemes when the time comes, and it wonld certainly bo a glorfous thing if tho Newnzany fund could be utilized at once, As was expectod would be the case, tho French Chamber of Depnties, upon reassem- bling yesterday, was notified that the Presi. dent had seut to tho Benate an order dissoly. ing tho Chamber. 'The interest of the aitua. tion now turns upon the question, Will the Benate consent? If the Benate refuses con- sont, will he resigu? If it consents, and a new election s ordered, and that election is unfavornble to the Govern. ment, a5 it will be undoubtedly, will the Marshal then resign? If he does not resign, there seems to be but one alternative loft, and that is revolution. The Muniteur, which is supposed to represent his opinions, recently declared he would not resign even it the Government wore defeated in the eleotions. The declaration, however, is gen- erally regarded simply as 8 menace, aud put forth to defeat the nomination of M. Taizns a8 an alternative candidato for the Presi- donoy, As the entire Left, however, includ. ing oven the Irreconcilables, has consented to Tumrss' candidacy, it has failed to accom- plish its object, aud, if we msy believe Mac- Manox's own declarations at his rogent in- terview with the Legitimists, ho will hresign in case the elections go adversaly to the\Fov- ornment. The London Spectator says it M. Tmiens hias advised the Liberals not {9 pnsa the Budget, and thus force a speedy dissolnution, which would compel the Marshal either to dissolve or rosign, ENGLAND'S TREPIDATION, Althongh it {a apparent that England will not immediately interfora in the war betwoen Russin and Turkey, now that Russia has sont her satisfactory assurances that she will not endanger English intorosts, thera aro numerons facts that go to show sho is not by nny means comfortablo 0 long as Rusais is in the fleld. Tho Intest approhension dis- played cohicerns hor position in the North Tacifiec. The Pall Mall Budget, which in a semi-official wny reflecis tho sentiment of the Government, contains a mournful screod retting forth what might happen in o certaln emergency to Vancouver's Island, It com- mences with n statemont of tho value of the coal-flelds, which are sufficiont to supply all the Btatos on the ensternsliore of the Paclfic, and upon which the English fleets in the Pacific must depond for thelr eupply. It saya: ‘*Coal is necossary for onr floot; and at Nanaimo thero is conl in abundance, In 1875 there were throo companies nt work there, with plant including eighteon en- gines, six steam pumps, and communieation by.railway with the coaling wharves, which are 500 feot long, with a depth of water suf. ficient to allow the largest Pacific Ocean steamorto comoalongside. And nowhero else on the whole Pasiflc atation can onur ships obtain conl, save nt places whither it las been brought from England, and whero it is kept in small atores.” All this wonlth, ac- cording to the Budget, lics ontirely unpro. tected,—a prizo for any Power that wanta to tako it. Thereis not n single fortification on theisland, The entire garrison of British Columbia conmats of 200 local militin, com- posed of two companies of infantry and o half battery of artillory. The fow men.of- war on the Paciflc coast are unable to defond it, even if they could bo concontrated, and it would tako months to communicate with them from England. Tho point of all this lios in the following extract from the Budget: ‘Wehave on the norihweat of the sams ocean s great military Power, established there after cen- turies of persistent efforts, and having a coast iine and an interlor capahlo of developing great marl- time strength, while the naval and military devel opment of the regions anncxed by her ate out of sll proportion to the commorcial and industrial progress. On the eastern shore wo have an im- meneo Power flanking onr linea of communication with our naval base; while notoriously hithorto aur naral operations in the North Paclc have beon complete failares. Under such clrcumstances it s Digh time that, naw that by the lately-lsaned mo. nilization schoine the safety of England has been provided for, we shonld cast our eycsabroad, and endenavor to ronder our bases of operations abroad eqnally secure agalnst assaalt. English trepidation is not limited to Con- stantinople, the Dardanelles, the Suez Canal, and Vancouver's Ieland, It oxtonds all over the English dominions, There is, in fact, no limit of indifferonce to Russian conqnest, and no limit to English fancy as it contom- plates what Russis might conquer. Tho same papor, in an argumont addrossed lo the Oppositionists, answers their declaration that Russia will not make Kars and Erze- roum n new bnse for a march to Indla, be- causo she already has a line open to India, with the declaration that it hins always beon o matter of the highest importance that En- gland should have a road to India by the Eunphrates Valley; that in 1872 a Beleot Com- mittee on the schiemo of a railway through the Euphrates Valley came to the conolusion # that thoe political and commercial advan. tages of establishing a second routs wounld at any timo be considernble, and might, undor possible circumatances, bo exceedingly grent”; that if Russla is established in Asia Minor, all Syria will be open to her, which means an easy march into Egypt, as well as opening a route for her to India. It closes its Inmont with the 1ullowhu; clincher : ‘We appeal to the map, Lot'our readers look Into thelr Juhnaton or thelr Black; and while they scan the country botween Krzeroum and Egypt, let thom bear fn mind what the Itusslans Aace done in the say of marching armies; let them reflect how casy 1t wonld ba (the Ottouan Powor de- stroyed) topass from one poaltion to another in that undefended country; and them let them ask themsolves whother Russia, established - in Armenla, would not be a constant and enor- mous peril to olir *‘direct road to India.* From suoh inatances as thess it .s plain to seo that the apprehiensions of Egland with roforonce to Russin's dosigns extend from Vancouver's Island toIndis. It iaa rather humiliating confession that no portion of the English posaessions is safo so long as the Rusaian Bear is onthe rampage, Although Britanoia rules the waves and her moming drum-beata salote the rising sun all round the world, thera is no corner of the bailiwick safe 6o long nsa Tusslan i{s inarma. En. gland will never be completely secure until peace 18 declared, all the nssurances timt Ltussia can give notwithatending. 'Tho recont dullness in the cxport demand in this country for hog products is perhaps partiallydue to the large increaso in the sup. plics of cattle and beef which now find thelr way across the Atlantic, John Bull haos horotoforo tnkon our hog ment freely, be- causeit was supposed to bo the best wa had to uffur, but bis besl-loving appetite takes in s much more kindly way to flesh of the horned animals that now goes out in the rofrigorator compartments, with which noar. ly overy steamer is provided, And tho English seem to bu now only just wakening up to the magnitude of the boo! guestion, An English letter tells of men who are mak- ing arrangementa to send out their own cat« tle-buyers to Texns, and mave the stuff ona very much larger scale than now. An Eugilsh commercial circular of June 2, in re. Iation to imports of boef and mutton, says: According to officlal reports, upward of a thou~ #and tons of American beef and mutton, in per- fectly sound conditlon, are now landed every week In Liverpool and Glasgow. The linporta of freeh beet into tho United Kingdom during tho month of March last was 03,102 cwts,, or very nearly aix times the quantity imported In March, 1876, For threo months ending with March the quantity was 21,240 cwia., against 24,084 o the same quarter 13st year, It yesterday's Taiouxm should ‘meet the cyes * of the accomplished reportorial stafl now tucated along the Danube, there will be a sorry day ot rockonlng for the blasphemous varlet who represents this paper ln London, Witha frankness born of Chicago tralning he s #The corrcapondents themaelves are 35 much 1o the dark, appareutly, as the papers & thou- sand miles disaut from the front regarding the actual dats set for the advance of the Czar's forces,''—a fact that it took a Chivago correspondent to find out. —————— The bill which the time-serving demagogues’ in Congress pressed, making eight hours a diy's work, and payiog therefor the samo as for ten hours' labor, bas recoived an.interpretation which will enable the Government to protect the Treasury and prevent depredation on the taxpaycrs, Wby & man should recelve ten bours' pay for eight hours’ work because he is in the employment of the Natloual Government, bas never Leen satisfactorily answered. Why bo should bo pald for $wo bouys’ labor cach day e = ————————— that he does pot perform; why bis wages should commence an hour before he begins work in the morning and continuo an honr alter ho has quit Iabor and gono home In the evening, whenno such absurd rule prevalls among pri- vate emplogers, are quostions that admit of no “astisfactory answer, and no pettifogging of Lunting Congressmen can convince those ¢ Lo furnish the money that itis right ther to the people or the great mass of laborers #*d mochanics not fa the employ- ment of the (overnment. The New York Nation thus speaks of the declsion: 'The Supreme Court at Wa<hington has rendersd a decislon In an eight-honr law case which acems to take the Inst vostige of Itfe ont of the act. The statute provides that ** cight hoars shall constitute aday's work * for **all Istorors, workmen, nnd meclianics * employed by the Unlted Siates,” Tho guufl dacldes that thia is meraly **a direction by ongress to the oflicers and ugents of the United States, establishing the princivle to be odserved in the labor of those engaged in its servies *s that ft prescribes tho length of time which, In the abxenca of 8 epecial agreement, s to constitite a das'e work that it does not fix the prica to be pald for Alie Iabor: that It docs not prevent the emovloyer and |aborer from agraeing with each other as to the length of time that = shall constituta & day's work, The Court cven yoes to the lencth of declaring the act as In the natnre of ** 4 direction from a principal to his ‘szent,” ** in which a third party has no (nterest.” The opinian is mmm“r read(ng, for it in bancd ona recoznl- tion of the fact that the valne of labor is governed by demand and supply, and cannot be reguiated by act of Congress. ——— An unsophisticated young mnan, who thinks of golng forth to a summer reaort as a sheap among wolves, writes to Tie Taisuxs to ask what it would probably cost him for a coupia of weeks at Baratoga. Tnw Trisune replies as follows: m!'lrrosd fare, $10; return, 810 C: b enenesiinninanies Tipslo putters, $1; pocket.plato munition, $2.50 Clgars, $1.758. Tn address, 60 centn Twelva anya' bonrd at hol Extras (say), $25; fees to waiters, ALZregato sove vo cornicninsanniiaiin. S163.75 Thia Is a very moderate estimate, for there fs no constitutional amcndment againat givinga walter more than $4.50 a day; {ndeed, it our correspondent likes to have his dinner the sam+ day, and is prejudiced against fced soup and halr on tonst, he might do well, to increase his gratuitics. Though some of the Eastern fashloa Journals report that fees will be cut lower in the neck than usual, we observe that at the annual meeting of the Walters' Molly Maguira Associa~ tion a strong anti-sliver resolution was adopted, and greenbacks declared to be the only legal tender. ——— ‘We have recelved from the publishers, Hesny 8. Kina & Co., London, the new monthly re- view, the Nineteenth Cendury for June. Its list of contents is specially attractive, including & sonnct “To Vicror Huco,” by TrNNTSON; “Life and Times of Tuomas Brckzr,” by James AntmoNy Froupn; “South Kensing- ton,” by £poAr A. Bownixa; “The Punish- mont of Infantielde,” by C. A. Frere; “The True Btory of tho Vatican Council " (fourth pa- per), by Cardinal Maxwixa; “For snd Against thePlay: A Dlalogue," by Lady Por.Lock; “The Boul and Future Life,”* by Fraperic Hanrte #ON; *Teaching to Read," by Jasss Breppina; “ Rallway Accldents, by Jony Fowren; Our Ronte to Indls,” by Epwanp Dicer; * Dises- tablishment and Disendoswment,” by tho Rev, A. 1L, Macroxocme; and *Turkey " (Grst pas per), by Viscount STrATrORD DE REncuirem. As will be observod, nearly all these papers ars written by experts, which adds Immensaly to thelr value. - ————— A beautiful and wealthy Now York girl was courted by two lovers, ane of whom was a lead- Ing Wall-street operator worth soveral cool militons, while the other was a young lawsor with no fortuns save youth, taleat, hope, and a humble positlon as counsel for the people in tho Ring suits, The prospectivo father-ln-law ro- gardod this assot of schedules ‘with flly-dls- gulsed contempt Lill Lo came to the last itom; then, falling on the young advocate's neck, ho embraced him teuderly, crylng alond, *‘Iake her—Apcratrna is sours; {2 you had nofhing but your connectlon with Mr. ProxmAM's prosccution for your fortune, you should have her, even if she was twins.” — Among the Western patents granted fast week was one to the editor of the Milwsukeo Sentind for a combined waterproof and umbrella car. ‘Tho ear s covered with a thin solution of gutta-porcha and tungstate of soda,and so made impervions to damp and wet. A small bamboo frame casily adjustablo' and portable {n the pocket ls provided. When a rala-storm comes up the Milwaukeean wraps one of his ecars round him, fite* the frame-work fnto the other expandable like an umbrella, hotsts it over his head, and goes on his way bless!dly the name of Bor. ——— After an unhinsed survey of the recent reccps tlon to Gov. Heypnicks tondered by thy Mane hattan Club at Now York, wo are of opinion thut {t mcans two things: Flrst, that the Man- hattan Club wanted to advertise ftaclf and ob- tain a lot of new members; second, that the Democratic Natlonal ticket of 1880 will be— dlf" L'resident—Tuouas A, Bexonicks, of Ine \'fi"f Vice-Preatdent—Lucivs Ropixnon, of New The New York Sun, which has done tho Re« publitans the honor of nominating thelr ticket for the eama conteat, will pleass copy. e p—— Attorney-General Fa mcniLn's treatment of TwrED has aroused that pontleman's counsel, Joux D, TowxsgxD, to arms, e says: From the actlon of Attornoy-Oeneral ¥al and from the devcription which Rurea HAM gave of hini inthe Lonn Canal c: my own knowledgo of hiin in tho TwesD watter, I can lutagine no_wiore appropriute time or placa for ruch & men to rendera decision In an_lmportant canp than at the Manhattan Club to & compniion at mianight, With Mr, Twren's aesent 1 hope L ahall be abls to presont tho facts in the case to tho publicin & fow days. { ahia)l advise hr. ‘CwkxD to ermit me to show to the public all the materlal facts which were furnishied to tho Attornoy-Geu- oral. —— st or {8 it not true that theone-legged Dem- ocratie Sher)f of Kemper County, Miss., telo- eraphed tothe Manhatian Club reception tocount thepeopleo! Kemperinamong the indignant four ond a bulf millfons, and added a ptedge that they would wage & war ogulnet carpet-boggers and corruption till tholast schoolboyand seven- teen-year-ald girl had fallen before the shotguns of the avengers! e rr———— ‘The impartislity of correspondents Is exclting universal admiration, Both sides have captured Kars; bath nations aro anxlous for peace; each nation Is bent upon war; and the Suitan and the Czar aro happy aud downcast. There sectus to be novalld excuse forcither shootlpg newspaper men or thrusting them out of the laes, ——— 8o far the Now York and Brooklyn brilge has not been tainted with suspiclon of fraud, but now a cloud ariscs, There s a proposition to substitute larger wires than thoso contracted for; and as tho larger cost lesa than the smaller, it furnished at the originul prioe, thero will bo s huge profit for some prospective riug. ———e———— Fow things 50 shake the faith of & night-ed- itor in Providenco and humanity aa the dls- covery in the morning that tho war-head he dic- tated over night to his mssistant, **‘The Abcha. slans Rising {n the Rear,” has come out boldly, 4The Abchasiaus Rising on Thelr Ear."? ————— A country exchango asks why Aspbun Hamip was so styled. Tho answer is just as casy— AnDUL, becauso ho cane to the throno ai the Abdulcation of Mousap V.; Haxip,becauss ho was the moat prominent man HAMip tbo Otto- mans, There is nothing in athletic sports so gratify- Ing as the spectacle of & telegraph-editor en- gazed o & Grwco-Roman contest with such words ss Kagishman, Boghanlu, SBouricamiche, and Nepokotschitzk; it e — ‘Tus TRIDUNE cortcapondent at Braila relstes ® beautiful and touching incident of IRussfan retribution. A mother beating her child with a stick has ber attention suddenly distracted from the iniquities of ber oflapring by a cavalry officer, who cuts off ber head and carclesdly s