Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 18, 1877, Page 4

s X, L P T T P % - = AP Am A ——— ] e o e L ekt . e e A | ! ay TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. DY MAIL—IN ADVAN Dty Eiitlon, ona yéar, T'stis of o year, per n HAded to say sildress four weeki for. Edition: Literaty and "0STAGE FREPAID, WEERLY EDITION, POSTPAID. One capy, per year. Clubof 1én, Club of twey To prevent del Ofce nddrees [ $ail, Including State and Connty. Kemitiances may be made olther by draft, cxpress, Tost-Otifco onler, orIn registercd letters, at our tiak. TEHMS TO CITY SURBCRINERS, Dally, delivered, Sunday excepted, 23 centa per week. Dally, delivered, Sunday Included, 70 cents per week. Address TIIE TRIDUNE COMPANT, Corner 3adison and Deatborn-ste,, Chicago, IlL TAMUSEMENTS, McVicker's Theatre. Madteon street, hetween Destborn and Btate. fony Pastor's Company. Vsrlets porformanca. Gus Witltawms, the Kernells, Delehauty and Ieagler. Adelphl Theatre. Monroe, street, corner of Dearborn. **The Fhos- nix.* Miiton Nobler, Mautica Pike; Fanny Lewis Duit, Jule Coventry, Joste Hight. lnveriy’a Thentre, Tandolph strect, between Clark and LaSalle. +#1p Van Winkle.” Kobert MoiWade. Ixposition Butlding, Lake Bhore, foot of Adama atrect. Bummer-Night MONDAY, JUNE 18, 1877, CHICAGO MAREET SUMMARY, The Chicagy produca markots wero rather quiet Satarday, except In wheat, and generally tended downwards. Mess pork closed 2%¢ per brl lower,at $12.00@12.02% for July and $12,T24@12.75 for August, Lard closed 7igc per 100 Ms higher, Bt $8.700.8,77% for July and $8.83@8.871% for August, Meats were firny, oL 456 for loose shoul- ders, O4c for do short ribs, and Gdc for do short clears. Ilighwines wero unchanged, at $1.07 per wnllon. Laka freights wero dull, at ¢ for com to Buffalo. TFlour was quiet and casicr. Wheat closed 3@31e Jower, at $1.461% for cash or Juno and S1,44} for July, Corn closed % @Xc lower, at 44}jc casi and 453c for July. Osts clored easy, at 38%c canh and 47 for July. Rtye was dull, st (414@t5e. DBarley was offered at B5@00c for new, scller Scptember, Ilnga were 10¢ per 100 e her, nt §4,60@4.00, Cat. tls wero dull and casier. and sheep nominal at 3,005 One hnndred dollars In gold would buy £105, 124 In greenhacks at the closc, In New York on Saturday greenbacks wero worth D3}@Y3} cents on the dollar, The railrond warwhich the fast-train flurry precipitated has ended in o treaty of peace smoug the varions Presidents, and tho old rotes go into offact to-dny, It is onuounced {hat the French Senato will conenr by a minjority of twenty in Mac- Manon's request for the diksolution of the Asnsembly, 'This will settle tho question of dwssolution, the Chamber having no voice in the matter. Tho country, however, hins o volce, and it will be leard at tho ensuing cloctions, GAMDETTA prodicts that the present strength of the Republieans in tho Chamber, 363, will be increased to 400, in which case, pood-by to MacMatmoN, From the experionce of Chief-Jnatice ‘Warte and wifo during the formor’s sojourn in South Curolina in a judicial capacity, it is to be inferred that the policy of pacification aud good-will is not reciprocated with’ great bewrtinens, The wifo of the Chisf-Jnatice, 4awhoy in Waslington, ranks socially scarcely #éond to the Jndy of the White House, wns completely avoided and ignored by the Iadies of-Columbin, and paivs were taken (o make ¢ tho affront known aud folt by the distin. {*" guishied visitorn, By way of Co;n;r;1||ifxxulyluQ‘cc’clmm aro re- ccived of n five-hours’ engagement near Dulibabs, a fow miles northwest of Toprak- Kale, botweon the ‘Turks aud Rus. siong, in which the latter, tho attack- ing parly, woro ropulsed with sovero loss, the Turkas continuing to held their position. The Turkish Commandor wad nmong the killed. It s getting to bo moro and more ovident that the forcesin Armenin ave too evonly matched in point of numbers to ndmit of doclsive results at pres. ent, aud that until the Iussians are heavily reinforced they will be nnable to muke head against the Turks in their fortified positions, If thero 1 n woak spot in any ordinance or Inw in which o techuical flaw can ba picked for tho benefit of ovil-doors by dint of hard straining, Judge MeAruwsten iu the one to find that spot, His success in this brauch of jurisprudenco hins just rosulted in tho dis- chargo from (he Honso of Correction of two disreputables who had ontered upon o termn of imprisonment imposed by n Police Magls- trate. The discovery is innde that under the present city ordivauces persons guilty of wisdewicanor cannot Lo imprisoned—by which it appears that it will bo necessary to pass new ordinances without delay in order to remnedy the defocty detected by Judge Mo- ALLIsTER. 1n an articlo in Tae TrinuNeof yestorday, zoncerniug the Grand Jury's invostigation of the County Ring, tho statemont was mado that an indictisent had beou found againat thw controctor, McNew; it was based upon n similar slatement in an ovening newspuper, This was incorrect, Thus far McNew hag uot been indictod, and ho is eatitled to o sorrection of the false {mprossion that was thus conveyod. The Grand Jury's work is ot yet comploted, and the full result will not bo koown till this morning, when, it is undenitood, thoy will return several indiot. uenty already agreed upon, though we are infurmed that AMcNess's nome s probably not among the: “ The white-chokered, swallow.tailed old 1rauds of the Manhattan Club,” who organ- izal tho receut HeNpnicks reception, will be surprised to find their plan of operations for 1860 vigorously condowmned in the columns of tho Washiugton Cupilal, apaper which advocated the nssassination of lavea previ. ous to his inauguration, Even Donx Pratr repudiates the policy of conducting the uext compaign with no material except the allega. tion of fraud und the calling of bhard names, aud cxpresses satisfaction with the policy of President Haves as thus far developed, It i acase of violent conversion, truly, but one which should warn the Manhattan wire. pullors of tho general drift of public senti. went, Our dispatohes announce the death yester- day of two eminent Awmcricans,~Jonw 8, C. AvporT, of Massachusetts, and Daxren D. Puatr, of Indiana. In the case of Mr. As. worT, the well-known bistorian and suthor, death had been for soveral weeks expected, os the result of disease which defled troat- ment. He wos 72 years old, and, as the suthor of widely-road books, was kuown to all America, young snd old, as well asto anany thousands in Europe, Asis, and Africa, sous of bis books having been traualsted THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY, JUNE 18, 1877, into fiftosthos twenty laugunges, ‘The death of ex-Senator PrATT, at his home in Logans- port, was startlingly sudden, hoart-disense heing tho cause. Ho rcpresented Indinna with distingnished ability in the United Btates Senate for the six years cnding March 38, 1875, having beon chosen in 1568 A3 the successor of Trosas A. IIxNpricks, - Soon after the expiration of his term in the Sen. oto he was appointed Commissioner of Tn- ternal Revenno, and fn that capacity render- edinvaluable aid to Becrotary Bristow in bis war against the whisky-thieve: The senson has now sufliciently advanced to admit of an ncomrale estimate of the prospeots of the corn crop in Illinofs, and the reports which wo print this morning em- body tho observations and judgment of farmers in every Congressional District in tho State. Generally speaking, the ontlook for corn is bettor than it has beon for many years at this senson of the year, and the farmers have begun to count with certainty upon an extra Inrge orop. The samo flat- tering nccounts are reccived {rom tho other com.growing regions, whilo throughout the ‘West and Northwest winter and spring wheat, onts, grass, etc., are coming forward finely, and the crop s a whols seoms certain 10 bo considerably larger than the averago. Considerable oxcitement has been created in 8an Francisco and Portland by tho receipt of nows of a sorious uprising of Indinns in Washington Territory. A dispatch from Lieut, Witxinson st Wallula roports the murder of whites nt Mt. Idaho, nnd another dispateh tells of the massacre of ‘sottlers on Cottonwood Creek. All available troops at Walla Walla have been hurried forward to tho ncone of the difficulties, and Gen. How- Anp has telegraphed to Portland for rein. forcemonts. Tho garrison at Walla Walla aro the only troops within several days' jonrnoy o Mt. Idaho, which is about sixty milen from Lewlaton, on the Columbia River, but it is probhblo that there will bo sufliciont to hold tho savages in check until help ar- rivea from Oregon and Oalifornia, A scries of communications of a somi. official charnoter, recontly printed In Hun. garian newspapers, throw some light npon ‘the policy of the Austrian Government, Theso communications state that the Gov- ernment will not under any cireumstances cousont to the union of Servia, Bosnia, and Herzegovina into n separate Stale under an Austrian Archduke, nssuch & Government would - give Hungary no gnarantaes against Sclavic influonces. Ono of those cominuni= cations atates : ' If the Porto should be de- cisively beaten on the Danube, Austria ought to be in such a position as to ba secure ngainst her interests being endangered by thta collapse of the Oltoman Empire. The Hungarinns would do well to awalt the re sults of tho policy of Count Avpnassy befora expressing an unfavorsble opinion of it.” What that policy is, is thuastated : ¢ Tho position of Roumania is to b regulated only in nccordanco with our interosts. Bervia is not to nnnex anything. No large Sclavonio State ia to bo ostablished in Sontheastorn Europe. A Tussian protectorate over tho. Danuabian torritories ia ont of the question.” THE TEAPOT ARGUMENT., A favorite prediction of tho calamitons and deplorableconsoquencesof the romonotization of tha silver dollar is, that tho moment it is permittod to take silyer to the mint nud bave it coined into dollars . thore will be an upris- ing of all tho womoen of Ameries, who will lond every rain aud steambont and express- wogon running in the direction of Philndel. phia with their silver teapots, to' have thom converted into cofn.. And thae prophots who forotell this event roll up their oyes and ox- pect their hourers to groan and shed toats at tho very possibility of such an awful calamity. ‘Whilo wo do not supposo that the romonetiza- tion of the silver dollar will carry one hon. estly-nequired wilver tonpot to tho crucible, navertheloss wherein s the calamity if every silver teopot in ihe country wus mmelt- od up aod coined into dollars? It those who have silvor teapots, nnd pitchiers, ond caudlo-sticks, wpoons, forks, goblats, ralvers, watchos, aud other articles, desiro to get rid of thow, they can sell thew now for dollars, If tho nilver dollar ho re. stored, thoy can ounly get dollurs for them, and it they want to buy new silver toapots, they will kiavo to pay dallara for them ; aud exaclly whero tho inducoment will .exist for melting teapots, wo fail to discover. The Uuited States refusos to permit silver dollar 10 bo colued, in order to givo a higher rela. tivo value to tho mearcer metal, gold, To remonotizo the silver dollar is to restore the value to silver metal and to equalize the valuo of tho silver and gold dollar, When the il ver in the teapot will produce 1o more silver dollars than the number of dollars yequired to buy a new tenpot, wo fail to understand why the wholo American people will haston to ruclt thelr Lonpots and spoons in order to get dollars with which to swiudlo theircreditons! The New York” Z%mes and Becretary Snen. aN both uge the teapot argument agalnst the retnonetization of the silver dollar, They inglst that, if the minta La opened to the freo coinage of silver dollars, tho ships of all nations will come freighted to our shores with silver. Accopting this na truo, where will bo the calamity? What will thoy do with the silver dollars when they get them ? They will have to buy somethivg with them to take back, and if the re-coluage of tho Amerlcan silver dollar will bring to this country a hundred millions of silver, or even two hundrod millions of silver, to bo ex. chauged for American manufacturos,—cotton cloths, woolen clothing of every kind, India rubber goods, boots snd ehocs, Larness aud leathor goods, for hats, cops, and furs, fron and stecl machinory, for American watches, clooks, and cuttlery, for glass and crockery-ware, for reoperd and niowoers, and for copper, lead, nickel, and all other metals, and for evory variely of mnnufactured articles,—why not, instond of seeking to provent, offor every encouragement for them to bring all the ail- ver they can get? Is ‘thore auy person fn tho United States who is afraid of taking silver in exchange for his goods or bis labor? Can anybody recall an instanco in the history of any nation where thero was too shuch silver or gold? Would tho eale of & hundred millions more of our productions in a year to foreign countries, oven if thoy bo paid for it in ailver nt our standerd rate per ounce, work any calamity? Does the Becretary of the Treasury suppose that silver can be demonetized the world over? Is it not mow the currency of two-thirds of the human family? 'Fo tho most of these ailvoris tho oxclusive curronoy, Do theso gentlemen afictod with the gold.pho- bia imagiue that they can permanently main- tain 8 valuo for gold over silver grester than that which has prevailed during several cen- turies? 'Thoy admit the whole folly of altempting to demonetize silver on the ground of its relative inforiority, when they admit that to remonctize it in this country will restoro tho silver doilar to par with tho gold doflar. If the remonetization of silvar in this country, and its free coinage, will hiave the offect of rostoring the eentnry-old relative valnes of the two metals, what be. comes of the predictions of an overflow of depreciated silver currency? If the silvor dollar become in value equal to the gold dol. Int, what rational objaction can there be to tho unlimited coinngo of the ailver dollar as well-asof the gold dollar? Never was there ro wenk and so illogical an attempt At statesmanship as that which demands a singlo metallic eurrency, and that of gold, in thiscountry, Itison a parwith the protective policy, whoso main purpose is to restrict, narrow, and 1f possible prohibit, commercial intercourss with other nations, instead of removing every obstacle to such intorcourso, and making for purposes of trado and commorco the whole human family ono nation. Tho attempt to blot out silver 08 money, and to reduco all commercial transactions to the gold curroncy, is to over- turn and desiroy monelnry institutions and regulations as old as commerce itself. It cannot Lo done, and it is folly, extreme folly, for tho United States to sacrifice tho public intercsts by making tho fruitless efort. In the meantime, tho advocates of a gold-cur- rency, whick {s to excinde silver and paper, may ery ropudiation and bad faith, and pro- diet calamily aod disaster, but the inlelligence and civilization “of the day caunot tbus bo overpowered. The silver dollar has been tho staudard colnnge of the United States since wo bave hnd a colnage. We got along, as most of the other nations of the world have done, with both metals a legal tender. No possiblo ex- cuse, apology, or reason has ever been givon for making tho change; nor can thera bo o valid reason given for not returning to the ‘bi-metallic currenoy. . With both a logal tondor, wo have nn infallible proventive ngainat any oppression or extortion resulting from a combination to increaso tho value of one, or to dopross that of tho other. So long ns both aro a logal tender, each is a protection agninst any speculation to increaso tho valne of tho other, and no disturbance of their rolative values can be mote than temporary. With ‘both a legal tender, tho fluctuntions of oither can in 1o wiso embar- rass either the peopls or the nation, and both are protected ngainst the awful ealamity of Liaving the housowives molting their teapots to hiave them produced in the form of dol- lars, THE FRENCH CRISIS, Every one who carefully rends tho measage of MacMantoN proroguing the Chamber of Deputies and tho messago asking tho nssent of tho Senate to its dissolution, and hes ob- sorved the avents that have transpired be- twaan the dolivery of the two messages, connot fall to underatand tho real animus ot tlhio present political orisis in France. The two messages proceed npon a thoory, ostensibly Ropublican, which is exactly tho opposite of Republican, and nntagonistio to the spirit of Ropublican {nstitutions and responsiblo Gov. ernmont ns theso two torms nro understood in tho Uaited States on the ono hand and England on tho other. In his messago of May 16, proroguing tho Chamber for a month, M. MacMauoN sald: * I could not taxo a further stop In tho samo path without making an appeal to the Radical faction, which desiro the modifeation of our in- atitutions,” the “Itadical faction,” ng ho, terma it, bolng the Republican porty which covstitules a majority of the Chambor rcpresenting a ma- jority of the people, In Lis mnossage of the 10th inst., nsking the nssont of tho Son. ata to the dissolution of the Chamber, which* assont is rendered necessary by the Conuti- tation, he eaya: * On May 16 I had to make known to tho couutry the divergencies in the Chambor. I then stated that no Minis. try could maintain jtself in that Chamber without seokiug an alliance with and sub. mitting to conditions of the Radical party, A Govornment reduced to such o necessity is no longer master of ity own nctions. It mnat servo tho dosigns of thoro whose sup. port it accepts, and propars the way for thelr acceasion to power. To this I would no longer lend mysolf. . . . Irance, liko myselt, wishes to presorvo her Constitution intact. Sho does not wish to see hor inuti- tntions disturlied by Radiealimn." ‘T'he two oxtracts we have mude clearly show tho theory upon which MaoManon is endeavore ing to shapo ovents in Frauce so as to con- solidate and contralize powor, When Lovis XIV. smaid “I am the Btate,” bho only ecxpreased in an absolute nud dogmotio way what M. MacManox states moro cirenmspootly and with more of oircamloontion. In theso messnges ha #nb. Atantially snys, #'Tho Ministry and I are Frouce,” When ho says * France does not winh to see hor institutions disturbed by Rulicalinm,"” bo roally soys, *'The minority of the peoplo of France (comprising tho Logitimiats, Imporialists, tho Clericals, tho Ministry, aud 3L 3aoMauoy, whoare the mi- nority) do not wish to see thelr institutions disturbed by the Republicans, who are the majority." Upon M, MaoManox's theory, the ‘mofority of tho people represunt the Minis. trysand aro its ngouts; tho Ministry does not represent tho majority, and is not ity agont, Tho sotlon of the Minlstry during the futerim in dismissing thu Prefects of the mafority, in warning students that they can. not discuss politioal questions, in imprisou- ing and finiug editors of Republican news- pnpers for declaring the seniiments of the majority, iu, stopping the cirenlation of Iopublican uewspapers, in forbldding the distribution of politi- cal documents, and u ecstablishing a rigid preas censorship, are ull in keeping with this theory of the minority, The struggle going on in Frauco, thorefore, is botween the prin. ciple that the wmajority shall rule ond that the Governuont must represent the mojority on the one hand, snd the relics of that im- perialistic theory of Lowa XIV,, that tho people must subit to the personal idens of the party in power. In the timoof Louws X1V, tho theory involved tho snbmission of tho majority to tho idoas of the monarch, In AL MacMauoN's time, it involves the sub- mission of the mnjority to the idons of a nominal President and a Ministry in relig- dous and political sympathy with him, All this goes to show that tho Republic is not yot firmly established in France. Tho old oconteat between tho peopls and tho crown is not yot decided. The French Lave yot to eatablish o Government responsible to the people, and arc now ou the verge of another struggle towards that result, If they are defented this time, it paves the way oithor to the monarchy or to revolution.. If they are victorious, wo may expect to see France take a long stop toWwards responsible Govornment, in the clection of M. Tuizes, of whom Gix- DETTA 6aid to the students: ‘The liepublican party docs not lack eminent wen who would imake very Constitutionsl Presl. denta of the Republic. There s ono in particular who Las stood tho test, who has already occupled tbe Presidoncy and whoretired fromis) g slm~ plicty, a disintorcatedness, a candor which it will cortainly be held a duty to imitate when the time cames. ~ Let us wait with patience far that which shall ba realized ny the election IMPATIENT REFORMERS, ‘Wo commented a few days ago upon the tendeney of the New York WVation, repre- ronting a Iarge and disagresnble class of peo- ple, who are **nothing it not eritieal™ and critical only In being captious, to exnct too much in tho way of immediato and thorough reform of tho publio service, and to withhold merited praiso for the good work that has already been accomplished by the Adminis. tration. The WVation falrly (llustrated ita esptiousness by endeavoring to trace a con- nection betwoen President Harzs' ono-terin pledge and tho probable failnre of implanting civil-norvice reform deep enough lo taken permanent hold upon the system, and also by conspicnonsly unjust remarks on tho ap. pointments of ‘ex-Secretary Monrrnt, and Ireoentos Dovornass. The Nation of this weak follows up the discussion of the subjeot in n better spirit, but still shotvs n disposition to hurry matters up more rapidly than practical reform will warrant. It saya that now is the critichl time for President Hares, and that he will be beset with the machine politicians in ns great number as the samo class counted when they surrounded ex. President Graxt, and that they will ondeavor to persuado him that only a jndicious nse of patronnge can conciliato thd disafected and save the party from going o pieces. The Nation vary pointedly remarks that the pat- roungo systom ad n meana of salvation for the party was pretty thoronghly tried under Gen. Gnant, and that it did not prove to be brillianfly successfal, but, on the contrary, cnmo very noar wrecking the party, It be. lieves that tho best polioy of eonciliation that can now bo pursued is to nppeal to that political sentiment which provails among the mass of non-office-secking citi- zons who desire that the business of the Government shall be conducted on business principles, and it adds: This {s 8 field which no Administeation has yot trled to cultivate. - President Haxzs, In his letter of accoptance, solemnly pledged nimself to cultl vate it. Ife did not say, for instance, that he would sea that the civil service was uacd asan cleomosynary institntion to comfort the wida and tho fatherleas, becauso ha was nware that t 18 no more the business of the (lovernment than of ralironda or banks; or to provide a refuge for nn- successful persons or bankrupts, becauss he know that it wonld be dishonest to use the money of taxpayers for any such purpose withont Lhelr con- sent; or to provide a living for Congresemen or Senators who have lost thelr seats, because tha loss of thelr seats ia a dlstinct and formal Indica- tlon, - which ke would not bo atliberty to disre- Rard, that thelr proper place s private lifo: or as a mark of eateem for or gratitude to hls own friends, because this would be the use of a public trust to serve porsonsl ende; or %8 & means of soothing tho ambition or procaring the support of particular clasacs of votera by giving them **rep- resentation ™ In it, knowing well that it fs not ond ought not to bo a reoresentativa body at all, and that nefthor Irish, German, Afelcan,nor Malay descont can give ono_man a better claim to n place in it than another. \What he did say was that he would make **a thorongh, radical, and complote " roform In i, and by thisho meant that he would sca that the employes of tho Qovernmant wero so- lected by tho samo rules and motivos, and held of- fice by the same tenor as those—to uso the language of the Custom-1louse Commisslon—of ** a prudent merchant.” 1o has as yet been oaly three months inoftice, and he has done s good deal in tho time, but the momont haa now como when the kind of appolntmonts o makes muat lnalcato the klnd of system ho means toIntroduco. Wo do not ask for tho sudden or hosty premulgation of rules, bat, pending thisproduction of the rules, wo aro en- titled to weo appointmonts which will givo us a falr iden of tha kind of results tho rulea will Lring avout, ‘Tho underlying pflnulpln of all this ia cor. roct; what wo object to is the intimation that the Administration is at all disposed to- ignoro it, With an Administration in offico only threo months that catablishes the rule of tonuro of offico during the termns of the officials’ commissions ond good bolavior, though oxpected to make n general and sweoping change; which onlom and cuforces the rule that Foderal officeholilers must not run caucuses and wmanipulate couventions ; which has roduced the Washington clerical forco by hundreds and the New York Custom. liouse employes by 20 per cont; which hns arranged for o consolidation of the pension offices and & reduction of the army; which has cut down exponses on all sides, nnd defled tho meunces of tho machine mon, — with such an Administration, words of encouragoment nro mors np- propriato than thoss of doubt and wlsgiving, All this has beon iu the diroction of a * thor. ongh, radical, and complute” reform of tho publlo servico, aud of akind with the proba. ble nction of a **prudent merchinut” in the conduct of s own business, It is 8o much moro than the peaple who have hopaed and labored for reform Lave over known during tho presont political genuration, and gives such evidenco of an iutention to proceed on tho samo method In the futurs,, that tho re. form critics will do well to nwalt some fla- grant transgression bufore commenting in Iangusge calculatod to creato tho impression that reform of the publio service will bea failuro under Iaves, ns heretofore, “THE OLD FLAG AND AN AFPROPRIA- TION." The New Orleans 7'imes ina reprosentative organ of thoss reconstructed Confedaratas who, like CUl. Sellers in the play, sbriek for * the old flag aud an appropriation,” Of course, tho Now Orloans Z'umnes favors the Boulhiern Pacifio project, becauso it inclndes & Government subsidy for building n branch that will give thut city moro direct railway communication with tho Pacific const. It suys in & recont issuo that * Tae Omoico Toiounz is out in a hysterical denunciation of the Tresident, based on the assumption that Lie favors a subsidy to the Texas Pucific Railroad.” Tus Teinuns docsn't remembor over to have had occasion to *denounce ” the President for any reason, Wo do recollact that, some little timo ago, a report was sent out from Washington to the effect that the Prosident iutended to recommend this subsidy in his messsgo to Con. gress, and that we then discredite ed tho statement on the general ground that President Haxes {u hostilo to the use of Govornment fands for private beneflt in any form, and that ko knows that no subsidy could be given to the Bouthern Pacifio schemo that woald uot juvolve the subsidiz. iug of manifold othier schemes ; aud we still think that he will refrain from recommend- ing the passage of o measurs in favor of the Toxas Pacifio lobby, whatever he might do in caso such o bill wore passed and presented to bim for his signature, ‘Tho subsidy-beggars do not sgrea among thomselves. We printed yesterday a state- ment fiom the Ban Diego Union that BMr. Faanx Luxpzns' proposition is what is asked, viz: ‘That the Government shall issue 30,000 of greenbacks per mils of . road constructed, and lend the money to the Texes Paciic Company at 2 per cent per onnum, without any reason- abls guarantee of repayment. This i what the New Orleans Zimes would call a subsidy and a steal. But what it asks on the ground that it {s not & subsidy (though the BanDie o Union ( Usth)a ) ¢ » - ‘owever, nppears to recognize t¥ nearly lisequal, chuoses * - for his playinate, e — e Government shall 'gnnrantee the payment of ! greonbacks, by n bargain with certain New remarkable sally of the age. Had it been some 2104.992,500 in interest on Texas Pacifio Londs. Then it adds: o be sure, the Gavernment In guaranteeing the Interest aranmes the riak of having to pay it, but that fe a very dliferont thing from a direct assump- tion of ndedtand a dircct subsidy, as in the case of the Unlon Pacific. Tax Trinune dishonestly ropresents the two as identieal, « In the ane caes, the a1d was sbsolute, the provisions for reimburse- ment carelessly or corruotly deawn and hence ingd- cquate, and even thase provislons ignored and de- fied by the rascala who converled the whols eater- prisa into a gizantic awindle; in the other, the aid facontingent, and the guarantces againet actual ontlay are vo solld and amplo that thiere is no res- sonable probabdility of such an event, and should it occur, indemnity more than suficlent to cover the expenditure 1o provided In the bitl. We appeal to all people In the least inclined to be fairor juatif the cases arc al all alike. Chicago and Ite depend- cocfes have bad an actoa) donation of bonde and they Liave cheated the Government aut of ita sccn- rity} we onlv ask & losn of credit ana glace tho m:;mly teyond the posaibility of being tampered with, All the experience of the past—Credit Mobiller and Paciflo Mail being the most conapicuots oxamples—has shown that there ean be no logislation of this kind which does not leavo room for swindling the Govern. mont, and that, in the end, the Government Lina to pay whatever it guarantecs for private schomes, Thers is no reasonable doubt that this would be the result it the Texas Pacifia schemo wore adopted by Congress, and it would involve—principal and interest—tho enormous sum of $175,000,000, It is not tre that Chicago and its dependencics were subsidized in the case .of tho Union nnd Central Pacitic Ronds. Tho most direct, and accossiblo, and central routo noross the continent was selected for the very purpose of enabling the whole country to derive proportionate benefits from the road. If Chiengo enjoys most advantages, it is slmply because Ohicago is most cen- ttally located. But n demend from New Orloans that the Govornment shall subsidize a rond which will give that city a direct rail- rond conngotion with the Pacitlo const is ns seotional and proposterous aa if Portland, Me., should demand that a similar subsidy should be given to build a road direct from that point ncross the British possessions to the Pacifio; it is even more sectional than a demand for aeubaidy for tho Northern Pacific on tho proposed route. If New Orleans wante any more direct conneotion with tha Pacifio than she enjoys now, it is her busi. ness and not the Government's to provide it; and if there wero any prospoct of the Texas Pacific Company being ablo to pay in- terost on a construction debt, there wonldbe no occasion to ask a Governmont guarantes. The scheme deserves to b classed with al the other efforts to gt at the publie funds for privato speciilation; the railroad serves 3 0 more oxouso and makeshift, — e THE NEW SILVER ISSUR, There can scarcely be any question as to the correctnesa of the construction which Attornoy-Gonoral Devexna has put upon the low nuthorizing the isauo of subsidiary silver coin up to the amount of $50,000,000 undor cortain restrictions. The matter came up regarding the authority of the Becrotary of the Treasury to laguoe silver coin to take tho place of fractional currency which had beon issucd, ond thon lost and destroyed in tho process of circalation. - The law limiting the issue of silver is aa followa : Bxo. 3. That, {n addition to the amonnt of aub- widlary coin suthorized by law to bo lssued In re. demption of (ractional currency, it shall bo laweal to manafacturo at the savcral mints and fasue through the Trensury and Ma several ofiiccs such coln to an amount that, inclading’ the amountof' substdiary silver coin and of fractional carroncy outstanding, shall In the agerogato not exceed at any timo $50,000, 000, ‘he ftext of this resolution showa clearly enough that the Intention of Congress was that the country should hava £50,000,000 of small money, and that this money should bo put out in silver as rapidly as possible up to that limit. In the meantime, in ordor not to disturb the valua of Government curroncy by enlarging its volume, it was stipulated that tho wholo smount of small change outstand. ing, including the silver coins and the frac. tionnl currency, should not exceed the limit of $50,000,000. Bnt it was nscertained by the Ureasury outhorities that somothing more than $8,000,000 of tho fractional curreyicy {sauod has disnppeared,—having been Lurned, lost, torn, and wsed up in circulation, aud will never be presented for redemption. This makes tho actual amount of small money outstanding 38,000,000 less than it was intended to Do by the act of Congrass, and thereforo {t enables the Sec- retary of the Treasury to supply that de- ficlency by the fasue of a corresponding amount of subsidiary silver coin, 'Iis is Attorney-General Drevexs’ construction of the law, and Becratary Biensan hias ordered the fssqp of the $8,000,000, Bansides being entirely proper, this new jusue of silver will be of great benofit to tho conntry districts, where there s still an inconvenient shortnge of small change. It can Lave no particular effect on the goneral silver controvarsy, as jt merely supplies the quota of small mouey to which the business of tho country hoil been acoustomed. S ——— There aro indications that the want of a full understanding of the course of the Huc- relary of the Troasury iu preparing for specle payments is exciting alarm in money circles, Hiapolicy has been only foreshadowed, not ex. plained; and that it should bo misunderstood and eveu mistrusted under the circnmstances con hardly bo wondered at. The substitu. tion of ono ourrency for snother ulways greatly multiplies the ordinary risks of all business; the payment on demand of a debt of $360,000,000 that hes been dishonored fitleon yenrs {8 at bost & hard and burden. some task, Whether viewed as a question of dubt or of eurrenoy, the rodemption of the greeubacks In coin will be the most delicate and dangerons, if not costly, oporation in the fiuances of the country, Al roflecting men agree it s a slep that must be taken somo thne, but all desiro itto bo mado with the least wasto or injury possible, Tho people who stand the risk of it and poy the cost of 1t, have a not unreason- ablo dosire to know howit is to be done. But this has not beon cloarly vouchsated (hem, All that is known of the future intentions of Boorotary SuxmyaN is what can be gathored from what Lo has already done. We print in another column an articls from the New York Daily Bulletin, the leadiog financial organ of the city, which claims to refloct the opinfons of some of the most conservative Dankers of (he country on the effcots that will be produced on business by a contina. auce of the Becrotary's oontraction of the legal-tenders outstanding. Great strin. genoy of the money market, liability to currency lock-ups, snd even absolule panics, are the evils prodicted. The Bulletin docs not believe it will bo possible to avert n general panlo, if Bccrotary SBuxmMAN persists i bis present methods of resumption. But it is not likely that the Becrotary will so per- aist. The vigorous disapproval with which the business publio received the project for e o= x 53 bl a g York banks (who were to withhraw their notes nnd then wpply for new circulation, 1 #uch a response, his bones would be dug out of and kéep ropeating the process, whereby $800,000 of greenbacks wonld be taken out | of ciroulation for every million of shuttle- cock bank circnlation issued), led Secretary Bnzayan, who was belioved with good ren- ron to ba indirectly an ally of the scheme, ' to withdraw his approval. e will, wo be- liove, show the same dofcrence to publie ' opinion in this instance, His past record is avidence that Mr. Smenstax has no ob- stinate ndherance lo one inflexibla financial schemo, Wo beliove ho will be prompt to aceept tho expressions of public alarm elicited by the discovery of his supposed : plan of forced contraction ns vroof that ita | execution wonld bo unadvisable, if not disnstrons. In this way a conflict between tho Treasury Department and Congress can be avolded, to the grent political advantage of the Admirfstration, and tha general profit of the entire community, — The Pall-Mall Budget, in sketching the grad. ual development of Russian territory under her various rulers, vollects some valuable historical information. At the beginning of the relgn of Isax IL, In 1462, the tersitory of Russis come prised 11,000 square miles; at his death §t had reached 43,000, The districts Inhabited by the Coseacks of the Don were anncxed under the Czar Ivay IV,, 6o tbat at the time of his death, in 1684, the Empire contained 75,000 square miles. His successor, TizoDoRE I, pushed hils conquests beyond the Ural Mountains, and at his death, fu 1508, ho governed 130,000 square mites. On the nceession of MiciAEL L. it reach- ©d 160,000, and Prrer I, so fucrcased the arca that when ho dled, in 17381t comprised 282,454 | square miles, Durlog the reigus of ANNA IvAN. OvNA, Erizaperi, snd CATHARINB IL, large accesslons wero mnde, the total srea at the thme of the death of the lat- ter, In 1796, belng 852,473 squaro miles. Pavr 1 aunexed Georgla and ALkx- ANDER L. conquered Finland, and wihen he died, in 1825, Russia comprised 860,583 aquare miles. Nicitoras L, in the campalgns of 1828 and 1829, sevured to Russia the Khanates of Erivan and Nahitchevan, tha district of Onlubab, and tho pashalic of Achalzic, making tho total extent of the Empire 367,113 square miles, showing that in 400 ycars the territorial dominions of Russin have Increased to thirty-five times their original slze. Gov, Hexpnicks, just before salllng for Europe, mado the following remarks conccrning Gen. Gnaxt’s reception in England: *I re- Jjoleed heartily to hear that Gen. GRANT was be- fog so handsomely treated in England. Lal- ways bad s great respect for bim, capecinlly as ssoldier, Ho certainly was a military genlus, bnt he made me a littlo mad when ho used the troops to Interfere with local self-government ot the South, I always thought he would bavo been & greater man if he bad left politics alone. Thers are some men whose great namo could not derive additioual Justre because thoy have been Presidents of tho vountry* ft s difficult to say whether this statement was gen- crous or sclfish. It {s truo of Gov. HENDRICKS ibat he would not have been o greater mon than he s if he had left politkes alone, becausc heo .would probably not kave been heard of outsido of polftica; but, as ho himscl? will shortly be In England, ke will have an opportunity, by com- paring his recoption with Gen, GRANT'S, to a8~ certaln what would havo been tho difference between the two it both had kept out of poll- tics, —— ‘The Altiance, taking the crime of Parson Mo- Qnae for o text, belta away st ths average minister for making his objective tha shekels of Mammon rather than the glory of Gop: As there ara politiclans who from the love of po- Mtical truths Lecome statesmen. and aa thero aro otliors who ran for office becausa of the poy-roll, na there aro mean littlo souls who welect the pulplt bocausa they-can gain 82, 000 & year in that calling with more ease than thoy conld paln that sum in the corn-fleld, or tho stone-quarry, or wood-pile, Preaching Is a pursul, and it is no more unusual for an unit man to onter it than it {s unususl for an unfit oian Lo labor to bo slected to Congreas, ‘or 10 thio otlice of & County Treasures, or of Dresident of a railway or Verily {s the world progressiug. The doy is not long fu ita grave when a hint against the divine right of the minister to doas lis pleascs werca species of blasphemy not to be tolerated. Rut there [s a fresher pir avout *he faith of men, and with It whil como a better crop of preachers, and a purer religion for the coutemplation of thio unblesscd. e —— 7o the Editar of The Tribune, Cuicago, June 11,—Will you pleass inform me which aro tho five largest cltics of the world? 1 would also llke to know the five largost of the United States. N. M. The reviscd estimates of German atatistl- clans mame tha followlng citics, exclusive of New York, as having one, or more than one, willion fubsbitants: . London, 8,450,423; Parls, 1,851,i92; Constantinople, 1,075,000; Berlin, 1,045,000; Canton, 1,000,000; Vienna, 1,001,090 Seangtan, Shanchow{u, and 8ingafu, in China, 1,000,000 cach. If New Yorkand surronudings beceonsidered ouccity,—us they virtually are,— they will rank fu slze next after Parls, ——— Art cducntion Is prospering and becoming popularized In Bl Louls. A commitiee of threo vrominent citizeus was tho otuer day appointed to select a plece of poreelaln, or some other valuavle article, fur presentation to a fourth prombient cltizen, who bad distingulshed Lim- self in some wayor other,and but for the crockery-dealer's clerk haviug compassion upon them and enlightening thelr fgnorance, they would have bought u Cacent cuspadure for an ‘Etruscan vaso and pafit $1,140 for it. —— Tho general meeting of the American Boclal Belenco Assoclation will take placo at Baratoga Byrlngs, N, Y., commnenclng ‘Tucsday evenlug, Bept. 4, with the anuual nddress of the Presl- dent, Mr, DAVID A, WeLLS, Tho sesslon will continue until the 8th of September, and meet- lugs ot scctlons will bo held both day and evealng. The prograinmo {s mostly made up, and comprises many inleresting subjects, which will bo treated of by leading thinkers of the country, ———— Brecues looks rusfully at his Peekskill farm, and voncludes that thers {s really more. money in the vineyard of the Lord, Ilis crop last year was not what & skillful acconntant would call remunerative. Iiis oplons cust $1.60 per bush- el; beef, 50 cents por pound; oats, $2 per bushel; butter, $1.25 por pound; and cage, 75 cen:s per dozen. Aud yet he hesitates to lcave his acres for that $25,000 California trip this sumuner. —————— The scventeenth aunnual meeting of the Na- tional Educational Assoclation will b held at loulsville, Ky, on Tt ay, Wednesday, and Thursday, Aug, 14, 15, and 16, A meetiog of the Board of Dircctorswill be licld fn the Louts- ville lNotcl Monday cvening at balt-after 8 o'clock. ‘The Secretary of the Assoclation s W, D, f{exgLE, of Salem, O, —— It thero is anythlug that will ‘make Chinamen miud thelr * F's, {t s to threaten their queues. A Nevada Sherl haviog two Celestials under fiue, proposed cutting off thelr pigtals unless tho penalty wero pald. The whole Chiness quarter roso in consicruation, produced the wouey, and not one of them has begn in trouble siuce, . kL) Hfllflf\l’l The Tflwll o Cnicago, June 16, —Will you please let me know mmufiv&nr Daver IF theto is by placs it Bouth Americs whoro it never rains at soy time? There is a region along the coaat 'ot ’Pc’m marked as % raluless,” in portions of which, so far as knowp, raln bas never fallen, e ———— All Germany is convuised with the wit of Baron loruscmitp. MMe was examived at Fraokfort recently on the trial of Yo Dizst Danxs for lbeling BisManck, and when ssked i ho bad paid 500,000 thalers to the Prince, be roplicd, “Howam I to get balf a millon?? PRErTa maette poor German without a kreutzer who venture} tho rulns of some pridon a century hence. —et— Every day brings fresh evidence of the astute. neas of the gentlemen managing the affalrs of New York City, In 1871 Mrs. Ricramp B, ConvotLy lall ane million dollars on the tably before them, in settlement of tho suits againse her husbasil, They refused, and arc now trying to get half that amount, . e e— Ilis Holiness the Pope sald “he was refolced that the Canadian pligrima had arrived safoly, and remarked that thelr guardian angels had blown them tnto port.”” Une pligrim presented - him with, a sllver goblet, another with 68,000 francs, and snother with £1,000 ———— A Waukesha woman, who furnishea the com. forts of & humo to n few victims every summer ot rensonable rates, finding business pretty duil this summer, thinks of writing to Loulslana in order to ree if sho can get any news of the Re turning Boarders, ———— A Plitaburg man has been effecting wonder ful cures of hydrouhobla by the use of the root elecampane, botied In milk. Btrychnine, sdmin. istered to the dog twenty minntes after birth, has been found etfleacious as & proventive. ————— The windy GAIL s anxious to swap Schvnz for somebody polite enough to bo hung up to dry without remonstrance. —— The unindicted of the County Board are hilarfous. A Graud Jury of thelr own selection convenes to-day. ————— PERSONAL, Ex-Senntor Pratt, of Indiann, is publishing bis **Personal Recollections™ In tha Logansport Star, Dr. John Hall's congregation in Now York gava him $5,000 to defray tho expenses of his European trip. Ex-Gov. Chamberlain has takon into his now law-offico in Now York asa student a aon of Georgo 1, Pondieton, 'Tho Nation declares that Millot's likoness of Mark Twnin, at the National Academy, s *'covered with vulgarity as with a garment. " Augustus Hemmenway, the Boston mer. chant who dled fn Bonth Amerlca a year apo, left property appralecd ot $8,801,178, only $180,000 ©of which was iavested In real catate, President Gilman, of the Johns Hopking TUniversity, Daltimore, wks married to Lilie Woolaey, nleco of ex-President Woolsey, at Now. port, on Wednesday. They go to Europe. Edmund Hudson, the accomplished Wash. ington corrcspondent of the Doston Zerald, was one of tha grailuates of the Law Dopattment of the Colnmblan University in Washington at the late commencement. The story is ciroulating in England that the Princoss of Walea ia going to livo at Copen- hagen, belng so ontraged by tho Jast public scan. dal in which her husband has been concerned that #he will not consent to live with him longer. Mr, Howard Carroll, who nots in the win. ter as bloody-sbirt correspondent of tho New York Times, in tho summer chronicles the small dolngs of the fashionable watering-places for that jour- nal. Ha is equally sccomplished in elther direce tlon. *'T am glad,"” said B¢, Hendricks tondorly, *'Iam glad that T am not eo fecblo aa Me, Tilden, " And Mr. Tiiden was touchied by the interest in hiy, Bealth which was manlfestea by Mr, lendricke *~ snd he therefore eald sssuringly, **I nover fe) better {n all my 1ife," o1 Prof. Smith, of the Aberdeon Theologlad=: Bominary, has been snspended by the Genokal Ase - gembly of tho Free Church for his articla on the Blble In the ** Rncycloprdla Britannica,* an artt- cle which 18 sald to havo crested groat consterna- tionin the Church. Ife will ba tricd formally, Mr, John Jay thinks the New York Historl. cal Soelety treated hiougattior shabbily infuferr: nils defenno of Molleyd' Ymrrnauu ur{varw 'em:f mittoe. Mr. Jay bellevés ihat Dr. Grant, of 'Ox. {ord, should bo the Jast than to deprive Motley of* the right af an appeal to history for bis vindication, Mr. Lowell's supposed referenco, foLis predecessor In the post: of Minister to Spafn, sxa swakens solicitude as Lo tha futura cou éthn poet, 1t SRR Caleb haint no monopoly to court the senoreetas, posaibly Jares has Intentions In that direction, Francis D. Moulton pald 8325 in a oheck to Buenrman as Anal setticment of the costs in tha Intotrinl. Bhearmon turned It over to Mrs, Tilton asagiit, Bhelndoreed ber name on it and had it cashed, When, in tho course of ovonts, It re- turmed to Moulton, e was profanc for a brief period. Blaine, OChamberlain, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Congressman Walt, and Prof, Northrop af Yale, are pramisad as spenkers st Woodstack, Conn,, on tho Fourth of July, A poem will be read on the samo occaslon by Mary Clemmer, Woodstock I8 the summer-rosidenco of Nowen, of the Independent, It is enld that the late Goneral-Admiral ‘Ward, of Chiua, who wasanative of Salons, Masa,, bequeathod hls fortune of $10,000,000 to his Balon relatives; bat, as bo was a Chinose aubject, the money went back to the sunrca whenco it camo, though bis fathior spent oleven mouths {n China in & vain effort to bring the officials to torms, Tho Now York L’es¢ yuotea from Pope for the bencht of Edgar Pawcelt, the young poch eritle: 13 pa S L Eov e B S FUve PaR Tomsat . And spain: uine nelcher can for wits nor crittcs pasa, Aslieavy Inulce are eltlior Lorso ROF ass, The highest logal tribunal in Ponnsylvanla has decided that chisrch-bells may be rong for five mtnates, boginnlng balf an hour before the time of holding service on Sunday, sud egain for five minutes Immediately preceding servico-time. At allother timea ths ringing of church-oells, or at Jeast of clinech-bells in fashionablo quartera of the city, lsadjudged lllegal. FPx-Mayor. Blood, of Fitchburg, Mass,, failed recently owing s poor widow $400, **Wnat will you do, 11 I don’t pay yon?" he ssked of her, *+1 will pray foryou," she roplicd elmply. **What §£ I do pay your*' *Stil), 1 will pray for you." +Then I will pay you to-morrow,” sald the debtor; **for you are bound to pray for me, and { want your prayers on the right alde,” It was with bim: **No pray; no pay," Tho Honorable Mrs. Norton, lately de. coased, was married only last March, acd then becama Lady Bterling-Maxwell, Bhe was a grand- daugliter of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, he was born §n 1808, and whea hardly 17 wrote & volume of poetry entltled **The Borrows of Rosalie," which was published in 1820. Two ycars befors thlsahe hud been married to tho Mon, Georce C. Norton, who was too narrow and suspicions to live happlly with ber. In 1830 ho prosecuted Lond Melbourno for seducing her. The nolo defendans was acquitted, and, it is generally thought, justly, though Lis conduct and that of Mre. Norion may not have been altogether prudent. Sho was sepe arated from her husband, and continucd ber liter- arylabors, Among her works nre **The Undylog Onc,” & poem: **A Voica from tho Factorles,* ++Stuartof Dunlesth, " o noval, aad the ** Lady of La Qrange." 8ho excellcdinboth poetry aud prosey Ler verve belng remarkable forltasweetnoss, 1f not forstrength and orlxinslity, Duvid Urqubart, who died at Naples ro- cently, was born In Scotland and edacated st 0~ ford. In 1833 he waa spoolnted Secretary to the British Legation at Constantinaple. A year Iater ppolntmont, returned w Boglaud, and charged tho Palmerston Adminltration with Russisn tondencles. Esstern aflalrs wére theres after the habby of his career. 1la wrote sleven volumes warmly capousing the causs of Turkey, and became known as & Rassophobist. Tha World saye: **Mr, Urquhart foherited & good eatste, and was 8 msn of varied accomplishments, as well ss 0! unlque prejudices snd crotchets. Among ntricities wae tho converslon of hie deace {n Ireland into & ’l'ullll: alace, curtalna belng substituted for doors sa :h‘lnl forchairs, snd ali viltoss beluy sizidly compolled to put off their shocs from ol thelr feet oncatenag. ile conceived the notlon, too, m-n‘{ years 830 that cbildren ought never 1o b clothys until they wero well-grown, sud borrifed tuc. whole of Britsin by allowlng his little boy & wender stark naked all over bis house and grout snd compelling tho littls follow to lve =1l weatbers,"