Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 19, 1877, Page 4

2 ' ‘ THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: m),c @t’i Ifi'ujlfi,e, haye yielded. Tho * Molly Bagnires " in- angumted a system of assassinations and TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, TUESDAY. JUNE 1 maintain a ciroulation that will bo as well so- curod an that of the Bank of England, the next stop will be to provide them the oppor- tunity of obtaining the coin. Wo suppose 10 one will protend thattho banks can main. tain a circulation redeomable in gold, the Troasury at tho samo time rodeoming the plished ¥ithont diffienlty or opposition. France is now ro absorbed in tho dread of Gormang, and in arrangemonls to facilitaio the recovery of Alsaco snd Lorraine, that England could take possession of Egypt without the risk of a war with hor. Russia hns, from tho time of tho Czar Nitcitoras, nd- beyond their faith in prayer. A petition to tho Council is in cirenlation, but the world's people aro apt to look at the political as well as the moral aspects of o subject, and it is not improbable that an excellent endenvor will fail of fruit through a general idispo. sition to risk the return of misgovernment has made hor advice and opinfons of greater valuo than wore thoss of monarcha who relgned under the notion that thoe King waa necessarily antagonistio to Coustitutional- ism, Thero is mors faith in England in the effioacy of pronounoed publio sentiment than in this conntry, or in anyothercountry in the the German Qovernmont in not exacting the military service from all who rotdrn to per. manent residenca in Gormany .has been abused in many cnses. There aro instances in which Germans have Jeft the country just before reaching tho age of 18, have Ianded in Now York at n cortain date, taken ont organized rovolation ngainst socioty and il itslaws. An nssociniion sworn lo secreoy and organized for the avowed pnrposo of murder, they have been in the habit of meeting in socret conclave and RY MATL—IR ADVANCE—POSTAGR PRRFAID. 12. e TouT Wecke Tt 00 | and all its attendant evils in the very doubt- | condemning to death any one thought to Lo | greonbacks in gold, 'Thore muat, therofore, | world; and thore s no doubt that VicrontA's | vocnted a partition of Turkey so that Egypt | their Amorican papers just fiva years later, la Literary " and 250 ful attempt. to regulste by legislation the | in their way,—thongh ho wero merely a civil | Lo another coin rendered available, and that personal influenco has had much to do with | shnll fall to England. Germany has alrondy | and immediately salled for home, which is a Sataniag pdition, b 04 | Bunday quostion in Chicago. oficer discharging his duties under tho law. | is the silver dollnr. In no othor conn. | establishing it. Befors her yeign, it wonld | intimated to England that sho would view | fraudulent construction of tho henefits of ATl Of A YeaT, per moni, W00 S ————— with satisfaction tho establisiment of En. glish supremacy on the Isthmus, and Austrin would not oppose it. Italy, Spain, Porin. gal, and Holland, while they would regard it unfavorably, would bo compelled to accopt accomplishied facta, Thero boing no mate- torinl obstacles in tho way of tho possession of tho canal, Mr, Drcry noxt considers the moral objoctions that might bo made, The Wa can conceive of no fori of assassination that is moro deliberate, cold-blooded, and fiondish than this; nnd if sixty had been proved guilty instead of six, overy ono of thom shonld pay the penalty of his hideons crime with death. Kvery consideration of lifo and socioty demands that this organizod system of assassinntion shall bo stamped out forever, oven if hundreds must hang to ac- not have boen possible, as theSpectalor writorsays, for n Disnarrx to have bocome Piemier, and social politios has expanded to an oxtont that makes the Commonor's son's chances equal withthoso of the Peer's son,— woalth, morit, and opportanity being tho samo. Evon in roliglous affaira the Quoen's infjponce kind beon on the side of Liberalism, aud, next to the Episcopal Establishment, try are the bankenotes, rodecrnble in coin, refused by the Government for taxes and for duties on imports Prior to the ‘War, the notes of spocic-paying banks wero received by the Govornment for all dues. The Trensury Dapartment, holding the se. curily of coin and bonds for the redomption of bnnk-notes, can always convert such bank-notos s may fall into its hands into tho traaty, in spirit if not technleally; such persons avoid he duties of citizonship in Germany without disoharging any of the duties of American citizepship, and it is cortalnly of no {ntoreat to the United Stajes Government to eave them from German mil. itary sorvice. Thoro have also beon n good many coses of sctunl frand, arlsing from tho fmstto of naturalization papers by WERRLY EDITION, POSTPAID, « copy, . CoPTi Clubof tw ! Bpeeimen eoples sent free, To prevent delay and mintakes. be sure and give Poste Ofice sddress [ fall, Including State and Connty. Tlemittances maybe mule either by draft, express, Fost-Otice order, or In regletered letters, at oar tisk. TEKMS TO CITY BUBSCRIBERS, Dally; delivered, Sunday excepted, 23 cents per week, Dally. delivered, Sunday Inclnded, 30 conts per week, A disaster of magnitude is all' that is needed to give the penco party in Constanti- nople o solid footing, Huch a party has alrondy been formed, with a member of the Grand Conneil at its hend, and though his offorts in behalf of peace have thus far been overborne by the Saltan and his Ministors, it I8 believed that nn important Russian vic- Address TR TRIBUNE COMIANY, tory wonld alter the phase of nffairs and in- | complish it. coiu, and may thorofore rendily proteot itself | sho favors Scotch Prosbyterianism, which is | titlo to the oannl rosta with the Fronch, who | New York Conrts beforo tha required Curner Madison and Dearborn-sts., Chicago, 1. | clino the eara of the Porte to the proposition |- F Tawol itirned b ngninst loss. With thoeso chiangos In the Iaw, | tho most democratic of religious organiza- | constructed it, with tho Bultan s suzerain | term of residenco in - this country TAM IEN'TS, 10 invite medintion by somo one of the Eu. aiFenn monts wero returned by | 00 consist morely in the removal of ro- | tions. Her porsonal virtuea have undonbt- { of all Egypt, and with the Khedivo, to | hos oxpired. The nuniber of disputed cascs, the Grand Jury yesterday lo represent their Inbora in behalf of the taxpayera of Cook County, Thoso sgainst the Ring include Prnrorat, Kimperty, O'DoxseLy, Bweer- zen, JonwsoN, McCarrncy, Canmony, Oan. reNTen, Fonsyrm, Tinspate, Menuick, and ‘Watren, and charge them with n varioty of villainy, from conspiracy and porjury down to destroying ‘the ovidouce thercof. The other two bills are agninst Hicker and Wepsren on tho old charge originating in the alleged Jeaso of property by the former to tho latter for the prosccution of a disreputablo busi- ness. It waa earnestly hoped thot the Grand Jury would bo succesaful in develop- ing facta to warrant the indictment of other momhers of tho Ring majority of the County Board, Lut it appears that the jury wero unable to obtaintlie testimony to sustnin the presentment of truo bills ngainst the romninder of tho thioves, For tho ex- collont work the Grand Jury hns done the taxpayers of Cook County will bo sincerely thankfal, at tho samo time hoping that an- otherbodyof equal ability and earnestnoss may roon bo impanelod to tako up the subject of the Ring frauds whera it was loft off yostor- day. ropean Powors, strnints and restrictions imposed upon pri- vato capital and business, and which, how- over oxcusablo during the War, aro barbo~ rous nnd oppressive at this time, and which are unknown in any other country, apecio paymonts may be resumed gonerally by the banks and the comtry, leaving it an casy task for the Government to follow. To sum up briefly, specio payments in January, 1870, or at avy other time, must Lo the work of the privato business and capital of the coun- try, and this can be made not only possible, Lut n matter of course, and withont distusb- anco of business or destruction, by— 1. Removing the restrictions on bank circulation, so that each bank may issno notes equal in amount {o the par valuo of the bonds and of tho eoin which it may do- posit with tho Treasury, ¥ 2, Tho nbolition of the War taxes imposed by the Govarnment on the banks, 8. Tho receipt of tho notes of all specie- paying bauks for customs and for all other dues to tho Government. 8. Tho ro-coinnge of tha old silver dollar, to bo a legal-tender with gold in the payment of all debts, public and privato, as had boon the rulo from the boginning of American cofnage, tho"Government roserving its right nnder its contracts to pay its dobta in cither coin, ‘Theso changes in policy, fow and simple, and all of them roturns to the policy which always prevailed in speclo-paying times, will mako the resumption of specio poay- monts through tho agency of specic-paying bank-notes an onsy matter. Without theso changos, specio payments can nover ba ro- sumed, and the Rosumption law lad botter bo ropealed than to make the attempt. edly contributed very much to the publi confldenco sho onjoya and the important in. fluonco she oxoris in' Btate affairs, and in overy way she is the most distinguished and worthy examplo of Wonmian in Politics that can bo pointed to in history. whom (ho ownership of tho canal re- vorts on the oxpiration of tho concession. Tho French company would bo satisfied to dispose of its interest for nliberal sum. The Porto’s interost is so purely tochnionl that it could not gell its title for a sixponce, and it would surrender ita rights {o England for a nominal return, Even if it should not be willing, Mr. Dicry naively suggests that “wo canuot afford to shape our action in deferenco to the wishes of a moribund Power,” 8o faras the Khedive is concerned, tho bargain is more important, as it mnat includo Lower Egypt, without which the possession of the canal would be comparn~ tively volueless, Mr. Dicry thinks that he would gladly acoept an English protoctorate or occupntion to escave from still gronter ovils, Tho hold whichk Lo has upon Lis dominions {8 of tho ‘weakest kind, If Turkey falls, his personal , position would be thoronghly insecure. 1lis poople aro mora and moro dissatisfled with his rule. His own kinsfoll are intnguing against him. Ifo {s financially embarrassed, and his foroign creditors nre harnssing him continually. Taking theso things into account, Mr. Diozy, with good reason, thinks that “he would probably be not unwilling to nllow Lower Egypt to pass virtually under the dominion of Groat Dritaln in roturn for the socurily which ho would have ns & protected Princo, enjoying all the honor and emolumoenta of sovereignty, and slill exercising a qualified amount of sovereign power in the Delta, to- gother with eupromo suthority in Upper. Egypt.” Mr. D1oey clores hia nrticlo with a stato. ment of the advantages that would result from euch an occupation, both to England and Egypt, but} ns theso aro not cseentinl to n statomont of tho policy’ outlined by him, wo omit them. His main points, as will be soon, aro that the prosent condition of tho Eastern question ronders tho trans.Isth. mus routo to India more important to England thon over, that the possession of tho comal and of Egypt con be obtained without tho risk of a Europesn war, and that the various rights involved may bo purchased ot no vory hoavy cost. The argu- ment of Mr. Diccy is not only of importauce 8 a rofloction of English opinion, but it ap- parently foreshadows the result which the progress of events brings into clearor light ovoryday. It may vory soon cease be o question of speculation and becoms ona of nocessity, involving not only Egypt, bdt also Croto, sinco the harbors of thatisland, which blockades the outrnn:g of tho gean Sos, must bo utilized for the purpcse of holding tho English floels, and for maintaining n stratogical rolation to tho canal that docs not exist ut Malta, . however, s trifling as comparod with tho number of German-Amcrican citizons who roturn to their old homes on visits withont boing distarbed. It is noted that Mr. Bax. ororT DAvIs hns scoured two important con. cessions from the former practico of Ger- man authoritios under the treaty, viz.: (1) A porson dotained for investigation is now pormitted to retain posscssion of his Amere icnn papors pending the investigation, whilo tliey woro formerly takon away from him, though they might be his only mesns of identifieation ; and (2) ot tho expirntiof®of the two yenrs' sojourn the naturalized citl. gon may now elect which citizenship ho will rotain, though the Germnun nuthorities used to pounco upon (heir subjeot at once if he romained boyond the proscribed limite The operation of the tronly is so satisfactory of Inte years that it is’ hoped noithor Govern- mont will renounce it. MeVieker's Thentras Madison strect, betwcen+ Desrbomn snd State. fony Pastor's Company. Varlety performance. das Williams, the Kernells, Delebanty and Henglor. ——— The ink is scarcely dry with which was written tho contract with Hixspare for tho Court-House granite before modifications, alterations, and concossions aro granted by the County Board. The scionco of drawing a contract as it should be drawn in ordor to shut out all chanco for stealings in the shiapo of oxtras, and the artof compolling a con. tractor to faithfully emrry out his oblign. tions, aro nuknown to the County Ring. It isn part of the programme to leave wido openings for favoritism and fraud ; a porfect contract wonld not answer the purpose. ——— Adeiphi Theatre. Monroe street, corner of Desrborn, *‘The Phe nix.” Milton Nobles, Maurico [ike; Fanny Lewls Butt, Jule Coventry, Josis Llight. THE MONTENEGRIN'VICTORY. Again tho gallant Montonegrina have .in- flictod a erushing blow upon the Turks at the battlo of Plawa, which was fonght!on Sat- urday last, in which 8,000 Montenogring, taking o position bohind intninchments on tho mountain-side, four timea ropulsed tho charges of 10,000 Turks with fearful slanghter. Tho enemy,demorsilized,waverod for o moment. The Montenegrina took ad- vantage of it, instantly rushed from their in- trenchments, and drove them back with the ‘bayonet until their rotreat resombled n rout. ‘The handful of Montoncgrin horsemen pur- enod thom for miles until the rond was lined with Turkish doad and woutdod, and dark. negs alone saved thom from a:etormination, Tho battle of Plawa should not bo con- founded with that of the Dugra Pass, which took place on tho 12th, in which the Mon. tonegrins, although they . were forcod from the Pass, inflicted fesrfnl losses upon tho Turks. Tho Dugn Pass is on the north- crn frontier of Montonegro, commanding tho approach to Nicsio in Herzogo- ving, which Sureysmax Pasna at the hend of an army of 15,000 troops was secking to rovictual, ond which ho only accomplishod after tho most terrible carnago, losing oven mors mon than were lost at Plawn. Tho littlo town of Plawa, where tho baltlo of 8nturdny was fought, Is in tho nortfi of Albania, near tho sonthern froatior of Mon. tonegro, and nbont thirty miles northenst of Podgoritza, which bas been tho headquar- tora of & Turkish column under Art Bam. This colamn was on its way to reinforco tho column on tho northorn frontier under SurevsaN Pasna, when it found the Monte- negrins blocking thoir way at Plawa, which fa on the rond to Nicsie. The dofeat scoms to hovo beon an overwhelming one. The im. portanco of this battle Hos in the fact that it leaves tho southern Montenagrin army froo to co-oporate with the northern. The com- munieation s vory casy. A London Zimes corrospondent, writing -~ from Orealuk, in Central Montenogro, says: * Tho opora. tions on both frontiors aro mado ensy for the Montenogrins, it boing not nbove ten hours’ march from ono froutier to the othoer, and from this position wo csn hear s gun fired at oithor oxtrome of tho line from Nic- alo to Podgoritza." With such onsy com- munication as this, tho fato of Nicsia ia by no means settled na yet, although it has boen rovictualod, Sonld tho southern force form o spoody jnnction with the northern, tho Duga Pass may bo thq, sopulchro of Sorsy- aax Pasma's army, for thoy must return from tho plain of Nicsio by this same Duga Pass, whore thoy loft so many of' their dead and dying in gotting through last weok. It will bo a bittor day for the 'I'urks if the two Montenogrin columna can combihe bofore they roturn throngh tho Pass, Thero will Lordly bo o -Turk loft to tell tho . taloof the wloughter. It is rolated that the Princo Nizrra wept at tho losses inflicted upon his little handful of troops, notwith. standing the slaughtor of tha Turks. A loss of a fow hundred is moro serious than the losa of thousands is to the Turks, If theso invincible, Hon-hoarted mountaincers num. bered a hundrod thousand mon instead of barcly twonty thousand, they would have swept the ‘Purks out of cxistence long ago. In all the annals of the world’s prowess nothing shinca more brilliantly than the dauntless courage and herofsm of tho war. riors of the Black Mountain, Ilaverly’s Theatrs, Randolph street, between Ulark sad ) LaSalle. *'Rip Van Wigkis.” Robert McWade. Ezposition Building. kaka Shore, foot of Adams strect. Summer-Night ! Concert by tho Tho ASHLAT LODGE, No. 308, A, ¥, & A mnd Annual Mectig n_thelf hail, 7 o nesdny) eveaing, for election uf ‘ofivers any psymens Lodgu tues. Al inembers earnesily requested W be Prescut. Ly urder of the W, M, €. 1. CRANE, Soo' TULSDAY, JUNE 19, 1877.. A movement to inangurate a fall crusade sgainst unrighteonsnoxs under the loadership of Mr, Moonr doca not sppear to find favor among the brethron of the Baptist sect. The Prosbyterians nnd Mothodists have united in” enlling back tho great Evangelist, and tho Baptists havo reluctantly jolued. An ns- signed rosson for this lnkewarmness is that the mootings involved by a rovival tond to church disintegration, bnt narrow-minded peoplo whio believe tho clilof end of man to ba tho glory of Gop, will forget this minor dotail of *‘disintegration™ in the contem- plation of & rovival's fruita, Dr. . R. Cravssey, of Davonport, in a long communiceation, objects to remonotiz- ing silver. Among other alleged disad. vantages of resuming tho silver dollar js this: *¢Tho silver dollar will bo useless for our foreign trade,” Wo don’t percoive how that can be. Tho valua of silver, liko that of gold, is dotermined by weight. Bilvor ir now, and for somo timo past has,beon, @uotod in London at 55 to 66 pence in gold per ounco. That is the purchasing power of silver at the groat hoadquarters of monotary cxohnnges. ‘fheLondon markot takos all the silvorofferodnt thopricostated. Any American marchiant can purchase any of tho commod- itles of nny nation in the world, and pay for them in silver at 65 to 66 pence gold atand. ard in silver, and it will bo received as read. ily ns gold, according to its relative valus, ‘fho only differenco botween thom is that it takes less weight of gold to purchaso o given quantity of merchandiss than’ of silver. Amerjenn coined gold is worth no moro any- whero in the world than is ropresonted by tho woight of pura metal it contains. The mint-stamp ndds nothing to its purchasing power. The samo rule bolds good ns to silver : coining it would ncithor add to nor _subtract from its oxchangenblo valua, Andorican silver dollars, thorofore, wonld bo jnst as good in proportion to. their market value as gold colnn for nlt purposes of pur- chase and foreign payment. The silver of our mines for the last dozen or more years hos beon exported to the four quartors of the earth, in payment of goods and dgbts. Hundrods of miltions of purchascs hava béen mado in this metal at ita markot price. For all purposes of forelgn exchango it is just aa usoful as gold; and it scoma that tho ocenn steamera charge no moro for transporting a million of dollars of silver than a million of dollars of gold to any foreign country, whother jt bo England, Chins, or Brazil. OHIOAGO MARKET SUMMARY, The Chicagy produce markets were moderately . scllvo yesterday, and brendstufls were weak. Mesa pork clozed sicady, at $12.00@12423; for July ond $ILTI@IL.T6 for August, Lard closed a shade casler, a1 88,70 for July and 88, 424 . @W.B3for Augnet, Meata were flrm, at4e for 1 Joose shoulders, Biicfor do short riba, and 6%ic for do whort clears, Uighwines were unchanged, at $1.07 per gallon. Luke frelghts werw dull, at 2c for corn to Iinffalo. Flour was quict and casior, Wheat closcd 1'c lower, at $1.45 for cash or ", Juno and $1.425@1.422 for July, Corn closed e lower, at 44c cash ond 1434c for Joly. Oate closed Yic lawer, ot dsc cash and Mige for July, Tiye was dull, at G0@Glc. Darley was offered !t 8% for new, scllor September. Hoge wero quiet, and closed weuk at 6@10c. decline. Sales were at §4.50:24.80 for conmon to cholee, Cat. . tle were dull and heavy, Sheep were unchanged. ', Oue bundred dollars in gdld would buy $105.25 In . kivenbacka at the close, THE ROAD T0 SPECIE PAYMENTS. On tho 1st ‘day of January, 1879,—just cighteen montha hence,~it is proposed that the Governmont shall resum® specio pay- monts, pud, of course, that all pnymonts of o public and private character shall be in coin. ‘To this end tho commorcial, banking, and Govornmontal interests are all looking with much anxiety and with such prepara. tion as the disordered condition of financial and commorcial affairs will permit. We think thore is mnch misapprehonsion, even in circles which should Lo best informed, on this subject. In tho first place, it should naver be forgotton that tho Govornment i not a banker, nox o capitalist, nor has it an income from profita. It is a dobtor, and stands fownrds its creditors like all other debtors, Itsentiro revennesare the procoeds of taxes lovied for speciic purposcs, and among theso purposcs tha purchase of coin to pay the principal of any part of the pub- lio debt is not one. Spocio payments, when mado, must be rendered possibla through the nctive agenoy of the private capital of tho conntry. 'he resumption of specio payments should not and can not be the ex- clusiva act of the Government; but private capital should be 8o freed from tho entanglo- ments ond restraints imposod on it by law that it should restore specio paymonts, in- cluding payments by tha Government. The resumption of specio payments by the Gov- erament should bo incidental to and part of n goneral resumpjion, and not an arbitrary act done without roforence to tho business of the couniry or to itsinjury or destruction. It is absurd fo expect that thi8 or* any other country at this day can got along with. out, paper woney, Huch a thing is an ab- soluto impossibility. In this couniry wo havo two forms of paper money, the green- Lacka and the bank-uotes, ‘Cho Government, not being a banker or a capitalist, connot maiutain o papor money redeomable in coin. 8pecie paymont, 8o far aa that paper is con- cerned, nocossarily menns the rotirement of logal-tondor notes. ‘Lho banks pro not, under existing lnws, able to maintaln specie redemption of their circulation. Thoir cir. culation hns long sinco coased to be profita. blo, The law of 1863 is still in force, which compels u bank to deposit bonds worth 8110 in gold ns a socurity for $90 of circu- letion, It is also taxed on circula- tion and otherwisa by tho Governmont, in addition to municipal taxes, nearly 2 por cent on its ciroulation. As a consequenco, tho ‘profit on circulation is 50 smnll that in wmany casea the citculation i4 of no possible bonefit to tho bank. It has, in addition to its boud doposit, o redomption deposit, and Locause of theso things thero has been going on for some timo a gradual Yeduction of bank circulstion. As the time for specio payments draws near, this bank cironlation will be roduced to ite minimum, or $50,000 a bank, and this $50,000 will bo locked up in tbo bavk vaulta Under theso circum- stance, tho preposed rosumption of specio paynicnts in tho manner indicated by Secro. tary Sugaxax, with an oxelusively gold cur- renoy, ia not only impossible, but, if possi. ble, will bo ruinous to the country, Specio payments with hitn monns tho rutiroment of tho greonbacks aud the foreod retiremont of tho bouk curroncy, and with nothing loft but gold. 'W'o cownpel this country, oighteen months lhence, to carry on all busl. ness in gold, will produce wuch o dewand for that metal as will dijturb and convalso all the markets of tho world. Such 8 proceeding is an impospibility. It would bo destroying in this couptry tho great agonoy of the banks, through which the commezrco of tho world i conducted. Bauk paper, the world ‘ovor, s nd essential to business as is coin itself, and yet that is the currency which {t is proposed to dostroy, that specle poymonts may bo reached. Now, supposo the Governwent direct its policy to ensbling privato capital to resume specle payments, and, in doiug so, make it possible for the Governmont to resumae, The notes of the Bauk of England nre con. sidered as well protected as any bauk-notes known among men. ‘The circulation of that bank is secured by a doposit of national bouds and of coin. ‘Chat is, - tho bank may issue mnotes to nn equal amount with the bonds and gold it way have in deposit in tho issue doport. meat, If our Government will amend the Danking law s0 a4 to pernit any bank to isgue its uotea, ‘dollar for dollar, to the full amountof all the bonds or coin it may de- posit with tho ‘L'reasury, requiring the bauk to keep on deposit o liberal sum in coin for the redemption of its notes ; 1f in addition to thiu the War taxes imposed in 1803 on the banks be repealed, there will bo a direct in. tervst created to induce the bauks to main- tain nalarge & ciroulation a9 their capital will warrant. In this way the private capital of the conntry will be interested in specia pay- meuts, which will be to that interest o bleas- ing instead of a destruction, laving created on {nducewent on tho port of the bauks to R Tha Turk has a specinl prayer tacked awny in his sock, only to Le drawn forth and offered up when Islam is indangor. As indicativo of the apprehension of the Mus. sulman at the present juncture, thoimportant nows comes that this portentous invocation las been fished out nnd presented with appropriate solemnitics and accompanying documents. Porhaps it doesn’t prove much, +but it will afford Christendom somo reliof to know that the Tark has shotoff his lnat prayer, for it will enable missionaries to stock him with petitions that may be more ofitcacions in saving his woul than his own are likely to be in roscuing his nntion. AN INFLUENTIAL WOMAN IN POLITICS. Bagznor, in his * History of the English Constitution," draws tha strongest contrast betwoon Constitutionalism as it exists under British SBovercign and the American Re- public. It is truo that our Constitution wns modolod after the Euglish Constitution at tho timo it was drawn, but there it has ro- mained with but one important modification rolative to tho civil status of the nogro, while tho English Constitution bas grown and ox- panded infinitely. Ours was written out and assumed o fixed and {fnclastio charnoter, to which the people have been bound down ; and ovory progrossivo movemont in Govern- mont, liko that for the pormanent reform of tho civil sorvico, or for tho establishmont of a rosponsiblo Ministry, or for an improvemont in “ho method of choosing the Chiof Magistrate, ia em- barrassed and rotarded by what shonld +bo tho principal auxiliary in the liberaliza- tion of political forms, Wo are bound by it to go on with the applianoes of A hundred yonrs ago, while the unwritten law of Great Britain becotnes broader and more compro- hongivowith the advance of public sentiment. 'Tho progress that has boon mado t civil, political, religious, and social liborality in Gront Britain bas been duo in large part to tho personnl influcnce and the hearty co- oporation of Quoen Vicronis, who ceolo- brated, a couplo of wocks ago, hor fitty- cighth birthdny, and, a fow days proviously, tho fortioth aunniversary of hor reign. It was natural that tho English journals should improve tho opportunity for somo solf- gratulation on n reign 0 cxcoptionally long and crowded with ovents marking tho prog- reas of Government. A nation that counts forty-threo separate Govornments, with peo. ples distinet in race, language, geograph- ienl location, and political organization may woll be excnsed for occasional solf-glorifica- tion, Without undertaking even to sum- marize tho conspicuons political evonts of Vicrosia's reign, tho goneral statoment will not bo disputod that they havo been stendily in the direction of prograss audliberalization, English Constitutionalism did not como in with Queen Vioronra; it dates two contygies back, Butup totho time of her reign'tho English Soveroign was a suspected person, vigilantly watchied by tha people, jealoua of their constitutional rights, and frequeatly found to bo an impediment in the way of .achloving liberties to which tho advancemont of tho peopla ontitled them, Queen Vioronia, nssisted notably by hor husband s long as be lived, rovolutionized thy popular ideaof a monarch, and has gradually changed Eugland from the condition of a scant and @nstantly- threatoned Constitutionalism to that of o more liberal, becausa & more clastic, Domos. rooy than provaila in Amorica. The Spec- tator says of hor porsonal inffucnce on En. glish politics: The oczupant of thethrone 19 In Kngland amnch more importent person to the chiefs of the two parties which guide the conntry than the country generully wuspocts, 1e 8 person at sl evenls Lo bo taslduously studied, and the long continuanca of the wama factor in the political caleulation must, on oy reasunable theory of our history, have bad an efect which it Is bard to messure, molding more or leas all ruling e, affecting wore or Jess oll sactul developuanty, deflecting more or less all di- rections of nutivnal proyreas, The Queen does not govern, but she is, and sll thoss who govern have to recken with her; andfin thy necessity for that teckoning, is an fnflucnco whick, In tha long years that ave passcd since 1837, bas bLeen, as future bistoriane will perceive, aluost incalcolable. It ‘will be for them Lo cetinate fully both its kind aud its degree, for, of all secrot bistorics, that of which least fy known fs the history of Eugland under Queen Vievouwia,—indeod. tho public history is half forgotten, for thoes fs ua fArat-class book upon 1o wubject, —but of oue broad generalisation which taey will make, wo may, we think, bo certaln, ‘Phe longrelgn and the steady, though probably in part uuconscious, Jufiuence of Queen VicToRIA have beiped snaterially to smooth Knglish progress to- :v:nauucmoauuu organisation of she national ife, Queen Viorouta has alwsys leaned to Lib- craliam fu politics and religion, and this tondonoy bas incidentally helped to bresk down many of the social distinctions that provailed in England, aod' place every masn on an equal footing with his follow, sccord- ing to individual werit. Bho was educated under Whig politics, and hor individusl opin- long have always been favorable to the Lib- erals. Bhe has identified hervelf thoroughly with the main idea of Constitutionalism a3 it prevalls in Great ritain,—that the Throne must yield to the body politic, composed of tho represontatives of the people; and thie spirit hay gained for her a contidenco which Greonbacka at the Now York Stock Ex- chango yesterday clored at D43, - “Itsa farco! ‘;n—n !nre-o_, and wo want [ to bo tried!” Lias suporseded the old war- cry, *“It's o cantrnct, and we must be paid!” Tho recent eopious rains which havo been #0 welcomo o the farmers of Southern Il- linois havo but added destruction to the desolation left by tho whirlwind in its pas- sage over tho atricken town of Alt. Carmol. Rain hins fallon almost evory day sinca the torriblo visitation, and much properly that might otliorwiso have been saved and utihizod for fature necessitios has beon rondered en- tiroly worthless, leaving tho victims of the catastropho atill more dependent upon the sympathy of tha charitablydisposed, Au. othor denth, that of Ronesr Covrrem, in- jured ot tho time of the hurricano, is an- nonnced. All tho others aro now bolioved to bo in a fair way to recove Tho suppressicm of two nowspapers, tho Sclamet and Muasorat, ot Constantinople, sud tho oxilo of thair editors nud compositors, leads to the suspicion that theso journals " have beon reproducing Merald war maps. Thoe Prinooton Ireshman class of 1880, numbering noarly one huudred students, havo hoen homored in Lhe brooch by balng kicked out of the college. They nttamnpted '} to “bulldozo” tho Faculty sud got the vagrout’s sontonce, ** Leava'town by noon."s Jomn Comsnsstones McOaverey apparent- ly cstcoms bondsmon a mocessity, like o i shirt. Whenovor o Grand Jury ls iggession,, ho has two or three landed gontlemen jog- ging around with him, and yosterday ho was ready to give bail beforo tho indictments wero pregonted. ? Tn rpite of MaioMiios's solomn sasur- nnco that the Paris Exposition of 1878 will positivaly not be postponed, thoro is o very general notion current that & postponemont will bo compelled by the fofta of circum. slancos. 'Tho warin tho Enst would alone bo nufiicient to divert the attontion of Europo froin tho proparations necessary to mnnko the Exhibition in every way ereditablo and sne- cosaful; whilo tho occurrenco at homo of a dondly confliot botween tho Governiment and tho popular brauch of tho Assembly will Lo very certain to confirm the wisdom if it does not point out the nccessity of deforring the industrinl display to o miore favorablo scason. At all ovents, MlaoManox's theatrical viait to the grounds of thie Exhibition for the purpose of denying the very natural inferonce of postponement scems to havo failed of ita object, for the bollef very generally obtains that thore will bon postponoment, Yeaterday's debato in tho French Assem. bly was notable for the paina taken by Decazes, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, to pssure the Deputies that tho friendly rela. tions betweon France and the nations of Enaropo have been in nowlso jmpaired or affectod by tho political convulsions of the past month, Mo read n dispatoh from the French Ambassador at Berlin giviog proof of hie excollont fecling of the Gernan Govern. ment toward France, and stated that similar sssurancos lind been roceived from Viennas, Homo, 8t Pateruburg, and Madrd, A speoch by M. Pauws, Minister of Publio- Works, contained an intimation of Mac. Maton's intontion to persavere in Lis poel- tion of nntagonism toward tho Left, and clivitod from Jures Ferny an equally deflant spoech in behal? of the Republicaus. The «uestion of dissolution has beon referred to s comimittoo of tho Boumata composod of six momberd favoring and throe opposed to the measure, % 4 THE NATURALIZATION OF GERMANS, A correspondent writing from Berlin calls attention to tho fnot that the miutual obliga- tion of tho maturalization troaty botwoen the United States and Uermany oxpircs by liftation next yonr, the torm having boon ton yonrs from the timo when tho treaty was adopted. Thorenfter, either nation has tho right to brogate tho trenty altogother byona year's noticaj nod it will bo n matter of vast importanco to -Amoricanized Germnns %lmlm- tho treaty shall bo continued or abandoned, It is with woe surprise wo learn that Dr. Frievuicu Korr, one of the most nccomplished Germans who aver be- came Americanized, but who has sinco re. .turned to his native allegianco, is making a vigorous attack on tho treaty, charges that the Gorman suthoritica were outwitted by the American Envoy when its terms were agrood upon, and esrnestly advisos that the German Governmentyenounce itassoonas the oviginal term of the obligation shull expira. 1t is stated, howover, that the Governmoent is not 1n sympathy with Dr, Kore's oxtreme views, and that thero is leas dangor of a ro- nunciation on tho part of the Gormans than there s that some politician in the Americard Congroeas shall load # movement to terminate the treaty with a view to somo persanal ad- wvantago in persuadiog the German.Amerioan citizens that better terms can be exncted from tho German Govornment, * 'The presont naturalization troaty was the resnlt of intornational negotiations inauga. rated and carried on by Mr. Baxazorr, when he was United States Minister at Berlin, Bofore its adoption thore wos & constant irri. tation betwoen tho two Governmonts rolative to the statud af the native Gernans who had become naturalized American citizon and subsequently roturned to Gormany for a visit or temporary sofourn. The Prussian Gov. ornment claimed the right, and we belleve genorally with success, of exscting tho fall” torm of military sorvice frow any born Gor- man upon whom it could lny its hands in its own territory. ‘There was no time at which one or more such cased wero not puzzling the American sutborities, and the absence of any agreement betwoen tho two countries wns 8 continued source of annoyance, sud oven (hreatened the friendly ralations of the two Powers. Finally tho existing treaty was. adopted by mutual conoessions, 'in which, howover, the Americans unquestion. sbly got the best of it; for they did not pro. toct naturalized citizens before, and now they may and do protect them within the terms of the treaty, which are not un. repsonable. The principal footure of the trealy is that a native German, after being naturalized as an American citizen, may re. turn to Gormany and remain there two years with the full protection as au American citi. zon, though as a German-born he may still be subject to tho military sorvice imposed upon all Germau citizens; a sojourn of more than two years, however, unless he is-pnst tho ago when military service is required un. dor the laws, makes him lisblo to draft as & soldier the same as nuy other German sub. ject. The theory isthat a residence of more than two yeers is evidonca of an intontion to reacquire Germanu ocitizenship, to which military servica is requisite, As & mattor of fact, it i sald that the Gorman authontics rerely insist upon s strict coustruction of theso terms, ¢xoept when military interesty requiro it or there is evidence of fraud. There is no doubt that the liberality of The Dulmt?_;‘;l;‘; 8ald, fn the conrsc of an articlo nbout a Inwyer by the nameof RANDaLL, In regard to o divorece case: . ‘Thess combatants, however, are probably not awaro of tho facility with which the “rosento Itax- DALL takes to both sides of a case. They nevor heard, perhapy, of hie firet divorce ault, nor how hevettled up o bankrupt junk-desler's outate. Whereupon the sald RANDaLL, fccllng agurieved, brought sult for lbel. It appeared fu evidence that the reporter wrote tho sentence In fuu and {ntended it as o foke. After hearlng the case, tho Judee charged the jury, and amoug other things sald: "The sting of the article, it Is conceded on the partof the plaintif, commences thero, the .gn of tho article commences with this portion which was added by tho witness Furien, the local roporter, The first quostion, gentlenmen.’ to be considered fu, Ls thus articlo lbelous fu itscl{y 7 am of the opln- son that it Le not {ibeloua in itself, and, lhun/«’m. whail decline to charge yon that it Is of thst characs ter, It will thien ba for you to fnd from this ex- ["ulhm, snd {ts connection with the otbors, how ¢ would ordinsrily be understood by mens. .+ o o Thore by been 1o testiniony hezo of the damagos which huve been suffored, “Mr. IRAXDALL has teatte fled that he Lins suifored actual uamage, but thera {6 10 other testimony of the actusl damsxo which ho hina suffered, ur which be clatus o bave saf- feted |n thie case, Tlo remsinder of the charge was general s tothe nature aud effect of lbels, The report states: The ]nr{ retired at hlll;{}lll 5, and, aiter belng abuentw little overan hour, retiruod witha ver- dlet of $500 in favorof Mr. Raxvaii. Court then adjourned, A verdict ol damages of 8800 n a caso where the Court expresses the opinion that the article was not libelaus {n ftsalf, and therefore rofused to charge that It was of thut charucter, tnust by cousidered a protty severe one. Joking scems to bea pretty expensive luxury fu Detrolt. Funny meu had better keep away from there or they will be made to smart for It by solemn and asininy jurles, selectod to convict, Of cuurse the Zvibune will appeal thu case and ask fora sew trial—beture a Jury less owlisti, bt Sl It being warm cnough for the Indinns to : got out of tha Agoncies, thoy naturally bond ; thelr glout futellecta upou tho extermination of the whites. Bix soldicrs woro killed in a recent battlo noar Cottonwood Crock, Wash- ¢ ington 'Territory, the redsking eseaping with the loss of Youna Joszri, a Qhilef, and his squaw, A six-weeks' senson of summer.garden con- corts at the Exposition Building by Tnro. ponk Tiouas’ orchestra was inaugurated last evening with overy promiso of nbundant sue. cess. It needed only tho presenco of this . uuparalleled musical feature to rendor Chi- cago oup of the wost attractivo summer ro- sorts on tho continont. Tho Comsuon Council Inst avening repair- ed the defect in tho ordinanco discovered by Judge McAvrusTen, aod by - tho passage of o nuw ordinsnes rendered ¢ Iawful for tho Polico Justices to inflict tho penalty of im- prisonment iu the Ilouse of Correction upon o cluss of criminals to whom mero fines are no terror, THE ENGLISH ROUTE TO INDIA, Mr, Epwanp Dicey, ono of tho most thoughtful of Eoglish writers, contributea [ paper an “The English Ronte to India" to tho Nineteenth Century, which is worthy of spocial notice, innsmuch as it reflects the opinion of tho English people and Govern. ment, 80 far as that opinion has beon ox. proased since tho outbronk of the war, It is of importanco nlso as foreshndawing the demand which England wmay wmake pn the day of peitlemont whith mnat follow the dismemberment of tho Turkish Emplro. Mr, Dicey argues upon the basis that, when peaco i3 made, Russin will have taken a con- siderablo etop towards tho overthrow of Ottoman rule, and that the proximate occu. pation of Constantinople by Russia is within the bounds of possibility, whioh bringw ap the question, ** What practical difforence it would make to England if the Bouphorus paased, eithor nominally or virtually, from under tho commnandof Turkoy into that of Russin™ In answer to this question ho con- tonds that whatovor Power holds Constanti. nople is mistress of ‘Asin Minor ; that if the war at its close left tho frontiors of Nouma. nig extended to the Balbans under 8 Russiah protoctorate, Avmenia in Russisn posses. slon, and the Bosphorus froe to lussian iron-clads, thon Russis would have made a long step towards the scizure of Constanti- nople; and that, it Russin wore in posscssion of the Bosplhiorus, she would soon have au iron.clad Heet in the Sea of Marmora that could reach Port Sald long bLefore any roin. forccment could arrive from Malta, which would weaken tho English hold upon India. To protect herself against such a danger, he scouts at the jdoa that England should Jend any aid to the Turk, and contends that “the mere possibility that Russa may obtain tho command of the Bospborus ronders it a wat ter of urgent necessity to us to securs the command of the Isthmus route to India.” To ascomplish this it will be necessary to keop the Buez Canal open at all times to En- glish sbipa and sequire & footing in Xtho Delta of Egypt. * In order to socure our freedom of uninterfupted sccess to India acrozs the Isthmus, it s easeutial that we should mot only bave an unrestricted rightof employ- iog its waters for war purposes, but that its course from ses to uea, as woll s 13 ports of ingress and egress, should be under our protection. This, 3r. Diosx claims, can 00w Le acoome That giddy youny crenture, Aiss Caw Hasnvroy, les under tho impntation of hav- . ing yrossly blundered in her statement of foct when she accused Bocrotary Scnunz and Mr, Grouax ScnNemen of beiug on intimuto fluancial relatious, ‘Lo letter of tho latter, in another columnn, leaves the inferenco that this Leantiful girl has been tamporing with her imagination, ggorent Tudinng bave taken poawcssion of a stone building, and, proparatary to pight sallics against the aeighboring churchies, thoy hold o most de. vout and satisfustory prayer.meoting. 'Lhey } bave ewployed counsel, who divides his 1ius (hese questions sro pertinent: T¢ not Tm( TRIBUNK ratlior Iate In coming 1o tho concluslon thut the solution of all the natlon's truubles Hesin educsting the “um lo uf the Suuth? Why hias it not been urglng thie for tho past decadet~ Kichmond Enquirer, ‘Phut §s just what it haa I::an dolng, notonly for the last decade, but for®more than two de- ¢ades. It has pounded that revellle drum for o quarter of a century, trylug to wake upthe South to the necessity of gencral education. One of the objections Tus Tmisune urged apzninst the slavery systein was the suppression of all educstion from the boudmen us well a8 the withiolding of it from tho poor whitcs. i TRIBUNR has long belfeved that the salva- tion of the republican forw of Govermmuent de- pended upon the education of the wasses. No paper lu the United States bas sald more In that bebalt, A pairof New York “bloods'’ iade a waper, one cuntending that the beauties of tho ity were to be found iu the Ligher walks of ths city, and the other that they abounded in the lower stratumm. A “counnittee,’” having investigated, reported fu favorof the latter, and It is to bo hoped that the shup aud hotel girls have nob sutfered by the visit of this conunittes of suobs. o —t—— - Ono of the largor Wostern citics, so reads tho dispatch, has recently ohinnged the name of its Postmnster, or, in other words, a vow wan hos taken hold. ‘This uow Postmaster Lins seen fit to moke several removals, and tho removed thereupon hava moved upon the National Capital {n force to lay their griov. onced beforo the Postmaater-Goneral: That officfal®after consulting with the Presidont, pssures the forsakon clorks that tho Dopart~ wment ia not oficlally informed that the re. moving power in this casa s disloyal to the Administration in & business point of view ; that the Govornment {s not, politically speaking, the kooper of the consciences of its sorvants; and, finally, the pro- testing parties aro given to understand that tho postofiices are, or should be, dovoted to the business for which they sro estnblished, namely: the recoption, dis- tribution, and general care of the mails, and are not, as mauy hove supposed, more head- quarters whera political scrvices, and not businoss qralifications, are the chief recom. mendations. Burely a chaoge has boen wrought in the manner of ' dispensiug Government potronage when a Postwaster is pormitted to think o3 Le likes so long as ha keeps it to bimself and attends to the busl. uess of his offi The Pennwylvania Board of Pardous is en- titled to thie gratitude of the wholo conntry for refusing to remit the death-penslty in the case of the aix *¢ Molly-Muguire " wurderens who are sentenced to be bhanged this week, ‘fho prossure on their behalf has been onor. mous, but it would Lave been u fotal error to timo Letween apathotio attempts to edjust watters and making his clieuts go down in thelr breech-clouts for foes i et 62 O Rursors assigning a hestile attitude to . Austria oro agnin current in Lonudon., Rus. sin's effort to uccura the neutmlity of Bervia was a bone thrown to the llouse of Ilaps. burg, but the pending arrangoment for tho wuerehing of the Muscovite through Servia's domain bas evoked from Austriaa clearly. dvfined grow), upon which sre based the storics that she will shake a gory fist under tho nase of the Czar, . While sppreciating tho importance and necessity of sewers, Mayor Heatu also ap. preciates the absolute necessity and para. wount importance of a good and unimpaired municipsl credit, Exzactly what he will do with tho Council's *‘request” to borrow §200,000. for sewerugs improvemonts, i not yet wanifest, but his expression ‘of opinjon that 375,000 or $100,000 will bo enough to pey interest on until the city's Gnances are in ® 1ore healthful condition scems to ndi- cate that he mey cub the amouunt down to those figures. RigNoLp, the pet of the ladics oud the re- cipient of plore bouquets and love-letters than any actor of Lls age, has just skipped to Canads to avold & boanl-blll. At ung time be could bave paid all his expenscs with bis foral offer- ings, but the ross has faded, and there in’t s woman {o Now York's ickle soclety who bas enqugh love lcft to square his bash aceount. —————— The Widow Bissett, of West Hartford, fo- formed the Sherlll @ dozen tmes thet JomM McQuirs, a discharged farm-band, had threat- cued Ler Mfe, and the Sherlff advised her 0 shoot L. Last week McGuiug vislted ber agalu, sccompanying his dewmands for moaey with menaces. Ivas, another farm-hand, shot blus dead, and the Bheri® promptly jugged the avenger ou & chargs of murder. It wight be Whether or not liquor shall be sold in Chicago on Sundsy is & problem still puz. zling the brethren of tho Alethodist Ohurch, ‘They have gone into an investigation of the question with an energy characteristio of this Church, but the logal asspects confuse thom, and they scem to find but little bope