Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 20, 1877, Page 4

The Trilmne, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. 1 WA~ ADVARCE—rOSTAGE PREPATD. reas fone weeks f Litorsry and Bpecimen capled seat fres. To prevent dolay and mistakes, b aire and give Poste ©ffice sddress in fall, {ncluding State and County. Remittances maybe made either by draft, express, Yost-Offies order, or In regintered Kiters, atonz risk. . THRMS TO CITY BURSCRINERS, Dally, deltvered, Sunday cxceptad, 25 cents per weeks Dafly, deliverod, Sundsy (nclnced, 30 cents per week, Address THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, @orner Msdizon and Dearborn-sts., Chicego, TiL MieVieker's Theatre . 2 Madlyon street. betwoen Dearborn sad State. Tony Pator’s Compsay. Variety performance. Gus Willlams, the Kernels, Delehanty snd Hengler, Aftar moan and evening. % Adelphl Theatre, Mouroe street, corner of Dearborn. **The Phoe niz” Milton Nobles, Maurica DIikes Fanny Lewls ale Coventry, Joste Hight. Afternoon and o Haverly’s Theatre. Danfolph street, between Clark god Lasalle **Rip Van Winkle.” Robers MoWade, Afternoonand exening. Expositlon Buflding. LaXe Shore, foot of Adams strect. Summer-Night Cuncert by the Thomas Orchestra. ————— ¥ S8OCIETY MEETINGS, 3P DAE, No. 411 A, F. & A, M.—Regu- T T el Tormae. cataet Kun: dolpli And Halsted-ata., this (Wednesday) Elflhfl.rllw B oo CE" eulh Benam Fro St ey vl J CiAB. . FORISTENR, Sec'y. JUNE 20, ‘WEDNESDAY, 1877, OBIOAGO MARKET BUMMARY, The Chicagy produce matkets were penerally firmer yesterday, Mess pork closod 2214c per brl bigher, al $12. 82K @12. 65 tor July and $12.05Q 12,07% for Augnst. Lard closed 5¢ por 100 s ligher, at €8.80 for July and $8.87'4@8.00 for August. Mcats wero firmer, at 4%c for looso shonlders and 6Xc for do short tibs. Highwines wrero unchanged, st $1.07 pergallon, Lake freights were activo aud eanler, at 14¢ for corn to BufTalo, Flour waa ‘wulet and steady. ' Wheat closed S0 higher, at 81.48% cash and ST.40KQ@L.40% for July, Corn closed 13¢ higher, at 46%c cseh snd 46c for July. Oats wera casler, cloning at 87%¢ cash and 30%c for July. Tiye was dull, at GO¢. Barley was offered at 85c for new Mo, seller September. Hogs were active, nnd closed firm, at 6@10¢ advanco, Sales wore at $4.60@ 4,85 Cattlo wero qulet and unchanged, with sales at $2.63426.12%. Sheep were firm, at $3.00@5, 00, Last Saturday evening thero was (nstoro In thls clty 672,033 bu wheat, 3,500,237 bu corn, 288,758 bu oata, 155,092 bu rye, and 125,440 bn barley. Total, 5,042,416 bu, belnga decronss of 205,002 bu during the week, Ono hundred dollars tn gold would buy $105.373; In grecnbacka ot tho close, Greenbacks ot tho New York Gold Ex. chango yeaterday closed at 94}, Tho Bwiss Misslon, which Mr. Gronae Scneroen, of Chicago, resigned. has boon tenderod to nnd acoepted by Mr. Ntonoras Fusm, son of Haxruron Fism, and at presont Becrotary of Legation at Berlin, Hexpzrson's farm, down in the “regions,” ds overlaatingly bearing oil in a doublosense, *Ono woll yiolds 4,000 barrels n day, and tho prico alid down twenty cents in Pittsburg yestorday, . Idaho ia the ti.\cukrn of an uprising among tho snvagos. Bovaral familica have been slaughtered and sqvoral soldiers put to flight, .gs;m Py of o, prmy . goveral—dispatohos 0 boon sent. This morning's dispatches indieate that the crossing of tho Danube has commonced, but 10 dotalls of the movement aro allowed to eacape through tho Ruosinn lines, Stroug forces nt Kalafat will cross-into Horvia, tho main army probably at or near Simaritzs, and another forco from Ibraila, The European systom of attaching mili- tary oflicors to foroign logntions is to bo adopted by tha United States as rogards the 81, Potersburg and Constantinople Embasies. Licnt, Gneey, of tho Engineers, has heen detgiled ot the Russlan, and Liout.-Col. Cuastuers, of the Twenty-first Infantry, at tho Turkish Copital, * Fraternnl relations botweon tho Rov. Mr. McDosxzen und the Prosbylorian Assembly ot Malifax lLave beon ro-established. Tne Assembly had nothing against Mr, 3oDox- NrL, ond Mr, McDowserrivas propared to say that bo was in fall faith, notwithstauding bLis doubts, and on tkis basis tho whole business was umfcably sctilod. B — Austrin is cuffering to stick h‘c‘rlong-legsed " army inlo somo locality whera it will be chawed up with (hat ceremonious regard to detailn characteristio of Europenn rows, If Borvla espouscs the Russian causo, Austrin will sst up its pins on that alley, whilo if " Berviadon't and Bosnin dosy, tho pins will ba bowled aver an that, ——— Itisgratifying to know that Gen, Baxnrpan docs not lovk for any general uprising amoug the Indius who have beon doing up con. slderablo indiscriminate slaughtering ont In Idaho, IHesays the soldiens always considor. ed thom non-fighting Indions, which will probably account for the suddon departure of somuof tho soldicrs who fell over thom an Comas prairi T R — Doth sides of the Cuban struggle come up groggy, and it is probable that the Spanish spouge will shortly go up. Castilian pride interfores with o presont recognition of tho rights of the insurgonts, but a depleted treasury and a fair progpect that o sound thrashing is in store for gpuln aro working gradually toward the establishment of poace. ‘o ruboly, ou the other band, ara tired out, and willing to accept n partial independence, and ucither party is entiroly adverss to an. nexation with the United States, i e S ——— E"\ ‘To punish Bheriff KenN for summoning an Louest Grand Jury, tho wombers of the Couunty Board propose to cut down his al. lowance for-dieting prisoners, 1t is possitle that, on general principles, the reduction would Le u wise measure, but the conterapt- iblo upirit, the petty spito of this horde of saveges, Who proposo the immolation of an official for the faithful performance of a duty, will creato s fecling of regrot that tho whole Board were not indicted, committed witbout ball, and the dicting allowanco cut off altogether, S e—— That it was written hastily ond in tho heat of passion is the only possible oxouso for Mr, Jouxru Bruaaxax’s undignified and abusive lotter to Judge Hrron. ‘Ihe faot that iz 7on has not beon altogother successful in his anavipulation of BrewasT’s cstate is not evi- dunce of a thoronghly deproved nature, und Bruaauay's charge that bo pald the Judye liberally for worthlesa advice reflects mora upon the wisdom of the client than upon the business ability of tha comnsel. Jndgoe Hiron noted unwisely in his troatment of an individaal, and the law presoribos a rem- edy. The banker will do bettar to reck rep- aration through the proper channels rather than trust his eanse to his own oplstolary efforts. A slight incident illustrative of the Mis- souri mathod of **legislating for tho masses” has ust been rnked out of that mink of iniquity, the Btato OCapital. An insurance bill, bearing down pretty heavily on some of the agenoics, was passed, but the Chief Clork of tho Houso failed to present it for the Governor’s approvel, and, on being cited to appear and account for his dereliction, sloped for Canada. All ho left behind him ‘was an impression that he was bribed by the insusranco interost to atenl the bill, and that he earned his monoy. In another column this morning we print acall, signed by many citizens of standing in the community, asking Mr. Daxmn Goonwx, Jn, to pormit the usa of his namo for tho offico of Probate Judge. It is under- stood that Judgo WaLrace, the present in- cumbent, does not desire the position of Judgo of Probate, but profers that of Coun- ty Judge, tho dauties of the office as ab pres- ent arranged having been divided by the last Legislaturo. Mr. (Goopwm has jevery qualifieation for the offico to which he lins been nominated, and, if hashould bo select- ed to fill it, would dischargoe its duties in a satisfactory manuer. —e " A syndicato of wiso mon lave been dis- patched bytho Sheik ul Islam to the Sherit of Mecea, inviting him to break open his lit- tlo savings bank, which, with a blind faith in tho intogrity of the Sherif, tho Sheik ns- sumes to amount to 230,000,000 franca This wealth i tho accumulation of offorings by pilgrima to tho holy slrino, and the ob« Joctivo chest has beon gradually flling up sinco A, D, 1416, * It may bo that tho wise mon will got the monoy, or they may earry: back tho Sherif's demand for an investiga- tion, the whole business to oculminnte in a suit againat his bondsmen. A romantio correspondent, +with a fine oys for effcotive situations, doesoribes the Bultan ns gitting * all day in the half lights of faded chambors, frotting with aching heart aond quivering mnorves ovor the lost illusions of his short reigu.” This cross-legged method of conducting ncampaign is better caloulated to abbroviats a reign than if hia Sublimity ahould got up and dust around somo, 'Tho fact is, the brother of tho Inminaries i8 afrald of an uprising in Constantinople and tho upseiting of his Im. porial apple-cart,—na possibility that may at any moment becomo a catantrophe. Ono Commissioner Somupr is . meking himuolf offensively prominent by his thrents' of rotribution for the indiotment of his pals. ‘I'no fact that he escaped incorporation in a truo bill cught to rolegate thin gontleman, temporarily nt least, to tho scclusion from whicls ho eprang, loast his noisy demonstra- tions nttract attention, nnd his conduot in the Board investigation, Scmampr should remomber that the friendsof the Ring are on bail-bonds to nearly the full extent of their proparty, aud snother honest Grand Jury might s0 deport itsolf na to curtail Mr, Bomupt’s sphero of usofulness, and csll his attention oven more particularly to the diot- ing of prisoners. A romarksble instanco of the necessily which existed for a thorough reform of the civil servico is furnished in tho Bureau of Eagraving and Printing, which has just un. dergone n thorongh investigation by n Com. mission of Treasury officials selacted for that purpose by Becrotary Smemstan. When tho examinatlon began thers wero 933 porsons upon the pay-rolls of the Bureau; whon it ouded, thoro wero about one-third that number, All the rest wore desdwood, with only lifo enough to draw tholr monthly stipend. They liad beon saddled upon the Bureau by Con- gressmea 04 a Inat regort, and so thickly wero they crowded togethor that thero was not oven the pretense of keeping thom employed. Thoy were warso than useless, theso stelwart pap-suckers, belng actually in'the way of tho few wlo hnd something to do, rnd oxtra provision had to ba made of a place to stow them whoro their idloness would interfero the lonst with thoso who worked. This state of things was the product of the system of Congressional appointments which President Iaves undertook to abolish, and with the history of tho Burcau of Engraving and Priuting in view no ono can deny that the nbolition of the system was a big gain for Civil-Servico Rteform. . By n vots of 863 against 153 the French Ohamber of Deputica yosterday adopted tho Order of the Day, which was the formal declnration that **the Minlstry doca not poayess the confidonto of the nation, Ita adoption was accompaniod by loud choems fromn the Loft, and the Ministers having left their seats and shortly aftorwards returned, Vicomto Panis, Ministor of Public Works, proclaimed the entire indifference of tho Governmont to any action the Chamber might tako, a3 the country would soon decide. **Yes," was the ringing rotort of GamBxTTA, * tho conntry will chooss bo. twoon ua,” Tho preamble to the declaration of nwantof confldence srraigns the Minls. try for its violation of tho great principlo of parliamentary Government, the law of the majority, and for tho sttempt to crush "universnl sullrago ; and accuses tho coalition of Monarchists of belng under the direction of the Ultramontanes, of permltting attacks upon national rupresentatives, aud incite- ments to violation of law to go nnpunished, and of imperiling tho poace and disturbing tho business and goneral interosts of the nation. This i3 the indictmont with which tho Republicans will go Leloro the peoplo of Francs, confidont of a verdict that will con. sigu the enemles of the Ropublic's best good to the oblivion they merit, ‘The Unitod States District Attorney of Now York is still pressing 8. J, IsLoey to stopup to tho Captain'’s office and settlo the balanco duo Unele Bam for income-tax out of which Lo **boat ™ tho aforcsaid Bamuel betweeu the years 1801 and 1871, It was alloged by the Democratio Literary Burean that the charge agaiust "T'1LDEN was a mere cawmpaign false- hood, concocted for tho purpase of injuring that gentloman's prospects of clection. But such was not tho fact. ‘Treury had choated tho Government for ten years out of o large part of tho income-tax which Lo justly owed. Ho did it by carefully concealing the oamount of his income, which somo years was enormous, aud letting the Asvessor guess at it. For instance, the Assessor in 1869 guessed that Trroes's fucome way about $15,000, whercas it actually was §111,. 000, or forty times that sum! The Now York TVmes prints the following: The complaint In the sult agsinst Saxvnt J. TiLprx by the United States, to recover laxes nl- leged to be due by the defendant on his income from 1801 to 1871, both vears Inclasive, has been filed In tho United States District Courl. The amonnta alleged to bo due nggreeate 8141, 442,50, which, with costa and tnterest, make $150,000, the amount aued for. Duting nearly the whole of the period mentioned Mr, TitnEN pald tazes on only about $15.000 n year. Followinglsa tabulaled statement of the amount of income which it Is ale leged bo received cach year, the rate per cent of tax, and tho amount of tax alleged to bo due: -:w;s;»a«g e PN ‘Total amount duo. 4 It is stated Lhi plead the statutes of limitation, and contend thnt an action must Lo brought within five years from tho ime tho tax is due. If this plea should bo sustained, it would aut off the Government on all the years oxcopt tho last one. Tho tax for 1871 wns not due until April 30, 1872, and tho suit was brought in time to reach that. DBut pleading this baby- not will not exonerats or condone the fraud in the minds of the people of the United Btates, whom ho bas chonted out-of $141,- 442 of income-taxes, which, if he had paid, would havo reduced tho national debt by that amount. This detoctod rascality on tho part of the ¢ 0ld Usufruct " will make thon- sands of Democrata giad that he failed to roach the Preaidency after ho hnd spent a million of dollars in buying a nomination and purchasing his way to the White House, THE NEW FOUR PER CERT DONDS, At o moeting of the Cabinoet yesterdny o decision was arrived at concerning tho ques. tion whather tho now 4 per cont bonds aro payable in gold coin alone, or whother, in tho ovent of the reatorntion of tho bimetallic standard, thoy would bo payable in silver ns well as gold. 'Tho decision is, that tho bonds aro paysble in gold coin only by the Inw an. thorizing their fssne, and that it is not to be anticipated that Congross or tho Exocutivo Department would aven tolerato their redemption in any sava gold coin, With this decision the gold bullionists will, of course, ba mora than sat- isfled, but it remains to ba seen whother the poople through their Represontatives in Con- gross will not very decidedly tolerate tho payment of tho bonds in coin which was of * thoatandard value of the Unitod States” ot tho tima of the onsctment of the law au. thorizing their issue. This law, nnd also the law wunder which the is- suo of 43 por conts was pro- vided for, was epaoted July 14, 1870, and wo aro informed that the bonds contain on their face, ns a port of the contract batwoen tho Government and the purchaser, that thoy aro “rodeemsablo at the pleasnre of the Unitod Btates after tho 1st of Soptember, 1891, ¢n coin of ths standard ealue of the United Btates on sald July 14, 1870, with interest n auch coin.” Coin of the standred valte of the Unlted Statos at that date was tho silver dollar of prescribod welght and quality equally with the gold dol- lar, It wns mnot until threo years later ‘that tho coinage of tho sil- ver dollar was susponded ; aud inferontinlly silver censed to bo n logal tonder, since pro- vislon wns made for caining only the sub. sidlary silvor coins which had long beon legal tonder np to the amount of 5 only. But, In {ssuing these bonds nndar the law of 1870, and making thom paynble on thelr face in coin of tho prevalling standard valuo of that dato, the Government oxpressly oxcopts any now condition which may have arison in Unitod Btatos colnngo siace that timo, and binds tho purchaser of the bonda to tho conditions at tho date rpecifienlly named, If Secrotary Snznuan desires to fssuc bonds that shall be paysble in gold alone, ko will havo to get mow outhority from Congresa under o new law, Io can only {ssue bonds now undor tho Iaw of 1870, and that law makea thom payablo in the old standard of the American silver dollar, Longbatoro the bonds shall becoms due, Congress will have provided for the colnago of tho silver dollar of the standnrd value, which will then bo re- stored to its original condition of a logal tender, ond thero will bo no opportunity of discussiug the question of right to pay in “either gold or silver. Payment will be mado in silver, if ailvor is the cheaper; or in gold, if gold is tho cheaper; orin both motals, {f the gold and silver coins of the samo denomination have abont an equal valuo, which is the most probable contin- genoy of all A D " Troublos couno in this world from the most unexpected sources, and thero seoms to bo untiited supply ‘of them. Who would ever liave thoughtof a race issue und roligious controversy being percipitated by a thrifty dry-goods merchont and a practical banker? Yot thisis just tho sort of semsation which Judge IlrTo, hielr and successor to A, T, Brewant, and Mr, Joserm SeLionaN, one of the Syndleato bankors, aro trying to put upon tho country., We don't think sensible peo- plo, whother Iuraclites or Christians, will consont to bodrawn into it. This is too busy n world aud peace is too great a luxury to permit of any general warfaro at this lato day sbout tho status aud rights of the Hebrow pooplo. ‘Tho persccution of the Jows asn raco was onded a good many yesrs ago even in European countries; avy cffort to ro. vive it in this domocratih country in any shapo will bo 8 most lamontablo failure, Mr, MautoN, as the owner of the Grand Uniod Hotal, bad the right perhaps to closs his ddors sgainst Mr, Heriosaw; but when he did so on the broad ground that all Jews wero tobo oscluded, ho took a position that will subject him to severo consure, Itisa position which Is entitled to no respect, and which is ulterly inconsistent with American principles. From o referonco that {s mndo to the Widow Srewanr's refusal to make avy donations to Jewish institutions when distributing her charities, it would ssem a3 though there were o certaln family prefudice agaiust tho Jowish poople, and this inny have prompted Ar, Herron's sction. If ho yielded to any social pressure, then ho is simply an- other addition to the long list of victims of women's caprice, Certalnly whatever social projudico exists among Americans and Christians against the Israclites is traccablo to the women, for thero isnotoue wan in o Lundsod who cherlshes any feellng sgainst aoy other mon or woman on account of raco or religion. Women aro born oristocrats and zealots ; men are born demo. crats sud infidels, All other things belug equal, there is no offenso to a wau {n a noigh- bor's birth, ancestry, or dogmatie belief. Whotover social prejudice there wmay be agalnst Luraclites, wo repoat, is kopt alive Ly the wonen, and it is rather general aud ras ligious than personal or pructical. People who affect to didlike the Hobrews ns a race get along very comfotiably with Jowish noighbors, jnst as thosd Protestants who are. loudest in their dcnunbiation of the Roman Catholio Church count among their friends members of that Church for whom they havo the yreatest ostoam. Tho Israclites as a race ara too intelligont, wo think, to misconstruo Mr, Hivton's action ns signifieant of any general {ll-focling, nny moro than they would rosent an ocossional individaal ineult as coming from the wholo Ohristinn poopla; and Mr. Sevrauan will not be free from blame it he makes an offort to increase the social antagonism bolween tho Hebrow and Christian Americans on ne- count of the slight put upon him. The Jowa should remember, that, among all Christian nntions, they havo recoived the fairest troatment from the Anglo- Saxon people. In England and Amorica they stand upon an oqual commercial, politien), and social footing, nccording to their merit. There is no reason why-it should ever have been differont in any country, but thoy should feol particularly friendly to the people who have mora thoroughly overcome’ tho prejudices, handed down from tho days of Jowish persecution, than any other of the Christinn pooples. 'Tho thrift and honesty of tho Israclites; their koon commercial in- stinct and untiring onergy; their important influence on the finance nnd commereo of tho world; their accomplishnents in litera- ture, music, and politics, have exacted a ro- spect from tho rest of mankind which is no longer given grudgingly, If thers has not beon the same harmonizing of interests socially, 1t {s not ontirely the faunlt of the Christian racos. Tho Jows thomselves are tho strictost consiructionists in religlous mattors, Thoy nre exccedingly clannish in their associations and nmusomemts; they prohibit intormarriage with Ohristtans, which {8 of itsolf on insurmountable social banj and thoy have nover taken the same pains nor cultivated tho same opportmnitics for removing socinl projudices a8 in. businoss, tho professions, and politics; and, in go far ns this is trus, they havo only thsmeolves to blame. At the samo timo, tho ntand taken by Mr. Hirtox in regard to tho Grand Union Hotel will not bo approved by cmlightencd and liboral peopla of any race ox religion, nor will it be regarded by rensonable men ss significaut of anything but Mr. Hivton's own notions,~whether thoy be ‘projudices sgainst the Jowa or his ldeas of attracting attontion to Baratoga and his hotel, TORPEDOES AND IRON-OLADS.: Tho precipitons manner in which $he Tark- ish iron-clad at Alfatchin went to the bottom of the Danubo recontly, under tho wxplosion of n Russian torpedo, is a now and perplex- ing problem in naval warlare, cspacially to tho Euglish, who bonst themsolves. now, as they alwoys have dome, on the sizo and strength of their navy. OF what asmil, how- ovor, aro iron-clads and turrot-ships, Davasta- tions, Thunderers, and Herouloscs, of im- mense size, bonring armaments of 8i.ton guns, if o littlo insignificant torpado.bont, throo-fourths submerged, can drive through tho water ot tho rato of twenty kuots an hour, overtako ono of these huge unwicldy loviathans, and with one blow send hor in an instant of timo sky-high, or with oqual dis- pateh sond hor down to the bottcon of tho gea? Whother, as in this case, tho. torpedo is quietly and wsecretly placed sagninst the ironclad by dariog nailors and oxploded from shoro, or it is oxploded by tha con- cussion of tho torpedo-boat, makes littlo dif- terence, ‘'I'ho romult ls tho same and the de- struotion ia equally completa. How far naval disciplino i to bo mmintainod in tho futuro upon thesa iron-clads, whose lugo strength is in reality an olemont of weakness, whon tholr crows know that any inatant they may bo sent flying into the air by an insidious and unseon onemy, is cer- tafuly o problom worth studying. The Turkish monitor waa o thres.masted turrot vesael of lnrger sizo, hoavier armament, and greater atrongth and spood than the averago war vessel, and yot ono man on a cloudy vight, unpercolved by tho crew, fixed tho torpedo to her hull, which in an instant of time sent ber nud ovory mnu on board to the ‘bottom ot *‘the benutiful Lluo Danube,” Tho torpedo has already dovelopod itsolf ssono of the most destruotive mgencles in naval warfare, and bids falr to rovolationizo tho wholo system of that warfare, The chiof valuo of a navy to any Power s In {ts offectivoness for blocknding purposcs. How long can apy flect maintaiu itsel? in sealing up o harbor which s not only thick. ly sown with torpedoos, but from ‘which at any moment a torpedo-bost may emerge, soattering death and destruction in 1ts poth ? As ono of tho English papors,in dlsousaing tho porplexing problom, nsserts, it equatizos for nll purposes of sggresmon tho great noval Powers with tho smallest. * Under such clrcumstances, tho torm ¢wuporlor forco’ loses its menning; it is no longor su- porior, sinco ita greater bulk involves a much greater preliminary risk, without incroas- ing tho resources availablo for naval war till after immenso preliminary risk has boon safely overcomo, And whon would it bo safely ovorcomo? Not Wil the blockading forco hos assurod itsolf that the supply of thesa torriblo naval mosquitoes was exhaust. od, and'that no more would bo supplicd,— whichh is n roundabont way for saying never.” If, howover, the powerof black- oda ls broken or interrupted, and the addi. tional risk of the destruction of the navy is juvolved, then 1a tho su. premacy fn paval power at an end, for if ouo nation with & powerfal navy at war with another cannot block up its ports, provent war material from entering and commerclal vessels from leaving, soal up its war vesiols, and ruin or cripple its trade, then the weaker Power is, in ono respect, on terms of oquality with the stronger, Sup. poso, for instance, ju our own War, the sclentific use of torpedoes Liad made it impos- sible to blockade our Houthern ports, and, ivstoad of ono blocknde-runner here and there gatting in or out, they had . beon open to the English marine pouring in war mate- risl and provisions, when would the War liave como to an end? It is this view of the problem, the poasi- bilities which tho weakest Powor may have uot only of preventing the blockads of its ports, but also of destroying the huge naval mohsters of its enewy, that hos set the Fn. glish to discussing seriously the question whother they can provido their vos- seld with any aspparatus that will guarautes them against tho risks of torpedoes. Oue of their naval officers, Capt. Morasn Bingen, has made tho first ogsay in this direction by proposing to clothe the vessels iu a gort of wire-notting, which yields Lo the first onset of the torpodo-boat, aud then, recoiling, drives tho boat back iuto the open sea. Therv is a very scrious ob- jection to this systew, however, s tho fact thut this wire-crinoline materially reduces the rato of #pecd, provents them from acting a3 rams, end, in general, makes it as difficult vidual man to handle himeolf or manottvre his way through a crowded strect in crino- line, It may bo that ingennity will discover somo method of obrviating the destructive offects of tha torpedo, which for the pros- ¢nt s paralyzing naval power, but the rem- ody {s moro cleatly indieated in the follow- ing suggestion of the London Spectator: “The dnnger is go groat that it is quite cloar, even if by a very considerable snerifica of power it could be wanded off, that sscri. Bco of power would .be betler than the almost total loss of tho advantago of naval superiority, for purposes of offonse, which might otherwise follow this ramarkabloe aud perplexing achilevoment of tha science of dostruction.” In other words, the mis- take mado by tho English has been in tho coustruction of so niany huge, anwicldy fron- clads, constantly liable to saccidents and peculiarly liablo to damago froth torpedoes, and that the course for the fulare is to sup- ply their place with smaller and swifter ves. sels.. Upon this point one of the best naval authorities in England contributes a lotter to the London T7'imes, in which he caleulates that * a fleet of ten Inflexibles, covered with penetrablo armor such as they wear, would cost 08 largo a sum s8 that for which tho country might obiain thrifty steam.rams of 2,000 Lons, without guns, at £100,000; sixty gunboats of the Gamma type at £25,000 each ; and n serviconblo and sufliciont force of torpedo boats” Tho Z'Vmes, Saturday Review, and other prominont English papers, consider this proposition as sound and prac- tical, and are stronuously laboring to im. pross its importance upon the Admiralty. THE PRESIDENT'S CIVIL-SERYICE ORDER. Thero is no question on wihich thero is mich n decided and irreconcilable difference of opinion botween the vateran and machine politician and the avorage American cilizen ns there is upon the question of roforming tho public servico. The reform. of the civil servico is tho objectionable and tho most offensive monsuro to the professional party man that can be suggested, and most of, if not nearly nll, the hostility to the President's Southern policy {s assnmeod,—tha real thing objectod to by this clnss of poll- ticions being tho President’s interferonco with the long-established systom of tho dis- tribution of oflicial patronnge. Mr. Jamzs P, Roor, of Hyde Park, in this connty, a gentleman well known in politieal, logal, and nearly all other circles in this State and in other Btates, hos, in a published lotter, undertaken to demolish tha Civil- Sorrico Neform proposod by the Presidont in his lettor of acceptance, in his innugurl nddress, and mors practically in his recant letter approving the abolition of certaln officos, tha reduction of tho number of offi- cors, and the chiango of many incumbents in tha Now York Custom-Houso, In that lot- ter of tho President the vigilant—becauso vigilanco is tha prico of liberty—oyo of Mr. Roor discoverod the following sentonco: " No officer should be required or' permitted to take a part in the management of political organizations, cancuses, or election cam. paigns.” Agalnst the morality, tho Republioanism, and the poliey of this order, Mr, Roor pro- teats, Ie interprots this order s confining the Foderal officer in bis political freedom to the mero exorcisa of his vote, nud deems it an infringement of the personal liberty of the citizen to boe denied the right to attond n cancus, to seloot candidates to be voted for, to contribute monoy, to hire musie, ront halls, and psy the oxponses of campaiyns; to carry a torch or a flag, to mnko & spoech, and help to olect tho candidates of the party who put him' in offico; and ho pointa ono of his paragraphs by saying: ¢ ho should happen to live In & district where & nomination is equivalent to an election, he can, on tho day of the conveniion, 5o tobis clonet and pray in secret that they won't nomioate a thicf, & perjarer, or s bummer, ‘The inforonce from this fs that if tho Re- publicans of & district whoro tho party isin o Inrgo majority be left frce to nominate o candidate for Congross, the probability ia they will nominato o thief, n perjurer, or a bummer, unless tho cancus bo mannged by tho porsons holding Foderal offces in. the distriot ; and anotler Inference is that if n thiof, o perjurer, or o bummer be nominated for Congross in a district whore the Repub- licaus are largely in tho majority, the Re- publicans will oll vote to elect such aman, despite his character, simply because he was nominated. Al of which inforences we not only declaro to bo false in themsclves, but flatly and repeatedly contradicted by experi- onco, The intimation that conventions man- aged by Foderal officors hava always protect- od the party sgainst bad nominationa is putting tho caso a littlo stronger than striet truth will warrant, and besides doos great injustice to ' Alr. Roor personally, who Lns mover boen a Federal officé®older, and to whouni fthoe party in this State, and especially in this section of the Btate, Lavo alwaya unanimously conceded tho honor of making all important nominations, cspecially all the creditablo ones,~—national, State, nnd local,~for many years, Mr. RRoor refers to several gontlomen who wore mombers of Republican committeen during the elections of 1876 who have been oppolnted to oflice by the presont Adminis. tration, whose places he assumes to bo vacated. Ho assumcs nleo that thoro are 60,000 other Republican officckiolders who aro to be withdrawn from eficient, active work for the party under this rule, and sug- gests tho possibility of daugor (o the party. At tho last eloction thero wero 4,250,000 per- sond {n the United Btates who voted the Ile- publican tickot, and tho only inforence that can bo drawn from Mr, Roor’s argu- ment {8 thet 4,190,000 of thess ouly voted the ticket and sapported the Ree publican candidates 8¢ the solicitation and through tho active and efficiont oxertions of tho other 60,000 who were serving on committoes. In other words, sixty-nino out of every seventy Republican votors were lod by the nose and induced to vote for Repub- lican candidates Ly the humaue efforta of the uearest committoe-man, Wo would despalr of the success of the party and of the pres. crvation of public liberty if tho intelligence of the American people had besoma so low that nny considerable number of them were influanced in voting by any self-appointed ward committec-man, whether in or outof office. . Mr. Roor,who, from a time whon tho memory 6f man runnethnot to the contrary, has beou a committee-man, overlooks two important pointa. First, tho Govornment of the United Statesis a Government of the whole people, aud is not tho Government mercly of that party which clected the Ad- winistration, The Collector of Customs in Chicago ia not the Collector of Qustoms of tho Ropublican party, but Collector of Cus- toms of tho Unfted States. He is not an officor hired and pald by the Republican party, but hired aud pald for services rendered tho wholy poople. His official time and labor are not to be rendoered to any part of the poople, but to the busincss of the whold people. He cannot, then, decently ‘nor honestly, nor consiatontly with his official servics, nndertake to manngo tho politica of the conntry by using his ofilcfal position to promoto tha intercsts of ono portion of the pooplo and to defeat those of the other por- tion, 0 long as his official position requiros of him an equal sorvico to the whole peopls who oro taxed o pay for his Inbor. The mnoment n man is appointed to a Federal office, ho Locomes the hired servant of the whola people, and not the employa, of a fac- tion or party ; aud when he foels compolled to devote his official time and labor to one party ho should resign. We know that this doctrine is mot the dootrine of ‘party com- mittees, but is novertheleas the sound and only defonsiblo doctrine. 3r. Roor wholly perverts the languape of the President, who prohibuts Federal oficors taking part in the * managemont " of polit. ical orgnnizations, caucuses, and conventions. Ha does not prohibit any partieipation in poli- tics by the officers, To a man like Mr. Roor to participate in o catcns and not * manngo and control it, is a waate of time and onergy, bat nevertheless theroe is o wide difference. Last yoar the Union Leaguo of New York Oity, on the ove of the caucases to sppoint dolegates to tho Btate Convention which was to appoint dolegates to tho National Conven. tion nt Oincinnati, issued a circular suggest- ing that tho Oustom.Houso officers abstain from packing theso caucuses, and lot the RRe- publican voters make their own roleotions, Mr. Cannery, the Naval Officor in Now York, prepared and printed Hsts of delegntes to be clooted in a largo part of tho State, and the Federal officers were notified to elect thom, nnd when thoy wero elactod ho telegraphed to tho man in Washington in whose service he was working, *This is the an. swor to tho impndent clroular -of the Unfon Loague” This was an instanco of tho ** management” of a con- vontion in which the Prosident has directed thint Foderal officors shall take no part. The samo kind of proceciings m every State was the syatematic polioy of machina politics, It wos dishonorable nnd disgracoful ; it was corrnpt, dobnsing, and criminal; and was gradually converting the 0,000 officcholdors into a protorian guard to govern and dictate oll selections to offics, by stifling the publie voico, and handing the people over to tho 60,000 committoe-men to vote as they di- rected. The political veternn and sage of Hyde Park is noedlossly alarmed, and necdlossly alarms the 60,000 offiocholders in tho coun- try. Thoro is nothiug in tho Prosident’s or- dor prohibiting any one carrying a torch, making spooches, giving his own money to pay political expensos, nor from voting ns he ploascs. Tho Prosident's order declaros that tho officers shall not ba required nor permit- ted to bo mero laborors of somo polit- ieal machinist, wusing the tmo of the public and the labor dus to the office managing and controlling cancuses and nom- inations in the interest of some patron. who ‘wanta to have offico that ho may in like man- nor uso it for his own personal aggrandize- mont and to defeat some rival, nor in lovying nssessments, nor in * fixing " things. In short, tho Presidont’s order is intonded to break up the spolls systom in the mannor of making tho appointmonts, in the charac- ter of tho officers, and in tho dutios they have to perform. The order of tho Presi. dent prohibiting the Fodoral oflicers from any mansgement or control of political eon- vontions and caucnses will bo accopted by the officers themsolvea as a great relief. Tho order will prove to bo aa gratifying to the mnjority of tho officors as it will be benofi- cinl to tho sorvies; and'we guestion’ whether ‘| * thero will bo'an ofice go unfilled becnuso of the inability to flud & compatent Republican willing to take it bocauso of the President's order prohibiting him boing & momber of o party committee or cancus, An association has been formed (n London to afford material assistance to the Christian refugees of Bosula and Herzegovina, who, driven from their homes and lands, are In a starving condition on the Dalmatian frontler, A cireular fssued by the Association June 1 sets forth that more than 120,000 hopelesaly- impoverished men, women, and chilaren have taken refuge {n Austris, and adds: The greator number of thess have now been twonty months in exile, and the hopo of A eafa ro- tury is atill as distant ver. ‘Those who have ventured to go back th pring, to robulld their hats and to sow their flelds, have been subjected to robbery, vutrage, and massacre, Instances of this kind, occurring 'at Olchievo, Ticevo, and olse- where, havo come within our vervonal knowlodge. At first, the Austrian Govornwent allowed vach refugee ten kroutzers (about #ix cents) a day, but thiv large expense could not be continuously bogna ‘by an impovorished country, and the subsidy fu now reduced to five kroutacrs a day, and this is allowed to women, children, and sick persunsonly, while the abls-badied meu recolve nothing. This allowanco is mnost fl?’l!lmlll, and irregularly ad. minfstered; many thuusauds roceive absolutely nnmln{. end aro actually dylug of starvation. “T'hera {8 no work to be got In {hese pourand bareen disteicts, which are hlrully able to support thele own natlve populations, ‘Fhu ordiuar; )}mu of tha people, Indlan corn, s now at war prices, and, in. dnus, wo mnay say hore, ot fawine prices, A special appeal is made to the Amerlesns as o Christian people, and beeause of thelr abun- dance of breadstulls, while theso poor wretches are actually suffering for want of food, The Ion, Gronar P. Maxsy, United States Min- ister to Italy, fully indorscs the responsibility of those in charge of the charity, and confirms tho suffering reportod, Already about $05,000 have been callectod in England, and America is asked not for money, but for a fow ship-loads of breadstuffa, which may be coysigued to the cure of Mr, FranxoviTen, American Consul nt the port of Flume, in Austriz. Farther infor- mation may be obtained from Miss A, PAuLiNa Inpy and Miss PrisoiLra Jounsron, who arc the Dircctresses of the Association, or ANDusw Jounson, Esq., Treasurcr, No, 158 Leadenhall strect, London, B. C. Weo havo no doubt that the breadstulls would bo forthcoming It respou- sible persous in tho West would take the matter 1o hand, ——————— The vapld growth of Socialism in Germany 1s shown by the annual report read ata recent meetivg of the Socialists at Gotha, ot which 171 local societles, numbering 30,335 members, were . present, From this report it appears that In 1874 they had 870,513 votes, snd roturned 10 members to the Germon Tarlimaent; in 1877 they had 539,311 votes, aud 20 members, so that 1o throe years they had {ucreased nearly 180,000 votes. They have 41 political journals, 14 trades’ journals, and 1 miscellaneous weekly, these papers having 185,000 subscribers. In ad- ditfon to the periodicals, they print many docu- ments and pataphlets, among them sn almanac catled * Poor, Conrad,” of which 50,000 voples wery sold last yesr. Among the busiucss trans. acted ot this meeting was tho passage of ono resolutlon which may lead to future trouble, Merr Kuuep, the great Esseo fron-master, hay.. lug notitied his 25,000 workmen that he would disimiss any of them who joined tho Bociallsts, the resolution was passed appropriating $25 a month to commenco agitstion amovg them. The membership {s composed malnly from tho lower classes Ju the large towns. Thore are very few from the middle clasaes to be found in the ranks of Boclalism, and scarcely any edu- cated persons, e . By the lato act of the Legislature reconstruct- {ug theJudiclal Clreultsof the Btate, anaddition- al Judge I3 to bo clected fn each of tho new cir- cults. We arc pleased to sec that, so far, some ot the best men of the respective circuits have becu named in councction with the otlives to be Blled. The Twelfth Circuit, composed of Lake, MsHcury, Boone, DeKalb, Kane, DuPage, uud on that tarrible pight. Kendall, has no Iack of able men for the flacs, snd among those mentipned in connoction with the gffice ls the Hon. C. W. Urtown, of Lake. Mr, Uprox has been for nearly thirty years o leading member of the Bar, I8 highly esteemen asa manof sterling fntegrity, and would do eredit to tho Bench. and his counstituency (¢ clected. Asthis circult lies immedlately cone tizuous to this city, and many Iinportant cuace from here go there for trial by chauges of venuc, onr city has some direct interest in seeing good men flll the Bench of that clrcult as well 08 our own. ——— The Boston Journal (Rep.) saya that the thirty-five customs districts In New England might be reduced to seven without damage to the public interest, and the fecs and satarles of the otlier twenty-eight be saved tothe Treasury, It nads: , But the saving of & few handred thonsend dollare s mot of ao much acconntex it is for the general good to pet rld of a Inrge number of publie ofiicinla who seem o have no duties (o perform, thereby giving tho Impression that the public aorvice (s & scrvice in which more mioney can be ofitained for Icas labar than oltewbers. This canses hundrede of men to spand their lives in striving for those places. Qut of thie peenicions Idea have grown the $holls aystem and that rulicalous doctring of rota- tion fn office, Consequently the best reason for reducing the collection districts is found in the fact that it will ramove_the lucitementn to,_securo them. When 8 man finds that ke will have to work a3 many hours for tha (lovernment as for the same range of employmsnt when hired by private parties, 3-3'35:'«.“' tho popular deaire for ofiice wiil be re= ———— It fa clalmed on belalf the managoment of the Mlchigan Sonthern that, slace the catastros phe at Ashtabula, the treasiiry of the road has been opencd lavishly to the demands of suffcrers and familles of the dead. Without waltlnz fom an appeal to courts, the road has pald as heavy damages as thelaw would award, and {tsfrlends contend that {n this it has mado all reparation in its power, and should be credited with an effort to wipe out murh of the misery cntalled ——— “If thero {a any one thing to cat,” says the Courter~Journal, " for which the average Ken- tucky editor Las a greater or tenderer weakness than for all things else, that one thing Is straw- Lerrles and eream.” It might -have added thnt 1f thero {s anything that the average Kentucky cditor enjoys more than something to eat, it s stralght whisky of most any quality, o long s tho quantity I8 satisfactory. ——— Tho Sultan has suppressed two newspapers and exiled thelr working force, whilo the Czar has made the daughter of tho cditor of the Mos- cow Qazetle & demoiselle d'honneur. These focts ars commended to pious people who searcely know on which side of the unpleasantness to cast thelr prayers. ———— ‘Thoso prodigiously able individuals who arg struggliog to scttie up tho New York Ring mat- terson a basls acceptablsto tho thlcves havo abandoned Hary and CoNNOLLY, and are try- fog to fnduce SweENY's dead brother t6 coma back and own up. e ——— Tho 8toux Clty Journal says that Osstax E. Dovos fs coming to the surface again to give o display of firc-works at St. Paul. As Mr, Dobos dicd s year ago, it ls possible ho has facilities for sucha display, but questlonablo it he makes it. ¥ ——— ‘What has Attorney-Gonoral Famomiip, ot New Yark, beon up to, that he is afrald to have Twazp teatifyt —————— PERSONAL. Bhakspearo's ‘Richard IL” has been selected 1a ono of the subjects for the goneral ex- ;;l;muon &t Cambridge Univermity, England, I Mr. F. B, Perking, of tho Boston Publio Library, has written a letter to show hos much o2 Voltaire's wickedness was the result of the clrcume atances In which he lived, ** rather than of any po- cuhar devillshness of his own, " Mrs. A, T, Btowart's gift to Garden City, the new city founded by her Iste husband, will bo a catbedral, to cost about §700,000. Tho total ex+ pendituros for the ballding and the permanent an- dowment of it will bo In tho nelghborhood of & mifllion and & bl of 4 y vl * Mark Twain,” w: nom de plume of one Capt. Isalali Sellers, who used to writa river nowa over it for tho New Orleans Picayune. Ho died in 1803, and a8 he conld no longer need that signaturo, Mr, Clemens lald vlolent hands upon it without asking permlsslon of tho propristor's ree mains, That la the history of tho nom de plume, On the sscond reading of tho Woman's Diaabilifles blIl in the Brithbh Parliament, Xr. Hanobory annoanced himself anothor convert from the alde of woman {0 that of the tyrant man. Al though women might be Intellectually equsl to men, it did not follow that thelr aphercs must be colerminous. Mo also Licld that the power of forco was dally assaming more importance ta tho world's offalrs, and women could contribute nothing to that. Mra. Julla Ward Howe méy bo gratified to find heraclf praleed in & London nawspaper as *the sister of Sam Ward, the kindest-hoarted, most genlal, and most lovable companion tobe found In the Unlted Btates.* Tho eunlogist should have added that Ham Ward {s tbe only monarch known to American institations—~the King of tho Labby, Mo alio enjoya tho distinction of being the only Awerican, 50 far as hoard from, who was over dislnherited by his won, towards whom be oc- cupled about the rolations of the fatherof thu doll's dressmaker to his hard-hesrted and unto lentlng ofspring, Esx-Mamshal Pitkin, of New Orloans, has wrilten & letter to the Cinginnatl Ewguirer in whtch he undertakes to demolish a small lawyer namod Watcheson. 1o would succoed i Lis amia- Llo purpose easlly but for the fact that lutcheson vossessed the properties of the flea whom no mavp successfutly vursuetl, boing Mitle and almost ln: vialble to the naked eye. Pitkin ought to, take & man of hisslzo, Ilutcheson's docliration that he bad more to do with Wharton's appolatment thay any other man 1s proof of itsslf thas bie bolongs to the class of harmless but loquucious jndividuats rogresentod by the Count Joannes, Bergt. Datos, and Danlol Pratt, Pitkin 1a correct in too laborionr and unnecessary a way, 1t is undorstood that the Committee hav. ing in chargothe scloction of & model for the Byron statuo iu London have spproved tho design of Mr. Richard Belt, which gives Lord Byron seated, as o loved to slt, upon tho rocks watehing the play of tha snnlight on the waves, . Together with the dealgns which ave now on exhibition st the Albert 1all, Knightatridge, are also on view a number of articlos that oneo belonxed ta the poet, or were In: timately assoclated with hin.. Among these arth cles arg varions busts, portraits, and medsls, su. tograph letters, tho original draught of the fourth canto of *$Childe Harald," swards, daggant:plpos, and boxiug-gloves, tha siivor watch ho woro ass achoolboy at Hazrow, the collaro! his doy Doats awain, bin **only friend"'; his pocket Nesw Testa. ment, preseated 1o him by his wife, and aficrwards given Ly bim to Lady Carolino Lamb, apd a docu- ment drawn up by Lord Dyron in hls own hand- writing relating to lus separation from Lady y- ron, in which Le throws the blame of that tramsac- tlon ou the lady's advisers, and offers to submili the malters in dlsputato some third party for sdja- dication. Tho Rev. Dr. Howard Crosby, of New York, 18 8 prime favorita with tho newspapere, and his pralses aru sounded on all sides, contrusting well with tbe uluzs that are heaped upon ‘poor Dr. Talmsge s0d Mr, Bocchor, Dr, Orosby lv au ox- ponent of the doctrino of muscular Chnstianity, and Lls conduet {u personally chastising one or two street-rutlans and sppearing tu prosecute thom in the courts has ralsed Lim in public catimation. $t11) more remarksble Ls his attitude on thy tomper- ance question. 11e belioves in woderate drioklag and ‘smokiug, end {s opposed to Jogal probibi tion of the sale of liquoré. Ue heartily favop, on the ' other band, all movements for the: strice pegulation of drsm-selling, and urges the suppresaton of Niclt grog-shops. e 16 foremast In & tamperance organization, and ats mecting lately held veed this remarkable soguags with reforonca to the charucter of the memberabip: *'1e make only one quostion oat of thls watter. We exclude religlon and politics—everytning Wt tho question of eaforcingthe law. We say, *Good Jew come und Jolu ust* We Jo potrequire o man 10 bea Chzlstisu. Wo will even admit .an atbulst If ho will oaly behavo hlmsclf.” Tuls v lsoguago Dot too cowmou fu the Presbyterlan miuletey, of which Dr, Crosvy lu & distingulshed member, bav- ing becn huusell within o few years the Aloderstor of the Qencral Assembly, T,