Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 25, 1877, Page 4

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Exposition Ballding. Lake Bhore, foot of Adams street. Sammer-Night Cancert by the Thomas Orchestra. MONDAY, JUNE 25, 1877, CHIOAGO MARKET SUMMARY., "The Chicago produce markets were firmer Satnre day, and most of them wera falely active. Mess work closed 10c per brl higher, at $1.00@ 12.03% for July and $17.024@173,05 for August. Lard closed a shade casicr, at $8.873,@8.00 for Jaly and §0.00scllor August. Meata werccasier, at “4%c¢ per I for joora ahoulders and 6Xc for do short ribs, Iighwines were steady, at $1.08 per gallon. Lake freighta wore stronger, atjly@2¢ for com to Baffalo, Flour was in botter dewmand, Wheat Closed irregular, at $1.44 for July and $1.27% for Aungust. Corn closed ¢ higher, at 463(c cash and 40%e¢ for July, OUats closcd steady, at Boc cash aud 30c asked fordaly. Hye was higher, at Gle. Barley was gnoted ot H0¢ bid for now, scller Beptem Hogs claged firm, at $4.GO@4.00 per 200 Ne. Cattls wers stoady, at 82.50@0,75, Bheep wore nominal, at $2.75.84.75. One hun- dred dollara tn gold would buy $103.50 in green- biacka at the close. ¢ ——— In Now York oo Baturday groenbacks were worth S13@94]. Bome very cmiuent guessers give forth that Great Britnin’s movement into Egypt will be in accordance with a secret agroement with Russia that tho possession of Egypt 'ghall Lo the prico of England's neutrality or good will, It has boen decided by the Republican Union that no condidate shall be put iu zomuuation against any of tho 863 Deputies who jolned in tho voto of consure agaiust tho Cabinet. In this way tho issue will bo mado narrow aud explicit,—for or against MaoMarniox, to whom, in the event of the return of theso Duputies, thero will bo left tho altarnativo of resignation or rovolution. Gon, Gnaxt dined Saturday night with five Princey, a Duko, and many great Earls and Morquises. Tho Princo of Wales ns- sured tho ex-President that tho royal sab. jocts of his royal mothor, including himsolf, had folt tho liveliest plensure in rcceiving Lim ag a guest in their country, the Larl of CanxanoN convoyod the most cougratalatory and felicitons scntimeuta in an extended spocch, und Gon. GraNT gave the noxt man /ndmnce boforo tho next manhod half got hik (Sapltinnut of his colln ] Buspiclously colucident with the opere- tions in Culifornia of & paid agent of tho Txcnnun:«z'clnimane comnes the story of an oged convict in the Penltentiary of that State, whoso memory has been refreshed to the point of reealling the circumstance of tho picking up by the schooner Osprey, in 1856, off tho const of Brazll, of an Englishman who was callod “Ticx,” and who stated that his father was a Lord, or something of tho sort. 1Jo thinks this samo Englishman shipped on the Osproy for Australis, but is not certain of that fact. S 'T'o the congregration of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn,t the first object of worship s Bercuzn, aud the next the Plymouth collec. tion of biymns, aud one inny fanoy the Lor- ror that settled down on the churcl when Deacon Huzciinson was dotected in substi. tuting o new hymn-book. 'Tnking away the old collection was like carting off tho rock of sges for o cornor-stonc to an opposition chureh, and the row raised fn Plymouth, une til that book was restored, wos far mored exciting than auy effort ever inade over the dorctictions of its pastor, England {s squinting avkauco at her navy of unwicldy munuters, and asking herself if it pays to build and keep ‘up ieets of ponder. ouu armod boats that nre of no avail ngalnst the torpade. ‘The effort to earry the Leaviest guns nuder tho protoction of au impenotra- Llo armer bas resulted in the reduction of the number of ships ‘aud uwnber of guus, and tho quostion iy dobated seriously whoth- er much sualler boots would not bo more offective. ‘Tho futroduction of the torpedo bas materlally altered tho notion of those ‘who advocated the mammoth engines of war that now constituto tho British navy, and it is very probable that the whola aspect will soon bo changed, Ounce mora the friends of the Prines of Whles nre sotting up their clamor for hia un. Zortunato Highuess. They uro all torn up be- causo this huir-apparent can't sustain tho roy- al diguity on the present nllowauco therefor, and, a8 tho retirement of the Quoen from publio life leaves the whole lond on his ehoulders, bo ought to have enough to see it through, und . dollar or two in his pockel besides. It uever occurred to theso peoplo that, though she bus retired from under the roynl digmty, her Majesly Lns not retired Zrom the collection of afund poid her ex- pressly to sustain this tender diguity, ahut renching nearly §2,000,000, It wight be accoptablo to tho taxpuyers were sha to turn this fund over to the Priuce to Hourish arouud with, instead of driving kim into the reasury for his small chauge. The sttitude of England with referenceto the Eastern struggle con only mean aclive intervention, to protect British Interests. Her popular fecling for war grows stronger overy day, and, taking advautage of it, the Government is moving promptly. The mili- tary authorities are inspecting the War De. partment and placing it in order. A detail of troope Las alroady been made for Egypt, to protect the Buez Canal, The Miuistry, under the lead of Loap Bracoxsrip, will iinmediately ask Parliament for a apecial @rant for cmergencies, All this, of course, meaus intervention, but it does not of neces- ity incan war, England does not make war without allics, and, if thers be truth in the statement that Austria and Prussis have offected an understanding, she can have no ally, She may scizo Egypt and tho Buez Canal. 8be undoubtedly will, for France, tho only FPower that wonld oppose it, is now bound band and foot, and for tho first time fn the last half contnry she can take Egypt without the risk of war. She may also iake Croto, to obtain harbors for her fleots, Farther than this, sho may scize tho heights back of Galli- polis and fortify them, and bring up her flects for tho protaction of tha Dardanelles, and oven forlify the hoighta back of Con. stantinople, without tho risk of war, for the Russinng will have utterly crushed the Turks even beforo they reach Adrinuople. If the Russiana entor Adrinnople, the Turks will suo for peace, Thero aro signs that indicato that they may oven do so if thoy meet with sovere defeats north of the Balkaus. —eem It is roportod that great alarm and disgnst have been excited among the party loaders in Philadelphia by the order of the Presi- dent prohibiting officehelders from manipu. lating the machine. A thousand or more employes in the Mint, Castom-Honse, and’ Post.Offico hold their positions, not through any fitness for the work to ba done, but solely on nccount of their success in ** work. ing" the primarics, packing the cnucuses, controlling the copventions, doctoring the registry lists, stufing tho ballot-boxes, elc. It is feared that the refusal by the President to roward this rort of usefulness at tho ex- vense of the Govornment will injura the party in Philadelphin, Very likely it would —much in tho sams way that the conviction and imprisonment of the perpotrators of the scandalous election frauds in that city would injuro the party. The Repnblican party in Philadelpbia can stand an enornious amount of that kind of injury. — Inepito of tho Russian prohibitition of the forwarding of news from within their lines, n very comprohensive and interesting seconnt is given in the cablo dispatclies thia morning of the general schomo of operations along the left bank of the Danube from Is. mail to Widdin. It will be seen that tho np- paront period of inactivity among the Rus- sians has been, an the contrary, a pertod of immense notivity, and that tha vast army has been 50 located ss to be in rendincss within {welve hours for a crossing at any ons of sovoral points on tho river west of Gpurgevo, It is believed that the crossing at Ibrail ond Galatz wasbut a feint, ond that the more seriousand formidable movements will shortly take placo at one or more of tha points toward which bLeavy bodies of troops are converging, There is olso reason fo baliove that this move- ment will not bo long Qelnyed, as the Dan- 1be, although at prosont at a high stagoe, is certain soon to be in & moro unfavorablo condition on nccount of tho summer floods caused by tho melting of the snow on tho Carpathian Mountains, A crossing in terri- Llo carnest may be looked for any day. — The sermon proached yesterday by tho Rev. L. T. Cuausenraty, of the Now En- gland Congregational Church, on the sub- Joct of *Tomperance in Politics,” and print- od in our colmmuns this morning, desorves goneral attontion ns o timely and well-con- aidered cxpression of views upon a matter of peculiar interest and importance. Whilo ardently sympathizing with the ond sought by the Women's Temperance Union, the closing of iho raloons on Sunday, Mr. Craat. BERLAIN rocognizos ono aignificant foot, which tho circulators of the potition cithor overlook or ignore,—namely, that when the churches and religious Lodies an such take sides in a question of local politics or of munloipal government, thoy at onco arouso the activo Loatility of that largely pro- ponderant class which resonts the interfer. enco of tho clergy aud tho clhurch-poople, and o daogorous, disastrous defeat s tho inovitable result. ‘The sooner the ndvocates of the closing of saloons on Sunday by the forco of law recognizo the futility of (ho nt- townpt, tear up their potitions, and confine their labars to the cducation of the popular tasto to temperance sud abslinence, the sooner they 1any roasonably hopo to clodo the saloons both Snndays shd weak-days, —————— The President has issued his formal order on the snbjoct of tho interferonco of Federal officers with the maunngement and control of party politics, Wo Liave commonted on this subjoct repentedly, and have now to addonly that the order will bo aceepted by the wholo country wilh gratitudo, not only becausa of the charactor of the onlder itsclf, but becauso of tho caruestuess of purpose nnd unflinche ing dotormination shown by the President to carry out tho reform in the publio servico ho had promlam.l. Tho test of tha clrcular, addressed to overy officeholder fn tho country, is s follows: Exxcuriva Mansion, \Wasimixarox, D, C., Juno 2. —8in: [ desire Lo call your attention to thefol. lowing paragraph in o letter addressed by me to the Secrotary of the Treasury on the conduct 10 be obaerved by ulicers uf the General Goverwment In relatlon to clections: No uilicer ahould be reauired ar parmittod to take pare in tho political orcanizsiiane, caucuss, convens tions, or elvction cainpalgus. “Thelr righi to voto and {0 express thiele views un public questions, elthiur orally of through tho press, 18 Bot deiled, provided ‘It duss Dot (nkcrtera with ihe dischardo of UHelF OrICtal dutfes Nu sssvssmient for political purposes un ofticers or auboniinatea thauid by ilowed. ‘I'his rulo luapplicable ta every department of the Civil Serrice, Teahonld be understood by every otlicer of tho Gencral Governnent that hels exe pected to conform his conduct to its requirements, Very reepectfully, I 1, Uaves, That sounds liken return to an efficient performance of publio duty! The ordur will prove nccoptable to overy oflicor who holls offlco nnd expoots to porform its duties hon. estly aud elficiontly ; they will be refoiced to be thus relieved of the duty and expenso of runuing political campaigns, The word “permittod” was placed in this order to protect -iho publio officers from the de- wands which’ would otherwise be made on theuy, ‘Tho Republicans of fowa meot in State Convontiouon Waednosdsy next, and there i3 uu active effort waking in tha State und from outsido tho State 1o foduce that Cou. vention to declare war on the Iresident, and thereby inaugurate o division of tho Repablican party throughout the country, "The Iowa Convention will have the question of disapproving the Preaident's action in Louisiana aud South Caroliua forced upon its consideration. The purpose of this iy parely waolicious. No good can possibly cowo from such a procecding. 'I'e action of the Presidout Is accomplishod, No wman 15 80 Insano ns to suppose that action can be recalled, reversed, or sot aside. There is lardly a sane man who would now recall it if 3t were possible. ‘The action has been acoeptod by the great bulk of the Repub- licans of both of those Btates, aud of 'the .Republicans gonerally of the Union. The Republicaus of Iowabavo certalnly read the olear and candid lotter of Senator Moutoy, who cannot be suspectsd of auy sbandonmont of the Soutlh, In that lotter the Scnator distinctly states that the Prusi- dent had no othor course left for him to adopt, Gon. Grant had, before leaving ofiico, du. Intter river. THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY, .JU cidod that thera conld not be peace and pro- tection to the colored people, nor offective local Governmant in Lhese States, so long as the troops wéro located thero, Mo had thoreforo shaped his policy so s to with- draw thom, and that policy had so far pro- gressed that it only needed formal excen- tion whon President Iaves entored office. Benator Montoy plainly indicates that the Prosidont bad no other courso Joft bim than to carry ont that line of action begun by his predecessor. Any other man fn his place wonld have beon compolled by all tha cir. cumstances to have done the samo thing. Thera is undoubtedly a 'comparatively small faction in the country intent npon a breach with the Administration nndn division of {ho Republican party. These people expect the Jowa Ropublicans to opon the war and beginthe work of dissension, aud the Conven- tlon on Wedneadsy next will dotermino how succossfdl theso diorgnnizers have beon in their operntions. Tho Republicans are in a wninority in one Mouse of Congress, and hnve only four to six majority in the Seunte, Is this n time to divide and necessarily de. font tho party? Is this a timo to make war upon the Administration bocause of a ques. tion which has beon disposed of and is no longer opon to controvepsy or action? Wae trust that the good sensc of the people of Towa will silenco evory man who proposes the division and tho consequent defeat of tho Ropublican party. Atlnst the Russians aro over the Danubo, nud the cross is planted on 'Turkish goil. Tho 224 of Jnno was a Black Friday for tho Turks. On that morning bauds of Cos- anck cavalry orossed the Danubo inte the Dobrudscha on barges drawn by small sleamers, both from Galatz and Ibrall, ciglteon miles npart, and promptly formed o junction on tho high slopes beyond tho mnrshy river bank. Undor the cover of tho force, botweon the Turks at Matchin and the river, the Russians lald their pontoon bridges at both the nbovo points, and two divisions rapidly crossod and offected a junction without opposition. Every move- ment of the Russinns was characterizod by tho utmost ekill and rapidity of action. By noon the forces -wore beforo tho out- works of Matchin, which they carried by charging the batterics. Tho Turks wero driven out and. fled to Matchin, the Russlans tarning their own guna upon them, and that night they rested in the de- serted Turkish camp, preparing for tho bat- tloof thomorrow. On Snturday morning they advanced again with the intontion of storm- ing Matchin, but found no enemy to opposo tham. Tha Turks had evacusted tho placa, and tho Kussians entored it, and held the key to the Dolrudscha, 'The immedinto movemonts of the left wing are now appar- ont at a glance. To seoize and forlify tho heights up tho river as far as Hirsova, and to oceupy tho first lino ?! Turkish defonse, the railrond running fromn 'Tchernavada on the Dannbe to Kostendje on tho Black Sea will ploca thom on ono flank of the Turks, and forve thom into their qundrilateral between Rutschuk, Silistris, Shumla, and Varnn. The noxt evont of intorost must be the crossing of ths Russlan centro, which holds its posi- tion nearly 150 miles further up the Danube, betwoen Ginrgevo and Nikopolis, and mainly betwoen tho Rivers Aluta and Vodo, ns'is indicated by the transferring of tho head. quarters from Bacharest to Aloxandria, on the ‘Tha croesing of tho contro may, therofore, bo looked for at ‘I'urnul, opposite Nikopolis, which is only pratected by primi- tive earthworks. The quadrilateral will thus bo complotely “flaiiigod; 'Rud utirring’ ovents may bo speadily looked for. If tho Trrkish armies in the flald aro defeatod and broken, tho four fortresses must surronder, and then tho Russians will direct their nttontion to the aecond line of tho Turkish defeuse, tho Dalkans, onco neross which tho power of Tarkoy s at on ond. Thero is an ominous silenco na to tho purposes of the right wing and the Roumaunian army, which lie betweon Nikopolls and Gladowa, but if, ns Turkish reports claim, the Montonegrin campalgn is closed, the right wing may have enough to do in toking caro of Surxyman Pasma's forces of 50,000, relioved from Montenegro, who will uudoubtedly menace tho flank of tlie main Russian army, A MALICIQUS CRITICISM, It Presidout Haves wore tho kind of o man to weary in well-doing, ho might ‘bo discouragoed by tho moan-spirited, if not ne- tually mulicious, refleotions mado upon his clvil-sorvice work by those who Lavo adver- tived tho loudest profossions of devotion to Civil-Sorvico Roform, Thata Presidont who 18 obviously doing tho bestthat can be*dane, under our systom and laws, to establish a (horough und oflicient systom of actual serv- ico among Governmnent offlolals and om- ployes, should {lnd only fnpationt ecaviling from protended Civil-Sorvice roformers be- cause ho is not dolug moro, is disheartening at tho best. T'rotest and opposition were to bo expocted from somo of tho *machine” politiciuns and disappointed oftice-seckers, bat that the prelentious *Independent” unowapapers, which havo «been demanding practienl clvil-service reform for years, shduld treat his efforts in its Lehalf coldly, was not ouly unoxpected, but is viclous and enlen. lated to do the country an iujury na well ns doing the Administration an injustice. 'L'bus the Ohicago Z'{mes concludes a long artlole, ju which not o slugle flagrant violation of Civil-Bervico Reform is poluted out, in tho following languago ¢ dr. Liavea’ Civil-Servico Reform ls & delusion und a sham, 1t ls, at tho best, vnly a modided ap- plication ;of 1ho spoils system,dthoogh in trulh thers 4 no system or certainty about it * It {s no more Lhan a manifestation of the good intent of o present Incuinbent, who acts upon entergencies as they arlse, snd 1s guided by uo higher rule than b3t of upparent expediency. Good appointmenta will not bw its cect; they will bo merely invtances of good luck; uut oven GEANT was now and then lucky enough L0 sppoint a capableand Lorest man, Yetnoous clalmed that bo was a Clvit-Service seformor. ‘o fact is entively 1gnored in this unfalr generalization that it i3 not within the powor of Presldeut lavew to establish a clvil. servico system in the sense that it {4 catab- lished in Euglaud. s cau ouly proceed so £far as the Constitution and laws permit him togo. Hu js required to nomiuate alargo number of officials, and tho appoiutment of astill larger numbor is left toinowbors of lus Cabiuet. Hv cauuot assuma tho appolnt. ment of thoio who havo tu Lo chosen by others under the law; Lo canuol with abso- luto and persousl accuracy dotermine the fitness of all his own solections; ho caunot eoact & law of permanent tenuro during good behavior, nor of promotion in the va. rious branches, nor of o proper education for tho dutics of the civil servico. At the most, he cau only do what bis best judg. ment and best intentions dictate, and uo Lonest and observing max cau say that ho does this copstantly. Notwithstauding the great temuptation to reward persoual service,—u temptation to which all Presidents have yielded siuco Jacssox laid down the ruls, #To thae victors belong tho spoils,"—his rule has beon not to remove any offlsfals beforo tho expiration of their commissions, and to renow their commirsions except in cases whero thore ars good rensons for making n change. And, as n mntter of fact, niuc. lonths of oll the appointments ho has made Liave been reappointments of thoso alréady in office. In his now appointments he has boon guided as nearly as possible by tho best ovidenco of fitness ho conld find. In his in- structions to his Cabinet nfficers and heads of Departments he has laid down the rule that, whore an office can ba abolished alto- gother and the nnmber of - employea reduced, uo appointments must be mads, and this rulo is a botter ona than oven tha civil-servs fca theorista ever suggested. 1lo hns also given tho most positive directions thatthe em. ployesof the Government mustnotbo selo:t- ed with reference to any party sorvico, and must not be permitted, after accoptingoffice, to spend their time (for which tho Governmont pays) in running cancuses or manipulating conventions, What more can President Haves do? o ‘The malicious spirit of tho Chicago T'{mes, howover, is rovealed in the statement thnt overy member of H#ves' Cabinet * was ap- pointed with n viow to his probablo eficiency in buildingupn party af the Administration,” including Sonunz and Key. This slander is 6o barefaced that it destroys any offect which criticisms from the samo sonrce might lave otherwise, It s notvrious that Presidont Hayes' Cobinct soloctions wero mnde with tho most utter disrogard to party ends; and it was only the supreine and quickly-pronounced sentiment of the country in favor of them that broke down certain party cfforts to refuso them confir- mation. Aslo Mr, Kes'abeiugchosen forthe oxpresa purposo of establishing the Adminis- tration in tho South, the best answor is to recall o letter ho sont a fow days ago to one of tho mail sgents in tho South, who com. plained of being overworked, informing him that hio had been selected, not to do political proselyting, but to render the Govornment the sorvico required of him by tho duties of his position. Mr, Scnenz has carned a no- tional reputation as & non-partisan, and his whole political career is an evidence that ho will naver consent o uso the Governmont for party ends, Mr. Evarrs, though ace koowledged to ba ono of the moal nee complished men who could have boon chosen Bccrotary of State, waa opposed on the gronnd that ho was not nstrong partisan, Attorney-Goneral Devens Liad never boon conspienons in politics, nor had Sccrotary TuosursoN hold a public office for twenty years. Mr. McCrany's nbility, sud fitness, and character havo nover boon ealled in question even by his political oppouents, and Mr. Buemax brought to the Troasury n long experionce in Amorican finauces, To sy now that ovory ono of these men was roloctod sololy with a view to the partisan servico ho could rondor tho Administration s simply outrageous, and could only have beon suggested by o desiro to havo institut- cd the order of things which Mr, TiLoen wonld have inaugurated, viz., tho turning out of all Rapublicans and tho substitution of Domocrats, without any referenco to fite ness in cither case. THE FRENCH CRISIS, x The French peoplo aro just now goin, through as trying an ordeal as they will ever ba subjoctod to in belalf of Constitutional Gavernment. It Franca shall como out .of it poncofully and alill a Republic, then it will ho certaln that Ropublican Governmont, has takan o stronger, and moro pormanent hold pon' the poopla of . that” country 'than "over’ beforo.” The strain will undoubtédly bo a savoro ono. It {s contonded thay‘President MacManox far thus has romained within tho lotter-of tho Fronch Constitution, though it 18 cortain that ho has overstepped the En. glish iden of constitutional responsibility, Ho deliborately appointed a Oabinet that was antagonistic to tho Chamber of Doputios, though tho Constitutlon expressly provides that the Cabinet shall bo responsiblo to tho Chamber of Doputies for the gen- cral policy of tho Clovornment. Then Le ndjourned the OChambers in or- dor - to rolain this Cabinot. 'Though the Constitution givea him the right to dothis twico before finally dissolving Parlinmont, Lo hns dotormined to meot tha jasme and ap- peal totho pooploat once, o Lins naked and received from the Sonato authority to dissolvo the Chambory, and will bo compolled under the Constitution to call a new cleotion within'three months, If a majonty of tho Deputies clected shall be opposed to Lis policy, ns thoy are now, he will then bo compelled to retire his presont Cabinet or resort to o coup d'etal, Ho says that he will not part with tho Ministors of his choico, and tho inferenco ia that Lo will resign. All this shows that ho has but a meagre under- standing of, or a strong autagonism to, Con- stitutional Government. Tho iutimation of his rosiguntion was first given out ns a sort of intimidation, the purposo bolng to forco the peoplo to voto to sustain Mac. Mauox, or aceept somo oxtromo Radical liko Oanperra or Goevy. DBat the Reopublicans bave disarmed him of this wespon by au. nouncing that 'Tuiens will bo thow candidate for tho successorship in caso MacMamnon shall retire, AfaoMauon's torm does not expire till 1880, Lut if he resign, tho two Chambers will have authority to elect a succossor for tho full term of seven yeara from tho time of Lis olection, Duringthe adjournment of the Chambers MacMauon's Cubinet scted in a manner o still moroe excito ratlior than allay the hostil. ity of parties, 'Tho Ministor of the Interior ~3M. do Founrouv—scems to bo asort of Prench Bex DBurees, He has sup. pressed nowspapers, probibited thelr sale on tho stroeta without' o special outhorization, arrosted the Presidont of tho Paris Councll for criticising the President of the Republio, ordored tho cfes to be watch. «¢d, and seditious conversations to be pun. ished, and has oven intrenched upon the right of potition, which may almost ba re. garded ay tho corner-atone of popular liberty, All tho acts of tho prosent Cabinet aro found. cd upon the Napoloonie systom, which was u system of reprossion and persecution, and certaiuly such as to arouss the indignation of auy peoplo devotod o liberty. 'Lhey Lad thele effcct on the Chamber of Deputies, which, immeodiately on roconvoning, passed a resolution of want of contidenco aud con. sure, 'I'he wessngo of the President, indsed, was go [usulting and tauutiog that tho Dapu. ties all but votpd to frupeach bim for treason, the ouly charge on which heis personally Becouutable, Notwithstanding all this, it is a question whother tho voto of the poople will not sustain MaoMauoy. Ho is taking every advauntage of tho Government ma- chinery to coutrol the elections, Al the old Profects havo becu rewmoved and ree placod with men plodged to stand by tho Cabinet; thp Govermmont i actually nomi. nating its own candidates for popular suifrugo; and tha elorgy bave bsen exhorted 25, 1877, to oxert all thoir influonce in behall of the prosont regime, Thore 1s no doubt that the cleation will bring out the full strongth of the Ultramontanes in favor of MaoMamow, sustained by all tho Bonapartists and Royal- ist factions. This is tho crisis. The daugor is that one party or the other will forget itself,—that MaoManox will resort to a coup d'etat or the Radicals to rovolution in caso of dofeat. Ponding tho campaign that must precode the clection (fortunately it cannot cndure law. fally longer than threo months), parly pns- slon will ran at ita highost, and intrigno, pressure, porsocution, and all the dovices characteristio of n plebircite under NaroLroy 111, will bo brought into play, Tho tost of the capacity of the Fronch peoplo for self- government will bo a sevoro one, and if they coma out of it with n fair Ropnblie, their present form of Govornment will bo protty well assured for many yoars lo como. SLOW TO LEARN. Ono that hns to do with the dnll learners roquires unlimited: pationce. Every teacher knows this, and so does overy bright pupil in the samo class, who finds himself kept back by the lngging onos, And the cnseis just ns Liard whon wo graduatointo tho larger school of the world. Thoro aro somo peoplo for whom ono must furnish brains as well ng idens,—n joke, and n hatchot with which to introduco it into thobhoad. ‘This slowness in learning is due not only to fechlencss of mind, butalso to that dimnosa of percoption which results from inherited projudices and long-chorishied idens nnd hinbits, Wao sco it in the ioaptitudoe of old men to accept new truths, nnd. of tho older members of the various professions o rocognizo fresh dls- oeveries, It is said that no physician under ke ngo of 40 yoars wns willing to receive IIanvex's thoory of tho cirenlation of tho blood; and history shows that the' world owes its progress mostly to its young men. But whola communities partako of the samo iucapacity to welcomo ‘discoveries, to ap- preoifitu the need of roforms, nud to natural- jzo foroign idess. Tako tho caso of tho Hindoos, The Brahman class aro intolligent, and aro bogiuning to accopt modern seionce, and to lenrn Europena langunges.: But they are stolid on tho subject of tha olevation of women, Theyarguothatfemalesare incapablo of education, and that to bestow it, even in a small degree, would bo to render them dis- satisflod with their lot, withont quali- {ying them for any difforont position, 'They wero made to do domestic work, to boar children, and to wait upon their husbands, living in tho total seclusion of tho zonnua, and findiug recroation in talking and dross- ing. Bocial oquality of women with men is on absurdity, and for & wife to sit at tablo with her hnsband wonld bo an insult not only to him, but also to his wholo sex. Now o parallel obtusencas to now ideas, accompanied by s parpllel modo of reason- ing, obtains in our Southern States respect. ing tho ability aud tho education of the ne- gro. - For Braliman substitute whito South- orner, snd for woman substitule nogro, and the cases nro fdentical as to feoling and argn- mont. Hezo and there tho rosults of the War havo oponod the oyes of tho formor slavohiolders; but the averago survivor of that ouco ruling class is as much bowildered, in tho prosont revolutionized condition of the Houth, as to polities and edn. cation, as if ho had suddenly boon introduced into anothor planot. Mo stares in amazoment at the de- mand for publio schools oqually for tho blacks as for tho whites. 1fo roplies to every proposition to clovata the colored race, that it Is a stop towards tGat” abhiorrent frck; so~ cial equality, For instance, Virginin, ono of tho most enlightenod of tho Southern Btates, is making falr progrosa towards providing for tho oducational wanta of both clnsses of hor population, But it is dono ngainst n strong opposition, and under the fortunate lend of n fow wise and clear-hoaded statesmen sud scholars, Multitudes . protest ngainst any common schools for negroes. Ono writer, who sigus himselt *Civis,” has recontly pub- lished n pamphlet againet tha fdes, nnd ho is g0 suro of tho incapmcity of the negro for any higher ecivilization than that to which ho has attained under the con- ception (hatho way o chattel, that ho pro- dicta his cortain failure a8 o freo citizen and o competitor with tho white man. To odu- cato n good-looking negro girl is simply to do on uukindness to ber, and an injustico to so~ cloty, Ilo illustratos his caso after tho. fol- Jowing fashion, which sovms to him to cover tho whole problem of tho colored raco in America : As 1 write, my head la dulland my eyes aro heavy from losa of slecp caused by the sickuoss of un in- fantchild; and yet tbo nurse, o negro girlof 17 years, upon whom the heavy work has chietly fall- ¢n, aud whosc sleep lias been interrupted several mes every night—gduring somo nights maoy times —ls 8y fresh to-day s when tho doctor was sum. moned two weeks ago. 1 haye known her to ho wround five or six times a night, and yet not tolose from thess seversl lutsrraplions combined a half- Lour's sleep; for in thirty seconds after relicved of active duty she is woundly asiecp again, This result T anisure 15 dug Lo a low type of cerebeal organlzas tiony to her mental Inactivity, which really fits her for (ke duties of her place, but would o o supremo dlsqualidication for the higher avecations of life, Sho le withal tenderly affectionato to her charge, cheerfully responds to all thu calld wade upon her, und 1 prefer her, In her placo, towuny white girl in the Commonwealth. Wpuld It be kind to her, ‘wonld it bo Just to society, which must always de- mand jast such dutles as ebe performy, to tempt hertossplre to a higher position denlod her Ly im who madcher as slie 187 Aud tlus is tho bost that & champlon writer, in behalf of keeping not less than four millions of the inhabitants of the United States In ignorance, ‘has to offer in defense of that infamous proposition. Oue wonld have thought that a girl so affection- ato and faithful as tho one whom Lo de< scribes, and who had reached tho age of 17 years, was fairly cotitled to such simnll crumbs of loarning as the alphabet and tho primer. If it was found that her ** low typo of cercbral organization " ond her ‘“‘mental innctivity " made it impossible for her to plek up theso crumbs whon offosed, no harm could be done by tho experiment, Until the cexperiment should b tried, Low could it be told that she could be fittod for no higher place, and that *““a higher position” bad boon * donfed her by Him who made her as sho is"? Gop makes none of us scholars or cultivated persons, to start with, Even whito childron begin life amoziugly ignorant, aud without instruction they rewain so. And even it this particular girl wero some- what dofective in montal aotivity, bLad * Civis " the right to judge tho wholo race by that singlo specimen? Did ho never hear of g dull, onimal whita girl? I3 it not no. torions that tho ** poor whites of the South aro ps ignorant and debased &3 tho blacks, and that tho latter often speak of thom in terms of contowpt ¥ ‘This Virginian * Oivis ” writes 0s if edu. cation had nevor boon tried upop the colorod people of this country, when to-day there are thousands upon thousands of them who have acquired & good common education, and waony who bave enjoyed a classical aud -pro- fesslonal training. Thore aro teschers who havo been engaged for years in toaching black pupils, nnd who for provious years had instructod white pupils, and they testify that on an averago thoy have hnd equal success with the two classes. Wa roceived such tes- timony lately from one of the most cxperi- oncod clnssical fnstructors of Now England g and not long slnce wa saw & colored Indy of marked intolligence and cultnre who was putting an algobra class through a drll in radicals that would have puzzled * Clvis” himsclf. But the troublo with * Civis " and oll whom ho reprosonte is, that they them. solves nro slow to learn, by ronson of somo montal dullness or inactivity., They cannot take in now jdons. Thoir notions of civiliza- tion, like thoso of tho Chinese, aro mterco- typed. Itis ashard to convincs thom that tho negro can bo elovated, s it ia to convince tho Brahman that woman is eapable of cdu- eation and may Lo fitted to become the equal companion of man, But wo do not despair of cither class,—tho Southernor or the Brah- man, It may require tho death of the ex- isting genoration, for the moat pnrt, but tho noext will come right. Light will pencirate Loth Indin and our Southern States. Tho logic of facls cannot forover bo resisted. The world does move; overy part of it. And 80 tho timoe will bo when ¢ Civis,” if he lives long enough, will be astonished to find him- golf coming in contact with educated colored peoplo of both sexes, and the **poor whites of the South must tako caro or they will be outstripped in thoe race. BELIGMAN-—HILTON. Mr. Scr1astAn’s tardiness {n bringing his sult agalnst Judge MiLtoN suggests the Inferenco that ho prefers leaving his vengeance to be worked out by the members of the ten tribes. In the outset the banker's position was an ex- cellentone. A survey of all the facts shows him to lLave been shamefully abused, and, bad hcucted on his own rosponsibility, he would lave vindicated blnsel? and his religious preai- Iections, and become o sccond Moses to tho Ts- raclites all over the world, The stated reason for his rejection from Hirtox's hotel was o fino ground on which to establisha fight, yherein ho was certaln of vietory and laurcls, But Mr, BorioyMaN choso an {ll-advised course, and by castiog his personality fnto the contest robbed it of its bronder principles, and left the general publie to select between two individuals fn be- stowing thelr sympathics. In hisstatementsand correspondence, ho hias assumed that he was in- sulted, and, collaterally, his rellgion, assigning to tho more fmaportant a secondary place. It Is characteristic of the Americau people to pay littlo regard to Indiviluals, and profourd ree spect Lo representatives of classes; and had the banker sunlc his persoual feelings In this untor- tunato matter, and held up the fact that he had been ostraclsed for certafn peculiar methods the class to which ho belongs follows In the worship of Gop, the Instinctive love of relfglous liberty on which every American prides himself had spruny to his defense, and IiLTox had been crushed Ly an overwhehning expression of publlc opinfon, But with that sclf-cstcomn attaching to all wealttiy men who hayo sceured position through ~their wealth, Mr. Snvic- AN assumed thiat he, aud not so much his re- liglon, was the Gen, Boum from whoso headtho cocked hiat of s dignity had been snatehed by tbe suddenly famons Fritz, who unites the di- verso functions of running a Lotel ond keop- Ing s dry-zoods shop. The frat thing Suuio- MAN did wos to show that hoand Hitton lad before had business transactions, not altogether pleasant, as appears from the misty admissions of both, nnd the public regards this circum- stanco a4 suspiclous, and ara Inclined to let the gladiators dght the battle out without fnterven- tlon, ‘The crafty mcthod adopted by 8zLiasaN and his counsel to induco Jews to withdraw thelr patronage from HinToN counts for nothing, It {s on element of the Jewish fafth to purchase goods ot the lowest possible rates, and if Hiv. TON commianided a large 'and”{mliuentiat Tsracl- itish custom, it wns bocnuse that custom found it to the interest of its constitucnts to patronizo his establishment, and, if they did, they arc not to bo driven to auy quarter in which thoso In- terests would suffer. 8o thut wing of IMr. 8erioMax's attack fa not of much avall, 1t a few of the more auscepliblo among tho Jows have withdrawn thelr trade from A, T. StrwAnrT & Co,, it will find its way back. The argument that there are many of his own religion whom Mr. 8RLIOMAN would not cutortain at his home s without force. The grounds upon which he wnuld exclude thom wonld be purely personal, and it was fn Intrud- ing his personal rights fnto tho present contro- versy that he made bis grave mistake, There was one course for Mr. SELIOMAN to take,—a dignified course,~and that an appeal to the courts, and a placid aceeptance of the de- cisfou. T'hls he hos fafled to do, and an oppor- tunity was lost, % ———— ‘WEST POINT. Seventy-six young men, just graduated from the United Btatea Military Academy, appeal to the country for employment. They hiave been fnstructed in all tho branclies of study required to it men for active military commnaud. Thelr physical condition is far above the average, both Lecause they were subjected to o severe medical examination on enterlug the Acudetny, and be- cause they have been accustomed for years to simple fare, good hours, and out-door vxercisc, In “deportnieut ™ they ought to beus agune plished as even Mr. TunveYbror coutd wish, inasmiuch as they have been drilled o the prine ciples of casy carriage and gracctul uddress, and have enjoyed, moreover, the benefits of soclal relations with the ladies of Vassar College and the surrounding country. In the Platoufcphllos- ophy they are deeply versed, having imbibed its fundamental principles in Flirtation Walle, and compensated thelr tutora with buttons, uot cur- rent \ith tho merchants, bearing the stamp of tho United Statesof Amcrica, In Jess ubstruse studies they bave also o bigh degree of advance- mont. Conie sections they know, and pructical engineering{aonc of thelr necessary accompllsh- ments. They have o smattering of French, aud a tolerable knowledge of the history of thele own country, Above all, they have that which schools too ecldom teach—a high scoss of personal honor and esprit de corps. ‘These young men have been brought to their present atate of efliclency at the expensgof the Government, with the uuderetanding that thoy arv to scrve In the United States Army after cradustion. ‘the obligation - herefbfore Lag always scemed to welgh heavier upon the cadet than upon the Government; but, owing to the gradual reductlon of our willtary force, and the niggzardly policy of the late Congress In the matter of the srmy appropriatious, the Uovernment Is uwow unable ‘to provide the plaves for the cadets that (¢ has fimpliedly promised, The result has been tho ralsing of a cry fn somo quarters for a reduction of the number of sppolutments to the Muitary Acadomy, and rash critics in the Dotmberatic party have not hesitated tu demanid the abo- lition ofthe Acudemy altogethier, We-do not sympathize [a any degree with thess views. Tho Military Academy basgdono, and is dolug, au excellent work, It 18 our substituto for an urwny, furnishing the means of organization at amomeut's gotlco of the vust volunteer forve which any emergoucy will call futo existenve, Our main depeudence must always bo upon the Weat Point gradustes fu case of war, Gew. GuaxT coucisely stated the whole theory of the Mljrary Academy when ho sald ia conversation that Banks aod Butees falled as commauders bocauso thoy commenced as Generals. Our sue- cesslul Generals fu the late War were almust without exception graduates of the Academy, They were o loug tlme o workiug to the top and obtafowg cutlre control of affuirs, but it {s a noticeable fact that, when the War ¢nded, the army was o the hands of West Poluters. Tho experfence gained in this ‘War will always serve in the future to place the army {n the keeping of men taught to command and to obey. \ The present lack of places for & number of tho West Point graduates ought not to oceasion any regret. The Qovernment Is not mornlly bound to make officera of all the graduntes, and they vught to be well content to retlre Into pri- vato life, having recelved at publie expenso as thorough an education as can bo obtained any- where in this conntry. If they have Improved thetr opportunities, they should be now well qualified to enrn thelr own livelihood ns eivil engincers, or in any mercantile pursuit. On tha other band, there should be no narrow prejudices among the people against the Acad- my bocause voung men educated at Governs meaot oxpenre are not cmployed In the army,— clothed, fed, wnd patd by the Government for 1lte. The graduates will always owe a pecultar dentof gratitude to the Government whethor they scrvo [n the army or not, and will be ready to pay It, our Mistory tenches, If over the ocea= slon ehonld arise. Meanwhile, it Is a question worth considering whether the graduates not needed for the army may not be profitably used in the elvil scrvice. This {s an cra of Clvil-Bery- fee Reform, in which appointments avo to e made not ns a reward for political services, but with reference solely to ef- ficlency, The army has benefited largely by the training of Its offlcers at West Point. It hins hieen alniost the only branch of the publlc scrvice which hos withstood the test of the' profligate and corrupt yeara following the close of the War, To-day the army remains notably freo from seandals, and thoso that have arisen withinitsranks havebeen for the most part caused. by the Indiscrotipns of officers not grodunted at West Polnt. There must be good ‘stuff in these gradnates which enables them to restst all the varlous temptations offered them, and men of the same sort, If not ruined by the uvil gerylee, would materlally fmprove its tone. -A thousand of them in the Guvernment offices at Washiington would cause no injury to the morale of the serviec there. 1t s perhaps ime practicable that West Polut graduates should be generally employed in tho civil service, but It is_not Irratlonal to believe that somo of the West Polut methods, if not tho West Polnt men, might be adopted {nall departments of tho Government. Tho Mliftary Academy s an institution of which wo can well be prouds It reflects tho highest credit upon our Governe ment, both athome and abroad, nnd the expend- jtures on Its Lehalf are small in compnrison with the benefits derived from ita active opern- tlon, We can almost ngree with the enthuslastio remark of a distinguished Englishman, who, afier witnessing tho full parade of the students o few wecks ago, declared: * There ought to be 8,000 young roen hicre, Instead of 800, ——————— The crudite Ilerr Von SCHLETSCRAMMER, in a recent work on ATALANTA, conveys soma sin. gularly Interesting Information in ndditlon to that wo nlready possess concerning that flect- footed young lady. It will be remembered that shouscd to run races with hier lovers, and as tucy always were too polite to o before n lady, and besldes had o fancy for staying behind to et o glimpse of ATALANTA'S striped stockings, they always fooled away thelr chances till they had got into the home-atreteh, when eho would let out o link and shut them out. Tho day’s sport invarlably closed with a faneral, which tha defonted lover attended In tho capacity of corpse. MILANION, liowever, got three golden apples from VeNus, and, whenever ATALARTA brustied biin, dropped one, tha resnlt belug that 8l got taueled and broko up, and bLefore sho had acttled down to work again ho lad a clear load of scveral fengths, The resuit was that o won by o neck ana got tho stakes, which con- slated of the Indy.s Tho acute Vox Beurerscn- AMMER psserts that ATALANTA was pulled, and that shu was distinctly heard to observe attona interesting plaso of the race, * Drop that ather apple, MiLantoN; I'm o galning, If you don't, 1shall have to put an cxtension on my privato cemetery and nako n BUSAN B, ATALANTA of myselt.” This beautiful story renders even more attractive tho character of the classienl Llierolue. —— ‘Tha New York Natlon, which supported Tiv- DEN and snapped and snorted at Haves durlng the Preaidential campalgn, doea not symputhizo much with the Old Usafruct’s batticwry of “Fraud,” and is not lmpressed with the strougth of that fssuc ns the best platform for o national party in 1880, Itsays: The Tumlon given tothe Democratic loaders Inst webk at tho Manhattan Club was morked by thaappenrance of Mr. TiLnex, who made a speech In which, for tho Hrst timo since tho termination of the Presidential straggle, ho announced his po- vition. 10 doea not diifor wilely from that taken hg the other memberd of tho pariy, whoso avowod object and play it Is to keop ouo'idea beforo the K:nplu for the nest four yoars, —that the party has cu chealed out of the election, Tho passionate devotion of My, 'Tiozn sud his followers to ros form~reform i thu curroncy, reform in tho civil sorvice, reforn in the army, reform in the navy— wiiicl Inspired the Bt, Loulw platform, has all dla- appearvd, and In i sicad we have he siuglo cry of fraud. Tho Democrals may be Hght {n fosling sure of careying the country In 1840 on this cry, but if they do #o they will do "It withoat the ald of the indopendent vote thatsupported thom in iho cumpsigm, Tho indopendent “votu cast on tho Democratlc alda Mr, TiLuzy received almost ens tirely ax a roformner, and because It was belloved thint his Admintstration would be a rofori Admsnte- tratlon. 1t bo wishes to rotain this support ha must go on belng & reformer, and muet wmake speeches.very unliio that st the Manhattan Club. ——e—— Nae7 explainsthe Eastern question. Sitting on the grass, uround o large Ueld-tnop of the Turkish Empire, 13 fat Jony Bury, tho Czar, tho Ewperor of Austria, ond the Kiog of Greeeo, BisMARCR s ou the ontside of tho “Ring." Each onohasa long palr of scissors, aud Is ripping into the map pretty vigorously— except Biaxanck, who crunes his neek over tho ahoulders of the other partitionists, and extends Llis big shears, but seoms to Lo puzeled what part of the map toellp ofl. Joux BurL, who 1s playiug the part of ** neutrallsh,” is shearing off Egypt aud an assortment of ialands; tho Emperor of Austria is muking ready to suip off Boaula, Herzegoving, and several other prove fnces; Qrecce is cutting ol Macedonis, and tho Czar is cottiuz dangerously near to Constuntinople, whereat Jonux Burt exbibits cousideruble choler, notwithstanding ho ls slashipg away ot n big plece of the Ottoman Emplre. The Bultan sita Iu tho background with an exprossion of horror depictured on his countenauce; by seems tu realizo that ‘his turkey is not only helng cooked but Is belog carved. The cartoon explalus the prescut situation very clevurly. Ha1sT2AD occasionally recurs to tho silver question,~but not usually more than fifteen or twenty thoeg aday. Recently, while argufug in favor ot tha double standard, he used this fno {flustration: Weare of the oplnion that 4f the questfon of standards, whether we shouid have monometallism or bluetallisu, was 10 ba considered &4 an orlghisl proposition, thie standard of the twe motalasbuul have the preforence, 'Tho oscillations of cithor metal, unsupported by the other, aru gresler than would appear in the combivation, o waking the foer measurements under varying tamperature more than oue metal is employed, A detleato an beautitul Wlustration of the doubls staudurd f4 fouud In the iwo-tictal combiuation of thy bal= suce-wheel of a watch, When thu bslance-wheel is of upe mctal, It contractsin cold wealher sad the epeed of th watch i reduced. But tha watchulakers talte (wo mctals that expand uns equatly, and, soldering them to each other, by culculating thelr varatious utd adjusting tho coni= poeltivas sccordiugly, procure s perfect balance, S0 we would take gold and shlver, tind the mesn eatlu between thei, comblue them 88 wouey wels als, and with the twd make op the coreect measuro of values. This {a uotonly clear uad elegunt in thieory, it has been illuatrited in the course of money for thousauds uf years, aud its benefts are® now cajoyed by tho pevple of France. e — . The English havo been dying to sec the great Amerlean General {n full Ueneral’s unifor. To gratity the “bloody-minded red-coats,” Lo arrayed himsell In truc-blue and glittering gold and sttended the Royal ftatiau Opera in Lone don, where he had un enthusiastic reecption. Mlie, ALBANI sang tho * Star-Spangled Bu\uer". inber best style. Tho ex-President afterward attended the Queon's ball, st Buckingban Putace, In the sumo gorgeous uniform, and the British Lion was happy. R Like the dutiful sou who sald ho had to draw 8 lue of soclal exclusion somewhere, 80 o drew it agalnst Lis father, Judge fliLzoN draws & lino lu bis oxclusion of Jews from the Grand Unlon Hotel ot Saratoge, between the * Mo~