Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 26, 1877, Page 4

Speetmen o . }§ To prevent deiey and mistakes, bo sure and give Fost- Jftice sddren f fall, focludiog state and Coudty, {r itemitiances may be made either by draft, express, {03t-Oce order, o In regstered letters, at our sk, i TERMS TO CITY BUNSCRIDERS, 1980y, dettvered, Bunday excepted, 23 eents per week. iSatly, delivered, Sunday [ncluded, 30 centa per week, THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Ix i Haverls’s Theateo. ti Mandolph street, botween Clark and LaBalle, 'On Hand." Meurs, John Thompton, J. W. Some. i’nm J. D. Mertong Mlsses Thosa lchller: Doty {aglo. 4 Adetpht Theatre. .1 Monroe atreet, eoraer of Deatborn. ** Uncle Tom's gk;m.m.-» Me. @rorga Kunkels Misses Amy. slavin, 101ty Cutppendale. 1 Expositlon Building. th Luka Shore, foot of Adams street. Summer-Xight joncert by tho Thoras Orchiestra. 2 ¢ Dase-Ball Park, 3 Btata and Twenty-third strects, Chsmplonship game tween the Chicago and 5t, Louts Clubs, SOCIL'TY MEEPINGS. 15‘5'1'0 TAK MABONIO FILATERNITY.—The officers | fnamaibers of thi: Yarious. Masonle otganizations o *ohe elty are ¢ irnestly requested 10 attend wn sdjonrned Jqeeting of the Ce Tt muirerin ll(. i‘rlwl( Ul. 22 La: immittee appatnted fo solicitaid for thien of St Joln, N, B., to el 7150 at Grlental Hall, reivited to vo pres’ KiLL, Chalrman. TUESDAY, JUNE 26, 1877, OHIOAGD MARKET BUMMARY, The Chicagu produce markels were gencrally nct- o yesterdny, and most of them wero firmer, vork clored 1733¢ per brl higher, at $13.071§ 13,10 for July and 813, 20@13.223; for Angust. snil closed bic per 100 1ba higher, at28. 0214 @8.05 ‘or July and 89, 0214 @0. 03 for August. Meats wera “rmer, at 4%ic for loose ahionlders and 8Xc for do ‘hort vibs, Lake freights were firm, ¢ 2¢ for comn 2 Bultalo, Iighwines were steady, ot 31.08 per allon. Flour was qulet. Wheat closed un- 8 Munged, at 81,44 for July and §1.27% for Angust, forn closed steady, at 46c casli and 40% e for July, :Jata ciosed coster, at e cash and*d5)ie for July, ‘tys wan higher, at i@02c. Barloy wan quoted at 1£::0¢ bId for new, scllor Septomber. Hoga wero letivo ond firm, at$4.60@4.00, Caltle wera fairly “ctive and unchan fith nales at §2,00Q7.25, §huup wera quotad 5@4.75. Ono Lundred “ollars in £old would buy §105.373% in greonbacks it tho cloae, H Groonbacks at tho New York Stock Ex. “hango yesterdny closod nt 943, Tho Nez Perces Indiuns, finding n8 oppo- fon to their dopredations, have given up dingust, and tho sottlers aro returning to cir homes. Ffi * 1f there iy any gratitudo in the people of "Jhicago, we will hear no more about the ys. ifensive smolls at Bridgeport,—anyhow for 13¢ vday or two, When tho tornado reachod “ ho southwostorn outskirtaof tho town yes- erday, it way stuggerad, put ita thumb and (. Inger to its nose, broke in dismnay, and fled -4 i ol diroctions, 3] e i3 i 5 - Forty-six business firms in Cincinnati, in. fi Auding somo of the wenlthicat Jowish houses gm0 that city, have takon joint action in refer "g mco to tho Iliton-BeLtoman affair, and, re. ‘ {"onting tho affiront as ono which is directed E, owand the entlro Jowish raco in America, nve entered [nto a compact pledging them. ;elvea to hercaftor hold no business rolations i ':’.xm tho house of A, T. Srewarr & Co. r e — L Gil’é»llr‘ Packard, lato claimant of tho Govern. : ship of Loulsinua, loft this city yesterday ])}‘ ‘or Deabfoines, Town, to attend tho Ropublic. 4% in Stato Convention to be hold thero to- 1§, morrow, The * finplacables” claim that his 1? thief busincss thoro Is to socure the passage . M a resolution condomning tho President’s 12 Southorn policy. If this Do his mission, +'non-intervontion” wouliLba moro seomly, it tontrol of the Mickigan Central was hand- fomely whipped yostorday at Dotroit, though ‘ho fact that the old managemont iy per- ¢ 20tunted 4 attributablo moro to tho number 'fit 3 partics iu the icld than to good mannge. xent, Gourp wanted it for a upecnlation; i Yaropmimier to mako it o feedor for the New York Cenfral and Canada Southorn, and the 1a Dircetors wanted it in the intorest of the West., Ohicago i3 to bo congratulated that (i Aourp nnd Vanvennirr succeeded in cutting g sch other's throats, ‘%] 1f Boston is muccesstal fu oucaping her iaro of tho wenther's disagresablo attentions £ day, .tho visit of Presldent Haves and nrty {8 certain to be a memorable event in fiho civio aud social aunals of tho olty, ! Elaborato nrmugumlnm hiave been mado to . monifest {n a fitting manner the great re. pect and admiration which are ontortained or the I'residont by the. people of Boston Jnd of tho Stato of Massachusotts, and it s Foredicted the occasion will surpuss in gen. ral intorust auy avent that has occurred }inw tho Bunker Hill Contennial celobration, 8! ¢ m— { The dcision rendered yestorday by Judge SIGALLXHTHH in the caso pf the City va. Da. : v A, Gaaz and lis Londsmen is a point .6 inod by the taxpayers in the long ound 3{ aas Jitigation which bas resulted from 4 $ho attempt ta recover from the sureties the 8a sustained by tho city through-the Gaox b defaleation. Tt will afford some comfort to such naaroable to follow the drift of the ecixlon upon the various ploas, demurrers, 3~ sud replications to kupw that the City Troas !l'ury sppears to havo the Lest of it, and that f fue bondemen who undertook to seguro the & 3ity against loss on account of Gaor's hand- | ling the people's money aroin a fair way to z Lo compelled by the courts to perform their & vontract, "o i m———— i Yeatorday's storm got considerably ahead {, of *Old Probabilities,” though Mr, Tice, 5 bho Bt. Louis woteorologist, sppears to have { kept up toit. Yesterday's weathor predic. §'tions from Washington foretold for this ro- ;1 &lon of country * stationary or higher pros- ‘f3ure of tomperature, southerly winds, and clear or partly cloudy weather.” Now the ‘fact is that tho weather was decldodly not ¢ cloar, and rather wholly than partly cloudy, ;' About 2 o'clock the storm camo raging along arato which had brought it from Kansas though wholly illogical and ir. Frogular itsolf, rcsents irregular conditions), jijt might bave dono es, much damage ;u it did in o*her parts of tho State and in [ows and Kansas, As it was, thero was quite Yenough of it to drive overybody off the streots -hbun bour ar 60, partioulasly as it woa so- companied by a drenching rain, and to give Chicagoans some idea of what & gennino Iowa “'blizzard " ig like. Tho experionce of the lnst fow years has shown that, whon storms are abont, Chicago is a very safq and com- fortable abiding.place. The dispatches of this morning very fairly sot forth tha extont of tha damage done to the west and south of us. It ‘probably did not extend far enongh south to destroy any serious quantity of the ‘growing crops,—the wheat and corn in the regions traversed not being sufliciently ad- vanced to: ba cut down, though the damago to the oats crop may be mors important than is yot roporter et e Fire-Marshal Brxsen sensibly suggests tho adoption of a code of signals to bo displayed throughont thoe city, thereby warning people of the approach of a storm, Two hours be- fora the breaking of yostorday's tornado ita direction and probable timo of its arrival wera well known in the contre of the city. With n perfect alarm systom, such as Chica. 80 hag, every station and engine-houso might b decorated with some kind of warning, and the result would be a wonderful decroass in loss, Now that storms are prophesied a weck beforo their culmination, and the nows sent far in advance to apprize citica of their movemonts, thore is no reason that tho peo- ple should not ba enabled to guard, partislly ot loast, against them, The proper author. itien should look into Mr. Bexnen's sugges. tion, A Again a torrible visitation of firo has al- most obliterated a town, this time tho pleas- aut littlo - City of Marblchend, Mass, The {flames broke out carly yesterday morning, nnd, beforo they wero nnder control, sovonty- two buildings, onc-bnlf the number the stricken town honsted, were in rnins. Two- thirds of the population are thrown out of employmont by the destruction of the facto- rios, aud a Inrge proportion aro loft to the mercy of tho sen winds, sheltorless and holp- less. Mnrblohond has never known continued good fortune, Disnster after disaster has at- tacked her shores. Over and over again hor fleots hinve boon wreckoed almost within sight of herwindows, and hor people have dwelt more in grief for the losaof relatives and friends than in prosperity. This last calami- ty is tho culmination of her wocs, and hor pitiful eriea for help will appeal straight to the gonorosity of every city in the land, ———— Deflnito sction for the relief of the St John snfforors Lies nt length nssumed shapo in Glicago, and a mothod flxed upon forthe spoedy raising of funds. A committea of citizons lave agroed to appenl directly to citizons, and abandon tho proposed efforts to induce the return by the Itelief & Aid So- cloty of the 10,000 subscribed by St. John whon Chicago was burned, and consequently tho whols burdoen rests whoro it belongs—on the shoulders of the people. 'Tho times mny be hard and money scarce, but not so much so aain 1871, when Chicago lay in ashes, and 8t. John, from *her limited store, sent all sho could sparo; not so much so as now among the ruins of 8t. John, whence comes o direct ery for somoe recognition from Chicago, that misfortine has smitten het old friond in an hour of nced. The response caunot bo too quick, and it is.to be hoped that the ruined city will receive back her old donation tripled and with compound in. terest. TheLondon dailies wera loth to beliove that n genuine Russian success had been achioved in tho crosaings at Galatz and Ibrail, and wero disposed to belittle tha affair as of no conscquonce, They wore bohind the Amer- ican jonrnals in giving full descriptions of tho strength and charactor of tho forward movo- movent, which thoy are now forced to ndmit was an importaut one. Our correspondent at Ibrall tolegraphs that the Russians have continued in ono unbroken line the march from that point to Matchin, nnd that 15,000 infantry and 9,000 Cossacks, with oighty field pleces, are now in ulgaria. 'The advance Lss reached Hirsova, the in. tontion being to. continue to V'chernavoda and thoroughly acout tho reglon castward, und, it possiblo, provent the destruction by tho Turks of tho Kustendfi Rallway, From Bucharest it {s roported that an nttompt was contemplatod for last night orto-day to crosa ot Oltenitza and Slmnitzs, where four anmy corps aro conconirated, Ticr's tornado, prophosicd some time ago, pasced fhrough the States of Miwsauri, Towa, Illinols, and a portion of Indiana Yyostorday, Tho tract was wide, aud tho wind was g companiod Ly hoavy rains thatbeat down what tho galo left, Intelligenco from the strickon districts is meagre, s wires and telugraph” poles aro down, but -enough §4 known to show tliat the storm was unpra- cedonted 1n §ts damsge to crops, houses, bnray, foncing, and stock, though no loss of Hifo Is yoported. A train near Kunkakee was,| litted bodily from tho track, and sav- eral of her possongers elightly in. Jured. It is cortain that tho growing crops throughout a wide district have suf. fered by tho wind pnd roin, but to what extent canvot mow be estimated. In the city the rainfall wos Lieavy and tho wind sovere, but, npart from the smashing of win- dowy, uprooting of trees, ripping of awn. inge, oud tho like, did not inflict as much loss 03 such a visitationh wonld encournge to Lulieve probable. . g T ETS——— Thechief editor of the anti-Admintstra. tion concern.in this city holds o $3,000 office which 198 sinccure. We conclude it I8 a sinccure from the fact that he is njlo to devota his ontire thme to writing nrticles donunclatory of the Presfdeut's Soythorn policy of peace and yuconciliation ‘botween tho white and coloréd raccs, Ife has beon particulnrly active and malignant for a weok or ten days past in maliciously misropresent. ing the natuze and offuct of that policy. The Ppurposo, of course, has becu to acton the delegates to the Yowa Republican Con. vention, and induce ‘them o insort a plavk n theie platform concerning the President, and expressing a want of confldenco in his Administration. 'This “machine” msMynant foels especially ag. grioved at tho Presidont’s ordex to the Fed. eral officchioldors directing them to quit the “alate-making " buainess, and ceaso packing political conventions and nominatiog wmem. bLers of their combinntion for the various offices, local and State, as well as Federal, This prohibitive order oxcites his vindictive foclings nud mokes tho Southern policy seet pecullarly odious, But ho Los no com- punctions to'drawing $60 per wock out of the Federal 'Freasury for doing nothing. ‘The sinecure salary i3 lifted with groat Togu. lazity and puuctuality, whilo spending his valuable time in ondeavors to undenming and break down the President, —— The Chicago machins organ, odited by the Chicago Appraiser, is excecdingly suzious to Lavo the Jowa Republican Convention pass & sesolution denouuciug, or at least condemn. THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: TUESDAY, JUNE 26, 1877. ] ing, the President's Bouthern policy in savere terms. What it wants is to produco a split in the party and bo made the organ of the maloontent faction. It is now nearly four months since tho President announced in his innugurnl the peace-policy ho intended to try in the South, and seo it he could not reconcilo tho two races and esiablish har. mony and concord betweon them. From the day that policy was telegraphed aver the BSouth, the perscention of the blacks ceased, In nll the intervening time not one has beon killed, or msimed, or beaten, of which the public bas heard. Thore are no mors whippings, or clrurch or school-house burnings; all perso. cutlons of the blacks for political causes ap- pear to have completely coased south of Mason & Drxon's line. Bince tho responsi- bility of preventing mnltreatmoent of tho freedmen no longer devolves on the carpet- baggers, but now rests onthe Southern white loaders, the maltreatment has ended, the law- lesa claseon have beon curbed, and tho blacks have fair treatmont, and quiet prevails throughont the South. In common fairness and decency, is not tho Preaidont entitled to credit ovon at the hands of the implacables for the good ho has dona ‘and tho protoction o hiag secared for the freedmon ? A THREAD OF ENAVERY, . The opponents of silver rostomtion, though they indulgo in all monner of .argu- mants, invariably wind up by imputing dis- lionesty as the motive inspiring the demand for o rencwal of silver coinage. Of lato an effort has been made to identify the silver mepsure with the greenback theory, and to confonnd the froo coinage of legal-tonder silver dollars with the scheme of illimitable issue of never-to.be-rodeemed papor dollars, One of theso champions of tho exclusivo gold coinage is thoe Now York Nation, a paper which seeks by common insolance to givo now emphasis {o arguments which have become throadbare among all intelligent per- sons. That paper closes o summary of the question with n sentence which reads: In fact, there s & thread of kaavery ranniog through the whole movement, though doubtlons concealed from many of its promotcrs by tho fact that they do not think of money ns a stanidard of value, but as A means of paying debts, and by the fact’that eilver was a logal-tonder untll very iatoly. . Ina previous part of the articlo it is pe- serted that the silver movemont has,nt tho West taken the place of the Greonback movement, simply because it is tho ¢ next best thing” in tho way of dofranding crodit- ors. The Greenback policy sostrongly urg- od o few years ago had its ndvocates in the ‘West as in all partsof the conniry. The do- mand was then made foran unlimited issno of national pofler money to bo mado a legal- tendor, which money was to havo no rodemp- tion save In low interest-paying bonds, which bonds wero to bo pald in the same paper currency. Thia policy wns met by the poo- ploof the West, and was strangled {n tho Weat, In' Michigan, Wisconsin, Ilinois, Minnegots, and Iows, it was opposed at tho polls by tho people and defeatod. But the moat memorable of all the contests was that in fought in Ohfo in the summor of 1875, whon Haves and Artex fought that issue through overy township in tho Hiato, and when Havzs' bold ndvocacy of specio resumption—that is, the paymont of all dobts, public ayd private, in coin—was opposed by AwxN as o, “damned barren idenlity.” There, in tho West, npon tha soil of Ohio, in the very utronghold of the Green- back party, the people rofected the Groon. back thoory. It was the pooplo of tho West wha destroyed that fallacy. Had the pooplo of the West sustained that policy and made it their doctrine, the hostility and opposition of tlio East would have boon, whilo tho storm lasted, nttorly impotent. It may as well bo understood by the money.gamblers of Now York, and of tho Eastern States generally, that the only safoty thero is for the conntry, and especially for the crodit and honor of the nation, is in the inbred and deop-rooted in- tegrity of tho mass of tho people. This Lina nover falled dn all the vicissitudes and triols of the Ropyblic, mor will it fail now. Tho nmnerical strength of the nation hag ita homo west of the'Alleghanics, and, when the pooplo of the West shapo their policy upon ** a thrond of kuavery ” and forco logialation that will dofraud creditors, the Eastern fitates will bo powerless to resist them. There is nothing in the pasthistory of the peoplo of the West that (furnishes tho faintost justification for tho intimation that they are loas honeat than fho people of tho Esstern States, and all theso acousations by tho organs of the SnyLocks arc uot only scandalous and falso, but oxccedingly insolent and contemptible, . 1f tho pooplo of the Wostorn States are as class dobtors and those of tho East credit- ors, that fact of itself does not make tho ona clnss dishonest and the other honest. All cruditors aro not of nevessity houest. The pooplo of the Wost have within the Inst fen yoars borrowed largely of tho East, furnishing mnplo sccurity nud paying o liberal rate of iatorest. When these debts wore cantractad, gold,; silver, and groeubacks wore legal-tenders; “Thoy ro- ceived for thoir uotes nud wortgages paper monoy worth G0 to 85 conts on tho dollar, Tho wortgages and debts roquired poyment in legal-tonder. Unknown to them, and in such a quiet, silent mannor aa to attract no attontion, the voluo of gold wns incressed by the abolition of silver as o legal-tonder, Bo qulotly was thla done that in 1875, two yenrs later, during the fumons contest in Obhlo over the queation of spacie-paymonts, the fact that silver had beon demonutized was not known to cither candidale or to noy of tho many hundred spenkers and nowspa. pers taking part in tho discussions. It was not until long after that the country discov- oréil that the value of gold had buen increas- ed by oroating ou increased demand for it, nnd that’ tho value of silver bLad beon diminished by abolishing its uses. The demand for specio-payments received 8 new color from this discovery, BSpocio- payments involved (he retirement of the paper legal-tendor monvy, aud tho sbolition of the silvor dollar will loave nothing o logal. tender in the paymout of debts but tho gold whoso value has béen artificially inereased by the abolition of silver, nud will bo furthor increased by the extraordinary demand for it as tho exclusive currenoy after Jan, 1, 1879, ‘The people of the West demand that the silvor dollar which was g legal-tender when all their coutructs wero made ehall be re. stored o5 a lcgal-tender in paymont of thoss debts; that, it specie-paywcnts are to be resumed in 1870, there shall be an increase of uotallio logal-tender currency, to an amouut equal to tho volumo of paper withe, drawn, and that they whall not ba compelled to pay their dobts in 8 curronoy wade ex- cossively dear by tho arbitrary domouotiza- tion of silver nud tho retirement of all other forgs of logal-tender save gold. If that be dishonest, theu the creditors must m;ku the wosb of it “Che peoplo of tho whole country will domsnd of the noxt Congress tho une limited coinagg of silver dollars, which shall bo legal-tendera in payment of every form of public and private debts and ducs. Thers i no escapo from that measure. No reason. able man can objeot to the payment of dobts in monoy which waa a legal-tender when the debt was contracted, and tho creditor who objects to that forgets that before he can chargo dishonesty to othors he must firat prove that his own demand is just. Particn. larly s this demand for an exclusive gold enrrency nnjust when it {s conceded that its enhanced valno s produced by the demone- tizotion of silver. Wo yeatorday published o leitor from a correspondent eiting the action in England . during the dobnsement of the silver coin in tho time of Wirttast III, A large portion of the coinage had been ri- duced in valuo by varions means, the result of which was the oxportation of all the beavy coins, and tho great advance in tho rolative value of gold. Tho Government called Jonr Locks and Sir Isaao Nzwrox into the public councils, and Nzwron de clared— That where eliver has beon dethonetized and driven from tlw circalatlon of & country, It neces- sarily scnda the price of gold up bigher, and that & fall in gold will inevitably follow, and by no buman ingenuity can be tade to preceds a re- coinage of allver, . Of tho jcondition of affaira at that time Macavray wrote : . It may well be donbted whether all the milsery inflicted on the English nation in a quarter of & century by bad Kings, bad Parliaments, and bad Minieters, was equal in n singlo year \o thatin- Dicted by the Insnpportablo eurse of tls debaso~ ment of tho eilver coin, which had been the stand- ord of valaes for Lhe reslm. Those events which furnish the bost themes for patriotic or indignant eloquenco are not Always thoso which most sflect the happinces of the people; when the great ine strument of exchargo bocame deranged, all trade, allindustry, was emitten as with a palsy, Newrox was mado Warden of tho National Mint, nnd, ns onr correspondont states— Newrox and. Lockn declarod as tho resnlt of tholr investigation that **i1t was not the bigh price af gold which alfected tha Stato so disastrously, but that such bigh prico was only a symptom of tho ovi), anda fall in gold,” as MicauLax says, *4wonld lnevitaBly follow, bnt by no bumon agene cy could be madeto precede the restoratiom of sllver," Parliament passed a recoinnge act, ond Newron set ten furnaces ot the Mint golng night and day to reatore the aflver coln of England to its old standard of welght and fineneas. After tho new coins began to go into clrculation, gold began. to drop down,and soon came to Its natural equilib- rium with sllver and became fntorchangeable therewlth. The panis ceased, and conldenco beo- camo again rostored. b o Our Govarnment has by tho law of 1873 domonetized silver, snd did what was posai- 'blo to debaso tho metal as compared with: gold. Lot it now be remonotized j lat the silver dollar bo reatored as a logal-tondor at ita old weight, aud “lot the coinage bo froo, and Secrotury Suznaax will have, as Newron hiad, all the furnaces of the Mint at work, and, s tho new coine bogin to pass into circula- tion, the gold will drop down to its naturd equilibrium with silver. Whon tho gold and silvor dollar be mode equal by tha effect of nataral laws,~and that is what tho West do- mands,—where will'bo the dishonesty of paying dobta in gilver dollars? " CHICAGO AS A SUMMER RESOKT, . In our last issue wo printed a graphic do- scription of the London soason and the man- nor in which the summer months aro prased awny in that gront capital. Thoro is o rad- deal differonco botwopn the English and American fashionabls seasons. The climato of England dictates the fashionable torm in London, wheroly socioly may disport itaclt ond havo its gala day. Tho winter woather of London is sloppy, ciilly, windy, foggy, snowy, and ** demnition moist and unpleas- ant," and, altogether, all tho clomaents are strictly unfashionable, The springs and sumumners, on tho other hand, aro delighdfal, Tho weather is not too hot, Therois just rain enough. Tho sky isas cloaras a sky can be, scon through the soft-conl smoke of tho great city. ‘The nights aro cooled with tho broozes that swoep up the Valloy of the ‘Chinmes from tho Chaonel. The parks nre gny with blossomis and green with the vordaro of vinoandgrass. An English land, scope, proverbinlly beautiful, fs never so | boautiful as in this season. It is on this account that it has heen melected for tho Parlismemtary session, All tho fashion of London ulrs itself in this period, and all tho grandues of England pour into tho metropolis. Tor four months fashiona- blo lifo iz ot the maximmm with rout, revel, balls, dinnors, soirees, and tho opern, Then the goy crowd 'betekes itself to tho high. lands and lowlands, the moors and tho ‘woods, for a briof shooling scason; thon off to tho Rhine and tho Alps, lotus-eating on the ono and toiling up the othor, until the raing descend and tho floods come, when thoy hurry back to London and vegetate through tho fogs and frosts of the fall aud winter, proparatory to bursting thelr chryss- Jes In April and reappearing as gilded bLut- terfles. In the United Btatos, on the other band, wao aro compolled to hold our Congressional sossions in winter, becauso wintor is the only senson that is tolorable in Washington, Tho season from Juno to October in Washington ' is oxecrablo, It i sullocatingly hot all dny nnd hotter all night. No seon breozes break through its -barrior of hills,, Tho atmos. phere is closo ind sultry, 'fLo areas of Ligh thermometer yoach from 96 to 106, In tho hoight of t4p’ feason, when tho Parliament meots in London, Washington would bsa Culoutta and lifo would bo a burden. If ever tho time should come that the negro gots tho ascendoncy in Congross, & summor sosslon might bo a possibility, Asat pros- ent coustituted, however, the Congrossional graveyard would bo flled to repletion with dend Senators and Reprosontatives, suffocated in the sweltoring nights, As u matter of no- causity, therefore, so long as Congress meots in Washington, it must meet in winter, or from the holidays at one cxtremo to May nt the other. Boyond this limit, if tho Con- gressman peniists in remnaining in Washing- ton, ke only invites an carly demise and o voyage Lo that bournevrhere politicians aro no moro, A climate like our own, or that of Boston or St Panl, cffers no reliof, bo- causo in wintor Nortliern members would ba pincked up with cold and Southorn membors would eithor incur a perounial catarrh or leave this vale of tears by the shorter stagos of pooumonia. New York in sumier is no botter off than Washington, owing to-its uarrow strocts and tall buildings, which con. centrate tho heat nnd kedp tho city at about the temperature of o ‘blast furnace, not to spoak of jts bed ewells and gonoral corrap- tion. As extrn scasions of Congress are a matter of importance, thoro is a plan by which they can bo held and not interfero with the com- fort and convenionco uf members. A short sosslon might be held in Washingtan in the winter, adjourning March 4; and then the oxtrn scssion could be beld during the sum- mer in Obicago. As a place of .summer ro- sott, we present every possiblo induccauent not only to the members of Congress, but to tho wholo fashionable world. Thd® weathor | is uhsolutely Jelightful. The days aro rarcly hot, and the nighta aro cooled with the refreshing bronzes off the lake, The bright, cloar sky, bracing air, and the pnrest watoer in the country, ward off fovers and epidemics, and mafe It one of the healthiost cities in the world. Our stoyma are but . passing showers, Even the great tornado which the Bt. Louis Professor concocted with spocial referonce to demolishing Chicago, and which went sweeping over the country yesterday, passed through the city and left no sign of its wrath 8zcept an overturned ponnnt-stand. The fashionsblo world can find hore ampld opportunitics for its enjoyment. During tho dny it would meet all tho world here, At dinner it would have all tho delicacics and luxuricsof tho market from evory pointof tho compass, served up in the most elegant styloat the largest and most palatipl hotels of the world. . After dinner it could drive for miles aloug the lake-shoro ronds, basking in tho moonlight and listening to tho musio of tho waves, or, if so disposed, choosa the boulevards and parks, and refrosh itself among the {iroes, flowers, and foun. tains. Returning from the driva and dresaing for tho evening, it could flirt, gosaip, - and dance, for tho nights are not too hot fos terpsicliorean amuse. mont. Nowhero olse ars such opportunities offered for personal comfort and enjoymont. ‘When Mr. Trtosas came hers with his noble orchestra to spond tha summer, it was aquict ncknowledgmont of the superior claims of Chicago o8 8 place of summer resort over Now York, Boston, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, 8t Louis, and othor suburban places, and over tho watering places like Capo May, Long Branch, Nowport, and Baratogs. The great crowds pouring into onr hotsls nlso testify to the samo fact, All that is neces- sary to complote our attractions is to have an oxtra sossion of Congress here, Then all tho world indeed will rush to tho great con- trol city of fashion, socloty, art, litoraturo, sad commerco, and the social phenomenon of London will bo repented hore. Undoubt- odly tho social fontures of this scheme will apacdily bo in oporation, as all the ‘world is rapidly finding out that Ohicago is the only onjoyable place in summer. The legislative foaturoe of it ia worthy of serious conaldern- tion glao. B " — THE RUSSIAN POSITION. For some waoks past the war interest has contored about tho operations of the Asiatic wing of tho. Russian army. Now thoro is n 1ull in Armenia, and the world is watching with tho samo keon intorest the movements of tho Russians on the north bank of the Danube. Tho causes of tho long delsy in Europe mow begin to bo apparont.-.To opernto with succoss in durkoy, it is nacos- sary to cross_with an overwholming force,’ but in order to do this, delay was nocessary to acoumulate provisions and ammunition, ingsmuch as very littlo if any proviaions can bo hadin the country itself, and thoy can- not bo transported by sen or rivor. In or- der, therofors, to sccuro the movements of {the army from any danger of intorruption, it was mocessary to accumulate o sufficient stock of material for the campalgn, which of itsclf wes o slow and todlons process, ns there is but ono railroad in Ronmania. A writer in tho Russian Magazine of Political Keconomy states that equal difficulty was also found in ostablishing tho strategical condi- tlons. Hosays: ‘Threo conditions are of essentlal mportance— first, tho safety of the lincof overations for attack, votreat, and communications; sccond, the aafoty of the base; andtiurd, a favorable poaition and direetion of the basa fur tho lino of oporations, In view of those dangors, It would not be safo for Rusala to send more than 160,000 men to the Ualkan; anotber ariny of 100,000 men would bo roquired to occupy the lino of the Danube, to mask tho foztresses, and to keep open tho comimuniea- tiunas a third, also of 100,000 men, to protect tho nortliorn const of tho Black Sea; and 8 fourth, of {100, 000 men, to protect the right wing of tho baso ond the line of operations agafnst Austrin. Tho sctual position of tho Russians at presont confirms the 'statoments of this writer, except s to numbers, * If the dis- patches may bae credited, thero aro now about 420,000 troops north of the Danube, instead of 550,000, which tho writer had fixod as tho numbor nocossary to sccure tho army opora- tions, This immenso army scems to bo locatod about as followa: Tho loft wing, bo- tween Galatz and Giurgevo, 70,000; the contro, bolweon Giurgevo aud Nikopolis, 172,000; tho right, from Nikopolis to Wid-,| din, 60,000; the socond line, from Karakal to Bucharest, 78,000; and tho. third line of roservey, in tho yicinity of Plofest!, 40,000, Adding to theso 420,000 troops in Europo tho forcos operating in Armenin, the Russian army nlready in tho flcld foots up 570,000 men. e —— THE PRESIDENT'S CIBRCULAR. It will bo a diicult mntter to critivise the President’s cirenlar order to tho employes of tho civil service of tho.United States, no matter from what pointof view it may bo contemplated. It caunot bo dented by any one that it is in tho intorest of public mor- als, since it romoves one of the buslest cle. ments ongaged in- manipulating, primarios, runmng eaucuses, and packing conventions. It cannot be chargod that it is caleulated to injure tho interoats of the Ropublican party, for it is slmply in keeping with the pledge of the party platform relative to the refarm of tho clvil sorvico, Tho thoorlsts and en. thusiasts in Civil-Sorvice Réform cannot cavil ot it, becauso tho order is sweoping sud applies -1o all porsous holdiug office under the General Goverument and their sabordinates; it goes further than any Prosidont hus gone since Jackson's in- anguration of the spoils’ eystem except tho short-lived Prosident Ilinmison, who bnd no opportunity to carry out his good inton- tions, Nor can thoe officeliolders urge any ob. Jeation to it which will reccive consideration {rom tho people, for it meroly prohibits them from using the extraordinary influence’ and |, power of the Government patronago to in- torfora with the right of the people to chooso their own conventions, mnske tholr own nomiunations, end hold their own eloo- tions. 1t must bo noted that thero Is not a word uor an fmplication in the President's circular ‘which abridges the {ndividual rights or infla- enco of the oficeholder iu political affairs ; it morely provides that ho slall. not use his official influence to interfore with the indi- vidual political rights of tho non-oficehold. ing class, 'Tho ofilccholder wnay still vote ns ho plenscs, and as often as tho law allows ; he mny write as many letters to tho nows. papers on politicRl . questions as he can find time to write during his leisuga bours; ho moy talk politics to his beart's coutent when he runs across sny person who wauts to ongag in that une profitable theme of conversation; he wmay oveu mako stump-spoechesif he mokes them at times and places where they do not take him away from his official duties; hoinny voluntarilly contribute as much monoy as ho chooses for campaign purposes. Thero isleft to him all the political privileges he may en- joy as a private citizen, except that of actu- slly organizing conventions and running campaigns,—and this he could not do with. out employing in that way tho timo for which thoe Govornment pays, and using the patronago and power that attach to his of- fice. Any violation of this ordor, or any dis. position to evade It, on the part of a Gov- ernment offlcinl, will simply be evideneo that such official haa ncoepted Government em- ploymont not for the purposo of rendering a sorvico oquivalont to his pay and demanded of him by law, but to use his position and influence to control local polities in favor of some particular cliquo, or some friend or patron of bisown, i Itin only under tho opoeration® of suck o rulo ns President Hayes has now laid down that there can bo anylhing like ¢ Homo Rulo"in local politics. Chicago, and to n Iarge extent the entire Btato of Illinols, have ‘boen fortunate in eseaping the interferonce of the Governmont oficcholders in a degreo approaching the offensiveness with which it has been forcod upon the peoploe of other clties and Btates. In New York, Brooklyn, Doston, Philadelphia, Now Orleans, 8t. Louls, ond many other of tho prominent citiea'of tha country, the Federal officers have beon in tho habit for ypars of making up tho slates for tho local offices. The governors of cities, counties, andBtates all over tho country have ‘been actually dietated by theso officials, In wmany parts of tho country, as has been prov. edin the courtsand confesaed by tho thioves, tho taxes on whisky withheld from the G&v- ermmont have boon used in part to run the local clections. It has been a frequent ocour- ronce that nominations for State and loeal officers have been forced upon the Repnb- lican party by these official cliquos that led to the party’s dofent; and, even worsa than this, in cnses where tho parly has been strong onough to overcomo the depression of wonk or viclous candidates, the people liave had to suffor them as local govornors at tho dictation of tho Fedorsl officiala. It is notorions that theé Govornment places throughont the country—the Post-Offices,the Colloctorehips, the Appraiserships, tho Mar. shalships, the offices of Bupervisors of Rov. onuo, Mail Agents, and Pension Agonts— have boen largely disposod of by pronrrmuge- mont betweon the incumbents and the mem- borsof Congross who appointed thom, that they should be used, along with thelrInfluence and patronsgo, to advanca tho political inter. ests of thoso at whose soHcitation tho ap- pointmonts wero made, 'Thus it wns under- stood, if not oxpressly stipulated, that if a United Btates Sonnjor got tha appointment of twenty moen in his Stato as Government officcholdors, those twenty mon would all cmploy their time and influencdto securo the choleo of o Legislature, not with refer- enco to making good lawa for the State, but to re-alect tho Sonator who had secured thom thoir places. Bo overy momber of tho Natlonal House of Representatives countod upon the active co-oporation of all the Post. masters, and Colloctors, and Pension Agynta, and oll thelr employes in his district, in hefping him to ronomination and ro-clection, This systom naturally included tho dic- tation of all local officials who ‘would be likely to exort an influonce in the ono of the Channel Tslands, that she te margiea, ta 8 gentleman named Laxorner, and that she has been plainly and quletly brought up, in & manner becomilng a gontlewoman. & . Perhiaps Mr, Jaxyings’ idea of femnle beauty may be taken with care. It was ho who found equally Indescrlbable attractions In the dame with a buge wart under her car. ———— Gen Gnant doct not conceal hiaadmiration forihe Mberality of the English railways, which deadhead Bim wherever ha wanta to go, jn Wales and Scote Iand as well an in Kngland., fe must be Imprensed with the eontrant between this eondnct and that of Llio Amerlean railrond which once insisted that he, anda palace-car Jond of his boon companions, shonld” pay thele way like: ordinary traveles Gnaxt, Piknnepont, and DApEsv are having a peetty good tims with vory little expensa to thom. - sclves.—New Xork Sun, We hardly seo thepurposo of this lil-natured snarl, oIt was very rarely Indeed thatany Amerl- can rafiroad ever chiarged Gen. GraxT for aride ontheirears. If such cases occurred, he pald hia farc and sald nothing abont {t. The hospitallty shown tho great American General and ox- Presldent by the English rallway companles is only in barmony with that tendered him by all classes of people in Great Britaln, —— fl breaks the hieart of a New! Orleans man to ad anything complimentary to EAps? jetties., A late statement to the effect that o ship draws Ing twenty-ono fect of water went through the Jetty cannl has drawn an scrimonlous letter from n Louisiana man, who not only denies t! story, but saya that currency to such rumors is - dolng much damage to the shipping Interest. This is with grace from a city thatalmost rufned the marine of New Orleans by opposing tho jetty system from tho start. ——— It will probably bawilder President Haves when ha learns the reason assigned for denying him wine at the Boston banquet. A committea representing 12,000 women contend that thoy hava entered upon **thie work of reclaiming the drunkard,” and tho use of intoxicating liquora on the great occaslon will practically nulilfy all I.Suy hato decomplished” It Mr. TTaves is fn #dch n ix ns described, it may be well to refuse his demands for stimulant. % Judgo Jonx BAXTER, of Tennessee, is backed - by BTANLEY MaTtnEws for the Tennessce Bue premo Bench and others for the vacancy in the United Btates Supreme Judiclary, ifc has plenty of thne to work up hia ‘ease, for the Preshient has stated that he will make no ap- polutment for some months, during which timo BaxTar might move to Ollo. . ——— 1t t8bk an order from the United Btates 8u- preme Court to induce a spoculative Yankee to relraln from ustng the namo of Acrimy GELL- BCHAFT APPOLINATIS BrAxNEN, Nelther ho nor any one clse knows what it mcans, but it sounded poctical, and he proferred it to the more simple but less cuphonlougMoRaAN. * — Reccnt.nntcnu in London have brought the umbrelia almost to perfectipn. - One compre- hends a tent, o fishing-rod, & vipestem, sword- stick, driving whip, shotgun, and the Inventor is working on another attachment {ntcoded to furnish board, lodging, and washing. ————— Canada I8 already dlsgusted with Brrring BuLt, nnd has hivted that she will cxtradito bim if the United States demand bim. 1t would be great, fun to sce a couple of Canuck constables prowling around theold savage with o warrant. A Western, as well as intelligent, compositor describes the sltuation tersely, The *‘copy? probobly read “help,” but the paper had ft “Hell for 8%, John,"” | organization of convontions, 8o it wna that ————— Chicago streot~cars are safo from lightoing. it becamo a part of the Foderal offlceholdors They Yl condluctors; undor tho old eystem to control, as far ns they could, the sclection of Govornors and State offlcers, of County Commissioners and other county offlcors, of Mayors and Oity Troas. urors, and even Aldermen. Thero wad no do- inil which was too winute for their attention, 1t is precisoly this impertinent and offonsivo interforence with tho people in their local affairs that the President’s ordor prohibits, and the pooplo will not fail to bo grateful for tho prohibition. Thoso impatient reformers who complain that President Havzs iadoing nothing for tho- improvement of the public service that will outlast hif torm make no allowance for tho forco of public opinion, His separation of tho Government officiala from active politics has been dotermined upon 8o early in Lis torm that thoro will bo suffioient timo for 4t to acquirg tho forco of system and law bo- foro President Hayes shall retire. * Can it bo imagined that tho honest sontiment of tho conntry has go littlo forco that President Ilaves’ successor will not hesitate to roturn to the old order of thinga? Will the Demo- crata dare to oppose tho principle ko has es- tablishod whon they come to make up thoir campaign for the next Prosidentinl alection? Bupposo they elect their candidate under a pledge of continuing tho mystem Presidont Hares has inaugurated, will the successful candldato dare to overthrow it and accede to the Dumoeratic demand for rotation in ofiico and a division in spoils? And it ho shall do this, will not the Doraocratio party pay the penalty of ita docoption by dofoat spoedily following tho evidonce of troachery? Itis not unrcasonablo to hope that President Iaves has heroin Inid down o rule that will bocomo o permancut part of our oivil sarvice, ————— 5 PERSONAL. Sscrotary Thompson promised o bo a father ta all the gradustes of Annapolls thia year, ‘When Dr. Duryea, of Now York, was o young man ha kept storo at Greenport. e sum- ‘mors at the sama place, Prof. Porry has tha orodit of the faot that "1l tho graduates of Williams Follogo this vgar, forty In number, ara Freo-Traders, Mr, Jonnings writes to tho Now York World that Miss Howe, of Doston, danghter of Boorotaries Evarts and Schurz and Attor- noy-General Dovens will be thognly members of the Cabinet to accompany tho Predfent on his New England trip. The Harvard *graduatos and thoir lady friends attended tho ball-match botween Yale and Harvard on Class-Day, In full dross, 1t wasae brilllant scene. Flaubort, the author of *“Madamo Bova- ry* and ‘*Salammbo," has Just published a vol- umo entltled **Trols Contes,” which is highly ‘praised by the Parlsian critics, Mr. O'Keofs, an Irish member of the ,prm-n Parlldment, 15 clalmant to an immense sum 0f money—two or three million sterling—lofs by an fntestate of his namo InIndis. Mr. John I Raymond, while passing tho Treasury Department In Washington, & fow daya ago, observad, **There's milllons in £ ond then sdded, inaquiet manner, **Thero'smililons after 1 A 8t. Louis woman of pretentions to rank in fashlonable socloty entarod a musle store of that city the other day and nsked a clork for **somo of Wagner's muslc containlog no flats or sharps," This 18 a trua atozy, . “No young girl Las cause to envy tho TPrinfoss Boatrice of Englund, " writes the London correspondont of the Now York Zimes. Blo s drensed o3 a dowdy, and obliged to be a companion of the Quoen in bhor vory bumdruin exlstence, The Euvglish womaon at Br, Pierrepont’s reception to Gen. Grant went aboot cslling cach other's nitention to this or that pretty American, and doing It without the falntest envy, This strack Mr, Jennings as being a very queor thlug Indeed. 8ir Robort Poel dosplsea Sir Edward Wat. kins, Thaveason fathat at & public mooting the lattor took occaslon, on mentloning the nume of 8lr ltobert Pecl, to-throw in tho oxplanatory obaere vation, **1moun tho great Blr Robert Poel, not the present one. " The Massachuseiis Medical Boolety hns expelled Dr. Qale, of Nowburyport, for practicing homeopathy, The Now Hampehiro Sucloty expells ed Dr, Galo's father, oue of the signers of the Decluration of Independence, who was opposoad to tho then common praciice of Llceding tover pa~ (lents. e’ * Mr. Smalley tells‘cf an Fnglishman who remarked of the Grant.Plerrepont reception that nearly all tho lsdics he had wocn there wers **llow do you knowr' By thelr ‘on mean becausu they are so well: dressed? ¥t Becauso thoy “arc 80 mpch un~ dressod,™ was hls geim rotort, Mr. Richard Power, in a jocular way, suggested that those membors of tha Dritish Parllament who could not catch ths speaker's eyo durlog the debate on tho Eustern question should print thelr speeches. Bir Patrick O'Brien accepted the fnvitation, aud printed bls soecch under the title of **Ona of the Rejécted Addresses," dedi- catlug it to Mr, Power, It iu rolated of Edmund Quinoy that he Jeft bis overcost at tbe house of & friend not long forg bis death, whiloho went to call upos tha Winturopa; returing, he remarked, **I leftabad hablt bebind me, and. what may perhaps sorprise you, 1 have come back to reclalm I," On fnding Spectal Dispatch bune. Wasnixaton, D. C., Jun —The Intest silver talk in somt-oticlal clrclos {6 to tha effect that the rumonctization of the sliver dailar will ba agreed upon with & 820 maximum leysl-tender qun.m{ and that recommendations will to made that gold pleces be colnod of the denomination of $2.60 or £4, 86, §10, snd 830, ‘This Is very romarkable statement. Are thero auy “seml-oflelal ™ people in Wasbilugton who arc so fguorant of public pentiment us to suppose that thoe people of the great West will seeept ony such stale crust as that, when they are abundantly able to put forth thefr hunds and take tho wholo loafi Nothing short of the sflver dollar as a full und completo legal-tender for all debts public and private yiil satisfy their demand. The sllver dollar must bo restared to all the rights and privilegos. it possessed during eighty years previous to 1878, Tho questlon of its present abnormal depreciatioh must not pre- veat Its reatoration to tho old place, The de- vreclation has been caused by demonetizing ft, sud can bo removed by abollshing the cause thercol, —— The Thiladclphia Zimes (Ipd. Dem.) thus speaks of the downfall of onu” of the shining lights of tho Democracy In the Keystoue State: 3. FRAXK DEAxisi IIIFI down from his po- sition as Laxerne's favorita son, and during the noxt four years e will serve the Siate in pridun. Last Decembor lixantsi, who had beon an influcn- tlal Democratle lesder In Democratio Luzerne, Burgeant-at-Arms of (ho House st Harrisburg, |. chool-Treasurer, and candidate forn good many ulices which he dldn't geb was conviciel “on, aa fudictment for Iunl.'lnu 3-duplicates while acting as Tax-Necelver for the Fourth Sclool Disrict. Farseveral months after his couviction he dodged the oficlals and did gt receive his sentence. uh|nfilhhnu" up & few wacks ago, Lu was lield in dull willu the Judge manifested %o husta to past | {hg'surtout, Mr. Quincy bumorously wluded to ity . o an ef ad: . > i Hiovs i oF the cel by sens. pajes wea | Dryden and sporimely quoted ke i, had been empluyed Ly Liw, they havin; :0;:!!:0&: We oty same . the perpetration of the decd with whic! charged This U064 Dot seein (0 hiavs held waser: Lowever, and «o Mz, DEauivit gocs to jail for the term of four ycard. One of tho Dourbon papers havi, so- causod Mr, Halstead, of the Cinciunati Cormmardial, of Sahing aftor s foreigu sppointment, —tho French mission, wo beliove 1t was,—ho replicd a4 follows; do AR s de e bops it Xageny cijuractary thas §oslther could sor wuuld bave sicept edthe m 3 Mr. Louis J. JEXNINGS thus discourses of the lady who has taken all London by storm ; Buch lnltrnulhflua]lng fOesh, shioing and spotless te aa L duts 1€ 16 Ve ad beew offered miuj that ?: ivory, aud w 0 driven snow an & wuun- | deslred or sapected sny porsouat rocugaliion woa ) heart warois oven | bythe Admislitraion that | desir to maintatnatictly ide—dear me, m{ .LM lio thought of it! Her fuce I like sowo Abd coupletely oy lndependence a8 8 fosroallse.. 1 do dream of sowe : ppior world, lier form like that o, or tha Turk- of a Greclun guddcas, her eyee—but tho woment },m,u,m,( L A i, u ther = lou seo thuse it 1:"111 over with you; you aro ol thiat 1 bad beea mbundorstoad w tny dissd vial uocked, like that fsbious work of 8°fumous say une u-ubmun.'m 4 desiied W sbandon Teachr, ¢ higher Ibanakite, *and thero fenothing { ** misloaary work” as an editor for any o2luisl peds for O\ bub lo;rmlmu yourself weekly before the ?muzif&‘:'fifi“.'fiffl':flf ::.'{'..‘::.':.‘:.“u".'.‘:,"“'.".:.'fl givinity, unctico howo'and bo mlsorable, Aud who | SUPYSCEE0L spy, meaqs but bucaue 1t U toy il {3 aner Well, rcally uobody knows wuch wore sboat hor tnai thle—thatabe 1 & lady feom Jersoy, | demer S0 1 B6s 10 SDOW ablctad Lhe gifh Ul cudtiaar Julls Ward Ilowe, cuts a figare In London socloty, . \ s