Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 30, 1877, Page 4

4 THE CHICAGO 'TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, JUNE 30, 1877—TWELVE PAGES. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, i Tlhye Tribune, ! NY MAIL—IN ADVANCE—TOSTAGE TTEPAID, 12.00 Jalty Edlton, ane yrar. “erte of A year, per mon Ml 10 nny sildress four % cekn for., 3 Faitlon: Literary and o - Werekly, one y Turtaof ayesr, pe WELRLY EDITION, POSTPAID. @me cony, per ye: Clubof ten Gl of tw Epecimen coples pent free, To prevent delay and mistakes, be suro and give Poste Office adiére {n full, faciuding Ktate and County. Lemlitances may he mnde either by dmft, éxpress, Towt-Utfice order, or in registered letters, at our risk, TERMS TO CITY SUBSCRIRERS. Dally, delivered, Bunday excepted, 23 cents per week, Datly, delivered, Sunday Included, 50 ceonta per week, Address TIE TRIBUNK COMPANY, Corner Madison and Deatborn-sta., Chicago, it TAMUSEMENTS, Tinverly's Thentre. 4 Tandolph atrect, between Clark and Lasalle. ‘*On Hand.” Messra. Johin Thompson, J. W. Som- amers, J. D. Mertons Misscs I’hoss McAllister, Doty Nagie, Aftcrnoon snd evening. Adelpid Theatre. Monroe street, corner of Dearborn. **Uncle Tom's IClhln." Mr. Georze Kunkeli Misses Amy 8lavio, i Alfy Chippendale, Afternoon and svening. Esposition Ballding. Lake Shore, foot of Adams street. Summer-Night Concert by the Thoinas O i SOCIETY ME ATPOLO COMMANDERY, NO. 1, ESIGNTS TEM- PLAR~Special Conclave at Asylom, 74 to 78 Monrog. At this (Saturday) afiemoon at 2:30 o'clock prompt. The Onter of the Temple will bo conferred, and 16 {3 expected that tho officers wiil be present and fully equipped at the hour named. cotlation will be merved In the lanqner Hall at do'clock far thosa who palat tn the work wiuring e aftemoun, aticr whlel) the Kir Knlhts will retieo to the Armory for defil, 1t fr urgently requested that every Bir Knight of this omimailery wito can muke It conyenten will bo pres: ent both aftcrnoon and eventng. fly oRler of tha B, C. TG DUNLOT, Hiecorder, BATURDAY, JUNE 30, 1877, CHICAGO MARKET SUMMARY. Tho Chicago produce markets wero generally i Jess active yesterday, cxcept in transfer, and tho 11eading ones tended downward, Mess pork closed ; 5@10c per brl lawer, at $12.75@12,80 cash and 1812.0254@12.95 for August. Lard closed 73%@10c !per 100 1bs Jower, at $8.674@8,00 for July ,nnd 88,70@8, 7245 for Augnat. Meats were casler, *at 4%c per B for Joose shonlders and B%c for do ishort 1ibs. Lake froghts were steady, at 13c ifor corn to Buffalo, Highwlines wero firm, at |81.08 per calton. Flour was quict, Wheat closed 3@0c lower, at SLMH@LMK for July ond 81,215 for August. Corn closed 1%c lowes, at +406c for July and 47i4c for August. Oats closrd !11c lower, ot e cash and 333c for July. Jtye wasquict, ot Gc. Harley was nominal, at 83@85¢ for new No. 2 eeller September. Hogn wero active and firmer, sclilng ot $5.60@4.50. Cattle fwere in better demand and wero stesdler, with male of Inferlor to extra at 82.00606.62. Sheep were dull and weak. One hundred doliars in gold }would buy $105. 1235 In greenbacks ot tho close. ' ! ik IR 0 preenlacks B ! i Grecubacknnt the Now York Stock Ex- { chauge yesterdny closed nt 95, e lo Czne has presonted Appropriata: crosses to those who wera the first to get over tho Danube, Thero is no financial rolief for the hard-up i Btate-House Comnmissioners of Indisun, The +Attorney-General hins docided that they can't jdraw auy money until it is realized under ;uw tax lovy, which will rosult ina heavy iruo ou tho lunch route: } Tolicy-holder in tho Chicago Life-Tnsur- Ennco Company will bo plensed to learn that tho Sceretary thereof hns sloped with a huge slico of the nssets. Thera-has boen n sus. picion foeyame Lims that tha pollcies wore t worth 1 ,wind tha holdors should be -Sle, Crarefor setting all doubls { “7here fu s prospeet of auolher fast train “iut of Chicngo, Theé Pitteburg & Fort Wayno ipeople claim to have learned that they have {been outiwitted by the Lake Shore & Michi- |gan Southern people, who nre now running ‘o train from Toledo to conneet with the fast jtrain on tho Wabnsh line, If the alliance »mado in New York is thus to be broken, the sFort Wayno peoplo will be compelled to re- sestablish their Into rapid transit system, 1 ——— i News of o ternblo battle may bo soon ox- fpected. The Russian plan is said to be ichanged, aml our corrcepondent at Ibrail it'flcumphfl that Gen, Zisehyan, command. ing the Russian left, move upon Shum- I Thoe town is well ‘fortified, and its thir- Jteen or fourteon forts aro defended by some 60,060 men, An attack upon Hhwnla will _“esult in onoof tho most sanguinary confliots iur the war, aud will severely try the metal of the Muscoviten, 1 The loug-pending caso of Baxren va. the {Chicago Bonrd of ''ende has just been deo- iuiaml by the Supreme Court of Tilinols, which sustalua the action of tho Court Le- tow in refusing au injunctlon restraining 3 Do Board of 'frade from interfering with 1 ¢ho exercise of HaxTra's rights and priviloges as 0 member of thit body, Baxrza had been expelled by tho Board for violation of the rules relativo to the fultilment of con- tracts, and he attempted to securo his reln- statement in tho manner described. ————y 'Trro humdred warriors of tho Nez Porces tribe ure intrenched in the rough conntry on the Sulmon River, awaiting an attack by the *standing nrmy of the United States, who aro postponing overt acts of warfare until they JBave buried the gentlemen who foll in a former onslanght. To amuse himself whils wailing, Chief Josernt is sending out phoe. cnomenud suvages **who upenk good English” ‘to outline lis plans for clenning ont divors and certuin people, smong whom ore enu. sucrated tho * Flatheads,” o species of rod. skin indigenous to Bitterroot Valloy, —— auul grund demoustration of the ol at the Tabernaele was remark. 8 evolution of n bouquet of high- tt ennobling thoughts, chief among President Sustavan's epigrammatio to the young ladies to *be pure e As wsual, the exerclses were to those intorested .in tho particl. e ¢ girl graduntes wero sweet in v weather, and the orators arose to . 1L was u misfortune that the wus seleeted, for its acoustic ure notorivusly Lud, and the aver. ate runs far more to depth of ugth of luuy, ————e ! wtitution of tho mothods which rivate business enterprises for the ud extravagance peculiar to the it of tho Government's business «0 things that the heads of Depart- ‘eshington hove undertaken to se- ) etary Buensay, in his lotter to 180N, Chief of the Borean of En- «d Printing, gives notice that he pected to observo this rule and & result ju the managewment of his (= *Ir. BursyaN caun sco no renson i Jovernuwent cannot print stamps . & cheuply as private companics, * . resses upon Mr. MoPnxmsox the SS& sk et Rl et i s S R 1 et SR S e S o R G firmness of his conviction inthe very pointed observation that if tho work is not done s well and as chenply in the Government office, *¢ 1t is beeause you or I neglect our duty or abuse our powers,” This way of locating the responsibility is simple and direct, andia the thing needed to enforce the requirement of a high order of efficioncy and fidelity throughout the public rervice: It has been left for the Woman's Christisn Union to not only carry the war to the very ‘banks of ** Afric's sunny fountains,” but de- mand of the enemy that he co.oporate in his own defeat. An eloquent lotter has been ad- dressed by theso Indies to the saloon-keepers of the city, notifying thoin of the forthcom- ing petition to the Common Conncil, and asking thom to assist in the nohle efforts now under way to securo the enforcement of the Btato law closing saloons on Sundny. If s spark 'of manhood still finds a roost in the rordid souls of the Chicago venders of bad whisky thero will be an unanimous response to this appenl, Tho ladies are thorongnly in enrnest, and tho modest way in which they invoko the aid of their foes shows n trusting spirit that nono but a bruto would fail to ap- precinte. The avidity shown by the majority of the Board of Education in accepting the resig- nation of Superintendent Prokarp and the Linste with which the issuo betweon the Iat- ter and his nssistant hns beon decided with- out full investigation gives color to the be. lief, largoly provalont of late, in the exist enco of a cliquo in the Bonrd which is bent upon ousting Mr. Prckanp. Tho attompt hns finally succeeded, and the coveted va- canoy exiats in the office of Suporintendent of Bchools. It happens fortunntely that va- cancles are about to cxist in tho Doard of Ed- ucation itsolf, and it might be well for Mayor Heatn to solect the successors of the mom- bers whose terms have oxpired more with reforence to the intorest of the public rchools of Chicago than the interest of sny bno man or his supporters in the Boord. It will ba soon by our specinl cable dis. pateh this morning that Austria’s carly oc- cupation of Bosnia is regarded in Eugland a8 an evont certain to occur, notwithstanding thoe aseuranco to the contrary in tho recent speech of Ministor T1sza, and the Emperor's subsequent indorscment of the speech. Such n step by Austria is for some resson looked upon by the British Turkophiles ns hostile to Russla, thongh neither the interest nor inclinntion of the latter seems to lio in the direction of Bosnia, What possible ob. Jection Russia conld intorpose ngainst the occupation by Austrin of the Turkish terri. tory lying across the frontler it is difficult to imngine, Russia has no use for Bosnin, presont or prospective, and would doubtless ho entirely willing to have that slica of Tur- key placed on Austrias plate when the final distribution takes placo. Ever since the eatablishment of the sewing machine there have been complnints against the system’ of forcing the sale of that useful article. Ambitious’ agents, with an eyo to the successes of othor nmbitious agents, have not boon over-scrupulous in their methods of seenring “* ordera.” 8o great bas tho nui. snnco become, that all who depend npon the sowing machine for a livelihood will hail with dolight the verdict given yesterday in o suit against ono of these companies. Ita ngont induced o woman to give up a machine sha Lad used for & new. one, promising her enough work to enablo her to pay the differ- ence in price, The only work he furnished was in making her skip around right lively in her offorts to retain what sho had, Find- ing her unablo to pay, he seized tho ma- chine, whereat sha brought down the arm of the law upon the hond of the company with gold-boater forco, and the court awarded her &85 damoges. A most righteons judgment. It waa purely a family affair, and perhaps outsiders ought not to interfere, but the do- tnils aro 6o romarkable that the boreaved will scarcely object to publication of the focts. Geomar ReNNARDsoN, gunsmith, ‘Toronto, cutered into n dispute with his wife, in the course of which ho emphasized Lis position by punching her lead. Their oldest boy, a lad of 16, beiug armed, os are all well-regulated boys of that nge in this generation, drew his pistol and shot hix father. On his doath-bed, the. old man sent for his two couslns, Messrs. Dontor and Huppreston, aud willed them all his property. As they lott tho house, it occurred to Doxvor hat he might mako himselt Hup. presToN's heir, and, evolving a Lnifo from his habiliments, he nssisted Mr, Hupprestox in arranging his angel plumago. In all the an. nals of crime, this sudden oblitoration of two members of a family, with attendant oir- cumstancos, is one of tho most romarkable, It {a predicted that Pennsylvania will iml. tato the course of the Iowa Republican Con- ventlon in so far ns to make no declaration for or againat the policy of the Administra- tion, but that tho Caxerox Ring will dem. onsatrate its hatred of the President by per. mitting tho Stato to go Democratio at the eloction this fall, ‘The possibility that the Republican party in Ponnsylvania may act indepondently of the Caxenon crowd of pol. iticinns moems to be nowhero admitted, for tho Oaxenon crowd Is in full possession of tho oflicial patronage, National and State, and there is no encouragement for Republicans of A differout stamp and who are in accord with the Administration of Presidont Iaves to openly and actively undortake tho rescue of tho party from tho clutches of the Ning. Bo long ns the CamenoNs are permitted to uso thiavast levernge, so long ia it possiblefor Pennsylvania to be surrendered to the De. mocraoy at the will and pleasure of the ma. chine, A Vienna dixpatch states that the Austrian Emperor hos sent o dispatch to the Hun- gorian Ministor Tisza (Minister of tho In. torior), exprossing his watisfaction with the Minister's speech in the Hungarion Diet on the 26th jnst. It will be remombered that the tenor of the Ministers spoech was in favor of n strict nentrality and of maintaing cordial relations with the other Powers so s to prevent any territorial transformations which might be contrary to the juterost of the mouarchy, Relativo to military prep. arations kLo said ; i In the face of certaln contingencles, such as bad been talked over, but ua actos! resolution been cows to, he could assure the louss that, among those with whom the decision lay, there was no one who deemod It the object or alm of the foreign pollcy to make territorial changes on the frontlers of the movarchy~that no one dreamed of forming projects ln the intercat of such a policy, ‘I'he significance of the Ewperor's dispatch indorsing this Hungerian view lies in his desertion of the Belavio element of his popu- lation, and the dissipation of their hope that Austria would cross the frontier andoccupy Bosnia, Herzegovina, and Servia, thus laying the foundation of that great Pan-Sclavonic Empire thch_ has beon tho dream of overy Belave in Anstria. The Emporor's diapstch ia a diroct blow at 65 per cent of his peopls. How they will receive it remnains to be seen. — IOWA AND THE BILVER QUESTION. ‘Wo commend to tho good peopls of New York the action of the Iown Btats Conven. tion fipon tho subject of silver, and, lest tha resolutions of the Convention on that point ray bo overlooked, we reproduce them, as follows: . 4. The pnblle eredit ahould be eacredly main. tained, and all tho obligations of the Government honently discharged, and that we favor the earlr attalnment of acnrrency convertible Inta coln, and thercfore advocate tho gradual resumption of specie payments by continnons and speedy stepain that direction. B, ‘That the allver dollar having boeen the legal nnit of value from the fonndation of the Federal Government until 1873, the law nnder which ita coinsge was suspended should be revealed st tha earlicat possible day, and silver made, with gold, a legal tender for the payment of ail debts, bath pnblic and private, and aleo bolleve that the pres- ent volama of carrency shonld be maintained onili the wants of trade and commerce demand its fur- ther conteactlon, There can be no mistaking this expression of tho unnnimons feelings of the Republic- ans of Towa on the qnestion of tho re-estab- lishment of the silvor dollar. Not only do those rosolutions oxpress tho opinions of thoe Republicans, but they embody the opinions of all the people of Iowa, of all parties and divisions. In estimating public opinion in Town on this subject, tho apecie-resumption. in-gold people may leave Iowa out of all doubt and question, The wholo people, Republicans and Domocrnts, aro n unit, * As with Town, so with all tho States of the Wast., Tho list is o formidable one: Iowa, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinols, Missouri, ‘Wieconsin, Nebraskn, Minnesots, Kanens, nnd Colorado. Inall theso Btatea there is no division of sentiment nmong the people worth speaking of, andtho votes of tho twanty-two Senators and ninaty.nine Repro- sentatives of thoso Btalos may bo counted a8 n unit, not’ only in favor of the rocoinage of the silver dollar, but in favorof mnking that dollar an unlimited logal-tender i tho payment of all debts, public and pri. vato, as it was boforo the iNl-timed and un- wiso nct of 1873, It is well, therefore, that tho advocates of an exclusive gold currency should understand that tho people of the oleven States named are” thoroughly united, and that tho Republicans of Towa have de- clared on this subject the goneral opinion of all. What do theso resolutions demand? They distinotly declare that all the obligations of thoGovernment shall bo honestly discharged ; thera is no desiro expressed for any escaps from any Yaxation or exaction necessary to maintain the financial Lonor of the nation, It is further declared that every step shonld Dbo taken to securo nn oarly resumption of & curroncy convertible into coin, and advise that specio payments bo reached by con. tinnons nnd spoedy nctlon for that purpose. Tho resolutions thon recito tho history of the mlvor dollar, declare that the act of 1878 should bo ropenled at the earliest possible day, and demand that silver be made, with gold, a legal-tonder for tho payment of all dobts, both public and private. The resolu- tions do not atop hero, but go further and insist that the prosont volumo of currenoy be maintained,—which in plain and distinet terms means that befora tho papor money bo ratired anothor onrrency, the oquivalent of coin, shall be furnished. A yenr ngo thora wero outstanding on the books of the Treasury some $40,000,000 of fractional pnper curroncy. Congroesaauthorized redemp- tion in silver coin of the smaller donomi- nation, The paper not coming in as froely as waa justified by tho amount which had boen issned, nn examination rendered it probable that o large sum of 'that currency had been lost. Congross, howover, after considerable opposition, authorized the issne of $50,000,000 of this subsldiary silver in oxchange for and to tako the place of the fractional papor curroncy, That was a plain, direct, aud practicable way of substituting n metallic for a paper curroncy, withont cans- ing tho lenst inconvoniencs to the public by any scarcity of monoy for change. The precodent is a recont, satisfactory, and intel. ligiblo ono. Tho United States can absorb in the business of the country $350,000,000 of silverdollars of the legal.tendercharacter, and the resolutions of the Iown Convention fore. shndow tho slmple method of reaching n coln circulation by the coinage of silver dol. lara to toke the place of the credit notes. Tho free coinage of tho dollar at the stand. ard woight would give to tho currency fifty or moro millions of dollars of legal.tender coln ananally. This coin wonld find its way into banks and all other places of deposit; it would bo handled by checks and by bills of exchango; its weight wonld ba neither an inctabranco nor an evil; it would be the ready monns of redeeming all bank bills or othor paper crodit, The groenbacks and the silyer dollar would be equal in value, and the groenbacks and the bank notes both belng exchangenable for silver on demand, thers would be no contraction or scarcity of curroncy, Bpecie payments would take place as o matter of course, the greonbacks boing rotired only so fast as the amonut of silver in ciroulation should render them no longer needful. The retirement of the greonbacks boing gradual and slow, and the coinage of the dollars as rapid as tha supply of silvor shall justify, the ono will eventual. 1y tako the place of the other without dis. tross, contraction,or disturbance, That is the wholo atory told by tho Iowa resolutions, oand that story will be repoated by the whole peoplo of cighteen or twenty Westorn and Southorn 8tates, and by a large portion in the other Blates of the Union, and neither Congross nor the Prosident will reject their domand. & — THE WAR, Wo print elsewhere a map of the soat of war in Europo which will give the reader the points at which the Russians have crossed the Dauube, and tho territory be- tween the Danube and the Balkans to which the war. has boen transforred during tho past week, A brief summary of the week's operations will make the map intelligible to ourreaders. On the 22d of June one corps of tho Russians crossed at Galatz and Ibrail, on the bend of the Danube, near its mouth, mada & junction the samo day and ocoupied Matchin, which the Turks evacuated, on the 23d. On the 24th this column pushed its way south, the Turks retreating, and oo- cupled llirsova on the 25th. On the 26th it had ocoupiod tho line of Trajan's wall betwoen Tchernavods and Kostendjl, where it was supposed tho Turks would maks a stand. The noxt day, last Wednesday, a graad forward movement ‘of the Russian centre commenced, and a successful passage of the river was made at Bilistria, Sistova, Nikopolis, nod Widdin, though with heavy loszeg, the attempted crossings at Giurgevo and Oltenitza being only fomnts. The Turks seem to bave been stunned. at first by the suddenness and swiftness. the Russian passage, sud to ‘Have boen incapable of making an effective:ye. sirtance. Yostorday thoy appear to have concentrated and attacked the Russiansat Byrgos, on tho sonth bank of the Danube, opposite the mouth of the River Veds, and At last accounts a desperato batila wns in progress. Tho battle, however, is only an jncident. The Russians ars across, and have obtained a foothold in Dnlgarin, and the Turkish reaiatance will bo nscloss. Outnum- bered and outflanked, thoy must rotront. As soon as the Russians crossed at one point, the dam gave way and the flood of Muscovites went over with A rnsh. Tho result is told in the terss dispatch of the Grand Duke Nicroras: * The diffienit and complicated task of crossing tho Danubo is achieved.” During the weok the Iinssinns have ocou- pled tho whole of Northeastern Inlgarin, have isolated tho four fortressos of the Quadrilateral, and cut off the forco at Widdin and the Turkish army of SvremmaN Pasua in Albsnia from co- operation with the right and contre, leaving them to be handled by the extreme Russian right and the Roumaninns, and in all proba- bility the Servians nlso, who will seize the occasion of the Russinn passage to sirike for their independence, As will be.scon by the map, the Quadrilateral is flanked by the victorions Russians. Whothor it bo their purpose to reduce the four fortrosses, or simply to invest them and pass on towards Adrinnople, cannot bo forescen, but it is moro than probable that tho latter plan will be adopted. In either event, the socond great natural defonse of Turkey—the Balkan range—is now of interest. Thore are sevon- toon passes over the Balkans, but only six of the routes nre pnssablo for hrmios. . Of theso gix, tho anfost route is that from Shumla to Karnabad, Thero nro two other practical routes, ono from Pravadi to Aidos, and the other from Varna to Misiwri, which tho Tussians took in 1829, And, naall those routes convergoe at Adrianople, 1t is cortain that they will be again utilized, and that beforo long we shall hear of them pouring over the Balkans on their way to Adrianople or Con- stantinople, if England does not activoly in- terfore. The political aspeot of fature operations Is clearly forshadowed in the proclamation of the Czar to the people of Bnulgarin, which was printed in our last-issue. It is onoof the most important documents which has mado its sppearance since tho war com- menced, ond is in perfoot keeping with the Czar'’s Moscow ‘specch and with his war manifesto. Liko both these docnments, it dofinea the object of the invasion of Bulgaria to bo the liberation of that unhappy peopls from Turkish tyranny which has ground them down into the dust so long, despoiled their homes, dovastated their villages, and murderod thoir womed and children.” Ho informs them that tho army is thers to pro- tect thom, to pacify nll races and denoming- tions, to deal out strict justice to all, to pun- ish only the butchers who were guilty of the horrible atrocities upon defonselesa women ond children at Phillipopolis and elsewhere. Ho also makea the further important an- nouncement that na fast nstho Rusalan forces advance, Turkish rulo will be replaced by local organizations in which the native in. habitants will bo called to take part, and that Bulgarian legiona will be formed to act s o homo guard for the maintenanco of order and socurity. It will bo observed that the proclamation cannot stop short with Bnl- gorin morth of tho Balkans, There are numerous Bulgarians south of the moun- tains in Rumilin, and a large populntion in Macodonia, with a fair sprinkling in Albania, ‘The proclamation reaches, thereforo, from the Danube to Constantinople and the Gre- clan border, It promisen protection to overy Turkish Christian. It cloarly doflnes tho misslon of tho Russinn army: * I havo con. fided to my army tho mission of securing tho sacred rightaof your nationality which you bave acquired by conturies of suffering and the bloodof martyrs which has sonked your soll." Buch a proclamation must strip from the Turk tho last hope of help from any European Power, and find a responsive ccho in tho bheart of every lover of hu. manity, Itis tho desth-knell of Turkish tyranny, the first’ warning to the Sick Man of Europo that his powor for harm ia for. evor lost, If not a solomn summons to him to leavo Earope forever. mm—— THE MOLLIE MAGUIRES, Tt was hoped and bolievoed that tho exeou. tion of several of tho desperadocs of the Pennsylvania mining district known as tho Mollie Maguires would etriko terrar to tho Learts of that crowd of flends and once more give human lifo in that region of tha country tho samo protection it enjoys olsewhera un. der civilization. 1int, unless our advicos aro oxaggorated and distorted, it seema certain that the Mollie Maguires have determined upon n new carecr of assnssination, which will bo moro terrible, it not summarily checked, bocauss it is in the naturo of a ven- detta. A number of murders have been re. ported within a fow days, and all the victims aro sald to have been men who either ns. sisted In the conviction of the Mollio Ma- guires who were hanged, or elsc men who openly declared their hostility to the Associ. ation and approved the exccutions. It is also alleged that many others have roceivad the * coffin-notices ™ (s warning of death unless tho rocipionta fly the country), and that se. cret meotings nro being held, and that masked and disguisod men are prowling abont among the mouutains. Theso are signs of a purpose to avonge the lawful ex. ecutlon of mon who had beon convicted of murder, and indieate that the Mollioa are not ocontent with organizing o system of aasas. sination, but prapose to kill those who are in sny way concerned in reaisting their death. decrees or punishing tholr choson agents. 1t thero is any such condition of things as has been reported, or if thore is any good evidenco of an intention to keep Mollfe Ma- gulrism alive in spito of the terrible warning that has boen given, the nextstep the hanest and peaceful men of these rogions should take is to organize Vigilant Committces, and huat down the Mollic Maguires, shoot them in thofr tracks, and bury them whera thoy fall like dogs. A barbarous condition re quires a system of repression that civilizod society does not afford. Tho slow process of the law will not control a gang of outlaws ‘who have no respect for authority, either ro. ligious or secular, and who make a busineas of assassination, If Blollic Magulrism be not dead now, it can only b exterminated by the same process that rid the Westorn Btates of horse-thieves in early days and ros- cued Californis from the outlaws that for- merly infested it. Organized communitics of Hoodlums, Ku-klux, Mollie Maguires, ete., must be regarded likemad dogs; and theirex- termination should not be delayed any ore than a policeman stops to getout a warrant for sliooting o dog fosming at tho mouth and running through thostreetsin July or August, No community in this country or any other can afford to tolerate the existence of asccrot order for assassination, and the coal-regions ©f Peonsylvania must offer the same wourity to human lifo that iz offercd clsowhere, or all the richnesa of their mines will not save them from poverty and dosolation. The law has beon tried. The authorities for s loug time wero patient and merciful to a fault, but at Inst n dozon of the lenders wore con- victed, pardons were refused, and a number have alrondy beon hanged. If the Mollio Maguires sustain thoir organization, continne’ thelr secrot meelings, scour tho country in masks, distributo their coffin.naticos, and murder thoso whom they suspect of hostility to their plans, then nothing short of A war of cxtermination will avail, and the people of Ponnsylvanin should not delay in organ- izing it. 'The consequonces may be terrible, but they will not be so bad as it the Mollia Maguire outlawa bo pormitted to continue thoir assassinations, THE SPOILS BYSTEM OF POLITICS, To every Amoricnn citizen there is pro- ronted the painful question, not of roforming the Constitution and plan of government, but, as it soems ot present, the oven more diffienit operation, how to reform the ad. miniatration of govornment. Weo have had, from & date anterior to the formation of the Foderal Union, mon of eminent nbility and wise statosmanship who mannaged our affairs dnring the Revolution, who framed our Con- stitution and ostablishod our Governmonts practically, and put the machinory of tho American Union in motion. ‘Wo have had later statosmen to whoso handa wero com: mitted our laws and our institutions, and tho application of the idéas and principles on which our Governmont was founded. The second rovolution, by which through the penalties of war tho nation throw off slavery, has taken iis place in thoe past, Duriug all this contury the atatosmen, ora- tors, and writers hava expended their ability snd thoir learning, as well as their patriotism, in detormining tho groat question whether tho United Btates wero a nation or a mere voluntary ngreement and assoociation of Btates, having a common ngont called tho Federal Government. That and other important mat. ters pertaining to the constitutional powers nnd functions of the National Governmont nnd thoso of the States have been learnedly discussed by our statesmon and jurists, and tho ond of the century following the close of n olvil war happily witnesses tho substantial determination of all theso matters onco decmed so.threatening and perilous, ‘Whilo the country hns thus beon making history, and determining the great contro- versics growing out of the constitutional forms, and the constitutional powers, datics, and obligations of the Government, thers have been sown secds of other ovils, which have grown so vigorously, thongh almost im- porceptibly, until they threaten tho now doc- trinally-eatablished Constitution with dan- gers nnd perils of thoe worst charactor. Hitherto our national porils have been those suggested by tho opposing forces of con- tonding principles nnd thoories of govern- mont. Now the national libertics and exint- onco are throatoned not by the triumph of false doctrine, but by the gonoral corruption and perversion of the sdministration of Gov- ernment, In his nddress befors the Ohicagn Univor- &ity, n fow ovonings ago, Judge T. 3. Coorry, of the Bupremo Court of Michigan, with groat clearncss aud force, presented thiy subject ns one which appealed to tho patriot- ism of -the thoughtful men of tho dny, and 03 the isauo on which shonld turn the poli- tica of the country, until the administration of the Governmont should bo rescued from the nbuses in which it is fuvolved. Judge Coovrry likons the cry, that to the victor be- longs the spoils, to tho barbarian watochword of booty in timo of war., ‘That barbaric ays- tom of spoils has been mado part of our politics. Partles and caucusce, originally admirablo and patriotic institutions, have sunk into mers machines to obtain and re. .tain office, not for the honor or credit of serving tho country, but to hold and rotain office for the. spolls it may afford The spoils systom had destroyod the division of parties on principle. It s impossi- blo at this time to induce either political party to take a bold and distinct stand in favor of nuy one of the great questions of financo or taxation ; each party shrinks from losing any of its numbors by avowedly declaring for or againat eitheg side of these questions, and parties go to tho polla allowing tho ut- most liberty of opinion on all theso issues, Parties nra held together by the possession or expeotation of spoils. While this is the great ovil which is attacking tho integrity of tho National Government, Judge Coorzy points out that tho same systom prevails throughout the general politics of the coun- try, aud ho thus describes the condition of things at prosent ; And s it not trme that under tho syatom of patronage and reward, introduced under the Fed- eral Government, Stats politica lave beon made wholly subordinate; that Custom-liousce have as- sumed the control of citles and countios, and oven of States; that munlcipal governments have been remodaled, not in the intorost uf thelr people, vat in tho intcrest of a party, and ruled by committees ¢ the Btate Capltal or at hington; that all the manifold interesta of local concern have beon man- sged noton a consideration of whatis best forthew, but on ‘s conelderation of how they can be mado toaffect exterlor matlers with which they shuuld have no concern whatever; until & taint of corrnp. tlon at tho acat of Federal power afleats not the Fedaral system mercly, but all government in all | ita particulars, and local robberics on an cnormous scalo become possible, because Influcntial partivs outalde; wbom thoy do not porsonally alfect, lend tho aid of the of schomers in local powerlces? Dy this means not only are State poli. tics corruptod by that which ahould not Influenco them, but the wisdom of the statesmen who eo carcfully separated and distingulshed State and Fedoral powers, becguse they thonght good rov- ornment and aafety to frea Institutions required it, 1a to a large extent rendered nugatory, No ono can complain that the picture is overdrawn; no one can deny that the vicious system originally introduced - in the national politics has becoma even more deeply rooted in tho municipal governments. The spoils system, in its worst aud most corrupting forms, has become almost absolute in all the ramifieations of local government—State, county, city, town, and village, Wide and extonded as Is tho area for corruntion under the Nutiona! Government, it fails to compro- hend tho univorsal ovils of the system whon applied to all the divisions and branches of the local Govarnments of the United Btates, Judge CooLzx wisely polnts out the fact that, in the relations of Government to the peoplo and the wolfare of the Btate, thess local Governments moy well claim precedence in importance to the National Government, He thus states the question . And which Govornment touches moat often and most vitally the interesta of the people of thisgrest Blate and city, the Natlonsl Qovernment or the State Qovernment! Is it not that Government which establishes the rulcs of propesty; which pre. scribes 1bo forma snd requlsitesof contracta; which regulstes the domeslie relations: which controls tho railrosds; which provides for tho ordinary hlghways of travel and tratic; which catablishos sad supports the schools; which feeds and clothes the poor; which undertakes the punishmont of sll 1he most common crimes; which crestea and con- trols munlcipal corporstiond, and which at last ad- wialyters upon tho estates of the dead? Whats Al is thin for wire leislation and for a judicions adminlatration of public affalrst IHore, then, tho American poople have drawa to their attention the existence of this great avil, which must be oradieated or the nation will be lost, The work is to bo done in overy precinot, in overy ward; and the work which ia to be done is to break up and destroy the spoila system, Ofco is ono thing; spoils are qgito a difforent thing. Parties which have no other object than to apportion spoils should bo and must be de- foated nt overy town and city olection, until pariios adopt a higher object (han the se- curing and perpetuating not only the offices but {he chances and opportanitios of plun. dor for those of its parly, or for obtaining such plunder for that party who may happen to be out at the time. ‘This remedy ia in the hanils of the peoplo of overy municipality. The remedy is in the hands of every voter, and tho remedy is ensily appliod, and that is to vote to break up all party tickets and organizations having for their purpose the mers distnibution of tho spoils of offico. Chieago, in 1876, ret an oxamplo of what tha publio can do in the way of reform. 'Tho pooplo voted, and their order wna earried ont, that the number of city officors slionldl bo reduced 40 por cent, and that the tax for current expenditurcs should be reduced §2,000,000 a your. Ons of the immodiate effocts of roducing the forco was to increase the efiiciency of tho public servico, B80ME BRITISH OBSTRUCTIONISTS, Tho Iome-Ralers in the British Parlin- mont havo entered upon a dosperate dilatory campnign, tnder the lendership of Messrs, Biooan and Panwery, which may yet be the menns of compelling Parliament to makon radical chango in ita rules, Thosame prac- tice obtains in Patlinment as.in the United Btates Benate, which cxtonds unlimited time for dobato, Thero are no rules for suppress- ing or torminating dobate ia tho United States Boonte, and practically nona in the Dritish Parlinment, oxcopt by courtesy, A momber may sponk as long ns ho ch8osos, aod nd often ns ho chooses on the same sub- jeot, and ho cannot be out off. The number of Home-Rulera in Parliament is somewhat loss, porhnps, than the numbor of Democrats in tho last House of Congress who ware willing to enter ‘into a conspiracy to de- foat tho count of the vote as it had been determined by the Eleotoral Commission, but the obstruction- ists in tho American Honse were powerless under sho rules that had been adopted. The small numbor of Ifome-Rulers in tho British Paxliament, howover, is still large onough to provont the pnssnge of any logislation till thoy aro heard in bohalf of their own pet measuro, if thoy have the pluck and per- sistence to uso and abuse all their rights of membership, The whole issuo may bo pre- sonted in n nut-shell: A majfority of tho Irish members domand that Ireland shall liave herown Parliament ; this is ressted by tho English on the ground that it would amount to a separation of Ircland from the Empiro; somo of the Home-Rulers eay to Par- liament, ** Wo shall not pormit you to pnss any bills till you grant onr demands, and wo can and will provent all logislation by do- manding our right to spoak aslong and as often 08 we plonse,” This is the programmo that has beon laid out by Mossrs, Brocan and Panweir, and Dr, Kexeany (who is naturally nn obstruc- tlonist on account of the treatment he has received) is roportod to have joined them, It the Home-Rulers as a body join inthis move. ment, the scheme of & permanent obstruc- tion of Parlismontary businessis not im- possible. There is & sort of tacit under- standing, by courtesy, that n dobate on any givon subject shall not be prolonged beyond throo nights, but Messrs, Biooan, Panyery, and Kexzany do not. propose to recognize tho nuthority of coustery, Ono of theso gontlomen, who had withstood all othor of- forts at ropression, ylelded nt last to a com- mon movement among membors to join in conversation all over the House, in which the speech was drowned and lost, and it suggestod that tho obstructionists may thom. solves bo obstructed by this means, But a much more commendable plan for Parlia- mont to ndopt would be to ennct the * Pro- vious-Question” rule which governs the American Honse of Itepresontatives, and which tho American Sonate may flad itself constrained to follow na it increases in mem. bership. The operation of this rule raroly docs an injustice in the way of shuiting off debato promaturely, ns measurea aro usnally discussed In a Committeo of the Whole, and it requires a two-thirds vote to suspend tho rulos to order the report of the mensure, But, as n majority can order the ¢ previous question"—thnt is, in offect, n direct voto on the mensuro in haud—whenever tho bill is beforo the Iouse, a emall and desporate fac- tion, determined to impede leglslation, can always bo controlled within a reasonanle timo, It may be that the Irish Home-Rulers will not porsiat in the programme that some of thom threaton, but the British Parliament is always subject to embarrassment and loss of time from tho failure to ndopt any chock upon doliberato obstructionists. —— STATE CONTROL OF RAILROADS, The relations betwoon the railroads and the Btates from which thoy derive their fran- chises are now definitely determined by the highest tribunal in the nation. The righta of the railroads under the chiarters and the power of the Statesin their governing capac- ity aro now so clearly defined that they can nevor ngnin create dissension, arrest the pub. lio attention to the exclusion of other publio queations, and disorganize politionl parties a8 they did throe or four years ago. Tha decision of the United Btates Bupreme Oourt in the caso of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railrond against the State of Towa fully aflirms the principle lald down in the Chicago warehouso cases, viz.: ‘That all quasi-publio corporations are subject to leg- islativa control as to their charyes; but it also applics this principle to rallroads in a novel and important wsy. Of course tho constitutional principle is sustained that no Btato can impair the obligs. tion of a coniract, but the construc- tion of this rula is very different from that which tho railroads have endeavoroed to put upon it under tho Dartmouth Colloge docixion, . The raillrond charters are con- tracts, but like privato contracts are subject to the Constitution and laws of the Btate which lssues them. In the case of private busiuess transactions the Courts decide what 15 reasonable when a dispute arises; in the case of publlo contracts, or charters, the Stato may fix the maximum charges, beyond which it is unrcasonable and hence unlaw- ful to go. . The Blate can only be barred from this authority by express stipulation of thoe charter it grants. At the time the Bur- lington & Missouri Railrosd received its charter from the Btate of Iowa (and this was the caso in hand), it -might have demanded that the State fix s permanent limit to charges and make it & part of the charter; and it the Prosidential- Btato had refused to do this, the Company applying for the charter might have aban. doned it, and refused to build the road. It is possiblo that permnnently fixing rates in the chartor might have prevented 0 Btate from intorfering nt somo fulure time, thongh the Court does not say 8o ab- solutely; but the Compnny, having falled to socure this concension, has no right to resist the 'logislative anthority to determine its charges. Wa do not know of a railrond com. pany that has A maximum rate fixed by its charter, and the decision in the Burlington cano will covor all tho other railrond-corporns tions, The minor points in this declsion deny that a Blate forfeits any of its powors in regnlating public corporations by not using thom for any longth of timo, bo it long of short, The fact that tho ‘power waa not ox. ercised aimply indientes that it was not noe- casary in tho judgment of the body politic, but n chiange of conditions at. auy timo en- nbles the Leglslaturs to exercisa its rights, 1t {8 also held that the leasing of a railroad to another corporation, as wna the case with tho DBurlington & Missourl, docs not nffoct _tho legislative' nuthority, and tho Chieago, Burlington & ° Quincy, in lensing this road, did so aubject to all Iaw. ful conditions existing at the time of the leass, ovon thongh thoy were not onforced till aftor the lenso, o it is held that the law regulating raten does not conflict with that part uf the Constitution of the Stato which guaranteea the priviloges of a citizon, The whole controversy resolves itsolf into the simple fact that corporations which enjoy franchisos and special privileges from the public are subject to State rogulation in the mattor of chargea; that their possession of charters does not raleaso them from obliga. tiona to the Coustitution and laws of nState ; and that nothing short of fixing rates in the chartor itsolf can bar the Stato from the anthority to ostablish thom st any time in the futare, While tho status of tho railroad is no Jougor equivocal, and while the railrond coipany can no longer dofy the body poli- tio and lnugh at popular protest, it must not bo concluded that tho railronds can nsver again imposo upon the public. During the ora of public improvements, and whon rail- road building on the Credit-Mobilier system was a popular and profitable pursuit, milrond corporntiona exorcised considerable influenoce over State Legislatures, and the timo will como ngain when thoy will find it profitable to go into politics. They may scek to cone trol olections and to bribs Legislatures, ns they did formerly to scoure valunble fran. chises or sabsidios; in thoe futuro thefr pur. pose will be to elect Legislaturos or bribo them to fix an unreasonably high limit of charges, It is not likely that the publio will have to encounter this eloment in politics for somo years,—certainly not befors publio watchfulness shall have lapsed into care- lesancss, mnor before the revival of trade shall make thom greedy. But no dectslons of couris mor construction of law can @ave the peoplo under popular government from such offorts to undermino the public welfaro for privato ad- vantage. The people will suffer in propor« tion as they permit pnblic ofiice to bo cor- rupted and noglect their own intercsts, 1f, ot any timo 1n any Slate, there aro signs of railroad conspimeics to eloot or bribo Legls- Intures, tho people havo it in their power to provido their own romedics under tha pros- ent construction of tho railroad charters, while they were powerless to help them- sclves s long ns a publio charter was ro- garded ns a contract which took procedonco of Constitutions, common law, nnd statutes, and was a perpetunl barrier that no human power could over break down, NEW YORK FOREIGN APPOINTMENTA, A good deal has been sald about the number of appointments to Federal ofiices from Ohlo, aud theinjustico ol these commentswas recently demonstrated by an official statement showing that Obio has conslderably less than kier * quo- ta' of Qovernment offices, I these are to be parcaled out on geographleal Nues. The ‘allot- meut to New York could more fafrly bo mado tho subject of criticlam, partivularly under a Repub- liean Administration, Now York having voted againat GRANT tho first time, and also agalnst Hayxns at tho lnst clection, Ex-Secretary Fisr seems to have taken especlally good cars of New-Yorkers fn tho Departments under his control. He gave New York five’ full forcign missfonis, one hnlt misslon, the firat Secretary of Legation to six of tho Great Powers {n Europe - and one In Ching,~one of thom belng his son, Nick Fisn,—four Consuls-Goneral, and twen- ty-ono Consuls. This list of forelgn ap- polutments from ono State suggests that possl- bly the Democrats may be able to carry New York because so many Ropublican voters are abrond in tho diplomatic service. Sccrotary Fisst also used the State Departiment for the ad- vantage of New York, as ho appolnted sixteon Now-Yorkers ua clerks, balt o dozen of whom were chlefs. That wo may not be aceused of spraking at haphazard, wo aubjoin the names of the,New York appolntments made by cx-Sccro- tary Fism, himsalf o New Yorkor: STATE DEFAUTMENT. Chief Conanl Chicf Accounta,, Tsnedict W, Nuwell Dwight [n, Envoy Lix. and Min, Plen, ....D, E. Bickles Chiua, Envoy Ex.and Miu, Plen. Georye P, Seward Uermany, Envoy Ex. and Min. Plen.d, C, 1. Davis England,’ Envoy Ex. and Min. Dle Peru, Knvoy Kx, and Min, Plen)... Qreece, Charge, ., Uormany, HGI:'!KI\‘L flfil\ o Austria, Secretary Legation,. Bpaln, Becretary Lenstion. ussia, Becretary Legation England, Becretary Legation. d, Becretary Legation, Tu ecretary Legatio China, Secretary Legation. Londan, Consul-Qene: Rome, Consul-Gencra! Cairo, Consul-General Montreal, Conaul General Trieste, Con Pernambuco, Ningpo, Consul Sabanills, Consui Rheims, Conaul. Mannhelm, Cons . Sikes M. McDougall 8. Holt Osaka, Consul. Merida, Consul Rtotterdain, Cons Moscow, Consul Jerusalem, Co: Laguayra.... Yeaterdsy ihe trial and the test came, and not & man o all fows was found to stand u&:n the blate Republican Convestlon and defend policy~or to try to n;? 1t from its doom of beinz lald oa the ;-lbl- by & thico-Tourths vote.—Des Molnes Liegle- er, This is & willful perveralon of the facts by an “‘implacable” who bas become almost insane in his hostllity to President Havzs. The Con- ventlon was determined that nothing should bo taken from or added to the platform, and when M. E. Cutts, of Mabasks) an * aoti policy” man, offered o amendment to the third resolution, “That the so-called pollcy of Mr, Havxs will sccuro the results