Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 1, 1877, Page 4

@ Tiye Tribwwe, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. BY MATL—IN ADVANGE—POSTAGE PREPAID, « WEBKLY EDITION, One opy. per year. Ciubof ten.. specimen coples sent ¢ To prevent delay and mistakes, be sure and give Post- Ofzce address in foll, fncluding State and€ounty. Remitiances may be made efther by draft, express, Tost-Ottice order, or In registered letters, at our risk. TERMS TO CITY SCBSCRIDERS. Dafly, delivered, Sunday excepted, 25 cents per week. Datly, delivered, Sundsy included, 30 cents per week. Address THE TEIBUNE COMPANT, Corner Madison aud Dearborn-sts., Chicago, Ill. SOCIETY MEETINGS. POSTPAID. HESPERIA 1LODGE. KO. 41L A. F. & A. M.—The members are hereby notificd to attend = Si Com- ‘munication of the Louge Lo be held at Mssonic Temple, doiph-sts.. this Sunday mora- luck, 10 attend the flln!l‘x‘a"f our {MPQI:‘.’\":WY. Charles W I.I.I’ at g&fllfilflo‘figrfla‘ftfl. Viell yrethren are cc: oy y : N RERAN, W. M. AS. T cuas. Pé FOELSTER. Secretary. corer Hiairted mnd ing, July 1, 3t 104 nt busineas relative to the proposed in August uext wili be brought r3_always welcome. DUNLOP, Recorder. GOLDEN RULE LODGE. XO. 726, A. F. & A. M., «1il meel n Stated Comemunication on Tucsday even: dog, July 2. a1 8 o'cio. k. 1 their hall. 'No. %30 Weat Tweiftn-st. Work_on the M. M. degree, and very im- portant business. Slsftiug rethren cordially favited. JNO. MCFADYEN, Scerelary. RAND LODGE Cx PER- Licguiar Assembly on Thurs- Work on the 4thand Sth OHN O'NEILL, T.% P.*. G.% AL* ED GOODALE, Grazd Sce- CORINTHIAN CHAPT! Convocation Mondey © M. M. Degree. By order J. 0. DICKERSON, Ses. Spectal oa the J. A. CRAWFURD, It P. SUNDAY. JULY 1, 1877 = CHICAGO MARKET SUMYARY. The Chicsgv produce merkets were moderately ective Sctarday, ond sieadier. Mess pork closed 12%c per brl bigher, at $12.92i for July and .05212.07% for Auzust. Lard closed 23@3¢ per 100 Ibs higher, at $8.62% cash and $8.75@ §.77% for August. Meats were unchanged, ver B for loose shoulders and GZc for do ghort 1ibe, Lake freights were steady, at 1%c for cora toBuffale. Hichwines were active, at 21.08 per mallon. Flour was quiet. Wheat closed 1,41c lower, at §1.34!4 for July and $1.203 for Auzust. Comn closed steady, at 46 for July and 17%;c for Auzust. Oats ciosed 3 @1c lower, at 33%¢ cach and 30@3c for Augnst. Rye was rtendy. at GZe. Barley was quict, at S0@85c bid for new, seller September. Hozs were steady. ot 0@ 490 per 100 Ibs. were auict, at 40, and_sheep nominal, at $2.50@4. One bunlred dollars in zold would buy $105.25 in Sreenbacks at the close. In New York on Saturday greenbacks were steady at 95. ) — Tnder the new arrangement of the Cus- THE CHICAGO TRiBUNE: SU E_&Y. JULY }, Lo 1877-4-SIXTEEN PAGES. not oppose such an occupation, but that it would be gratified at such a result,—of course because it would be ablow at the material interests of France. Tho only Powers which have any interest in the future of the cannl are those on the Mediterranean, not one of which can successfully. resist its English occupation. — Secretary SEERMAN's withdrawal of the Government patronege from the New York Bank-Note Company evolves a vigorous kick from that corporation. It claims virtually to be dependent mpon the national printing, and hints that 200 skilled workmen will be turned out of employment, which would be a grave catastrophe if they should all turn counterfeiters. The charge agawst the Com- pany is that 1t did some of the surface-print- ing from electrotypes instead of steel-faced type; and this disobedience of orders cost it its contract. It seems to be necessary to call Mr. ELriorr AxTHONY's attention to the law asitis.” In his opinion on the constitutionality of the ordinance regulating the sale of fireworks he recommends the passege of an ordinance prohibiting the use, and not restricting the sale, of rockets and crackers, forgetting, or overlooking appsrently, the provisions al- ready in'pperation. Chap. 12, Sec. 1, of Ke- vised Ordinances, provides as follows: No =5uib, rockets, crackers, scrpents, or other freworks containing powder or other combustiole | or explosive materials shall be kept or stored with- in the limits of the-City of Cmcago. except the same be kept or &ored in a fire-proof vault. Any person, firm, of corporation violating the provis- jons of this chapter shall be subject to a fine of not less than $50 nor more than $100 for cach offense, and a like penalty for every twenty-four hours that said rockets, squibs, crackers, or other fireworks containing the aforesaid materials shall be kept stored after the first conviction for a violation of this chapter. Sec. 15 of Chap. 28 of the Revised Ordin- ances provides as follows: No person shall fire or discharge any cannon, gun, fowling-piece. pistol, or fircarms of any de- scription, or fire, explode, or set off any squib, cratkers. or other thing containing powder or other combustible or exploeive material, withunt permis- sion from the Common Council, or written permis- &ion from the Mayor, which permission shall limit 1he time of such firing, and shall be subject to be revoked by the Mayor or Commen Conncil at any time after it hasbeen granted. Any violation here- of shall subject the pary to a fine of not less than two dollars nor exceeding ten collars.” It only remains for the police to rigidly enforce these enactments, and the people of Chicago are inclined tosee that such enforcement is rigid. This sentimental re- gard for the burning patriotism of the small~ boy iz commendable, until it puts the punk in his fist and starts him on his inflammable: demonstration of his love for his conntry. The archin will recover from his disappoint- ment in a day or two, if deprived of an op- portunity to burn up a few miilliens’ worth of property, but the citizens of Chicago know” too well how long it takes to recuperate from the disastrous effects of a general conflagra- tion: o . #9ms Collection Districts, Chicago goes into the Tenth. 5 Both sides of tie question involved in the Charter Ouak - insutancs complications are given in orother column in interviews with imterested aud usinterested parties. = —— TUnder the superintendence of the Rev. 3Ir. Trrspziy, of the Chicago Relief and Aid Society, &ffairs at St. John are assuming & moro gretifying aspect. New buildings are going up, the streets are lighted with oil, snd the sufferers are carefully provided for. Seror Maxreuui, Spenish Minister at Waskington, appesrs. to_be all torn up by the “geizure of the American vessel Eila Rizpah off the coast of Cuba by a Spanish mav-of-war. He has waited on Secretary Evanrs and thrown up both hands, promis- ing all kinds of amends for the outrege. There is at present no indication that the TFlathesds or Blackfest will join the Nez Perces, notwithstanding the tempting invita- tion extended them. The Intter tribe have retired into the mountsins on the south side =£1he Salmon River, and are defiant of the Yol force. sent to'dislodge them. Their tion is described as impregnable, and it. ‘r tglke as long to bring them down as it J\Cnpf_ Jacs nnd his Modoc braves. flie annonncement of Seeretdry Scruez's jntention to weed the Indian Burezu of all persons in any way connected with past frands appears to have excited no little ap-- THE LESSON OF THE DAY. __ The report from Harfford, Conn., is to the effect that thero ismoze or less trouble in the affairs- of the Charter Oak Life-Insurance Company. Fortanately, there is no intima- tion'of any defalcation or misappropriation of the funds. The extent of the allegation is, that the securities in which the assets of the Compauy are invested have, like all other investments, been undergoing o serivus shrinkage; and this circumstance, which i3 probably true, is more or less exnggerated by reason of a quarrel between rival factions smong the managers. There is another svarning and instroctive lesson farnished by this confusion in the affairs of this Lifs-In- surnnce Company which cannot be too carnestly {aken home by all other corpora- tions and individuals. The financial condi- tion of this Company, on the 1st of January last, was stated as follows RECEIPTS IN 1876.* For preminms...... For interest and renf 2,530,024 61 .S 3,254,583 2,215,803 Total recelpts.. Paid out: Death cisims, endowments, etc.....2. Paid expentes: Asents’ commission: 204,770 Office expenses, eal . 3oxosn Toxcs..... ‘Total expense: AsseTs, AN, 1, 1877, Real estate owned in New York, Hart- ford, St. Lonis, et..v.wcenulen .., Lozns'secured by bond and mortgage. . Loans otherwise secarod. 4,328,780 5,371,671 sion in the breest of one Sy, Com- uer of Indian Affzirs. No charges have been preferred agaimst that functionary, but Le ias written & letter askiag to be heard in csse he is found out in anything, to which Le reccived pleasant answer implying that s soon &s possible he should have an oppor- tunty to explrin. preh Forasmuch as Gen. Saresax had not been ‘Leard from for some time, it became neces- sary for him o be oracular mwpon emerging from his seclusion. Accepting history as far o5 it has got, he admits the necessity fora soldier for the first President after the War, and a civilian for the second, and then portends that an ex-Confederate will be the third. Thisis a squint in the directiop of Mr. Tooves, whosa services in aid and com- fort of the Confederacy will now be promi- . mently thrust forward to demonstrate that he is the man for the plece. y Harvard has added another leaf to its lanrel wreath. Yesterdsy she wonin the second race of the season, beating the Yale crew two lengths in 2 hotly-contested effort. This is a victory for the new cnd sharply-ceiticised stroke lately ‘adopted by Harvard, and one tl:at now commends itself io the attention of all carswen. It has been claimed for it that it saves the strength of the men, while se- curing os much speed as the longer reach. “There seems to be something in this claim, {fur iu the race with Columbia as well as with Yale the Harvard boys won without over- exertion or tiring themselves. Ex-Sccretary of the Navy Romesox is Preaking his neck ina grand effort to dis- scminate the intelligence that he is a bitter nppouent of the President and his policy. Like all worn-out politicians, he claims the eredit of electing the present Executive, and intimdles that had the spirit of prophecy fullcn upon him,- enabling him to forecast whko would be his successor in the Naval Department, he néver would have consented to Mr. Haves' stccession to the Presidency. These views' are important at this juncture ns cbliterating the general impression thay old Ropesoy was dead. . - - 4 A very absurd report comes from Earops that France hss sought an: alliance with Germany to ‘prevent the occupstion of the Suez Canal by England. - When oil and water mingle,- such: an alliance might be efficted. Apart from the antipathies of the two races, Germany has no earthly interest in the Suez Canal, apd .has more than once intimated to England not only. that it would. Total assets. .. Relnsurance reserve, cnce tuble and 414 per cent interest Losses unadjusted and not duc All other liabilities.... ....... $12,460,712 surplt 1173,016 The principal item of the liabilities of the Company is to that fund, which, accord- ing to the principles and practice of lifo insurance, is necessary fo protect ti% aggregate of the insurauce taken by the Compauny. The amount is put down at $12,197,029. This sum is required, and it must produce a net income of 4% per cent to senable the Company to meet its. obligations within the average time during which they will mature. This statement asserts that the Company holds assets equal to $13,633,- 728, which is in excess of the liabilities the sum of $1,173,016. On the face of these figures the showing is not only a favorable, but a promising one. The investigstors and examiners do not find any frauds in the assets; the loans, mortgages, bonds, and real estate all exist as stated ; but they find 1hat thera is a large shrinkage in the value of these assets. This shrinkage of value is put down at something over $2,000,000. One item of loss is a loan of $460,000 to B. F. Avrey and his partners, which is nomi- zally covered by a mortgage ; how much this mortgage is worth, if anything, is one of the questions to be determined. If there are any others of this class, or what may becglled ‘bad or desperate debts, none has been men- tioned. The other shrinkages are ulleged to have taken place in the matter of real estate. The Company owns resl estate, and has built itsown offices. It also owns real estats which it has had to purchase or take for loans made | thereon. This real estate isin New York, Hartford, St. Louis, Chicago, Cincinnati, and various other citids in the West and at the East. As arale, these loans were made before the panic, and when prices were in- flated; and, as a general thing, the loans were made at the rate of 50 cents on the dollar of the then value of the property. Whether this real estate is counted among the assets at the Amount of money invested therein, and for which the Company took the property, oriscounted at the par valuation made at the time of the loan, we do not know. But a hostile and minority faction of the managers of ‘the Compan§ have reported that .their :dal estate in these largs cities is not at this time worth what it was represented to be on the 1st of January, 1877, Nor is it made pu!llicby'whtm!ukhilreduhh has bean nexperi- - 12,397 | revalued. If valued at what it could be sild for now at aforced sale, or if thrown on the | mnrketin large quantities and sold for cash, the difference between the actual proggeds of asale and.any valustion made withik ~the last three years would be a wide one.” In Chicago—and we suppose the same thing: prevails elsewhere—it is not so much a de- cline in the vslae of improved real -estate as the inability to sell at any price. Those who have money prefer to hoM it jdle and unproductive to any investment of it until the general business of the country has become settled. No person holding real estate in this city, while admitting its pres- ent nnproductiveness and the general pros- tration of the market, has any question that with the general revival of business that property will resume, substantially, the mar- kot value it had before the general crash. This statement furnishes, however, some otlier particulars which are worth consider- ing. The receipts of the Company during 1676, from cash premimng paid over the conaters of the agencies or forwarded by mail, wero §2,530,924. Tho cost of operating was $654,722, or over 27 percent. This Company is one of those whose salary-list as compared with others has been quite mod- erate; yet for every dollar it collected of the policy-holders it paid out 27 cents for salarics and expenses. Its death losses hardly equaled its salary and expense list. Though the payments of losses by death is the object for which it collects premiums, and to cover which is the end nominally sought by the arrangement of its tariff, there isas much money paid to its officers and agents for salaries, fees, and other expendi- tures, as thereis to paylosses by death of the insured. Without any special knowledge as to this Company, we assame that it is truo of it, as it is true of all other companies and corpora- tions, public and private, and equally true of individuals, that, while the shrinkage of the value of all investments and of all prop- erty is notorious, the falling off of rents, | incomes, and profits, and the lessening of the cash means of all persons and corpora- tions are going on, the last and most difficult thing for men and corporations to do is to e~ dnce their own expenses. In cases where the éxpenditure is of otber people’s money, suggestions that expenditures be reduced, salaries cut down, the namber of clerks and officers shortened, nre resented as suggestions to rob nnd plunder men of vested rights. Thus €xpenditures are maintained at oneend, and, if the cash be in hand, increased, while the worm is at work in the tressury eating the bonds and destroying the assets; and this thing goes on wuntil the investigation shows that nothing is left. How many cor- porations are there which, as their assets shrink, as their rents, interests, and income fall awsay, oppose to that Ioss the offset of reduced expenditure? How many ‘public or private corporations charged with handling ~ other people’s money attempt relrenchment, abolish offices, reduce sala- ries, or cut off useless expenditures, in order to adapt expenses to the reduced means and incomes of the members ? And yet this is the only way to successfully meet the universal shrinkagoin values. 1Itis the only way for Governments to meet the loss of meansof the taxpayers; it is the only way for private cor- porations to deal honestly with its stockhold.- ' ers; it isthe only way for individuals to deal with their creditors and themselves. A reduction of expenditure must accompany if not precede the loss of assets and of in- comes, or a collapss is inevitable. THE NEW VAGRANT LAW, The new law defining vagrancy and pro- viding for its. more summary treatment passed at the recent session of the Legisla- ture goesinto effect to-marrow. It isnot unlike the Professional Criminals act passed by tae New York Legislature somo years since, and under the operation of which the police of New York City are said to be able to repress crime more effectively than ever” before. For years prst, whenever there has been a complaint that well-known thieves are permitted to run the streets of Chicago, the police have answered that they were powerless under the law to arrest them or drive them out of town. It is true that, un- der the old Iaw, an arrest on the charge of vagrancy generally resulted in- giving the vagrant the freedom of the city. When brought before a Police-Justice, the first step was to take a change of venue to a Civil _Justice; this was followed by & trial which frequently resulted in acquittal m if con. victed, the vagrant took an appeal, gave " straw bail, and thereafter waa free from ar- rest pending the case in the Criminal Court. It is hoped that the new law, if properly construed by the Courts, will prevent the. easy evasion of the charge of vagrancy under the old law. The vagrant snbject to arrest under the new law is & Protean character, and the legal definition is now broad enough to cover pretty much &l varieties of the dangerous and vicious. Any onme who is idle or dis- sohute; any one who goes about begging; any one indulging in unlawfal games ; confi- dence-men ; common night-walkers; offend- ers against public decency in speech or be- havior; persons who do not’support them- solves or their families; those who take lodgings in the open air, or umoc- cupied houses or barng, and give no accqunt of themselves ; all persons who are known to be thieves, burglars, or pickpockets, either by their own confession or otherwise, or by Laving been convicted of larceny, burg- lary, or other crime punishable by im- prisonment, and who are found loafing about any public place or in a crowded thorough- fare,—all these are declared to be vagrants. The most important classjfication is that mentioned last, and includes the professignal criminals known to the police, whose names fignng)in the police-records and whose por- traits adorn the Rogues’ Gallery. Whenever such persons are seen loafing on the streets, or habitating bar-rooms, concert-saloons, and -other disreputable places, they are vagrants, and can be arrested as such. y The new law farther provides that these professional thieves, confidence-men, bunko- steerers, pickpockets, etc., may be arrested on sight and without warrant when they are personally known to the.police, and tho law further makes it the duty of the police to arrest them. They may also be pointed ont to the police by any one knowing them to be professional criminals, and then arrested on o warrant. Of course, it is the business of the police to be familiar with the faces and names of the criminals, as well as the Police and Criminal Court records, and we believe they generally claim to know all the notorious thieves .and confidence-men. On and after to-morrow, they will have an opportunity to use their knowledge to good advantage, and *‘ run in 7 all the professional criminals whom they have seen lounging ardind the city for the lnst few weeks with- out any visible means of support. The law sitest, and, if found gality on the chargé, the Police-Justice iy sentence the prisoner G‘ifipfimfimn’nd bLard labor for a term not less than ten days mor exceeding six months. The Justice isalsp required to muke a full record of the case, and issue a mittimus commanding the Sheriff, jailer, or Bridewsll-Keeper to receive the prisoner and keep him during the term of his sentence; this mittimus is safficient warrant for the ex- ecution of the sentence, so that nothing short of a habeds corpus can reach the prisoner. Of course, the efficiency of the new law will depend somewhat upon the gnnstmcfion put upon it by the higher Courts; but, pend- ing this, it must be taken at its literal mean- ing, and the yuh‘ce officials and Justices can no longer escape responsibility for the pres- ence of well-known thieves. in the city. Prompt and energetic exccution of the:law will soon. demoralize the criminal classes; acd, by the time bLalf of the professional thieves and confidence-men shall be breaking stone in the Bridewell, the othe half will conclude that Chicago is not a comfortable place for them to habitate. Will Mayor HraTm, Superintendent Hicxey, and -the Police-Justices see that their mew powers over the criminal classes be exercised at once? MR. PICKARD'S RESIGNATION. The public, or that part of the public which takes an interest in our educationni progress, will view with regret the unfortu- pate disagreements in the Board of Educa- tion, and the equally unfortunate circum- stances which have led to Mr. Picrarp’s resignation. Upon the one side, it is to be said that Mr. Prcrarp has been oversensitive, and has not acted with that discretion or diplornacy that most men in a similar sitas- tion would heve displayed. When he fonnd that his assistant was transcending his duties and becoming insubordinate, it wasdis duty to haveremonstrated with him and demanded an explanation, and, if this did not prove satisfactory, to have made a formal or in- formal complaint to the Doard of Education, setting forth the nature of that insubordine- tion, and asking for advice or sssistance in the matter. This would bhave completed his duty in the premises, and placed the responsibility of his assistant’s derelic- tion of duty where it belongs. - Instead of that, he was acquainted for a long time with that assistant’s conduct, and kept it to him- .gelf, made no complaint to the Board, ten- dered bis resignation without explanation, and did-not open his mouth until # became absolutely necessary for him to do so. On the other hand, itis to be said that there has been for a leng time reports of a clique inside the Board ond outside of it, who have made no secret of” their intention to oust Mr. Prcarp from Lis place; that this determination was made in Mr. Cor- viv's time, and that he was privy to it, aud, if we mistake not, made open boast that he should be @iriven out; that a place was made for Mr. Dory, and that he was imported to freeze Mr. Picxanp out by petty acts of worriment and irritation ; and that the class of this com- munity now exulting in Ar. PICKARD'S resig- nation is not the class which has the best interests of the schools at heart. Under these circumstances, our citizens cannot but regard the situstion of the schools with ap- prehension ; and if it shall eventuate that the Board places Mr. Dorr in Mr. Pioxarp’s position it will confirm the unpleasant suspicions so long afloat, and result in an emphatic protest. It is to be regretted in this connection that the adberents of Mr. Dory are composed very largely of those who have no interest in education at any time, and of those who have withdrawn their chil- dren from the schools. If the elevation of Mr. Doty would result in returniug these children to the schools, there might be some comipensation for the violent sacrifice the real friends of education are called upr™ to make; but, as there is no such proepect. thay are simply called upon to make this sacrifice of an able and experienced educator without any compensation. In this contingency, the people of Chicago will look to Mayor Heata and demand of him that no detriment or “prejudice shall come to the schools through the plotting of cliques. THE SUNDAY-SALOON AGITATION. There has never besn a time when Tme Truss has refused its sympathy and aid to any movement calculated to promote tem- perance in the communityy And not the least efficient assistance it has given in this direction has been in the way of timely pro- test against intemperate or ill-judzed cfforts to coerce instead of persuading, and its con- demnation of movements which always re- gult in & union of temperate drinkers with the intemperate and vicious clusses against attacks on personal freedom. One would think that Chicago had already had strife enough of this kind, and that the results of such strife had been sufficiently damaging to prevent its revival. But tho Iadies of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union have had no personal experience, as a rulo, in the evils of turning over the City Government into the hands of the depraved classes, as- gisted by the respectable Germans and tem- %erate drinkers, who had no other way to de- fend their personal rights than to join hands with them. These ladies, in blissfalignorance | of corrupt city officials and high taxes, are. ‘making an effort to begintheold Sunday beer war all over, with the absolute certainty that, if they succeed (which fortunately”is ‘mot probable), the taxpayers and respectable people of Chicago will have to- suffer for it, and the saloons will remain open all the same. . The point in-regard to the State law is not now, and Messrs. DENT & Brack, in the opinion they gave the ladies on the subject, were right only in so far as the law is on the statute-book, and, if enforced, must be by means of indictments, trials, and the usual process of enforcing State laws. There is nothing in the State laws which requires or permits the city authprities to mainfnin a police force and levy taxes for the enforce- ment of any State law; but the Woman's Christian Temperance Union has mnow the same right that it wonld have if there were 8 city ordinance to%end out spies, produce informers before the Grand Jury, get indictments against those who keep their saloons open on#Sun- day, and bring them to trial. . Bat conviction under the State Iaw will be difficult to secure; it bas often been triod and failed. The law simply provides that, * whoever keeps open any tippling-house, or place where' liquor is sold or given away, upon the first day of the’ week, commonly called Sunday, shall be fined not exceeding $200.” This law comes down on the books froln about half a cen- tury ago, and was passed originally during the apprentice system in this State, when roadside inns and tippling-houses were a moral ‘nuisance, and especially threatened the youths who enjoyed a holiday from their apprenticeship on Sunday. It served agood- provides for the trial of the persons arrested purpose inits day ; but it is donbtful whether a8 vagrants within thirty-six hours after their | Courts and juries would "now construe it to | include fi;iky saloons ander. the license and regulatiod, of maunicipal suthorities. " In any case, therje inno authority; direct or infer- ential, for employing the city police as spies, informers, and witnesses to enforce this law. - If the Womsn's Christisn Temperance Union really desire to accomplish something practical in behalf of temperance (and we do not question the gincerity of their motires), they will abandon their present effort to revive the Sunday-beer strife, which will only lead to greater intemperance if it shall succeed, and it will ocedpy & field wheie woman’s presence and influence may yet achieve wonders. -We commend the Mur- ray movementin Ohio to their considera- tion, where hundreds of pledge-signers have been secured in every city and town in the State by means of personal application and persuasion. This movement is similar in nature to the Washingtoninn and Father MaTHEW movements, which started about forty years ago and achieved the most beneficial resnlts. Those™ move- ments were originally based upon per- sonal efforts of reform, upon good oxample, upon persuasion and argument, upon Chris- tian influences and kind, sympathetic aid cextended to all who made an effort to aban- don the excessive use of alcoholic liquors. While the temperance reformers kept within these limits, they swept the country, and, undonbtedly saved many an old drunkard, and kept thousands of young mon from drinking at all. They started at a time when the use of whisky was almost univer- sal throughout the country ; a barrel of new whisky was almost as much a matter of course In every farmer's house as a barrel of vinegar or a barrel of cider. Whisky was the drink. Winé was a rare luxury, in which only the wealthy could indulge, and beer was almost unknown. In this condition of things, nn sbslinence movement wase bless- ing, so long as personal persuasionand Chris- tian influence werethe means to theend. But, after awhile, these reformers weeried in well.doing, and sought to shift the actnal 1abor from themselves to the constabulary,— to accomplish by force what they had previ- ously eccomplished by moral suasion. Henceforth they encountered the opposition of temperate drinkers who had previously assisted them, and relied upon tippling Con- stables to enforce laws inwhich they did not believe. From that time till now, whenever force has been’ applied where persuasicn should have ruled, there has been no gocd result, but only political strife and bed feeling. The ledies of the Woman's Christian Tem- perance Union are only repeating the mis- take that has been mado spasmodically over and over ngain during the last twenty-five years. We do not think they will be able to influence a City Council of thirty-six men— most of them practical and sensible men—ta joinintheirerror; but,if theyshould, it would beall the worse for them and all the other respectable people of Chicago in the end, 88 it would only lead to a revival of that sort of city government which prevailed under Couviv. If the Iadies want to do some prac- tical good in 8 temperance wry, they shonld fall into the Afurrry movement, start it in this State, and help it along with their own Christian and womanly influence,—avoidicg the North Side Germans, who believe they are temperate in confining themselves to beer-drinking. THE RUSSIAN AKD THE TURK. Many Americans have been puzzled to know on which side to cast their sympathies in the great struggle now in progress in the Orient. It has seemed to them much like witnessing an serial conflict betwien a buz- zard and a hawk, or like the struggle which the wife of a rather brutal husband is re- ported to have witnessed between her bus- band and a bear. and with reference to which *‘ghe didn’t care much which baat.” Both parties have the reputation of beiug semi- barbarous. Narorzox's famous remark. is endlessly repeatcd : “ Scrateh the skin of a Russian and you will find a Tartar.” On the other hand, the very name Turk has passed into a synonym of sensuslity and bruuality, the result of centuries of sad experience iu Eastern Europe. Why, then, should we of the far Occident takesides in the controversy ? The passing gentleman, who hears two fish- women dispute at the top of their voices in choicest Billingsgate, does not feel called up- on to investigato the quarrel and take sides with one of the disputants. When pot and kettle renew tke long-standing difference as to which is the blacker of the two, neither dining-room nor parior furniture need become warm partisang' of the onme or the other sooty combatant. If two Af- rican “Kmgs " ara,disposed to fight ount their savage disputes, we do not worry overy| the fact; acd why need we allow our nerves to be disturbed over these semi-berbarian Turks and Rassians, who hang on the skirts of European civilization, - and continue to ‘have a grand war every twenty-five years? Would it not be a'mercy to the world if, as the famous Kilkenny cats were shat up over night in an apartment by themselves, and the next morning there was left of them but the tip of a tail, these two belligerents could ba brought upon a tract a ‘hundred miles square, and then compelled to fight till there should survive only the mustaghe of a Rus- sian, with the syllable ¢ick or s&i hovering around it, with possibly a rag of a turban lying near? . Such idens and feelings might not be un- natural o the popular mind in its rude en- denvor to get, in a confused way, at the gen- eral sense of things; but they wonld not do credil to intelligent persons. It is true that, in certain salient respects, neither of the combatants in question calls for admiration; and that, whichever side ono espouses, he will have frequent occasion to blush for his client,’somewhat as & Tombs ‘lawyer may be sdpposed to do. Russian despotism is about a8 severe &s Turkish tyranny in its rule scd in the punishment dealt ouf to those who resist it. -The greed of dominion which ecarried the Otto- man power from Asia to Europe, across the Bosphorus, and to the banks of the Danube, is fairly balanced by the Muscovite greed which swallowed Poland and Finland to the west, and which, every ten years ‘or so, makes a'monthful of an additional province in Asin. The sdministration of justice in Russia has not a fair reputation, and its se- cret agents in other lands are reported to carry bribes in both hands; while the cor- ruption of Turkish Judges and officials is of world-wide notoriety. The Turks are great religionists in their way, and have had rather severe notions as to attempts to con~ vert a Moslem “into a Christian, or as to the pretense of a native Christian to social and political equality with a Moslem; but Rus- slan Inw, in defense of the Orthodox Greek Church, is not much more encouraging to Protestant missionaries, while the Roman Catholics of Poland have found the Czara hard master, and the Pope owes him no massacres are- only too familiar to both of these combatants, who stand face to faca o2 the Danube andgn thé Euphrates. And yet the civilized woridwill be justified in Faking a deep interest in ths progress and result of the conflict now waging. Forit is no strife between unknown parties in un- known parts. It is carried onin the old seatq of empire. It has ultimate reference to the possession of the finest site on earth for the world’s metropolis. It concerns the prosperity or ruin of a wide extended terri- tory, whose natural resources canmot be developed, or its popnlation elevated, nnder ihe oppression now practiced. It involves the tendencies and destinies of two long- rival religions and conflicting civilizations. It is the coming to a final 1ssue of causes which have been at work for centuries, and which soon must produce their legitimate effects. While the Russian and the Turk can easily be balanced in the scales of their com- parative ovil qualities, as judged by past events, they do not stand upon an equality a8 regards their possibilities of good and their relations of race and religion to she fature. The Turk is plainly a failure as to progressive civilization. His whole systém’ is on o false basis, and it cannot be changed without destruction. Socially and civilly, in educational, legisiative, and administrative respects, - the ecivilization is Mobammedar instead of Christian, and, 8s such, is ont of connection with the nincteenth century. For the Koran is statute book as well as Bible. Needful reforms are impossible to a AMohammedan race in the face of their faith. The ideas, the sentiments, the principles, the character are wanting on which to base a new order of things, under the auspices of the present dynasty. If the Sultan and his advisers should attempt a change in enrnest, n revolation of the Moslem masses under the fanatical Softas would dethrone them. Nothing can pave the way to improvement but sach a thorough defeat of the Turkish armies as shall convinca the people, as well as their rulers, that the knell of Mohammed- anism kas struck, in political respects, and that there must be a divorcp of that re- ligion from the States TUtter humiliation must precede reconstruction of the Govarn- ment. And Russia, notwithstanding its. many fanlts, is plrinly the instrument of Provi- dence to icsure this result, though at a cost to itself which may be a partial retributicn for its own sins. It represents, in genersl, the progress of the age and the religion which, in one and another form, hasnurtured ‘modern civilization and is linked with edu- cation.” It has the ambition and prowess of a growing power and affnasculine race. - It is itself developing and improving, and is com- ing into incressed sympathy with the spirit of the age. Its upper classes ara the peers of similar clnsses in the rest of Europe, while the pensantry have been put in- position to be soon reached by ameliorating influences. It is”not so much what Raussis, in its ambi- tion, intends for its own benefit, a8 what Russia; under-the pressure of Christian civil- ization 1 Earope, will be necessitated to do. TForces back of the Czar—forces permeating modern socie'y—will giva the law to him, whether he be conscious of it or not. Hence we must look beneath tne surface of events, and behind the ambitions of rulers®and be- yond the wordy disputes of diplomatists, and consider wider issues. The evils of the Tarkish rule are inherent, and the tendency iato decay and dissolution. ‘Ihe evils of Russian despotism are separable from its re- ligion, aad its political system is capable of modification. ~Theimperfections will be gradaaily eliminated, as they liave measur- ably been in the rest of Europe. What wo watch with interest in the combat is the dy- ing conflict of a decaying and corrupt past with the incoming fresh and vigorous fu- ture. The manner in which contracts for the erection of public buildings are manipulated is almost as mysterious as the whereabouts of the missing book of Lrvx or the lost Pleiad. - Some little episodes in connection with the bnilding of the new Court-House have'cozed out during the_ past two or three dnys which are,not devoid of interést, as tending to'show with no little directness the jncabation of & good < deal of fraud and corruption in connection with that job. A little over & year ago, and two months be- fore the contract for the Court-House was let, Epwix WATkzs, a familiar name a2 jund the County Building, made a block of eight notes of §3,000 each, payable to his own order. These were secured by trust-deeds on property 1 Chicago and Lemont. As it was stated about that time that $40,000 would be paid for the contract, the question naturally occurs, Were mnot these: eight notes made by Warxen for corrupting the Com- missioners or others who had influence? Warxen foiled to get the contract, his bid being too high: and it was givpn to McNem, who, in his turn, sold out ta the unsuccessfal bidder in consic-Fation of a certain per diem while employed as Superintendent, and two of the notes. The remaining six prom- ijos-to-pay are supposed to be locked up in the Fidelity Bank, in the custody of journalist, who, it is ~said, will a moke 8 pro rata division thereof should there acerue to WALkeR .a profit in the work. Ope of the notes originally given to McNem has passed throngh several hands, it is said, in the natural course of trnde, and -about two weeks ago judgment was_entered upon it. It is now in the possession of a Franklin- street mercliant. WaLxEm says the notes are absolntely worthless, as they were ?ivun- ed from tho purpose for which they were | originally inteuded. What that purpose was is not within the ken of any but the parties toit. It is more than a fair presumption that it was corru ption and bribery. ¥ ‘The time for clerical vacations is ncar at hand. Toe TEUNE has no_earthly ebjection to urge 1o this practice; 50 agreeable to the preacherand honoring tohis parishioners: but it would re- spcetfully advise ministers about to 2o to Eu- rope, Saratogs, or Newport for their bealth, to be sure about what particular diseas: they are suffering from before they go, while they are away. and when they come back. Nothing so shakes tle faith of a congregation in its preach- or than to send him away to get cured of bronchitisin July and have him come back in September -perfectly - restored and without a trace of the zout. Diaresisof the diphthongsis understood to be the fashionable complaint this year, though many incuintents of popular pul- pits have been smitten down with acute pam- phlogistic pyrites. ~ e ——m— Toe Tarkish ironclad which was destroyed by Russian torpedoes on the 26th of May was the Hifse Rahman, a sister ship to the Lufti Djelil, which was sunk at Matchin by a shot. "The Hifse Rahman was a vessel of 2,500 tons, arinared with four and & half-incn fron plates. Her armament consisted of two nine-inch guns in her alt and twvoseven-inch in her fore turret, and a forty- ‘poundet Armstrong on her forccastle. Her length was 223 feet, and mean displacement eigiteen feet. She could -steam- twelve knots 20 hour, and her complement was 200 men. Tht Pall Mall Budaet says of her destruction: iato nine compartments; and s is tuis arrpy ment of her interior, probably, which accoun, for the fact that, even after a torpe:lo had be! successfally exploded immediately undernest: her bow, and her fore hull had been drivenin § she was yet observed to be sinkieg so slosl; § that it was deemed necessary toexplode anofer’ | torpedo under her quarter to insure Lerie struction.” heads, which extended up to the upper dui ————————— b Air. HAM-PALMER-PENN1XON gives the fonlg- ing figures as showing the excess of expe over receipts under his manarement : From March toDec. 31,1872, defleit, . To Nec, 31, To Dac. 31,7 To Dec, 31, * To Oct. 20, '7 75 days to Dec. Total dead loss... .. _This loss is for merely running expenses, an does not fnclude the cost of machinery, types engines, furniture. fixtures, wear and tear. Bt compromise with creditors and reluction of claims, etc., the Assiznec states that in five | - months past the convern has made an apparent. “profit” of $12,203.4—which won!d be a fair showing for the New York Herald or Tim Several more such dividends can be declared further compromises with the creditors. (= *The Apostle,” said a Milwaukee editor the other day,—* the Apostle sp2aks of the tongue as an unruly member. Such, however, i3 not my experience. The ears are my most unrly members. Giants, you koow, are said to be weak in their extremitivs, and in the matter of carsTam somewhat of a giant. (Here his andi~ tor murmured assent.) If Itake a ringle glass of beer it seems to g0 to my ears at once, and to deprive me of all control over them.” Mis friend suzgested that hes should try cotting them back a few feet, and he said he wonld thiok’the matter over; but his fricna fears the advice went in at onc car and out at the other. Sttty ‘When a corporation owes $192,100 and is up. able to pay, and exccutes a first morteage for $100,000, & second mortease for $50,000, anda third mortgage for $42,400, and five months after induces the holder of the second mortgage to assume the first and thercby wipe ont the debt of $42,400, does not the corporation make $42,400 in five months? Aud if, three months Iater, theholderof the first morteage forecloses, and wines out the debt of $30,000, does not the corporution make £92,400 in eight months? And is not a corporation that makes $92.400 in eight months doing a prosperous business? ——— According to the reporta fn the Paris Droit, a commerefal” traveler has just been fined 100 francs for making an excerable pun io pullc,— \.Te mache ma honle”—*1 chew my shame.” The ever-present and vigilant polfce regarded this 4s a joke on Marshal MACMaHON'S name, and, instead of enwzaginz him to write fora Paris paper at 100,000 frgncs a vear, lozked bim up. It was such asefere sentence for sucha . bad pun that we are inclined to believe that an Ameri-an homorist und¢r the same corle would be guillotired, or transported to Noumia at the very least. fo——— A San Fraocisco magilian, having fafled in all his tricks, pacified his anflience by the announce- ment that the grand pre{entation act was about to begin. Iis prizes congisted of lumps of bat- ter, bars of soap, and le{d-pen.ils, and when he found the latter two firticles would not go around he proposed the jzreat biack-art trick of doubling them up by fawing them in ball When the police got fiifn away from the cruwd e was a wiser and a butfer man. The Svn kecps on puplishing its portrait of Mr: Hares, with the|word - “frand” on his brow. People who intrxduce BEN BUTr.ER«at public meetings stoull[not throw encrovings. However, the use of thelcat saves e: ition, which fs always an item. {ind Mr. DaxA," when he 1eft Chicago after a vain ittempt torun ont TeE TRIBCNE with his Repulfican, is understood to have said: “T have trigd to maie money do- cently thus far; now f am zoing to makeit whether or no.” The New York papers {eem to be a little at a loss as towhat to do In the DORSuETMER rase. As we understand theif rosition, it is this: None of them will taketie Cincinnati Enqrirer’s word for anything it sayy DORIEIMER said, and noone will take DoRsrsiMER’S word for any- thinzhe says he didn’t sqy. The importation of a ross of little hatchets nicht have-a beneficial effect, besides stimalatirx American industry. bride, in the course the other day, put her of the Western Asso- hrandhis halr stand- " A benatiful St. Louisas of a conjuzal squabbl foot down, and the azen ciated Press, pale with f ing on tiptoe, fled to §he telexraph offi-e and informed, the universe |that the Future Great City was visited by an unfisuelly severe shock cf earthquake at 2:37 p. m. | FrANE W. PALMER fi:szmueer) to the pub- He: “Ihave lost §44,00) inthe Juter-Oczan Nixoy to the public: |“I have made $42- 203.44.” Public to Mr.[N1xoN: *State what you have done with the [sther $L791.36, out of which Mr. Paruen claifas to have been beat- ”» i ca. The Russiavs are acrosf: the Dannbe. There is a powerful Turkish arfoy confronting thom,—- the Quadrilateral hasnot{been forced, the pasies of the Balkans offer unusnal diffiunitics, and there is much sickness; Hut thergare very iew Bulgarian atro.itfes of romenclpture to under- go, and the troops are hippy. The Commencements gre about over, straw- Derries are going out, oy{ters are not yet in sea- son, people are beginning to stop their papers which contain jokes it the Russo-Turkish ‘war, and the outlook for :he comic paragraphist is gloomy indeed. Mr. ANDRE MATTESON, | the 7imes, has pur- chysed o lot at Hinsdale| on which he intends to bulid a residence for his dwn use this sammer.— Journal. ) i) He swore that he woyld beat the City Tax- lempt. aod it looks gs fratherer or die in the at| if he will succced. The New York Hirald terested public that tl dead; likewise the Dem the first assertion is fals: hope the second assu st An opponent of the P']cs!den:’a pollcy, being asked by an acquaintanceithe reason of his oo~ position, replicd epigralnmatically: **He has been shooting Niazara as{i{ it was his hat.” nforms a deeply unit- > Republican partyls ratic party. 2nd hope it {sn’t; and bu Is true, but fearfs & & o ] The JIndependance Bcl]r: ludes in fouching terms to the Iate WiLLIAt GANNAWAY- Brow- Low, editor of the Figh, {f Knaville, Teancssee. Tuter-Ocean to whitl 17 to PALMER self off W3paper.. It is useless for th around on one Hay and ‘on the communuity as a n Those Russians acd Tufks are kecping & high old Passover on the Dangbe. « News from Armenia lni icates that the Kurds are souring on thmpupulfl. _\PERSONAL. A clasg of forty-nind was gradunted at Vassar College [Wednesday| and the average are of the members was a fraction over.20 years. The suits of Mrs. Myra Clarke Gaines to obtain possession of her ploperty in New Orleans fill almost the entire calendar of tae United States Circait Court in that city. : Tyndall says thal hy has never yet been able to discover a shadow pf evidence in favor of spanfaneous generation; bfit he does not, on that account, consider it impo#diblé. ‘Two newspapers, ond in the East and the other in tigg Wess, are iawving a disputcas to whether the familiar quotation should read Dulce e decorum est pro patria "¢, or, pro palria mork The question is immaterial] since the statcment ro- {ferred to is false, whateveg way it be taken. »No-