Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 5, 1877, Page 4

ATELR ma TSCfe CRCATaTe R BPRALITIRIV S » s manaTh mareTel A Esay JULY 5, 1877. tue; that, from spenking of ‘‘the honest farmer,” people would naturally comeo to spesk of ‘“‘honest Minnesota.” But nlas, onr theory has so utterly failed that this great farming Stato Is now known as *re- pudinting Minnesota,” and ita erodit Is so low that we doubt if any capitalist wonld now loan it a dollar of money! It oamo 1HE CHICAGO TRIBUN intendent and the Doputy Superintendent hava not been able to work harmoniously. The Bonrd of Education has entertained cor- tain changes of the system of the schools which have not met the zsalous approval of the Buperintendont ; at loast, the changes did not originate with him, nor were thoy ad- vised by him. 'Tho Assistant Superintendent THURSDAY., 61 to G2 pance per oince. Tn 1867 to 1872 ft sold for G0 to 01 pence por onnco. There was s slight reduction in 1870, when it fell to 57 poncs. From Janu. ary, 1876, it declined until in Jane it sold for 10 pence per ounce, and in July bad fallen to 47 pence. Soon aflor it recovered, and has for soveral months been selling nt amailing the Bonthern policy of Presidon Haxes, and the abstract of . his speech which we print elsowhere shows how well he im- proved the opportunity. The specch was Litter to the extent of abusiveness, and it will farnish texts and quotations innumer- able for the Implacables who are to éome after him, Tho furious phillipic was re- by the Commiwtaner of I o appear peraa (L the Pension Agency) at . Thia law was douhtleas ennctéd with the expee- tation that It would be enforced when_occasion re- quired. e ahonld be glad ta have Tz TrsuKE explain the jnstice of compelling a_pensioner in Eouthern 11linnts to make a jonrney of 400 miles, 8t 0 €Ot of half e ponslon, when coquired to obey this order, simply for the parvose of bringiny: the Agency within such_convenlent reach of Chicsgo pensioncrs that they may visit it dally the year ronqul nt o coat of 10 centa, —and all this when con« bishoprie, Tt [ thonght that many others would e preferred to Blshop Lynch for the office, inss- much ne he, although highly respectod, Is not thonght to biave & good faculty for financial man- sgement, Lsdy Thornton and her daughters were presented at the Queen's Jast drawing-room. 1tis donbtful whether B{r Edward Thoraton will re- turn to Washington as Minister or not. ' Re fsen- The Tribane. TERMS 61' SI{BSCHII‘TION. RY MAIL—1¥ ADVANCR—POSTAGR FRRPAID. Datly Edttion, one yea Blf-fi ol g0 | colved with respecttal consideration, but | has beon credited with apfioval of the notion | 53 to 66 penco per ounce. An advance to | about thus: Twonty years ago tha peoplo of | fenedly the ariinary hneinees o e Fecns Utisd ta promotion, and sarbe eet fad Earopean AV Sre e &9 | when the Rev. Dr. Srovoart excapted to its | of the Board. Injudicions partisans havo | 59 penco per ounce will make our silver Minnesotanecedod railroads, and they author- | expiain? Tartaof ayesr, per monib. Mrs. Annio Edwards, tho well-known Engllsh writer, has just completeds novel, snid to possess extraordinary Interest, entitlod®*A DBlno- Btocking. " English crities who have sesn advauco sheeta beliova the work will advanco the fame of e writor not & little. The sccond danghter of Oakey Hall, Miss Marls Therees, was marriod in New York Thurs- asy to Wiliiam Digelow Crosby, a young lawyer, nephiow of Dr. Howard Crosby. The wedding was private. The brido has rome literary sttainments, having written n novel entitled *'Bweet Bells Jangled." S Qon. Frang Bigel, slthough he sympa- thizes strongly with the Tarks as agalnst the Ros- sians, has no hopes of the oltimate success of his favorites. 1ie bellevas that the three Emperors— “'the three modern Cicsars,” he cails them,—are agreed among themselves, and will repeat the pars titlon of Poland in {ho case of Europoan Tarkey. Lotis Lablache, the once.famous bass ainger, i celobrated in n blogtaphical sketch in & fate number of Helgravia. Ho was gified Ly fa- ture, accomplished by art, aund popular without measare or drawback, ls shoo was asbig saa ¢hild’s bont, and bis gloves would have covered o largo doll; yet he wan so perfectly artistic in dross and bearing that the spectator was mever shocked by his abnormal sfze, - - . The King of Bavaria ono day mot a soldior with o wooden leg, and saked him when ho lost I8, ++1n the war of 1880, replied the warnor grufly. ¢+ Don't you know me?"* saked tho King, somewhat plqued attho soldier's manner. '*No: how ahould 1," was the reply; **you don't go to the wars, and 1 don't go to the opera," Ilis Majesly, as you know, is Wagner's principal royal patron, Tho young oditor of the New York Z'ridune has discharged a‘proof-reader for passing the phrase **Charles Lamb's grandson, Mr. Charles Lamb Kennedy, " which shonld haveread ** Charler Lamb's godson, Mr, Charles Lamb Kennedy," 1 1s.¢ safo nssortfon, however, that the unfortunate prool-reader never recclved sny compensation fot *the numborless errors of the yonng editor and his nssociates that were corrocted in proof. Tho New York Triduns attompta to solve aflterary myatery by remarking: **There 1s & dread report going abomt to tho effect that Saxo Holm weara the reform garmonts.” Is the woman 1iving who cgn Dreserve her incognito when such o calamny os thie is circolated sgrinst her? Tricke sometimes avail to disclose authorship successtally congealed ander all othor manner of provocation. 1t 1#fbtated that a learned Judge made Mr, Warren avow himeelf the author of **Ten Thoussnd a Year* by remarking In confidence and with appa~ ront solemnity: **Ism the suthor of that book.™ Bayard Taylor once had n conversation with Pitz Greene Halleck, in the conrse of which the fatter defined poetry 8 the opposite of resson. As sn ostration, he quoted from Wordsworth's *4 Song at the Feast of Brougham Castle " tono and called foran expression of those prosont, the almost unanimous dissent which wes given showed how ontirely Mr. CmaAx- pERLAIY had misconceived the sentiment of Now England conderning the policy of pacifi- cation and local selt.governmoent. done much to got up an antagonism between the Buperintondent and the Assistant. The real causes of this disagreement have been poesibly too trivial to justify any wrangling or want of harmony, but it has nevertheless oxisted. Aswe have said on a former occa- glon, Mr. Prcrarp acted hastily and petu- lantly in resigning; there was no occasion for his retiremont, but it wonld scem that he rought to compel the Board of Education to dismiss Mr, Dory na the price of his remain- ing in office. Tha Board nccepted hia resig- nation, avd the opposing faction assamo that Mr. Dorx should bo appointed Snporin. tendent, Withont taking any part in the quarrel between the parlisang of Proxanp and Doy, wo must insist that the good of tha publie schools is of far more importance than tho trinmph or dofeat of the rival friends of thesa two gontlomen ; that the rotirement of Mr. Prcxaro under the sssumption that he was forced out by tho friends of Mr. Doty caupol bo remedied by olocting Dory to succeed him. Buch a proceeding can only have the effact of pro- tracting and giving incroased bitternoess toa controversy which has already made discord whero all things should be harmonious. This Picranp-Dorx controversy should be arrestod. It is out of placo, and, being cal- culated to disturb the harmonions govern- ment of the schools, thore ahould bd no oo- casion for ita rovival or continuance. To eloct Mr, Dory to snccoed Mr, Proxanp will Do a direct rovival of the whole matter, and result in o pdrsonal contraversy which will eventaally oxtend through tho whole Bchool Dopartment, 8uch o procecding world bo most unwise, and wo trust the Board of Ed- ueation will not think of it for one moment. There are educators enongh in the land from whom a competent Buperintondent may bo salocted, and whoso appointment will sottlo and cffectually disposo of instead of renew- ing and porpetuating an unfortunato contro- versy, calculated to work great injary to the pablio schools. Tho election of Mr, Doty s Buperintondent of Schools would, under tho circumstances, ba a public’calamity. THE TRIBUNE AND 7HE BILVER QUESTION. The Chieago Times thinks it hea struck a bonanza. In Tax Tnomuwe of July 15, 1876, it bas discovered the following : dollar equal ta the gold dollar. After a caro- fal roview of the whole rubject, the Umrosao Tammune was satisfied that, even if it wers ovor desirabld, it was impracticable to make gold the exclusive standard of value; that'to demonatizo silver waa to destroy its usca and reduco its value; that to remonctizo silver naud make its coinngo fros was to incronso the demand for and incroaso the valuo of the motal; that to domonetize silver wad an an- just end unwise discrimination against the dobtor class, as well as against one of the productions of our own countey ; thatnll onr nationnl obligations aro made payable, not exclusively in gold, but, by jha expresa lotter of the conteaets and laws, in coin,—in the * gold and silvor " coins of the United States. We roached: the conclusion, after “maturo thought, that the bimetallic standard was the \visest, s giving the most perfect defense against all attempts to onbance the valaoof the metalin a singlo standard for the purpose of robbing the debtor. Bo long asoither mdtal isalogal standard thore ean ba no disturbance of trade or grodit by theadvanca in valne of either, Abovo all, deoming the restorntion of spocio pnyments ominently desirablo, and that this, in gold nlone, was only possible by general prostra- tion of tho business classes and tha contvac- tion of currency, whilo it is possible without disturbanco to resume with silver currency, Tre Trinuxe, looking to the groat interests of tho nation and of the people, has boon laboring to promote the restoration of the ailver dollar, ita freo coinage, and its logal- ization to an nunlimited amonnt s & legal- tonder. Tne Cmioico Trmouns owps mo silver mine, and has no interest in ono. It has no ntercst in any gold mortgoges, cithor as maker or holder. It is not interested in in- crensing tho valuo or choapening of gold becouse of any contracts of its own. Its coursa has been diotated exclusively by pub- lio and not by private considerations. “THE HONEST PARMER. We have always chorished faith in the farmer, and in this respect, more thanin somo others, bave boen in sympnthy with Honaor Grerty. Whon ho said (impatient- ly, according to ill-natared critics, but sober- 1y and thoughifully in reality) ‘‘Go Wast, ined the Legialaturo to issue bonda for their construation. But whon it becamo incon- vonfent 1o pay principal or interest this debt woa ropudiated, and the State ‘Constitution waa purposely so worded that, until it shoald be amended, it was made illegal for tho Logislature to pnsa on act for its payment. The caso was carried up to tho Bupreme Court of the United States, which declared the debt #o bo morally bimling upon the Stato of Minnests, though it was impossible tosno n Bjatoin the courts, Recently the creditors have propossd to compromise thefr claims nt 50 conts on the dollar, wo belleve, it the people of Minnesota wonld make the noedful amendmont of their Constitntion. A popular vote hos just been taken on such a proposed amendmont, and hins beon votod down four toone! And this, aftar soveral londing ccclosinstical bodlos of the Baptists, Congrogationalists, and Pres- bytorians in the State had strongly urged n roturn to honesty. . An annlysia of the vote shows that tho amendment would have beon adoptod hind tho fmmoral inhabitants of the , cities baon allowed to decide the question, but that tho vtrtuous rural population would listen to no appeal of honesty! It was choaper not to pay debts, even though these woro twanty years old, and wero to be com- promised at o disconnt of F0 per cont, To Lo honeat would incresse the taxes and op- press tho poor man,—nnd all in favor of the # bloated capitalists,” who had beon foolish enough to lend their monoy to the State of Minnesota, And so tho rural districts buried honeaty undor 8o deep 8 voto that some foar that it will never have o rasurrection. Wa do not know how that will bo; but just now * tho honest farmor™ is under on eclipso; and wo fear that wo shall be com- polled to roviso our carly and life-long ereed, g0 that instead of roading, “ We believe in the honest farmer, and in tho virtue of the rural districts,” it will read: * We bellovo in the honest merchant, and in the virtue of commercial cities.” For, many ns are thecity rogues, in overy statien ot lifo, thers is mach in tho businesa of tho great maris of com- 1merca which tonds to niconess of moral por- coption, to ® quick songo of honor, and to falthfulness in folfilling engagoments. Ono notices, in ordinary times, when thero is no Certatnly, e shall explain, first, that the “may be required cases’ areabout as namerous us hen's tecth(n harvest. More pousioners are struck and killed by lehtning every year than will be “required !* to come to Chicago under the providlon cited. 1Is the convenicnee of an occa: sional exceptional case to outwelgh the conven- fence and Interests of seversl thousand pen- sloners who live fn Chilcagol But she Journalsmistates the distance question. Draw a lino accross the State, beginning at Danville, passing througn McLean and Knox Countles to Uyuawka, and north of that line live nearly ball the ponsloners of the State, and in all that ter- ritory It would be cheaper aud more convenient for thiem to visit Chicago than Springticld, The Journal speaks of ** Southern lilinols” as being 400 miles from Chicago. Let us consider the territory sotith of the Ohfo & Mississippl Road as **Southeen Illinots; " the distance trom hero to that ltuo Is only 210 miles Instead of 400, snd the average distance to all parts thereof fs 120 miles less than the Journal states. The farthest nook isnot 400 miles by avleast forty or flfty from Chicago. It would consume .more time snd money, and require more chauging of cars, for the pensfoners of the Northern Illinols counties, of the Galena, Rockford, and WauKkegan tler, to reach Hpringticld than for the pensioners of Lower Egypt to get to Chicago; and then, con- sider how tmuch better they would be pleased to lave, thalr business nttended to Ly & charming young lady—u soldlcr’s orphan daughter—than by careless clerks of the absentee Moone In Springtleld. This lust cousideration wiil more than offsct any supposcd difference in distance. But the dlspute s setticd In behulf of tho falr; aud, as it 18 faif accompli, let 1t Le. e g —— An application to the Brooklyn Courts foran allowance by Mre. WiLtiax D, VEgpER, haa developed a startling array of facts againat her husband, whowas at one time Surrogate of Kiugs County, aud s uow a member of Con- gress. Four years ago @' limited divorce was pranted on the ground that VEEDER had be- come infatuated bya lone and lovely widow, but the circumstances were suppressed, or koown only to a limited number of friends. The new applicution for money irritated the Con- gressman, who taunted his wite, and sho calmly roplies with a terriblo story of wrong and womnn's suffering. After ho yielded to the seductions of the widow, ho took her to his bome and put her in the place of his wife, who still remained In the sama house. Not content witn encoursging the widow to insult Mrs. VegpeEr, ho promptly koocked the lat- ter down f she remonstrated; sud so brutal were his physical attacks WERKLY EDITION, POSTPAID. ane capy, ol fed Gub of e Spacimen coplen nent free. T prevent delay and mistazes, be saro and give Post- Ofice address In full, Inclndiog Btate and Connty. Kemitiances may ho mady cither by draft, sxpress, Pust-Ofiice order, or in regiitered lettars, at our risk. TRRM3 TO CITY SUDSCRIBERS. yentty, delivered, Funday exeepled, 23 centa per week, iatly, deflvered, Sunday Included, 50 cents per week. Address TIE TRIDUNE COMPANY, Cuiner Madteon angDearborn-ata., Chicago, 1k The refusal of the Dominion and local au- thorities to protect the Montreal Orange- men on the 12th of July is propheticof a terrible row. A deputation from the Orange body waited on the Mayor, made eath that thoy wero to bo atiacked by tho Oatholies ot throo different points, and asked that suf- Aficient force bo afforded to insure them safety in their peregrinations. The Mayor reforrad them to tha military authorities, ‘who referred them Lack, declining to act in tho promiscs, Secret socioties have been cstablished by the Catholic Union whose purposa is to break up the parade, and the only rocourse for the Orangemen ia to give up their celobration or prepare for a desper- ato battle. Adeipht Theatre. Manroe street, corzer of Destboru. **Uncle Tom's Cabin, " Cotton's Opera klonso. Monroe street, be:ween Stato and Dearborn. ** Ane dersonvilio ™ by the Lilsworth Zousves. 1:fpasition Tullding. Lake Shore. fort of Adsms street. Thomas' Sume mer-N1ght Concerts. = Barnum’s Clreus. Lake Shore. foot of Wushington strect. Tase-11all Park. | £fatr Rnd Twenty-third streets, Champlonship game ¢ Ch d Hosion Clube. Chicago went into the country and the country came to Chicago. The stroets were crowded with o swoltering bLucolic popula tion, and tho lako and eylvan rotreats wero crowded by the urban residents flecing from the wrathful squib and doafening gun. The ordinanco prohibiting tho use of explosives waspractically shelved, and tho urchin of tho poriod immolated his thumb, ensctmonts to the contrary notwithstanding. ‘Thostres nnd tho cirous did a good businoss; 10,000 people went fo tho ball match and about 8,000 to thoracea. Excursions departed in all dircctions, and beor and pop added choor to the day. Orators porspired and tore up the eaglo and scattored his constituent ole- ments upon a thousand oratorical sunbeams, and the crowd applauded the Declaration of Independenco and the pesnuts alternately. It waa an orthodox Fourth, Iacking some- what in the soverity of acaidents and pro- didgious clanging of firce-bells, but keeping protty fairly to the noisy and uncomfortable traditions of the day. TIIURSDAY, JULY 5, 1877, Thera is somothing sonsible in Quincy's method of celobrating the Fourth. A roti- cent reportor with 8 commendablo contempt for details pays thero was no general demon- stration, and the only patriotic featnfo was **a row in which two men were killed.” Tis Majesty of Dahomey sot8 6 brave ex- ample to the other potentates. Having been compelled to pay Englaud a heavy indemnity for the trouble o has put the Dntish Gov- ernment to, ho now proposes to got even by making o sacrifico of 500 natives to the fotish. Bt In the trial of Russian torpedo va. ‘Turkish gunboat the formor appears to bo somewhat on top, When Turkey catablished her floot on tho Danubo grent things wora promised for it, but the whole outlt is scatiared, und, unless destroyed, will £all into the hands of tho Rugsinna. This status has been effected by a judicious planting of torpedoes, which bins parnlyzed the oporations of the gunboats, and rondered them prnctically usclosa, A most conclusive argument in favor of a rigidly-enforced ordinanco against tho insane display of patriotism through the cheap me- i ik, madeie ooy ook | T SOTTIAES el e el 3 he slender womdn that crowds would Armor, rusting on his walls, il a tized, In the scce such oxcuse for delay in tho payment of | upont! e tiood of CHiford eally. Shanb st s Tnadl nant carelesances of & man who foundnobot- | of the word, (145, thoukh the chenme J’.‘.‘“x young mau; go West,” it was equivalent to | 4 p0 o may now bo often and truly urged, congregate, attracted by her shrioks of azony, " "3‘1 ,:-"-':3":;;'.( L:.‘.":".‘."?E."..L%:{fl""' nt that the Russiana have met With 8 | 4or uag for himself yesterday than in burning | otlced for the rcawn that nelther stiver nor gold saying, “Be o farmor, young man; ba 8 ) o in the oity thero Is o much tor | Atlength he abandoned her altogether, and e ToRstoR ot e Aaled series of disastrous defeats inwhioh fabulous | o yillinons saltpetro, rocklesa of the ro- drzullu;i sliver I¢now practically remotetized for | farmar,"—tho West being the great farming {nality in ’m" tin a“n"‘ weunt to live with the widow and her two daugh- Yeil thy name, tiou tremuifny feidy E“Tb:hm er mcnllmvo bo::‘:o“l;n Thurupm; sults, With o o:t.rex'nely primitivo iden of prodbing s yog e A% jaukh to be - | region. His faith in farming was manifestod ::::u u“: ke nfi-y‘; id N'.Yl “MB:K;: ters, one of whom ho assigned to his son, 17 Groan thou wilh our victary. sa o siego of Kars n raised years old, for his amusement. Mrs. VERDER'S Btory Is a stekening recital of cruelty and social wretchedness, and as opening to the .Interlor the loves and excitements of Congresalonal life 13 one of tho most interesting, while tho most repulsive, tale of modern soclety. —————— The Republican candidate for Governor of Iows, the Hon. JonN H. Uzar, was born in 1825 at Ithaca, N. Y. Ho romoved to thé West In 1836, remaining at Fort Bnclliog until 1843, when ho became a realdent of Burlington, and Las resided thero cver sinee, having heen ono of the voters that brought tho State into the Unfon. For many years he was a merchant and general dealer, but of Jate hns been en- gagted exclusively in wholesale grocories. Bays the Hawkeye: . Oue of the founders of th N et kot repaTE‘bia Overy tndnenice B e yharsunly. waplicd ta ‘Yo" interests of the pcnr ot frcedom, Io was frat Republlcan who _ever sueceoded in carrying the City of nnrlln?on.-ln 1863, when he was elccted Mayor. In the Fourteenth, Fiftoenth, ond Sixteenth Uencral Amcinblies, Mr. GxAR was one of the most active, induatrious, and efiicient members. Over tho deliberations of the State Louso of Representatives he presided two sesslons fn snccession,—tho only man in Tows to whom that distinction was ever sccorded. As Bpeaker ho-was able, tinpartial, and prompt. The indnatry and fidality to publictruat that have char- acterized bim in the past are suticlent guarnntes for tha future, In Joux H. Geak lowa will have & Uovernor worthy of confidence, able and eflicient, ——a— Bays an exchappe: **The statement tole- graphed from Ban Franclsco that Gen. J. B. Frispix, son-in-law of Gen, VALLEJO, the old Mexiegn proprictor of tne Vallejo Ranch, is In Mexico ‘almply to settlo some clalms held by New, York men aguinst tho Mexiean Uov- ernuient’ 1s in direct confirmation of the whole Mexivan scheme, Instead of fndenlal of it. It 1s these claims held by New York men which are amoug the secrgt causes of tho broaching of such a projoct.® That ho ‘tiolds loticrs from leading authorities at Wasnington to the Ameri- can Minister and others’ may well bo believed.” ———t— e Twodesperatoatteinpts have been made within a few weeks to abduct a young pirl from Union i, N. J. She has identified thd men, and bas twico had a fearful struggle with them. On tha last occaslon they dragged her several rods from har house, bruised her badly, and she only escapod after shootlug one with & revolyer she bas carried with her since the first attack, She 18 alinoat distracted, and fearful of ber lifo, and the apathetic melghbors aud suthorities sit around and let her fight her own battles, more intorested in scelng which side wins than in lending wuy assistauce, e — The exhibitors at the Permanent Philadelphly Exposition bave finally voted, after long dis- cusalon, upon the question of having it opeaed on Bunday, provided the machineryis stopped and no sales are made, and the result was 835 yess 1o 509 noys. Thislsn fair compromise, and will suit the general publje of Philadelphis, whio cannot gpure the time from their work on week-days to luok at the beautiful works of art on cxhibitdon. e —— The Detrolt Fost insists upqn it that tho Towa Convention **went back! on tha Presl- dent. It1s delighted st the ides, and becomes angry It any ons doubta its asscrtion. Nono of, the Demogratic papers in Michigau exhibit so wmuch animosity agaiust Havss us Zacx Cuax- pLe's paper. Perbaps this fuplacable reseot- ment i ezcusablo to o certaln extents Old turfers dou't liko to be turned out on the bare coIamons. By L, —— Why, Scostor, Hows you talkl ¢ When spring lce can be employed to feed the oxen | they infest, then such splrits as contrul the M- waukes Senfined can b reliod upou tohelps good cause, but not il then.” ki PERSONAL. 1t is reported that Theodore Tillon snd Fraunk Moulton are Lopelesaly eatrangod. Mra. Chisolm has writtdn letter expressing et purposs Lo take the remalos of har busbend and daughter North for futerment, Fl Theodore Tilton sud his daughter Alice have returued from & tour of 25,000 miles, ¢m- bracing every State In the Union except threc. John Habberton, author of ' Helen's Bables,” hasleft tbe editorialsta of the New York Herald sad will devols bimself to book-making. The New York Sun aitempts to frighten Mr. Townsend from wgking another statement by saying that he caanot get it into the columns of thot paper. 'This is i reslity so {nvitation 10 tho- dance. . 'Phe rumor that Bishop Lynch, of Ohar- leston, is to succeed the late Blahop Bacon as Co- ad)utor Bishop 10 Cardioal McClosksy ie sald by the Cardinal todo erroncous, Tho subjoct is rop- vacilisitons. The proposition in the House Lo make sliver eoin nlegal tendor tn all payments, and to dle- charge the Interest on the public debt In aflyer &t tha present standard of coloage. was propefly charactere ixed by Mr. GaRsixLD aa dishonest. .. . . In such » dopreciatiod of sllver as has occurrod during the Tast year, the old wefght in silver (s nob equivalent to the standard dollar, and 1t would be dishonest to requlre s creditor to take It for a dollar. More mizght be quoted to the same effcct, but so much will safiice. And now, how #a the change to be accounted for! Docs some one aver on tho aehool gection own & contingent Intarcst in a eflver mine?! Or does some ona over there think that dishoneaty is the beat policy on generul principles? 4 Tlie Cmaico Tninvse frooly admita that ab the time indicated, whon the discussion of tho gilvor question waa' new, and the gon- orsl fagts and information portaining to the demonstization of silver had not been made known, this papor did think that, ag silver hnd been demonotized, the single standard might bo preservod, and that silver. might bo confined to the subsldiary coin. The Cm. oaco 'I'mpuns, Lowever, cares more, to bo right, and to advocate what is truo and just, than to adhore to an error or mistake in or- der to be consistontly wrong. Whenever Tux Tarsuwe is convinced that it has made n mistako, that it hag boen misinformed, or has adopted an orroneous judgment upon any public question, it will not hositate to waive tho claim to *‘consistency,” to adopt such course ag right may domand. Silver was demonetized in 1873, and the fact was so little known that it waoa not until 1876 that the country was mads aware of it, during the discussion of the bill authorizing the substitution of small silver colns in place of the fractional curroncy, In 1875, during the animatod contost in Ohio botwebn Arsex and Haves on theguostion of specie paymonts, the faot that silver had beon demonetized wad not known to eithor candidate, nor was it over referred to by any of ths hundreds of speakers, or by any nows- paper in Ohloor elsowhere, The demon. stization of the silver dollar was not general- 1y known until loug after the meeting of the last Congress. Nor was it generally known how such an act could have taken place with- out attracting publio attention. In 1873 gold and silver wero not in general circulation. Silver dollars had boon moro valuablo than gold dollars, and thereforo tholr colnage was limited, and they were rarely seen. Gold, being the cheapor coin, wasalonementioned ; the common referenca waa to gold, becauss gold alorie was in the market, and gold coin alone was bought nnd sold. In all the dis- cussions as to the payment of interest and principal of the public debt, and a8 to ro- sumption of specie payments, refersnce was always made to gold. A general impression existod that the publioc bonds called for pay- ment of both principal and interesd in gold. As tho United Btates had for a quarterof a contury used gold {ustead of silver, tha gold dollarbeing worth 1 to 8 per cent less than the gilver dollar, 80 in 1870, when the relations of silver and gold bocame changed, silver for the first time in thy prosent goneration be. came a subject of publio interest. Half the population lhad never seen a ailver dollar, aod many bad scon but little of the 'minor silvey colnage, The history of the gilver colnage of the United States had been forgotien, .or never read, and the whole subject was new. In- vestigation ahd discussion led to ,the discov- ery that the silver dollar of 871} grains of pure silver had been the logal standard of valne of the American dollar from 1702; that it bad been serreptitiously abolished in 1873, not because of any public necassity or pop- ular demand, but through the procurement’ and advics of certain theorists and spoo. ulators in FEuropse who sought to se- cure the universal demonetization of silver and tho. establishmeat of gold a8 the exclusive standard of money, 1t was discovorod that Germany, which had proviously bad an exclusive silver standard, had been induced not only to adopt gold as astandard, but also to demonstize silver, and that owing to thess proceedings sliver bullion, which had been produced in larger quantities than usual, had been Ahprgdlud. Silver was'an American product, a8 much as cotton,. petroleum, or broadstuffy, and the demonotization of silver had of neccssity de. stroyod oue of the greatest uses for the metal, and had caused & fall in its value, ‘I'ba price of silver in Londou in 1662-'6 was by his works; literary and financial; ns wit- 4 There!” Halleck exclaimed, ** wasthero ever ness his * What I Know About Farming,” hia nwnerous addresses at agricultural fairs, and his actual farm at Obsppaqua. Has any one over cipherod out what that farm cost tho plilosopher, including purchase-monoy, im- provoments, annual cultivation, etc., eto.? No doubt ho had faith in farmors also, Ho must have afirmed it thousands of times in Lis loctures, besides putting it into multi- tudinous colamns of tho Now York Z'ridune, waekly odition. What a man asys in print wany people think ho bolloves, aud it is not for us to gainsay their thought. BMr. Gaeeney advised tho young man to go Weat for his mora! good, as woll as for the boneflt of health and purse, For a farmor he con- siderod to bo nocossarily moral, living cone stantly in the country, whoro thero are no temptations. Did not Goo know the safest place in which to put Apax and Eve, that they might retain their innocenco? Ho se- loctod a gardon, and sot thom at work ot hor ticalture. Thore wore but two of thom, @nd they had no patent ma- chinery, or thoy would have hoon put upon a large farm, To be mure, thoy fell, after all; bot tho best that was posaible had boen done for them, and the snoaking tampt- er came from the outside. That tho fall wos real appears conclusively from these things: they went right off and * ralsed Caln,” and he went and did two of the worst things imaginable,~—he murdered his brother, snd he built acity ! Ever alnco that city was built, tho morala of earth have boen bad ; na all will admit. Ma. Grezrer know that what innocence remained on earth lived in the ocountry, subscribed for his T'ribune, and voted the old Whig ticket! Ho was a msn of large faith; none of your ekeptics; not be. Now, we have confossed to a sympathy with theso well-known viows of Mr. Grer- rxY, whoeo greatest, sstonishment was, tiat tho farmers did not make him President. It is no wonder that such ingratitadoe broke kis noble heart. From childhood we havo re- posod implicit confidence in farmers, How uld we do otherwise, when everybody praised the simplicity aud purity of the country, and when we had personal expe- rience of ita invigorating toil, and of tho civilizing influence of ita twin institutions— school*house and moeting-housd? And thon, the English and the Latin classica tanght us thosame leason ; for primerand reader had we know not how many storiea beginning & #An honest farmer,” sta, etc. A farmer was nover spoken of except as honest. The poets, too, extolled the labors of the * hus. bendman,” and VIRasL gave us a taste of the same sentimont in his Goorgics. When clty. bred people said that the farmor was rude in his manners, wo alwoya reminded them thaf he wns atloast moral, If they ridiculed his borny band, we declared that it was infinite- Iy preforable to a hard heart. If thoy inti- mated that bis knowledge waa limited, wo suggested that they were very apt to know enough to vote intelligently, and that when the cities had gone wrong in an election we had often taken great comfort in walting for the returns from ** tho rural districts,.” Auvd oven when thé barrelsof apples, packed by tho farmers, were oponed, and showed one layer of large spplea on the top, and two and half bushels of small ones ‘bolow, we still defended the honesty of the farmers and in- sisted that the original packing was all right, but that, in tbe long trausportation, the larger apples hadocome to the top by the con- tinual shaking. When we havo had painfol obacrvation of the immorality of clties, from the gambling speculstions in stocks and grain, in which men ascounted *‘traly good,” and even pious, by the wrban standard, par. ticipated, 1o the groes vices in which only the wicked indulge,~—we have takeq no little pleasure iu reflecting upon rursl virtue. Bat the recent tidings from Minnesota staggers us, sud we are like a man who soes his idol shattered befors his eyes. We are afraid that our faith bas been credulity, and that the city skoptios will win a vitory, Yor, reviow tho facts with us: . Minnesota is simply one vaat farm, with here sod there a clity, which finds business in selling the produca snd supplying the waunts of the farmery. Itmight then bo expectod that the $tato would bo almost overstocked with vir- completo happiness, he esteemed shooting at a lsundry sign not only tho bess fun in the world, bat also & grand demonstration of his loyalty to strictly American institutions as contradistinguished from Cbinesa wash. housos, snd when informed that ho had shot o littlo girl and sent ber to death’s door, his chief regrot was that the sign of Mongolian industry had escaped. The police during the whole dny, sofar as they made any protenso of oxecuting the ordinance, appeared confirmed in tho faith that tho Iaws provided solely agninst the extremely small boy, and tho smallor tho boy the moro stringent tho statato, Thoy failod to rocognize that the ruffian with & revolver is ns amenablo to existing laws ag the boy with o fire-cracker, and thoy wested vital forco in pursuit of a fow urchins, ,whilo tho patriotio. assailant of n Colestinl ghirt-sign was permitted to. bang around with his ordnanco until he bravely ‘brought down an unoffending child. 1t this ¢ pocident " will result in n useful logson, little Avior Corzs hes yielded her right to 1ifo and tho parsuit of happlness in an excel- lent cause, Mr, Ragren, in his offort to roply to the losson which Tuw Tarevuws read bim on Civil- Bervico roform, has only succoeded in exous. ing tho error he had made by purposely con- fusing the question under consideration. The position he took originally was that the prin. ciplo of Clvil-Bervice, reform required tho re- tention of Mr, Hax aud overy other officer in the Government employ who is opposed to it, and who will write and work againast it. It was this which Tux Trinose characterizod s proposterons. o this Mr, Rastxa replies that a Libaral Minlstry in Germany does not torn ot of office the thousands of old Con. sorvatives who are gerving the Government. Dat thoss Conscrvative officers are not cn- goged opposing the Liberal Adminiutration, in editing nowspapers against it, plotting and working to bring it into disropute In order to acoomplish its overthrow, If thoy weérg known to be employed in such fire-in. the-rear work, their romoval would follow in- stantly, and it ia doubtful if they would bo let off with so light a re buke as morely ejection from office. Great Britain is now under the control of the Consarvative party, and there are thou- sands of ILiborals in the Oivil Bervice, but there is not one of them known to bo exert- ing his efforta either by spooch or pen to undormine and break down the Disnarur. Doy Gov@nment. Not ono ‘could retain his placa an hour after the discovery of such treachery. The Consorvatives in the Ger- man Civil Bervico under the Liberal Adminis- tration, and the Liberal officeholders under the English-Tory (fovernment, mind their official duties, and abstain from active partisan participationin politicain belalf of any party. But it was not o question of general policy in this discussion. Oivil-Bervics reform cortainly requires that a Pem. ocratio Prodident coming into office shall not dismiss the competont officials whom he finds because they happon to be Republicaus, and vice veraa, 8o long as they mind thelr business. That is & case analogous to the QGerman situation referred to by Mr. Rastes, but not the case under oconsideration. A pormanent and business-like Civil Bervice is not yet established in this country, Presi. dent Haves is making an effort to establish it. Butsuchan offort will necessarlly bo futile if he retalns as his agents and assistants mwen who ure openly opposed to the reform, wnd who will use the newspaper preas, tholr own subordinates, the primaries, caucuses, conventions, and allother parts of the po- litical machine at their command to defeat tho President's cndeavors. This is what Mr. Rasres thinks the President should do, and it is too palpable n misconstiuction of QCivile Bervice reform and too violent a negation of common senss o require any further .serious argument, et e —— . The Board of Education has accepted the resignation of Mr. Pioxaxp, the Buperintend. ent of Public Schoolsin this city. We have already expressed the general rogret that such resignation was offered, and the even more general rogrot at the causes leading up to that resiguation. Btated briefly, the Buper- contradicted, and for it is substituted the in- teiligenco thnt tho Muscovite forces beforo Baotomm have been compolled to retire. ‘There aro strong mdications that the Russlan left is struggling in tho direction of Kngys- man, to join MEeLixorr's comwand, or estab- lish n now lino of communications, tho Kurds having cat off that by way of Bayazid —— Tho distinguished foature of the corner- Atono laying at the Court-Honso was tho prayer of tho Itev. Garusaa Anvensox, who, impresscd by the nocesities of the flock beforo him, wosted no invo- cotions on gim®cracks, but expended them in solid pleadings for chunks of mercy. He implored tho Almighty to holp the County Commissioners **in tho trials through which they will. be .called. upon to pass,” rocognizing instinctively the fact that the Commirsioners would scarcely think of offering a prayer for themselves, as long 28 thero was a dollarin the treasury, many places In the country, there 18 a custom- ary readiness to back down from a bargain aftor it has been mado which would be con* sidorod omincutly disgraceful in the city. 'fhe truth is, wo are boing graduslby forced to tho conviction that Bumau naturo is mush the same overywhora; that virtue docs not grow on a farm quite ns readily as do whent and oats; and,that it may bo necessary for city churches to send missionaries tofarming Minnosota to preach from Peul's words: # Lot him that stold steal no more.” anythmg more irrational than the lance exclaiming and tho shicld longing?~but what poetryit ls1” o Anindscent postal-card, which is roprinted hero as o warning to offenders, bas causcd tho arrest of & collector in San Franéisco. The fal- lowlng w e copy? g2 Tuacieen fuog i 1 curd o ol il (rearly ans wnd & BAlf yiark old). Le in m ands for collection, Furward me imniediate payme snd 20 promises, Lo calls & omice, no bipwers, bat coln. A, ZERAXDELAAR, Collector. If condign punishment is not vielted upon this lawbreaker, & bad precedent will bo established, and tho most respactablo young men in the United Statos will bo subjected to endless porsecution. Thare need ba no appechension that, o way eveut, they will pay thelr.tailor billa, bat they ought mo to be annoycd about such trivial matters. Mr. Joseph Gook, the celebratod Boston doctrinatre, has met his match in Jlartford in. the parson of & Gormau mechanic named Kreuger, who s employed in one of the largo machine-shops. Mr. Kreuger has writtcn 8 number of able criti- clsma of Mr, Cook's lecturgs for tho Courant ‘While fnlly recoguizing Mr. Cook's genlusand elo- quence, he scems more than any other local eritics st least to see through thoe fallacy of some uf his arguments, and, in his roplies, preity well exe plodes iho 1des that there ls somathing atartingly novel about his methods of aclentific reasoning. Mr, Cook la now better able than over to appreciate the witticiam of the Lowell Tourier on his mar- Tiage, to tho offect that-he can, {n the fatard, tell how moch more blessed 1t is to give lectures than to recelve them, - The Lovodon correspondent of the New York 7Wnes tells this good atory of the rosd, ©On the way to Epsom on Derby-Day a handsomo dreg passos o costermonger'sidonkey-cart. ** Whip up, my friend,* says the geslsl Duko who is dniving, smiiing at the coster, **or you will be too late for the Derby.” Tho coater, saluting with his short whip, says: ** How do you know I a{n't agoin' to the Oakat" The Oaks {4 ron at Epsom, two dayw sfter the Derby, and fa 8 more fashionable race, ‘The wit of the rolojnder s 88 good a8 Thackersy's roply to Montalambert at the Desby. The French man noticed on the course soversl men dressed as sailors, but who were not ‘the genulna srticla, 4+ Ab," aald Montalambert, **thess, I suppose, are some of what you call your Britlan tarer* ++ No," sald Thackeray, promptly, *'they areonly . Epsomsalta,” A socioty of public-apirited gentlemen in New York have imported and set at llbersy4n Cen- tra) Park a large number of the Btarllng (sturnus vulgaris of the books) for the purpose of protéct- ing the trees trom the attacks of insects. The Bos~ ton Journal (s not disposed to aitach much imbor- tancs to the exporiment. It remembers when tho used Houso Sparrow was first intro- York, and became, for the moment, the 1do} of that Bckls city. **Are wostallsure,' inquires the Journal, **that the Btarling will not within ten years be put undsr the ban lke our uwn moat uscful native birds? For instspce, we have among ns mno birde 30 truly invaloable to ths former 83 our mativg Crow, Jay, Owls, Blackbirds, and the whole fam- {ly of omniveroua birds to which the Starlings sod the Sparrows belong. Yet, only ss recently as the year 1670 our Blackblrds—insect destroyers evory ‘Whit s good # the Starliug—were outlaws in Mas- sachusetts, unprotected by law. The Dlus Jay, which a fow years ago the zeal and eloguence of thelsmented [Htato] Senstor Morton saved fors few years as & protected bird, has again, under the ta. Buences of # most unjust prejudice, been potwm dbr the ban, sad is now an outlaw! Buch arotde wisdom and intelligence of our lsw-makorsl A bird which Benstor Morton demonstrated ta bo the most useful to frult-gowers in our Stata of any bird, tha Leglalature of 1877 bas sgato made wa outlaw! Susely, the folly of leglalstion canuol further go!"* L3 s Mr, George Augustus Bala ocouples the corner of the Loudon World devoted to ** Celobrls tics at Home " in a recent Lsue. 1o bas bees for tweuty years on the staff of the London News, and is to-day proud o regasy himself a3 & newspsper men, pars and simple. He says he owes whai success he has achieved 10 bls methodical babits, 1le his many fulios filed with quotations and orig- ins) thoughts ou various subjects, fuciuding on the political sad soctal biatory of England from the beginniug of the centary down {0 the present dsy. He advisss Jyoung men eatering the profession to study the Alesd of Britsh newspapers from 1808 to 1842, or thercabouts—a period which covers vast soclal sud polltical strogaica—und the writings of Lelzh Hunt, Albany ¥ooblangus, and Theodore ok Newspapers like thedc, bo says, give the passions s well as toe bistorles of thelr day, Mr. Hals hm 10807 peculiar babite. For lnstance, be alts dowa aud writes out 8 page from Mllion or some Othaz t+quite Arst-class man, ™ bis object belng to lay 8 8 atock of words for the day. Itissald that Sals, belng recantly required to writo an article on evo- Intlon, of which be knew cowparativaly little, wes subjected to ® riguroas process of ‘*cram?’ by sa editorial associate. His article, whan it appesred, was sstounding. Nothiog about evolution nor - RUSSIAN DIFLOMAOY.. . Mr, Howwaxo, tho Professor of Interna. tional Law at Oxford, bas recontly pubiishod @ work on the treaty relations of Rusaia and Turkoy, which brings out ono side of the FEastorn question not gonerally known, or ot east not vary generally understood,—name(y, ita diplomatic history. , Mr. Howranp claims that whon {10 Russlans and Turks first came into conflict in tho seventesnth contury thoy wero two hordes of barbarians, the difference being that the Turks wero barbarians on the decline, while the Rusaians were just begin- ning to feel the impulses of that Olristianity which gavo them a point of contact with Western Europe that hns proved of the grentest political ndvantago to them. The trus beginning of the present Russian policy ho .places not in tho reign of Prres the Great, ns most writers do, but in that of Oarmemive IL, ita spring being found in a zesl for the Orthodoz Eastorn Church, which sho wasat first compelled to affect, and which she afterwards discovered to ba » convenlent plea for aggression sgainst non-Christian Turkoy, The partition of Poland involved her in & quarrel with the Sultan which lod to govers Turkish disaster, and wrung frorm the Porte tho memorablo treaty of Rustchuk- Kalnardji, which has always been construed by the Russiang as giving them thoe right of intervention in behalf of’ tho Christian mub- | jects of the Sultan. This treaty marks the ‘commencement of the new policy of turning' Christlan grievances to acoount for the con- queat and absorption of the Tarkish Empire. \ All subsequent treaties have boen mercly supplemental to this, and have resulted in oxtension of power at the expenso of Turkey. Mr. HoLrawp says: **An identity of purpose rans through the whole scries, Their aim is the aggrandizoment of Russian tesritory and the assertion of & spocial Russian protectorate*over the Cbristian provinces of Turkey.” The servica which Rusala had rendercd Western Europe, by breaking the power of Narozox, fob a long time closed the oyes of the statesmen of the period to Russian aggressions npon Turkey, but later troaties began to arouse them, and a¢ last brought Parmxesron and Trrzes to the samo line of action. England and Franoe united, and Russis, defeated in three great battles, had to submit to the Treaty of Parls, by which the Ozar, Mr, Horraxp says, +Waa remitted to such rights only sgainst the Porte n5 he posscssed irrespectively -of convention 5 and in the exercise of these he waa subjected to mew disabilitics.” The Pall-Mall Budget, s Turkophile, comment- ing upon this passage, says: The carefu) reader of this paasage who compares 1t with tho hlstory of tho presout yesr and the events of the present moment will eastly under- stand what Ruasla bas done to ropalr hor misfor- tones of 1854, 1853, 1838, Bhe has lost her treaties, but she is ucting exactly as if ti 1atitude of intarpretation were glven to ! and fourteenth articles of tha Treaty of and s}l Rurope stands by fn acqulcacence, mot withoat an occasiona) burst of clamorous applause from the morss foolish of her poople. It would be more to the point to say that Tarkey, by her own nots of tiendish bar. barity, and by the failuro of her Govern- ment to repress them, has placed herself qui~ side the pale of treaties. Sho is no longsr & treaty-making Power, and no treaties that donoern her are binding. The world's bu- manity has displaced statesmen's diplomacy. - —— Thero is ono poius which we would sug- gost to those journals that affect to bo- dove that the President's order intrferes with any of tho uncrod rights of citizonship, Lhough tho order was issned a couple of weeks ago, wo have not yet henrd of & singlo Government ofllcer who Lo resigned his po- wition beeauso ho felt that the new order of 1hings was unjust or degeading to him. Nat ono of theso patriotic gontlomen, to our knowledge, inteods to give up his place in order to enjoy the ““inkerent right” which michine papers gpeak of, and tha {nferonce is that their honor Las not beon percoptibly ‘wounded, ‘Iho cablo dispateh this worning from 'z ‘I'nisune's correspondent in London, relative t tho intontious and tendencies of Austria and Esgland, andoubtedly reflects the tenor of the advices rocelvod and tha foeling preve- lent in London news circles, Austrin is said to have mobilized bier army for active service, and the stop which will embroil England in tho war — the armed occupation of Con- stuntinople—is belioved to have been delayed but not sbaudoned. ‘Tho feeling 1s foverish gruerally smong the news-gatherers, whose perdistenco in foreshndowing groat eveuts ought soon to be rewarded by somethin tangiblo and definite. " A tromendous effort is certain to be pul forth by the Democrats to securo the seat in tho United States Sonate to which BraNsey Marrurws was clected. Thoy care compar- |- atively littlo for the Governonship, but will concentrats on tho contesta for the Legisla- ture, and” with the aid of outside monoy oud pressure they are con. fideut of Buccess, Accordlng to & Waushington dispatch the Republicans ure cqually resolved not to lose the Marraxwa su!:ucmmmp, and they have alrendy per- ceived the necosaity of confining their ener. glus to the cloction of a majority of Repub- licans on jolnt ballot, ingtead of the elaction of members plodged and bound to the sup. port of uny ono man. Tho rocont experience f the liinols Republicans moy serve & use- ‘ul purpose in the forthooming Benatorial tight in Obio. Amony the anniversary exercises reported inour columns. this morning those which comprised the celobration of the Fourth ut Woudstock, Conn,, will command unusual altention und intorest. 'The chief features of the duy’s procoedings were the speechos of Benator Brani and ¢x-Gov, OmaMBER- ramy, late of South Carolina, and now of Now York. Both were in style and tone in. tensely political, and altogether sensational, Alr. Braawx chose for his theme the annexn- tion of territory to tho United Biates, and entertained his listeners with a daching ate tack upon what ho is pleased to consider se- riously o project now in course of agitation with a view to ultimate execution,— bewg the dequirement and snnexa. tion of A portion of Mexico. Br. Lrawk will hsve none of {t; his ideus of annexation squint to the northward, aud he is intensely hostile to the addition of auy turitory which shall naturally augment tho power of tho South. To ex-Gov. Cmx- nEszary wis loft tho cxclusive privilege of The BpriogBeld Journal is still harping on the Pension-Office matter, and continues to be troubled in its mind because the Chlcago office was uot removed to Bpringtield: We invite the attuntion of Tus TRisvxs, bow- aver, 10 the following provision of the law (Scc. 4,785 Revisod iatutes of the United States) which 80 far scems 10 have cscaped It ngtice: Bus sny penslonsr may by reautred, if thousht propes Darwla in tho first paragravh, nothing in the sec- ond, uor yet in the third. 1u the very lsat of all, which was perbaps tso lnes long. the facts with which its writerpad been crammed were taraely ststed, but frou beginniog Lo eod there was o Tosanisd 1o be 1ot at all under conalderation, as the | meution of the now book which was the fucitiog Cardina) bas ablo asélytants in the New¥ork Arch- | causs of tha asticle.