Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 6, 1877, Page 4

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F, & A M.=TII} 123 L i Stated (ommanication iNix (Friitas) even: oclock for businos and work on the F. C. [raicronily tavited o at 1 Jur . F. and A. M. ~Regnlar TUCKEI idky) ‘evenin 144 Twenty- ng Lrethren FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1877. CHICACO MARKET SULMARY, The Chicago produce markets were los active Jesterday, and frecgular, Mess potk closed 17%¢ cper brl Wgher, at $13.12:@13.13 for July, and 35 tor August. Lard closed 10c per T, ut 88,774 cash, and $8.90 for m..mvmu were flendy t81.08 per galion, Floor it. \Wheat closed firm, at §1.30% for July { for Angust. Corn elosed Xc bigh- d 48c seller August. Qats ic cash snd 304K@30Yc Ttye was steady, at 02c cash and G0c Barley was nominally ot 83@$1.00 for acller Septem! llogs wero quict and at $1.65@5.00. Cattle new ali shuly ewder, with 8: 1y active and unchanged, scllingat Ouo hundred dollars o gold 25 in greenbacks ut the close. Greenbacks ot the change yeatordny closed at 95. ———rrr e ‘The Popa iy very ill ogain, dropsy having set iu and aggravated n stato of henlth that wag wouk at the best. A surgical operation wag attewpted, but bad to bo abandoned on account of the low condition of the patient. I'rom various regions in the West reports are received of the atmospherie disturbanco of which Chicago had n mild expericcea yestergay. Lightning, rain, and wind wore abroad with considerable dostructivengss to buildings, crops, cte. A dispatch from New Orluaus confirms the seport in our Washington advices of a day ar two ngo relative to the criminal prosccu. tions instituted in New Orlesns ngainst the members of tho Loulsiann Returning Board. Orders woro yesterday issucd for their arrest, and Messrs, Weers and Kexsen surrondored themsolves to tho utborjtica. It is said that Gov. Nicuovs disolaims all connection with or respousibility for this glaring violation of tho pledges mudo as a part of tho Loulsiang settlcent, It {8 reported that Sir Jaxws F'rrovasoN, o well-known diplomat, is to succoed Lord Dourrrms us Governor-Goneral of tho Do- mivion of Cunada, Bir Jawes s n Scoteh wan, born ol Edinburg, in 1532, and me* coeded to tho Litle of kis father, who was fifth Baronet, in 1819, In 18535 ho rotirod from the uriny, having attained the rack of Cop- tuin tho year Lefor:, and representod tho County of Ayriun tho House of Commons, with two years' intormission, until 1868, o wery Under-Secrotary for Indin for thirtoon montly, and subsequently Under-Becratary for the Tlome Dopartment, when ho was ap- . pointed Governor of South Australia. Visiting tho sins of tho father on the heads of Lis childron, oven at tho expenso of tho old maa's roputation, has just boen illustrated in Itome. The Conntera Laxuen- x1 has brought o sult in the civil tribunal uing a vhinro of tho latu Cardinal Avto- Nz1Ly's estato, on the ground that she was his deughter. This is opposed by his heins, who gravely unawer that sho wasonly “a ascrilegious duughter,” and that her mother was 10 botter then she ouglht to have been for accopting thy advances of the Cardinal, who was then in holy ordors. Ay ANToNeLLy always rocognizod the Countessand futro. duced her into wocioty ns his offspring, it is austmed that the Oourt will promptly dis. pose of tho defense interposed by the heirs and award the Countesa Lor share of the im. wenso property accuwulated by the Popo's wust trusty seivaut. ——— A Puris dispatch furnishes an explanation of thu Turkich withdrawal from Moutenegro ot u time when the complete subjugation of that province hod been mado casy by the totw defeat und partial ennihilation of the Montenegrin forces. Iu the flush of vietory tho Turks retired, and the plan was aban. doned of ocoupying Cottinjo and establishing s "Lurkish Government for the province, Tho interposition of Austrin s belioved to huvo brought about tho chango of plans, and it is not unlikely that her good oftices were icconded by the fnfluence of other powers. Bo long ua Montonegro was in danger of be- ing crusbed by overwhelming odds, 8o long it waa with great dificulty that Sorvia could bo restruined frow notive measures of sym. puthy uud, sssistance for her distressed neighbor, and to provent this dangorouns complieation, diplomacy hnnlvemd BUCCEBS- tully, P — ‘The generel teuor of dispatches from the scal of war, notwithstanding they come wainly from Turkish sources, makes it ap- peroot that if the Russians have not mot with a scrious disaster in Asia that will com. pel them to foll back to Russian soil, they bave at least been baflled in their onward muurch to Erzeroum, and their offensive cam- puign is over furthe present: The Russlan ' lott und centro is now retreating snd thrown upou the defensive, the force beforq Batoumn + has becn defeated snd compelled to retire, and tho garrison at Bajazid will probably be compelled to surrender. Moanwhile, the in. surrcelions inthe Coucasus havo broken out #;zaiu, aud it is not improbable that the Rus- slons sy have to sbaudon the siege ef Kars. ‘TPhosituation is apparently a desper- uh) one, sud recalls those phases in our own War wheo McCreriay, Pory, and Bugssios wero pushed back, one after the other, by the Boutljern army, until at laat we were compelled to fight npon our own soil, It will be remembered, however, that down along our Danubo—thoe Mississippl—onr troops sccured victory after vietory, which eventually paralyzed the Confederacy. Now that the campaign halts in Asia, sharper and harder blows may be expected in Europe. Moanwhile the losses in Asiawill be retrieved by fresh troops, sent from Russin's almost inexhaustible resources. It is alroady nn. nounced that Gen. Merixory is to be recalled and & new man pat in his place, e Dispara’s illness, though it amounts to nothing compared with a‘good squaro sick, such as the Popo gols on periodically, haa awnakened & poculiar sympathy among the Eoglish poople, whose affection for him is daily domonstrated by his reveront constitu- ents, That he represenis the popular side on tho war question is testified in the Yittle incident of nightly occurrence at a musio hnll, where the music of the nations is sung and the flogs displayed, and where Russian embloms are hisscd and Turkish applanded. Another straw is tho manner in which Bir Woirngp Lawsox's notice that hie would ask the Government's roasons for ordering a fleot -] to Beaika Bay was roceived in the Housa of Cowmmons. Periodically that angust and astute body known as tho Board of Trusteos of tho Soldiers' Orphans’ Hame at Bloomington holds a meoting for tho purposs of white- washing tho Matron of that institution, oné M. Vinonsta O, Ons. Notwithstanding an order strictly prohibiting corporal punish. ment, the Matron has been in the Labit of ponnding urching, and whonever charges have beon mode those Popsxars of the Board have waved them away with o flnsh, and refused to onterisin any ovidenco ‘Wadnosday, the Matron sconrged a boy ter- ribly bocauss he cried aftar his mother, and the populace of Bloomington, figuratively mounting tho bloody back of tho writhing youngster, aro clamoring for justico in tones that probably will awaken tho eleopy Trus- tees to some sonse of duty and propriety. Bovoral Wieconsin Postmasters have ap- plied to the Postmnstor-Gonoral for sdvico rolativo Lo their proper comrse respecting the clash botwoen their political positions and their duty under tho Presidont’s order. Four of the five mombors of the Wisconsin Repub- lican State Executive Committes are Post- masters, and thoy want to know whether the sitachment of their signatures—withont which the noxt State Convention cannot bo called-—will be regarded as a violation of tho now regalation. Gen. Krx's opinion is that, under such circumstances, thoy might pro- vide for tho meeting of tho Convention, or cven call it to order, provided they make no attompt to control the organization or subso- quent action, without violating the spirit of the President’s order. He did notadd—what will doubtless occur to these Postmastors— that thoy will do well to embraca the earliest opportunity to withdraw from the Comumit. teo. ‘I'bo ottention of President Haxes having yesterday been directed to Senator Brame's speechat Woodstock, tho Presidont expressed quite freely his sontimonts on the subject of Moxican annaxation. Ie statod with groat owmphasis and distinctness that thero was no thouglit of such o project on the part of his Admiuistration, pud in the plain, outspoken way of tolling the truth that is peculiar to Lim ho added that, if ko wero disposod to look with longing eyes in .any directiéh, it would bo toward the north, bs- lioving that if the dsyshonld over come when our Cansdian ncighbors themselves desired to become a part of tho United Blates such an oxtension of tarritory would bo o proper object of ambition on tho part of tho Amorican people. In this President Hzxzs ouly echoed the almost unnnimous sontiment of ' the utry—that if Canada offerod herself wog:ouhl all be glad to ro- ceive hior into the Sisterhood of States; bat Mexico—wo would rather bo excasod on any terus. STpN—————— MR. BLAINE ON ANREXATION, Tho first point that suggests itsclf in re. gard toMr. Brawve's Fourth.of-July oration is the inapproprintenoss of his theme. The anniversary of National Indopendoence is scarcely a properoccasion for thadiscnssion of Governmont polioy, and cortainly not the tino for utterances calculated to oxcito soo- tional anhnosity. Such was the effoot, if not tho purpose, of Mr, Bramng's addross at Woodstock, Conn. If any great dan- ger threatoncd the country, o political Colos- sus would bo justified in utilizing the Fourth of July to put forth a solemn warning to the American peoplo, DBut this was not the con- dition undor whish Mr, Braive's speech was delivored. If we concedo bLis premises, we moy indorso Lis generalizations and conclu- elons§ but tho essenco of his promises is faluo,and ho bos sounded a false alarm, merc- Iy for the purposo of making goneral obsor- vations which can have no other offsct than possibly that of ereating some distrust of the Administeation without warrant, Jir. Branve laid down throe propositions a3 tho bauid for biy remarks, viz.: (1) That the Government has adopted the polioy of pursuing the Mexicau outlaws boyoud the Rio Grande, and, if necossary, punishing and capturiug them on Moxican soil ; (2) that there is a purpose to intorfure with Bexico under the pretonso of supporting good and pormanent Government thero ; (4) that ths will lond the Governmont to isiuo a sort of Protootorato over tho sister Republio, sud oventnally Lring about thh annexation of o large partof the Mexican territory, Mr, Dranie admits that the Governmont is com- itted only tothe first of these propositious. It would pave been fuiror, thoreforo, it he had conflned himaelf to the oxamination of this ono subjoct, instead of which he devotes himself mainly to the theory of anuexation, to which he confesses the Gove ernment {4 not committed, and the majority of the peoplo are opposed. Mr, Braixs op- poses tho policy of pursuing the Afexican bandits acrosy the border as aggressive and likely to bring about war, “ A aimilar inva- sion of Canadiau soll,” he adds, * would pro~ duce war with Great Dritain in sixty days.” Mr, Banig has got this statement wrong. uide foremost. 1o should have said that, had Canada tolerated the wame sort of brig- andsge and refused to suppress or punish tho pillage of Americans through Maine, New Hampsbiro, New York, Michigan, aud all along the borders, the Unuod Btates Gov. ernment would long since have declared war againat Great Britain, and probably by this time would have controlled Casadian out~ lawa a4 fubabitants of its own territory. This Mexlcan brigandage has boen threaton- ing and depredating our borders for years. Proiests buve boen in vain, and alithe various Mexican Governments in succession have shown themsalves powerless or indifferont, The United Statcs Government has been pa- [ THE CIICAGO TRIBUNE: FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1877. tient to a degree whero patienco has censed to bo a virtno. 1Its tolerntion of these ont. mmges without naggressive measures to check and punish them has been owing partly to tho fact that they were committed in a re- mote and sparsely-settled commnnity, and partly on account of sympathy with Mexico, harassad by rovolntions and changes in Gov. ornment. But bod the enme outrages been committed in New York or Michigan by Canadian bandits, and winked at by the Government of Great Britain, they would have brought on war years ago, and tho United States would not have waited for England to striko the first blow on account of our refusal to tolerate thom. Ag to the genoral thome of annexation, it is very ovident to other people, if not to Mr. Braixe, that not only is the Administration not committed to anything looking in that direction, but that thero is not tho slighteat concern about it among tib poople. We venturo tho assertion that, if the question of the annexation of Mexico or any part theraof were broached in Congress, the schome conld not get twenty votos from nll saotions and partiea combined. Mr. Brame, then, is fighting a windmill. The only prov- ocation ho can possibly cite is a published lottor written by Congressman ScELEICHER, of Toxas, or expressing his views, in which tho idea was edvanced that the Unitod States should interest itself in sustaining some per. manent Constitutional Government in Moxico, sinco tho Monnoz doctrine prohibita theinter- ference of Europoan nationsto thatend. But in this same lettor, if wo aro mo¥ mistaken, there was a distinet disavowal of any purposa of annexing moro Mexican territory. It is true that in former cases of annexation the Bouth was greatly favored, and that Prosidents elected by the Bouth discriminated unjustly sgainst the North in compromising the Northeastornand Northwestorn boundaries; but it is also true that overy scheme of annoxation now would bo roccived with popular disapproval, and probably at the South quite ns' much aa ot tho North, Tho Bouthern incentivo for an- nexation was lost with the abolition of alav- ery, as their desiro wos mainly to galn new territory for the extension of thatinstitation. 8o it is unnecessary and unwise to combat a schemao which has scarcoly an existence out. sido of Alr. Bramz's imagination, howover worthy of condemuation it might be if it wero put forward. Wo suspect that Mr, Brame's main pur- poso in moking the Fourth-of-July oration was to get in a dig at his old antagonist, Mr. Hitr, of Goorgia. Iis reforoncs’to Alr. Hize's speoch, in which the Intter favored the eliminntion from the Georgia Constitu. tion of the sentimont that Georgla shall over romain & member of the Amcrican Union, and that evory oitizon owes parsmount al. legiance to the Constitution of the United Btatos, was conspicuous for its irfolevancy. ‘Wo have no doubt that Mr. Braixz rocollects that his formor tilt with iy lifted them Loth into the Honate ; and perhaps ho thinks that another battle may make them opposing candidates for the Presidency, with Stato BSovereignty ns tho issuc. ‘Chat would cer- talnly bo o glorious opportunity for Mr, Bramg, for ho would thon be wholly in tho right, and eould make his electionsure. Bub §t bas puzzled us to think what connection all thia has with annexation or a Fourth.of- July celebration. DAVID A, WELLS ON SILVER. The Iatoat contribution to tho discussion of tho silver question is that farnished by Mr. Davip A, Wzris in a lotter to the Cin- cionati Commercial. 1t profcssed in begin. ning to demonstrate the impolicy and the na- tional calamity of making tho silver dollar singly, or even with gold, a legal tander, but bofore the writor renched tho ond of his arti. clo ho hod furnished the strongest and best argumont yet made ogainat all tho objections to tho romonslization of silver. Alany yoars ngo Mr, WeLs, s Bpocial Commissioner of tho Rovenuo, began asories of annual reports, resting on tho assmmption that Protection was indispensablo to tho financial salvation of tho nation. As ho progressed in theso ro- ports, ho being an eminently just as well ns au able and practical man, his arguments bo- camo more and more hostile to Protection, until at Inst he reported Proteotion jto ba tho bane of our revenus syastem, It wounld scem that in this lottor on the allver question Mr, WeLrs, ashe progressod inhis argument, discoverod tho weakness and fallacy of tho gold theory, and with hia great candor and forco oxposod these orrora and inconals- toncios, and himself furnished many redsons why silver should bo remonetized. After n caroful and studious revisw of tho whole busi- noas, the only sabstantial objection bho has to urge is that silver dollars will weigh sixteen times as much as gold dollars, and that $1,000 will weigh fifty pounda. ° It is hardly necessary to say that intorna. tional oxchangos, and exchanges betweon Btates and cities, and even betwoon individ. uals, aro not made by tha tranafor of coin in largo sums, IHow far tho handlingof gold and silver enter into the business of foreign exchauges, it ia only nooessary to give tho figures of our foreign trade. Wa givo the exports and imports of the United States for the years 1875, 1876, and for ton montha of 1877, and the proportion of coln and Lullion 3 Value of im- Coin and bull- porla aiid ez~ on,lmporis " (B o G exportes 187 2 121,500, 000 3,154t 000 1877 (ten monthe) OO US0 5L 64, 450,000 It will be saen how umall a proportion of coin and bullion is nooded to balauce our in. tornational oxchanges, 'and, despfte Mr, Wxres' argumont, a very large proportion of our oxports was in the weighty ailver, both a4 coin aud bullion, * In fact, gold and silver are not counted in large transactions; they aro woighed in all large institutions, and al. ways wheu the amount is a large one. Mr, Wieirs' lameut over the time wasted in counting silver dollars, and in tho thousands of wiltions which change handa overy year, is bardly sustained by facts, The world's com. mierce is now dono by bills of exclange, and ouly a suall porcantage of monsy is needed to settle balances. This is na truo of the domestio commerce 0s of the foreign. The moans of transportation for coin are now so great and so genoral that the mere difforence 1n the cost of transporting eilver and gold iy of but trifling importauce. Mr. Weres dovotes considerable spaco to the discussion of the ovil cffacts of a de- prociated silver currency; bat, as no one favors a permanently deprociated currency, aud as no ons expects to have such a cur- ronoy, and as the restoration of silver to its standard relative value with gold is one of the euds sought by tho remonstization of silver, ull thia part of the letter is hardly pertinent. Mr. ‘Wxerrs himself ooncodes this by saying : Sliver is now umehud undoubtedly by resson of temporary causes. The drif uf opinlon, with political economists aud those who bave made the subject s study, s that the prescat deprecistion is Bot perwanent, and has becu produced exclusively by e action of curtaln of the Goveruments of Rorpa demonetizing It, and forcing its aale asn commadity npon the world's marketa, The question of next and final Importance to be consldered [a: In it denirable to provide by Ieglsla- tlon that dehts incurred prior ko 1873, when'silver waa demonctlred, may bo paid in clther gold or sfiver, na the law authorized before that period? It sllver into bo permanentiy and largely depre- clated relatively to gold in consequence of & diminution in the amount of labor reqaired to prodnce siiver, this isa peactical nnd fmportant question of constitutlonal law and morale, Bat it the present price of silver 14 owing to the aetion of Qermnny, and §f within & few yeara it In reason- ably cortain to resnme ita old vrice in the markets of tho world; or If the sdoption on the pait of the United Stales of the bl-metallic standard will im- mediately restore silver te par or nearly par with gold, the question ia comparatively unimportant. Var the debtor cannot show that ho has beon In- Jured anlers he can prove that silver, as merchan. dlac, wonld be depreciated relatively to gold. after 8 restoration of tho bi-metallic standard as It ex- irted al the time his debt was contracted. Defore 1873 a debtor had a right to discharge his debts in either gold or sllvor. Silver has now demonatized by act of Congress, and the ides has come about that tho debtor has in con- soquence In some way been Injured. Dat will somcbody polnt out wherein the In- jury coneists? If silver had not been demon- etized, and a demand for sllver should exist In this country In any degree commeonsurate with the de- sire which, it1a alleged, at presont possesses dho community to pay exiating dobts in ailver, nothing {a mora cdrtata than that there would be little or no depreciation of silver as an article of merchandise in comparlson with gold; or at feast that silver wonld retarn to the average market price per standard ounce that provailed for years before the act of demonetization. Remonatization of sliver in the United Siates will, therofore, undoubtedly bring sliver to par with gold in the opon markets of tho world, and it will 1n no way beneft the debtor, If he countsng a ‘beneft the opportunity to pay his debts in valuo Tcss than ho recclved. By tho restoration of tho bi-metallic standard, also, tho debtor will not be benafited, bot is certain to bo matorlally injured. ‘He will not obtain slivor as moncy or merchandise ot leas than ho wonld pay for gold, and he will thrist npon the commumty a currency cumber- somo to handleand nse; sn antiquated, finade- quate tool of trade; a coln that practically cannot be used In our Intornational transactions, and a poticy suroto hinder, if not arrest, tio revival of business, and national fndustrial ‘aud commercial dovelopment. Wo tako these oxtracts from tho lettor, as thoy show how complotely Mr. Wrrnis ad- mits tho want of substanco in all the objec- tions made to tho remonetization of silver. Ho ndmita that tho fall in silver isduo to s temporary causo; that the remonetization of sgilver will advance the prico of that metal to par ; that it is both legal and honest to pay tho debt in dollars defined by law when tho contract was made ; that if the silver dollar bo remonetized, it ia possible it, and not the gold, will bo drained ; and that *‘dollars” will not be 8o *“ cheap " that debtors ean pay their dobta with them to the injury of cred. itors. After all, tho only objection 18 that of weight, which objection ho thus pro- sonta : Eighteen dollars and fourlesn cents, represent- 0 by the’prescnt subaldlary silver colnags of the United States, wrelgh a pound; one Aundred dolars welgh five and a balf p nnda. and for overy thou- eand dollare that a man s pald In silvera whool- ‘bagrow would become necessary if e proposed to remove It. The wheelbarrow, In fact, will becomo the essential, and possibly tho fashionable, porto- monaale for all who propose to cugage in any con- riderablo moneyed transactions, If the dollar of the fathers is to bo made by law the principal clrculat. ing medlum. 1f o business was ortensfve, and 1t ‘became desirable to poy st once $300,000 (!n the dollar of the fathers), then the wheclbarrow wonld have to be discarded, and lha ralleoad car called Into reanlsition. Novertholess, the mines of the United Btates snnually prodnce and handle ailver to the nmount of $4%,000,000; Germany has just found use for $96,000,000 of old silver recoined in new donominations, and tho world gencrally finds means and appliances | for handling an imnfenso amount of ailver without any serious loss or ineonvenienco. Indeod, silver is yet tho standard coin of three-fourths of mankind. Having had his objections to tho remonotization of silver ro- duced to that of its supposed inconvenience, and os thot obfection is exploded by the fact that large imoney transactions are now con. ducted by the nso of bills and chocks, the generu! forco and drift of Mr. Wewrrs' papor will bo nccepted by the country as strongly in favor of tho romonetization of tho ailver dallar, THE QREEE BEVOLUTIOR, Tho revolutionary feeling in Grooco since the Rusaians crogsed tho Danubo has grown so intanse that tho Bultan on Mopday lnst called an Extrnordinary Council to consider measures necessary to meot possible hostili- tios, and as tho result of tho Council Mzne- uer Avnt Pasna was appointed to the com. mand of the army on the I'hessalian frontior, Therising of tho Grocks does not grow out of any sympathy for tho Sclaves, but from a disposition to profit by the misfortunos that bave ovortaken Turkoy. The Groek Revo- lutionary Cowmmittee, who incited this up-, rising, was foundod at Athons in 1867 for the purposo of aiding tho Crotan insurgents, Aftor the supprossion af that rebellion, a so- cloty was ostablished for the purpose of omancipating all the Grooks under Turkish rolo from the' Adristio to Armenia. When the robellion in Horzegovina broke out, the Committeo promised Barvla that as soon as alie gained a victory over the Turks thero should bea general Greck uprising all over the Empire, but tho victory never camo. Bervin was dofeated, and the Greeks remained quiot until Russia- was in the ficld, and, now that she is over the Danube, there is overy prospoct the signal will be given for a Grock uprising in Egirus, Thessaly, Southern Macedonia, and the islands in the Archipelago. In this connee- tion, a stalomont made by the Athens cor. respondent of tho Deutschs Zeitung ea to the strougth of the insurgents will be of in- lerest. In Creto thero are 6,000 men ready ‘to tuke the flold; in Thenu!y and Epirus, 14,000; In Macedonia snd Thrace, 5,000, For the arming of these forces, the Commit. teo has 25,000 rifles, 20,000 swords, 6,000 revolvery, and 20,000 pistols, The same correspondont states that tho insurrec. tion is to 'begin in Thessaly, suod thence extond to Orote, where all propara- tions have been inade,—a statemont which scems to bo confirmed Dby the sction of the Turkish Council above referred to, The army of the Grook Kingdom itsolf hasa peace establishnent of guly 15,000 men, and only 10,000 of the 85,000 reserves have been mobilized. Tho nominal strength of the Na- tional Guard is 165,000 wen, but only 100,000 are armed and trained, and of these but 40,000 can be relied upon for active service. I'he navy iz in o wretched condition, com. prising only four blockade-runners, two iron. clad corvelles, & scrow corvetts, and six small steamors, With a small army, mesgre pecunlary ro- sources, and noxt to no navy, it is evident tat Groece has little to look forin a War with Turkoy unless she has foreign help. The London Saturdsy Review, In this connection, makes 8 significast aunouncement, which we quote: When tho inevitable ruptare occars, greater sy« ) pathy will be folt i Bugland for the Greeks than for any other of the unprovoked sssallants of Tur- key. Thoir natural ambition will not bo ettributed 10 Russlan futrigues, though the diverslon which thoy would effect would neceasarily benost tho Northem lovadge. Although during the balf csn- tary of the existence of the (ireek Kingdom thero ha been some collision of Greek and English poll- cy, the zood oflices which have from time to time been exchanged have cetablished an Intermittent fecling of goad will. After the abiicatlon of Or1i0, the Greeka nnanimously oftered their crown to an Engllsh Prince, snd the caurtesy, though 1t was declined, produccd a subatantis] acknowledie- ment in the cession of tha lonlan Islands. Nouo of the candidalqe for the succesalon to Torklsh supremacy would bo 50 unobjoctionable. Without help from somo source, tho Grooks cannot mako much headwny towards the establishment of their . Pan.Hellenic Kingdom, which is as chorished a8 droam with them as the Pan-Slavonic Empire with tho Sclaves. It may prove of great value, howaver, in another diraction, by indirectly aiding Russin, ne, if the uprising becomes genorl, it must roquire a diversion of somo portion of the Turkish forces to meet it. A QUESTION OF “INHERENT RIGHT. ‘We think the [President's Clvil Secevice] order 18 a good deal {00 swecping and too **binding, " it it {8 lhtended to be literally understood. That an officer shionld not be required or expected, o8 a con- dition of retaining his office, to take an active part 1in the management of political cancuses and con- ventions, [s all right, and tho enforcement of fhat prohibition fs what 1s roally nceded, and desirod by the mass of tho people. To go further and say that he shall nct be permitted (o do what fa the fn- herent right of every citizen, nnd the dufy of every one who takes the proper degree of interest in public aflairs, fa golng (oo far. The President's injunction i» probubly meant to be understood somewhat In the spleit of a direction once given by. & scnnble rallrondd Buperintendent in regard to tho obecrvanco of a rallier stringent technical order from headquartery: **Obey ordors; dut don't be Joolish about it." At all ovents, wo who hold no Federal afices, and whose necka aro thereforo not in danger of the Presidential bowatring, may he permitted to hope 0. —-lllanmlngton (41i.) Panta- graph (Rep.). ‘Wa profer to think that the Bloomington Pantagraph, which is gonerally fair in ita commonts, misunderstands, and does not in- tend to misropresent, tho Prosident's Civil- Bervico ordor. Under the torms of that or- der, no officor of tho Governmont is *‘ per- mitted to take part in the political organiza. tions,—cancuses, conventions, or election campaigna." That is all. Ho is oxpressly pormitted by this ordor to vote, to express his individual viows on public questions, to writo letters to the newspapers, wmnkon public spoech if ho desires, to contributo such monoy for campaign purposcs as ho is willing to contribute, and otherwiso cxerciso tho rights and priviloges of citizouship, so long as thoy do not interfero with his offleial daties, Now, is the prohibition of the not- ivo manogemont of party politics *too sweoping and too binding”? If not, then tho President’s ordor caunot be fairly eriti- cised in that way, bocause that is all it pro- hibita, ‘We may differ with the Pantagraph ns to what constitutes the *inheront right of evory citizan,” which, it snys, is interfored with by this order. Wo do not beliave it to be sn “inherent right of thocitizon " Federal offico- holdor to make up slates, manrulato prima- ries, Lulldozo caucnses, pack conventions, and ' dictato nominations, If wo admit, for the saks of argument, that it is tho *inhorent right of overy citizen” (o indulgo in theso procticos (which somo poople do not régard na very roputable), wo may still deny that it is tho “official right. On the coatrary, overy thoory of a systomatic and businoss-like Civil Borvice munt bo based on the non-interforonce of publio officials with tho **inheront right” of citizons to chooso' their own sngents. ‘Whonever persons are sceking nominations or appointmonta to public place, thoy are very fond of rveforring to ofticcholders as tho servants of the people, Now, it is this doc. tring which the President insista thoy shall obsorve after as well as before thoy go into office. They are not the servants, how- over, but tho mastors, when thoy under- take to dictato to tho people whom thoy shall nomiuate, and how they shall run their campaigns, What the President means— and ho had very cloarly oxpressod himsolf— is, that tho Governmont officers, the ogents, shall not be superior to the people, their principals, 0s thoy nro whonever thoy as. sume the management of party conventions. Aund ho does not menn, as the Pantagraph Intimates, that bis directions in this matter shall bo taken in a Pickwickian senso, | Itis just possiblo that journals liko the Pantagraph, published in the smaller citics ond towns, and partionlarly in the West, may not undorstand tho necessity of this or- der, beeause their conatituoncies have never suffored from tho interforonce and dictation of Federal officcliolders to the extent that tho larger cities, ond particularly thoso of the Eust aud South, have, ondured these evil. Whonever Customs Colloctors, or Internal-Revenye Colleotors, or Postmastors, or Marshals, or Sub. Treasurers, or Naval Oficers, er Appraiscrs undertake to ¢ mansgo " local politics, it is not their individual interforenco alond against which tho people bave to comba}, or to which they have to submit; thoy bring intq thoe Aeld likowiss tho activa work of all their subordinates depondont upon them for their positions; thoy intlnate that *‘voluntary " contributions will bo reccived in such torms 05 to mako these contributions compulsory § they send out thoir agonts (pald by the Gov- ornment) to do tlie bummer-work of ward. moetings and primaries; they promise pa- tronage or threaton to withbold it; in one word, they omploy all tho pow- er of tho Governmeut influcuce which attaches to thelr office, nnd not to thenisolves individually, to compass thelr partisan onds and carry thoir points, Is thore any theory of right or justice which oommonds this abuse of a trust in which they agreed to act as ngents and servanta? Meanwhile, tho poople of the Republican party araasked to stand back and merely complain that they are compelled to vote for candidates for Governors and the Legisla- tures, lod!lyon,fl«lnrmun, Bherifls, Olozks, ‘Treasurers, oto,, who are notably inferior to other material the party might command. ‘fhere Is another consideration which the Pantagraph evidently overlooks, if it does not intend to troat it with conlempt, How can the intorferonce of Henators and mem. bora of Congress with the President in mak. ing his appointments be succesafully checked if Governmeut employes b .permitted to *‘manage things” at home? Will not those Benators and members of Congrossé continue to turn heaven and earth to bave men sp- pointed who will serve thelr own political interest aud mmbition? Can Senators and mombers of Congross bo trusted even os ad- visers 50 long as the tomptation exists to favor only those mon who will bum for their re-election? Will the fitness of an ap- plicant recelve any consideration from a member of Congreas, whose advice is asked, £ that momber thinks that somo othor ap- plicant, who is not fit for tho office, will 4 mansge things"” in his intorest, while the capable applicant might not do so? The surest way to cut off this systom of recip- rocal favoritism—the momber of Congress urging tho sppointmont of a friend, and this friond working for said membeor's re-eleqijon —is to prohibit tho Goverument ] from active wire-pulling and mansging of local politics with tho aid of the patronnge ond influcnce which their position gives them. CHAMBERLAIN 0“ TKE PRESIDENT. £f Senntor Buaine's Fourth-of-July address at Woodstock ia subject to criticism as inap- proprinte to the ocension, how much more 8o 1s that of ex-Gov. CriamspenLAzy, delivered on the samo occasion? It wna a timeof all othora to promote good fecling, and to nvold partisan and personal differences calenlated to create dissension, Yot Mr. CoaMnERLAIN, who is no longer a residont of the South, and who in fact resided there only so long as ho could hold oflice, abused tho occasion to make a personnl arraignment of the Presi. dent on account of hisSouthesn policy. The offcnse was 80 pointed that the audience took oceasion to robuke the sponker on tho spot. Ono gontleman arose nnd called for threo cheors for tho President and his pol- icy, which wero given witha will. Evon the Prosident of the mesting put Limself right by publicly stating that he Lad ontire donf. denea in President Haves and his policy, and that it must be understood that AMr, Onax- DERLAIN had spokea only for himself. This cxpression was nlso groeted by hearty choers, and Mr. Cuaxprnramy was robuked a second time, It is motablo that in Mr, CoamoERLAN'S speoch ho referred to his own case in only two or throo sentences, and dovoted himself mainly to the consideration of Mr. Pacranp's gricvances. Now, observation of the two men bes shown that Alr, PAcraRD i8 botter nble to take cars of himsclf than Mr, Cuoau. BERLAIN ; ot all evonts, he did not find it necogsary to remove to tho North just as poon ns it Lecame apparent that he could no longer hold office in Loulsiana. Taking this view of tho caso, Mr. OmAMDERLAIN might botter leave Mr. PAckARD to fight his own battles. It was apparent, however, from the personal spleen of Lis sposch that Mr, Ontamozeraiy had his own case malnly in mind, and that what he conceives to be his porsonal grievance prompted his unwar- ranted and unworthy attack on tho Prosi- dent, But Mr. CriaMpEnLAIN's caso was dis- posed of by tho Supreme Court of Bouth Oaroling, which was Republican in politics, and tho titlo of which waa not disputed by anybody. The count of votes under the di- rection of tho Bupreme QCourt resulted as follows : HaxrroN... CUAMBERLAIN. Taxrrox's majorlt, Haves Electors, TiLuExR Electors. " Javes' mafority Thus, whilo Hayes roceived tho popular vote in tho Stato, CHAMBERLAIN did not, and it was unressonable for the lat- tor to expoct tho formor to keop him in offico by bayonots. 'The reason for the differenco wos that many of the negrocs and some whito Republicans who voted for Haxes for Presidont voted for Ilamrron and against COnaspentamy for Govornor. CHAMDERLAIN wanted two countios thrown out in order to count himeelf in, but the Supreme Court, though unanimously Republican in politics, would not consont to it. There Isn't much basis in this statoment of the caso for Mr. Unavmenrats's whine, Thore is one thing, by the way, that Ex. Gov. Omampenuamy. forgot to mention in his ‘Woodstock specch, viz.: That there have boen no political murdorers in Lonisiana and Bouth Carolina sinco PAcxanp and CuaupEh- txand stepped aside, ond that tho negroes havo not made any complaint of being mal. tronted or abused in any way, Can ho sy a3 much for his own Administrstion? Bpeaking of the rumored desiro of some- body to annex moro Mexican torritory, Mr. Bramr, in his Fourth.of-July oration, re- ferrod to tho relative atrongth of tho Bonth in the Union to push such a project. IHe said; Tho consolidated atrength of thesixteen States that, wero latoly slaveholding is a tremondous po- litieal force, embodying almost one-half the Sen- aio of the United States, more than ong-third of the Houss of Representatives, and aboat two-fifths of tho aggregato Electoral College. Tho entire cloment is controlled by a small minosity of the people of those Btates; it will be wielded In the futuro with the unity of despotlsm, and it nlma at permancnt domination In the Government of the coun £ ‘The intorest of Missouri in any Moxioan. annexation schome is precisely the same as that of Kansas, Illinois, and Iowa, which bound hor on threo sides; Kentucky has the samo interest a8 Indiana and Ohio; the Vir. ginlns havo no mora than Pennsylvania, nnd Maryland and Delaware tho same as New Jorsoy ; which amounta to saylng that those so-called Bouthiern Statos havo not a particle of interest in extending our boundaries be- youd the Rio Grande any farther into Mox. ico. It would bo as dificult forthe Qarolinas o givo a roason for desiring moro Mexican territory os for the New England States. 8inco tho abolition of slavery and the sup. prossion of the Robellion, the Southorn Btates have not exhibited tho ulightost deaire for the sannexation of sny more Mexican * Groasors " to the Pnion. “Thoro s no * pecu. liar fnstitation " in oxistonce' requiring auy farthor svread of the arcaof slavery, The “*Bouth " would gain no strength by an scces- slon of territory south of Arizona and Cal. ifornin, Heuco thoy are more likely to op- pose than advocale suoh & polic; Uevout a Christlan as be is, nothing can con- vince Mr. Hewny C. Bowsx that Heaven is of maore importauce thau Woodstock, Conn. Far years Bowex has operated with a view to sur- reptitiously obtalniug free advertisements of his little onc-horse town, and his demonstra- tidu Wednesday was the result of prodigious planning and wuch anxious thought. It made but littlo difference to this eat Diaciple whother his speakors wers Democrats, Repub- licany, heretics, or Chiristlans, so long as ha got togethier nen well cuough known to insure s report of tho speeches, aud bad they beea alive ho would have welcomed GRORGE WASHINGTON, BeNEDICT ARNOLD, MaRTIN LUTHER, and Tod PAINE cqually cordlally, aud left them to en- tertaln cach other, while be attended to the comfort of the Assoclated Press agent, Con- 1cticut has developed some great men, but never did she tyy a mstch team until sho fo- vented Bowxy and Bansuar. ————— datas foTSreRiar ot the Mveq Wi 2o dons 1o he v bita Bulpbar Hpflng Fatbering (nat Je tajked of 1 law's Wit Sulphur '¥prings they are golng o, 1t 13 @ apriugs of another eort, whero the sulphur llllemll lnd smelleth unpleasantly warm.—Chl- €dgo Tribune, 'hose spriugs of another sort sre alrcady crowd. ed with leoublicans who claim & pre-emption rizht 4 tho place, ~Cincinual) Enguirer, But those wre the sorcheads who, like the Boss of the springs, thought they could run the Uoveruwent better thun the established author- Itics, snd were Bred juto outor darkoess snd condemued to ctornal stew. A Washington dispatch to the New York Herald, speaking of the unbealthiness of Wash- logton during the dog-day months, says: 1o withirawiog to thelr summer residenco at Boldlers’ Howe, the Cyutral Park, 30 to speak, of Wasbington, e Preafdent and his ‘family are just in tme to escaps on cvidemic of malaria with which b uptul has beets $ddenty vidted The sickneas fv 80 widcwpreuad and distressing that peo- lu arq ofteutaken 1l with vounlting or nsusvs in rhu streits, wud cumpellud 1o sesk remicdy ig the - The epidemic 19 attribnted to the uncavering and exporure of tho streets Inele dent to the remaval of the uld rotten wolden pave- mente, preparatory to the Iaying of saphalt pave- ment. ‘and to the goneeal upturninzof the roil In the repaving of th city rihermore, the heavy anowsof Jast witer, WA the A of the SnIn sod suminer, have left tho clay roil n wet eponue, which Is now extialing the malarln ander tho Snfin- encw of the Hot aun, The mnvahes below the White Tloure sre nlso a conetant sourcenf miaama, aud the ‘blooms of the silanthns trees hfc been cxeeeding- ly offenstve. The rash for quiniing s likely to ex- Bt tho stocks in montof th retail deug-storas. 1t 18 fortunate that the extra seeslon oF Congress wag not called to meet next Monday. e — “Tcan," sald Hxxni PrrneAv, to the clerey- man who married him, * I can et rid of an obe noxious mother-In-law and wife. The former might be shown the meebanism of a revofver, which would sccldentally go off, and the latter might betaken to sce sume mountain secnery and pushed overa preciplee.”” A few months afterwards all England rang with the dotalls of asad disaster to Mrs, Brionas, mother-in-law to HExnnt PRRREAU, who was Insfantly killed by a revolver whose actlon ho was explaloing to hers His wife was prostrated by the accldent, and PRRREAU took ber to the Tyrol Mountalns. One day he returned from a tour through the heights, and remarkod that his wifo bad fallen Into a chasm. By her death he Inhorited £40,- 000. When' the jury returned o verdiet of guilty he was promptly condemmned to be Danged. ———— Published In Cdhstantinople, with every facility for recelving news, the Levant Herald managed to securc the following informatlon concerning the crossing of the Danube: Withont afiirming {t as a fact, we should not be surprised to learn that the Rusafans had attempted 10 croas the Danube nt & point, fe let us say, Letween 8ilistrin and Tchernavoda., 1l they By were driven back, —for iiér Sero ho num-n o this aide of the Danube at 10 o'clock last night. ‘Thio Ilerald Is an English paper, but the thumb of the censor Is manifest in this stroke of cn- terprise. mearest demg-store, ——— Thero will be news of a terrible uprising in Lonoke, Ark., vefore) long, and the whites will send great complaints of tyranny on the part of the blacks. A colored man wasarrested, locked up, and lynched, and the lynchers arc on o man- hunt for more colored people, who arc.arming In thelr own protection. In the collision proba bly cvery black will bocleaned ont, and a Com- mfssion will discovor that tho whites In self- proteetion wero compelled to eradicate the other race, as they did at Napolcon, years ago. ——— W. B. Ropenrson, Piscatorial Commissioncr of Virginia, is not permitted to either fish or cut bait on his nativo sofl. Whlle' Inspecting streams lately, he and his party oncamped at * the foot of a hiil, from the apex of which the chivalry rolled bowlders down upon the cn- campment, fracturing the skull of one mgn and scaring the rest out. «Dr. Norto, In o rocent spcech before the Cincinnat! Soclety of Natural History, accused Lake Michigan of befng covered with potato- bugs. And tho worst of it {s, the Boclety, ap- parently sucked {n by the statement, condoled sympathetically with tho lake, e ———— A Western editor who has heard that raxT cats with his knife Indiguautly asks If & man II “expected to cat with his fingers.!” —e—— PERSONAL. Robeson desires to "go to Congrezo from the Camidon District, Mr. G. F, Troin informs a perspiring world thot he has determined to furnish no more opinions to tho public through the press unlcss ho 18 pald at Bohomion rates, Bonator Authony, of Rhodo Island, is go- ing to Burope for tho sammer, and the prasport 1ssucd 10 him by tha State Dopertment requests all persons to treat him with the consideration due hls office. ‘The young woman who graduated at the hoad of a claes of thirty-clght at Bates Collegoe, Lowlaton, Ma., this year, intends to becomo a physiclan, In addition to boing a good scholar, she was nn excellont gymunst. Tobert Dale Owon attonded his last seance threa woeka befaro his death, and was then fnformed that hle mission was noarly endod, .and . that beforo the autumn leaves follhe would be among those {n the spizit whom ke longed to meet. JessoGrant writes to 8 boy-friend that ho has had a misorable time [n London, whero ho has ‘been required to attend banquets, make spocchos, aseociate with tho aristocracy, and bo fn every other respoct the embodiment of dignifed doll- ness. J. Meredith Read, our Minister at Athens, iz requested to riso and explain the officlal state. ment that the arms of the Venus of Milo havo not been found. Tus Trsuxa attho time sald the story was probably s hoax, and sauch it scems to have been, At tho Yale Commencement, one graduate publicly congratnlated Presldent Woolsey cn bis participation in the Pifth Avenne Conference, and its glorlous ontcomo n tho present political sltna- tion. Dr. Wool aid: bellave that that Conferenco spoke the peo; mind, and that s the reason of the succoss, Two LEnglish authors have taken in hand Mrs, llodgson's story,—** That Lass o* Lowrle's,— with & view to tho stage. Tho drams {e In four acts, and entitled **Liz." Mrs. Hodgson has hoen offarcd ashare of the profits accruing from the pro- duction of the pleco In England, on conditfon that shio makes similar concessions to the playwrights should tho work be successful on the American atage. Mr. FI. W. Raymond hns written an inter- esting lettor for the Doston Glode on the Chicago Literary Club. Jle says that the word *‘dinner* In connection with thalate banquet proved to be an ignia fatuus, for those who came with empty stomachs carried them home sgaln, e reports, moreovar, tho proceedinge at the banquet, giving Lrief synopues of the spoeches, which is morethan tho Chicago papers were requested to do. 1y, Sibley, the Librarian of Harvard Col- lege, bas rosigued after & servico of twenty-one yearssachlof and nine years as sasistant. The position has been tendered Mr. Justin Winsor, 8u- puriotendent of the Boston Public Library, The city suthorities aro making sirennous efforts to ro- tain the services of Mr. Winsor, sud have offered to increase his salary to $4,600 per enoum, tha sum offered by Iarvard. The oopyright receipta of Mr. Motley from tho Ilarpers amoynted to $00,000; those of Prof, Charles Authon, $100,000; those of the lato Albert Barnes, $75,000, d th of Marcius Wilson, on his series school-readers, about $200,000. Tho gains in tho Jasttwo lustauces sre * ot due solely to merits of suthorshlp, but to the system of pushing text-books, which the Harpers were the drst to orgauize. ‘t'he Hon, Edwards Pierropon? blundered in a speoch givon ats bangdes to Gen. Grant fn Logdon recently, when he sald that Gen. Grant had ncver foaght two battles on the samo day be- causa there was no ecemy left after the dret, e had forgotten the Wildarness, and unnecessarily Delittled the valor of hls countrymen who fought on the other side. If the encmy had bosn s be represented them, Gen. Grant's victories wnll have been less glorious. Col. Bob Ingersoll's * Réview of His nc viewers* attracted 8 large sudlenco to the Gran Opera-Touse in Ssn Frauciscq Wednesdsy week Evgry part of the house except tha upper galler, was filled, fully 300 perscns belng scated upor the atage. At tho lowest estimats there were 2,800 persons present who listened totho lecture. ‘The Cologel spol lmost uninterroptedly from ¢ o'clock uotil twenty minutes before 11 o’clock. Hu defiantly relterated biv aoti-religions’ views and h::plud to the -rgumnu of tho clargy eo A riain; nthnrlnhghnd is Mn. Aunie Edwards Shoshould not be confounded with Ama- la B, Edwards or M. Detbaw Edwards, —writare of au entirely <ifferent school. Mrs. Annle Ed- wards bas writton the followlug books, all of which bave attalued soms celebrd **Ought W¢ o Visit Herr* retce, Yeoman *‘Lesh, 8 W Houor," aad **The Worl ported that Mra. Edwardsis now cogaged on a uov- ¢l of surpassing fnturest, entitled ** A Blae-dlock- in2,"" which will 300n bo published simultaneously io Eugland aud Awernica, 1t 1s belioved that this now work will add cousiderably to her reputatios. Verdict." It s re-,