Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 10, 1877, Page 4

a THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: TUESDAY, JULY 10, 1877 lako romething like s mile from shore, where the fresh, cool air and the freo sun- light cnred and invigornted as only Nature's medicines can. Yestordny the Floating Hos- pital for 1877 was put in operalion, and its benefits aro likely to be in cven greater do- mand than last yoar. Itisa charity which needs only to ba maintained to secure o lib- eral support. The cost for tho season is but 22,600, and it wonld puzzle anybody to sug- The Tribae, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. RY MAIL—IN ADVANCE—POSTAGE PREPAID. Daily Filitlon, ane yrar. 1 Tarlrof ayear, per month. Matled to Rny address four ‘ Eordsy Ldition: Literary and Thaniile bhe £atonlay Kt Tri-Weekiy, one year, Az Tansof achn berminih, M | gest how or whero the same smount could One copy. per yeat. .25 | be expended with equal resnlts, Elibat i 160 E——— Epecimen ropled wnt It in to bo gas, inatead of oil, if the Coun- Ta present delay \kes, be pure and give Post- Offier addrese in Tull, [acluding State and Connty. liemitaces may be muie elther hy drafl, cxprem, Tost-UBice orler, or In regiatered lettern, at our rlak. TRRMS TO CITY SUUSCRIDERS. Daily, delivered, Sunday excepted, 23 centa per Dally, deliversd, Eunflla tncluded, THE TRID drew Corner Madlso ¢il adopt the ropori of tho Committce as sgreed upon, Messrs, Warkivs and Brrr- 1¥as wore before the Committeo yesterdny, and mnde their bids, which were promptly reduced, and the two represontatives ncoepte ed what they conlkd get as graccfully as thoy had asked for more. The Bouth-Side Com- pany is to receive $1.656 per 1,000 feet, and the West Side $§2,—an arrangement which will probably be satisfactory to the Council, and cortainly profitable to the Companies. TAMUSEMEN Adetphi Theatre. Monroe etreet, corner of Dearbora. Mea” **Three Fast Cotton's Opera.llanse, Nonroe street, between Stats sod Desrborn. aersonrille.” Ao TUESDAY, JULY 10, 1877, A Quincy parly by tho name of Warre claborates the discovery that ha is heir to Lalf a million in property at Springfield His inheritance is snpposed to cover the site of the old State-House, and the property up- on which stand the American liouse and St. Nicholas Hotel. Itis to Lo lamented that the provisions of the will under which Mr. Warre claims did not comprehond the late Legislature, as belng more ossily converted into cash than the renl estato upon the ac- quisition of which the legatea is to be con- gratulated. — Some Uspenwoons of Kentucky have fal- len into the bhands ofcertain Philistines, known as the Coviugton Light Guard. For yoars the Uxpenwoona havo carried on the business of Ku-Kluxing with flattoring suc- cess, but in an evil hour they fouled with ofte Sranrer, whoso habits of desultory shooting aroind made holex in divers anatomies, and brought out the military, The UnpErwoop gang intrenched itself in a log houso, but the ardent young soldiers of the Guard up aud at thewn, and threo surrendered whilo tho reat skipped out. ‘Thereis a cortain prompt- ness nnd plain-dealing about the affair that commands admiratio; CHIOAGO MABKET SUMMARY. The Chicago vrodnce markets were active yes- teridsy, and generally steady, cxcept that whent . pork closed 10c per brl higher, cash and 811 27H@13.50 for Auznst. Land closed a stnde firmer, at $8.00 cash and $8.05 for Augusl. Meats wero firm, at 3¢ per Ib for loose shoalders and 0%c for do stort riba, Lake frelghts were firm, at 1Y@2¢ for corn to Iinflajo, Ilighwines were stoady, at £1.08 per gatlon, Flour was falrly sctive. Wheat cloved Xclawer, At 81.41% for July and $1.21% for Augnet. Corn closed e higher, at 48Xc for Auly and 48%c for Angust. Oata closed ateady, at @ic cash and H0Xc for Angnet. Rye was firm, at G0tlc. Barley was nominal, at 80c@$1.00 for new, scller September, 1logs wero firm and 10¢ igher, closiug at $4.85@5.20, Cattle were in- sctive and nomiual, at 8 50Q.0.50, Kheep were unchanced. One hundred doliars In gold would Luy §100.3745 In greenbacks at the close. Greenbaoka ot tho Now York Stock Er. ‘lLiange closod at 3. Tornado; Ponsaukeo, Wis,; ix persous gilled ; o large number wounded ; town & total wreck, The rcvcn’uoflfro;:_d;&ll_c;l_npldu doring the year just closed was 1,238,000 in excess of that for 1875.6, Assurances ave given by prominent Louisi- nna Conservatives in Washington that the porsecution of the members of the Roturn- ing Bonrd is the work of the Bourbon fac- tion of the Democracy, and that it is likely to widen ' tho split botween the two wings to the extent of producing an opon rupture. Ther Comservatives aro sald to be in thorough accord with Gov. Nicnowts in regarding the prdk curing of tho indictmonts as.a shameful breach of fuith which s majority of the Democratie party in Louisiann—that portion who earo nothing for Tmwpen's prospeets in 1850, and who only seck to secure for their Stato the political repose o necessary for a return of prosperity—will disavow and ro- pudiate. We print this morning the full text of tho rocont correspondence botween Earl Denny and Prince Gonmscuaxory relativo to the proper consideration to be shown to ho somewhat indefinite nrtidJo known as British Tho Czar is reported ns oxpecting s declar- ation of war from England within a month, aud as being prepared to meet the issuo invalved, The wituntion in Armonia is rather a gloomy ova for the Russinn forces. Under- Tating the 'Turkish strength, they pushed for- word to mwet with dcfoat, sud have been compelled to retire and wait until reinforced. Smart boy, Dunng vacation ho draws £4 nday asan cmploye in the County Clerk's office. His duties nro to remind Gen. Lien in the morn- ing of tho doep regard In which his dad holds him, and to convey to the old man ov- ery night n token of the profonnd respect with which he lins inspired Lien, —_— Brrwes, of Oregon, takes o new and orig- inal view of tho Democratic fhrty,-and says ho upset Geoven, because, o8 n Democrat, he must repudiato the action of ‘iha would- lic Senator in trying to stonl tho State from the Republicans. e thinks the Democratic party cannot approve such & desperate expe- dient, to which AMr. TiLbey, who furnished mouey to corry it out, will doutless ndd instructions to Count Somouvarore it wonld scom that almost every guarantee that could rensonnbly bo oxactod is verbally given that Russia will carefully abstain from any policy which can in any manner throaten England's “intorests,” so for as the same o hearty Amen. aro nppareut to persons not cou. ST versant with the cranky charactor- A New York Zimes corrcapondent has istica of her Majesty’s Govornment. It is evident, however, that Gontacimaxorr did not succeed in giving tho assurance necossary to obtain tho confidoncs of tho English Cab- inot, nnd in the light of later advices it sppears that Russia hins about given up the attempt to satisfy thess chronic grumblera. mado a big find. Discovering that 'TiLpen wos spending Sunday st Bea Girt, noar Long Brenck, tho correspamlont fell upon him nod extracted the infurmiation that the old gentlemnn is going to Furopo after all, with n view to raising ensugh to build the Enst Bide Elovated Railirosd; that ko will not contest tho Prosidency, nnd that ho Las withdrawn from politics. That the County Ring is composed of fools as woll as knaves is certified by tho manner in which they havo permitted Eaax to outwit them. Batistied that he could not mnke a stand in favor of honoaty aud wmeect With auything like auccess ns motters are nt present, the architoct mannged to draw the firo of the gang yesterday, nnd compel them to record thamnsolves. LEoax's position ls, in Dbrief, that contracts aro binding, even upon those whose instincts ara to steal, and con. sequently ha declines to nssist the Ring in their schemes for robbiug the people. Looking ot competency solely os indicative of an pbility to steal, the Ilng discovers that Eoax is not tho man they took him for,— which s probable,—~wheroat thoy denounce him for want of capacity, and clamor for his discharge. Lo only thing o bo done is to hwrry up tho trials of these gontry, and send them to tho Penitentiary, where they be. long. "That Buperintendent Hickey was acquitted will not surprise any one, but that his perid- cutors should have #o signally failed to make any caso agalast him, may excile some won- der. 'The persistoncy with which he hns boen followed lod the citizens of Clicago to Qemand that e clear his skirts of even & suspicion that ho is not tho man for the of. fice ho holds. Gravo charges have becn modo againegt him, and, had they been jguored DLecause of the {rresponsibility of the papers ond parties that wade them, great injustice had been done Lim, aud the reputation of the city had been mjured. It wus necossary to try him and afford his oppogents overy opportunily to prove all thoy knew against him; and, while the verdict will bo accepted as a matter of course, there will Lo some little fecling of indiguation that the prosccution should have been permitted to put bim to the expenso of a {rial, of which so much was oxpected, but which developed so little as to reducs it to the diguity of o farc: Gen, Cluast {8 not 50 tnken up with the homage of Lurope, with lers aud thore a snub thrown in by way of varioty, but that b3 koops closo track of the progress of cvents, In o private lotter received by n gentleman in Washington from a porsonal fricud of the cx-President, Gon. Gnawt fs represented as frequently oxpressing nwong intimate friends his hearty approval of the policy of President I{aves, "The tax-fighters, this year aro meoting with short shrift aud umall favor in their attempts to shuflle out wf the payment of their fair rroportion of tho public revenues, Judge Warsace, iu Cuo County Court, is overruling their technicsd objections at wholesalo, aud if any oro d7:satisfied they havo only to de- posit, the {0l amount of the tax aud take an appeal—n foature of the now law which will be foand to work sdmirab); Chicf Josgrn, of tho Nez Porces, though repulsed in his attack upon Copt. Penny, does rot appear to be so badly whipped after all, for ho hns surrounded Lis victorions op. ponents, who are in a worse fix than when thoy wero not go trinmphant. The sudden action of Joscru is looked upon as a notifi. cation to the other tribs to ‘“‘uprise® straightway, and all Northern Idaho is shak- ing in its boots nt the prospect. . ————— Ono of "T'weEn's counsel, whoso fees have evidently uot beon pald with that charming regularity that lawyers admire, has gone back on the Old Man aud yiolded himwelf to disscetion by the ubiquitous interviewer, He strips tho ¢ Boss " of every tint of poesy with which the press has painted him, aud holds * Big Bix" up as the model of coarse. ness, vulgarity, selfishnoss, and wealth, csti- niating tho first of theao clements oy intinite und the last at from $6,000,000 to §12,000,- 000. ‘Wo print elsewhere & communication from Mr. O. H. Hax disavowing the authorship of certuin oditorialsin the Jnfer-Ocesn assailing tho President’s Southern and Civil-Bervice reform policies, and glorifying himnself 0s .o wodel Civil-Servico reformer, The weather 13 too bot for verbose explanations, and Mr. Hax might casily have comprossed all he ucods to say into a card of o dozen lines nud saved wost of a column of irrelovant di- greasions and amplifications. He tediously esplains how he ceased Ly degrees to edit the Inter-Occan,—N110x, the Assignee, giving him the bouuce, while Vixece, the edior, affectionately clung to tho skirts of bis garment. We rojoice to learn from himsglf that be is an original and srdent Civil-Servico rcformer, snd that the efforts of the oditor of Tux Tmisonz sink into nothingness as cowpared with his. Conie to think of it, Mr. Hau did perforn conspicuous lsbor in that cause duriug the whisky war between the Government and tho * crooks,” aud left behind him in the volumny of bis poper & bright aod shining Die Wauge, bias succeedod in gotting himself iuto u clearly-defined difficulty, Tt occurred {o Mr. Wess thut Russia bad pursued o hypoeritical snd utterly mendacious policy, under tho protection of the ‘Threo Emperors’ Alliance, sud ke straightway put s plece in his paper to that cffect. ‘Ihis was esteomed blasphemous by Lis German Majesty, whose Court of Appeals adjudged Mr. Wriis guilty of grout iwpropristy, and sentenced him to threo wonths' ‘‘honorable imprisonment,” whatover that is, —— No nobler or more beauliful charity exists in Chicago than the Floating Hospgtal, on institution estabiished for the benofit of the sick children of the city,—children whose parents ure uoablo to give them the benefit of atrip to the weaside or o voyagoe up the lakes during tho trying hested tera of July uud Augpst. No oue can tell how many lives were saved among the little ones durivg last sumwer by the daily freo excunions to ths hoanital schoonar asnchored in the has Inereasod its value in silver. chiange for all’ merchandise or commoditics other than gold, silver has exporienced no loss of valto or purchiasing powar. interests. Froma the tone of Gontscaxor's’| same papor records tho fact that, during tha four years ending April, 1876, the amount of silver takon by Indin from England was $21,000,000;. tho amount taken by India dur- ing tho cloven months ending March, 1877, was 453,000,000, and tho exports to China have also increased. Commenting on these focts, tho Keonomist says: an adequate, and. oa wo have always held, a natu- ral outlet, and the most intozesting portion of this retarn in that which treats of the clfects upon trade and prices in Indis of this great stream of new afl- verthat has boen attracted to it. Great though the influx has been, it han apparently bocome merged 11 the enormous atock of silver previuusly accumu- Iated without perceplibly Increasing its volume, Huch, at any rate, is the conclusion st which the Indlau Government has arrived, after a careful in- vestigation Into the variations from January, 1873, to February of ihe markets. The resulta of the Inqulry show that the priccs of the imports are gonerally lower at the end of that perlod than st tle beginning, while as regarde the exports, although the prices of many articics, such a4 Jute, rice, silk, tea, and wheat, oxhlbit a con. alderabla rise, these have undoubtedly been sub- Ject to speclal lnfinences unconnected with the movements of silver which have enbanced thelr values, moditles in the London market would, we think, whow sumewbat wimilar variations, and while wo should hesftatu filly to dopt tho uplnion that rocord. In face of the confession ho mnkes of being an exalted sn woll as anciont Civil. Bervico reformer, it wonld bo impossible for Tnz Tripuxe to demro his removal from an offics npon which ke sheds so much Instre. He need not horenftor lie awake ot night tortured by that phantom of the imagina- tion, nor is he in the slightest danger of the editor of Tax TrinvNg setting up his claims 89 o Civil-Servico reformor in competition with thoso of Ar. Has. BILVER AND GOLD. Wo printed yesterday a very intereating articlo from the London Economizt, in which was given some facls having a bearing upon tho supply and distribution of silver, and the causcs of its decline in valne. From these facts it appears that silver has suffered no loss of purchnasing power in exchangoe for any commodity except gold, or, in other words, that the incrensed demnnd for gold In ex- As far back ns 1871 tho German Govern. ment provided for an Imperial gold colunge, and in July, 1873, by forthor decree, it de- monalized silver, which, prior to 1871, had been tho oxclusivo legal-tender coin of Ger- many, ment to call in all the cutstanding silver, nnd to purchase gold therewith. Union, which consists of France, Italy, Bel- gium, Bwitzerland, and Greoco, which had sil- ver colnage, nt a later day, to avoid having tho silver of Germany rushed in upon them, agreed to limit the sum of their silver coin- agoe annually. miney, added to theso hostile legal measuros, produced a panic in silver. created an extraordinary demand for gold to supply Germany, and, no official publization of the amount of gold needed belng made, tho wildest speculations wore cireulated. Germany had nothing to offer in exchango for gold but her discarded silver, and the liolders of the gold demanded an unproce- dented advance in silver, beon selling at G0 and 59 pence per ounce, fell in Loundon, under tho demand for gold, until in 1856 it had fallen as low as 47 ponce per ounce, nud the raling prico in London has avernged from 34 to 66 pence per ounee. It was thought that tho prico to its old not dono o is oxplained pretty satis- factorily the price of silver in gold declined, tho Ger- man Government susponded its sales, dovot- ing its transactions to recoinago of its silver into tho new denominations, of which it hns put out 398,000,000 of subsidiary silver. From 1878 to 1876 thero wns imported from Gormany into England only 326,000,000 of silver; but from June, 1876, to May, 1877, there have been imported $50,000,000 of sil- ver? ‘In June, 1876, the British Consul at Dremen estimated that the German Govern- ment bad about &1%000,000 of uilver, Over 50,000,000 of this hos been disposed of, and thoro are strong rensons for assuming that the bulk of it has been sold, At tho samo time, this extraordinary supply of sil- ver has boen to some oxtent balanced by tho falling off of exports from the United States, The oxcess of exports of silver from this country in 1876 was $17,380,000, which was 500,000 less than in 1875, 6,250,000 less than in 1874, and $0,500,000lessthan in 1873, The excessive production of the United Blates, of which so much was expected nnd which contributod to the silver panle, lins proved to bo imaginary, tho export having annually declined sinca 1873, The decreo ompowered the Govern- The Latin The famo of the Nevada That is, it Bilver, which had Boon aftor thore was a recovery, would retarn standard, and why it has by the Economist, When In regard to tho distribution of silver, the The rejectea sflver of Gormany has thus fonod last In the wholesalo pricos staple commodities in the Indlan tables which wet forth the A comparieon of the prices of these com- **the tables do not appesr to indlcate any decrcase In the value of silver, " we certainly fall to find 1n them anythlng to show that thers has been » marked dimination in Its genersl parchaslog power. The depreciation of sllver has thus far been maiuly, If not aliogether, a depreciation of fta gold valng only, and that belng so, tha effect of the fall In the exchauge has been, as we have fro- quently before shuwed it would be, (o stimulate export and dlscourage imports, « *Hero, then, we have ‘the practical expla- nation of the silver question,—that (here has been no substantial change in tho value or purchasing power of silver, 8o far o4 re. lates to all other forins of property and com. moditios ; that thers has been such a rise in gold when demsnded In exchange for silver that the lattor has diminished io value for moking that exchange. ‘The ex- troordinary demand by Gormany for 3300, 000,000 of gold, to be purchased with silver, caused sucly & comparative scarcity of the gold aa to diwinish the relative value of tho silver. We have uow the further explaua. tion that the silver sold by Germany has found its way to India, where it hos been absorbed withont producing any iufiation. The German stock may be said to havo bocome 1uensurably exhaustod; so much of it as remains to be sold will follow the rest iu dus time to India, .and the wmarket will only bo supplied by the ordinary products of the mines, which are less than in 1873, when the Auterican dollar wos worth 103 jfu gold. Bo soon, therefore, as the remaluder of the German silver shall havo DLeen sold and shipped to India and Chins, the price of silver will sgaln advance towards its former relative proportion. The romonctization of silver in the United States will accowplish that end speedily. The con- sumption of ¥23,000,000, aud the suthoriza- tion of $25,000,000 wore for subsidiary coln, waterially aided ju arrcsting the decline in the price of silver. The folly, if not crimi- nality, of the demonetization of silver by our Government i uow very evident. Just ad the time when silver was restored to use—when it was possible to coig it, sud to ecmploy it largely a8 » wmoany for oturning to epecie. tain which i3 iuclnded in tho sum mentioned. A Boston correspondent writing to tho Spring- ficeld Jepublican says that the schemo cov- the City of Boston, 5,000,000 more from thoy will go into it to this extent if the ro- mainder is forthcoming. Tho project is lo include what is knowu as tho Tunnel line, Gen. Bunt’s Western connection between the Massachusotts line and UTtica, and an old survoy of thie Buffalo Lranch of the Now York & Oswego Iload botweon Utioa and Buffalo, reaching the West by the Cannda routes. In abeorbing such roads as are slready paying, the proposition is to protect them by preforring their stock at 7 or 8 per cont. This is the projoct ns atated; how much or little thore ia to it we cannot say. for the enterpriso, whon it comes to railroad outlots to the son- board. While there have baen a good many domonstrations of Mr, Apaxs’ doctrino that competition menns combination in the rail. rond business, it is ovident that the intercsts of Eastorn citics oro so diverse,and tho differ- cnce in tho cost nnd manngement of tho trank lincs so great, that alrendy combina. tion is n difficnlt inatter among existing trunk lines, and, when effectod, does not laat long. HBo Chicago and the Wost will con. templato Boston's now trunk-lina with soren. ity, aud expect more bencfit than damage from it, if it shall ever be comploted. The Bpringleld [Republican is “bearing” the movement, and sooks to make the Boston people believe that their interests are in the way of manufacturing; and that they will searcely promote thoso interests by assisting Gront Britain in obtaining cheap. broadstufls by means of & now competing railway, It says: not inthe trafic which passes over a glvon polnt, but in that which naturally gathers thero or is distrib- uted from there. \What makes Chicagu great {a the grain and hog products which naturally come to that mart for distriintion to the world: San Fran- clsco fs bulit up by the bulllon, the wheat, and other sgricultnral productiona of her tributary reglon; Now Orleans {s made great by the sugarand cotton of Loulslana; and Doston is great as tho capital of New 'England manufactures, the great centre of their distribution, contributes to the harmonions developmentof New England manufactures contributes to the inagnl- tude of that commerce. 1s distorted to balld up a forelgn trade In grain, we aro not working very effectively to thia end. aro taxing local frolghts to the volief of tho pro- ducor and consumer of Amorican breadstufls, both partics being a thonsand or moro miles away, and quite ablo to take care of themselves merits, may have somo lgfluénw in defeat- ing & municipal subscription, but it will soarocly reach tho railroad and steamship owners, and the capitalists who will only go local pride and the ruling desire of Boston to got as much of Now York's trade as it can, sit quiotly and wait. All railroads naturally lead to Chicago, and Boston inust judge for pondont conuection with Chicago, such ne New York, Philadelphin, and Baltimoroe en. Joy. of which has caused as much excitenient ag paymonts—the nation discovered that some- body hnd secrotly demonelized silver, and had prohibited its coinage. Tiad that law not boen socrotly put on the statute-book, the United States could hava furnished a lib. oral mavrket for the silver product, and con- verted into dollars at lenst n hundred mill- jons of silver, which wonld have remained here, and which wonld have kept down tho riso in gold by keoping the value of the sil. ver np. Tho whole disturbanca in the valuo of tho two motals has amounted tos * cor.' ner” in gold, and our Governmont has blind. Iy and ignorantly contributed to make that corner profitable, to the great loss of tho country, and to the complication of its busi- ness, proprieties surronnding the first laws of Nature and the domestic hearth on the other, wo are glad to find that this well-intentioned pate are not held to have cetablished a right to dictato new rales of sction and new rules of existence to & reluctant and, ae it feele, an Insulted world. ‘Tho sacond book is quite as objectionablo, —porhapa ovon moro so. It is called ** The Priest in Absolution,” and has been printed Ly a Ritualistio society of clergymen ns a manual for priests in rocoiving confession, based npon one in nso in tho Roman Catholio Church. The «questions which it reqnires tho priest to ask of wives, maidens, girls, and boys are so grossly indelicato on tho one hand, and, on the other, such an ontrageous violation of the relations of home and the most sacred confidences of the hearthatone, that the book has raised a storm of indigna- tion throughout all England, notwithatand- ing it has beon compiled by n pociety of clorgymen., Doth tho ITouse of Lords and Commons have commencod discnssion of tho matter, and tho Soclety for the Provontion of Vieo is moving to prevent its circulation. It {avery evident that, if this conspiracy against the publio morals succacds,—if a pricat is al. lowed to apply a thumbacrew to the con- scionce and to interfers with tho modesty of youth and the delicate sccrots of married life,—It will not be withont astrugglo against such mental and moral tyranny. The Lon- don T¥mes spenks out boldly for tho English people, and sounds tho following warning to tho Church: ‘They donot caro what srguments may ho ad- ducible in excusc for it. A long time ago they had some centurles’ experienco of it, and they see at the present day what are the results it produces elscwhere, and thelr mind fs made up, They will have none of it. They will have It at no prices and there is no Institution they would not eacrifice, no system they would not repudiate, if it hecame the home and the protection of such practices. If this Soclety cannot be suppresscd smong tho clergy, rough times may be expected for the Church of England. With such o state of fooling existing nmong tho English people, thore i littlo danger that this peculiar stylo of confession will mnko serious headway. The average Driton, who has a distinct notion of his per- sonal rights, will probably settle thoquestion, 80 far o8 his own family is concerned, by such o display of brawn aud musclo as will discourage any pursuit of the pruriont and filthy inquirios any furthor in that faily, A NEW RAILWAY PROJECT. It hes beon some yoars sinco we have lienrd of any project for n now trunk line connecting the West and tho roaboard. The Grangors had their scheme for building a double-track freight railroad at Government cxpense, but that soems to havo subsided nlong with tho Granger movemont as a whole. The Baltimoro & Ohio quictly end nnostontatiously built their Chicago connec- tion ont of their surplus earnings, and havo been reaping o large bosefit from it not- withatauding the obatinato railroad wars that havo prevailed sinco thoy have had it. And now Boston is roported as having become infected with thio notion that it should have n diroct line to the Wost, which of courso means Chicago. And it is further estimatod that this can bo secured by an investmont of #15,000,000, and by utilizing cer- local Tines, the control of templates n subscription of $5,000,000 by tho Boston capitalists, and the additional &5,000,000 from Dritish capitalists, who say. SR SR TS PR o A NEW ANNEXATION PROJECT. - In the dog-dnys editors' thoughis turn hoavily to dull topics. This being tho caso, it Is not survrising that Mr, Sronexr should rovert to his hobby of responsible govern- ment with tho mercury in the eightios and ninoties. o has turned his hobby in a now direction, preforring to ride on the rond which happons to be most traveled, and where he is likely to attract most attention. Just now this is the rond to nnnexation, Mr, Brag, it will be remombered, while de- nounciug an annoxation of Mexican torri- tory which nobody dreams of, was good onough to asy that he would interpose no objeations to the annoxation of Canada. But Mr. Sroney does not proposo to acoopt tho situation off-hand in this way, but insists that, if there is to bo any annoxation, it must be an snnexation of the United States to Canadn, and not that of Canada to tho United Btates. Though this wuuld be the absorbing of the groater by tho lessor, Mr, Sroney holds it to bo the truo policy, for reasons which ho sota forth in part as follows: The Conatitution of Canada Is the best political Constitution of an Anglo-Saxon people that oxists onthe whote earth, The Constitntion of tho Unlled Btatos Is without exception the worst polit- iesl Constitution of an Anglo-Haxon peoplo that was ever dovised or set up In the world. The Con- stitution of Canada ls & responsible Republ: The Constitution of this country is an irresponsiblo elective monarchy, To proposo tho annexation of Canada to America Is to proposo that the Canadians shall glve up the bast Republican Constitation in the world for that of an elective monarchy, with all ita Inberent causes and inevitable Infamies of tho wpoils discasc grown chrounic. The Canadiany will nover assent to such a proposition, They would be perfoct idiota to do so. DBut, on the other hand, to proposs the annex- ation of Amerlca to Canads I8 to propose that the Americans sholl give up thelr Irrosponsible elect. ive monarchy, with lts inhercnt snd incurable spoils system, for the most perfect Repub- llcan Constitation on earth, Tho profes- sional wpolls machine Jemagogucs of this country will not assent to. that. Porhaps & majority of our people who donot seck to live by ofice-hunting nre not yot ready to assent to it. Butthoy are getting ready, Should tho growth of oplnlon In thiscountry favorablu tu tho Institu- tlon of u responsible government bu ns vigorous during tho next ten yeardns it has been daring the preceding docado, the American people may ba ready to ssy to their Canndian kindred: Lot this people, alrcady one fn blood, in history, and in character, become palitically ono by the annezs. tlon of America to Canada, Mr, Sronxy out-Heorods Hzuob in Lis now dovotion to English Torylsm, Canada's Qovernment consists of a Parlismont chosen by the poeoplo, and an Executlve appointed by the Quecn of England to act as her agent. It follows, thereforo, that, in proposing to annex {he United Btates to Cannds, Mr, Sronxy proposes that the United States shall likowiso ba governod as a province of Great Britain, efithor under an Executive appointed for Cauads, or an indopendent Governor- General likawiso sppointed by tho ruling monarch of Great Dritain, B8hades of Qrosox WasuinoroN, Parmiox Hzxmy, Tuoxas Jerrenson, and the rost of the fore. fatliors, think of this! In the Centonnial year of our independence, too! Tho degen- erato grandsous aud groat-grapdsons of the heroes of the Revolution are asked volun- tarily to submit thomsclves to the grand- daughter of Georar IIL, whose yoke was Of course Chicago has only good wishes The more tho merrier, Tho trae 11fe of modern commarce In to be rought &iverything whicls Bat so long as everything We This argument, w'l'.lmu& going into its intoa new railroad, if at all, because thoy believe it will prove a profitable investment. ‘Ihe forco of the argumont moy also bo offset to some extont in its municipal bearings by At all ovents, Chicago has nothing to do but iteol? whother it wants a direct and inde- TWO BAD BOOKS. The English people are just now in n state of sgitation over two books, the appearance tho passago of tho Russiaus over the Dauube, One of thosoLooks is a reprint of an obscure American work, mnplifying and supplemont. ing tho Balthusiun thoory by givivg spocifia instructions for the prevention of procres tion Ly pbysical means, and Mr. Bapravan, the well-known agitator, and Mrs. Anxix Besant lnve been condemned with fino and | wrenched of s Lundred years ago. Was Iurlpflwnmnnuor Issuing aud clrculating It. | §¢ for this that the tea wns omptied ‘Tho fury fouud tho defendants guilty, not of into DBoston larbor? * Was it for this that Jeryensox wroto (or copied ) the docla- ration that all men are frio and oqual? Was it for this that the glorious American tarift was ereoted, in imitation of the Chinese wall, to shut out the competition of Britéh pau. perlabor? Was it for this that wo hold the Philadelphia Intornational Exhibition partly ot Goverument expeuse? Was it for this that tho Washington monument was started, in the fond hope that futuro generations of free men might “clip in” and finish it? Perish the thought ! Of course, Mr. Storey means this and nothing elso, and the Quoen of KEngland would add to ler titlo of Empress tho pos sossions of Awerica us woll as thoso of India. ‘There would bo ng other way of bringing about the annpxation of the United States to Canada and the realization of the responsible system of Government, ‘The English system is for the Exccutive to sppoint a Cabiuet at tho dictation of the ruling majority of the popular House of Parliament, aud it Is o mere fiction that tho Crown makos the selection. This system exteyds to Canada; the Gov- eruor-Genersl, béing & permanency like the Orown of which he is the ropresentative aud sgéut, accdpting the conous nominations of the ruling party, and the change of Ministry following the change of majorities. But the United Btates could not adopt this system and retain its own system of decting a Pres- ident, which Mr. Brosky calls au ‘* elective monarchy.” A President is elected by a par- ty for e fixed term, and selcots his Cabinot mainly from members of that party, and up- any corrupt wotive In publishing the book, but beeause it waa caloulstod to deprave [} public morala. It Is a little singular that, while the book in its original form is almost unknown in this country, it has had an euor. 1wous circulation in Eugland, although it has beou out but a vory short time, over 200,000 coplos having boen sold. The dofendants arguod that it was no worse than scores of medical books. 'The argumgit, however, is a weak one in many respects. The medical books are written in such teohnical style that they are unintelligible to the majority of renders, and they are intonded for practition. ers, The offenso in this case livs fn the use that has been wmado of the book. That it is intended to debauch public moraly there is 1o doubt, whatever may havo beon Mr, Beap. ravan's aud Mrs. Brsawt's wotives. The ‘book haviug this tendency, they have made every effort to givo it as wide a circulation as | possible. Thoy have viftually thrust their book into the hands of young men and wom. en, aud into families, with the knowledge that it must vitiate the imagination, uproot virtuous sentiment, and cucourage licen. tiousucus, for the purpose of establishing their theory of the good offices of sterility, and to muke disobedienco to tho Bcriptural command to inereaso aud wnultiply general instead of exceptional. The London T'iwies aptly says, snd all proper people will agree with it: Happlly, the real truth ia that the world is great- er than ooe WA of oue opinion, snd slnce wo bave 10 chooss bétween Mr. Buabravou sud Mrv. Be- sa37 on the 0ov haad, sud certalo resorves aud on consultation with the party's leadors. To quit that party and go over to the opposing party, in order to select a Government in harmony with tho majority in the House of Ropresentatives, wonld be regarded ns political treason nnder our system ; and wherever the attempt has been made it has resnlted fatally to the person mnking it, and in more or less disaster to tho country, The French have triod this mongrel systan in their Coustitution, and already there is 20 sorions a hitch that it threatens tho safety of the Ropublie. 8till, the Amoricans conld scarcely be expacted to agree upon a heredi- tary monarchy, or determiine any othor line of personal succession which wonld establish the permanent oxecoutive nocessary to the English system. And, in order to get over this dificulty, Mr. Stonex sortously proposes that tho United Btates bo annoxed to Cnna- dn, 8o that wo may bo governed as n British Trovince nader a Governor-General appoint- Iere is dovotion ed by the British Crown. to the principlo of Responsible Government that passes all bounds, Mr, Sroney and his subordinates do not seom {0 agree very woll in the matler of sympathizing with England; for whila Ar, Hroney advises subordination to British rule on the editorial page and in prose, Mr. Fin- ERTY uses the local page and the chime of verse to demounce Amearican tondyism to Groat Britain, and to call Col. Fornesr an “Irish Turk” bocauso that gentloman in- dulged in n harmless imitation of Father Prour's Franch, It is sad when associntes on the same newspapor disagree, but tho struggle for and ngainst England in the Chi- cago Times will be watchod with considor. able interest by tho friends of both Mr. Fn- enty and Mr. Srorer; betting men are offering the odds that Ircland will be eman- cipated bofore tho United States shall be- come o Dritish Provinco, notwithatanding Sroney i3 tlm principal and Fixentr only a subordinato in the T'imes oftico. THE ENGLISH BURIALS BILL. In this conntry, where men of all shades of roligions belief, Protestant, Catholie, Jow, Mohmmmednn, Buddbist, Pagan, or Notlingarian, wmay sleep sida by side in the gravoyard, not interforing with each other through the long ages of the future, nor ovon prejudicing the resurrcction, it will strike tho render as a litlle curious that it wwas not until the 2ith of June, in the year of our Lord 1877, that the English Iouso of Tords decidod there was no contamination to n dond member of the Established Church {rom tho corpse of o Dissonter. On that day, the Peors, by n'vote of 127 ngainst 116, adopted n rosolution offoered by Yord Han Towny, in diroct opposition to the Govern. meont, by which pgrsons who object to the barial sorvico of the Charch of Eugland are allowed tobury thair relatives and friends in churchyards ‘“with such Christian and orderly religions servicos as they may think fit, or without any roli gious services.” - Tho bill will now go boforo tho Houso of Commons with redoubled authority, having the indorsoment of the Poors in its favor— an indorsement all the more weighty because tho Peers aro stanch fdends of the Church; and, as one of the English papors says, “Thoir vote ought to bo accopted asa friendly ‘warning that, wl_:lmurinmuh the Church may have to defend, it is not in the church. yard and ovar tho gravo that sho can safely maintain tham,” Thoro is abundant room for congratulating the English people that-oven at this late day the Houso of Lords has made a concemsion to progrosatve idens, and that the petrified and fossilizod notions of tho clorgy have beon crushed at last by the senso of justico that charactorizes tho English people. It mattors very little to tho Dissontor, aftor ho is gona,whero his bonesreposo ; but it is not o comfortable thonght to the Dissanter while living to think that ho will be donled admis- sion (o tho churchyard of his native village after doath, nor s it pleas- ant to his surviving relatives to be 'ubligod to pack him off into some vacant corner, We all like companionship whilo nlive, and, although companionship aftor death is of a very poor sort, still almost every person would prefor to bo buried with others, and to sssociato as a ghost with other ghosta miscollancoualy, just s he in his lifo- timo amiocinted with his fellows. There is no good reason why such a desire should not be gratifled. There being no fashions or forma, no responsibilities or obligations, no creeds or beliefs in tho graveyard, my Iady belng reducad to tho samo dire extromities as her soullion, and the clay of tho Pecr being of no better, and not half such good material, ns that of tho peasant, there should not be tho slightest bar to n froo association in this most domocratioc of all our institutions. Tho discrimiuation is an injustice and an offenso to porsonal pride, The Disgenter may bo satisfiod to allow tho Churchman his own coursa through lifs, and not complain of his lack of sympstby and religious association, and he might not complain of the disorimination after doath nnder certain cir- cumstancea. If, for nstance, it were cortain that the Ohurchman would rise the day be- fore tho Dissenter, and in whitor robes ; if it werg sure that he would have a choice corner sot apart for him in Ieaven, play upon an cxtra golden harp, and be allowed a superior pattern of wings ; if, in fact, heavenly exist- enco wore so ordored that ho would never be obliged to come in contact with a Dissenter, it would not be inappropriate to provent the contact in the period between his departure from oarth and Lis arrival at the Golden Gates ; but such fa not the case. Iowever alive Ohurchman may compare with a live 'Dissonter, a doad Churchman is nao better than a dead Dissenter or a dead Hottontot, for nny practical purposes. Tho roses that ure fertilized by the mold of the ono are no redder than those that epring fromthe other, and the extremo High Churchman's olay may just aalikely stop a bung-holv as that of the lowest clodhopper in the Dissenting Church, Itis a pléasant itom to note; therefore, that tho House of Lordy, ropresenting the arls- toornoy and nobility of England, has so de- cisively recognized tho equality of the grave- yand. ‘The World is somewhat ahead of the Zerald at present fn the matter of mssaulted corre- spondents, the game standivg iu its favor by a score of 1t0 0. It fs not certalu that Mr. BriLe. BON wus assuulted at Salt Lake City, but the World's correrpondent at Rutland had an addl- tional head put on bim while he was compassed “about with a great crowd of witnesses. II the Worid Lad half the journalistic acuteness of the Herald, it would long cre this have published a war map of Rutlaud, and poluted out to the stalwart brother-in-law who put & head on its young mau that that twin rellc of barbarism, a brotberin-law, could uot overrije or muzzle tho whecls of the current of advanciog civiliza- tion. Y ———— A natural scientist and amateur Sigual-Serv- feo cbeerver went down to Mount Carmel the other day, armed with a portentous lst of questions concerning the uaturs! history and Lablts of torosdocs. Accosting & promlucot citizyn whose pruperty bad been dispersed over several Congressional Districts, he asked him In the high and holy name of science from what direction tho tornadn approached, Its rate of velocity, its shape, whether the current of cloud rovolved {n the snme dircction as the hands of a watch, and several other questions of a similar nature. Tho vitizen of Mount Carmel gnzed upon him for a few moments, spat reflectively upon his hands, pulted off his coat, and replied: “8tranger, {f you haa been sltting on your front stoop, and suddenly seen a brazen, flery whirlwind scooting along ke n fast-mail train which was & year behind tinie, nnd the next thing you knew your wite was saillag over the ‘Third Prosbyterian Church, and your house had taken unto itsell wings aud flown unto tae ute termost parts of the earth, you wouldn't be such an {rretrievable by-and-large fdiot as to go and ask whether things fiew round from left to right, or vice verra.’ Bo saying, he fell upon that scientist, and when that sclentist got home and his wife opened tha door for him, she ex- rialmed, * O, EL1agiv, there has been another tornadu, and you got caught In It With nothing but her scandals to recommend her, Brooklyn naturally howls with delight over fresh ovidence of hLer superiority fn outshining the world in the rottenness of her soclal aystem. The Vern2n case, which develops some of the most repulsive and disgusting detalls of Brook- 1yn soclal life, I looked upoun as a sweet morsel, and every encouragement {s shiown the high contending parties to air thele grievances. Mrs, VeEpER charged her busband with horrld brae tality and revolting immorality, and he is now ready toreply, showing that she ls not especially Letter than he, but he avolded aaying so hefore on account of his children. Thus do Brookiyn's peuple amuse Brooklynites. —— ‘There is a disposition manifested among cer- tain vulgar people Lo heap nbuse on Col. J. K. C. Fonnesr, and sncer al, his poctry. We would advise the Colouel to gy no attention to them. 1t might be well for him t0 rest a few years, and then blaze upon the world again, after the es- tablished custom of great pocts; but if ho Is contemplating an answer to his cnemies, ho will risk {n a controveray what e has won already. 1t 1s sald that Vicror Huao s preparing an answer to Col. Fonnzar when the latter shall address him an ode, after TENNYSON. e a—— Since gha establishment of the free baths in New York, Infant mortality has decreased nearly one-tbird. It is discovercd that smple applica-. tions of salt water are among the best remedies for tho ills.to which the first year of baby lifo is holr. ‘This fact, isolated from the greatbenetits derived by older people, {8 encouraging tho au- thoritles to extend the facilities, and o largo number of new baths hiava beon constructed to sccommodate the poorer classes. ————— There Is one Becnen who does not proposo to be led into temptation, and, to avold ft, has burled bimsclf in the depth of the forest, Ho s o balf-brother of HeENnY Wanp, and las bullt him a house entirely without the pale of civilization, where no woman can reach to mo- leat or mako him afratd. ——— The “mutuslity” of Mr, Franrk MovrToN's Iriendahip is sadly impaired, and the plotis fc- males of Plymouth Church roll thelr cyes In cestasy a8 the lconine FRANK remarks that e Is sorry ie “ever loft Bercuex forsuch a d—d rat and scoundrel as TiLToN," e — His Hollness the Fope still cclebrates inass standing, and there Is no indjeation that Le will dle at present. Several hundred cords of extra saperfine obituary notices can now be had cheap at the varfous powspaper offices throughout the country. —— For the Orst time, fle Indiang aroahead of tho troos in & pursuit. e —— PERSONAL. 8ir Stafford Northcote and Mr. Gladstona are rlval candldates for the Lord Rectorship of Qlasgow Unlivorsity this year, A Holland Club, composed of porsons whe sdmire Mr, J. G. Holland and his weitings, has been organized at Sunderiend, Mass., with twenty. five members. 1t is & pleasura to hoar that a certain great English poet, whoso identity Is mysterlously veil- ed, s cndeavoring to curo himselt of the babit of oplam-smokiug. The friends of Jules Michelot ara about to ralee a memorlal over his grave In Pore-le-Chalse, and B subscription has been opencd {u England to provide funds for the parpose. Joff Davis, it is sald, will saverely criticine in his momolrs the policy of Gen, Joseph E. Johnatan, and will charge upon him the responsi- bility for tho non-pursnit of the Federsl forces into Washington st the first Butl-Run. The Lippincotts printed 100 coples of Alger's '*Lifs of Forrest" tn two volumes quarto, Iarge paper, uncut edges, and bound In cloth. ‘The engravings are proof befure fotter, Only fty coples are offered for sale, and the price is $20, Col. Dawking, lato of tho British Cold. stream Guards, uow on the half-pay list, has beon occapying his lelure moments by writing s pamphilet defamatory of tha Duke of Cambridge, Comnunder-in-Chief of tho army. An effort wiil bo made 1o bave the Colopel dismlssod tho sarvice. The new chief of staff of the Commander of the Tarkieh army at the Danube is Perik Azid Pasha, Mo is only 42 yearsof sge. At tho ontset of hiwcareer he served with an {nfsutry regiment in Austrla, Afterwards he was attached to tho artillery of the Prusisn Guard. Me martled a native uf Bertin, and passcd six years lo military atudies fu that clty, The Baltimoro American is puzzled by Mrs. Julis Ward Howe's statement that when a woman begins to spoak {n her country you msy hesra pin drop. Somo have sapposed sho had rofe ereuce to the famalu custom of attempting to carry & clothes-pin betwaen the tecth, and at tho same time hold & conversation with the neighbor's wife over the fence, * Jonnio Juns™ thinka the trial of Brad- laugh will secure him the seat {n Parllament for which ke bas long been striving. *‘God bless him," sald an enthusiastic bystauder, **heis tho kulghtltest man in England.” During the progress of the solt Mr, Bradlaugh has lost his wife, who bad long been an fnvalid, and hisdaoghters, ooe of whom exhibited talent na & speaker. Bowen has filled out his slate, it secms, and proposes to make Blalne President and Chame berlain Vice-President in 1880, Iu the ovent of the election of his ticket, the Cablnot will bo com- posed of other friends of Bowen, tho Northern Pacitic will got its. appropristion, sand the pledges of Bowen's uewspaper will be at last redecmed. May the poor clergymen live (o sce the time! Artemuy Martin, of Erie, Pa., upon whom the degres of A, M. was canfarsed by Yale Coliege at the last commeacement, is & markes-gardencr, who sells vegelallus In the strects of Erie twice 8. week, lsa regular contributor to several of the best-known furelgn ond American educational publications, and bas & matbematical lbrary of weveral bungred volumes st hle modest bawne, He 1s self-educuted. odicating the Cathedral at Garden City which Nrs, Stewart bas bullt as s memorial of her busbaud, Alexander T. Stewart, every Eplaco- pal clergywan in the Diocess, save e, whom slckness kept away, was pre t. ‘The attendsnce is estimated by those haviog charge of the dedica- tory services to have numbered 10,000. Six bundred wardens and vestrymen wers la the pro- cesdion, representing ry patish on Lung lsland. Mrs. Stewart has prescated the Cathedral to 8 core porate body known as **The Cpthedrsl of the [a- caroation,” aud it s to form & part of Blahop Littlvjola's Diocese. Mr. Whitelaw Reid has apparently gsined nothing by discharzing one proof-resder and hiriog another. Thelast letter from Mr. Bmalley con= talnss number of shocking errors, which will make the suthor writhe in angulsh when he secs them. Hylis made, for {natance, 10 use the e3presaiva for **convert into **Low-Cbief Justice * f *‘bed-way' for **best way';and, worst of all *‘defraud public mails* for **debauch publl morals," We fear the enly way to fnsure lufallis bility in the New York Triduas ts for the youss editor to do all the work himsell,