Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 19, 1877, Page 4

THE CHICAGO and the Chicago Jintee, Though respecting tie eels net galn ae By York it ‘ the Bible and all therein contained, ho con | oe eee eet oe net she ecpovtn et wheat fended that religion wonld live, though | and com at this port show an Increase the attacks upon the Divinity of the | of 1,104,000 bushels aver last year, Word should prevail, and likened it to the This showing will not permit of any ro- sun that rovealy, thongh no part of, the | vival of the excessive tdil-systom. The Stato world. He congratulated Moony and him- | of Now York cannot afford to have the busi- relf that they were Iaymen and not minis- | ness of New York City broken down, while ters, for ministers were worse off than Iny- | that city continues to pay ro large a propor. men who were superior to Archbishops, | tion of the State taxes, And if the. interior ‘Then he cracked the ‘small philosophers” | of the Stnte, unmindful of this considera- mado np of sound aud fury, signifying noth | tion, should indnce the Legislature to restore ing; hit the Democratic party a slap, as he | tho fatal policy of high tolls, the ultimate had a right to, being a member thereof, and | reanit will unquestionnbly be to make the tossed a plensant fling at Toston aa being in | Erte Cannta free public water-way by a grant the measles atate of philosophy, from which | to tho General Government. For excessive she would recover without damage. It was | toile will reduce the canal receipts to nil, considerable of a rovelation to sdino of the | making it n burden to tha State, Lerides de- good Methodists reared nnder the orthodox | stroying the business of New -York City ; it camp-meeting ministration, but it was a good | will take but n brief expericnco of this kind shaking up for them all around. to persunde the people of thelr folly and in- TRIBUNE DAY, JULY 19, 1877. paign, for tho reason is already too far ad- vanced, but in Enrope the blows will nof& come thick and fast. Tho Turks will make such resistance as they can, and will fight with ferocions fry, for this time their nn tional existence hangs upon the issue of tho war, Tho Russians have entered the feld not only to rescue the Christians from Tark- ish tyranny but to forever end that tyranny by extermination of the tyrants if necessary; in any event, by driving the last Turk in Bulgaria across tho Balkans and then placin: Bulgaria upon hor foot, either as a free Sta} or nnder powerfnl protection. Whatever other issnes may he involved in this war, it is certain that Tark and Sclave will nover again live side by side in that province. world in tho atrength and permanence of popnlar government ia n blow at thenational credit, and mere npite seems to prompt the extremists to spread tho impression that the political righta of tho negroes can only bo guaranteed by declaring the entira South in natnto of niege, and maintaining a slanding army there to support those who govern it in this condition. in the Orango Free State and the Trgnsvanl | compitehed inside of the withdrawal of red Republic. Coal hax been fonnd in the Inttor | Mllons more, —springsletd (Ales, ) Reputiteay country in contiiferable quantities, thongh |, Whee is to ston the presentation of the green Pee i} a ite BY | hacks for redemption at one hundred mitlinns | tho quality is nObof the beat. Still further | Tho present usca for gold in thls country reach north, beyond the Limpopo River, gold has | nearly $2),0:0,000 a year. When this gold Is heen washed ont. Tho country is plainly { needed, it will he applied for ro long as it can worth having for its own eake as well as for | be had. The Resumption law does not fix any its relation to the other Britieh posseasions | sum at which relempiton of geeenbacks shalt in Africa; and we were not suyprised to hear, | 8p. If the Resumption law was changed so ag nome months back, hat English mute had to retain all the greenbacks in cireulatlon that ngnictly oxtended over the Dutch re- we may need, would not that be a modification f the I Q would it not bo bad falth, swine ies in thot region in spite of the protests atin Gee ete i “ ; Rae those who oppose the requirement to redeem he Boers, ‘This simplo act wipes ont the tlling, ote. ete.t If the Government of fe out gold for 350,000,000 of greenbn:ka, greonbacksin geld on tho 1stof January, 1879, conflicting elemont in South African | the grecnbacks as fast as received, how luag and to prohibit any other than a gold cur- | affgirs, and establishes on n permanent bn- | will the greenbacks remain in circulation } rency after that date, ia that stich opposition the supremacy of tho British rate. Once redeemed, that fs an end of these notes, rests upon aprinciple of dishonesty, aud | /Collisions between tho English and the ite sn9g ae recnteh wilt be Jerk ee oie wil that those who aro making it aro endeavor- | Dutch in Sonth Africa have been froqnont are palace See eeantinis aiatine ing to porpotrato an cuormqua switllc, Wo | oyor ince 1795, when the English captured . . ety, have been patieat, and forbenring, and en- | Capetown, originally ‘n Duich settlement, afuring under tho imputation of swindling | ‘This acquisition was relinquished under the y Tarte of a year, per month. WAEKLY RDIT! One copy, per Fe Club of ten. Guh ot owe peelmen ‘To prevemt detay and mistakes, he sure and cive Post- Ofice acktrees fn fal}, Ineloding State and County, Kemtttances rosy be made either by draft. express, Post-Onice order, or in tegisterrd letters, at our Flek, TERMS TO CITY SUNSCRIDERS. UM ‘The most commonaccusation maile againet Datly, delivered, Sanday excepted, 25 cente per week. Dalit: detivered, Sunday theluvled, im cents hen sweck, Adidrees THE TRIBUNE COMU, MEANY), Corner Madisot Dearborn: Chicago, Il. & HOW A FALSEHOOD TRAVELS. The rapidity with which a falschood travels usually defies its arreal until it has accom. be done for currency fu place of the retired and canceled geeenbacks t ees eae Hootey’s Thentre. —_ ——e di iva up tho 1 altogether. plished all the mischief of which it is capa- | and stealing. but now comes, tho Now York | ‘Treaty of Amicna in tho samo year, but Tee Tt wasquestionabte tudgment on the part of tanto acon heteen Gare sad Tagale. Far | Tho aspect of affuirs along that part of fico them to give up tho canal altogether. | ite, ‘Thus the English poople avo been | 7'ridune, piling mountain upon mountain, | gainod in 1806, and ceded to tho British per. | the Washingtonian Homo to publish the fact artnet Ba : : the Baltimoro & Ohio Road running through West Virginia is growag terribly scrions and threatening. At Martinsburg the strike has become a riot, and the strikers aro settled in their determination to force the Company to terms, or stop all freight business on tho road. A small force of militia were opposed to them for o day, but they were ordered * off, and tho. rioters straightwny plundered , the armory and provided themselves with arms, Gov. Marrnews, finding himself unablo to cope with the mob, telegraphed to the Pres- ident, who issued n formidable proclamation and ordered about 350 troops uudor Gon. Frexcn tothe scone of disturbance. This looks like business, ‘The rioters have until 12 o'clock to-day to disperse, and, if found at any act of deviltry after that honr, they will be wiped out like grease-spots, ———<——— persunded that thoro is 8 permanent breach betweon President Hares ond the Re- publican party, growing out’ of tho for- mer's troatmont of the political complica- tions in the Southern States, Tho American telegraphic correspondent of tho London Times, evidently misled by the Hes which the Implacable newspapers told about tho Iown Convention, raported promptly that‘ tho President had been condemned by the Tte- publicans of Towa. As this was tho broad declaration of the American organs of tho disappointed office-seckora, perhaps n foreign correspondent cannot bo blamed for accept- ing it, though, if well-informed and discrim- inativg, the correspondent might have soen through the obvious misrepresentation of tho facts, Tho only basis of tho assertion was the introduction of a resolution giving President Hasra’ Administration a general indorsement, which was voted down. If this fact stood alone, it might justify the in- feroncs that the Administration had been condemned, But it is well known that tho circumstances surronnding it give it an en- tirely different construction, The Presi- dent’s Southern policy had been canvassed befora the meeting of the Convention, It was fond that thera was some differenco of opinion as to its results among the Repub- licans of Town, but it was admitted on both sidos that it was an experiment, the morils of which time slono could determine. It was agreed, therefore, that it would be un- fair either to givo the policy a full approval or to condemn it in advance, and thera was a tacit understanding that tho Convontion should not put itself on record elthor for or against it, In violation of this agreement, one of tho extromists opposed to the policy introduced’ tho resolution approving it, knowing fall well that it wonld be vated down, just as‘n resolution condemning it would have been voteddown. The scurvy political trick wos used by tho Implacablo newspapers to ercate the impression that tho Administration had been officially con- domned by Iowa Republicans; and now the London Times, misled by thin bald falsifica- tion, concludes that the Republicans of all tho other States would do the same if they wero holding convontions, oxcept possibly Ohio. Tho reason given why Ohio is ox- cepted is that the Presidont hax saved him- self fromvan adyerso voto in a Republican Convention in Ohio ‘by promoting to offico an army of its citizens,” ‘I'his grows ont of cnother lio which the disappointed office-seekers circulated, though it las beon shown that Ohio has a smaller number of officcholders than it would bo entitled to if the offices wero distributed according to geographical divisions. ‘ ‘Tho English construction of tho prcsont status of Amorican politics js thus based upon inisroprosontations and falschoods, whick loft their impreus bofore they could he.disproved. *Thoy havo botrayod the Lon- don ines into some curious conclusions, Hero is what that journal thinks tho Presi- dent might have dono; He might have promoted the establishment of sume kind of educational quallilcation which, without taking note of cofor, would havo removed the main cause of irritation of the whites. * He inlglit have maintalned the sfatue quo, assuring to all by the presence of the Wederal forces the free exorcise of the privileges given them. Or ho might have withdrawn the Federal troups, leaving the antagonistic partiow to settle their disputes with ‘one unother, in the trast that, somehow or other, aancnse of law and justice would grow up between then. President Havzs choto thla lost course, and he Iv now accused by tho Republicans of hav- ing thereby given np all for which they had strug: gied and fought, Thoy contend that if slavery bo not actually re-catablishod, {te worst characteris- {lee of race subjugation ou the one hand, and of tyrunnous and contemptuous cruelly on the otter, are revived. It 1s possible that these feura and exe preavluns are overatrained; {¢ fe certain that North ern Republicans hava imperfectly appreciated the immense difitenlly of working out free Institutions in the South; but enongh hae been eald to make it undeestuod why the Presldent’s policy bn been condemned in lowa snd in New Hompshiro, ond would be condemned, at slinilar Conventions throughout the North. Of conrse it would havo been impossible for tha President to promote ‘ tho catablish- ment of somo kind of educational qualificn- tion,"as ho has no powor to interfore with tho local laws of the States £0 long os thoy conform: with the constitutional requiro- montsof the United States; and, even if such a schemo were practicable or desirable, years would be required to work it out, and it would havo been of no immediate assistance in tho solution of the Southern troubles. President Hayes did all ho could individually when ho promoted tho exaction of a prom- ive from the Democrats of Louisiana ond South Carolina (the only Statou in dispute) that oducational facilities should be enlarged and extended equally to blacka and whites, Nor could he have maintained the status quo, @ 1s suggested, since bo was confronted with the fact that tho House of Represent- tives had refused to yoto aupplics for the army until it should be withdrawn from tho Sothern Btates; tho disbandment of fcheffa"" Messrs, Thorne, O'Nel!, Stoddart, ete: Mes- damea Fanny Morant, Bara Jewett, Katharine Hog- FS, bles actually crushing us to the earth, by decinr- ing that Tux Cntoago ‘Trrsunr is incon- sistent, To be accused of awindling might be endnred, but to be accused of incon- sistonoy by the New York Tribune? ‘Whentho'Resumption act was passed, Tae Cnicaco Tripune then pointed out that the law was so inadequate and so imperfect that an attempt to redeem tho greonbacks tinder it mngt of ncessity prove disastrous to the country, Tho law was approved, not os a practical mensure, bnt as a piece of senti- mont, It wasn declaration by Congress that the.greenbacks woro to bo mado cquivalent to coin, but how this was to bo dono, and even when, was carefully avoided, and was left to futuro legislation. ‘That was in 1873. It wos then thought by tho framers of thelaw and by tho Presidont thatin the meantime Con- gross would be ablo to maturesuch legislation as would permit the object of tho law to bo enrried ont. It was thon suggested that, if the circnmstances required it, oven tho date named in the act might bo changed toa later one. In tha meantime tho sontimont in favor of specia pay:nonts was cnitivated, and that sontiment was opposed to the other one which demanded a permanent issue of green- backs asa national currency, ‘These wore | Afrien have bean subjected to no grievance the opposing policies presented jn the mom- | which cau be monsured in dollars and cents, orablo Hayes and Antex struggle in Ohio, | They have not even boon deprived of their which was tho first popular response to an | freodom. hoy may preserve an autonomy, open declaration in favor of redeoming the | jike that of the French in Lowor Cannda, ns groonbacks in coin, perfect as that which thoy posacused before. Thero was no thinking man then, nor is | ho Dritish flag will font over tifém, it is there one now, who supposes that the ro- | tro, but ita flappings can do no more than demption of tho greenbacka includes tho | frighten thoir geoso, Moreover, the English powsibility of their roissuc. ‘The Govorn- | have both n provocation and an oxcnso for ment is not a bank which receivos deposits; | thotr action, ‘Iho Dutch Freo States wero Jonds monoy, and’ hes n profit therefrom. | surrounded by English poasossions, and Ordinarily it has no money except the pro- | wero occupicd in part by English settlers, ceods of taxes, which taxes are intended to | ‘Tho Boera woro oithor too indolent or too merely cover tho direct sunual appropria- | cowardly to protect themselves from tho tions mado by law. If the: taxes produca | raids of tho ferocious Kaflirs, and tha Dutch moro revenue than was anticipated, thoro is | nolicy of brutality towards tho natives wns aeurplus; if thoy produce lesa, thero is n | exciting n fecling of hoatility on the part of Geficioncy, To tho extent of this surplus | tho latter which promised soon to make tho only is the Government in a condition to pay | conntry uninhabitable, ‘Tho English havo its dobts. » always shown their ability to manage the Since the dato of tho Resumption Inw in | natives with whom thoy have to deal, goner- 1875, Congress hna been attempting to pro- | ally finding tho policy of kindness effoctual vide the additional legislation required to | without resort to sterner argumontsa. Such put that act into operation, and Congress | has been their oxperionco in Canada, and has failod todo so. It ia now proposed to | such it has always beon in South Africa put it into execution without any additional | when thoy have not been hampered by the logislation, and ogainst that proceeding Tux | influence of Dntch cfuelty and treachery, Cnrcaco Tarwuxg protests, Thoro has been | Thoro is nngthor reason why Americans of no day sinco 1875 whon tho conntry would |*this day should not bo lavish of sympathy have tolerated any mensuro that would rgtiro | on bohalf of those Dutchmen : tho constant the greenbacks without first providing some | source of strifo betwoen them nnd tho other currency to tako their place, Tho | English has been a difference of opinion legislation nooded to carry the Resumption | on the slavery question, The English act into forco is that logislgtion which will | emancipated the alaves in Capo Colony in provent a contraction of tho curroncy and | 1829, aud the subsoquont emigration of tho prevent general disaster and ruin by fnr- | Dutch across tho Orango Rivor was dua tp nishing the country with other currency. | thoir fondness for ‘' the Divino jnstitntion.”” What has Congress dono in this respect? | The Dutch wanted to be froo in order that It has dgmonotized silver and prohibited | thoy might make o number of thoir fcllow- its coinage, and this nt a time when 40,-| beings alaves,—a spirit of {ndopondenco 000,000 of the coin could be added annually | with which Americans are not altogother un- to the currency of tho country, That ro- | familiar, As botweon Dutch and English nource has boon cnt off, Congress hins, as | idens of progress, impartial observers cannot if for the -purposo of. rendering bank-note | Jong hesitate which to profer. ‘Tho differ. circulation unprofitable, continued tho war | once ia ‘illpstrated in tho history of a rail- tax on circulation and doposit, amounting to | road which the Transvaal Dutch attempted about 2 per cent on tho bank circnlation. It | to build on capital borrowed from Amstor- has also continued the exaction of $100 in | dam. § They made Innd-granta, issued bonds, gold bonds as security for $90 worth of | orgamzed Crodit Mobiliors, and proceeded bank notes,—a scourity exceeding that re- | in tho most approved American fashion to quired of tho Bank of England, construct a road from nowhere to another ‘Tho policy of tho Govornmont, instead of | placo, with,nothing to start on, ‘The result offering avery encouragement and induce-| was that thoy obtained about £60 from ment for the private capital of tho country | Amsterdam for overy £100 pledged; a num- to como to the nasistanco of the people and | bor of rails wore transported to Africa, and tho Government in gotting rid of tho green- | lie rusting thore on tho coast at tho present backs and substituting therefor bauk cur- | day, unless British onergy has rocontlyfound tency such na is known to and recognized a4 | 9 uso for thom, part of the commercial machinery of overy The Englich will dovolop all the resources other nation, has beon directed to break up | of this South African country, as they do of these banks, to compel them to withdraw | overy country they colonize. ‘They will thelr ciroulation, and reduce the country to | bnild railroads, work the mines, fill the vast the bare uso of gold, Congroes having | pastures with flocks, till the soll, and givo a failed to do its duty, having “provided no | now impulse to foreign commerce, Event- moans for withdrawing the greeubacka to | uully thoy will acquire all South Africa up make way for other curronoy, the contrac- | io tho twentieth parallel, and ostablish a tion party now {insist on thoexecution of tho | new dominion thore. ‘ha relation of this law according to its letter, and the subjection | na province to the Mother Country will be of tho whole country to the meagre supply:| nq matter of small consequence. Whethor of an exclusive gold currency, the country becomes independent, or whoth- It ia idle to supposo that tho banks of tho | or it presorves ita nominal attachment to the country, deprived of silver and doprived of | Biitish Crown, it will romain ossentially En- greonbacks, will permit thomeclves to be re- | glish in character and sympathy, and will be. quired to pay gold when thoy can avoid it | 9 source of strength to the- Empire as a now by surrendering their notes and drawing | English-speaking people in a rich aud bound. their bonds from tho Treasury, If they aru | loss territory. to pay all’ demands In gold, their cnrroney es will be n weakness and their bonds a miattor T. the Editor of The Tribune, of atrongth, ‘Tio bonds willbe equivatent to | ,,UESteN: Nl; dmiy tv —urhat ta the method of gold. ‘Yo enforce the law in its present Franklin County reported for May shirtwan fechas form is to drive bauk curroucy out of clreu- | yg rainfall ts measured by means of au in- lntion. Such a contraction of the curronoy | strument called a rainsauge, which consists is too promising of goneral rnin and disaster, | generally of a funnel opening for collecting tho and, if the change of date for redeeming the | raln os {t falls, and asmaller tubs below, Into greenbacks be necessary to avert such a ca- | which thy collected waterruns. Suppose the fun- lamity, tho country will have no_hesitation nel opening Le ten inches diameter, and the tube in demanding such change, one Inch diameter, then, because tho areas -of that among its inmates was one aged 70 who had drank for fifty years; another aged 65 who had absorbed the ardent for forty years; and a third aged 63 who had looked upon wine when it was red and beer while {t was amber for forty. five years. To such incidents dg the dyspeptic and the totterer point with trembling fingers while they gulp with anxious thronts, for life ts sweeter than abstinence from whisky, and whiera the former may be prolonged and the patient at tho end of four ecore be designated from his fellows with adtiniration, the inducement to oly sorb is far greater than that to swear off. We were indispored to credit the report somo days ngo that the President had decided that the Civil-Service order, directing that gfiicials phall not pnrtake in the activo man- agement of party politics, shonld not apply to the membera of tho National Republican Committce who are also in the service of the Government. Such an exception wonld havo furnished on oceasion for criticising tho President's intentions, though the exception were inade on the ground that the National Committee will have nothing to do for threo yoara. Weare not surprised, therefore, to find that there was no truth In the rumor, bnt that, ou the contrary, the very reverso has been decided upon at aCabinet mecting. We remombor very distinctly that Mr, Coanp- ier's management of the laté Présiden- tial campaign »while he was Secrotary of tho Interior was widely rogarded fis a That the Stato Tioard of Health kins com- senndal, and unquestionably did the party, menced at tho right end # demonstrated in much harm. Tho now Civil-Servico rnto the interviow with Dr. Ragen, published in should be applied to all officeholders alike, Tne Tresuxe of yesterday. “Tho first and wedo not think that any of those who thing we will do," said the Doctor, ‘is to desire to remain intho Gorernmont servico minke preparations for tho registration of the will hesitate to abandon thefr places on po- births, denths, and marringes; and, under litical committees, If any ono makes o test tho Practice act, to sco that all physicians | °° by refusing to rosign oither placo, it aro registered.” In Chicago ospecially is will be a malicious effort to harass the Ad- this reforin necded. ‘Tho only law pro- iniu{stration aud to impede tha progress of viding for such registration was in a regula- Civil-Servico Roform, Such a case would tlon of tho old oard of Health, and, when simply enable the Democrats in the Senato, those regulations ps swept away, the with the co-operation of any malcontents Council, failing to perpetuate them by ordi- professing to be Republicans, to badger and nance, left the city without any provision on | ®"20Y President Hares; and so meon-spirit- tho subject, and to-day there is nothing to ed s purpose wonld bo pretty sure to react compel the recording of births or deaths or | 1° the disadvantage of tho person indulging tho registration of physicians. The neces- it, sity for such a record is apparent, and the | »State Board should not allow auy other busi- ness to distract its attention until it is pro- | irossians in Europe, An if toatone for their vided for. — disastrons defeat in Asia, they aro striking One of the most important and interesting | quick, hard blows, and advancing so rapidly contributions to the literaturo and history of | that a panic has already commenced in Con- | the New York Ring prosecutions has been atantinople, as if the Russians were at their furnished by Mr. Canozan O’Bnyax Bryant, | very doors. The capture of Nikopolis scoms the former lawyer of 'I'wxep, and,{s printed | to have beon accomplished by tho rapidity very nearly in full chawher? in thia | ond resolution with which the dircct assault issue, It is not to be denicd | wasmado. Instead of bombarding or laying that Bnyaxr has onjoyed complote alege to tho fortross, they attacked the placo facilities for obtaining the ° material | When the Turks wore not expecting it, and out of which his vory interesting statement carried it by storm with a force aufiiciently is constructed, and it would also appear that, | Inrge to overcome all opposition, Materially, whether from motives of vindictiveness or | the advantnge is very great, os tho Russians through a desire’ to show np tho true in- | have taken taken two live Pashas, forty wardnoss of tho whole business for tha sake | Pleces of Lonvyartillcry, an immenso amount of tiuth and justice, ho has farnished o.| of small arms, and two monitors which they vast amount of information that was | willspeodily turn to good account, Stra- necesanry to explain and necount for some of | tegically, howover, the advantago {s of atlll the extraordiuary performances that have | greator importance, as {ft gives thom a now charactorized this cnormous scandal. In any | base of operations, and an opportunity for a event, Bayan is to be comniended for having | second bridgo across the Danube. ‘Tho first supplied a number of imissing links, albeit at | reports of the destruction of the bridge at the oxponse of somo reputations that had | Sistova, which came from Turkish sources, hitherto thread wondorfully well, considering | ate now proved to be cannrds, in ‘ tha invention of which tho Turks aro peculiarly expert, As tho rlyor at Nikop- "Tho action of the City Council on Monday } olis affords unusnal advantages for bridging, ovoning, or rather tho non-nction, on the sub. | owing to tho numerous islands, it will not be fect of gas evidencod a wido difference of | long before tho Russiens will lave another opinion, A year ngo tho City Council Ia- | easy entranco into Bulgaria which will estab- beréd strongly to foree %2 per 1,000 feot | leh pormancnt communication with their on the West Sido Gas Company, and was | right wing, now operating toward tho Balk. disappointed whon it was rofused. Mr, | ans, and at tho samo time ent off all danger Warxins, of the South Sida Gas Company, | of attack from the Tnrkish force at Widdin. then, in view of the financial condition of | In the Dobrudscha the Russiaus have forced the elty, voluntarily raduoed the prico of gas | the Turks entirely back from their line of one-fourth, Both Gas Compantos consented | defonaa from 'Tchernavoda to Mejidje, and to the chauge in tho burnera and to the new | another forco, after blockading Silistria, haa thue-table, and the result wasan immense | marched to the south of that fortress, thus saving to the city, to tho groat relief of the | severing tho Quadrilatoral in twaiu and serl- yfdblic and to’ the elevation of tho city’s | ously monacing Shumla, Went of the Quad- credit, ‘Thongh Mr, Brnzanas refuserl, to | rilatoral tho Inssiana aro mnking very rapid como to an agreamout with the Council, n | movemonts, A force of Cossacks has pushed liboral reduction of the price of gagfuraished | its way as far down tho rivor as Lom Polan- by his Compnuy hes been considered as | ka, at the mouth of the River Lom, whenco certain to tako place. This matter has now | soveral excellent roads lead ovor tho Balkans, been tested before the courts, and there jsno | and only a short distance from Widdin, benefit to rowult from carrying projudicesinto | Along tho line of tho Balkana tho Russian Iegislatfon, As Judgo Daustaonp said, the city | have also met with success, and havo ob- wauts to purchase gas, and the Companies | tamed a foothold south of the mountains have gas to well, aud no porson can object to | with a force of 22,000 mon, who paying a fair prico for it. Thao report of | will doubtless not only hold their the GasCommittes was probably about tho } position, but also cover the passage fair thing, that id, $1.65 per 1,000 feet to the | of the main army throngh the passes. Tho South Side Company und . $2 to the West | victorious force under Gon, Gounnua seems Sido Company, making o reduction from for- | to havo ontilanked the Turks at tho Shipka mer prices of 35conts per 1, foot in the | Pass, and, crossing at a point about thirty one Company aud $1 por 1, feot in the | miles cast froin there, at last accounts wero other case, We are certain that if these | marching upon Kasanlik, in the rear of tho prices be sgreod upon by tho Council the | force at Shipka, Gen, Gounnua’s force is in general publio will bo satisfied, aud will give | no danger of losing comuunications, be-- the Council full measura of applause for the | cause ho has nono to loso, Like Suenstan servicé they have rendered in this matter. | jn his March to the Sea, he has cut loose, ‘Le question ought to bo settled without de- | His column is the ontering wedge which has lay. a opened the mountains for.the passage of the = . = ues main army. His Cossacks have ponctrated We have before called attention to the fact | conthoast as far as Joni Baghra and cut tho that some of tho interior cities of Now York | telegraph lines towards Constantinople. It State aro inclined to yrumbloat the reduction | was q daring movement, but it hes been of tollu on the Eric Canal, becanso it looks | growned with success, and may havo a very | as though there will bo a large defloleifoy this importsnt influence upon the futuro of the year below the amount required for tho campaign, It’ has at loast shown that the maintenance of the canal, aud becanse this | crossing of tho Balkans ix not as difficult os deficieney will have to be mado up by gen- | way anticipated. If there were but ono or monently nnder the Pence of 1815, The Dutch wero restive under English rule, and moved beyond tho Orange River, sacrificing their property in tho vicinity of Capetown in order to make tho change. After subdn- ing tho new:country and driving out tho Kaf- firs, they had to auffer another annexation to the British Empire, They resisted, but were conqnercd, and compelled to move beyond tha Vaal River, where thoy founded tho Transvaal Republic, This is tho territory which England hos now absorbed in the old way, having ox ‘usual’ abundant protext ant apology, and being confirmed in its title by the potent argumont of euporior force. Much sympathy has been, expended on tho Dutch in Sonth Africa, and their persecution by the English has been the subject of many flamboyant articles both in Europo and Americs, Theoratically, thoir caso is a hard one, Thoy have been acting unconsciounly and unwillingly ns the pioneers of English civilization, After bearing the heat and bur- don of tho day, they havo snfferod the morti- ficntion of scomg others enjoy the fruits of their labors, This is the sontimontal view of their situation, Tho practical and hard- sonno viow {a different. The Dutch in South Adetphl Theatres Monroe street, corner of Dearborn, Novelty, farce, and pantomime. Mewrp. Pat Rooney, FE. M. Ital, Mamitt, ete.: Mesdames Larkelle, Adah Rich- mond, etc. Exposition Ballding. 3 . Lake Fhore, foot of Adams street, Eummer-Nieht Festival by the Thomas Orchestra. , Tinse- all Park. Ptate and Twenty-third streets, Game between tho che Syraciine tara at \. ‘Wilt tt be againet the new Clyil-Service rules for Posty masters toatlend prayer-meeting,—sniianapalts Joure ett Te mny be casnally mentioned that Postmasters may attend prayer-meutings ont of business hours, —Chicago Fines. Clearly the Journal and Times Ud not get this fden froin cach other, but will they confess from: yhat paper theyylid steal it? a THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1877. _———————— CHICAGO MARKET SUMMARY. ‘The Chicago produée markets were rather leas active yerterday, and provisions were casicr, Mcrs pork closed 5@10e per brl lower, at $13.124@ 14.15 for Augaat and $13,30@19.35 for Sep. tember, Lard closed Zigc per 100 ibs lower, at $8.874G.8. 00 for Auguat and $9.00 for September. Meats were easier, at 434¢ per)b for Joonc shoulders and GXc for du short ribs, Lake freighta’ were actlye and stronger, at 24@2e for corn to Iint- Qalo, Highwines were ateads, at $1.08 per gallon. Flour was irregular. Wheat clored steady, at$1.39 for Tuly aud $1. 10% for Angaat. Corn closed easy, al 49'gc for duly and 48%@ABije for August, Oats were firmer, at U2e cash and 28%¢¢ for Angust. ‘Rye was quiet, at Ofc cash and, ic for August. Tariey old at 80c for new No, 2 roller Septem- ber. Hoys were quiet and 5@10c lower for heavy grades, Cattle were dull and weak, with eales at $2.006268.00. Sheep were nominal at $3, 0005 uc hnndred dollara In gold would buy $1 in greenbacke at the close. Germany Is thoroughly alarmed at the en croachments of the potato-bug. Ships are quar autined, and portralts of such bugs as have se- cured a landing, done by “the old masters,” arc cireuiated throuch the country. The best way toget eld of the Inscctls to break his neck by compelling him to speak the German lan- guage. a Position of tho frultdeaters: ‘Gentlemen of the Council, please don't tuterfere with ms just now. Wo have perfected arrangements for sindling the people, and ft will ental! enor. mous expense upon us If you now compel us‘to be honest.’ eeeeensceuseemeend PERSONAL. Btonewall Jackson used to say that he be. Moved he was fonder of tlquorthah any man in his force, but he nover tasted it. The Springfleld Repudlican hon discovered what became of the Garden of Eden, Itwas roincd ‘by the woodmsn’s 1x, and dried up, Judge Dickey, of Chicago, was one of tho gnesta at adinnergiven ty William Beach Law- rence to Charica O'Conor at Newport, Friday, Dr. O, 't. Winslow, of Hoston, died at Salt Lake City, and.lefta will directing that bis heart be buried in the grave of his parents at Nan- tueket, and hla body cremated and the aahes Ine terred in the grave of hls wife at Cambridge, Tho Earl of Annestey was marricd to Misa Markham at Marylebone Church, London, Jaly 4. His Lordship fainted daring the ceremony, and had to be carried out of the church. ‘The bride re mained at tho altar and the ecrtico procecded. His Lordahip recovered in time to sign the reginter, Ex-Lieut.-Gov, William Johnson, of Ken tucky, reparated from his wife somo years ago. She retained curtody of the children, Aftor servs fees atthe Catholic Church Snftlay woek ho ap- proached his daughter, aged 16 years, and attempt- ed to persuade her to go home with him. She ree aldted, Mer brother Interfered, the two men cama to blows, and) a scandalous fight was tho cousc- quence, 4 Mr. ©. TR. Thorne's success in the part of Osslp was partly a nurprieo to the people at Stoo- ley's Theatro Monday night, because they had not been forowared of anything unusual in hie acting of the part, The Eastern critics nogtected thelr duty In this respect. Tt wasa enporb pluce of act- Ing, the ke of whigfrhas not been xhewn In this city elther by Mr. Thorne or by any other member of the Union Squaro company, Tha Boston peo- ple, who had the misfortane to seo ‘Tho Danl+ cheffs” without Thorne, cannot know how mnch they missed. Among the many friends who bade James Rossel Lowell godspeed on hie mission at the walling of the steameliip Parthia last greek were C, F, Adama, 1. 1 Dana, dr., Ralph Waldo Emer non, Prealdent Eliot of Harvard, Ollver Wendell Holmes, Il. W. Longfellow, ex-Goy, Noyes, Gov. Rice, Mayor Prince, and Profe. P. J. Chitd, x Dunbar, Joseph Lovering, Francls Bowen, Will- fam W. Goodwin, ‘Henry W. Torrey, Benjamin Pierce, James Milla Pierce, Georzo M.. Lane. Charles E, Norton, Adam Iijil, F, Bocher, of Har- vard College. A night editor in Now York has written to the Mayor complaining that his sleep during the day ia disturbed by organ-grinders. Ie craves re~ Nef, Why, not try the Turkish plan? Orgun- grinders are prohibited from stopping in the trees of Constantinople, aud the plan ts to have-ono mau curry the instrament on his back and moro along, while snother walks behind and grinds, Tho ef- fect {seaid to bo mont ludicrous, but all tho bar- mony Is prescryed, wile the wnalsauce Ja reduced toa minimum, A subscriber desires to know what crimes tho United States has covered by extradition treatios, and what reciprocal lawa this country has for the enforcement of contracts or tho cillection of debts, whereby partios may Locoine Hable to vx tradition, The inquiry auggeated by these ques- tions is too vast a one to bo andertaken simply for -the glory of tha thing; but there are many lawyers iu Chicago who would be glad to look up the aub- fect fora cortain amall aum of money paid Ia hand. . The subscriber is respectfally referred to them for information, Ks Granville Ely, a young New Yorker who was given $20,0008 year by his father, tho late Ellas Ely, a prominent lawyer, js in Jat) at Middle- town, Conn., for stealing a coat from tho laudlord of the Gelaten House. He used to spend bis sum: mere at East Haddam, was handsome, highly -cdu- eqted, brillant, and lavish with -his money, but rau through with it all, hasbeen !n Sing Sing for forgery, and been arrested many times for petty larcenics, and ta uow so mach changed in appear- ance aa to be hardly recoguized by those who knew ~ him eight years ago. “ APOld Opera-Goer” writes to tho Lon- don Tunes objecting to 8 repetition of the opera ‘4 Chiara," lately scen at Covent Gardon, core of the travesty of religious and funeral ceremonies lavolved jn Its representation, ‘Tho second act of the opers ie wholly oceapled by Greenbacks at the Now York Stock Ex- ehange yesterday closed at 943. County Commicsionors Senne and Arans have mado affidavits in tho Hanzts contract controversy to the offect that, when Commis. sioncra Sonuupr and McCarrner swore to tho svtting aside of the contrct, they swore to something that never occurred. Tho con- tract never was abrogated, but there seemed to be somothing in making it appenr that it wos, and so the ringstera rushed into o scrape from which they will not encapo if a good square application of legal prinviples is promptly made, THE WAR, ‘Thus far the work goes bravely ou for the 'Two bids for $100,000 loan, asked to meet another loan due to-day, have been ac- cepted Ly the Finance Committeo of the County Board. Ono Lid is for 370,000 and tho other for $15,000, and the price demand. edis 8 percent. This is the first time in tho history of the county that a leas nmonnt than that asked for has been offered, and the rato of percentago in higher than ever before insisted nponfor tha loan. Under tho present administration of county affairs thero is a want of cohfidence, and it in plain that tho county's credit ig not ay.good as it was bo- foro the Hing undermined and sapped its strength. It costa something to support tho Iting apart from its direct stealings. "The London Timea takes the occasion of the arrival of tho English fleot at Bosika Day to warn tho Turks against tho illuston that this ovent will bo of any service to them, or that tho English Government contemplates giving thom any military support. ‘+ Noth. ing conld bo imagined,” says the Zines, “‘more reckless, more unjuatiflable, mora “cruel to tho obstinate, misguided race on whom would fall the worst consequencea of tho delusion,” It onco mare statos, as it has done before, that the floct is stationed there to show that England is observant and has a policy to assert, and that sho only fol- lows the practice of all nations in placing troops upon their frontiors in time of war. all the ciraumatance 'Tho Turkish forces operating in Montonc- gro under Screman Pashs and Aut Sai » were withdrawn novo too soon, Their pros. ence ixsorely needed to render offectual the defense of the Balkan line; and,it looks now as though they would bo too late to assist in checking the impetuous advance of the Rus- sians. So lnrge a proportion of Annun Ken's yhting material is. cooned in bo. hind walls and Intrenchments that ho can- yot poseibly effect tho concentration by which alone he can hopa to successfully contend against the superior and constantly increasing numbers of the euemy. ‘The Montenegrin contingent would be n godsend just uow, but this columa ig hundreds of miles to the westward ag yet, and can hardly bo expected to arrive on the: ground in Bulgaria in time to be of much service in averting the destruction of the Quadrilateral system of defenses, ‘The opinion of Justice Swarxy, of tho United States Bupreme Court, which wo * print in another column, ig of general inter- ext as determining the Hobility of atockhold. ers of Nationst Bauks, It will be seon that no defense which is purely teclnical is por- mitted to roliove the sbarcholder of the necemity of paying his due proportion ef tho bank's dobta, The defendant in this case undertook to contest the recovery of the par yvaluo of his stock in sccord- anco with tho ordur of the Comp- L taxa We dl this by she 5 ‘rel Munal to th thel tho lying-tu-atate and the religious crema lion, Wo answered this by showing | ty, y th would have followed any attempt —<—— circles are proportional to the squares of thelr | oyor the body of the murdered wife of the Cxare- trotler, upon tho ground that no debts orl two passes, tho ‘Turks might guard jo army would hi y attemp' = my n a fi , ; had bas proved, but the Court overruled that tho deflcioncy is not the result of tho | thom go that tho Balkans might bo | on lils part to maintain the atatius quo, And ‘THE EROLISH IM SOUTH AFRICA. diameters, the oue-hundreth part of an inch of | witch. Portlone of the mass for the dead are reduction of tolls, but of the decline in tho shipment of grain,—the proportion of the falling-off in recoipts not being one-balf so large aa the decroazo of whipments, If the | g¢ Widdin, and on army in tho open. ficld tolls had remained what they were, so that | yori), of the Balkans, End at the pai time the railroads could have competed and taken | pnard all the passes of tho Halkans, would what business there has been, the Erie-Canal require twice as many men as tho 'Torks can deficiency would have Leon twice as largo o# | muster, It is not by any means an impossl- itis, ‘Tho increased businens of tho canalin | pitity, therefore, that the Russiaus will mask Proportion to the amount of shipping dono | (4 Quadrilateral forces aud suddenly trans- is fairly shown by the chango in tho business | gor gyi main army south of the Balkans of Now York City, ‘The Hulletin saya: lon o ig before tho: Turks, who are slower in Not only hos the sapid diversion of the graln ed eRe trado of tho past two years, aud expecially of last | MOtlon, can fall “back upon Constantinople, year. been wholly checkud, but three months hve | If they wicceed in this movement the doom bulliced tu recover a conslderatle portion of what | of Adrianople is sealed, and also of the latter Ras eet sitbelt rt ae show these enue we | city, unloss the other Powers should intor- make a comparison o receipts of grain—corn, 1 : and wheat—ut the three olker Auautic ports | £¢7- ‘That tho Turks themsclvos apprehend Philadelphia, Maltimore, and Woston—with thoso | this danger is shown by the hurried manner of New York, for the week ending July1 and | in which thoy are trying to concentrate forces wat tae sone vere ett A be socal o at Adrianople, by tho insatiate outcry of the ct ; eo week endin; June 30 were In round numbers 26,000 bushels, Boftas for a declaration of a Holy War, by und of corn 220,000 busbels, ofa total of 355,000 | tho crisis iu tho Ministry, and by tho indo- burbels. Recelpta same tlubct New York bare | cision of the Sultan himself, hesitating be- beta 373,000 Sushete wheat and 606,000 buduels | tweon auking for peace and continuing the of corn, a total of 2,000,000 bushels, of an exe ceab uteegie ilies Gther purts for iba ‘weeks of’) Proseeutlon of the war. Fe 714,000 Lushels, agulost ou cacess of theso ports Thero can be little hope that Russia will oved New York for same week last year of 717,400 | retrleve her Asiatic disaster: in this cam. sunzi tho lady reposea tn a real coffin, aurrounded by wax tapers; monke knocl abont, and no detail fa onitted which can helghten the illusion. Mr, Bradlaugh attended an enthusiastic meeting at Northampton on tho Sd Inst. He said he intended to continue the publication of his book whoy relcssed, whatever the decision of the Court mightbe. He was contident that decision would beinhls favor. A resolution was passed to the ef- foct **thathaving heard the statement of Mr. Bradlaugh, this meeting expressed sta thoroagh confidence !n him as one of the candidates fur the futore representation of the borough of Northamp- ton.” The meeting was well attended, and Mr. Bradlaugh was loudly cheered un bis way to bis hotel. * . The Knoxville (Tpnn.) Chrgnicie, formorly edited by Parson Brownlow, thinks Mr. Jerewish Black ouxht not to grow red tn the face on account of **The Electoral Conspiracy,” He attempted to bulldoze Andy Joboson during the Impeachuent tral Ho was expected to appear for the Presi dent, ond demanded of him a war-veseel for the protection of other cilcnts fu the case of the Ailsa ‘Vela Islands. upon toe penalty of refusal to serve. Bugged old Andy Johnson, regurding it asa direct insult, exclaimed: **Mr. Black, you must belicve that under those proccedloge 1 aus very much de- moralized, You bave secon the report of the kecie- laryot State, By that I propose to be coverncd. But, alr, f it bad been favorable to you, under the ciscumstances, I would eater wy rigot aru ¢os off before J would grant your request o0w." ralnfall would fill the tubo to the depth ofoneinch, Tho English havo a good gripon Africa, | anda very small quantlty of rain conld be meas- aud thoy do not inean to let go, Thelr con- | yred accurately. In practice the ratio between ceru about the Suez Caual has induced thom | tho dimensions Js not geucrally so yrreat as above to take an interest in tho affairs of Egypt, | stated, but the principle ts the same, ‘The rain and that country will become an Euglish de- | is collected into a smaller area of base than the pendency before long. With this hold on | areaon which It actually falle, and this arrange- the north, and the opportunities it gives | ment nas the double advantage of permitting them for indefinite exploration nnd conquest, | #cUrite measurement and Lavine a sinall sure face from which the water can be lost by qvapo- they have ouly to oxtend tholr poastasions | sation. ‘The ralu-gauze should not be placed in in the south in onder to cmbrace tho entire | g sheltered locality, aud its bight above the continent of Africa in their field of opora- | ground should ve uo greater than suiiclent for tions, “They havo not neglected Sierra | duc exposure and safety. Strictly speaking, the Loone on the west coast or Mozambique on | average rhein uwhole county will arn i a tly | be exactly cqual to that of any one spot fn t! eS page faa’ cme county; but unless the location of the rain- rt . Po! gauge be improperly chusen, the difference will compass upop the interior. « Africa ig not 10] by ymall. ‘The sgaujo fs usually examlued at the bo despised. ‘Ihe southern portion, particu- | samo hour every day, and the Water emptied out larly, abounds in clevated table-plains, | gfrer having becn mcasured. which, arg removed some leagues from the ——————__. if he had been ablo to hold the Louisiansand South Carolina State-Honses by troopa, that course would not have assured tho {reo exer. cigo of political privileges by all classes, ‘The presence of the Federal troops through- out the South had notoriously failed to pro- tect tho blacks from intimidation and violouce, or to assure them tho free exercise of their political privileges. As a result of the courso which has been pursued, so far E& reviving the “tyranuous and con- inptuous cruelty” of the whites over tho Diacks, it is universally acknowledged that tho murders and outrages havo ceased, and there is a botter promise of protection being extended to the nogrocs than there ever was under the aggressive domination of the car- pet-baggers with tho United States anny and navy at their back, . It is not easy to perceive what the Implac- ables hope to gain by misleading foreign judgmont in regard to the political condi- tions of this country, ‘The chief interest in forcigu relations is the maintenanco of the Government credit, and this is scarccly to be this point, holding that the amount to be yaid rests solely in tho judgment of the Comptrolicr, and cannot be controverted ; and it was also decided that the stockholders wero debarred from pleading any irregularity of proceedings ju the organizgtion of the bank, the Comptroiler being clothod with jurisdiction to decide as to the completeness of tho organization, and his certificate being therefore conclusive upon that subject for all the purposes of this litigation, almost insurmountable, but there are too many passes, To hold tho four fortresses of tho Quadrilateral, keep a force Yesterday's feature ot Lako Bluff was the address of tho Rev. Josrru Coos at the seccnd anoual Suuday-school Assembly. ‘Shere was but little difference ‘in style be- tween the address and the lectures delivered by the reverend gentleman at Boston, suvo a Iggal application of his exeellent iustrations and clover anecdotes, The speech, or ser- mon, for it partook of the nature of both, was au intercsting mingling of facts, fancies, uketchoa, philosophies, figures, aud mota- physics, tending to demonstrate that there is inherent good in Nazareth, and that tho is yet ty bo blessod by emancipation from Ligotry, heresy, skopticism, gin-mills, coast, and protected by naturo from tho | Resumption will uot uccesdtate the retirement + the greenbacks, if we wish to Fetal if sabe, ate et at tes | arc leac et edtors stele intervening low countries, ose joe | retlrod ao shat the remaluder aro redegwale ly F Y tou Tre ur fur dollar 1 lands or plateaus aro fortile, the soil being felts polly of senutot sae cones stad. ada) i aud i | cr We 8! ty reatter Teen! cure pied for pasturago, tillage fruit- | Mineys to tho uxteat to wiies itean Uy circulated at growing. The iniueral resources of. tho | ful) talus, iv another question, ‘Tus Cuicacu ‘ Une baa uo warrant for assuming therotoce promoted by rumors of party strife. Every- | South African country aro also important. Poaoeneried eee tee ean ee the elk thing which tends to impair the faith of the | In 1869 thediamond gelds were discovered ] of the grevabuck iaaue, 1t will probably be ace a ®