Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 21, 1877, Page 4

THE CHICAGO ‘TRIBUNE SATURDAY, JULY 21, 1877—TW { PAGKS. Daily Edition, one yon 51 ZK) fale ceria ite Maled to any mddrers four we . WU Doatite Sheet. 3: Satnrdsy Fultion, Wi Weekiy, ane year, Vartact a year, bar month. WRERLT ‘Ont copy, per year, S 1.2: tind of ten, Mi at ot ents + adc Hpectpén copy re ‘To prevenidelny and niistakes, he sure and aire Post- ‘Ofice address ta fol, Incloding State and Panny. Homtttancea may be matte either ny drat, express, Tor-Other order, of in registered letters, at our rlak. TRUMS TO CITY ATHACRINERS. Poly. dehvercd, Sunday cecented, 2s cente per week. Dutiy: delivered, Funda Jncluded, P) rents fer week, We EASY ase Chicago, Ml. Corner Madison Honley's Thentres Mandolptt street, between Clark and LaSalle. En- gagcment of the Unlun-Square Company, ‘Les Dans Mesa Nell, Stoddart, ete.? Mes ‘anny Morant, Jewett, Katharine Tog: ers, ete, Alternogh and evening. Adeipht Theatre. Montour street, comer of Deatborn, Novelty, aud pantomime. Merin. Pat Rooney, RM. MaMitt, ete.: Mesdamcs carkelle, Adah Hich- etc. Afternoon sud eventng. Exposition Inilding. Lake Shore, tuot of Ajlame atreet, Sammer-Nient Festival by the Thontas Urchemra, Atiernoon sud evening. Base-Ball Park, State and Twenty-third streets. Game between the Chicago and Indiaagpotte Cabs at 8: CHICAGO MARKET SUMMABY, ‘The Chicago produce markets were most of them easier yesterday, with lean do'ng, closed 5@10e per drt high for Ausust and $19.50¢13 Lard cred 7c per 100 bbs lower, at $3. 07530 8.00 for Auuat and 89, 0714 for September. Meats wete mteadier, at Se for lovee shoulders and Gc fur do ft ribs, Lake freights were active a for corn to Buffalo, Mighwines: 81,08 per gallon, Flour was dui. Wheat closed 2!4¢ lower, at $1.37 for dnly. and S1.14 for Angst. Corn closed K@tsc lower, at ATC cash and dU {efor August, Oats closed dnil, at O0Qc cash and 88te fur August. Hye was efor Auguat. Burley closed at 75¢ for new No. 2 aeller Neptember, Hogs were active and Sc higher, closing tirm ut $4.05 were dali and casfer, with sales at Sheep were dull, ot $2.00735,.00, One hundred tiutinrs fa gotd would buy 2105.00 in greenbacks at the close, Mera pork At BLL IT @LL AO a for September, change yesierday closed at 941, — Seventeen Nez Perce warriors and tweuty- cight squaws and young ones have surron- dered to Gen, Howarp, who is following the rest of the flying band to capture its Chiefs, ‘Che war in Idaho is practically ended, in the opinion of Gen. McDowett, or willbe, unless fhe ravages succecd in making a stand on Jicll Gate, a branelk of the Bitter Root River. Nows that the Rursians were within three hours’ merch of Philippopolis awakened the zy ‘Turks at Constantinopte to somo. thing like an effort to save Adrisnople, The fortifications at that point are Jamentably bnyerfect and insuflciontly sup- plied with arma, Munitions of war wero started hurriedly, but the confusion shows tho Sultan's appreciation of tho danger, and bis mability to cope with it. ee Forty thonsand Russians have pushed thor way through Hainkat Pasa of the Balkans, to the supreme disgust and well-defined diamay of the Turks, who look upon this threatened invasion of Constantinople with yo favoring eye. It hax had the effect of stirring the Saltan upto business, and Renrr has beon remaved to make room for Mansioup, who, notwithstanding his former poacefat proclivie ties, starts out with strong instructions and an evitcnt determination to drive the invaders {com ‘Turkish 1, A most aumarkublo political party, based aa 6 mich uixed platform, has just been established in St, Louls, It advocates the prohibition of the inannfacture and sale of liquors, the extension of suffrage to women, and the unlimited tame of green- becks, which it would moke n legal tender for all purposes, ‘The proposition to choose the President, Vice-President, aud United States Senators by direct vote of the people was stuck in, that the party might be heard from ot the election. —— ‘The railroat cotmpmuca claiming oxtra compensation for tho transportation of troopa during the War have found a friend 4u tha presont Solicitor of the Tronsnry, Mr. Raysox, who, departing from the rule fol lowad by all his predecessors since the closa of the War, bas just given on opivion favor. able to opcuing the door to nll these claima, ‘Thoy bavo beon repeatedly disallowed, and it was hoped that tho last had bean heard of thew, but Solicitor aynos has let down tho ‘Lary at this Inte day, and, uploss the Secreta. ry pnts them up agala in disregard of thiv “opinion,” thera will bo a grand rush for tho Treasury. _— An interesting description, with sccom- panying illustration, of the electrio candle recently’ invented by M. Japtosunory, tho Russian cngincer, is given elsewhere in this issue, being a translation from a paper in La Nature by Avruxp Nuvper. Teference has hitherto been made in these columns to this important inventiou, which, it ia believed, Is destined to largely anpersede all tho present methods of supplying artificlal light for outdoor purposes a3 well os for lighting large interiors, euch ag churches, public halls, theatres, warehouses, otc,; and the pictorial presentation of the aubject will assist greatly in conveying an idea of the sppsratus which has excited so much intercst and attention in Earope, Mr. Packaup, of Louisiana, ix represented cs having given the opinion that what tho Republican party needs in order‘ to “get right up” is, that tho President should get rid of such Cabinet of- ficers og Evants, Scuunz, and Devexs, ond fill their places with old-atyle Re yublicans,—such og Zack Cuanpien, for instance. He might bave mentioned some other old-style Republicans liable to help the party oi its feet agato, —Kopeson, Betaxar, Woutams, ote; bat , about the time the Republican party man- aged to get up in this way, Mr. Packanp would be surprised to see how prousptly it would get kuocked down. ‘The genera) im- Brossion prevails that the Republican party teup, acd not at all in need of any of the “ald-atyle" invigoration, Having accared advance-sheets of the new story by Mrs. Ante B. Eowasns, thu popular and celebrated English novelist, from her ‘Auerican publishers, Mesara, Suxupow & Co., Tux Tamvse publishes the Brat install. . ment in ity supplement of this morning, 4 Mrs. Evwaups’ fame ax a brilliant novelist is vost world-wide, and nave of her former “\ orty have surpasued in interest of narretive and perfection of plot her late endeavor, A Rinestocking.” For the convenience of those who desire to preserve tho attractive rerinl, it in furnished in half-page form, ready for the ncrap-book, the only way in which it can be properly saved for fatnro reading. This story combined with Tho Home Department will mnde Saturday's sup- plement of Tne Tamoxe sa interesting as any publication of the day. For monthe the Department has advanced steadiiy nntil it lias become # necessity to the ladies of the ‘Western conntry, and the most popular fea- ture of modern journalism. Its columns are snpplied from alt parts of the United States, and it is invaluable to the honsekeeper and a comfort to tasteful and appreciative women, Extra copies of tho paper containing Mrs, Epwanops’ story can be obtained by writing’ or applying to the office. * New England Skopticiem ” and its de and cultivation confined the attention of tho Rey. Josren Coor in his third lecture beforo tho Snnday-School Assembly at Loke Blut, For a display of his versatility Mr. Coox contd acareoly hnvo chosen a wider or more frnitfal field for discussion. Runuing back through the history of Puritanism, ho cited the law effecting the nuification of Church and State in Now England, which provided that no man could vote unless he was a church-member or had been baptized in youth; and nn Jater onactment catled the “ Halfway Covennut,” which adinitted to suffrage and office tha children of paronts baptized in infancy, and in this conces- ston to secularization wero planted the seeds that boro the rich fruit of Rationalimn in- herited by tho Now England of to-day. Ho traced the akepticium it originated down through its gaining strength and the offorts to combat it, arriving at tha conclusion that, until the world is ovangelized, the unbelict of men will work to their spiritual rin, —_—————e Tho crime of mnrder hax been added to the Inwless deeds of tho railrond strikers, and, worse than all, the murder of innocent Persons taking no part either with or against the atrikers, ‘The blood of the cight people killed at Baltimore yesterday rests upon tho heads of the misguided men who have un. dertaken by force and violence to prevent the Mling of their places by those who ara willing aud anxious to work for tho wages which thoy refused. They attempted to hinder tho progress through the stroets of Baltimore of the Sixth Maryland Rogiment, which had been ordered by Gov. Carrots to proceed to Camden Station to nid in tho sup. pression of not and disorder. The regiment was fired npon and stoned while on the match, several members being wounded, Promptly the order was given to return tho fire, and oight persons were killed. Intenso oxcitenient provails in Baltimore, and tho regiment has been ordered to remain in the city ond dofend it against 6% general onthrenk by the mob, At Martiagburg the strike is virtually at an ond, but at Pittsburg it has gathered strength, and it is difficutt to sce how 4 seri. aus colfision is to bo avoided between the strikens aud the Inrge body of Stato troops that have been ordered to the scene, ‘Tron. Dio has also bogun on tho Eastern Division of the Erio and the Fort Wayne Ronda, and it is expectod that a striko will be inaugurated on the Ohio & Misnissippi noxt week, It sceme, from tho statement of District. Attorney Fixszy, of Now Orleans, that tho mombers of the Returning Board have not been indicted, but he sayy the Grand Jury required him to file tho information against them, there being a donbt as to the jury's power to make an indictment during a special tenn, We says this in a card to the New York Sferala, ond adds tho gratuitous infor. mation that ‘the whole procooding origi. nated in his- burning desire to bring guilly nien to justice.” While hia hand was in, he might havo confossed a little mora, and told tho public that Saar Tpew and Davip Drp- tery Frerp woro nt the bottom of tho prose- cution. Those who have examined the mat- tor are watlefled that Freip, acting as the at. torney of Tinpes, is tho instigator of the “fnformation dled.” Frenp was interviowed before ho sailed for England, and wus asked theso questions: «Whether he was con- nectod with pushing tho caso against tho members of the Returniug Board, or in giv. ing sdvice on the matter; whether ho knew anybody who had given advico; and whether tho action was a port of a plan to bring the Electoral question into court.” ‘fo all of which ho replied that he pro. ferred not to suswor, But ho folt as liberty tousy that he wished the ques. fion’ as to the President's title reopened; and then added tho usual Bourbon slang about Hares’ clection being the result of fraudulent conspiracy. An effort has been mado to induca one of the Domocratic mem. bors from tho Oity of Now York or Brooklyn to resign his seat, in ordor that Twxen's snd ‘Truven’s attorney, Fiexp, might be elected in his place, for the purpose of reopening tho Presidential question in Congress, It was rumored that o larger sum of monsy was offered to the incumbent to make a yacanoy than was sent to Oregon by the same partics to buy a voto in the Electoral College, But, ss tho purchases was s new member, and ambitious to display his eloquence in the marble chamber, the purchaser could not name o high enough price, and the negotia- tion fell to tho ground, ‘Theso sorebeads, might as well cave thele money and anxiety, BA * 3S, Hares will servo out his term wndia- turbed. The death of Honatio O, Sroxz, which occurred at his rosldunco iu this city youter- Gay morning, is another iuvasion of the ranks of “old citizens" that have boen so, much thinned out since the fire of 1871, ‘Mr. Srongz has been 9 rosident of Chicago forty-four years, his advent almost ante. Gating tho historical records that are at all fansiliar to tho prosent generation, He has been identied with the growth of the city from its condition asa frontior village not always sure of protection against hostile In- dine, aud he has had a canspicavas part in ita good and evil fortunes. Now that Chicago dy tho great grain mart of tho world, {tf is not gurprising that ho should have pointed with pride in his latter days to the fact that he uhipped the firat load of wheat that was ever weut East from Chicago; it con. alsted of 730 bushels in “bagy, and was sold in Wuffulo at 70 conts per buabel. Ho was engaged in: trade here for twenty-seven years, but dung the later years of his life devoted his time aud ener. gies to real estate, off which he had become & large owner. Iv begun hiy purchase of property almost immediately upon arriving, ata timo when lots wero suburban that are now covered by the handsomest busincas buildings in America, and when they could scarcely bo reached for the mud and ewampe which formed the eite for our present great city. His own experience taught him to cherish tho most implicit ‘faith in Chi- cogo’s destiny, and in this faith be died. Liko all Jarge property-owners, Mr. Stone was serionsly hurt by the fire of 1871, but ho was antong the firat to rebuild, and it is helioved that he has left behind an ample cdmpetency for bis family. He was a man universally respected for the integrity of his character ng well as business jndgment and eutorpriae. He bad many warm peraonal friends, and his generous mode of living helper to give his family a high social position in which he took great aatiafaction. Hisdeath was nnexpected, for, though a man of 66 years of age, ho was vigoronsand active, and ‘bore the promise of along Hie, His family will have the hearty sympathy of an excep. tionally Jarge circle of personal friends in their berenvoment, “SRYLOCKS AND THEIR GHACKLED PRES! ‘Thero is much said of nn opposition of i ferest between the people of the Easter States and those of tho West, but this oppo- sition of interoat is Inrgely imaginary. ‘Tho same stagnation of business, the samo sus- pension of Inbor, the same ‘shrinkage of values, the same gencral depresion, prevail in both sections, and are attended with the sate disastrots effects, The tinancial pol- fey of contraction urged through the press of the Enstern States no more represents the iuterests of the people of that section than it doesthoseof the people of the Western States. ‘The wonoy-leuders, however, in the Eastern State are a peculiar class, They have their claws extonded in every direction. Whersver there is a farm,or a dwelling, or a ware- house, or a mill, or a furnace, or a steam en- gine aud boilor; whorever thore is a steam- boat, ov a sail-vessel, or a railway; wherover thera fs a coal-pi¢ or an iron mine; wherever there is a city, county, town, village, or school district, there these people have a Hen and o mortgage benring tho largost pos- sible rate of interest. ‘hoy represent them- selves to be ‘the people of the Enst,” whon in fact they ore but a comparatively small population of relontless Shylocka, without a sentiment in common with the rostof the human family, and intent on inordinate gain by whatever menna possible, Throughont the Enstern States they claim to rote. hoy stifle public opinion on the ono hand, and, through the press, which they hold in mhack- Jes, they present their own cut-throat policy and declare it to bo that of the people! Never in any age or country waa there 9 keener scent for plunder, never a fercer pur- pose'to grasp the wealth of the whole coun- try. nor a more selfish determination to fore- close overy lien they hold. These Shylocks hold the Eastern and somo of the Western pross in the grasp of a vise; they clutels and control them, aud uso then to degrade, and onslave, and impoverish the business nnd, industrial masses of the people, whose duty it is for the shackled press {o defend. Tho latest appeal to the Governmont is to forestall tho action of Congrers, ‘The Sco. retary of the Treasury hog sold 285,000,000 of 4 per cent bonds for gold at par, and the monoy is to bo psid in before October, aud tho Government is urged by tho Shylocks ta tako this gold and with it buy wp greenbacks and burn them, and thus nt once begin the work of contraction of tho currency and the establishment of an exclusive gold curroucy, Such a proposition requires no comment to explam tt. It betrays, ‘howover, the whole purpose of the money-lending interost, and that is to precipitate a general foreclosure of indobteduess all over tho land. That the reader may not think wo oxag.- gerate, we quote as follows from a lending editorial in the New York Zridune, owned by the Wall street speculator, Jax Govzp, and dictated or written by him: All {ntelligent men have seen that large popular subscriptions to the sew Joan would expose tho Treasury and the country to grave dangers, ‘The United States has now bound iteeif to withdraw from the warket, in payment fur the now bonis and within ninety days, $85,000,000 in old, ar in legab-tenders obtained by rales of gold, or in 6 per cent bonds, But to whatever extent {t tails {nO per cent bonde, more than halt of then must come from Europe, and, if ite calls execed tha amount of new bonds taken abroad, must be pald for by shipments ofculn. . . . If the Seercias ty intends to prove that tho Newumption act ia not Aeham, a¢ bts opponents bave called it. be will take partlcwlat care not to comer the gold market 4n October, and turn the firat half of that month {nto a anccession of Black Friduys, We believe, ar wo have repeatedly urged the Ad- tlnistration to consider, that the safest roud to- ‘ward resnmptton into withdraw from tho market the wuperftuoua legal-tenders as fast av povsible. Uat 11 fa especially important at tite time to avold by some weane the severe drain of gold, vither to Europe or Into tno Treasury, which tho wales of 4 per cent bonds compel us to expect in October. It will not do to cater to any mistaken ** Weetem aptuion" at the cust of a fearful dixtacbance of afl commerce and industry this fall, etter for the Administration to lose Oblo than to be dofeated In itu efforts for resumption, aud ta bare the nation Ulegraced hy non-performance of its pledges. Jax Govurn and his gang care nothing, of conrse, for the “ logs of Obie to the Adminis. tration " ha against their dosire to grab mill. tons; bence theie cry ia** Onto Resump. tion” by the Bull-Rua rond of contraction. ‘The uale of bonds for gold to redeem the greonbscks ig large atop toward contrac. tion and towards genoral bankruptcy, Of course the controlling power equal to carry. ing such a job as that into execution conid supplement it by repeating tho process, and thus, even in advance of the day fixed. for resumption, force both greonbacks and bank. notes out of ofroulation, leaving uothing but 8 few straggling dollars in gold on which to do business, What is the condition of the country at this time? Labor is largely unomployod. Production, except that of tho farm, ix greatly suspended. Debt grows greater by depreciation of property. New York City is staggering under a municipal debt of §125,- 000,000; Philsdelphia, of $70,000,000; Bos. ton, of $60,000,000; Cincinnati, $30,000,000; and all other cities and towns in proportion, 'Theso people ore taxed to tho utmout limit of endurance. Trivate property ix unpro- dactive, sud falling in valuo; ordinary in. comes ose cut off, and tho weight of publiv and private debt, by roason of the abrinkago of values, non-employment of labor and wages-capital, 18 becoming overwheliniog and unbearable, An effort is made to pay interest; but let the currency be contract od, let the present small proportion of in. dustry in the citics bo arrested, lot the banks be retired and the graenbacks with. drawn, and the attempt bo made to pay in gold, who is thero can close his eyes to the inevitable consequences? Hf men now can barely pay interost in paper, and can only hope to pay principal in the future, how many will cithor pay or hops when the demand is made for gold and every brouch of Isbor and business shalt bo prostrated? Out of the wreck, what iu to come but the holders of mort. gages, who, like those who search the battle. field to pillage the dead and dying, gather the spoils of the country? ‘The purpose to bring about o general ruin, to sweop the whole property of tho country into the posseasion of these Shylucks, is no longer a matter of doubt, The purpose is avowed, and the work has begus to force the Govern. maent to become 8 party to the scheme, ‘There is no interest outside of the class of monoy-londers which demands or wants re- aumption by contraction of the currency, or tho establishment of an oxclusive gold-cir- culating mediam, Tho sudden expulsion of papor money, and the demand upon danke, cities, railroad corporations, and individuals to pay debts in gold, to pay mortgnges and bonds and interest in gold, and not moro than $130,000,000 in gold pos. sible to be had, will be o finn foreclostro on the whole indebtedness of the wholo pedple. Merchanta do not desire such n coadition of things; manu- facturers are not asking for it; tho groat interesta engagetl in transportation do not reek such a change in the business of tho country; nor do the ngriouituriats, ‘and the miners, or the méchanics and laborers, de- and the general sweeping away of tho paper enrrency, and the reduction of money to the comparative small sum of gold to bo found. Who ig it, thon, that is making this monstrous demand? Who is it ihatis plot- ting and schoming for this contraction and constriction of business and rnin of industry, and this general foreclosure of every form of indebtedness? The demand is made ex- clusively by this class of sharks,—-theso morlgage-twreckers, these robbora of the living nnd desectators of the dond,—tho Shylocka of Wall street. ‘The most painfal part of all this business is, the abject slavery of the Eastern pross. Scarcely an Eastem papor, except in Phila delphia, has the courngo or the independenca to oppose this grabbing clasa or theit grasp- ing achomes, Boend hand ani foot, exint~ ing in the very shadow of the power that threatens annihilation to tho business and the labor of the country, this press is either silont or it invokes tho people to nid in thei own destruction, and, like the press, hug to thelr bosoms the slncklos of the shckel Shy. locka, THE EXTENSION OF THE RAILROAD STRIKE. ‘Tho strike of the brakomen and firemen ‘on the Baltimore & Ohio Rosd has been fol- Jowed by n similar strike in the froight de- partment of the Ponnsylvania Road, and aleo of tha Pau-Handle, Pittsburg & Connells- villo, aud Central Divistons of the Baltimore & Ohio, and the Allegheny Branch of the Pennsylvania, ‘The etrike, therefore, may be considered as general along the two roads and their branches from Ualtimore and Pittaburg to Chicaga, with indications that it will oxtend toothar roads and be condncted is the game apirit of disorder aud mob rule thnt bnve characterized the operations of the omployes of tho Baltimore & Ohio. In the Leginning, the strike on the Haltimore & Ohio Rowl was o resistauce to a reduction of wages of firemen and brakomen from $175 and 31.50 to 31.58 and SLi per day, equivalont to 10 per cent. Oa the Pennayl- vauia Roni, tho strike seems to have grown out of a resistanco to tho doubling up of freight trains. Upon both roads the atrikers hava resorted to violence, both in assaults upon officints of the Company and upon out. siders who wora willing to work at the re- duced wages offered by tho Companios, And now, whilo the strikers maintain their posi- tion, the whole freight business of those two Great roads and their brauches is blockaded, with tho prospect that tho blockade ean only be broken ly the militia and United States troops. Howover many deluded men may join in this atrike, or however dosperate the strikers muy become, to this ond it will como at lest, ‘Cho {uterests that ara feopardized by this atrike nro too vast and for-reaching to suffer it to continuo long. If it be not speedily ended, the commorcial world will riso oud emphasize the demands of the Company that theua atrikersuhatl uo louger intarfero with the free :ovementa of freight-trams, and that they must settle their grievances with the railroads in somo other manner than by seizing upon the proporty of shippers and holding it while ia tronsit. ‘fhoy aro clogging the wheels of general busincas, ‘Thoy are stoppisg the shipment of the grain crop of tho Weat, ‘Chey aro disarranging business relations of the East ond West, aud throwing them into confasjon. They are monacing the business world with the lova of miiliona of dollars, ‘They are virtually putting thoir hands into the public treasury, oud they aro grossly violating tho public Iaws, Undoubtedly the reduction of wages is a hardship which will bear hvavily upon tho strikers and ther familles, and outall upon them tho necessity of tha most rigid economy iu order to pay their way, but how can it bo helped? Thora ara two sides to thin question as to avery other, If tho Baltimoro & Ohio load wera {u a prosperous condition, if business so crowded its traina ag to demand more men, if tho road were paying even a roasonable profit, the Company would uot reduce wages, but on the other hand would undoubtedly inercase them, But the Company is in no such flattering condition as this, On the coutrary, its stock has rapidly depreciated, ity floating debt has increased, its businoss has fallen off, and its future bas grown sa doubtful that a reduction of wages aaa matter of economy was not simply pol itic but imperative. ‘The road bad reachad crisis whore salaries must be reduced, of the Company must stop salaries altogether by stopping business. ‘The Baltimore & Ohio Road is not slagular iu this respect, ‘Cho following table, showiug the depreciation ia leading railroad stocks during the month of June, this year and last, tells ita own story of the terrible shriukaye iu the valuo of rail- toad property s Oerreci id ik Pgh “SEE eh ot 30 3 ee Central ew fork Centra Viltedelpite & iieadiy bry Delaware, Lackawanus & es es fareis & Esec's,. wo ” Delaware & Had: Fay fe Chltaoa None ow ie Chicago & Northwe: 2 we Agalu, that the redaction of wages did not in reality bring them below the market rate, fs shown by the rush of men willing to take the places of tho strikers, If these men can afford to take ihe vacant places at low wages aud walt for better thnes, cortaiuly the strikers cau. Whether they can or not, howover, matters little ia this case. How. ever much the pablic way pity the men, or sympathize with, their families, or acknowl. edge tho hardst ip of 8 reduction of wages in these bard times, [t can have uo sympathy with the manner in which these misguided men have get :about to remedy their griev- ance, and it will recognize what these men can not or wil! not recognize, that the roads lusve reached such a depre- ciated condition that economy in every de- partment ia uot only prudent but » anatter of life and death to them, ‘Tbe out- come of the present emergency can admit of nO comproiniss. Either the strikers must atop or the roads must stop. Ax between these nec sesition, the authorities must quell the distrabance and so guard the business of transportation that tho interests of the pub. No ahal not wuffer, If these wien cannot work at the proposed redaction, they must atop out of the way and let others. If they will not step out voluntarily, they must be made to by force. Thera is no other alterna- tive, and tho semedy should bo applicd promptly and effectually before the strike spreads al} over tho country. RAILROAD MORTALITY. Late statistics gathered by the J2ailroad Ageup to July 1 show that the Hospital for Infirm, Diseased, and Decrepid Rail. roaia is still kept busy and fall, Tho Courts are acting as Physicians, Recoivers as Nurses, and the Sheriffaas Coroners and keepers of the Morgue. The prevailing disease ts general collapse ander the effort to carry loads ton heavy for tho constitution of tho chronic fnvalids, Tho diagnosis (4 pretty much the sama in all casex, and ox- perience bas proved that the herole treat. ment isthe beat, As long as tho paticnis aro permitted to totter along feebly under thoir load with the help of stimulants, thoy grow weaker and wenker till tonic no longer serves the purposs. The only radical cure that has been found ia to throttle tho patient, thraw hin to the gronnd, strip off his caumbersoma harness, put him in a straight-jacket for awhile, and then start him out fresh with n Jos somewhat commensurate wilh what vi tality thore is left in him. While this treat- mont has been found to he disagresable to thoss who have to assume part of the bur. dens which the decrepid and broken-down invalids throw off, it has also been found that the invaltds themselves regain cotipensatory strength, and becoma able to serve both the public and their new owners, During the past atx months of the current year foreclosures have been malo nnd salos ordered on fifteen roads, with an aggregate capital stock of $16,476,061 and dobt of $84,108,500. During the same period- Receivers have boen appointed for six- teen roads, with a capital stock and indebtedness of 169,686,092; and the same aix months have acen the actual salo of thirty-two roads, with stock amounting to $49,035,714 and debts amounting to 878,- 710,214, Tho totel result is that tho first half of this year has sufficed to wipe out and reorganize, or nt Icast inaugurate this process, in the case of sixty-threo railroads, with atotal milonge of 7,225 miles, anid in- vested cnpilal (represented by stocks and bonds and floating debt) of 429,014,881, ‘The railroad mortality for the entire year of 1876 was savonty-six roads, only ‘a few more than during the six monthe of this yoar, but tho mileage was 11,422 miles, and tho repre- sented capital $755,848,000, or nearly doublo as much, ‘The benefit of this squeezing process can scarcely be doubted. A Inrge part of the vant railway systom of the United States was constructed on the Credit-Mobilfor plan, ‘That is, the capital stock ropresen ted nil as ou iuvestment; and the bonds representod usually doublo what tho roads ought to hava cont. Compreasion is necessary to clirainate this fetitious part of tho capital represented by the ateck and bonda, There is only one way to gotridof it, Tho mortgages must be foroclosed when dofault of payment is ab- solute and the railroads gold for what they ore worth now. They will then becomo logitimate fnvestments, and the great bulk of the railroads of this country, properly man- aged, will earn a fale proft on this basis, ‘BIG CROPS AND GOOD PRICES, There is an infallible specific for hard times among {armera,—big cropa and good prices, It isarare condition in tho natura of things, Whon the yield {s abundant, prices almost invariably decline ; when pricea are good, there fs generally a shortage of crops, A large supply and a commennnato detnand seldom go together, Yet this is the Mattering prorpect for the coming year, brought abont by a series of circumstances that have worked together as if for the ospe- cls benefit of tho hard-times-oppressed American peoplo, First, there is the Rnsso-Turkish war, which has already Instod long enough tomnke Jt cortain that Great Britain will be out off in large part from the supply of Russian wheat, which has herotoforo furmshed about 40 per cent of Jiritish consumption of the forcign supply, The effects of this aro alroady no- ticed. It has boen the rule to lay inn Inrgo stock of carly wheat from Muss{a, but the Black Ses porta Lavo been closed oni pre- vented the export. Bosides, the indications arothat the war ja going on, © This cannot fail to Qiminish Russian production with a mullion wen withdrawn from tho folds, It will incroase Russian consumption, partly because of tho inovitable waste and extrava- ganco of war, and partly bocattso Russia will have to feed the inhabitants of Bulgaris aa tho Russian armiey advance; the Turks strip the country before thoy leave it, and tho in- yading army must bring its own supplica snd sufficient for those of tho native Bulgarians from whom they oxpoct sympathy aud old, If Russia could depend upon the ordinary amount of production, an outlot for ber surplna crops could bo found by rail into Northern Germany and thence from the German ports to Great Britain; but there is a strong probability that the Russian surplus will be exceedingly small by comparison with what it usyally is, Secondly, there aro no old stocks to carry Groat Britain over while awaiting o reasona- Diy ahort termination of the war, Tho last American wheat crop was notoriously short, Tho proof of it is that it ls already exanst- ed heforo the now crop is harvested. There ig almost no wheat going forward for export, because there is not moro than enough left to supply home consumption till the new crop shall be available, So the Russians, enjoying a long warning of the war to come, hoarded their stocks for thelr own use, avd the Germaus, Austricus, Yangariane, Fronch, and all have beon prudent enough, in view of possible compiications, to keep their own necesities iu mind. ‘This tendoncy is well iMustrated by the fact that sovern) brokers havo been buying what grain they could in this country for shipment to the Contiveutal porta. All the couditions of Europo, then, promiva tho extraordinary de- mand for Aincrican grain which slune could sccuro igh prices in these times, If Aumori- ca'e crop wero no lurgor thau it was last year, these high prices would be of no gen- eral benefit ta the country, as tho surplus for export would be exceptionally small. But this brings us to tho third coudition which las been so favorable to America, Providence has literally showered its bless- ings this spring aud suuimer, for it bas been the abundant rain which hes niodo the land teem with plenty, No vegetation has been able to resist this generous fractifying influ- ence, We havo bad » distinct intimation why England and Ireland, with their con. stant rains, always produce, year after year, all that the extent of their cultivated lands will yield, ‘Tho rain-fal! of this year bay stimulated the whole land in such a way that it produces without Isbor and withoat stint, In the Northwost and Sonthwest the wheat crop in rich abundance is already ® certainty: nothing short of an extra- natural interference can affect it disnstrously, In tho Sonth, the cotton and corn can bo seen to grow, so rapid and hearty is the progresa, All other crops in all other aec- Hons are similarly abundant, with the excep- Uon of California, whore the dews from heaven have fallen sparingly. Tho Pacific Const, which ustally has from twelve to twenty million bushels of wheat to dispose of, will probaly not send out more than six tnillions thia year, But even this ciroum- stanco is rathor favornbio than otherwise; for, whilo the Pacific lax resources enongh outside of its crops, tho comparative feiluro of Californin wheat will help to nssnro tho condition of the national proaperity,—good Prices awatting the abundant product of the West sud South, Tho reault of there conditions cannot bo donbtful, unless they shall be connteracted by unforeseon misfortunes, Halt the pop- ulation of thia country consists of farmers; pay them good prices for all the grain thoy ean bring to markot when their crops are Inrge, and thoy will pay their dobta’ in tho towns ani return: homo with thoir wagons well-lnden with goods and supplies, Thus they qnickly share their property with the town nud city folk, Dut tho beneficence of these conditions renches still further. Good crops and big prices will ret the trans- portation intorests on their Jegs again. Tho rallronds con again eam money without op- pressing the producing and slipping com- anunity ; they can pay interest on their bonds and dividends on their stock; and they can in justice to themselves restore to their em- ployes something like their old wages, and thus put a stop to tho labor troubles that are now so seriously threntening the peace of the country. The banks will come in for tholr shara of the general improvement of things; instead of capital rushing into 4 per cout bonds, it will ba engaged in moving the crops aud promoting the enterprise and spec. ulation that naturally grow out of lively ox- changes, We foroseo nothing but political stnplility nnd obstinncy that can clog this evidont progress toward n moro prosperous condition, If Congress, at its approaching session, shall promptly change tho date of the Resumption act, and substitute for tho present sontimental declaration o. practical preparation for resumption at a time when tho enpital of tho country shall bo adequate to the undertaking, the popular apprehension of trouble from this source will be allayod, and hope and encouragement will becomo contagious instoadl of despondency and croaking, The Omaha Meublican, Imylacable,” quotes from the Misstestppt Republican Staty Com- mitteo'’a address the following: ‘The facts of history apenk for themaelvess Intimidation, and ‘visience have pruetically franchised the Republican party in this States and fntil the time ehiail come when we cau stand erect in any presence as freemen, and assert aud enforce ou tite at the ballut-box, we Leileve it 0 be the art of wiadom to refrain from the unequal 200 hopeless contest. With the recollection of the campaigns of 1875 ant 1876 fecal (n our memory, we decitue to envage in a conilict which promises nn increase of bitterness, with equally dl resulta, It then proceeds to comment: The events hero recorded form the most humiliat- ing and disgracefut chapter intholietory of Ameri. can politics, ** Pallty wo say: for we will not dexrade the word statesmanship by assoctuting it with an Executlye policy which fas disbanded o geeat loyal party in the hone of ite agpreme victo- Fy. {n thie face of the enomy aver who it way wine ‘ning tte dual teiumph, and at that critical point on the fleld to Jose which fs to lose all; a policy which compelled {¢ te lay down Its arms Ingloriously ond to trail its standard In the dust, and Which sent to the rear sn diwgrace the wleo men who planned ita catnpalyns, cashiored tho offleeta who ted it, and Alearmed the herole rank-and-Me who fought st. Tho alacrtty and cheorfulners with which the policy politicians and payors defend this tast and crowning Qirzrace, anid the equaniuity with which the leaders of the Administration submlt to it, ar guce that itis naught olsc but. the expected out- come of the policy which Srawsur Marraxwa' Loufalana March manifesto announced aa the policy ‘of the new Executive, It would be ufficuit to conceive of more ma- Hetous fulschoods, This * Luplacable” care- fully suppresses the fact that Mississippi, with itn 30,000 Republican tuajority, was surrendered to the “elentents that fought for Slavery and a Southern Confederacy" by the “machine-politt- efyns” who waved the “bloody shirt for pollt- feat buncombe. Tho address of tho Misalsippt Committee places tho responsibility where st belongs, and it makes the machine-bumbugs squirm, We commena what they say to such shcts an the Omaba “Tmplacable,” vit: In hls enienvor to slovate the politics of the country tos plane of true patriotism and states maush{p, wo tender to President Hares all wohave $0 elve, out prayerful sympathy and honest good- jwastrous will, 'e would roapectfully entroat those of our Nurthorn ne well as Soatborn brethten who, under the intuence of persoual grievance and’ orher canes, fncoustlerately compfaty of hfe **outhera pulicy."' to remember tat the political condision which we now deplore extefed long autertor to Ala Uccesston fo (ha Breslidency, and the course, which wo now adopt had becume a neceautty before ho was exo nominated for the high oftice which he now holds, To this fact wo would direct the specta) attention of thoss who Bro now most ucy fice fn sowing the accede of atrife auutnet the Proident, but who, we well remem ber, neglected at the proper time to nidvpt tho menna for proventing the calamity which the pren- ent Admintatration. with Hated means, see! cure. Woe have conddence and wisdom in Pres- dent Ilarrs, and, paralyzed and powerless as wo are, we profoundly regret uny effort, conting from uy quarter, to weaken hig arm, of which might tend in the aiigtest degree to render unsuccessful the high experiment in atatesmansbip which hie (s now making, ‘To obliterate the color-lino in poll lier th enfores tha tawe by the civil power, ty reconcile hostile wwettons, and to being inte one bartnontous national brotherhood all the confict- ing eloments of oor cummion country, {¢ an onter- prise #0 yrind In Jts conceptions ond pv holy jn its purpose that it whould, and we trust wlll, cam aduiration and unfted support of all ay without regard W personal oF partisan ratlonw. a ‘Tho Springeld Journal wants Taw Trinune to answer this queation, which It attributes to the Clucinnati Gazette: We wish that any Republican journal which talks of tho party's indaralug ar nat {udureing Maras! Southern policy, would tall ue what that policy ta, if thero ta. policy, surely Itean be defined. ey talk of 8 policy, when tuey cannot tell what it fet ‘The Republican Central Committec of Missle sippl, In thelr recent address, answered tho question tu this language: “The President Is making a high experiment jn statesmanabio. Ue seeks to obliterate the volor-liuo In politics, to euforeo the laws by the civil power, to recon eile hostile ecctlous, aud to briug iuto one bar- nionlous natlonat brotherhood al} conflicting elements of our commun country, In an ene terprisy so grand fu tts conceptions and s0 huly ln ita purpose, it should, and we trust will, command the admiration and united support of all good wen without regard to personal or par- {lean copaiderations.” Such {6 tho definiiion of Wares’ Southern polley as undcretood by tho Republicans of Mississippi. Docs the Spring- flold Journal accept the definition aud the pur poor; or doce it, like the Des Mulucs Jieztsler and Omaha Mepuan, prefer slaudeious aspersions and linplacable hatreds? ~ — The New York Democrats are vot & heppy fansity, but ure Sighting ike cate aud dogs about olllces oud spoils, There are Tst.naw sod antl Tepe wen, Keu.t avd anti-Kucty, Short. hale avd Swallowtail, Tammany, Maylott, and Cheescpress, all cngaged In the pleasing accu. patiunat gouging each ather’s eyes, Titpan, Finup, and biuxLow have taken a steamer avd eleared out for Zurope, to get clear of taking aidea between the fastions. There ls a: lair prospect of a Republican triumph in the State, . 2 The popular excitement In England over © The Priest fu Absolution * has at last stirred the Kituglivts tv action. The Sucisty hss held ameeting and udupted resolutions which bare deeu laid befure the Upper Huuscot the Convo- vation of Canterbury, The substance of their action is ¢hat they Mare deciucd that uo further couples of the bouk Lp supplied. They say th, “while distinctly repudiating the unfalr critictsms which have been parsed upon the hook and without tntending to inply any cog. demnation of {t."? In three other resolntions they hol “That the Ch of England teaches that confeaston fs not a matter of com. pulsory obligation; tut they malntate also that al! Christian pereons have Hberty and right to make thelr confersions ns froqiently as they feel the need for thelr own souls; and they add that “dally experience In thelr parishes convinces them more and more of the impor. tance of this provision of the Church forthe recovery of the afnner and the consolation of the penitent.” Aliof which ls tantamount to an indorsement of thls book by the Rituaitstie clergymen! ee A most remarkable ease of vitality and recy. perative rower fa furnished hy a man nancy Sonwint, under medicat treatment for harribig Injuries at the Cincinnati Hospital. Nearly to. weeks ago Scum? was attacke! by aman whose wife ho had seduced. and ds aku froctured in three places by a hatchet, When ho was taken to the hospital, brsin. matter waa escaping at two different wounds, Tle never lost consciousness n moraent, and q few daya ago was rapidly recovering, showing flo traces of mental disturbatice, savan loss of memory of alight circumstances, Phyatetang pronounce his recovery the most remarkable on record, ———— The country can have resumption withoutcon- traction, by the free coinage of the sitver doltar, and free panking. Repeat the demay. etfzing acton silver, and the war-taxes on Na. Honal Banks. Give private capital free play; rellre no greenbacks until ather and tore money takes thelr pluces and resumption will come with healthy expausion instead of deadly contraction, But Eastern Shylock don't want resumption without contraction. — ee Gen. Beavnzaarn has concluded to give Kans’ jettics a character, and certifies that all claimed for his works by the engineer has been accomplished, Whers the channel was eight feet. fa depth before, it ts now twenty; and where {t was thirteen it has heen washed out to adepth of cighty-nine. Ie finds that Baps is entitled to bis money, and warns ell evilslis- Posed persons from eireutating auy more bad storics about the seheme. a Twrev says Canonan O'Brian UnYANr Ie ons whom ‘no editur can belleve,"—an cpl» frammatic condemnation of a man tothelowest depths of Iraud, deceit, and treachery. An eds itor's trusting contidence in men fa ne broad as the heavens, and tvhen ove Joses. the simple, childlike faith the editor places in alt creations af the Almizhty, he witt have to rise to react even the infernal regions. en A strenuous effort is In hand to demonstrate that Van Kecnzn, who died recently in New York, was not # victim of Asiatic cholera. His physician insista upon his diagnosis, white tho health officials say the trouble was acute cholern- murbus, A burial-permit is refused until the matter fs settled, and New York holds her stomach and looks on with breathleas Interest. Ex-(ov. Bon Fixtctin, of Missouri, fe took- Ing for an appolntment. At the reception of Mile. Nileson to St. Louls, he was calicd upon for a speech when the supper was over, and told (ncidentally how ono vootblack tried to borrow apit from another. Perhaps the mission to Parts would suit Me. Fuetcuen. cairo Where is Gatt Haatttron? The editor ot the Toronto Globe says of Buainn’s anuexation scheme: “The sympathies and sentiment of Canadians are against {t; thelr intercats arc op- posed to lt; tho whols tendency, both of Impe- riat and Canadien policy, has for some thine past becn in quite a contrary direction a The Mr. Jonn Biostow who bas gone to Europo as alde-de-camp-in-waiting to Mr. T1u- DEN fe Secretary of Stataof New York, and is Grawing tho pay of that ofiice durlag his ab- sence. When remonstrated with for deserting his post, he remarked that he wus not a candi- date for renomination. a : I¢ fa better to bo moat anything rather than President under some cirenmatancer. Mr. Hares sent word to Fayetteville that he could not attend the funcral of a reiatlve, as the crowd of ofice-seekors who would attend him would de tract from tho solemnity of the occaslon, ——— PERSONAL. Mr, George Dawson, of the Albany Jour. nal, now and then fills the pulpit of some Baptist charch aruund Albany of a Sunday evening, * Mr. Boynton sends word from Washing. ton that Bisine has been dately thore, collecting ammunition and shipping it to Gail Hamtiton, Mr. Horatio Seymonr's aon is not, as ro- ported, in New Oricana on Neturning-Board pnal- ness, Deaides, Mr. Vorstio teymour hae no gon, An insano man in Brooklyn bas written a letter to Secretary Schurz, urging him to live ducing the summer on a dict of seal-oll, and con- tent Limvelf in wintor with chipped potatocs. Mr. Smalloy says thst Gun, and Mra. Grant wero treated with every courtesy at Wind- wor Castle by Queen Victoria, The Queen per- sonally received them, and highly enjoyed thelr visit. Bonator Oragin lately saw, at the Hot Springs In Arkansas, a number of represontattve Demucrvile politiclane of tha South, and found them far wore friendly to the Preajdent than thole Northern friends are. A mngazino-writer has discovered that the word **skedadale" Is not dorived, se aupposed, from the Greek ** skedsunum},"’~to wcatter or dia perea,~bat fram au old English provincial word, algollying to separate by dropping. ‘The death is reported of ‘Copt. Jack, Chief of the Modocs,” « somerhst famous white successor of the original ehfoftaln, ia was shot and killed by his companion in a rude hut on tha Snake River, Southern Idaho, during a drunken quarrel, Mr. David Dudley Field ssid recently that the Presidential question should be reopenad, and fn the same Ureath remarked that he had not thie to read the newspapers, The //erald observes that tt would be a good thing for him to ascertain tho feelings of the people on this question, ‘The stories of Seoretary Shorinsn’s wealth areeaid to be greatly exaszerated. Iis estate in Munsfcld, O., which hsa been’ estimated to bo worth fcom $300,000 ta $1,000,000, would not sell for $30,000. In the opinion of some of bia most lutimate friends, he ts worth lees than $200, 000, The Binghamton Republican assorts that “Saxe Holm" te the wife of Mr, R, Watson Gilder, the aaslutant-odltor of Scribner's, There ts anoth> er s*claimant," who declares that she wrote the eartlor stories, and gave man who wag needy to well, promising uever to diepate is claim to the authorship, ¥ Lieut.-Gov, Wiltz, of Loulstana, ta travel- tug in New Knglsnd, and says his principal object {sto thunk the Deople of Boaton for thelr liberality {a the people of Louisiana during the overflow of 187d, len't ho rather Jate fn tho day? Senator Conkling, who hasgonato Europe to thank the Eugileb people for their kindess to Gon. Grant, le prompter, Albert Grant's coatly mansion waa put up for suction two weeks ago. The highest bit of- feted was £105,000, which was coneldered Insut- Acient, aud the property was withdrawn. The auctloocer stated shat the cost of the house and wrouide was clther £300,000 or £350,000, both amounts peing mentioned at diferent parte of hls address, A charge of 91,129 against Gen, Scott for contingent expenses at his headquarters in New York bas been regularly brought dowa on the books of the Auditor fram 1410 until the present day. The Auditor uow sdvlscs Secretary McCrary Ww etelteve tho General from bie Mabllity, Provi- dence bas buen some years ahesd of the War De- partment in this business. o Lord Tempest, who has just eloped with snotber man's wife in Bagland, lived tn Racine, Wis. from 1847 to 180], where be kept store, and did not enjoy the confidence oF scapoct of the com- munity. Sle had been cxiled from England in con- sequence of bis actlon in throwing bis superior ofticer from the balcooy to the parquet of # thes- tre, His fatbor died in 1801, and he succeeded the family slates r