Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 22, 1877, Page 3

I “THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: “ SUNDA “SIXTEEN PAGES Iivois Central say they are doing well enou: " and they don’t sec what good it would do them tostrike. According to the ‘present schedalo, sn engineer of a freicht train receives $5.05 for aran of 125 miles, a fireman $2.70; an engineer of a pastenger train #4, and a fireman on a pas- ecnger engine $2 for a run of the same distance. The brakemen generally receive $40 2 month in- stead of being paid so much aday. An engineer on 9 switch-engine gets $2.75. and a fireman $.i0adsy. Under this schedule most of the engineers on this road_ make from $100 to $125, or crea $130, a month. Ordinarily they make five days a week, but are now running six mdseven. They scem to think they are doing vers well, have nothing but pleasant things to sy of the Company in its treatment of them, and are down on strikes on principle. Most of them are men who have been in the Company's service for years, and have proyed thoroughly competent and reliable. Naturally, the Com- jpiny wants to retain them; and they, as long asthey are well paid, naturally want to rematn. Inconvereation with an officer of the Company sesterdav, the reporter was told that po reduction was contemplated, and ‘a strike was altozether improbable on the score of wares. Of course the men had some symp a- thy witn their bretbren in the East, who would no doubt endeavor to influence them to join the movement and bolster itup. He did not be- lieve, though, that the men would listen toany sacn evil counsel, and from what the reporter could get out of the men he is inclined to that opinion also. As onc of them well expressed It, the general fecling is that it would be “d—d foolish for us to strike, and take the bread right, outof ouromn mouths.” In short, an air.of geueral content prevails, and the officers expect. no trouble. PITTSBURG, CINCINNATI & ST. LOUIS, The men onthe Pittsburg, Cincinnat! & St. Louis Road, while not receiving princely com- pensations, are not disposed to strike. They eay they tried that thing about four years ago, -and they bad all they wanted of it then. Since thea there have been two or three reductions, and pow comes this reduction of 10 per cent, which has recently gone into effect. Under the present schedule of wages, o freight en- gineer receives $8.00, and his fireman $1.95, for a 117 mie run; passenger engineer, $3.05, and his tireman $1.52; 9 con- straction-train engincer $2.70, and his fireman $1.85, all tor the same distance; and an engineer on a ewitch-engine $2, and his fireman $1.35, a day. The wages are low, they say,—too low, in fact, tolet them live even half-way and support their families, but ther realize the folly of etrikes, and propose to submit ss gruccfully as possible to the inevitable. e ‘THE MANAGERS. ‘The serions turn which the strike on the Bal- timore & Ohio has taken during the tasttwenty- four hours, aad the riotous outbreak at Balti- more, have caused the utmost excitement and apprehensfon among the railway men in this city. Stillallseem to be confident that no trouble will occur on their roads unless the men whosre now on a strike in the East are more successful than is expected, snd succeed in holaing ont antil Monday, in which event the discontented ones on the Chicago roads might gain courage and try to inaucurate astrike here. If the strike is to extend t6 the fo Toads, it will undoubtedly be inaugu- Fated to-night or to-morrow. The meetings of tarious lodges of the Brotherhood of Locomo- tive Engineers and, the Unions are heid usually Saturday night, and as the men had been noti- fied to be present at the meeting last evening, it is mozt likely that decisive action has been taken at them, ana the question to strike or not to strike definitely decided upon. The Com- cnunists and the leaders of tie various Trades- Unions have been working quietly among the nailroad employes during the last two days urg- ing them to strike, and assuring them of their assistance and heip. So far, however, their cf- forts have had uo effect, the men undoubtedly preferring to wait until the strike in the East bad developed itself. At thiz end of the Baltimore & Ohio Ratiroad. exersthing 15 quiet, none of the. men evincing any particular anxiety to strike. A dispatch was received at the office of the Company yes- terday stating that a mecting of employes on the Chicago Division was Leld at Garrett, Ind., festerday. Mr. Hoffman, the agent of the Toad at that point, was admitted to, the meeting - snd made a statement to tue men why the Gom- pany hud been compelled to reduce wages, and promising an advance as soon as business im- Dover, There was no excitement at the mect- ting, and no result was reached. The men demed that they had begn called upon by com-- mitiees from the Eastern strikers urging them to strike. At this end of the Pitisbure & Fort Wayne and the Pau-Handie Railroads everything re~ ‘mains quiet and peaveable, and there are no signs of adisturbance. Mr. C. E. Gorham, Assistant General Manager ot the Fort Wayne Road is at Fort Wayne, where the shops of the Company tre located, to guard the interests of his road at that point, ‘ «Rumors were in circulation last evening that she men on the Lake Shore & Michigan South- eroand the Canada Southern had decided to quit work this evening. The officials of the former Company in this city do not apprehend, however, any trouble, and declare the rumor un- founded. . What -the railroad men is that the large number of tramps, communists, and un- employed men of all trades will commit ex- Fiesty and force the railroad employes ‘to join em, At this juncture it will interest many to know what wages the firemen and brakemen on the roads where the strike commenced re- ceive. The dally wares paid in April and May last to the freight firemen and brakemen on these roads were as follows: Baltimore & Ohio, firemen, $1.50 and $1.75 per days brake- men, $1.50'and $1.75 per day. Pennsylvania Railroad, firemen, $1.00, $2, and $2.10. Erie, firemen, §1.76, $2.12, and $2.24; brakemen, £1.75 and $2. The reduction prings down the Wages on the Baltimore & Ohio to $1.35 and $1.58 for firemen. A day’s work varies on dif- ferent ruads, and this is usually allowed for in fixing the wages. The day's run for these men is reported at 100 miles on the Baltimore & Ohio. The wages amount to $421 and $498 per ‘Year for the two grades, and the redaction is $47 and 853. i ‘The officers of the Baltimore & Ohio ordered Yesterday evening that the sale of tickets at Unicago for all Eastern points be discontinued. CORRESPONDENCE. ' TWO SIDES TO THE QUESTION. u To the Editor of The Tribune.- © Cacago, July 21.—In reading your cdiforial this morning, I gee that you let no opportu- Sty pass to offer a thrust at the strikers in the tnding railroad troubles. In truth, there are fo sides to every question. Then let us have € two sides as tney really exist. We have on © oue hand, a great corporation of capitalists, ploying thousands of men who live from day ¥ On a mere pittance at the best. Tne ration entered into. an extensive rail- war, doing busincss at losing rates the sake of altimate success. ividend must be declared in order to keep stock from dépreciating. How, I ask you, Possible to declare a dividend when no earn- have been madet The Directors say to the dent, “reduce. exvenses;” the President to the Gencral Superintendent, “reduce 3” the General Superintendent says to Division Superintendents, ‘reduce ex- 3” the Division Superintendents say to thonsands of employes, “we must the bread out of your mouths.” It is ble with “f any particular likes or dislikes in the mat- t because they have orders from higher lority to reduce expenses, and this is their means of doing so. Verr little do the n of the order to reduce know or care the redaction is to be made. Is it stilla , then, that these hungry men will fight lives and the liyes of their -wives children? No. Would ‘you. fold 8 and see your wife and child starve? oes it not seem clear to you that it is i inle loes_not pa; expensés and at the same time declare a ae dend Without injustice to some one? It is just as useless; however, for these poor -workmen to ‘Sight against a great, corporation as it is for a ea ts Kick a terrapin, and_6o it will remain ue great revolt of labor i i which is inevitable. e ae Hoge THE GREAT STRIKE, pac ol aie pe of The Tribune. : SMCaGo, July 21.—Will you allow a dail: Teadcr and frequent’ admirer of your eee criticise one of your editorials of last Friday. Rather bgld of me, perhaps, but the criticism ts honest, and, maybe, can be honestly and satisfac- torily answered. Yousay thisgrcat railroad strike is caused by the “necessities of the employ- ers.and the inconsistencies of the employed.” 4s it fair to mention oniy the employers’ neces- sities! Surely their necessities are nothing to the necessities of men who, baying supported their families on $10 a week, find now they must do. it on less cr skip. Haven't you a word to say 4m excuse for their refusing the reduction and Yet trying to cling to their situations? Second- dy, as to it being their “duty to either accept the reduction, even if it were to a cent a day, or else to step aside and not binder others taking their places,” let me say how it looks to me. Each great section of humankind—race, nation, class, ete.—has certain common interests, known collectively as the General Welfare; and it {s an admitted fact and an ‘understood law that individual wishes must get out of the way of this weltare or be crushed under its chariot-wheels. Now it is Dart of the general welfare. not only of the great class of thé employed, but also of society, that the wages of the workers should be enough to furnish them and their families meats to buy bread aud a share m the results of civilization. A dollar and-& half a day won't do that, and the employed “aré therefore justified in crushing those of their mates who would injure the geu- eral welfare by coming into agreement with the “bosses.” The means they use may. be against law, but that counts for nothing With those ‘who call to mind that every etrugele for freedom recorded in history was 2 strugele against law, and that manya champion of the Good‘ and the True hiss been throttled to death by that came Law. Law is blindfolded, not that she ‘may judge impartinily, but that she may not be shocked and diseusted at the deeds she dues. Surely every intelligent man must groan to see the free American mechanic and laborer forced downinto the half-paid ecrvi- tude of their European -copfrere. That means for the second century of the Republic a lower. class steeped in dirt, ignorance, aid brutish- ness. . 81ue Six. a eee, THE IDAHO WAR. More Surrenders—Finishing the Campaign— Another Band of Chinamen Victimized by Savages. San Francisco, July 21.—A dispach received this afternoon from Kamia, July 17, via Walla Walla, ist, says: Five more hostiles, with squaws, surrendered to-day. The military Commission which was formed to try the Indian prisoners taken in the late fight, with Maj. Throckmorton, of the Fourth Artil- lery, a3 Judge-Advovate, to be succeeded by Commissioner Watkins, adjourned, as uo wit- nesses for the prosecution were here. Gen. Howard sent thirty volunteers to-day to ‘Uestroy the caches in Joseph’s old camp, and all but the Captain and one man have Jeft for their homes. - Col. Mason is in hot pursuit of the hostile In- dians, with his entire cavalry command. They overtook them to-day near OrofinoCreek. Two Indian scouts were wounded and one killed, when. the Indians got demoralized and fied, leaving the soldiers in posseasion of {he field. ‘Thq country around Orofino Creek is very rocky and densely wooded with heavy timber and thick undergrowth, thus preventing any further pursuit by the soldiers, who caunot get their horses across the ground. The hostiles will be met by either Crook or Milcs, as they enter into Montana from this trail, ang will in all probability be captured by these fore One of the wounded scouts was James Reu- ben, interpreter, and son of an ex-Chief of. the Kamia Nez Perces. The war with Joseph fs practically over, and we start to-day for Lap- wai. From there troops will march through the Spokane country, for the moral effect it will aye upon the Indians. Col. Green’s cavalry, upon its arrival, will be kept here to prevent the return af the hostile Indians this way. . Another force of Indians, with a flag of truce, are now coming in to sur- render. = A spectal dispatch received from Wallula, July 21, cays 150 Chinamen had arrived there yesterday from the Upper Columbia River, where they have been envazed {n inining. ‘They state that the Indian: tered their camp ant robbed them of all their provisions, blankets, and some clothing. After taking alf they pos- sessed the Indians told thea: to leave, which the Chinainen lost no time in doing. Wasttneron, D. C., July 2i-—Gen. McDow- el! transmits a telesrum irom his. aid, Licut. Keeler, in which he says: ‘Volunteers of the character and status of those operating with Gen. Howard would be worse than useless. If you had been here during their operations I am gure you would discourage the use of volun- teers in anv possible emerge: uy BLACK MILLS SURVEYORS ATTACKED. Drapwoop, D. T., July 21.—Deputy-Sheriff Wiser, who just came fn trom Red Water, about twenty miles from here, reports that he met # Sergeant in coimmand of ten sal- diers, “who warmed him to _ return to town with them. The — Sergeant reported that the Government surveying party, with Lieut. Lemly's company, were attacked thismorning by Indians six miles aboye themouth of Red Water. The fight lasted about two hours. The surveying party lost two teamsters and a blacksmith killed, also five mules. The Indians captured the wagons of the party, taking tie surveyors’ guns, ammunition, and instruments. .The party is still surrounded and necd aid, which is immediately to be organized to go to their assistance, Col. Evans, commanding Fort Laramie, hus ordered the detachment of cavalry stationed on Cheyenne River to the relief of Lieat. Lemty. a TRADE OF NEW YORK, Spectat Disvatch 10 The Tribune. New Yous, July 21.—The transactions to-day in corn at the Produce Exchange reached nearly 4,203,000 bushels, or the largest aggregate for. a single day reported iu this market for a long time past. The business was represented. as mainly on export account, one prominent firm in the English trade having purchased about. two- thirds of the whole amount. Prices the — several op closed stronger. on tions. The export, dealings were repre- sented as stimulated by ‘the reported large deficiency in the aggregate shipments to the English market thus far this sedson as com- pared.with the corresponding period of last year, The very extensive trading iu_corn wag the absorbing topic of the day at, the Exchange. Wheat was quict and lower. Flour dull and heavy. No. 2 Western was freely purchased for ‘August and September delivery for shipment to the Continent. ‘The week’s exports tence for European ports _ comprised __in | bread- stuffs, 2600 barrels flour, 176,600 bush- els wheat, 718,000 bushels corn, 37,500 bushels rye, and 44800 bushels barley, in ‘addition to the important shipments of provisions of Sat- urday morning, including the remarkably large total of 117,303 boxes of cheese and the Liberal quantity of 11,700 packages butter. ‘ gitinal inascn Redeaiiay COAL DISCOVERY. Special Dispaten to The Tribune. DANVILLE, Il, July 21.—The Moss Bank Coal Company, located at this place, to-day struck a second vein of coal, five feet ard three inches in thickness, ata distance of 118 fect below the surface, which heretofore was supposed by miners to have no existence in this vicinity. This vein,-on being tested, is found to be mixed with cannel coal, and of a much superior quality to the upper veld, or what is commonly Known as Danville coal. In fact, itis prouounced to be equal to Grape Creek coal, and far superior to the Indiana block coal. SUICIDE. es : Special Dispatch to The Sr. Pavr, Minn., Jaly 21.—About 6 o’clock Jast evening the body of I. 8. Connelice, a well-known builder and contractor of this city, resident here for twenty-two years, was found dead in’ Oakland Cemeterr. -Late that’ after- noon he had repaired to the ecmetery. and shot himself through the heart with a .pistol loaded ‘with buckshot. Near him were found several letters addressed to friends, In which he an- nounced his intention to commit suicide. De- ceased, who was a memner of the Masonic and Odd-Fellows’ Order, had Been for some time suffering from ill-health and mental depression, the result of deafness superinduced by a severe fall whichvho received several years ago. New York, July 21.—Thomas Placide, an actor and a brother of the late Henry Placide, the comedian, killed himself yest rday at his home in Toms River, N. J. , His life could not have lasted much longer, as he was. rapidly sinking from the effects of a cancer in the mouth. - His sufferings were terrible, and his imind lost its balance. . CRIA KYTE. Spectal Dispatch to The Tritune. McGregor, fa., July 21.—Norris, the safe man, after thirty-six hours’ work, succeeded ia opening the foward County safe to-day, which Frank Kyte, the absconding Treasurer, took the combination of when he disappeared two wecks ago. Instead of containing $20,000, as. it ought in order to make Kyte’s accounts bal- ance, all that was found was $05.33 of notes. Vigorous efforts, no doubt, will vow be made by officials to capture F: UNACCOUNTABLE. Spectat Dispatch to. The Tribune. Des Moines, Ia, July 21.—Yesterday after- noon the daughter of the Rey. John E. Jones, while riding home fram school on horseback, was shot by an unknown person not twenty fect distant. The villain fled. The girl was found in the road and carrica home, but it is feared that her wounds are fatal. No cause for the deed known. ; CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE. Porrsvite, July 21.~The Coroner's Jury inthe case of the Wadesville mine disaster, when cight miners were killed, states that the mine was run in violation of Iaw. Gen. Pieas- ants, Chfef-Engineer; John Bowen, Superin- tendent; Edward Herbert and William Wat- Kins, bosses, were required to furnish $5,000 bail for trial. FOUL PLAY SUSPECTED. Special Dispatch to The Tribune. East Sagrnaw, Mich., July 21.—The body of man, supposed to be that of Moses Barnier, was found about two and one-half miles from Bay City, Inst evening. The body was covered with blood, and indications point to death from. agun-shot wound—probably a murder., VICTIMIZED. Speclat Dispatch to Tha Tribune, Exors, Ill., July 2.—A gang of thieves fol- lowing Forepaugh’s show, robbed citizens here of watches and pocket-books of value amount- ing to over $1,000, so far as known. The police have received notice that a mob is coming with Baraum'a show on the 25th, aud ure making ‘preparations for them. SHOT AND ROBBED. Camo, M., July 21—At Pulaski, T1., last night, a negro named Posey shot and robbed 2 white man named C. Moore. ‘The latter is still alive. ‘The negro escaped. THE WEATHER. Wasmnaror, D. C., July 2—1 a. m.—For the Upper Lake region, Upper Mississippi, and Lower Missouri Valleys? falling barotneter, southeast to southwest winds, and warmer, clear weather. LOCAL’ ORSERYATIONS, COULDN'T AGREE. Speciat Dispatch to The Tribune. Kronur, In, July 31—Commodore David- son, President of the Keokuk & Northern Packet Company, bas been iu the city for the past two days negotiating with the city authori- ties for amicable adjustment of the wharfage controversy. The Company has proposed to pay fu Heu of wharfage an annual rental for levee gronnd —_ occupied. ‘The city declined to accept this proposition, but offered to reduce the wharfaze from #5 to $2 for each landing. To-day the conference broke up Without any agreement having been reached, and Commodore Davidson publishes a card announcing that all boats of the Company will” be withdrawn from this port. No boats have {anded here since morn- ing. The fast pazkets will stop at Alexandria, five miles below here, and the through boats will give the city the “go-by.” The city au- thorities are on the alert, and will seize any boats of the Company tlmt attempt to land here, a BOND SUIT, Spectat Dispatch to The Tribune. Omana, Neb., July 21.—The County Uom- missioners of this county to-day decided to bring suit against the Union Pacific to restrain them from. disposing of $193,000 In county bonds now in their possession, issued several years ago to aid them in the construction of the Missouri River bridge at this point. It is claimed that these bonds are illegal and void, for the reason that there was no. authority in Jaw to {issue at that time. and that the confirt tory actof the Legislature in 1869 was uncon- stitutional and void. The county also claims that the whole issue of these ouds, $250,000, is illegal and void, and judgment fs asked for the whole amount, including those that bave been paid. It is claimed tbat these bonds are void, even in the hands of bona fide holders, and that payment would be refused if it was demand:d. ———— A MINT OF TROUBLE. San Fraycisco, Ual., July 21.—This after- noon the Treasury Comimisston began the ex- aufnation of the charges preferred by George M. Pinney against LaGrange, Superintendent of the Miut. Pinney’s evidence was to the effect that when be was employed in the Mint.“the fund to pay ‘employes was very low, andthe fand for the purchase -of supplies ‘and. material full; that he, by the direction of LaGrange, in purchasing’ supplies would make out bills largely in excess of the amounts due, and the surplus. after paving the bills, he would return to LaGrange, but whether the latter accounted to the Government for such-amonnts, or conyert- ed them to his own use, the witness was unable to say. In general, his testimony was not of a conclusive naturt en sINTERESTING DEVELOPMENTS PROMISED, Special Disputch to The Tribune. New Yors, July 21.—The resolution passed by the Aldermen to investigate the operations of the old Tweed Ring promises some interest- ing developgients, political. and other- wise. The anti-Tammany organization has now appointed a committee to investigate the business and political antecedents of the major- ity of the present Aldermen. The justification for this1s the charge that some uf Tweed’s friends and -co-workers are now’ mem- bers. of the Council, and that ‘Tam- many only fnvesticates the fraud for the purpose of compelling the political obedi- ence of tie wrong-docrs, aud to iusure the support of all who are in fear of punishment for crimes committed under Tammany’s sanction, and also to protect those whose support has been extended to its present leaders. LATE LOCAL ITEMS. At 11:30 last night Charles H. Twist, shoe- maker, got drunk in tne saloon of Jerry Robin- son, on the corner of Washington and Franklin streets, and, when in this condition, Twist has been known to make several onslaughts with a knife.. He rushed upon Robinson with a pocketknife, _ and’ would have stabbed him had not Robinson stunned his arm by a blow from a beer iallet.: This was the” efgnal for a generalrow, in which several heads were knocked about. Officer Parker rushed in ‘and arrested Twist, and in so doing was lightly scratched on the hand by the knife." At 12:30 last night four ruffians made an en- deavor to hold up ‘and rob some unknown man’ on’ Madison -street near - Franklin. | Officer Pat. O*Brien,, of Pinkerton’: foree, happened along, and, casting his light ‘upon the- crowd to see what they were doing, was saluted with a shot. He returned -fire twice, and the rufflans ran,9s did also their ‘yietim, and the latter bas not been caught sight of since. Officer Dan Sullivan responded to the signal for aid, avd, by a shot, brought one of the crowd to a ‘stand-stiit on Fifth avenue. At the station he gave his name as James Colbert. but was recognized by Capt. O'Donnell as Michael Hennessey, a Penitentiary bird who has just been released from Joliet. Officer Thomas Novnan found a second one, xiving the name of Thomas Car- roll, feiening sleco on ‘the sidewalk { near the Western Union Telegraph office, and Officer Plant caught 4 third, Albert Locbke, making his escape on the roof of a building near where the assault was made. Sutlivan’s man when arrested had the smoking pistdl still in his band when captured. FIRES. . CHICAGO. The alarm from Box 88 at $:10 yesterday morning was caused by an incipient fire in the rag-shop of J. B. Locker, No. 237 Randolph street. Damage nominal. 4 The alarm from Box 864 yesterday morning was caused by a fire in’ the Chicago Planing- Mill, corner of Canalport avenue and Brown street. The flames were extinguished with but, slicht damage by the employes. A still alarm by the A. D.‘T. Co. to Engine No. 21, and an alarm from Box 73 at 4:35 yester- day afternoon, was caused by the burning of a barn in rear of No. 503 State street, owned and occupied by Jacob Livingston, flour and feed dealer. Damage, 3500; fully insured.’ The fire spread to the barn in rear of No. 501, owned. by Jacob Armstrong. Damage, $3003" no in- surance. Cause, supposed incendiarism, ‘The slarm from Box 126 at 3:35 yesterday afternoon was caused by a fire in’ No. 1135 State street, owned by Potter Palmer, and oe cupied as a restdeneo by C. Cranch. 'Damaze, 350; to furniture, $25. Cause a defective fue: CASUALTIES. DROWNED. Special Dispatch to The Tribune. Fort Warnz, Ind., July 21.—William D. Boag, of this city, aged 20 years, was drowned in the lake at Rome City to-day, while in bath~ jg, His body was recovered, aud brought here fo. . STEAMER BURNED. New Onizans, July 21.—The steamer Sandy was burned at her mooring here last night. The boat was atotal loss. No cargo. Insured for $25,000. ‘ CRUSHED TO DEATH. Bautmonez, July 21.—Thomas P. Rooney, Thomas P. O'Connor, and James Donald were killed this evening by the falling of an em- bankment. rn NOT READY TO RESUME IN 1879, To the Editor of The Tribune. New Yors, Jaly 19.—While I don't agree with you on the silver’ question, I agree with you that it is impossible to permanently resume specie payments fn either silver or gold on the ist of January, 1879, with the inadequate prep- arations made for that event. It is bareiy pos- sible that the gold premium may be momen- tarily exticguished by severe measures to that end, but that is not resumption. To what- ever extent greenbacks are now perform- ing a useful office iu the community their places must be filled with metallic money when they are withdrawn. You eannot cat your cake and have {¢ too. You canuot retire your grecnbacks aud have them in. circulati at the same time. You must haye somethi fill the vacuum. Of course the National Banks are wot going to fill it, under the conditions of specte@eilemplina, for a foug time to come, and they would not be allowed to keep ther re- servesin their own notes anyway. ie fact is, there is not time enough left, even with the most energetfe measures, to accumulate a sufll- cient stock of coin in the Treasury to resume for good aud all on the ist of dunuary, i a WASHINGTON ITEMS, Speciat Dispatch to The Tribune. Wasmincron, D. C., July 21.—A letter has just come ont which Collector Tutton, ‘of Phila- delphia, wrote to his subordinates at the tinre he Was trying to keep his place under Andrew Jobngon. It ran as follows: Assxsson's Orricz, Usitep States INTERNAL Revence, Etontn Diatmict, Reaprno, Pa., Oct. 18, 1866—George K. Whitney, Eq.: If you wisl to keep your place you had better not take m part in ‘the election contest. By this course we may probably save ourselves. Yours truly, Auex. P. TuTToN. WiHiam Rule, Postmastor of Knoxville, Tenv., has resigned bis flace on the Nationat Com- mittee. The friends of Goy. afcCormick say to-night that the chances are all in favor of bis resigning his. position as Assistant. Secretary of. the Treasury rather than the Secretaryship of the tionzl Committee. ~——————__ TELEGRAPHIC NOTES. Rousp Laxg, N. ¥., July 21.—The Sunday- Schoul Congress opened yesterday afternoon in the midst of a heavy rain-storm, and with a large attendance. Lirtuz Rock, Ark., July 21.—The Memphis & Little Rock Railroad Co. have filed a bill in the- Chancery Court enjoining the tron Moun- tain & Southern Railroad from’ prohibiting the passage of trains of the Memphis & Little Kock Railroad over the bridge at this point. Mostreat, Can., July 21.—The Coroner's jury inthe case of Hackett, the Orangeman, Kitiea here on the 12th of July, gave a verdict of murder by person or persons unkuown. <a FINANCIAL, Spectat Dispatch to The Tribune. Des Morzs, Ia., July 21.—An_ examination of the contents of the bank of FR. West & Sons to-day, by the Sheriff, showed Jess than $1,000 cash; also that the firm had overdrawn $40,000, $1,000 of wh as onthe day the bank closed. At a meeting of the creditors to- day it was decided to commence bankruptcy proceedings at unce, and Ira Cook was selected ‘as temporary Assiguee. The creditors, who had attached the contents of the bank, will give way to the bankruptcy proceedings. a THE RIO GRANDE. New Ontxans, La., July 21.—The Galveston News? special from Rio Grande City says there is great excitement there. Gen. Escobedo and staff were arrested before daylight this morn- ing by Col, Price, of the Uuited States army, commanding Ringyold Barracks. Escobedo in- ‘tended to cross the river to-day or to-morrow, after recelying arms by this muraing’s buat. $a OCEAN STEAMSHIP NEWS. Farner Pout, July 21.—Arrived, steamship Sardinian, from Liverpool. Lonpon, July 21.—Steamships Abyssinian, St. Laurent, and Harold Alaarager, fro New ‘York; Vaderland and Quebec, from Philadel- phia, have arrived out. The disabled steamship Canada has arrived at Southampton. COLORADO CENTRAL EXTENSION. Cugrenns, Wy., July 21.—The first rail on the Colorado Central Extension was laid here to-day. This road will be completed in October, and will connect with the Coiorado Central Railroad at Longmont, Col., and with the Union Pacific Railroad at this point. ——— INSURANCE, Special Dispatch to The Tribune, Des Morves, Ia., uly 21.—The State Audi- tor to-day revoked the license of the Citizens’ Tusurancé Company, of Newark, N.J., to do business in Iowa. <<< Outrages on Jews in Moldavia. Landon Times, * Mr. A. Lowy, Secretary of the. AngloJewish Association, requests us to publish a narrative of cruelties inflicted on the Jews in Darabani at the instigation of a Madame Czimara. The facts related by the correspondent of the Asso- elation are the same as those to which Mr. Sergeant Simon referred in the Honse of Commons: -on Thi last: “On the Ist of June sever: persons in the service of Madame Czimara, the owner of the small town of Darabani, in Moldavia, entered a Jewish inn, snd, after their tongues had been loosened by free drinking, said their mistress had promised 50 ducats for cach head of fire Jewish families whose. names were given. On Sunday, June 3, the Jews were following their ordinary pursuits, when, at 10 o’cluck in the rived from the matsion, contaiping the mistress a te hte aed se a yelenas. and with Is. By her. sidé gat stranger, |Zupposed Yo be her brother-in-law, aad forenoon, a carriage, drawn by four horses, ar- - as followed by a retinue arme/ servants. On their arrival in the town the servants leit their mistress and - treating a Jew who happened to cross their way. ‘The servants incited the multitude to plunder and murder the Jews, alleging that the Gov- ernment had appointed that day for plundering and massacring the Jews in consequence of theft sympathy with the Turks; but the country people, following their better instincts, Te. mained passive. Meanwhile the Jews had taken refuge in thelr houses, where they harrica themselves against the approaching attack. Hours passed on, and no member of ‘the local authorities appeared, for the Chief of Police. being also in the employment of the propric: tress of the estate, had joined the leaders of the affray. The servants, waving broken into a vewish inn, dragged batrels af wine and brandy into the streets, and invited the mob to a gratuitous ‘drink.’ ‘The peasants were nue able to ° reaist this . temptation. Ii fluenced by Uqnor, and urged on by Madame Czimara, who preached a sort of crt sade against the Jews, the people bruke into the shops of the Jews, attacked their houses, and. tlrew the:gooils and valuables into the strect. Doors and windows'were broken open, fixtures destroyed, and the defenseless victims dranged out of their hiding-places and attacked withalll sorts of weapons. Only a few of the inhabitants escaped, aud no distiuction made as to re or sex, On the fourth day after these’ excesses the writer of this account saw children {rom 3 to 5 years of age moaning in agony. They had been terribly mutilated, and were wrapped up in wet finen. ‘The mob forced its way into the synavosue, de- stroyed the ark, tore the scrolls of the law, and cast the shreds into the mud. Out of the sev- eral Jewish families a few only are said to have remafned unhurt, and these were spared only because it was stated: that they were purveyors to the estate,” $$ GRANT AND WALES, To the Editor of The Tridune. Cwicaco, July 21.—What American heart did not boil. over the other day when that miserable petty Prince of Wales insulted the representative Aincrican abroad, by inviting him to dinner and then causing him to pass in last to the dinner-table, even the American ‘Minister Pierrepont being difected in ahead of our ex-President? The writer of this was no friend to President’'Grant, but Grant is only the figure-head here. He was in that dinner- party representing the United States, and that the Prince of Wales, the heir-apparent to the British Crown, should have dared to insult the United States in so gross a manner is only explicable on the ground of the thickness of his skull. Yet not one English voice has been lifted in disapprobatiun. This fect makes it an English act, an indication of the heart-jealousy and dislike with which that people regard us. On the contrary, as indicated by an article copied in Saturday's Trsene from the London Fortnightly, English indignation has, led on by this petty insult of their representative Prince, set up 2 howl aga{nst those whg treated President Graut with” the roar due to the position which -he has occupied. Ont. upon so paltry - and easily led apcople! Itis no wonder that such truly good. and great men as Gladstone, and Freeman, and the few others of their ilk, should publicly de- scribe the blush of shame their nation fs calling to their cheeks. Ere long England is like to need a friend. She is feeling her way to manifesting er unchris- tian sentiments by 2 blow on bebalf of her money and the Moslem. The Government that manufactured metal gods at Sheflield and sent them out to the East Indies, is not scrupulous except abont the aafety of her pocketbook. We can afford to quietly and in dignified silence pocket this public affront which the insolence of England has put upon us. It files in well with her building of ships for the destruction of American shipping; with her patting on the Confederate leaders with onc hand, and the cir- culation of Abolition tracts with the other; with her pet boast of compelling the. surrender of Slidel\ and Mason, and compulsory respect to her flag whilst showing nouc to ours, There are many acts which harmonize well to teach the American mind thatour safety from English influence lies in accepting the sad fact for hu- manity that England, from whom vur nation started, and who ought to be our best friend, is to-day the bitter secret enemy of the United States. England, that claims to be the foremost in civilization and progress! But the explanation lies just here: England is to-day far behind the United States in progress. The cumbering movarchical fifth wheel keeps her back, ridden as it is by the establishment, the Government-supported Church, and per- eetving 3 new people so far ahead is more than he Euglish pride can enjoy. 80 pride, like- keeps her silent as to the real cause of her islike. Coufession would be concession of the point that America has outstripped her in the Face. Well, as our American blood boiled up at news of the affront, so American calculation sneedily. quieted. Jonathan, with the selégratulant reflection, “It _ won't be mani days fore rm get eyen with you, old fellow. I won't draw a pis- tolon you either. But when Russia and Ger- many, With long-headed old Bismarck leading on with his wise brain, consider your hour has been tolled by the clock of nations, 1 will keep my hands as quietly in my pockets as now; when they march you into the European family. diuner last. Not ouly that, but if you are not invited into that family dinner at ‘all, and are withheld from even an Eastern slice while grimly held to account for the poy thievery your little bulldog has been doing while ‘the great hounds’ of war ares 80 busy over the death-stragzle of the wild beast in Turkey, — the United States will listen to your impotent growl with grim satisfaction and gratified sense of justice.” ‘Truth is, we have not been able to conceal from s-uglaud that Russia has our regard. She knows well that our hearts are beating to the tune of the Russian drums sounding the knell of the Turkish butchérs of Christians. Sie knows we remember the past—that Russia de- manded Britain ts off hands and let us alone, when we were not very strong, sixty-five years ago. Shame on usif we’ ever forget it!” We ought to have a national picture of that event—England’s hand on our throat, and the brave old Northern bear with uplitted paw coni- manding the bully to desist. 1t is a shame to us that we did not openly, a8 we did in our hearts, espouse the cause of Ghristiauity and Russia in the Crimean war. That war, which set civilzation fifty years back, might have had adifferent termination if American arms had becn Hinked with Russian. But in those days we were governed by Southerners, and they are not progressive. To-day it is different. North- erner and Southerner must prove by brain strength whose ideas: shall prevail; aud the Northera heart as well as the advanced South's is thoroughly anti-Engtish. All through the South you can hear the indignant comment, “England egged us on. but she never put in a stroke for our help except by taking our money for the ships she built as!” Not only envy at our advance animates En- giish sentiment toward us, but deeper than that is their utter discomfiture atthe reunion of North and South. At the close of the War the writer of this article read paper in either the 2ué burg oc Bleckicool—! think at any rate in one of the leading English Reviews—cntitled “The South a Poland,” euvineing a most bitter avd acrimonious tone towara the North and the stirrer-up of bitter fecling in the South, where it was circulated. _Wiaile Grant was bein: entertained in England, his very _ prom! hence was calculated ‘upon by English- men, it may be, to stir up animosity toward President Hayes for contradicting in bis policy the political poliey of Grant. The English injud is thoroughly convinced of the toadying tendency of Americans, and it counted upon that to work against Hayes by awakening a truckling enthusiasin for Grant, because the English nobility were honoring him; and in en- thusing us toward Grant, to revive Grant’s olicy, and break down the, pacific course of a) Charles Fox, in his greatest speech on slavery, uttered the prediction that the colonics were Jost to England because of the introduction of slavery, and that throuch slavery’s abotition she might regain them. If that. prediction has passed from the English memory, ut least its inflacnce.remains upon the English policy, which has been to attempt, by insidious means, the disintezration of this country. Then she has her Canadian anxictics: also her Fenian dificuitics, and tae tear of losing ber hold on Ireland. All spring trom America. Thus she secs a great political necessity for— secretly where she must, and openly where she: dare—giving a blow to the United States. We, as a people, sbould recognize these facts. The writer of this article possesses probably the best English blood that flows on this cgptinent,—the blvod of English rulers, statesinen, und patriots, —but that is ferzotten when England touches America, the land of the heart, dearer than the ancestral, for this is the hop: of. the worid, these United States. And we who have English blood should Jet principle, and not tue animal merely, sway us. Let us usc the English abilit we possess to perceive aud. overthrow Englis schemes, - To-day she is the’ deadly enciny to at.is good, as a power, and as such she should be met. "The Tasult fo President, Grant but an incident, traly, yet let it be the ri ieaing of nattenst vigl'ance, and the sug- Fe © opinions concerning England throughont this country. She is ae. teed to men. She has insanely * goveramental “policy of Fam het Grandizement, — utteri ignoring prio ple, true nobility, ‘and and is ff a wonder that she now rocks shove the abyss of that revolation which, to those who know of her divided sentiment, threatens to in- wove’ her in Political ruin, if not internecine Russia, on the contrary, pursues the generous lies of sacrifice ‘for drincisies which has rought her loss in the past, but must prevail in the long run. There is every reason for the United States to espouse, with moral support, the Russian eide in this war. And if any hare been influenced by tne thought of English riendship to withhold their admiation for Rus- Siu’s defense of the helpless. Bulgarians, let thea, With the noble Gladstone, ‘rise to a view of the facts, and recognizing the true sentiment gf England, as indicated by the action of her rince to our. ex-President, take the stand henceforth for Russia in this strucgle. Doubtless, it took John Bulf somewhat aback when the toadying Americans did uot fall into the trap he had lald for them. When, instead of agreat radical bowl throuzhout the North for a revival of the military policy of Grant, our pacific ident made his friendly tour, where- in_an ovation was accorded him, the dull but subtitle" English brain began to see that toadies do’ not comprise all of Ameri. can society, and ut their Prince’s ‘dinner tiey unceremoniously dropped the protee ont of wham they had hoped to make political capital. The American mind has learned some comtuon sense in the last decade. It did not Propose to Ue blarneyed into political views, but neither does it propose permitting the blarsted” Englishmen to insult the recipient of our highest honors when abroad. Nobody desired such attentions as the English paid Mr. Grant. least of all, probably, the object, of them, but since they started the pal) of themselves, American opinion, private and pablic, is now committed to the determination to see the matter throifgh, and indicate very forcibly that the United States perceived and “pockets the insult we have been offered, in the person, of Gen, Grant, at the hands -of the Prince of Wales—the hice young man tho owed a debt of Sratitude for his own most hospitable feception When in America, Having taken Mr. Grant 1 fu the honorable manner they did, the ‘English had no right, save that of rudeness, to drop him in the’ mavner. they Lave displared; they have yet to learn, as learn they will, that an American citizen is the peer of any man, be he Prince or peasant, There has been indienation that Grant did not pass from the acene declining Wales? food, but the “silent man” had, no doubt, bis reasons and his plans, He was too much accustomed to the'society of magnates and titles to have been awed by the presence of this modern George TV. His quictness of demeanor means a3 truly that Wales shall yet repent his audacity, as when fe sat down before Richmond, or fought on'that ne all summer, But he will take his time aud mature his plans in calm, unresentful dignity. Inthe meantime let all Americans manifest the disgusted feeling which such an inhospitable act has awakened. To invite a man under vour roof, and seat him last of a large company invited to meet him, is 2 rude- hess amounting to indeceney, which even those Turks the Eugtish are sympathizing with would not be guilty of. Let the press of America at- tempt the huge task of teaching John Bull the rudiments of civility. H. M. Be a THE NEW PROBATE COURT. To the Editor of The Tribune. CutcaGo, July 21.“ Is the Probate Court act constitutional”? This question appears in the Leyat News over a communication signed by a member of the Chicago bar. That gentleman says: ‘The new Probate Court act is limited to Cook County. Is it not then repugnant to the Constitution as alocal or special law?” This is of very great importance to the zood people of Cook Conniy, by whom a Probate Judge and Clerk are soon to be elected. “This act provides a Probate Court in each county that contains more than 100,000 inhabitants. At present Cook County is the only county to which this law applies. The publication, in the Legal News of June 30, of the decision of the Suprome Court in the case of Devine against. Board of Commissioners of Cook County, seems to bave raised this ques- tion whether the new Probate Court act is con- stitutional. In that case, an act authorizing Commissioners of counties containing over 100,0X) inhabitants to issue bonds for the erec- tion of a Court-House and for other purposes, ‘as held by all the Judses to be applicable, by erms, to Cook County only and to be a local or special act. A majority of the Judges decided that it was also an act “regulating county affairs,’” ex- pressly prohibited by the Constitution of 1870, Art. 4, Sec. 2, which says: “The General As- sembly shall not pass local or special Jaws in any of the following enumerated cases.” More than twenty cases are enumerated, and, amon, them are expressly named local’ and special acts “regulating county affairs.”? According to this decision, the new Probate Court act isa local or special act. But it docs not appear to be repugnant to this section of the Constitution, because it is not one of the enumerated cases which are expressly pro- hibited. Another and later clause of the Constitution {Article VI, Sec, 20) says: “The General As- sembly may provide for the establishment of a Probate Court in each county having a popula. tion of over 50,000. Clearly, the new Probate act was passed and has gone {nto effect under the power expressly conferred by this section of the Constitution of 1870. J. W. Boroes. oo A CASE IN POINT. To the Editor of The Tribune, Cmcaco, July 21.—The Chicago stenches are becoming aserious matter to property-owners of the South Side. Tenants begin to think they have good cause to look fur residences in loca-" tions of purer air, and men having money to purchase or build seck to escape the’ nightly sufforations and horrid smells of the South Side by crossing the river to the North. if the Health Commissioner has power to act, why does he delay? If he has no power, then why do we have a Health Commissioner? But he ‘seems in doubt 2s ¢o the origin of the stench. Now there are three facts undisputed: vhe south fork of the south branch, the render- ing establishments, and the sickening suffocat- ing stenches. If the Commissioner is not edged to any theory of origin, let me invite is imagination to the State cf Michigan; for doctors, reasoning by analogy from what ‘they ‘see. sometines correctly comprehend things in- visible. There are numerous marzhes in Michigan that furnish ague chills liverally to the inhabitants around them. Ina stitl summer morning he may sce a dense fog resting on these marshes. ‘When the sun shines on this fog it rises from the marsh, and a gentle breeze moves this malaria to the higher grounds around the marshes. Should there bea wind during the night there will be no foe gather over the damp marsh; the evaporation is carried evenly away. When’ there is no morning breeze the fog rises und scems scattered in the higher atinosphere.” Now J think the Commissioners will admit that the same law sovern the exhalations irom the South Brauch, aud those arisicg from the marshes. Then, will he explain the sudden midnight belchings of about one honr’s duration. Again, if the Commissioner will allow me, I ask him to look at a steam engine in full force throwing off mingled steam and smoke. The column rises high, curving downward, fan- sisped, spread and mingles with the atmosphere we breathe; some times at a Jong distance from its origi. ‘Can the Commissioner imagine any- thing analagous ? PRAIRIE AVENUE. erat ee eat ‘atti and Nicolini. Corresvondence New York Times, Lonpon, June 30.—The increasingly liberal sentiments of society in recard to the once sacred tic of marriage sre duly appreciated by Mr. Gye at Covent. len in the aunoupcement of Nicolini and Patti as ftomeo and Juliet. On this occasion stalls are $25 or $26. The theatre will be crowded. Patti will’ be applauded to the echo. Women will wave their bandker- chiefs, and men will clap their hands. Nicolini will perform upon the stage some of the sdvéoturous deeds which’ he has done fy real Ife | to get possession of hfs “Tove. A __ frien of,” mine from Paris, in whose word I can place implicit rett- - ance, tells me that the daring tenor has not won Patti tamely. Ladders of rope, secret conver- ances, diseatses, surprises, all the paraphernalia and trappings of romence, ali the pretty sub- terfuges and daring plots of a novel have been executed in reality by Nicolini in the course of his wooing, his love, and bis triumphant suc cess. The whole story will come out-on the trial in Paris. The injured Marquis is suing uot for a divorce, but. for damages. By the French law he is .entitled to half his wife's earnings, present .and future. and he has also the nicht to clalin in addition heavy damages as a salve to his injured feelings as 2 husband. It is eald that it will come outin court that some of. ths macnificent royal presents made to Patti in the glowing para- graphs of the Contiuental press were bought |. exclaimed the infuriated husband, and pald for by Patti herself. The old story of the bouquets bought by theatrical managers, onlyon a larger scale. Franchi, Patti’s mana- ger, told my friend that one day the Marquis came to him in a glow of unusual fury. “You should not suspect your wife,” said Franchi pacifically; “it is really very wrong tocharge her with infidelity.” Sagpect!* xelaim “Why, [saw Nicolini come out of her bed-room in the midale of the nizht.” “You did!” said Franchi. “Yes, 1 mysetf,”” was the Marquis’ reply. Franchidid uotreply. He turned on his heel, merely look- ing what he would bave done under the circum- stances, but Patti's aristocratic husband prefers. to leave matters in the hands of the legal tribunals. ‘The courts last year were occupied with the marital troubles of Vianesi'and his wife. The papers were filled with the details of their loves und hates, their mutual infidelities, or supposed Infidelities. Vianesi ts the conductor at Covent Garden. He was one of a family of mustcat prodisies. It fs said that the wite with whom he came before the courts was reatly not his wife in law. Another woman bas just turued up in Lon- don, She has begged her way from Italy, ant has arrived here almost barefooted. She de- clares she will drag Vianesi before the magis- trates. Our foreign operatic celebrities, while they elevate the English taste for music, can hardly be said to set the nation an example in morals. a be i‘ HUMOR, Mosquito oucht to be a capital poke player. ‘Every thue he draws, ny hls efenek In Philadelphia an effort has been made to in- troduce the necdle into the public schools. The girls don’t want it: but the boys think it a great improvement on bent pins. Dumas, speaking of ayoung mantwho couldn’t write anything, but obtained great voruc by -hauuting literary reanions and assiduously cul tivating the society of artists, once said: “He SSanewspaperwrapper that’ thinks itselt jour- ma. : Apples are big enough now tu keep a 10-year old boy, and both his parents, and the nearest exist, up all night.—Zawkeye. District visitor (blandly): _‘* Well,'dame, ané how do you find things now?” Crusty old cot tager: “ How do I find things? Why, by look ing arter ’em, to be sure.” A young maz in Lower Gold Ail visited hi: sweetheart, and when he left stole the doz of the house, and got half a dollar for the brute at Marshal McCleery’s canine asyluin. A map cannot afford to spend ‘is time for nothing se hard times, not®even wl court ing.—Gold Hitt News. a : Hobart Pasha, thecommander of the Turkish flect in the Black Sea, is an Englishman; and when he gives directions for an attack on a Rus~ sian town with a name containing four or five “Ws,” three times out of five his men go of and bombard the wrong town.—New Fork SFeekly. A very valuable dog, affirms the Boston Globe, died suddenly in that city recently, and, on being Opened, sixty-one shingie-nails were. found in his stomach. The inference was that he had swallowed a sample clerk fh the hardware line. “Is that a type of Reading beauty?” asked the Transcript, a8 180 pounds of female loveli- ness boarded the morning train at Reading. “Yes.” responded Spicer, “that is a piece of solid Reading matter.” And they silently stole ane to the smoking-car."—Boston Cominercial julletin. The Philadelphia Buttetin has gone into the archwological line, and has discovered that the Weapon of the Seandinavian gol Thor was not a hammer, as commonty reported, but a thorax. One nicht we were sitting out of doors in the moonlight, unusually ,silent, almost sad. | Sud- denly some one—a poetic-looking man, with a gentle, lovely face—said in alow tone: “Did You ever think of the beautiful lesson the stars teach usi” We gave a vague, appreciative murmur, but some soulless clod said: “No; what is it?” “ How to wink,” he answered, in asad, sweet voice. ————___— Great Britain, Egypt, and Indts, The distinguished Belzian publicist, Mf. de Lavelaye, propounds opinions ow Eaypt and India, which are inyested with current interest. He holds that England should seize Egypt, and. expect in time to lose india.- Egypt in the hands of the English, he says, would recover the splendor of “ber antiquity. With public works the extent of arable land, the numbers of the population, and the revenue would all augment. Thanks to the annexations conduct- ed by Col. Gordon, Egypt now extends to the great Jakes of Central Africa, and. she has thus become, in point of ’ territorial extension, one of the largest countries in the world. Only let hor pass under the protection of England, instantly the slave-trade is sup- pressed, steam navigation connects the interior of thecoutinent with the Mediterranean, and civilization and commerce penetrate into au int mense region of admirable fertility, and, by reason of its altitude, habitable by Kuropeans _ By the Cape, by Natal, by the Transvaal, the the Zam- English are advancing tow: vezi, Already they have 4 statlos on “Lake Nynssa; oon they will have others on Lake Tanganyika and Lake Victoria. ‘The International Exploration Society, tounded under the auspices of the King of the Belgians, will send into the country travelers, emigrants. artisans of every kind. It has been showa thal a peleeraph Jine could easily be established from Cairo to Natal and the Cape.. Lieut. Camcros thinks that railways uniting thecentre of Africs to the coast would not be long in paying their ex- penses. If,therefore, Enzland conseated to fix het attention in this direction, an unbroken cur rent of civilization would speedily cross Africa from Alexandria to the Cape along the line of the high tablelands. The English would thus erect for themselves an empire as extensive as that of India, with virgin lands of far creater fertility, witha more agreeable climate. and completely free from Iong droughts. As for India, necessarily England. will lose it in the ehd. ‘The reason is plain. I say nothing of the danger of the approach of the Russians, which must’ go on with time. without necessarily ending ina shock. But the more actively the English set up railways in India, canals, manufactories, schools—the more, in a word, they civilize the natives—by so much the more rapidly will they be bastening the epoch of their coming of age, and consequently their aspirations after independence. It ts simply impossible that 100,000 Europeaus should continue indefinitely to govern 000,000 of foreign subjects, when the latter have once been, ia however slight a degree, penetrated with mogern ideas. 3 ‘The Sandwich Islands. Boston Advertiser. In the Sandwich Islands there is scarcity of men, not in comparison with the numberof women, for the men outnumber the women by several thousands, but fa comparison with the work to he done. The native population is . rapidly disappearing, owing to causes and vices which have been introduced by visitors from civilization. _In a total population of 55,000 there are 6,000 more men than women, and yet to meet the demand for Isbor on the sugar plantations 10,000 more meu mulst be induced within a few years to come to the islands, This labor market, however, is of ttle use to us, for American labor is not-the kind that can be made profitable there. The - probability is, that the new laborers will come from Chins. The difficulty with the Chinamen is, that they are not likely to come as perma nent settlers, and eo will not bring their wives with’ ther, and go the social condition of the islands will become worse than it is already. ‘The Hawaiian Gazette urges the Government ta make arrangements for the importatién of women as well os men, and already an agent * has been sent to China to endeavor to ret laborers who will bring their wives with them. But in the first place it fs doubtful whether be can induce such immigration, and ff ne can {ft fs doubtful whether the plant- ers will pay the extra expense in- curred. on account of the women. The, Hawafians -would prefer Hindoos, believing: them more nearly allied with their own race than the Chinese are, and the Government bas dispatched H. A. P. Carter, its Minister of Foe eign Affairs, accompanied by the British Con. missioner, to London to endeavor to get thi: sanction of the British Government fora scheme of importation of East Indian families into the islands. It is oot kaown whether the Hiudoot will come, nor whether they are Likely to make serviceable laborers if they do. But there tr evidently a pressing want of some additions tc the working force.e The native Sandwich Islanders of pare blood will uot last much longer. They appear to be as surely doomed to extinction as the Indians of our country. 2 atapennem oa Steamboat-Propulsion. ‘Thenew method of steamboat-propulsion Is the invention ofa New York steamboat expert. ‘Fora boat of 250 feet long, forty feet eee anal Te feet draught, he proposes two scre are san wel vide” by ‘oho at the stern, fifteea fect each {n diameter and of twenty-two feet pitch, with straight blades ‘placed to dip within ‘ona foot 6f the bottom of the boat. These screws travel fn opposite directions; and as their vanes arelong and elastic, it is belleved that, despite their size, they will jar: the vessel much less than the ord{nary submerged screw. These propellers, driven at 150 revolutions, woald s¢- cure, it Is claimed, a speed of thirty-seven and a half miles per hour,—or, with ample for slippiog, say thirty miles an hour effective speed. By this device boats may be driven in yery shallow water, allowance .