Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 23, 1877, Page 4

VHE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY, JULY 23, 1877, a ny The Tribe. EMS OF SUNSCRIPTION, RY MAIL-IN ADTANC! POSTAGE FREPATD. Datly Edition, one year. BIB Frrth of ayrat. per moath. Rita ued to ahy sures: fonr 100 Bunda! .Atera| Donbin Sheet 50 Farnmiay bdltion, twe ei TH- Weekly, one year. q Parts of ayear, per monil amiss EK ‘One copy, per se: ‘1.25 Giuv af ten. ‘00 pectmen conten sent fr Tivpreeemt delay and mintaken, be eure and atve Post: ‘Offre address in fall, including State and County, Kemittances may be made etther by draft, express, Tost-Oftice oriter, vor iu reriatored letters, st our risk. ‘TRNMS TO CITY SUBSCRINERS Dally, delivered, Sunday excepted, 25 cente per wees. Dats. delivered, Bunday included, 90 cents per week. THE TRIDU COMPANT, OI 1a 70, Tie drat Corner Madi “AMUSEMENTS. Ilooley’s Theatre. Randolph atreet, hetxeen Clark and LaSaite, En> Facement of the Unton-Square Company, ** Les Dan- Ichets." Messrs. Thorne, O'Neil, Stoddart, etc. + Mes- dames Fanny Morast, Sara Jewett, Katherine Rog- ere, etc Adetnhi Theatre. Monroe street, corner of Dearborn, Haverty's Minstrels, Add Ryman, Dilly Ries, Billy Carter, ete. Exposition Building. Lake Shore, foot of Adama street, Summer-Night Festival by the Thomas Orchestra. Dase-Hall Park. Game between 3:45. MONDAY, JULY 23, 1877, CHICAGO MARKET SUMMARY. The Chicago produce markets were lens active Saturday, and the leading oncs were steadier. ‘Mess pork closed Gc per brl higher, at $19,42!5 for August aud $13.55 for September, Tard Meats were firmer, at be ind Oe for do ahort ribs, for luove rhouldere Luke frelyhts were active aud firm, at 24@2t¢e for corn to Buffalo, Highwines were at $1.08 per gallon, Vilour was dull und weak, Wheat closed %¢ higher, at $1.37@21.48 for Jnly and $1.43; for August. Corn closed a shade Grmer, at47ic cash and 4d%c¢ for August. Oate closed 4 Gillie lower, at 284ccashand 2t¥e for Augurt, Rye waa active and lower, at ste for July and ic for August. Turley closedat 7ic for new No. 2 weller September. Hoga were Se por 100 Ibs high- er, nt $4.00905.20. Cattle were quiet and steady, and aheep nominal. One hundred dollars in gold would buy $105. 25 in greenbacks at the close, In New York on Saturday greonbacks ranged at 944005. Our correspondent with tho Big Horn exploring expedition, made up of adventur. ous miners from Deadwood, reports further, ia a letter which we print this morning, of tho progress of tho party toward the region which they intend to prospect for gold, Boyond Cantonment Reno thero is no longor any protection afforded by tho military, and whoso ventures further does it at not o little risk and hardship, Mr. Vanpennizt, Proaident of the New York Central, was busy yesterday in tolo- graphing to‘hia various subordinates ex- pressions of confidence that the employes of that road will resort to no strike at present, and assurances that their compensation will be increased as soon as the expected increase of business will jastify it. If the Contral ewployes take the President at his word, he should take good caro to keep his part of tho compnet ot the earliest possible moment. Outside of Pittsburg the strikers appear to have succoxsfully resisted every tendency to criminal violenceyand to have contented thenmselveo with enforcing their dotermina- tion to allow no freight trains to ‘ran. At Philadelphia the first episode of any kind occurred Inst ovening, when an engineer en. gaged in shifting cara was compelled to de- tach his engine, From nearly all important pointy along the Ponnsylvanin Railroad notico hag beon received of intended strikes, and, unless the difficulty as to wages is gattled to- day, it is evident that business along the en- tire lino will bo brought to a standstill, —— Our advices from Baltimore toll of a high state of excitoment throughout the city, and the continued presenco on the streets of throngs of peoplo disorderly or quiet accord- ing to their component parts, ‘The furthor shedding of blood has been avoided through the moderation of the troops, who, though assaulted with stones yestorday, withheld thoir firo, nnd the moro peaceable policy of placing their assailants under arrest was the only retaliation indulgedin. Gen, Hancoog, of the United States Army, is in command of the Federal troops, 400 strong, and it is con- fidently believed that another serious out. break will not occu: ‘Tho news from Europe this morning is decidedly interesting, and forecasta the near probability of events which will place the war {u the East upon the footing go long ap. ernment at all, or whether there aball be an- archyand min. Of what avail is the violence after all? Thore is to be-—mnst be—n set- tlement of these questions at somo time, and why not have the settlement without tho violence? Will there be n better disposition to settle quoctions of wages after come hun- dreds of men have been killed and some millions of property destroyed? Suppose the running of trains is arrested; all traffic stopped; 50,000 miles of railway rendercd neeless; what then? Who is to be benefited by that? Will not the suspension of these roads put 600,000 people ont of em- ployment, stopping wages, and tak- ing from their families tho means of support? Who will this benefit? Any advico, come from what quarter it may, to resort to violence, to destroy property, take human life, or overturn the Govern- prehended. Ordors were yesterday received at Aldorshot for the immediate embarkation of three regiments for foreign service, and for getting in readinoss other regimenta and battalions to ship on short notice. Tho wives and children of officers and men are to be left behind, an ovidence that active op. erations in the field aro contemplated. Rumor locates the destination of this large body of English troops at Gallipoli, near Constantinople, though the Standard auserta that they are intended for tho reinforcement of tho gurrison ot Gibraltar and Malta, Whichever is true, itis ovident that England has revolved to be in readinoas for activo mensures of intervention so soon as the xapid advauco of the Hussian forces shall threaten Constantinople, Up tos lato hour this morning our dis. patches convey the welcome intelligence that the worst is over, the crisis passed, and the return of peace aud order reasonably to bo hoped for, Early in the ovening the cit- izens of Pittsburg took decisive action to protect their city from the total destruction which wus threatened by the mob, and, or gunizing themselves in largo numbers into a Vigilance Committee, proceeded to the scenes of arson snd plun- der, where they were sueceasful in staying the hands of the thieves and incen. diarics, It is also announced definitely that 4 compromise has been effected by the Fort Wayne Iuilroad Company, whereby the lat- terconcede to the strikers the wages paid Previous to the last reduction; the strikers thereupon returued to their places and as. sisted in getting the rolling-stock in motion. Nothing was known tho action of the Peunsylvauia Company, but it was expected thut it would come to terms in a similar miuuner, ‘The appeal to arms is a declaration of civil war, Abovo and behind all other questions is that of tho supremacy of law, and the protection of life and property. When there ceases to be safety for human life,— when the public officers are shot down bar- barously oud wmaliciousdy,—then all minor questions logo their importance, and it be- comeu an issue whother there shall be any Gor- mont, is the advice of a fend, and should bo resented accordingly. There can be, of course, but one ontcome to all this business. ‘The authority of the Government must be re-established. Peace will be enforced. Riot and disorder will be suppressed, and, nofortunately, upon the laboring class will fall the whole penalty and cost of the loss of Ufe, and the destruction of property, oud interruption of work and employment, The workingmen's meetings in Chicago, held to discuss tho situation at the East, have been largely attended, and an intense interest has been manifested in the fearful events of the hour, It is to bo recorded to the honor of the speakers who have nd- dressed these gatherings thst they have uni- formly abstained from the utterance of words calculated to inflame the minds of their hearers, The opportunity is improved to .disensa the question of wages calmly and reasonably, and so far as now appears no disposition whntever is shown to fan tho flamo of oxcitement to tho point of precipitating upon Chicago the horrors of riot and anarchy. While tho workingmen of this city and vicinity oro evidently alive to the situation and bent upon improving their condition, there is a gratifying indication that they will be animated by a spirit of moderation and controlled by considerations of humanity and right,—the spirit that breathes through- out the address adopted on Thursday of last week by tha Central Council of the Labor League of the United Statos in session at Washington, D. C. The wise and patriotic counsel will bear repetition at this time: ‘The Central Conncil of the Labor League of the United States, at a meeting to-day, passed a series of resolutions on the depressed state of labor throughont the country, and auticipated ovil re- salts to flow therefrom; enjoining coolness and moderation upon members of the Order; and tpeciaily warning them, ae well aa workingmen in Reneral, to beware of emissarics, some of whom have endeavored to operate here, whe go aronnd inciting strikes and violence, ~measurea which ine Jure iabor in general, disturb order, and end in the conviction and puntshment of the participants therein} and resolred that moral agitation ta the alrength and power by which labor can acquire tangible reformation, and that mob tlotence and riot lead only to anarchy and the ginal destruction of human liberty, aud tt ta belter to submit to any sort of despotism for the time being than to have no Gorernment at ull, CAUSE OF THE STRIKE, AND A REMEDY ‘The railroad strike in the East has roached the dimensions of a civil war, with its accom. panying horrors of murder, conflagration, ropine, and pillage. Beforo this condition bocomes goneral, and tho flames kindled at Baltimore and Pittsburg spread through all tho railroad contres in tho country, it will be well to consider this matter reflectively, and seo if there is nota remedy, ‘There are two aides to every question. ‘Tho railrond strikers are to blame for much, but not forall. For their acts of unnocossary and brutal violence, for their murder of militiamen and legal officials who wore only fulfilling their sworn duty in trying to preserve public property and freight, for their burning of warehouses, cars, and depots, for their pillage of stores, Tox Tristnz has no words oxcept of severe condemnation. It bas no sympathy with nob violence or mob rule, Now Iet us look at the other sida and seo if there is not somothing to be condemned, Daring the past two years railroad compa- nies have found their business shrinking up. Prices have fallen off. Freights have been reduced. Stocks have had their values squeezed ontof thom. They have beon un- able to pay dividonda to their stockholders, rente for their ‘hired roads, or interest on their bonds, Tho result has been that they have suffered from the effects of tho general depression even more than other branches of busines, aud ecorca of. them havo gone into bankruptcy, At this crisis of their affairs, when prudence, judgment, and conservatism were nooded intho management, they have enormously aggravated their troubles by en- tering upon a frantic, reckless, cut-throat competition with each other, by which they have cut down tho rates of moving the products and merchan- diss of the country to the bare cost iu many cases of running the trains. ‘The amount received for ono train-load of, freight has scarcely paid for the wages and coal, and left nothing for repairs, wear and tear, capital, and other charges, It has been a war of competition to the knife and tho knife tothe hilt, Combinations and com- pacts havo been made only to be broken, al- most the next iustant, ‘The Western crous- cut bankrupt roads have maintained a Punio faith, They have broken every engege- ment, Thoy have involved other nog in the conflict, and even the great trunk lines have not maintained their scales of rates, but, actuated by tho same insanity as the reat, have engaged in the mad and disastrous work of trying to atent cach othor’s profit- less business, Tho great water highways from the head of Lakes Superior and Michi- gan to the mouths of tho 8t, Lawrence and of the Hudson havo also engaged in the same rocklesa work, and freight has been carried below cost to increase or retaiii busi- ness, The railroads have not only compoted with each other destructively, but have also sought to cut off thy business and steal the freight of the watercourses. This miserable process cd throat-cutting has been going on for two yearv, and bes been intensified dur- ing tho past six months, until the transporta- tion business bes been plunged into utter confusion, and a crisis has come, Having destroyed their profits, to savo themselves from still greater losses—if not to save their actual property—theso companies bave fallen upon thei omployes and razeed their already two-or-three-timoz-reduced wages down to the starvation line. Trackmen, switchmen, and laborers who load and nnload trains are cut down to $1, and in some cases to 20 cents per day; brakemon nnd firemen to $1.35; and engineers to $1.50, These men, in the majority of cases, are married, and have wives and children to support, and house- rent to pay; and they olaim, with trath, that it is a physical impossibility to live apon wuch wages. They ask, with pertinent force, if they receive $9 per week, and have to pay $6 per week for their own meals whilo on the road, how they nre to pay rent and feed and clothe their families on what is left. As they cannot do it, they refuso to starve, and resist. One blow has brought on another, and the fira has rapidly sprend throngh the combustible material. 'The strikers are not only in n war with their employers, but with atill another class back of them,—the men whom the roads have heretofore discharged for want of work, who are living upon odds and ends and charity, and are in a desperate condition. With theee wholly starved men, who are willing to take the places of the strikers, even at starvation prices, the half-starved men are at deadly war. It adds to the exasporation of the strikers that they bave discovered that the new scala of wages is lower than the general average of wages of mechanics in cognate depart- ments of business where no danger exists. "This has added fuel to the flames. As all the elements of exasperation have increased, so have the ranks of the strikers been swelled by accessions of idlo and discontented men from other branches of business, by tramps who have come in from the country, by the Communists, and by thieves and the riff-rnff of the citios, who geo in these up- risings of what is called ‘labor against capital” their golden opportunities for plun- der and escape in the confusion. ‘This is the situation, What is tHe remedy ? The first and most important duty is to quell mob rule, to stop violonce, pillage, and in- condinrism at all hazards, and to restore law and order, and place tho safety of the gen- eral community in the hands of the duly-con- stituted authorities, instead of oxposing it to the blind. passionate, unreasoning fury of the mob, which has neither discretion nor discrimination, Thies done, an equally im- perativo duty devolves upon tho railroad companics, ‘hoy must ceose cutting each other's throats as thoy have been doing for the past twolve months, and must mako thelr agreements binding. The community does not ask of them to work for a ro- muneration less than the cost or value of their service, It docs not ask them to carry freight or passengers for less than living rates or at rates that compel them to redaco the wages of thoir employes down to the starving point. The first step for them to take is to raiso their charges, not exorbitantly, but fairly and reasonably, and then, restoring the Inst two cuts of wazea, let them alono, and await the great crops to handle nnd the changes in the fiscal affaira of the country that will tend to restore business prosperity and place val- ned pn an improving basia, Tho reduction of tho men’s poor wages docs not benefit them 80 long os this insane competition is kept up. Every reduction of wages is followed by re- dnetion of rates, and if wagea were lowored to a cent por day, rates would be putdown to zero, with a preminm offered to shippers, The quickest solution of the present prob- lom, a partial remedy at lenst, so far aa wo can see, is for the railroads to make a ached- ule of rates on the “live and let live" basis, ‘Thoy must charge enough to pay their men,— such compensation as to onable them to pny rent and fuel and feed and clothe themselves and their families. Before this can be dono, however, mob rale and violence must bo sup- pressed, whatever may be the cost or the consequences, CONSEQUENCES OF THE STRIKE. One of the worst foatures of the deplorable contest now being waged betwoen railroad labor and railrond capital Is the fact that the evil entailed is widespread, both in area nud time, The pecwalary losscs reaulting fall upon many thousands of others than those at the sceno of strifo; and years of labor and distrnat must occur before the loss to the community is repaired, while the human life destroyed can never be re- atorod, . The railrond companies implicated, already embarrassed, will be staggered by the additional load of property lost and busi- ness interrupted, and hundreds of stock- holders partially ruined by the depreciation in the value of theirproperty. The business of Pittsburg is fearfully deranged, and will not recover from the blow in a long time, even if the corporation be not held responsi- ble for the property destroyed in the fray. ‘The insnrance companies are threatened with a heavy tax, colesa they fall back on the position that they are not responsible for tho act of Gop or popniartumalt. Tho fast. freight lines, which handle a very large per- centago of all the valuable Broperty includ. ing nearly all the produce, that is Torwarded by rail,have thelr al.sre of responsibility, The business relations of the East with the West are partially derango2 by the blockade, and hundreds of contrasts are helplessly and hopelessly broken,—avhich meaus that scores of traders are forced to the wall by inability to preserve the ba’ance betweon current debits and credits, AJ this and much more, in addition to the not least disaster to the working classes themwlyes, Comparatively few of them able to lay by more than a fow pennies in reserve for a ** rainy day,” a woek or two of idlences racaim sheer poverty to the many, and to not a few that loss of self. respect which ends in pauperdom or crime, Even beyond this sickening array of mis- chief, in the dim vista looms up a dark shadow that tells of commercls! insoourity, and therefore of cowmercial dullness, pro- fected into what many bave fondly thought to be a brightening future. ‘ Jt is well to look the situation squarely in the face,—to rouson out the possible as well as the actual,—Lut it is not wise to be de- spondent. We koow that riot and incendi. arism are sometimes epidemic, like the plague, bat not ulwsys so. It is not impos. sible that this my prove to be the darkest hour before the dawning; that this fierce struggle between: the employer and the em- ployed may leacl too smoother adjustment of the relations between them, if it do not oer a solution‘to the labor problem. Well it will be for both if the capitalist learns that there is a point beyond which ho oan- not “ grind the faces of the poor" with ad- vantago to himself, and the laborer becomes convinced that indulgence in violence and Dloodshed does not advance his own intor- ests, If that lesaon ba well committed to inemory, there is hope forthe future that tho faithful worker will be deemed “ worthy of his hire,” and that the dangerous classes of the community will not soon again be able to strike a murderous blow in the face of society from the shoulders of the labor. ing map. THE WORST VILLAINY OF ALL. Tumult and carnage always bring forth striking instances of heroism and cowardice, but we question whether the history of the Pittsburg riot will record anything so vil- lainously aad repugnantly treacherous and infamous as the refusal of the local Pitts- burg militia to admit the Philadelphia troops to their arsenal after the latter had escaped from the burning round-house. This local citizen soldiery had been summoned in the first instance to protect the peace, and at the firat discharge of musketry they Inid down their arms and abandoned the scene of the riot. It may be that the first fring vast West and South, wonld have to be with- held. It would mean starvation for whole communities. It wonld mean ruin for the entire country. It would mean a return to the primitive, from haud-to-monthlife of the frontier for all the civilized world. ‘These are thoughts that cannot be bronght to the consideration of railroad strikers or the unemployed classes who sympathize with them in the wild, blind excitement of the moment, but they may be commended to the cooler and more intelligent farmers, mannfacturers, and merchants for carefal attention as suggesting one of the lossons of the presont troubles. A brief view of the calamity which would follow a general ccssa- tion of railroad traffic,from whatever cause, may help to remove the fallacy which bas grown out of railroad abuses, viz.: ‘Chat rail- roads are the natural enemies, instead of being the indispensable friends, of modern commercial mankind. ——— THE GREAT STRIKE, ‘The railroad corporations have a sorious and important responsibility npon them. They are confronted by a civil war, in which those resorting to violonce are demanding bread for themselves and families, In acon- troversy with starving men and families, the was prematare, but that was no | railrond companies are of necossity at a excuse for them. [t {is certain that | great disndvantago. The sympathies of the sympathy of Tittsburg. which is | mankind are all with the mon who are strug- one vast workshop, was againat the militia, but that was no excuso for them, ‘The fact remoina that the assault came from tho mob, aud the citizen aoldiery deserted their duty and the State militia that had been sent from Philadelphia to assist them. All this was bad enough. But, after the State troops hed been shut up for hours inthe round-house, after they had been forced thence by the flames, after thoy bad passed the fire of the mob and restrained the uatural disposition to return it, and after applying for admission to the local arsenal,— the State troops were refused this ebelter and compelled to fly to the woods under o fusilade of-guns, cannon, revolvers, and great stones more effective than all, Wa do not now recall any case of whole- anle cowardice so utterly contemptible as this. It was devilish in its cruelty. The Philadelphia troops had gone to Pittsburg under orders; they fired on no one willingly or maliciously, but only under command and in the pursuit of duty. They had tho right to expest active support from the local soldiers, and they wore mot with a refusal of shelter from a maddoned and howling mob. What- ever tha result, Pittaburg can only wipe out thin disgrace by severely punishing the pol- troons who wero guilty of the treachery, If they are anbject to the militin lawa of the State, then the very first rtop after the gling for bread. It is well, therefore, for the railroad companies to consider the reaponsibility which is now forced upon them. ‘The workmen say that the wages now paid them have been, by successive reduc- tions, brought below the sum necessary to sustain life. The fact that other mon are willing to work at these wagos is not a sof. efent answer to the complaint. It is urged by the companies that their receipts will not warrant the payment of higher wages, This is true; but is not this very fact of reduced roceipta duo, in turn, to a vicious policy of bad management on the part of the railroad companies, and is it not a matter within tho reach of remedy ? Have not the railroads beon engaged, and are they not now engaged, in the work of bankrupting each other? Aro they not con- trolled largely by desperate gamblers, intent upon gaining personal control of vast aggro- gates of property, that thoy may pluck it, and then throw the plandered concern back upon its robbed creditors, How often has this history been writton of the New York & Erie, and how ofton, to a less extent, of other rosda? Look at the enormous array of stocks and bonds fesued by those man- agements, representing property stolen. In whose hands, even nov, aro the groat trunk rnilroada and their connections, somo of tho restoration of order should be to | latter reaching half-way across the conti. court-martial the leaders of tho | nent? Pittaburg soldiory for the highest Bince tho great panic of 1873, nearly one- third of the railroads (by mileage) have passed into bankruptey, and are now ope. rated by Recoivers or tomporary managers, whose duty it is to pay ordinary operating ex- penses and no moro, and who aro not troubled by capita! stock or debt, The great trunk lines aro involved aa lessees with thousands of milos of other roads which wero built in advanco of any need of thom, and which have not sufficient business to support them, The management of tho railroads has nover been economical; it has beon grossly extravagant, wasteful, and frequently dishonest. The reduction of the componsa- tion and perquisites of tho’ managers has been slow and stubborn; as tho receipts fell off, the necessity for reduction of expendi. tures haa been met largely by the reduction of tho wages of the operatives, This, begin- ning two years ago, has gone on at intervals, until the wages of the latter have reached that rate that they no longer furnish the necessitios of life, Inthe moantime tho management of tho roilronds, .actuated by rocklessness, by, in- trigue, by struggles between competing fac- tions for control, by gamblers and adventur- ors,has been ongaged in echomes to bankrupt each other. The railroad managers of the country can estimateto a fraction the rates of toll at which they can transport freight and make a profit, Having ascertained this, the railroad managers, to injuire the othor crimo known to the military code—dosor- tion. It was desortion still furthor degraded by inhumanity, The treatment which the Philadelphia troops reccived at the hands of these Pittaburg soldiera would have beon in- famous if it had come from non-combatants; but coming, as it did, from fellow-soldiors, it was as black apiece of villainy asever din- graced the annals of civil strife. The riot- ers thomselves, whon they come to their senses, will recognize it ss cold-blooded treachery, deserving of untvorsal condemna- tion, and all the penalty that can bo inflicted under the law. THE VALUE OF RAILROAD TRANSPOR- TATION. If it is possiblo that any good ehonid ever come out of so terribloa conflict as that of the unomployed clasues of Pittsburg and Baltimore with constituted authority, it is that it will impress inthis instance the im- portance of tho transportation interests of thia country, If there can be any, hope of benefit in a monace of civil war by reason of a disngreoment between the employers and employed of the railroads of the United States, it consists in the thought that a cor- tain agrarian tendency of the past few years in regard to railroad property may receive a timely and wholesome check, No circum. stance like the Pittsburg emeute, with the warning it conveys, could bring so vividly before the mind the ovorwhelming. | roads, reduced their frelght ratos, and, to the essential, the indisponsablo part | make up that loss, reduced the wages of the which the transportation interests | workmon, This has been done repeatedly, play in our agricultural, industrial, tho soveral rosds trying to defeat cach other by taking from the wages of the workmen to make up tho losses caused by the reduc- tion in the rates of transportation. The re- sult is the destruction of the business of their roadg, the loss of revenues, the starvation of the workmen, a civil war, and the general suspension of railrosd business, and the temporary paralysis of government itself. The producers of the country and the merchants have not sought any such cut- throat policy on the part of the railways, ‘The country ls deeply interested in having the railways, which are the artories of the business wyatam, do a profitable business. ‘They are interested in having these railways honestly and efficiently mannged, paying 4 profit to thelr owners and living wages to the skilled and experienced labor of the men required for railroad work. The cut-throat and starvation policy having now reached a climax in riot, bloodshed, and the temporary triumph of mob violonce, 1t will be well for the railroad corporations to bravely meet the future by the adoption of a total change of policy, The London 7ines has dispatches from ita Calcutta correspondent, dated the lat inst, which throw some new light on Ma- hometan feoling in India with reference to the wor between Russia and Turkey. Hith. erto the appeals of the Porte have appeared to meet with s certain degree of indifference Jn India, but now, says this correspondent, it weems that feelings of sympathy with the Turks are spreading rapidly among the Indian Mussulmans and growing daily more intense; and the masses who were formerly ignorant or indifferent are now beginning to take a decided interest in the progress of tho struggte with Russia, Subscriptions aro be- ing opened in moat large towne, apd the amounts subscribed show a decided in- crease.” The Mahometan women are offer. ing their jewels and ornaments, and public preyers for the Sultan are daily beld in tha mosques. A strougly-orgauized effort is aluo made from without to arouse the Mahomet. an feeling all over Asia, Pamphlets and documents of an inflammable character are circulated among the Mahometans urging them to make common cause sgainst Russia, the common enemy. The people of Turkes- tan are reproached for their iuternal dissen- sions, aud urged to unite, The same corre- spondent says: ‘The Afghaus are warned that their turn will come next, and advised to cultivate an alliance with England, whose interests will induce her to help them. Per. ula is reminded that the Shias, no less than tho Bunnis, belong to the religion of Lala. ‘The people of Arabia, Egypt, Morocco, and other Mahometan countries are also urged to join in helping the causc. Appeals aro commercial, social, and political eystem, Suppose the railroad strike should extend throughout the country? The thought can- not have failed to suggost ituelf, Of course, thera would be a ropetition in a more or leas hideous form of the scenes enacted at Pitte- burg during the last thirty-six hours. Blood would flow in torrents, sud passions aroused that would leave their impress for years per- haps. Property wonld be destroyed, and tho torch would consume millions of dollars of actively-employed capital But would all that, bad as it is, be the worst? Would not tho interference with the transportation of tho country be the most serious incident of the conflict? This is a thought for the farmers, the merchants, and the manu. facturers to dwell upon. ‘There aro 76,000 miles of railroad in Ameri- ca,—e vast network of iron,—that reaches throughout the length and breadth of the continent, It represents an original inveut- ment of double the amount of the present national debt. It employs and carries on ita pay-rolls, in its operatiuu and the business and avocations incidental to it and dependent upon it, a mitlion of men,—one-tenth of the able-bodied mule population of the Republic. It ia tho very heart and life of the modern system: of commercial existence, Stop it, and we revert to the primitive days of atage- coaches and canal-boats. It would be like the breaking of the malnspring of a watch. All the world would stand aghast, stunned and helpless, at the prospect. The sys- tem has grown upon us till we have come to regard it av a part of the natural order of things, and have ceased to wonder at its mighty and indispensable accomplish- ments, But take it away from our every- day life now, and thero would be chaos, A million of people daily may be said to be on wheels, moving about in public and private business, for recreation or Improvement, in politics, religion, and commerce; a million more are employed in making and manipu- lnting the machinery by which the wheels are set in motion, Stop these wheels, and the twenty million of farmers in America will almost with ono accord resolve not to harvest the ripening crop, for there would be no means of getting it to the consumers, Stop these wheels, and the manufacturers would clogo their work: shops, shut down their mills, and abandon their foundries, for there would be no way to send their goods to the farmers, Stop these wheels, and the wholesale merchants first, aud tho retail merchants next, would put up their shuttery and auvounce their retirement from trade. Stop theso wheels, and the mill- ions of tous of produce, and breadstufs, and live-stock, and mests, and cotton, which go tothe East and to foreign lands from the made to the Enropean clergy to refrain holding of Christianity. is said, is in no sonso a struggle be- tious featuro of this Mahometan sympathy in India is the congratulations which it has caused the English papers to express, that England did not take sides with Russia. The Pall Mali Budget says in this connection: of boanting that we who havo cbnquered India ean hold it, and that we could afford to dis- regard the hostility of 40,000,000 of its in- habitants, must now at least admit that we should have had, at least, to reckon with vocated by the wilder section of the anti- Turkish agitators,” etiquette to announce that the American Pro- tective Association of Combined Night Editors, at thelr last annual meeting, resolved that whenever a dispatch was received announcing the death of an old Mason (or Odd-Fellow) with Mason (or Odd-Fellow) in the werld, the Union, or the State, as the case might be, the honora of a fall column orbituary were to be patd to his memory. and a pension of $5,000a year for three Aves settled upon his family. whe broken banks of that city, for Chicago, but volumes for Se. Louis. —3t, Louis Glode- Democrat. it refer to those that broke by reason of the Great Fire or the panic of '731 Werothose not allaniply written upf Would It be any satis- faction to St. Louls to Lave the Chicago papers republish the old accounts of the fallures of Danks fn this city in 1871-49 of-farc, gives a recipe for blackberry tart. You make a strawberry-tart paste, fill it with rasp- ‘verries, and pour some raspberry sirup over It. This singular method of making a blackberry tart inspires us with the horrible doubt that M. Dauire is a Frinch cook from Tipperary, and originally spelled his name Dany. the top of {ts volee that the Republican party and Democratic party are dead. Well, if they arcdead, why docs the /ferald keep on bellow- {ng? “Pye got a big thing," the city editor pricks up aportion of bis ears andeays, “Yes! Which bank fs it? as reported, but isat Rye Beach. dicate. army, while the younger will remain fn the navy. Mr. Tennyso fashionable dress of laiics. ‘The great tragedian was playing MacdelA in the from, preaching against Tnrkey and from up Russa as the champion The presont war, it tween the Crescent and Cross.” A cu. “Tho high-handed politicians who were fond that hostility if we had taken the courso ad. It Is not, perhaps, n breach of professional the spectfic addition that he was not the oldest a ‘The Chicago papers have nothini Ean mas m1 about the word Pray what "broken banks” fn Chicago? Does —— The World's cook, M. Datsex, to his last bill- The New York Jerald keeps on bellowing at ——— When a St. Louis reporter comes fn and says, —— PERSONAL, Senator Blaine has not gone to California, ‘The two sons of the Prince and Princess of Wales have beer eent on board the Britannia training-ship, but they ara not both destined fur the navy, as this circumstance would seem to in- ‘The elder will In due course enter the Tho Philadelphia Zimes romarke: ‘Mr. Alonzo B, Cornell, the Naval Officer at New York, Is biting ble thumb at the Adminitration, seem, ingly regardless of the fact that the Administration boot {s a powerful thing when !t gets fairly started efter an official.” Dumas proposed for membership in a Mterary vociety of Parle a young author samed Henri d'deville, who wae blackballed. Dumas then sentin hia resignation. The Society refused to accept it, and the dramatist has aued the Direct- ors for not releasing him, On the strength of the following lines from Merlin and Vivien," A robe Of samite withont price. thay more exprest ‘Than tid her, clung about ler Issome fimvs, an giish weiter suggests that ** Vivien Cos- tume" would not be a pad title for the present Only **samlte"? oF satin ig not much Worn Just now, Mr, Jon G, Whittier has written a letter complimenting Mr. Croffut's versea on the Eastern War. °*1t wonld bo much better,” adi Whittier, ‘if our poets would oftener cclebri the bloodices victlins of peace and good-will. I am often reminded of the linca of Ossian: *The battle ceased along the plain, for the birds bad suny the song of peace.’"* Prof. Sanborn, of Dartmouth Oollega, was accustomed to kcep a diary of his tmoreseions of. promising atndents, Twenty years ago he wrote of Edward Noyew, the present Minlwter to France: **Edward Follensbee Noyes was a bright, active man, earnest, prompt, Suent, and eloquent, His rank as a scholar was high; bisconductirreprosch- Bbie; hia influence good; lls popularity great. ie gave promise (or uncommon usefalness."* ‘The daughter of Sir Salar Jung was lately marred, The numberof men of cank who at- tended was indicated by the fact that more than 100 clophants knelt before the bridegroons's patace, within ao bour, to allow thelr owners to dismount. ‘Tho Gnal prescnts—superb jewels bad already been given—of Sir Salar were much admirea. They conelated of an Arab horse, an elephant, s palsn- quin, and ite curtilage, magnificently appolated in Oriental atyle. President Hayes is taken severely to task ‘by a temperance paper at Boston for attending the Chamber of Commerce banquet In Now York City where there was wine ou the table. The same authority says of Dr. Cuyler, who waa also there, that he **might just se well havo entered the city, snd passed an cvening among its habitue, without protesting against tneir excesses, as to have attended the Chamber of Commerce dinner. ‘The moral delinquency of the act would bave been ao greater.” The London correspondent of the Now York Fines writes as followe; **A now story of Macready te going the rounds of the London clubs. provinces. The actor who had rebeapsed the mee- sever In the Inet act was found to be ubsent when ed. A ‘ouper’ was onto speak the mes- er'etince: ‘Ae t did stand my watch upon the bill, Ttooked toward Birnam, and anon methought the wood began to move.’ dfacheto—Liar and slave! Super—'Pon my soul, Mr, Macmwady, they told me to say tt." "* ‘The President's order concerning the mix- ing of oficchuiders in politics hav elictted one curions response. Str, Wentworth, the Poat- master st lelington, wrote ta the Postmaster-Qen- eral, exprossing Lie approval of the order and stating that he had resigned ble membership of the {elington Democratic Town Committee, and aleo hia membership of the Democratic State Commit- tec of Massachusctts, reat surprise was ex- pressed tbateo prominent a Democrat should be found 1n possession of # Massachusette Powt-Ofice, and the fact that uo effort has been made to have Mr, Wentworth removed bas started the theory that the Town of felington must be upaninrously Democratic, orelse the Postmaster ts mistaken se lo his political ideutity. Tho Cincinnati Auguirer has issued Prospectus bearing a colorable imitation of a $5 krecnback, scross the face of which ts printed thie legend; ‘*Thv people demand of the United Stutes the anconditional repeat of the Reyvumption Jaw, remonettzation of allver, a greenvack cur- tency, withdrawal of Natlonal Hank notes, ns backe and silver to be made a legal-touder in vay~ ment for alt debts, public and private, without Inatt."" Underneath, on the margio. ts printed in large letters these words; **The bundbolder tu sbare equally the burdens of Government with in- duatry and labor are doctriues advocated by the Clacinnath Enquirer." This 1¢ oue-quarter sense, Oue-quarter nonsense, aud one-half communlsm. A magazine writer has discovered that good. work, agarute, ls only done by people who have paid thelr bills. Shakespeare wae so far abead of all hie couteaiporarics because he had the good eunse to make muney, and was therefore able to com- mand the market end write bis later works without preseure, Pope was able to polish bis verees, be- cause be judiciously wade blinself indepeadent by bie *+Bémer.” Wordsworth, like aydon, wished to shake the world; but, wulike Haydon, be recog- nized ond acted upon the truth, that the dret con- dition of such power Is personal independence. Live for art, if you will; but dret be sure that you have not tolive by your art, otherwise the unly barvest that you can reap will be that of the first reckless ebuilitions, when the responsibility of Ife docs not weigh upon the buoysacy of youth, Creer, Joly it. expedition brok daybreak on the morning of the 4th inet, and made a forced march of thirty miles to Cantonment Reno, arriving there about 2 p.m. This early start, and tong and rapid ride, were because of the utter lack of water for stock along the wa: one filthy pool of surface-water six mi! Reno. wasa necessity, onthe east sideof Powder River, about a mile from the Cantonment. Sore-nacked etock and sore-bodled men were tenderly nursed unt!l the 7th, when the way, Asso much {s belng sald abont our little army and its character, 1 feet jnatited In agaln making mention of the soldierly and gentlemanly qualities of Maj, men In the garrison here. A, multitade of requests poured in upon them for supplles and repairs of various kinds, all of which were patlently Hatened to, and I belleve, so far as conaletent with thetr public datles, gratifed. To Adjutant Mowlsnd and the Quartermaster your correspondent {e specially indebted. These gentlemen placed their offices at his service, —a favor Indeed. The cloecly before apurring up to them, man Was limeelf aficrwards killed by Indians. pale-face, Veen the haiint of a crazy old equal camping-ground, At cascades and rapids were BIG TORN. The Exploring Expedition to That Region. The Bozeman Trail, and the Changes of Fourteen Years, Crazy Woman's Creek, and Its Ine dian Legend. Clear Creek---A Very Garden---Our Core respondent on a Perilous Scout, Favorable Gold-Prospects--*A Veteran Prospector-»-Tho ‘*Jump-Of,’? Rpectat Correapondenet of The Tribune, Camp Dio-Honx Exetonixe Exrepition, Cure As stated in my laat letter, thie camp near Pumpkin Buttes at trom Repeated forced marches bad worn both men and animals eo that 4 STOP TO RECOURIT Tente were accordingly pitched Amp waa broken, and we were sgain on Ferrie and tho officers and from the members of our party auLr 7, atQo'ctock, with a hearty '* Good Inck, ty boy," ringingin my ears from the officers aveembled on the correspondent cantered from the barracks, and outonthetrailof the train, already some hours under way. We were atill following the old Boreman trail, and, asTrode all alone. not but think ‘what changes were surel parade-ground at the Cantonment, your T, could talang lace here. In IHG3] believe it war, whon Mr. Tossa started with n larga train over thin name route Cloud, who sald that, yet the anffer thie, he shonld atiack the trafnt and the old chieftain proudly warriors, ready at tho alightost encouragement to vegin the attack, Bozeman was compelled ty he was inet by the noted Indian. Ited while he denlrad not to fight, could not proceed; that, rather than inted to his numerous His force was so numerous that ABANDON THE PROIECT. In‘64 Bozeman, with ns train of 105 wagonn, inade the trip, althougn here and there, along the entire route, the little earth-mounds stow not without cost. whatcare LB. had proceeded. tinct trailé, about two rods apart.—the traln being dlyided into four ucctions, aud they bel: abrenat that they might ba quickly corratled. ‘To- day Red Cloud is withont n following, and ia ot HedsCsee Agency, ‘Too trail I was upon showed with Here were four dia. delven perhaps in the white man's 1 was riding the road sions. thoughts caused me to acan the hilltops more (Cant. Boze- ‘Our destination this day wae CHAZY WOMAN'S CLERK, a stream ranning from somewhere in the Big-Horn Kanye, dawity ewiftly a very large body of wator, Long before reaching the Fork, we saw, up in the mowatains to our vailed, the reaching the at: dirty; but the felt, that a heavy storm. pre- of which was, that, on we found it ewollen ond ‘ater was soft, und in s few hours was again clear and beantifnl, An Inglan legend haa it that this creck derived its peculiar nome from «ts lovely banks and stvift-fowing waters having, long, long before the Mret coming of t! reault the parent of their most noted chief, Ite ban! wore at tts time thelr favorite spring and auta there times, vast herds of bafalo, antelope, and elk fattened on ite rich grosses and quaffed its suarkling waters, whose jw bute of the utrong- finned mountatu-teout, On moonilght nights, THIS OLD sQuaW was often seen seated In her light canoe, shooting down its rapids, jumping ite numerous fails, and thas leaping from viltage to village Ilse avery spirit, .The Urest Spirit bad laid btw haod upon her; hence she was not inolested by any of ibe, and her comings were looked upon rath- el Food raadtseine, and re often quickly fol- lowed by the successful chaes, or victorious battle with thelr old-time foos, the Crows, whos hom war in the adjaccnt mountaing, Cantonment Reno ts perhaps fortyyniles from TUE MOUNTAINAS andonrcoures was diagonally toward theso so much that at Clear Creek, dfty miles from Reno, wetouch then. from env, looking toward the mountains, we see, at the left or western bxtren- ity of the rang2, ase inthe outline, descendin Jow, and forming Sloux Passe, Along northwar (he mountains were lizher, unt the snow-capped ake were seen dircctly west of Old Fort bil Kearnert then they dexcend ugaln to the general level, These snow-capped mountains are Cloud Veak and ita few. Hellisersg pnts: ‘The country pass- ed through thls ae ach betterthan that ly- Ing east of eno, being, from Ite contiguity to the imunntalng, Ike the plain immediately adjacent to the Black iflis, well watered by frequent rains. ‘The land wae elevated und rolling, the qrasa twl- erably good. ‘This country ts ADMIRABLY ADAPTRD TO AUNRO-RAISING, —the biah land, aud dey atmosphet d short, close-gruwing ‘uifuiu-grave belug most required in this Arriving at Crazy Womal good, Gshing excellent, and te was resutved that another day taken, During (he afternoon a , raln-atorm cane upon we. weltizg clothing, blankets, etc., #0 much that st waed 8. m. of MONDAY, THE Oru, ain under way. our destination lear Creek, twenty-three miles belug Sunday, reat would before we were Unie day being Mivtant, .The cain scemed to have .parised and freshened the alr, a0 thatthe stock svopped ate tance, and an carly mpot Col, Hart's ~ ‘Phieday we passed ry. Unrough the Bnest lund encountered on tho entire route, The plain. atretching, Like the billows of ica tn all dieections, was ons a bing gr je was ted-top and wild cata. lng through his, ikcame up to uur horses’ mideldes; while down on the yroaud was the buffalo an bunch crass. Those, two last arc, of all the didesent kinds, Ibe moat nutritious; and the stock would burrow down through the taller feu-top to nip thi, which grows no more than four or five inches high, and in close compact bunches. To the ranchmen of the crowded Platte vale aud farther cast, Laay, come Jwok at this; you will find it A VERY GAgDeN, At Clear Creek it wae the purpose of the party to make s camp, and prospect the adjacent mountain: region as far asthe main **divide.” This seemed to ve about ten miles away, but, as your corre- apondent experienced, was much farther. Along the face uf the mountains, or along the fout-hille, the formation was tore Loony evidently non-gold-bea ut the presence here of an ‘mueae 8 granite ask satisded ua that in the wuienor the formation waa different. It was though! prudeat, howover, before attempting to enter for prospecting purposes, that the proposed Toute be scouted. Accordingly, on the morning of Tue 10ru, James Harrington, of Dubuque, Ia., and yout correspondent, were early tn the saddle, and, with 10U rounds of ammunition and ong biscuit each, ‘were off up Clear Creck tuward the sow. It was our purpose, on leaving, to returo early in the day; and¢éo our comrades were given lo wnderetand, We followed a plaiu Indian and kame trall along the creek-bunk, between high blulfs oneither side, a distance of about five miles. Tue path bad by tiie thine oecoine av tucky and uneven that it was Receseary to lead our borees, aud at mods uf progress decane impossible. W struck s canon, the rucky wells of which wore Lbs only baukeuf the atreaw, which poured a ft through bere with the vulocity almost of ¢ railroad train, With very much diticulsy we succeeded in turning our horece abuat, aud felraced our etepe (0 the pulit where our trail had become bilnd; that Js, Mheprangled {a 90 many different directions that it waa lost. Selectlng ong which, with m siget course. wound upward, WE BMGAN TUS a tabor of no Hite diticulty, anall amount of daoger. As we rose from rest: Ing-place (o reatiog-place, the more extended view—the more beautiful scencry being constant: ly brought iuto view—ainply repald us the labor, if nothing wore was the ubject of tbe trip, ‘Thies trail was al mes sv steep that it required the use of both fect and hauds to second, and yet our burses would scrawlle up after us with leo Apparent labor than we ourselves. Upwards of 62 boar wes consumed In the secent; which uisde, ¥¢ found ourselves upun a level table-land, ing milos ahead. Thy gimss on this w ing aummit-pars was very Gne indeed, sud yune was more abundant than elsewbere in the country. A thousand feet below us coursed CLHAR CRERKS planging over its sucky bed. it was lashed Into white foam. Jy some F eo the stream wae so crowded between Its granite walls has ha branche ta sides interlocked above it; aud ayalo lt Bp Wlstening uader the noondsy-sus. loowtny like & spool of white-silk ribbon throwo with a reckless band across the rich carpet in come datuty lady's bondoir. 2 ‘Our coures was allll upwards; bat, by followlas CMT, nd sttended with no