Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 24, 1877, Page 4

he ? HI THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: TUESDAY, JULY 24, 1877. RY MAIT—IN ADVANCR ratis Faiiton, oor yrar.. i oe Parte of 8 x eed to any 200, a it earonule Sheet 350 catarday Hetth x theweektr, cane yeal 6.00 "arts of mycar, we One copy, 133 club ot 1 2104 Chub or tenis o'08 Specimen copi Ta preveat delay and nitatakes, he aure and gira Post- Other sities (n full, Ineluting State and County. Hesnttiances mag he maue either by draft, express, Tost-Oilice order, or in registered letters, at our Fak, TEHMA TO CITY SURSCRIBERS, Pally. delivered, sunday excepted, 28 centr per week. ath, deaivered, bunday Ineluvled, OO cents por week. Aduteas THE TRO COMPANY, Corner Madison I d Hesrborn ‘hicago, LiL AMUSEMENTS: Hooley's Thentre. Randotph street, between Clark and LaSatle. En- agement of the Uniorm Square Company, Les Dan- schefla." Menara, Thorne, O'Ne!t, Btoddart, etc. + Mes- dames Fanny Morant, Sara Jewett, Katharine Kog- era, Chee Adetpht Theatre, ; Monroe street, corner of Dearborn. Haverty's Minstrels. Add Nyman, Bity Ite, Billy Carter, etc. Exponition Bullding. Lake Shore, foot of Adams street. Summer-Niaht Fevtival by the Thomas Orcnestra, The Tabernacte. Monroe street, between Market and Franklin. Lec: ture by the Kev. Joseph Couk, subject: * Ultimate America." MEETINGS, and A. M,—Ttemu- 78 f. No. 308, A. F. Necting this (lucedsy) evening {a their ‘hall, Mouroe-at, Dustneas of the evening—Inatallation of ted to meet with ers. “The fraternity cordially Invited tc meet we TUESDAY, JULY 24, 1877, ONIOAGO MARKET BUMMARY, The Chicazo produce markets were lene active yesterday, with on irreguiar fecling due to the in- termption of rail shipments, Mess pork clored be per brl lower, at $13.36 for August and $13.50 @Ui,52% for September, Lard ciosed 5c per 100 Moe lower, at $8.05@8.0744 for Augaat and $0.02t% @9,05 for Sentember, Meuts were steady, at be por TH for loowe shoulders and O}¢ for do short ribs. Lake freighta were activo and stronger, at Je for corn to Buffalo, Mighwines were quiet, at $1.08 per gallop. Flour was dull and weak, Wheat closed firmer, at $1.36%@1.97 for Jnly and 91.16% for August. Corn closed ge higher, at 48ajecaxh und 48,0 for August. Onts closed nominal, at28e cash and 27%e for Angust. tye war nominal, ot S3¢, Barley closed steady, at 70% G04 for new reller September. Moge closed active, at 5@10e decline in heavy grader, Sales were ut $4.9045,20. Cattle were dull and AWitlse lower, Sheep were anchanged at $3,006 4.75, One hnndred dollars in gold would boy $205.75 In grcenbacke at the clove, re Greenbacka nt tho New York Stock Ex- change yesterday closed at {4 ‘There is some chanco that tho stonches from which Chicago has suffered so much may dio peacefully, The Doctors compos- ing the State Board of Health visited then yesterday, Awa mensure of precaution against a riot in this city, which is, as affairs appear now, entircly ont of the question, tho gun-shops wero emptied of their contents yesterday, and the amng stored in places of safoty. Ev- erything is now out of the reach of n mob, should oue be organized. ‘The Common Council last evoning took decisive action on tho gas question, adopting, by a vote of 20 to 12, a resolution fixing the price to be paid for the current fiscal year at $1.60 tothe South Side and 81,80 to the West Side Company, A determined effort was mado to cut the price dow still lower, but the live-and-lot-live policy prevailed at lnst, gre ng Bomo Harrisburg strikora found fifteen of tho Philadelphia militia yesterday, and led them into a pleasant eaptivity not altogether disconnected with pork and beaus and beer. Tho half-starved and thoroughly scored soldiers took kindly to their treat. tout nnd their rations, tothe cminent sntis- faction of all concerned, Speculators aro warued by the Governor of ‘Texas ngainut negotiating Iand-certificates issued for the payment of work on the Ber- nard and Coney Rivera and Oyster Creek in his State. A contract for tha improvement Of those stronms wan lot, but there appears tohave been a ring which secured a large quantity of certificates for an infinitesimal quautity of work, Repudiation follows, and the end ix not yet. Saveral thonsuad people nsaembled in tho Market Stroot Square Inst night, majority of them staid and peaceable citizens, at- tracted by curiosity. Kpcoches, temperate in their usture, were dolivered and taken gvod-mmoredly, but there was nothing to italicate a riot or the formation of a mob. Waving had their say, tho spoukera wero sat- isfed, and tho crowd, well pleasod when the performance was finished, quietly dispersed. A now and peculiar aspact of tho temper. Qnce qitostion haa presvuted itsolf in Joliet. ‘'T, L, Bueckensipag, oxce « prominent aud successful lawyer in that baillwick, was subpwnacd to testify against tho Nquor-deal- er who put tho devil in his mouth, But tho lawyer's tonguo was thick and he declined to swear, whoroupon he was sentenced to six months’ iimprisoument for contempt, to the great delight of the temperance roformors and the aduiration of the ginwellers, The prompt action of Genorsl-Buperine “tendcnt Craux, of the Union Pacifio Rail- round, in rescinding the reduction which wont into effect July 1, undoubtedly prevented a utrike on that road. ‘Che Superintendent wisely determined to make friends instead of enemies, and by restoring the former rate of wages ho thorouguly clinched tho good- will of the employes, His course was subse. quently approved by President Ditton in a dispatch from New York, and the Union Pucific 1s secured against any hinderance to its operation: ——s Our dispatches from Springfeld show that Gov. Cuttostis quietly but effectively prepar- ing for emergencies, so that whon the tine coma for action there will be no half-way work about it, If troops aro sent to Chicago or uuy other point, thoy will be sent in a force wuficient to cope with any mob of whatever size. All this is wiso and well. Tho very knowledge of the Presence of 10,000 well-armed troops is half the battle, ond to ba thoroughly propared is to decreaso the probability that the properations will be needed, ro ‘Though the strikers are atill fu force and threatening, there have beey no warlike demonstrations sach os disgraced Pittabury. ‘Ti e strike is general, and extends through. out the country, but there seems to boa sbrinking from organized attack upon property und tho lives of citizens, At Gullalo the nob was rough, aud used eticks and stones freely, but no serious casualties re xeported. Factories were closed in Oo- lumbns, and strikers contented themsclres to The employes on the Erio Road snbmitted a proposition, which was promptly declined, tho management insisting upon ita right to reguinte the wages of its oper- That tho atrike is becoming more and more serions cannot be denied, but there seems to bo a lack of the provocation to riot that the Pittaburgers fonnd, and hence an Inck of the disturbances that characterized with great prophesies of trouble come. atives, the Smoky City. It seems that after nll there is considera. ble difference between .‘*Come ont, McOaxtny,” and ‘3cOartay, come ont.” The especial BfcCanrny under con. sideration is tho Mayor of Pittsourg, of whom yells of ‘'Coma ont, McCanzny,” evoked no response until yes. terday, when McCartar came out wilha pronunciamento, in which he laid down tho Proposition that, by virtno of authority vented in him, “ all riotous demonstrations must and shall bo put down, and that peace, order, and quict shall roign throughont the city.” The question now is, based on his snbsequent action, Is there any difference between “Go in, McOanrmy," and “ Bic. Gantny, goin"? —_—_—_—— Tho Bucharest correspondent of the Lon- don 7'imes inakes tho interesting statement that the smaller plateaus of tho Balkans aro inhabited by a roco of Bulgarian refugeos callod ‘*Heydues,” who fled from Turkish tyranny. years ngo, and have over since de- fended themselves in their positions. They know avery path through tho mountains, and notified tho Russians somo time since that they conld lead infantry, cavalry, and artillory throngh the mountains, and deploy them on the routhern side, before the Tarks would be awaro of thoir proximity, ‘This may account for the easy manner in which Gen. Govaxa's battalion crossed and sur- prised the Turks, ocenpying positions which ultimately have given the Russians posacssion of the Shipkn Pasa, ———EE_ The movemont of English troops, ostensi- bly for the roinforcement of Gibraltar and Malta, but in reality with the purpose of oc- cupying Qallipoli and obtaining the control of the Dnrdanolles, is regarded abroad as certain to be followed by au outright declara- tion of war ngainst Russis. Besides tho 16,000 English soldiors tobe concentrated at Malta, so as to be within easy reach of Tarkish soil, it'is positively assorted that 40,000 Mussulman troops from India aro now on thelr way to Europe, At no ‘time since the commencemont of hostilitics has the situation appeared mora threatoning. Austria is anid*to be groatly pleased at the proposed occupation of Gallipoli, and the probability of nx alliance with England is enhanced. British interests ayo likoly yot to play on important part in the Eastorn war. Wo are indisposed to do any injustico evon to such pusillanimous people as tho local militia of Pittsburg, who deserted ot tho first fire daring tho riot of Saturday ; and it seems that we wero wrong in fixing upon thom the responsibility for refusing admis- sion to the Philadelphia troops when they sought tho arsenal aa 9 refago from the in- furiatod mob, ‘This is o United States arsenal, it scemg, aud was occupied by o squad of United States soldiers, ‘There was only ® subordinate officer in charge, and such @ person cannot bo expected to exerciso the best of judgment in a confusing omorgency, But humanity may be expected from subordinate os well ax superior officers, and the refusal of shelter to tho Philadol- phio soldicrs still remains a cruel aud out- rageous thing, for which no sufficlent ex. Planation has yet beon offered. PRECAUTIONARY MEASURES, Every large city has its exponenta of Com-, munism. They are not only the enemics of tho people, but they Layo no sympathy with Inbor, ‘Tho prospoct of plunder fs attractive to thom. Provision for thomsolves by honest industry is not in their uature. They are the rotten planks in the body politic, necessary only as thoy show tho rest what should bo avoided. They defy laws, and look only'for times of passion in which to catry out their peculiar notions uf the mothods in which property should bo scquired. ‘Tho success of tho mob in Pittsburg has stirred up this olemont Iu Chicago. Its com. yonents see opportunities for plunder that aay not arise ugain, ‘They ore striving to inauro such a condition of affairs as will pro- toct them in the proscoution of their schomo of riot and robbery. But steps have been taken to meot them moro than half way, Tkelr uprising will be the signal for thoir supprosion, ‘Tho first indication of a riot will bring upon them on frresistible force. Chicago cannot affonl o riot, Its people havo too imuch at stake to risk tho esteblishmont of Commun. istic principles. An attempt nt a gathering for unlawful purposes will not get beyond anattempt. There w a relentless fate in store for such an effort. Col. ‘Tonnence bes under hiv command tho First aud Second Regiments, State militia, and 500 veterans, and can briny 2,000 ion to bear upon any mob that may rise, Theas mon slept on their arng last night, and are in readiness -for any work that those disposed to riot may cutout for thom, Eight companies of the Twenty- second Hegiment United States regulars will arrive to-day, with instructions to remain in the city for a few days, Bouin's battery of edx guns is in readiness, ‘There are no blauk cartridges, When tho contest comes, if a contest bo insisted upon, thero will be no firlug over tho heads of the mob, Tho or- dors are to alm low. Under an officer who Sppreciates tho necessity of roducing a mob to a vacuum without unnecessary delay, this force will operate in the protection of property and tho lives of hon. est people, hore will be no parley. The riot act will serve ux an epitaph, aud not as 8 warning. Tho unpleasant undertaking will be finished quickly and off-hand. ‘There will be no temporizing, No timo will be lost in eradicating the ovil.° Business will not be interropted. ‘There will bea no fuss. Chicago is too far advauced to permit her bad clements to interfere with her interests, and any attempt in that direction will culminate in a warning to those who may come hero in the future that wob role coutradistinguished from taw is but @ weed, to be torn up by the roots. So the people of Chicego may pursue thelr onlinary awocations in peace, ‘They aro lu yo danger. A quick and permanent. ly effective plan of protection has baen pro- vided for them, and they will be defonded against any uprising, howover well devised, and however well calculated by organization for suceces, STATE-SOVEREIGNTY IN STRIKES, Aro we anation? Two Democratic Gov- ernors of Southern States havo rocontly con- ceded wo are by turning precipitately to call upon the General Government for protec- tion againab domestic violenco nt tho very first menaco of amob, But does this con- form strictly with the professions of State- Sovercignty and the protests againat Federal interference which have rung throngh the South for years on every occasion when a Republican Governor ins doue tho samo thing? Con Gov. Matrurws. of West Vir- ginia, reconcile this appeal to the strong arin of the General Government with the vehc- ment protesta of his party ngainat the omployment of the same foreo in even moro trying omergencies? Can the historic Carnotn, with family tra. ditions pledged to the inviolability of the State's sovereignty, approvo of tho pros- ence of Federn! bayonets in the City of Bal- timore? Don't the Commonwealths of West Virginia and Maryland revolt against the notion that their territory has been ine vaded by United States troops? Isn't thoir pride shocked at the. confession they maka that, in spite of their sovereign capacity, these State Governments were unwilling to struggle with incipient mobs, and turned to tho paront Government at the first exhibi- tion of violonoo? Ia tho United States Gov- ernment the mere creature of Maryland and West Virginia when thoso States appeal to it for assistance when in tronble ? We have, of course, no objection to urge against this call for Fodoral intorforence and protection on the part of the Democratic Govornors of Weat Virginia’ and Maryland. It was porfectly propor and constitutionally right, (But, if a railroad strike warranted Stato-Sovereignty Democrats in resorting to this privilege, we scarely understand how these State-Sovereignty Democrats can any longor contend that it was despotic, and ont- Tageous, nnd unconstitutional, and all that, for the United States Governmont to ro- spond to a similar call when mado by Re- publican Governors of Southorn States, when domestio violenco was much more acrious, when a whole race’ of people wore being threatened, maltreated, and murdered, and when organized State Govern. ment waa threatened with disruption at tho hands of revolntionista’y If railroad strikes in Southorn States justify tho intervention of the United Statea Gov- ernment to sustain. the Stato authorities, then it was certainly not very wrong for the Goneral Government to lend its nid, when constitutionally invoked, to put down the still moro flondish mobs of Ku-klux, Regn- Intors, and Bulldozers that infosted the Southern States for years, and destroyed the very recollection of domestic peace and per- sonal freedom. Wo do not caro for any moro, practical acknowledgmont from the Democrats of tho fallacy of their State. Sovereignty doctrino than the Govornora of West Virginia and Maryland have given in this instance. —$—=———_ TEE WET RESULT OF MOBOCRACY, Tho first fact that stares us all in tho faco is thnt $5,000,000 worth of property has boon wantonly aud maliciously destroyed. What- aver the future may bring forth, that fact cannot be changed. The destruction cannot be recalled. ‘The slain cannot be brought to life, Thore has been robbery, arson, mur- dor,—the throo greatest crimes against aocio- ty. All other facts aro incidental, all other circumstances subsidiary, to this great, ter. riblo reality of wholesale slaughter and plun- der, In Pittsburg, Government was subvort- ‘edand guthority defled; the mob was tri- umphant., Crime, disgraco, torrorism, an- archy, choos aro the results, Whoro is tho compensation? ‘The railroad employes struck and refused to work, which they bad a right to do; they then prevented othors from workigg at the wages thoy declined, which they had noright todo, Dut tho railroad men woro only the nucleus of the mob, It Dbccame ovi- dent that violonco was imminent, The local authorities wera supine aud imbcoile. The acting Governor of the Stato dispatched 600 Philadelphia militia to the scono of the riot to help maintain the public peace, ‘Tho tilitia were received with a shower of stones. No one denies that tho mob made tho first ausault, Tho American soldier te not the man to stand quietly with weapons in his hands and submit to insult ond injury. The Philadelphia troopa fired. It was what they wero called to Pittsburg to doin caso of a breach of the peace. If soldiers aro not to fire, why have them, why call them out on wuch an occasion? But the firing, instcad of dispersing the mob, as it would have dono if it had been the solentific and vigorous firing of ‘regular troops, only inconsod it, ‘Tho Philadelphia troops rotired to the shelter of a round-houso, after being deserted by tho local Pittsburg soldiers, aud from thence wore forced to flight in disorder and disinay, It wos now that the wholesalo destruction of property began in earnest, Was the firebrand spptiod in revengo for the firing of the Philadelphia troops, which the mob had brought ont by an assault? But tho Philadelphia troops owned neither the depots, nor tho round-houses, nor the workshops, nor the locomotives, nor the cary, nor the hotol, nor the elevator, nor the Private houses, nor the cargoes of froight thot wero destroyed. ‘Then bow was this wholesale destruction of Property to worve as @ soprisal in the casaof the Phflodelphia soldiers? Yow was it to punish the men who had fired upon the mob? How was tho burning of other men's houses and goods to satisfy @ desire for revenge upon men who did not owna dollar's worth of the destroyed Property? ‘Was tho torch applied to punish the Penn- sylvania Railroad Company? But the mob consisted only in small part of tho striking railroad mon, and the others had no grievanco against the Company. Then why should mon aud women who had not been injured by the Railroad Company assist in destroying ite property? Again, it was not tho Railroad Company that fired upon the mob, nor did it order the firing. ‘The shooting was done by State militia under order of tho State authorities and by direct command of the militia officers, ‘hen why was the Railroad Company to be punished for somethiug that. had boen done under tho name of Govern - ment? Was the property destroyed in revenge against both the soldiers and the Hailroad Company? Buta large part of tle destract tion and loss was visited upon mon who were neither Philadelphia soldiers nor stock- holders in the railroad. Probably over $1,000,000 worth of the property burned and stolen was represented by the freight in the loaded cars, of which 2,500 wero de- utroyed, That trcight was not the property -property of persona in Chicago, Cleveland, of tho Philadelphia soldiors, nor of tho Pennrylvanin Railroad, nor even of the peo- ple of Pittsburg. It wasowned thronghoutthe country. Chicngo owned a largo part of it, Why visit upon the people of Ohio, Mlinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and other States a retribution for a local griovanco eithor against the Ponnsylvania Railroad Company or against Philadelphia militia, or against both ? It was frenzy. But it was not any the loss robbery, arson, and murdor because it was Irrational. It was crimo withont mo- tive, intelligence, or provocation, Hence it ‘was dovilish. Now for the resnits, The Pittaburg mob, in pursuing an aimless vengoance, havo do- stroyed their own property and tho property of their friends, neighbors, and employers, as well as property of innocont aud unoffond- ing strangers, Renson and law exact (1) that tho men who have beon guilty of those crimes shall be punished, and (2) that the loas from pillage and tho firobrand shall ba sustained by the organized Gdvernment for protecting property and life, which failed to do either. Then, if law and reason prevail in the end (and only those can doubt it who have lost faith in popnlar Government), tho Police, and Sheriff, and prosecuting attor- ney, and courts will ba engnged for months in filling tho prisons with the chief offenders and ringleaders in the carnival of robbery, arson, and murder which has occurred at Pittsburg. Then the corporation of Pitts- burg must make gpod to thé Pennsylvanin Railroad and the citizons of the country the destruction which its own inefficiency ron- dered possiblo, Then tho loss must bo assess. ed and distributed in tazos, falling in part and very justly upon the very mon who occa- sioned it, Tho Pennsylvania Company pays taxes to support tho City Government of Pittsburg, and can claim the protection of property for which Government is organized and supported. The authorities wore im- potent; the people who intrusted them with Power must poy tho ponalty of their folly. Thero was no ‘hand of Gon” in this calamity, no unavoidable accident, no frenk of Naturo; it was a defiance of Government, and Governmont showed itself utterly im- potont. Then Government—that is, the people of Pittsburg—must make good tho destruction of private property which it waa tho duty of Government to protect. Tho net result of the Pittsburg mob's brave work, thon, is the filling of the jails and penitontin- ries and an increase of tho taxes, It was a costly day’s work; where is the gain? Is thero n laboring man in this city, or in the world, who can indicate a single compensa- tion for tho horror that hoa been visited upon the conntry ? THE COST OF MOBS, Citizens of Chicago should understand that proporty dostroyed by mobs must be paid for by the city, From this ponalty there is no cacape. New York indulged in tho luxury of a mob and tho destruction of property in 1863, and Now York hed to pay several millions of dollars to pay for the damages, Philadelphia had its mobs in the Know- Nothing days, and had to pay heavily for the churches and other proporty destroyed. Pittsburg has now had thirty-six hours of mob rulo, Leaving out of view tho loss of lifo, private proporty to the omount of $6,000,000 has beon destroyed, gu of which will havo to bo paid for by hard taxation. Proporty of railroads, wholo trains of prop. erty tho manufacture of Pittsburg, and othor trains and warehouses of property owned by merchants of that city, wero open- ly fired and burned in tho stroots, Private Now York, Philadelphia, and elsewhero, in transit, was seizod by the mob and destroy- ed, All this will have to be patd for, and paid for by taxation. ‘The City of Pittsburg will moot with no sympathy. It invited this great crimo, For thirty-six hours ita polico miade no effort to stay or disperse tho mob; its soldiers aban- doned the field, and handed over their guns to the mob; the citizens choered on the massacro of the troops from’ outside tho city; tho Mayor and tho citizena mado no offort to organize a public defonse, Pitts. burg had a bloody holiday, and the home and house of overy man in Pittsburg will bo mortgaged for threo generations to pay the cost of tho illumination | Doea Chicago want a now dobt and for auch a purpove? Does Chicago want an illumination from blazing depots and ware- houses? Does Ohicago want to pay the penalty of permitting a fow hundred mad- mon having thelr way in crimo and dis- order? Lot Chicago see to it that the Mayor have all tho physical aid he may need to arros tho first symptom of violence, There aro plenty of able-bodiod men in this city will- ing ond ablo to sustain tho Mayor. Let thei bo organizod, that they may be availa- blo when wanted. GOVERNMENT RAILWAYS. At the labor meetings hold in this city on Bandoy last, among other moasures suggest. ed for tho security and protection of Isbor was the famillar one of the ownership by the National Governmont of all tho railwsya, and their direct oporation as part of the Gov- ornment, ‘There is nothing new in all this ; it has boon considored and discussed over and over again, and tho result of cach inves- tigation has boon to strengthen the convic- tion that such a schemo ie utterly impractic- ablo in this country, and that to rendor it foasiblo at all will require a revolution, not only of the whole form of the Government, but of all fhe thoorics and principles upon which ropublicanism is founded in this country, . The territory of the United States is al- most continental, Among tho roads now half completed is one extending an iron track along the northorn border, furnishing a con. tinuous rail from Portland on the Atlantio to Vauconvor’s Island on the North Pneific; a rail is comploted thence along the Pacific Coast to the sonthern extremity of Califor- nia, aid several hundred miles to the cast, ‘Tho ‘torritory of the Republic is nearly, and in me will be, bordered by acontinuons rail, Al-oady there are 76,000 miles, and in loss than ten years there will be an aggrogate of ‘100,000 niles of rail, representing an invest- ment in some farm or another of $10,000,- 000,000, I¢ will embrace the whole means of transportation of the nation, It will control the entire trafic of the country, If there could be apy sgency whereby the pow. ers of the Government could be centralized and made supreme over all the business, s0- cial, and political affairs of the people, to place the control of these railways in tho bands of the National Government would accomplish this end finally and completely. ‘There areat presentin the employ of the United States in all tho bratiches of the Government not over 100,000 persons, in- cluding the army and navy. To include the tollroads of the United States within tho | divisions commander with his subordinates, and in the railway servico of the United Btates active organization, controlling tho entire country, a standingasmy of 600,000 men or more. It is needless to add that tho Gov- others,” Governmental control would swell the num- ber of employes to mora than half a million of men. Tho employment of this forco, and the fixing of the compensation, wonld bo a matter of official patronage, Tha mon wonld hold their places and draw thoir pay as part of tha ruling political party, With such a force, with tho revonuca of theso ronda at their command, the Government would have absolute control over the porsons and property of avery State and part of Btate, city, and county, and would bo in a condition to rato dexpotically and absolutely. All local Government would be extinguished, and from the centre would go forth the imperial decroo converting State and Municipal Governmenta into more deputies of the grand Central Gov- ernmont, The control of locomotion, tha control of transportation, the control cf re- coipta and shipments, wonld bo within tho hands of the Central Government, with free |.Ppower to look up railways at pleasure, and by 4 lightning dispatch order tho suspension of railways in any State whoro thera should be tho least disposition to quertion tho nbso- Inte supromacy of the Government. Such Qn arrangement would not be voluntarily submitted to by the people one month; such a work as controlling and directing tho oper- ations of 100,000 miles of railway stretchod ovor a continont, and controlling and direct. ing property worth ten thousand mill- fous of dollars, and operated by half 8 million of men, is of itself of ton times the magnitude of tho whole pro- vious operations of ail the Government. Our Government could not carry it on with- out a rndical chango in the forta and powers of theGovernment, No moro civil authority could govern such a system, and hence, as an absolute necessity, tho Government of tho railways would have to boa military one,— the railways and operatives would have to bo made a part of the army. The enginoors and firemen, road-cona'rnctors and ropairers, car-builders ond rail-makers, tho brakomen, clerks, inspectors, and ol! others engaged in tho work of constructing ond operating rail- waya, whould have to bo men sworn ond en- Usted in tho military service, and subject to allthe obligations and discipline of the ar- ticles of war. This vast system would be in and sections, each under a the country would have in ernment thon would have becomo so cen- tralized, and all tho functions of local Goy- ornment bo so oxtinguished, that tho Repub- ic would bo as essentially a military Govorn- ment as any in Europe, and the history of military Republics is but that of perpetual domestic war, revolution, anarchy, and des- potism. Monarchy in evon ita most despotia forx would bo n happy deliveranco from a military Republic, ‘The consolidation of tho railwaya of tho United States under one ewnership and management, and that in tho hands of the Government, would, instead of benefiting labor, bo tho enslavement of Inbor. It would edd immonscly to tho cost of operating and monintaining ; would involve a tax to support tho systom, tho onormity of which would startlo ovon this tax-riddon country ; it would create adobt discounting that of even tho most favored nations, and finally convert of nocessity tho Union and the States into ono consolidated, absoluto military dospotiam. This ia not a remedy for anything, ne A WESTERN RAILWAY IMBROGLIO, Tho Denver Daily News of tho 138th inst. bas loading article which implies that, aftor many yorrs of waiting and trusting in Proy- idence, the people of that community aro going to see what thoy can do towards com- pelling the Union Pacific Railroad Company to oboy a very plain and iinporative clausoin their charter, to wit: the ono which requires that all the Pacific Railways built under the act of July 1, 1862, and ‘the acts amondatory thereof, shall be operated as “ ono connact- ed, continuous line, with oqual advantages and facilitiog as to time, rates, and tranapor- tation, without any discrimination of any kind in favor of the road or business of any or oithor of said Companies, or adverse to the road or business of any or eithor of the One of the roads entitled to tho benefit of this law is tho Donvor Pacific Railway, which extends from Denver to Choyonne, making an intersection with the Union Pacific at the latter point, ‘Tho right of the Denver Pacific to “' pro-rato” with the Union Pacific east and west of Cheyenne is as cloar ander the statute as words can mako it, but the Union Pacific has in all casos ro- fused to grant it, and has set the law at de- flance, The Denver Pacific accordingly rofused to ‘pro-rate” with tho Union Pacific on Colorado busiuess, and virtually shut the Union Pacitlo out of Colorado. ‘Tho latter accordingly commenced building a now road parallel to the Donver Pacific, in- tonded to tap the trade of Colorado at sowie point nearer tho mountains. This brought mattera toaclimax. ‘Tho public authoritias of Denver City and Arapahoo County com. polled the Denvor Pacific Railway to obey the “ pro-rato ” law, and to open the door to tha’ Union Paoifio to Colorado trade, ‘This was dono by filing a bill in equity and asking for the appointment of a Recoiver, ‘Tho Company did not wait to hsve tho caso tried, but surrendered at once, ‘The Denver people now propose to ad- minister the same medicine to the Union Pacific, Denver bas buen virtually cut off from the Pacific Coast and the far Wost here- tofore by the discriminating charges of the Union Pacific at Cheyenne, which are in some casos higher from Cheyenne to Ogden (Utah) than from Omaha to Ogdan, although only half the distonce. For all purposes of trade Omaha is:thus made nearer to tho Pacific Coast than Denver, although its dis. tanco is 516 miles groater, Denver now pro- poses to attack the blockade at Cheyenne, to attackitin the courts, in Congress, ond at the bar of public opinion, The Vetcs opons the controversy with an alr of confidence in ultimate success, which the facts iu the caso indeed soem to justify, In the Omaha bridge case it was docided by the Supreme Court of the United States that private persons could bring actions for mandamus to compel the Union Pacific Company to operate its rood as required by law, and in that particular casa a peremptory mandamus was ordered requiring the Com- pany to oporate its rond os ony continious line from Council Bluffs westward, aud to refrain and desist from operating the bridge and approaches as a separate and independ. ent line, which ordor the Company, with characteristic impudenco, has disobeyed from that time to this, The caso which the Denver people have isa much stronger one than that .proscuted in the Omaha bridge case, andit falls within the scope of that case as regards the mode of ascertaining and enforcing the rights of the public. ‘This question, howover, is of wider im- —$——$_—— portance than its meroly local arpects would imply. It involves tho whole question of competition on freight and pasesonger travel between Omaha, Leavenworth, and Kanene City on the east, and Ogden on the west, including all intermediate stations, for, if all the Paeiflo Railroads, including the Denver Pacific, aro to bo operated withont diserimina- tion ns to rates, time, and transportation, there will be two throngh routes whoro thoro 1s now in practice only one. And in secur- ing auch competition Chicago is as much in. torested ns any other city, Moreover, it is of importance to the whole country that tho Union Pacific Company should bo taught re- spect and obedience to law. Thia corpora- tion hna rofnsed to pay the Gov- ernment the 6 por cent of its net earnings reqnired by its chartor to ba set apart, after the completion of the rond, to diminish its mdebtedness to the Govorn- ment,—its rofusnl being based, first, upon tho flimsy pretonso that its rond was not com- pleted till 1874, and second, upon tho flimsior ono that the 5 per cent clause of tho charter haa been repealed. Taking tho history of this corporation from the time that it drove an honest Chiof Engincer out of its employ becauso he would not cortify that tho cost of building tho rond in the Platte Valley would be 350,000 por milo when he knew it wonld bo less than $30,000 (so that tho Credit-Mobilior rascala might pocket tho difference), down to its Iast proposition thatthe Government shall ake its land-grant back and allow it $2.50 per acro insottlomont of tho subsidy account, wo doubt if a moro unblushing series of frauds can be found in the history of any country claiming to be free, Spoaking of the deattuction of $6,000,000 of railroad and private property by the Pitts- burg atrikers and their sympathizers, tho Evening Post romarks + ‘The doatruction of property has no compeneat- ing fenturo at ail, Itisa dead loss to the rallway, the inaurance companies, and tho private owners of parts of It, as the courts may finally decide. ‘The men who burned it have only succeeded in weakening the Rallway Company without aiding theircauec. They have estranged the sympathy of the community from. themsclyes, because thelr acta wore wanton, Wo do not bolieva that tho insurance com- panios can be made to pny a dollar of tho loss, aa they do not insure ngainst mobs, omentes, and municipal dereliction, The loss will elthor fall upon tho owners of the prop. erty destroyed or upon the City of Pitteburg on account of its failure to render protec- tion, There aro numerous cases whoro mobs havo destroyed private property in which the municipality has beou obliged to make good the loss. In this caso the municipal author- ities did nothing to protect oither life or property, For thirty-six hours the Mayor, police, local military, nnd Iaw-and-order clasfos stood with folded hands looking on at tho horrid scenes of murdor, rapine, ar- son, and robbery which held high carnival. They never lifted o finger to nid the over. powored Philagolphia citizen-soldicrs, who camo 300 miles to aid them in preserving property and order, bnt abandoned them to such fate o8 might be in store. The burn- ing went on for two nights and a day with. out molestation or resiatanco, and only consed. whon there was no moro railroad property to’ destroy. How does Pittsburg ox- peot to scape the pecuniary conse- quences of tho lawless acts of hor citizens? It was not Philadelphians who ‘burned up tho five millions of dollars’ worth belonging to the railroad companicsa and to tho business men of tho country, but it was Pittsburgers themselvos,—20,000 or 30,000 of them, who cither applied the torches and rolled tho cars and locomotives into the flames or protected thoso of their number detailed to perform tho infernal work, Thero was method in their madness; there was systomatio doliberation and acfentitic skill exhibited in the dostruction of other People's property. ‘fhe press reporta all stato that tho citizons gonorally were angry at tho Railroad Company on ac- count of its discriminating freight rates, and that thoy sympathized with the strikers and burners, ‘Choir utter failure to stop forward and arrest the work of destruction shows that the press reports aro trae, Undor these circumstances, who should boar the losa caused by the Pittsburg mob,—the ownors of the property, who wore by law entitled to municipal protection, or the City of Pitts- burg, whose citizens committed the felonious armon, ,nud whose constituted authonties mado no effort to provent it? pap eluded—hayo been shedding tcars of sorrow over tho death of Sheriff Firg, of Pittsburg, who was reported killed by the strikers while bruvely ondeavoring to put down the riot at its commencement; but a subsequent special to Tun Tiuscne which appears to havo becu generally overlooked reads us follows: Prrrauuna, July 22—12 54 m.—It wae Shorift i Firn's father that was hited; the Sherifhimeolt te fntuct, ‘This wise Sheriff scems to haye acted on the noble maxim, “He that fights and runs away, may live to fight another day.” 80 Five will blow his little fifo hereafter recounting how ho stopped his music when tho Pittaburgera sur- rounded aud fell upon tho Philadelphia troops. We bear no more of Five's shrili notes or mar- tlal airs; hie let the mob complete their work at thofr lelsure without molestation. A fine instru- ment that Fire for Sherilf of a county, A dispatch from Pittsburg last evening states that ‘ thecitizens are thoroughly aroused, aud measures have been taken which will cer- taluly prevent any further (1) violence.” How prompt, how brave, these citizens now arc! Bo thelr cold and sluggisn Ulood ts aroused ot last, ‘The mobocrats have done thelr work; they have had their carnival of blood, arson, and pillage, They bave burned millions of property, and stolen and carricd off hundreds of thousands (belonging chiely to Western merchants and shippers), and they have cone.home with their plunder, Twelye hours after they had departed the sheepish Alayor and his sheepish citlens crawl out of thelr hiding-pinces and becoins thoroughly aroused? Good for them! setter jate than uove: —$—————_$- Wittrau C. McCauruy, Mayor of Pitts- burg, bas concluded to lock the stable’ door after the horses aro stolen. ic is now tssulog proclamations and calling on “all good citizens to come forward at once to the new City-Halt aud uuyite with the polics and military now organized.” Why did he not issues thie cum- mand Jast Saturday evening or night, or Sunday morning, noon, or night! Why pusillanimously wait until Mondsy afternoun when the mob had exbausted iteclf with buraing and murder aud bad dispersed? Bah! to such thirtecnth- hour iuvocations.” The spectacle of a nan with o family Bible under his arm, rojliug a barrel of flour before him, was presented on the streets of Pittsburg. He was a bread or blood man, aud got his bread, secular and spiritual, _ as It is cvident that the friendliest of feeling ex- {ets between the Times qnd Jnter-Oceun, when the latter will loaa {ts cut of s drop of hydrant water to the former fore Pittsburg riot map. ppcleenc ee lhe 3 Wasblogton dispatches in yesterday's Taw- UMS semarkea that there was “a strong Wispo- aition on the part of the authorities to proceed at Ouce to extraordinary mcaus to pu; down the riots.” The ‘extraordinary means,” ag ind. cated In the same telegranin, was to walt until the requisition for troops had been rearranged bo ns to comply with some technical requirc- ments before even a “proclamation * would bo issued. a Who fs the graduate of West Point in charge of the Pittsburg Arsenal; the man who slam- med the gates In the faces of the flying Phil. adelphia militia? It {s impértant that hts cognoménal advantages be handed down tq nesterity even though through the records of adrum-head court martial, eens eed ke San Gen. Peanson has not been heard from, and Mt Is suppose! he has gono to Philadelphia, Ip {s proposed to try him for murder, as under bis order the militia flrot on*the miob. Perhaps things might be equalized a little by sending Pittsburg troops to Phitadelphia with a warrant for bin. - It can hardly be supposed that the railways Will reconstruct their property burned ut Pitts burg. Thoy should erect shantics and make the town a way-station, | Where was Pig-Iron Kerry at this time? A fow slabs from nls * Protection” acheme might have ayalled something, | Hereafier tt will be proper to spell Pittsburg with an “h,’ and on etate occasions to’ add el). Dothe Caxerons hold themrclves “person- ally responsible for this thing ? PERSONAL, Mr. Francis Murphy, tho temporance ad. yocato, saya: ** You must do something more for young men than talk God to them." Dickens once wrote: ‘It is much better to goon and feet than to atop and fret. As to ree pose, —{or some men there {s no such thing in this Iife."* “Those who have beard Neilson as Juliet," remarks the Alton Telegraph, ** pronounce Airs, Belden her only rival." Pray, who may Mra, Belden be? - ‘The Philadelphia Press prints a lotter from ‘Naples, Italy, devoted to a description of the tri- amps In opera of the boautifal Bianca Lablache, daughter of tha actor, E. L. Davenport. The Freeman's Journal saya that Fathor Hewitt onght not to accopt the degree of D. D. con- ferred upon him by Amhorst, because, if he did, he would present the anomaly of a Catholle priest petoming: Doctor of Divinity of ‘an infidel col- lege." ‘Tho boys at Harvard on spoech-day this year acted s portion of tho ** Frogs" of Ariatoph- anca {n the origins! Greck; and tho eccne in which CAaron te introduced upon the stago as the ferryman, with his boat and unts, elleited roars of laughter, . ‘the Bishop of Lincoln declares that cer- tain persons who have forwarded to him a petition for the use of anfermeated wine in the communion Are not fit to reccivo tho sacrament at all, asin their pharasulc self-conecit they act up their private opinions against the practice of 1,800 years, A writor,ina German reviow supposod to reflect the views of Bismarck takes tho ground that Germany lias no great interoat In the present confilct between Russia and Turkey, but agraca with the position of the former Power that no sin> gle Government should obtain exclusive control of the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus. Tho ministers out in Idaho don’t believo in Gen, Howard's way of keeping tho Sabbath. He kept the whole command in camp ona recent San- day attending divine service, instead of ‘ puraa- ing hostile Indians to tho death, withont regard to the doya of the week," and then holding acrvicce, as olocal minister saya ho would have done.” Col. H, W, Jackson, o well-known lawyor of Chicago, who served with honor and distinction through our War, has accepted o position on tho ‘Turkish staf, MMe had Ictters from Gen, Sheridan commending him to tho Russlan authorities, but, failing to obtain there the facilities for observation he desired, he went over to the Turks, where bo Was more kindly recelved. “Tho President of the Moscow Sclavic Com. mittee, in presenting to Gen. Tehernaycf tha aword offored him by his Czech sympathizers, said that he bad aroused the Sciavonic races toa new Ufo. ** This aword," be nd.wil, ** te intended to remind you of our gratitude for what you, an ‘apostle and champion of tho great. Sclayonic idea, have achieved in promoUng our cause, * Tho valley where Dr. Holiaud passod all hie boyhood, near Heath, Masa., has boen chriet- ened Holland Dell, ante spreading tree near bie former home bas been given the name of tho Itol- land elm, These ceremonies took place last Fri- day, when the Holland Clob met at Heath for the first time. Ono of the Incidents of the day wasan sddrces by Aclis Greene, of Springfield, who, eays the Boston Journal, ** {a recognized as the bard of the Connecticut Valley since Dr, Holland left it," Mr. W. Birchis tho apostle of peace in Eng. land. He lamented a few evoutugs azo at a ** peace’? mecting beld where ho lives, that in the entire conrso of his crnsade agninst war only one Chria- tino minister bad formally and openty expressed aympathy for him. The Bishop of Mancheater wrote thus coldly: ‘*{here@say possioly be Exses in which war is the onl} remedy for some fon] or crying evil, and ts accepted as the lesser of two evils,” although, to be aure, the Bishop, like the most of ue, waa Inclined to think that modero ware have rarely had this motive for their Jnatication, bat have naually been promptod by greed, or jeatouay, or fear, At the samo time he very Judtly obeorves that preachere **are certainly on the Une of their daty when they teach their con- gregations to pray that God would tarn the heart of “the people that delight in war," because war te a matter too burrible for sane men to delight in. Mr. Sankey haa just finished a two weeks’ campaign at Cohasset and Scituate, Ho was told that the coast bad buen turned over by Unitarlan- fara, and that {t would be Smposstble tu do any orthodox thing there; bat, without any Aourish oF rosort to printers ink, be announced a terice of meetings. Many ofthe Unitariaus came, and not a few wero among the ingulrere ry ovening aftertho preaching. Soit suems Mr. Sankey has not yet gotten tho preaching craze out of him, ‘When he and Moody were laboring together in Chi+ cago, the latter oftgn took occasion to say polnt+ edly, by way of Mlustrating some vital troth, “Now, there is Mrother Sankey, who caning, but can't preach; while here azn I, who can preach but not wing at all.” Tle vigorous and pictur- euque way of patting thibge, which generally oc- curred to Brother Moody just after Brother Sankey had concluded a long ‘Ulscourse, used to effect the etter deeply, and 611 bis heart with gratitude for so algualsn aclnowledgment of his one accomptiah: mont. : ‘The Comte do Paris, in conversation re- cently, wad: *'Tetand aloof from active politica, Icons{der I have no right to mixinthem. { atand Debind the Comte de Chambord, 1 do not say I it the Comte do Chambord, because that le case, and I bave nover taken any pledgoasto the way in whten I should govern if I bad todo #0, but I havo told tho Comte do Chambord himself, *Ecannotimposcon France Divine Right or re- spect for the hereditary principle, but I can give itan example of respect for heredity. I can by that example put a stop to the division existing in the Royal family. Ihave not wished respect for boredity aud submission of Juniors to thoir elders to be forgotten in the Royal family of France. As 11a turn may become the elder, I wish to set an example of respect by Janiore for the elder, white myself a junior. People can vow be assured there will never ba two Royal candidates,—there will never be bat one ata time.’ * Dr. W. H. Vail publishes an article on summer diet, and starts with the following argu- me “God, in His providence, bas stocked the regions with the seal, the whale, ang the all the personldcation of fat and oll—whUe tation is comparatively unknown On the other band, as you spprosch the tropics, oranges, bananss, lemons, and ell our luscious fruits groet you ou evory hand, and vegetation runs wild. ‘This dispoaltion of providence teaches us—what Our appetites coufrm—thst In cold weather our diet should consist malaly of olly substances, or such food as ts converted into fat by the process of digestion; while In the summer we should select such articles of dict as are not convertible into jac. Dr, Vail agds that veyetation, the ediola ete of which ripen underground, such as pots- 8, carrots, sod parenips, aro heat-producing, while thoeo that ripen above ground are cooling. ‘The latter, locluding eapecially asparagus. lettuce, peas, bysns, tomatoes, corn, and all frults, should be freely eaten, Mest should uot be caten oftence than twice o day, aud lean (s preferable. Ho pase teularly recommends tomatocs,