Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 3, 1877, Page 4

4 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, '877.4 a a eT The Tribune. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. RY MAIL—IN ADVANCE—POSTAGE PREPAID, Datty Fe i Ze 0 1.00 ‘Trt-Weekly, one year. Tarte of 8 year. per tn Wr EDI ‘One copy, per year, 1:23 en. ALO twei + 20.00 Brectmen enptes vent 1 Toyrevent a ht ire and give Post Othee adsress f ty. and Cannty. way hee by dealt, express, rin registered letters, st our risk, SCIIBERS, EM elivered. Sunday excepte “ivered, Sunvay include: THE TRING , rat ton, - iyie tart. teftia the counting-room Ive prompt attention. “AM Tooley’s Thentre. ndolph rtrect, between Clark and Lasalle. Rae Gf the Unton-Square Company. ‘Lea Dan> Measre. Janes, O'Nell, Stoddart, ete: Mess y Morant, Sern Jewett, Katharine Rog> dames cry, etc. Adeipht Theatre. Monroe mrret, corner of Tearhorn, Haverty's Minstrels, Add Ryman, Biiy Rice, Billy Carter, ete, Exposition Butlding. Lake Shore, font of Adams atreet, Sutmer-Nlebt. Festival by the Thomas Orcneatra. The Tabernncle. or street, betwren Market and Franklin, Lee> the Kev, Joseph Cuok, Subject: * Uitimate 0. 93, A. F. and A. M.—Hall, We Conmunieation this (Friday) wk, for boanes and work, — ¥ womcet with us 0 Init anier of the RIDAY, AUGUST 3, 1877, CHICAGO MARKET SUMMARY, ‘hicauu produce markets were active yes: provifuns were femer. while grain 7k closed 1c per brl higher, ¢ for Augast afd S1.n0@ . Lard crored Se per 100 HAW) for August aud $9.00 atember, Meats were steady, at ne Joo-e shoulders ant O%¢ for do xhort tlve and cueier, nt 3@ Iighwines were un- alton. Flour was duit. for August and and 515¢ bigher, ae Cattio wore in falr sales were at $2,.25@0,25, -OEA.25 for common to hundred dollars In gold would ‘eonbacks at the close, eens were me Greoubacks at the Now York Stock Ex- change yosterday closed at 911, 4 git) without move: were lugged, convicted nud sel, were these fomule silk-weavers of —_—_— ‘Loledo took mattcra in hand and reduced acr mob without delay or much feeling. The solid citizens armed themsalven, formed in xeatterod tho rioters in att direction ‘The road was cleared and trains wre running withcut interforcuce, A Now York dispatch announcos tho melan- choly nows that Wrintax B. Oorae, fornerly of ¢ co. is dying ef Dright’: disease at his home in Ifiga Wridge, N.Y, lis phyai- ciara pronennee the ens beyoud the pos. elbility of remodial treatment, end say that Mr, Ocpen cannot porsibly live twenty-four hours, aud may dis nt any moment, re At tho timo of tho evacuation of Rich- mond by tho Confederates, ccstain State ofl- cinls divide! the cantenta of tho ‘Treasury, OX) in gold, Judgo Hvaurs, of cal States Cirenit Court, has decided that the money belonged to tho National Government, snd that tha avaricious oflicialy inust shell out. rns Ju the tnmult created by the riot the lec- ture to have been delivered by the Rey. Jo- fern Coor lent week was postponed until to-night, when it will be given at tho ‘Taber. uncle, ‘ha lecture ts a religio-political ef- foxt, ene its subject “ Ultinate America.” Mr, Coon hns won a national ruputation for his ability, und is ono of tho most interesting lecturers now before the country, ——— ‘The K damazso exeursionists on their way to thy Tosa coucert in Chicayo wero halt od at Elishart by tho strizurs, and, after 9 delay of three-quarters of an hour, concluded So they affected pathy for the obstructionists, and cheered then into olowing the train to Preced—uot that they loved the railroad company less, but ‘I'uostas more, rere usp uy Vor check and rnpacity the average rail- road compauy is eutitted to euporlative dis. tinction, Cluims for compeusntion have wlready been filed in Washington for the transportation of Federal troops whose pres ence at the scunes of mob violence alone pre. vented the total destruction of the property of the companies who put jn the clatius, ‘There's gratitude und approciation for you } nese Down in tho conl mlues of Braidwood there was won picket-firiug botween an outpost of a Jolict militia company and tho qainers, ond thirty-five shots were exchanged. A correspondent says the rioters bear the soldiers no ill-will, from which we infer that the shooting was in the friendliest spirit,and i hhad death resulted from the fusilado, it woull have been looked upon a4 a social eves gratifying to all tho participants, Justice Busnsenviery held seventeon riot. ets to bail in 93500 and eight in $1,000, yea. terday, und Justice Monnison put one under $00 bends,—all to await the action of the Grad Jury. ‘That body has now enough before it to take immediate action, and should proceed at once to eithor find bills or dinchurye the gecused if there be uo evi- detice ugainst them, Chicago is anxious’ to koow what the fate of s rioter is to be, and is in no wood for temporizing in a matter in which it is bo much in tes ‘ ‘There iy no better reading nowadays than due brief but expressive messayes which tha farmens send over the telegraph wires for publication iu ‘Tux ‘fniwuxe. ‘Those which are given this moruing tell a gorgeous story of the harvest in Tilinois, From nearly every county in the Btate the report is the suine—winter wheat threshing out a heay yield of bushels to tho acre, and the grat pluwp and fino that it runs from sixty éiaty-tive pounds to the bushel; barley safely thrushed, and the “one in every way; oats 7 and ruvning up to fifty and the cere; corn wonderfully to thy ulmost uupurulic’ able weather, » Upto fe aud, yield a big aover better, sixty bushels to spears thanks +. -kod etretch of favor. and «ly to tam out fairly after all. This for Illinois, while from other Western States the aamo good report, The year 1877 promises to be n memorable one in the crop annals of tho great grain-producing Btates. Pennsylvania has not yet been able to freo horself of her mob. ‘The Wyoming coal region is a military camp, and all trains aro loaded down with bayonets and Gatling guns, Tho Governor is flying aronnd with 5,000 or 6,000 troops tut his back, but the rioters aro snvage as over, and trains, well defended as they are, ararun with difficulty. There is every prosysect of a bloody row before busi- ness resumen its oven course, for the atrikera are firm in their intention to stop all traffic until their demands are complied with. Our special cable dispatch gives fresh details of the furious fight between Plevna and Lofts:ha, confirming the account in yesterday's Tninuxz of the terriblo do- feat sustained by the Russian forces, Reports that are scarcely credible, though coming from respectable sources, are received of a raversal by the Russians of this heavy disaster, It is snid that on Wednes- day last Oswan Pasha's army was ronteil, and Plevna occupied by the Russians. This will bear confirmation bafore too implicitly believed. Two mombers of the Firat Regiment have reporter] to Col. Sizner that they have been discharged by thoir: employers, two promi- nent flzms in this city, because they wont with the regiment when’ ordered out to suppross tho insurrection, It fs hoped that some other canso can bo assigned for the discharge of these young men, for it is alin¢st incredible thnt merchants should rere nt tho action of their employes in volun- teeving to assist in paving the town, includ- inj their own proporty, from the ravages of oreckless mob. Pires, one of tho rascals charged with ont- maging a young Indy last spring, has been convicted and sontonced to ten years in the Penitent mary. His partner in the crimo was sent dawn for five years, and o soolety in ridden of-n pair of beasts for some time to come, It: is to be hoped this will be a whole- some lesson to that class of vicions youth who have no tesprct for womanhood, and -who trend indiscriminately upon the most sacred rights of woman, A few more such examples might bo well made, and it is to be hoped thet overy villain who wonld imitate * these two rnflians will sharo their fate. ee Tho Misissippi Bourbons, serenely uncon- acious of tho big queations that are disturb- ing tho irfelligent portion of the American people, calinly content themselves with o platform in which State’s-Righta and unb- sidy-gra'sa oro the salient features, Not o word appears in their platforia about the eurroncy issue that must bo. settled among the first that engege tho attention of tho Forty-fif th Congress; not an allusion to tho all-impo: tant Inbor qnestion. Tost Scorr’s ‘Toxas Piacifie job geta vn big lift, and the res. toration at public oxponsy of levees which private rhiftlessuess has allowed to get out of repair is not forgotten. A Wall street opurator punched the head of: Jay (iounn for decaiving him ina stock speculation, ‘The oporalor did not stop to reflect tbat it was perfectly natural to Mr. Goutp co swindle his most intimato friends, and to thrash such aman for following ont his instincts is oa good doal liko beating a dog for defending his bore, It has been through auch sehomes that Mr. Gourn has acquired his money and his strength on 'Change, and it is doubtful if a dozen lckings a day would break tho little chap of his habit of drawing his personal friends into operations in order thas ho may gouge them out of their dolinrs, Bill, a round thrashing once in a while don't do him any harm, and it keeps peoplo's hands in for better men, ‘Tho Ohio Republivaus unter the campaign for tho Stato alection in the fall with excel- lent nominations, nsatisfactory platform, and united front, Judge West, who has boen nominated for Governor, is ono of the most ominent lawyers in tho State, and commends the respect and confidence of all mon. Ho has beon Attorney-General of the Btate, o Judge'of the Supreme Court, und member of tho Inst Constitutional Convention, He is an ablo orator, aud {a in full sympathy with the xontiments of the platform and tho present purposos and aims of the Ropublican party iu uational affairs, Mr, Vouezen, tho candidate for Lioutenaut-Governor, fs a Ger- man lawyer of Cincinnati, and the remainder of tho tickot seoms to have beon judiciously selected to the sutisfaction of tho, eutire State, ‘Tho most conspicuous feature of the plat- form is tho hearty audemphatio approval of tho course Presidoot Hares bas taken, It wos uot morely n gouornl exprassion of con- filonce, but bis policy of pacification at the South and his efforts to reform the Civil Service were specifically approved. This po- sition was fairly foreshadowed by Gen. Guoavenor in tho speech be made when call- ed to the chair, Ho spoke cloquently of the Adinjuistration as having, within tive months, audin spite of the howling and uunthema of its cuemies, and the doubt, fears, and hesita- tion of many of its adherents, re-catablished political peace und public confidence through- out the Sonthern Stntes. ‘This and “kindred sentiinents were enthusiastically received, ‘They undunbtedly embody the views of nine ty out of every one hundred Mepublicans in Ohio, ‘The laplacubles have rade no head- way in that late, ‘They have uot succeeded du creating dissension of avy magnitude, and ee utterly failed in every effort to organize opposition to the Adiuinistration, ‘Tho Innguage of the platforis and the spirit of the Convention warraut tho belief thy ¢ it iu not wlene tho confidencu in Presidy ,, Hayes! abilily and ivtogrity felt by tho ae zeus of his own State, whe kuow hi” best, but a full rotiauce iu tho wisdouw of pig course, which has inspirod tho w aitiuted ,beartiness of the resolution. Tn regard to natioun). Snarsee | tho plat- form is right os far ag, goes, We gives duo Prowincnce to the + mportanes - of restoring the silver dollar? ng thy bi-uy tullis money which coustitr 1.4 tho legal-¥ sudor currency of the natir from the begin’ wing up to four years 4 4, ‘The uilyer ree olution demands that giver shall be legy'l. tender os well ox gol” || + except where othe wise spucially pro- ¥ ded for by law.” ‘IL3s ¢2 ception would com- prebond mainly tho prive to contracts for gold payment. Such coatricts have been made by certain States and 3 nunicipalities iu bor- rowing funds, and to so wo extent by private corporations aud indiy iduals who huve bor- rowed abroad, who received gold value and agreed to repay in the same. The ex- ecption would uot include, however, any of the United Stutes bonds, which ere mado payables in cin, not gold. All the vther bonds; and wl thy ducs to the Government, including the customa duties, wonld be payable in silver as woll ns gold. We can understand why the Ohio Conven- tion maintained sitence on the anbject of the Specie-Resumption act, since it is atill a matter of lively discussion among mon of both parties whethor that ‘act shall be con- ditionally or unconditionally repealed, and whether the repeal of tho date of Jan. 1, 1879, shall fix another date, An this will be the main feature of the financial debate at the next session of Congress, it was natural onough to avoid precipitating it upon the Obto campaign; but as the sentiment of the ‘West is practically united on tho subject of silver remonetization, whatever may or may not be dono with the Resumption act, the conspicuous place givon that demand was timely and proper, 'Tho other resolutions of the platform will commend thomselves to tho intelligence and good faith of the country, and nono more than that which opposes any further grants or subsidies from the Government to aid in tho construction of railroads, or that which opposes the ronowal of the patents which have become oppressive upon the people. 'The utterances in regard to tholabor troubles are likely to command attention and fap. proval. THE UNEMPLOYED LABOR IN CITIES. ‘Wo diecnssed some days ngo the fact that there were ovo million of uncmployed labor- ers who were to be found in the towns and cities of the country, Theso people are, 13 a body, without trades or professions, or any personal or educational qualifications filting them for any business save that of what may bocalled rough Inbor, They aro ready and qualified for work at any branch of this kind of labor, from driving a wagon orn horse-car, putting in a load of coal, shovel- ing snow, handling lumber, attending masons, to any other work of that gonoral character, We pointed out that this surplus laboring population was recruited mainly from tho country districts and from immigrants who in thoir own country were employed on forms, Young men born or raised on farms in this country unfortunately find rural life too dull; they yearn for the oxcitoments of city lifo; they prefer the precarious and poorly-paid employments they can pick up in the cities to the steady work and uneventful lifo thoy have in tho country. Tho glare and glitter, the follies, dissipations, and even crimes, of metropolitan life have a fascination for them which is corrupting to society and hastening the country to the radical political vices of the old European communities, Tho immigrant who knows no branch of industry except agricultural labor sottles down in the alrendy overcrowded cities, ewelling the ranks of paupers, and becomes a curse to himself and to society. Of necessity, the surplus laborers of the cities must depend largely upon public charity to escape starva- tion; and yet these people, living in équalid destitution, seeking tho public chanties for the bread and fuel to keep thom from per- ishing, prefor this kind of life to going into tho country, and thoro having homes and comforts, In discussing the remedy for this condition of affairs, which is every day bo- coming worse, we suggested that this surplus lnbor sock tho country, where tho flold for agricultural labor was still unoccupied, Several correspondents havo replied urging that persons in tho city cannot got to the country; that they cannot find Isbor; that a man may travel for weeks through tho rural districts and foil to got employment. ‘The general objection is thus siated by a writer in yesterday's Tripunz: Tt requires aome hundreds of dollara for a man to take with him when be goca fora farmer, Mo mast | have the land; or. aupposing he don't have the Jand, he muat have « team, and imptoments, ‘and a. crop don't epring out of the ground at a nod, Me Joust bave some means to live on while that crop te ‘Velng put Into tho carth and while it le growing and being harverted, and eo I really don't see how oer, of us poor wretches, without any money or rid. relatives, would be much batter off if there were several more great Statoe In the Weut walting to be wcttled, ‘Shut ts, anleva therols a barean sop 10+ where that wo dun't kuow anything about for the purpose of luaulng us money to get started on. ‘This i¢ a merw pretext, ‘Tho truth is, Ehnt if there wero ono-lalf the effort and. auzioty shown to get into the country and get em- ployment that thero is to got from tho country into the cities, thero to slrugeto for bread, thero would be no troublo in tho mat. tor. Thore is a deop-rooted how'ility in thy minds of these people to living at work fn the country. They prefer tho woml-paupt.r- inm of city life to regular da‘ity labor away from the excitomonts, intemyseranco, polit ics, and social vices of citios. ‘ho writer we hive quoted, who represon'a that hois wiem- ployed and is willing to work, and who would gladly take any Jo’p, says that he, can- uot go into the country unless he hay somo “hundreds of dollars” ; Le must algo have “a team,” and impliments, aud ind; ho must havo moncy to Jive on while hi ¢ crop is growing; and until somebody ndv ances ail these he can't go ‘nto the country, How does he live in the city? Did ho have tho luundrods of dollars, or the honse to live in, and money to support him whilo waiting for Dusinces? Wo supposo that when he came to tho clty, ho took tho first job he could get, and has been suy,porting Liv self in tke manner over alny,, Why -caraot ho do the vame thing in the country? Not owning o furm himsolf,-why cannot he work for an- othor man wh 19 hag a farm? Why caunot ho do as onc-ly J¢ or moro of the farmers of the West have dono before iim,- -work at wages, workiug jonoutly, and savitag hin cumnings until he | jas the money to bry lund, and con- tinuin ¢ to work at wages, until he bas his how 3, and his team, and his cow'to begin life with? Theres are in Wisconsin, Iowa, OP YQ Minnesota, now, thowsinds of men who ‘aru prosperous farmers, who earned tho money with which they bought their land, and built their Lomes, and feuced and stocked their farms, by working on other people's farms and saving thuir mnonoy, ‘hey did not spand their monoy in saloons, nor in frolicking, nog in dissipation, nor in attending meetings, nor in joining clubs, nor in associaticn with demagogues or Co:n- munists, They vindicated the dignity, aud freedom, and independency of labor by working hard aral saving their wages, ‘She country «fers work not ouly to singlo mon, but especially to families, If there bo an honest, earnest purpose, and a sincere effort made to leave the city aud its squalid poverty to live in the country and to earn livings by iard tabor, there will be uo mors trouble to reach the country than there is to lense the conntry avd reach tho city, Tho man withafamily who is living in the city, out of employment, knowing no trade, dependent on o day's or an hour's labor at intervals, for the foud to keep life,-- whoge children are surrounded by all tho temptations, which are doubly strong because of the want which oppreswes them,—can bard. ly demand to bo presented with a well. stocked farm and sume toney as 0 cousider- ation for leaving the city und finding o homo aud comfortublu living, und continuous wages for hiuoself und fumily, Work is es sential everywhere. Lf tho starving or des- titnte of the city ars willing to work, and work hard, in the ci.y, they can do the same elsowhere. No mea who is not willing to earn all the brewi and all tho property he can’ gather will do any better in tho country than he will in the city. The country is not tho place for idleness, and the great curse of city life is that it tends to enltivate tho idloness of panperism. Thes-e is an impression that the elty must feod and take caro of all, and at the bottom of thie objections to going into the country to work is this impression that the city mnat support all those who are in’ want. Panperism is the firat principle of Commnnism, There arein neraly all the States west at Tihnois—in Minnesota, Nobraska, Kansnzs, Towa, Missouri, Arkansas, and in Lonisiana— organizations, several of them under Stale officers, to induce and aid men, nnd erpe- cially families, to move to those States, to cc- eupy lauds, to labor at wages on farmea, wad to becomo permanent residents, Thouanrids havo been induced to move thero, and have prospered, bnt sppenls to the unemployed Inborera of tho large cities have fallon unheeded on the carsof*the multitu de. Agents have beon sent to Europe, and pec iplo thore have wisely listened, nud havo fo und prosperons homes in all these States. All these agencies nre prepared to welcoms: all the laborers and all their families who will give assurance of bona fide intention to work when they got there; transportation, wid all the aid necessary toenable men tohelp thom- selves, can be had if there boan carnes! offort ‘mado to abandon tho city and take 'uomes, and work hard for an honest, peacef nl, vir- tnous living. It will notdo to wars foro present of an already well-stocko 1 farm. Seok the country, go to work. be a¢ ber and industrious, aud tho other thi:ags wiu follow as a matter of course. THE KUSSIAN DISS STER, Close upon the serious diunstert: to the Russian arms in Asia comer tho nt ws of a crushing defeat in Europe, which ha 3 appar- ently ended ina rout. ‘The Russiam |, beaten in s two days’ battle at Ployna, have not only bean compolled.to rotiro, but have been driven fairly over the Datiube into Ro umnnia, —so that their plaus for ‘the prosent a unpaign havo been thrown into ‘cho utmostco nfusion. ‘Tho reporta of tho two dnayn’ Uattles at Plevna nro conflicting in many of their do- tails, especially as to tho numbers engaged and the extent of tho loss, but they all ngroe in tho essential point of a decided Turkish victory. As far back aa the 19th of July, the Ninth Corps of the Russians was attacked in tho vicinity of Plovns ‘by Osaan Pasa, ond 80 severcly handled tint it hnd, to fall back and nwait reinforcymonts, Tho Eleventh Corps was sent to its reliof fron: Feastchnk, and, after making r, long forced naarah, offect- ed o junction, tio small forco which had been garrisoning Nikopolis also joining thom, its placo having been filled by a contingent from tho Fioumaninn army. It waa over 6 week ‘beforo tho army could resume tho offonsive. Marching sor:thward again, it ens sountorod Ossian Pasuta's Yorcos, 60,000 ‘strong, securely intronched near Plovna, th Russians numboring 60,009. Tho battle co’ n»menced July 80 with a terri ble ar- tillery d ael, in which the Russias, b sing in the of.en ficld, suffered sevorely. Undor covere.f their artillory, tho infantry atta mpted to s!orm tho intrenchments, but without suco 2a, and at nightfall tho Turks hol(l their ‘pow’ ition, having recovered some of thoir out- weirks from which they had been torced, Tho noxt day tho Russians remmnod tho at- tack, but, althongh they fought with the ut- most desperation and porformed prodigics of valor, they wero defcatod in a hand-to-hand ongagement and compelled to retreat with a loas, according to Osman Pasna’s bulletins, of 8,000 killed and 16,000 wounded, besides o heavy lossin war material, ‘Cho MRussians have fallen back to Sistova in disorder, and it is roported aro pouring back into Koutmania, while the ‘Turks bold their position awaiting reinforcements, At last accounts, the Ron- inanians wore ordorod across the Danube, but thoy will add nothing of consequence to tho Russian strength. Had tho Torks bocn power. ful cnough to have followed up their advan- tage,they might have crushod tho Russiar right wing, and perbaps ouded the campaign for this summer, It never rains but it pours. On tho samo day of tho defoat of the Hus- tlans north of the Balkaus, the Russians south attacked Raour Paswa, and after sevon houra’ fighting captured Hski-Saghra, but Sungnean Pasa, coming up with a froeh forco, defeated tho Inssians with heavy lous aud recaptured tho place, Tho crushing do- feat in Bulgaria will uow more than over jeopardize the smal Russinn forcoin Roumo- Na, as thoy aro hommod in by two powerfal ‘Turkiab armies, which may cut off their sup- plics and retreat, It is nota cheering out- look for Rusalan success thia summer, In soarching for tho causos of this surpris- ing sories of defoata, 1t seems na if tho Itns- aians had mode tho same mistake in underes- timating tho numbers and atrength of tho ‘Turks that the North mado in the first two years of the War with the Southern Confed- orucy. ‘The North did not achievo decided successes until it realized the actual strength and fighting quality of the South, and Mr. Tancotn callod out ‘the 600,000 amore,” who overcame the Southern forces by overwhelming weight of numbers. ‘Tho TGusalans havo all aloug affected to despise the Turks and their ability to fight, and havo tliuposod thoir forves an if they expected that the ‘Lurks would not dare to meet thon in the opon feld, but would gradually fall back (0 Constantinople, where. they could be at- tacked cn mast, The slatomont made somo time since by the Tondou 7¥nws, that tho actual force of tho Russians in the vivinity of the Danube only uumbured about 200,000 mon, is undoubtedly correct. ‘Thia force, which would have been powerfulin coucentra- tion, has been weakenod by coustant division, ‘There ix one wmall force in the Dobrudscha, auother at Rustchuk, anothor in the vicinity of Widdin, another south of tho Balkans, aud tho lust was {iu the neighborhood of Plevon until it was ‘dispersed the other day by the victorious Turks, ‘I'he lat- ter have also boon compelled to divide their forces to observe tho Russian divisions, but in overy caso they have met them man for man, and have had the additional advantage of fighting on the defensive, some of their divisions holding almost impregnable fort- reases and the othors fighting behind strong iutroncbmonts, armed with the very finest Auerican long-range rifles, and their works protected by heavy Kropp guns. Events have shown that tha Tarkish suldiers are as desporate fyhters as the Russian ; that they aro just ox well if not better armed; that thoy are Ied by experienced German and Hungarian officers in many instances; snd that thoy have English military men for ad- visors. Under such circumstances, it seems almost incomprebunsible that thy Rossisos have not attacked with supurior force if thoy have it, We Lavo all along boon informed thas they have over half a million men wnder arms, but whera are they, and what are they doing? At the present time, the Tarka have halfa million men opposed to 200,000, a large part of whom, of course, are engaged in holding the Quadrilateral, bnt it will not require many moro auch victories to release them and cut off the Russians {n detail. The only hope for, Russia now is in speedy reinforcements, These she has. In tho number of men and in the resources of the country sho is superior to Turkey, but if they are utilized in driblets she will meet with certain defeat. Hor only solvation is to go into Turkey, as Germany went into France, with overwhelming numbors, wf with a force so large that defeat in do! will be impossible, A NATIONAL SY8TEM OF ARBITRATION. The rocent troubles on the railronds thronghout the country suggested to the Ohio State Convention the necessity, which Tux Tnipune his insisted upon, that tho National Government shall provide for tho protection of the roads as public highways and that some method be enacted for rottling differences between the companies and their employes without endangering the obstruc- tion of the regular traffic, and the inevitable blockade of commerce which grows out of it. ‘The recommendations made by the Ohio platform are ns follows: 1, That Congress establish a nations) Bureau of Iniluatry, 2. That Congrexa exert {ts nathority over all nae tional highways of trade, by prescribing and enforc- ing such reavonable regulations aa will tend to promote safety of travel, accure fair returns for capital Invested, and fair wages to emploves, pro- venting mismanagement, Jmproper discrimination, end the aggrandizement of officials nt the expense of stockholders, shippers, and employes, 3. That provision be made for atatatory arbitra- tions between employers and employer, to adjust controversies, reconcile Interests, and ‘eatadllah Justice and equity between therm. These recommendations will serve na A basia for the Congressional consideration which the subject demands, Whether or not thero should be # separate Bureau of Industry will depend upon tho oxtont to which Congress shall undertake to regulate the relations between the railways and thoir omployes. The disposition ought tg be to interfere no further than the safoty nod prosperity of inter-Stato commerce roquiro, and the establishment of a new Bureau should be avoided if possible, Tho first osscntial is that the railroads should have full protection under the un tional laws against violent obstraction by any class of men. ‘Tho laws of the differont States ore not adequate to this purpose, sinco almost evory railroad lics partly within the boundaries of two or mora States, and thero fg no way to assure a harmony of legislation. It has also beon demonstrated that the State authoritics acting singly are not strong enough to prevent such ob- struction, During the late disturbances four of the- States had to appeal to the Gonoral Government by formal application to the Presidont, and the United States Conrta used tho authority of the Goneral Governmont in those cases whore tho railronds ‘wero undor thoir chargo, ‘The powgr of the Govern- ment to interforo immoiiately and directly when inter-State highways aro obstructed needs to be moro clearly defined by atat- ute, inorder to avold tho delay and loss which ocour before there is such a condition of domestic violence o8 warrants an appeal “by tha Governors of tho States under the terme of tho Constitution. But it will not be sufficient to provide a statatory mothod for tho Governmont intor- ferenco to remove obstructiona, for this alone would not provent o recurrenco of concerted efforts to obstract tho railroads in ordor to bring thom to terms, The surest moons for yolding future attempts ot ao railroad blockade is to remove tho tempta- tion und opportunity. This can ouly bo done by a national syatem of arbitration, which shell apply in case of s goneral ro- duction of wages by the ronda or a goneral domand for an increase on the part of the employes, In both cases fair notico should ‘bo givon, and time allowed for tha acceptance orrejection of the terms by the parties to whom the notice is served, In tho event of ‘non-agreoment, the merits of the caso may be submitted for review to a jury, whose char- acter whall be defined by statute, and under the jurisdiction of the United States Courts, binding both tho companiesand the employes to tho result. Such a syatom will be of ovon greater advantage to the omployos, os a class, than the railroads, for, in cuse the decision is against the railrond, it will havo no ro- course but to submit, while tho individual right to quit work and seck othor omploy- ment will remain to every employe if ho is still discontented. But tho railroad’s ad- vautago will consist in thoabsolute assurance against tho interraption of ita business and the Gonernl Government's direct protection of its property, THE 3.65 INTERCHANGEABLE BOND, Tho Hrening Post don't like the Ohio Ke- publican platforn on tho curroney quostion, but modestly prescribes a nostrum of its own, which reads: Resolved, That we favor the immediate remone- Uzation of the silver duilar, demonatized by act of Congress in 1873, and its unlimited free coinage; that gold, tho sllverdollar aforesaid, and an Inter- convertivie bond, principal and interest payable In coin, and beuring intorest atthe rate of 3,05 per cent por annuin, be used at the optton of the Gov- ernment alter Jan, 1, 1870, to redeam tho grecne Uack circulation, when presented for redemntion; Chat gold, the ollver dollar sforceald, and tho Brecpback, be a full legal tondee for the payment of all debts, customs included, oxcept.when other- wise expressly provided by law. ‘Tho Poat pratacs Its baby as follows: On that platform the Republicans of Ohio could sweep the State, It would satiety every faire minded Resumptionist aud overy reasonable Green- back man. It would give tho country a currency with a bottom to it, aud capable of auy necessary expausion,—self-reguiating Jn this, that when inoney Wee worta more than the 3.05 miniinum tt would flow out of tho Treasury by the return of bonds for greenbacks; when It could not be uscd at & rate better than 3.G81t would flow In and the bonds would come out, Tho Evening Post is young and small; let its larger and older confrore post it up better on the bookkeopiag of the currency question, In the first plave, the Ohio De. mocrsey have previously offered the 3.65 in- terchaugeablu-greenback-bond plan to the people of the Buckeye Stato on several occa- sions, but they would nottouch it, Ohl Binz, Autxn, Youug Tou Ewimu, Gontleman Gxoncx Penpixton, Wasu MecLyan, and other Democratic ‘* war-horses,” have press- ed the schome on tha people with all thoir power, bat it was “no go.” At tho late Oblo Domocratic Convention the 3.05 re-ex- changeable-boud proposition was incunti- nently discarded. At the coming clection in Qhio neither party will have anything to do with it, and it is dropped by common consent. . Nearly all of the original advocates capa- ble of reflection have discarded the scheme asimpracticable. ‘The lato Groenback Con- vention of ‘Iowa rejected it altogothor, and would not allow it to be mentioned in their platform. Some of the reasons which have caused thinking men who formerly advocated now to oppose it may bo briefly stated: If the Government were to offor a 8.65 inter- changeable coin bond for groonbacks, the holders would convert thom into bonds as fast as tho 'Troasury clerks could issue them. Thero would be a universal rush for those bonds, hoy would pass from land to hand as currency in purchases and payments, It would be against everybody's interest to re- convert their 3.65 coin bonds into groon. backs, because hy so doing they would loss at tho rato of $3.65 of coin intorest on every $100 Lond. No ove wonld refuse to receive them in pny- mont of debts any more than people now refusa to accept bank-notes, They would be takon in paymont of everything. Those having bank-notos would prosent them to the banks for redemption in order to got greenbacks, which would be exchanged for the 3.65 bonds, The bank circulation would thus be quickly swopt out of existence, and the currency wonld bo contracted by $315,- 000,000 to start with. As the bonds, for all practical purposes, world be ftegal-tendora, the 360,000,000 of greenbacks would be in an astonishingly short time changed into bonds, Thus onr prosent paper currency of {$675,000,000 would disappoar in a few months, but reappear in the form of $360,- 000,000 of bonds. Calling tho Intter cur- rency, thore would be a contraction of $315,- 000,000 of notes xo fast as to make a Greon- backer’s head swim. The only way to re. Neve this contraction wonld ba to issue groenbacks to the amount of the bank-notes; these in turn would flow into the interest- bearing-bond ourrency. ‘Chen we would have, say, 700,000,000 of 3.653, costing the Governmout about $25,550,000 o year—over $2,000,000 a month—to pay coin intercst thereon, This $25,550,000 of interest wonld consti. tute tho suction power which would draw out the 3.65 bonds, and koep them in tho hands of the banks and the public. Beiug 25,000,000 heavicr than greenbacks, tho bonds would tip tho beam. Tho Post's crudo notion is, that tho intorchangonble bond would operate like a cliuld’s teoter or soe-aaw. So it would if tho 9.68 wero no moro valuable than groaubacks; but after they were ono day old thoy would be worth more than their face in greenbacks. by the amount of tho interost: accrued; hence the see-saw would not move up and down; the 3,66 end of the plank would remain on the grouud while the other ond would stay up in tho nir, Tho patent-bond currency would bs vary clumsy and unbandy on account of the daily- changing valuo of each bond by reason of | tho accretions of interest, but they would pass novertheless from hand to hand, aa bank- notes now do, for their face and interost, As there would bo no pecuniary motiv6 for sending them into the Treasury in exchange for groenbacka, but, on tha contrary, a losa of interest, they would crowd outof circulation all the groonbacks, It would not bo possible to kovp out $20,000,000 of notes, If any of the banks or holders of 8.65 bonds converted them into greenbacks, and paid ont tho lat- ter, it would not be threo days before they would all be back in the Treasury, ‘Tho idea that o Governmont or# bank conld mako its notes circulate when it offered to redeem them on domand at a premium of 38,65 per cont per annum—for that is the effect of the schemo—finally struck tho Obio Democracy ond the Iowa Greonbackers a ontirely pro- posterous, and therofore thoy quietly ig- nored thoir former favorite bantling, and lot it die for want of lacteal nourishment, It is adoad baby; the Port can't cuddle it back inte life, Does old man Witnun mean to say that three months ago, before the Mayor's clection, he predicted tho ratlroad riots thut have sweptover the United States? And that ho also foreknew the rloters would break loose in Chicago on Tucaday, or some particular day, and that the Mayor would wot commenca quelling them until the next day! If his squibs have any application, it can only be on the basis that last April ho forcaaw the railroad riots of July, and that Mr, Hat would not give them dnetdntdattle. If he did not foresee and foreknow what was cotnitiz, bis present nasumnptions of superior wisdom arc somewhat ridiculous, << Poor old Mr, Stonzy is awakening at last to arealization of the pusition ho and his paper hold in the community. With aview to getting outof an unremuncrative effort at journalism aud into something that will pay ola Lying, he anxiously inquires: When an editor's opinions are so contemptible in the Judgment of the community where he ree awiaew that the community will not suppost biu, does an adininistration rundter hls opinions respect- able by appointing him to oficor No, Me. Sronsy, there is no office that will make your “opiulons respectable,” but in case of an tncreasu the City Admlolstration migbt put you on the police force. ———— ‘The criticsm of Tus TRinuxs on tho Guber natorial mob sympathizer of Indiana makes his organ howl with pain, The Journal of Indian- apolis quictly remarks: * We roproduce from the Tux Ciicaco Txinone an article on she course of Gov. Wittiaxs, which, acathing an Iti, docs uot exaggerate thu facts. The Jouraul bua not cured to-adsertisn tho misfortune of the Btate iu this roganl, but facta, are atubbor thtuins, wad muy as well be faced, ‘Tis Vatsune’ article was ovidently written vefore the uprising of the people In thie cfty, which has boen foliowed by acouplete dlvpersion of the mot and the opening of all the ave of a Thore isan opportunity now for the Grand Jury to distiugulsh (taclf. Several riuters huvo been bound over, and atlll thero are more tu follow, Prompt and decisive action ou the part of the Grand Jarors is demanded by the public, Tho people are narrowly wateping the course of ollicials in thelr conduct toward the strikers, und any faltering will be heavily yiaited on the head of the offender. 2 aT What a burning ebame itis thata man of Srouzr's prescicuce did uot impart sonie uf his precous furcknowledge to the people of Chi- vago a month or twoio advance of the recent rallroad strikes, Io sceins to have known ft all, but kept the information to himself, — Why did not Witsverstoxxy hove some bowels of compassion ov the Muyor, usd tell him in advance when the raliroad strike would reach Chicago and the mob rage through the streets, so that the Mayor could be amply pre- pared to deal with it? —— as Chicago has now on band a choice stock of Brigadter-Generals, assorted sizes, which (t will lease or sell ou easy terns to Pennsylyaula or Tudiana for efiicieut mob service. Apply at Meadquarters."” a Wl Witaurvatousy have the benigu grace and gooduess to tell the city authorities what day the next railroad strike will reach Chicago, wo they may be getting ready for it? Uc kwus | If Bronur's foresight wus equal to his hind- slgut, he would be 4 very sumurt person. He vould then foresee railroad strikes and how to deal with them. When will the next mobocratic emeute hap- peu in this clty, Mr, Stoner! As you know, out with it, Don't keep people inthe dark. | | It was when that Zines reporter abot his man that the pale air was streaked with blood. | Sroggr, who isa Spiritualist, te also an ac enabled him to foresce the coming of the raf road strike, but why did he hersnctically sea) the Important eeerct In his plous brenst? - eR In his last proclamation the Mayor of Scran- ton (Pa.) characterizes the mob of lawless strikers as “ Jawbreakers.” +e eo PERSONAL, Mr. Ruskin, in the last number of Fors Clacigera, abruptly calle Mr. Goldwin Smith ++, goose," Mr. Henry Morritt, the English artist lately deceaned, had nearly completed a nort of art novel, tobe called ‘Tha Professor," whitch |p # hoped will yet appear, Mr. Aloxander H, Stephoas has written an, articte on the ‘Letters of duntus" forthe next International Rerlew, Me diaputes every clatm te thelr authorship that has over ariecn, M. de Rothschild subscribed 600,000 franoa and M. Dreyfua 200,000 fraucs to the electionces. ing fund of tne Hight Centre in France. This I eatcemed a great victory fo¥ the Ministerial party, In his temperance lecture at London Mr, Doman eal the statistics of America with regard to pauperism and crimfuality proved that seven. cizhthe of both were caused by the use of alcohotig drinks, The Atienaum says Henry James, Jr., has read Balzaca little too much, untll he hae con tracted the tondency to bestow refined dissection and analysis on charactors which are not of suf}. Client intrinsic interest to deaurve such treatment, Gilmore's Band is going to Europe to show the deapote and their trembling subjects what free American Inatitutions can do ‘for-the divinu apiri of music, Seven members of the orzanization are deverters from the British army, and thoy are no- navaling with Sir Edward Thornton for a safe con uct. ® SInco the pnblication of Gol Hamilton new novel scems to prove the slnccrity of her con- viction that *'Ffrat Love fa Hest," the Now York Hecening Post wants to know why she docsu't tilus- trate the axiom by licr own conduct, and turn from her new fancy, politica, to her urst love, litera. ture. They have a convenient way of disposing of obnoxious politicians in France, Whena man in a blouse lately rode through the Rue Montmartre in Paria, waving a tricolor flag Inscribed ** Vivo Napoleon 1V.,"" ** Vive tArmce," ** Tout pour le People," they merely clapped him Into an insane asylum, oud that wae the end of him. Emily Rigl, the actress, has a vilo habit of falnting when she ehonld not. It overcame hers fow days ago when she was bathing, and, though au excellent awimmer, she was near being drowned before anyhody thought of going to her rescue, She did not loo cunaclousness, but all control of ber muscles departed from her. i All tho thirty-six candidatos ‘for tho or ploma of echool-mlstreas have Just been rejected at Folx for inability tosolve the follawing problem: Two persons employed In 9 shop hava different salaries, together amounting to4,400f. per annum, ‘Tho frat spends two-thirds of her salary, and tho second three-fourlhe. ‘Thelr joint savings amount to1,310f, ayear, What ie tho salary of each? Benjamin of London has declared war on the noiversal Yankee nation, denying to all Ameri- cans the sweot boon of buying garincnts of him in Pall Mall. Thia reminds the iorld of itately English Dowager, who, less than a hundred years ago, tried to huve all Americans excluded from the assemblies at Rome on the ground that **those Yankee girls outdanced and outdreased ail the British girls and sposied the balls." Bon Wado, to nso a modern expression, was ‘knocked down and dragged out” Ly bis own party in hisown county. Mr. Howells had himself elected delegate to Cleveland from Ashta- bala County instead of Wade, and then broke the heart of the old man entirely by securing the pass- Age of resolutions of confidence in President Hayes. Benjamin was overcome, ingratitude moro strong than traltors' arma quite vanquished him, and, muMing up his face in 8 ragged old red ban- danua handkerchtef, he wopt and awore long and bitterly, Dr, Holland wrote, inn recent number of Scribner's Monthty, that multitudes of min- Istors are actually trainca fur poupertem, io betleves the mothod of giving ald to theological students fe sure to deatruy thelr independence and mantiness, A correspondent of the Now York Tribune takos exception to this viow of the case, matntalning that Itis no weerse for s theological student to receive ald than it is for a military student at West Point, or a naval student at An- napolis, Ho belleves there are not a dozen of our firat-class mintaters who bave not roceived ald in sone shape during thei studies, and been glad to got it. Lifo is active at Nowport just now. What with polo, the exercises of the Gay Qlub, yachting, bathing, dining, dressing, and dreaming, the fualie Jonables find tholr time pretty. wellaccupled. It {a noticed that Col. Higgiuson—wiluse delightful **Oldgort Days" has won him s just eminence— haa recently been olected a member of tho Yacht Club, Mr, Dancroft, the biatorian, is also there, nd may be aeen datly cantering aver toward the beach or alung thooccan-drive. Ife gave a grand dinner Wodneaday to ex-Sccretary of State Huinll- ton Fish and wife. Mr. Thomas Winans, the Wal- imore millionaire and inventor, has distinguished himself by heading « fieting-party whieh cauxht twenty-alz striped bavs, the total weight of which was 1,002 pounds, Mr, Winans caught the largcat one, which welgbed sixty-two pounds, The cable-dlispatch announcing that Sir Jobn Bennett had been dented a scat among the London Aldermen ay ‘*not a ft person,” was in some measuro antleipated by muil advices indicat+ ing that such actlon was probable, Tho pretest for throwing him ont {fe a charge of corruption ia tho election, Lutthe real reasun $e understood to be his radical views. The London News said some days ago, when tho opposition to Sir Jonn was first prominently defined: **Should sir Joha Bennett ba refused adnilesion to the Court of Aldermen for reasons which aro nut publicly avowod, or, being avowed, ore not found to be satisfactory, tho privl> lege of rejection will be oxercisod by the Court of Alderimon for the last time in hie osee, That ro- form of the corporetion of London which bas often been threatened would be at once brought about.” Dr. Stuart Robinson, of Louisville, waa the most admired of all the Americane at the Pan- Presbyterian Council, Mr, Conway writes of bia In thls ways **Whenover Dr, stuart Hobinsoo risca you can hear a pin fall; then preseutly there fa such an eballition of applauac or such a roar of lJangbter that you can hardly hear what tho speaker Dr, Crosby eald in bis vassy that preachlox ery eolomo bueluess, and his words yrew te almost to favective whun he alluded to preachers who made mirth ju tho pulpit,—suining tlt eburches Into Sunday theatres.- 1 don't know whether his friend, Dz, Stuart Robinson, of Louls ville, preaches the samo way that he apeaks; if 0 docs, Crowby should sve after him, for though he is et times highly poetical, —evon thriljing,—he tv ot other tines droll and grotesque, But, whether bur moqous or impressive, Dr. Robinson 1s ualformly one thing,—a Presbyterian, One uf the Edlnburg papers speaks of himas tho ' ¢rucst of truc Liacs."” At Fort Lincoln, D, T., a short time ago when the Soventh United States Cavalry were of dered to go Into camp, Gon. Sturgis pi Company Ea guidoa in memory of bil Coneral’s cys Giled with tours os ho made the pree seatatlon-specch, The Uencral's wife, twodaugh- tera, and a young eon wore witnesscs of the cores mony. Lieut, C, C, DeRudlo, receiving the guldun in behalf of the company, suid: ‘Deer General: [ thank you and Mrw. Sturgis fo tho name of wy company, Tuis guidun will guide them 204 wyself to rovenye the bloud of your sou, and J 4° eure you that nobody whall capture i¢ while a 3a “of my command lives, for we eball defend it with the lastdrop of our blood." During this scene Mrs. Sturgis was In tears, and the sizbt of this i- Cereating family, all dressed !u imouroing for tbe Jost eon, cavecd many & good soldicr's eye @ auolsten. From exclusive sources wo have just ob ta'bed possession of material for a romance a thr se volumes, which Is hereby given to tho worl witout money and witbout pricc, Character Cyrv uC. Huskins, twice a widower; Mes. Brooks twice a widow; Mrs. Lizzie Spaulding, once # widow ; Mrs. Spaulding’s slater, matriaontal pro” clivities unkoown. ‘Time—The preaent. Scene” Lowville, Mr. Hoskins fally in love with Mes Brooks, who sparne bln; Mre. Spaulding falls 1a Jove wath Mz, Rosking, whu epurns bor; Mi Brooks persuades Mr. Woskins to marry re Spauicisg, and in return for ber fnduency recelves a bribe of $400 snd alot; Mra. Spaulding’y slate enters walt fur recovery of the property; aes Brooks lacerates tha face of Mrs, Spaulding’s sls! and pulls out large Quantities of back-bairs whi for assault and Lattery lu tho police court. 4 will dg for thrce volumes, ond a seauel will complished clairvoyant, aud it is this gilt thas 1 forthcoming in due season.