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

* concealed weapons without # special per- Gye Gribune. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. to bear wespons in their own protection, and tho resnlt is a community fonded down with dangerous implementa of warfare, frequent collisions, and an untamable disposition to tragedy nnd crime, Disarm tho thioves and loafers, and the obligation under which rospectabla people reat | will be removed, a great burden will be rnised from off the criminal courts, and » more nettled condition of affairs will mark society. ‘The ordinance should provide » heavy pen- alty for disobedience of its provisions, and should be enforced to tho letter. It is time this indiscriminate blazing aronnd were stopped, and it can only be done by the pnn- ishment of every man carrying an unlicensed firearm, ‘The voice of the Jaw has called a halt in the movement to donble the police force and borrow tha mony to pay the now men until the annual appropriation comes round. Yielding to no one in admiring appreciation of the gallant behavior of the police in the trying times of Inst week, Taz Tainune ot tho inception of the project for a heavy in- erease pointed out the fact that the charter expresaly forbade the borrowing of money in anticipation of the tax-levy and Approprin- tion ordinance, The Committes on Police have found this view to be correct, and now recommend that no addition be mado until the necessary moans can either be supplied in a lawful manner or else furniahed by vol- untary contribution. cb aear, perm WPEKLY EDITION, POSTPALD. One copy. p (lub of ten Clobet twe Erccimen copies sent tree. ‘Lo prevent detay and mistakes, be enre and give Post- Onice aditress {0 fail, Including State Anil County, Kemitisncen may be made efther by draft, express, Fost-Office order, or in registered letters, at our risk, TRRMS TO CITY SUNSCRINERS. Daily, delivered, Sunday excepted, 25 centa per week. Dally, delivered, Euniay tncluded, 90 centa per week. Address THE TRINUNE COMPANY, Corner Madfson and Dearborn-ate.. Chleago, Mt. Orders for the dellveryof The Trintwe at Evantton. Engleweod, and Hyde Park teft tn the counting-room ‘will recelve prompt attention. AM Hoolcy's Thentre. Randolph street, between Clark and LaSalle. En- gacement of the Unton-Square Compsny. "Lea Dan- Scheffe," Measts. James, O'Netl, Btoddart, etc.t Mess damen Fanny Morant, Gara Jewett, Katharine Mog: ers, etc, Afternoon and evening, Adeipht Theatre, Monroe street, corner of Dearborn, Taverly'a Minstrele. Add Tyman, Dilly Nice, Billy Carter, ete. . Afternoon and evening. Exponttion Building. Lake Shore, foot of Adams street. Snmmer-Niebt Festival by the Thomas Orchestra, Afternoon aud ———SSS evening. Contributions are coming in slowly in aid = of the Flosting Hospital, a charity that bet- ter doserves the attention of genorous citi- zons than many a well-supported establish. mont claiming Good Samaritanship for its object. This is the Jast and most trying month of the scason. Only $700 are need- ed to carry the enterprise through uutil tho ist of September, and hundreds of babies plead dumbly for the support of the only method yet deviaod for farnishing them with fresh alr during the honted days of August. A visit to the ship will teach any who aro interested as to tho oxtent of its atillty, and it is to be hoped that people with moncy to spare will investigate, and, having satisfied themselvos, contribute to- wards sustaining its object. . SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, 1877, CHICAGO MARKET SUMMARY, ‘The Chicazo prodare markets were leasaclive yes- terday, but grain was firmer, Meas pork closed. at $1:5,47146019.50 for Angust and $12. 55@ for September, Lard cioeed eaay, at $8.00 for Angnst and $i.00 for September. Meats were rteady, ate pert for loose shoulders and 7c for do short ribs. Lake freighta ‘were active and firm, at3@Ac for corn to Buffalo, Highwines wero unchanged, at $1.08 per gallon. Flour swas tame, with morodoing. Wheat closed Jchizher, st$1. 1154 for August and $1.013 for September. Cornclored AGC higher, at47%4c for Augnetand 40%¢ for eptember. Oats closed a shade better, at 203¢ for August and 253¢ for September, Rye closed firm, at haige cash, Barley closod at O73¢ for new No. % seller September. Hoga wese firm and se higher for light and prime heavy. Sates were at $4.00@5,50, Cattle wero in falr demand We aro not surprised to Jearn that Judgo Dnusmonp took occasion to give the Mayor of Indianapolis a severo Iecturo on account of the pusillanimons trifling with the mob, for which the officials of that city are ro- sponsible, Thera was no other point at which the strikers assumed and exercised such absolute authority. It was there that the stoppage of tho passenger trains was first made. If there was vo rioting and bloodshed, ns there was in other cities, it is simply because no opposition was offered to anything the strikers assumed to dictate. We only regrot that Judge Davsrwoxp did not havo the same opportnnity for repri- manding the Governor of Indiana as well na the Mayor of Indianapolis, who appeared na n witness ; we have no doubt ho wonld have handled old ‘ Blue Jenna” without gloves, if the latter had also come within the reach of his judicial voice, : 4.50. One hundred doltars in gold 4 in grcenbacks atthe close. Greonbacks al the chango yesterday closed at 917. ‘Tho Rev. Joseru Coox says that when the Mississippi Valley is to be bridged, onc abut- ment will rest in Chicago and the other on Gon Almighty.—a rather sovere roflection on St. Louis, who planted one of her abut. ments on tho Illinois shoro and the other on the d—1. tho early death of tho Hon. Winzust B. QapeN proved too true, and hia death is an- nounced in our columns this morning, to- gether with an interesting skotch of tho.life and character of the docoased. Chicagd has especial reason to mourn tho loss of a man so closely identificd with her progroes and Prosperity. Misfortunes never como singly. There hove certainly beon troubles enough within tho Inst fow days to recall the truth of the saying without tho frightful accident that occurred yesterday by the burning of a cigar box factory in Cincinnati, A largo number of working girla were omployed there, and roveral burned to doath, while others were so badly injured that there aro small hopes of recovery. Tho women and girls were working in the upper stories, and na tho fire is anid to have originated jn tho collar, it would appear as though somebody wero to blame for the failura to give them sufficient warning in broad day- light to enablo them to escape, It is probable that the Joss of life was owing to an effort to extinguish tho flames withont the aid of the Fire Department, and that, in thia way, tho fire gained such headway as to eut off the employes in the upper stories from tho natural avenue of escape, The firat duty in case of fire is tho saving of human Ife, and it {s culpable to consult business or property interesta in preference. It is evident that the County Commission- rs are paralyzed, and that they fear to re- peat theiranctent and -unblushing steals in thia modern day of special Grand Jnries and sound indictments, Yeaterday tha WaLxrn- MoNem, “extra” stenl of 2,000 came up for’. consideration beforo the Com- A third installmont of Mra, Anyre Epwanps excellent story is furnished in the supple- ment of to-day’s issue of Ine Tumunz. ‘Tho romance is one of the most interesting of modern literatnro, and tho style in which it ia presented — the Fenilleton—well adapts it to preservation for futnre referonce, Back numbers of Tue Tatnoxe contaming the opening chapters can be had on application, in pervon or in writing, at the offico, “The Powers above,” sald the Rey, Joneru Coox, ‘‘ understand os well as wo that the bison tracks are hardly yet washed out on the prairics whero now railronds con- centrate themselves," which leads to the im- pression that neither the ‘Powers above” nor tho Roy, Mr. Coox were sround during the tornadoes and rain spells of last spring and summer, that not only sopped up the Dison tracks but floated miles of the concen- trated roilronds as well. In his lecture on “ Ultimate America,” last night, the Rov. Josera Coox alluded to tha occupation of Chicago by “ crooked . amphibians,” and the wolf lying among the reeds ready to nqueal on either batch aa the highest-priced immunity might suggest. The mlvance in civilization since that day is ronrked by the indispoaition of the “ crooked ainphibian” to “ take water in hia'n,” and 4 mittee on Public Buildings and Pnb- reduction in the value of immunity to thres | lio Service, and was utoutly opposed months in the County Jail. by Architect Eoan, who had figured the amount due at $21,000, An effort was made by the hot-headed rascals of the Ring to rush the matter through and secure their share of the plander while they wero in the way with it, but by some accident one or two honest men had been appointed on tho Committee, and they kicked vigorously against the steal, to the utter discom- fiture of tho ringsters, At Inst it wan agreed to submit the question to a committee of citizons. There was no pledge to abide by such decision as might be ren- dered, merely a recommendation to the Board that responsible taxpayers be selected to hold an. inquest .on the steal, and report how much should be pald the two con- tractors for so-called ‘exiros.” Under the contract Eaam is colo arbiter, and it is not possible to go behind his decision. The Board will probably sppoint a committee of anch “ rosponelble citizens” o8 aro indebted to them for scata in the Grand Jury, accept a report for about $75,000, and then demand attention to their honesty. If respectable taxpayers are op- pointed, they should either support Faan's estimate or decline to touch the matter, leaving it for the courts to strict ly constrne the contract, The on- ly important feature of this new-fan~ gied shifting of responsibility les in the evidence it adduces that the Commission- era are becoming sadly frightened, and ara fearfal of prosecuting their awindles as bold- ly asof yore. Now is the time to strike them again, hurry up their trials, and send them where they may be of somo service to the State, whose most important county they bave robbed remorsclessly. ————— It is believed that the country narrowly escaped a serious panic as the outgrowth of tho recent strike, and that if the goncral suspension of businues had continued a fow days longer, the calamity of a widesprend financial crisis must surely have been addod to the heavy damage inflicted during the brief period of mob rule. Tho Now York banks had already decided to refuse any more loans on collaterals, but the nrcasuro was rendered unnecessary by the discontinuance of the causes which lod to its adoption. The traps that men sot for themselves are as manifold and ingenious ss any that the foul fiend himsolf could contrive for human destruction, ‘The accident yesterday at Pittsburg was a caso in point. Ten men, engaged in repalricg s cupola, stood upon a scaffold insecarely constructed at the top, and, when the boards gave way, a8 of course they would do if not properly fastened, seven of theton were dashed down fifty feet to tho red-hot bottom of the flery furnace. Two wero killed outright and the other five so mangled and burned that thelr chances of life aro by no means oqual. ‘Thelr epitaph whould be; ‘* Died of gross carelessness.” Secretary Suznman has decided that writ. ten recommendations for appointment to office are in the nature of privileged com. munications, the disclosures of which would be prejudicial to the public interest. The decision arose from an application of the proprietors of the San Fraucisco Chronic, against whom indictments are pending for allvged libelous publications regarding Sens- tur Sanuent, whose recommendations on file in the ‘Treasury Department they deaired to examine to ussist in preparing thelr defense, ‘The Senator's “privileged communications” are hot to be brought into court, thanks to the delicate cousidcration shown by Secro- ary Suvzman, who probably knows how it is Linself. A member of the Council has prepared an srdiuauce rigidly probibiting the carrying of ‘The {mportant fact in the Poat's plan, ignored by Tux Tuiovsy, fe that It te left optional with the Tressury at any time to pay gold oF the silver dollar, instead of the bond.—ZLcening Post. We could not conceive of the Government selling 4 or 4} per cent time bonds to pro- cure coin with which to redeem greenbacks when by the iuterchangeable gchemeit would only haye to pay 3.65 per! cent interest, and that was why “Tux Tuwoxeignored it,” as anybody else would who would reflect a little. Under the plan discarded by the Greenbackers and the Democracy, which the Post advocates, the Government would ro- deem no greenbacks 1n either gold or silver. The rush for 3.65 bonds would keep it too busy to sorioualy think of selling 9 bigher wit. ‘Thut this or some similar measure will be adopted by our local legislature there asbould not be a doubt, and that it is a reform docs not allow of a question. Tho habit into which thugs have fallen, of going armed, Las made it neccasary for honcst men interest bond to obtain coin for redemption purposes. If the trouble apprehended by The Trntxr [of the ‘.dse circulating inetead of the grecntcks} wonld not be absoitely checked by the cannes shove rugzested, we ask it to tell na why it wontd not be completely coniroited, provided no bund was inanedt of & lera amount than, way, $10,000. Would those be apt to ** pase from hend to hand ae amnbstitate for the greenback enrrency of de- nominations ranging from $f to $20 now outetand- ing?— Post, Even in that ease the greenbacks would all be quickly absorbed into the interchange- able 3.6% bonds by tho capitalistr, All idle balances in the national, State, and savings banks would be turned into 3.65 per cont bonds in order that tho moncy might be onrning something nad be free of taxes at the same time. The rnilronds, jarge manu- facturers, and*larga merchants whose re- ceipts amount to thonsands of dollars a day, would invariably keep their balances in $10,000 bonds of the interchangeablo sort, and thoy would pay ont those bonds whenever it conti be dono, All tho greenbacks would be quickly swept out of cirenlation in supplying the big fish with eutrency bonds. Bunt the masses of the people would not permit any such rich man's monopoly of n good thing. Thera would be suniversal clamor for small bonds, which wonld not be entisfed with bonds ns small as $100; people wonld insist on $50 and @20 interchangeables, #0 that’ “poor mon” could got interest on their money as well as rich men. All small monoy would bo silyer. Our currency wontd conrist of silvor and 3.05 bonds, There would be no greenbacks in circulation, for as fast as any one changod bonds into greenbacks‘the Intter wonld flow right back into bonds for sake of the in- terest. Suppoxe money were worth 10 per cent per an- num, what object would thero be In locking It up in a bond bearing interest at 3.03 por cont per annnm? Tho fender would simply eend In his bond, got his legal-tender currency, and hand it to the borrower. —Post. ‘What differonce wonld it make whether money waa worth 10 or 12 or any othor per cent? Could not a man lonn a 3.66 percent interchangenble bond just the sama as cur- rency? ‘Cho borrower, ninety-nine times out of ahnndred, wonld prefer to receive the loan in that shapo, because if he only kept it over night he would obtain ono day's in- terest, He wontd deposit his borrowed bond in a bank, and whenever he needed to realize on it he would sell jt to tho bank at its faco and interest, and take his pay in silver, which he would check against. No groenbacks would ever be acon or needed in the transac- tion. We repent again what the Post ignores, that no cnrronoy can bo kept in circulation if the maker offers to redeem it on demand ata premium of 3.6% per cont interest per pnnum, or at any other premium, Such an attempt is against reasor THE RUSSIAN DEFEAT. Tho disastor which has overtaken tho Rus- stans in Bulgaria is only anothor illustration of the futility of strntegical pkill, if there arenot troops onough to back it up,—in o hor words, that campaigns may be planned very brilliantly on paper and result very dis- astrously.in the field, for Inck of the ma- torint with which to carry ont the plans. ‘Tho strategy of the Tussian commandors has been brilliant; there is no doubt of that. ‘The eapture of Nikopolla and the occupation of the Shipka Pass. gave them tho possession of tho keys to Adrisnople, if they had had atrength enough to unlock the roads. ‘Tho ‘taking of Nikopolis gave them the op- portunity to secure their porition on the Daunbo, which they so much needed, befora they could move south in force, -It gave them the coveted locality for another bridge over tho Danube, for the ostablishment of communications for the use of theright wing of tho army, for tho forwarding of supplies, and for the protection of the right wing from attack by the Turkish forces in Wostorn Bulgaria, ‘Tho occupation of the Shipka Pasa was none: the leas important. Von Moutre, in his raviow of the campaigns of 1823-'29, showed that tho Shipka Pasa was thoeaalost of alion the range to be forced, and tho most important of allin ita bearings upon Constantinople. ‘The passes to the westward are too far away to bo of strategical valuo, and those to the castward are threatencd by the Quadrilntoral, It was seized by a bold dash, and its occupation and tho swift do. acent of Gon. Govrxa's corps into Roumelia ara sinong the most brilliant operations over recorded in modern warfare, But of what avail has itbeon? In holding Nikopolis and the Shipka Puss, the Mnuusinns virtually commanded the road to Constantinople, ox iu nbown by the copsternation which pre- vailod in that city when tho news reached there, by the sndden changos made in tho Ministry ond War commands, and by tho hasty preparations of the Sultan hi:mnclf to goover into Asin Minor, If tho Itnsxians had had force enough to follow np their ad- yantago, if they could have beld tho Quadri- Jateral fortresses in check and poured an overwhelming forca into Roumelia, tio campaign would have been virtually finished this summor, aud-the Russians would have been in Constantino- plo beforo cold weather, Bat if eventuates that they had not sufficient force ‘to improve thelr udvantages. The actual figures show ¢hat they cannot have much over 150,000 men south of the Danube, while the London 7imes of July 17 affirms that the Turkish army In the -four Quadrilateral fortresses amounts to 150,000 men, having ‘been recently reinforced, Three anda half corps croxsod the Danube at Sistova, Thera is acorpain the Dobrudscha in the neigh- borhood of Kostendje, and perhaps another corps south of the Balkans, Thera,may be a little more than five corps south of the Danube, or between 150,000aud 175,000 men, With such a force as this, the concentration of a powerful army for defensive operations wasimpossible, ‘The force in the Dobrnd- acho was effectually Isolated, Another force was engaged in the investmentof Rustchnk. Still another had to be kept asa corps of observation to wotch the Turkish force at Widdin, and 40,000 or 50,000 men wero south of the Balkans, Thoy wore also obliged to placa a powerful force in the vicinity of Shumla to prevent an attack upon the rear of their forces at Rustcbuk. With such a disposition of his army, the Grand Duke could not sot free a sufficient force to march with safety upon Constantinople, and thus strategy was cought and strangled in its own toils, In a recent article forecasting the very result that has happened, the London Tinvassya: “A Navotzon might do it with brilliant success, because his own genius would save him from half the usual penalties of rashueas; but the Russian strategists have given no proof that they possess the intellectual right to be imprudent.” Unless rginforcements arrive spoedily, the end of disaster may not even yet have come, for the Dobrudacha forca is ia 8 porilous sit- uation, and the force south pf the Balkans is hemmed in by the armies of Oswam Pasha on the one band aud those of Sunzi- THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, 1877-TWELVE PAGES Max Pashn and Raog Pasha on the other. Unless dlp comes very xoon, the Shipka Pasa -may yot prove n denthb-trap to Gen, ,Gourxa’a army. Another important factor in the movement of tho ‘Tatkiah army has been the part play. ed by the lect. It has done very little fight- ing. and its officers have taken no risks of losing any vessels by bombarding Itnssian ports, ‘They have not only protected the ‘Turkish const from an invasion, intercepted trafic between Russian ports, and co-opor- ated with tho ‘Turkish forces in Asia Minor and the Canensns, but they have alxo been of immense advantage in conveying tho troop- ships, transporte, aud foreign steamers engaged in transporting their armies from place to place, While the Russians havo had to depend npon a single line of railroad for their transportation, the Turks havo had eoveral shert lines of road ond tho entire sweep of the Dinck Ses, tho Adriatic, and the Zgenn, and a swarm of foreign steamers, rapidly changing their armies from place to place. Two ilinstra- tious in point ara the quick way in waich a powerful force was sont from Coustantinoplo over to Trebizond nag helped precipitate the Rnsasian disaster in Asia, and tho equally rapid mannor in which tho armies that hind been operating in Montenogro were placed on the Black Sea coast and transported by rail into tho interior of Roumelin. It is evident that the only hope for Russia now lies in a chango of plans, a recognition of tho strength of the Turks, aud immediate reinforcemont, If Russia has half a million of men under arms, with reserves behind them, wo may look to soe her hurrying them to the front with hot haste. Defeat will only rouse the mighty Russian Ecipire to mightier efforts. Tho possibilities of immediate foreign intervention are renewed by this defoat, and Russian pride, stung to the quick, will avenge itself with powerful and crushing blows. The Tartar outnumbers tho Turk, and can fight as desperately. Under such circumstances, thore is no probnbility that Russia will succumb to her first Europeau defent, f THE RAILROADS AND THE(R EMPLOYES, Anumber of years ago, when tho North. western Railway Company was controled by Winxtast B, Oonen and his friends, a plan was devised by him, considered, and partinily matured, by which that Company undertook to make provision, after the man- ner of a pension, for all its reguiar employes, to be pnid to them in caso of any disability or old age, and, in event of their death by accident, to their widows or children. This wiso and humano scheme, however, was stamped out by Mr. Sast TinpeN, who waa ono of the managers of tho road, and who insisted that when the Company hired and paid aman his wages it had no further con- cern for or interest in him. ‘The recent strike of railway men has illns- trated the national interest in the working of the railways, ‘Tho recent doctrine of the courts, that railways aro, to a largo extent, public corporations, within the control of legislation ns regards their right to exact tolls aud pay toxcs, and, of uccessity, that they are entitled to protection as public cor- porations maintaining public highways, has been thoroughly vindicated by the oxperi- enco of tho Inst fow weeks, It hna been shown to tho full satisfaction of ovorybody that, in addition to the interest which stock- holders and croditors may have in thesa corporations, the entire prblio has a dicot pecuniary interest in tho maintenance of theso railways and their unobstructed and continnous operation. The transportation of mails, and of merchandise, and of in- dividnals aro dependent dn therd ‘railways, Tho distribution and supply of food by ratl- ways is ao general that a suspension of trans. portation must result in actual fomine among 5 largo proportion of people, In lke mannor there are many districta of tho country who are dependent on tho railways forasupply of fuel, aud a suspension of . the railways would reduce theso people to actual porishing from cold. A winter or two ago, in consequence of storms, a district in Iowa was deprived of its supply of conl, and, he- sides tho lives actually lost, hundreds suf. fored most terribly in loss+of IHmbs and otherwise from freezing, ‘The public havo n right to demand protection againat any such calamities, i Tailronds cannot be operated without hired favor, and operatives are entitled to fair compensation, Mon aro entitled toliv- ing wages, and oll experience has shown that that Inbor is the most profitable to the employer which is obtained fcom workmen roayonably sure of permanont employment ‘aud having permanent intorest in the pros perity of the employer, ‘Tho general schemo favored by Mr. Qapen a dozon years ago is one which ia worthy of careful consideration by tho railroad corporations, We will not vonture to stato what such a scheme shonid be in detall; we confine our suggestions to the general proposition of closer rotations between railroad corporations and those em- ployed by them. The United States has a pension system whereby all persons cm. ployed in the army sustaining disability in- capacitating them from service are paid pen. sions proportioned to tho pay of auch per- sons in the army. In case of tho death of any person while in the performance of duty, a pension is pald to tho widow or orphan children for certain rogulated periods, In the navy certain funds, derived from captures of prizes, have been reserved as a naval pension fund, and this fund is so Jorge that the interest thereon iv sufliciont to pay all pensions arising In the naval ger- vice, ‘The trades-unions have genernily a system of benefits to which the fraternities con. tribute largely, and to which those sick, dis. abled, and out of work may apply for re. Nef, Inthe morchant marino servico there ive percentage taken from the wages of oll sailors, which is collected by tho United States and npplied to the support of marine hospitals in which all sailors are entitled to care in case of sickneas. Heneficial societies exist among various classes of persons, all dependent, howover, on the voluntary con- tributions of .the members, -No one of these plons would, perhaps, be applica- ble to railroad workmen, scheme founded on the same general princt- plo might be matured. Railroad corporations employ s large body of men,—engineers, conductors, firemon, brakemen, mechanics, laborers, switchinen, clerks, and men in va- rious duties. "Of those employed in the di. reot operation of the ronds they require as atrict a fidelity ay does the Government in ite military and naval service, Tho lives of the passengers and the property in their charge demand not only fidelity but hard labor, and frequently intelligence and skill. The corporations necessarily intrust tho safety of all their transportation to’ these men, and are dependent on their honesty, vigilance, fidelity, and sound judgment. It is to the interest of the companies to mako it to the interest of theac men, indepundent- but some’ ly of mere wages, to norve tho company faithfully. Now the railrond corporations, and especially to Inrgo ones, might stipne Inte thnt all persons employed hy them, aftor acortain probation, ahontd have permanent employment during good behavior ; that tho wages of all theas persona should be fixed hy the company after a earcful and patient con- ference of representatives of ench class; that these wages shonid have somo degree of permanence, and not to be changed except upon notice; that no change should be mado except after conference; that out of the wogea of ench person emplgyed there should be paid, with the consent of the employed, to trnstees appointod by the’ workmen and tho company, a certain percontago, way 2} or 3 per cent, and the company should pay o like sum, the whole to be invested, inde. pendent of the company’s moneys, in trust, in United States bonds, to pay to all work- men ontitled to participate therein, in cases of permanent disability, or in cose of denth to the widow, or children, or personal repro- sentatives, The sum to be paid to bo pro- portioned according to the wages of the nien when in service and. according to tho amount of tho fund, all of which is o matter of dotnil easily to be adjusted. Somo, such system would immensely im- provo the character of railroad omployment, Esch workman would find himself at onco assured of continuous work so long as ho attended to his business, If at any time so disabled as to bo unfit.for labor, ho would be ‘assured of a permanent provision, cqual, say, to half-pay for life, and if killed, Lis family would be provided for until his children wore able to take cara of themselves. Employ. ‘ment under a company with an arrangemont of this kind would be greatly preferred to work even at higher wages, when no such pormancney of employment and provision for the faluro was secured. Onsuch a rond strikes would be impossible, Each man would have a direct permanent pecuniary interest in tho wolfare of the road. Ho would also havo n direct interost in retaining his employment and winning that promotion which is cortain whore service is continuous and marked with fidelity. Tho railroad workmon and trades-unions generally have now thoir beneficial societies. ‘The sums paidinto theso socioti2s nro vory large, but it ia a singular fact that, of this money contributed for the snpport of tho sick and disnbled, for tho burial of the dead, and donations to thefamilies of decoased members, there is expended nearly one-half (some moro and others less) to sustainstrikea among theirown craft and also among other trades. “Strikes have beon, and mst neces. sarily always be, n most expensive mensure, ‘Tho moncy lostin thom would annually mako alnrge fund for boneficial purposes. If in- stead of strikes thera were established be- tweon railroad companies and their om- ployesthe principle of regulating wages by arbitration, permanency of employment, anda provision by the company, together with the mon, for the support of the sick and disabled, and of their familics after denth, there wonld rarcly if over bo an occa- sion for strikes, and the {1nds would not be so exhausted ay now to sustain labor wars. Mr, VaNnennit has suggested that, on the several roads which ho controls, some ar- rangement will be mndo for a permanent provision for all the workmon, and we sug- gest to all railroad corporations thnt the same public opinion which demands the vigorous suppression of railroad strikes will also de- mand that the employing corporations shall take such equitable, just, and -humano steps towards their employed mon au will prevent any repetition of quch strikes, or at least any well-founded eémplnints of honrtlessness or starvation wages on the part of the oper. tora, GREENBACK AND SILVEX DOLLARS, Greenbackers, who profess to bo in favor of remonetizing silver, want to know why the advocates of the silver dollar insist that greenbacks slinil either be redeemed on de- mand or retired by funding. Tho renson. in a sentonce, is, that ailver legal-tender dollars and irredcemablo paper notes cannot be mado to circulate side by side, ‘Tho irre. deemnblo note becomes chenper than the sil. ver logat dollar, and crowds tho latter out of circulation, 1, It may be noted that the greenback las never been at par, aud nover can be at par, with the coin in which $t is redeemable so long as the maker refuxes to redeem it. . Any note payable on demand, but on which pay- ment is constantly refused, must necessarily boat adisconnt, Such notes aro worth just what tho brokers and speculators will givo for them, whether they bo Government notes, corporate, or individual notes, Tho greonbacks havo varied in value all the way from 409 cents to 05 cents on tho dollar, according to the varying confidence felt in thelr ultiinate redemption in coin, The alin of the brokora ia to pay as little for tham as poasible; that of the morchants and importers to get as high n price for them as possible, This atrngglo is influonced by the abundance or scarcity of cash gold and conditions which improve or weaken Governmont credit, 2, Just now tho greenbacks are about 6 percent below par with gold,—for the gold dollar is tho only coin standard and the only dollar alnce the demonetization of silver in which they could be Inwfully redeemed if redemption wero undertakon by the Govorn- ment, ‘This has been the cnso over since the passage of the Inw of 1878 which demon. ctized allver. Silver, reckoned on tho former basia of gold ond silver ata time when tha latter constituted a part of tho legal-tonder money of tho country, ia nlso below par in gold, for reasons frequently oxplained ; but this cannot establish any rela. tive value between greonbacks and silver as’ money, because greenbacks sre legal. tender and silver is not. In‘other words, greenbacks, which have no intrinsic value as long as thoy are past due and unredeemed, may have more yaluo for use as money while they remain legal-tender than the commodity called silver, which has intrinslo value, but the use of which as money is prohibited by law. 3. Keeping well in mind that greenbacks, as past due aud unredeemed notes, must al- ways be below a par value in gotd so long as they are not redeemable in gold on demand, it is obvious that gold must always continue to be driven out of ciroulation by the green- backs, It isaself-cvideut proposition that the cheaper currency: will always keep the better one from circulating, If it were not self-evident, the experienco of this country for the Jast sixteen years has abundantly demonstrated it, People have the right to pay their debts in either gold or greenbacks, When achoico of legal-tenders sre given, they always pay in the cheaper of the'two. Greenbacks never being at par with gold, because the Government refuscs to redeem thom, the debtors nover yalgatarily pay in gold, but alwaysin the depreciated paper. ‘This de- fold, and it never seen in cirenlation. Under these circumstances, greenbacks can only ba worth fram day to day what tho brokers and speculators will give in gold for them. 4, But remonetizo silver, and it then Be- comes Jegal-tender for all debts, and the debtors will have tho option to pay in either silver, gold, or greenbacks, Assilver will bo fora timo ‘nt least of less value than gold, it will become the American standant of values, It will bo received at tho Custom- Ifouse for dutics and bo paid out for interest’ on bonds, All the merchants and importers necding com will sell their groenbacks for silver. Tho brokers will pay for thom pro- portionntely about what they do now for gold. greenbacks will then be worth 90 to 95 jn silver, Usnce, the silver will not circulate, but disappenr just as the gold has done. ‘Thero is no use in remonetizing silver if greonbacks nro to remain irredeomablo by the Government, as they must necessarily sink below the yalne of silver, nnd conse- quently they must drive it ont of cirenla- tion, Itis perfect folly to talk of having silver dollars and irredeemable greonbacks elreulating sido by side; the greenbacks must bo redeemed in silver on demand to keep on a level with silver invaluc. If they aro left to the brokers and speculators, par in silver will never bo given for them any moro than par heretofore in gold. Thoy will sink into n discount and fluctuate up and down 03 compared with tho silver standard, just as they do now ns compared with the gold atandard, Tho conclusion of tho wholo matter is, that only those can really be in favor of re- monetizing silver who aro also in favor of praventing greenbacks from falling below it in valuo, for if the greenbacks fall below sil- vor they will prevent tho silver from circu- lnting, and henee it would do no good to remonetize silver excopt to depreciate green- backs. Thosoin favor of remonetizing sil- ver must insist that greenbacks shall cithor be redeemed at parin silvor or retired, be- causa otherwiso silver dollars can nover cir- culate, But we must romind Greenbackors that, while insisting upon the necessity of retiring the irredocmable notes as an indisponsablo means of availing ourselves of the benefits of remonetizing silver and pouring forty or fifty millions a year of it into circulation, we -have not proposed that tho retiremont shall be mado in such a manner as to produco any contraction whatever. On the contrary, we have suggested such 5 chango of the badking law ag will enablo and encournge the National Banks to issue $100 of their notesin place of every $80 of greenbacks retired; and thoso notea (which will be redeemed in silver: on demand) and the silver itself will circulate side'by side. Under this plan, we can get rid of a constantly vacillating, depreciated, and irredeemablo currency, ond retain a larger amount of specie notes, which will altvays have the samo value as silver dollars; and the volume of curroncy will bo enlarged by tho addition of the silver product of forty to fifty.millions a year, This plan would quickly restore public confidence, raixo up the prico of real estate, enable mon to pay their debts and to hiro labor at good wages, nnd revivo all lines of prostrate and paralyzed business, JODGE OF LE LAKE-KANE CIRCUIT. The electlan for one Judge In cach of the thirteen clreuits of Minols, not including Cook County, will take placu next Monday, Aus. 0 ‘Tho probability {s there will bea very Heht voto cast, as the farmers are engaged in thelr grain- elds cutting, stacking, or threshing. There does nut seem to be much party fecling exhibit~ ed. In the Democratte districts wo notice, howeyer, tliat tho Democratic fuglemen havo tuken good care to noulndte nono but lawycra of their own polltical sect for Judges, and they intend to elect them. We fail to perceive Dein~ ocrates in any Democratie elrcult running round electioncering with’ their partisan friends to voto for a Republjan candidate. They oro not doing that sort of business, ‘On tke other hand, we find ultra-Democrats in strong Republican Districts running for Judge, calling themselves * {udependents,” and solicit- ing Republican votes. In some cases thoy hayo Induced Republicaus to go about electionecring forthem. For example, the Kepublicans in the ‘Twelfth Circuit, composed of the Counties of Lake, Kane, Mcflenry, DuPage, Boone, and DeKalb, have placed i nomination the Hon. Crank W. Upton, of Lake County, He ta an unexceptionable man, and will minko a Orat-class Judge; no abler or more competent lawyer is a candidate fn any District of the State; le possesses eminent qualifications for the post- tlon, aud ts entitled to the sulfd Republican vote ut Icast, and the votes of all Demo- crats who destro to have a frat-claes Judge. Notwithstanding this, the Democrats have put up a candidate from Kany County named RN. Borsvory, a demagogue and sccond-claes Jaw- yer. ‘They are running him as an ‘independ cut” candidate, which ts an old trick they play fu Republican districts; and it 1s reported they have fnvelgied several Republicans fy Kane County to spend thelr tlme electioneering for Borsvonp agulust Urrox, Such Republicans are in poor business, Thelr own candidate Is: far tho better man, for the high office, aud fs en- titles to thelr support instead of thelr oppost- ton, We trust the Republicans of the Twolfth Circutt will not be caught asleep and allow themselves to be defeated, Tho “independent” dodgo should be heavily sat down upon and aquatched. or Those ex-Conperheals who delight in belittle- ing Gen. Guant’s military genlus are in the habit of suying that at the Battle of the Wilder ‘nas ho failed with 130,000 men tu fullice a de- feat on the Confederate Gen, Les, who only had 50,000, This assertion has bees made fn print thousands of times, and yet ft ts utterly false, Gen. Grant did not have cyen 100,000 Incn present for duty at that battle, and Gen Lex coufronted bla behind intrenchments with more than 70,000 mien, Grant “ beld In hand" 130,000 men, bub this number included all of his, sick, detalle, and detached men, Tho day be- fore tho battle the mourning reports, accordiug to Col. Bapgau's official stutement, showed 0d,- OW men ‘present for duty.” Lea's last Held report prior to the battle shows that he had vresent for duty 53,891 men, Lee was joined at tho battle of the Wilderness by Lonxastuest’s corps of 18,337 mev, present and fit for duty, The great battle was really fought by two forcea of the followlvg relative gths / Majority for Grant. ‘This suveriority of men was fully offct by tho fact that Lus's army fought bebind deldworks aud Gaant’s men had to make the assaults, and were there- fore vastly more exposed and necessarily lost the most inen, aud yet Lee's army was pretty severely punished and had all they could do to hold thelr works. Guawr developed faults and weaknesaeg as aciviliau executive, butastnilitary commander bo was bead aud shoulders above all the Geucrals on cither efde of the War, ———— Nothing inspires a Pennsvivania mob with so much confidence as the prescuce of 5,000 or 6,000 soldiers. ‘Thero is no such order in the Keystone Btate tactics as * Are,” and the leaders of the 0b know it. a (A great and irromediable jujary'bas been in- fiicted upon the chivalry composing the Lexing- preciated paper, therefore, crowds out the | tou(Ky.) base-ball club, After a syrica of brill+ other chivalrous organize Hons, they nei eballenge extenued by the dub of Nicholasville, which ther found when arriving a the ground to he composed of darktes, They loft in.dixgust, claiming that the oMlor-line must be drawn somewhere, if only around three bases, a Aun Indianapolis rioter atruck the keynote of the trouble fa Indiana {n his defense before Judge Drusstoxp, He thought the longed to tha State of which old Blue Jeans Is Governor when he started in, and concluded that be was perfectly safe. er That terribly-watercd stock, Inown on Wall strect ns JAY GOULD, fell cight fect into a hac. ment, Thursday, Blue Jeans Wirttams atill refuses to order out his troops for fear the undertakers wit strike. — News from Plevna seems to Indicate that Russia witl have to val out her police. ——————— Following the example of other publle charac ters, the riot has crossed the avcan. —— HARTRANFT can’t muster courage to order bis soldicrs to fire, eee eee PERSONAL, ‘Mr, Whistler, the English artist, tilks of bringing an action for libel against Mr. Raekin, on neconntof opinions expressed with fvgard to the artist and lis worke, Dr. Henry Draper, of Hastings-on-the- Hudson, has discovered that some of the bricht nes In tho solar spectram are produced by the fz. nition of non-metailic substances, His experi. menta scem to prove that oxygen at Teast ts one of the sun’s constitaents, Dr. Domer, of Berlin, wrote to tho Pan- Preahyterian Council at Edinburg: ¢*The Peeshy. terian Charchea represent tho muscular system in the great body of Evangelical Christianity, —the principle of powertul motive and {nitiatlye. * Mr. J. 8, Raven, an able and poputar English landscape-palnter, was recently drowned ot Harlech while bathing. He waa 40 years of age, and rarely had the places at the loyal Academy Exhibition to woich, his friends claim, bo was entitled. Now that Barnum has gone, and there can bo nodanger of giving him snperfnoun advertining, wo feel Justified In directing the attention of Mr, Richart Geant White to tie phrase in tho adver. Nsements describing the circisas ‘*the new and only greatest show on carth."* A second volume of critical miscellanios by John Morley haa been pabliehed in London. The most noteworthy essay included in. this colfection ia thaton Macaulay, which Is sald to.be a remark- able piece of tconuciasm, and, a8 suche pleaned or scandalized a good many people at its first appear- ance. Mr, Charles G. Leland (‘Hons Breit mann") has presented to the Uritish Museum s fac-simile of President Lincoln's Practamation of Emancipation. This fac-simile bears the genuine siguatarca of Prealilent Lincoln and Sveretary Sew- ard, and 1a oncof those fesued during the Sanitary- fate porlod,. TMenry W. Hilliard, of Georgia, who isto ‘be appointed Minister to Brazil, was born fn South Carolina, and has made bls home fo the South, He was Charge d'Afalres at Velzium during tho Ad- mintstration of President Tyler. He represu: the Xecond District of Alapama In tho Twenty: ninth, Thirtleth, and Thirty-fret Conyrcsece as a Whig, and was beaten at tuc last election by Hen- ry R, Harns, Democrat, who was re-elected. Mark ‘I'wain ninde a speech on the ocx efon of the production in New York of hla now play, ‘Ah Sin." He said tho manazers nad cut out und cnt out from tho play aa frat written, and the more they cutouttho better the vluy became. Mark sald ho never saw a play that was so much Improv- ed by being cut down; and ho belleved It would have been one of the very best plays in the world Ifthe manasers’ strength could havo heli out so that they could have cut oat the whole of it. John Habborton writey o Iottor to the London Athenawm on tho subject of *'Copyright and Copywrong," calling attention to the injustice that lisa been done him by tho unauthorized pub- Ucation in England of bis little book, **Other People's Children.’ It {4 a -plosaure to seu this matter taken up from the American .alde,. and» treated with something lesa than the acerbity which characterized the Ivttors of Charles Dickens and Charles Reade in the first stages of the cou- troversy. Mr. E. V. Smalley has been to visit Mr. Maletead at tho office of the Cincinnati Commer- clal, and ho belioves the Jatter ie probably the hardest worker of all tho men who control great nowspapors, Ilo writes moro editorial matter thua any of hia aasociatcs, readeall the tmportant ex- changes, doce his uwn aciesorlng, and weldom goct hosne until the paper has been put to press, file hour of ease Ie juat before midnight, when he takes his supper ata restaurant across tho way from hie ofice, and, if he. bas a visitor, cracke a bottle of champagne to keep tho molecules a-moving, Mr. Samuel Warron, whose death was re cently announced by cable was the author of ** Ten Thousand a Year" and **The Diary of a Phyal- clan.” His other Mterary works aro pot widely knows. Ho was born in Wales in May, 1807, and henco was 70 years of age at the time of his death. Me studiod modicine at Kdinbury, not for the pur- poas of becoming a physician, but becnuso it was his belicf, frequently emphasized inaftor life, tht the studies embraced !n the curricula of medical schools should form a part of every liveral cdaca- tion, In 1828 he entered himself ass law-student of the Inner Temple, Londun, and in 1837 was called to the Bar. ‘The investigation bofore tha Legtalotive Committeo in regard to the management and diecl- pline of the State Workhouso at Mrlagewater, Maua., hus brought vuta remarkable man, Ilo {4 ‘07 ycara old, has been an inmate st various porlod? of bis life of no fews than adozen public institu tlons, inclading in the lfat four insane evylums, five or alx county Jails and houses of correction, tho Uridgewater Workhouse, and tho btate Prison at Charlestown. In bis opinio, tho State Prison ix tho most comfortable place he ever got into, and he would like to go there again. Tho insane asylums do not auit him at sll, but the Workhouse makes bim a very comfortable residence, Edward Garrott has written s book eu- titled ‘*Doing and Dreaming,” which ts bighly commended by some of the London reviows, One fino parograph 1s especially praleod: ** Was there ever a sacrifice which atasome time in ite histuty did notacem too dear? What great man who bas {reed a country bas not turned dlegusted from the uickering and pettiness of ite politics, to regret the graves which were filed to buy such a freedusit ‘There must out be too much counting of the cut in our beginnings, Jt fe well that we canot sco some of the near consequences of our heroisns, of they would remain unperformed. © 1f wo could eco all thelr consequences, and the consequences of thelr cousequences, that might have s diferent effect.” Miss Anna Boyle, the latest repre"ints; tlve of Juile ta Now York, and a prottyce of Grace Greenwood, claimeto be only 14 years of axe, Butacold, cruel man named Thomas Dufy writes to the Sun that she 1025, having ocen bord at Eifn, in the County of Roscommon, in 1852, whero he had te pleacure of being ber next-dout neighbor, Duffy bas no soul, and no poetry, and no appreciation of romance; and it ts {mpossible that such asordid creature should be s jadce of acting or have any acqualntsnoce with one of Shak- spearo's heroines, if her name is Boyle, ‘That which we calls rose," says Julie, **by any other name would sincl! ss sweet," and the equation be- tween Anna Boyle and Julset Copulet may be com plete, however aged and infirm thie creature of Elfin, Iteecommon County, known to Thomss Duffy, may be, Mr, Judah P, Benjamin was not born in San Domingo, but in one of the Britleh West In- dics, which circamstance enabled him to vbtaid admission to tho Bar of Evgland. His feo in 800 Almaden quickallver case was only $20,000, i8* stead of $500,000, a9 stated. Ho made a late fortune, however, by ols practice in toe South dbe~ fore the War. Lila Iuveatmenta of hts profossionat revenues. were improvideut and unfortunate Sugar-planting swept off aoout $200,000, Tebaun: tepes # large amount, and a guano speculation (9 South America the rematnder of ble hard curain:4 Finally. the downfall of the Confederacy rH bins fugitive from our country, fn an opera towed by a negro, he passed trom Floric: sau, where be landed wita 9 vingle do! pecact, ‘The War had destroyed overy v4: us property. Ye bus since ultalneds | ton atthe Enzusb Dar. dtany oi the by Londou Ties op American subjects a stood W be frou bis peo.