Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 9, 1877, Page 4

1 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: TUESDAY. OCTOBER 9, 1877 .‘ The Tribwne, TERMS OF SURSCRIPTION. AT MATL—TN ADVANCR—POSTAGE FPREPAID. Dasly Edition, on 12.00 Tartant o5 Matiest to any Epecinien coplea rent tree. “Tu preven: delay and mistakes be surc and give Post- M.ce nddrean in full, including Stase and County. Tictaftinnees may he made ejther by draft, cxnree, Tort-Oice order, or in veglatered feiters, at our tisk. THIMS TO CITY SUNSCRIBERS, Dally, dMivered, Eunday exccpted, 25 centa per week. Yrally, deitvered, Sunday Includ ents per week. Addrers THE TRIRUNK COMPANY, Curner Madieon asd Dearbotu-atr., Chlsgo, 1L Orders for the delivery of Tie Trtnesre at Evaoston, Engleweod, aml llyde Park Jeft In the couatiog-room WL ective tronipt attentto MeVicker'a Thentees Madlson strect, between State and Dearorn. Ene gagenment of Dwn Louclcauit. **The Shaughraun." Mentames Don, Stuneall, cte.: Mears. Boucleault, Leas Fock, tte. Hiooley™s Thentres Randolph street, between Clark and Ladalte. Fne of the Lingards, **The Hunchback.” Mese niard, Varian, clc.s Messrs. Liogard, Uantie, Woad's Musenm. Blonroe street, hetwern Dearborn aad State, ey Adatas,” $jueeraity Ol0. *aris- New Chicago Theatre, Clark strect, oppostte Sherman Tonse, Haverly's Miustiel. Messis, Thatcher, ltymsu, Cushman, etc. Adelniid Theatres < Monroe strect, coruer of bearborn. *Baba” Mes- damee Hlositt, Bonfantl, efc, | Meesrs. Fitzgerald, Vin- cent, eie. Inter-Htate Exponition. Lake Shore, foot of Adsms stieet. Exhibition of tndusity wnd Ars.Day and evening, 1, KNIONTS TEM- Monroe- . 2 i can tnake It cun- 1 |le‘ eaquipped Iy vnierof Recurider, UESDAY. CHIAGO MARKET BUMMARY, proguce murkets wera aclive yes in provislons, Mess pork closed . 11.30 for October and $12.00Q January, Lavd closed B, at 38.65Q und $8.2528.071; for January, cany, ot U3¢ per Ib for buves shoulders o #hort rilw. Lake freizhts were jcas . &t Ge for wheat to Bufalo. High- nnchanged, st $1.08 per gullon. Flour t and #tronite Wheut closed 1%c highor, ot fur Uctober and $1.00%; for November. afed easy, ol 4UYy 4c for October LA2sc for November, Oats closed lIr- ¢ for Octoher and 23%c for acd i lower, ot Ble. Darley L ot (013 cavlt and UZ¢ for Noveinber. Moy active oua steady, nt $5.2025.00 for poorw ester, Caltio were In good demand and Sheep were dull and unchany- The cxports frum the Atlantie scaboard lost 517 brls Nour, 1,023,843 Lo bu com, 171 brls lard, 3 % meats, There was fnapected i thle ooty yestorday 648 cars wheat, 55,800 bu carn, 100 carsand 23, 800 bu cary rye, oud 07 cars barley. 'Total (1,104 , 5#1,000 bu, One hundred dollars 1n gold would vuy $162,50 In greenbucks at tha close. uh nuevanced 104z15¢. ed Greenbacky av the Now York Stock Ex. chango yesterday closed at 974, Neither of 1he parties in Ohio ia confident 0 to the result of tho clection to-lay, The lubor movement fing somowhat unsettled cal culations, nud, the streugth of this new element being hard to astimate, the ** proba- bilitivs” aro lacking ju their tmost valusble cesentinl, A telegram from Coustantinople states {lint another large ennvoy of provisions is on ke way to Plevun, ond that the escort in charge, consisting of somo tweuty battal. ious, has defented o Russinn dtachunent sent to intercept them, This is tho nanal order of {hings—Turkish noiivity and Lussian im- Decitity, Messrs, Wisrano Wooparp and 8, I, Mo Cuey, both well.kuown citlzens of the West Division, wero yesterday appointed by Gov. Crrruze members of the West Park Commis- sion, o taha the places of Messrs, Scnorrz nud GureeNenavs, ramguod, Otber vacan. <y and uppointmenta in the Hoard are ex- peeted to ocenr within few days, If the prowises of a prominent Derlin journel aro corroet, the recontly-accom. plished understanding Letwoen Germany and Italy hns no benring upon the Eastern dif- ficulty, but hns roference entirely to the possiblo outcomo of the Fronch elections, in which hoth of tho sbove-namned Powers hinvo a deap intorest: ut least they aro both in nccord on ono point, and that s, that a Clerical victory would mean trouble all sround. The gas question was once more setiled Init eveming by tho Common Council by the pasinge of uu ordinunce fixing the prico at €2 for the West and $1.65 for the Bouth Division. It is perbaps uot cxtravaguat to expyet that the Council will now ‘give the question a rest, aud dovote it attention to various inotters of important businoss which havo yulfered in conssquence of tho Alder. menio propensity for gas which swells but not illuminates, with reference (o the Speakendiip, Mesars, Cox, Monuzisox, and other willing ones are ut the Cupitid wuiting for thimgs to turn up, but, as o rale, they keep their own conusels, and ouly express themsolves in the most renerul way, Mr, Mosnsoy, it is sald, bas gonu sv fur as to udmit that he will not train with 'Tox Scorr's Tesas Pacific crowd, and that the country has his permission to re. sume specie paywents os early 88 it soes fit L0 do ko, without rugard to the feelings of greenbuck candidates, ‘There is 1o iumediste prospect of o war with Mexico on uccount of the El Yaso dis- turbuce, and the valiant militia Brigediers who are forwarding their offera of service in various purts of the country are iu no dauger of Leitg taken ot their word. The quarrelis n purely local affair, growing vut of the dis. puted nghts of the parties in referonce tothe operation of the salt mines 1n that region. It is the interest of the speculators and ad- veuturers thereabouts to kick up o row with Mexico in the expectation of cleaning out the Mecxicon clement of the population, which is troublesome chicfly becauso of a disposi- tiou to stand upon rights that bave been rccognized a8 valid for years. ‘The row will vot Ly likely to assume imternationsl con. Bguunee. ——— ‘The irislof the county ringsters in tho Criminal Court yesterdsy was productive of importunt developments through tho testiniony of Kiupeary, the former Warden of the Fuog-House and knsane Asylum, who waa necessarily & party to the Leavy frands perpetrated in the delivery of snpplics for theso institations. Kruprrey, having tarned State's-evidenco, proved to bo a valuable witness for the proscention, and, under tho skillful condnct of his examipation by Mr. Stonns, who is remarkably successtulin over- coming the technical objections raised at every step by the counsel for the defonso, tho ex-Warden yesterday detniled a most as- tonishing chapter of aystematic and consnm. mate frand. It will ba noticed with genoral satisfaction that Judge Fanrwrrn's rulings aro uniformly in tho interest of ' more light,” without at the samo time admitting in ovidence anytliug that tands to unfairly prejudice tho case of any of the co-defend- ania. Thus far e trial is a trumph for the prosecution, who bave been able to main. tain with signal success the proposition that Jawa are not framed nor courts of justice es- tablished wholly with a view to assisting ho escape of criwninals from the just penalty of thefr crimes. Thera {8 & meeting to. bo held to-night to take uteps to eatablish spome pormanent snp~ port for the volunteor military forces of the city. There is an iden that the City Govern. mont shonld undertake to support tho milis tary organizations. No policy conld bo more fatal to tho city, or totho regiments, than this. There aro nuw two skeloton rogiments of infantry,—that is, neithor regimont is more than balf foll, It is not likely that they would consolidate even if they conld. They are composod of persons of different habits aud associations ; and yot one full regimout would bo botter than a dozon skeletons, The young men who servo in these regiments give their time and their services froo, and that is -a sufllicient saorifico to nmsk of thom. They onght not to bo asked, even if thoy conld nfford it, to pay the largo cost of armorics and other expenditures of such or- gonizations. The meoting to-night shonld result in such mensures s will cstablish an endowmont fund suflicient to maintain & thorough organization, and enablo the regi- menta to fill up their ranka to the maximum number. This fund might be n common one for tho support of both regiments, or bo left to the dircction of tho contributors ns to which regithent the money shonld beapplled. Curtainly the existing debts of the regimonts slould be paid, permanent armories provid. ed, and o suflicient sum secured to purchiase uniforms. To do this will requiro a consid- erablo sum of money, which, howover, could not bo more wisely investod, A short timo sinco the Hon. Joseen E. McDoxaLp, represonting the Indiana De- mocracy in the United Btates Benats, visited the Hon. Ouven P, Monrtox, Republican Benator from the Hoosior State. The visit was prompted by a fecling of friendahip which has cxisted between tho two gontle- wen for many years. During the brief in- torviow Mr, McDoxaLp, in the spirit which has governed members of the Uppor House since tho formation of tho Governmont, sug- gested to Br. MorToN tho necossity of his gxexcinlng the utmost care during the poriod of his convalesconce, and incidentally vol. uateered, in the oventof his (MonTox's) boing sblo to reach the Capital during tho extra sgession, to extond tho ordinary courtesies and pair with his fecblo collengue, if necessary, thus enabling 3r, MonTtoN to nbsont himself it his physical condition should prompt such a courso. Thero waa nothing unusual iu this contiugent agrecment, yot it soems to havo stimed tho cternal-vigilance olement of tho Indiana Domocrasy - to ils very core. The Indinnapolls Sen. tinel, roprosenting this olement, goos into bysterics over tho matter, and raves in o threatening and mysterious manner about * the voluntary disfranclisement of his con- stituents,” and oll that sort of thing. Senator BfcDoNaLp does mnot scem to be very soriously worked up by the Senti- nels gripes, yot ho deems it neces- sary to mnke a plain statement of tha facts in tho case, which he does in o lettor published olsewhere in this {fssus, wherein It appears that hio (McDoxaxLp), at tho oxtra session of the Senate last autumn, was indebted to his collongue for tho samo porsonal favor which he hiinself has tondor- od Mr, Morroy, and which has s0 unsettlod thie stomach of the Sentinel. TO-DA! ELECTIONE. Tho regulur Stato olections occur to.day in Ohio wuud Jows, in esch of which a full State ticket and n new Logtalaturo are to be chosen, Tho Iown election is chiefly notabls for the npathy which Lus chaructorizod the came paign, Aftor the dissonslon nmnong tho Re- publicans was allayed by an agreement in Convention not to comunit the pacty of that Htata cither to an approval or disapproval of the Presidont’s Southurn polivy, the interest scemod sudderly to disappear, and nelther the Implucubles nor tho President's friends lave been active m the campaign. 'Tho re. sult can scarcely ol to be n reduction of the usual Republican majority, which, however, is so enormons na to leave margin for a great many redactions without risking the loss of the State. Thero are four tickets in tho fleld, and tho candidates for Govornor o0 a8 follows: Jouw I Gesn, Republican; Jomx P Intsu, Dumocratio; Dasizr, P, Srtupns, Green- back; and Ettas Jessoe, Prohibition, The Probibitionists anoceedod iu springing upon the Repnblican Convention a resolution in dorwing thelr thoories, which was introduced alter the rogular procoedings wero concluded, but wo are glad that they were not oven sutisfiud with this, and in the end resolved 10 run a ticket of thelr own, 'Tho Republic- au party is cortuin to bo the better in tho end for ils frocdom from all alliances which seek Lo ilentity it with projects and hobbles that do not properly belouyg among political isuues, Tho Ohio election hos excited a good deal more interest, bat the jnterest Lus been of a kind to make coufusion worso confounded, and the rosult i3 vnoe of thoso thinge that no. bedy, under the circumstances, will ba rash enough to predict. We do not remem. bter any cloction of importance that has been complicated by so any alde jssucs end contentions, o bLo. gin with, there aro six parties and five ticketa in the ficld ‘The Republicaus are running Wiirzax . Weasr for Governor; the Democrats, MRiomanp M, Busuor; the Greonbackers, Srrpuex JonnsoN; the Pro- hibitionists, Nxxny A. THoursox; and the ‘Workingmen have divided up into two fac- tions, one runniog L. 1, Boxo and the other Sreruex Joussow, the Greenback candidate. It is impossible to foretell how muck these side issues will cut into the rogular parties in on *off year,” orto ecstimate which of the two regular parties will be the greater sufforer by this cutting. But tho situstion in Ohio Lns been con- fused not alone by the number of parties, but Ly the differcnces that have srisen in ench of the parties. The Democrats are all “tore up" over the currency question,— Inture to bo chiosen will be called upon to clect n Unitod States Senator for the placo vacated by Secretary Snenuax nnd now oc- cnpled by StaxLer MaTriews, and the con. dulature of the latter for the United States Sonate secms to have cut mors figuro in tho campaign than the candidatura of Judge complicated condition of things on n gencral cloction-day than exists in Ohio, and it is impossible to give even a fair guess aa to the otitcome, ticket, but whother tho candidates shall be abla or not to overcomo all the embarrass- ments with whieh thoy have been hedged in is, at best, a doubtful matter, mit or resign.” Tho repetition of the phrase in the mnuifesto of Sunday means. that the Republican leadors aro confident of success, or that thoy seck {o nronss the party from lothargy. We cannot bellove the latter sup- position to bo correct. Private advices from Fronco indicate that tho Ropublicans sre active and hopaful. memory remaing 88 an inspiration, TA hes been convicted, but the verdict bas only established his patriotism in a puror light. MaoManox has testified to hia wesk- ness, not to the justice of his cause orits chanco of provailing, by his asssulta upon tho libertios of ths people. sald with 8o much force, in his cloquent hundred words before the Tribunal: *The Governmont of the 16th of May, who aro taking purely politienl yproceedings ngainst me [him], ought to hnve waited until tho country hud judged them at the olectiona” GaamerTa hns now ap- pealed to the tribunal tliua constituted by tho people; thers, ke well knows, is nJudge 1hat no Kiug or President ean corrupt. Ho is willing to have his offenso tried in this court; nnd, that thore muy bo no obscurity in the indictment and pleadings, ho repents in on aggravated form all that ho said be- fore, tion, which Gamnvxrra forces upon Mac- Muniox, is destined to have n place in his- tory, aro a8 happy as the idea which thoy convey. Nover waa thero n better illustration of the argument by opigram,—a form of argu- went It grave political quostion In four words; to strip off ‘tochicalities, sentimental cover- inge, and verbiago ; and to leave tho main 1ail to comprehond it. Gaxmerra has done in Franco. it impossible for Frenchmen {o misunder- stand the position of MacMlamown, roducod the proposition to its simplest torms, and left no refugo ovon forignorance. Tho Prosident aided,lit is true, in this praiso- wortby nndertaking, Thespeechat Lillamight never have bocome famous but for the proso- cation of its nuthor. default might not have produced an impres- sion in the rural districts had not the Governmont sent all over Franca a sheot headed * Condemnation of M. GaMpzTTA.” ‘Thy countryman who road * Conviction of M. Gauperra " could not long be kept in jguorance of the offenso for which he had been convicted. Every votor has learned from tho candidates, from his neighbors, from common report, that the offense was must submit or resign."” 1ho assistance of tho Government, GasnerTa would have found s way to tho hearts of the peoplo, overy avenue of approach to them is open for him. and credit with conservativo Republicans is the most significant fact of recent French politics, A fow yosrs ago we wero acoustomed to [think of him as a smort young advocato who had ridden into the Assembly on the shoulders of a Radical mob, Later, ho Lo- cnne known as the chicf of the Revolutionary party, and the head of the Provisional Gov. ernment organized at Marseilles, Not till tho ‘fall of the Commuue were his eyes opened to the dangers of Radioalimn. “the atrocities’ of that fearful period in Parls mado him more cautious, and his tendoncies have boen ever since ln tho direction of a stablo Governmeut. Wo find him now an bonest supporter of the Constitation, the political heir of 3. Tatens, and the leader of the moderate Republican party in France. e has boen transformed into a imartyr by patienca under most exasperating circum- stances, / ndvocating variously resnmption in gold and blank - repndistion, with advo- cater for all the intermediate stages. Parxe and Praprreron, Tox Ewiva and Taunsax, havo all been pulling in different directions. Besidea this, tho anomaly is presented of the Democratic party runuing ns the candidate for Governor a man of Know-Nothing antecedents, and the Ciucin- nati Commercial prints o cut of the pencil with which the Irishmen are going to “*eut ™ 3Ir. Bismor's name from tho Democratic ticket, Dut the Republiean ticket is nlso likely to suffer from internal strife. To be- gin with, the Ropnblican Convention deliv- ered itself of a rather equivocal uiterance on the silver question, and tha. different pol- iticians and spenkers in the campaign have been called upon to explain what this utter- ance meant, which thoy liave done (ench nc- cording to his own individual construction) in such manner ns to leave it more uncertain than ever. There is something of the samo division a8 regards the Resumption act, There nro Jocal disturbances, as in Toledo, where the Raepnblicaus aro qguarreling over tho na- signment of the Post-Office, The Implaca- Llos also put in an appenrnnce with the pur- pors of damaging the party, becauso the Convention would not condomn President Hayes’ Southern polioy, Finally, the Legis- domination or popular sovercignty. As bo- tween two anch political forces, there ought to be no donbtful issue. One idea hns already fallen into old ngo nad disrespect; the other is vigorons and eternal, THE RINTH OF OCTOBER. To-dny is the anniversary of the groat fire of 1871, 'The Oth of October will hardly over be forgotten iu the history of Chicngo, Bix years only have clapsed since the city was reduced to n mass of smoking einders, and the now Chicago has nrison in ail the benuty and magnificenco of n grand metropo- lis, It is difficult,of course, to tell what wonld have been now the appearance of the clty had no such fire occurred; but wo all know -what it is, and we supposo ‘that ft is tho gemerally mccopted opinion that tho fire did an immensa ben- efit; that out of tho general ruin thore camo an uniformity of architecturo in the way of solidity and benuty which would have taken half n contury to produco nnder ordinnry circnmstances, While the effecta of the fire upon the fortunes of individunls, of fami- lies, and of privato estates,arostill felt sorely and extensively, Chicago, 8s a whole, has long since recovered, and has a substan- tality rarely attnined dnring tho briof life- time of this city, and much less attained in the half-dozen yoars that have succcoded tho desolntion. The visitor to Chicago will look in vain for tho “ruins” which aix years ngo ex- tended from Tarrison strcot to Fullerton aveng, a distance of threo snd a half miles, including in that aren the substantinlly-im- proved portions of the city, and all ita busi- ness sections. Even to those who have wite nessed the rebuildingof Chicago tho present city is n marvel and a surprise, The im- provement following tha destruction is not confined to tho structures which adorn the business thoronghfarcs, but in all parts of tho city tho new nnd substantial architecture hns extended. Nothing less than tho fire would havo forced the poople of the city to abandon and forbid tho crection of wooden houses. Even aftor the firo tho struggle to establish such a regulation wns o long and doubtful one, and was st last only madoe effective in tho excitement following the costly firc of 1874, 'Ihere is not a rational man in the city who now qnestions tho wis- dom of that prohibition,or who would repeal it if he could. Six years ago the business and productions of the city were suspended. Bat the men of Chicago were not disposed to lay down and weep, Their cnorgies were aroused by the mngnitudo of the calawity, and at onco they began the work of rebuilding, and ot tho samo timo resutned business. There was a delny of somo days iu the delivery of goods, but in a weck orders could bo filled in Chieago ns rapidly os they could have been ‘before the fire. Doeply impressed upon tlio memory of the city is the substantial ovidence of the world's charity and sympathy in the hour of suffer- ing. TFrom all partsof tho world thero camo hither food for the hungry, clothing for the naked, succor for the sick and homeless, Never waa thero a grander and nobler vindi- cation of - the brotherhood of man than was furnished Ly that mnagnificent contribation to tho destitute of the city in nshea. Cliieago to-day rebuilt, with a population nearly doubled, with a trade quadrupled, and an industry of all kinds in active oporation, oxtending grateful thanks to thoso who be- frionded Ler in her diftrees, sho invites the oitention to Ler present condition that oth. ers sy bo encournged to practica the grost Josson of what may bo accomplished by en- orgy, labor, and turift, evon ngalnst over- whelming calamity, West for Governor. 1t would be.difficalt to coneeive of a more The Republicans have a good COAMBETTA'S APPEAL TO FRANCE Gaxnerra declares again, ** o must sub- Trreas 1s dead, but his Ganper- As GaMDETTA Corroctiopal The alternative of submission or resignn- Tho words in which it {8 couched in which no smoil tho Freneh execl, mm————————m thing to put o DANA'S PARTY IN NEW YORK. Cnanzes A, Dava, the vituperative edi- tor of tho Sun, Lins founded a party whose eardinal principlo is: Opposition to Presi- dent Haves, Its metbods aro abuse, de- nunciation, ond falschood. Dana's party mado tho platform of tho lats Demooratio Convention in New York, The preamble and first two resolutions of tho platform might have been wrilten by Dawa lime wolf. Thoy desl with * frands* and ** usur. pations,” and * hold up to uuivorsal execra. tlon tho action of Congress in ratifying the olection of Mr. Havzs, That which pecu. larly reveals {he delicate thought of Dana in tho platform is tho second rosolu. tion, which formally **sets the mark of in. famy " on the transaction. Daxa has been “gotting tho mark of infamy" on Pros- idont Marzs ond * branding his brow with fraud” cvor since the imauguration; and, though tho President stands up well under the infliction, it must be sald that Daxa has nover despaired of eventually making an impression, Tlo frouble with DaNa's party Is sim. ilar to that which overcamo tho colebrated party of Ilans Bumrsuns, It s not big enongh. It is an inconsiderable faction of tho Democratio party. - Mr. Daxa’s presump- tion that his party is the Democratic party, and the Democratic party his, has not 23 yot been justified by facts. We know thore ore emineut men fu tho Democratie party who think Daxa has been exhibiting bimsclf s anything but a wiso man In his conrse attacks upon the I'resldent, There aro eminent meu outside of the Democratio party who do not Lesitato to say that Dana has been making s fool of himself. Binco the President las beon inaugurated, and a Democratio Touse mtified his election, no benefit can como from factious opposi- tion. Yatriolism domands that his good sctions shall bo applauded. Dana is] as truculent in disoussing Civil-Service reforinor the Southern polioy a4 Le is in dealing with tho Returning Board or the Electoral Com- mission, Mr, Daxa is a bad Democrat, He attacks and vilifies lus own party, 'The Democratic party sought the Electoral Commission, ap- proved its findings, confirmou the cleotion of Afr. Haves, and assisted at Lis inauguration. Wo have tho testimony of Mr. Parxe, of Obfo, to this efloct. He says that the Dem. ocrats desired the Commission bocause they thought it would givo them tho Presidency. Tley belioved Judgo Davis would have the casting vote, and were confident he would vote for TiLogN, BIr. Paxse was o member of the Commission, and be is o Democrat of longer atanding than Mr, Daxa can lay claim to. e is botter entitled than Mr. Daxa to spesk for the party. Another Democrat who justified and officially spproved the findings of the Commission is SamvrsJ. Rasparr, Speaker of the Houso of Hepresentatives. He is by.virtue of bis position the leader of the Democratic party in the United States. When urged to recoguize dilatory motions with & view to prevent tho completion of the count, he refused. With his assistance, and that of the Democratic msjority in the House, Mr. Haves was mado President. They are responsible for him, Now,itise question whether Mr. Daxas iv a botter Dem~ ocrat than Bax RawpaLs. What the implacable bloody-shirt politl- is iusuo so distinet that the dullest mind cannot This is exactly what Ho has mado He has Even the judgment by tho patriotic uttornnce of Gaunerta—*'Ho But, vven without He is o man of tho people, and The growth of M. Gaxprrra In influence the persecutions of MacManoxn and his own ‘Through is all he has preservod & calmuess of demeanor every way oreditablo to Lim, and his prudenco has secured to him not only the confidence of tho Republicans iv France, but the ocsteem of foreign na. tions. 'I'he wonderful spectacle is presented of all Europe doiug homsge to & man who,a {agr years ago, was esteemod a dangerous sgitator, Ganoxrza perceives, as his now manifesto shows, that tho contlict in France is not be- tween different kinds of Hepublicans, but between the ideas of Constitutional Govern- ment and Clerical Domination. 1le spenks of ‘the sgonts of syllabos and the Pope, who aro all sheltored undor the patronage of the President, doubtless for the better pro. tection of Republican i{nstitutions”; of the determingtion *‘to withdraw the nation, as well ax the individual, indefinitely from cler. joal rule”; and of the resolution of France + 10 spurn the Royalists, Casarists, and Cler- icals—both knaves and partisans of vie. lenco.” Here, after all, is the meat of the controversy. It is a question of clerical ans are to the Republiean party, tho im- placable ** stamp-his-brow.with-frand " men nre (o the Demoertic party. Neither fac- tion is respectalle in numboer or opinions. Tho implacable Democrats with Daxa at their hiend nro not fighting for any principle, but in tho interest of Mr, Tir.orxN. rire to keop the fact beforo tho people that Mr. TiLoxy has been badly used. Thay demand a renomination in 1880 a8 the lenat rocompense that can bo made for his inju- ries. This is the sceret of the Sun's opposi- tion to Geonae B, McCreLLAN, whése grow- ing importanco in the Democratio parly it views with undisgnised ularm. cratic party ns a wholo is not committed in any such way to Mr. Tiuoex, lendors found him a dend-weight during the Inst campnign, and they want no moro of him, very Convention platform, rejected his candidate. Tho power of Tipex has been visibly declining ever sinco his defeat; and if he wera to bo n can- didate ngain ho would not get o nomination in any Convention, not even in the Conven- tion of his own Stato. They de- The Demo- Most of the Even the Now York Domocrats, in the that nadopted Dawa's TITLED INCOMPETENCY. Tho Russinns are once moro bentenat o critieal time, and almost within reach of success. After a throo doys’ Dattlo noar XKars, in which the wholo forco of thie Rus. sinug wns ongaged in a desperate effort to begin tho investment of that fortress and at the samo timo threnten Murnran Pashn's communieations with Erzeroumn, they have beon forced back townrds the frontier with o loss in tho vicinity of 10,000 men, whilo tho Curks, according to their official announce- mentd, havo lost but abont 2,000, Ilitherto they have confronted the Turks in a line ox- tending from Kara through Aloxandrople to the frontier. the army is doubled up, and will probably devote tho ramainder of the campaign to cstablishing themselves in wintor quarters, if tho Tarks allow them to do so. Russian army was lod by the Duko Mrcmaet in person, It will bo remem- bered that ono of tho Russiau armies in Bulgarin was led by tho Grand Duke Nicn- oras in parson in tho disastrous ropylse at Plovnn. To completo the record of titled ju- compotency, the Czarowitch, commnnding the third army, hasscored several dofeats but po victorles, although confronting n ‘Turkish Marshal who has just beon relioved for incompetency, should ovor encounter the Rassian, it is not improbablo that the Grand Duke Arexis and the Grand Duke CoxaranTmve -would follow in tho footsteps of the illustrious Grand Ducal obstacles to success on shore, Now that lino 18 broken and The Grand If tho Turkish floot 'ho campaign has progronsed sufficiontly to establish tho fnct that thdro aro threo gravo reasons why tho Russians have not yot won victory, althongh they hiave sacrificed o hundred thousand lives of brave soldicra, Thess thros rensons may bo found near the throno, and if tho Ozar, who has porsonally inspectod tho campaign in Dulgarin, s not discovered the reasons, ho must bo obutinate- 1y blind to his own interests, ns well ga criminally carcless of thalives of his roldiors, Undoubtedly, from soma points of view, it is o desirable thing to be a Russiaon Grand Duke. Avexisfound it so in his trip through this conutry ; bajitis yot . to be developed ihat s Russian Grand Duke is of suy consa- quence iu timo of war shnply beenuse ho Is u Grand Duke. Coustitution of Russia aud with all ita tradi- tions that tho sclons of the Royal houso shall command its armies, nnd in ono respeet this is of advantage, bocnuso there is no question of theirloyalty to tho reigning honso, no quos- tion of theirimplicit obedience to tho Czar, and uo dangor of treason. to the Romanof? house, or oven the soverost ducal discipline, cannot of thomsolves win battles ngainst tho Turks. There is no doubt of tho valor of the Russimn troops, and it is all tho more remarkablo since thoy know that it thoy are wounded oraro taken prisonersun. ‘burt they are surs to be doomed to denth by torture or massacro at the hands of the Turk. ish Lutchers, Thero ia no doubt that there aro brave Generals. The history of war sinco Mounar's day does not fornish horoes mora daring or brilliant than 8zobruxey and Gorpro. - Bat mera bravery of Mussinn officors and men will not of jtsolf win bat- tles against the Tarks, A Grand Duke who i5 a groat for one not but when thoe Grand Duake has small military talont, and from hiu very position is frco from tho healthy oriticism which should apply to him ; when he monopolizes what- ovor glory may accrno, and can shirk tho re- sponsibility of errors, it doca not show much military foresight to keep such o man at the head of tho army. are cortainly wiser than tho Russuny, ‘Turkish General displays incomputency, off goes lis hioad ; evon if o Bultan weakens, tho ‘Turks always Lave “a happy disputeh” in store for him. that theso Grand Dacal amateurs, playing war, do not oven have compotent advissrs about them, or, if they do, are su\;lhnuly in- different to their counsela. The German Orown-Princes beld jmportant commands in tho Franco-German war, but they had first- class Chiefe-of-8taf and admirable advisers near them, and victory followod victory. Tho Russian Grand Dukes, howover, have made blunder after blundar, and, worso than oll these, do not correct thom. Duke Nicuoras, both in June and Sop- It.is in consonanco with tho But mero dovotion General moy couut especially in Ruasls, than ollied to tho Royal ~house, moro, 1In this reapect the ‘Tarks ita It aggravates the situation The Grand tembor, undertook s great military opera- tion at Plovna, and in each instanco con- splouously failed, iu the finit place by Ll ing a wmall forco ngalost a large oue in in- tronchments, aud in the socond place by an utter want of co-operation, which left the gullant Sxossrery without support cfter he lad taken the most important position bear. ing wpon the fortress. 'fhe operation in each Instance was undertaken without serions counting of tho cost, and tho result was that thousands of livas wers lost without any compensatory advantege, ‘'Vhe same want of co-operation and lack of strategio ability sont Gen, (ourxo over tho alkans with o comparative haudful of men, unsupported, to confront s powerful 'Turkish wrwy, and now keeps Gen. Zsuuxnuan's forcea tloun- dering sbout in the Dobradscha warshes, where they are rapidly falling victims to malaria, Such ignorance at headquarters must sooner or later hove a depress- ing influence upon tho rank aud file, The London Bpeclator, which is 2 warm and earnest friend of Russis, poiuts it out os follows: ¢ 'Fhe Russlan army will in all probpbility loso temper mud cour- ago with every new smonth. Nothing takes away the heart of the soldier kiko the knowl. edge thathe is beiog Landled by clusy, careless, and ineficient handa’ The best army in the world will soon bocome the worst undor such conditions, It isnot hu- 1man nature Lo sacrifice your life for s marti- net who does not kuow what to do with the blood with which he plays, and caunot oven thought or presence of mind." The bent thing the Russinns can do in the premises is to follow the keep what lie buya with it, for want of fore- l exampla of the Turks and commenco shelving commanders for incompetentcy, oven though they bappen to Lo Grand Dukes, and pnt goldiers in {heir places. Military experianco is bettor than titled incompotency in mapnging great arnies. As tho Czar hns ‘beou a spectator of the Ducal Llunders and their disastrous rosnlts, ho may correct thom aven now. If he does not, then Russia is no longur o first-class military power, That the English Lnve already dismissed thelr fears is sliown by the following extract from a lead- ing article in the London Times of tho 21st ult. : The discovery of Russian weaknors 1s, meane while, banishing some mischlevons delurlons, Ieneeforth the English peoplo will be loss troublad than they havo beca by tales of & Russian advance fo the Indian thinplre. Even befare this wae the idea that Russia was strong cnough to wrest India from us was preposterons; the belief init waan pure mork of a wenk political intelligence. ot now that fancy will scarcely rufio the most timid of patriote, o B The Iicing Jrsue, & Prohibition jonrnal published in Boston, atatos that the blue rib- Von and reid ribbon temperance revivals of Fraxcts Monrny in New York and Pennsyl- vanin are uttor humbngs, and that the con. verted whisky-drinkers and snloon-keepors are backsliding and returning to their ovil habits. Tho Living fsue gloats over tho fact, 3 it bo one, in a manner that shows it could hear of nothing more hatefal than the success of nny other tomperanca movement than a prohibitory ono. As the prolibitory movoments, however, are even more uunsuc. oessful than Mr. Monpux's, thero wonld secem to bo but little room for exultation of any kind by the Lieing JTasue. The socloty formed in France n year or two ago for the purposoc of surveylug for o canal to unite tho Atlantic and Pacific by the Darion ronte is meking progrea in its opora- tions. Ita explorers aro busily at work in tho United States of Colombia, under the direction of Lient. Wysr, who roports his confidenco that an interoceanis canal by woy of Colombia will soon Lo an nccomplished fact. Ilo speainlly favors tbe Colombian route, beeause it will not require such ex- peosive locks as the Nicaragun route, while thelowest gradionts and narrowest Isthmuses are nlso found in Colombin. et — The New York Staats-Zeltung, tho great Ger- man Democratic organ of New York, is utterly dlsgusted with the Tammany State.ticket, and cotnscts a bolt from both the Republican and Democratie State tickets, It admits that tho time {8 too short for the nominatlon of an en- tirely new tlcket, but cousiders it o be quite possible to make such a selection from both tickets ns would secure the support of men of both partles who arc given to think for them- sclyes, and would give cmphasls to the protest which such voters havo mndo agnainst the arro- gunt dictation of their political leaders, auch as Conkrixa aod KeLny. The Stawls-Zeltung thiuks that the proposed Cooper Instituto mecting might fitly be made the oc caston |, for nominating such o conlition tiaket, nnd of furnishlng the machinery by which it should be submitted to the votars of the 8tate. The President's pollcy 18 refesred to in a manuer which moy be too en- thusfastic for the Dinplacables, but which will certatuly be approved by the great body of in- uependent voters, whether recrulted from the ranks of tho Democratic or the Republivan party. After referring to the abjectionat char~ acter of the Influences which have triumphed at the Stato Conventlons of both polltical purties, aml to tho nocessity of proventing the success of either ticket by way of adminlstering n les- son to tho party mupagers, the New York Stasts-Zeitung, under the head of ** A Brilliant Opportunity,” goes on to say: The time preceding tho November electlon Is too shot to think of an organization extending over the whols State for the nominatlon of apother ticket, But there ts o practical plan, and one, too, which cau eaxlly be exccited, nun lect from the tickets nominuted ul Hoclester and Allany the beat men, those who aro kuown to be bt Tl ideniifcd with Ahe motives that con- trolled the Conventlons which nominated theim, and to provide those citizens who Are divvatisficd eith the doings of both parties with fickets with the named of theso candidates. 1t will requiro » comparatively small number of voles ta socure the eleclion of the candldates selected in this uanner, Itle truo thoss canditiates will st remain the nominees of the Rochustor or Albany Conventlon, but it will bo shown thnt they owe their election nul to the views prevailing at thuse Conventions, but, on the contrary, to the opposition to thes viows, and notther Mr, CoNiraxa nor Mr, Krrny could then bowat & victory, Tho New York Times mther favors tho Idea, but does not conunlt itsell unreservedly, It says of the Democratic Convention: There was an hmpnaenco worthy of Twexp in tho anti-TiLvex majonty of the New York Democratic Conveation. They threw uverbosrd "TiLbxx can- didaten, uosainated his enemics, and then stols hte resolutions sud paraded his reforuis as atitio to popalar suppost, ~ Afler which thoy rubbed it ail fn with a spectal resulution welcouing the wppestance of Geu. McCLELLAN 8 tho Democratic jeader n Now Jursoy, - ‘Iho ** Usufruct™ of tals buatnicss e —— e The Sacramento Union has complete official returna of the election of tncwbers uf tho Leis- Inture last month, and they show the following results #s compated with tho last Legislature: ——1ETT BT, = Jount Jont Bens bal. Sene Lal- ute, House, lot. al¢. IHouse, ot Republicans, o4 a5 H 1 @ Democrata,. LT u u7 Indepouden 2 4 ¢ 4 1 Dem, mj, .14 o 4 18 a2 Bl On thu question ‘of calling o Constitutional Convention, the total vete cast in the Btate, ex- copt o county, Wos 144,033 A majorlty, or T4,017, b8 necessury to carry the Conveation. "Thiw uctual vots ou that point waa: For Con- ventiou, 71,531 agaiust it, 44,021, 1t Is ru- tuored that the missing county yoted in favor of the propusitton, wud the result will bu very close, with a possiblitty that the Couvention has been called. ————c——— Auothier scheme for depleting the Tressury and swamplug the credit of the Geueral Gov- wrnmeut (8 thus deseribed : Une of the Internal-improvement schomes which the Bouths will press upon Congress 14 thy improves ment und enlarzement of the Dinwual Swawp Cunsl 1nto & ship chanuel. ‘Fhe canal which coauects Chesupeake Hay with Albemarle Bound was cou- structed back u 1700, ond returned (bo Uutted Ntates uver §100,000 dividend on tho slock (L eub- scribed jolutly with Virginia, Lut hus lately run dowa, d{l tow bondhulders who huld w morlgage adveriied lta sale, Which was pusthoucd upiy Secrotary SusnuAN'S prontiee 10 bAuy the malter befure Cougrow. The peopls uf Ewstern Virkinig and North Carolina are uow holding pubio et e to urge theie Cougreesiuen 10 Work for an upe proprintion, asking belp frous the General Goveru- mant on the grouud that the work wili not only beuedt the scctivn through which {2 rune, but wive 5 impurtaus channel of Interns] communication, which might be of greabservice fu case of war, "Wite 0id Nug sod su sppropriativa™ soeis des. tine d to Infuile rebeurasis frun tho errng brethren of Ll 5outh in this Congreas. The Pope is past 53, All the newspapers bave uls obituary writlen up, but Le lveson in o way that wust sstonfsh Wis Cardlials, tive or six of whom have dicd siuce ANTONELLIS all of them wero mien of fewer years than the Pope, und noue of theus ju avy such wearlog position, vl couree. The lutest to go was Sronza, representative of an old italian family rulsed to eminence by 8 Pope threo centuries 220, and who had half expected to be the suc- cessor vl Pope Pius. e — Tho question is sguin talsed, Whero are tho remains of Coitunsve! Says sn exchange: “ Prior to 1790 they were deposited in an old cathedral {n 8t. Domingo City, but i that yeas, by the terms of o treaty belween Frauce sod Bpaln, what were supposed to be the rumalus were trausferred with great pomp to Havaua, The news is now scut from Bt. Domingo that Spalo was cheated at the time, the dust of the 000 uf CoLUMUUS oF 0f soue otlier ewmber of that Mr, IL AL for. County Treasurer, will rezret this deterinination, as they were pro- paring to push his name in the Convention. Mr. Rost is an upright and cxcellont gentleman, ang £ man of fine business quallfications. his family having been sent her Instead of thoes of the great diseoverer, In 8t. Dominzo Cits the ol tomb wan upened A ghort, tme aco in the presence of the civil and ceclesiastienl author. ftles, and the casket was found, waleh, It fg sescried, contding the coveted relies, troversy on the subject fs Hkely to bo an inter- esting one.” The eon One Licat. CrAnk took 8roTran TAL and hig party for o sall down New York Bay, and, with n. vlew to Impressiug the savages with the powers of the “ (reat White Father” and * the Coun- ol of My Nation,"- offcred the redskins soma ealt water. strengthiencd by some of the speeches made to them, and the beveraze was qulte a relief after the thin pap with which they had been surfeited, But thelr stonirchs bad heen A San Franelsco maiden upon whose head bloom the dnisles, under whore chin smile the buttereups, and around whoae cyes aro thecrow. tracks of sixty-five passionale sutiners, lng sued u ghldy boy who enly escaped Marinther's apron-strings seventy feeting y 15,000 for breach of promise. Thus does the tedlous munotouy of law sap the fire of youth, s ngo fur 1t sill bo seen by o card published elsewhers Rust withdraws as o candidate IHls nunicrous friends It ts claimed by n Hungarian Investigator Into the subject that the potato-bug upon which so much excitement hos been bared 18 not the off- spring of Colorado, but the fruit of Turkey and Houmania, driven from homeo by the war. This may serve to reconclo the Turks to some of thelr victorics. e — e Gen. MiLrs Is not 50 had o soldier a8 casual crities might ‘magine. e strikes the keyoote of the Indian war when he ‘sucgests™ tothe Caundlan sathorities “te prevent any portion of the Nez Perces tribe crossing the llue, or to disarin them If they take refuge on English soll" ———— Constderable complnint Is madd becansa the portraits of some modern pollticlans are to ap- pear upon beer-stamps representing greater values than the one to which WasiixaTon's ls pssigued. Probably the seclections bave refer. ence to the amouut the originals consumed. it It willbe gratifylng to the Brrmixae Briy Commissioners to know that Gen, Mis' com- mand, which has had suchan Interesting mati- nee with the Nez Perces, was Intended to act a3 thefr escort and to protect them agalnst trouble. ———— The following dispatch I8 on its way over the wires: *Uen. P, 11 S8ugn AN, Chicago: If you hava any more (iencrals to whom you want me to surrender, send "em ulong €. 0. D, Respect fully, Cuter Joseru.” i 1t bas been discovered that the terrible mon. ster scen by one J. STy near St. Louls was nono other than DAvE ARMSTRONG practicing lils irst Seoatorial effort, ¢ Dave ARMSTRONG threatens that his first Sene atorial effort will be to compel Presidens Haves to frank bils 8Bcnuxrz back to Missourl. PERSONAL. | Tha fourth odition of tho Rev. Joseph Cook's Monday lectures on **Blology * was pube Jished within o weck aftor tho book's tlrat nppear ance, The Baltimore Gazette hns discovered that the Pateut Office was fired by an Incendiary. Un. Jike tho aapiring vouth who fired the Ephesian dome, this follow scems to deslire to blush unseen. Those old frionds and allies, ex-Secretary Dristow and Gen, Harlan, are now reported g estranged through nivairy of Hepublican leadership in Kentucky, and posalbly through rivalry of am- bition for tho vacunt vlace oa the United States Suprema Court, Of tho oighty corporate members of the American Board of Forelgn Missiony but ten are 1lving, ond of the ten only ona J4 able to attend tha meetings regulsrly, namely, the vcuerable ex. Prestdout Hopkins, of Willisms College, who has held the office of President for twenty years, Tho lote great tire at §t. John, N. 1., con- snmed, with ona exception, nll the pooms of Mr. Spencer, whom the Dally News of that city cally *+Canada's greatest living poet." The poem which excaped was a short ono pasted on the back of his daughtor's pictare, which he cacied fn his pocket. "Tho Rochester Democrat has this ftem of Intelligance oxclufvely: °* *Ho was prétty good at the play bueincws,’ sstd Mr, Grant, contem- platively regarding the tomb of hakwpears, * bus 1 whould like to have seen him fghting Bob Lee, or trying (o be a good Preldent with Charles Sum- ner Chalruau of tho Commlttee ou Foroign Helar tions,* " T'ko now Archbishop of Baltimoro, James Gibbons, s but 473 years of age, and the youngest Archibisliop In the United Htates. BDishop Glbbons was traneférred from North Carolins, whero he was Vicur Apostolic, to succeod the lata Blahop McGil s the fourth Iilabop of Richmond on (he 20th of October, 1872, 1le wasthon 88 years of age, snd the youngest ecclesiast in tbe United Statcs weare ing tho mitre, Mr. Newton, of tho British Museum, and Alr, Stmpson, o London artist, have come forward todlspute Dr, Schliomunn's claims. Ar, Slmpson says the ** Falace of Priam* s little botter than s mud-hovel, while Mr. Newton, an’ antlority in pottery, says that all the casus of Greux pottery 1t the Muscum are dated up to 700 BB, C., and beyond that no autboritative datc can bo gives to any freg: wmeut of fetilo ware, Dr. Francis Galton, of *Hereditary Gonlus" famo, Intely called the attention of the British Assoclation to tho unexpected fuct that ln tho majority of criminale the uvcclput s maller than it {s smong the ruspectable classes, Prof. Kolieston read a paper beforo the snme body o8 $'The Vasculue Supply of tho Brain," In which be speculated on the probable dlsappesrance of the occipll lohe on account of its deficiont relative aupply of bluod, ‘The Republican papers in Paris have late- 1y outdone Gambetta Iu bold utterances. ** Among the wost notable of theas clallengea Is Jobn Lo- motone's in the Journal des Dabats, concerniog the Macinhon manifesto: *Itis the old thnea ro+ peated,—**Duss you will, say what you like, 1 o not golng to quil,'* Just wn, Louls XVI. would wot quis, 5or would Napoleon L., nur Churles Xy nor Louls Philippe, nor Nuvolovnthe Last, They wauld uot quit, but they have gone for all that,'"* Queen Lsabolln has hud a sossion with Al fous in the Escurial, at which Don Antonlo Cano~ vas do Castillo, tho Prima Mintstor, sesiated, 'The inmediate tesults are that the old lady siays in Bpain; the Court leaves La Granjs without walt g to celebrato the fule duy of the Infunta Mor- cedees Ll ved that the Duko and Duchess of Moutpensler and both thelr daugliers will go back o Frauce for the winter; and it s guardedly inth mated I the Government papers that (o marslage Is '*adjourned."” ‘The poem of * ‘Thanatopsis,” which firet sppearcd in the North American Keciew in Soptem- ber, 1817, began with four stanzas which bave stuce besn owitted. Tho New York Fost offerd she foilowing oxplanation of the circumstanced *+Cho prefatory stanzas were not wrliten ad Jree faco to *Thanatopals,’ but coustitated o separste pocin. Tho powt's fsther carriva both poems 0 Hoston, and placed them in the hande of Mr. Dans, who put thei into the NortA American Resieis, where tuey were couplod together by some take, aud thelr separation fa all later oditions was stply the correction of an juadvertence.” Tho Philadelpbis Times says: ** Prosident BeCoab, of Princeton, bins been scverely taken 80 task by soms of Lis brotber clergymen for sowe romiarks he made at the Presbyterian Conference 81 Edinburg, 1o the efect that there was nob much preacbing I America, tho parsons asuslly devotiog themselves Lo the composition of nice lterary ea* aays rather thau of sermons that would stir the buarts of their beasers. 1t has been a8l that thit was a very unkind rewark for De. McCoh Lo mak®y and very unjust to his able sud eloqueut brethren- Purbape 15 waa; yot moat laywen who bave stened 0 much sermonlzing lately will bo dlsposed t0 say thatthe Doctor was not fac wrong. There 18 very little real preaching nowadays, st least from ity pulpits, though there s doubtiess & grest deal of vury beautiful sermonlzing.”