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gy The Tribave, TERMS O SUBSCRIPTION, TY MAIL—IN ADVANCR—TPO3TAGE rnerl;Di Tri-Weekly, one yi T'ertsof Ryear, per monil WEEKLY EDITION, POSTFAID, e copy, per sear. Club ot four. clmen c g‘l‘:u TPost-Uice addrese fn fall, Including Htate and County. I(cm’;lunccl maybe made either by draft, express, Tost-Office order, or in registored letters, at our risk. TERNS TO CITY SUNSCRIBENS, Dafls, deltvered, Funday excepted, 25 cents per weeks Tintiy, delivered, bunday Inciuded, 50 cents ner weck. Addres THE TRINUNE COMPANY Corner Madlzon and Dearborn-str. Orders for the deltvery of Titz TRINUNEA Englewoud, and Hyde Park left fn the counting-room Willeeefva promut atiention, TANMUSEMT MeVieker's Theatre. Mnadieon strcet, betwren Etate and Deardomn. **Lilltan, or YWoman's Laat Lave.” 3lesdames Don, Btoncall, cte.; Messra, Wheshock, Lesrock, ote. Hoolry?s Thentrs, Randolph _ street, between Clark and LaSalfe, **struck O Meadamea Moore, Bmith, etc. ; Messts, Moore, Sulllvan, ete, ‘ lnveriy’a Thenatre. Monpe sireet, cortier of Dearborn, **The Danites,” Mesdames Dlanchard. Goldthwalte, etc.} Slesars, lian- kin, Aldrich, ete. Collsenm Noyelty Theatre, Clark street, between Randolph and Waabington, ‘Variety performauce, The Tabernacle, Monroestrect, between Market and Fraokitn, Con- scrt by Mesdamen togg. MEETINGS. SOCIETY SYSTONE LODOE, No, a0, A, F. and A. 3f.—Epe- cF Commnicaston Wodiniany. Hregin, e flqnck I'!urp \\’m-t‘mz ‘Illlr‘valll i.l"'l‘.nn l!}gr:;: | members are roqueste B 3 Qinly vl By orderof. M PELAUST W e k0! i Sec. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1877, e CHICAGO MAREKET SUMMARY, The Chicago produce markets swere generally ntronger yesterdny, with wore deing In grain, Mesn pork claosed 16c higher, at 311, 02%4@ 1155 2ash and $12.10@1%1243 for January., Lard closed 745c pe 1100 b higher, at $7.00Q.7.02!4 canly and $7.87$@7.00 fordnnuary. Menta were easier, 8t Ge for boxed shoulders and 0%c for doshort ribs. Lake freights were quict, at 4¢ for corn to Buffalo. Whisky was anated at 81,06 per gallon. Flour was stendy. Wheat closed 14@1%c higher, at $1.11Y for November and $1.00% for Decem- ber. Com closed N@%e higher, at 48)c for November and 43)c for Decomber. Onts closed firmer, at 204c eash and 2534 for December. Rye was 1c higher, at 50c. Tarley closed 4e higher, nt Gic ensh and G4!4c for Derembar, * Ifoze were quiol and stendy, with sales of poor to cholce at 84.20724 .45, Cattls were In lght sup. ply and In light domand at Iast week's rlosing pelces. Saleant $2.00@L75, Sheep were dull, at 22, 7024 00, he exporta from the scaboard last week Included 6, bris flonr, 043,601 bu wheat, 1,3 70 bn corn, 4,144 bu oats, 45,405 bu rye, 257,348 bu barley. 4,157 brla pork, 56,480,007 Ma lard, and 6,467,001 1 meats, In- epected into store in this city yeeterday morming, 208 cars whea. !37 cars corn, 45 cars oats, 5 cars rye, ond 62 care barley. Total (727 cars), 282,000 bu. One hundred dollars in gold would buy $102.87% In ygreenbncks nt the close. —— Greenbacks at the Now York Stock Ex- change closed yesterday nt 074, Tho exigeney which PaTrensox appreliends hina alrendy overtakon Congressman SMALLS. The latter was yesterday sentonced to three years’ confinament at havd Iabor in the South Carolina Panitentiary, acd the former was fonud woting with the Demoerats with all his might and main, in order to oscapo o similar fato, B ‘The Senate yostorday found tima to con- sidor sovernl important nomiuntions and Placo them in the way of immedinto action, Those of HautaN for Justiceof the Supremo Court, and Hirrianp for Minister to Brazil, wero reported favorably, while the Comn. mitteo roported adversely to tha confirmation Bocrotary Burnsay, in ono of lls recent lotters, stated that sinco tho pasaage of the Bilver bill by tho Houso of Ropresentatives the salo of 4 per cont bonds hns boon intor- rupted. Tho New Yorl: Journal of Com- nerce sayn thaot if this kind of argument hins any forco, it faila in this ense, bocause the trouble with the 4 per cent bonds happened long before the passago of tho Silvor bill, In France, the silver fiva-frane plceo is n legal-tender for all nmounts, and is a uni- versal coin in Earope, aud.a logal-tonder in Bolgiwn, Bwitzerland, and Italy, as woll ns in Frauce, France, however, has a cheaper silver coln, in wmall picoes, which is a logal- tendor in ony payment mot excesding 560 francs, or about $10, Deforo 1873, onr sitver dollar way a legnl-tonder for all sums, aud our subsidiary or choapor coln was o Jogal-tender, ns it is now, for 35, T —— The statemant of Ensign Luctex Youxa, o survivor of tholost Huron, furnishos, per- ‘haps, the most interesting account of nar- row escope from death which the trin of molancholy evonts lias brought before the public eyo sluco Ashitabula, cloven months ago, and it will bo scanned With the iutersst which attaches so strongly to the words of those who, having miraculously escaped, live to toll how hundreds of their comrudes went to thelr awful doo In tho oxcitemont created by the contest dor power now progressing in the United Etates Bonate, rumors are enrrent of a pro- Jected ruvival of Mr, Tizorx's claims to the Presidency, and wmany people can doubtlesa bo found who, a4 the case may be, hope or fear that such will bo the result of the Dem- ocrats obtaining coutrol of both brauches of Oongress, Such a movement would, of coursy, bo intonsely gratifying to Mr, TiLoen Linusclf, but there aro no cvidences that he could command ini the Benate tho Democratio Yotes necessary to sot the project on foot. —— e ‘Tho people of New Jersey hiave fong been " noted for o progrossive spirit, ovidenced os well by o perfoct pre-ominence in the dis- tillation of bad whisky ns by tha rocent Gubernatorial election of that forgotten land- wmark of 1862, the Jack of Spades ; therefore, whgn tho terrifio flood of Bunday came and beat upon the road-bed of tho Long Branch Railway, it was consistently held necessary, in tho interest of conserving lifo and prop- erty, to send out a train of observation to look for wash-outs. 'The fidelity with which theso New Jersey lookers for wash-outs exe- cuted their trust is ingenuously rolated in our dispatches this morulng, whero it is stated that thoy ‘found one noar Bouth Amboy, and were thrown from tho track, killivg three wen and injuring four,” ' Tho stateracnt in .n afterncon dispatch publishod yesterdoy, o the effect that Bena- tor Bauoext, of Calf ornis, who was sudden. ly callod to Mussachusetts on gccount of the suicido of his aister, was unsble to procure o ¢ pair-of” with any Democratio Senator, Proves to buvre beun wholly prematare and untrne, Mr, Fato¥, of Connecticut, had the manliness and conrtesy to pair with the ab- scat Senator onall political questions, and the result in the Senato was in no way changed. As reganls the casa of Mr. Brame, it nppoars that the latter originally paired with Scoator Lawar., After he left for Mnine, Laxsn shifted the pair to Grover, of Oregon, who could not possibly attend, be- cnause he was In Oregon ns n witness in the cnso of I, N, 8rires, on trial for perjury in connection with tho Grover investiga- tion. Why did Lawan change Brame's pair to the Oregon absontee, who notoriously could not be in the Senate during tho extra sossion 7 Why did Brains permit him to do it? Bmarox was tho mnn to pair off against ** Gobblo " Grover, and not Brawse. Tho Inttor 18 consurablo for allowing it Ilo Lind no business to pormit this trick to Le played wpon him by his dear friend Laun, Tlhe announcemont that the Grand Trunk Railway haa purchased o controlling intorest in the Chicngo & Sonthern Railrond is of great importance to Westorn shippems. If true, it sceures nn cntrance into Chicago for the Qrand Trunk, and it will only be necos- sary to Lnild & rond from Dalton to Val- paraiso to give the Grand Trunk a direct line between Chicago and Portland. Itis true that the Grand Trunk iz a party to the new pooling arrangement, bnt the more par- tios thore aro to such an ngroement thio loss likoly it is that tho compact can bo main. tained. Besides, the Grand Truuk has interests nnd advantages which necessarily placo it in antagonism with the otker trunk lines running to tho ponboard. During tha wintor, when tho lako navigation is abso- Tntely closed, it reaches sen-ports which have open winter harbors, and it is controlled by lako navigation longoar in the senson than the other lines by reason of its torminus at Port Huron. It is alio owned and managed in Onnnda, and it will always bo more difficult to mnintain n barmony of intcrests with it than the regular American railroad schemers find in nreanging matters among them- selvea, Grover, of Oregon, liko Parrensoy, of Bouth Carolinn, is troubled about a litile nf. fair of the Penitontinry—only it happeus un. fortunately that it is not Groven himsclf for whom thoe Btata Prison yawns in this in. stauco, but for some friendsof his, who * saw hLim through " in the contest for the Sona- torship and in the subsequent investigation conductod by Mr. Morton at tho head of a sub.committeo of the Henate Committeo on Privileges aud Elections, There wna somo fearful and wondorfal swearing upon the latter occasion by va- rions members of the Legislature, whose deninls on oath of tho charge that their votes were purchnsed by Groven's money, conpled with developmenta of o con- tradictory charncter, wore subseqnently tho basis of soveral iudictmonts for porjury. The trials necessitated Gnoven's nttondance, and the potency of his “bar'l” is exemplified in the failure of tho jury to ngree mpon a ver- dict in the case of State Senator Srines. The vote stood oleven for convie- tion and one for acquittal. The trial of Ilony for subormntion of perjury in Groven's behalf follows at once, aud Groven is to bo kept from his post indefinitaly, or nt* lenst 80 long as one juryman out of twelve ean bo persnaded ‘to dizngree. Of the two cnsos, PATTERsSON'S {8 rother tho moro ro- spectablo, Tho Sonate has cntered upon a trial of physical enduranco, tho Republicans having uundertnkon to prolong the struggle on tho Burrren case by o contlnuous session and debata in tho hope of haing able eventually to avert tho defeat and loss of supremncy which now scems inovitable, The vital buxiness of tho dny begnn with a speech by HBonator Davs, of Illinofs, whoso rossons for voling with tho Democrgta to soat Bur- ren without investigation or dolay laid him open toa very severs roply from Sonator Epsurps, who submitted that such a posl- tion was remnrkablo when taken by a Bana- tor who had bnt Iately vacated a seat on tho Dench of theBupremo Judiciary,where patient investigation, with evidence, argument, and sedate deliberation, was tho rule and prace tico. Tho epccches of PatTensoy and Cox- oven iu explanation of their treachery wero vainfully lamo and weak, and the Democrats were forced to o corravt appreciation of tho Lind of enttlo they hind juar added to thelr Lierd. When Mr, Epsruxps, the londer of the Republican side, rang out a charge of bar. goining and corruption, tho Democrats fell into the trap, and rotorted with hints of counter-chargos. This was what Mr. Ep. MUNDS was wailing for, 1lo promptly cater- od n motion to suspund prosent action and refor tho charges of corruption to a commit- teo for investigation, - Tho motion was voted down, of course, but the parliamentary pres- tigo rested with tho Nlopublicans, At Inst advices tho debato was stjll in progross, with the numerical advantaga still on the side of the Democrnts. Tho Now York Nution continues to ques- tion the honesty of all porsons who differ from it on the silver question, It findsin tho ndvoeacy of the silver dollar by YUnx Cmcauo ‘Tupunz sufficlent to throw doubt on the ‘morality of the constitucney” of tho paper. 'Tho Aation finds in the ndvo- cacy of silver romonetization a wido diffor. enco {u the %morality of the Western peoplo ond the morality of the superior class, or “*tho more advanced portion of the human specics,” who inslst upon having only a gold currency ; and, in cousequence of this wide differeuco on the question of morality, it nsks the question : . ‘Whether, after baving had to contend for long years with the Sonth on bels)! of liberty and na- tional unity, we are going 10 hava to struggle with 1ho Weat in defense of that common honesty, that faith of 1wan in man, that corrcspondonce botween facts and words, promiscs nnd fotentlons, without which nolberty could last tong, and natlunsl unity would bo shnply 8 £no nawe for the wnutual fdellty of sobbers? . I'o which question there is a plain and di. rect ahswor given by & writer in the same issue of the Nution, and addressed to the editor of that paper. 'That suswer is as fol. lows; Bin: Why is it that in sl your discusslons of tho silvor queation you coustantly mentivn the fact that it silver bo romonotized evory debler will ba cenabled to chieat his cruditor out of soven ceats ou s dollar, snd wo pdy back luss than he borrowed, while you totally funore what 1s oqually troe, that ot present most dublore are paying back miors than they borrowed? Por instance, I borrowed §1,600 gold, when gold was at $L.25, and gave wmy note for $9,000 currency, 1 hsve paid 7 per coot intercst oo this mote, snd am payiug too principal o4 fast as 1 can, whea goldis at 103, For evory $125 borrowed I ru- celved §100 guld. For overy $123 which I poy. my creditor rocelves over $120 gold. In other words, besldes luterust, 1y creditor Is uow taking from wo about 20 per cent wore than I Lorrowed. Ho lent mo $1,000 zold. 1 pay blm bsck about $1,800 #old, bestdes intereat. Aud thls goes oo all over the country. If 1t ls wrong for the deblor Lo pay Tean than bo borrowed, why 816 not wrosg for the Croditor 1o ¢xact more than bo lent? Aud if there Lo 8 loos tu Lo Lorue, the creditor by usually belter atle to bear It than the debtor, and especmlly naby tho shrinkage of Incomes the dehtor has his obliga- tions increased at the very time when his means aro docreasing. It scoms to me that the natural reativeness of the debtor ¢lnss, under manifestly nnfafr conditions, expialns the whole behavior of the sliver men. This explains the condition in which all dobtors find thomselves with contracts mado when paper money was chenp. The man ‘who borrowed $1,000 in paper when it was worth but 85 conts on the dollar is now, called on %o pay that debt in money worth 974 conts on the dollar. But the oreditor 18 not cantent with this. He wanta nll other forms of legal money than gold abolished ; Lo wants that gold shall have an oxtraor- dinaty valno bocause of its poarcity and of tho universal demand for {t; ho wants the value of gold approciated 10, 15, or 20 per cont boyond its prosent value or purchasing powor; and he wanta paymont in this gold coln, with all ita advanced valno, for the paper dollars worth 83 cents which ho loaned a fow years sgo. It is not only a question whether we shall havo coin payments of all dobis a year henco, but whethor that coin shall bo gold, and tho goid have a power snch as it has not had for acontury. If tho people who have to pay these dobts protest ngainst anything in oxcess of the contract, if they aro willing to pay all they owe in tho honest Jogal-tonder which has existed sinco the foundation of tho Government, are they to be taxed with dishonesty by tho Shylocka who loanod paper dollars worth 80 to 90 cents, and now. demend something moro than 100 cents in coin? — BOUTHERN. CLAIMS, In n recont intorview with a correspondent of tho New York 7'ribune, Senator CoNrrING cxpressed himsolf as to the wants, or ather claime, of the South in the following lan- gungo: Wihat does the Sonth want? It wants from the Government money to bulld the levees of the Mine rirsippi, money to construct a railroad to tho Pa. ¢clfc, money to scoop out every Sonthern river and creek, money to refunil the 877,000,000 of tax collected on colton, and, In the cnd, money i pension the Rebel solaiers, This monay, if itis obtained ut all, must come from tho Norths itmust come in large part froin Now York, becanse New York pays onc-tonth of the whole rovenue of tho Government, Whother the Sonth shall be atiowed to take this moncy from Narthern taxpayers {s the reat Sonthern question which must eater Into onr futaure politica. Lackaidaimeal Republicans, who took no interest in the campaign of this year, will very soon find that thoy have a very great intereat In tho succoss of the Rtepublican party, Thero is undoubtedly much truth in o por- tion of Senator Covgrrna’s remarks, and thoro ia nlso a portion of them’ that Senator Coxxriva might opply to Limself with ad- vantage. There is undoubtedly o Inrgo class of people who wonld like to carry out this programme, oven to the pensloning of Nobel soldiers, - The Meridinn (Mins,) Mercury, in an extract which was printed in tho last issne of Tue Tninune, says: **If Mr, Mennisow had slnaped his repealing bill to abolish all tho sections of the law which pension tho soldiers who fought in the Federal army in the Civil War, lio would havo done what pride demands of n Bouthern Scnator, and what dolicato senso of honor in a Northorn Sonator would approve.”” While the South would rejoico at an opportunity of present- ing and collecting oll thoso olaims, it will bo n long timo beforo it can bring its doughface nllies in the North up to the soratch of voting for thiem, or bofore it will have a Prosident with temerity sufficient to outrage the aentiment of the whole North by signing such bills, It is a danger, but ouly a danger of the futare. At tho same timo, tho dangers arising from theso claims must bo wmot, oud tho proper way to moet them {s oncatn time. ‘Tue Curcaco Tnip. g has ndopted this courso, and hes steadily fought each singlaclaim, Wo have opposed the lovos appropriations, knowing whero thoy would lead. Wo havo opposed tho Tos Scorr schiemo to take Governmont money and apply it to the uscs of private specu. lators and construction rings, knowing whero it would lend. Wo havo opposed overy proposition to ougage tho Governmont in bullding cansls and railrosds anywhoro, knowing whero it would lead. Wo havo oppesod any schomo to ponsion Rebol scle diers or their widows and orphans, bocause the Govornment shonld not be compelled to pay men for secking to overthrow it, ospeoially nfter it has givon those men immnoity from punishment, and becaunse the very proposition {s nn insnlt to the sol. diers who fought to preserve it, and an out. roge upon the memory of thoss who died on Houthorn battle-fiolds and in Southern pris- on.pens. So far as tho cotton tex s con. cerned, if the timo over comes wlion it is ro- funded, then the poople of the North muy with oqual propriety demand that their war | taxes also bo rofunded. It fa possible, if tho Bouth finds itsolf in full politicnl control, with a plinble President in the White Houso and tho doughfaces of the North disposed to ald, that it will uudertake to carry out such schewmes ns Bonator CoNxLING has enumorat- «d, but tho very first sorions attempt of the kind will be tha sigual for n general uprising of tho people of the North to stop the in- famous busincas, The only safoty les not only in opposing cach alngle measure, but in vigorously fighting every om. nibus scheme, If tho Government iy to furnlsh ‘capital for one schome of thia sort, it will. bo called upon for all, and their number is legion, In other wordy, tho Government will be adinlnistored upon tho basla of Communism, and money will be frooly votod ont of tho pookots of the indus- trions for tho benofit of tha idle and profli- gate, What cannot pay for itsolf had better not bo touched, Tho peoplaof this country havo no interest in schomes that will take money out of thelr pockets sgainst their will. In connection with Henator ConxriNg's statement of his views, it is somowhat sur. prising that it did not occur to him that he has done nothing of late to strengthen tho only party that can interposs itsolf as a suc- cessful bulwark to save tho people of the North from the Southern system of spolia. tion. Ogn the other hand, ho hes done noth- iog sinco the Qincinnati Convontion that nent bonds advanced to them, sout through Thua the Ban Francisco fs 26 per 100 pounds, of which by ngreement tho to the [Pacific Coast. #renter tho distance the groator the charge made por mile, 100 pounds dor carrying freight from Now York to Chicngo when it is billed throngh to California thah when it stops at Chicago, The chargo now on froight going from Ban Francisco to Now Yotk is about four cents per ton por mile, or about threo timea 08 much s freight can Lo bauled for at o farr profit, Thus the Union Pacille is not contont to swindlo the public for its own bonefit, but indirectly by ita arrangemont with Eastorn conngctions windles the pub- Itc on other lines ns well. Congress can put n stop to this as well ns other abuses, if it ean over be emancipatad from Pacifio tail- road influonces, THE WEST PARK EXPENSES, After all tho troublo which was necessry in order to got rid of the old West Park Bonrd, it is to bo hoped that the public may onjoy somo subatantial beuefit from the chango that has finally beon accomplished. The new Comnissioners coma into oftico un- der circumstances which should tench them that tho publio expects a strict attention to the public interesta with an oye mainly to retrenchment and economy, Somo of the membors, wo_beliove, npprecisto the situa. tion, 3r. WrLuarp, Woonanp, tho acting Ohnirman, wo know to bo heartily onlisted in thd effort to reduce tho oxpenses, and he should meot with tho nctive co-operation of all tha others, Without going into details, it ia ovident thatneaving of soveral thou. sand dollars o year can bo made at o singlo blow, by striking off the salaries which have boon paid to two or threo members of the Board, For soveral years the Board has boen in the hubit of voting tho President $4,000 o year, a Becratary $2,500, an Assistant Sooro- tary 81,000, a Treasurer 21,200, n draflsman from $1,200 to §1,500, Losides keeping n Superintondont for ench of tha threo parks. Horo is at anunal exponse of $10,000 for or- namental officors to do the work tlnt one compotent man ns Becrotary can bo employed to do for §1,600 n yenr. Nota dollar of componsation should be voted any membor of the Board. Tho monoy on hand is usually o small amount, and arrangements can ‘bo mndo for depositing it with the County Tronsurer or with one of tho sound banks, undor a special bond, The bookkeeping of the Board can bo done by the Becrotary, and o number of first-clasa young men can bae found who will jump at the place with $1,500 o yeor. The designs of tho parks, boule. vards, Inkes, eto., have long sinco been com- ploted, and the services of a draftsmjan are 1o longor needod. The ontire work, which now costs $10,000, can bo secured, thorofare, for 81,600 n year, and the publio expect this reduction from tho now Board, The most that the Board csn lawfully spend during tho year is $75,000; this is sbout the maximum limit which they can ralso in taxes. Now, n man dolug o n yoear would bo regarded as o tunatio if ho should pay $10,000 a year for Lis bookkoop- ing oxponscs alone. Yot this is practically what tho West Park Board have boen doing, Tho Prestdont has been’ paid 84,000 a year for dolng nothing; the Bocrotary has been paid §2,600 for dolng nothing; o Treasuror Lina boon paid $1,200 a yoar for tho privilogo of keepiug tha money, and perhaps drawing interest on it; and an outaider hins boon paid 1,000 & yoor for doing all tho work that is requlred to bodone. Thepropersystom is that the Commissioners should all Lo on tho same footing, ndministor thoir trust without com- pensation ‘as they agreo to do when they no- copt thelr appointments, and employ » com- potont accountant to koep the books straight, In theso times thore i nothing to do but to keep thos parks and ronds {n repair and lot the trces grow, Not n dollar should bo spent in furlher improve. monts for tho timo belug. Tho burden of tho support of tho perk system falls upon tho owners of real estato, which hna beon depreciating for the paat four yoars in the very face of park improvements, Under these circumatances, improvements shonld bo checked, and tho tax-levy reduced to tho lowaest limiit at which tho parku can be prop- erly watched and protected, By tho saving of salariea herotoforo paid for ornamental officers, there will bo not mercly the actnal roduction of sovoral thousand dollars a year In expenses, but a further retronchinent from the fact that theso officers will not be con. stantly suggesting now outlays in order to oreato the appearance of buing omployed, If the now Park Board desiro to install themwm. selves at ouce into the publio favor, thoy will follow the lead of AMr. Wooparp, and lop off all theso superfluous salaries at their very next meeting, S —— THE TURK AS A SOLDIER, . The Russo-Turkish war, aftor & long and somewhat monotonons campaign, unon. livened by any of thoso: brilliant and over- whelming victories like thoss that claraoter- izod the Orimean aud Franco.Prussian wars, draws to its closs. Avmenia is in Russian possession, Kars has fallen, and Erzeroum ita pose {::u.kl:;‘ dol:‘! o,‘m;hn‘ I'N“::-‘ e :m: and Batéum are substontially takon, Plevaa aroyed himaself o open opposition | I8 surrounded so complotoly that Oswax Pasha’s fato is no longor problematical, Tho Ozarowitch holds Surznuan Pasha in complete check by virtue of his superior force, Moanwhile etill snothor Russian srmy, of dimonsions that are formidable only because the Turks have nothing to op- posa to it, Is on the lino of the Balkans, ready to croas and dash upon Adrianoplo the moment that Plovua falls, Turkoy is pros. trate and at the meroy of the Muscovite Calossus., ¥ es ‘While all men who have tho interests of bumanity, and clvilization, and progress at heart will rejoice ot this resultof tho con- flict, the Turks are nqne the less to bo cred- Jted with being brave and desperato fighters. ‘I'hoy have shown the world that they are not 80 coarvatod as was supposed; that, instead of buing tho "sick men of Europe, they are the well mnen of Asis, and that thoy can still to the President and his polioy as laid down in his letter of acceptance, which was based upon the Cincinnati platform. e has been » malcontent, whosa factious course and vicious detorminstion to savo the spoils has defeated- tho Ropublicans in Now York, and Liaa holped turn over the control of power'in Congresa to the Democrats. His course has paved tho. way t0 make theso Southern schemes possible. Whils he may bo sincere 1 invelghing sgainst them, very slight re- floction ought to convince bim he has some persoual respousibility in tho matter, - It Congress shall over get timb to spare from the struggle for partisan supremacy and the distribution of patronage, it wmay find an opportunity of doing the public sowme servico by regulating the charges made by the subsidized Pacifio Railroads, which it has the power to do under tho origingl acts incorporating and snubsidizing them. This might- be done nt tho samo time Congress frames now legislation roquiring these Com. panies to pny the interest on the Govern. The Union Pacifio chnrges sro simply infamoms. Wo cited an 1natance tha other day whoro a Wostern firm wos obliged to sond agrienl- turnl implements around by way of Now York and the son in order to bo ablo to soll them in California. But tho tariff on the Union Pacifie is not mercly oxtortionnto in itself ; it likowiso influences its Enstern®con. neolions to raiso their chargea on froight rato from New York to Eastern pool lines rocoive 1.8, whilo the latter nctually. carry freight from Now York to Chioago for 75 cents, That s to say, the natural onder of rating is revorsed, and tho Tho pool lines aro quar- reling with tho Grand Trunk Railrond be- canso it declines to chargo 57 conts mora per privato businehs that doos not excood 75,000 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1877. timo with all the mavngery, of thoir ances- tors. They went into the war without al- lics, and with the full knowledge that the immonso resources of Ntussin in men nnd matorial must, sooner or later, rosult in thoir overthrow, Tley know that Ruasia would Live the grent ndvantage of ocenpying Rou- manin, ond this advantage hns been tho in- disponsable clement of Russian victory, They had no other avenuo Qf appronch to Brlga- rin. They could not go through Bervin withont compromising their rolations with Austria. They could not go by water, for the Turks dominated the Black Soa with their poworful floet. . Roumanis furnished them with her railrond systom, with a hos. pital for tho sick ahd wounded, and with & base of supplies. Bhe helped them ncroms tho Danube. 8he supplied them with pro- visions, aud at last she furnished them n gallant army, which has done splendid sory- ico ot Plovna and Rahova, Tho Turks know all this, They knew nlso that Borvin, Montenogro, Bosnin, Greece, and Crote woro all moro or less disaffectod and might follow any day in the wakoew of Roumanls. They know that there was 10 hope of help from any Enropoan Power so0 long aa the Russiaus did not go boyond the original limita of the war a8 announced to the Powers Inst April, Thoy went into tho war with divided coun- 6cls and with tho Porte in the midst of po- litienl confusion. Thoy took up arms, al- though they werefinancially bankrmptand had neither cash mnor credit. With avorything ogainst thom, they have held Russia ot bay for eight long months, For a period of nearly six montls thoy won nlmost overy victory of the campaign, aud had it not beca for tho numoricnl superiority of tho Russians, which enabled thom to strongly reinforco thelr deploted ranks, the ‘Curks would to-dny have overcome thoir enomics, With no prospect of success, they have fought with all tho forocity, fury, savnge hatred, and bruto strongth that characterized the hordes who stormed Constantinople under Momay- MED the Conqueror, and who plundered nnd murdered undor Basazer, No record of sav- aga valor or of absolute contompt of death can surpasa that of Surentsy Pasha's troops, who for weeks hurled thomsolves ngainst tha mountain walla of the Bchipka Pnss nnd choked up its dofiles with thoir dead. This much of crodit is due to tho Turk, be- couse no other crodit can bo passod to his account, 1o has fought, not for a conntry, bocauso bio has 1o country, not for his home, becauso e hias none, o hias fought for religion that looks upon every disbeliover na n proporgictim for tho sword, and to per- potuate tho onslavement of tho Sclavio pooples whoso home ho invaded 300 yoars ngo, His defent is in the interests of péace nand order thronghout Eastern Europo and of civilization nnd progress throughout the world. - s Inanswer to a resolution of the Houss of Representatives, Sceretary Suenstax has fur- nished o copy of the contract made with tho Byndicato for the negotiation of the 4 per cent bonds., The coutract was an exceedingly Ilberal one, butit bas fulled. By the agreoment the Syndicate was authorized to terminate the con- tract on the 31st of Decomber, 1877, upon giving ten days' notice, which notlve will probably be civen. The Now Yourk Journal of Commerce thus speaks of the whole alfalr: Waahil letter t0-da) 10008 108 EblobRaId - Byt icags Sppeaz tis fall whchi the 4 per cents hnte not been flonted, The public have been vory eurlons from tinio to time 1o know the uxact terms of thin extraordinary bar- guin, It will bo found even moro liberal to the fi{ndlclh than had beon supposed from former hints and guessen at ftacontents, Thic toneth con- dition 1« particulsrly Ofl‘l% to the **partios of tho necond part, " allowing thom at pleasure to mako their auvscriptions payable In uncalled G per cent 620 bonds, in which caso the Sccrelary of the Treasury may to tho extent of wuch payments omit calling in thoeo bondu for redemptlon, It is underatoon that the Syndicate have nsod the he704 very lmelrv under this nrrangement, leaving them as coflateraly with the Hecrctary agalnat the final settlement, Anong the othuf advantages, tho Hyndieate, n Froviso 7, got the monopoly of selllng oil bonda that might be putout by the Gov- ernment during tho cuntinuance of tho contract, ‘Thin agreement has not been modified in the slightest degreo since It was made, Tinth the Syn- dicuto and ‘the Sccretary huve been baaly disap- ointed by the result, unid probably som ng corzosponience has passed betiveer, 1 Mr, SugxuAN glves nono of this in bie responno to the llouse call, Uovornment contractora are hard to sult, but tho Syndicato cunld not, whh any ahow of veason, complain that tlioy iad not overy. thing reasonably to bo granted fn thelr own favor, ‘The contract ought now to be abrovated by mutual consent, and tng 4 per cent Hyndicata be por. mitted gracefully to retire futo history ns tho last of thelr race, e ——e The demagogy of tho Bourbon bulldozer BLACRBURN, of Kentucky, on tho Anoy bill waos a lttlo too strone for the stomach of tho leading Democratic paper of that State, His prociamation that hio would .never voto to pro- vide an nrmy to * shoot down tho unprotectod Tuborcrs of tho land who dared complafn,” caljed out this answer from tho Loulaville Courlers Journal; ' Whon ** complaint ' takes tho form of stopplng trainas forcibly closlug factorive; beating nln”:lll' hm,u:lmr mwen who want tu work; Lurning and de. stebylng property in vengeunce, wantonnces, or for pillage, entitied (o | it with bayonet, tho bullet, and tho canister and yrope- shot aro legiiniato un{umnnu to employ upainet thie comulainanta, 1 the exhibition of mintary force will accompllah dewlred results without resort to thowe extrome urguments, it |v bettor. And ,(ull here wo are reminded that tho sheoting and illing of rluters Jast summor was not atthe hands of thu regular forcew, for the u-finlar troos fore wurded to the scencaof dlsturbanco suppressed divorder without firing a gun, 1f it {s once cone cuded that there may bo oceasion when military furce must by usod ayainst rioters, then the lnflu of tho urgument before us is that it would bo betfer 10 have an sdoquato force of trained and well-din- plincd requisr uldiors who do not reckloswly ai Tuthlesely shoot down **lmpavorlstiod laborars * ‘who Laye losl thels reasen fn thetr passion, ————em—— Why does Fonator Hlows favor untimitod silvery After Wisconmn's voidict in favor of honest woney, ho bas no excuse for a woak back, —.New York Tribune The Hepublican platform of Wisconsln, adopt- ed Bont. 11, 1677, contalued the following plank on the sllyer-dnllar queation: ‘That wo rujolce thut the Adelity of the Repub- lican party §ii upholding the national credic has brouglit our cutreucy o vear the nn{nl 0f resumnpe tlon of '&“""’ payment. Wy hold that the sticer dollar should be reslored (o Us former place as wonsy, and wade a legul-tender for the' payment of all debls (except where otherwiss dlstinctly lnrorldml Ly law), with the coluage »o reguluted ss 0 ualntain av cquality of value, and preavrye the harmoalons circulation of gold, silver, and leunl uotee 4y mIoROY, ‘The verdict of Wisconeln was for #unlimited silver.”” The Ropublicans weut intothie canvass demanding that *‘the silver dollar should be reatored to its former place as mouey.” When 1t was formerly a legal-tender it was an unlimit- cd legul-tender, EBcuator Hown Is scting in ac- cord with thealmost universul scutiment of the people of Wiscousin, who are “solid? for a restoration of tho sllver dollar, and robbing and murdoring citizena he protection of (loverninunt, wu subs no winall dereo nf confdonce that the All tlits pretension to virtue on tho part of a few thin-skinned Democrats who claim to resent the use of carpet-baggers to carry through thelr Iniquitous scherca (s simply bosh. The Demoo racy bold Coxovxs and PArrensox by the high- est aud lollest of titles,—~that of purcaase,— and it s the deoth of affectation to abuse the Instruments bought for the purposs of carrying out nefarlous projects. —————— At the recent dinuer given Chlet Joszpu and his fellow-prisoners at Blsinarck, Buavsp Huap, & brave, observed that “‘a guod dinner makes good fricnds,”” Now this sentimont hath & diplowatic smack, and 1t it can be proven that be has over palmed off rojected Coufederato cloth aud doubtfa! muskoets ou the Government, o will be emiucotly avadlable for a forcign mis- slon. — A fearful talo of barbarity is related by Mrs. Hastau McSpeuo¥ fu ber sult for divoree azulust her husband,—a case which Ls couvulaluz fight with all the "bravery, and at the same all New York, ITer story treatsof cankering neglect and eavage cruelty, accompanled by sitnations and climaxes unprecedented in the Iinc of fomalo suffering. Through thirty-elght yeara of married 1ifo she put up with him, but was finally driven to the Jaw for rellef. When hecalled her vilo names, she pase him soft answers; whon he knocked her down and choked hery sho smiled ently and prayed for him: when ho drove her out In her night- clothing, she sighed and blessed him; but when he took her falso teoth and derided her for her want of beauty, she rose in her wrath and weut for htm. ———————— Ancuatp Fonnrs, the brilllant London News corregpondent from the Russlan camp, hos written a magazino article for tho Nineteenth Century, severcly criticising tho Russian offlcers and monaging men ¢ Mr, Fonhee says pecalation and corrmotlon nre universal in the inannzement of thelr affalre, Whether a man has ordnance, slioes, overcoats, or flour to provide, tho contrncts must ho ralsed to a fignte that sllows a per cont for all tho officials concerned. When (he atores aro once bunght, they are piled in the open fiell withont helter, so that ]l otherd may be botght, Thesearo evile which wo encountered In our awn War and which rined France. They epring from Imperialism and inex-. perience, nnid Iinewta will bo driven by them to #bandon bureaucratic povernment, and take refugo in pacliamentary Institntions, Bevernl other cnttacs are in overation to necesaltate this result, as tho approaghing finanelal exiguncies of the Uovern. ment, and populnr dlecontent nt the hardekips and amall compienantions of the war, e —— Bomo of the Ollo paners are pokiag fun at tho “great speech’ of the stalwart Green- backer Ewina, They say It Is all condensed fn the followiny Ietter of his great prototype, viz. ¢ My Dean Youxo Furxn: The dio te cant: al) Inover. Tliding the ravagesof care with a alckly maak of mirth, I have notinformed yon this evene ing that there I no hope of the remiitance. [ have dischared the pecaninry liability of this establishe ment by ziving a note of hamd midde payable fours teen daya after dnto, Jt will not bo takcn np, Tho result {4 destruction. Tho Lolt is impending, and the treo muet fall. Thin ia tho lnnt communien- tlon you will ever recelve from Lthe hepgarod outeast, Wirkixs Micawngn, —t— .. A Cincinnat] dotectlve arrented threo men hero yenterdny whoare bolieved to have taken part in the Northamofon (Maen. ) bank robbery. 1t fa cu riuns how profe.atonal talent of that kind will drif to the great money centrer, lenving such lnpover- Inhied niaces as New York and Chicago ont of their calculations, —Crncinnati Enquirer, But it Is not unnatural that professlonal talent * In the partienler line mentfoned, when desirous of losing itsclf in a vast mass of slmilar “talent,” should seck Cincinnat, e t— Bpealking of the sentouce, *To whero are we drifting and from whence?” used by a contem- porary, tho Graphle says 1t “‘shows the very grammar of desperation.” In the next column the Graphic asks, ** Does not the Fvening Post, Tribune, Times, and . other papers,” cte., which I3 the very desperation of grammar. i Tho Post 18 advised not to rend ita nother garments, but rather to oxplain why Braing permitted Lastan to “ palr** him with Grovar, who was in Portland, Oregon. GRovERwas not u Washington when tho * palr" was medo for him with Br.AiNg, and could not be thersdurtog the extra scssion. ¥ f ' Now it Borwen will come forth and promise Dot to throw any obstacles in the way of Pat- TERSON'S narch to the Penitentiory, it will tend to reconctlo tha country to PATTERSON'S course in the BuTLen matter. ——————— Coxoven and PaaTzusox, thoso tools with which the Democracy propose to force open the Senate for tho mdmissiou ot thelr small boy Burioi, might bo approfriately named BiLuy and Jisxy, “A political Rip Van Winkle" s tho term applied to Prestdent HAYEs by WENDELL Phice Lira, whoso dog has dled, and whose gun hos fallen to pleces In a Nife-lone hunt for ofilee. f | In ono thing at lesst PATTERSON has shown some shirowdness, 1t Is safer to make mmnu- nity trades with the Domoceracy than the Gov- ernment. | The noxious odors ralsed by tho would:be Senator from South Carolina suggest an nlteras tlon of his patronymic to Limburger Buiren, PATTERSON does not even have good taste to recommend Wim, He prefers the Senato Cham- ber to the Peuitentlary, 1t is the sama old, 0ld story of dissatisfaction, ButLer is teylog to get In aud PATTERSON l8 trying to atay out, " PERSONAL., Honry Moiggs bad a peaceful and happy death, = Thomas Hardy's new story is called “Tho Return of tho Native.” Benator Withors, of Virginia, has a daugh- tor called Virglnla Secossla Withers, Tho lady whom Gov. Wade Hampton is to marry lves In Now, Orloans, and owns largo prop- erty in Chicago, Shoisn widaw, Class«lay will probably pass off plensantly oncomora at flarvard Colloge, ns the Senfors have chosen tucir oflicers without any quarroling, Itis sald to bo doubtful whether Gen. Ifawloy will accept tho Chief Commlssionership to tho Paris Exhibition becauso hla wifo's hoalth will not permit her to accompany hlm, nod becaase of tho smalincss of tho salary. Aa Bocrotary Evarts was passing the Whito- Houvo will' & friond tho othor day, tho lattor re- marked: **Ttisa 0t and substantia) home for tho Prosident.™ **0 yes," uald the Becrotary; **1t is plenty largo enough for the President to llve In, unless the Benate tries to live there too," Peoplo who talk of Macdnhon's phraso sbout the Prestdency, **J'y sula—)'y resto," for- get probably that it was delivered whe 0 Mar- shal stormed the Malakof?, and Pollssier, fearing that it was mined, sont him word to ovacuate it. **1'm here—here I utay," ropliod MacMshon, The controversy over 'Tom Paine's death hasatarted o discuasion as to the color of his nose. The nuse acoms, from wood evldence, to have been slightly vennilion in hue, the linghamton (N, Y.) Jtepublican quoting the ‘followlog couplet which streot boys used to alng: TR o s Ex.Gov. Tilden, Gen, Preston, aud Henry Wattorson called upon Mary Anderson at the Fifth 4ivenuo Thestraon Friday tocongratulato hor upon her successinl appearance In Now York, Admiral Wdrdon, Willlam Cullen Bryans, and other nota. bilities, it is understood, made arrangoments to bo presont to witness **Homeo and Jullot" Monday vyenlog. Bims Reeves, tho famous English tenor, attributes his long Icase of volce to the sage couns sl of Lts master; **We must keop the volce In tho middie, 'This le the wocret of really fino tone, oftho facuity of singlng cautabile pavsagos with offuct, and of making & coup on @ high note when tis wanted. Nothirg is wmore dustructlve than perpetual exorcise of tho upper registor, ™ Tho Boston Advertlser romarks; * The conferring of the degreo of Doctor of Civil Law upon Charlea Rubert Darwin by the Unlversity of Cambridgo bos been commented onasan indorse- ment by the suclent anivenity of the Darwin theory of developmient, This 1v carrying it too far. On the same principle Harvard Collogemight be held responsible for Senator Bayard's viows of tho rolatlun of the States to the Genorsl Govern- woat,” A romantlo sensation been slapped in the face st London. The aged Frenchman, M. de Lally-Tollendal, who dicd of want in 8 copl-bole, was not, anye tbo Jemorial Diplomatiqus, the laas sarviving descoadant of the herolo Lally, behead- ed for belug defoated In tho Esst Indics, but had 10 rigot whatever to tho title, and undor the Em. pira wus not a distinguiaboa cavalry ufilcer, but s vollcs-spy who had beon snubbed for coloring his £eports 100 highly. A correspondent asserts that the cause of Alr. Nast's long vacation was tho objection of Mr. Curtis to the pabilcation of the cartoon which rep- resented the Democratlc tiger and tho Kepublican lamb lylng down togother, with the lamb inside, Nuat refused to work until tho cartoon was pub- Hahied, Tho sales of tho eetly bogan to decline, und tho Marpers and Mr. Curtls waru obliged to yleld It will bo remaembered tuat the cartuon lste- 1y saw the light, aod Mr, Nast has since been reg- whazly ut work. 'Qmpfl"fll’ designed and THE LOST SHID. Its Survivors Reach a Point Not Run by Signal Officers, Consequent Transmission of Anxiously Expected News. Thrilling Reeltal of Tuclen Young, an Olcer of the Huron, Calmness and Stoicism of the Men After the Shock. A Quist Huddling Togother‘to Ro- sist the Seas and Keep ‘Warm, Young’s Launch of the Rub. ber Raft and Its Ene tanglement, Small Confidence of the Crew in His Desperate . Project. A Companion Securad«==Theijr Terrible Voyage to Shore. No Diminution of the Death-Roll~ One Hundred and Five Viotims, TOE WRECK. mqQuiny, Spectal Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, WasiiNatoN, D. C., Nov. 20.~A naval Conrt of Inquiry will Le ordered to nscertain tho causcs of tho loss of tho Huron. The fact that the vessel solled In the faco of the danger of slgnals ia established. Therc was no nccessity for It, ns tho vessel was to have putin for sov- cral days at Port Royal, and to have proceeded thence to the West Indles on o lelsurely cralse, ‘The Iaron, also, had been recently overhauled, andhasundergoue cxtenslvo repaira In the Brook: Iyn Novy-Yard, Ier scagoinz qualitics sincs that timehad not been properly tested. Theonly trinls hizd been In smooth water, and were lnad ‘| equata to prove her abllity to withstand th strain and wrenching of o violent tempest. Het construction was such, tao, thatthewmoment she struck she would certaluly go to pleces, as the thin fron plates WOULD ACT LIKE SHEARS to cut the bolts which alone rievted the ship to- gether, There scems to bono satistactory exe planationof the fact that the Huron, anfronship wonly threoyearaold, needed to undergo extensive ropairs within so short a period, Her tirst propeller scems to have been worthless, and tho maats aro said to havo been rotten. It spe peurs also that the machinery was upablo to keop hier off the const. ‘Tho compound engines aro sald nover to have worked woll, 8ho was slow and imperfect fn answering her helm, Her scribiog-rim waa of little use in time of danger on acconnt of the varlous opstructions ou her deck, Itis certaln that tho machloery Raveo out. h COMMODORE AMMON, on belng asked for his opinton of the actlon of tho commander of tha Huron in going to sea when the dauger-signals of the Bigual-Servico Bureau were flying, did not thiunk the oficers of tho vessol wero censurable; that tho signals wero up sometimes for days, and they wero as dften displayed for gales blowing off the coast as for tho most dangerous ndrtheasterly gales, and that the oflicers, doubtleas, considered thelr vesscl able to weatbur tho stormi. Thers wasno renson for hurry, had tho ofticers cousldered It dangerous to put tosca. The misslon of the Huron was to survey the south conat of the Tsland of Cnba, and & week's dolay could haye damaged nobody, Noinforma- tlon as to the cause of tho dlusater had been re- ccived at the Navy Department this afternoon, but the surviving officers are expected thore to- night. MTL 8. J, KIMDALL, Chictof the Revenuo Marine Bervice, which' comprelicnds tho live-saving service, gives the following reason why ald was not extended to tho drowning men on the Huron: *Our stations fu the Sixth District, which comprises tho coasts of Virginia and North Carolins, from Cape Heury to CUapo Hatteras, aro not yet manned, and are not to be put In operation until the.lst doy of De- cember. The renson why they aro not mauned earlier in tho year is that the funds mppropri- by Congress aro not sufllcient to allow It. The nmount placed at tho disposal of the Becretary of the Treasury for tho Life-saving service dur ing tho present tlscal year is $146,000, out of ‘which the actual exponacs of the stations maln- tained amounts to §144,040, leaving $1,000 for emergoncles,” The followlng interviows wero had with offi- clals of the Navy Dopartment relative to tho Huron. It will 'bo scen that theae oficers tako a moro favorablo viow of the vessel than is en- tertained by persons not connected with the Navy Department < MIL J. W BAGLET, Chlet of the Burcou of Coustruction and Re- poirs of tho Navy Department, sald to—dn{t * Wo have no resion to bellove that sho (the ‘Huron) was uot well constructed. The fron lnntlnz of tho ship has been rogarded as hoavy or a ehip of her tonuage, 1t belng fivee eighths of an fnch thick, Our officers arc generally of tho oplalon that, as & war ves- sel, sho was uot well adapted, but as a vossel golnz Lo sea, alic was strangerthan many others i the fect.” MR, WILLIAM 1L BTIOCK. Engincer-In-Chiof of the Navy Department, says of the Hurout “Up to .tho time she wos repalred last month she was ruther slow, Her maximum speed bad ot exceeded eight knots. Bhe was ordered to New York and docked, her bottom thoroughly cleaued and palntod, hor machiuvery ref and B new screw fitted to her When mdi for tho ses & trial tripot four hours' duration totest the mu- chinery was made upon the Hudson River, tho result of which was fn the highest degree satls- factory. Her spced was found to have been fn- croased to un ayerage of ton knots duriog the four biours, an Jucrease of two knota to the hour over the best specd she had previousiy ob- tained.” Mr., Block belieres the disaster COULD KOT HAVM UEEN CAUSED BY DEVECTIVE MACHINERY, and ssys that the factof ber haviug made eighty-two mllos under steam in such weather duriog the timo which elapscd between her leaving Hampton Roads und hee striking the rocks bears bim out fu the bollef that there could have been no fuult with ber achluery. . CRUISING NHAR THE WHROK, Tu the Western Associated Pres. Fonzness Mouwos, Va., Noy. di—Admiral Treuchard, {o the Unfted Btates steamer Pow- hutan, with the other veasels dispatched to the wreck of the Huron, was of Kitty Hawk, at dayligbt, Bunday. Tne Fortane went down to Bodies Ialard, skirtingthe beach, louklog for the wreck. Capt. Btoddart, fa the Baker, followed the beach down, aud fouad the wreck ubout 8 a. m. Tho sea was runniog very high, snd there wis no possibliity ol funding. Su?ml of- cers wero sent to Baker, and 1y this way vow- wuoication was had with the shore, sud we Jearned that 114 wero drowued, and but tulz:{ wero saved, of whowm four were officess. - wlral Trenchard then ordercd th Bwatara to remaln’ sud bury the dead, wheo o laudivg could be wudy with safoty. Capt. Bsoddard ree