Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 26, 1877, Page 4

. & i THIE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SWEDNESDAY DECEMBER 26, 1877, }: b aitempt Lo exact o toll for the privilege of | duction of ealary, and insiating upon main- | will bo ot par with gold o long aa thero in | and dospirod and rojected by thelr Turkish ;;_r‘;r;fl;v;_r::;{»;m:eg:m;he;ve.:r;fr'm et CHRISTM AQ i ' g i 38i d $700,000, . 5 ever grew out of [t nnllmited legal-tender for el i m c @t’ihunz digging salt in theso Inkes, tho ownership or | taining the useless offica of Assistant, and | ono cf the $700,000,000 4 per cont bonds to rulers, Thoir fil-treatment is justified nnd £ tta atlmltes fepal-toader for délite of @ | control of which he claimed to exerciso ab- | this tax-eating proposition of the sham re- | bo had, The problem of how to resume required by the sacred books of tho Mohiam- | i descrinttonsy What statesigan, from m; flm1 :a' 1 RIS OF FUTSCITTTIOR solutely. This claim was disputed both by | former Fitzorauto was sdopted by | will be sottled. The silver dollar and tha | medan religion. They have only been able "‘h‘;":;l:l';:;‘:::,“‘;';,‘:“;:“'::l‘::n“l‘m‘:‘ e 1 o the Mexican residents of the vicinity and by those who wero engaged in transporting salt to Chihushua, who had enjoyed the solid vote of the seven Democrats sssisted by the vote of Mzyen (Rep.), nud opposed by the othor six Republieana. greenback will be at par with gold, and gold, no longor being n neconsity, will no longer bo searce, and will no longer have moro than to livo and grow by monns of their superior numbers, which havo held their oppressors in chock whenaver tho limits of human on- How the Blessed Day Was Observed in Chicago longer @ cofn entitled to the dignity that attaches to Tho organs of the bondholders and the apologfsta of the dcmonetlaation fraud are com- pelled to omit sl replies to such Interroga- 3 BY MATL—IN ADY, Rose Eytinga. 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LONDON, Eng.—American Exchange, 440 Btrand. Hzxzy V. GiLLio, Agent. ; - AMUSEMENTS. MeVickor's Theatre. ‘Madison street, between Btate snd Dearborn, **Deauty and the Deast,” and **SBimpeon & Co,™ * oaley’s Theatre, Randolph strect,, between Clark and LaSalle, Tingagement of Joseph Marphy. **Kerry Gow.” Afe ternoon and evenlog. Tinverly’'s Thentre, Monroe street, corner of Dearborn. Engagement of ‘**Antony snd Cleopstra,” Coliseum Novelty Theatre, Clark street, oppoeite Court-Llouse, **Masonry Xx- posed,” New Chicago Theatre: Clark street, opposite the Sherman Houte, Callen- der's Georgta Minstrels. e BOCIETY MEETINGS. NO. 211, A F, & A, M.— MEmRe s oD OE, N,y A F & A M ec, 26, 81 10 0'clock ABarp, to at- ¢ 3 4B, Lewis, Tiark clothing should be worn. © Cars 10 iosehill Gome etery. ‘WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1877, A sot of swindlors who have been operat- ing at tho National Capital undor the name of the Washington Real Eastate Loan & Trust Company are 6o extensively advertised in the dispatohos this morning that thoy will doubtless ba compelled to try some other dorm of confidenco-game, S e————— A grand roconcilistion is shortly to be given in Washington to celebrateand cemont the restoration of friendship between Bena- tors Corxume and Brawe, The turkoy- gobbler, whose pompous strut Bramee de- scribed with guch telling effact soveral years 8go, will be sarved up on this occasion, e} Farmers in the vicinity of 8t. Paul, Minn,, were plowing tho day befors Christmas, and yesterdny excursion parties went by steamer to Fort Bnolling and Minnehaba. Ordinarily nothing but an ico-boat navigates the Misais- sippd al this sonson of the year, whils plow- ing could only be accomplished by means of diamond-pointed drills and blasting powder., —— Sorvin i3 not lotting tho grass grow under hor; feot.” On Monday the Princo Mman's troops eaptured Akpalanka after cight honrs of hard fighting, taking three Krupp guns, Inrge quantitics of ammuonition and pro. visions, and 8 number of privoners. The bombardment of Nisch has begua, Miran himself boing presont to superintend the operation. A resumption of active move- menta may bo looked for at onco in Asia Minor, Erzoroum {s now very mearly in- vested on every side, and the bombardment islikely to begin immodlately. e —— The rocently-selected President of the Frenoh<Minlstry nunouncos that immodiate action will ba taken in the prosocutions di- rocted against the Govornment partisans of MacMazox who are charged with outrages upon the elective franchises of the poopla of Franco at the recent claction, whersby o personal victory for the President of France was vainly sought. This snnouncement s made to quiet the boisterous clamor about ‘‘buncombo and fustian” which has been permated in since this radically Republican policy was conceived as practicable, Bomo facts of interost are furnished bya correspondent fn Clevoland, who has made good progress in the offort to trace out the origin and authorship of the ¢ Book of Mor- mon.” Frem the letter which wo print this moruing it will ba secn that there fu the best of reason for believing that the greater part of tho Bible of the Lattor-Day Saluts waa writton early in the prescht cantary by BorowoN 8ravrnixa, of Conneaut, Ashtabula County, 0., and that Josern Surrn, the first Prophet, and BioNzr Riapon sandwiched in tho doctrinal portions of the work, and thus complotely perverted it from the purpose for which it was originally written, P Bo far as it is po o couceive of an enjoyable Ohristmas with an fncessant colds drizzlo of rain and undoubtedly the worst caso of mud known in these parts for terms of years varying according to individual reo. ollections—to this extant it may bo sald, s 1t always is eald, that the Ohristmas of 1877 waa vory genorally obsorved and enjoyed. In the houses, the churches, the theatres, the charitable institutions, the iall, eto,, those who were fortnnate enough to Le on tho jnside found the day endaruble, but to the aversge small boy it was & dreary failure, Yot the czowded advertising colunns of the press and the crowded interiors of the stores prove that the situation has not been alto- gother gloomy ; it iight have been worse, Benator Parressox, of Soath Carolina, is still contined to his bod by {llness, and Ham. burg Burr.es, his Democratio colleague, is ono of the faw who are admittedtosdehim. The rolations botween thig worthy pair are as aflectionato as ever, BurLzs evidently belug determined to stick by the man who stuck by him. Parrzeson proposes taking a long vacgtion as s0on as Le is ablo to travel, aad Lis appearance in the Benste sgain during the current session is extremely doubtful, ‘T'he Republicans threaten to prosectite vigor- ously the investigation of the circumstances aud conditions under which he was induced to Lelp Borras to e seat in the Benate, and Puarrusox threatens to decline s palr and leave thew in a misority if they persist in this dirsction. S——— The Texan verslon of the difficulty at San Elizario about the valt lakes iy presented in another column by & correspondsnt at San Autonio. It sppears that the offense by which Judge Howan incurred the deadly animoddty of the Moxiouny conuisted in his . o fow sclontifle men, and men interested in colnage, found a bill rovising the regulations of the mint, and, under cover of logislation for thia purpose, they tried the experiment of committing the United States to one form of metallio money in order to incronss the valus of gold. The experimont was suo- cessful 60 far s obtalning the logislation, but it has proved to bo the moat costly event in the history of tho country oxcept the War of the Rebellion. acknowlodged tho roceipt of n statement by Comptroller Kxox, in which that gentleman insists that the coinage of the silver dollar was not abolished secrotly, Mr., Weep for the prosent withdrawa the chargo of secrecy, but that does not change the fact that the colnaga of the silver dollar was prohibited in. direotly by alaw in which the silver dollar ‘was never mentioned, and that this fact was not known except to a very few persons, and that tho law was passod mainly on the assnr. snce of tho oxperts that it contained no im. portant changes in existing Ilaw. Mr. Knox's statemont change the fact that the dollar was demonetized in 1874 Ly a change of tho statutes by tho codifiers,— they making the assertionthat no ohange had been meado. In the meautime, the people havo heard of the whole trausaction, and they demand the restoration of the silvor dollar, sud, whither the sclontific men and thoas Interested in gold approve it or not, they will insist on having that dollar made logal-tender. the free privilegs of tha salt deposita for many years, and who asserted that the district waas coverod by an original grant from Mexico long bofore Texas became a part of the United States, and that tho State bad no authority to sell it to tho parties represented by Judge Howarn. 'Tho lalter bad Xilled his man in s quartel growing out of the matter, and it was ostensibly for this that he was shot immedintely upon being caplured. All nccounts, howover, agreo that | the affair was purely local, and that the Mexican Government wag in nowise mixed up in it e THE SILVES DOLLAR. Tho Chleago 7'imes now takes up the ques- tion whether the silver dollar was demone. tized in 1873’4 secretly or by indirection, and, of course, enters a atrong denial. The T'imes on this subject, as on all other public questions, is profoundly fgnorant of what it spoaks. The Nation hes long sinco givenup that point, and bas frankly admitted that the knowledgo of tha nbolition of the silver dollar and the demonatization of silver was confined to a fow reientific men and others interested in mattersof coinage. We quos- tion whother, from first to last, the word * demonetize " was ever used by any perwon in or out of Congress in reforence to tho sil- vor dollar, The fact is that there nover was a bill be- fore Congress at any time from 1870 to 1877 to * demonetizo the silver dollar,” No such bill was ever proposed, or ever roferred, or ever debated, or ever pnssod Congress. Thoro waa a bill for revising the laws rela- tive to tho mint, assay offices, and coinage of the United Btates. That bill in no word sbolished the silver dollar, nothing in the bill relating to the silver dol. larof 412§ grains. Gonerally the bill pro- fessed to be a consolidation of sixty years of varied legislation, and in which there wore bnt few changos made, 1873 did not demonctizé the silvor dollar. It prohibited, by implication, its further coinage, but the dollar remained a logal- tonder. ver dollar was whon, in the codification of the laws, that part relating to the colnage was falsoly stated to contsin the existing law without change, but in whioh, in faat, the existing Iaw was changed and the silver dollar demon- otized by the change, Whon tho gold organs, thereforo, doclaro that the bill to demone- tizo the silver dollar was four years beforo Congresa and repeatodly acted on, they do not state the truth. There was nover a bill befors Congress professing to be a bill to de- monotizo silver. The sctof 1870 professed to re-onact the existing law, and recited n 1tst of the silver colns lawful to be coined; from thia list the silver doliar of 412§ grains was -omitted. That was the whole action concernlng the silver dollar, It waa cffect- ual, but it was noverthelesa indireot; nnd oven in that form did not propose to, as it did not in fact, demonetiza the silver dollar, Thero was In faot, the act of The demonctization of the il completed in 1874 In other words, as the Nation confesses, Mr. Taurrow Wrzp has, in a recent lotter, Nor does —————— LAME COUNTY-REFORM. ‘‘Yopo deferred maketh the heart aick,” and the County Commisaloners seem duter- minod to test this theory in thelr treatment of the pooplo of this communlty, Therowas every roason to expoct that the eloction of tho five new Commissionars would give the taxpayors a repressutative majority In the County Board, and that this msjority would procoed at once to innugurate the necevsary reform moasures, been nothing but cancusing, quibbliug, and intriguing on both sides since the election, and the publio fs losing both patience and hopefuluess at tho long delay, ond at certain Tustend of this, there has indicationsthatthonew regimsmay provetoba but little, it any, better than the old, It was understood a few days ngo that the Repub- lcan mombers had agreed upon a selection of the county ofticers which would be satis- factory to the people, and it was expeot~ ed that thews officers would ba elected at the very next meeting, which was held Monday, But thero was another postponc- meont, aud there are fears that this means some now bargaln. 1t is truo that Commis. uloner Tangn was absent, and, had the post- ponemeont boen made at the Instance of the Ropublicans alone, it might have been no. counted for on the ground that a defeat was apprebended. DBut the old members that have acted with the Ring seemed to bo Just a5 anxious for delay, and this is a reason for fearing that some now combination is con. templated which will defeat the bost selec tions that had been agreed upon. The vote wag postponed till. to-day, and the public demands & settlement of the case, If any Teform is {0 be accomplished, it must be put in operation at once, for it can never be ac- complished by temporizing or bargaining; if not, theu the public should know just what Commissionors take upon themselves the re- wpousibility of defesting it. ‘There are oertain indications of & prevail- ing indisposition on the part of & majority of the Board to further any reduction in expens- es. The propoaition 1o reduce the salary of County Attorney and to abolish the useless of- fice of Assistant CountyAttorney: ‘wasdefeated, whereupon tho reformer (?) Frrzoxzarn pre- sented his minority seport, opposing auy re- This is retronchment and reform with a ven- | its ordivary valae, Thero will bo a goneral aro ropresenting that Secrotary Buesaan has becomo the most persistent cronker, dovot- ing his spare time to prodictions of tho dostruction of tho national crodit in case tho Bilvor bill bo passed. It is also chiarged that thaSecrotary of the Treasury rofuses tonccept any bids for any part of tho 4 per cont bonds, exoept through the Syndicate, and thnt there havo baen offors to taka the wholo loan from American brokors, but tho Bocrotary has rofused to lfstan to them, ho insisting upon dealing only with tho Byndicato, ) which Democratio partisanship may ontor- Las come whon the wholo comntry should demand tho abrogation of tho contract with all along, in which certain’ men backed by bonds to othor poopls at o profit,’ A recont case of tha Byndicate oporations fs pub- lishod by the Eastern papors. A Now York bank, n subscribed for $10,000,000 of tho 4 per conts, the money to bo pad on a cortaln day. The bank had no such monoy, bat, borrowing from its friends $10,000,000 of ¢ per cont bonds, it doposited these with tho Trensury as collatorial security, The Trons- goanco, ‘The business moved along s peg or two, when Mr. Boative introduced a resolution suthorizing the Committea on Publio Build- inge and Pablio Service, in connection with Architect Eaax, to thoroughly inspect the plans from which the new Court-House was being built, especially with reforence to tho henting and ventilating, and ropdrt back to the Board if any alterations woro necessary. In explanation of tho proper and necessary resolution, Mr. Buntaxo said : e never saw s bullding of the magnitade of the Court-1lonse but could be improved in some way, and, {nssmuch as the bullding wae now In shapo to admit of alterations, if any were necersary, now was the time to act. 'The adoption of the resola. tlon, e sald, conld do no injury in any event, as his object had beon to cconomize, §f possible, Mr. FirzoERALD was opposed to the adoption of the resolution, but gare no reason therofor. Mr, WarsLRR thonght the resolution eminantly proper and right, aud hoped it wonld be adopted. e d!d not kmow that any changes In the plans ‘would be found {0 bo necessary, but If any were they could be now made at one-fourth tha cost that they conld when the building was complated. The motion to adopt the resolution was put mnd lost by the following vote: Teas—Ayars, Doeso, Burling, Meyer, Bpoflord, ‘Whesler, Sonne—7, Nays—Bradley, Cleary, Conly, Fitzgerald, Iofl- mann, Lenzen, Malloy—7, ‘Why did the saven Democrats vote solid agaiust this proper resolution? Are thoy afraid that some swindle or rascality may bo uncovered ? If Frrzokmarp is the reformer which ho claims to bs, why did ho vote against the resolution? It is suspected that the dome cuts a figure in this case. Tha re- yort of the Council Committeo shows that the Mayor and Building Committes will be suatained in their very proper determinntion not to proceed with' the building of the dome, but the old Ring Commissionors are obstinately set on going nhead with their part of this unnecessnry ornamontal oxtrava- gnnce. If thero i3 anything moro silly and outrageous than building n $1,000,000 dome in these times, it is tho bullding of half of o domo, Of course, it will bs ridiculons for the city and county to proccod, as they are now doing, on s separats and indepondent basis. « The work shonld be suspended on both sldes till an agreoment can be reached. The most that County-$7,000-Attornay RouxTax can suggest is that the disputo bo sottled in the courts, which moeana that the old Commisstoners will not agroe to tho post. ponement of the dome-building unless com. pelled to by judloial mandate. Altogether, the prospect of Lotter Government in the county is not as bright ns it might bo, —t, THE NATIONAL LOAN, 'The Democratle politicians at ‘Whshington Lonving out of the mattor all tho malfco tain towards Scorotary Busnsaw, tho time the Syndicato, Tt has been an ontsido job tho Government crodit moll Govornmont member of tho Syudicato, ury thon fssued a call for $10,000,000 of 6 per cents; this call had the effect to reduce the value of the called bouds to par, and during the ninety days of tho call tho bank was able to exchange 4 per cents for the no longer available 6 per cents, and handed the Intter over to the Treasury, the bank draw- ing intorest on both sixes and fours during tho ninety doys. This is tho substanco of the story ns published ; how far it is in oxact sccordance with the faots we cannot state ; but it illustrates the general mode in which Byndicates have operated to tako up ono issuo of bonda by tho ssus of other bonds, the Government paying thres months’ extra interest in every case of exohange, Z ‘We do not know upon what authority it is stated that American bankers have offered to tako part of the American 4 per cent loan, but we have no doubt that {f tho Bocretary of tho Troasury wonld recelve subacriptiony from the general publio for a 4 per cent bond, taking remonotized silver and greenbacks therefor, ho would be able with the proceeds to call in the outstanding 0 por cents in half or one-third the timo that ko can accomplish tho work through the agency of the Syndi. cate, There can bo no question—it is not disputed by the President—that overy 0 per cent bond now ontstanding is payable, princl. pal and interest, in silver dollars, Such being the fuct, the flerce struggle made by the money-londers and backed by the Becretary of the Treasury to prevon{ the romonotiza. tion of the silver dollar oan rendily be undorstood. Bo long s silver ois de- monetized, every debt, public aud private, in the United Btates will bocomo payablo in gold on and after Jan. 1, 1870, Silver being domonotized, the gold dollar will have an extraordinary value; 4 por cent intorest in gold with silvor demonetized will be, bep, cause of the increascd value of gold, much greater than 4 per cent in gold with silver & legsl-tender, The permanent demonetiza- tlon of silver will give to gold an sdditional valuo nearly equal to the proportion of the silver degraded from the rank of money, Now, it Bocrotary Buxauax is afrald of o deluge of silver in case of remonatization, lot him open his books for the recelpt of silver and greenbacks in exchanga for 4 per cent bonds at par, and keep tais loan open solong asthers i a G per cent bond out- standing, and he will find how nseless is his 8yudicate, and that he can sell tha whole sum of the 4 per cent bonds without paying one cont commission. Nor will this be all that the Becretary will accomplish, Howill, by the offer of 4 per cent bonils, payable thirty years hence, in exchange for silver dollars and greenbacks, so far yestore silver ballion o 1ts old value thst the dollar will onco more be st par with gold; and the greenback, to redean which the Bocre- tary is now so hopelessly and frantically tryiug to borrow gold, will become equal to a4 porcent bond of the United Btates and verin; has nover, maneuyred a columbiad, Parrott, or inortar, nor studied the torpedo and nitro.glycerine bombs, nor nsed the carving-knife on. anything more human than o turkey or sirloln of boef. should cliooso nono of theso wenpons, with which bo would bo ot & disadvantage. N ture, howover, has supplied him with woap- ons of asuperior sort, and na his physical training is superb, and notunlly a matter of prida with him, ho will always bo in good trim to use them, nocomplishod boxer, and strikes ont from tho shonlder with precision, swiftness, and vim. It is woll known that sovoral of his fellow-Sonators who havo tried consequences with him have como to grief, notably Zaon Cruxpres, who, aftor putting on the gloves, was shortly renderod ors de combat, and the next day, having painful reminisconces on his nob, in. his potato.trap and broadbasket, of Mr. Conxriva's prowess, procooded to play it upon Mr, Conxune in s manner both childlike and bland by induolug him to try a fow of his Jex Mace, who was unknown to Mr, 0. Evon this accomplished pugilist, how. ovor, had a difficult task beforo him, and, although he ultimatoly succeeded inconquer- ing tho Benator, it was no child's play, In casoof a challenge, Mr. Conxring certainly bhaa the right to demand that Mr. Gompox sball stand up bofore him and put up his hands. 1le hisa the right to demand that he shall do it at any timo. Aslie has tho right inflation, not of deprociated monay, but of standard dollars, "Thore will be permanency ahd stability given to the national currency. Thero will be no contraotion. flation will bo a healthy and a vigorous one, glving bealth and vigor to the production and trade which are now so stagnant and de- prassed. N ROOLIO, It hins beon very generally nndorstood that the paper introdnced in the Senate rolative to the misunderstanding betweon Bonators Coxrrixg and GonpoN was tantamount to a final settlement, ' innsmnch as the agrooment of the respoctive friends cf the belligerents decided that there should be mutually and simultancously withdrawn all the romarks of both, As a correspondent of the Now York Tribune states : ‘This decislon, It binding, was clearly & walver of the right of the party to whom the first offensive ‘words wers spoken to requlre, in order to a settlo- ment, that thoso words should b first withdrawn. Buch walver clearly Joft no right to the party who first offended to publicly fnalst that he was first Insulted by the other, and wns proceeding to notice and resent the ineult and demand satlsfaction when frienda intervened. Senator Gonoon's friends and Benator Gon- poN himself aro now trying to stir up bad blood ngain, and to recopen the matter by claiming that Benator Coxxrmva insnlted him, which looks very much ns if wa might again hove an exhibition of plantation man. nors nnd a resumption of thia silly business through a clear bresch of faith, If such shall be the case; if Senntor Goroon's lionor is such a sonsitive afair that aven the most astuto Senators caiinot draw up a paper that covers the case, or suggest any form of plas- tor that will hoal his wounds; if he is afraid to go back to his Georgian constituonts and confront the chivalry with the declaration that he had allowed a Northern mudsill to call him toordor in parlinmnentary form with. out challonging him ; or, if it is a repotition of that favorite resort of Southern chivalry to insult a Northorn man, and if he rosents it to clofm thot the insult camo from him, and then shoot at him or challenge him, then it is cloarly time for Bomator Cosknmva to take the bull by the horns and settle tho mattor porsonally end withont referring it to ontside partios. Thero i ono vory cloar coursa open to Bonator ConrrNg. If Senator Gornox con. sidors Limself insulted, lot the rocord so staud, without further explanations or inter- views. Of courso, by tho code, Senator Coxrrxo will recoivo a challenge, and, being tho roceiver, has tho right to seloct his weapous, time, and plnce, The Sonator from Now York, so far as we know, is not n man of war, and has never coveted that in. decorous form of exit from tho world so dear to the nvernge Sontherner, which necessitatos entering tho Valley of the Shadow with one's boots on. Wo believe he is not adroft with aword, small-sword, cutlass, or scimitar; Las nover practicod with the apenr, harpoon, or poisoned arrows ; ia not a romarkable marks- man with pistol, rifle, blunderbuss, or cal- 8o ho Bonator Conxravo 1 an tounds with a gontleman friend from New York, by name to name thoe place, Lo might chposo the Sen- ata Chambor for the arens, and hava thelr mill mado the spociat order of the day. No bottqe reforoe could be found than Davip Davis, who would lend dignlty as well ag weight to the fight. Sqoonds, bottle-holders, and spongers would be selected without dif.- culty, no partiality of a political sort being shown, In euch a contest as this, tho peoplo of the wholo country wonld take a lively intercst, and in ono volce would de. clare, Lot the best man win It would be a fair, square, old-fashioned, manly con. teat, n tost of musole and & proof of pluck, and it should bo fought out to the bitter eud, until one or the other cried * Hold, euough!” If Mr, Gompox prevalled, he would be & hero; if ho succumbed, he would at least be able to go before Lis coustituonta ond claim that Le had tried to defend his honor in & more manly fashion than has heretofora been characteristio of the chiv alry. If Benator Cosxumo should win, it might set an example that would end this Bouthern tomfoolery. ———————— DISABILITIES OF OHRISTIANS IN TURKEY. It has been well said by a recent writer that the Turkophiles are more Tuskish than tho Turksthomselves. The defenders of tho Otloman power 1n Europa find more virtue In it than tho Govornment at Coustantinople doos, snd extend thelr defunse of it to featurcs of administration which have been doplored aud apologized for by the Minlsters of the Hultan, Ou no subject hos there been s0 much controversy, and on none more serious misundorstanding, than the condition of the Christian subjects of the Porte in Bulgarin, Basxiy and Baxes, both long resideuts of thq country, have written from the Turkish point of view panegyrics of the efficiency and purity of the local govern. ments, and bave described the prosperity of the people in attractive colora. But thore is another side to the piotire. = The last num. ber of the Nineteenth Century contains au asticlo which shows in what mauner the Bulgarlan Christians are hold up to the scorn of the Mussulman world; how they are mads consplouously the inferior rece, Thore will be & constant addition made to the coin cur- roncy of the nation. The expansion and in- 1acte 8ad 0f spuloglaing for Craud. durance havo beon passed. Tho Turkish code, which i# a8 remarkable for its pradenco as for its fanatiolsm and cruelty, makon it {fundamental principle that tyranny shall not bo attempted whenover thero {s a prospect of sucoessfal resistance, and that no war shall bo wagoed, even in solf-defense, unless the glory of tho Empire has reasonable assurance of protection. i The Koran recognizes two olasses of poo- ple—the House of alam and tho House of the Enomy. Those latter are divided into Idolators and Kitabi, or People of tho Book, i e, people who possess divinely-inspired Seriptures, namely, Jews, SBcmarilans, and Christinns. Tho theory of the Koran is that all infidels ng such must be put to the aword, and that the People of tho Book can only be apared on the payment of tributo and the offering of proper nots of submissfon, It Lia beon found convenient in practice, how- aver, to modify tho rule so that the Djibad, or Holy War, is only proclaimed when thera seems to bo & prospect of easy and immedi- ato success. Logioally it ought never to conse until tha doath or conversion of tho Inat infidel nnd Cbristian on carth; but prac- tieally it is in a state of chronie susponsion for rensons over which the Porte has mno control. The first important corollary of this proposition is tho greal principle of Mussulman morals that faith noed not bo kopt with Christinn or an infidel. Troaties with Ohrlstian or infidol Ppowors aro only to be regarded so long as it in for the bonefit of the Forts to regand thom. Until recont times, it waa the custom of the Porto nover to make ponco with a OChristisn or an infidel power, but only n truce, and that truco might be broken at any time; it often was broken without any warn. ing to the party assailod. The dianbilities of Christian residonts in the Turkish Empiro are similar .to those of tho Jaws in the Middle Ages,” All that we read of the persecutions, tho insults, the ex- tortions that this unhappy people wera gub- Jected to during tho Orusades does not ox- coed in painfulness the provisions of tho "Turkish code with roforence to tho people of our own faith, in our own day, living among. the ruins of tho old Byzantino Empirs. The legal code of Turkey, whioh ia called the AMulteka-ul-Ubhur, or * 'Tho Meoting of the Two Beas,” comprises all concerning tho law and theology from the tion of the sixtoonth century. Ita decrcos are im- mutablo and irreversible. unchangoeable law providos that Christians or Jews shall not build temples or churches in Turkoy; that thoy may only ropair old churchos out of materinl already ‘on’ the ground, making no additions ; that they shall not sound bells, oxcept so gontly that they cannot be henrd outsido the buildings; that they must liva in special quarters of tho city, wear distinotive dresses, and ride only the inferior besats of burdon, using a coarse the decreca various subjects of founda. Islam to middle of the Thia sacred and cushion in place of a saddle, and dismonnt- ing whonever o Mussulman is mot on the rond ; thot their garments, turbans, and shoes must bo of the coarsest quality, their robes having pockots in the broast, like thoss of a woman ; that thoy shall wear no arma; that they must walk in {he narrowest part of tho way whon thoy moet o Moslom; that they must pay their tribute standing whilo the collector sita; and that tho collestor, un taking tribute from them, should treat them harshly, aa by shaking them, beating thom on tho breast, or oven dmgging them on tho groand, h‘n at the samo time, * Givo the tribute, O Zim- mi, O enomies of Allah,” and this ho shall do in order io degrade thom. Such is the law. It ia trae that the Hattl-chorif of 1839, tho Hatti-humnayoun of 1856, and the Constitu tion of Mronat purport to be modifieations of this storn old proacription, but nono of the amendatory monsuras s, or can be, ef. feotual ngoinst thoe organic law, which even the Sultan is powerloss to alter or suspend. ‘“The Multeks," sayu tho present roviower, “iy, liko the Iaw of Moszs in the Jewish of commonwealth, perennial obligation; and it provails in Turkey now in exact proportion to the degroo in which tho Government of tho Bultan finds itsolf independent. , , Legally, theroforo,~and this law, be it ro- memberod, is considered divine, and thore. fora immutable,—the condition of the Chris- tiaus of Turkoy is that of onilawa in thoir own land.” This reprosontation of the trath ought to moderate the zeal of the Turko- philes overywhore,—thero are too many of and should way to t them in this country,—and make the success of tho Russtan armns still more the oocasion of thanksgiving in all Christian countries. To the Editor o/ The Triduna, Macox, 11l,, Dec. 38.~Like your Detrelt man, we ara delighted with your treatment of the sliver question, but would 1t not giva an addii fonal putus to your un- anawerabls arguments to pudisli the st of February, 1873, which **lnsdvertonuly ™ omitted the **allver dol- lar," stc., and {nnocent Gen. URaNT was wondoring ‘why thosliver dollars were not cotned and elrculatod? Well, 1§ would La an tnteresting chaptor (o publian the Bamo or usmes of the Congressinen who originated tha Ditl, who voted pro and con, syoopsts of debato, etc,, sud whether Gon. GBaxT signed the Lill at the close and rush of tho seasi Pleasa allow 1ue 10 suggest In he way of argunient, suppore the {des of paning the actof Felruary, 1873, bad not entered the head of any Congressmun o7 me, &4 1t kad not i1l that time, and siiver yhmalned coln or monoy 81 1t was for eighty years, and Governinent sllowsd to closs 0 pay the Dbonds as contracted, st ita option L silver or gold, all this hue and cry sboat remonetized sliver 8t0ppage of refunding of bonds fnto lower terest would have besn saved. Uxomum **No Trust” would have wlept the sleep of tha fust, and been no quaking of (Zastern) dry booes and bonds about weakeuing Goverament credit, snd & wosderful B4ving of 3 per cent laterest, —even should 1t be st the ‘#xpeuss of wholesale Weatern bankruptey, D.T, 1 the act of February, 1678, Lad never passed, the Government would havs proceeded to coln silver dollars In accordance with Gen. URant's suggestion in bis * Cowpxy leter” of Oct. 6, 1878, and by this timo it would have thrown two to throe hundred millions of sflver dollars Into circulation, stopped the disastrous fall in prices and In the value of real estats, and pre- vonted tho crushing and destructive abrinkage that {s spresfing ruin throughout the land. Our correspondent suggests that we publish the Mint act of 1873, It is too long: ft would filla whole page of Tum Trimoxx. The bill that actuslly passed wuss substitute for the Mint act of 1879; It was never read In tho Housc, and the ayes aud noes wero notcalled. The members allowed {t to pasa’ by viwa vocs vote 0o tho faitn of tho assurance that the bill was ‘all right," and contained nothing improper or bad. —_— The Indlanspolls Sentind—Senstor MoDox- ALD'S home orgau-~thus reflects the Scnstor's views on the silver question: We challeuga blstory for sa Lsolated fsct showing that tha sliver doliaz, a4 sy period Latho world's his- Larrsssed. business, arrested commorce, iy, b em paralysed tadustries, Increasd (dionces lotansificd the P f poveriy. of in suy regand proved & misfortuce 10 any country whare 15 bas circulated. We do nob Beaitate o ‘bondholders' Sna3cial theories to bruguco sn fnstance which warrants the pressnt Bostilisy 1o the remoneis- aailon of stiver. Upon such propositions the sdvocates of tho dewoneiization of sliver arv as umb as oyetern dety the mass advauccd advocaies uf the Whea they apeak ft Ls forthe purpuse of odecurlng From the founda- Mo of the GUIATUTLIL UD 10 373 What busivass dia. England th Bright's dls noftens her brain, now In this conntry, makes a correspondent of the Doston Journal think of ** marblo statucs, Damas. cus blades, and Anrora Dorealls," Now York, has nndertaken to batld at her own ex- ponso s scashio homo for sick children, the first expenso of which Is to ba abont $4,000, week, and a number of Boston gentlemen are go- Ing to ran down by speelal traln to ses how it (s done, ¥ the prosent Pope dles the Itallan and German Gov- ernments will do their boat to secure the clection of Cardinal Von lohenlohe tothe tiars. His Eml- nencels one of the yonngest members of the Bacred College, having been born in 1823, e was croated a Cardinal in 1808, when Pins IX, was extremely anxlous to conciliate the Prusslans In Reneral and Blsmarck i particalar, technical education, not sa the teacher of techni- calitles, but a8 the beat tralning to quslify the pu. pil for lesruing them nimself. After expressing bila grave doubta whether the Goverament could wlsely do much more for technical education than it was slready dolng fn the broad senss of which hohad spoken, Frof, Huxloy sald the undoublodly be some machinery for utillzing in Lronghtto light in our schools, 1f any Govern. out aflecting the whole Masonlc body throughout the world, The limits of ¥reomasonry belnz very comes down to the hard-pas of life oa our Western about a bride) purty that rocently visfted s Jus- cersmony deliberately and with many oratorical solf 0a the Bench and delivs €ycs of the astonished Judge. tnere was & wild rush, 8 promiscuous scattering of arws, snd & suce Cesaion of sounds, Itke toe sudden drawing of sn old boot out of the mad. Forafow momentsihe Justice gazed upon the spectacle witha stony stare, asif In & trauce; then, pasaing his hand wearily over his brow, be 8aid: ** Wo will owit tho rest of the cersmony, 1 ‘Broagunce you man and wife. ', torles or cunfess thefr complicity with financtal rogu; The people demand the unlimitea colsage of theall- erdollar, They domnand that it shail bo an unlimited legai-tender. They belleve {4 will contribute to the restoration of prosperity; thatit will be a potential factor {n arresting tho shrinkage of valusss that it will snahle the people ta save somethlng from the crushing, Slighting eurio of contraction. They belfave the pas- sageof the NLAND Bliver blil will ba universally halled as the harbinger act of an era of prosperity,—the arant enurrier of the good tlina comtng, #0 long prayed for, They bellove there fa life and hope {n ths restoration of the iaw s It wasletore the bondholder demanded the demonetization of sliver. They have the Constltution and tha law to support thelr vlews, Thoy hava history to warrant thelr demand, and they have desermined to stand by it They will not be begutled by sophistriens they willaot bedefiected from their purpose by alltter- ing generalltics: they will oot be lulled into reposs ny thoss wha plesd the cause of bondholders. Thecry fsre. Ilety the demand 1s the old stiver dollar. The outlook (s encouragiog snd victory Isassarad. It fora short time by & veto, but with s indignation will rise te the fury o HA T4 and bondholders and their apolog! gulfed together. Thu country wants th —e—m— The Churches Thronged in Spite of the Weather, And the Inmates of Hospitals and Asylums by No' Means Forgotten, Even the Dwellers at the Jail Have a Tasto of Creat ure Comforts. cyclons, and will ba en. sliver dollar. 8o the Day May Bo Voted a Success, Notwithstanding Its Blop. piness, Tho {dea of some demagogues in Congress of statesmanship sa applied to revenue reform s to lovy a “progressive” tax on the earnings and savings of tho aober, thrifty, and enter- prising class of citizens, In order to reduce the whisky tax for tho benoflt of the Incbriate class of soclety! For the purposo of cheapening the The Usunl Festivities Ieported from Other Cities and grog of the old sonks and rumn-blossom loafers Towns. 1t 18 proposed to double and quadruple the taxes i on ths tomperata and moral part of the commu- nlty. And this the demagogues of tho Usnter CHORISTMAS, Hanntsox atripe aro tryiog to palm off on the public as statesmauship, As tne Celts say, “The d—} fly away with such statesmanabip as that,"” A WRT CELEDRATION, Yesterday was the most uneventfal and une sonsatlonal of all. Christmazes that have been celebrated In Chicago since the city hos had an existence and & name. Tho 25th of December of last year was {urlously cold. That uf tho proceding year was eloppy and chilly. Dut this one was memorable for being a day of con- tinuous raln, without & vestige auywhero of tho snow and fca which generally characterize tho scason. The surgiog throngs of people which had crowded the strets on the: previous day hada disappeared, and a few forlornites, bach. olors with umbrellas hunting down-town res- taurants for thelr dinnors, were the only persons to be scen upon the streots, All the hapnlness and comfort of the day, all fts eift-giving and dinner-cating bad talkten refage unider thousands of hospltable ruofs which gafenio outward and yisi- bietoken of the happiness regnant withio. ‘Thera bns been, Bapplly for the children, much gift- *xiving this year, owing to the Yyary season's selfy which brought about a diverston of fmoney from oue chaunel to another, It has been so warm that the sober householders have had to dis- ‘burse next to nothlng for coal and for clothes, They have Leen fres from {muortunitles for sleds and skatcs, aud also for furs. And all tho money thus saved has been expo nded with a Lib- cral hand in the toy stores. Ifad thero been a cotder season, thero would have beon fower purchasers upon the strests during the past. ‘week. There would have been more tmppiness 1u tho breasts of tho coal men, but lass in thoso of tho children. It hasbeena pleasant result, which, whilo It dld not assungs the bankrupte of the furand voal man, is productive of happi- negs to the many. Yesterday was aleo remarkably frea from those other Iucidents of Iocal life which some- times come to mar Christmas sercnjtv, Thera were no murders ana but ore fire. There wero 1o strect brawls and no hizhway robberies; for nobody was out who could bo robbed; und no- body scemed to be out for tho purpose uf rob- bing & waytarer, ‘The serene and nneveutful record of what did take place ts givon below. THE CHURCIHES, ks AT 8T. PAUL'S Roformed Epfscopal Churel, corner of Ann and Washington streots, the sorvices wers ap- propriste to the sud, bya unlon of gomo. of tho ngighbor! eregutibnib’ fn the''cXor= clacs, an finmense audienve was secured. ‘Tho church was beautifully trimmacd and dec- orated with evergreens. Tho altar was fes- tooned gracefully, the rear belog embelilshed with the word “ Emaauel,” whilo on oue side was * Alpha,”" gqud on the other “ Omegu,” desigued of cedar. Tife platform was dressed with flowers, und the main walls were hung with atars, crossce, crowns, and auchors, and trom tho chandeliers hung neat peudants, all golog to make up a very attractlve and pleasing sizht. The devotional exercises, which wero after the form of the Reformed Evlscopallsus, wora conducted by Blshop Fallows and.the Rev. Mr, Hunter, and cspacial pains having been taken 10 secure good music, the cholr oxcecded itsel? 1n the rendition of sevoral exquisite pleces, and contributed not m little to the beauty and fm- pressiveness of the oceaslon. The Rov. Dr, Thomas, of Centenary Charch, pretiched the sermon, which was prefaced by & bric? address from the pastor, in which he stated that the Board of Vestry had suttiorized him to announce to the comgregation that they had the day before purchased tho TChird Presbyterian Church, and to present the same as a Christmas present, in the glving of which o folt thiat the Board had had Divine aid. Ile spoke eloquently and fecllngly of the nature of “the present, sud of the importance to the con- gregation of tho proposed chauge, and congrat- ulsted his flock upon the promise they had for the future of becoming one of the largest and moat fufluentlal relizious organizations in the ty. ul;r. Thomas took as his toxt the followlng ‘words: ———— Bays an exchango: * Manx Twarx has been considered very clover at & post-prandial specch, and wa recall ona or two that. wers worthy of his roputation as a humorlat. 1f 1t was bls in- tentlon on this occasion to say something that would not really be humorous, but sonsational, he succeeded, possibly beyond lifs own noticipa- tlon. The cffect {s not probably what he In- tended it should bo. Boston does not take it kindly, and 18 as cold asits sharpest winter's” dav, beeause of th irreverance of the mad wag, Even a King's jester should know when 1t will do to shake his cap and bells In the royal pres- ence.” —— The Credit-Mobiller case is to be re-argued bofora the Bupremo Court, which atood evenly divided upon it before Hanran's appolrtment. "The question fuvolved Is whether the membors of the Credit Mpbllier shall be held lable to the Uovernment for such amount as could beproven to havo been fmproperly used in bwlding the Unlon Pacitic Raiiroad, . e —— A hopeful sign for the future of the negro is the announcement from Augusta, Ga., that a number of Influential colored men of that city have commenced o movement looklng to the organization of-a cotton manufacturlng com- pauy of thelr own, o ————— PERSONAL, Dufaurs Is over fourscore, and in feebla health, Jonquin Miller was at last sccounts in Philadelphia, Alice Kingsbury, the sotress, Is about to publish a book of her theatrical exparlence. Ban Francisco ladies can see nothing in- dellcate In baving young Chinamen for **chiambere matids," ) ‘The Duchess of Hamilton has asked the Tobeto annul her marrlage with the Prince of Monaco. " The Cologne Gazetls rathor noatly says of ho fs just now fering from ' which weakens hor will and Mmo. Modjeska, the Polish tragedicnne, A young lady of Dr. Tifflany's church, Lawrcnoe Darrott is to play Howolls’ **Counterfait Presentiment' in Martford this ‘I'ie latost ramor fromt Rome s, that when Prof. Muxley hns just been lecturing on **Technical Education. Ife says he regards hould the public interest wpecisl talent and gentus ment could And & Watt or a Farsday in the market tho bargain wounld ba dizt cheap at £100, 000, A romantip scandal has just been brought toan end in England by s decroe of divorce, In 1870 Lord Albert Sidney Clinton, belug then twenty-five years of age, married the widow of Capt. Btothord, I A. Throo of four years sgo a correspondeuce between Lady Albert Clinton and Hir Clauda Scott, Baronet, was discovered by Lady Bcott, which led to Lady Albert, Clinton’s being quletly scut to s convent. Thunce she contrived to escape, and Sl Claado Bcott ran awsy with her atonco to the Continent. Lady Albest Clinton, now divorced, fortunately bas nb children, but.Bir Claude Scott, who Is now nearly forty years of age, 1a the father of two little girls, At the recent maeting of tho Grand Lodge of English Freomasons, when the Prince of Wales was renominatod Grand Master for the ensulng year, tho Pro-Graud Master, tho Earl of Carnar- von, callod attention to the acilon of the Qrand Qrient of ¥rance, who had struck out from their preliminazy declaration words sxpressing belfof in For unta you 1 born this day, in the Clty of David, s Bm{lar. which s Chrlat {bu Lord, 4 The reverend gontlemnan roviewod the narra- tive of the birth and 1ife of Christ, aud dwelt at lengtt upon the fact that since [1s birth the pow- Rome had waned, and our own country hat been discovered, and also upon tho fact that gha name of Chirist had everswoors taken hold of the people. We might 'go back fn our minds and recount historic facts, and whsther wo went to the city of Uavid or not, wa could but reach the cenclusion that the narrative was fact, nog fiction, and Christ's bistory was real and not imaginary, His name was being chanted b& milllons,” and n our own laud we fouu that temples had grown up aud mule tiplled in the wdvancement of His xfnxdum and the acknowledgment of [Tis gu- premacy and power and the trutLiuloess of tho Barrative, of 11y Iife. ‘To roaliza the historie: fact of His birth and life, howover, was but to yiew tho frame fu which tho grand pictura was buog, for the chief scene in the whols story was His cowlug forth amune wmen,—His comlng down, as it were, ldying hold of us and resurs recting us,~—hoaven touching the carth and Qed's love tho bearts of the the existenca of God and the jmwmortality of the ple. In cou- soul, Hewsald that in ordluary cases the Grend | clusion he apoks eloquently, that “Glory Lodge would bave no right to interfers, but that | to God in the & hé , and peace WS & o whick callea for notice, as the Prench | and good will toward men,” should be the lan- Grand Orlent could not effect thess changes with- | guage of every heart. Peaco should be given to weepers over new graves, und to the weary sud heavy-laden, aud this coupled with gladness, love, fricniship, and brotherhood, would give us Chiristmaa every day in all the years to como! The excrcises wera closed with the admiuls- tration of the sacrament of the Lord’s Bupper. CHRIST CHURCA, Christmas services were held yesterday morn- ing in Christ Church, which was well filled. The altar was decorated with flowers and ever- grecos, and festoous of the latter ran along the walls, depending from the corbells of the arches. Tho First lns Sccoud Presbyterian, the Plymouth Congregatlonal, the Trnity Sfeth- nd{n Eplscopal, and the Michigan ~Avenue Haptlst P}hmhu united on the occasion with Christ Church, and the pastors of the scveral churches occupled the puipit sud took part suc- ceaalvely fu tho exercises, Tl latter were quite {uformal, consisting of short addreases, the music occupying naturslly the most prominent part. Prof. Tomlins was u}u.luml hln ’;l“l‘:mny with tho spirit of tha occaslon. e cholr was lel mfun‘& and the inusical sclections yell oscn. Tho following was the musicsl programme: Yoluntary ... wide, included Roman Catholics, Protestants, ulmans, Calvinlets, Lutherans, aud Jews, who all bound by the principles of religion, and there could be no such principle without God, A commitice was appolnted to inqulre Into and re- port upon the sabject. Droad and cheese and kisses may be con. sidered & satisfactory diet smong the {deal con- stitaency of an English vovelist, but it scarcaly prairies, as & rule. Whon, however, one resds tice's oftice [n Caseyville, LiL, bis previously- formed opinlon on ke subject is liable (o modidea- tion. Now, the Juitice was o man who llked 4t hear himsolf talk,” (o use a common expresslon, sod he proceeded with the usual Bourlshies and pauses for dramatic effect. At tho end of each sentonce. a8 if imagining bim- 81 opinion of im. vity, e came o & full stop, snd Jubllate Deo.. Clrhlmug:n iy segti isnop Cbe Den services by ssylog luuvhlml the day bad becn more like it gcner- ally was a4 the prescut season of the year, so that many who would gladly have been presest could Lave.bcen able to come. Yetho was zlad sv wany were presost to celebrate the eveut of Curlst's coming. ‘The Rev. Mr. Custis, of the Michigan Avenue Baptist Church, fullowed. He said he was glad ou the prescot ocsulon to strike bands of wel- come with fellow-Christians, The day, & pros- ush as weore once described ay