Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 28, 1877, Page 4

a0 4 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: FRIDAY. DECEMBER 28, 1877, Tlye Tribavne, TERMS OF S8URSCRIPTION. BT MATL—TN ADVANCR—POSTAGE Plll::lh. FELELY RUIEION, POSIRAL. € copy, b ortor Bpectmen Give Post- Otfice address in full including Btateand County, o 2t l’(emymnntfl may be made elther by drafl, express, Foat-Office order, orin registered letters, at our risk, TRBMB TO CITY BUDSCRIBERS. Dally, delivered, Bunday excepted, 23 cents per woek, Datly, deitvored, Bunday inctudad, 30 cents per weak. Address THE TRIBUNE COMPANTY, Corner Madeon and Dearborn-sta., Chicago. [Il Orders for the deliveryof Tnz TRIBUNK &t Evaaston, Englewood, snd liyde Park lefi tn the coustiog-room ‘wilirecelve prompt attention. ————— TRIBUNE BRANCH OFFICES, - Tirs Cm10AGO TRIRURE bas etablished branch offices for the receipt of subscriptions snd sdvertisaments a4 foltows: 2 NEW YORK~Room 20 Zribune Bulldiog, F. T. Mc- FADDEX, Mansger, PARIE, France—No, 16 Rae do Is Grange-Datellere, I Manses, Agent, LONDON. E Waxny F. 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By order of the Master. - . 2, HERRICK, See, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1877, OMICAGO MARKET SUMMARY. Tha Chicago produce markels wers moderately activo yesterday, and lreegnlar. Meos pork closed Tiic per brl lower, at $11.65@11.U7% for Jann- ary and £11.K0@11, for March. Lard closed T4ae per 100 Ibs lower, nt $7.03Q7, 07% fordann. wary and $7.72!i@7.76 for Fohruary, Moats wore casy, at 41ic far boxed shoulders aund £0.00 Per100 b for do short rite, Whisky wan 1clower, 451,05 porallon. Flone won'quict. Wheat closed fic higlicr, ut81.10% for Decumber nnd81,10% for Jannary, Corn closed frregularly lower, st 43¢ 42Xc for January. Onts cloaod onsy, ot 24%5325¢ cash and 24%c for January, wns steady,‘at Glc, Barloy closed e lower, at Gic cush and 5714e for January. Hogs wera faltly active, at 5Z10¢ decline, cloalog at $1.03024.25, Cattle were activeand 16¢ lower, with sales of com- mon to extraat #2,60@5.30, Shieop woro nominal, at32.7524.25. Tnapocted Into store fn this city yesterdny morning: 85 cars wheat, 21 cars corn, 14 caraonts, norye, 31 cara barley. Total, 151 cars, or (8,000 bu, Ona hnndred collars in gold would Tiye buy $102.75 in greenbacka ot the close. Groenbacka st the York Stock Ex- chango yesterday closed at 97). pisd Bl L D3R Tho b.nnqunt of tho Chicago Bar Assooin. tion last ovening resms to have lacked none of tho qualitics that have horetoforo rendored tho annual feed of the feed a brilliont and momorable occasion. b i — ——1 At yestorday's sesslon of tho Illinols State Tonchers' Association ono of tho spenkers advoented the introduction of tho daily nows- paper into tho sohools to sorva in part the purpoios of a text-book. & Tho assasaination at Bloomington of Jasxs O'Neie, o woll-known locomotive engineordn tho employ of the Chicago & Alton Railroad Compauy, haa created un intonse excitoment in that city, Ho had passod unhurt through two terrible traln collisions, only to be at last waylnid and shot dead in the night by 8uno unknown assassin. Nino of tho striking miners at Wilkes. barfo, Pa., have mado tho unpleasant dis- covery that acts of lawlessness and siolenco, oven when committed in the cause of the Iaboring man, are punishable by severe pon- altios, Ilnving beon couvigted of riot, in stopping tho minc-punps aud driving iko ngiucers and other omployes from thelr posts, thoy wors yesterday sontenced to pay fines ranging from 850 to $100 each, snd to imprisonwent of from ono to uine months, A most sensible and practical lettor on tho subjoct of country roads is given in another column this morning, The suggestions therein coutained are worthy of sorious con. sideration by the farmers of the Wost, whosa experonce in impassabl ronds has been of o kiud to demonstrate tha nocessity of adopt. ing monsures to provent s recurrence of the lous and disadvantage they have suffered. It is s matter which should not be forgotten and lout sight of ns woon ns the advent of froez- ng weather rendors possible the hauling of form produce to market. Undor similar conditions the era of bottomless mud will suroly rocur, ud the thing to do is to alter the conditions—to so oonstruct your road. body that the ombargo of the past few weeks will not be repeated. e ——— > ‘There {s unfortunately no written law which covers the crime committed by the flendisk wreckers of the North Carolina coast iu falling to inform the keeper of the life- saving siation of the perllous situation of tho steamer Huron, Ouo of thess wreckers, Evan O'Nxuz, saw the ship drifting and pounding to destruction as early s half-past 1 o'clock in the morning, and heard the scroauw and cries for help of thoso on board., o went home and ate his breakfast, giving no alarm that would, have saved wmany lives, but waiting until sunrise, when the work of plundering the dead bodles washed ashore nquld commence, For stealing the paltry trinkets found in the pockets of the corpses theso wruckers can be brought to Justice ; for judireotly assisting in the murder of the unfortunstes the punishment so richly de- sorved cannot be moted out to them, : The difference Lelween medistion and in- tervention iasharply and significantly defined by the Agence Russe, which declares that ounly when sclicited by both parties is medistion possiblo; under other ciroumstances it be- comes intervention. The cgse of Turkey is exaotly in point. What the Porte asks of tho Powers is impracticable, mnce Russia does not join fu the request. The samo pa- per pointa out the inevitable result of En- glands extenuibn of sympathy snd en. coursgoment to Turkey at this time, mssesting that it will be to forco Bussia to march on Constantinopls, aud thus causing the prociss thing which England professesto lins & summor residence, noply of tho monoy power? bo afixious to avoid. It ix very avidentfrom theso and other, expressions that Russia is in no humor for modiation at presont, and that any Power thatnttompts to interfero will receivo a gentlo hint to stay out until it is maked in. The confidenco sx[;fined by Mr. Evarts ,of an early adjustment of the difforences be- tweon tho President and the Republicans in Congress is not shared by many in Washing- ton whoaro in a position to judge with equal accaracy of the probabilities of the case. 'The recent lotter of Mr. Cmanores, lato Becrélary of the National Republioan Committes, aud the publio ntterances of Gen. Boreer and Senator Bramts are accopted as {ndications of an intended attack nlong tho ontire line of implacables at an early day. It-is expected that tholabors of the Louisinna Commisafon will be made the subject of a Senato investigation, and that the inquiry will bo carricd through with a view to show- ing that tho Presidant gave the bonofit of his influonce to Nrcrior.Ls. ‘Tho Wisconsin Commissioners of Fishorles have just issued their roport for the fiseal yoor onding Sept. 80, 1877, which showa vory satisfaotory progross during the Lrief term in which they have been at work. There has beon npproprinted by the State within three years 815,731, and of this amonnt less than 700 havo been spent by tho Commissioners on themselves, whilo all the remainder has beon devoted to tho prop- agation of fish nnd the supply of tho Inkes and rivers. At the Milwaukée bntch-liouse 1,736,000 lake-tront wero hatched and dis. tribnted among tho various small Inkes of “the State, and 6,205,000 of whitefish wero sucoassfully planted at difforent points on Lako hatch.house speckled trout and California salmon wero hatchied and planted in good condition. fornin snlmon three yeara old whioh are re- ported aa thriving nud are kept as breeders. ‘The Commissioners acknowledga the valya. blo co-operation they receive from N. K. Michigan. At the Madison At Madison there are now Oali- Famroanz, Lsq., of Chicago, who concen- trates his offorts at Genova Lake, whoro he haa already de- posited in that lake about 9,000,000 food fishes, including Oswego bass, salmon trout, whitefish, brook trout, and Californin sal. mon. During tho last soason his hatoh. house producod 200,000 California salmon, which aro already lively minnows. Wiscon- sin will have f'very decided ndvantage over Nlinois in the matter of fisheries as an in. dustry unloss this Stato shall speedily 1mi- tate tho oxcellent examplo it has set, which many other Btates fre following. i sk A QUEETION OF HONESTY. - Thero has probably never heen any public question treated sa unfairly ,s the silver controversy is argned by'the Eastorn nows- popera. The New York Times, T'ribune, and Vation vie with each other 1n misroprosenta- tions, slurs, nnd indignities, ' Just now the Timea ponms to bo ahoad. It makes a whole- snlo chargo of dishonosty against tho people of the West—the most industrfous, frugal, and ngoful portion of tho Amoricin peoplo— becausa thoy demand n Festoration of tho privilogo to pay their dobta likens this demand to tho persistent advocacy of slavery by tho people of tho South, ahd to the ‘‘nucaliog " of Stato dobts adopted by somo of tho Sonthern communities. It pro- diota that n concession of this privilege would bo followed by new exnctions in the diraction of ropudiation, which it prononnces to be the objzct nimed at. +'The wholo pur- poso of such treatmont is to put & false stig- mo upon tho bouest silvor movement; it is an offort to securo tho dofeat of tho move- ment by first making it odious by slan. ders, assumption that the West is secking to pay dobts with 90 conts on tho dollar, which mlver, Tt Tho bnsls of thoso insults is the procecds upon the thoory that the sflver dol- lor, after remonotization, will bo worth no more in this country than 412} grains of silvor bullion ia now worth in London, Is a1 this honost 7, Is it honost to maintain that tho amonnt of silver which constitutes a silver dollar will only be worth 01 or 92 cents in gold (its present bullion value) after it shall have ac. quired a full logal-tonder value, when two sitver half-dollars, whose bullion valuo ia only 85 or B0 ceuts, are kept at 'par by rea. son of thalr being logal-tondor to ;the small amount of 867 ' I it honest to malntain that the Amorican silver dollar would not rise and remain at tho valuo of tho other lawfal money of the country under o condition of permanont logal-tendor, whon the Gorman silver thalers, to the amount of 230 nillions, circulate nt par with German gold in the faco of, and during the process of, practical domonotiza. tlon? - Is it honost to concoal the faot that gold capnob malntain ita presont abuormal value after it shall have beon deprived of the mo- s it honest to concenl the fact that itis with the purpose of maintaining this ab- normal valuo of gold and forcing the ropay- ment of debts on that basis (whereby the creditors will receivo much more than is Jostly due them), that the remonetization of ailver is 8o desperately opposed ¥ 8 it honest for creditors to rofuse to no- copt in discharge of their -claims a tender which has greater value than the monoy _they loaned, and s it honest to denmy in the face of tho facts thot 412} grains of silvor has now a largor valuo in exchange for all other proporty, or, in other words, & greater purchasing power, than it had when It was at A premium in gold, and much greator than the paper notos loaned by the creditor? L3 it honeat to domand the payment of the interest on tho debt, the payment of the principal, and the psymen§ of a‘bonus' amounting to many per cent more, over and above tho legal and moral cbligations of the debtor? ' Ts it honestto exact two weeks' labor in payment of an advanco of the wages for one weok, or a year's labor in order to discharge the obligation jncurred by an advance of the wages of six months' labor, and is not this precisely what croditors are dolog who insist upon repayment of & gold dollar at its prow- ent excessive valuo, in return for the nolo they advanced threo or four yeard ago ? Is it houest to dxact property worth double tho money loancd on it by insisting upon re- payment in & singls coin twice as bard to got us the money losned, oz, in leu thereaf, to oxact the sacrifice of the entire ‘sscurity, which was estimated at the timo the loan was made to be doubls the value of tho loan ? s it honest to insist upon & technical logal advantage, sccured without the knowledge or oconourrence of the people, in order to cxtort from & debtor more than he owes, snd more than he over sgrecd or expected to pay? 1f any of theso practices are honest, then it is honest to forge 8 man's namo or raise 8 chock ; if it is dishonest to roslst this extor- tion, then it is dirhonest to refusa the pny- ment of a forged draft or a raised check. The provailing shrinkago in vatnes is a8 forced and nnnatnral as tho former inflation of values. 1In the ono ecnse thero was a gen- eral inflation Locauso thore was a false mens- uro of values; in tho present case theroisn gonorn! shirinkngo because of a falso measure of valnes. When tho covntry ‘was flooded with deprecinted notea which passed current as the aceopted ropresentative of values, all property was flctitionsly high. Men pur- chased and contracted dobts on that basis, Tho return to natoral and equitable values by roason of squeezing out the inflation wonld linve been a sufficient trial for the country to bear, but a certain olass resolved to moko the burden doubly onerous by gon. tracting the measuro of values far below the oataral and lawfal size. * Wo loaned you what purported to be a dollar, but which wna roally only 80 conts," they say in effect, “ bt wo demand in repayment what purports to be a dollar, but which s really 120 or 125 cants.” Thora was an inflation of prices incident to the irredeemablo chiaracter of the money that determined them, and it was right as well as unavoidable that this infla~ tion should bo squeezed outj but thers wero two kinds of motallic, money, of lawful and intrinsic value, nnd it wns wrong and un- necesaary that ono should bo discarded from legal .racognition in order that n coftain cliquo might get up n corner on tho other. ‘Whether or not this was nccomplished sur. reptitiously and fraudulontly, it was certainly dono without walting for the peoplo to nsk for it, and ns soon as the peopla found out what had been dono they began to demnnd with one accord that it be undone. Is this dishonest? Havo the people no rights undor what is callf popular government? Can a cortaln class, with solfish pnrposes and to socure & means of extortion, firat procnre a change in the law and thon refuse popular revision thoreof? No change in the natural and lawful order of things is demanded now, but only'a roturn to the monetary system which had alwaysobtained in this country. Thoro is a popular protest against the un. nataral and extortionato value given to gold by the withdrawal of silver ns money, and those who join in this protest are donounced a8 ropudintioniata! It is very much os if a man hnd accumulated $1,000 by his labor and savings to meet a certain debt, and his croditor had firat stolon half this fund from him and then denounced him naa thief for not paying the whole debt when due. Tho American ‘people had s fand of silver and gold monoy to fall back upon. When tho time comes for liquidation on a specle basis they find the siver taken from them, and those to ‘whom debts are duo 1nsist that thoy shall be paid in dear gold nlone. This is the real dishonosty In the case, and tho Amor- jcan peoplo will not submit to it. THE BETRAYAL OF THE PUBLIC, Tho people of this city and connty are sgnin subjected to misgovernment in the county affairs, with all that that term im. plics. Tho people. of this connty were so badly and corruptly governed by tho Donrd of County Supervisors that the State Con- vention, in forming the Qonstitation of 1870, nbolished that form of County Government 8o far as this county was concerned, and es- tablished 8 now form of Government, con. sisting of fifteen Commissionors, During threo yenrs this now Governimont got nlong admirably. Boveral of tho best citizons in the county accopted membership, and thera is avery roason to believe that the county businces was wisely. and honestly adminis- tered. But tho attractions of plunder were too great, and tho Board gradually pnssod out of honeat into dishonest control. The publio aro famillar with several yoars' history of County Government, in which overy farm. of officinl turpitade was exhibliod, « Spolim: tion bocame tho end of ofocholding, Leg- islation wna offered for sala to whoover would purchase it. ‘'The County Board of Commissioners was known to bo ns publicly for malo us woro the cattle at the Stock- Yards. Then crept into tho Government the unofficial **boss,” the man who did all the business, who receivod the poy and divided the plunder. ‘We nood not rehearse this history, nor reproduco the record of systomatic and unblushing thiovery and corruption which marked the offlclal trans. nactions’ of the Board in oll things In. volving an expenditure of monoy sinco 1873, —whether {n buildinga Court-Honso, or sup. plylng beds for tho Hospital. The Courts and Grand Jurlea hiave spread bofore thd peoplo tho long array of scandalous profligacy, the plundering of the sick, the blind, the in. sano, and the poor; tha incrense of taxation, the multiplication of offices, aud the croation of alarge public debt. & Against this criminal despotism the poople of this county a year ago appealed to the State Legislaturo. ‘Thoy asked that the mem- bers of that Board bo elected annually on geuernl ticket, ns they had beon at first, but, any way, that a new Board be elected by the people in November, 1877. ‘The Legislature was disposed to grant some relief td-the suffering publio, but a fow of the Ohicago ropresontatives, notably * Judgo” Burry, managed 8o as to defest all messures by which the Board oconld be roformed, or by which the people at the polls might rid themselvos of the political abomination and governmental fraud, The Legislature, by its non-action, gave the Board a new loaso of life, and Suira, on his roturn, was nominnated for County Judge by the County Ring, but the peopls, who had not forgotten him, laid hands on him ptthe ballot-box and he wos not elected so much as he expected. During 1870 and 1877 the Citizons" Assocl. ation had at great expense to maintain a continuous warfare iu the courts to protooct the County Treasury from wholesale raids made by the Board in behalf of contractora. ‘The Hanus extras, the Warxen extras, and the BxxTon extras wors all jobs which were only arrested and defeated by the vigilauce of the press and the Citizens' Association, and by appeals to the Courta, ‘The county election in November last was based exclusively upon the roformation of the County Board. Ho odious had been the conduct of the five retiring members that even ths frequontly bought and sold Demo. cratio Conventions did not daro to nominate one of them for re-glection, It was conceded by overy man that the election of five hon. ,cat citizens to take the place of the relizing Commissioners was the highest and moat i yortant question to be determined by the election. Every mgu nominated scoepted hiy candidacy on the ground that he was to give his vote to break up the old dishonest supremacy in the County Government; to rout the county thieves, to dislodge the creat- ures of the Ring, and to put new men, fresh men, and sbove all things honest men, in the great offices wherein 4o much public money ia expended. In the .Republican Couvention the closest scrutiny was exer- cised. ‘The strongest and most emphatio indorsements of ‘the integrity of Mesars. Busuo, Brorronp, Boxsx, Wazsizs, aud Meren wera roquired. The candidates wero all pledged personally to break up tha old Ring, and the Ropublican ,Clubs of the Fourteenth Ward ‘made especial pledges in behalf of Mzyen, It is seldom that a man olected to nan office of trust fa'la so sud- donly, or in such brief time nbandona the canse ho was electod to promote, or 80 gnick- 1y desortstbo people who placed faith in him. Hardlg had Merea obtained his oloctioh ‘when thoe story wna cironlated that ho had been selected by the Ring even bofors tie olection, Dospite the denlals, the story grew in strength, nntil at last Mxrzn openly sppearad in the Ringeanons, and thenceforth has been counted a¢ confidently as ono of that faction ns was Crrany, or Coxvy, or Motrov. Thore was, for a time, a hitch in the térms, but in dao tine tho Ring blos- sbmed forth in all its numorical supremnoy, including Mevze, the man who had boen clected by three thousand majority to break up tho Ring and reform the County Bosrd. The election of last November, all tlio efforts of the peopls to protect them. solves by the election of honest Commis. sionors, have all proved abortive, What the Ringlostin thoretiroment of MoCarrneythoy have securad in the election of Mxyer. The defection of this man, his false- lLood to his party, to his por- sonal friends, his falsehood to thoso who eleated him, gnd his falsohood to the canso of roform,¥4s rendercd abortive tho entiro efforta of the people to seours &u lionest majority In the Board of Commis- sioners, Imst year, whon the Ring was strong enough to get nlong without his vote, Frrzazrard played a conspleuous part on tho ulle of integrity and falr-dealing. The goneral public gave him fall credit for his services. This yoar, when his voto was necassary to the Ring, ' Frrzoesarnp becomes one of its conspicuous members, and has never o word or o vota for the interests of the public. Ho too has desorted, and though tho Board will no louger listen to the majes- tie declamation of HoLpxx and McOairrnzy, nor bo inspired by them in tho voting of ex- {ros, their places will be filled as sc. ceptably to the mob of spoilsmen by Mever and Frrzaznarp, who, with their op- portunities, mnay in turn successfally rival any of thoir indicted predecessors, In tho meantime thero must be pationco. The Oitizons’ Association will find its labors 88 nocessary ns over; the samo vigilance must bo obsvrved ; the minority mnust do its duty ; tho press muat record the dally prog- ross of tho County Government; and tho peoplo must ot the mext eloction make another-effort to reorgnvize and reform it. RELIEF FOR INDIA. The English aro at last waking up to n reanlization of tho fact that their great Empiro in Asla i exposed to moro alarming dangers than the progross of Russian sapremacy, and that the Enstorn quostion has other fenturcs than thoso of a political character, and which are even moro pressing. On the 11th inst. a largo moeting was hold at Manchester, at which two notable speechos were made by Jomy Baiant and 8ir Antaug Corrox, a clvil onginecr who has just returned from India aftor o thirty yoars' rosidonce. Wo give ex- tracts from theso speeches elsowhere, and commend thom to our readers as conveying information of an excoedingly intercsting character concerning a country but very lit. tleknown, And yet that couniry contains 260,000,000 pooplo, one-sixth the population of tho world, throe times a8 many pooplo ns are contained in tho'vast Russian Empire, and eix times as many 03 tho consus of tho Amoriean Republic shows, occu. pylog a territory about as large ns the area of this country belween the Atlantlo Ocean and the Rocky Mount- 1aina. JTvonty:differontenotions: oconpy, it isposking twontyl @it¥UL Ianguages, gov- erned by a handful of officinlsin Calontta who know littlo or nothing about them. Tho soil of that country is very fertila and arable, and adapted to produce almest any form of vege- tation if it were only watered. Nowhoro ont of China does humanity swarm as it doos thore, Nowherols n conntry naturally richer. Nowhere could production yield richer re. turns if it were stimulated. Nowhere are the sources of vast wealth more numerous. Nowhere could larger harveats bo gathered if the Power that owna it would make an intel. ligent effort to secure thom. And yet what is the condition of Indla? Mr. Brioar says it ‘*ia essentinlly at this moment in great and abject poverty, and the reputation of its woalth boa been but a proof that it wes a country which marauders have always found ecasy to plundor.” Famino has played a ter. rible part in dovastating this rich Empire, Binco 1837 there have been fiva great famines, and within the last ten or fifteon yoars over 8,000,000 of the natives havefallen victima fo their ravages, entailing not only a losa of population but a loss of produce, of rovenue, and of actual wealth, the value of which canuot be computed. .Tho Empire is tazed asdry as a squeczed orange, AMr, Borenr Limsolf admits that it is not posalble to levy another tax, or even if it wore, less monoy would be produced, because it would destroy existing taxes. The Governmont levies land taxos, income taxes, import dutiesy stamp duties, and an opproessive salt duty, until no moro taxes can bo levied, and yot it sponds the §300,000,000 which it gathers overy year, and has plunged into debt $500,000,000 more than all it oan leVy. The Indian Government, thereforo, s continually on theverge of bank. mptey, The Government has spent from $£800,000,000 to £900,000,000 on railways, and yet the vast bulk of India is not tonch. ed by them at all, and jnsufilcient transpor- tation is furnished for the crops, The aver. 8go returns from the 7,000 miltes ¥ rallroad are 8 por cent, while the total loss in inter- est on share capltal and on the debt i $15,- 000,000 & yoar. Bix men, sent from Great DBritian to Caleutts, which {s located sbout where New Orleans s in this country, aotually govern or attempt to gov- ern the 250,000,000 people of Indla, whom they never seo aud nevex have known, but they da not et the revenues alone. There 1a a civil lwt of from 60,000 to 100,000 civillans, engineors, wilitary officers, clerks, ‘aud pensioners, who have an intercst in the patronsge, ponsions, and promotions, and no influence -bas yot proved strong ouough to curb thelr rzapacity. 'They swarm like ants and consume like locusts, and thus with the raveges of faminme, with the rapacity of office-grabberw, with the constant increase of dobt, and with reckloss expenditure, Judis has reached its pitiful condition, though usturally ons of the richest lands on the globe. ‘That there s a serious defect somewhere in the administration of the Indian Govern- ment is now becoming spparent to the Eoglish peoplo, and they are moving vigar. ouuly to adopt somé Ineasures that will en. large the meansof sustenanoce, pravent starva- tion, and enable thy peopls to psy more taxes. One of these measures was suggested by Bir Astuvs Corrox in his speech, namaely, the construction of a vast rescrvoir to hold 1,500, 000,000 oubio yards of water, which at an olevation of 1,600 feet above the ron wéuld supply nine-tenths of the peninsula of Indin. From this great reservoir threo or fourlines of irrigating canals gonld be constructed, which, the speaker said, would convey the wator to vast tracts of country nnd to & very Inrge portion of the MMadras Presi- doney, and swhich BMr. Bnraur eclaimed could ba constrnoted for 145,000,000, or one.quarter of tho amount that has been mnnndsmj upon railronds that do not pay anything or accommodate the people at all. It is very evident from these speeches, and from the tone qf other meatings recently held, that there are some poople in England who do not belleya that the Government is altogather fulfllling its dnties towards India by growling at Russia every step she takes in the direction of Conatantinople, so long ne nothing is done to relisve the condition of, its wrotched people or improve the oppross- ive and {nefficiont charactor of its sdminis. teation. THE LEARNED BLAOKHMITH. Oneof the remarkable men of tho age 18 now 1ying at the point of death. The-titte ot *‘the learned blacksmith,” which was bestowed upon Eumu Burnirtas long ago as 1840, Is pecu- MNarly (ndicative of the man and ot his clalm to the position which few will heaitate In accord- {og him. Without fatural {alents, and almost entirely deprived of cducstional facllities, he yet succeeded by the mere force of dogeed per- severance in acquiring an unusual knowledge of mathematics and forelgn languages, and in lfting himeelf up from obscurity and poverty fnto a position of soctal and political influence, His example has been, and will aiways be, of fucalculable benofit to the youth of the conntry. Evinu Burritr was born at New Britain, Conn,, Dec. 8, 1810, belng the youngest son in a family of teu children, five of whom woro girls. Ilis parents were of Bcotch descent, and his father and grandfather bad both fought for the Re- public in the Revolutlonary War. In the year 1823 his father died, leaving young Erinu de- pendent upon his own cxertjons for a liviog. The great problem which always presents itsolt to young men of his ago was readily solved by him, for he immediately apprenticed himself to o blacksmith of his native town, and begannat the same timo the systeimn of self-education which Iater bore such abundant fruit, and guined him an almost world-wide name. Without neglect- ing his trade, he yet managed to acquire con- siderable skill {o mathematics, While his mus- cle was employed at the anvil, his mind was constantly busied In propounding and solving problems, until his.proficiency {n mental arith- metic became the wonder of the nelghborhood. At the ¢nd of threo years ho bad the proud sat- isfaction of knowing that ho was ono of tho best blacksmiths In the State. By the aavice of his brother ELuam, who was then teschiog school in New Britain, ho began the study of Greek and Latin os well as of scveral modern lan- guages, and, after continuling several mohths at bis brother’s school, romoved to New Haven, o order to be under the Inspiration of Yale Col- lcge. His first beginnings o Greek were made {n 80 novel o manuer as to be worth montion. Belng ashamed to seck advice or fustruction from the Professors of the college, hic obtalned & Ureck grammar and o copy of the Ziiad, and sat down to transtate tho latter with tho afd only of a lexicon with Latin definitions.. Atthe cond of tho Hirst afternoon ho bad translated and committed to memory Gftcen lines. Soon after thia tinio ho obtained a situation ns teacher of o district school, but was obliged to abandon it on account of Il health, Ho next went into business, but in 1857 was rulucd by the financial crisis. He thon remov- ed to. Worcester, Mass,, and rosumed blacksmithiog. Here ho gained access to an antlquarian library and took up again his study of langusges, . Ho mastered the Icclandic tougue, and translated many of tho Sagus into English, Publlc attention was first dircetod towards him by the appearanco ins Boston paper of a lotter from hin.to Witrniam B, LixcoLy, of Worcester, asking bim If he could put him {n the way of sccuring some German work for translatiom This letter was read by Gov. Evererr beforo o meeting of working- men to show what a worklogman might do by “application, ‘In 1841 Mr. BurriTr -was invited to deliver a lecture, which ho had preparcd, in soveral Eastern citics, and by this ho' galned a wide celebrity, About this time ho bocame fn- tarcsted in tho subject of uuiversal peace, and wrote and lectured on the toplc for ten years, In order to carry on tho peaco crusade ke establlshied a newspapoer at Worcestor called the Chrlatian Citizen, devoted to sutl-slavery, poace, temperance, and sclf-culture. In 1840 he went to England for the purpose of cstablishiog an Internationsl Lesgue of Universal Brother- hood, and remaloed ‘abroad thres years. He was’also chiefly instrumental fu bring. ing sbout the flrst Peace Congress which met {n 1848, and he was an active participant in the subsequent Peace Congresses of . 1840 and 1850. Returning Lo this country in 1833 ho be- came oditor of tho Citlzen of the World, 3 paper in Philadelphia devoted to the sdvocacy of com- pensated emancipation of the staves. To this work he gave his whole tima and braln, and even deprived himaelf of the necessaries of life 1o carry on the paper. After tho flasco at Iar- per's Forry he was so filled with dfsappolntment that he retired from journalism, and weat upon a small farm ooar New Britaln, lotending to de- voto the remainder of his days to peacolul agri- cultural pursyits. But In 1883 he again made a journey to Eugland, and in 1885 was appoloted Consul at Birminghatn, a poaition which he held until the accession of Gen. GRANT to the Presl- dency, 1n 1870 he returnad to this couutry sud settled down In his native town, where ho has een ever since. Quite rceently he has been subject to attacks of hemorrhage, and nis condl- ton Ls now rezarded as oxtremely precarious, ————— . The New York papers have recently been strangely stlent on thosubject of obetisks. Not & word bas been sald for ncarly two months regarding the important project of bringing a Cleopatrian necdie from Egyptlan sandbeds to adorn the laudscape of Central Park. ‘Chis fs not right. 1t {s positively ungrateful treatment of the generous-hearted Khedive, who so mag- nanimously offured to deprive bimself of his last needle in order to thread the’ two natlous togethor in amity and pesce. Perbaps an ex- planation of this sudaden reticence may be found 1 a letter from Egyot which Lias just now beea published, Thecorrespondent fnnocently states that, altbough Le hsd conversed with wany people who bave daily access to the Khedive, ko has yiot vet found onu who has ever heard o word from his Ilighness' lips concerning the atleged gift to America, The fuference fs that the Khedive bas pever made any such offer, aud the probability s that he never will, while the certaluty remafus that the New York papers bave beon hutbugging thelr readers. e Thatgthege will be any serious troublo be- tween the United States and Mexlco on acvount ot the present border troubles ts doubted by Gou. Esconzpo, late Mexican Minlster of War. ‘Fhe order issued by the Diaz Goverameat, di- rectiog Mexican troops to pursue Texan warauders to the frontler, had Leen rescinded, and, as for any other difficulties, there were none except such as bad existed fora long vme without giving riso to war. The ex-Min- Ister saystbat houors are about easy, 8o faras cattle-thieving is concerned, that gastime being induiged tu by the Texan rangers as well as by tho greasers of bis own land. : The wealthy Amoerican at the Vienns Exbi” bition, who exhibited a true American contempt for the smalleat of Uermnan colus by peraisting 1o calling It & * christer,” is paralleled by the American millionalre in Paris who bag beco koown to murmur, * Compreany none of your demmod centeems.” This noochalance ol our countrymen in the matter of small chaogo is one of the idiosyncrasies which bas endeared thom to the blart of hotel-keepers; shoomen, and the oumerous classes of Contlnental com- munitics which s upon fecs. There is cor~ .Jotted them down, and while tainly & vague Impreasion among the trans- oceanle peoplo that Americans are all rich ahove tho ordinary quallty of richness, and the recent gorgeous banquet given to Oen. GRANT in Parla by the wife of a San Francisco mine- owner has been the text for numerous tales in the French and English papers re- gurdinr the wealth of different Amerlean famlilies and individuals,. The London (Jlobe saya. that “tho United States havo de- veloped what Dr, Jonnsos calls the potentiall- ty of growing rich bevond the dreams of avaricp. A. T. BrawART, the dry goods man, Jonn Jac Aston (slc), the Manbaitanese Duko of Wi wminster, and Commodore VANDERDILT, the raliway king, cach dled worth, roughly speak- ing, $100,000,000 in rasl and porsonal estate. In Bank of England pariance, this is £20,000,000 sterliog; aud in another generation such a for- tuna will bo looked upon by Awcricans as n mere flea bite. There niready cxists a Califor- nian whose dinner raenus, it 1s sald, are printed on thin shects of gold, and whose wealth Is, i popular belicf, cqual to having bought uf the pecunious trio just adverted to.” The (lole voncludes from all these clrcumstances that Amerleans aro In quito comfortable circum- stances, notwithstanding the hard times. This is all very pleasant and flattoring to our natlonal feelings, but truth compels us to reflect that the deductton 1s not logical, ————— The Evening Journat yawns fo its usual even- ing nap, and drawls out: *Fow much were the 41234 grains of silver—thodollar of our fathers —worth! Never léas than 100 cents. And n true dollar is 100 cents, lsn't {1 Certalnty.” Wil the Journal now tell e thisp. m., it sufficiently | awake, what centa“it s speaking of? Were thers gold cents by which to measure the dol- lar of the fathers? Or were there sflver cents, or platinum! * Or doea the Evening Nap proposs to make acapper standard, ora conglomerate of nickel and copper? Weo are fn doubt what the satd paper mchns. The gold or silver dol- lar was, It {s truc, worth always 100 1-100 of ftaclf, and always will be. Is this all that our innocent contemporary means, or does It proposs a nickel-copper measure of tho dollar? Would not n gold-sflver measure bo better! Uotd has bynomeans the same value a8 tho ‘*dad@y’s dollar’ of gold as measured by purchasing power. Iathere any other rea- son of any fmportance for the present deprect- atfon of silver than the attempted demonetiza- tion in this country and abroad? —————— England, it Is reported, bas again cast a greedy elanco at Egypt, and s prepared to absorb that province whenever the Porta s willing to make low terms. Tho present share of England in tho Suez Canal {s reprosented by an investment of $20,000,000 which DisraELI made in 1575, and which has since proved oxtromely profitable. Itisnot likely that any actual purchasc of Egynt will bo made, but that possesaton will be acquircd, If at all, as & bonus for active Inter forenco In the present war. But thisisox- tremely doubtful, —————— ‘The July riots have boen estimated by Adjt.- Qen. LATTA, of Pennsylvanis, to have cost that Stats nearly half a milifon dollars, exclusive of tho loss by destruction of private property. ‘The sum mentioned represents about what It cost tha Btata to feod and pay the militla during the riots, although there is one ftem of 813,000 which the Reading Raflrond charges for trans. porting troops who wero detatledto defend that rallroad’s property. e —— The Chicago Times, utterly unabla to meet or refuto tho facts sud arguments of ‘Tus Tuip-4 UNE on the sllver question, devotes ita mental resources to abusing the oditor. That may ploasa its managoment, but will bardiy convince its renders o8 to tho merits of the question at tssue, ‘Tho TALxADGE doctring of muscular Chris- tlanity is popular with the Texaas, several Bap- tists of Bell County having recently adminis- tored asovere floging to the President of an infidel club. Ho now bas an anxions seat. ‘ Mr. Rurus Hlazom, having pald offall his lia- bilities in full, was yesterday readmitted to the New York Stock Exchange. { ‘The Domocrats of the Count§ Board can now |* bogin to wallow in the MzreR of corruption. Thers may bo rovivals horeafter at the Taber- nacle, but not, ah, not of the baby-show. * PERSONAL. Willlam D. Howells fa a failure as a leo- turer, Bishop Potter approves of Kimball, the dgywnl.lar - Manrico Grau will soon take the Alines troupo to Sonth America. Kate Field's articles in the London T'imes have proved highly acceptable, Joseph Cook has been made an honorary member of & philosophlc society of Great Dritaln, The Rev. Fatlier Jamea Folton, of Boston, celebrated on Bunday tho completion of Aifty years' minfatey, Mr. Eustis, tho new Senator from South Carolina, gets $20,000 back pay and $2,000 to $3,000 miteage. Durlng the period for which' ha waa paid 84 a United States Senator he was alio s Htate Beoatar, > It has boen announced that the Rev, Dr. Seymour, Bishop-clect of Springfleld, I, will shortly marry Mi san Tyng Coxe, & cousin of the Rev. Stephen B. Tyng, Jr., Rectorof the Church of tha Iuly Trinity, New York, The expenses of Stanley's great African Journeys, Just concluded, bave been abont $115, - 000, borne equally by the Now York Zerald sud London Telegraph,—more than any previous Afri. carf expadition, private or governmental, and giv- ing, for that matter, more complete and fmportant rosults than any other. FoaW 'The New York (Fraphiceays; * It e nn. derstood that the omluent Tammany finsacler, Owon Muarphy, who ran away with $40, 000 ye: day for the purposs of *taking & little exarcis will return next weok, compromise for $000, and have Jndge Y. Toshim pat him on the back and .say, *Well done, Owon, good and Jalthtal serv- aut.'" The Rov. Dr. Frederick William Farrar, Canon of Westminster, whose sermon sgatnat Iell has inade such a sensation in the religious world, 1340 yearsold. 1lle lu the autlior of a number of works of fiction, philology, and theology, but is beat known by hiv **Life of Christ," which for several ycars bms been congjdered & blograpby of undoubted orthodoxy, ‘I'ie Boston Herald publishes a Bpringfleld letter, which says that, In the event of Mr. Bowlos death, the sditorlal control of the Repubdlican will pass into the keeplng of three youug meu, now owployed on tbo a.aff. The property will still be awaed by the Bowled family, ava Samusl Bowles, Jr., will be the publisher, but the youdg editurs wiil bave a share of the profis. The late Fronch dramatist, Barriere, once cootemplated suicide, had hia pistol loadud, and callod fu & frlend to receive hia dying wishes. Tne friend did not attcropt to diss: him, but calmly A was writiog & farewell lutter ho took up the ! and begen to exumineit. Iv'was cocked and the muzzle was polnting directly at Barrlere, who dacked under tho table with remarksblo sgility, crylng out: *'Look out! the confounded thing 1s luaded! You'll be sbootlng me, first thing you know.™ Tom Higginson, a well-known barber, whoso shop for many years bas been underthe Park Hotel, In Nassau strect, New York, died Sun- day of poemonia sfter @ short lliness, 1t wes in his shop that Barnum, while bis oid museum wass featuze of lower Broadway, got au Irlshman to ¥ive him his turn on condiilon that Barnpm would P4y tho Irbhiman's bill. The showman wes ssion- 1shed woon after to find that the Iridhman had lo- Barauis yood-humoredly pald the pleased with the joke that be had 8 plctare drawn of the Irishman ss he looked before and afior be paased through the barber's bands, and husg the blctace in bis meseuns. EDUCATIONAL. Reports of Expénditures for School Purposes . Last Year. Over Half a Million Asked for Teachers’ Salaries Next Year. . Dolluquen'c Lessces of 8choo) Property to De Pushed Up. Buccessful Oandidates for Ad- mission to the High School. Proceedings of the Stais Teache ers’ Association at Springe feld, 1lI. Discussion of the Question of Admit- ting Political Economy as a Btudy, Advocacy of the Use of Daily Newspapers in Reading Clasgses. The Rellgious Idea Also De- sires a Chance to Shoot. CHICAGO. - BOARD OF BDUCATION. A regular mecting of the Board of Education 'was held last cvening, President Sulllvan in the chair. The absentess wore Inspectors Arnold and Btone. Tospector English, of the Joint Committes appoloted” to look Into tho question of tho Bchiool Agent's bond, reported that several im- portant legal questions were fnvolved in the matter, upen which the Committco had asked the opinfons of the Attorney of the Board and tho Corporation Counsel, and hoped to be able to report on the matter at the next meet- ing. Tho Committce wonld accordlngly ask further time. ‘The request was granted. Inspoctor Covert snuounced the resigpation of Miss Belle M. Bpance, Prlacipal of the Calu- met Avennie 8chool, aud moved that it by ac- c:g!od. Carried. . ho same Inspector moved to proceed to elect a I’r(nclynl to supply the vncnm‘:{. The motlon was carried, and a ballot resulted {n the electjon of_Miss Electa Dewey. Inspector Covert then moved to’ proceed to tho clection of a Head Assistaut In tho Douglas Bchool. Thbe motlon was carrled, aud Miss Alice B. Fullls elected to tho position. SCHOOLS AND GROUNDS, Inspoctor 1otz, of tho Committes on Public Buildings and Grounds, proscnted a_atatement of the cxpenses of the %-t year and the esti- mates for the next. e expenditures were "$42,004.50, nud the appropriutiun ssked for 3570, Th a 6 Commltteo also recommended that appropriations be made for new school sltes as follows: One twelve-room bnliding, on lot 4 b) cliy i besas Coror of Wivein avonve and Hia stroo 20,000, For school-site weit of Lincoln Park, in the vicinity of Nurth avenuoand Wellastroet. dn which to srect the bullding for which an appropriation ‘was made in 1874-'5 COlor ek site asuth of Chi a ‘ar achool slte south ol cago avenne and oast of Clark street, 120.000. e Yor achool bullding on the Iast-named site, $25, - Tatal for new sites aud bulldings, $77, 000. The report further statcd that thero would also bo nceded for the new school bulldings to be erected during the coming year, for which appropriations had already beon made, $5,530, for lumber, pay of carpentors and laborers, fill- Iog achool ion. scweraze, plans, ote. ¢ report was sccepted nud ordered pub- . Inspoctor Dmmhi of tho Committes on Ap- aratus, reported last year's expenditures at 183,21, and tho eatlniates for 1878 at £3,400. ‘The :gt!,%lte for furniture in the now buildings was 85,720, Raport accepted and ordered published. Inspector Hoyne, of the Committee on Janf- tors and Janitors’ Supplles, repos {umdlmrel of the lnst year at 807,067.98, and he estimates for 1878 st $78,207, Report ac- cepted and ordered published. . 'he report of the Cominitteo on Publication showed that last year's cxpenditures were $3,- ©04.22, and tho estlinates for 1878 $4,800, Re- port accented and ordercd published. TRACHERS' SALARIRS, Inspector Vocke, of the Committea on Bal- aries, sybmitted n statement as a basis for tha discussion of the pubject by the Board. The followlog wero the cbanges pruposed from last year's appropriations: Assiatants in doubls division: For tho first year of service For the sccond yoar of serv] For the third year of wervic ¥or tho fourth year of servi For the 8fth yoar of aervice Fifty dollare in addition to the pay of 8 Grammar Department or & Erimary Department teachier may, on, the recom Jondation of the Committee and the Superintendent, be allowed to one toache, on exch floor haviug fouror more roome (oxcep the foors contalmug the rooms occupled by iesd Ausiatauts, and in rented bolidings where the Prin- Ccipal takes chargaol & divisiou). designated for the additlon tothe: known as Assistants, and shsil take charge of the order in the halls on the doors where they teach, and shsll attond to such other suparvising work &8 the Principal directs. The estimatea for teachers of writing and elo- cution, it appoluted, were §1,500 oach. The re- port. then continued as follows: No change shall be made In the salsry of any tescher except at the beglnniog of & school term, ana, in determiuing the rate of ssiary in each case for next achool term, the word yoar aa used in the nchedule sball bo regarded as forly wecks of actual sorvice in teaching in the Chicago schools from the datu of the acher's ‘firat ofi- clal appolntment here, Any tescher who Las tauglt hore fcss then, one year will receive $100 ne her salary for the ensulng torm: If iwo years, ; and . . 1o Ii.“ cas or expsricaca B s in. Axiug waluclen for vin g nged on the sbovo blan, tho following mated expentes for teachure’ sALAMIRS YOR 1878: 200 - '3 No cbangea wero recommended in th.u sslaries of Building and vmzAmn!, Attoruey, Cler! Bookkeupa'.‘:ml tauts, which at presext 133 uflu.n rn:on was accepted sud ordered pube ed. nspector English, of the Committeo-on Ju- dlelary, l’tpnrks that ‘would be needed in conductiog suits for the Board. Roport accopte ©d aud orderod publised. Iuspector Bunlth offred a suggestion to ths effuct that ay much as $10,000 ought to be sp- propristed during the coming year to the sup- m of thy evenlug schools.” No action was u ou the suggestiou. Tnspector Hola moved that ihe. President - 1) r Hotx movi 14| e I'r urwfimm the Complroller what stops are nccessary Lo sccure a lease o ths West Blae wates-tank lot, corner of Mooroe and Mc stzeets, for tha ereciion of a West Diviston High Behool. The motion was carried. Iospector Covert moved that the Comumlttes on Schiwol-Fuud Property and the Attorney of the Board be tostrucied £o prepare a llst of do- lagqueut school property, with the ruasons whv for the city lot opposite Lin- . 5,025 84,100 27,000 8000 - 18, 000 42,780 76,000 41,930 7,500 22,500 B0 ienchers at 32 $9:000 achel 2 % Suparintendents... .. 5,500 “Tatal for present co $508,775 Adatons leschers aoed 1hs:’ 8 bigh-school L 50 8 Letocimate for Lm0 10 uuug 10r new re: 5,000 TGN csiniesn ivi, supsbsansinnsnss 25,505