Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 5, 1878, Page 4

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 1878, @&c@&%mwm TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, ||"\' MAll~1¥ ADVARCR—IOSTAGE l‘fl!l‘:"\i ally K ?. . 2.1 le 3 sars g i §8 - Weekly, one year. ! WRERLY EDIT! me copr. " RS el Tl 133 Bpecimen copies sent tree. Give Post-Gico ddress i fall fncludtog State snd County, liemittances maybe made cither hy draft, expross, Tust-Oflice order, orfn registered letters, at our risk, TERMS TO CITY BUDSCRIDERS, . Trily, delivered, Runday excepted, 25 cents pee week, L.atly, delivered, unday Incinded, 50 cents per week. Address THE TRIDUNE COMPANY, Corner Madison and Dearborn-sts., Chlesgo, Jil. Orders for tha delivery of T TRInuNE at Evanston, Englewood, and Hyde Park leftfn the countiog:roow ®lilrecclve vrompt atientla — TRIBUNE BRANCII OFFICES, ‘Tz CRICAOG TRIRCKE has catablished branch ofiices for the receipt of mubscriptionsand sdvertisements s tollows: NEW YORR=~Room 29 Zvibune Bullding. F. T. Mc- FApDEX, Manager, T'ARIS, France—No, 16 Rue de 1s Grauge-Datelfere, 11, Mauvxn, Ageot, - LONDON, Eng.—American Exchange, 449 Strand. Hexsy F, Gietio, Agent, 6AN FRAKCISCO, Cal. ~Palace Tiotel. MoFicker’s Thentro, Msdison street, Letween Dearborn and Etate, The Two Orphsns.” Hoolry’a Theatre. Tiandolph strect, bLetween Clark and Lafalle. Engagement of the Oates English Upera Bouffo Troupe. **Blsdam Angot's Chlld." Now Chlcngo Thentre, Clark street, opposite sherman House, Engagee ment of W, Irviog Distiop, the Autl-Epiritist and Mind Tteader, Ilnverly’s Theatres, Moproe street, sarncrof Dearborn. Ecgagementof RosaRand. **Cio, Coliseum Novolty Thentre, Clark strecl, opposite Court-louso. Vatlety ver- formauce, Farwell Hall, Madtoon steeet, botween Clark aad LaSatle. Tieadings by Jesnte Jewell, MecCormick Ifall, North Clark street, corner Kinzle. of, Carpeniter, Mesmerlsm and Taycholugy by TUESDAY., MARCII 5, 1878, 3reenbacks nt tho Now York Block Ex- chnnge yestorday closed at 983, A farjous tornado in Cascy County, Ky., bins Lronght death and dostraction in ap- polling proportions upon a poaceful com- wnnity, The contenary of tho birth of Ronenr Eumer, a name worshiped by Irishwon all over the world, was very genorally observed thronghonut America yesterday. The priv flego of making speeches full of cloquonce and nndying devotion to tho cause of Irish liberation waz numoronsly oxercised, — By proclamation of the Spanish authori- tics in Cuba all slaves who have sorved in the ranka of tho insurgents in any capacity are to bo given their freedom upon applying to tho proper authoritics. Auothor proc- {amntion nnnounces that Caba will hereafter bhave a represontation in the Spanish Cortes on equnl torms with Porto Rico, according to tho population of the island. e ] A rathor curious mixture of extra demon. stration filled up tho day nt Columbus, O., yestorday. In lhe morning n national saluto was fired by order of the Legislataro {n hon- or of tho passado of tho Bilver bill; Iater on, both Houses adjourned out of respect to tho memory of BeN Wape, In whose honor tho State.Houso flags wore lowered to holf-masat ; nud in tho ovening Gov. Bisuor's first TOCOP- tion was attended by n crush of guests. — Enormous damngo to crops and liva-stock Ying resulted frem tho protracted flood in Bacramento River, the Nile of tho Paciflo Const. One farmor alone lost 20,000 shoep and G,000 acres of wheat, and the total famingo 18 estimated at about $800,000, A compensating circumstance is discovered in tho fact that the fresh alluvial deposits distributed over tho worn.out wheat lands will immonsely Increaso the productive ca- pacity of tho soil for futuro crops, — A bill supplemental to the law romono. tizing silver woa yosterday introduced in the Benate by Mr. Cocxnciy, of Missonrd, It provides for tha doposit of silver builion or bary with the Troasurer or any Assistant. T'reasurer of tho Unitod States, and for tho irsuo to such depositors cortificates in de- vominations of not loxs than 20, to be re- toivable for duties andall forms of public tazes, sud to Lo poyablo on demand by the ‘Trensurer or Assistant-Trensurers in silver dollars or United Blates notes, ——— Tho war flurry is virtually at an ond In England, o4 appears by tho speech of Sir Garnonne Hanby, the War Bocretary, in the flouso of Commons yesterday. In present. ‘ng tho oubual war estimates, Hanpy sald ‘biey bad been propared upon a peace basis, ind in his speech throughout avoided oxcit. Ing topica. It is proposed to revivo the au. suinn wanouvres, ond to assemble near Sali. Sury this yeor over 16,000 men roady for ‘orolgn sorvice. ‘Lhero is now no serfous fxpectation that the Britlsh army will be tallod upon for anything more arduous or txciting than sham battles ot Salisbury, — Tho introduction by Commmissioner Sexxy of figures showiug a reduction of over £100,. 000 for the first quarter of the current fivcal year os compared with the corresponding * yperiod last year seems to have given rise to conflicting cmotions in the County Doard, Eome of tho Commissioners scom to regard Mr. Bexne's gratifying figuros in the light of ® persoual imputation, and somehow fuil to yerceivo any cause for rejolcing. ‘Those members, it will be noticed, ara all idantified Ly the common report with tho *Ring" trausactions of lnst year, and as thoy have nviforinly opposed the rotrenchment which bav mado the presont showing possible, it is a0t surprising that they should be unable to discover any cause for rejoicing, e ——— A cose of great interest is on tria) at Kal. Bmoz00, Bich., whero Mrs. Naxcx Nzw- coMer has brought suit for 840,000 dawsges sgainst Dr, E. H. Vay Dzusex, on sccount of injuries sustained through her incarcer- stion in tho State Insane Asylum under sfs charge in October, 1874, Mrs. Newcowmen's testimony makes out a terrible 3ns0 of cruclty and conspirscy sgainst her liberty. Bho swears to baving roceived last. log injurles through her imprisonment o tho ward for the violently insano, #od the ocurions point is ralsed by tha eminent - counsel for the defendant that evidence on this branch of the case is Insdmissable, since their client cannot be Leld lisble for injuries inflicted upon the plaintiff by tho raving maniscs into whose midat sho was thinst by his orders. If the Court sustains this point, Buperintendonts of Insano Asylums will not bo slow in por- celving tho advaniago of hereafter puiting dangerously sane patients into wards wo dangerously insane that no tales will ever bo told. — Nothing bul the peaca preliminaries havo 83 yot been signed, tho deafting of ndefini- tivo treaty being s work which will probally be carried forward at Bt. Petersbnrg with all tho doliberation which the gravity and im. portanco of the enbject reqnire. Several mattors not inclnded in the preliminaries ara resorved for future consideration, thongh it seems to be ganorally admitted that snflicient concessions from the original demands have beon made by Russia to dispel all prospect of n collision with England or Anstria, ‘Thero is, however, a wide mnrgin loft for diplomacy nnder the lend of **mntters re. served for futuro consideration,” and it will bo surprising it somo substantial advantages aoro not ineluded in the final treaty to com. ponsato Russin for present concossions. The tiresomo iconoclast of the Chicago Times, whose nssaults on pretly much avory- thing that pertains to civilization have be- come stalo from * damnabla fteration,” now makes o wholcsale and indiscriminato attack on all the modical colleges in Obieago, and takes occasion to characterizo tho annual commencoments of theso institutions ns *licensed murder,” ‘The infamous and in- diseriminate chargo is directed against the “*locat colleges " with tho evident design of making it apponr that tho Chicago medienl schools are’ engaged in turning ont quacks exclusively, while the other colleges of the country Liave a monopoly on educating phy- stefang, This ia in entiro keeping with the practice of the Chicago Times 1 denonncing and depreeating overything and overybody in Chicngo, from the pnblic credit down to pri- vato reputations, The fact ic that Chicago has one or two medical colleges that rank among tho best in the country, Tho Rush Medical Collego 18 ona of the oldost institu- tions in tho city, and bos n national rcputa- tion. It was ome of tho victims of the firo of 1871, when tho now colloge bnilding was dostroyed and tho jostitntion left in debt, Dy ronson of ita good name and the able Frculty it matntains, it bns orected another largo building, which i a crodit to the city, and the Collega is already out of dobt, excapt what it owes to the Faculty who have enrried it through, This institation belongs to the American Association of Medical Col- leges, which ias for its main purpose tho elovation of the professionnl standard, and it Incroases tho exactions of scholarship from yenr to yeor. It is much safer to trust to such institutions tho guardianship of the modical profession than to rely upon legisla- tivo onactmont of tochnical qualifieations for practicing medicine, subject to tho conatruc- tion and manipulation of political agents; and tho fact that n medical collego happons to be located in Chicago ought not to ba prejudicial to any good work it does, beeause Chicago tolerates at tho samo time an insti. tution liko the Chicago T'imes, THE SILVER LEGISLATION ABROAD, Tho foreign mails have Lrought the En. glish papers published after thoy had re. colved the newa that tho Silver bill Mmd passed tho Bonate by moro than two.thirds majority, and after it bad become evidont that tho silver dollar would bo remonotized under tho Scnato restrictions, whother the Prosident should voto the bill or not, It is not strange thot the preponderanco of tho British sentiment ghould bo a reflection of the cronkings that tho New York and Now England newspapors havo uttered pending tho discussion of tho quostion, ‘The English poople, ns o nation of wmoney-lenders, doing business on o singlo gold basis, and largoly interosted in American sscuritics, publio and privato, hiad the same {ntoresta in inslsting upon a ropsyment in gold alone that the Now York and Now Eogland monoy-lenders hod ; they hawvo regarded tho question parely from a selflah point of view, without any con. sideration of tho justico of tho caso or the genoral proaperity of tho Amerlean poople, ‘The London Z'émes hos tho credit of boing tho most trustworthy oxponent of tho ruling sentimont in Eugland. Its judgment of gil. vor rcmonotization has beon curious, It ro- fusod to stultify itself by maintaining, as tho gold organs in this country have main. tained, that tho now nse of silver ns monoy in this country would not have any influenco toward equalizing tho valuos of tho two wmetaly, and oven in the same jssuo in which it condomns the principles of remonetization and sooks to argue out ovil results, it is con. strained to admit that tho rohabilitation of sllvor as money in America will tond to” diminish pro tanto the strain upon tho stock of gold and lie annual supply thorsof from tho mines, and a simultaneons increase in tho valuo of sllver and decrense in tho value of gold aro uatural and unavoidable circumstances, If this process continue, assisted by o favorablo conclusion of the international silver confercuce provided for by tho act which hins beon passed, the result will be that the payment of the interest or principal of tho United Btates scourities in silver will bo ns acceptablo to foreign bond. holders ns if poyment were mede in gold, because they will receive an cquivalent in value, and American credit will not bo dam- oged even fu the slightest degree. Tho cone tinuing decling in tho gold quo‘stions and incroaso in the bullion valuo of silver aro cer. tainly indicativo of such a result, ‘The leader in the London T'imes is o mero rehnsh of tho opinions cxpreased by the Eastern newspapers, toned down somewhat by common wense, Even ot this lato day, it charges that the moansure is mainly dues to tho owners of the great Nevadn mines in order **to promote u wjessure for tho re. wouetization of the meta) in which thelr wealth couiats,"—thus utterly ignoring tho fact that one-balf the product of these wines conslste of gold. It also treats the matter a8 n purely sectional issuo, saud ss a *‘con. sequence of a loug-pending rupturo betwoen Western and Eastern {ntercsts,” It wecms to believe that the money-power of tho East bLolds the West ** in abject slavery,” aud that the Wost has entered upon a rovolt,—'re. solved to moke war upon the common enemy—the creditor.” ‘Whe fact that the remonetization of silver, as an act of justice, Las enlisted the co-operation of members of both political parties, bas also betrayed the Times ioto predicting & general disruption of parties; it conceives that there willbaa division fu which *‘the intellectual life of the Union " (whick it is plensed to locate in the East) will be arrayed sgainst an over- whelming popular seutiment South and West, ‘Thess false views of the situation are not entirely owing to the iguorance or selfish~ noss of tho British community ; they are in large past attributable to the tone of com. went which has becn used by tho Eastern presd fu tho effort to defeat the silver legls- Intion, When ‘Amorican nowspbpers have not hesitated to chargo that the remonetiza- tion of silver in *' tho first step in the dircc- tion of ropudiation,” the English presa is moro likely to accept the dictum than to search for tho truth, The English, too, are 03 spt to be misled by the statements of Amerieans who live among them, and whoso intoreats aro to somo extent identical with their own. Thus n person named Gronon MollexNRy, who rays ha hails from Pennsylva- nin, writes to the 7¥mes that ho knows it to be the intention of tho Eastern pouple to do business on nn exclusive gold basis, and that * the dollar of our fathora * will merely find its way into the hands of the brokers and bullion dealers, ** to be sold and resold in order to pay Federal taxes, which will bo fts function.” Thereupon the Zimes nccepts this statement as go much gospol, thongh ovory child on this sido of the water knows that tho Enst has not tho remotest fden of cutting loose from the West jn business re- Intions, simply beenuse tho West is just ns importaut to the materinl prosperity of tho Enst ns tho East is to that of tho West, and probably o gaod deal more eo. Now that tho silver dollar has ogain the legal rec- ognition of which it onght nevor to have Loen deprived, the individuals, whether nt Lowmo or abroad, who hava been defeated in the effort to grab more than they wore en- titled to, had bottor not risk their repntation further by prodictions, nor seck to deprociato what they will bo forced to recoguize ns money, but quictly await tho practical resuits, — ‘WHERE THE REPUBLICAN PARTY STANDS, Mr. Gronoz W, JuLiax prints in the last number of tho North American Review an articlo which ho denominates ** The Denth- Strugglo of tha Republican Party,” but which ho might with as great proprioty have called * The Last Screech of Disappointed Democracy.” It is nothing but a restato- mont of nll the couscs of offenses which havo boen given by the Ilepublican party sinco the War, and, by implication, an indorso- ment of the Domocratic parly, Wa do not proposa at this timo to consider fally the first branch of his argumont; for it is ovi- dont that his main purposo is to plice the Ropublican party on the defensive, and to insinuate his own party into favor by a kind of legordomain. It is unquestionally truo that the Ropublican parly has committed somo orrors. It would bo strange if a party that hod held power go long, and which was chargod with the responsibilities of govern- mont during tho trying period that followed tho War, had been frea from fault. Somo of thoso orrora wore duo to the timcs, and others to the porsonuel of Gen. Gnant's Administration. Such s thoy wore, tho men who voted for Gnant nand approved himi after Lis first term—con. stituting o vast mnjority of the Amerlcan people—wero the sourco of them, It fsa groat mistako for any writer to treat o party orgonization as an individual, and to mako it responsible, in its own namo and for its own sako, for every fault it may have com- mitted. In othor words, itis unphilosoph. fcal to entortain prejudico agninst a party morely a5 such. If it has high sims now, ond presents good men for ofiteo, and if it has on the whole been n pormanont bonefit to tho country, there is no reason why con- fidence should ba withdrawn from it on the dictum of an ambitious and jealous rival, 8ull further: If it has proved itself moro worthy of confidence than the party which is likely to tako its placo, st ought to have the continued support of tho people, Now what hove been the facta with refor- onco to tho Democratic party ? It sought to destroy the Union. Granting that it has sinco reponted bitterly of that crimo, what ovidenco is thero that it has brought forth works moot for repontanco? What disposi. tion haa it shown to accomplish reform In any Department of the Government ? to pro- tect tho Tronsury agninst thieves? to vindi- cate the honor of the Government at homo or abrond? Wao defy any man to show that tho Democratic party has shown any sympa- thy with Civil-ervico roform. Its intentions with roference to the whola Govornment can only bo judged by its treatment of that branch of tho Government which it has al- ready obtained posscasion of, Tho Demo- cratio party haa had 8 majority in two soc- cossive Congresses in the National onse of TReprosontatives, The spoctaclo of office. hunting, trading, and log-rolling that has been prosented there has boon shametul and demoralizing. Tho scramble for the Spenk. ership was naturally the firat oceaslon for tho exerciso of reform principles. It was oo lotly contestod that tho majority in the House {8 now divided into threo factions, Lended rospectively by the presont Sponker and two of the unsuccossful aspirants for the place. Tho effact of this partisan division is percolved in tho organization of tho Commit. tocs, by which the ablest men on the Dom. ocratlo side aro degraded to inferior positions, snd the important Chalrmauships farmed out a3 personal perquisites to fricnds of the Speakor, ‘Tho same greed for power was exhibited in the distribution of tho other ofices controlled by tho IIouse, Iu two Congreases there have been three Doorkeep- eri, Two of theso havo beon dismissed for caugo, and tho third is now the object of an investigation, ‘Cho real causo of offense in each instance was that the Doorkeoper could not withstand tho immense pressure that was brought to bear upon Lim to supply places for the fricnds of Democratio mem. bers, Tho present Doorkcoper testified under oath that Lo hud been com. pelled to increass the number of his assistauts beyoud tho Jegal limit, snd to reduce the salariea accordingly in or- dor to meet this pressure. And because he could not, with all his exertions, satisfy tho domands of his Democratio masters, charges wera trumped up sgainst him and he is now threatened with dismissal. Tho eagerncss for office that hins beon shown in tho House bus been sbown out of it. Wofind§, 8, Cox, who the other day denounced tho Presldent as **a froud,” writing a recom. wendation for office for the notorious Gronax I, Brries, and addressing it to tho President of tho Unitod States, . B, Harrs; while tho SBouthern Scuators Evusris, But- ven, Hivy, Lamag, and Mozoan have been omong the wmost persistent office-scekers, and bavo virtually constiluted o now Seun. torial Group, The Democratio party bas been no batter 84 & watch-dog of tho Treasury than it has been as a purifier of tho Civil Service, Itis the recoguized champlon of four distinct subsidy schemnes, sny ona of whilch would require additional taxation. "‘These schemes are (1) For tho building of the Southern Pa- cittc Railway; (2) For the subsidizing of lives of steamships to Brazil and to China; (3) For the pensioning of ex-Confedorate soldiers undor pretensa of relieving the Mox- ican volunteers; (4) For building levees along the Mississippi River. These mam. moth jobs are hidden under & pretense of economy. tho oaly effect of which thus far has beon to cripple the efficionoy of the Pen- sion Burean and the army, nnd to deprive the Professors at Wost Point of a fow little comforts. Tha Domocratio party defends and maintains n high protective tariff, which was imposed only ns a war mossure; and promotes by every means in ita power the calamitons warfaro that has been instituted by deragogues nnd ignorant laborera upon the organized capital of tho conntry. Tho Republican party stands as a bulwark of defenso againat the nccomplishment of theso perniclous designs. If it had no other miasion than to protect the country ngainst the Domocratia party, it would have sufti. ciont reasons for existing and being per- petuated ; but it bas bighor and better aims than this. It has o positive as well nsn negative purpose, It secks throngh estabe lished chaunels the reforms which the people demand ; and it is more likely to accomplish thom, becauso controlled by better mon than the Demooratic party is. It has been purifled in tho lnstfew years by the conflict it has beon obliged to sustain, aud it s now the best representative wo lhavo, or aro soon likely to have, of all that is good in ndministration, If it has not yot renched Civil-Servica roform, it has come nenrer to it than any Administration sinco that of the Domoeratic Jaczson wha inaugurated the spoila system. It hos provented subsidies, reduced the publio debt, advanced within one yoar of rostoring specle-paymont, and preserved the Union, not merely by averting sccession, but by confirming to tho nation {ho fruits of vietory. ‘WHAT THE GOLDITES BAID. It may not bo uninteresting, now that the Silver bill lins becomo a law, to recall some of the exiravagances published befora its passago by somo of the more rabid of tho gold faction, Ilers {8 o spacimen from tho Now York Z'ribune : Tha most amazing thing about the ailver agitator fa the coolneas with which he avows his desire to cheat his creditors. 1o declaros openly that ha wants a cheap dollar_oecanse he can puy his dubts canier with it than with an honcat one. Tl 1a In- different abont tho vroposal nf the Kastarn capi- taliets to ;apm no further losns except on a rold basts, **‘That wiil not affect past contracts.’* he says, **and Lhoso sre all we care anythlml ahout, What wa want i8 to uet rid of paying one-ienth of what wu owe, W want to make 10 conts take tho vlaco of every dollae we hare borrowed, and so we want the Braxy doliar.” This is not the exact lanuguage, but It fs the exact meaning of what Is rala every day by such journals se the Si. Louls Lepudlican, the Clncinnat! Commercial, and Tus Oriieaao THIBUNE, . Of courso, trnsh like this mnst now scem, aven to tha editors who published it, as very absurd, It roads like tho ravings of o drunkon man, of which, when sobor, he would feel heartily ashamed. Wo believe it was Scerotary Smenytax who said that to pass the Silver bill would drive all tho gold out of the country,—thnt tho greonbncks would fall to 90 cents on the dol- lar,~and Dr. Lixpemay, IHexny Wanp Beeonen, Comptroller Kvox, Parson Tar- Maog, Jay Gourn, Troxas Nast, the Nulion, P. T. Bannust, Scribner's Monthly, and other plous and profane sciontists, echoed tho ter- riblo prediction of tho BSecretary. Some. how or ouother, though tho pnssago of the bill was on sscertained fact two woeks ago, and the bill has been o law for sovers! days, gold has not risen, but is lower now than it has beon since 1861, Nosteamors have beon chartored to carry off the gold. Thero hos been no con- vulsions in finance, and greenbncks, rodecm- able in silver dollars, will now buy 98} conta of gold. Bilver ballion has also ndvanced in London, and tho danger now is, that, before tho silvor dollar canbe colned in any largo quantities, it will bo found that our dollar is too large, and that our silver will bo export- ed, a3 of old, to buy cheapor gold, Wo desiro speclally to put on record and to ask attontlon to tho following from tho Nation, published noar tho closo of tho de- bato in tho Sounate on tho Bilver bill, It fa a protty falr epecimon of thoe insolenco and the ignoranca of tho writer : What wisdom calls for now fs, that we shall re- alstatill, and tothe utmost, at every stage, the bill {s passed overthe President's’veto, or ho vhould bo captivated by nnx of the **compro- misos* now ollered, anch 8a Mr, Braiie's or Mr. CuumTiaNcy's, ovory cifort should bo made to lncalize the folly by’ Stuto leglalation, Thy sano Btates, which contain the cavital .of the conntry and most of its manufactoring industry, sucti ns New England, Now York, and Fennsylvania, should legialato promptly, making gold exclusively tho standard of value, and, ¥f thought desirable, mnklugrlllrcr a logal-tendor at ita builion valuo (n gold, "This would meet the lunatics und criminals with the only argument which lunatics ana erime Inals understand, —iho srgument of impossibility, 1t would save the business of the country from n prodiglous aggravation of the exlating disurder, und would canse o rostoration of confidence by ro- morving that dread of the wild-cat majoritles in Cougrosa which is now so fatal to all ontorprise, Now lot the “snno " Btates begin with tho business, Lot New York load off, Let tho merohnnts of Now York appeal to the Loglalaturo to ** protect” them ngalnst the silvordollars, If men want to buy goods with silver, lot them bo forcod to go to Bos- ton, or Philadelphia, or Baltimora ; lot it bo mado o peunl offeuss to sell goods 1 New York for anything but gold. Chicago is in the contro of an industrial population of 15,000,000 of producers and consumers, ‘Thore ls nothing that o Western trader wants to cowmplote his stock, whether it be of domestic or foreign production, that he can- pot find in Chicago, and obtain it Loro ot as low n cost o8 in New York, Chicago importers aud jobbers will goll for cash, greenbacks, silver, or gold, and, if the New York merchants pro- pose to go nut of businoss altogether, there 19 no such market in which to buy ns in Obi. cago. Let us bopo tho Nation will not give up the fight, even if tho Silver bill i a law, Lut it porsist that the **sono” Statea shall hereafter do no business except in gold coin, und lot the lunatics of tho reat of the country buy and scll in the money of tho country, “RELIGIOUS" ADVERTISING, 1f it is foir to judgo & man by the compa. uy he keeps, it is fairer still to judge Lim by tho words he uses; and when we find a newspaper propriotor speaking familiarly of * pimpa” and - * pandors,” * assiguations” and “ soductions,” wo naturally set him down for a coarsa-mindod man. It makes no dif. feronce whether ho is the proprietor o ¢ roliglous " nowspaper or not. *Religious* nowspapors in thoso doys bave no peouliar mouopoly of goodnoss. The conduct of the Adrarice is, undor thae circumstances, open to susplcion, - It is porfectly aware that Tus ‘Prioung is o pure newspaper; that its lnflu. euco has teuded always to elevate the toneof motropolitan journalism ; and that it haw had to fight hard sgainst worso newspapers than itself. In spito of this, the Adcance, in its focblo woy, denounces Tue Tribung, and tacitly commends, or approves, the other uewspapers in this city thot are the repro- sentatives and organs of vice, What can be thought, then, of the sincerity of tho Ad- vance? 1s it auy wondor that peoplo read botween the lines of its articles and find thero tho real taotives of ita attacks? People suspect, and say, that the Adeance is on- raged bacouse Tux Trouxs has shown the true charactor of the Howazp family, and particularly exposed all manner of jobs and frauda; for this state of popular guspicion tho alleged Christian proprietor of tho Ad- tance hus only himself to blame, When ho behaves liko a Christinn and a gentloman ho will bo considered ono. When ho rages and usos foul langungo he musat be thought no botter than ho shows himself to be. Tho effcct that ho has thus far prodncod on the publio mind may be judged from the two following communicationa: Tn the Editor of TAe Tribs Wear Drrenw, Wis., March 2.—1It is no more than jnet to refer to the charges recently apnears fnx in the colnmna of the Adrance, The rofuctivn npon your patrons ia 8o severo that in self-defenne ‘we have & right to protest nnd exptain, Tuz Titm- uUxe for years has preserved that degree of proe priety in ts atyle of editorlal manacement that has reenred for It 8 place among tho balter cinsses as n commendable and valusble fawily paper. Bo groat has been the contrast between it and the Chi- cago 7¥mes, for inatance, that hundreds of Chrine tinn peoplo have forbldden the prescnco of the Zimes In thelr fanilics, while they have welcomed Tus TrnuNe aa e worthy and valuable member of thelr hausehold, We know whereof wo afirm in this matier, and havo the morsl scnse of the public whera both ars read to evs- tain what we sav, The coneplenous obsconlt: of the head-lines uf the 7i¥mes i¢ notorlous, and has excluded it fram hundreds of homes, "T'hin wo ray inalmple jumtice to’Tun Tuinuxg, as agninat the flimsy charges mado by the Advance, In'view of this eatimate of Tux Tiinune, which hoa been confirmed by four years of daily reading, imaging thio writer's surprise when by tho Adeance onr eyes wero opened Lo the fact thut we Lad heon awfully decelved, and that, instead of the morally renpect- able jonrnal that we anpposed Tir Tuinuxe Lo b we hiad been harboring an Infamany, obacene pul lication, that ** no rerpectablo family, no rospects able man or woman, can becoma the patron nf, without becoming *particeps criminiz® in the sneaking Iittlo arrangement of shama and ruin that are regulated by tho vitlains who advertiss through thelr poreonal columns.” The languare of the Adeance {8 nn Insalt to the intelligent, respectable patrons of the Em.' and do- aerve the severe consuro of the Chiriatian public. I protest in thonama of truth against this broad and mweeping crlintuntion, There is neither senre nor justice In auch a atatemont. A baser and more mallguant tternnes waa never penued, Nothing but malicious perveralty conld instignte an expres- slon #0 scrlons {n its Insinnations, basod upon tho trivial fact of an invidinus **personal ' that might mean one thing or another,—nu one conlil tell but the persons interested In thio advertisemont. 1t In eary to read between the lines of the srticle in the Adrance un infamous animonity that avidently was hunting somo pretext (however obcnre) on which to base n atinging charge withont any reguard to its truth or falsity, "1t la the minfortunc of the Chitia. tian religion that it ia burdenod with unsanelified hatreds, that, under cover, seck togratify a malice that canonly be eatlsfied In o positive tujory Lo sonie _one better than themselves, I¢ it strany that Chrlstlanity sutfors In the eatimation of the world autstde vf it, when we bave In fte ropro- sentatives such flagrant ubuscs of Ite nPIHlnmlvnl‘- pose? We nb?nre wuch persons, by all that is guod and trae, 1o theow asido the clonk they wear, and rellovo the holy cause of Citntnr of the hurden anid stigma they intlict upon it. 1lis wrs not a spirlt of malicions intent, but 8 spirit of Lelpfulncss that has no part with evil, €. A, WiLkany, To the Edltor oy Tha Tribune. Parurn Tlousx, Citicaaw, March 4,—~1 am plad to see you are ventilating the subjuct af advertfru. menta’in_the religlons p Yon can yo utill farthor, The relicious press endoavor to show that all must dle, nnd the great alm of lifa shunlil be preparation for the final cull; and yet on tho reyerao sida of the sheut, or it miny'be v the nuzt calumn, they give an advortisement shuwing that, i1 one wili only procure & haitle, it wil) **suve life when ali else falls,” There are many, uve Mronger than the one T wow inclose, ~-sumo p tending to curo all the allments mun is helr to. Keep on in the good work. A "This correspondent iucloses tho following advertisement tokon from o **religious” nowspaper : HEMORRHAGE HEMORRHOAGE CURE Satesitfe when ailetss fulte. 1t hiasbeen used WITII PERFECT SUCUESH For halt & century for hemorriaga of tho lungs sad IT NEVRIL FAILS. Bold only by the Pre THE TREAIY OF PEACE. After nearly ton months of war, Russin and Turkey have concluded o peace, the treaty having boon signed at San 8tofano, o little soaport at tho mouth of the Bosphorus and almost a suburb of Constuntinople, whanco tho Grand Duke will probably mnrch his victorious troops into the Imporial Qity, ‘whoso streots linva nover befora boon 'trodden by tho foot of an enemy sinco its Turkish occupation. Wa aro still loft in the dark as to tho exnct details of tho treaty, but, ns compared with the origiual propositious, it soems apparent that gowmo concessions have boon made by Russia. It iz now intimated that, {n place of a koavy monoy indomnity, Russia will take the largor part of Armenia, ‘The now Asiatio provinco which hereafter will bolong to Nussia probably includes tho six districta of 'Cahaldlr, Doyazid, Van, Musb, Erivan, ond Kars, and possibly Batowmn, which have rocently beon, organized by o Russlan Commission, This Commission has already roported to the home Government that tho walo population of these districts is 010,744, and that the districts are so fortile that, aftor doducting tho vxpensos of ad- ministration, the reccipts from them will ylold a net profit of 8,000,000 roublea, The only monoy indomnity demanded s tho sum of 300,000,000, which is to bo secured with. out disturbing any of the tributes hypothe- cated to foreign croditors, or without making any claim upon tho Turkish tleet. A4 to Bulgeris, it is ouly cortain that its completa sutonomy will bo establishod, s this was the pivot upon which the whole war turued. Tho boundary, however, is uncertain, and it is now quite generally conceded that its southorn limits will not ronoh down into ‘Thrace, or that both Adrianople and Salonica may bo loft undlsturbed. Other questions will be wottled by the Conference, nud meau- whilo Iinssia has probably obtajned all that sho origlonlly contemplated, ns it bes always been o charsctoristic of Lor diplomaocy to oxnggorate her demnnds in order to allow for ahrinkage,—n policy which will bo of double advantago in this caso, as it will not ouly sooure to Russin what she really wauts, but at the same timo may Lclp paclfy Luglund by supposititious concessions, The situation, thereforo, is substantially as followa: Turkoy hos mado a tresty of poace after losing the principal part of her Europoan Provincos, tho richest part of her Asiatle Proviuces, and agrecing to poy a hoavy money indemnity, and the Christians bave boon emanaipated from the Turkish yoke. Russia will go into the Conference with the treaty as “‘an accomplished fact," and consequently with an imwmense advan- tage on her side in setiling questions of European intercat, and she will havo, in ad- dition to this, the moral influences of the Triple Allianco in favor of peace, The only concern of the future portaing to tho attitude of England; but what can England do? ‘What is tett for England to fight for? The occupation of Constautinoplo might have beea a protext omce, but it is no longer so. Even if it were, England set the procedent by violating tho ‘Treaty of Paris in forcing the Dardanelles, Whére is her army? Notwithstanding Sir Gasner Worszrxy's spread-eagle pronuncis. wmento upon tho streogth and efficlency of that army, it now appears that, aftor voting a credit of aix millions of pounds and spend- iog fifteen willions !ast year, sho has an army corps of 82,000 men in & partial state of readiness for the field, after a groat war has been raging for nearly ton months, The dispatch of this one corps would be at- tended with extreme dificulties, which would bo still further onhanced in sendinga wooe ood. The London Saturdsy Review, which has been & Turkish sympathizer all along, vory aptly says: *‘It seoms usolesy to give the rein to our imaginations and to picture Eogland with four army corps—128,000 mon~—stending ready for sctive service in any country. As yet it is not clear that we have 82,000 men in that condition.” ** But,” say some, * England will not go into war along, but in allisnce with Austria,” withont stopping to estimato tho inflncnos of Gormany cn Austrin, the strength of tho Triplo Alliance, or the fact that, it Austrin wero bont upon so rash n course, Russia would satlsfy hier with concessions sho could not fail to accopt. Anustria has nothing in common with England in tho mntter of tho Eastorn quostion. Hor interents aro on the Danube and in Bulgaria, whero England has none, and thero is noth- ing yot to shiow that any Austrian intorest is in poril, 8o longns Russiaand Germany hold their alliance, nnd thero {s nothing in the presont situation to wenken it, Austris cannot bo counted upon ns an ally of En- gland in any wyr against Russia. ‘Tho pros. pects, thereforo, are favorable for peaco. Unloss somo new and unoxpeeted contin- geney arises, thera can be no question that all tho issucs involving Europonn futerosts will bo peacefully scttled in the Conforonce. Russin and Turkoy nre at poace. Tho sword in shentbed. Diplomacy can be trusted to settlo all ontstanding questions, —— Probably the most curlous charge ever made by aJudge toa jury wns delivered in 8t. Louls during the anti-slavery excitement forty years ago. A mulatty, who had kilied » policeman, was taken out of Juil at night by amob, tied to a tree, and ronsted to death. It beeame tha duty of Judge LawrLRss to bring the matter be- forethe Urand Jury, amd the Alton (1)) Tele- graph relates that he did so In the following language: 1t the destrnction of the mnrdeter of Tausoxn was (ho act of the iany, —of tis multitnde Iy tha ordinary sonse of thime word, not the act of numerablo and uscertainable malefsctors, but of cangreguto thousande, selxed upon and impolled by that mysterfons, motaphyaical, und almost elvce tricnl frerizy, whiclr fn all ages sud nutione, hos hueeled the Infuriated multitude to deeds of death and deatruction, —then, § sny, arf. not af all s (his watler ! thu case then transceuds your Jurlsdic- um, it iy buyoud the reach of humau Jaw, ——— Amwong a1l the wenlthy and prominent men of the City of New Yurk, the vencrable Tstune 10w WeED was the only man who saw the sil- ver remonctizetion question from o mmtional and statesmantiko standpolnt, and had the cournge of his opinfons to bollly avow them. e espoused the blametallic stde of the contro- versy from tho staet, und struck beavy and re- peated blows for the uncouditivnu! restoration of the siver dotlur, He now enjoys the in- tonse satisfuction of scelig the fumilivr eolo of his toyhood and munbood put buck Into the legal-tender currency of the nation und the bl- tmetullic system re-establlshed, ‘I'iuntow can now die In peace, slnee his eyes huth seen this great salyation of the people. ——— That. ramarkably modest Stateof Maioe, which slwuys shrluks futo thy background of politics, except when forced Into temporary notoriety by ligr representative fn the Senate, has unwitting- ly furnished the country with a startling ploce of news. Tho Bungor Commercial 1s authority for tho statement that Mainefsthe heavieat taxed State fn the Unlon * since thy doliveranco of South Caroliua and Louisious from tho thigves which plundered them! Wo do fiot think that tho generous rivalry of Mr. CoNk- LING Will pernub this ssscrtion to o uniues- tioned, and the fame of New York as a tax- ridden State 1o be thus ruthlessly demolished, e et ‘This has been the earlicst season the oldest {nbabitant never recollects seelng anytning llke, It has been cven betting whether this wintor was next spring or only last fall, aud there wes a good deal to b sald on both slies of tho ques- Uon. Wenther prophicts are without honor, es- veelally in thefr own country; the ground-hog bins veen compelled to go into lusolvency, his speculations (based on his weather ubservations taken wn the 0 of February) having proved ruinously unauccessful, and the first base-ball accident, tho son of o Virginls Scuator having stepped from the cateher's position to the Gold- «en Stalr, has already baen reported. “The New York Z'ibune, notwithstanding all its diabollsm on the silver quostion, Is entitled to uno credit mark for openfug Its columns to tho powerful silver srguments of tho Nestor of the press, ‘'1iuntow Weep, But for this hos- pitality of JAY (iouLp, tens of thousnnds of Fastern people never would havo scen any ex- copt tho Bhylock sfde of the qnestion, If the dreulation of the New York 7'ibuns had been larger, **T. W.8" letters would have done more fgood;but, as 1t was, they helped tho cause of truth und rightcousness In a city ofsln and avariee. —— About that Sllver blll, there is one polnt wo should like our Eastern contemporariestolighten our darkness uvon. Thoy have ull with ono ac- cord decidod that the bl doesw't umount to auything, (s very harmless, won't scod boods down or gold up. Admitting that w) this s truo, dld our Eustern contctnporarics kuow It beforot If they did, why did they opposo tho mensurel 1f they didn’t, »whut has becowo of thut fnanclal sagacity and porspicucity of which 0 monopoly was supposed to be enjoyed down East?! 1.8, V. P, —— 1o paper read before tho Amerlean Pleh- Culturists’ Assoclation lust Friday, Mr. 4. Q. Goonr gave sowe statistics cuwcerning tho vlug und quantity of thetish caught In the year 1870 Thouost fmportaut branch of the lsh ndustry was the oyster trude, amounting to §50,000,000, Then camo vodflsh, valued ut $4,825,540, and whale (lsberles worth $2,841,000, ‘[lio total value of fish caught jo the Ouited Btutes lu 1570 wus $75,278,820, —— e ‘The abscnce of Henators ANTIONY and Dunw- 81DE, of Khodo Island, from the Senate when the Silver Lill was passed over the vutu isac counted for by the fuct that they were ln st~ tendance upon the weddiug of the hielr of the house of Brown & Ivus, of Providence, which uwie the greater part of Rhode slund, 1t wus neceasary to keep on the right side of w frwm which iwakes and unmakes Benators. ————— e A Chinaman fu Virgluia City Jately hirea him- | sclf vut us u substitute for o fellow-Celustla) who was {u Jutl on a chargo of murder. This opens up u new Held for the desplsed ruve, and wo expect to hear shortly of an cottre chiunge of scnthment on the vart of those Pucific Blopers who have hitherto so vivlently oppesed Chiueso immigration. - —— In his back yurd at Grawerey Park, Now York, Mr. TiLDEN {8 fattcuing o Crow, It s the big- eest Crow ever socn {n these Unlted Stutes, measuriog twenty-three feet across its extended wings, or oven more thau tho pigautle condor of the Andes, while tho fut on s ribs ls four flugers thick, belug hall tho thickusss of the average Democratic drink, The Crow will b la seasou sbout July, 1880, ond sowe bundreds of Western Dumocratic leaders will enjoy hiin ol toust. e e e — Ta the Kditor af The Triduns. Travis, Tex., Feb, 24, —Will iuu please Inl o thruugh the coluuiug of Tix THINUNK whal tho dutles of Miulstere to foreign countrivs, oblige Dukser Caugnox. There are o specified dutles, excopt that generatly bhuy aro to 1ook after the Interests of Auericuus abroad, and st us the mouthplece of tho Guvernment In diplomatic trausactious with other natlons. A meanure that bas twico passed both Jlouscs of Cungress by wearly three-fourths majoritics, und fs backed up by nine-teuths of thy Awmer- feun peoply, 18 denounced by that piuk ofano- rality, Jar GouLp, as **a schome of deslgning kuaves,' and *supported by a wasss of idiots.” But the peoplé say Ict “tho Leatben rage and the people fwagive & valn thiug." ———— ‘The morality of Brooklyn s pecullar, Hcre {8 thy Eugte sunounciug that the managerof variety suow bas run awsy bankrupt, sud sdd- fug phet the fact of thy theatro being *located in & ruther aristocrstlc uelghburbood,” bear clght “*vrowinent churches, had wuch to do with the lll-success the severnl mauogers bad wet with Thea s littlo further down the Fagle saya thot the manager ¢ thought thay ha would bo permited to put the can-can on thy stage without polics interference, In that case, tsking the largo nudience present on the nu; night ns a criterlon, ho would have been awee cessful, and everything would have gone on swimmingly. Under police surveiltance and restrictions he falle.” About the slze ot jt, therefure, 18 that a Brooklyn varlety show will only succced when surrounded by churches ang located {n an arlstocratic quarter of the ¢lty by being, grosaly indecent! Of such (s the Klog. dom of Bamcuent o e = Tho prospects for the Eurobean Gonferency not heing brilifant Just now, it is sugkested that the wholo scttlement of tho Eastern question o left to Uon, GrawT, who has opportuncly ar. rived fu Constantinople. e Is the only really unprejudiced Power at hand, ——— Tlhe Gazetta d’ Ralla, ot Rome, was enterptising enough to publish in its issuc of Feb. ¢ transla. tlons af editurials on the death of King Vicrog Eumaxnvat from the Boston Jost, Philadelphts Tres, Cumieago Tuinusg, ond several other American newspapers. e ——— Madame REsTRLL Isin a bad box, The Guly way she can cscape Lethg scnt to the Btate's Prison tor dealing In noxious drugs ts by e fuge that her “remedics” are bread-pills ang Ticorfee-water, and It she doca that she wij losp all Lier customors, ——— The Chincse ore about to scad an $18,000 Conaul to Bun Franelaco, and tho native hood. lumns will say. as the English pltmen said sbogg the missionary, *Who's that son of a geq. cuok” 1A Consut.” *“Eave "arf o brlck st *hu,” —— Theinfamous Madame ResTRI.L Zocs from hep houne to the Tombe in velvets and dlamunds and hee own carrlage. Her customers usually o from her house to the Potter's Field o dig- secting-routn In gunny-bags and flour-barrels, ———— Tho campaien In New Hampahire has been the quietest on record. Thu sound of hammers pailjug cumnalgn lies up has bardly been heard, aud the notsiust meetiugs have been conducted on the " 1oum soctuble " plan. ———— \ Tho Nation will have luisurs hercalter to de. vote fta sncers tu some other subject (han the ‘““aliver craze, us the “dollar of tho daddfes® 18 u **falt nccowpll,” and revolutiuns never go backwards, ——— To Judge from the exvresslon of the Presf. Aent’s faco ufter Congross lag declded thay V-I-T-0 could Le made to spehl V-O-T-E, ft might have been thougnt that be had kickedan frun dog. ——— The Boston Globe yesterday completed ity metamorphosis Into o twocent Demoeratie paper, and will now enter tho llstasucompotitor of Ll very sucressful Herald. —— A favorite slang phrasa of the Eastorn ' gold. bugs " was tho “silver-craze.” What dothey think of the * crazo " nowt Is there not metlod in its maducss? ————— The Crispins of Massachusetta are organizing anothor strike. This time they propose to striko till tha last darnod boss explrea—or convedes the advance. % ——— What does Beccuen think now of the *short- legeed dollar™ 1 flos it not run the race set be- fore it, aud mado Its calling aud election surel e “Unwritton history” scems to bo bistory that never was written—for tho best of all reasons: it nover occurred to bo writton, ' — Down East 110 onc ever seema to think of golng to sce a play till the law vourts huve de- clared that {t shall not be performed, —— The boy stood on the burniug deck; 1€ it had been a cold deck ho would probably have passed, —_——— What do the old guinmy-grammics of the presa now think of thelr “lcent dollar? gabe' ble? ———— Mr. Bavee B, Cox, of Now York, ts liko the tongue—Hho {s an unruly little Mewmber, e ——— !'(nll on, sllvor dollar! PERSONAL, Willlam Tracey, a distinguished New York thief, who had his log cut off by jumping from a rallroad traln with his booty, hsagone to moot Bill Sikes, 1le refused to **glve away " by ansoclates, and asked 10 be pormittad to die with &u oighteen inch Jimmy in his hand, A London sociaty journal Iays groat stress upon the fact that at Daron Rothyctild's ball, re- contly, tha Austrian Crown-Prifice led out the hosteas, while all the other royalties inthe set danced with Ameriean ladies—Lady Mandoville, Mra. Yznoge, and Miss Stevens. The Loudon ZYmes of Fob, 15 reported the melancholy caso of an old woman who had just died at Asticott, Bomersot, at the age of 104 yesrs sud B months, For the last forty years shohad been In the hablt of drinking gin, ber oxpenditares fur that article boing no leas than $1,000 anoually, 1 shiv had not indulged Inthis health-destroying habit sbe would probably not have been thuscul off in bur prime, Dr. Schliomann is building a houso at Atbens. 1Mo is short, rathor stout, with a large, quourly-abiaped hoad, fuo akin, and ruddy, healtby complexion. Ills uyes wre small, mnd, as bey move lucesvantly, give tim & rosticss luok, which 18 helghtoned by lis whole manner, Ho la enthust astie, and speaks rapldly, often in bhigh-fown, ex+ sggerated Ianguuge, o thinks no mors of loame 18g & now languago than most peaplo think of resd- ing a new book, speaks Groek quite readily, sed bossca the sorvants (who aro csllod Drisels and Penelope) In lomweric langusge, Schilomanu 18 very proud of bejug an American citlzen, and Lates Qorumne with & mortal batred, Another somi-royal marriage is shead thal will set European diplomatists talking, I posed to waery thy Prince of Battenbery, tho Czar's brothor-ln-law, the Prince of Hesse, b) his inorgauatic wife, the Countess von Ilseut (who was 8 mald of honor of the Princo of Hesso's sluter, the Emproas of Jtussis), and Strogonofl, dsughter of tho Cas Urand Duchess Marle Nicolaclvna, by her lnvr- gunstic huvbaud, Count Uregory Strogonodl, Then the Uxer proposce to establish tho family wprung from the marriage of chlidren of his sisterand bis wifu's brothar on the throns of Buigaris wheo it 1s erected into & principality. ‘fhe O'Donovan Ilosas orator, patriol, ticket-agent, and Skirmfsbiag-Fund Treasurer s tw lecture 8t Toronto on tho 14tb, sud his managers are trylug to get & lot of freo advertising by orges® isiug a riotous welcomo for him. Tho Cathollo cs dlvavow suy sanction of the lecture, viso the people tostayat home, and tbe Urapgewen are divided 1n opinion,—ono section hulding that there 1 nolegal reason why the mad should not speak, tho otner declariog that, a4 & Funian snd avowed couspirator agalnst Englind, hesbould be prevented from speaking, or eves from visiting the city, Between them all, the orss tor I reasonably aure to have a big bouse, or 1o b0 mobbed. 1u 1849 Samuel Loggett died at Flashing, L. 1., leaving a considerable watate, his wite Ellsd dylug svon after, Ona of tho daugbters, Mré Itebecca ¥, Willets, wis executrix of her mother's catate, the will assoclating with ber Witlism U Schermerbosn, executorof hoe father. Me “.'l clined toqualify, In 1877 Schermerhorn turos {u bls accounts, and the Surrogato beld bim pef* sonally responaibie for tho loes to tho estate of seversl thourand doliare, and ordervd bim 1o pay W Mrs, Willets, as executriz of the Ehza Legseth estuts, $3,158,71, dus to it undur the wiil. schal; merkiora tben asked leave to quallfy for tbe lnu' ho bad declined twenty-olght years before, bul Mre. Willots fought bim in the courts, declarivg that b valy wished tbecome an xccutor 10 84 10 cscupe_baying over the money, aud beat bim. Theu Mrs. Wallots was called un to sccount for adwlnlstration of her mother's catale, snd did l:' cuunt fur it W the last peany; sndecd, the iuxm.’ln: aliowed ber $1,410.15 for comtwissiuns that b bad pot claimed. Whils sbe bis made her mamrll eataty enrn bandsouely from the day sbo tovk 1t 5 chasge, ber fulber's property, under the card M5, Scburwesbiorn. Las lout beavily,