Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 8, 1878, Page 4

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Galle-st, Bpe e, At 7:30 0'cl prompt, VITEEE: cordiaiiy Tavieeds "1y onder o tho:slasts Visl al nvi 3 0! s et £ f TUCKRIL Seere 172 eve FRIDAY, MARCH 8§, 1878, Groenbacks at the Now York Stock Ex- . chango yesterday closed at 98], - The prosont session of tho Minnesota Log- {slature having run to its constitutional limit, the Senato of that Btate will roassem- ble tho fourth Wednesday in May as a Court of Impeachment to try the charges agninst Judge Pack, preferred so late in the regular Bsession. ‘The adjournmoent of the Lonisiana Logis- Intare makes it cortain tlat Gov. Nicuorrs will extond o pardon to Gen. Axprmsox, the convicted momber of the Returning Bonrd. The Governor lacked the pluck to perform” an act of justice in fulfillment of+a pledgo ot tho risk of losing a little popularity among the irreconcilable Bourbons, King Huxpeur, of Italy, in his specch at tho opouing of Parliament yestorday, touched tho Papul question rather gingerly, content. ing himsel! with a reminder to Lro XIII, that the policy of treating tho Holy Sco with respect, and at the ssma time of holding tho roins of civil government with a firm hand, will continue to bo pursued toward tho Vatiean. A Dlinisterial crisis in Parlin- ment s ono of tho first unplensant episodes in the carcer of the new King, T — A pair of bad boys furnish two items of trogic intercst which appear in the dis- paches this morning. In 8t. Louls the Mardi Gras folly so worked upon tho mind of & youngster] that, when rofused permission to go sgain oud seo tho sights, he drow n pistol and shot his father in tho breast. An Indiana youth displayed o morbid sensibility of a very difforent kind, Being detected in tho theft of a load-poncil, and dreading ox- posure and disgrace, ho committed swcido by hanging. In the peaco conditions it s stipulated that Thessaly and Epirus shall have an organization similar to that granted to Crete in 1868. Orote bas boen tho most fortunate of any of the Turkish dependoncles, having a constitutional Government. It i in charge of & Pasha, who is Military and Civil Goveruor, sud two Councillors,—one Turk and ono Christian. It is divided into provinces, each elocting membors to the Goneral Assembly, which sits annually for forty days, and is presided over by tho Pasha. —— The fact that all preceding (tresties relative to the Eastorn question have beon sbrogated by the now treaty.basls sgreed upon by Russia and Turkey was yosterday admitted by Lord Dzany in a aposch in tho Houso of Lords. The DBritish Minister of Forelgn Affairs takes & gloomy view of the situation, evidently convinced that Eu- gland’s influence in the coming Congress will bo of very littlo cffect in disturbing the arraugemouts nlready as good as cousum- mated. ‘There is hardly a doubt that a Con. gress will be assembled shortly at Borlin, in- vifations to that cffect having boen already eont out, and that Russia, Germany, aud lAmm-ln will practically control its proceed. nga. e —— 1t Virginin escapes tho disgrace atlondant upou the repudiation of her State dobt, the credit of averting the stain and injury will be largely due to Gov, Maruwmay for his firmness in opposing the ropudiationists and Lis persistenco in urging the neceusity of meking provision for mooting and ad- justing the outstanding obligations. 1o docs not approvo of the plan of bolding & Constitutional Convention to determine whotlior sud how the debt sball bo paid, and very sensibly suggests that (ho wmonoy which the holding of such & Couvention would cost could bo more adven. tagoously applied by paying it to the cred. itors of tho Btate. Virginiacan better afford to cndure a special stawmp-tax and to impose 8 tux upon all church propesty, as proposed by Gov. Harumay, than to incur the ob. loquy of ropudiation, Seeu—— Rtoumania comes to the front as on inde. pendent Power, and boldly demands an in- demnity of $50,000,000, the stronghold of Widin on the south side of the Danube, and the {slands forwed by the delta at the wmouth of that river, Bho will experience some difficulty in obtaining all these oon- cossions, In tho first place, Russia hns al- rendy claimed the Dobmdscha, and undoubt. edly intends to include in it thesa islands, which practically command navigatien on the river. Whatover otbor nso sho conld have for the Dobrndscha cannot bo explain- ed, ns that district is the most sterile and undesirablo of all the Enropenn provincos of Turkey. Dot Russin will bardly be al lowed to acquirs control of the Dan- ube withont a murmur from England, s tha mouth of that river has, over sinco the Crimean War, been in charge of a European Commission, It is true that thoro is a clanse in tho treatystipulating that the rights of the Danube Commission shall be rotafned, but in the present stato of ill- feeling ngainst Itussia on the part of En. gland, the Iatter Power will undoubtedly pro- tost against tho occupation oven of tho ter- ritory adjacent to the rivor. In regard to Widin, objections moy ns readily be ralsed ngnivst its nnnoxation to Roumanin. Itis out of Roumanian territory, being situated on the Bnlgarian side of the Danube, and naturally belongs to Balgarin. The indom- ity is not unroasonably large. Tho Pall Mall Gazette recontly printed a conversation held by ono of its correspond- ents with a distinguished Continental states. man, who has been Prime Minister of his own country, but whose name is not given, in which tho lattor expressed himself vory frecly upon tho present attitudoe of England aud in not very complimentary terms. IHe took tho ground that at no former period of lier history has England occupied such an isolated position As mnow, which he at. tributes, firat, to Mr. GrapstoNe's high-flown theories ; and, second, to Lord Dracoxs. rizo's vacillating policy. The former he considers in tho faturo ns an *impossi. bility,” and the lattor, he says, shonld hava oliminated the weak membors in Lis Cabinet and carriod out his policy or resigned. In closing the convorsation he added : Desplecd aaan enemy of the Great Powers, and feared 08 a fales fricnd by the small_natione,’ En- eland stands now, without the lves of a single ahip or tho expenso of a single shilling, in a_position much more humiliating than if sho hud lost half lier fleet and doubled her national debt in an un- Auccesaful war: and crippled as France s, her word weighis more in tho ncale than powerfal, rich England.” No natlon which pretends to bo n Great® Pawer has the right to aay, ** Rest, and be thank- ful"'; for reat means decay, and defeat !a prefera- Dbie to dishonor. Tho opinions expressed aro fully con- firmed by facts, and it shows considerable courngo upon the part of the Pall Mall Ua- eetle, one of the most mnfluential of English papers, that it rocognizes how completely England has been overreached by Russian diplomncy, and how surely sho has lost pros- tigo among the Continental Powers during tho past six months. THE RESUMPTION LAW, Tho bill from the House of Reprosents- tives, pnssed last winter, repealing 80 much of the Resumption act as provides for re- deoming greenbacks in coin on the 1st of January noxt, has not yot been roported in tho Scunte. Whatavor cxigency existed last October for the passnge of tho bill has been largely removed since then, and tho bill may wisely be left whore it is without any action, ~—certninly no action at this time, ‘When tho Resumption act was passed, the country generally was in blissful ignorance thnt silver had been domonatized. The bill itself promised specio paymonts in January, 1870, without providing how that result was to bo nccomplished. TResumption was a son- diment, and it wos then concedod by those who supported the law that subsoquont logislation would bo needed In order to en- able tho law to bo ‘executod. The Resump- tion not was passed in January, 1875, and the country at that timo was looking forward to somao recovory from the distress which Lad overshadowed business from tho fall of 1873, ‘Chero was n vast amount of hopefulnoss in the country which, under the uninterrupted declin in the value of labor aud of property, and tho adsanco in the value of monoy, has beon largely crushed out, ‘Chis rise in the voluo of money has been gonernl in ol countrios, it it Las boen specially aggravated in this country by the artificial and prospective value given to gold becauso of tho suddenly-discovered domonetization of silver. In 1870 Germany bLecame a pur- chasor, seoking 3450,000,000 of gold, and in 1877 Becrotary BnrrMay advertised the world thiat tho United States would certaluly resumo spocio payments in January, 1879, and expected to purchaso or otheryise ob- taln from tho world's supply 8300,000,000 of gold coin. Tho Bocrotary of the Treasury, by his speeches, his lottors, and his ofticial deliverances, jnslsted that thero should be resumption on tho day named, and that tbero should be resumption in gold cofn, To redeem the greonbacks in gold involved, of courso, tho ncoessity of either rotiring the National Bank notes or the redomption of theso notes in gold coln, Ountsido of tho Treasury Department and of the Syndicates and Gold Ring, tho nt- tompt to enforce specio payments in gold coin was portentous of general ruin and disastor. It gave new vigor to the advance in tho volue of money; it further depreci- ated the valuo of property ; and the purpose to colloct debta in the dear gold indicated 08 near an npproach to confiscation as could bo imngined. Tho demand for the remon- ctization of silvor was iu the interest of re. sumption, It was posaible to accumulato sl- ver coln and jmpossiblo to nccumulate gold, It might be pousiblo to resuwo with silver ndded to our metallic money, and impossl. ble to do so with imetallic money confined to gold coiu, '"W'o remonetize silver was, there- fore, to break tho corner in gold, to take from it its exclusivo uso, and to appreciate the silver which had beon so scandulonsly dopreclated. 'T'o romonetize wilver was to withdraw the United States from the market a4 & purchuser of 300,000,000 gold coin, and thus, by reducing the demand for gold and incrensiug that for silver, restore theso metals to thelr long-cstablished proportion. ato values, ‘This doue, with silver colning ot tho full capacity of the mints, the gold and silver coln aud the legal-tendor paper exchiangeable for both, would furnish a com. pleto currenoy of gold, silver, and paper, laving a parity of value, This would bie re. sumption, not on tho basis of scarco and doar gold, but upon a supply of coin only limited by the capacity of the mnnts, Re- swuption would then be an accomplished fact without rofercnce to dates. The coinago of silver practicably began yosterdsy, 1f tho law bo oxcouled os it should be, forty millions of dollars will be colued by January next. It is not uccossary that the Governmont sball Lave coln in its vaults; to rosume specie payments it is only necessary that there ahall be sufficient coin inthe country within reach and avallable, 1t the coin be in thé country, the groonbacks will not require redemption, becauso thoy will cleculate at par with the coin, Should gold for any cause become in stroug demand in Europe, then silver will bo needed to take its place. Tho exact course of things during tho pext six wonths can bardly bo foreseen, nnd the necessily or occasion for repealing the nominal date for resnmption is one of those questions which, if not adjourned in. definitely, may be at lenst postponed for the fature. Tho bill for the repeal of the Re- sumption law should, thercfors, be ecither rojected or laid aside indefinitely. In esso thero shonld be any bad faith in the execu. tion of the Bilver act, thereby preventing all aid in resumption from that law, then it will bo time onough befors January next to re- vivo the subject. THE " LONG-BOND" BILL, Benator Warnuace's bill, which has just passed tho Sonate, provides for an issuo of $100,000,000 bonds in denominations of 825, 850, and $100, running fifty years and draw- ing 4 per cont interest. Thoso bonds aro to Do issued for coin or lawful money ; the in. toreat is to be paid in coln or Jawful money, and tho principal in coin, This bill was in- troduced beforo any definite plan for a postal-savings systom had boon formulatod, and was {ntended to recognize the popular demand for some Governmentsocurity which would provide an investmont for savings in small amounts. The project does not fully moet the necossitics of the country, inas. much a8 tho bond is necossarily n permanont investment and because thero is no provision for the safe-keeping of amounts under $25; novertheless, thero wonld bo im. proved facilities under the operation of the bill for investmonts in, Government sccuritios by providing for direct subscrip-- tions in lawful money, by making the Notional Banks keop the bonds on salo and pny the interest conpons withont cliarge, and by fasuing the bonds in donominations ns low 08 825, This Iaw will bo superfluous, porhaps, it the Postal-Savings bill, now inn vory fair shapo before one of the House committeos, shall be passed, but it will bo a decided improvement over the present con. tracted system for the salo of 4 cent bonds, in case the postal-saving systom bo not ndopted, and probably it will not interfero with that system in any event. The temper of tho Houso on tho postal-savings facilities in connection with a long 4 per cent bond, and the progress which this proposition has made in Comumittes, will probably determine whether or not the Warrace bill will be favorably considerod in the Houso, Thoprovisions of the postal-savings schomo most likely to be adopted in the House of Represontatives aro, in brief, as follows: Authority to receive depomts not nader 25 cents at all monoy-ordor post-offices in the United Btates ; tho issuing of a postal-order without charge when the doposit shall have roached a certain amount, say $5 ; allownneo of intercst on thoso orders at tho rato of 8 por con! per annum; the privilege of con- verting the Trensury postal-orders or opon- accountsinto certifieates of doposits, or postal- bonds, in nsmounts of 810 or multiples thereof, which shall draw 8.656 per cont in- terest fora briof term of years, and which shall bo redoemable in lawful monoy at their foco and accrued interest at all times; and, finally, a conversion of said certificates at tho depositor's option during o term of years, ond thoreafter at tho option of the Government, into long 4 per cont bonds. In making this statoment of tho probable chornoter of tho postal- savings systom, we have mnot followed any ono of tho bills propared to meet the caso, but have outlined the general featurcs of the measuro most likely to be adopted in tho end. In this achome, it will be noticed, there are several ndvantages for savings do- positors. Tho Govornment assumes tho safo-keoping of very small mmounts (any sum not less than 23 cents), allows intorost on small amounts, encourages tho acéumula- tion of doposits and investment in bonds by o bighor rate of intorest, and does not exact n permanent investmont of the moneys in bonds redeemnble at the end of a long torm of years till the dopoesitors have had tho full benefit of the safe-keoping of thoir monoys subject to call for sevoral years, nor without giving them the option of withdrawing their monoy if they desiro to do so. Thore will probably bo alimit of individual doposits subject to withdrawal to something like $1,000, whon the deposit will becomo con- vertiblo into the 4 por cent bonds, Senator Warraor's bill deos not provide such gonoral and convoniont facilitics as the othor measures, which will probably como before the House for discussion before vory long, but we do not know that it would hin- der the passago or ombarrasa the oporation of tha Postal-Savings bill; if not, thon thero i3 no objection to it, and it will probably pass tho House. It provides for tho reissue of tho logal-tonders recelved for the long bouds by the purchase of coin for tho re. demption of ountatanding bonds bearing the highost rates of interest and subject to Gov- orument call. Thero fs no doubt that tho proposed bouds would find a rondy market, and their issue would be profitable to the Governmont, at the present rating of green- backs, in the saving of interest on Londs that may now ba rodeemed with the pro- couds of the saloof the now bonds. Indeed, itisn question whethor some limit should not bo placed to the individual purchase of the new bonds in order to guard agalnst the contingency thut the capitalists muy geck to tako them in large quantitics, which would defont the purposs of making them a spccial accommodation for small Investments. THE SILVER BILL IN BOSTON. ‘The Boston Jlerald followed up the pas- sage of tho Silver bill by making anon- nouncement liko this: We learn, from un_nuthentic source, that within twu duys from the passuge of the Silver bill, $13, - 000 was forwarded through & single channel, by wechanics and laborlug wen of this city, to be ju- voutod u Untish cokvols, Thu tnoney was obtalned by the salo of United States Londs and the withe druwals uf deposits from bauke and suvings banks, Oae the nicchanics remarked to the azent through whom he changed his investoient thst, when a Government had shown_suchi & disposilion of Injustice and ullhann-lmu d boen shown by It 11, thero wi tha pasrage of the Siiver no telling ‘whut uext might happen, aud he v ed to have his wouvy whero its “valus would uot be lable to surther reduction by ace of Congress. In the first placo, omitting comment on the Linprobability that such a thing occurred at all, and agsuming tho fact to be as stated, it does ot argue very strougly for tho intel- ligenco of the prococding. It speaks very voorly of the fuirncss aud honcsty of the way in which the Silver bill has been dis- cussed by the Boston press. We cau uuder- stand very well that men who bLave their savings on deposlt in savings banks, and wit. nessing the alwost dally collapso of such institations, should draw out their wmoney aud invest it iu permanont securities, It there wore any mechanio who put credanco in the statemonts of tho Boston Herald and other papers, that the passago of the Bllver bill would reduco the value of Government bonds to that of ¢00cent” dol. lory, the . interest boing also paid in the debased coln, it is- proba. ble that the ‘“‘mochanio” who sold out Lis bouds, and fuvested in British consols, bas reached the conclusion by this time that Lo octed with great stupidity, not only in sending his money to England, but particu. larly in Lelleving the péodictionn of tho gold organs, Ho feels, probably, about as com- fortablo as the thounsandas of other dupes who, believing that the legalization of */90- cent” dollars wonld send gold out of the conntry and put its price np porhaps to 120, bonght all the gold thelr margine wonld car- ry. Their marging have all been swept nwny, and now they have noither gold nor gilver dollars. Though Congress haa lcgalized silver dollars, and made all the bonds paynble In them, the prico of the Londs has risen in gold. The fight to rotain gold and to prevent thoe ro- monetization of silver had o deop motive. Thero was a vaat speenlation involved, and if tho passage of the Bilver bill, by completo- 1y brooking np that speculation, does not prodlico a shaking among the bafiled specu- lators, thoy will Le fortunate. Instead of publishing tho silly storiea liko the one wo have quoted, of imnginary machanics shipping imaginary gold to London to buy imaginary consols, lost Congress may pnss some other imaginary laws fnflicting imngi- nary injustico nnd dishonesty, the Herald shiould now tell its readors tho trath concern- ing the Silver bill, and render them a groat public sorvice. All it bas to say is that all the indebtodness, public Xl private, in the United States, except where otherwiso spe- cifienlly provided, was contracted with silver and gold full legal-tenders in the United Siates; that, unknown {o the country, un- known oven to the Boston newspapers, the silver dollar was demonetized fraudiflently in 1874 ; and that tho Bilver bill rocently passed provided only to restore the silver dollars, legally and in overy other respect, to what they were before the frandulent de- monctization in 1873.'74, Let tho Jerald 8dd that the holders of public and private dobts have every right, legnl and moral, now that they had in 1873, except that 871} grains of pare silver would buy more prop- crty in 1873 than would the gold dollar, and that it will bny more property in 1878 than either it or the gold dollar would have pur~ chased in 1873, Now that the Bilver Lill is a law, would it not bo better for tho Boston Herald to marry tho girl and say nothing moroe nbout it ? THE NEW MAP OF EUROPE. It was inovitablo that tho allics of Russia should profit by her victory, and—in some instances at lenst—poople will not regrot that this fsso. Servin will extend her bor- ders to tho south and southwest into Bosnia nnd Old Bervin, taking Sienitza, Novi Bazar, and Wranjn and Nisch, and obtain her jn- dopendence. The Berbs in tho day of SterpeNy Dusiay might have founded o virile and enduring empiro on the ruins of the Byzantine Power, but, with the defeat of King Lascanis at Kossova, tho downfall of Borvia and the ascondoncy of the Osmaulis wero nssured. In modern times tho Borbs have shown courage, coupled with cruelty, in the insurrections led by Kama Gromae and Mrroscn Opknexovrren, but daring the Into war their conduct has beon far from herole. Only Russian gold brought them into tho fleld, and only Russian leaders, prodigal of their own lives, counld keep them thero; and, after being soundly thrashed by the Turke in 187G, tho subjects of Prince Miran played during tho campaign of 1877 almost na contemptiblo and cowardly a part as did thoso of King Geonox of Groeoce, for not ill tho Bultan's power was crushed be- yond poradventuro did their often *mobil. {zod " ariny venture over the frontier. ' Thero may bo tho gorms of national groatness in the Borvian race, but their turbulonco and follure thus far to display any romarkablo talent for solf-governmoent forbid us to en- tortain any very sauguino hopes that tho now Kingdom will takea prominent part in tho history and politics of Eastern Europo. It is difforont with Roumania. This Prin- cipality cost in her lot with the Ozar at the outsot, and proved n ulanch and valuable ally. In the assaults upon Plovna the do- scondonts of tho colonists whom Tnasan plauted nearly cighteen hundred yoars ogo, in tho pleasant land whonce by fire, steel, and poison ho had driven the Daclans, wore no less headlong and temncious than the picked soldiers of Bxonrrzre's foroes. Tho Ttoumaninns have rotained the organizing capacity of thelr Latin ancestors, and proved themselves capablo of submitting peacefully to n good Governmont as well as peacoably ovortuzning o bad one. Their rallroad sys- tem {3 well advanced. A Western Princo occupies the throne, ‘Fhe country is one of grent natural wealth, and it will bo singular, indeod, if the now Kingdom does not in the future make a rospectable showing in the Oriont. It may be an fmportant factor in future calculations, being a Latin nation with s Toutonic sovercign, and having com- morcinl relations of importance with En. gland, sbiould ita poople treasure up against Ttussia their undoubtod grievance concerning the proposed forcod oxchango of Bossarabia for tho less desirablo Dobrudscha, Littlo Montonogro—tho * black Tcherna- gora " to which TexNysoN last year nddressed a fino sonnct—will obtain from the Porte o formal sdmisslon of ' that indopeudence ‘which in rcality sho has maintained during the fivo conturics of Yurkish dominion in Europe. ‘Waves of Ottoman iuvasion have ot times awopt over the Black Mountain, and 80 rocently as 1854 (when, on tha death of TPeren Peroovio, the lust of the line of Via. dikas, or Princo-Bishops, founded in 1697 by Prreovie Nizuos, Daxuo L abandoned tho spiritual functions and title, declarod him. self Hospodar, and ostentatiously threw off tho flction of dopoudoucy upou Turkey), but for tho interferonco of Austria and tho othor European Powors, the gallaut little Princi. pality would have beon overwhelmed and blotted out. DLut uever has Montenegro given ground, and whother Turkey was cm- broiled in war, or harassed by insurrection, or the Montencgrins had to cugage her sin. gle-handed, they bave mover shrunk back from fighting, os indeed befitted n people whero every man is & warrior aud the right of sulfrage deponds upon the boaring of arms, With a gain of territory towards Podgoritza aud Antivari on the south and Nicsio on the morth, she will doubtless acquiro a seaport and that communication with the outer world sho has lacked when shut out from' tho Adrintls by the narrow belt of Turkish and Austrian strand. Besides theso threo independent States, a new aud powerful semi-indepoundent Prin. eipality will be added to the map, and make tho Turkoy in Europe of our children's school-days very differont from that in our atlusos of a fow years ago. The western boundary of the mow Principahty of Bul. garia, 08 defined in the treaty, follows the Hervinn froutier, thonoe pust Mitrovitza and Wran{s to tho headquarters of the Karasu, following its course to its mouth at Contessa or Rendina Gulf on the Archipelago, Thence the lino sweeps along the coast to Yenidge, balfwsy betwocn Kawala and Dedoagh, whonce it strikes abruptly northeast to Tchirmen, & short distance northweat of Adrisnoplo, past which latter city i6 swocps due west to Iekim Tabiassi, n small port on the Black Bes, nbout seventy milea north of Constantinople in a direot lino. Tho enst lina strotches along the Black Bea to Man- galin, and from this point runs northwest to Rassova on the Danube, thus outting off the Dobrudscha, which is given to Russia, and which the latter proposes to exchange with Roumania for the Bessarabian strip, The Danube from Ressova to Widin forms the north boundary. All that s left of Turkey in Enrope is the peninsula whoso base is the line drawn from Ickim Tabinssi to ¥Yenidge. The provinco will probably be composed of an onstorn vilayet, with the Capital at Tir. novs, the old Bulgarian Capital, and a west- ern, with tho Capital at Sofia. According to the armistico bases, a Princo ia to be cleated for this new tributary of- the Porta by n convention'of Bulgarian notables, their cholco boing subject to the approval of Earopo. Not alone will a Russian Commis. sion supervisa the workings of tho new Gov- ernment till the middle of 1880, and ‘until tho same period a strong Russian force gar- rison the Principality, but Russin Las now begun to organize the militin on the Russian systom and under Russian officers, and the Czar bas n candidate in training for tho throno, This is the Princo of DaTrexnena, son of tho Czarina’a brother, ALzzanpEn of Hesse, by his morganatio unfon with ouo of Ler maids of honor, tho Countess von IHaoucke. As it s further in contomplation to marry this candidnto with the Czar's 16- year-old nioce, issuo of tho morgenatic unfon of his siater, the-Grand Duchess Mame-NicoLAEVNA, with Count Grecony BrnoaoNorr, it will be saen that his accssion to the Bulgarinn throno would mean the Russinnizing of the now Principality. And yot the Dulgarians ara not of the Blavonio race, though claimed by tho Pansla. vists, belng membors of tho Ugrian branch of the Finns, drivon in 659 from the Town of Dolgaris on the Volga (whonce their namo) to cross the Danube and rettlo on bota sidos of the Dalkan range. They have a Bulgarian Church, indopendent of the Greok Church, that thoy succeeded in having re- vived in 1870, after it hnd boon crushed by tho Porte at the instigation of the Patriarohs of Constantinople (the Grecks and Bulgars having boen immemorial and rancorous focs for over a century). This revival, with the rovival of the long-prohibited Bulgarian Inu. guago and the almost American rapidity with which—sinca in 1650 the nativo merchants of Philippopolia set thomselves to rokindle tho firo of national spirit—oducation has spraad among the people, may woll inspire o hope that if the new Princlpality doecs not dovelop into a warliko Power, such oy that which towards tho close of tho ninth con- tury, nnder King Stmzoy, shook the gates of Constantinoplo and imposed torms of ponce on the Greek Emporor, it may prove a vig. orous, prosporous, and well-ordered nation, nnd play o londing part in the regeneration of tho long-abused Orient. Sr—————— TIMBER-LAND ROBBERIES, The history of tho Pine-Log bill, which tho Presidont has just returned to Congress without his approval, is curious'and instruct. ive. It wns nvowedly designed to protect tho Intorests of certain porsons accused of stoaling timbor from the Government lands. Tho protection intonded to be procured by it was two-fold—first 0s against past offonscs, and, sccondly, ns a cover and authorization of fature dopredations, The provisions of the bill woro sufficlently sweeping. It di- rocted tho holding of special terms of tho Unitod States Courts noar the nlloged situs of tho robberles, and tho sdvancement of thoso cases on tho calondar to'sccuro thefr speody sdjudication, The Prosident, in his veto message, objected to tho bill becauso it did not lonvo the Government time to pro. pare for the trinls thus summarily ordored, and becauso no appropriations hod boen made to moot tho extra oxpenso that wonld thereby be incurred. Amnother and moro im. portant objeotion was that it would be im. possible to obtain unprejudiced juriea in tho noighborhoods whero the robberles had boon committed. 'Theso mneighborhoods aro, for tho most part, sparsely sot tled, and almost the entiro population in them s intorested in tho fruits of tho robberics. Tho romoval of the Courta that wero to try tho causes into the timber- rogions would ba virtually sonding the Judgea into the dens of tho robbers, and conatitut- inga jury out of the porsons to be tried. ‘This would be a change of venuo witha vongennco—not unlike, porhaps, in its prace tical results, other changes of venuo that havo been granted, but In its formal dotails absolntely without procedent. The timber deprodations have continucd for a long term of yoars, and have resulted in an onormous loss to tho Government. Timber-lands in the Wost are not subject, ns nrable lands are, to the Homestead or Pro- emption acts. Thore {s no law providing for the salo of tho timber, The sottler must take it, or buy it from others who have taken it, without authority of law, In practice, the sottlors have genorally bought from companics engagod in oulting timber from Government lands, Tho object of Becretary Houunz has beon to fino these compauics o port of tho profits they have derivod from their gales, Proscoutions have soldom or never been di- rected against fudividuals. Somo issue of this kind bad to bo made in order to et tho ‘matfer falrly bofora Congreas and securo such amendmont of the laws as might scem to bo nocessary. If the privilego of cutting thber on Governmont lands were not valua- ble, companles would not be organized, s thoy have beon in nearly overy Western Btate and Torritory, to carry on this trade. 'The timber companies organized in conneo. tion with the Bouthiern Pacifio Rallway Lave doubled and trebled their original capital in & few years, and it is sald o siwmilar company 18 now at work, without the authority of law, in conncction with the Canadinn Pacific Rail- ‘way, furnishing that alien corporation with abundant supplies of thuber taken from Gov- ornment lands. The privilege being thus valuablo, there seoms to bo no reason why the compauies should enjoy " it without pay- jug for it. 1If the valuo of the lauds is @l. winished, as it undoubtedly is, by the re. moval of the timber, the Government ought 1o have suflllcient compensation for the dam- ago douo ita property. This damsge can bo bout asoertained by the Becretary of the In. terior ; or, in case of dispute, by the courts sitting in thefr ordinary places. The position of Becretary Scuunz and the President beiug thus sound and jut, it be- comes an interosting inquiry, How did the Pino-Log bill happen to pass? It success in the Ifouse was due to the importanity of » number of Southern members, partioular- ly those from Loulsians, who knew how to influcnce their Dewmocratio collesgues in favor of tho bill. In the Benate, the bill owed its success to the pervonal efforts of Mr. Bramve, It was returned from the Judi- clary Committeo with au adverso report, but Mr. Brarse, having a grievance to air, spoke veliomently in its behalf, and described tho hardships of cortain hypothetioal sottlers in Montana in glowing and potholic language. Ho advocnted tho bill on porsonal grounds, because lie had, or fancied he hnd, a just reaontment ngnlost Becretary Scnumz, who has loug boon his political adversary. The bill was pnssed by a voto of 30 to 15 I the Bonate. Tho marvelous * conrtosy” of the Bonato constrained it to voto in Braixz's favor unless powerfnl reasons nppesrod to tho contrary, ond the only reason that oppeared was tho strong op- position of the Bocrotary of the Interior, tho anthorized hond of tho Depart- mont of Governmont which had tho matter in charge. DBocanso this officer was personally not popular, while 3Mr, Braixe was, the bill passed. Thowholoprocoedingillustratos pow- erfully tho mothods of legislation that pravail in the United Statos Sonato, whoro * personal considerations” and ** courlesy ” dre permit. tad to overrulo the wise and nocossn.y sug- gestions of tho Excoutive. Wheon Mr, Coxx. 180 mnkes *“tho greatest speech of his life” in opposion to the confirmation of a Pension Agont, and Mr. Brame * fairly surpnsses himsel?” in attacking Bocrotary Scuunz to sntisfy an old grudge, the Senate can hardly be expacted to do its dut; e — The New York ZT'imes does not propose to abandon its nssnnlts upon the Westorn Statea and people. Having labored for many montha to dostroy Western credit, it now ndds: Tha great froo Went, Irrespective of former party aflliations, {s now enthusiastic In the support of the doctrine thut the chief end of statesmanship is to debase the coinage, to mvindlo all ceeditors, and to inflate the currency, It ls the manifest duty of tho West to add to its Plullnrm n declaration that every citizen hns a right to bo o counterfelter, A striking cnso of the *‘dishonest” ton. dency of tho West is farnished by a bill re- ported favorably in the Wisconsin Legisla- turo on the Gth., Itis o bill authorizing counties, citics, towns, and villoges in that Btate, which have outstanding bonded in- debtedness, whenever any of their bonds fall due, to issue new bonds in exchango for such portion of tho old oncs that they do not pay ; in caso the holdors of the bonds falling dua will not accept the new bLouds, then the municipality is authorized to jssue new twonty-year bonds, and offer them for sale to the highest bidder at not loss than por, and at tho lowest rate of iuterest, the bonds to bo issued in sums ranging from %25 to 8100 each; and the procceds aro to be applied to pnying tho principal of the old bonds. This bill will probably becomo n Inw within thirty days.. The reader will fail to discoyer nny evidences of dishonasty in this monsura, According to the Now York Z'imes, the Legislature should, to bo consistont, vote an authority to the municipalitics to refuse any further payment of the outstanding in. debtedness, and deny them the right to issue any now bonds. Tho peoplo of Wisconsin voted unanimously for the Bilver bill, but, nevertheless, thoy propose to pay all their “dobts, nnd it is more than likely that they will bo nble to dispose of at homo in their own communities all* tho now, low-interest, twonty-year bonds of small donominations. They are now paying from 7 to 0 per cont intorest to tha gontlomen Down East who wonted tobo paid ingold. All thoso new ‘bonds will probably bo taken at homont & or 0 per cont, and tho people of the Btate will own tho entiro local debt. That is the woy the **dishonest” peoplo of the West propose to deal with thoir Eastern croditors. Tho throat that tho West shall borrow no more monoy at the East will ba met by the people of Wisconsin under this bill; thoy will stop paying 8 or 0 per cont interest, to bo sont East, and will hold the new loan themselves, We forgot to say that the bill further provides that any person holding bonds not yot dus may surrendor thom at any time in oxchange for tho new bonds, nnd the new bonds will have a roady morket at homo. In view of tho outery on tho Pacific 8lopo agalnst Chinese immigration, the Bix Com- panies havo recently submitted a proposition to Becretary Evanrs for the prevention of immi- gration in the future., They propose thut a tax of $100 be Imposcd on each Chinaman landing inthe United States, the monoy thus collected to beapplicdtoreturning thelfrindigent countrymon to Chilnaz, They slao ask for Indemnity for past vutrages, and concludo by saying: Thuy desire to expross to you that they are per- fectly nware of tholr atter weakness (o defend thomselves, whon other forelgn. romdents boldly domand and recoive protection from the authori- ties. _1lance it was thut thoy, atter long suffering, asked that protoction from iho National Govern- ment u ahort time since which thoy supposcd solemnn _treaty obiigations entitied thom to, = And most purticularly do they wish 10 couvey to you the bigh reapect thoy enturtain now and will always cherleh for the kindness thicy have Invariably recelved at the handa of Amerlcan-born cltizons, with fow excoptions, ‘The mclancholy tone of the addross shows bow hopeless they regard any further attempts to obtalu a footbold in what purports to be the land of the free and the home of the brave. Thie Little Church Around the Corner does ) sushing buslocss in marrying snd burylug'| actors. 1ts pastor, the Rev, Dr, Houauroy, i3 o man of sterc priociples, Tho other oveulng, when Kate CLaXTON Went to bim to bo mar- red, the divine eald scovercly, * No, madam, no; itis sgalost my principles to marry o di- vorced womau whoso Lusband fs still liviug,— 1 could not think of such a thing for a moment, —but goto wy uephew, the Asaistant Rector; he has uo such scruples.” ——— . Just about o month ago Count ANDRAsSY'S organ, tho Pesther Lioyd, sald, under Govern- ment insplration: *An und must be put to the policy of accomplished fact. The occupation of Bulgaris, and the exaggerated cxtenslon it fs propoacd to glve that provioce, will nover bo tolerated by Austria’ Those werc as Lrave woras us wo shall ear of 3 winter’s day, but ftls to bo feared that they were words, mero words. % The publisher {s out st Juneh,' said the cditor of & nNoriRwestern Christian paper to & custemer who had brouglit in an advertisement, “but I will takeit; hand i—Phew! *§3,724 s year.! Hum! I couldu't pollute my Aogers with that; but walt one moment: the publisher is coming round the ‘corner, aud he will maxo Fates very reasonable to you." o et ‘The Cinelunati Commercial objects to the new sllver dollar un tho ground that its design ie not in good taste,~the eaglo belnz. somowhat scrawny, and the mottoSurmounting it belng absurdly promincnt. But we fancy that few people cxpect to hang tho uew dollar fu thelr ploturo-galleries, and few will refuse to receive 1t on the score of ugliness, —— % No, sir," sald, with a blush, the advertising clerk of Mr, Btouny’s paper, *wo couldn't {o- sert that sdvortliement. Itisalittle too—that {3 to say—wall, We Liave a character to lose, aud Antiony COMBTOOK might——, But ['ll telf you what to do,—take it to the Advance.” Bauur Cox gocs out of his way a g deal to make his electivn to the Bpeakership ot tho House at any future perksd tmposstble. By the way, what sort of a Houss would it ¥e that would elect Baxuy Cox Speakerd ————— Tho slze of the defense of our “religlous coutemporaries, when they are mccused of ad- vertlaing counterfeit money and other artleles velither of bigotry nor ot virtue, is about this; ‘Those things appear in the sdvertisiug columus and don't count. It is t0 bo hioped that, at the Day of Judgment, thero will be das dlecrimina. tion excrefsed In this matter, and that, even {t the publistier has to take a walk round the block with the gouts, the editor, at least, may bo permitted to hire a hall fn the houso whero there aro many mansions, | ‘The Eastern papers have now dlscovered thay the remonctization of sflver ean make no earth. Iy difference for an indefinite time to corge. Why didn't they know that beforal~or, It they knew it why didn’t thoy say sol —i— Eringo bragh! When they came to elect o Grand Marshal for the procession fn Brooklyn, ono faction, *in the Intcrosts of harmony, jg. sisted on {ts candidate being vlceted, and when ho wasn't, boited out of the mecting. 4 An ltem of the perlod saya: “An Ohio of 11 was hit in the cye by n stone thrown by a littlo girl, with whom he was playing, and dica from tho cffects.” It fs not, howover, atated whom sha threw tho stone at. | A Lill bas been brought Into the English Pap. Hament to abolish action at law for o breach of promise to marry. Sults of this kind have fn. creased so greatly of lato years ns to seriously clog the courts. f Speaker RANDALL thinks that Congress may adjourn the 1st of July, but thero are prophets of evll who forcbode o continuance of the ses. slon until August. For particulara sec small bills, Memphis spent $10,000 on the Mardl-Gras fooleries, and yet that city favors repudiating two-thirds of the State devt on the ground of poverty, ! 4 There will bo a harmless gathering of diplo- mats at Berlin shortly. Thev will call their meeting a Congress, and Bissarck will pass around the beer. | The unantmous conflrmation as Minister to Russia of an cditor of the New Yorle Tribune muat be regarded ns s high compliment to Bay- AnD Taxion. | You can always tell a young New Yorker when you meet him, because he rescmbles tho youthful Briton 80 much more strongly than the y. B. does. % Thoy have just had another milllon-dollar Flood In California, but it wes {n tho Sacra- mento Valley, and It wasn't the Bonanza man, 4 ‘When the Sultan read the condltions of peaco ho cried: *“Mashallah, Bismiliah, but thls sort of thing is getting too autonomous.! # The tr‘ulv of peace bolng now signed, Princo Gontscuakory is much better, and will go to tho Congress, . f Adjourncd aine die—That crisls which was to have followed the passage of the Silver bill, PERSONAL. f ‘When Ebenezor Ward, of Oshkosh, ro fused to havo the ceremony porformed, his girl vromptly knocked him down,—in other words, she razed hor Ebenozer, Designs for a statuo and monument to AL ‘Thicrs havo been invited from French scuiptots, Thoy must be handed in Ly June 16. Four prizes, aggregating $10, 000, will bo awarded. * Tho Dinonl Maugh,” an Irish play with & Wolsh namo, written by two Frenchmen, trans- 1ated by an English woman aod s Jow, was pro- duced on the Amerlean stago and falled, ‘Thoy have n convict choir at Aubum, N, Y. and it Is o singular fact that the tenor i a mor. deror, while the soprano 1s unly a burglar, and tha basso 1s nothing but a forger. They are said to be good In opera buff, Though Scnator Morton's remains wera embalmed, when tho grave was opencd the other day tho featurew were found to have fallen nso sadly as to giva o poor ides of the appearance of the great Republican Jeader In bis prime. Caopt. Boyton has arrived at Lisbon after a voyage of somo 350 miles down the Tagusin his life-suit, somewhat bruised, but woil, In that part of the stream which Is not navigable he ran thirty. ono raplds, oneof them having a fall of nearly twenty feet in & very short space. Kentucky idloms grace the editorial col. umnsof the Courler-Journal, which says: “That the Duko of Northumberland with a millon of dol- lars n year should play second fidalo fn the govern. ingof s 1 & kingdom as Great Britan when ho might bo around enjoyjng ‘himself seems right down strango. Daniol Wobster carnod in 1834, including his Congressional pay, $13,140; in 1835, $15,- 183.74: and in 1836, $21,703, Hws highest feo was $7,500, in tho New Orleans case; in the Flori- da land case ho got $3,000; and In that of the United Btates Bank, 82,230, 1ils amallest fea was 820, Carry the news to Evarta. Conoillation at Rome: Admission to the funoral services of Plo Nono were by ticket, and no tickets wero nent to tho members of the Court. When Gen. Medecl, King Humberl's first A.D.C., presentod himself and recited his titice, the answer waas returned, **Tell the Qencral §f he can forco his way in he can como {o." He conldn't, so ho didn't, Hector Malot, of the Parls Siccls, tells a nice little story of tha late Pope, of whom ho had an sudience. The Pope knew him, looked st bim on instant, and satd, ** What shall I give yor ** 1 deslze to pressnt my homage to your Holls 1d the journallst, trylng to dodge the qu verybody asks sometbing of me; yon must, oplied the Pope. B, Malot was emb: ed; hodidn't wish to bo disrospectful, aund he couldn't consistently with his betlef ask for a beno- diction. The Pope cajoyed tho sltuation fo; moments, then sald, ** Wall, if you won' ‘my blessing, you shall bave it all the » blessed hia visitor, | At Evrourx, Franco, one Louchard has just boen suntenced to doath for murder, Ilo 1s the grandson of Jean Louls Louchard, the lsst mur- derer broken on the whuel fn Fravce, the punleh- ment belng {nfiicted on him for parricide in 1780, Louchard was & Radical, his father, Mathurin Touchard, & devoted Loyalist; besldes the old man diallked s @iel with whom blason entortained il- licit relations. They quarreled in the girl's pres- ence ono day; the old man flung a bar of fron st hisson's head: a fight ensued, and the son laid tho old maudead with ablow of & hammer, Thers wasan cmeuto on theday of the exvcutlon, the poople reliting 1o allow the sentence to bo carrled out, but they were overpowered by the troopa. Honrl Rochefort, when ho passod through Chicago on the 26th of May, 1874, was accom- pauled by a fellow-Communiat, Olivier Pain, who with him had been went 1o New Caledonis, and with him had oscaped thence. Pala went to the Bastern war s o corrcupondent, and was with Ouman Pasha when Plevnu fell. ‘Ttie Ruasiaos lm- prisonoed bim as Y, and thereupon Paln's friends fuduced the Nwlss authoritlos—the oxlled Com- wanlsts have taken up thelr resldcncs in Switzer- Hasela to relense bim, Ashowass Russla referred the nroponition to Fronce, to the Inexp ble horror of Pala's friendy, and France ruplled that ho was & French subject, indced, In whom she was much Interosts «cd, and to hold him till she could sead for him. wimplitod mattors by cscaping, and is now waudoring Ju somo unknown pazt of Uulgaria,? Ono William Bhakepears, a London play- writer, has bequeathed fo us the story of the love and tragic death of & cortatu Moorlsh person nsmed Otheito, 1t 18 to be presumed that in Shakspesre’s day the black man was not a frequent visitor to the shores of Eugland, sud the author was enabled, by reaton of the enchsntment of distance, tu Invest his subject with the romanco nocessary to & suc- cesatul tragoay, Later parveyors of fiction, bowe ever, have found it convenlent to abstatn from assaciatiug the colorcd brother with the bolles emotions, sud no American writor cestainly bas had the courage 1o produce a mnovel haviog for & thema tho love-sdventures of Sambo and Dinsb. ‘Thu opportunity for getting in some oriyinsl LS~ erary work fs now oflered 10 any one Who chooses 10 take up tho recent sulcide of Samug) Daker, 8 colored clilzon of Richmond, Ve, Ha recelved & letter from’his sweetheart, discarding bim, sad fortbwith run to the rallroad track, projected bim- scif Leforo & traln of cars, snd was speedily re- leved from the cares of life. A comprebenshe Virgiuia uowspaper, lo noting this iittle eplsade, romarked that this was the first instance of & BegT0 comumitting saicide for love,