Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 1, 1878, Page 4

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LONDON, Eng.—~Amarican Exchange, 449 Strand. B! SivLt1a, Agent, RANCISCH Hotel AMUSEMENTS. McVioker'a Theatre. Mediron street, beiween Dearborn and Blate "' Uncle Tom's Cadin." Afternoon and evenlog. Hooley’s Theatre. Randolph strect, between Clark and LaSsile. #arx Theatre Compeny, *‘Jlurricanes.” Afternoon and evening, Wiaverly’s Theatre, Monroe street, corner of Dearborn. Riee's Extrava. Ronza Combination. *‘Conrad the Corsair.* After- noon and evening. New Chicago Theatre, Ciark atreet, opposite the Sherman House. Varloty Olio. Afternoon sud eventng. McCormick JIall, North Clark street, corner of Kinzle. Harry shannon. Afternoon and evening. e Master Jo BOCIETY MEETINGS. ATOLLO COMMANDERY, No.1, K. T.~5pecial Cons clave thin saturday afiernoon at 3 o'clock, also in the ovening at 7 n'r{nr . The Order of the Temple wiil be :-ung‘r'nd. dvulwn slways weicome, liy order of tue Commander. ™ 5 . bysLOL. Reconder. BATURDAY, JUNE 1, 1878. Greonbacks at the Now York Stook Ex. change yesterday closod at 89, Tho ora of chesp beer is about to com. mence in Chioago, and whother it will take the form of two glassen for five conts, or a corresponding incronso in tho sizs of tho lass, or possibly both, is tho next question to be decidod by the Assoclation of Saloon. Kaepers, who have issned thoir ultiinatum of £8 per barrel to the browers, The thing that {a cortain is, that inflation by beer is to Lo brought within the reach of the hum. blost. Senator Bavarp, as o membor of the Com- mittes on Private Land Claims, has dealt a doath-blow to tho bill introdnced by Srtax. 1zy MatTuEws to convey to tlie Brauvnizy heirs a portion of the Fort Doarborn roserva. tion in Chicago. Mr., Bavanp has given the snbject an inquiry almost judicial In its exhaustivenoss, and finds that there is no justice in tho claim. The bill will bo indef- initely postponed in naccordance with the Committea's recommondation, and will hardly be beard of again. e —— Tho Benate's turn at the Electoral disturb- ance will ‘como whon the bill appropriating §20,000 for tho oxponses of Porren's frand- hunters comos up for concurrence. It Is expeoted that tho consideration of this bill will open np & genoral dobate in the Bonate on the. revolutionary conspiracy, affording M. Coxxwaxe an opportunity to accomplish that long-deferred *‘greatost offort,” The House Democrnts canght the Republicans napping yesterday morning, and passed tho bill beforo tho latter could muster strongth enoungh to succossfully oppose it. “ With tho single axception of Ar, Szawe, * who has uniformly refused to take from the Treasury moro than the law allows, the mom- beru of the County Doard have once more perpotrated their rogular gquarterly grab— that of voling themselves 85 per day for every day in the quarter, no matter whaother dovoted to the county’s business or not. Tho Hoard has also voted to exclude roporters from all sessious of committees, ond to this miuchiovons proposition all but four mem. bers pssonted. The qunlities of consclen. tlousuess and Integrity among the mombers of tha County Board are growing more and more conspicuous on account of their ab- senco, Mr. Werrzes, the alleged Collector of In- ternal Rovenue at Cincinnati, Is now puz- zling hitmself over the conundrum, Docs vindieation vindicate? Ho rofused to Lo lot down casy by a certificate from the Sec. rotary of the Trensury and tho Commissioner of Internal Revenuo to the effcot that his reinoval was not caused by ¢ recent develop- monts” of crookednesain Lis district,and pre. ferred to tako his cose to the Sonato and there resivt tho confirmation of his succesaor. "Thero waa no lack of opportunity to inveigh oguinst tho Leartloss tyranny of an Admin. intratlon which considers an aggravated case of ineflicienoy sufficlent canse for removal, Lut somehow the Benato failed to perocive the force of kis ples, and procecded yestor. duy to confira tho President’s appointment of Auox Bauty as Qollector at Cinclunati, Breivozs, of Llinois, suddouly finds him. selfin o position to indulge his mischief- wmakiug propeusities to the fullost oxtent, 1o has managed to get on Porren's Commit- tea of Mexicanizers, having been nppointed to fill tho vacancy created by the resignation of Mr. Coup, of Indiava, who wos solected to represent tho juterests of Mr, Mexprioks in tha investigation, and whoso witidrawal, albeit on tho alleged account of ill-health, 108y ba taken as au indication that Mr, Ilex. Dricks hoa no very urgent desira to Lo tepresentod fn A movowent that was coucsived and Las boen carriod forward Wwith un ospeelal viow to furthering TrLoen's Prodpeets, Thero are other Democrats who will be glad to retire from the Committeo on account of ill-health before the Iovestigation business is Sulshed ; but Bemxozn 16 not ons of these ; he will stick till tho last scrap of purchased testimony has bLeen arranged for publication. Porren and Brmivags will wake & strou, The Democratio majority of Porren's gang of conspirators have thought better of their determination to conduct their business with closed doors anudtorofuse accused parties the rightof represontation by counsel. ‘That such & course was virtually agreed upon there s vo doubt, and ¢ was mnot until the conscquences of thi star-chamber partisan- ship were brought to their uotice by the ¢wplatio remonstrances of the Republican / press that their decision was reconsidered, 1t ia uow announced that the investigation will bo condncted in publio, nud that Secre. tary Sukrman will be allowed his roquest to appenr bofors the Committes through his connsel and confront the witnessos who are relied upon to prove him guilty of crimes rondering bim lisble to impeachment. In- nsmtich sa the greater portion of the testl- mony is {ocoms from porsons who have heretofora sworn to an exsotly ocontrary state of facts, it Is safe to prodiot that the plotters will find Mr, Suzauan a very sge gressivo defendant, S————— The fearfal catastrophe in the English Channel, elsswhere announced by cabls, ia hardly satisfactorily explainable from any faots which have come to hand, 'That those enormous iron-clads should have kept closs compsnny in thelr voyago was quite natural, but that they should have boon so noar to- gethor ns to provent the application of the ordinary meaus of procantion in a locality so frequented by vessels of all classes i hardly to hinve beon expectod. It is doubtloss true that fron-clad vossals of tho heavier class, like these Gorman war-ships, require much mora room to maneuvra than ships of the same tonnage which aro not weighted down with a heavy armor, It is not to be sup- posed that one of theso groat vessals can bo #0 gensitive to tho rndder movements ns a lighter craft. According to all accounts, the disaster in question resulted from a slight varintion of the conrso of tho frigate to nvoid o small merchant véssel. In thua dovinting from her course one of the finost whr-vessels belonging to the German Navy and its human froight, consisting of 400 souls, were doomed to dostrnetion and death, —— EFFECT OF THE POTTER INVESTIGATION ° ON BUSINESS, Whon the prosent Congress met, some oight mouths ngo, 1t wns confronted with sovernl necessary mattors of legislation on which tho Ameriean peoplo wero gonarally ngreed, without regard to party, Chiet among theso was tho urgent necessity for tho formulation of a botter method for connting the Eloctoral vate. The country had just passed through an oxciting and porilous con. trovorsy, which grew out of the uncertninty and confusion of the Constitution aud laws rogulnting this important feature of o re. publican form of government, Fortunately tho power of Congross was distinotly recog. nizoed, and still more fortnnately tho two Houscs, with mojorities of opposing partlos, wero ablo o ngrea upon a constitntional interpretation of thelr joint powoer, and the peril of disagreemont was averted. Dt it wna universally felt that a similar contest ot ony timo in the future might not result so poncefally, Ropublicans and Democrats - alike domandod a porma- nent protection ngainst the recurrence of the danger. It was the proper tims to conslder the subjeot. The defects in tho law wero famillar by reason of the very re. cont oxporience. The noxt Prosidential clection was romoved threo years, with party succoss ontirely undotermined, so that a solution might have been agreed upon with- ont party bias, It was the province of tho Domocrats: ta suggest tho propar remody, sinoe they controlled the popular branch of Congress, and partionlarly since thoy claim- ed to bo tho nggrioved party in the provious settlomont. Blill, month after month rolled by without producing so much ns n sugges- tion for moeting the popular domand. 'The Domoceratic mnongers in Washington have contented themsclves with their faith that thoy will control both Houses In tho mext Congross, and carry the noxt Presidontinl eleation, It Ia precisely on this gronund that thoy havo justified their indifferonco to a Iawtul and enduring assuranco agaiust future complications in the count of tha Prosiden. tial vote, While pnrposcly avoiding the respon. sibllity for o permanout settlemont upon nn ndoquate system of declding tho Presidential count, the domagoguos in Con- gress have occupied themselves in bringing about a new ngitation of tho particular caso already sottlod by agroement. This ngita. tion, of which the Porrearcsolution was sim. ply the first alarming manifestation, hasboeen golog on over sinco President Haxes was do- clared to havo beon elected. The fire-cators of tho lnst Congroas wera forced to givo way boforo public opinion, which at the timo de- manded ncquicsconca in such angry tones that thoy dared not rosist. Dnt they have boen busy over slnce in proparing the way for roopening the case, Tho Democratio schemers who cannot roconcilo themselves to the loss of the Federal patronage, and the Rspubllean schomers who cannot reconcilo thomsolvos to the smashing of the *Ma. ching," have baon working together to tho common purposo of crowding Haves out of oflice, Titven's agents and ConxriNa's agents have been the very samo men, aud both factions have sgreed to employ the cousclonceless rasoals who have boen mhut out of Govornmont employniont by consid. erations of the public esrvics, These schem- ons have prooceded to gratify thelr epito in deflance of popular sentimont, which was cloarly exprossed against them at tho time the dispute was settled, and which has not chinnged since then, Thoy know by previous oxperiance thatsuchan agitation is equivalent to n complote embargo on tho business of the country. 'This was tho result beloro, and cannot fail to bo 80 sgain. The whole ocountry atood still pending tho original dis- puto, and the whola country exacted acqui- oscenco, whatover tho result might be. Ie- twoen that timo and the renewal of the dan- ger by tho now agitation, gront strides wero mnde toward business rocovery, Genoral peace, o cossation of the domestia traublos ot the Bouth, a supposod sssurance of froedom from partisan exciloments for threa years at lenst, bad {nspired capital with moro confldenco than hod been manifestod. for several years beforo, Last year's crops wers oxcollent, and thers was an aotive foreign demand for all surpluses at fair pricos. ‘I'he manu. facturing interosts began to yevive somo- what. ‘Tho currency suached aud maintained steadler relations to gold. The romouotiza. tion of silver, und tho prospect for expansion through rosumption which would bring gold | tyol aud silver iuto circulation alongslde the greonbacks and Natfonal Dauk uotes, had toreshadowed & now disposition to make ln. vestments, Tho Bankrupt law had asalsted in liquidating private aairs that wore hope- lessly iuvolved, and tho repesl of the law was demanded in order to begin the new ora of commorclal acuvity with greater coufi- dence. There waya goneral agreement upon o genoral improvement ju business, It was this critical momont that was chosen by the Rovolutionists to reopen the ugly dispute, ‘The porsistenco with which the caucus pressed the Porrza resolution, shut out the Hatz rosolution, ond refused to declare that thero was no purpose of disturb. ing tho President's title, soundod the alarm, Revolution was recoguized as tho only logical &l of the propasod investigation, aud capie tal, business, and mocisty have taken fright at the threat. A halt has beon called on the progress of n goneral revival, and confidonco hina drawn within its sholl again, not to come out till agitation shall again be forsworn, and until political quiot shall be more certainly assured sgninst a now disturbanco than it was beforo, This ia & practical statement of tha con- dition of things which the Congressional cabal have brought aboul. Its duration de. pends upon the action of the Domocratio majority of the Houss of Ropresentatives, From this timo on, 4l there shall ben final and peacoful sottlemont of this new agita. tion, businesa will grow worso, eapitalists will becomo moro timorous, thero till bs lors money In circulntion, and gen. oral distross will bo moro keenly folt. TRovolution starcs the conntry in tho faco just so long as the Porren Committeo oxista with the support of the Domooratie majorily, President Haves has been roport. ed as saying that ho will not yield to any~ thing bnt impeachment ond conviction, which constitute the singlo lawful means for removing him from office, Whether he hLas ) said anything of this kind or not, it 18 n mistako to supposo that he can be frightoned or elbowed out of tho wny bocnuse ho fs s good-natured man, He was an equally good-natured man in the army, but this did not prevent him from fighting like a tigor. Ha will fight again if necossary. It will not morely bo his personnl tenure of the office which he will bo called upon to defend, but the inde. pendence and stability of the Executive branch of the Government for all time, Any effort at Congressional racog- nition of anothor man as President, any effort at a dead-lock in legislation, any effort to removo President Hayss by any other means than smpencliment (and impeachmont is ' not contemplated), will be revola- tion, and ns emch will bo resisted ns obstinately as if Graxr himself wero in the Prosidential chair, If Congress shall ad- journ withont discharging the Porrzn Com- mittos, and withont giving still other rons. suranco that rovolution shall not bo attempt- ed, it will loave n menaco that can only be removed by tho clection of an overwhelming Republican majority to the next Congress. That will probably be the resort of the poople; bat, in the meantimo, the adven- turers in soarch of political spoils must answor to the people for an unnoceasary and indefinite prolongation of hiard timos, THE ANGLO-RUSSIAN AGREEMENT. Tho assemblage of a Earopean Congruss fs now doflnitely fixed, and all that remains is to namo tho time, the locality having alrendy been settled. The polnts which England and Tnssin have agroed upon, nfter tedious nogotintions, o be submitted to the Con. gress for examination and decision nro anb- stantially as follows: The crection of Dul- garin into two provinees, the one, north of tho Dalkans, to be governed by a Prince, and tho other, south, to bo ruled by a Chris- tion Governor, tho latter provinco extending as far sonth as Adrianopls, but not touching the Xgoan at any point, which would con- fine the Turks within a narrow strip stratch. ing nlong the ZEgoan with tho enstern termi- inus at Constantinoplo; the absolute with. drawal of thie Turkish troops from these two provinoes ; the ratrocession of Dossarabia to Russia, which has all along boon made o #ine qua non of tho latter Power ; sottlomont of tho navigation of the Danubeo; Batonm a4 the limit of the Russlan frontier in Asiatio Tarkoy ; the cession of Ketour to Persin as an equivalent for the cossion of Bayazid to Turkoy; non-intorforence with England’s claims on Turkey s n ecreditor; the reor. gonization of Epirus, Thessaly, and other Greek provinces ; the slatus gquo of the Dar- danslles and Bosphorus ; the reorganization of Bulgaria, and Russian military ocoupation and right of way through Roumania. The above comprise the points of agrecment be- twoon the two Powers,—not ns points def- initoly sottled, but as subjects for dlscussion by the Congress,~and these and the pointa in the BanBtefano troaty not included among them mny bo regardod as the programme which tho represontatives of the Powors will consider, Summing them nll up, they are tanto- monnt to tho liboration of the Christinns from the Moslom yoke, to tha developmont of now and permanent reforms, and to the maintonanceof good government in Enropean Turkoy. As this was the publicly.professod motlva of Russla {n its declaration of war, England will undoubtedly insiat that, when this hns beon secured, Russia has no more intorest in the Esatera question, and must oud hor interferonce with Turklsh affairs, Tha policy of England gocs further, how- over. Disnavra's Orlentalism renches beyond the Doaphorus, Thore is an Aslatio side to aovery proposition that he makes, and the limit of every question that ocours to bim fa its Influence upon India. During the progross of the war his polioy had to yleld several times ander the prossure of military nocessity, and more than once ho ratired bofore the cun- ning strategy of GonrTsomixorr and the overwhiolning momentum of tho Russion armios. Granting all thls, ho held strictly to the ultimate object of that policy, and it now beglns to come out in very cloar light, aud the barricr to the progress of Russla in Asin which be is seeking to erect is appar- ont, The London Zimesof tho 80th and other Euglish papers of jnfluence foreshadow this in thelr discusslons of an English pro- tootorate of Aslatio Turkoy, which in reality moona & proteotorate over all Asia Minor, Arabis, Egypt, aud Porsia, The 7'¥mes also soys: **A constitutional® Ministry in Tur- koy ia at prosont a mero dream, There must be some pormaneut centre of force, to con- trol by its attraction the shifting cloments of personal will or caprico, That contral forco, it {4 to bs hoped, the Porte will con- sout to accept ot our hands, and thus intro- duco tho only priuciple of stability into its Governmont of which it ia yet capablo,” If Englaud can thus mako herself the cone olling force of tho Turklh Govern. ment ja Europe, if wsho can place the Asiatle provinces undor a cone liko that which she now bas over tho nativo Princosof India, if sho can develop tho resonrces of Turkey and givo hier a good goverument, she yot only will securo herself as thu principal creditor, but she will mako Turkey one of hor atroug. est allies, A glance at the map of Asia will show how completely wuch a protectorats will proteot Iudia. With all of Asia Miuor and Arabia in her houds, Persia would fn. ovitably, sooucr or later, ba fucluded in the protectorate. The only intorvening prov. inces betwoon Persis pnd Indis are Caboul, Beloochistan, and Affghanlstan, and these are now substastially under English control, With theso countries in Lior protectorate, she would have a powerful Mahometan ally all aloug hor cxposed line, which in case of Russian sasault upon Indis would strike hor tlankyat vitul points all tho way from the Black Sen, past the Cancasus, {o the Punjanb, Thao stake for which England is playing in this game of diplomncy is the safoty of Indin. Ier moves lave roforonce to that futurs when tho real struggle betwoen Rus. sia and England must take place on the plains of Central Asn, NT OF OURRENCY. The professional Greenbackera—that is, those individuals who mnko a living preach. ing * flat money "—never woary assorting in resolntions and harangues $hiat thers hns beou a remorseless and onormons contraction of ourrency sinco the War olosed. And on this alleged contraction they predicate nll the Tinrd times oxparionced since 1873, when in. flated oredits and excessivo indebtedness broko down for lack of confidence, and pro- duced a panic. We gave the fignres yesterday showing the amount of carrency outstanding Aug. 31, 1865, and May 80, 1878. As there wora soma errors in tho tablo, wo ropublish with cor- roctlons s $ 00 o0, 144, 20, i Demand notes of 1861. Greenbackt.viuee,, Fractlonai eurrency. Bliver certificaten National Bank noto Silver colns of all ki BOG, 414 senes B4y ‘The expansion of the currency sinca 1865 by nearly thirty.six milllons only represents 8 part of the expansion that has taken place. ‘Wa must ascortaln what waa the purchasing power of a papor dollar Aug. 21, 1863, and compare that with the prosent value, Tarn- ing back to tho currency prico of gold at thint timo, we find it was 144}, nnd that n paper dollar was worth small feaction over 69 cents ju coin. ured by purchasing power, of the whole carrency in circulation Bopt. 1, 1805, The currency, s now worth 99 por cont, and the wholo volume has & purchasing power of $728,000,000, against the £483,000,000 of valtio in 1866, being an expansion of value of 215,000,000, or Just about fAfty por cont grenter than in 1865, But this is not all: ‘Chera are 200 millions of gold waiting to flow Into ciroulation 0s soon as the currency Tinos one per cent in valo, and that may oc- our within a month, and must take placo on the 1st of next January, When this hap- pons, the money in circulation will then bo almost doublo what it was in valuo at tho close of the War, aud {n nominal amount will be grentor Ly 300 millions—reckoning tho new silvor and gold which tho mints will Lave turned ont. In it not about timo for the **fint monoy ” folks to stop lying about remorseloss contraction ? FRAUDS IN BLAOK SILXS, Tho most gonoral articlo of women's dross- 8oods in this country is blnck eflk, and the prevalling pricos paid at rotail for theso silks rango from 81 to §5 per yard. They aro of domestio 8a well as of forcign manufacture, and, according to recant dovelopments, thoy aro groasly and shamefully fraudalent. Tho English mannfacturora of cotton clotha have, aftor many years of monopoly In tho trade, found that the fraudulont practicesthey haveo adopted have opencd the doors to strong competition from American and other rivnls, The English prnqltleu was to Incronso tho waight of their colton goods by nn admix. ture of clay and otber substances, and while this extra matorial : added groatly to the fon- oral appoarance of the oloth whon offered for sale, tho first timo tho cotton was &ub. jocted to o washing thore was a shrinkago of wolght oqual to from 80 to 40 per cont, and ‘A proportionate loas in goneral appearance. The introduc. tion of Amorican cotton, freo of thess {fraudulent substances, 1sdoing much to woak. ©on the English monopoly in tha cotton trade, It now appears that the frouds and tricks in tho black silk trado are eyen more scandnlons than in the British cottons, A recent visitor at the Amerionn Bilk Mills at Paterson, N. J.y in o doscription published in tho Now York Jerald of what he saw, rofers to this matter of loading the black silks mado in this country and in Franco, It was explained that the Amorican mannfacturer of cotton was induced to prodnce n finer fabric than tho English, beoause of the good repntation it would givoe to tho Amorican goods| but tho ronson was also given that the Amorlcans did not possesa the machinery which, whilo produoing a fine cloth, would allow it to con- tain such a large percontage of foroign sub- stances. In Paterson he found that both ronsons wero given why tho American black silka were not so heavily weighted as ware tho French. o thus explains the sitantion concerning Amorioan black silks ; When, however, you ask for the higher priced guada, notably in ck allks, the foroigns can shiow a rolatively chi article, for the sim. ple reasun that the art of the dyer is more carefnlly concealed, notwithatandlug the fact that thero fy less dycatuff in the Awerlean goods than in the forelgn. Nevertheless dvelnylia dous here pretiy well, bt I fear thal the wame dificultyasto the fner qualities of colton s to ba mut with in the wilk tabric. The dys, of course, renders the fabric maore weighty, byt that welght 1s nat added to the #lik by dysing the fubric when fnlvhed. Iy re peated aperations the dyelng procossca aro carriod out on tho alll thread Ju the ** throwiug departe ment," where it fa ]pr-p:m‘d for the lovws, And It i here, lnixlmu o Abal the Amerlcan art of dyeing is yet behind tho Fronch, whon it comca to the finer qualities, though severnl mwunufacturers dld usaiire e that wur dyelug processcs were Just 2 good a¢ tho Fronch, "It will remain thon au open quastion, the ssmo _as with the cotton manu- facturers, whether it fs_ honesty alona which pra. venta us from muking a allk cuntainivi 30 to 40 por cent of dye sutly, of wluplo waut of knowlodgs bow to coices] the adulteration sad stil) produce a tine articly. ‘Iho Scientiflo American bas an articlo on this subjeot of biack silk, in which, spesking from the reports of an expert insilk dyeing, in whick the process of weighting silk fu explained, 1t says: 1t wonld astonlsl some of our fair rosders vast! to compare with the originel fabric tho wvcuh?d}; thin wobs to which Gne, lustrous, thick silk bo. comies raduced aftor treatment. ‘They might well wander ot meraly Bow some_ sllku wear, Lut how they aver bany together, for the dys dues not add aparticle of strength, any more ihan ho paint to an ofl cluth, 1o which it bears soin gy, Tho wnlli,nlluu of the allk Is not d a sume suppose, by dyeing the fluished faleic, In fact, the silk after leaving the Juow, beyond slmie Jlo brushing, undergoes no further treatment, The ayelng processes 8T curricd out ou the throwu mik thread, which, sfter bolling, rocclves & large quantity of nitrste of fron in solutlon, It ie thon treated with soap sud slkall to 1" the lron, or rether the scid effects of the walt, Auother bath of nitrate solution foliows, aud they pplleation of soap, wnd thus' tho pro- 10 repeated according to the weight' dee Other and varied processes are followed for giving silk ¢ shinencss™ and brightness. The same paper statos that twenty.eight samples were scut Lo an expert with instruc. tious to remove the dye,—the samplos being obtained from leadiug New York housecs, Qood blrck silk it is claimed should not con. tain over 17 per cont of dye. ' Thae result of the examination was that ju the samples tho percentago of weighting was as follows ; i g a aad v 3 per ard. 82 pu cont Vader sad at §1 and vver, 284 per cong Average of all grades. ! r; per cent Amerizan 472,003 432, 087, D60 340,007,300 16,805, . 03,000 « 821,700, 660 + 50,000,000 .$73%,921, 233 507,000 Beven hundred milllons of currency wortli G0 cents amounts to $483,+ 000,000, which was the aotual value, mons- aoncluden that the lower the price the groeater the weighting Thus, when allk {2 bonght at & dollar & yard, about b0 centa v patd for dye and 50 for ailk when purchaned st 83 per yard, $2 goes for silx and $1 for dye. Supposinga dresspatternof twenty sardaof $1silk be purchared, then, one-half of this being wastod in de, the wearing value of the #1ik in ropresented by 8§10, or half the amount paid. The same amount of §3' sflk costa $10, and its weating valno wonld bs $40. Mot there ls four timen a3 much allk In the 83 fabric as In the 81 200da; henco 840 must be divided by 4, wiven $10 an the wearing value, Ko that it seem fhat the person, who buys a 91 ik, gets us much for hin money as the buyer of the &1 silk, ansuming that the resistance to w & directly provortianal to the auantity of silk present. In fact, however, the discriinination is largely against the buyerof {ha 81 siik, which i¢ relntively of poorer material, besldes bolng overloaded with a Rreater percentago of welght, . From all these facta the opportunity of tho American silk manufacturers to produce honest black ailk 13 & grent ono, not only in tho groat consumption of the nrticle In this country, bnt the large profits which the manufacturo will afford, THE SWINDLING FISHERY AWARD. The Benate Foroign Relations Committes has gone near to the truth in ita report of tho procoedings of the Halifax Fisheries Commission. The Committes reports, in effoct, that *‘ tho award was so unrensonable a3 to amount to a swindle,” Thin is a point. blank characterization of tha verdiot which tho Canadian and Belgian Commissioners can moot in only one way, mamoly, Ly stating the gronnds on which they based thelr extraordinary conclusions, Their fail- ure to make any statemont of this kind has "alrondy boen unfavorably commented on in Washington, If thelr case is as strong. as they protend it {s, thoy onght to hava given it tho DLenofit of explanation, argument, and amplification throngh the press and tho various obannols of offloial com. munication, Instead of doing this, they have guarded it against the possible in- Jury that might bo done it by public disous. sion ns it it were a state socrot or the plan of n military campnign. The American peo- plo desiro to know tho reasons for tho judg. ment. They aronot content to have tho acssions held in secrot, and the vordiet pro- mulgated a8 a final decree. 'Fhoy have no confidonco in the sbllity or the intogrity of tho mon who made it. The common opin- fon, like that of Beoratary Evants, is, that tho vordict transcends the submission of the parties, and is on this account nugntory. There is no way of dotermining whether {t doen 8o tranacond the submiesion, unloss by oxamining tho ostimates of the two British Commlssionera (one of them nominally s Bolglnu) who rendered the verdiot, The question submitted to the Commission was this: What, if any, is the difference in valuo betweon the Amerioan catch of mack. erel within the throo-mile limit in Canadian Jwators on the ono slde; and, on tho other sido, the Canndidn catch in American waters north of tha 39th parallel of latitudo, and the Canndian bevefit derived from the remission of dutios on fish and fish-oils imported into tho United Btates? It was shown in the nr- gument bofore tho Commission that tho in- shore mackorel fisherics were the only ones submitted to the Commisaion for appraise. mont; that tho total value of tha oatch in tho four preceding yoars had not excosded $472,088; and that of this total not more than $125,000 could be estimated s profit. On tho other sidsof tho balancoit wos shown (1) tlnt tho Amorican concesslon of the right to flsh north of tho 80ih parallel was, or might bo made, valuablo; and (2) that the romission of dutios on Canadian fiah products admitted into the United Btates had amounted to R181,. 718 in 1878, $170,85¢ in 1874, $155,076 in 1878, and 153,070 in 1878. Counting tho Amorican concession of fishing rights to Ca- nadinns a8 of no valus, the Oanadian gain under the troaty was §125,000 to 8150,000 annually, In the face of these facts, the Commission awarded tho United Btates to poy $458,033 punually, Tho total loss of the United Statos, it the verdiot is added to the romission of duties, will bo In the neighbor- hood of $600,000 annually, Tho verdiot, to use Mr. Evants' langunge, docs not * comport with the torms of the submisslon.” The question then arises, ‘What will tho American Government do nboutit? At this point Tux Tmnuyz dls- ngrees both with Mr. Evants and the Senate Coumunitteo on Foreign Relations, Thoy ad- Viso a shilly-shally, half-way course, partly in the naturo of & compromiso, and partly a protest agninst the injustico of the DBritish claim, The true course would bs & total aud absoluta rejection of the vordiet a8 trausconding the terms of the gub- wlsson. 1t is oloar, from tho siatementa of tho London Z'imes aud the Canadian Minis. tor of Justice, that thoy wonld not have pald the award if the vordict had Loen found ogainst them by two Commiasioners, This point aside, our Government would be justi- fled in rojocting the verdict on tho simple ground that it transcends the terms of tho submission, ' On this grouud alone an nward of the King of the Netharlanda was set nalde and disallowed by this Government in 1827, The resgon of aunullmont, a3 stated by Mr, Uray, then Bocrotary of State, was that his Majeaty hiad “ recommended a mode of set- tlement outside of the facts and terms of the submission.” " A course which was good enough for Mr. Ocay and tha American Governmont in 1827 is good enough for Mr. Lvanta and the Amorican Government in 1478, WHAT IS BOLOGNA -SAUSAOR1 That department of the Treasury which has logal suporvision over tho execution of tho tari@ nlways acts npon tho principls that & man who imports foroign merchandise iy of necossity ongnged in a crime against his couutry,—is of necassity ¢ disloyal,”-—and that it may alwoys bo safoly assumed he intends o disionest act. The average Ous- tom-Houso officor in Now York is governed by tho same theory, with the additlon that tho mporter is always willing to dlvide Lis dishonest gains wheu he cannot help it with tho dishoneat Oustom-Houss officer into whoso Liands he may fall, ‘Whon an importer refuscs to be blackmaliled in Now York at the Custom-House, or at Washington by the Treasury Dopariment officers, then a system of snnoyaucy, costly delays, and vexatious litigation is invented, to es0spo which the importer fs expooted to purchase his peace, A rocont case Ulustrales this practice. Under the tariff, ** Bologna saunssge " {s ad. mittod free of duty, Tuls sausago had, pro- vious to 1874, beon charged with a tax of 80 por ceut,' Putllng it on the free list was considerod by the customs officors as a na- tional outrago, and thoy reseuted it accord- ingly. In due time therp was an importa- tion of * Bologua sausage,” and the vigilant officers disvovered that the asticle imported bod not been mads at ** Bologus,” and forth. with the sausago was seized. The Treesury offlcers rallied to tho assistance of tho Qus- tom-House. The jmporters were compelled to pay the duty, and bring suit to rccover the monoy. Tho Troasury Bureau main- tained, and jnstructed the law oficers to in. sist boforo the courts, that ** Bologua saus- uge” was of necossity sawenge madoe in Bolognn, and unless it wag madae there it was not to bo admitted freo. Afterlong dolaya the onse was reached in court, and Judge Braronronp, with hardly-disgulsed contempt, declded againat the Covornment, The Tronsnry officera will not probably abanden their opinion becaure of ons decision, and they are undoubtedly prepared, whonever Congress ahinll put *chinaware” in the fres Uist, to maintain that 1t must pay duty unless made in Obina; and that plaster of Paris and Parls green must be made in Paris; thnt nothing can be imported as cologne un- lesa made in Cologne; that o import ss Italian cloth momething not made in Italy wonld be as gross s fraud as to sell Japan waro mado olsawhero than in Japan.:- It would not do any harm if the Tressury offi. cars who have worked themselves up to tho thoory that the taiff must be interprated in all cases as fntonded to punish importation a3 anational orime should all get a porma. nent leave of absonce without pay, and that & new set of men with larger and. mors en- lightened judgment be mppointed to take thelr places. The Now York Journal of Commercs thus spesks of the system of ofii- cial interforenco with logitimate business: For saveral y the Treasnry Department, while lenient t whisky rings and the lixe, has been enga; oppression of thoss en, {mat ged in regular and legit~ We poblisied recently a loog list of decis! he Supreme Conrt, showing how our merchants obtained tardy justice only at very great cxpense, and aftor the Government bad exlinusted evory possible resource of the m tter and do- tormined 1iti; It now loaks f the Deme. ame courae, quieation was to follow aitimore American we find the proceed ‘where the h 13 with an fat jon that 1t was doubtful if the Goy- ernment would even thon be ready lormte:\i lo trial, A Commlesion was sent out by the Depart- ment at_very considerable expenss to take tes mony in Domarara, fn order to E."’" tho °*fran ulent" characterof the shipments, From the atate- ment of the District Attorney It woula l‘rpelr that el this was favorable to the Importers an: r{dlu- appointing to the Government, as A farthor Come misslon to take testimony fs found to ba nccessary, In the moantime *‘Iologna sausago” s free of duty whothor made in Bologna or else- whora, e ——. A famous and very scnsational murder-trial hoa just been onded in Parls, the accused, o chemlst named DAXVAL, being found gullty of polsoning his wife. Arscnlous acld was proba- bly the agent omployed, in very small doses of varying quantity adminlstered during a period of nearly a year. Tho analysls of the remains gavo aguantityof about one-thousandth part of & gralnotarsenlc; theygotas much out of apteceof the bed-curtains of the bed the woman dled {n, but none was found {n her medicines, nor yet {n the clothing atainod with ojectlons, Thers was a delightful fight between tho medieal exports, The three doctors who attended the woman had boen treating her for thres differcnt Qiscascs, though all admitted that It they had had any fdea that her hus. band was polsoning her have recognized the symptoms in & moment. Then one expert gave bis testimony; o second contradicted his statcment of fact, and a third, naccopting the facts ms he gave them, contro- verted tho conclusions deduced therefrom. A fourth expert then abtised them ail for conduet- ing the autopsy in & manner displaying nefther cara nor consclence, showed how they had left undone a lot of things, and haddonoothers in a slovenly fashion, and declared that antopsies fu eriminnl cases were, as & rule, shamefal farces. Tho three experts fell upon bim, and liad o red-hot tine of it in court, and flnally two of them scttled the subjoct bv a wordy duel, which must have had the effoct of making the Jurors think that modicine, at least in the do- partment of toxicology, was Ly no means one of the cxact sciences. 8ald At “Tho eminent German authority, HAussany, declares that thera may be polsoning and mot o traco of arsenls bo found.” Bald B: *“The emlneod German authority, Casprn, declares that when polson s found fn {ofinitesimal quantitics, it shouldu't be con- sldered poison at all.” * Anyhow," sald A, “it was absurd tolook for polson in tho lungs: it would be taken into tho system by the nostrils and the turont and the deglutition of the ealiva.’ “On the contrary,” sald 8, *'It would be, being a volatils pofson, inhaled by respiration into the Iungs; i 1t were s mineral poison it wonld be taken In through the mucus,’ ¢ Well,” sald A, *“in elther case it would be stored up in the llver.”” *Thero would be more ef It intho halr than In the liver, i {t were o casa of acute polsoning," retorted B, who would not even meet him on the common ground auggestod. It is small wonder that the hopolessly-confused Jurors, when they came to tho conclusion that DaNvAL had pofsoned his wife, declared that ho had acted fromfmpulse,and so found that there wero “extenuativg circumatances,” If, how- ever, n murder by polsoning during a period of cleven roonths is not dellberate—, ——— How little, after all, do we barbarians of the Occldent know, compared with tho pcoples of tho Voncrablo East. Frinstance, hero {s the ad- dress of & mild-cyed Beoguleo to his patron, from whom he wished to obtaln an otlice of some sorts You are m{ L. G., snd my only savior, I have boen indolibly brandod with” this Impravsion aince that day when I saw your august aud glotlous countenance stepping on tha stalr of your lodging- Loure. Then, indeed, 1thonght Iam your man, and you will get me good apuointment, That fs, indeed, amodel application] and 1f tho writer has dipped the pen of courtesy Into the lnk of mdulution in valn, then his patron ts N, G, and not “ L. G." Mr. Cox's duleet ap- plication to Mr, Haivzsin behalf of Gronan Bursgn was beside it rude and Jnharmonious, even as the ringlng of old cow-bellscs and the blowing of old Wisconsin broezes, That ap- plication s as fnsuating es csstoroll, but drawa like a mustard-plaster, Let some of our offico-scoking frionds try it on Mr, Harxs, and se0 what tho average yiold of post-oftices to the acre is. Only thuy should smend tha wmixed wmetaphbor fn it. To speak of a man'a “august snd glorlous countonnncs stepping on the stalr of bis lodging-houso * fs next thlog tv talklog about his walking off on his car. ——— Gen. TunR's contribution to the hitherte un- written history of the Triple Alliance, proposcd on the eve of the Franco-Prussiau war, con. talus somo [uterestiug personal pictures too graphilo and characteristic not to be trus. He tolis of the Duc de GmaMowT, Naronzon's Minister of Forelgn Affairs, who declined to toko any steps to influcuce public oplulon abroad becausa ho *‘did not make war with nowspapers,” and who, belng warnod that the French army could not bring into the feld al, or mearlv all, the men neccssary to meot the Gorman advauce, sald airlly, * Ob, that's the General's lookout.” The Duc de Gmauoxt ofterwards toldjUen, Tuuk that becoulda't help himself, but bad to go to war, his *hands being tied” Dby the Empress Evaxxiz, who dociared that 1t was “her little war." It {s by no means chivalrous for stateswen to take refuge behind the lmperial petticosts which were fizst dlstend- cd with crinoline, but there seems littls reason to doubt that it was tho ex-Empress who forced her husband tnto the wer against his judgment, tho war which overthrew Frauce, burled the -Naooleonic dvnasty from the throns forover, guve Germany the two proviuces, and holsted the Italian @ag over the Quirfual after all. e —— e 2 Much bitter complalnt bas been made sgalnst Prestdent AYEs by what 18 called tho Machine 1men, on sccount of his refusal to allow tho Sen. atorial Barous to dictate the nominations for ofiice. ‘This class of peovle have forgotten the plank they fuserted fn the Clnclunatl platform, dewmsndiug that the Benatorin! Barons sud Kuightsof tho House should attend $o tholr own business while the President attended to hle. Bumebody ought to scud up to the Becre- tary's desk aud have the JiftA section of the Re- vublicun vlatlorm read fu the hoaring of Seas- tore Conxrino, Hows, Hauiin, Brats, Dow Usmarow, sud other Senators of thelr views,for they bave evideutly forwotten ft. 1t reads: 8, Undee the Cousullutlon xna President and Beuds of Departincaty ure (o make nomlautions for ©lice the Benate 14 10 advise oud cousvat Lo 8p- 8 fystem of the moat wanton they would" rnmlmanu, and the TToure of Representntives fg 0 accuse and vrosacnte falthiess offcers. Tho beat interest of the publle acrvice demands thae thesa distinctions by respected ; that ¥enatora ang shonld nol dictate sppointmenta (o ofice, ® in. variadle role In appointments shoa e rofer. ence ta the honesty, fidelity, and capacity of the Sfpointeer, giving to the party In power Ui Pplacen whera harnony and vigor of adininistratjon require ite pollcy to be represented, hnt permitting a1l others to ba filed by versote welectoit with murg refaronice to the efficloncy of the pblic nerviee, Aod the right of all citizens to aliare. in the hongr of rendoring faltnfal acrvice to tha country, Tho whole trouble between the Preaident anq the Benatorial Junta and touso implacanles growa out of the President’s adherenca to this resolutfon, and thelr determination to violate it. The ConkLing gang, who are egaing on the TorTRR Investigation for the sake of breaking down HAy=s and driving him from the White Tlouse, are sctuated by motives of revenze nné malico because he has not let them dictate the offieca, and uanrp the removal and appolntment power. That fs the basa of the wholo quarrel ——— In modern warfaro Providence is doubtless st upon the sldo of the heaviest battalions, but they bave to be pretly heavy, Bome ong was speaking to a French diplomatist the other day of Enpland’s forces—how she could put an srmy of 80,000 picked men fnto the fleld at once, and g0 on. “Eighty thonsand men," sald the diplomatist; “‘my dear fellow, that is onlya fower In & gravoyard nowadays," ——— Bax BowLzs uscd to be consldered very de- voted to the polltical intorosts of CuarLes FRANGIS ADaus; but his devotlon was weak and tame compared with that of Munenzy, of Milwaukes, tothe fortuncaof MaTr CAnvENTRR, 1o whom he bears the relation of & tall to a dog, and wage whenever he thinks it will plesse Lis maator, MaTT, ——— If it s not practicable to stufl ths Potterlng Committee, and so presorvo it for tho gratifca tlon of generations yct unborn, arrangcments should bo made toget a pup out of ft. If the breed s lost, Cliaos will coms again, e ee—— TUPPRR throstens to return to the United Btates. And tnlsisour reward for not lotting the Konlane looso upon the smiling hen-roosts of Canada, and for only sclllng the Russians ona or two crulscrs. ————— In Now York it Is no Jonger a felony for women to go shopping--that {s, since Mrs, Davis recovered damages from the Iutelligent young counter-hopper that mistook her fora shoplifter, ——— Tho questlon of the future scems likely to be, Will D1ax recognize tho TILDEN Uovernment? e —— ‘PERSONALS. Father Curol {g, they sny, to be ons of tho next creation of Cardinata, A funny misprint in an English paper has made the Vokesos **retnrn thoir shanks” for tho Roncrous patronsge extended to them. This is ae £ood as the announcement of the Eptleplic Review, Goorgo Holland writes home that ¢ Tho Crashod Tragedian " is & failure in London, though ha can't, a9 yet, quite comprohend it, It Ie pluyed, ha writes, ** in & mixture of applanse and howls, The Highland costumo s gotting to be the rige awmong aristocratle bollos at English fancy ‘bails. Ae one of the fair ones portinently re- marked to a censorjous eritic, **The tinportance fsn't In what you put on so much as fn what you loavo off," In n rocont debate in the Belglan Assam- bly, M. Victor Jacobs, the leader of the Cetholle party, concluded sncloguent speech with *‘on se falra—(**they will remnln sllent™), **f¢ cetern, echoed M. Orts, the leador of tho Lib. erals, to the delight of tho galleries, Entorprise,—A weokly theatrical sheet in New York has been replylng vigorously to an at- tack upon tho dramatlc profession made In Jar- per's Monthly, Oninvestigation it was found that tho attack appeared In,the magazine for Anguet, 1852, and that Its author dled last year. Gon. Garibaldi, who has boen fll at Qapro. 8, 11 recovoring, and has by this time resumed his favoultc walks in the conntry, Meanwhlle 4o has been visited by a former comrade, of Gerocks bizeh, bt long domlcilod in Amorles, Bignor Nao' poleone Castellinl. This gentloman had always shown him hospltality during his residence n Amarica, whon such entertatnmont was hiospitable Indoed, Presidont Hayes, it is stated, will posl. tively baIn Rvandville, Tnd., on July 4, on which day Gen, J. B, Gordon will there glve an oration. Socretaries Key, McCrary, and Thompson will at- tend the President, and it 1 announced by the Evanaville Journal that ** That magnutic and dash- ing londer, whoss eloquence 18 lika his porson ana mind, great and orllifant, Gov. Wedo Hampton, is coming." The late Dake de Baldanha, the Portuguose Minlster to Englsnd, left & will, in which, amung mavy practical provisions, shincs s touching bit of sentiment: **All his effecta in England, and tho one-third of his property, which bo fs entitled to disposo of {n Portugal, ha leavea to his wifeand doar purtner, —to the angel whom God in Iis mercy scnt to him to be the support and consolation vf hte 0ld age. " Minnlo Mitoholl, bolongling to o respectablo family of Ilarrisonbury, Va., was botrayed by n man of wealth and cast off by herfamily. Ehe went to New York and fell ill of consumption. The woman at whote bouse she lived wrote to her parents thot the wirl was dying, but they would notrelent. When, at la hey sont her word to roturn and bo forziven sho was too fecblo to be moved, andshe died in the hospital, The portrait of Mrs, Joseph Alston, Burr's belaved danghter Thoodosls, 18 soon to be recelved at Washington, The picturo was washod ashore ot Dsttoras, and was probably the only relic of the vedsel in which Mrs, Alston sailed for Now York, never to urrive there, The ship doubtless founder- oa at son, though for a long tima it was assertod that she was Laken by plrates,and that her crawand passangors shored the fnovitable fate of prisonors f thess corsalrs, ‘The Hon, George 0, Bates, who practiced Jaw in Ihis clty for many yoars provioua to the fire, sfior which timo he was appointed by President Grant District-Attorney for Utah, where he has atald untll recently, has, we observe, oponed & law ofiice fn Denver, Col,, In partnership with & won of ex-Bonator John B. Tarlile, of Virginia. Young Carlile practiced law In this clty for w time, but sought Colorado on account of hls heaith. Quite & number of Chicago lawyors Lave astilad in Cole orado, Margaret Bogardus, who died on Bundsy fn Now York at the nze of 75, was renownod over two continents for her accomplishments fo tho nl- most lost oreaf portrait-painting oa ivory, Ehe was a8 well an artist of ability recoguized both bere and fa England, Iler husband, Josoph Bogar~ dus, who died four years 820, was a most prolific laventor,among things he devised beiugs three- wheel chronometer, tho ring-spioner now uscd evorywhere in the manufscture of cotton goods, engraving machines, ,4ry gas-matrea, tamp-making machines,’ tron bufldings, ca-sounding Instrument of groat value. Tho ©50,000 libel suit of Wallace P. Groom agalnst Petor Cooper has ended fu & dls- Sgreement of the Jury, It basooly served to make more ¢lear the wholesale way In which the ven- erable Prostdentinl candidate was bled by the dead-beats who saw & chance to make momey out of his confidiog good patute by professiug great 1 for the Greenback canas, o comylsios that oven 10 this day he e pestered by mion who want $3 apleca for election-work, and fa atill payiog them, The fnteresting fact was doveloped 1o the trial thal Mz, Cooper’'s coachman voted for Talden, but he had suficiont loyalty to bis emuloyer to **bounce tho Domocrots who had captured the Couver booth at Lis polling-place and to sct men at work distributlng Usceabsck tickets, A Jersey woman lost her pocketbook in Hew York. Itcontained $21, which was duly re- turued o her by the lady wno found it, Ths puor woman was brofuse of {bsnks and—but It ts best o glve hor story in her own worde: **I rose t0 Ro. Bbostepped betwecn me and the door and sald, *1thiok you might moke my Mitle girl & preseut,” Coufusad, 1banded the child (he dollar oill, when, to my utter astonlshment, the mother exclatimed: *1 thivkibats very small returs. Why, 1 bardly thought I would pick 1t up a oll when Leaw it.' Tn my confusion I told her thatl ‘was & widow, and had bllis to pay, and odq hez ho twenty-dollar bill. &bo teok it and handed mo .back $15. Idomolkuow how I ygot out of the Bouve.™ It 18 Lo be boped the Mitle girl got ber prescut, bat to be feared she dld,n‘l.. B -