Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 15, 1878, Page 4

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Tite O der of the Yemyie will b <5 u. - Visltors wels cuwe. By orderof the Commauder, A K LUNLOP, Recorder. SATURDAY, JUNE 15, 1878, Greonbincks at the Now York Stock Ex- vhango yesterday closed at 494, —— Tt hins boen decidod by the County Roard -of Ednention to abolish the preparatory de- poartment of the County Nornal School, Any step in thig divection is worthy of com. mendation, and the further tho better—oven to tho uxtent of abolishing tho entire insti. tution, which produces no bonoticial resnlts at all in proportion to the cost of its mafu- tenance, The Brazilina subsidy grab recaived o sete bnek yesterdny which will probably laat daring the Jifo of the present Congross. It hind been tacked on the Post-Route bill by the Seunle, but the Honse, undor the ablo londership of Mr, Caxnoy, of Illinols, who has fought the grab trom firs€ to last, sent tho bill buck fo tho Senato with » notlco thut tho lutter bods had excocded its fnctions in origiuating legisiation of thiy kind, Phis action was taken by so lnrge a voto that it indicates o wottled dotermiuation in the Houso to kill tho subsidy part of the bill, —————— Yorren's Committen fecoived a gentool sanb from the President yustorday, They had made a wholosnlo domaud on the Stato Dapartment for coples of all communications received from or sont to the membora of the Louisinua Commission, and in reply wora vo- minded that they had overstopped their un. thority in making such a ruquisition, aud that tho President, having no mind to on. courago this sort of thing, declined to uccedo to the request, but instead would turnish tho Ilouse with the informntion sought, loaving tho Iatter hody to determine what should bo dono with it, It roports from Borlin are to be relied upon, it would appoar that the utmost har. mony has mo far characterized tho inter- courso of tho Plonipotentinrics. Frauce is taking n more prominent part in the nego. tiations than was oxpected ut the outsot, and her desires in rogard to Grocco are said to bo in full necord with those of tho British Governmont. Germany, it Iy belleved, will at the proper timo spoak good word for tho Roumaninn Jews, whoso munifold griev- ances have year aftor year boen laid beforo the European Powers, but whosa condition has not beon fmproved therab; As may Lo observed by reforance to the column containing our railway intelliganca, it is fearod thntn gront strike of railroad employes, whnilar to thnt which amazed and prostrted the country last summer, will ho attempted withln o fow woeks, It is said that the workmen roly greatly upon 'the Communist for aid fn creating an auarchical ond distressing condition of things, aud it fy cortain that the villains und maniscs composing the anti. Government elemout of our population will not miss so good =mn upportunity to nguin offer their loprous alliance, The frat timo the cholera came, ponple ruffered far wmore thun the lust, and it is yot possible that tho respectable portion of American Luwanity has loarned wmoro regarding the cure of this grent social disorder in ono yenr than it bus learnod conocerning tho Asiatic physical dieorder in thix The would-be rovolutionists fn the Flouss Liave at Inst bon compelled by force of pub- lio apinion to nbaudon their origionl pro. growme and put on record an unequivocal declaration that the title of Presidont Haves is unassilablo by ouy device or oxpedivut within the Constitution and the law; that the question was settled by the Forty-fourth Congress oud the Electoral Commission, and that to attempt Bow to reverso that declsion would be revolution. It remained for su Illnois Republican, M. Buncuaup, to iutroduce o resolution ombodying this declaration, aud in so doiug to perpetrate o parlinmentary surprise upon the Democrats which alnost took their breath away, It was o declaration which the Democracy vefused to mulo in coucus assembled, when o similor zesolution, offered by Casry Youxa, of ‘I'ennessce, prior to tho appointment of the YPorrsn Committes or the passogo of the rvsolution creating it, was voted down ond Lowled down. At that time a msjority of the House Democrats un- quustionably contemplated tho ousting of Haves aod the jostallment of Fivey so soon ga tho control of both Houses of Cougress should pass iuto tho Liauds of tho Dewmocsacy as the xesult of the THE CHICAGO 'TRIBUNE: SATURDAY. JUNE 15, IS78—1TWELVE PAGL olections of this year. They meant rovolu- tion, and did not take the troublo to deny it. Nothing bnt the stubborn rafusal of a fow Southern Democrats to lend themsalves to tho perilons conspiracy, and the certainty that the people of the United States would forbid its cousummation by their votes at the Congressional elections, has changed tho purposo of four woeks ngo, and led to tho adoption yesterday of Mr. Buronarp's reso- Intion by the onormous vots of 216 yena to 21 nays. The Natlonal Executive Commiites of tho Bocinlist Labor party is to bo commended for its good sonso in issuing an address depre. cating and forbidding the system of military organizationa ndopted in various citles of the United Statos by members of tho party, who have, says the Committeo, beon **in. sligated thereto ehielly by a mistaken appre- housion that such a course is neceseary to the protection of their rights as Bocialista, It is enjoined npon all party membors to withdrw from such organizations, and upon all Bocinlistio Heotions to abstain from any offfcinl idontification therowith, and it is urged that no arms bo carried, and that, it necessary, forco bo used in ejecting from processions parties bearing arms withont the sanction of the local sociatios. Tho course advised is eminently sound, and its observ- anco would go far toward romoving tho projudico ontortained by poncenbls peoplo egninst the Bocinlist movement. Tho Chicngo sociotios will do well to ba governed by tho reqiest of tho National Commtteo in their procession and pienio to-morrow, —— The Honse Democrats have been boaton at every polnt in their spitoful attack on tho army. It will bo remembered that the Sen. ate, by a decisive vote, rofused to concur in tho House amendmonts to the Army Appro- printion bill, among them those reducing the number of men to 20,000, providing for o goneral plan of roorganization, and for the transfer of tho Indlan Bareau from the In- terior to the War Dopartment, and roatrict- ing the President In tho oxorcise of his constitutional suthorily nz Commander. in.Ohfof of the army and navy of tho United Btates. A Domocratio can- cus of TFlouso mombers was bLold last ovoning to doclde upon the action of tho majority, ot which Benators Ilrty, Baranp, nand Ilmmeronp wero prosent. The latter counscled submission to the decision of the Bonate, and, while no formal voto to that ef- fact waa taken, it was tacitly agreed to adopt this coursg, and accordingly the Conference Committeo havo signod a report recommond. ing tho passage of tho bill as it came from the Sounte., It is rogorded ns seltled that such will bo tho result to-day. APP] RESUBPTION. In viow of the rocont demonstration of tho domonted Groonbackersin their Lansing Con. vention, and the utter folly to which they nsked tho people of Michigan to subseribe, it ir ospoclally gralifying to find the Repub. licans of that Biate outspoken and un. equivaeal in thelr treatmont of tho uational tinaucos. 'The importance of the subject nt this time was so fully recognized by the Tepnblican Convention that it was made the londiug featuro of the platform, und was ap- proved by the Convention without dissont. Aftor sotting forth the nucesslly for resump. tion as nn essontinl to business rocovery, and congratulsting the conntry upon tho carly sdjonrnnent of Congroess as a cortain dofeat of the Congressional olique that Las Been schoming to defent the project, the platform proceeds ¢ . Wa denounce repudiation in avery disgulas. Wo regard tho |I||L.’hll‘s falth of a comiaaity binding npun all itw members, and a fatlore to fultll a pube 1ic obligation as a staln upon boths public und pn- wate honor, W luglxt that the debts of the natlon aliatl ho pald with tho eame falmess and integrity With winch the honest man secka 16 pay bis {ndis vitlnal debie, e nrsort that no pru-rcr!ly can bo or dugable that Is founded un & tictitlous stand. that the valun of paper currency, whother {5« wnod by o Gavernment or banks, {» dorived from ite ** promliss to pay," wnd thy credit that prom- r0 I% worth; that the full benedts of such corroncy cannot bo reallzed nnless it s convertible dn do- wund Into wold and sfiver; that the circulation of paper und cojn Interchangeabla at par und ot the will of the Liolder Lus been proven by expericnce o ha tho best known to commerce; that this coun- ry v ton great to submit to 8 eubordinato pluce among commerclal natlons, and {te pooplo oo hone cat to b content with unredecmed and irredcomable Vromisee, and, in the namo of all the producing clanses and every honcst workingman, we doman a cirrency that is not anly wortl.its faco valua ull wyur to Unlan, bat will command relucl.'tuco§~ ll‘l"l‘l:ll: snd its full value In every warket in the wur! This oxtract {8 suggestive of the many phases of the resumption question, 1o be- gin with, on indaflnito postponement of ro. sumption would bo n gigantie stride toward ropudiation, for this iz only the first condi. tion iu tho prograinmo Iaid out hy the Greon. lackers ar Nutionals, If they shbould gain this concesslon, the inovitable result would bo a serfous dopreciation fn tho value of the groenbacks, Buch n depreciation would bo followed by a demand for o now issne, ‘L'ho now fsae would wot be a promise to pny, bat flat money boaring the falsehood lo. wand, **This is a dollar.” Further duprecin. Uon would follow, and at & more rapid rato hecauno tho new issue would ba unconatitu. tional, Then the old Pondlotoninn ery would Vo raluad, *“Sorip money for the puople ls good enongh for the bondholders." ‘Thery would bo au effurt to forco the publio creditors Lo take sorip, uot avon promising to pay, in full pay. uiant of thelr mtercat und priveipal, Thus repudiation would be reactied, aud an indefi. nite postponenont of resuwmption would be tho first tep in a direct road to that goal, The Governmont might just as wall start out with a law compelling bondholders to send thelr honds to Washington, submit to lwve tho conpons all out off without cousideration, and then accapt tho boud in veturn as full payment of the obllgation, Buch uction wonld achieve at s single stroke precisely the result ot which the Greenbackers aim when they domand o flood of flat scrip and au in. deflnite postponomoeut of yesumption, ‘The demand made by the Mickigan Re. publicans s in tho uamo of the producing und working classes. Those aro the people who will bo most benefited by tha result, for resumption will be followed by a legitimate expausion of the monoy-stock of the coun. try. - It will bring into sctive circulation the two hundred millious and wmore of gold and silver which are hiddon away, and must always continue so whilg the paper monoy of tho country is at a discount. It will odd to tho circulating ‘medium of tho counitry from eighty to a hundred millious of gold and silver every yvar,—tho products of our mines aud tho money pey- wents of Europe for the balancas iu fuvor of this country, The expausion thus attsined ‘will not be fictitlous ond delusive as it would be by incressing the bLulk of jrredeemable oud uncopstitutional paper serip, and the stiwulaut to the busincas of the couutry willbe bealthful and enduring. New con- fidence will beget new entorprise. The Lauks will be moro liberal in their disrounts. Tuvestmonts will enbance tho valus of landy aud proporty of overy description. Capitul wil! bo forthcoming to start up the mills and fuctorios that Lave boen shut down for years, and to ougege in now industrial enterprises, ‘Aberowill bo an enlarged feld of employe ment for workingmen at rising wages. The mercantilo classes will no longer be re- slrained from business vontures by tho cer- tain calamitios of a falling market. There will bo not merely an abundanco of money, but (and this is more impbrtant) an abund- ance of real money,—gold and silver, nad n paper currency redeemable on domand in coin. THE ARMY BILL. The Houso has not at this Writing agreed to tho Sonate nmendmonts to the Army bill, ono of the points of differonce beirlg the nullifieation clansa offered by Kworr, of Kentucky, and incorporated into tho bill by tho House. It is ea followa: Tt shall be nnlawful to employ any part of the army of the United Staten as a “posse comitalus or othorwlise, except In such cases and under much clrcamatances as such employment of nald force may be expresaly anthorized by act of Congress. It provides nlso that no money appro- printed by tho act of Congresa for the army shall be used to pay any expénses incurred in the employment of troops in violation of this soction; and that any person violating theso provisions ahall be doomod guilty of misdemoanor and approprintely punished. Tho Souates hns situck ount tho punitive foaturo of this amondment, and changoed it 50 a8 to road that it shall not bs lawful to employ avy part of the army of tho United Btates nan zosse comitatus or othorwise for tho purpose of exccuting tho laws, oxcept in snch cases and undor such ociroumstances s such omploymont of the sald forco may be suthorized * by the Constitution” or by act of Congrosa, The Now York World (Dom.) is not ploas- od with Knorr's nullification olauso voted for by the Democrats of the HHouse, It romarks: 1t anybody in Congress imagines that the peonle of this conntry are now in a mond to ace Congross forco lnsucs of this sort nron us, the sonnor he gocs honie to his constituents the sooner hawill Aind out his mietake. 1Itie an essontial part of our system of governinent that the command of the army and navy within the Constitution shonld reat, not with the Legirlature, hut with the Exocutive, Stonr, In hin treatise on the Constitntion, gives tho reanons for thie with all his usual clenrness and with more hou his usual cunclsencss of phrase, **Tho com- mand appiteation of the public force to exocnta tha nd to maintaln pesco are powers, ' he #ays, ‘‘no obviously of an execntive nature, and Fequire the oxercise of quaiitios so pecullarly ndapted "to tnis dopartment, that 6 welis organized Goverument can When they nro token awn, Mr. Kxorr's proposition (s simply a rovival of sucyestions made, debated, and voted down as fn- condistent with tho objects of our Government during tho discunsions in the Btate Conventio: rocoded the cstablishment of the Constlt Vhatever arguinonts are adduced to reco mend lts ndoption now must carry a good deal fur- ther probably than the object at which we presnme Mr. KxotT to be alming, and lead to the desiruce tion of thnt unity and executive authority which s the essonsinlly democratic featuro in our Uovern- ment. To sbolish the cxecutive quaiity of the Ex- ecutive within the Constitution becanse Peesident ed the army in the South, s to burn uso because the chimnoy, having been allowed 10 foul, has smoked. To attompt to obol- 1sl the exocutive quality of,the Executive by a law In conflfct with tiie Constitution 1e ut1ll worao, To (olk abont the omnipotence of the British Par- llament {a n dangerons license of !gnccll. but It 1s not so dangerous 88 to talk about the omnipotenco of Congrese. In the theory of this Governmont tne Execullve ropreeonts the whole peoplo of tho conntry as truly, and in certaln vory important particulats It roprescuts tho whole people of the country as diroctly, as oither branch of Congrons; #ud our ailalrs as o natlon are not just now in anch un_arsured condition of comfori and prosperity 1hnt we can safely purmit Conurcss to tinker at the theory of our Government, either to correct ascel tained rlips and crrors, or to gosrd agalusl pose siblo binnders and oftenncs in ita practical oporas tlon. - 'Tha propusition of Mr, Kxorr, If It could bo carried out, would rellsve the Exccutlve of tho nuibility which the framors of the Conatitn. cant to impose upon it, and confer upun & tive body—which, in at lunat ono conspicu~ recent cane, hoa been falve to its doty—a P which tho framers of thu Constitution ex- Pressly meant that It should not possosy. THE NEXT LEGISLATURE OF ILLINOIS, Thero aro soveral legislative districts in thia Btato in which convontions Lave beon onlled to nominnte candidntea for tho noxt Genoral Assembly, There are fifty-ono dis- tricts,in oach of which throe Rtepresontatives biavo to be choson, nnd thero are twonty-six districta—those having odd uumbors—iu ench of which ono Senator has to bo olected. There will probably o threa tickots in about two-thirds of tho districts, though astrong of- fort will bo mado by the Democrats to capture the National party in ns many districts na muy bo possible. Under the minority sys- tem of voting, the Natlonals will endenvor to svouro nd .many siuglo Roprosentutives ng they ¢an, but tho greonback question having sotiled itself, und the Communists having wmndo thomsolves justly odious to tho peo. ple of tho State, the probabilitios ave that the wombers to be clected will, with a fow excoption#, Do of those nominated by the Republican and Dewmocratio parties, Assuming that tho contest will bo gubstan. tially between the Itepublican and Demo- oratic parties, aud that of nacessity the mafority ou joint ballot caunot bo very lurge eithor way, there is an urgont occasion that in nominating caudlidates thore should bo 1ore than ordinary care in sclecting mon who uro commonded Ly their intelligonco, tholr vxporionce, and thelr porsoual integ- rity. Tho condition of public sentiment fu #uch, and the nocousity for much logislation of u nou-partisan, but more important, char- noter 18 #0 gonornl, that voters will naturally profor candidates of intelligonce, porsonal tegnty, nud oxporieuce, evon to the oxtont of politieal dilference of oplnion. Yarty obligations and party discipline mny be found altogethor too woak, in mony dis. tricts, to permit a mneglect or indif. ferenco in the atter of ubllity and charne- tor of the caudidates. “Mere party nomina- tions will not supply deticlencies in qualifi- catlons, and eondidates wanting iho requi- sites of oxperlence and ability moy flud themsclves beaten by others of opposing politics, but having fitness for tho oftice, Attor the exporionco of tho lnst Loglsluture, tho Rtepublicans of Hlinois noed hardly Lo romiuded thut the policy of nominating caudidates for the Legislature pladged to vote for auy particulsr porson na United Btates Senator will be fatal. The pasty is always strooger fu every district thau s any ong mav, ‘There are twenty-five or more Republicans in this State fitted by od. ucation, ability, long survice, nud porsonal charactor to servo fu the United Btates Ben oto with bonor nud advantsge to the Btato and to the country, Auy attompt to fore. atall an intelligent seloction of Benator by puckivg nomiustivg district conventions in tho futorest of any particular person will of necessity weakou the party strongth, and cause tho loss of Ropublican wmewbers who otherwise would bo clected. Tho policy of compelling every Ropublican to tako & par. ticular caudidate, to the exclusion %of all other Ropublicans, hina lost ono Benator to the party, and, if porsisted in this year, must cortainly result in the eloction of another Democrat o the Seuate, The Btato is sadly in ncod of certain legis. lation. Bix yeani of experieuce bass dovel. oped many grievous errors dn the Revenue law which the last and preceding Legisla- tures vainlyattempled to understand and rom- edy. Two years ago this sounty bad twonty. elght wembors of tho General Assombly ; they ‘were all clectod with reference to the cloction of an Uuited Siates Bonator, aud Leyond that special objoct were, with but a limited number of excoplions, ns iguorant and as help- lcas 0 body of legidlators as if they bad beon selected from the primary schools. The peo- vloof the Btato were outraged by the intelloct- uol weakness and general inefficiency of the General Assembly of 1877, ns they wora with the disordorly nnd scandalons Assembly of 1873, and that party whioh selects tho beat class of mon for the coming Leg. islature will command and deservo tho sup. port of thousands of voters who are mors concernod for an intelligent ravision of some of tha laws than they nro for the wnero suc~ coss of party. Tho seloctions of candidates for Congross are of less importance than those for tho Goneral Assembly; the Blate nceds ita best men for Stato logislation, and onn bost afford to take the chances in eloct- ing membors of Congress. The Ropublican party of Iilinols has tho confidonce of the people, and cannot afford to risk tho loss of that confidence by any cquivocation na to principles or doublo-denl- ing ng to policy. It has a duty to tho coun- try which it cannot disrogard, and that is to adhoro to its principles, its policies, and its organization, and, offering these to tho peo- ple, nsk thelr votos for the Ropublican can. didntes, If tho party oannot rotain public confldenco in this way, it cortninly cannot do so by traflicking with othior organizations ‘whoso ereed is hostila wnd whose purpose ia to dostroy the Republican party. THE LANCASHIRE STRIKES ERDED, ‘Tha cable brings the information that the cotton-oporatives at Burnley have resumed work, and those at Blackburn liave unani- mously resolved to resume, at the reduction of 10 per cent, ngainst which they had strnck, Thin indicatos the end of tho strikes throughout the entire Lancashire district, and the only termination which was possible under the condition of things, And nover hinz o siriko 1n its inception and result moro forcibly indicated tho utter folly of wholo communitics of laboring men ondenvoring to hold out in a dend-lock ngainst a falling-mar- kot condition of things which docs not war- ront 8 concossion of thelr domands, excopt ot the cost of bankruploy, Theso strikos began about eight woeks sgo and ‘bocame genoral six wacks ngo. Ever since there hava Leen about 110,000 people ont of work. If thoir wages overnged 85 n woek (and the earnings of tho weavors, who numbered 80,000, were $5.76 8 woek), thon tho firat notablo result of tho lock-out wns o woekly loss of R0360,000, which falls directlyupon tho laboring people, and which thoy can mnover rogaln. Tho loss for six weeks exceods the loss thoy would havo suf. fered byyiolding to the 10 por cont reduction during an entire year; but thoy mnko the actual losa and that of the reduction also. Daring the period of idlouess, thero haa boon a larga amount of suffering, extonding to tho wives and childron, the sick, disabled, and holpless; thero hns been n further waste:in the dissipation naturally incident to an un. employed condition; and in somo parts of the district there has boon o considerabla destruction of property, for which the own- ors must be roimbursed under tho laws of England, o that this cost likowisoe falls upon the strikers, who are tho chiof taxpayors of tha district of which thoyara almost tho only inhinbitants. Tt was ovident from tho vory first that tho operatives wonld bo foroed to yield to tho ro- duotion of 10 per cont saonor or later. Tho reduction was ordored by the mill-ownors ns o nocossity of tho falling market and declin- ing demand, Tho workmon as woll s the mastors had to admit thnt Lancashire has, of Iato, boon making cotton goods nt n loss, The outlook for tlis industry in England ia czccodingly depressing. Tho United States hencoforth will bo but o small purchasor of Lancashire cotton goods, but will be- como a formidablo competitor in pro- duction ond sale in tho markets of the worll, Tudia, which has been an important purchnser, Las beon soriously cripplod by tho famine, Russla and Turkoy will buy less, In the faco of theso faats it becanio necessary to reduco wagos, as the only important saving that could bo mado in tho cost of production. To contlnue at an inovitablo loss would have resulted in the dostruction of tho industry na cortalnly as if overy will in tho dlstrict had boon burned down; yot this is what the unreasoning opurntives demanded when they refused to work at the reduction. Now, after a total loss of fully 84,000,000 in wagos, thoy aro forcod to resume at the roducod wages. What course could have beon moro inson- Bato? ——— BEACONSPIELD'S PROJECT, A dispatch from London, printed {n our last {ssuo, says: ** Those persons who an- teipate that Lord Beacovsrize is proparing o great surprise will not be disappolntod. ‘Tho coup mny bring him much popularity, but {t will burden the country with o great responsibility.” Deacowsrietn's “surprise " ia not altogethor a mystery. In fact. it has for somo timo post beon Indorsed by the London T'imes nud zoalously udvocatod by all tho 'Tarkophile nowspapers, and opposed only by tho Spectator and othor journals of Grapstone's way of thinking. A shortsketoh of tho situntion will disclose the surprise, It s now ovidont that the Congross will defimtely sottle all European quoestions grow- ing out of the recont conflict, such as tho emancipation of the Christlans, the limits of Bulgaria and Servia, tha continuance of the Turks in Constantinople, tho navigation of tho Dardanellos, tho status of the Bela- vonio provinces, cession of Bossarabla to Russla, aud satisfaction of Austrin by giving her as much of DBosnia and Herzogovina a8 sho may wish, When all this is - accomnplished, what there is left of tho Enstorn question will pertain strictly to Eogland, Rtussia, and Turkey, and tho fleld of action wust bo transferred to Asin. With tho boundaries of Bulgaria sot- tlod, tho nayigation of the Dardancllos and the Daauba adjusted, the varions sumall proviuces reduced to order, and Austria’s domands sat- Isfled, thoro is nothing left that concorns tho other European Powers. Beicoxsviep is long-headod onough to seo that the future of tho Eastorn question, therefore, will concorn Asia, iu which England and Russia alono are competitors. To form an alllance with Tur. key, oud establish protectorates in Asia Mivor and eventually in Persiaaud tho Prov- inces adjacont to India, is tho coup for which bo is proparing, By this, England would assumo thoe direct protectorate of ‘I'urkoy ns 8 wholo, or, failing iu that, of Turkey in Asia. As stated iu some of tho papers fa. voring the project: * Eugland Is in future to bo invested with some di- rect authority over Asiotic Turkey which will ecusble Ler to seouro good government to its people, to fnsure peace, to stop tho furthor aggressions of Rusais, and to peutralize the formidable military posi. tion in Asia which Russia scquires by the cession of Kars aud Ardabon,” The London ASpectator, in discussing this project, an. nounces it would be in favor of it if it meant only the Government of Egypt, as the pos- sesston of tte Lithmus would make India se- cure from weritiio pttack; but it does not wsan this, It woans @ protectorato over Asiatio Turkoey cither by a Residency at Constantinople, with rights of advice and control, or by an -English civil service, noither of which the Spectator clnima can b succossful. Tho first must fail bocanso the Pashas aro not seoking tho good governmont of Asia. *'Thoy will troat the Rosident with the deopost respoct, will issua any laws bhio advises,—and he conld soarcely improve upon the Iaws already issued and disregard. ed,~and will go on governing by exaction and tyranny 8s beforo. Thoy know no other mothod.” The second must fail because it involves a second burden like that of India. The Spectator snys : . Tha esrly Indian eystem, which endared a0 short 8 time that It {n not even rememhercd, would be anporseded by the later Indian system, ond Kn- land would ‘nvo on_fts handa & second Anlntic epandency, a0 placed by nature that it must be garrieoned against Rusaln “like 8 foriross, and gar. ritoned by nien capablo of eclentific warfare: that ita proceadinga and ita fate would be objects of in- censant Jenlousy to nll Muropean Stater, and that it conld b teached only ko long as we mmintainea by endless fleete tho freedon of the seas ayainat the maritime conlitions which France, Auntria, ftaly, and Russia would bo almost comnalled to” form. Is the *'wosry Titan® feally about to stuop his back to that tramendons hurden? If ho ia: If the Engllshman, knowing the facts, having connted tho cost, having surveyed the fn‘mnd. 18 resolved that, in the interest of the world, s will govern Astatic Turkey an ho now Roverhs Tndia: thas he il i AlF tha risks of ths consequent watn, and all the greator risks which his own freedom will Incur from the roflox action T ways, wo at lonst sholl panas Thera would s determination. n such an cflort, 8 moral grandeur in anch a self-sacrilice, befara which mere political indament m!;:m woil rotire, o bethink itseir whether patriotism is the highest daty of man, whether gain to mankind may not jushify even risks to England, Btrong s the arguments of tha Spectator oro, tho ncccssities of tho situntion ore stronger still, and will undoubtedly impol tho Governmont to adopt Dzaconsrizip's plan, The Russtan Colossns s striding over Asin nt o rapld rato, and 1ts progress hns nob been impeded to any considorablo extent by the recont war. Tho natural dircction of Russin’'s growth is costward, and whon Luropean mattors aro adjusted hor progross in Asia will bo vastly accolerated. Evory stop that sho advances is o monaco to India, and England ean have no moro offectunl bar- rior ngainat bor than acordon of States under Lier protection strotching from tho Moditer- ranean to tho frontiors of Indin. BzAcons- rzLp ovidontly anticipates tho future strug- glo for Asistio supremacy, and is nlrendy pro- paring for it and for that timo whon mnt- tors must come up for sottlemont in which tho other European nations havo ro intorost, and in which England and Russia must mect faca to face, without tho intorvention of diplomatio congrosses, —— THE LITTLE SBENATE BILL, In gome respocts, the most important bill that has pnssed eithor branch of Congress this sossion is the following, which wont throngh the Senate on Thursdsy, aftor dis- ousslon, by yeas, 46; mnays, 15 (Brave dodglng): Jie It enacted, etc., That trom and aftor pnesngs, Unlted Staten notaa shall bu recelvable the samoe as coln i paymont of 4 per contum bonds now anthor- ized by law to be fesued, On and aftor Oct, 1, d, 1878, mald notes whall be rocelvablo for dutles an mports, If tho Houso hns the wisdom to take up this littlo bill, under a susponsion of the rules, and pass it before tho adfournment on Monday, it will bo the most nsotul thing it cando. Wo hope it mny be done, but have strong fears tho bill will bo shoved aside to mako room for grabs at the Treasury, callod * claim bills,” P It grosubacks woro received at par for 4 per cont bonds, the first effcot would be to make the groonbacks and tho bonds of the samo valuo, and a3 tho bonds are equal to gold, the greonbacks would Immodiately be- como tho same, and thon wo should have ro- sumption ot once. It would not bo necos- sary to walt until Jan. 1, 1870, A 4 per cent thirty-year bond is, and for some time hns beon, worth par of gold in this country snd Europe. 'I'hero is no probability that theso bonds will fall bolow par, and oven if they do temporarily, tho sale of now ones would only be arrested for n - brief timo. 1t greenbacke woro rocoivable for 4 por cont bonds the work of rofunding wounld go on rapidly. It would bo within bounds to oatimato the natural domand for them in this country ot half a million a dny or 150 nillions a year, which would ouable the Bocrotary of the Trensury to call in aud cancol an oqual amount of 5.20 bonds bear- ing 6 por cont intorast, Tho saving of fn. terest alono on this sum would Lo tAres milliona a yoar, or thirly millions in ton yoars, With tha rapld sale of those bonds at homa and abroad it would not require many years until tho wholo 6 and & por cont debt wonld bo chauged iuto 4 por couts, saving ovontu. ally twenty=ivo millions a yoar of interest, or a sum nenrly equal to the annual Sinking Fund, | In rogard to the sscond provision of the bill, to racelve greenbnacks for duties after Oct. 1, 1878, it is a perfoctly safo ono, takon In connection with tho flwst clauso of the bill, Recoiving greenbacks for 4 per cent bonds will make the notes equal to coin in value, auid thon all objection to taking them for duties Is obvlatod, as the publio creditors would not decline necopting thom for interest on the bonds, But, as bofora atated, wo foar the Ifouse will not ‘havo tho sngacity or statosmanship to pass the bill, #THE MEXIOAN INVASION, Advices from the Rio Grando in regard to the rocent difficulties Lotween the revolu. tlonary bands fn Mexico nud United Btates troops fudicata the source of thom to have been an invaslon of our torritory. Gon, Maorexzin crussed into Muxico in pursait of thoe raiders, but soon rolurnod for rein. forcemonts, His forces now consist of about 500 cavalry and sufficient artillery, It is bolloved that ke will como to closo quar. ters, and mako tho revolutionists suffer, In. decd, it is known that Maoxxwzis is apt to striko hard whon he strikes at all, and in this caso he Lins a suffiolent provocation, A sccondary purposo of tho movement into Mexico {8 sald to bo tha recovery of Amor. icon horaes stolon by Esconepo, and the suppression of that troublesome chieftain 80 far as this can be dons without too palpa. blo an jufringement of international obliga. tions, This is n delicate distinction to ex- peot soldiors to make, and wo foar it wiil not be scrupulonsly observed. ‘The whole drift of allairs on tho Mexican border tends to confirm what has &0 often Loen sald in regard to the persistence of the war party, It ia becoming a serious question whether there {8 any oonsiderable party in Moxico opposed to war with the United Btates. Not that anybody thore hopes for tho gain of the nation in the event of such B war, but because a war with a power so vastly suporior would place Mexico under & protectorate,andopen many avonuesof private gain, Thoadherontsof Diasmay perhaps hope for such a war, becauss they bolieve it would tond to consolidate Mozican oplaion and ceventually confinn his title, while the revo- lutionists, beiug already at war and having nothing to lose, would not be unwilling to Liave a gonoral conflict. On the part of o fow citizens of the United Btales there sccms alsio to bo a desire for war, or ot least no uveat cugerness to avert it. Tho speculators who havs mining intercsts in or nenr Mezico, and neod the protection of a atrong Govern- ment; the railrond men, who want the Unitod States t6 undortake tho task of do- veloping the resources of that country ; and the Texans who long for a summer campnign in their noighbora’ torritory,—all would givo thelr volces for war, if they wero asked or permitted. It mny be also that there are gome politiciana in the United States who wonld like to divert pnblic attention from thoir acts, Those who have recently ox- hibited the strongest affinity for *! Mexionni- eation ” would porhaps like ta convince the people, by nn attack on that conntry, that they do not after oll admiro its political systom s0 muoh as thoy have pretended. But, whatover may bo tho deslros of some amall classes of intorested persong, it is ven. taring nothing to say that tho mass of poople of tho United Btates do not want, and will not hinve, war with Mexico unless 1t is forced upon them by thoe ill-conduct of the recog- nized Moxican Government, Anything less than this will bo punished by tho nrmy ns ocension arlses. Sarely we bavo of Iato scon enough of Moxiean methods at home to de- sira noclosor nequaintance with thom in their original residenco than may be necessary to preserva tho dignity of the nation, — Last foll the Ifouso of Represents- tives passed a bill repenling unconditional- ly o muck of tho Resumption act ns pro- vides for the redemption of greonbacks in coin on and aftor Jan, 1, 1870, This was before tho passaga of the Silver bill, and at a time whon the passnge of that bill was con- sidered doubtfal. The Honso bill waa laid over until after the Silver bill had become o law, since which timo a groat change has takon placo in the financinl situation. Groon- backs have attalned nearly par, tho flow of gold and silver into tho conntry has become Inrgo and continuous, and nil npprokonsion that the Government wonld bo short of coin havo now consed. On Thursday the Sonate took up the old fHouss bill, nmonded it, and passed it in the following form ; Deit enacted, ete., That from and ‘after tho pas- I'Ilil of this nct United Htatos nates shall bo rocolv- able tho samo aa coln in paymentof 4 per cent bonds now nuthorlzed by law to bo lssucd. On and aftor Oct, 1, 1878, said notos shall be recely- able for dutlcs on lmports. It now goos back to tho House, and if that body can reach it in tho fow honrs loft of the seesion it will probably pass. It ia unob. Jeotionable; will incranso tho demand for tha 4 por cont bonds, aud make tho greonbacks permanontly oqual to coin in the paymont of datios, and insures thelr permanoncy ot par with coin for all purposes, § — 8ir Epwanp CoxE once said that, *If any- body should ask ifm a question of common law, hio would be nshamed if he did not immediately answer 1t3 but (f ho should be asked a ques- tion of statute law, he would be ashamed 1t ho answered it without first consulting tho statutes.” DBut {f Coxe bad livedinzgomo of the Westorn States of this Union, nnd attempted to “consult tho statutes’ fn all cnsos to seo what was therein ‘‘made and provided,” he would bave found the work consuming the greater vortion of his valuable time without definita results; for be it confessed that much of our lucal lcgisiation is oxceeding crude, coatras dictory, vexatious, fuconsistent, and often unconstitutional, and at varlanco with the well-establishied precedents of the Su- premo Court. Henco rovislons of the stat- utes aro often necessary, notwitbstanding the immenso oxpenso attendiog them, and the Stato of Wisconsin, atter a period of over thirty years of Inwv-maldfng, has just completed the second compllation of her statutes in o maaner highly creditable to all concerned. Tho firat ro- vision was made {n 1830, and was na incomplete und Incongruous as hasty jobs genorally are, but aflter twenty years of tinkering, alterlog, re- pealing, atcudivg, and pathing by the Legls- Iature, ond ‘after @ correponding amount of worry and vexatlon on the part of the Judictary, a now codification bocama necessary, and uow it has bean produced fn u form that s at onco intelligible, convenlent, and satlsfactory. The work has been In progross for thoe last three years, under tho supervision of some of the ablest and most experionced Inwyers and jurists In the Statc, and now the Legistaturo has just sauctioned the reviston und mado it the law of the Commonwealth, The prescat volume not only comprises tho revision of 1859, and all statutes subscquent thereto, but all the laws that have been passed by the Legislaturo during the Intervening twenty years, Including thoe acts of last scaslon, so that now Wisconsino may bo sald to start olf anew withaclean legal codo that fs at once harmonlous, constitutional, and complete. The work of tho present revisers is very litlo larzer thun tho volume of 1859, and although somo lbertles were taken by them with the laws of tho State, and thelr assump- tions often mude the subject of severo criticlam, thelr aiterations, amendments, oud elimifnations were all muas o tho Intercst of conslstuacy, and wero shown to be so ressonablo that the Legistatare has formally sanctioned and upheld them. With ono of thu ublest Supremo Courts in tho Unlon, snd with this clean and whole- sume revislon of her laws, the peopls of Wis- consin may well bo congratulated. ot ik eonleit it The London Times auuounces that 81z Jo- sepit Winrwontit has fuvented an urmor plating that cannot be plarced by any missiles uvow In use. The armor Is made of “fluld-com- pressed steel, bullt up {u bexagonal sections, cuch of which {s composcd of o serles of con- centric rivgs, nround o coutral clrcular alse A test ot the armor has already been madein a target nino Inches fn thickness supported by .a wooden back agalnsta mand-bauk, at which a Falilser shell welzhing 330 pouuds was fred only thirty yards distaut with u charge of fifty vounds of powder, ‘The shell was broken into fragments and the target was driven back elghteen fuches Iutothe sand, but was absolutely unburt. If this Lo so, then arvmor-plating is onee more ahead of ordnance, aud Ironclads can doly fortresscs until some onc constructs a gun and missiles that can smash through tho hexa- rons. Theend must be the coustruction of fortresses that caunot harin Ironclads, and fron. clads that caunot barm fortresses. The addi- tionof weights to the fortresscs, however, {s no jmpediment to them, while the additionof & lttlo moro welght to the ironclads will speedily scnd them to the bottom, so that the fortresscs will ultimately have the bust of ft, By a typographical error In yestorday's issuc, In which the prefix un was fucorrectly added, the menaniug of an fmportant declsion by the Attoruey-Ueneral of the United Btutes was per- verted, ‘T'he item should read as fullows: Tha Attoruvy-Gencral has docided that it i law- ul to trausport goods by Britieh or otber forel, yesusl (row Chicago or MiUwaukes lo pomts in Canada, thence through Canadian territory vy rail, and by vither furcigu or Awerican Yesusls to Qswee goor Oydousburg, Chicago sud Milwaukee being consldered ports on the northera frontier withly tho meaniug of the rmvhwu of the Treaty of Wusblizgton and rogulations thereundur, T ‘This expedition gotten up by a whallng firm of New York fn search of the relics of 8ir Joun FraNkvin's party msy be all right, bug it seems to us that the managers bave mado a very good bargafn. If they find the records, Eugland pays them a big reward. Iu any caso they are golng 8 whallog and so won't loso anytulug, es- pecially us the Eothen sails with a bandsome mouey subscription and lots of equipments aud pr;z‘;hloul coutributed by the admnirers of entor prise. ———— Lieut.-Gov. Domsurius, of New York, has been coquettiug with the Soclallsts, haviug done Alr. Souway tbo honor of visitiog him st bis saloon. Tho discusslon thers was, by all o counts, brief sud to the polut. His Excellency inquired, apparently with much foterest, woat nalghit bo tho pruspects of Socialisin and what its preseut strevgil. Mr, BCuwan was sugl. clently enthuatastic on this theme, fhinking perhaps that he had caught a convert in the Licutcnaot-Governor. But' it soun appeared that ho was mistaken. The Governor began to suggest an alliance of the Soclalists with ono of tho exlating partles, meaning. of course, tho Domocracy. At this Mr. Scmwan's ardor cooled. He told the Uovernor that his party conld nover bo fnduced to consent to such a bar- gnin. "o aro sure towinin the end," he said, “and wo cannot bo bought. We will have nothing whatevor to do with any existing party. Not with the Democrats, nor Republicans, nor tho National Greonbackers, Wnat we scek fs & eocial change, and nono of theso partics offer us guarantees.”” It {s safd that Mr, Donsuaisten left Bcnwan's saloon awiser and a sadder man, —— Bex Butrer hes not succceded fn yankiog 8tanruy Matrnews beforothe Porren-Butner Committeo to tell all he knows nbout that red- headed young man, * Trathful James.”? 8til), the wisest thing STANLAY can dois to mako n clean breast of the whole thing to somebody bad at keeping a secret. 4 Every day or tiwo PotTer takes o 'sleeper? 1o New York, it is understood, for the purposo of consulting TILDEN as to the next stops to he token [ the investigation, These oft-repeated visits aro attracting considerablo attention In Congressional circles. ——————— On the question of privilege as a Senator, STANLBY hns got BEN. Nevertheles, the dear people are burning up with curiosity to know all that MATTHEWS knows about the deal with red-headed ANDRRION, —————— Tho New York Sun of ‘Wedneaday beging ‘Washington diaontch, * The Fresident sent the followiug nominations," ete. Mr. Hayes must feel ns If the Washington monument had been lifted off his bosom. % The average Democratic fnvestigator puta all NMs stock in his shop-window, and when tho deeply-improssed customer gets inside he Gnds nothing but empty boxes, % ‘*8enwanand DonsusiMer” {s a President(al ticket suggested by our Now York namesake, which apparcatly forgets that a forelgner Ls uot eligiblo to the Presidency. 0 Withlna very few days thero will he moro music fo thy air, Mr. CoNkLInG fa requested to attune his Olymplun ear tocateh fts harmony. It will interest him, f Tho Bcoate Investigating Committee intend fo work to-morrow (S8unday) to pull its aas (MATTUBWS) Out of ANDERSON'S pit. f The Pottering Investigators led off with Ax- DERsON and McLin, and then taperea off sud- denly—n sad case of elophant's tail. Tho English have a littlo Bankrupt law of thefr own, under which it has cost £300 to wind up an cstate of £368, * What s truthi" sald PoNTios PruaTs, and rose up and went out—possibly to look for Ax- DERSON, Buppose wo call the elastic member from the middle of tha State Mr. SrriNGnOE. PERSONALS. f Tho next Intornational Fostal Congress will meet at Llsbon, ''be King of Grooco is the best Royal billlard-player in Europe. The lawyers mnde $160,000 out of the Dagot will casoatDudlin, Very naturally, they bava taken an appeal, Johu Bonner, the phonomenal Now York defsulter, is eald to be keeping a grocery storo somewhere in the vicinity of Kansas City. "8winburno couldn't attond the Voltairo Contennlal at Parls, but a chair was kept empty In his honor on tho right handof the Chairman, Victor Hugo, Crispl, tho Italian Premior, has boon scquitted of blgamy on tho gronnd that his fizat ‘marriage was celebratod by a pricst who hadno . wearrant to perform the coremony, Mra. Bouclesult fs coming to Amorica this fall, 8ho lias an 8-yesr-old boy who las already writton o play, sceno lnid at sca, with his mothor 08 first lady aud his }Mitle sweotneart also havinga zood part. ‘T'ho Popo recently gave a firm of London photographiers a special audlonce in tho gardens of tho Vatlcan, allowing them to take ten very suc cesaful pictares of him in different attitndes and surroundings, Oharles Reade is a tall, slendor, fine-look. ing wan, with gray bair and mnstache, & broad. forohead, and & pecutiar, dilating, blue eye. 1t wus on American woman, he , who quessed the sucret of the muthorship *'Tho Woman- bater, " Tho 8t, Louls Glode-Democrat, which talks about electing Grant Premdent {u 1880, says that it & Southorn Democrat fsto be taken for Vices Prealdent it shoold be a rupresontative man liko Gen, Joseph E, Jolnston. Bat it would profer & Northoern Republican, TPokor fu fashionable In London, and thero 1sa Joud cry for Gen. Schenck to go back thers and propare & codo of rules. If ho docs go back, i ia to tie hiopud, in tho Interests of preclse knowle edgo, that ko will not omit all mentlon of the **bilud” and **atraddlo.” At length wo have a pnmlh'!l for the inno. cenco of Ktanloy Matthows, A beautiful and well- doveloped yollow-legged chicken cutsrod tho sudie torium where tho clorgy of tho 3, E, Church woro In couferencaat Atlanta the other day. Do you 800 tho polubt=T¥ashington Fost (Dew.), ‘Three hundred aud fifty school-teachers will sall for Europo next Saturday and on tho at. urduy succeeding to vielt Grent Britmn, France, Qormany, Bwitzerland, and Italy, returalug in August, Tho excuraion, which is under the mane sgemont of Ur, Eben Tourjee, of Boaton, and Pruf, 0. D. Burchard, of New York, will cost the vassongers $400, gold, for the round telp. Brothor Jasper, hia lecturo-tour having proved n failure, hay returned to his pastoral labors with such cnergy that last Sunday he baptized 808 culored converta in the small tank fn bis church ag Richmond, Va. Ho boasts that Lo can baptize more converts in & glvon space of .timo than any other preacher 1n Awerica, black or whits, To- uorrow BUO wore colored converts are to be me moersed, William Oampboll, of Newcastlo, the heav- feat mian in the world, has just died at the age of 23 sud the weight of 728, 1le was 0 feet 334 Inchesd 1u hight, 06 luches round the shoulders, nnd 76 round tho chest; his thigh wcasurod 47 Inclcs, oud the calf of his les 35, The body, which de- composed rapidly, bad to bu holuted out uf thy Louse und lowered jutu the grave by meaus of & dortick and tacklo, The Awerlcan officers who were sent abroad to obsceve thoe operations of tha Turco-Ruse sian war have been ordered howe,—Col, W, U, Nazen, of tho Sixth Infantry; Lisut.-Col. Alege auder Chambers, of the Twonty-frat lufantry; sud Licut, Fruncts V. Greene, of the Engiucers, ilo wau the only officer vout sbroad who saw any of the operutions fu the Seid. Ho was present at tae capture of Osman Pasha, and ju oue of the asssults $utho wountaios bebaved a0 galluully thut e was decorated by the Buperor for bruvery. ‘The coursv of truw love, etc. Denjamin Bmlth, of Brooklyn, Induced his sweotheart, Lily Lent, to die with hin, They tovk two doses of laudsnum, which wasu't coough; then ho tuok 8 third, but she refusud Lo cowe fn, saytug that life way good enough for ber. Then he took a foutth doae, which was too much, and made him horribly slck, and they pumped hlin out and mado him wslk sound the ulock in charge of two policemen tiil ne ot better, and then the girl bad bl arrested oo the charge of administering polson with Iutent t0 kil The youog ladies of tho Ohicago Ladies” Sominary will glvo an catertainment at Sclool~ HUall, 17 South Sheldon-strect, for the benedt of the Home for the ¥Frieudless, oo Tuceday,June 18, at8 o'clock p. m. As much careand Lime bave been given to the pruparations for thiy eatertalos meat, we feel contident that it will bu a very co- Joyableaffalr. The programmo comprises cholco solectivns for readlng sud recitstion, some of whuch are to beglven in costume, together with oo vocul snd instrumcutal music, ‘The tckels G0 ceuts, cau be Lad at tue door