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

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TnE Cnitcaco TRIAnNE has eatablished branch offices sorthe receiptof subscziotionsand advertirements &8 follows: NEW YORR—Tloom 20 Zvibune Bullding. ¥, T. Mo- Fanpx, Manager, TARIS, France~XNo, 18 Rua de Is Grauge: Batellere. 1. Mawrer, Agent. LONDON, Eng.—American Exchange, U8 Stra: Rxxex F. Giu Rent, BAN FRANCISCO, C ~Talace Hotel. ROCIETY MEETINGS, . 23, A. F. & A, M.=Hall atlon this (Friday) and work on the ||§ inyited. Ty order of . TUCKELL Becretary, Order ara fn- ot Difree: Visitors'oord LML K. .y duly B, fram the the Jirethren ‘will as- e hati of 1 dge, coruer of Jeferson Madlson-sie,, st 9o'clock snarp. My orderof the M. MALSH, aecretary, FRIDAY, JULY b5, 1878, Tho estate of Dr, J, 0. Ave, the patent- amedicine man, who has just died in s private nsylum ot Lowell, Masa., is estimated at be- tween 16,000,000 and $20,000,000. The opening of the newly.completed Stur- geon Bay Canal, which furnishes a short cut from Lake Michigan {o Greeu Bay, was cels- Lratod yesterday with exarcises appropriate to an ovent of such importanco to lake com- merce, A picnie party at Bugar Camp Grove, near Tittsburg, Pa., yosterdny, wero suddenly overwhelmed with a torrific storm of wind and rain, aud tho blowing down of & tree upon & wagon, in which gighteen persons had tuken roluge, killed seven of the number and wounded many more. Sccratary BuzraaN is ropresontod as hav- ing said to an interviewor that he would choerfully bave spved the Porrxa Committee much trouble in connection with the inquiry concerning the mysterions *‘BaEaman let. tor" if Lie bad had the slightost racollection of writing it. There is much in the lotter which he might and would bhave written at tho timo, and which, if he had written, Lie would not hosltate to own. Wgbes's story nbout destroying the letter Mr, Snzauax ba- lieves to have been cancocted within the past ten daya. T ——— Benator Krirous, of Loulsiana, now visiting Chicago, would not ba a desirable witness for the Porrza Committes, judging from the interview which we print this morning. He would not be likely to help much in ostablishing the claim that Lou- isiann was fairly carried for Tinoxn, for his bellof is preclsely the contrary, and the facts and figures in his poasession afford con. vincing proof of tho corrcotness of that belief. 8o it is hardly probablo that he will bo invited to appear bofore the Committos and prosout his views on the subject of frauds in Loulsiana. The Fourth i Chleago was a model of quict enjoyment, with an unusual scarcity of fires, wcrious easunlties, murders, or epi- sodes of suy kind ordinarily peculiar to the day. It was a wholesome, if not & demon. atratively-patriotic, mode of celebration, & day of rest and out-door rocrention, and one which cannot be too often duplicated as tho national anniveraary recurs heroafter, Out- sido of Chicago thers was about the usunl quantity of old-fashloned celebration. The cxercises at Wilkesbarre, Pa., in commem- oration of the Wyoming Massacre, were con- spicuous from the prosence snd participation of Prosident Iavey, The race at Loulsville belwoon Ten Broeck aud Mollis McCarthy, which was expeoted to bo a grand contest for supromacy, proved to bu n disgraceful fizzle, the Californis mare being distunced in the first heat of four miles in the very slow time of 8:19, or one min. uto and four seconds slower than the time which Lnad proviously been msde by the win- ner. The defest of the California maro is usccounted for on tho theory, among others, that, buing accnstomed to the cool atmos- phere of the Pacific Blopo, ahe wiltsd under the floroe hent of o July dsy in Ken- tucky, end, in fact, suffered a» mild cuse of sunstroke. Awong the dissppointed turfmen, howevor, many of whom traveled hundreds of miles to witness the race, the opinion is froely expressed that meither of 1ho horses were in proper condition to run s Tuce of four miles and repeat, and that tho thing was gotten up for gate-money only. Disaatisfaction and disgust for the crowd of 20,000, and a Lig haul of greenbacks for thoe unugers, ere thy met results of the great Tace. an era'in the boating \'.blfilda; mar] Listory of Euglund. Horetofors the English | crows in their contests with Asericans have carricd off the prizos almost witbout excep- tico. The visit of an English rowing club 10 this country, or vico verua; was 8 sure sig. nul for an American defeat. The Henley regotia, in which the American and English crows (wnostly wlh}giuu) coutested yester- duy, was an excéptionsl eveut from the fuct tha$ -until the present year this wnoudl trial of speed bhas been luoked upou as & pecaliarly British institu- tiow, frow which all forcign crews have bean dubarred. 'This year, bowever, the Hegatta Cowmittee, with commendable courtesy, decided to adwit competilors from sbroad Bomo holl-dozen crews from the United Slates took advantage of this fact, Among tho most prominent of thoso are the Blios.-wae-cae-mottes, of Detroit, and the Colnmbia Collegs crew, both of whom Woft A hent eanily in the contest with the English collegians on the Thames, and ara reported to have left their boats as fresh as when they ontered them. American oarstuen have hevetofora greatly Incked in sefencs and endurntics, but 50 far in the present contest they Bavs shown themselven in those points the superiors of their English cousi Sm———— It tumns out thet the Kearneyitos, Com- munists, and Trades-Unionists have not car ried the Constitutional Convention of Oali- fornia, or comé anywhere near it. They crowed before they hiad got ont of the woods. ‘There were thirty.two delegatos elected for the State at large on a general ticket. Tho ¢* Non-Partisans "—that is, a union of Repub- ‘licans and Domocrats—clected overy one of them, aud thoy also eleated fifty-four connty delegater. The Domocrats elected seven on “gtraight". tickets, and the Repubiicans sight * straights.” The Kearneyites slected fifty-ona delegates in the whols Biate,—most of these in 8an Francisco. The result foots up as follows: Btate at large—Non.Partleans.... Coanty delegnies—Non-Parti Demacrate—stralgbts,. Repubiicana—straights.. Total Antl-Keamneyites. Kearneyites and Comminni It is also statgd that sovoral of the dele- gates clected on the ** Workingmen's " tioket are not in sympatby with what ia koown as # Rearnoylsm.” e T—— The PorTee-Burisa Committes was or ganized to prove that Bazaumax wrote lot- ter Lo AxpEnsox and Wrnes, SBupervisors of Election, promising them oftices if thoy stood firm againat the bulldozers of Lonisi- ana, Bix weoks have been spent in proving the existonce of the leiter, The two parties finally came to a Grmoco-Roman clinch, and a dog'sfall appears to be the result. Tho Republicans proved by Mrs. Capt. JeNxs that BEEnMAN never wrote it, but that she wrote, or rather dictated its writing, to an amanusnsls, and then she delivered the pre. tended Smenuan letter to Wxnxm herself. This made a triumphant refutation of the Porren-Buries-SpaiNarr-Modlanon-Huntox pide of the case, and, in short, wiped them out—on papor. But Bey Butnea—whols said never roally to commence seriously de- fending bis client sued for debt until after the execution is 1ssued—procurod—at what cost fa° not stated—a brother of the murdered Wepza to in. vent @& setory ont of whole eloth (ot somebody invented It for him), end swear to it, that he saw the original Buzasmax lotter, and he beliaves that Bmemuax wroto it; and, knowing it to be valuable, he searohod for it among his brother's papers, and, Anding 1t inan old shoe-box, destroyed it, and nover told the widow that he bad found or destroyed it. ‘This lying yarn he styck to with dogged persoverance. So the Dsmo- crats havo sucoeeded in proving that thers is no Sherman letter in oxistence, notwithetand. ing thoy set out to prove that there was. Their hired man says he found and burned it, and that he knows it was in Busnuax's haudwriting, as e had sean Buzuaax's sig- nature {n a lady’s album! This same fast witness also undertakea to prove that his murdered brother was a perjurcd scoundrel; that ho himself had written lying letters to hiu cousin in 8t, Louls for fraudulent pur- poses; and that, in the Feliciana parishes, where scores of Ropublicans had been mur. dored or burnod out on account of their pol- ftica, all was peaco and love, and that the colored Republicans voted the Democratic ticket with their froe will and consent. Hav- ing thus offset Mrs, Capt, Jexzs, Porman rang down tho curtain, and adfourned for a week, to give peoplo time to get their broath, COMMUNIST WAR ON THE FARMERS, The latest exhibition of the Commuuistia priaciple is displayed in Ohio and Iudiaua, where gange of trampa are firing barns and haystacks of farmers, as punishment for the uso by them of reapers and mowers, and in some [nsiances the reaping and other ma- chines Liavo boon seized 'in the flelds and de- stroyed. The demand of the tramps is that there be a general roturn to the saythe, the sickle, and tho cradle, Was over the shiort- sightod madness of theso peopla moro aptly illustrated than this war upon labor.saving machinery ? Like all fanatical zealots, thess men are blind to the consequences of their own pol- icy. The destruction of agricultural ma- chinory will have two distinct and immediate effeotas (1) It will reduco the area of land cultivated, and (2) It will increase the price of food. In the first place, it will not add a man 30 the nuwber of persons employod on farms, and, socond, it will increase the price of food to every wan and fawmily not em- ployedon farms. It isavery simple operation. A farmer, with two Lands, without machin- ery, can cullivate, say, sixtyacres of land, A farmer, with machivery and the samenumber of Lands, can oultivate 120 acres ; with mn- chivery be can incresss the number of his bands and the number of aoros cultivated in thesame proportion. 'Tha rosult is that the produot of the grain-Aelds {4 increased in the sggragate, aud the prics of graln reduced to cousumers, Every addition lo farm-wa. chiuery inoreasos the area of land uuder cul. tivatlon, and roduces the price of food to consumers. Every addition to the area of laud under cultivation jncresses the value of land and gives employment to sdditional number of woen, not ouly in the work on farios, but in the business of transportation, of buying and selling, aud of all othor busi- mess, The number of men who labor, and employ bhorses as part of that labor, are dircetly intereated, not only in tho price of buinan food, but in thad of corn and oata and other food for horses. To sbolish or probibit the usa of machingry on the farm is at once to reduoo the area of land under oul. tivation, reduce the quantity of grain and other farm products, sud {norease the cost of them to the consumers, It has been accopted by maukind aé a trulsm that he that causes two blades of grass to grow where bat ono grew before was a benefactar of his race; bud theso modern philosophars includy in Weir social reform the contrary dootrine, and inuish that he who shall com~ pel tho production ‘of only one bushe) of ‘wheat where two wexe produced beforg is the banefactor of the ¢ workingmen.” gt As every milo of railroad bullf throng! sgricultural districts enables farmers to pro- duce something more than they consums, by affording them & means of transporting their sarplas to such points where it msy be nseded, 50 the laborsaving machinery on farms epables the farmer to produce more grain to sell than bo could otherwise do; and, betweon thbe railroad and the reaper, thero are twenty bushels of grain produced and tuken to warket. to the ona that cauld THE- CHICAGO TRIBUNE: FRIDAY. JULY 5, 1878, possibly be prodnced and dolivered without them, It thess wild and deluded men beliove that the destruction of agricultural machin. ery will lead to the employment of an in. creased numbet of trampsto perform the work In the flelds now done by machinery, they are sadly mistaken. That wonld be an ime possibility; the work oonld not be paid for, mnor could an Incroased number of men bo employed oxcept at wages hardly mote than thé food they would noed 1o sustain life. Let theso foola look at the condition of the Iaborors in thosa lands where labor.saving machinery has never been employed, nsin Ohina. There the human workmen are but a degres romoved from the condition of the brute animals who work with them, Searcily of food, high prices of brend, snd a rednetion of the number of persons employed in producing food, and in sll other branches of labor, are the direot and Immediate consequences of a destrnotion of farm-machinery, and these sro the conse- quences sought, demanded, and atlempted to be produced by criminal foree, as promotiva of tho social and pecuniary welfare of the workingmen! Tho farmers of this country aro not the class of men to submit to this kind of doc- trine, enforced by vicious gaiugs of men destroying their machinery aud thelr build- ings. It recalls the time when the pionesr cultivators of tha soil carried their rifles and their shiot-guns with thom to the fleld, and by concorted siguals could warn cach other of rmds by Indisns, The farmers of the present day, who aro more numerous than the ploneers, ‘will unite for the com= mon defenso, and when thess wandering vagabonds, under the protext of ndvancing the cause of the workingnien, pass throngh the country firing barns, and corn-cribs, and haystacks, and machinery, thoy will be met as the Indians wore, by hastily-aummon=- ed farmers, each armed with a rifle, and be ropulsed with such loss of lifo as may be nocessary to protect proporty, A fow such cases wonld probably render tho shooting down of thess marnuders unnecessary for the future. spee——— THE POTTER-BUTLER FARCE. Wo thiuk if the sentimoent of tho country conld fiud oxpression as to the Porres Com- mittes and its work, the entire people, with one accord aud without distinotion of party, would plaintively cry out: ‘' Give us s rest " The proceedings of this Cowmmittee have bocome insufferably tiresome. Chicago peoplo can endure tho daily intliction better than people elsewhore, beoanss our weather 18 cool, and thers is surplus vigor to rexist de- prossing influences of all kinds; but that people who live where tho weather is warm in the dog-days should be made to suffor the imposition of several columns of such vile and dreary stuff as the Porren Committes turns out day by day, is positively inhuman, Tho newspapers throughoud the country should join in the demand for the immedi- ate suppression of this **august tribunal,” on the ground that it threatons ruin to the nowspaper business; if tho thing be kept up much longer, peopls will quit buy. ing nowspapers, When tho House passed the resolution declaring that tho Presi. dent's title is iaviolabls, the Porras Committse ceased to have any reason for existence, unless Lhat resolution was in- tended in a Pickwiokian sense if thers is a purposa to renew the attack on President Harzs' titlo in case another Domocratio Houso shall be elcoted, then tho prosent course of tho Committos is calcnlated o weaken the case by disgusting tho Amerlcan people more than ever with the controversy, 1f the Porrer: Committee has now no higher pnrpose than fo demonstrate that the po. Htical gang in Lonisiana Is a* * bad lot," and the Feliclana fellowa among the worst, the conntry will take that for granted withont golng any further in the dreary business. It fsn't st all importaut to docide whether the Louisiana Republicans or tho Louisiana Democtats are the more disrcputable as a olass; there is a well-defined improssion that the negroes aro the only innocent and docent peoplo in that State who take any fu- torest in political affalrs, One Easttrx L. Wenks, o Lrother of the murdered Bupervisor, has beon prodnced by the Democrats, with the announcement that bis evidence waa to be the most terrible of all; and it has boen—the moat terribly dis. gusting. This fellow aotually rivala the champlon ANpEssos in his self.degradation and contradictions, He was a Huopublican State Senator at the tinja of the troubles in question, and he now confesses that Lo and all who wero assoclated with him in politics wera trading upon the murder of his own brother for nero political capital. Tho statement ahows that Wenen would have Leen capable of just such infamy as this, but tho dotails prove that Wepen I8 lylng now inatend of lyiug then, So loug as ha coufined himsolt to the reading of a statement which the Democrats had prepared for him, Weoxa got along well enough; but when it came to cross-examination, and he was confrouted with the lotter written to his cousin in 8t, Louls, charging his brother's murder upon the Democrats and recounting the persecu. tion which drove his murdered brother's family and himself from their homes, Lie could not lie out of the dilemma with all his willingnoss and expertness in that direction, When ho said that that letior was written for political effact, the sxplauation is obviously untrue, for uothing was to bo gained by writing a privats letter {0 a volative in Bt, Louis, His statement as to the,real causo of hiu brother’s murder wonld be, if true, about the most convincing evidenco that has been furnishod of a reign of terror in the Feliciana parishes, In order to depy that the Lrother was 1urdered for political reagons, Wrszm now says that the msn was killed because, as publisher of & newspaper, he had an. nounced the intention of printing the delin. quent-tax list ! If a legitimato and harmless businesa transaction of this kind was re. garded in ¥eliciaua as sufficlent warrant for murder, then it ia perfectly clear that the Feliciana Democrats did not hesitate to kill, aud mob, sand whip, ond threaten, in order to prevent the Republicans from voling. Whether Wzexn's privatelutters told the truth at the tiwe, or whether he tells the truth in the present explanation of his brother's murdar, it is equally evident thst the Democrats of that parish were ssvoge Baabi-Bazouks, yveady to kill any number of men, black or white, that might bo necessary to tervify the negroes and keep them awpy from the polle, The result showed that they succooded. This man Wxoza's testimony in regard to the so-called BagsMaN lettor is 83 lume as that relating to the wmurder, He says that he eearched among his brothers papers, found this letter in an ald shoe-box, and de. stroyed it. All this he might have done ‘whether the letter had been written by Joux BuraMa¥, or Mra. Jenwy, or her mysterious amanueasis, But Wxoes swears that bo rocognized Srrnsax's handwriting, beeanss | taina ho had once looked at Sarryax ** for A min- nte or two" whilo the Ialter waa writing, and bad scon his signature in a lady's album ! A man with such a gift for verifying chirog- raphy ought not to-throw away his life in an obscuro and unoomfortable locality in Tonisians, for ha eonld earn fottune and famo as an expert in handwriling, Whon {hiere in gnostion of forgery, it is sometimes @ifenlt for a vhan to swanr positively as to his own signature, though familinr with it all hin life; bus this phenomenally expert Mr, Wenn only needa to look at a man who 1s writlng * for a minute or two"” in order to be nbls to swear positively to the penman- ship afler a lopse of yenrs. We foar that ‘Wxnzr, as nn expert, might be snspected of too much skill; his powor vorges upon clair- voyancs, which is not regarded as good evi- denca in the courts. Beaides, if hie wers mro that this lolter was wtitton by Bnxmyaw, what was tho purpose in destroying i, as he alleges o did? It it was n subjoct of mor- tification to Mrs. Wener, which is the only renson ho pives for its destrne- tion, why didn't Mra, Wxnen destroy it her. self? This aoctation of seusitive honor on ihe part of n Lonislana politiolan s not fikely to recolvo much’ crodit after the ex- hibition that Las beon made of the calibre and charactor of the politicians in that coun- try, Itis amuoh moro plausible explana. tion, it Wxnen notually destroyed the letter, {0 assumo that ho know it was not in Smen. MaN's handwriting, and that he wanted to get it out of tho way, so that fta production should not contradict the story that he and AxpznsoN had arranged to tell abont it. ‘This man's entire testimonyis a fabrio of thinly-spun contradiclions and improbabili- ties, and he may bo said to have contributed his full share to the degradation of the Porren investigation. We should think that the Porren crowd would bo willing to aban- don their scheme with Wxnen's statemant, and nacknowledge that their embryonic tragedy Lins turncd out to be the farce which Avrexanpzn H. Stermexs predioted. —tem DECLINE OF VALUES IN REW YORK, The New York IHerald, confronied with the Intest report of the Tax-Oommissioners of that city, is constrained to admit that “Now York hns consed to be a growing aud has becomo n statlonary city in point of wonith.” It speaks of the socurnoy and comploteness of this report in the highest terms, and saya that it Is as safe o gnide to the amount of property as the legal consus is to the population. Tho following extract from the Jlerald's article suns up the main conolusions ¢ The report under notico establishes the unwels come fact that for the past five years New York has ceaned to bo & growing and has hecumo station- ary city in point of wealth, Thers has, indeed, been no actual decilng in the value of real cstate, but & moderate advance, Lut this advance i3 so very moderata and slight as barcly sutlicas to show that the property of thecity hes nut declined, The anre tuc of real cstaie was 803,003,933 in 1877, and a only 3{H0, 855,700 in_1878, showin an_increane of only 85,701,707, We may ae el faco 1h ts, because nothing is gained by delud- ing ouraelves respectiug our actunl condition. 'The mialead. amall apparcat increusa of $5, 000, 0V0 or $U, essed valne of real eatate | ing, beca rightly viawed, thesa figures ludicute adaclino, 1t appoars froum {hs reportof the Tux- Commlssioners that new Luildings and atcrations of old blnldmlu have been made within the yoar u; the amount of $10,574,5530. The increass of a antate valuationashonli have been at least equal to tnis amonnt, and the fact hat it has failen short of 1t by miaro than $10,000,000 provos an actual do- cline in_the value 6f previously existing roal es- tate, ‘Tho Tax-Commissiouers say thal owing ta tho rejuction in the Asdsssmonts upon unimproved nroperty and in lmiproved property whiero tho deeline In values has been In oxcess of tho average,” Apart from the new bulldings which havo been erected, tho vaino of the aggro- gato realestate of this clty hus declined within the last year. As n matter of faot, we suspoct that the $10,000,000 decline invalne of roal estate, ns shown by tha report, falls far short of in. dicating tho nctaal decline of the pnat yoar, The uocosaity oxists for ralsing aboub s mach money in toxation as ever, and tho office-holdera would be the last to recognize the actual doclive in the valus of taxable property in thoir assessment lists, That New York has censed to bo a growing city s owing to two circumstances, one of which the Naw- Yorkers will readily admit, and the other of which they will aeek to deny as loug as possi. Ule. They all know that the city hos beon robbed and plundered by the Tammany tax-eaters for tho past fifteen or twon- ty yoars in & degree entirely unparals leled in tho history of municipal gov- ornmeuts. Thoe Domooratio Twxgp regime anddled n debt of about $140,000,000 upon the vorporation, and the payment of the intorest ulone on such an indebtednoss is enough to impoverish the land-owoors and constantly dupresa tho value of roal estate, Nor have the current expenscs of the vity besn ro- duced in anything liko a fair proportion o the shrinkago io values, There was 8 pre. tonss of sowe retrenchment last year, but tho duvouring army of ofive-boldera havo held anid still hold possession of the city, suoking the very life-blood of the property.interests. Another reason why New York has censed to bo s growing city, though this will not be so readily adwmitted, Is booause that oity iu losing a large part of its trade, Home of this loss is to be traced to the diversion of the ‘Westorn grain aud produce businuss to Bos. ton, Baltimore, Philadelphis, and Moutreal, but some of it must ba regarded os frvecover. able bocause of the incroasing direct trade bo- tween the West and Europe on through bills of lading, which makes New York awort of way-station, and deprives it of many of the commissions and much of the importance it formerly enjoyed, The long era of depros. sion {n business would naturally affect New York as othor clties, but that it bas sulfored wmoro than other citio is duo to the two canses we Liave named, One of them—the onormous debt aund continued city exirava. gance--should stand as & warning to Chicago aud other cities that Lave as yet cowpars. tively small debts, PSS ENOLISH DESIONS UPON CYPRUS. Tho fair jalaud of Cypruy, boloved of Vesvs, and rich in historical associations, is now the object of Eoglish desire in the final parlition of tha Turkish assets smong the Powers, ‘The Russlan papers assert that negotistions ave prooceding for the cession of theisland to Eogland, with Russia’s ap. proval, and the sudden departure of the DBritish squadron from the Iiland of Creto eastward under sealed orders lends confirma. tion to the reports, ¢ Russia hins reobtained Bossarabis, some ter- ritory in Asia Minor, and an indeninity, Rou. mania gets the Dobrudscha. Servia and Montenegro secure an exteuslon of their frontier. Dulgaria fs ereoted into an inde- pendent priucipality, Greeoe will have some addition to ber prosent area. Austria will occupy Bosnia and Herzegovina, England, who scewa to be manager of the Cangross, will url.dn]; take something, aad if she has selactod Oyprus there is yothing jn the San Btefano Treaty ner in ihe private sgreemont bLetyeen hervelf end Ruisls that stands in the way. Thero are many reasons why she wants {t. First, it is & very valuable acqui- sitlon of itself, Itis the eastoramost laland of tho DMlediterranean, only sixty-five miles from Byris on the east, and forty-four wiles frow Asis Minor on the north, It con- roa of 3,078 square milos. Undor the Venetians it had a population of 1,000,000, and has now 200,000, tiwvo.thirde of whom are Greoks, the remainder Leing Tarks, Maronites, Armenians, floman Cath. olics, and Jews, Its commerce ! valuable, It exporls aromatio herbs, cotton, choice wines, tobaoco, silk, fruits, dyswoods, and drugs, Originally it was o Pheoniclan Island, subsequently colonized by Grosks. 1t has been under the rmla of the Paakaons, Prorsuies, Persinns, and Romans. It wos the chisf seat of the worship of Vexus in old times, and i¢.hos glyen a tate tothe votaries of that goddoesa ever since. At the time of the Crusades {t was detached from Grocoe and erected into n Kingdom for Guy of Lusignan, Then it fell into the hands of the Venotlans, and while in their possession flourished and became famoms. In 15670, after along aud desperate struggle, the Turks captared it. From 1832 to 1840 it was gov- erned by & Turkish Viceroy, and since that time has been the victim of tho caprices of the BSublime Porte. Its eoil I not only rict in crops, but holds its tronsnres of the long past, among which Cravota las labored so successfully, making one of the most remarkable collee. tions of modern times, Becond, England looks upon Oyprus not alétis as a com. morcial acquisition, bat with an eye to the future. 1In avery step made by England of a political or military natnre, India figures as the prime factor, Tho first questions asked are, *‘How will this step affoct Indin? Will it strengthen or weskon our hold opon our Asiatio colontes?” The nearcet atation now held by England to the coast ot Asin Minor 1 Malta, hundreds of miles away. By taking Cyprus, shawill have n magnificent rendez. vous for hor fleot within n fow hours of Byria on the one hand and Egypt on the other, Thore has long been a fealing in England that the existing line by sea through the Huez Oanal to India is not quick enough, aud that'it is so exposed to danger that a sccond line shonld be had. A favorite plan smong many Englishmon for some time past hns beon to make Cyprus, Instend of Buez, the point of departure for England. Once firmly ecstablished in Cyprus, it Is proposed to step over ta the ma land and construct & railrond across the Byrian Dosert, and down the Euphrates Valloy, to the hoad of the Persian Gulf. This would be mat by another line running along the Makran cosst westward from Karachi, thus forming, with tho help of the existing Indinn railways, a connection be. tween overy part of British India and the enstern Mediterrancan shores, With such a ronto, they argue that if Russin and Egypt should join hands to shut England out from tho Buex Oanal, she would still have n route by son and land. If she were deprived of the latter ronto, she could fall back upon the canal. Haviog a hold upon Oyprus, she would always be in s position to keep vigi- lant guard over the canal, The London Times opposcs the construction of such a route because it would make no commeroial roturn and wonld Lo a non.paying rond, and because England could not securcly guard a railroad on foreign soil. It makos no oppo. sition to the acquiring of Oyprus sx a naval atation, however, but favors it. Upon this point thore is 8o much unanimity, and the prosent movoments of England are so sug. gustive, that it moy almost bo taken for grantod that Oyprus will fall to England as hor ghare of the general plunder. m—— NO VOLUNTEERS ¥OR IRELAND, Tho English Government has been much embaryassed of lato by & roquest from the Evor-Faithful Isle for arms. The Ever- Faithful Islo uofartunately has not been faithful to that Power of all others which claims supromacy over her, 8he has beon faithful to hor own traditions, to her grudges, hor affoctions, and her superstitions, She has clegved to tho Church with a loyalty past all parallel, which has enrned for her, indeed, tue proud titlo sho boara; but she has been from the earliost times till now a thorn in the side of Englund. The situa. tion is still further complicated by the fiction of amity, peace, sud good.will bo- tween tho two countriva which is kept up for somo mysterlous purposes of Govorn. meont. The relatlonship s somecthing like that which Mr, Waokrond Squizus eatab. lished betwoon himself and bis pupils. A sulky stato of feoling,” Mr. Bqukens was acoustamed to say, ** won't do in Dotlhoboys Holl. Cheerfuluess and contentment must bo kept up.” English rule in Ireland pro- aceds on the samo principle, with tho addi. tion that “the wulky state of feeling” is nssumed not to ‘oxiat, however degidud tho outward manifostations of it may be. 'fhis doublo attitude of England townrd TIreland—on the ono wide gnarding ugaiust o possible insurrection, and on the other ds. alaring that thero {3 no possible danger of oue—has been oddly illustrated by the late request for the organization of a volunteor forge in tho island. It it is true, ps the Ku. glish Govornment assumes, that profound aoutent with tho existing order of thingw prevails in Ireland, why ahould not the same privileges of bearing arms aud raising u militla be grantad to that part of the King. dom pa to any othor? The inquiry is so pointed that it cannot be evaded. Tho British Governmont has, indeed, scarcely attempted to evade it, but has placed its refusal to grant the request on the broad ground that, ‘‘until a beiter state af things exists in Ireland,” it wonld be womo thau folly to permit the arganization of a volunteer force. In taking this position, it las been obliged to abandoa reluctantly one of its most positive asgertions with respect to Ireland, namely, that the wmajority of Lar peopls, if let aloue, aro strongly in favor of English rule. Thera can hardly be any question that the Irlsh peopls would spoedily disprovo this asser- tion it arms were placed in thelr hands, and thoy wore pennitted to form voluutary mill. tary organizatlons; it is the kuowlsdge of this fact which Les prevailed upon tho En. glish Governmont to refuse tha spparently reasonable request. ‘The request comes, strangely enough, from friends of the Government—gentlemen- farmers, professional men, and owners of lauded estates, Alany of these classes have of late years joined the rifle-olubs which en. tor for the annusl compotition for prizes at Wimbledon, - They are, Lowever, shut out from'a namber of *valuable prizes which are reserved exclusively for the volantbers, Thia distinction, they foel, is a hardship, and they- long to get 5id of it by organizing volunteer companies ia their own ‘midst. Honce Lheiy request to Covernwent. They may, in- deed, , think it L5 & rousykable fach that the Government should use every moays 1 {43 power to encourage tho growth of such organizations iu Beotlaud | and England, appropristing abont half & willion sterling annually ta pay for quarters, equipments, eto,, and should at the saws time refuse to permit the formation of vol- uuteor corps in Irvloud, oven at the private expenso. Noris this the wholo extent of the discrimination agatwst Iretand. The island fs virtually under the control of s vast police force, or gendarmorie, numbering 30,000 picked men, They have sttong in ducoments to ba loyal: fieat, in their pay of about £1 n week; next, in their exemption from servico abroad; and, finally, in the prospect of a pension for wounds or & continuous servica of twonty.ons years, promising them a comfortable support in their old ogo, 'They are distrib- uted throngh the island with a special vlew to pravont didaffestion, The Notth bt Ire. Innd men nre ment to the south; and the South of Ireland men to the north; the Catholics to the Protestant connties, and the Protestanta to the Uatholie counties, Bo it happens that no considerable body of them I3 in sympathy with the locs! fecling. This body of 30,000 men effsctually patrols the wholo littls island; thoro 1w hardly o villags 20 amall a3 not to contsin » squad of them, and the large cities lave numbers of them sufllcient to provide for omiergenoies. The exiatance of this body of police may serve to explaiu why the British Government deems the organization of & voluntser forcs for lreland inadvisable and inexpedient for the presont, S————— ‘The Chiongo Z¥mes has aimed Lo bs for a long time past & comie paper. It never fails to produco o broad grin ou the face of its roaders when I8 charges lnok of consistenoy on any of lts contomporaries. It is the policy of the Z'mes to be on every side of every Guestion. It adoptéd tho New York Aferald stylo In this regard, ss practiced under the elder Bennerz, but has improved on it. The Herald remained on one side of a question gonerally for & weok at a time, and oceasionally a month, and then it would suddenly flop, The plan of the Témes is not only to flop, but to etraddle. It flopped on the Blavery question ; it flopped on the Cop- perhead quostion; it flopped on the negro question, and proclaimed bhim **a man aud o brother,” and afterwards went back on him. It flopped on the bond and greonback question,—first advoonting nflation and repudiation, and afterwards the single gold standand and exclusive gold pay- ments. It made o hively fight agninst Tro- pEN'a nomination up to the opening of the “bar'l," and thon all at onco it went back on Judge Davis, turned a somorsault and a balf, and camo down on its head with ils hoels sticking in the alr. It kicked and splurged for tho Usufruct” as long as the “barl” held out, and then it left him,’ During the Electoral-Commiasion period, oue of its editors, Corporal Exevaw, stationed in Washington, perverted on tho side of Tit- vex and CnoniN, while Marresow, in the homo offico, skirmished around on the flanks of the Demoorats, and the * OId Man " hovo somo brickbats at FHargs, S8ince tho Porren investigation began, Caawronn, in Washgton, and MaTresoN; on Wells atroot, have waged a perfect Kil- konny-cat fight. Tho former has cater- wauled for Anpxrsoy, Tizpex, and Fraud ; the latter bps bit and scratchod for Mre. Capt. JNks, Smemman, and the Polivy. Evory issuo of that paper will be found self- contradictory on some subject. Evon on the question of a sirest-opening it can't agree with itself. DBut that is the game of the paper, aud the role it sot out to play several yeara ago 3 and tho ‘only thing it stioks to persistently is, to flop and straddlo on every question on which mon differ in opinion. Since the ‘¢ Old Man " wont abroad to recu- porate, the inconsistancies nud btultifications hiave been miore glaring, frequent, and laugh. ablo than whon he was * on deck.” The suba Lave oxcelled their master, Thete §s troublo in New York with the Metro- politan Eleyated Kallway. It wakes too much nolsa and mmoke. Tho volumes of smoke in the streot are bud enough, but the polae is vastly worse. Bteps have been taken to indict the rond us o nulsance. A dispateh from New Yorlk says: ‘Tue Grand Jary haw reccived s petilion signed by Mr. Sanusu M, Punpes, Presidont of the New York Acudemy of Meaiclne, amil 140 other physl. clans gnd surgeons, to the elccythat the Metropol- itun Elovatel itallway, contraty to ita charter, whicn provides that it ahall causs the least possible annoyance Lo those living near it, has Locome & punile pulasnco requiring abatoment. It inters Fuplé, Rcearding totho potition, all mental pr esacw,and oven ordinary convorsation, prevonts the rapid davelopment uf clitldren, and Is productive of axliaustion, jnsumanua, hysteria, clivsea mnauls, Daralyals, menlngltis, duafices, and death, Cons valoscent patiens aro thrown Into relapu merchants on SIxth avenue must speak | o lond tone of voice: horses aro mudo to run away, sud Qros are kindled. Thts 18 a tremendous and terrific indictment of tho road, It {s very evident that sone remedy must be found for an oyil that ** fo- terrupts mental processcs and proveots rapid development of ehildrey,” but that accounts foe the vapld aud vacuous coudition of the New York papersof Jate, aud the non-increase of childron notwithstanding the fortunate suicide of Madaino RsTaLL, 0alt was the flrm determinae tion of Now-Yorkers to enlarge the juvenilo populatfon after the removal of. the ** destroy- fog wngel” The Cumpany has securcd the servicesof the electriclan, ‘Tuowas E. Evison, to invent mome method of running the care without nolse and with amoke-burners, It s hoped that this wagiclan will exorcisa the naise and snoke. Why don't the Company use car- wheels with Iudis-rubber tirest That sub- stance bas been cmployed on steam-wagon whuels to great advantagy, and we have scen 1t stated thut it has beeo used fu some countries on the wheels of locomotives to cugble them to ascend steep grades, as it adheres very closcly withiout slipuiug, and runs nolsclessly, e ——. After the Jiogoes of Eugland had howled, growled, shricked, quivered, aud screamed thelr utention to fight, the best they could do when it cumne to look really like fgltiug was to fm- port soldiers from Judis and to souud tho re- crutting officer’s drum In Cssada, Which reminds us—so strangely does history ropeut fleelfl—of the situation of Merry rénzhml Quripg that woat glorlous pariod of her eareer Juring the wars ending with the downlall of Navorxon at Waterloo. Of tne $125,000,000 prize-money for Waterloo and the capturs of Paris falliug to England’s share for her 216,000 men, proportions bad to be pald for 50,000 Hollanders, for 10,000 Janoverians, and fur 6,000 Branswickers and Nossauers, A yoturn has Just bean picked out of tho Duke of WELLING- ToN's papers showing te contracts ho made for wolidlers fu 1813 at the rate of $35.50 per hesd, Beatdes Denmark and Bardinis, which between them furnishea 80,000 men, 173,181 men were drawp from twonby-seven Uermasn Btates, Queerly enough, only 15,500 could be calkd “with justice Hessisus, o o meeesg———— - :The Ohio Democrats are complainivg of a ' scarcityalready mouey tocarry ou their campaign this summer, , TenDsx epoled them iu 1876, .when ba let thom tap the coutcnls of his “hap’d? so freely. Tt wlil 02 recallected that RBarox, of Kausas, member of the Dewmocratic National Coutral Commitice, was traveling-on the carsincomvany with Uov. Hzxpgicks, of [n- dana, sud sittiog with them was & juulor saitor of the Cincinvati Bugulrer. EaToN, whou qucs- tloned whether he thoughbt Oblo could not have heeu carried for TILDEN had the fnducements been mado suficent,—that is to ssy, had he made more libersl ailowance of maouey with which $0 corrupt the voters,—replied: ‘Why, Ohlo bad no rigut to complain of the mon- etary Bolp givon ber. Bbo got twicu the smiouul of Susocial ald thst Indisus did, 1 was toldwo b TiLus¥ himself, ~**Who got thls mouey?” sk the youth. **iVell, Joux Tuowrsux’ [Central Committey wanagerl xub $10.000 of 16" susLouds €1 Mr, Rarowt and then ho added, “'T am mont_decidedly ‘sgainat tho uae of money fn a political ‘campalgn. ~ Yon kuow, Governor, the bulleof 11 in missoplled, and cors inta the pookets of & It of political feaad-beats, soms of whiom have not made an honest dollar outsido of politics In twenty years." The youth of the Enquirer, who was aftor the Inside facts, pushed his investigation a littte further. “{ wonder how much TiLpax did spend in the campalgni® he querled; and this was Mr. EATOX'S rosponso: , Directlyabont $250, 000, though Anz fTewiit tola me that he and En Unornn. his brother-in-law. Nad apent abont $120,000 additional. Ile sald that he thought that TiLoek shonld romdnerate them for this expenditare, I lesrned aftorward that Titpex Ald pay them all but about 810,000 #plece of this sum, and ha has probably paid them 1n fuil by thistime. This statement hns never received a specifia contradiction. Mr. EAToN has beon severcly censured for taiking out of schonl, snd telling secrets that do not bear publication very well. He mno donbt thought that tho - talk ‘was private, and would never bo made public; and no denial has yet been given that shakcs the main facts, that BAx TiLpEx expended up- wards of $350,000 from his own private resources to purchase his election; and it fs probable, if the incidental cxpenses of the Literary Bareau were added, the sum totsl would approach s haif- milion, Mr. TILDEN'S “bar’l of money'! was no fiction of the Imagination. It was drawn upon liberally, and it was promised at 8¢, Louls that the dralts would not be dishopored. In view of this notorious effort to buy the Prest- dency,—to corrupt voters and bribo Electors, as the Cincinnati Qommereial observes,—in which the demagogues who now prate so much about publle virtne and political morality wore co- gaged, thers is no odeaslon for loud lamentas tons that their hypocrisy has been exposed, and thelr attempt to install TILDEX {n & place where Indemnity for losses might be poasible bas been defeated, and mainly by the pressure of publio oplnion on the revolutionists. ——— The Cincinnat] Gazelte, falling to describe the thing in words to the comprehcnsion of the Democrats, presents the ** public credit " ques- tion under the Democratic and Republican Ad« ministrations before their eyes in iHustrated form, thus: Under Bucmawax, the last Democratic Presl- dent, the Covernment of the United Statew was compelled to pay 13 per cent fur the uee of money. In. 1400 the Repab- lican party took command of the ship of siste, Thecolumna below show tho movement of the pube liacredit. = The course of the Democratic column was steadily downward until the Indicator struck 12, Al that point the command was changed, and the cotrse of the Republican column’ bas been steadily upward antll 1t has reached 4. HDetween 185U and 1800 the credit of the United Btates, as compated with other nallons, was fourth rate. This was the resuit of Democratic management, Now the credit of the United States is firat-clase, | Thie I8 tho resuit of Republican management: Demseralis cotumn Tupailean columm. ] : e 3 W8 —| ¢ o & Als oF s L T 8 s 9 ‘e mv ixn 3 e 1) Tl 14l Iéu ———— Nxw Yonrg, July 3. —The Zridune's Washington apecial says it {s reported by A gentleman who _lald l{l‘u uortion of the construciion of the Eight-Houe hvrfiuluu the President that Attorney-General Duvxxe has completed an_opinlon that the clear intant of the Iaw wae to give full pay of ten hours for elght hours' work, and tbat In making the aye mont to Government workmen the law shou 80 construed, 1t 15 quite probable that the cowardly dema. gogues who enacted the Eight-tiour law on Qovernwent work intended to mako the tax- payers pay for two hours’ time each day after the men quit work. But it fs vot honest. On thd contrary, it s very dishonest. Norlsit honest for workmen to take two hours’ payafter thoy quit work. it must requiro cousiderable cheek todo it. Buppose thelr wages to be 23 centa per liour, or $4 per day, ou what grounds do they pocket 50 cents in addition, after they knotk off work each day i By what woral or equitable right do they begin to druw pay each morotng at 7 a. m., but culy commence work at B a. m, and, when thoy quit laborat 8 p. m., why do they go on drawing pay until 6 v m.§ The uncarned money for thoae two idle hours Is taken out of the pockots of tho tuxpayers withous the siightost right or couwideration. iow much better s this than stealiog ! Will suine Conaressman explain who yoted for this rascally gougs on the taxpayers? e e —— Beveral months ago, the discovery of Trof. Baner, of England, that lron could be protected from rust by being covercd with an oxide fortned by means of superheated steam, exclted great at- teution. A simpler process has been luvented by Mr. G, Bowan. Ilo places the articlus to be coated fn & chamber of fire-clay provided with two plpes, ouy 1ur the admisston and the othcr for the escaps of air, Both pipes having been closed, the beat is Talsed to a temperuture of about 1,700 degreca Fubirenheit, At tho ond of euch huur thy bipes are upencd, so thut atmos- plieric alr may be forced Into the chamber by the one, aud the deoxodized alr driven out through the otber, ‘Tlus ls coutinued until a sufficlent fim of magnstio oxide is formed ou thd articles, The coutiug fs 8 boautiful Mght gray or ueutral UL, very delicate inuppuarance, and it perfectly pruteets tron from rust. Under wll circumataucys, the luysutivu 18 devined Lo be iuvalusble, ——————— Ona of the motioes on the bannorsof the trades-union Communists last Sunduy readst « Productivn bolouge .t the producer; the tools to the toller,” This is truo sowetimes, aud ‘wometimes it {a not. A farmer is a pro- ducer, sud his crops and cattle are of his pro- duction, and thorefors beloug to Ulm, Bus aupposs be hires a fawily for $4,000 to work the farm for him one year,~he finding evorys thiug, tmpicments, horses, bogs, shicep, catile, aeed, eto.,—1s the ** family ' to Keep tho * pro- duesion? of the farm sud pocket the §1,00 bestdes, and, when they leave the laud, are they to carry off the “tools,” such as plows, harrows, reapers, cultivators, wagous, huruess, rakes, forks, spades, uses, ete.t [lavo they ac- quired a right to those “tools " becauss they wesy * producers? e# 10 set forth Jyer question, N:ll"‘fl‘ - amestown Jouraal und tur FENTON'S vigws ou the “*Mr, Prstox is 8 qualifio e favore the two inotals upon & proper ratio of Hllu-| huxn. --un:.m;d“m: ases l:-:l h‘fl o Woeds, he s for tue Gouble wisudard upod thy basis 0f squal velue, sud such co-operstivn as Suatides ouw interustiousl staudivg for the two wtuls. Does bhe mean that, so long: a3 toe mere bullin valus of sliver is luss than that of legul- teuder gold, the weignt of thoe silver dollar should be fucreased to the point where tue hutllon fn it will bave the purchasivg nower of a legal-tonder gold dollar! It he don't wean tha, whut doas he mean by the expression, Vs doubls styndard upou the Lasis ot equal vale el e ——— Four tickets are nuw prescated to the paople of liltuols for State Treasurer snd Buperiuteuds «ent of Publie Instruction, the vuly State otfices 10 be elected In November nest, They ure: Jous ErUBLICA, Treaaurer—=Jouy L. buivi HBuperintendani—yanzs P. BLaDE, DEMOCKATIC, . Treasurer—Buwann L. CRONERITR. Buperintendent~Sanvat M. Erven, WATIONAL (UREENBAUK)¢ véasurer—~Euastus N. Batks. Superintendent ¥uang 3. Harg PROMUTION. Treasurer—Jdusonx i. Uow, 3 Superinlendent sty e The North Carolina Lagislature (Detmocratle, of coursc) last year constructed su Mleresting Judicial district, the Becond, contatulog all the couptes which, from the preponderauce of their negro population, wese strungly Republic- an. There was @ Hepublican wajority of some 10000 1 Uis alstrict, und Wb segro Republies