Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 7, 1878, Page 3

R R R B R R LU PARIS. The Qay City under a Cloud==» St. Medard and the Elements. The Races 2t Longchamps---The Grand Prix Day—Victory of the Perfidious Saxon. Victor Hugo et the Literary Congress— Amnesty, Conciliation, and Reconciliation, fissical and Dramatic Notes--The Concerts at the Extiibition-The Theatres---Ticbut of Two dmerican Singers. Spectal Correspondence of The Tribusie. Pariz, June 19.—This week and next promise 1o be the zavest of the whole year in Paris. In ordipary times it s alw: particularly bright and hustling about the middle of Juue here. It is then that the Grand Prix isrun. As every one kuows, the Grand Prix is the last thing French *Soclety ™ stays in Paris for. As soon & tbe struggle is decided at Lonechamps, a fove is made for the country. Some fly to Etretat of Dieppe; others go off to drink the waters at Luciron or Bagneres; and otbers ewell the cosmopolitan crowd at the gambling- 1ables of Monavo. Last year, Sazon-les-Bains sttracted & great wmany; but that was before they put dowon roulette and roure-et-noir there. It s always rare to find the French straying far beyond their natiooal fronticrs. Business drags a few hundred across 1he Chanacl every year. They go reluctantly, s0d seldom stay awag long. . Were it not for business and au occasional Cowmune or in- vasion, the traveled Frenchman would soon DIE OUT ALTOGETHER. TWho can blame him for loving his beautiful Parist There is a great deal of philosophy in What at tirst sight scems jrnorant prejudice and laziness. Once & Parisian, always s Parisian. It is easy not to settle Liere; but, once you set- tle, neither fortune nor adventure will make sou leave without s paug and a hope of teturning. 'Fhe bon bourgeois who sits pufling his evening-vipe outside the door of his house on the boulevard, ueither knz}{u yor ares to kmow, any other Tor him, the Boulevards aund the Champs scesare the Alpha aud the Omega, thebe- rinmng and the end of oll thiugs. 1f you tell Jum Londou is larger, Ve will shrug bis shout- ders. Tuik to him of Naples, or Rou, aud he will snswer with an incredulous smile. If this be hifs way at orinary seasons, you may be sure Jis admiration for the city of Lis’ heart s not likely to be lessened now. Not only the bogy- greois, but cven the upper ten thousand, will probably stay in Paris this swnmer, o3 long s {he weather remains tolerably cool. O THIS WEATHER! There never - was, and never will be, sucha month of June as this we are trying to live through here. It has rained nearly every day fora fortnight. We go about clad in thick overcoats, just as in mid-winter, and, but for the slmanuc, Ido belicre n great many of us would take 1o fires azain, But how “can we wonder, when it rained on St. Medard’s Day? St. Meaard is the Gallic Swithin. His fete falls upon the Sth of June. It was from this enintly gentleman that Louis borrowed his famous TAfter me, the deluze.” If the lemend be worthy of eredence, We are in for torty days and forty nigiits of it. I er, to give Medard his due, the weather contrived to kold up, by a meteorological mira- cle. for a few hours Jast Sunday,—just long enough for g TIE GRAXD PRIX tobe decided. The crowd at the Lonechamps racevourse was the greatest, and perhaps. the Tauit. brilliant, ever eeen since 1867. The re- ceipts taken av tke different gates on the course smounted to upwards of 235,000 francs—more by 20,02 franes at than_the highest sum on record. At 2 o'c the Marshal-President drove down to thereserved stand, with the Shah. Acother at_the same time brought the Due d'aos 3 Mme. MacMahon, who were followed by a brllient and numerous suite. The dential tribune wes, as usual.very well filled Desides the distinguished persouages already mentioned, the Archduke Louis Vietor of Austris, the cx-Queen Jeabella of Svain, the Duke of Coburg, several of the Ambassadors, AL Teissercnz de Bor, ete., ete., put inanap- pearance before the great event came on. Coptrary to expectation, Lhe race wae of the most interesting and exciting description. Every one looked upon Count Lagrune as an simost certain winner. He had po fewer than four horses runuing, and, outside his stable, 1here was no_opposition that threatened to be dangerous. Insulairc, the winner of the Prix du Jockey Club, who ran sccond to Sefton in the Derby, started o bot favorite; and 5 or 6 to 1was offered, without ineeting morc tban a faiut response, aguinst Thurio. the one En- glish horse competing. When the efglit hor. 1urned the final bend, Insulaire, his stable com- Tanion, Juval (both the propurty of Count La- granze), and Thuno, were seen tearing madly ilong to the winning post ina cluster. They ran for the last 103 vards so closely together ihat fora moment it was impossibie to_the most experienced eve to tell who was leadine. In the jast stride, Canuon, who was riding the Fuslish champion with admirable judgment, clled apon the noble brute for a crowning “fort. Tnsulgire and Inval replied gallautly, tutin vaio. A mowment later THTRIO . was proclaimed the winner by a kead. Next came Insularre, and, @ neck behind, Inval. The Bntieh victory was received with very ungeu- Tn point of fact, the curscs far outweiched the congratuivtions when the win- ver walked into bLis stables. 1 bave had oc- casion_before mow_ to motice how the *‘gen- erous™ French take defeats, and I must say what 1 have noticed docs not throw a very favor- sble light upon them. ~ After the race, Prince Soltskoff presented Cannon with 15,000 franes. Thurio, though the property of a Russian, is a thoroughbred En- glish liorse, by-the-by. The value of .Toe Grand Priz (uominally 100,000 francs), with the money paid for entries, smounts to 1CL350 francs. Of this, 144350 fr. zo to the winner. The second horse receives 10.000 2., and the third 5,000 fy. Since the Grand Prix was frst ivstituted, 1863, it bas been won eight times by the French, once by the Hunmurians (in 1976 with Kisber), and six times by the English, . 1secm to be always bat he is such an int is liztle aanger ot zny one growing tired of him. 1 make no apoloy for returning to the inex- Eavgtible thewte. Victor Hugo presided at the first public meeting of the Literary Congress at tbe Chateiet this week. During the seance le vsed the ovportuzity offered him by the comparatively ary work of discussiug conyright. to deliver one of the finest 20d most noble epeeches ever listened to. 1ts counection with the matter in hard was, as mizght bave been expected, of the slightest; and ien ensuzh it ofended critical taste, no less an common senre, by introdueing politics into woa: should have Leen a purely literars and legat dizéussion: but the peroration was 3 Masterpiece. 1t showed us the great poet inthe liwut of 2 defender oi Christianity, and, however mistaken the conclusions may appear,—as vou will sce Victor Huzo claims zu amnesty for the as mere cloguence it would e hard to match it: phliave szid clsewhere, and I repeat teaid Victor ga}, all hums=u wisdoin Jics in these two words,— CONCILIATION AXD RECONCILIATION ! Concllistion for the’idess, reconcilistion. for the + Gentlemen, we are amongst philosophers here. det ue proft by the opportunity. Lot Us not bes eto tel! certain © foe: The human race hay 3 oieose—1 Lethe mother of War. The mother is fnfamous; ¢ daughier, horribis, Let s mve theri biow for blow! Hate for Hate! arto War: . Enow you the meaning of_thie sayinz of Christ: Ve Ye oue gnother 'r It mesze universal die. Mmament. “Tis the cure the human rice has need Yy, ThizIs the troe redemption. Love one auother. 0 disarm your enemy more svrely by aiving Bm your hana thau by snukieg your fsfb athim teudvice of Josts {53 command of God. Itis o ol We accept it. “We, we arc with Ghrist} writer is with the Avosile, the thinker at One with the Lover. S &b+ Jet us cry the ery of civilization: No! N 4 Enouzn of these barbarous Warriors - o ugh of these murdering eavages! We will have more wars of people with people, OF wman wwith uter is insessate af well as fero- <aveurd; tie sword is foolish. We re. Ours be the duty to prevent + ours e the duty of rusbing The right to live e 1S INVIOLABLE. e 50 crowns, if crowns there bes we see but To pardon is to have peace. ‘When the - ‘en the armies. ealemn hour strikes, we ask Kings to epare tho life of peoplee: we ask Republics to epare the life of Emperors! ’Tis & glorions day for the ontlaw when he prays the people for a Prince, andwhen he claims the exile's grand rignt of pardon for an Emyeror! Yes; conciliste and reconciltata. This is our misefon, brother-philosophers. O iy brothers of Science, Poetry, and_Art, let us bow to the all- civilizing power of Thought. At each step mun- Iind males towards Peace, let us fzel the deep Joy of truth grow within us. 'Let us be nobly content with useful labor. Truth is one, und has no di- verging rays.. Its only synonym is Justice, Thers are not two .lights. There is one only—Resson. There are not two ways to being honest—the seem- ing and the true. "he ray in the Iliad is the eame os the clearncsa in the Dictionnaire Philosophique [Voltairo]. This incorruible ray passes through the ages with the straizhtness of the arrow end the purity of the dawn. This ray will conquer nignt, —that is, opposition and hate. This is the great literary prodigy. There is none more beautiful. Force dismavad and overwhelmed by Right. Mind put- tinz an end to War," 'Tie Vinlenen ovarcome by isdom, O Voltaire, 'Tis Achilles. seized by the bair by Minerva. O Homer! % And. now that [ am near the end, one wish, —& wish not agdressed to any party, ~ ADDRESSED TO EVERY HEART. Gentlemen, therc was 2 Roman once celebrated for a fised idea. He said, ‘‘Let uedestroy Car- trage.” I 100, um posecseed by an igea. Behold it: Let us destroy llate. 1f Literaturc has a meaning, it is thiz: tlumaniores littera. Gentlemen, the best way to destroy tnat is to forgive. Ain! may this great year noi go by with- out the final paciticationi May it close wisely and heartily; after having cxtingnished foreign war, may it extinguish civil war! This is the deep wixh of our hearts. At this moment ber hospitality to the world. May she aleo show her mercy. Mercy! Letus put this crown upon the head of France! stivals are fraternal. A festival that purdons no onc is not a festival, - The logical consequence of a pubiic rejoicing is the Amnesty. Let thut be the end of this admira- ble Universal Exlubition. Reconciliation! Recon- ciliation ! Surely this mecting of the joint etforts of mankind, this meeting of the marvels of Indus- try and Labor, this greeuny of confronting and comparing masterpieces—all this forws a moble epectacle! But there i a nobler spectacle: The cxile at the horizon rising os the mother country opens ber arma. ‘This sort of thing reminds you of what the French said of the English iu the Crime: 4 Clost magnifique, mais cc n'est pas la guerre.” 1It’s splendid, hu:—whn on earth has it all to do B ND PRENCI CONCERT at the Trocadero, which came off yesterday, was hardly so well attended s the first,—a fact whichi may be partly accounted for by the insut- ficient attraction of the programme. Yet it in- cluded M. Lalo’s capital overture to_the (un- published) opera, * Le Rol 'Us,” a spleudid orchestrated work, though most patently & Fpirea by a dilizent study of Wazner's ** Lohen- wrin?'; besides selections from M. Deldevez’s % Eucharis,” a new symphony by M. Th. Gouyy, an “Idyll".and “ Dance of Satyrs’! b; 'Es- tribaud, Bizet's very beautiful and original mu- gic to ** L'Arlesiennc® (first introduced at the Vaudeville to illustrate un unsuccess- fut play of Daudet’s, and aflter- wards _transferred as a suite d’orchestre 1o the Popular Concerts), and Ilerold's spirited overture to *Zampa.” 1f the names of some of the composers were better known to the pub- lic, there would doubtless have been a fuller hiouse. But how can strangers kunow that M. Deldeves is the conductor of the Conservatoire Concerts, or feel an interest in men like MM. Gouvy aud d'Estribaud, who arc quite new to fame, and hardly familfar to the critics them- selves? ‘Some tyrant scems to be guiding THE EXUIBITION BARK, and trying his best to make it as unattractive as ever Lic can. The tyrant is probably M. Krantz. Every ono admits_tliat the Exhibition is won- derful. It could not be denied. But how much more ‘pleasant it mizht be it M. Kroutz's wrong-headed and obstinate pedantry did hot prevent us from having reluxa- tion and amusement with our instruction. Truth compels me to suy thut the exhibition and the parks are decidealy dull, in_spite of their merits. There are no bands playing, there are no refreshment-bars in the building, and in nany parts not even chairs ta sit down on. Yet. forall that, the success of tho undertaking grows daily. THE THEATRES arcstill content with revivals and their old repertory. ‘Psyche” draws pretty well at tne Opera Comiaue, and ali_the scats are booked at the Opera for 3 weel to come. The Chateau &'Eau has been reopened with a revival of a play founded on **Aurors Floyd,” entitled “The secret of Miss Aurora.” It was originally pro- duced here a dozen years ugo, and s likely to tuke, thanks to th¢ ghost-effects, a la Prof. Pepper, which arc introduced in ono of the acts. A troupe of Bobemian minstrels, from Moscow, made its debut at the Exhibition and the Concert de 'Orangerle this week. Theyare a tremendous “ kit Their arrival has paled the dncfleutuul glory of the Tzicane Band alto- gether, "This afternoon the orchestra from the Seala, at Milan, guve the first of four zrand coucerts at the Trocadero, in the presenceof the Duc d’Aosta and the Italian Embassy. Talking of Italy, I bad lately the pleasure of hearing two talented American singers— THE MISSES CONRO; sing at s concert given privately at the houso of a2 well-kvown American resident liviuz near the ‘Arc de Triomphe. They have exceedingly good and well-trained voices, which promise to aseure them a successful earcer. § understznd they are lkely to make a public debut soon in Paris, but where, I am not at liberty to mention. . They are pupils of Muwe. Albertini-Baucardi, of Flor- ence. Amongst eeveral picces sung at Mme, 256 “coucert by the Misses _ Conrom, Sore s plessing duct from Campana's “Marie e Rizzio” an ara from Verdi's «].a Forza del Destino,” and the prayer from “])er Freyschuetz.” in atl of these their natur- ally pleasine and cultivated voices were bLeard 1o preat advantage. The Theatre Itaifen closed this evening with a performance of * Aida.” On Saturday the newly-constituted Theatre Lyrique season will open at the Saile Ventadour with the Escadier management. The first opera sot down for performance is Hector Pessard’s + Captain Feacasse,™ which M. Vizentioi was to ~have produced last year had he pot failec. Harry St. MiCHEL. AN ARKANSAN’S FALL. A Leading Democratic Official Elopes with His Wife's Stitor. Lattie Rock (Ark.) Demncrat, The Hot Springs Seatine! publishes the facts, as we have neard them before, in relation to a recent scandal conuected with oue of the most promirent citizens of the State. Over a mouth since Gor. Miller Teceived 8 letter from the 1lon. Johu D. McCebe, Prosecufing-Attorney for the Eighth Judicial Circuit, dated at St. Louis and postmarked Omaha, resigning Lis position. Not kuowinz the cause of this, in- auiries were instituted, resulting in the ascer- tainment of the main facts detniled below: One of the rising men of Arkansas, au_able lawyer, Prosceuting Attorney of the Eighta Judicial Cireuit, spolen of as a probable candi- date for the United States Senate. Capt. John D. McCabe, about the 1ith ult., left his howe and family in_Arkadelphia, vis Texarcana, an Omsha to Ltab. with his wife's sister, 3 Salfie Barkman, who was_educated at the con- Yent in Little Rock. McCabe stood hizh at the Bar and had the universal confidence. His wife, formerly Miss Caddie Barkman. is a lady of rare beauty vet, and they have 2 very promising son 11 years of age. ‘The sister is plain compared with the wife. About the 24th of May the wife reccived a Jetter postmarked Omalu: May. 1878.—Capniz: God knows 1deplore the angnich this leiter will cause. The world mey el denounce we for the step I am about to take. 24 1am leaving my wife, family, home. all! To fefer 10 thepast would be an insult. but in the fu- fure I can oniy look fo Gad 1o protect You and Upon the receipt of this letter Mrs. McCabe fell fainting to the fioor, and for two weeks she was not expected to survive the sudden and cruel blow. She has at length recovered o as {0 arise from her bed, the ghost of ler former telt, unable to speak a word of compluint Sealust the wrong-doers. No further tidinas ave Leen received of the fugitives. The friends of Capt. McCabe arc dumb with amaze- ment at the sacrifice he_bas made. The act is ona which 1s as mad as it is inexel ble. e e—— Remedy for Indigestion. (Cassers Family Magezine. Here is rothier a curious remedy, but in many "2 very certain one, for the cure of Indives- Tt 55 simply the cultivation of a babit of iving, while out of doors, different kinds of e leves aud swallowine thejuice. Onecan a ol & leaf from a_hecze or bush as one tio alwa pagses. Almost ail are good that are not nause- e, euch na the ivy. or poisonous, as thie laurel- leaf, One.of the latter, however, isa capital thing where thereis slight frritation of the stomach. The chewing nfb leaves cures :!I_\-sx')lc;» ia, principatly, 1 believe, by increasing the flow En‘rah?e snci‘ie-ari uive, and partly by the tonicand Jlimulating action of theleaf chewed. The Jeaves that occur to me at present as most like- 1y to be beneficial are thosc of the pine-trecs, epruce or_Scotch_tir, blackthorn, currant and Tose bushes, mint, the petals of mauy flowers, ihe stalks of mountain-daisies, the white por- tion of rushes, the bark of many young trees, and the tender parts of the stalks of green wheat, onts, or slmost sny ot U largergrasses; but your own taste mustin a great measure Puide you, if you elect to make trisl of my ey T should say, boweyer, that the chew- iner is better to take place before or between meals than immediately after. FHE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. JULY » ‘y IS78—SIXTEEN PAGES 3 MRS, SWISSHELN The Postal Card Which She Re- ceived from an “En- gineer." A Talk to Locamotive-Drivers, and to Workingmen Generally. Reply from 2 Railroad Han to Mrs. 875 Leiter in Lasi Sanday’s Tribune. To the Editor of The Tribune. Prixcrrox, 1, July 4—Monday's mat: brought me last Sunday’s TRIBUNE, contalning iy letter to locomotive-engineers; al3o, & post- al ‘addressed © Crazy Jane Grey Swisshell-m," and beariug this message: Cuicaco, June 30, 1875, —GRA: Swisehell-u: Youarea mischief-makizg minx and 3 demented ass, ever strong ou the sirongest side, Esciern. The chifography. shows a hand much better used to holding a bad penctl than the reins which control the fron horse, ana I conclude that the missive was written by one of those literary gentlemen who eet their beer and tobiacco by acting champion to that labor for which they have such profound respect that they are careful never to touchit. Neloco- motive-engiucer, or any other workingman, bad anything to do with this achievement; but 1t is redolent of that professional demazogery which bas led Labor into its present false and un- natural position, and s a fair specimen of the logic on which lsboring men are relylng for victory in the war they have wazed aeaiust their own interests. Look at it! It is almost as Yogical as * The National Platform of Principles of the Socialistic Labor Party!*" which, being a royalinfant, bas been supplicd with as much name ss the Princess of a Dutch Dukedom. 1 am “erazg,” a “granny,” & “mischiel- making mivx,” and a “demented oss,”—only this und nothingmore; and yet, by some strange liocus-pocus, L am “everstrong ou the strongest side.” Who would have thought that strenzth and the power of choosing * thestronest side ™ could have been so intimately connected with “oraziness, grannydom, minxhood, and gssi- ninity ™ Would it not be well for the party represent- ed by this astute lorician if he could be elevated into the region of insanity and old-womanhood, or be furnished with four paws or 1s many hoofs and two nice long cars? Almost any change must be for the better; and, inhis present form, it is o great viece of impudence for lim to take the name of “Engineer.” The men who, duy after day, and night after night, in sunshine end storm, in cold and Dbeat, through blinding lights and Egyptian darkness, take tbelr lives in their hands, and, with clear Lieads, stesdy nervos, and a watchfulness almost superhuman, drive those fron monsters into unknown dangers,—dangzers which they themselves must be first to meet; the men who, from their numbers, have furnish- ed s0 mary specimens of sublime heiolsm,—are not the kind of forks who insult women, or steal peanuts from crippled boys. Neither do they. voiuntarily and of their own motlon, seek au ambush from which tostrikea blow, or skulk Dehind an anonymous name to express their opinions. ‘But even animals with much less sense than ap ass have an instinet for diseriminating be- tween safe aud unsafe places, between the strong and weak sides; and so it is not strange that “Engineer” should know that I and my side are strong; but he has yet tolearn that we are absolutely invincible, and that, if he watches until he is a thousand years old, he is not Hkely to find me on any other than the invincible side of any question. When I first adopted the profession of a political writer there were three parties in this country, two of which counted their adherents and resourzes by the million, while the other was like n handful of sheep in a wilderness, numbering buv a few thousands, and without wealth or infiuence; but I knew that that was the strong party, because it was the party of Right. If the principle which it represented had been without one other adhereut, I should still bave attached myself to it, knowing that it held the only bit of impregnable ground on this Contl- nent,—kpowing _that, in_ urging war upon its enemies, 1 had God for a leader, and thar He nmllil were o tremendous majority agatnst the world. 1 was right that time, and haye several times since taken ground pronounced untenable by Drofessional engincers, and every time it has turned out to e a Gibraltar. I have, i fact, 2 kind ot engineering and mechanical instinet which gives e a right to talk to enzineers aud meckanics: and now say to locomotive-drivers: Move vour camp, boys! move vour camp! The fellows were s st of dolts who chose and syrveyed the ground you now oceupy,—* the ground where you must shortly lic” if you do hot et off it. Many anoblé army has been sacriticed to the stupidity of its leaders: but none was ever led into a more untenable posi- tion than that now occupicd by the Brother- Tood,—that is, if I have -anything like a correct chart ot the location. We have all heard of railroads built across subterranoan lakes, axd of the track suddenly roivg down, and mever more being scew or leard of: but no track ever was laid scross a more treacherous spot thau that on which the eugincers zre now encamped. There s not a foot of solid earth in the neizhborhood until vou reuch the surrounding hights, on which "Pruth, Honor, and Manliness have their artil- lery tralued upon you. There is not a pound of “bed-rock in the whote valley nt less thau forty fathoms from the surface. Strike your tents, boys, and get out of that hole! “You stand over 2 subterranean lake of falsehood, on n thin coverine of hollow pretenses, Which, like reeds, bave grown, and fullen, and decayed; Which send up vearly erops to look pretty, harbor jack-o*-lanters, fall, and decay, in turn. Such ground can arord no man a2 firm foot- hold, and he who chooses it is doomed to defeat in any and every serious combat. “‘'he first sssumotion on which the Labor movement is based is sntagovism between the interests of employer and employe, and this un- fathomed faisehood must swallow any super- structure raised upon it. All the growth it can possibly . nourish must be hollow, poisonous eeds. while its bad gases engender false lights, and all the labor spent in trying to intrench it is that much lost. Every battic fouzht on it Jias beea a fizzle, and & war which bas such a location as a base of supply must end in disas- trous filure to that glde. < So deep and damping is this unnatural false- hood that it bas unscttled our whole system, and threatens to engult our Government itscif. Look at it for a moment! A workingman is out of emplosment, and goes to a neighbor to bemoan bis fate. So loug as that neighbor gives him words of consolation, or loans him money, he is his friend; but, the momect he furnishes the much-needed employment, the refations of these two men are changed from that of friend- ship to enmitv,—unrelenting on the part of the emplove, for his employer is that person with whom heé is to keep no faith. Instead of seeking to build up the business on which botk deperd for a living, and thus pro- moting the the welfare and prosperity of both, the employe is to lie in wait for the employer, Feady to spring upon him at any moment from the dark recesses of a secret combination, of which the one specific object is to thwart and cripple him. It follows that evers man who employs anotlier comes to feel that he has put himself in the power of onc who sceks his burt; that be is in daily familiar iotercourse with one who has a secret erstanding with totaistrangers that, st their bidding. newill turn upon the man who trusts him, the man who furnistes the children with bread, sud knock out his props from nnder his house. bury his business in ruin, and boast of the achiey ement. 13 it any wonder that men who have accumu- s should hesitate to invest them in which requires the assistance of wonder that Capital goes a- begeing for investments, while Lahor starves for want of employment! Any wonder that the laborer and his family go hungry and naked tor want of the comforts of life, while manufac- turers and merchants, having these to disposeof, are closing their establishments with a cry of & over-production 1 There is over-production because there is un- der-demand. There is under-demand becsuse iaose who should be consumers are upsble to procure things necessars to supply their wants. Thc{ are thus unable because they are out of work; and they are out of work because the fear of their treachery is so great that thousands'of people let moncy lie idle rather than invest it in any. business that must depend on hired labor for success. 1 think I have looked into this question as closely as any one,—looked from both sides,— and have tried, earnestly and honestly, to un- Serstand it; and 1 say deliberately that 1 would not give two cents for any $10) stiare in any en- terprise which gives employment to any class of laboring men! They have oroyed that, in the contest they have roised, they hesitate at no act of robbery or murder to manifest their hatred ot employers, and so vizorously have they pros- ccuted the war that there are comparatively tew cnemies left for them to encounter. Plain, practicable men do not want to fight, and, rather than do 30. give up business, or they are forcibly crushed out. The Printers’ Union has killed more newspapers than Herod did children, and driven the greater part of our book-printing to Europe. Other Unlons have closed uearly all the smell shops of mechanics, and thrown the praprietors out of work. The monopoly of Labor by larze and powerful combinations has forced Cupital into large and powerful cowmbioatious, which employ at enor- mous salaries those exceptional men deemed capable of meeting all the devices of that low cunning manipulated by the managers of the Unious; and so our busicess is conducted on the principle of that zsme of_ cuchre played by Bill 'Nyeand the Heatben Chinese who “did 7ot understand,” but had plenty of right-bow- ers [n his wide sleeve. All the legislation procured thus far by the efforts of Labor parties bas had two objects: First, to deprive avery laboring man of hisright to make his own contract; and, second,.to pun- ish uny one tor smploying bim; nud the ulti- mate and irresistible result of all now in con- templation could be more easily reachied by a bill of this kind than Dy all that have yet been offered: Beit enacted, That any pereon giving employ- ment to uny laboring man or skilled mechanic shall be deemed guilty of a penal offes und, upon conviction, shall bo subject to s fine equal to the \ehole amount of his property, rea: and personai; and, if this shogld fall to defer him, he may be shot dead by any one who feels agrieved vy his ac- Tion, Also, any laboring man who shall presume {0 diepose of s own labor without consent of the Searetary of his Union, shall be shot and burted like a dog. This is the goal towhich we aro traveling, and the sooner we get there the better for all parties: for we shall know how we like It. That 1 do not overestimate the treachery of the laboring man to his employer, I give an in- stance: During the war, & mill near Pittsburg broke a shaft; aud this threw a Jarze uumber of men out of employment, besides making the pro- prietors liable for damages for the mou-fultill- ment of contract. They went to, Pilts- burg to make Aarrangements for a new shaft, to be ready on a certain aav; and, betore makiug them, the owner of the foundry called in his workmen to know if the work could be done, and _1f they would fill the contract if ho tookit. They agreed cheerfully, and he maae his agreement on the strength of theirs. After tbe casting was made, placed in the lathe, and partly turned, his men struck, and the owners ot both mill and;foundry incurr- ed an atmost ruinous luss, The whole bistory of strikes shows that they have been conducted on this princivle; and, when such a system of falsehoord and deceit hug beeo general, how ean workingmen expect that capitalists will intrust their money Lo anv enterprise when suceess de- pends upon their good fatth? Who is oing to build ralironds, oud cars, and engines, over which they are to have no control! Docs any engineer feel that he would build an engine if hie knew there were a get of men likely to seize and take it away from him at any mornent nfter he got it on the tras JANE GREY SWIRSHELM. “TIAT FATEFUL 12 0’CLOCE.™ To the Editor of The Tribune. Cirrcago, July 5.—1In your last Sunday’s issue appears & letier from Mre. Swisshelm to the lo- comotive-engineers, which, if yon will allow me space in your columns, 1 wish to answer. In the first vlace. Mra. Swizsshelm gays that «She has heard it whispered that, on a certain day, known only to the onth-bound und initiat- ed, every locomotive-engineer in the United States and Canada is to stop work,” etc. Now, it scems to me that a woman of Mrs. Swisshelm’s ability and standing coula do bet- ter than to write such a letter as this, calcu- 1ated, as near as I ean judge, to engender in the public mind feelings of hatred against a class of * bhighly-responsible men.” and lead those astray who arc nob acquainted with the real facte in the case as to the causes of the troubies which have arisen betwween engiueers and thelr employers. With all due deference to Mrs. Swissheln as o lady and a writer, I Inust suy that she Is not posted in regard to thesubject on which she writes, or else she does not state the facts as she kuows them to be. Let us read what she says, and sce if the facts bear ker out. She says: A bargain’s o barzain,” and must be fuldlied, no matter how distasteful it be- comes to one of the parties who made it. Solid common scnse, I admit; but how docs she ap- ly it to the case in hand? Simply by laying the blame for all the troubles Totucen. en. siucers and railroad companies to the engineers,” Z_comparing them to a drove of pigs, and call- ing this whispered movement “ simply brutal.” ow, et us see how these barzaius ure made, and who have broken them. She charges the engineer with making a pargaln to run_an en- gine & month for so much: which is not the way the bargain is made. Engineers are paid Dy the mile, o, on_some roads, by the day, rockoning from a mitenge basis. Railroad com- Danies do not bind themselves to keep an en- gineer in their employ a certan length e Gime, but, when they see ft, they say, “Your servies are mot needed any longer,"—sometimes giving him a’ reason for their action, but very often not deiguing to give him any reason gt all. Commnon seuse will teach any ofie that the cngineer has the eame Fieht to scver his counection with the company, if hie sees fit from any cause to doso; and if two, ten, or even 100 enmneers are of the same mind, and see fit to quit the service of the com- pany at the same time, have they not as good a Tiglit s tho compauy? And every one knows that, in case the engineers have any grievances 1o right, they o to the ollicers of the company Dy which they arc empioyed, and try by all hon- otable meons to settle the difficulty; and, in case they cunnot succeed in settiing the matter, but see fit to quit their service, they always zive thewm proper notice that they will quit at such s time, that they may et other wen in their places, and not_ discommode the traveling pub- lic, nor cause any damage to the business in- terests intrusted to thelr carc. Then, if the company fails to fill the place of the wman who has quit, whose fault is it? Who ever Leard of an engineer gereeing to furnish another man to fake his place when he quiti Preposterous jdea! The compsny hire their own men, and, if they fail to fill the place of one who has quit, Jet the curse rest ou their own shoulders, where it belongs. Now, who have broken their burmains? Clearly the companies; for {ovestization will show ihat the troubles which have arisen be- tween railroad companies and their engineers lve been on secount of the compauics refusing 40 pay their engineers the rates which thev bar- fained to, but, instead, taking usually 10 per cent of tite engineers’ wages, which thiey have faitbfully sgreed to pay him, and putting it in Iheir own pockets; which, I think, would make almost any one think of quitting. I think, if Mrs. Swissheln were to agree to do a day’s work for two dollars, and then her employer told her he would give her only onc dollar and elghty cents, sac would be liable to strike.” - She makes out that locomotive-cnzineers are Hars, tyrants, and robbers; that they are mean, low, brutal, nnd piggish. Elezant terms, surely, for a lady to apply t ass of men who are risking their lives, day and night, for the public ood and sufety. 'As for the grass aod clay huts which she ad- vises eagineers to o and build for themselves, 1 am afraid there wiil be but few who will follow. her advice. RAILROAD MaN. ————— Olcomurgarine. The microscope is summoned to the defense of olcomargarine. Prof. Arnold, of the Univer- sity Medicai Colleze in New York, testities thut De bas mad¢ careful exemination; and finds “ihe oleomargarine butter to copsist of ex- céedingly clear and beautiful oilf zlobules, a sufficicnt proof of 1ts purity,” wijile some or- Quarily 1aneid butter *shows vesy nicely the granular and irregular oil globle ¢ fitic of decomposing fat.” Prel. Brewer, of Yale Collewe, wocs still furtber; and declares that, * S0 far as chiemistrs and tummon sense suggests, L see no reason why it should mot be as wholesume and as nutritjous u: am-butter, and will o believe unless its actuul use dew- onstrates to the contrar Yet we guspect that, in_ spite of the carclessness und filth of many dairies, it will be long before thie popular prejudice in favor of cow’s butter wili accept the purest and most wholesome oleomariarine 2s its equal. ——— A Royal Tailor. James VL., who scemed to think that nothing could be rieht which his sovereign pleasure did uot regulate, took particular pains with the dress of his subjects. After disgracme. the statute books with many absurd enactments on the subject. he at lentth procured it to be. isgtatuted that the fashion of clothe now, Anno 16321, presently used, Le uot changed by man or woman, and the weavers thereof, tuder the puin of the forteiture of the cloths and £100 to be peid by the wearer, and as much by the weaver of ihe said cloths.” According to tne fashion then in use. that i, ordained by law, and thus vainly attempted to be rendered pes otual, no person could wear lawns or cambrics, or cloths trimmed with rold. or feathers o their heads, or pearls or precious stones.- To make the arbitrary pature of the Jaw the more felt, it exempted from its operation those very persons to whom it was most likely to have a salutary | application, viz: noblemen, prelates, Lords of Session, Barons of quality, thoir wives, sons, and daughtérs; also berulds, trumpeters, and min- strels. PARDONED. An Innocent Man Who Has Been In Prison Over a Yeur. Boston Herald. On the 26th day of May, 1877, Patrick Shuck- row was sentenced by Judge Dewey at Worcester, for bhighway robbery, to imprisoument for the term of two years and six months. Saturday last the Herd, i three lines, ennounced the pardon of Shuckrow. Time, which sets all things right, now brings the complete vindication of Patrick Shuckrow’s innoocenze, and shows him to have been a eruelly wronged man, the victim of an unfortunate combination of circumstances and the testimony of a lunatic. It is a curlous story, sud illustrates how even the keenest of lasyers, the most acute of Judizes, and the cool, conimon sense of a Massachusetts jurs may all Do deceived by a plausible story, backed by ap- parently supporting circumstances. Toward dark, on the eveninz of o sprine day in 1877, Patrick Shuckrow met James Wilkins and two other men in & groggery on South- bridge strect in the City of;Woreester. Wilkins and his comoanions had previously been drink- ing, and induced Stuckrow to join them in & social . glass. That tumbler of whisky cost Patrick Stuckrow more than one yezar of his life. From one saioon they went to others, till Lhe whoie varty of four men were aaything but clear-beaded. “The men next took to the rail- road track of the Boston & Albany road. Alonz the track they walked for some distance, when at last Shuckrow left his companions to go to Tiis home. He had ot out of sight but not out of hearing of the men, when he leard shouts and yells coming {rom the railrosd-track. le was sober enough to conjecture that his recent companions were quarreling. He ran back and eaw Wilkins engaged in a fight with _ the two ~ other men. Shuckrow rushed into the melee and exdeavored to scpa- rate the combatants, when Wilking stabbed him in the arm with a knife. Uvon this Wil- wins and his quondom antagonist fied, leaving Shuckrow bleading profusely. Although weak from loss of blood, the unlucky Shuckrow had strength enouph to get home; but this was not the end of his bad luck, for Wilkins had notl- fied the police of the fight, asserting, however, that Shuckrow and two men had assaulted nim and had robbed him of a sum of money. So Shuckrow was arrested,and the Grand Jury found & bill against him. Throughout the sub- an“lmm judicial proceedings Shuckrow protest- edlis innocence, but Wilking' testimony was aceepted azainst him, even the wound in Shuck- row’s arm golng to make up a link in the chuin of evidence inst him, it being said that he received it while in the act of endeavoring to overpower Wilkins. The Worcester Ilousa of Correction reccived Shuckrow, to remain with- in the walls two and a hal{ years. Inless thantwo months James Wilkins ap- peared in 8 more desperate role than that of a perjured witness. On the morning of July 19 the Village of Stoneville, in tbe Town of Au- burn, near Worcester, was the scene of the bru- tal butehering of Mrs, Eilen Campbell, 70 yeurs old. Her murderer was James Wilkins, who was arrested the same morning near the very caloon on Southbridge street where be had met Shuckrow. Wilking immediatety confessed the crime. He said that be spent the evening pre- viousto tha murder at his father’s house in New Worcester; that he arose in the morning, said his prayers, and set out for Auburn. While on bis way thither a ficnd hidden in the frrass by the wayside spoke to him. IHe accosted the fiend in a loud voice, and bade it bezone, but it soon met himi again un the road, in the shape of & large black dog. The Lord then pave him divine permission o destroy the fiend, and he then went to the house of the Campbells, \here be found the old woman alone. He pre- tended to the wotnan, who was bed-ridden, that he could cure her, and began manipulatii her Imbs. Then, be said, ey saw bis opportunity to kill the evil spirit, which had now taken pos- session of the woman. So he broke her legs over his kuee, then jumped upon her, breaking cvery joint in her body, then put out one cye, and next poured water upoa the mangled body todrown - the flend.” Wilkins zave nimself upto o detective, assuring the oflicer that no hrm could have come to the woman, as he had dealt only with the eril spirit. It afterward transpired that Wilkins, at the time of his meeting Shuckrow, was an escaped inmate of the lunatic hospital, and vossessed \with an_hallucination that invisible demous were continually endeavoring to fight with him. 7his was the man whose testimony. had senl Tnckless Patrick Shuekrow to prison. It seems stranwe that Bhuckrow’s case has not been sooner looked inte, fur he uever ceased to as- sert his innocence; end the local papers, at the time of the arrest of Wilkius for murder, men- tioned the robbery ulleged to have been com- mitted upon him by Shuckrow. Had the lat- ter's case been proviptly looked into he woutd not have had to wait siuce lust July for his de- served_ pardon. - Wilkins was sent to the Wor- coster Lunatic Hospital, bis insanity being be- yond question. The two men who were Wwith Wilkins at the time of the track affair fled the city, and have never been seen since. SHALL WONEN VOTE? A Debate inthe British House of Commons. The British House of Commons. s been dis- cussing the question whether or not Enzli swomen shall be allowed the privilege of votinz; and during the discussion considerable amuse- ineut was furnished. Ar. Courtney, one of the members, spesking in favor of the bl to invest bis countrywomen with the right of suffraze, quoted the conplet which oe of the Royal Prin- cesses had Inserived on the collar of her dog: +¢1am ber Hignness' dog at Kew, Pray tell me, eir, whose dog are yon?" thougt why he quoted it does not appear. He said, however, that be was reminded of it, aud this perhaps sufficlently explains his conduct. Mr. Hanberry, suother member, objected that the only persous who could be enfranchised by the bill were maids, yourg or old—ladies who, as Miss Tivdla Becker expressed it, mot very ntered the profession women were exclud- ed. Deside, he would natural rights women were to have a vote. and vet not to be allowad to sit as representatives. Yle believed that “the real advantage of women Tested in the end on their weakuess.” If women were enfranchised they mignt become able to compete with men in every yoeation of life; but Gy that competitior they would be deprived of the gallantry aud courtesy which bad always been extended to them,” and no great gain would accrue to the wmorality of the country. il was persuaded that in the opinion of ninety- nine out of every hundred of the sex, the pill would be disadvantageous and mischievous. Mr. Smollett, desired to make an explanation. Fe denied that, on a former occasion when the subject was under discusson, he_ever said that women were unfit to have political privilezes Lecause their sex was to some extent emotioual, impulsive, and sometimes hysterical. [+ Hear " aud 2 fangh.] ile had never said such a discour- Seous thing. He had opposed the bill because it was badly drawp. [t wasa huge reform meas- ee managed_out-doors by & coterie of ladies, aud in that H use by honorable members of no particutar weight sitting below the gangiway and acting independently of each ot [+ Hear, hear,” und a laughi.] T promoters should drop it. P augh If they desived toaccomplish thelr objeet they should lav asfde the bill, and in Soine future session they should move an ab- stract resolution, uescribing the prircipal griev- “inces under which the sex labored, and callinz \ipon the Government to_relicve the womei trom them at the earliest possible mo- ment. Tne ladies told them that their cause s areat one, which was not to besnuffed out by levity, and that it would be perscvered in until riglit was done them. The ladies told them that they had cliamplons among the hizh- est intellects of the country. ‘They suid that they had ap advocate in that House in the p sowof the Chancelior of the Exchequer. Cer- tainly, the Chiancellor of the Exchequer was the Teader of that House, and the ereatest weizht rasattached to his opinion. The ladies further i that they had amost redoubtable champlon § the Upper House in the personof Lord Beac- ousfisld, | Now, wio was Lord Beaconsfield ¢ [~ Hear, hear,” and & laugh.] He was a gentle- fau_whom lznorant opponents out of dours Heserined 55 the Mephistophcies of Enzland— [ Hear, 2nd a laugh|—snu as one wio by his nclizotments keld both Houses of Parliament ehthralicd, and who, by means of his devices, carried out a policy at home aud abroad hatefu i il oyes of Heaven. [+ Hear. hear” and laugater.) The right honorable —mem- ber for - Greenwich was still a areat power in this country, because he wiclded ay least a portion of the power of tne wild Democracy of the country, and he also wa3 relied upon by the ladies as one of their sup- porters In this agitation. But why was it, i ull these zreat intellects were in favor of this move- ment, that it made no procress in the country? {Hear.] If all these gentlemen were to act Lo~ gether in the ladies’ cause, and if they were to ddisplay oue-tenth of the eneray they. ‘bad shown for the welfare of the semi-barbarians in the southeast of Europe, this bill would have been Sorried long ago. But let them think whst would be the position of the country if a large Dart of the women were to revolt against the men. _{Laughter.] Why, the consequences wonld be awiul to contemplate. [Lauzhter.] Mr. Blennerhassett said that women are *‘the ‘most pesceable and the least eriminal section of the community,” and they deserved belp in maintainiog their rights. Mr. Gorst said that women had now for some time exercised the Tight of voting st municipal elections, and no oue had said or could say that the interest of the communities hag been thereby injuriously affected. He supported the pill on the princi- pla that they ought not toimpose upon any verson any lezal restriction which was not ab- solutely necessary. He was ready to remove every legal disability under which women labored, not because he desired to see them em- Dbark in pursuits for which they were unfitted, but because he was in favor of personal liberty, and wished to seo ali persons equally free in the eye of the law. Mr. Ferguson could not forget that a large number of women rezarded the question with distaste, and that a still greater number view- ed it with indifference. Mr. Berestord Hope wanted the zeutleman to suppose a bnzht young Liveral maiden enraged to a handsome Young Tory Squire, and that a general election ere at hand—that of the House, for example, 1in 18SL. RA laugh.] The youne lady would be found voting for one side in_politics, the young gentleman for the other, and what kind of peace or happiness could tney expect to tind in that circle? He desied that there was any- thing like a public opinion amopgz reasonable, intelligent, thinking women in favor of the bill, Mr. Hibbert asked what was the objection to women; as women, having the franchise. ft ouzht to be either that it would injure tke Con- stitution or it ‘would injure themselves. It could not be the former, Tor they were allowed to enter into trade; tney carried on larze busi- nesses and manufacturing concerns, they man- aged landed estates in s satisfactory manner, und discharged admirably many duties which in these positions they were calied upou to per- form. Why, then, should they not be enfran- chised as rated occupiers! That was as far as the bilt went, and as far as he wished it to go, and if it went further he would not support it. It could not be said they would injure them- selves. They were not to be called to give their votes 80 often that the giving of them need n- volve any neclect of domostic duties. Men did not neglect their business on that account, and thourh there were men who did newlect their domestic duties they did not for that reason fose their votes. Mr. Greene thouzht thatif it had been in- tended by nature that men and women ghould exercise the same political privilezes, we should have found it out long azo. No country iu the world had consentea to irive women votes. Mr. Newdcegate pronounced the bill to be s great piece of sentimental nonsensc.” % ’l;ilgreupon the bill was lost by a vote of 140 0 219, ROUMANIA. A Bittor Attack upon Russla, (Translated from **La l'rux]t," Jor The Tyivune, by E 5 The Nord, of Brussels, recently published an article sigued *“A° Russian Diplomat,” which prompted a Roumanian to forward us the fol- Jowing response. e gladly welcome this com- munication, as it opposes the sophisms behind which the brutality of Russian policy is dis- guised: The Nord, which, during the war, scarcely noticed the existence of Roumania, now fills its columus with the Roumania question. It now endeavors to prove that the treaty of April, Which guaranteed the integrity of Roumania, ceased to exist when we crossed the Danube to aid the Russian army, in_danger before Plevou, Roumauia neutral, according to the Nord, had a claim to the respect and the protection of Russia; but Roumania pourlnz out her blood and dispensing her money to bLelp the Russlaus in peril, had, by the singlc fact of crossing the Danube, violated the agrcement of April, and henceforth had no right to exact from Kussia the fulfillment of her promises. Such reasoning far surpasses the most cun- ning subtleties of the casuist, and does not re- quire refutation. The Yord seems to doubt {tself, the efféet which such ofinions will pro- duce bn brains not Russified, and_comes again to tho charge. 1t menerously opens its columns tothe Russian diplomat, who assures us that he is a practical man, and that he_intends rest- ing entirely on practical policy. IHe lays aside the grand ideas of nationality, which belong to the region of sentiment rather than to.the political arena. Our honorable opponent will allow us to re- mind him that the Russians have not ceased to prociaim that, if his Majesty the Emberor denied the retrocession of Bessarabia, it was not for fts political and commercial importance, Which was absolutely of no account, but simply on account of = sentiment of piety,—of respect for the memory of his augast father. This secws to intrude on the domain of senti- ment: but, if any thiuk differentls, we will not insist on it, and graccfully yield it up to prac- tical polley. ’ i1{ ever conquests have been leritimate,” remarks the Nord, they are assurcdly those of 2 great nation arrested inits wational de- velopment by hostile barriers, which must be overthrown to * gain the natural frontiers.” The Russian diplowmat does not specify where the natural frobtiers of Russia are. "He bas doubtless good reasous for maintaining sileuce on this Important point. It Is not, therefore, to defend Christianity that Russia taken up arms, but to make conguests, to overthrow bar- riers in order to reach her “ natural frontiers.” Roumania hss always served as an advance- uard for Russia in ber wars on- Turkey: and Jiow has she recompensed us? In allowing Aus- tria to tear from us Buoving, nod then herself priving us of Bessarsbin. Thus Russia, who was fighting for Christianity, found means of aggrandizing herself at the expense of Christian people who Thad aided her in her wars. “ Roumanis,”” says tbe Nord, * without Rus- sia, would still be divided into two provioee: under the Government of Turkey. ¢ -ushed un- dor an administration sustaiued by Tarkish fortresses. Where is her gratitude?” Again this accusation of fugratitude from the pen of the writer of the Nord! We have been Pether too rateful. and, sbove all, too con- fident in the promises of Russis. We have Hever forgotten s kindness, and have been more tban lhnlfi(f\fl for the acmolition of the Turkish fortresses of Braila and Giurgzevo, to which the above passage refers. This Kussian diplomat Durht to know that, precisely on account of fo- vors received frum the Russian Governmeut after the war of 1528, the Roumanians almost worshiped Russia. It is true this did not last Tone; for, thanks to Russla, who took care tg open our eyes, we saw the danger which meu- aced us. All the scts of the Russian Consuls revealed the end they werce pursuing. Ina ord, Russta was trying to_assurc! erself of a tonauest which would bring her to her ** natural frontiers.” 2 1t was Rursia who induced the Mohammedan Jezlons to invade Roumanix in 1343, and alded them in establisbing their oppressive regime. & The territorial statu-quo of Russia,” remarks the Mord, * was moditied in 1853, not in virtue of_aninquest.” Tt was in virtuc of a clause springing from the fertile brain of Count de Buol that this cession was reclaimed by the Great Powers. The idea then prevailing vas to distance Russia rom the Danube, of which sbe was accused of iinpeding free navigation; and it was decided to take a portion of territory from her. To whom should it be riven? As Moldavia was the most fnoffensive neizhbor, it was snnexed thereto, a's cousent obtained on account of this cof eration. *¢ In fact, Russia had been accustomed to regard Moldavia as Ler oiwn off- spring,” aud, we are ussured by the Yord, her action in the matter was promoted by aflection. Then why does Russin, who rezards Moldavia with most paternal care, now desire the pro- posed cession of Bessarabla! In what has her Poia transeressed! In kaving poured out her Llood and spent her money! In bavinz roved her vitalit} and couraze! in having heiped Russia? Whoever may be tempted to doubt the am- bitious schemes of Ruesia can _profitably medi- tateon the following words: ‘Russia will never allow herself to be separated from Bulgaria by ‘material obstacles; therefore, the present atti- fude of thé Roumanian Goverament ouzht to arn her that, in the event of being obliged to Jofend Bulzaria from danger, Russia will find in Koumania no anicable reception, not even an open route, but barriers to break down.” protect, defend the Bulgarlans,—agalnst whom? Agaiost the Turks? But Turkey exists Mo more!” Against Koumsniai Events have mly proved tov effectually that there is nothing 0 fear fn that dircction. If Russia desires di- o communication with Balgaria it is simply to advance, without any obstacles, to ber Cpatural frontlers.” The diplomat of the Nord attempts to prove by ltaly and Germany that there will be but lit- e logic in opposivg the unity of the Slavonlc Tace, and azain mantains that it Is the untty of the Christion people under the powerful shicld of Russiato which we owe our existencc. He. 2dds that it is thcgivi:[uni of tne Clhml‘lan race ‘hich bave exposedthem to Mussulman invasion g0 years. This is phialately faise. Toe Roumanians have always live perfect accor o their neigntors, and it is the Russians Who, by their {requent fncarsions and their Tapine, have struck the frst blow at the Empire Bulgaro-Roumain. The Principalities have oot oniy not made war on_the Slasoniz race besond the Danube, but theServiass and the Bulzarians Toce ‘aiways found an asylum in Roumania which gruaranteed them liberty and meavs of tion. 3 mftm sg :\?uly astonishing that Russia reproaches us with cgotism, when the Roumanian soldiera nave just been pouring out thelr blood az Plevna, Rahova, Widdin, ctc., for the emancipation of the Christians of the Orient, and have resisted all temptations to make requisitions from the other side of the Danube. Russia finds, bow- ever, that the conductof our political men is *less a crime than a fault.” We find the proceedings of Russia more than fauits, they are crimes. . Let Europe be the judge! ESTHETICS. Modern Furnltare In England. % An Old Fogy " writes as follows to the Lone don Standard: - Coming up to town for my annual visit, I am more than ever struck this year by the astounding transformation which the manners and customs, the tastes, sympathies. and preju- dices of socicty seem to be underzoing. Years 50 [ was strongly tempted to say my say on this subject, but I relrained; the temptation returns now, however, with such force that it is 1ot to be resisted. and 1 ask your leave to pass my plain Yorkshire judzment upon a few of the cliaracteristics of West-end London in 1573, “] have just returned, gir, from a dinner party in what is rezarded asamodel esthetic Iasion, and I cannot sleep unless I reticve my mind os to what I saw there. My host is a very worthy fellow, a capital man among_the plieas ants, and really,until I dined with him to-night, Ihad no idea that he wes in any way different from myself or the other commuonplace English- men with whouw 1mingle downin Yorkshire. Bur what i3 to De said of a mun who lhas gathered _together in a small hous in South Kensiogton all the combined horrors of a badly-furnished, old-fashioned parsonage in the country, and of a Chinese—or i5 it a Japanesc?—pagoda, as revealed on the Dlue and white ware which is just now the raget My host's drawing-room Wwas something to be scep, certainly, but bardly to be deseribed. Such a jumble of extraordinary sereens, of hid- ©ous curios, of basket-chairs, in which no York- shireman would venturo to sit: of peacock’s feathers, nasty little paper fans from the tea- shop, and China * monsters’ like those which I remember 2s hidden out of sight in the recesses of my grandmother’s cubboard. «There were mirrors in which my rouund face was stretched out until it threatened to knoclk azainst the door of heaven itself; there were others {u which my nose suddenly becane butb- ous and my mouth opened from éar to car, with tersifying offect. But, although fn every corner of the room there was a mirror, I uowhere saw one plain, honest luoking-glass in which 1 cond learn whether my neckeloth was properly tied or my old-fashioned frill sufliciently starched. wanted to sit down, and my host, measuring me with his ey isied that the wicker-work abominations which were dotted over the floor would not do for me, invited me to take a seat upou what he catled his *Chippen- dale.’ It was 2 stralhi-backed sofs, such as T remembered well i my boshood, aud I prompt- ly declined the inyitation. - Would I Ioox at the piczures, then? Yes, I would look at the pict- ures.. Heaven forbid, sir, that 1 should say what I thought of them! [ am told, however, that there really are peopls outside of luuatic nsylums who admire these ‘symphonies’ in color, and who profess to glow with entbustasin Dbefore those tignre-pieces, the models for which must surely have been found in the Brompton Consumption Hospital. If by any unhappy chanee 1 were to inherit a gallery of such works I should promptly make a bonfire of the whola collection. I think my host must laye seen something of what was fassing turough my mind. *You don't admire, perhaps, the esthetic style of house-furnishing,’ said he, while he zlanced with sel-2vproving smile round the drawing- room. *Well I replied, ‘it is rather odd and serappy.’ [ thought I bad wounded tha poor man’s feelings, but the next moweant, to my delishr, he said, *Odd_aud scrappy! You have used the very words that describe our school. The golden rule In furnishing nowa- days 1s that nothing must be repeateds you must never have two chairs, or two tables, or two mirrurs alike: and the grand secret Is to blend all these odds and euds of furniture into one harmonious whole. I think you will admit that I bave succeeded.” And awain he looked_round witn a positive purr of delizht. I could not say him pays my eses ached and mv brain g A Jooked round at the harsh colurs which were everywhere presented in such siartlinz con- trasts, st the purposeless jumbling up of kiteh- en clocks, hall ciinirs, and Japanese screens, at the crudeness, the tawdriness, :mmd toe valgar- Of course, sir, I zive I am not.a ity of the whole thinz. iy opinion for what it is_worth. man of taste, thaniz Heaven!? A STARTLING INVENTION. Which, if Successful, WIIl Rovalutionize tho Iron Trade—But It Is Not Successful Yet. Steatenzille (0.) Herald. An interesting experiment i3 being tried 2t Brown, Bonnell & Co.’s rolling-mill, in Youngs- town. It is a fiatent process of puddling, wnd is the invention of the Rev. Dr. Chapin, a Prosby- terfan divine, who for several mouths fiiled the puloit of the First Presbyterian Church in that place. A reporter of the Newrs, who fnvestizated . the matter, found in the new mill, sespended a dozen feet from the rround, a vast iron tavk or yat, résembling more than anything else in the world a peanut-roaster, except that it was mammoth in size. To the left of it was a great swheel,while a few feet Intherear wasasheet-iron tank, at least twelve feet in hight. This wasan Sirreservoir, and the air was oeing paraped into tho rescrvoir by a sort of an eugine and pump, which was putling away, makings terrible nol A long pips went froni the reservoir to the Tat, where the puddling was to ve done, . Th Pipe conveys the air into the vat, and in ths way the blast was obtained. The reporter asked Mr. Richard Brown what the odd-lonking vat suspended there meant. O’ said Mr. Brown, pleasantly, “that1s something whic if it succeeds, wiil do away with the hot _dotlar, and strikes, aud sliding_ seales, sud ail other such patents. It is aninyention of Dr. Ciapla, who i3 quite & chemist. He thoaght it mizht Work, showed it to our firn, and we liked it's0 well we were willlng to spend a littic mouey to try it.” Tha reporter then asked to be enlightencd as 0 how it was operated. s \Well,"” sald Mr. Bown, “itis yet in a very erude state, but the idea is to put the molten iron fnto a vat. and, of course, with the biast blowing ‘upon it will decarbonize, and after awhile ft will be taken out, put into s furnace boiled and balled ready for the squeezers. 'The biz wheel on the left is to turn the vat vver, 50 that the iron may be poured out whea ready 1o hoil. What you see in the vat now is ciuder that s been put in this alternoon and is bura- ing. It is to glaze over the surface ol the vat. The experiment of puddlivg will be made here- after.” The reporter asked Mr. the resutt if the new fnvention was a success. “The result would te,” he said *thatina, few months there would not be a puddiing fur- nace in the United Stat It will revoiution- ize the puddlingof iron, and this metbod will be used.” : Dr. Chapiu, who was standiog near, felt san- guine of Fuctess, seyinE that the cXperiment might prove a failure at irst, but 1t could be as- oribed o the air pump, which probably lacked the requisite power. Brown what would be o S American Lobsters In France. Para Correspondence San Franciico Call, Canned Americau lobsters appear to sell well in France. [ cotice them in mauy provision stores, even_ in quarters frequented altogether by the poorer classes. DPassing vesterday the cinned meat, fruit, and fis exhibit of a larze New York house, I inguired of the geutleman in chiarze the condition of their toreign trade. Ve sell,” suid by, ** 2,000,000 francs’ worth of canned lobsters in France yearly. We sold Jast year in Marscilies 13.0)) butrels of lobsters, each weighing 350 pounds.” % }iow about those pickled oysters there?® “fhey don't take to whem over here.’ The canned oysters you see are eaten prinzivally by Freuch and Germans, who buve acquired taste for the bivalve in America. But so junr as they remain here 1o such benighted state as to the virtues of atews and fries we _cannot hope for any immense exodus of canned oysters.” & Tiat suffed salmon——" . . «That is a California salmon. But the French won't bite cazerly at cannca salmon eith ‘Fhey don't like the looks of flsh when taken from the cans. There s a new thing In these tall glass jars.” 1" }Vm: is it? Coal-oill It looks like coal- L “Coal-0il! No! It’s cotton-sced oil. It’s rapidly taking the place of olive-oil in France. Two years azo the cotton seeds you see there i the other jar would have been wasted.” ————— Hilton's Latest. A Noto York Corresunndence Dotroit Free Press. - Judgze Hilton has committed anoiber outraze. Really, this man is becoming intolerable. Whaty think Fou, has he done now! Actmally. notkicd the woten who remain in the Purk Aveoue Ho- el that uniess they are willing to pay the regu- ar rates they will have to leave. The reqular rate 13 33 a day, and the women who re: paving 37 a week, and the heartiess Ililton tells them they must pay the rezular price or pack up and zo. Of course toere is aoother outburst of indigeation. 3 .