Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 14, 1878, Page 4

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T.—Stated Couclave Monday evening, JAIY 15, at As¥lum, corner of Liandolph and Halsted'sts, Business of fmportance 3 Comuandery. Visiting Sir vited, By order of the Em. JAS. E. MEGINY, Recorder. CORINTHIAN CHAPTER, Yo. 63, RB. A. M.—S] «clal Convocativn llnnduyu'en(n?..!u'ly 15, at 8 o'clock. “.'ngfin‘g‘li‘{;d:\aé)fl’rfi. Visitiug” Companlons are ¥ fovited By oricr ool g, W. BARNARD, IL. P. APOLLO. COMMAXDERY. No. 1, K. T.—Stated Conclave next Tuerday evening st 8 o'clock, for busi- pess,, Members ncing untiorm are requesied to wear . Vi clcome.” By orderof the : G e 57R: ‘DUNLOP, Recorder. ASTILAR: LODGE, X0. 303, A. F. & A. M.—Install- atlon of oficers elect, Tuesday eventhe, July 16.n their hail, 76 Monrve-sz, The fratemicy cordiaily fuyited. g C. J1. CRANE, Sec'y, 5"1'- BERNARD COMMANDERY, No. 35, K. Tu— Stated Conclaya Wednesday cveninz, Julv' 17, at 8 o'clock shyrp. for work. J. 8. WHITE, C. JULY 1878. STNDAY. 1, In New York on Saturday greenbacks were quoted at 99} cents on the dollar in gold and silver coin, Gen. McDowELL, the new Superintendent of the Cnstom-Honse, will assume the duties of his office next Wednesday, immediately on his arrival in this The Porrer Investigating Committee will go to Atlantic City, on the New Jersey,coast, July 23. This announcement Taises:n sus- picion that they are anxious to wash them- selves of the AxpERsSoN-JENKS perjuries. ‘The Berlin Congress yesterday came fo an end with a state dinuer. - Over the walnuts nnd the wine the Crown-Prince made a con- gratulatory speech, declaring that German co opsration might be counted on for all that tendad to secure peace. The only trouble is that there are always so many different views as to the proper method of preserving peace- ful relations among the European nations. The examinution of Senator Krrroca by the Porrre Committee yesterday was pro- ductive only of discomfiture o the Demo- crats. It was attempted to be shown that the second of the Louisiana certificates of election"was irregular dnd- contained false siguatures. KELLooG simply stated that this certificate was not used at sli; the Electoral Commission acted upon the first certificate, which was in due form and unassailable. Thoss politicims whose theory it is that all offices are made to bo filled by politicians are not unpaturally enraged aguinst the President for removing Collector ArTHUR from the New York Custom-House. Yet tha people at large, and especially the business men of the West, understand the motives which prompted President Haxes fo this act. In our Washingion dispatches this morning are given some of the spegific reasons for the removal, Arrmor haos persistently declined to carry out the Civil-Service reform views of the President; he has retained political hacks in the office, whila discharging more eflicient clerks who were not politically in- clined. 'He has also discharged many of the subordinates who testified before the Jax. Commission, althongh a distinct promise wasmade on the partof the Government that the fact of thoir testifying should mot injure them or causs them to lose their posi- tions. As theso and other ressons for the Temoval are daveloped, there can be no donbt but that the action of the President will Teceive the hearty indorsement of all good citizens, Western civilization has already struck the Island of Oyprus. No'sooner has the British flag been unfurled before the astonished Crpriotes than the British Government com- Inences setting up the first strong posts of civilization. Postmasters have been ap- pointed. The guarantes for good govern- 1ment is already there, in tho shape of a strong British garrison. Telegraph lines on land are to be started, and submarine cables will shortly be laid to Alexandria. The surveyor and engineer are already at work to seo what can be done with railroads and bridges. All these movements scem to be preparatory to the construction of 2 great military and com- mercial road from some point on the main 1and opposite Cyprus, across the Syrian Des- ert, and down the Euphrates Valley to the head' of the Persian Gulf. The completion of this proposed work will not alone serve asa | are millions of dollars ready to employ labor powerful nuxilinry in the defense of India, ‘but will prove to be a highway of sach com- mercial importance between Europe and Asis 85 olmost to revolutionize the present condition of traffic with Persia aud India, When the flying trains begin to usurp the place of the of Western ci ation will have commenced. —_— The angél of pence has again descended upon Montresl, and the alarmed-inhabitants are being gradually reduced to their normal {emperature. The stately Hibernian has ‘put away the reluctait shillalah, and mourn- { and “-prosperity which 6!l -the homes fully reflects upon ths glorious opportunity 1bat has been wasted through-the selfishnass who toil all the hours they can, and sell their of the city authorities inrefusing to allow the Orangemen to parade.’ In view.of the well- Jmown eagerness of both partiesto engage ina scrimmage, and to enter. upon uxa‘delighu‘ul occupation .of bresking each other's heads, | sell for'what it can get; demands more than it seems scarcely possible, although our dis- patches ‘intimate such to. be the case, |.is forced, therefore, to idleness; and, in that ~Mayor “Braupe? ' shonld: ‘have' :been’ ¢ sble {0 retain his popularity after the Tepressive measures that he fnstituted Iu| It would scem that, to the man with s jug -ig said that there is talk of electing him to Parliament on account of his distingunished services, This may- be so, yet, if “true, the reason must be found in' the fact “that, throughout the exciting incidents of the pust few days, he has continuslly favored the Roman Catholie party. This may have partially atoned; in the eyes of ‘true Catholic believers, for his iniguity in refusing to let the fight go on ; still thero is room for skep- ticism on the part of those who are ac- quainted with--the trne’ inwardness-of the religio-political situntion in Montreal. A curious case of swindling by the Trustees of the.Teutonia Bank of New Yorkis re- ported in our dispatches this morning. By he confession of the Secretary of the bank it seems that for several years he was in the Lhabit of buying securities and charging them on the books at higher rales than were actually paid, the difference being divided up among the Trustees. Thus wasbanking ren- dered more profitable unto the Trustees than aunto the stockholders. THE FAILURES OF 1878, AND THEIR LESSON, - cht(mfiny we printed the semi-aunual report of tho business failures prepared by Dox, Bantow. & Co. Tae figures at first glance are appalling. The time covered is the six months from Jan. 1 fo June 30, 1878, in which the number of failures was 5,623, as ngninst 4,749 in 1877,—an increase of nearly 1,100,—while the linbilities of these failures footed up $130,000,000 in the six months of 1878, against §99,000,000 for the correspond- ing six months of 1877. 'Never, it is said, in the history of the country have the fail- ures aggregated such an immense sum in the like period. A consideration of the circumstances of the last six months, however, will explain much of this seeming disaster. In the first placo, Congress had before it for several months a bill to repeal the Bankrupt law. . When this bill passed the House there was an apprehension that it would pass the Senate in & brief time. The bill as it pessed the ~ House provided for en immediate repenl, and, pending its consideration in the Senate, thonsands of persons hastened to avail themselves of the opportunity to pass through bankruptey. The number of failures during the six months in Chicago was 215, and in the State 497. There was thus crowded into a short time a large number of bankraptcies, that would bave been extended perhaps over a year, and there were doubtless many hundreds throughout the country who availed them- selves of what they considerod the last op- portunity of forcing a dishonest settlement with their creditors. This will go far to ex- plain much of the ineresse in the number of failures and the great increase in the amount of the linbilities of the bankrupts. Another causo was that; uatil within a comparatively brief time, the financial con- dition of affairs in this country was laboring under the worst of all calamities,—uncertnin- ty. Within the last thirty days Congress has adjourned, and the financial condition has greatly improved. It is now settled that there will be resumption of specie-payments in January next, if not before; that specie values are now substantially recovered ; that there is to be no contraction of the paper currency ; and that - this condition of affairs is in no danger of being disturbed: by legis- lation. Another circumstanco for the better . is the establishment of peace in Europe, and the emancipaion of vast amounts of capital now sezking investments wherever they can be had. Never was unemployed money so aobundant, and .never was there a brighter promise - of its seeking pro- ductive investment. The American crops of 1878 are almost unprecedented in their abundance. Never had the country so much to sell, and never was there so much money abroad to invest inonr surplus. The declara- tion of peace has given new activity in Euro- pean markets, and this activity is felt al- rendy in this country. The nation has recovered its financial stability. The one thing needed is to give labor larger employment. Our manufactures lan- guish, not because of any lack of capacity to produce, but for want of consumers, We have added something to our exports, but not to such an extent as to afford any gen- era) relief to the unemployed lsbor. No matter how grent our production of bread- stuffs and provisions, there is & market for them ; every pound of them is convertiblo into cash, motwithstanding we have to sell them af foreign prices in the world’s markets. Our grain, and flour, and mests, and cheese, sud tobacco, aud cotton, and petroleum we have to sell for what we can get for them sbroad. But our man- ufactured goods have no such markel; we do not produce at prices which will permit us to sell; we therefore have to close our mills and factories, and let the workmen go idle and suffer for the necessaries of -life. ‘We want customers for what our labor pro- duces. The lack of caustomers forces labor out of employment. While the agricultural Iabor of the country finds enlarged employ- ment over an increascd area of land each year and the surplus product of that labor is increased each year, and while its wealth, comfort, and happiness are enjoyed to a *['svantof food greater meesure every returning season, our mechanical labor is unemployed, poverty and want are visible in the cities, and dis- content and crime are becoming permanent. The contrast between the condition of the agriculturul and the non-agricultural classes of Iabor is striking ond yot instructive. The one is always employed, selling its products for what it can get; the other refuses to produce except at a cost which forbids sell- ing sbroad sund excludes it from market. And the remedy which demagogues propose for this—the * revolution” which they in- sist upon to change this—is to increase the cost of the products of lsbor, and still fur- ther reduce the number of consumers. There in the, production of articles for sale. We have the raw material, the fuel, ¢he trans- portation, and the food, cheaper than else- ‘where, yet we cannot produce, as the farmer does, anything for sale. Our goods when made cost more thah any one will pay for ling caravan, the geeat work | them; therefore, labor is not employed be- cause labor cannot produce as much as it de- mands for consumption; therefore, capital is unemployed, lsbor is unemployed, poverty . and - destitution - nmong non-agricultural lsbor take. tha place of the comfort, contentment, plenty, peace, -and bless the lives of the agricultural class, products for the; best price the world will “give for them.” "~ e 3 The other clnss of labor; discarding the sworld’s velue of its- proddets, refuses to the world will give for whet it produces; a revolution. the &n3 all other comforts, demands of molasses, tho advice to double his supply Dy adding an equal quantity of water would hardly be accepted as a serious suggestion, +were it not that thousands of men, suffering for the means of living, are insisting that, in order to increase the sum paid for wages and the moans of buying food, the value of the paper dollar bereduced to 50 cents, and thus overy man have two dollars'where he now Las one. Aud yet this, to thousands of suf- fering non.employed men, is the only remedy for the notorious fact that non-ngricultural labor is not employed, because it cannot find purchasers or consumers for what it pro- duces, and because those products cost more than the world will pay for them, THE CITY SCRIP. Some weeks ago, there was an ordinance proposed in the Oity Council declaring that interest at the rate of G per cert be paid on the city scrip’ from the date of its issue ‘nn- til paid in ns taxes. The necessity for the passage of this ordinance is becoming greater every day. The best that the payees of this serip can do is to sell it for 85 cents, ond the time for selling it at that rate is rapidly clos- ing. Those who take the’scrip are doing so as o matter of -charity, and there is of neces- sity a limit to charity. The passnge of this ordinance is demanded by every considern- tion of justica. There never was a greater wistake than the supposition that the Su-, premo Court has decided that it was unlawful to pay interest on a lawful debt. Tho Court declared that the particular debt then before it was illegal and void, and that the city could not pay interest on a debt. tho principal of which was illegal and void. ‘That was certainly not a new proposition, and it would have been strange had the Court decided otherwise. T'he present scrip is considored legal. The principal being honestly due and payable by the City Troasurer, there can be no principle of law which prohibits payment of interest thercon. When the city sells a right of property in the city tax-levy, it can sell it, as it can any other property, for what it can get for it. If the purchaser psy $100 in cash to the city in exchange for an assign- ment of a portion of the taxlevy, the city can assign him so much of the tex-levy as he will take in exchange for his $100. ‘The city may, in consideration of the $100 cash, assign him $105, $108, or $110 of the tax- levy just as legally as it can assign him $100 of the tax-levy. at any time ever declared the allowauce of interest on paper for the payment at a futuro time of money, when the paper itself was lawfully issued, to be illegal or improper, ond no City Council or Counsel can claim that the payment of interest on this scrip is illegal without admitting that the serip itself is illegal and void. The scrip aud the allowance of interest thereon stand on the same legal ground; they must both stand or fall together. In the menntime, it makes a vast difference to the unfortunate payees of the serip. ~With interest it can be sold at par; without inter- est it is now worth only 85 cents, and in a few weeks will run down perhaps as low ns 70 cents on the dollar.. Wo hope the Coun- cil will'pass the ordinance withont further delay. TAXATION IN. ENGLAND. Some of tho English fiseal reformers ars now agitating the substitution of the Awmeri- can system of taxation upon the assessed value of property in place of their system of lovying taxes upon rental values. The pro- posed chango is very soverely criticised, espe- cially in the London ‘Spectator, which points ont somo of the burdens of American prop- erty-taxation. Beforo examining its argument, it may be well to indicate a fow of the sali- ent points in the English system, In En- gland, property is fot taxed npon its cash or selling value, and no: personal property is listed for taxation. Tke basis of taxation is the rental value of property. In the case of 2 house, or of ground, tha Assessor makes an estimate of the probabie rental paid by ten- ants, and thé merchant pnys, not upon the value of the'stock of goods, or the capital in- vested, but upon the income he derives from it, which. he returns under oath, Tha as- sessed rentals are naver higher than the actual rentals paid by tenant to landlord,—the former being only about two-thirds of the amcunt of the latter. The heeviest land- holder iu Groat Britain only pays local taxes upon the house he occupies and the ground he cultivates, bis remaining tazes boing paid by bLis tenants upon an assessment of their rontals. ‘The principal direct taxes are stamps, Innd-tax, house-duty, property und income tax; and of these, the latter, which was established in 1812, is the most im- portant. It has undesgone many alterntions since that time, when it was fired at 7d. on the pound. In 1854 it went up to 14d., on account of the Crimean War, and a yenr later rose to 16d. In 1857 it went down tfo 7d., and in 1858 to 5d. From that time to the present it Les fluctuated, ‘the highest rate being 9d. and the Jowest 2d. It is now 8d., but limited to incomes of over £150 per avpnum, with deduction of £120 for all in- comes between £130 and £100. For this sys- tem of taxations upon income .some of the English agitetors now wish to substitute onr system of taxation upon capitel, or the cash valuo of property. In criticising this propo- sition, tho Spectator mekes one argument which will enlist considerable sympathy from that class.of taxpayers holding large quantities of real estate of the unproductive sort. This Lind of property, the Spectator declares, is a non-existent arti- cle, and thet it is unjust to levy taxes upon it, upon the assumption that 1t will yield something by and by. Itsays: “ A city lot which cannot be utilized is no mors a subject for taxation than o wheat crop still benoath the soil, or coal still ‘undug from the mine, To tax it is to tax capital while still raw ma- terial, and gradually to destroy the very springs of energy, aud it is to that result that a tax on property must almost necessa- rily come. It falls so heavily on every form of infructuous wealth that it prevents ac- cumulation.” In another place it argues as follows : Electors will not insist on economy when taxa- tion falls on property, and such taxes exagmerate fiscal burdens by increasing the difticulty of assess- ment. The valuer feels that 1f an_exemption be once allowed on property temporarily valneless or reduced in value, he Wil be met With excuscs ‘which will whittle away the whole revenue; and he therefore gocs on vaiuinz, until in the end the owner chucks his property 1o the State in despair. He finds his capital diminished by State demauds ‘nt the very moment when it has ccased to yield, and, of conrse, unless o very rich man, pives up his proverty and his hopes. together, with thia fur. ther aggravation, ~that he gives tliem up.at the precise minute When their surrender will benefit nooody. Jrisbecanse toe market is slutted that the property is soid to bay taxes. How much is the State cver likely to obtain from the sale all at once of 70,000 praperties, rejectea oy their owners because they are {00 cxpensive 1o be koptr- ' - The 70,000 propertios to which the Specta- 2or refers are the mass of lots enumerated in the recent delinquent-list of this city - for 1877 and previous years, It spocifically ‘al- ludes to this list, ond,. under a_very serious misapprehension, quotes it as the basia of its argument against the adoption of our system.” The mistake it makes is in supposing that these 70,000 lots bave been handed over to No Court in this country, the State by the owners, and are all to bosold because they cannob pay tho taxes. It -evi- dently is ignorant that a large percentagg of these taxes will be paid before the day'of sale, and that there is any method of re- deeming the ' remainder.”” The delinquent- tax list amounts only to.a notification to property-holders that it is about time to pay taxes, which are roceivable any time befora sale, which will not come slong before next September. . The taxes wers .due last Any; but, so long as the time of payment ruus into September, with a trifling forfeit only, people having, other uses for money aro not likely to lose the profits on its use for five or six months by paying it out in taxes. Thesituation is not nearly as desper- ate or gloomy as the Spectator paints it, and the facts in the case somowhat weaken the strength of its argument. Nevertheloss, its position on'the injustice of levying taxes upon pieces of land that yield nothing, and its apt illustration that it would be just as fair to tax the ¢ expectations”of a young man just setting out in life, will strike a great many peopls in this part of the world as very forcible and pertinent. The Spectator would have mnade a much stronger point against our system had it shown. the relations of the {ax-cater to the taxpayor, the dishonest mauner in which the tax-anter burdeus the taxpayer, and the infamous nudacity with which the tax-eating rings stenl the taxes., There would be little faultfinding with taxes in any of our large cities wera not the taxpayers certain that a large percentage of their taxes will be stolen wvery year, and that’ they will have to be taxed all the morgheavily to make good the deficit. If the English want to try our sys- tem, however, we have no objection. One yoar’s experience would be the strongest argument necessary to induce them to return totheirown. Oneboutwithsuch an organiza- tion as our County Ring would lead the most dissatisfied Englishman' to be content with ‘’his own évils. S RUSSIAN POLICE METHODS. Though American 'sympathies were gen- erally enlisted on the side of Russia in the recent war betwoen, that country and Tur- Ley, the fact was by no meaus due to any re- spect in this country for the Russian sys- tem. Recent events, and particularly - the stu')ry of VERa Zassourirom, have revealed the fiercencss and' ‘wuscrupulousness of Russiau polico mothods., There has probably been no regime in Edrope, since the torture was obliged to give way befora civilization, that has pursued political offenders so re- lentlessly as the Russian Government.- The “¢Third Section " is what the Police Depart- ment is called, and the term is not inappro- priate, since the ‘ofi_i,cr;-‘:s, and agents, and spies employed on police duty are said to in- clude about one-third:.of the population St. . Petersburg, , Venrs Zassournrren bas told her own story since her escape. She was arrgsted and tried for shooting at Gen. TritPqrr, the Chief of the St. Petersburg Polica Section, and the jury brought in a verdict df acquittel. In this country, wliere the Constitution expressly provides that no one shall be put in jeopardy of life or limb for a second time on account of the samo offense, the verdict would have ended the case, and’ VEma ZassouLrrcm would have been free fo come and go as be- fore. But not so in ‘Russin. This young woman no sooner heatd’ the verdict of her ncquittel than she wasindanger of new capt- ure and asummary disposition by death or cxile through secretagbnts. One young wan rushed out of the court-room and procured her a carriage ; for dofug this he was subse- quently sent to Siberid'to suffer there inexile all the insalt and injury that Cosseck bru- tality can dovise. Apother got her into the carrioge and ordéped the conchman to drive off, bat the ~coachman feared to obey, because he wag surrounded by gens- darmes and police ngents, who had ordered him to drive the otheriay. It was the sui- cide of o young man, cfmmitted on the spot, that enabled Vrna ZAssouriTcE to escape. The shpt was mistaken’as the signal for aun emeute, and the cabmbn drove off to escape personal denger, and was allowed to do so becuuse the attention of the police was mo- mentarily diverted. WERA ZAssoULITCH re- moined in St. Petersburg. for some days or wouks, eluding all the vigilance of the police to find her, and finallyjescaped; but she will probably not be free from all danger of re- capturo until she reaches either Eu- gland or America. ‘Her escape under the ecireumstances s remarkable and significant. It is | remarkable : that she was ablo to elude the police, who infest every household, and gignificant, because it indicates that the Socialist organization in that country, under whose protection she placed herself, is nlmost as ubiquitons and powerful in resource as the Police Dapart- ment itself. There has been another recent instance of this spread, of Socialism in Rus- sia. Baron Heymiva, Chief of Police at Kiev, occupying there the same position Gen. Trerorr holds at St. Petersburg, was killed while walking slong the public straet with a friend. A long knife was thrast into his side; the assassin ‘escaped and Las not been apprehended. The killing was pro- voked by the frequerty application of a se- cret, dreadful, and indecent punishment of those charged with denouncing the Govern- ment. This police disgipline is described ns follows : 2 Some rash youth or ‘some middle-nzed man, after possibly a glnss too much of vodka; some Jouns woman freguenting the vchools, of dab- ling in the new-faneled gocial themes, may. ina contivial moment, when the samover is gently sim- merie on the table, have expressed his or her oviuion 08 to the mecessity of fnternal reform. The next day, or perhups two or three days after, the rugh, heedless speaker would be inviied to an Tatervie with, the Chier of the eendarmeric, and wonld invariably be treated with every conrtesy. The high oflicial would express nis rezret that in prudent words should have been spoken, and I the room, when the visitor's chair would xink with him or her, the upper half of his or her body re- maining above the foor, while below unseen hiands administered a_fiagellation, the severity of which was only equaled vy its fgnominy. . This over, the trap-door would rige agnin, and the victim, suffer- ing severe bodily pamn, and even more nrrowing moralanguish. would be. bowed out. by the ever- courteous and sfiable Chicf. 1t is not much wonder that such practices as this should develop a deep-rooted hatred of Russia and Russinn officials, that vents it- self in assassination and attempts at sssas- sinntion, 'The present indications are that Russia is in more danger from internal troubles with a people goaded on to revolu- tion than from any fature wars. Mr. Speaker RANDALL ought to know that the dark horse in 1880 will Dot be a trick-maule whith will be broupht into the ring merely for the amusement of theerowd. RANDALL fs just now heariug it thunder all around the skyibe:,| causc of the inconsistencics and absurdities of some of his speeches fo his recent junketing-ex- cursion about the country. Thus, at Philadel- phia, where - his -auditors “were’ mainly* High- Protective-Tariff men, he“'safd that * Talk" of, Free Trade comes either “from ignorant' men or’ thosewhoare trying to deceive you. There must, be Protection in this country %; and at Néw York, before the Manbattan-Clab,- where they are mostly Free Traders, hé declared that “Indi- ‘vidual enterprises must be left free to carry ont thefr destiny without the aid of Government. You in New York shoald see to ft that Con- > grese shall not stunt tho efforts of the merchant and manufacturer and shackle the industry of the laborer by laws for the special benefit of a favored few.” Of course S docs not appear to advantege In the rol of an Ariful Dodger, and some of the Pennsylvania papers hold him up to the ridicule and detestation of his morti- tied constituents; and recall us playing doudle on the Texas Pacific ‘Bill,—first appointing a committeé in favor of it, and then vigorously opposing it,—ail of which is quite “humiliating to the average Pennsylvanian, who is fostering the-hope that RANDALL may turp outtobes * favorito son.” —— IRENE MACGILLIGUDDY. ‘The remarkable satire on New York customs and manners, publishud some months ago un- der the title of ** The Tender Recollections of Trene Macgillicuddy,” produced a deep sensation at the time. The lesson which it couveyed is perhiaps cfen yet not entirely forzotten. It hit New York soviety very hard; and New York so- ciety, after all, is representative of the best in America. Boston socicty has more pretensions to culture; Philedelphin society is more staid and sober; Baltimore soclety is more exclusive, and Chicagosocicty more prudish; bt New York affords an excellent avernge of the whole. It has old familics, descended from the Datch; rich families, sprune like musbrooms from the cor- runtionof the War; and Jearned families, foster- ed by the influcnces which position and wealth alwaysexert. ftispremature, therefore, forany of the rest of us, fortunate enongh to be born outside of New York, to assume that a satire as severe as “‘Irene Macgillicuddy *? might not be directed ngainst us; there are, indeed, in it still unappropriated germs of trath which would flourish as well in one American soil as another. Let us endeavor to sce what they are, and how far they are adapted to our own circamstances. The circumstances of Irene's life are not, It will be admitted, unusual in New York socicty. She was born of respectable parents, who them- selves hnd come from common stock. Her father Lud grown rich, more by dint of mood Iluck than through any merit of his own. Her mother was a scheming, am- bitious woman, esteeming nothing so much as social distivetion, and consldering no soclety so truly desirable os that from which she was ex- cluded. We have often considered it a proof of an igmoble spirit that anybody shiould aspire to figure in * soclety,” so-called; for one must cither exclude or be excluded, and either way the distinction must be drawn on factitions and esseutfally vulgar grounds. There can be no dispute fu saying that one who seeks to obtain by intrigue a position in a social circle to which she is not admitted as of natural right must be hopelessly dulled in_ her senstbilities. Such at least was Irenc's mother. She had spent _ecveral of thelearly years of her life fn Eurooe, where she had acquired a taste for art, which my fatber-also afected, without, how- ever, knowing anything about it; and the result was, as their combined taste was somewhat florid, toat our house looked like a badly-arranged mu- seum. She was, moreover, an accomplished mu- sician, with a magnificent contralto voice; indeed, she was as_much superior to tho average amateur erformer as her Cook was 10 ordrnarly calinary art- sts; hence it happened that our dinners aud our music were both cclebrated. I was too young to take an acifve share in my mother's early social stragples: but, eyen to the end, she never suc- ceeded in thoroughly breaking down an indefingole surt of barrier, bebind which & certain ultra-exclu- #ite set chose 1o intreach themselves. I used to think tiie presumption and conceit of theso people quite intolerable. The idea, in a democratic countey like oars, of a select few priding them- selves on their ancestry. and gentility, and heredi- tary retinement, and ail the rest of it, and think- ing us not good cuough to be admitted into their circle, was quite preposterous, This satire on the New York worship of the Knickerbockers will not bo lost upon the appre-, clative reader. It is, in connection with one’ otherhit in the same direction, altogether the best part of the little volume. The other hic referred to fs the passage in whicn Irene, hav- ine become engaged to her. spriz of the British nobility, and being about ‘to lose him for the want of o better family record, asked him whether it would have made any difference sup- posing she had beca & Van Twiller or a Per- simmon. o e exid that it would not have made the alightest difference, aud the objection would have been auite the same, as in Englund it wua not_supposed ihat distinctions based upon the idea of birth or caste could possibly exist in a democracy which cx- pressiy repudiuted them. Hence, all Americans who came (0 England were considered _equal; no one ever thought” of inquiring . about their fam- ilis; and, s fur 25 marrying went, he considered all American prls equally caurming, and me the most churming of ail. 4 Here it is the august Knickerbockers them- selves who get the blow. Itis easy to imagine the horror of the average well-bred New-Yorker on reading such flat blasphemy as this. Stitl another passage hits off this insane Americant ‘passion for tamily rank. Irene told her English jover that her father bad been nt sowe - trouble to trace his pedigree to the celebrated * Macgil- licuddy of the Breexs,” o Highland Chieftain of much better time thau English girls s, that; as thev have so much’liberty, they can offer more in- ducements 10 the younz men to pay them atiention, A young man will snbmit to be crushed, and bullied, and sat upon, if ydu make it op at the end of the evening by asking'him to take you'a sleigh- ride next day, or to give you a dinner at Delmoni- co's, with only o young lady friend of you® awn age, and her husband, who - admires yon, to ao proper. What fun we giria used to have. and what Dluftts we used to concoct for robbing our beanx of their affections, of exchanging them when we got tired of them, orof drawing them oz to the pro- posing point! In my first season I had. seven pro- osals; I had several far betfer scasons_than this later on: but mamma said I conld not have expected to have done more the firat wintor, considering the girle I hea to compete with, some of whom possessed all my advantages, combined with far greater experience. Here, ‘agaln, I 2m strack with the diiference between Encland and America. 1 dou't suppose Enillan girls get_oue propasal for ten that we “get. 1kuow one girl, now 24, who has had 157. This I can vouch for, as she snowed me the list; but some of the men must have been very slightly wounded, for one asked to be intro- duced to her not Jong since. Tle hud been in Cali- fornia for fonr years, and had forgoiten that when e last suw her hie had propoaed 'to her, and sne had forgotten that she had refused him.' He had, in the meautime, made u large fortune in Bonan- 29, the absence of which was ber objection to him at the time; and they are now cngaged to bo marrfed. She says she does not see why she should put off getting married any lonzer, especial- 1y as the young married women are beginning to Tiave such a good time. But Irene’s great adventure does not coma until she sets her enares for the sprig of the British nobility above referred to. This is the Earl of Chowder, ‘ecldest son of the Duke of Gumbo. She goes to work deliberately to capt- ure him, and succeeas at Jast in forcing an offer of marriage from him when they are under Niagara Falls. But the engagement is prema- & clau which has now become extinet, but that we in America attached no importance either to rank or family, and that she loved him for his owa sake. : “Then he me again, and sald that, for reusons inexpressibie, if my ances- tor bad beew a Hizhland Chieftain, ne could not huve been Macgillicuudy of the Lreeks, and thal there wnstbe £ome mistake, and I wa: origmally descend wree mude me feel very uucomvortanie; for, ul- though we pretend not to care about such thinws, papais very proud of his lighland ancestor, and, 4s 1 told Chowder, hud even 2ot nis coat of Arms. aughed in a ridiculous way, and said t iy Lrousers of armns, Which I did 5 but he o like a0 muuy of his countrywen, made silly remarke. But to return to our story of Trene: She had been cducated in Europe, und when she first ap- peared above the social horizon in New Yori she thought she couid say, withont vanity, thuc she was the kind of girl who, in London, would have beén called a_**stunner,” a *‘screumer,” and who, In New York, Is sometimes deseribed asa *bouncer.” She was introduced into so- ciety by’a number of younz married men, who, it seens, are the social autocrats of New York. 1| Before Lwent to my first ball, my mother gave a series of dinner-pastics, To these she especinlly asked all the young married men who nave it in their power to muke or mar the debutante in ner first scason. 1t18 they, not tneir wives, who are theleaders of fashion; and it 18 to them that the would-be belle must pay her court if she wishes to succeed. Of conrse the unmarried men are impor- tant; bt they take their cue from the older hands, who, m epite of having wives, are still the most indefatigable bull-goers, the recogulzed leaders of the **German, " and the established authoritics on matters of fushionabie etiquette. Where xociety lias no regular hierarchy, a8 it has in England, its Ieaders are self-constituted or tacitly scknowl- caged. The men, usa rule, marry 8o young that they have not had time to become blases; and the consequence fv, that they flirt as actively with un- married girls, and flutter abont as Mppantly, as if they were still single. In some cases they keep this up until their own _ daughters come oat, over- whelming the girls of their choice with bouquets, bonbonuieres, und trufling presents. tuking them solitary driver, viving them diuners, boxes at the opera. and distinguisning them by such ma delicate attention as are ‘ulways grateful to the fe- male mind. Qccasionally these ure pushed to such apoint that tuey @ve rise to unplensant possip, hutI have never known any real hartn come of them. ‘fhe pirls are alwsys thoroughly well able to take carc of themselves: and upon tae occasions, which sometimes happen, of a man becoming o desperutely in love as to forget his coujugal dutics and proposc an elopement, he 1 variabiy meets with a positive and decided refusal, In this respect they #how a sagacity and ense of Dropriety which the aristocratic mothers of youne families in London, wi:o think nothing of running awsy with the husbands of their lidy fricnds, would do well to imitate. Of course an_ exclusive devotion of this sort hus & tendency to injure & girl. because it keeps off the younz men while ft Iusts; but pecliapy, on the whale, shie gaing n sort of prestige by it which only renders her more attract- ive to themn when it is over, When the great occasion of - Irene’s first ball arrived, the carriage could hardly hold all the bouquets that'had been sent. There were thir- teen fu all, efght of which had been sent by mar- ried men and five by bacnelors. .Her mother .was taken suddenly ill, but a- chaperon was found for ber in the persouof the wife of one of her young married admirers. © That night was o triumph, a0d thercafter shebad many of the same sort. She had’ the tact to conciliate the will of the ladics, knowing that upon them in the last resort would,-depend her:chances of social success. She had many love adsentures, including. one: serious - flirtation with a lover of . hier cousin’s,-which resulted fo breaking off the engagement. . The New York girls bave a better time than English gicls, she is_convinced, be- cause the former bullyand intimidate the young men. There 15,00 competition to fear from theo young marricd women in New York as there is in London. q Another rerson why American girls bave such a turely announced by her mother. Chowder is obliged to fuform his noble parents of it, and they veto it instantly. He leaves her, vowing eternal constancy, but throws .Lier over in oprecisely six weeks, as she expected he would. Chowder, \it must be understood, is a Zood representative of the British aristocracy, as we are accus- | fomed to think of it, well-meaning, stupid, and a prig, having & perfect horror of everything .not approved by “society” anda most august reverence for rank and the author- ty of rank. He throws over’ Irene and says he will never marry, and at the end of the story, though she is married to another person, he is stil] single. Irene’s cousin Flora has 2 more cheerful ex- perience with another English nobleman, Chos- der’s companion, Lord Huckleberry. He {s much shrewder then Chowder, bat, as his parents are dead, he has only bis own wishes to consult, and is cowed, if the truth were known, by the frankness of Irene. 1 determined 10 spesk serionsly to Huckle- berry, and show him the harm hewas dolng to my consin, and insist upon his either poing back 10 England at once, or proposing to her definitely, Huckieberry was very nice about it. He said he had po idea that Flora was really so ** gone ™ that he was very ‘‘far-gone™ himself; that he thought Flora a girl calculated to mnke any man happy. and clever enough to @1l uny social position in any country, and one that any man might be proud of; and that he had never been in love with u girl in his life before, and had only_delayed on account of the novelty of the situation; and he hinted that it would be a severe blow to Lord Somebody's wife in England, —he did not tell me her nawe, —but that, perhaps, wonld be the best way of cnding -*it,"—he-did not say what. But 1 thought it best to agree with him, o I saia at randorn that **it" ought never to bave been begun, at which he looked rather red and eurprised, and took my hand and kissed it. ~And two hours dlter- warde Flora came bursting into the room, radiant with delight. Huckleberry *:had placed his hand and heart at her disposal, uud he had no tiresome fomily to consult, and she was in a hurry to et home, and the marrfage would be in a fortnight. " Irenc finally marries & poor English_gentle- man, a scientist. She has 2 million of dollars, which, her father settled upon her when she be- came engaged to Chowder, and which she will by no means consent to give up afterwards, though her parents stronzly oppose her marry- ing the poor Englishman, who, to crown all, is named Thompson. We will have told the story most noskiilfully if we have not, In the quotations, ' shown some of the rich bumor and satire in which this little sketch abounds. It ridicules more admirably than any other recent flction the tuft-hunting, mammon-worshiping teadencies which have of late become so slarmingly apparent in American society. It satirizes, also, the advantage which is given to wealth and family, and the general scorn in which fntellectual attainments are held among the younger classes of “good society.’” 1remember ove evening [writes Irene] half-n- dozen of ue girls counting up the_young men who could convesse intellizently on any of the literary, sclentific, or even political questions of” the cay. When we had zot up fo two. we were obliged 1o stop. Now, this I very hard unon .us, : We don'c want to be driven to resort to old married men or foreigners for intellectual recreation; but what are we todo? When you ure not down in your eternal Wall streets, you arc out at Jerome Pari, or look- ing out of the club windows; but as for informing ~your minds, and giving yonr naturally bright intel~ iects ome sholesome food to digest, which shonld make you instructive as well s agrecable memoers of socicty, you won't do it. It is truethat there arc other and better tendencies nlso apparext; that tuere are in all the large cities ‘“sets™ fn which better feelings. are stiown; fo which money and family carry little or no weizht, and io which the ability to contribute something to the knowledze and amusement of others—fair moral character being proved—is considered suflicient. But the drift of late years in thc other direction has been so strong that some counteracting force- was needed; and we shall be glad if this little pamphlet assists in some degree, however small, to that end. i SECRETS. Not one conld tell, for nobedy kuew, liow the dainty little blossom erew, Or why it wad pink, or wny it was blue, ‘This child of the storm, the sun, and dew. Not one could tell. for nobody knew, i, Why love was nde to gindden a few, ® And hearts that would forever he truc o June and starved the wnole way through. ~Eleanor Kirk. No one could tel, for nobody ke, Why that noisy Milwaukee buse-ball crew Gets beaten and walloped the country through By the Oshkosh nines and the Stars of Peru. No one could tell, for nobody knev, Why SToREY went over the waters blue, And left the Times in the hands of a few Chaps who don't know half the time what to do. —_——— To the Editor 6f The Trivune, Ciicaco, July 13.—You say truly that British rule will bea great boon to Cyprus. . That rule must therefore be wise and good.” How is it, then, that Lritish government is° execrated by g0 nnny Irsbmen? Keeping in view ‘the comparative wisdom and goodness of fhat wovernment, and looking to yesterd: vroceedings at Montreal In rezard to o purely Irish matter. the participants of which on both sides were mostly Irishmen, are you of opinion that lreland would be 2s well Off under the present Government as under au Iclsh one® It you will kindly answer thore points you will confer 8 favor upon several of yuur readers. 1. F. CowPan, 505 Lnbbard street. The reason why the * British government in Ireland is exccrated by so many Irishinen s, because It has been like Turkish rule fo Cyorus, —an oppressive desvotism. For whole centu- ries the most cruelly and tyrannfeally governed country in Europe.was Ireland. 1t is only with- in a very few years that British rule in that island has ceased to be intolerable. GraD- STONE'S measures improved matters somewhat; but shiere still remain many wrongs and evils of which the Irish have just cause of complaint. The land-tenure in Ireland is obpressive to the last degree, notwithstanding the ameliorations suggosted rather than sccured by the Tennnt- Right bill. - The Irish are & nation of rent-rid- den tenants living on the land confiscated from their forefathers by the English invaders. They are compelled to pay eighty millions of dollarsa year to absentee lanalords whose titles rest on seizure ana conflscation. As long as this system . of spoliation Iasts, * the Irish masses will be, aod justly, * too, dis- contented, unhappy, ~and dicloyal to the British connection. Andiher cause of complaing is the right of suffrage in Irelaud, which is very restricted. A property qualification’ so bigh is exacted as to exclude the great bulk of the ‘people from the elective franchise.” Mr. Cow- Pan witl,perceive that it is impossible to “keep fu ¥iew the comparative wisdom and gooduess of tha, government ”.as exemplified by its rale in Ireland, “while looking at-yesterday’s pro- - ceedings in Montreal.” The change of rulers for the long-oppressed Cypriotesis undoubtedly agreat. hoon to them.. English rule, as com- pared with tbat of the barbarous Turks, will unquestionably be s decided improvement; yet We suspect the jslandersthemseives would much’ prefer belnz annexed to Greece, the land of their race and kindred; but, as between + bloody Turk and surly Briton, they p::{!g::: latter. The English have never ruleq any o their colonies as oppressively and unjustlyag { they bave the Irish, and the hatreds eogeagepy. ¢ by centuries of wrong and .cruelty canngy L“l z chanzed into love and losalty by softening the :~ rigors of misgovernment for a few past Fears. ] g The late BENaAMIN F. WADE, of Obig, to remark in"his emphatic way that, If tne. peg. ple of Loulslana would raise more collun,;ma 4 sugar ad less hell, & would redound more 5o . 3 their peace and comfort, as.well gg Promots their material prosperity. What the. blun, olg man meant to say was, that the peaple of the South onght to pay less attention to resources with which Nature has so bountifgljy- blessed her. And it is now_gratifsing 1o gf. serve that many of the leadinz papers of thy section of the country are using thelr infuengs to impress upon the people the necessity of for. tering manufacturing .interests as well as calti i B and give more time to developing the imp;elfil.: g vating tie soil. The Mobile Repister points ont, 5. with all the glowing shetortc pecaliar t6 thay climate, the bright prospectsahead for the State of Alabama, providea the people will turn their enereles In the right directfon. Ttsays: * - § The mineral belt north of the ean 2 taing grenter wealth than all. the miges or) o nia, and i3 making rapid development. The eurr Tency of. the country 14 nearly restored to par gy gold and silver, and all that isnow neeied 1o prest upthe stagoation and set the wheels of teade i busy motion is confidence. Everything is yean fora e and long season of prospenity to uat In.- and those individuals and communities that gt awake to this fact and uct accordingly will be po first to reap the rich rewards of their foresisht and aagucity. No time conld be more probitiogs (ho the present for embarking ia those entorprises ths are indispensable to future prosperity, and which Hoat the forndation of all farther ad'mmmuu. i In arecent speech by the Hon. L. P. WiLker before the people of Madison Connty, he findy 435 something far more profitable to talk apout than to fnduige fo abuse of his political oppo- i He sld: e nents. Of all the States of the Union, Ala] o est In manafactaring capabiloies. - Sn be ‘l:llrri:llz-' uble water-power, measurelesa fields of coal as iron lying in conjugal proximty, as if a0 placed by the hand of Natuze to work ‘tozether for the ens %f‘l‘u;l;‘x;l. the clvilization, sud the elory of man, aredead age uman put them in motion L Andsapall The Register adds that * The long and dreary lanc of disaster and discouragement which we have been painfully threading for the last fire years scems at last to bave founda turniog,” and {t predicts great things for the State of Alabama in the near fature. = Some one who has visited the Island of Cypras thus writes in the New York Zimes concerning its appearance a5t is approached, and its valus' from a military point of view: Considered merely as a place of residence, 3 hos few equals, 8nd the Englion oo goes. Ton the burning rock of Glbraltar will doubtless vary- & ‘ their happier comrades who are destined to ruary - its Eastern rival. Those who have approached the plate, and Austria coolly picking at Bosnia and i5land at sunrise will mot easily forvet the long - suctession of green, sloping hilla rising like waves against the clear morning Vineyards which have supplied ‘for ages the i famed - wine of Cyprus”; the littlo. whito-bel conicd villas peeping shyly through dark baskets of encircling folinge; the endless -windings' of the shore, checkered with tiny bayws, boln, rocky ridges, and broad sweeps of smooth wnte gsod' along the edge of the biue, snarkling sea. Norar the “towns, however dirty and slovealy, t & ceriain barbaric picturesquencss of ‘their own. Ssuntering through the mar. row, winding streets of &2 or Famagosty, - and marking the Old-World aspect of the bizh blank houses, between whose projecting fronta the sky appears 'far overhead like little ribbonof burning lizht: the black-eyed, olive-caecked tst- terdemalions, brisk and voluble as any Neagaolitsn. - Jazzarone, with tneir lttle basxets of fish or frait on their heads; the- portly, white-bearded Greek merchants moving solowmniy past; the panted walle and mlt cupolas of the quaint old churches; th dark-robed priests, with their long silky naif orer their shoulders, glidinz notselessly to and fro—ona wouid burdly be surprised_to meet Othello masch-. ing down 1o tne shore on_his way back from Al po, or Fortunatus boastfally chinking the nu?; Duzge whose weslth 0o profusion could exhauat. - * Upon this charming little retreat a new and formidable importanee has Justdossendcd, luspr- - iar, | 3 session, combined with that of Malts and Giby makes the Mediterraneun as completely & Britis’ lage 28 the Black Sea was:a Russian one thin; years ago; and Turkey's murmurs, Austria's sus- picions, Italy's jealousy, Russia’s secretaiam,” masked by @ feirned acquiescence, are nstund enough. _An unbroken communication with Indis, a powerful hold upon Western Asia, Tarkey pro- tected. Egypt secured, Hussia virtually cheek- mated, the command of the Levant, the supremacy of the Mediterrancan,—ail hang dpon the posses- . slun of one little nook of earth. Should England . succeed in holding it, she will attain o position whicn even the auncxation of Ezypt coald never have given her; bat it is more thau donbiful that she will be sutfered to do 80 unchallenved. R e — Although it Is said that the wealth of Great ‘- Britain, as indicated in taxable incomes, has fallen off in the last two years, the increass for . aperiod of twelve years is somethiny remark: able. Thisis scen in a comparison of the e cently-published Parliamentary return of the values assessed to the income tax for 137-7 with that of 1884-'5. The increase from all soarces {s from £330,530,729 to £450,314,000, aud it s most marked in the assessmentson cmploss ments and industrial establishments nnd apoli- ances. At the same time there has been o con-; siderable extensiou of excmptions and abate-. ments, 80 that the Increase of ‘actual Incomes must be considerably greater than tkat of, the assessments, which Is nearly 50 per ceat in- twelve years. . S 3 BISMARCK bus been taking lessons in national abnegration and disinterestedness. He ‘has; lovked on and seen Russia transferring -Bes- sarabin, Bulgaria, and a slice of Armenia toher Herzegovina, and Eugland putting the Cyprus = orange in her pocket, and extending her “pro- tectorate” like a blanket over Asiatic Turkey; ;_ even little Servia and the bantam-rooster Mo tenegro get some juicy siices: but nobody says - “Torkey ™ to Deutschland once. What more natural than for BISMARCE to say that charity . should begin st home, and then, suiting the action to the word, *gobble?” Hollundi" It~ Dears about the sawe relation, as regards race, religion, and contiguity, to' Germany, that Scot land does to England. A Jewish contributor to the New York Sun suzgests o long list of possible things from BEACONSFIELD’S diplomatic efforts, as follow: BEACONSPIELD is & Jew; BracoNsvistp bis negotiated the new protectorate: Syria, in whith Palestine and Jerusalem are located, js onc of the - Tarkisk provinces that are placed uander the British protecturate; according to the termns of the protectorate, the Governors of Turkish prosinced are to be apoolnted with tho approvalof the’ Lritish Government, of which DZACONSFIELD IS (6 Premicr; the appointment of the Governor of - Syria, in which are Palesting and Jerusalezs, wWill be under the control of BracoNsrizLy; Bracost{ r1sLo will, therefore, be ihe rulng power 3 Jerusalem over anclent Palestine; he will place3 Jew in thc oftice of Governor; the Jews will agafn | ise o power at the sedt of théic anclent glory 1€ Iaws of MosEs and the old Jewish system will be * festored; and thus we may discover the kef ot BzacossrieLp's Eastern policy. and behold the cousummation of hi Jewish ambition. s ——— About a year ago, the Uity of St. Jobn, N. B was almost destroyed by fire. ‘Ihe city is now vearly restored, and the new St Jobn is a much fiver town than the ola. The gen-: eral charcteristics of the mew buildings aré greater uniformity, greater hight, and more ornamentation than the old city preseated. In sadition to the rebuilding, new edifices to- considerable _extent have been erected outside ¢ of the burned district. Many strests have beed widened, and In various ways the whole appear- ance of the town has veen improved. It cost about balf as much to get work done 2s it did Dere in 18727, Two dollars was- spent 1o’ Chicazo where ‘onc should haye suficed:’ “Property-owners have suffered for it ever since ——— 3 A story from Osbkosh tells of o meeting be-: tween Grores H. Reep,. hard-money Demo- i% erat, and GABE BOUCK, dirty-shirt st Democrat, on the street. The discussion w?:_ & stormy and personal, and concluded by RzED* addressing GABE thus: **If you had'not B the bullhead luck to be born the son of WiLL- 1ax C. Bouck, Governor of New York, mm‘"? of belpg.a member of Congress you-would'bs: going home Saturday night with a bucksaw 18 one hand and a codfish in the other.+* b ————— The Hon. ALLAN A, BurToy; LL. D;, died Forest, Ill., yesterday of pdralysis. BoRTON was a mative of Kentucky, but fors: several years past has resided at Forest, Il and at one time resided in Chicago. While It inr in Eeatueks he was yecognized as an able g | 5 § & { i o BTN