Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 4, 1878, Page 4

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HERRICK, Sec’y. LADY WASHINGTON CHAPTER, No. 25, 0. E. S S CeBAE AUE 5 ool metiers e Sotited . By order of - - EVA MCHUGH, W. 5. auested. Ly order of M. A COKLISS, Secretary. ELLIS LODGE, N 1. 0. 0. F.—Xotice is Dereby given that the regular meetings wiil be beld on Manday evening, at 8 o'clock, {nsiead of Thursda) tvening as heretofore. J. E. FLEMING, Sec'y. VAN RENSSELAER GRAND LODGE OF PERFEC- TION, A & a. Scoubn Kite Masons, wii conter the 4 Liursday evening next. Ly orae: e e O T T BONK, T G- ED GOODALE. Gr. Sec. CORINTHIAN CHAPTER. No. 63, R. A. M.—Spe- clal Convocation Monday eyening, Aug. 5.at 8 o'cluck. Workon the P ang 3, &2 M, Deirees Vielng Com: e 3 HaaE el m’nuzm_mn. H.P. K. T.— ST. BERNARD COMMANDERY. No. 35, T3 SV:IItd Dol;miz" \\'te(lil.v!&dly G“Cnil‘!” “A‘HE- 7 o'clock. usiness of {mportance. order portancey. £ WhltE, E. C. SUNDAY, AUGUST 4, 1878. In New York on Saturdsy greenbacks raled steady at 99} cents on the dollar in coin. Secretary SEerMaAN is spending his sum- mer vacation in New York City, where his principal recreation seems to be the holding of conferences with prominent bankers upon the question of specie-resumption. In this kind of idlesse the dreamy summer days glide past, and it is to be hoped that Jomx Saenyax is happy. Congressman Carxmns, of Indiana, declares that although the Nationals will hold the balance of power in the next State Legisla- ture, they will not re-elect Voonmees to the TUnited Stotes Sepate. This prediction is scarcely less gratifying than his next state- ment, which is that the successor of the Tall Sycamore will be a Republican. Several erratic witnesses appeared before the Congressional Committes on the Labor Question yesterday. One person, who said that he combined the two dissimilar occups- tions of brick-laying and editing, denounced the public-school system of - the country be- cause mechanical trades were not tsught, vehemently argued against the introduction of Chinese laborers, and predicted s labor riot next winter. The second witness was a Socialist, who advocated the establishment of 8 grand co-operative Christian Society. Going from bad to worse, the third witness wanted several billions of dollars expended in docks and other public works in order to furnish employment to the masses of labor- ing people. Altogether, the Committee had 8 doleful sessio ‘When the present State Treasurer of Kan- sas entered upon the duties cf his office he gave bonds to insure the proper handling of the Stale funds. Among kis bondsmen were several stockholders in Masten’s Bank, of Knnsas City. On the principle that one good turn deserves another, State Treasurer Gates immediately upon assuming the duties of his office. began to deposit the State funds in Masten's Bank. And yet, when the bank closed its doors yesterday, thero were foolish people who grumbled and accused the State Treasurer of carelessness. Besides aloss of $250,000 to the State, this failure has entailed losses of §£72,000 {o Kansas City and of §110,000 to Jackson County. The assets, as usual, are of the optical kind. "The latest and the most unblushing effort of the County Ring to get control of the west wing of the Court-House and City-Hall building, is an accusation that the work now going onis not in accordance with the speci- ficetiors and is not of proper material. The result of these accusations led toa call of & meeting of builders, contractors, and archi- tects who are not connected with the work on the building. ‘These gentlemen yesterday visited the premises, excmined all the work which has been done, the stone and the bricks used, and. after discussing the speci- fications and comparing the work, reached the unanimous conclusion expressed in the following resolation : Zeeelted, That from the inspection of the work 2ud materiz] now in process of consiraction on the City-Hall a¢ it presents itseif to-day, we £nd Ltar i2 18 in every eseential particular equsl 1o the re- quirements” of the specifcations and’ evers wa. ruficient to make a permanert apd scbsiantial cture, presuming at the same time that the et My, GEveiasp hasmade al requlsite i or safe bearing wei ever of the buiiding. A /et of every patk ‘The charges against the work were payt'zf the genersl warfare made upor the city's un- dertaking to have the wesi wing built with- ont the interference of the contractorson the cast wing. will cost iwo thirds of a millibn of dollars Jess. {han the county’s half, apd there is the great” grievance. The ntegp'“s to break up this arrangement,’ to set-aside all contracts, and, beginring anewf"call in-the county*con- troctors and their. pals and give them.the work and.the two-thirds of a million of dolla$s ‘extra’’ The Ring dies hard. The efiori to stop the work and have the city discard the Bedford stone and sub- * stitute that taken from Warxre's quarmry Aug. 7, 4L The city’s half of-ihe Luilding- THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. AUGUST 4, 1878—SIXTEEN PAGES.” would, if successful, add heavily to the profits of the east-wing contractors; and Warzzr had the faco to appesr at the meet- ing yesterdsy to protest, in the nsme of the public, against the work now. done and the material now used! In the meantime, the city's half of the building is progressing admirably, at & cost of about half that of the county’s wing. Ce——— The railroads will contest the late decision of the Secretary of the Interior in reference to the pre-emption of unsold lands. The ‘Western roads, which are particularly inter- ested in the subject, will pool together in the great struggle and contest evory inch of the vast territory which they remorselessly scquired through the aid of active Washing- ton lobbyists. Serrvgen, of the Porrer Committes, has modestly confessed that what that Commit- tee set out to do has been done, and that there is a great deal more yet to come. There is & wide difference of opinion be- tween Serrvoen and the msjority of the American people. Evidently he is laboripg under a hallgcination, and the infirmity is growing more and more pitisble every day. The temperature in St. Louis has lowered enough to let the local politicians renew their favorite squabble over the office of Postmsster. It is aharged that Frirex has dismissed an employe of the Post-Office who was o rash as to oppose his plan in the primaries. The enemies of the Postmaster have set a Nemesis upon his track, and hope to oust him on the ground of a violation of the Presidents order for- bidding Federal officials from meddling act- ively with politics. If the allegation against Frurey is true, there is reason for his re- moval; bnt the main difficulty lies in dis- covering any man in St. Louis more scrupu- Ious than the present incumbent. NEW PARTY MOVEMENTS, The control of the American Government will always be disputed by two chief parties, massing together the great bulk of the peu- ple; but it does not follow that these two parties will always be the present Republican and Demoeratic organizations. Formerly it was the Federsl and Republican parties, later on the. Democrats and Whigs, and for the past twenty-four years the Republicans and Democrats. But there is rarely a time when there is not an effort at the formation of athird party, anxious to usurp the place of one of the two great political organizations, oud to contend for the supremacy. During those periods when the two chief parties are distinguished by well-defined and absorbing issues, the new factions attract but little at- tention; they are generally made up of ¢ soreheads” and their followers, and they rarely achieve even local significance. But the lack of any great mnational is- sue between the two leading parties is accepted as a sign of impending disintegration, and an effort at the organiza- tion of a third party acquires an importance that it never has at any other time. The factis not to be denied that the present is peculiarly favorable for the development of o third party, whose chances for ultimate leadership will depend upon the opportunity and sbility it can control for presenting an issue of overwhelming importance and con- siderable daration, upon which the American people will take sides. In all periods of strong party discipline there has been some one great and central matter in dispute. Federation for a long term of years and with varousmodificntions; then the tariff, at a time when the coun- try was ready to divide on sectional lines over this interest; the Nationnl Bank ; at- tempted nullification ; the Mexican war; aunexation of territory ; Slavery and State sovereignty in various shapes; and final- Iy the War for the Preservation of the TUnion, followed by Reconstruction, have all supplied sufficient waterial for strong party lines, and contention has been narrowed down to two factions, each struggling to establish and maintain its opin- jons. At the present moment, and in fact ever since the Presidential election of 1876, there has been no great dividing line between the two chief partics. Indeed, it was diffi- cult to hold men down to party fealty during the Presidential campaign, though the status of some of the Southern States was still a matter of concern. Since the inauguration of President Haves, however, there have been notable indications of weakness in both the Democratic and Republican parties. AMany Republicans bave openly resented the policy of the present Administration, and have not hesitated to indulge their animosity at the expense of party welfare. Many Dem- ocrats, on the other hand, lLave openly es- poused the cause of the Administration, have not hesitated to declare that the country is better off with Hayes than if wounld have been with TrLpEN, and in some sections of the South bhave inaugurated independent movements. During the long Congressional session of more than cight months, scarce- ly a siogle measure was proposed that esacted the combined support or combined opposition of either party. In almost all cases Democrats and Republicans voted together in approval and in opposi- tion. Whether in the case of silver remone- tization, of currency retirement, of the Re- sumption act, of the Bankruptcy repeal, of the Pacific Railronds, of the various subsidy suggestions, of appropriations and taxation schemes, Republicans and Democrats voted on cross lines, voted together, or voted apart, without any care for party unity. All this was tantamount to a confession on both sides of party weakness. There remains but one great issue between the Democratic and Republican parties,—National rersus State sovereignty,—and that is inoperative in the sbsence of provocation ; it is natural- 1y theoreticel, except when tested by actual application, but it only ngeds some new out- break on the part of the Democrats—wheth- er by efforts at nullification, or an attempt to break down the Constitutional amendments, or a revival of Rebel claims—to show how vital this issue can become, and how over- whelmingly strong the Républican party is with that issue slive. Meanwhile the two old parties sre unquestionsbly in a dull acd turgid condition. _The situation, as we have described it, is the main factor iu the Fiat party move- ment, but it finds an important suxiliary in the unusaally large number of played-out politicisns in both the. old parties. Tho 1en whose political ambition or whose greed for office has outlasted their ability or op- portutiity seize upen & new party movement with the same desperation that prompts a drowning msn to clutch at a straw. . Thexe are all grades of these creatures. Thero are the superannuated theorists who cannot retain’ their hold on a-pecple -who hava progressed. There are the retired or rotir- ing Congressmen who have been relegated to private life because of demonstrated in- copacity or corruption. There ave the sore- heads in both parties who must look for ap- preciation or reward among people Who do not know them so well as their former political associates. ~There are. 8 host of spacalators, lobbyists, and jobbers of all kinds who are ready to encoursge any now party movement that may some time gain sufficient power to be useful to them. There are theorists who know they can gat no hear- ing from either of the old parties, and are ready to take their chances with any mew party. From the very highest, striving for the Presidential nomination at the hands of the new party movement, down to the very Jowest ward-bummers who have lost their influence in the pot-houses, there are always numerous people eager to attach themselves to any political offshcot, 28 they have every- thing to gain and mothing to loss. These closses serve to give an illusive estimate of the numerical strength of the new Fiat po- litical organization. But mere opportunity and the co-operation of unsuccessful or ployed-out partisan ad- venturers are not enough to give a new po- litical movement & hold upon the people. If the disintegration of old parties is re- sultant upon & loss of vitality in the issues they make, no new party or parties can hopo to supplant them without supplying the needed vitality. It will not do to appeal for popular support on issues that aro merely local, or sccondary, or transitory, in their character. For a time thers was s general and tromendous effort to make political tem- perance the basis of a new party ; bat it fail- ed. Grangerism was & still more determined threat to the existence of the old parties ; but it soon exhausted its vitality. After it had accomplished in great mensure the local re- forms which it demanded, it censed to oxist as s political entity. So it may be with the present Fiat movement, which is endeavoring to conlesce under the namoc of * Nationals ” several factions with distinct and not always harmonious purposes. Thers is no natural bond of affinity between Socisl- ism and Fiatism, eight-hour-Trade-Unionism and Grangerism, and there are several shades of opinion under both honds. It is doubtful whether there can be a union of all these factions into one party, and still more doubtful whether such a party will be ablo to suggest a single issue that can command popular sympathy to theextent of abandoning old party lines. Time and opportunity are both at hand, perhaps; but it may be as diffi- cnlt for a new party to presentan issue strong enough to draw new party lines as it is for the old parties to find an issue on which present party discipline can be en- forced. Nothing less than the Slavery ques- tion could have projected the Republican party. What issue with anything like the same vitality will serve a third party with a reason for existence to-day ? 3 GRAND-JURY INVESTIGATIONS. The recent decision of Judge RogEss in relation to hearing compleints by Grand Juries has provoked considerable discussion. The decision is. to the effect that Grand Juries shall teke no action on complaints not certified to them by Committizg Magistrates, referred to them by the Courts, presented upon personal information by a Grand Juror, or introduced by the State's Attornaey. This, it is said, is a denial of justice,—a refusal to hear the complaints of aggrieved persons, and limiting the office of Graud Juries to such work as the District-Attorney may select. At first thought there may seem some truth in this view of the case; buta more careful consideration of the matter, we think, will satisfy the public that there is more danger of abusesof the Grand-Jury system in the absence of such arule than thera is in its enforcement. The Grand-Jury system ig of itself an in- stitution that has largely survived its useful- ness. The original purpose was to protect the citizen against persccutions of a. politi- cal character instituted by the Government, and against persecutions instituted by per- sonal mnaplice. The Grand Jury is a secret rribunal ; its investigations are mainly ez- parte. An indictment of a citizen without cause i8 a grievous wrong ; it always remains & stain on a man's character ; and such a smirch should not be inflicted without strong testimony, and without some responsible voucher. i Under the rule laid down by .Judge RoGErs, any person having a chare of crime to make against another can go before a Magistrato, make oath to the facts, and have the person arrested, the charge exam- ined, and, if the evidence warrant such a proceeding, have the accused held to bail to answer at the Criminal Court. This pro- ceeding is open to all, and no man unwilling to take the responsibility of making a public accusation of crime against a citizen should be allowed to do so secretly. In some States the Grand Jury is prohibited from hearing accusations of crime until such accusations bhave first been publicly made and examined ina Justice’s Court. The liberty and the good name of the citizen are too sacred to be exposed to secrct accusation, followed by indictment, when the act is inspired by malice and hatred. At an examination be- fore a Justice the accused can Lave the op- portunity of meeting his accuser, and of explaining facts and circumstances which, however iunocent, may, in the absence of such explanation and when related ma- liciously, have the appearance of guilt: Judge Rocers, however, opens the door as wide as any reasonable man can ask for. Grand Jurors have' the statutory right to investigate any facts of which the members may bhave personsl Lnowledge, and the Inws of the State directly commsnd the jury to investigate certain classes of crimes. . In addition to these it is in the power of the Graud Jury to hear and act upon complaints which the District-At- torney may bring before them. What cases, then, are denied a hearing? Only those cases where the indictment of a person or persons is sought secretly, upon ez-parie testimony, withont the knowledge or the means of explanation, and where the accuser will not take the responsibility of making a charge that can be examined publicly, Oases where the conduct of public officers Tequire investigation should-be suggest- ed by the District-Attorney, by"whom, after all, the investigation must be: prose- cuted. It is not likely that any person hol ing that office will refuse such an_ iavestigi- tion without good and sufficient canse ; and should be, by refusing such inquiry, assume the responsibility of screening. criminals it would be an abuse of ;officisl power for which there is no remedy, except the con- demnation of public opdnion, and his eventual dismissal from offica. ““That officer is neces-’ sarily invested large discretion, which Le may abuge.at any time. The dpzgbr of o District-Attorney refusing to allgw.” investigations into alleged officinl -cristes is 50 remote anil 5o unfrequent that b censes to be as alarming or as injurious os to open the doors of every Grand-Jury room to every mean, cowardly, and malicious man who in secret seeks to smirch the charneter and subject to indignity thoss whom he dare not charge publily. The possibility of using the Grand Jury to insult, injure, and defame private character is too great, and its use'for this oge t00 frequent, not to justify the restrictions which Judge RocEms has placed upon the opbnihmity for making. complaints of that nature. THE' NEXT - LEGISLATURE. It is time that those persons who feel any regard for the good- government of the city and of the State should evince some interest in tho matter of selecting members of the next General Assembly, There are four Sen- ators (three holding over) and twenty-one Representatives to be elected in this county, constituting a small Legislature of them- solves, and charged with the interssts of & larger number of people than are to be found in many of the States of the Union Chicago, as part of the State, and because of her own municipal affairs, bas deep - terest in the character of the General As-, sembly. As g general thing this county does not fare a5 well with her twenty-eight mem- Dbers of the Legislature as she might do if she had fewer members, but of a better and more experienced class of men. Men without ex- perience, fitness, or qualification seek membership for their own profit and grati- fication, and too often to the great loss and injury of the State and of their immediate constituents, Unfortanutely for the public interests, there is o Senator of the United States to be elected at the coming session, and the danger is that eightoen out of every twenty ‘members will be eleoted with refer- enceto the selection of some Senator, in which the people take but little interest, and with- out any reference to the important questions of taxation and revenuo, in which every per- son in the State has a direct personal inter- est. Cook County might send down to Springfield twenty-eight wooden men, worked with springs, and who could vote for the caucus candidate as intelligently as the twenty-eight men selected and pledged to vote for Senator as the caucus may direct, and, the Senator being elected, the twenty- eight men ropresenting this county, with a few lonorable exceptions, might, according to past experience, be tobacconists’ signs, so far as they have any knowledge or experience in the business of legislation, and under- standing of the wants of their constituents. Even if there is a Senator to be elected, that does not release the public from the obligation to nominate and elect intelligent and experienced men. In theseven districts of this county it is ‘easy to determine the political complexion of the members who may be elected. ‘The First, Second, Fourth, and Seventh Districts may be assumed to clect two Republicans and one Democrat each, and, the politics of the members being ascertained, the twelve members may as well be intelligent, able, and experi- onced men as of any other character. The Third, Fifth, and Sixth Districts are pretty certain to elect ome Republican and one Democrat each, and the choice of the other members will depend on how the Socialists and Fiatists in thoso districts may vote. Of the four Senators to bo elected the chances are that each party will elect two, subject to the vagaries of the Socialist or Fiat vote. In every case, however, the candidates should be men. selected for something in addition to their capacity to vote for a packed candidate for Senator, and voters who care more for needed legislation than they do for some Senator may have their votes determined by the character of the men nominated. It is therefore not too early to appeal_to all parties to nominate men for the Legislature who have some brains or had expericnce and who are familiar with the legislative needs of the city, and to try and secure for the city a deliverance from some of tie evils of our Revenue laws. LORD BEACONSFIELD'S TRIUMPH. Lord BeacossFIeLd's policy in the Anglo- Turkish matter has been indorsed by the very emphatic majority of 143, which the approving resolution received on Friday evening last ; and a very suggestive foaturo of the vote is the unanimity with which the Catholic Liberals supported the Tories. The Tory or Government. majority is 70, while the majority for the resolution was 143, be- ing more than twice the regular party ma- jority. The very unanimous way in which the Irish voted for the resolution shows that the majority of people in Ireland as well as in England are with the Government in de- feuse of the results of the Congress, as well as of the protectorate understanding with Turkey. Perhaps the vote might be still further construed to indicate that the Roman Cath- olic Church has no sympathy with Russia, or with any reforms that might grow out of her new relations to the Sclavic peoples just emancipated from Turkish despotism. The chief significance of thevote is its com- mitment of the Government, indorsed by the majority of the people, to the English protectorateof Asiatic Turkey. By the terms of that protectorate, upon consideration of certain reforms, to be inaugurated in the administration = of = the Turkish Asiatic provinces by the Porte, England stipulates, in case Russia shall ever extend her frontiers boyond the limits of Batoum, Kars, and Ardshen, ss defined in the treaty of Berlin, she will aid Turkey with armed men to oppose such an advauce. In other words, the protectorate implies that Russia cannot strike Turkey without striking England at the same time. Hitherto the relations of Eug.aud to the Eastern ques- tion have a! vays involved the possibility of Eoglsh interference with Russia in any movement against Tuxkey; but now it is no longer a possibility. By solemn treaty en- gagement England has made herself the active ally of Tarkey ; and, if the Porte shall carry out the conditions to which it has sub- scribed, England is bound to make war upon Russia whenover Russin shall make war upon Tarkey, the only bar to the operation of the treaty being the possibility of Rus- sia’s withdrawal from its new Asiatic terri- tory. As this event will never occur, the alliance will be a permianent one, or at least as long-lived ns the avernge of trenties. In making this arrangement with Tarkey the Enghsh Government had the precedent of its success in the Belgian guarantee. “ince it pledged . itself to maintain the Bel- gian boundaries, neither Germany “nor I-‘mnce_ has offered to violate them, and, reasoning from aualogy, the. Government has ‘the right to assume that'the Russians will respect the 'Turkish boundaries. Undoubt- edly the sentiment of:the English people is that the Government has indefinitely post- | poned the danger of collision with Rus- sin, and that, as the former settlement of the Eastern question in ‘1856 has lasted for twenty-two years, the: present settlement will last equally as long, and perhaps longer, thus carrying it over into another century. ‘What the responsibilities of this protecto- rate may be, or what distracting problems may arise in the effort to introduce good government among the widely-varying: and | prodigies and heard the hooting of naturally-turbulent races of Armenis, gov- | ‘‘Julius Casar” he says: 1 erned for centuries by corrupt and absolate I belleve they are portentons things TUnto the climate that they point upon. Pashas, who will be likely to oppose any having first determined that he aforesaid, he abletly loaded his pstay 4o 20 menced to hunt for the other warrior, 1t seem, be | 88 1f Providence had 50 ordered it for the gpger. tionable and subjective person was ,‘,-mi’fi ; front of a drug-store, where oplates, lint, L other appliaaces for dolng up wounds 20d ‘::d | pivg bleeding,ire to be obtained. ‘Huufllemnb' was begun and Kebt up Vigoronsly nati] bot = Distols were empty, and the honor ot "both ,:: owls, as in | 4 ; Nor yet in the same tragedy would he interference with what they consider their | guilty of this: prerogatives, the English people evidently do A:gd graves have yawned anfl.ylaldn_dnp tn.dr du.d, not care to consider. They are ‘content to | Ang ghosts did shriek and sques] about thastreets, 5 jer O Ceesar! those things are beyond all nse, have interposed a very strong barrier fo Vil i ey ¢ beyond & i, Russian growth, which they regard as- their | - . e i W ) most distinet peril in Asia, and they feel re- Th“,";::g:;‘:},‘:;:’:m:‘gl’::fi:fig s athor | 1Sfcd, and, sad to relate, not a scratgh g lieved that they need have no further appre- Princes. X _either of the flerce combatants. Tig ottteomg hensions, for the present ot least. Whatever | Agin, fn “King Lear,” Gloster talks to his | of the difficulty.is that that part of the gygyy son Edmund about eclipses in a way that makes one think of a Chicago ZTimes editorial on as- tronomy. Thus: of Mississippi is about evenly divided y, question as to which party is the Har, Al::‘; ‘?fl the regret is universal and unantmons tmh‘a; the fotare may have in store they are will- ing to hand down asa legacy to the mext generation. i . | ..The late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no | hostile mecting had not been fatal ‘on oty "I'he essence of BEAGONSFIELD'S victory is | 200d to us; maugh the wisdom of Nature can rea- | sides. €on it thus acd thus, yet Natnre finds itsell ———— his success in checking Russin without o | ccourged by the sequent effccts. Love cools, great war, which might have' involved half | Inennship fally oft, brothers divide: in cities, ma- 5 tintes: in countries,” discord: in palaces, treason, of Europe in a struggle whose duration or | and the bond cracked between son and father. consequences no one could foresee. Re-| Thatsounds 2 ood deal as if the old man had garded from this standpoint, it was 6 great The German press, in commenting upon the treaty of ‘Berlin; seem to hase taken their cqq- from Prince Bissanca’s farewell address r'n'ma‘ diplomatic colleagues. ‘The conviction. i3 ,; pressed in all quarters that the- Berlin :mgyi; apartial compromise beiween dntagonistic iy terests, which, leiving sundry fmportant polnts unsetticd, will lead to ulterior compromise, o} else to fresh hostility in course of time, 4 same time it Is Telt on all hands tht,if the .. mense advantages gained by Entland are turned .to account, the futare stagcs of ine Orientaf . question are dikely to be marked by frosh yictg. £ ries of Great Britain. There Is but ode opinion that If a Turkish army orzanized, or rather dis- organized, & la Turque, very nearly succesdeq in defeating the Russfans, an Ottowman force co-: operating with English troops for the defenss of Asia Minor and the Bosphorus must be crowned with snccess. .\Ieanwhuc‘lmha;m E that an impetas may be given to Levantine ip: dustry and trade by recent remodelings suf. clently to strengthen the Ottoman Empire, to retard war, and, perhaps, to cause futare ar. rangements to be effected in peace. - & suddenly determined to abandon his European viotory, and it is natural thai the English | 1710, and the boys in the office bad just got the people should feel elated, and overwhelm news, I ey O their Premier with congratulations. None | It is hard to tell why Sirring Bors would not 1ho less have they to meet the responsibilities | make an excellent and useful member of Con- pointed out by Mr. GrapstonNe. They will | iress,—a position towhich, it is said, the grand be fortunate then if they have an equally | ©!d scalp-lifter now aspires. He is aman of % more than average ability, is an orator of no competent pilot. mean pretensious, and, as o fighting-man, he has done as mach and as bloody work against the people as any Confederate Brigadier-Gen- eral that is now a member of the House of Atthe £ FUNNY MEN. The London Suturday Review, in 8 recent issue, has an article upon funny men, which | Representatives. He likes whisky, too, and in is devoted to the dissection of men purport- | this particular only emulates, but does not have ing to be funny, or supposing themselves to | the impudence to try and excel, his white be funny, when they are only stupid, rather | brother. Nefther would he be gullty of vio- than to the definition of a really funny man, | lating the customury usages of Wash- From the goneral drift of the articls it would | itgton socicty. He confines - himself seem to have been written by some one who to ove squaw -while sojourning at = I the.Federal Capital, bat would be found to be had been bored with men setting up for fun- cosmopolitan cnoug'n to do as Romans do while ny. e finds that all small jokers are moro | he is In Rome. His other great essential quali- plague than plessure, and worry ug when we | rcation to make an efticient Conzressman lies want to rest ; that sprightly men are better | in bis rare ability to appropriate with commend- than witty men; and ihateven all Sroey | eble facility whatever may be lying around Sarrn's recorded jokes cannot account for | 100se, and to en‘er futo avy little arrangements his grent reputation asawit. He complains— and combinations whereby bis own personal fn- v t. terests may be promoted at the expense of the ond there is very good ground for hig com- | Geperal Government. 1f Mr. Brir will have plaint—that to be funny without ili nature | his front name changed from SITTING to WALK- is an uncommon gift; but he does | 1xg, we are ready to take stock in him as a fit not seem to recognize that in this | representative of the Coming Statesman, es- lies tho very distinction between humor and | pecially if the Democratic party is to hold its satire, Most wits trnde upon other peoples present ascendency In the popular branch of wenknesses, say biting things, wound sus- Conpress; ————— coptibles, call names, and hurt feelings. This Toe lengthy and intellizent interview with may be satire, but it is not hamor. It may | the Hon. HoracE RUBLEE by our Milwankee be witty, but it is not funny. Fan is always correinonde'nmpan the presentaspect of political bright, fresh, and harmlass. The satirist ig | 8121rs 1o Wisconsin furnishes us with o 5 slon jor saying that Mr. RUBLEE's name is often S ey aova ;:g“‘; homay b, | very favorably mentioned by the Republiean 4 newspaoers of his State as a suitable person to really funny man is always welcome because | send to the Senate of the United States. He he carries sunshine with him, cheers the | was for twenty vears the leading editor of the cheerless, and makes men and women feel | Madison Journal, before and during the period better. of our Civil War, and for ten years was Chair- Ho also finds that there is not of necessity man of the Republican State Central Committee. any want of reverence in truo fun. © It has All through his administration and under his been often remarked that any faol can make | S50 130 State vever fuhiered inits adheslon oA . to the publican cause, an n c a joko of sacred things, and that mere coarse- promulgation of foyal sentiments it may ness is often looked upon as a form of wit. | in truth be said that Mr. RUBLEE rendered the The man who has to distort Scripture, or | same service in Wisconsin with his pen that the say what is nasty, or revile his neighbor in l::be Gov“f\gmrgs did in ni:dhlm o 1;6%6 i s stump. en GRANT was first elected in s 2 2 57 RuBLEE to the office of Minister to Switzerland, "There is great trath in this growl, and equal | , pocition that he beld and adorned until tne trath in his next growl, that ‘It is amazing | expiration of President GRANT'S second term. to find how little will gain a man a reputa- | Unless it be ex-Chief-Justice Dixo¥, who does tion for funniness in the country,” ‘though | not allow his name to be used in connection he need not havo limited his obscrvation to | With the United States Senatorship, there is no the country. & better qualified man in Wisconsin for that ex- Men with & single story, and that not alted aond responsible position than the Hon. Horace RusLEs. their own, have achieved a reputation for QRACR u_.———o—— wit: and society is full of fellows whose | A writer in the Cincinnati Commercial con- company is sought for because they havea Certainly the late Mr. Cumaries mnn’; friends have a right to insist that, It medfums will protend to interpret what the dead states. men has to communicate, it shall be donetn #ood straight English, and bear . the semblaney’ of common sense. But look at thisas from Mr. SuMNER, which is printed in the Bap.: ner of Light: o Go make farminz an honorable profession? o teacn your bozs to_till the sofl, and bring fong - with labor all that Nature has hidden in her soll Go teach your children that there is no disgrace fn’ 2 blackened faceor o smooched hand; then yom! will havea solution to the mystery whica to-dsy" pazzles £o many of you, and dynu will know whag, 10 do with your unemployed men and womeg, Shall I give my name to-day? Never did I fear ty. give 1t in favor of the biack man. Shall Ifesrty give it in favor of the white man? Nay, nay. * I the geat transition: that a person experl. . ences in crossing over Jordan makes as nd havoc with his literary accomplishments as the' above extract indicates has fallen to the lot Mr. SUMNER, it would be wel' to take out small accident-insurance policy to cover contin- gencles before setting sail on the River Styx.” ‘The Hon. Lucrus Famrenicp, United St Consul at Liverpool, sends to the Departmest'' of State some statistics regarding emfzration.” The number of stcerage passengers cleared fron” that port during the six months endingJusa’ 80, 1873, was 32,177. In the same period of 1877~ the number was 26,553,--an increase of 562 '« 1378. The number of ships in 1877 was' 300; fn’ 1878,401. The number of the same clasiol' passengers arriving in Liverpool during the veriod in 1878 was 13.807; du 1877, 19,188, de-* crease in” 1378 of 879. During the month June, 1878, 71 ships left Liverpool with73i5° emigrants,—5,791 to the United States, anl 1,271 to Canada. 2 g ——————— ‘The recent resumption of work on the Wash-" ington Monument brings to the mind of an ér- change the disposition of 2 stone that was de- signed for a place in the structure. The Amer- jcan Minister told Poe Pios IX. that it was' proposed to insert monoliths from the various States and nations, and the Pope sent one to America. It reached Washington in 1854, whea the KEnow-Nothicg excitement was at fts- hight, and the young men of Washington re- solyed that the Romish: contribation should not ™ ‘nake a part of the monument. They therefore gathered together at night, chipped off a few - pleces of the stone for relics, took It to tha ntiddle of the Potomac, and dropped it fn. ——T—— The New York Zimes says that the rumor set on foot that Niagara Falls hackien beg for work at 50 cents per hour is bevond belief. The hotel prices are moderate, but the parks and side--. shows as voracious as ever. It costs 31 toll to tributes this interesting bit of reminiscence of small collection of smart sayings, native and L&;fll Bngoxixnxm‘ to:hfl'i journal: Z Y ™ remember him well when I was a young man, borrowed, which they are always ready to | i;oF iic eame ambition s had animated imacit dish out upon the slightest provocation, and sfvg‘\:;y e bc::fl" sldn;;t‘gimfi. trm:':?: a nfi‘:lnber . B min Alders- usually most’ ready at the wrong time, it | oirc'irect. London, in 1545, and it was. custom- being one of the prime conditions of a reaily n_rgefin m:ldbserxpll-nn:m;l emfmn“' I:hlx:t wota pro- - Bi over by rising eminent men. appened to witty man that ho shall be funny at the | fa'a member of ths Committee depated ta wait on gight time. Mr. Disrakws, at his honse in Park Lane, Picca- Porhaps there are no better standards by which to measure real humor thin Dickens and THACKERAY. Dickexs is indisputably dilly, toask him to preside at our semi-annual meeting. We did so. and were received by him funny, but THACKERAY is a more legitimate and Mrs.DisrarLi, —the late Countess of Beacons- field. —whom he had recently married. Of course we were received elegantly, and wy friend PARRy, being considered the best-looking and the best qualftied toaddress the risingstatesman, he request- humorist. Dickexs traded upon human e;uilnsm}“éxw nrcsidegveéthaurl—u;xummu%:im_r 2 9 < of the Tnstitute, and stated that the members | uross th nsion bridge in a two-borse wenknosses. His fun is made out of eccen- | (o,d'reel greatly indebted to him for any sugges- 5 Lhcney: suspension el Se carriage. Not the least outrage is the fencuwg in of the Falls on the American side and charg- ing 25 cents to see them. On the Canadianside, - where a much better view may be had, all the points of observation are free to the public. ————————— In the Senatonal district composed of the First, Ninth, and Tenth Wards, represented for the past four years by Mr. Jons C. Harses, many Republicans are talking of Gen. Horcn- E15s. The Geueral is popular, and would make ausefnl member. He would be o very.mueti, stronger candidate at the poils than someof the persons who are shoving themselves forwanl with impudent assurance for the nomination. - ———— Judee BRADWELL 5 talked of for Represent- ative to the General Assembly from tne South- ern district, composed of the Third and Foarth . Wards, and Hyde Park and Lake. The Judge . made a good member when he was in the Lezis lature some years ago, and gave gegeral satis- faction. If he is willing to serve acain it wodld | probably be difficult to find o better man in the district willing to “run” for the position. L ———— From the Sth to the 17th of July 10,366 for- - eizners arrived in Paris,—3,03 from England, 1,526 from Belgium, 1,283 from Germauy. from the United States, 689 from Ttaly, 669 from Srwitzerland, 415 from Austria, 370 from Spalt, - 202 from Holland, 234 from Russis, 166 from * Sweden and Norway, 107 from Denmark, acd smaller numbers from twenty-one other States- —————— tricities of physique, oddities of character, { tions for its advancement. Ishall never forget the extraordinary look DisnaEL: gave Pamey, With weaknesses of disposition, peculiarities of | &y ove that looked from ont the soul, withn dress, and fancifulness of hebits. His satire Menhmgnhe;iflsm t)l;lt %ae mnrkzdlhh"rnrl:ncquf:( s P career, he gaid to Mr. Parny: *‘I wi nve was effective, but his wit rarely goes below | Lonor 10 presids over yoar meeting, and Mrs. the surface. He raises a langh, but the | Dismaer:will be present; but, by theby, I hap- + 3 pened to be in the Court of Common Pleas yester- causo is & very slight one. THACKERAY went | day, and heard your eloquent defense. 1f {shonld CEEN cver have any inifluence you can command me.™ dseper than Diceexs, and deep enaugh to | 3Y6F fave 127 JUIReRce o8 o8 con e P reach the pathetic, which lies at the bot- Alr. and Mrs, Disnazty attended our meeting, and < e made an eloquent address. e most extraor- tom of human nature. Dromexs never | gfC5'Cco feoilnie made was: *+3Man can be wrote such satire a 1 ‘what he pleases; every one of you can be exactly t h satire as THACKERAY directed )‘:u g al Yery oge f - db 5 ll.l iet wil .| what he designs to ave Tesolved to hold 8 at the snobs, such quiet wit as he expended Certaln position, snd, if Ilive, T will.” upon Jaxes and BrLwes, such real humor as . lie displayed in the death-scene of old Col. Newcome, or such a combination of wit and satire as he effected when, with afew strokes of Liis pencil, he pictured Lotis XIV. in sll | square miles, and the population lost rather more than 8,800,000. The area isabout the same makes men and women better. When | 000 miserable subjects in Europe. -Russa i TuacieraY affirmed that a burnt-cork min- | contented herself with a clip of 9,000 square the Pruth on the west and the Danube on the Dance of Denth, he could see farther | ., But Austria is the party in greatest than the simple crowd, who thought b _ . We don’t want to handle those New Orleads - self, and does not always understand why Le | throwa to her like a couple of pears by the high | |\ " ipor Sonthern papers any more, exeent makes people laugh. Like Lase, Hoop, and contracting parties. Greece has secured notn- with a pair of tongs. *Cause whyl an:: H they have the yellow fever down there, aud lh., disease may be brought by mail. 1t is said deep into kuman nature, while the merely superficial wit dies with the utterance. Wa be contagrious aud epidemic botn, and eitber Is- bad ennuzh.‘ THE ELGIN ASYLUM. ) Spectal Dispatch to Tic Tridunt. i Erery, 1ll, Aug. 3.—The ususl monthly —————— The territory taken from Turkey in the Ber- lin treaty and given to Russia, Austria, Servis, Roumania, and Montenegro, is about 71.500 his ugly nudity. % . as that of Ohlo and Indiana, and the population The true bunovlst nevelr ex;ggernt;s, Ll detached nearly as much a3 contained in those strikes a mean between laughter and tears | giyros Tpe Turks have been stripped of half that runs parallel with human nature, and | 4peir Enropean possessions, butstill retain 6,000, strel had made him cry with a negro ballad, | miles and a third of a million of people on the e had a keener appreciation of humor than As‘“";’;"‘““i‘;: :": “;" recgverz °fh“’t° P";‘ I ting in th tion of Bessarabla taken from her by the treaty e romdwho aly st somoting i (hesont | " amd. s i esends s Irouter o 7 8 Juck; she secures two finé provinces of 30,- it was funny that o pipe should weigh | 000 square miles, and a million and a half as much as a crown. The true | of inhabitants, without firing ashot or speud- humorist is rarc’y of a humorous hebit him- | ing a dollar. Bosnia and Herzegovina were e } ing yet, but is in-2 fair way to obtain s larze HeiNg, be is usually most hn{nomns \rh.cu slice of Thessaly, which will carry her frontier most melancholy, and shoots his most brill- close up to Mount Olympus. innt arrows when suffering the keenest. This = kind of humor lives because its roots strike The Cincinnati Commercial of Friday says: The Hon. C. C. Wasustry, ex-Governor of ‘Wisconein, is in the city looking after the insur- ance on his big mill, recently destroyed I}l‘y fl;c. ‘0-day st i it Introduced on 'Change yesterday. are xuther surprised that after devoting two | L P V5 Wic Clncinnats underwriters. They Stz of the Trustees of the Northern Hot or three columns to funny men the writer of | have $30,000 o8 gis‘ lnsTi nzd lhqve. mi‘sg:‘ :ge “;::x l?az?he D e enesed un Thursday allar i vhi re i estion of his right to collect, claiming e | p T urre tho articlo to which wo bave alladed in | $ISCCR %0 Dioion cuta him oat. noon. There was a full attendase, includinz of Sycamore; speaking of women sho. .. only have said, W. Pagelford, “Who ever heard of a funny woman?” Is Le not aware that all women are funpy ? Tne amount due the ex-Governor of Wiscon- sin from the Cinclonati underwriters s just the sum which he donated to the State for the pur- pose of crecting an astronomical observatory on the University grounds at Madison. Mr. WasH- BURX was viewing the grounds last spring for the purpose of selecting the site, 1o company the Hon. C. W. Marsh, President, 1. C. Bosworth apd Scerctary R W of Elgin: Frederick Stabl, of Galeos; M;hu' H. Holden, of Chicago, the atiorney of . Board. ) A deed was presented to the uamnotltsl‘l: property fncluded fn the bequest of the HiE - Jonathan Burr, of Chicago. At one tim il bequeat was valued at $50,000, but the gel shrinkage of values has reduced it Waunt‘ $35,000. Ten thousand dollars of this mc:nl " is in Chicago water-bonds, worth 3 per 2 premium, and readsly turged into cash. et GHlY, 1t is expressly stipulated in the will ¢l - o the interest accruing from this property hine ™ used, and for the specific purpose of tflmll“m P the inmates of the Asylum withincreased means . of amusement, recreation, and comfort. : This_property was once diverted to e e * ot the Cook County lnsane Asylum at st son by the Cireult Court, upon their clalm BEC, . this fnstitution fulfllled the ?mvblons'amn will. Upon an appeal to the Supreme b:h i Judge A. D. BarxEs, formerly a Wisconsin man, and well known in that State, but now of the United States District Court of Dakota, gives the Grand Jury some good advice in his with the Rezents of the University, when a tel- e i o the | czram was handed him fnforming- him of the ;fi:lcix;;:.ha;lz: s‘:[sl:em Ariendito ch-cauu' the g;en: loss that had fallen upon him by the de- Particularly do I call your attention to the mat- | Structio of his immense flouring-mills in Mie- ter of the Standing Rockand other Ingian Awen neapolis. His Joss, however, did not deter him in this_district, The means is bouatifully s from keeplog his word zood with the peoole plicd .from tne Pablic Treasary of the Umted i States to pay for Indian anmuities. The charge | Of 8 State that has hozored him, and which he that the money thus furnished s eystematically | has faithfally served. stolen from 5 Government, defrauding the In- e —ea— . The Memphis Appeal says that 1t is easential disns, has beeh oo often made, and with so much efiniteness opd certainty, that in fact the ba management of these agencies amounts to a public | that the Democratic party should be in posses- -=flgu!- Shm;}d com»lflmlw omy helorflmvo‘;l or | sion of the judiciary, for the Courts are the last within your knowledze, I trust you will heer s them, and let your fnvestigations be searchiny | Fesort of the peopla for the defense of their hib- :Lul k!mort:xugh. You are at Ilbefi‘y tokncnfi for | erttes.” What if the colored people should say ooks and papers, and you should take all the | ¢ho same thing? Would the Appeal admit the time that Is necessary 1o gbtain all meeafal | oo FSES RV Loty oo geaerally pre- vails that the judiciary should not be under the thumb of any party or clique in order to admin- 1ster justice fairly and impartially. e was recently decided that the property go to the Elgin Asylum. THE IRISH LANGUAGE. © Soeclol Disvaich to The Tribuse.. > New Yomk, Aung. 8.—Two months l‘-’“‘u scliool was started fo_the® Bowery to u.n:h Irish language. The Philo-Celtic Snde-r':“‘; hind the enterprisc, which is very mcw:fih 2 far, as the clusses pumber 150 persous, o average attendance of eighty. Thefi ex::‘!m ts a month, -and ipstruction E:;% tg:s a week. The Society has bnnm also in Brooklyp, Jersey City, and Elmirs, roposes to extend them to other crties. gflzhtes& and most advanced popll b American. information. No man orset of men occupy ofi- cial positions so b that their conduct in public aflairs may not be wvestigated by you. Sl Superstition in regard to what is transpiring " amony the heavenly bodies and their influence Two Mississippi editors have just been guilty upon the earth is passing’ away as rapidly in | of an act that hes greatly disappointed and dis- these latter days asit{s in the religious and | psted il the decent people in the vicinity material universe. It Min7ox lived and wrote | where they reside. One of them intimated, v to-day, he Xudullz}L not bc)l!:e;v to Lol plain Anglo-Saxon language, that if anybody . . Andlikea comet burne and 50 he was a liar; and the other fel~ Jrhiat fces the lensth of Opbinchns buie ettt podin gl s 1In the Arctic sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war. files until he found where he had employed Nor would SHAESPEARE pretend he had seen | langnage capable of such a construction. Then,