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PALIS, Frence—No. 16 Rue de 1a Grange-Batellere. 3. ManLER, Aent. LONDOY, Eng.—American Exchange, 449 Strand. BExEY F. GILLIG, Agent. SAN FRANCISCO. SOCIETY MEETINGS. CHICAGO COMMANDERT, Xo. 19, K. T.—Special 78, for work on ve Monday evening, AUR. 26, 1778, K. T.Order. Vishors weicome. 1iy urder of the £m. Com’ JAS. E. MEGINN, Kecorder. LAFAYETTE CHAPTER, No, 2 R. A. M.—Hall. 76 Monroe-st. Stated Convocatlon Monday eveninz, Al 6, ar8o'clock, for business. Visitors cordiaily Iay By o 3 W. H. REID, i1 P. £ rder of E. N TUCKER. Secretary. CORINTHIAN CHAPTER R. A.-M.—Reg- ular Convocation Mondav evening, Aug. 2. Bustae of fmportance. Afull atendauce 18 destred. By or- ceror G. W. BARNARD, H. P. SUNDAY, AUGUST 25, 1878. In New York on Saturdsy the dollar green back represented 994 cents in gold and sil- ver coin, £ 7 ———— It is intimaled in recent dispatches from Seratoga that the prevailing political winds are unfavorable to the person who was the iast Democratic candidaté for President of the United States. Hexprios is said to.be the coming man. Wait and see ! To correct the misapprehension which ex-’ ists among raflroads, there is published this under the provisions of the new Inw creating a Government Auditor of Reilroad Accounts. The list embraces nearly all the lines west, north, and south of the Missouri River. Some suspiciouns news-gatherers have scent- ed fraud in the facf that the Southern His- torical Society has been given access to the Confederate archives. It is now stated explicitly that the permission does not in- clude any of the papers bearing on the Southern claims. The Society, in asking the privilege of inspecting the archives, was actuated by literary rather than political mo- tives. After a vacation of three weeks, the shoe. makers of this city have gone to work again, the manufacturers having offered a fair com- promise. The strike was one of the shortest on record, and was marked by an absence of the ill feeling which generally chorncterizes these disagreements between capiial scd lobor. It is only fair to 2dd that the boot and shoe manufacturers have behaved thronghout the strike with a commendable woderation. - ——— The New York Zimesand some other of the unressoning opponents of the restoration of the silver doller have recently misrapre- eented the small amonnt of them that have goze into circulation, namely, $1,393,013 out of $11,472,500 coined, as an evidence that the silver dollar was not wanted by the people. An interesting account we pablish this morning of an interview with the Cashier of the Fifth National Bank of this city, a National Depository, shows the real facts to be quite the reverse. The coin is in de- mend, but cannot be obteined. The Gov- ernment holds it back from free circulation wuntil specie payments ave fully resumed, in order that it may not be momopolized. by speculators for the payment of custems dues and bond subscriptions. : There seems to be more excitement over. the approaching nomination of the Repub- lican candidate for Congress in the Third (North Side) District than any other local feature of politics. There sre three active candidates,—Gen. Leaxr, a lawyer of excel- lent standing, and a resident of the North Division; Col. Rops, a resident of one of the outside county towns; and M. Brex- TANO, the present member. Gen. Lraxe's chances scem {0 be the best at the Present time, and, without prejudice to others, we gy say that he wonld make a creditable and usefol member. There is one thing the Re- *publicans of the Third Distnict should keep. well in mind, viz.: Their district is exceed- ingly close (Mr. BrENTANO'S majority was *only 287 votes in & poll of 23,000), and the first duty of the Republicans is to select the man who can make the strongest run. In view of the fact that the nest Sen. ate will be Democratic, and with the menace ‘of revolutionary proceedings or the partisan impeachment of President Haxes in case the Democrats shell obtain control of the next House of Representatives as well as the Senste, it is of more importance than ever -before that all the Republican districts shell be kept Republican, and sll the doubtful ones captured by Republicsns. This ecir- cumstance should have more weight than all others in determining the Congressional nominations; and the first aim of the Re- publicans of the Third District should be to Dominste aman whom they feel sure they can elect. All personal considerations and claims should give way to this purpose as of paramount importance. ——— We think it was Te Trmoue that first called the attention of the Chicago people to the Datroit system of constructing pave- ments from {he cedsr blocks instead of pine hlu‘ckx Daring the past three years several Chicago streets have been paved with cedar, and thers is every indication that they are Biving better service and will last Ionger than the pineblock pavements. Recently De{'mlt' has made another improvement in the layingof these pavements, by constract- ing the side-gutters of cobble-stones instead of the wooden blocks, Experience has shown that the water running off from the street arch into the gutters remsins there more or less, and that the wood decays the more rapidly. It is at the sides that the -horses stand when drawn up to the sidewalks, and their tramping and pawing also contribute to the more rapid demolition “of this part of the pavement. Nor do the solid wooden blocks permit the water to per- colate through into the soil below as do the stones. For these reasons it has been found that about four and a %alf or five feet on esch'side of the streef next the sidewalk can be laid with stone to better advantage, and without detracting from the general charac- ter of the wooden pavement which covers .| all the traveled portion of the street. It is also Delieved that thess. stone gutters add two or three years to the life of n street pavement, and when the time comes for renewing the pavement it is only neces- sary to relay the portion between the two guiters, thus saving about five feet on each side. Detroit experience shows that streets constructed of live-cedar blocks will last fromtento twelve years, while the pine- Dlock pavements as usually laidin Chicago do not endure more than from five to six yearsin decent shape. The Detroit Board of Public Works also give more attention to repairing their pavements at the very first break or decay, and this practice prolongs their duration TEE REVIVAL OF BUSINESS. The indications”of the revival of trade which have been mentioned in these columns from week to week have not been falsified by the events. We are informed by wholesale merchants in nearly - every department of trade that the promise of a good fall season is better now than for several years before. It was, of course, certain that alarge busi. ness should be done as soon ‘s confidence was restored. Country merchants have been running along on the closest margins déver since the’ panic. Their stocks have been kept at the lowest points in order that they wight take advantage of the falling market, and they havé had no encouragement till now to believe that bottom prices had been reactied. Bui, with greenbacks only a frac- tion of a cent below par, and the resumption of specie payment practi- cally assured, there is no chance of any further decline. The probebility is, indeed, that there will be a slight reaction in the other direction. The hardest squeeze, as the history of specia resumption in France and England shows, is not in the last move, but in the preliminary ones. Confidence must be restored by the Tesumption of specie pay- ments; the want of counfidence for the Iast year or two has reference almost exclusively to the financial policy of the Government, which is no longer uncertain, Another cause of the restoration of -better times, and perhaps the most important cause of all, is the sbundant crops of the ‘Western country, and the prices ob- tained for them during the past two or three years. The influence of these crops in Chicago has been enormous. They have furnished employment. i the handling alone to thousands, and, taking one year with another, to tens of thousands, of men. The movements from cars to elevators and from elevators to vesselshave all been profit- able to laborers and business men; and tho exchanges induced by thesaleof produets have more than maintained the trade of the city at its old standard. It is a question whether, if we had not been accustomed to seasons of wild speculation and apparent prosperity caused by inflation, we should not regard the present outlook as one of the most favorable in the history of the city. ELECTION OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, Five County Commissioners are to be chosen at the approaching fall election. The retiring members of the Board are CLEARY and Mrrroy, from the South Division; TAzor, from the district embracing Lake, Cicero, and other towns; Avams, who represents Evenston, Lake View, etc. ; and Coxcy, who was elected by the Towns of Lemont, Bloom, Rich, Bremen, Orland, and Palos. All these men, we believe, are candidates for re- eleotion, but there is only one of them— Avans—who hss conducted himself as a member of the Boazd in such a manner as to warrant st the hands of {axpayers an ex- tension of public confidence. Avams will probably be renomiriated and re-.elected. Creany, a year or 8o ago, was going mround declaring in a blatant fashion that ‘nothing on earth - conld induce him fo be a candidate for re-election, but now he is as active in seeking a renom- ination as he was then in declining it when it wasn't proffered. Murroy, the other South Side member, belongs.to the most ob- noxious class of ring politiciaus, and has. been associated from . the beginning of his term with the intriguing majority. GCoszr, one of the outgoing country members, never ought to have been elected to this or any other official position, and slipped in be- tween two opposing candidates ; and Tanog, who might be a useful member, has forfeited the confidence of the taxpaying portion of the community by his vacillating and unre- lisble conduct, if not something worse. Notwithstanding the partial success of the Republicans last yearin a sincers effort to elect five thoroughly honest and competent men, the dirty treachery of one of the new ‘members (from the West Side) and the back- sliding of two of the old members who were counted on to constitute o majority on be- half of the taxpayers have made the present Board gbout as corrupt, if not so audacious, asits predecessor. But some headway was made ngainst the tax-eating and dishonest element, as they have had a bate majority of one or two to carry out their rescally schemes. This partial success last year should encourage the taxpayers of the com- munity to renewed efforts this year to obtain control of the Board. If five good and re- liable men caa be elected this fall, the cor- roptionists will certainly be in the minority, snd we think that even four new upright members will find a hearty co-operation from foar or five of those holding over to retrench expenses, reduce taxation, and purify sdministra. tion, and thus acquire 2 Reform majority. The South Side should certamly be able to furnish two men of sterling character ; and, as these two are voted for by the whole city, there is little doubt that the Republicans can elect their candidates if they be the proper kind of men to present to the public; if not, they ought to be defeated The townsin * the Coxry district will also give a Repnblican majority f a suitable candidate be presented to them; sudMr. Atars can, of course, be re-elected from the Evanston District. Our hope is that both parties will recognize the necessity of bringing thieir best men out for these offices, and all Republican taxpayers and all Democratic taxpayers should insist upon this course. The fact that the tax- payers were able to rescue the Mayor and City Council from the hands of the bum- mers, and thereby saved millions of dollars annually, should encourage them to unite in the same effort in county affairs. The system of voting by districts, for one- third of the'Board ata time, for County Commissioners, is the great obstacle in the way of reforming the Board, and there will be another effort made to secure a change in the law from the Legislature which meets next winter.. This fact affords another in. centive for the taxpayers to eleot five trast- worthy men this fall. 'When the attempt was made to obtain relief from the last Legisls- ture, the robber majority of the Board sent their paid agents down to Springfield, se- cured control of the Springfield Register, Surre and Keanxey, of the Cook County delegation, and of some Democratic members of the Legislature, and succeeded in defeat- ing the proposed legislation, which author- entire ized a general election of an Board. Another effort in the same direction will encounter the same potent opposiiion next winter if - the control of the Board shall still remain in the hands of the Ring. If, on the contrary, a majori- tyof the Board next year shall favor the in- terests of the tax-eaters, they will assist in procuring the desired change in the law, in- stead of using their influence to provent it. Every cousideration except the greed of tho tax-gaters demands an improvement in the character of this County Board, and the fact shonld be thoronghly appreciated just at this time when people are making a desperate effort to raise money to pay the exorbitant taxes for which this irresponsible County Board is mainly to blame. THE BOSNIAN INSURRECTION. The Austrisn Government, evidently in- censed at the opposition to its occupatien of Bosnia made by the insurgents, has at last placed a force in the field (said to number "200,000 men) sufliciently powerful to crush out the rebellions Bosnian and assert its authority beyond any question, Having had to fight her way in, and to fight, not Chris- tians, but Turks, it is evident thatit will now assert that authority without muck reference to Turkey, and will demand that it be left unfettered to administer the re- forms it proposes. It isnot at all remarkeble, however, that the Austrian invasion should have aroused a feelng of resentment on the par$ of those who heve hitherto been in power. It could not be expected that Turkey would willingly or complacently consent to the loss of the immense chunk of her territory that was awarded to Austris. No Governmet likes to lose its suthority, and consequently it is lit- tle wonder that Turkey made.a desperate effort to have Austrin declare the occupation temporary, and, failing in_ thit, agitated the Province into a very serious resistance, hop- ing to retard the occupation sufliciently to induce Austris to accept certain conditions - which weré not included in the treaty of Berlin. Instead of having this result, however, it has placed Austria in the position of the conqueror of Bosnia instend of a public guardian, and she will be quick to improve it by imposing her own conditions, and very likely widening the aren of their operntion, especially as she is sure of thesympathy of England. With that fatal policy of stubbornness which has char- acterized Turkey ever since the commence- ment of ber troubles, she has allowed mere blind resentment to got the bettér of pra- dence, until at last the Austrian occupation is tantamonnt to annexation. Besides this natural irritation over the loss of territory and suthority by the governing power itself, there has been another cause of disturbance in the resentment of the loca! authorities in Bosnin at the loss of the power they have exercised so long. They nre.at once renegade Christians and intense AMohammedans. They turned Turk to save their possessions, and, like all apostates, they are more fanatical and furious than the original members of the faith which they have adopted. Their supremacy has been asserted in Bosnin with more severity than in any other part ‘of . the Turkish Empire, and they bave held their power by the most cruel religions intolerance. In order to carry out the Aus. trian reforms, this mtolerance must be ut- terly crushed, and the Christian must have the same rights as the Alohammedan; but to do this will strip the local ‘rulers of every vestige of their power. Austria has entered upon her work with renewed impetus, sud we mnay anticipate that this disturbing element in Eastern En.’ rope will soon disappear, o far as the rela- tions of Austria and Turkey are concerned. How far England is in sympathy with Aus. tria may be inferred from the following sentiments expressed in a recent article in the London Zimes: Europe must be allowed to regard the occupation asan aimost uminixed good. By no other menns cunld the vast crowd of fugitives who are now on Austrian soil bo restored to their homes, In no other way can the two warring sects be compelled 1o live pencefully. By no other Government could agreat wedge of Western civilization be so readily puthed into tne Balkan Peninsula, Nor could an, other expedient have given Enrope 80 zoad a safe- guard agninst the too rapid or too wide flow of Slavonic influence. Henceforward Anstnia will be specially the protector of European Turkey, whether she does or does not make any formal convention with_the Porte, or, indeed, whether #he regards the Porte at all, She has now taken on hereelf o large part of the burden which wss once supposed—and not \‘r.lr‘{ correctly supposed— o be the portion of Englan: SOUTH PARK ASSESSMENT SALES. The County Treasurer is now engaged in selling off property on which the sixth in- stallment of South Park assessments has not been paid. We presume that the system of buying in the property which is delinquent on this assessment is still the same as that which was described to the Legislative Com- mitteo that investigated the affairs of the South Park in the spring of 1877. It appenred from the evidence taken then that Mr. Brroges, a brother-in-law of one of the South Park Commissioners, was the nominal purchaser of nearly all this class of tax-sales. But it also appeared that Mr. Bripozs never paid one dollar into the Treasury on his *‘ nominal purchases,” but merely gave his checks, which the County Treasurer turned over to the Park Commissioners, and which the latter accepted without ever especting or intending to collect the money thereon. Mr. Brmors testified that he scted as “‘“‘ggent” for the South Park Commissioners in this matter, but, from his own admissions, he was entirely free and independent of the Board, gave no bonds, acconnted when and ss he pleased, and exacted so much or so little of the pen- alty on the delinquent assessments as suited bim.. He conceived that he was working for salary and expenses, though no salary had ever been fixed, and he charged up sach expenses as he chose. In the meantime he had as absolute control of the delinquent property as if ho were a Jona-fide purchaser, and had actuelly paid money for the assess. ‘ment-certificates, - instead of having given checks which were never to be collected, Whatever his practice has been, it was cer- tainly within his power to chearge the delin. quents what he pleased within the limits of the penalty ‘prescribed by law, and to make a return to the South Park Board of as much or as little of said costs as he thought proper. This was certainly a very advantageons arrangement for Mr. Brinoes and anybody who may be associated with him, if not for the Sonth Park or the people. He took no risk in any of his purchases, but it is fair to presume that he retained a’mn. siderable portion of the profits of the trans- action,—figured up, perhaps, under the name of salary and expensés. ‘We bavenoknowledge to the contrary that this arrangement for the sale(?) of the Sonth Park assessments dods not still continue ; wo have heard of no change. The legal penalty on these sales is 25 per cent for the first six months, 50 per-cent for one year, 75 per cent for eighteen months, and 100 per cent for two ‘years; theresfter s tax-deed may be token' out. Mr. BRIGES tes- tified that he hod taken out some deeds, though it was not clear in whose name they wero made; he could scarcely get & deed to himself on the deposit of a check which was not to be paid, and it is estromely dombifal whether the South Park Commissioners have authority to spec- ulate in these taxtitles. Mr. BrmGEs testi- fied that he was in the habit of compromis- ing with the owners of the delinquent prop- erty whenever they desired to pny up, but that he always used his own discretion in the scttlement. He was in the babit, ho snid, of discriminating in favor of the Com- missioners themselves and ¢ the poor.” But it is just possible that Mr. Bripaes may fa- vor the individual Park Commissioners more than he does ““ the poor.” It is for this rea- son, and because the people who Love mnimproved property in the neighborhood of the South Pak are already taxed beyond endurance, that we snggest that these fictitious sales have probably ho legal force whatever, and that when & notice is received from Mr. Bripars, agent (though he does not sign himself that way), the delinquent taxpayer should merely tender him the face of the assessment and interest at the rate of. 10 per cent per annum. If these purchases are a legitimate transaction on the part of the South Park Commissioners, they should be content to get their sssessments paid, with an interest that will cover the expense of carrying them, for they have no right to speculate as tax-buyers. If it is not a legiti- mate transaction of the Park Board, which may well be doubted in view of the evi- dence taken, then the Courts will not sus- tain any nttempt to extort 25, 50, 75, or 100 per cent for the benefit of & manor a set of men who have not invested one dollar in the purchase of the delinguent property on which they claim the penslty. The legiti- mate exactions of the tax-eaters are oppres- sive enough without submitting to individual extortion practiced with the aid of public funds. THE EVOLUTION OF PROPERTY. Advocates of Communism often assert that it is a progressive principle, represent- ing a higher state of civilization than that in whichwe now are. In saying this, they ignore the greater fact that property is a prodnct of socinl evolution ; that it is firmly established as an institution in the most civilized socie- ties; and that, other things being equal; the jealonsy with which its rights are guarded is the best index to the enlightenment of a nation, Communism is continually referred by those who believe in it to a supposed state of nature and a supposed nataral law, both of which are tacitly taken to be better than apy with which fallen bnmanity is now acquainted. There 1s just suf- ficient truth in this assumption to make it a dangerous error. It is true that primeval society was organized on & basis of communism, and that community of goods was, for thal time, obedience to s law of Naturs; but it is in no sense true that the state of nature in aucient times is better or more practicable for modern society than the mstitution of property. The error of sup- posing that it is dates from the Roman law. It received & new impulse from Rousseau and bis school in the last century: and it was then so thoroughly exploded that it has never been entertained by sensible men The re-establishment of the ancient since. state of nature would mean the abrogation of law; the placing of map, with his present knowledge, prejudices, and obsiacles overcome, in the place of primeval man, with his igno- rance, timidity, and feeble gropings after the truth. We need not inquire what the abro. gation of law means further than to say that the loss of it would destroy security, leisure for improvement, and combination of inter- ests. Thisinvolves a state of society natural, it is true, to the primitive savage, but not natural to civilized man. What would be a state of nature for one would not be a state of nature for the other ; hence the argament derived from the supposed higher law is as strong in the defense of modern property as in the justification of ancient commuanism. The fact that the present rights of prop- erty have been slowly evolved by society, and that they represent the conflicts of society within itself for ages, is the central idea of LaveLeves “Priniitive Property,” recently published by MicanLraxs in an English translation, and reviewed by AnrtHUR G. Sepewick in the August number of the A¢- lantic Monthly. Laveieve finds the origin of the idea of property in the change from “ extensive to intensive cultivation ”; or, in other words, the employment of capital to make land yield o constant supply of food, instead of permitting it to become exhaust- ed and lie fallow. 'The extensive system was precticable in a primitive society, when land was abundant and knowledge of the meatis of renewing the soil scanty; but the inten- sive system was required by the pressure of population on the soil. This is Lavereve's theory of the origin of property. We are not prepared to say that it is complete, or technically correct; but, for the purposes of the discussion of communism, it is suffi- ciently so. The conclusions of all men who have studied the history of institutions is’on this subject the same. This conclusion is stated in the dtlantic article already referréd to, thus: “Property does not derive its origin at all from institations or laws, but is agrowth; by the operation of known eco- nomic laws individual ownership at a certain stage succeeds communism.” The discovery of this trath, it is well said, has changed the whole sspect of the discpssion. The proof of the value of property-rights to mankind is 00 longer & vague reference to snother and a higher condition of existence, but a simple appeal to history and experience. The ques- tion is, Have those nations in which property- | Tights have been the most respected been on the whole the happiest and most usefal? There can be only one answer to this ques- tion. . The more the subject is considered, and the more the history of primitive prop- erty is studied, the more does it appear that modern communism contémplates & long step backward, instead of a step forward. It is seriously a proposition that we shall throw. society back into the state it left 2,000 years 880, and, stripping it of all its_acquirements since that time, setit to learning again slowly and painfully the Jessons of individusl rights. Mr. Sepawicx aptly describes the modern movement. on behalf of communism 8s & species of atagism, which, in the Darwinian philosophy, means the tendency of sy Bpecies after development to return to ‘its original type. Individusls of & species, it is known, do aceasionslly exhibit the original type, or features of it, almost in perfection, So the advocates of communism may be sup- posed to express a longing for the barbarous and rodimentary society. We sincerely hope “that this is the true explanation of their reasoning and conduct. We may pudqu them as atavists, knowing that they are in that capacity obeying o higher law and ful- filling a function of Nature ; only. it is desir- ‘able that they and their misguided followers should see that the introduction of com- munism would mean a return to & state of society long since discarded as fit only for barbarians. Communism in the last resort does not mean Progress, bt a de- uial of progress, and it involves the demor- alizing conclusion that society in 2,500 years has made no advances. Hence the’ effort of the consistent communist reust be to put society_back precisely where it was when the idea of property was evolved; to deprive the human rnce of all its most glorious achieve- ments, whick the existence of individual property-rights hava made possible ; and to make mankind again dwellers in caves or nomadic tribes of robbers. The reformer who shall do this will truly be entitled to call himself a consistent believer 1n the prin- ciples of communism; but let him ot de- ceive himself with the idea that he has intro- duced Progress to the world. . FLUNEEYISM IN FIVE LESSONS. An appalling danger which slcodAin the way of the Marquis of LozNe and menaced the success of the Viceroyalty has at last | been happily removed. The Marquis, hav- ing a live Princess for a wife, must havea Court, upon however small o scale it may be, at his future residence in Ottawa. A Princess without a Court would feel as awk- ward and inconvenient as a lobster without n shell. In looking over the ground it appesred that the prospects for a Court were not very flattering, as the people were not up in court business and the pegu- liatly elaborate etiquette that *makes the wheels go round, Ottawa, however nice it may be, is a very small, one-horse place, and its people gre -provincial. They may not carry hayseed in their bair, like our Grang- ers, but they are a plain sort of people, notat ol versed in the gold-stick and flunkey busi- ness. The large majority of the officials would cut no better figure in a Couré than the Aldermen and County Commissioners of our own- city. If they attempted to get into court dress and follow out court eti- quette, ten to one they would put both feet in it before they bad fairly commenced, and turn the whole Court into a menagerie. Not having any nobility, or even aristoeracy, the thingreally began to look serious, and the prospect was fair that Ottawa would have a Court withont courtiers, and an attempt at Royal state without flunkeys or flam. In this. emergency an avenue of escape was provided by a Yankee dancing-master, who, with the enterprise characteristic of that' nimble geous, has offered his services to get the people of Ottawa well up in the Court busi- ness in five lessons, on reasonable terms, and probably with the' customary discount to clergymen and fellow-Professors of the Terpsichorean art. - His proclamation an- nounces that he will organize a class in Court presentation about Sept. 1. He will also teach “‘ walking and bowing as prac- Paris, every conceivable form of reception, dinner in state by Royalty, also dinner as given by the Governor-General of Canada, also privata dinners, entering and leaving paslors in accordance with the rnles govern. ing the movements of the titled ladies in Europe, the Prince and Princess of Wales' receptions, wedding receptions, and, m fact, every essentiel phase of garlor education.” “Getting in and out of a carriage will be taught practically.” i “Chis is an elegant lay-out, so faras it goes; bt thero are many otlier contingencies that wight occur calculated to fill the soul of the average Ottawan villager with anxiety which are not specified by the Yankee Turteydrop. His * specifications only include walking, bowing, getting in and out of a carriage, and the etiquette of the feedieg busi- ness. There are many of the jeu- nesse doree, even. of Chicago, compe- tent to teach these' things. What the people of Ottawa will want to know affects more important results. - Numerous grave emergencies will occur to almost any one réflecting upon the sitnation which need regulating by dfficial authority. We will suppose that Mr. Turteydrop hos walked, and bowed, and seated his pupil into the Royal presence in the most highly-approved, gilt-edged, creme de la creme, A No. 1, bang- up manner ; but supposition does not end here. What if Sxuwm, in the act of sitting down, bu:sts asuspender? Is he to go with one side of him all down by therun? Ishe to hold up the disconnected portion of his garments? Ishe to borrow a pin of hiy next neighbor ? Is he to back out gracefully, after the fashion of the best masters in Lon- don and Paris? Or what ishe to do ? Suppose that Mrs. Boosuxg, in the very act of pre- sentation, is seized with an irresistible de- sire to snecze. Is she to use the plebeian remedy of squeezing her nose with her fin- ger, or is she to let drive without regard to consequences, and, if so, how lond can she sneeze, and how many sneezes can she have ? ‘What if young FrrzNoopLg, in ¢ shassaying " across the flocr to make his presentation bow, stumbles and sits down with a loud agan? Is he to stump any other fellow in the room to doit? Ishe to exe- cute a back-somersault and come up on his feet witha ““hoopla” and a *¢ Whoa, Emma'? Or what shall be done? Suppose a lady wants & pin. Ladies are all the time wanting to pin up something. Suppose her back hair begins to waver. Suppose she sces a spider on her dress. May she scream or faint awny? Suppose unhappy Brow spills his coffee into his lap, or upsets the gravy dish, or steps on Mrs. Cresus’ train and rips off two or three of the back breadths, what is the etiquette for him? Suppose old Brox- penm¥ELs, addicted to hay-fever, finds that his wife neglected to provide him with a clean handkerchief. N : ‘We might go on supposing in this manner ad infinitum, for, o long as human nature remains in its present unregenerate condi- tion, these emergencies are likely to oceur, and accidents will happen even in the best families. Right here, however, comes in the genius of Turveydrop, who thus announces in his proclamation: T 20 to England with the oficial the Marquis of llgrTrony, Lord ber Majesty, who writes and eays **he will be very happy to mve me all the details of Court ceremonies,” and **there are no printed rules on the supject ™'; so, by being taught personally by his Lordship, I wiil be oreparea to teach 1t 1n exact accordance with this distinzwished authority. 1 have over two hundred and fifty disputed polnts in etiquetto which 1 shall submit to his Lordship, and, he being the hizhest authority in the world on auch subjects, bia nnuwers will de conclusive. 1 will bring back with me a magnificent court traln for practical illnstrotions, Of course the 230 disputed points in eti- quette will cover all the emergencies we bave indicated, with many more to hear from, so thet thefe ismo good reason why the Mar- quis of Lopxe msy not open his Court and ermission of amberlain to ticed Ly the best masters in London and | report? Ishe to get up and try it over| proceed to business after Turveydrop has opened his deportment shop and had a chance to put the Ottawans throngh their “paces. As areward for his enterprise, as well as for his self-sacrifice, we trust that he will be appointed ' Chamberlain of the Court, or Gentleman Usber of the Black Rod, cr Chief .Goldstick and High Cockalornm, or to some other position in the Court which way befit the talents of such a conspicnous ass. The awful proceeding of administering rebuke by “naming’! a member of.the British touse of Commons by the Speaker took place.on the Tth of August. Col. STANLEY was making a specel, when considerable excitement was oceasioned by Maj. O’Goruax, who persisted in vociferously crying ¢ Hear, licar,” at rexular and stated in- tervals; in fact, he continucd to do this at such stated and regular intervals that it was evident he futended it as an insult to Col. STANLEY, if not to the House, and this in detiance of the re- quest of the Speaker that he should keep quiet. At length the Chancellor of the Excheguer in- terposed, and remarked that unless the wallant Major submitted to the ruling of the Chair and apologized it would be necessary to take noti of his conduct. Maj. O’GORMAN again i that he was not out of order, and, though urged by Sir Pat O'BRIEY and others, he refused to apologize. [n the end the Speaker proceeded to “name?” him for Laving interrupted the pro- ceedings of the House and for disorderly re- fusing to apologize when called ubon; and the Chancetlor of the Exchequer moved that he be directed to withdraw for dis- orderly interrupting the proceedings’ and for aisrespectful behavior “'to - the Chair. After U'GORMAN was bounced, a farther mo- tion was agreed to to the effcet that he should be ordered to attend in his place the next. dav, when his case would be considered by the House. *When that order was reached, aud O°GoRrMAN'S conduct towardsthe Chafr was read, Capt. O'SULLIVAN rose, and said that, before this order of the day was proceeded with, he begeed to ask the inaulzence of the [Touse with regard to Maj, O’Goryax. He asked that that honorable and gailant gentleman might be al- ITowed to come before the House for the purpose of explaining his conduct of Jast evening. The Speaier put the question, and * the «allans and honorable member ”” was called i, und, on being ealled upon by the Chuir, *the gailant and hon- orable gentleman” proceeded to make the fol- lowing apology amid considerable cheering: Mr. Speaker, Sir, 1beg leave to submit msself to you and to this honoranle House. and to express my deep regres at the nccurrence which Look place Jakt night. ana I hope thas you and tisis honorubie House will accept my apolozy. ~[Choers,] Itrusg that 11nay be allowed to add that [ acted ander the influence of the greatest possible exasperatio® That, nov ot now 1ne question, and ) 10 offer to you und tnis honor- avle Huuso the expression of my deepest regret for what took place just mght. [Loud cheers. ]. The exciternent under which Maj. O'Goryax was laboring at the time of bis unruly condnet in the Flouse was undoubtedly producsd by the too liberal nse of bad whisky. [f the Socaker of the American Congress should proceed to “‘name " every mémter that appeared in the House in a state of intoxication, and became nolsy aud turbulent in conscquence, a large numvoer on the Demceratic side would be con- stantly in contempt. — Some of the formulities of the slow-goinz and conservative English peopie scem very strange and often 1udicrous to the nervous, hurrylng, off- hand Yaokee. They are inclwed to achere to the zood 61d way of doing thinzs more than we do, and secem to havea fatural dread of funo- vations and new departures. Recently, when the freedoin of the City of London was sranted NSPIZLD and SALISEURY, although o houor aud a very notable distinction, some quite lndicrous formalitics were observed in connection therewith. Of course there was an immense crowd of speclators present to witness the proceedings, und to honor by their presence the two distinguished statesmen who had just returned from the great European Conzress covered with glory. When the Cowrt of the Corpora- tion of the City of London was duly opened and the Lord Mayor had taken his seat, it would Lave been in accordance with the American cus- tom to have passed over some trifiag routine affairs and proceeded immediately with the great business for which it had assembled. But not so in this case. The Clerk discovered that the *first business on the paper” related to the application of onc Ricsarp HARRIS for a twen- ty-years’ lease of a house that belonzed to the corporation, and, atter this was disposed of and five or six sumilar triiles, the Clerk' made out and aunoupced that at a certin meeting of the Common Council, Licld on a certain specified day, it had been unanimously agreed upon to confer the freedom of the city upon BENIAMIN, Earl of Beacoustield, and upon RoBERT Ax- THUR TALBOT GASCOIGNE, Marquis of Salisbury. What followed is well told by an eye-witness: The Chamberlan next read the numes of the cit- izen and ciock-maker. citizen and Ssn-monger, citizen 2nd spectucie-maker, who scverally and coliectively declured tneir belief tht Bexraurs, Earl of Licaconsfield, Knight of tic most noble Order of the Garter, {3 a man of 200d name and 1 that ne had 1o intention of defranuing cither the city of the Queen, **unt will scot_and bear bis lot, and %o they all being sutisfactory, not oaly to the Cou augience, —who Ioudly cucered the aftirmation that Lord BEACONSFIELD W33 2 man of good name_and fame. —the master of wie Mecchant Tatlors' Com- ay _his W bt pany formaily presented the two young bretren 10 the Lord Masor. Lord BEAcoNsFIzLY, on nsing 10 s1:m the deciaration, was-received with renewed cation that he would cheers as he read out his ae be true to our sovereigm lady the Queen; tnat he would be obedient to the Mayor of this city: that he would maintain the franchisz und customs of the city: that he wonld keep the Queen's peace m s uwh person. and that hie would know no zath- erings or conspiracies without lettng the Lord Mayor know d hindering it to his power.” Lord SaLissvey having mage a similac declaration, the noble Lords were iddressed at some length-oy tne Chumberzin, who claimed for both 2 conec- tion with the city, stating that Lord BracoNs- FIELD's grandfather had been a merchant in Lon: don, and expressine the firm conviction that had not the grandson turned his eneryies in another rection hie mignt atthis duy have been Lord Mayor. The. Chamoerlain_concluded oy bresenting the parchment containing the ceriiticate of fresdom (tbe zold boxes in which they are to beseverzlly in- closed not yet being ready), and giving to ech the right band of fellowshi it oo N *The Paris correspondent of a Boston news- paper finds an American production at the World's Exposition which seems to greatly in- terest him, although the article has been neither regularly classified nor labeled with the expec- tation of drawing a gold medal. He turns nside from the wonders of the big show to acknowl- edge that “ tnere is nothing more striking than the little, dainty, delicatt, irrepressible Ameri- can girl,” who bas come for toc first time to Europe, and who airs * her surprise and pleas- ure with a grace and independence _peculiarly her own The proverbial independence of ber race and mationality is made manifest on all proper occasions, It is refreshing to meet her, he says, in the midst of the dead wilderness of conventionality, and to see her set at defiance the haughty in ference of the English maiden, and the over-del- icacy of the French girl. When she comes from London she aliows hersell to be surprised at nothing, and *‘treats this pearl of Panis with cool yet well-bred disdain.” She does prétty much as she has a mind to inall respects, and positively ‘asserts that there is nothing that could induce her to take up her permauent abode on that side of the big ocean. As for the Exhibition, she declares that it is not to be com- pared to ““ours,” and she {8 so brimfull of “patriotism that she would like to declare it at every step. ‘The ignorant blatherskite, KEARNETY, brought but one idea with him from California, and has been repeating it like a parrot at every opportunity. That idea is “to pool your issues.” [Everywhere in barunguing his audiences he advises them ‘‘to pool their issues.” It is evident, however, that he is ignorant of the real meaning of this one fdea which constitutes his entire stock fn trade. To tpool,” s applled to raflroads desirous of avoiding competition, means to throw their earnings Ito 2 common fund and divide pro rala, ceasing competition ayd acting as if they were one common road, inder a general policy or management. In the same manner, as op- Dlied to horse-racing or other forms of gam- bling, the money is put-into & common pog) and“the . party gets more or less of i money back, as his Inck may be. Ag applicd to politics, . the “:oooling of jssges would mean for men of dierent parties to put their different political opinions, however con. tradictory they miglt be, into one common piatform, carry the election. and divide the 5p0ils accordingly. It is evident that Kearsey Q1d not mean this, for with all his ignoraace e can hardly be idiotic eaouzh t0 adrise his fol. lowers to rush upon certain rain in such 4 wholcsale manner. When, therefore, he tails of pooling issues. it is evident that hie does not know what pooling'in polities means, any more than he knows what the issues of parties are, What le prabaoly means in his advice o 1y rabbleis to sink or pigeon-hale therr various political notions, not pool them. Tae Bope. mians who prepare his speeches onght to be more. careful. Rean~ey has but one issue, and that is to “*corral the employers and grind them, G—q d—n them.” What he wants the workinz classes todo s to pigeon-itole all thelr iasnes and follow him in an attack upon cmologery and rights of property. - T ——— gular and painful tragedy was on aliztle villaze in North Caroliny afew daysago, in which the Rev. Dr. Waps Hie shot and kilied his law, Maj ANDREW SCROGGINS. [t appears that Scno 61, *while ih 8 bassion aboul u ek ago, strip. ped and whipped Dr. HILL'S yoanest danahter, . SCROGGINS” wife Was present, and beeed her husband uot to hurt her sister, buthe paid ng attention to the tearful cutreaties, and inflicteq poainful chastiscment on the gl Her father immediately called on SCRoGGINS for an ex. planation of his cruel condu tie two got into a rougi-and-tumble fight, Rey. Docior getting the best of if, and giving the Majors sound thrashiog. ‘The Major then swore vepge. ance on the minister, armed himself to the teeth, and the [father-in-law did the same, box * keptabout his spiritual work as usual.” The account say - Yesterday the two men chanced to horseback in_the raad near the buciors hases Maj. Scrogurss exclaimed, -*I've ot yon nowe: Tae Doctor replied. ** Kee caol!™ “The Major ro. plied. **Ton winites 1o suy sour prajerst gy this (ime_they were ten pacts. apart, and the i, promptu duel was £oon fo tak s, **Well, sir, I'm read; drawinga aerringer. s soam 1. May i With tkat he merey oz us both™ nid sicces 10, newher #not tazing effect. The Doctor dred once. xillng iie then rode back homs fiis antagonist matan foed and told tne awful news. Friends carricd the Siay: jor's remains off “for burial, and the Dactor gave bimserf up. 1t was hardly necessary for the correspondent, to eay that there was the oreatest exeitement over the affair, as Maj. SCROGGINS was o well. known farmer and politician, and Dr. Nty fsy Baptist minister *of aveat popularity and we. fulness 10 that section of the State, and ‘has’ written several orthodox works that have re.” ceived the commendation of his brethren® *Horw to;Dispateh a Sou-in-Las, perhaps, may. be the title of his next religious book. e —— 5 The suicide of Mrs. NELsON VAN KIRE, of ik waukee, Wkich occurred on Tuesday nizht Jast, isone of the most painfut and inexplicable eventsof the kind that has recently falien ander public observation. It is one of those mys- terious cases that defies haman resson and- ignores human experience, and leaves us blindiy. gropinz ebout in the dark to discover the hid- den springs of human thought and action. 1t is casy to sec¢ how life may become intolerabie 1o a person through sickpess, afliction, dis- honor, the loss of dear friends or fortane, or all combined, and when the burden becomes toa heavy to be longer borne it i3 nataral, perhaos; in some cases, to lay it down, orovided one has the moral and physical courase todoit. But when a person has youth, health, wealth, social position, a happy home, and ail the other seemn- - ingiy necessary adjuncts of happiness that can come from a completc and harmonious, environment, we seck in vain for causes sufix cicatly potent to induce such a one to violently end his or her - earthly existence, and to seek shelter forthe illsof the earth under the coverof the Unkuowo. The case of Mrs. Vax KiRsyas, one of these. Her husband is onc of the promi~ nentand most bighiy respected business mea of Milwaikee, who was at oue time Presidentof the Chamber of Commerce, and the family bas always enjoyed the highest socfal dlstinction. The death of her little son'two years azo seemed. to weigh very heavily upon her mind, jodas lier own suicidal act hapoened on the anoiverss ~ ry of his death, there is naturally an inclination in the niinds of her friends to connect the two eveuts. Two letters written by the deceased ‘the day before the terrible tragedy seem to - confirm this suspicion. e ———— The little lapse of our fallen ANGELL, the de- faulting Secretary of the Pullman Car Com- pans, furnishes the New York Erening tus'™ with a subject for some sober reflections upon the threadbare subject of common honesty. 1t regards ANGELL'S crime stmply as theactof 8 common thief, withour the startling refine- ments which have made notorious the fraudsof Cmace, WissLow, and Tareay. Out of such’ 4 crime one can zet a grim bit of comfort by re- flecting that it was not ome of those cases where men bave gradually come to absorb the. management and funds ofs whole corporatios. In every corporation, as in every busiess house, some men must be trusted with the handling and custody of Iarge sums of money for a time, and the best eystem of checks nd balances will not always prevent frouds. . There cannot be 2 special committee to super- vise every act of every individual ju-a business concern, from the secretary down to the man Wwho carrics the deposits to the bank. Bat it is otherwise with the head men tn a corporation, who cannot be watched with too much viiaoce in these days when the haste to be rich seems to possess the minds of so many men. ———— Ex-United States Senator WILLARD SiULS~ BURY is now Chancellor of Delaware, and re- cently has given a legal decision that is of some consequence to the Methoaist denomination in ‘that State, and may serve as a precedent clse- where. The learned Judge holds that dz\unlp:, is contrary to the discipline ot the Methodist Church, and consequently may be ferbidden upon chureh propercy. Tnis distinguished jusist won an unenviabie distinction while a member of the United Statcs Senuteasa nard drinker, bué that may not affect_the sounduess of his legal opinion in rezard t§ dancing. The wickedoess of dancing will always be un open question among church-members, notwithstanding 8ny leanl decisions in regard to it that learned old Judges may deliver: and many of the youner members of all denominations will coutinge {0 indulge in What they honestly believe to bean innocent and heaithy amusement. Especially I8 daneing held to be sinless when it'is ouly Der- mitted in private dwellings, and awav from al- Inrements of vice and the fascinations that ofte surround public resorts. - ———— Many English writers are mercilessls eritlels- ing DisRAEL’S Protectorate treaty with Tarkes, as a measure not calculated to strengthen the ‘Britisn hold on India. Mr. W. E. Forster poiot- i ed out, in his powerfal speech before the Cob- - den Club the othier day, thet England has made - her fronticr conterminous With that of Russii .- fully 1,000 miles nearer the Russian military Cap- ital—in fact, within easy reach of her principal southern raflroad terminus; and along the whole of theline Russfa caneasiiy bring ail her resources into play, so that she cau actually attack Indis and draw the Indian troops to mect her ab Kars instead of having to go in search of them 1,500 miles to Herat. e ———— . While the Richmond WA’y declares it fs oo desirable to get rid of certain pests of by sepding them into the yellow-fever districts; it nevertheless prints the followiag announce: meant, with the hope that fc may induce 80mE of them to visit the localities indicated: * * * Organ-zrinders make from $14 1o $16 o day 3 Grepaua, Miss, Book-agents arc in gmungt at New Orleans. ‘A hundred able-bodicd lightas rod men are needed at once in Mempbis. ‘The population of England and Wales 08 30th of June last was 24,854,397 of 3,593,929; and of Ireland, 5,433,640. 9 £ Gt Pe aEAgy B R T B R Rt T ey