Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 5, 1879, Page 8

Pad A MODEL FOURTH. {Continued from Taird Page.) duced Christianity, which In a muaagure stup- planted heathenistm. It is a curious fact that to gayo themselves from the depredations of the Viots and Scots, the Britains Invited the Saxons, ywhom they had only known as pirates, to cone ‘to thelr rescue. By the Saxone, as by the Romane, the Islanders were practically reduced to slavery, the Christian religion stnpressed, Land the superstition of the Drutds reinstated, : One hundred and fitty years later (A. 1). 600) * Christianity was restored by Augustin, under the reign of Popo Gregory, That the Saxons ‘were acercely leas barbarous than the conquered Britains 1a evident, since the presents sent to tho Queen by the Pope were of the sort usually Destowed upon savages; and thelr Princes “dwelt in cottages of wicker-work plastered with clay ond thatched with rushos, where they’ sat with — their familica, thelr officers ‘and domestics, rontid a firo mado ‘in the middle of the house." "The Christianization of the Saxona by the Mouke undor tho direction of Popo Gregory 1s perhaps the most interesting episode in Church story. In spiritual affaira tle Saxons regarded the female sex se sacred. This fact was scized upon by the priests to turn Eoranisis against fteclf. It wns only necessary to convert the ywomen in order to sceure the adhesion of the entire body poll King Ethelbert. married a. Christian Princess, aud the reformation went ‘.rapitly forward. The transition was, however, accomplahed in easy stazes. | ‘The heathen tem plea wore gradually swept of their idole, and actually transforined into houses of worship for the new roligion. The zeal of the upper classes in the cause go haoplly inaugurated by the Pune was shown in hundred ways. Iings and imili- tary chiofs resigned their honors, und immured themeclyes in monastories, ‘Thes¢ acts of sclf- abnegation and devotion on the erkot the great aNED LUSTER UPON CHRISTIANITY; and-.the Monks were not slow to avail themesives of s0 important, nn ndyan- tage. ‘They became the oniversal al- moners -of | charity, and so attached the pour to their standard =They became the cham- pions ‘of personal freedom, urging powerful penitents to the enfranchisement of their slaves, by this means caining over mother class. They were the patrons tie worke nnd of Iitera- dure., They.nadelous pilgrimages to Rome, and brought back philosophical scraps from the works of Aristotic, Plato, and otuer authors of antiquity*' Finally, havivg kept the con- scipnece of Kings'and Lorfis during life, they gaye scpuiture to their bones in the monas- teries when dead. If all ‘this was meto worldly ambfilon, it tgs of the viost lofty ag well as the mostfoupningtmolds {7 it. was prompted by foith in the divine-natu.re of their tlssion, it was still moro lofty, thore pure. That the Roman Catholic Ci uurch ent polntto no brighter page in the recortof itsrges of power 1s o8 certain as that Its tufluones upon the carly civilization of Evgland was too markad and profound ever to suffer ontire ofacement. . To thts Influewce may bo attributed the inif- cation of the different States of Britain under Xgbert, which wero then, for the first time, christened . Englund. .'Soon after Allred created the first British navy, and through its aid drove out the Danes. Alfred was well sur- named ‘the Great.’ It{s o curious fact of bis reign in that rude age that heintroduced asort of cotnpuisory educational system, enacting that “every person possessed of two hides of Jand sbould send his children to school wotil sixteen," and “enjoined all bis Earldormen oud Sheriffs immediately to apply themsetves to learning, or to quit their ofllees.” Burke says of Alfred: “*In a word, ha comprehonded in the greatness of his mind the whole of goyern- ment and all its parts at once, aud, whatis most difficult to human frailty, was ot the same thine sublime and minute.’ : Notwithstandlug the conquest of England by the Danes, nud subsequently by the Nor- mans, the Anglo-Saron race“nevoa ceased t9 exercise a powertul {nllucuce upon phe destiny of the Kingdom. ‘fhe Danes made scarcely any impression upon either the manners or the cus- toma of the peaple they ruled. dismissed his Danish army and restored the Saxon statutes, , ‘The same cannot be said of the Normans; for they allied Church and State, greatly enlargetl the sphere of the feudul system, and so ruled generally that civil war becaine o chroniecondition of the English people. William the Conqueror reduced the English, the Danes, and the Normans to humogencity, Lor not only bis relen, but the releas of bla Norman Buccessore, Were characterized by the most cruel exactions, und it was under the Normans that ‘the clergy lost all of the simplicity and much of tho piety wiileh so justly diatinguished them at the time of the Saxon conversion, Ino word, it was through Norman, indulgence that the Papacy gained in wealth und temporal power In ‘tho ratio of its decline in religious zeal, _Thego adverse clrenmeatances, however, did sot repress tho spirit of Mbverty. On tho - co! trary, it not only survived, but grew more ex- acting. Aud that {t emanated from the English: 1s plain, slnce Henry the Hirst (the youngest sun of the onqierot when he came to the throne, married an Enrifsh Princess, Le followed this act of deference to English sentiment by craut- ing the first charter of liberties. ‘ho history of tho twelfth and thirteenth conturies isa history of quarrels between Popes, Priests, and Kings, It was in the thir- teonthcentury that the Pope’a Legate,Pandulph, ¢xcommunteated King Jolin, deposed lim, and offered the crown to the King of France. But he soon thought better of it, nnd bestowed the bauble upon the Moly Bec; then he restored tt to the humbled monarch, But John conld not Iseep the crown on his head, twas at this con- juncture thut Hberty took a long stride forward. The nobles made war upon the King, demuand- ing and securing a renerral of the charter of Henry the First, which had been aubverted; and, atill not content, headed by Archblahop Lane: ton, who uow curiously -cnough became the champion of civil liberty, they wrested from the unwilling King the Great Charter snd the Clare terol the Forest, Including the right of trial by jury and a modification of the rigor of Forest awe. ‘This advantage wos followed up until the crown almost ceased to be worth preserving. lis annual revenue fell to £5,000 per annum, while the feudal lords wielded unlimited power, ‘he Earl of Warwick, the King maker, maine tained thousands of retuiners, aud when he Kept house in London his friends and yaseais consuined six oxen at a meal. His. fortune wis eploveal, and the King vas a pauper. Anarchy, otherwise known as tho Wara of the Roses, fol- Jowed. ‘The Dukes, of York and. Lunenster fought until the feudat Nelaloeracy disappeared fromthe {nce of the ecurth, Such of their es- tates as had not heen dissipated were contiseat- ed by Henry VII, their courts nad banqueting hails were deserted, and the remnant of vobles became courtiers of the King, Through the ambition of the nobles the feudal system perished. One extreme tollowed the other, ‘The Wars of the Roses produced o alate of avarchy, and so relnyceted with abso- lute power the Crown which but yeaterday had been a thing of rogs und patches,—an object uf contempt! This iu the latter part of the Alteenth century, Towards the close of the reign of Ionry VIII. he conceived a passion for Agnes Boleyn, und sourht a divorce from his Spanish Queen. He applicd to the Pope, The Popy hesitated, and the King cut the gordian knot by breaking off all relations with bis Huljness. Pariament, bis subservient toot, gaye ite sanction, und the King suppressed the monesterics and CONKINCATED THH ESTATES OF THB CHUHCH. The Protestants telzed the occusion, hopin to advance tielr futerdste; but they reckaned without their host. ‘The King proclaimed his own polltical und reli pious infaliluliity, and began tocut off “the heads of those who dared to doubt. In IHU Protestants and Catholics were dragged from the Tuwer to Smithiteld on the same hurdle; the former were burnt vs heowtica, und the latter banged ae trattars, for baying denled the King's supramacy.” At the closo of the reign of Henry VILL. the Parlla- Bicut bad fallen to the lowest depth of degrada- tlou. He (the King) was accustomed to refer to itas “Those yariets the Commons’? He dled in the year 1547, Elgit ycars later Queen Mury restored the Papal autliority, and caused Lutl mer, Hidley, und Cranmer to be burned os heretics, Elizabeth restored the Reformed Church, but Tepressed the Nunconformiete und Puritans, Hee relyu was a splendid episode in the history of England, ‘Ihe relgus of James I. ond Chartes IL, covering we perlod 1603-1040, were sfqusl- ized by scenes of greut turbulence, caused by the avsesement of iNegal and unjust tuxes, the estatiloinent of extraordinary tribunals, and the ungosition of excessive sud cruel punish meote, The Angilcan Chureh became the champion of civil lib Joho Hampden capouscd the Parliawentary cause, resisted bn illegal tax, and was thrown iuto prison. The masumption of ite just powers by Parliawent was the signal for civil war with: the: King— Charles, In the cuntest the ludependents, un- der Cromwell, overcains both we King and the part of the Presbyterians, condemued and be- euded the Kiou, abulished the House of Lords, aud saunas) w y Urea Beal to be poeta vet with, wilegend: “in thy firat year of freedoun, b: God's blessing, restored Ist." oe dt te unnecessary to pursue this inquiry farther, We have Feached. the polutof time when the Commons—thut ts to gay, the repre sentatives of the peoplo—aseerted (heir Hizbt to rule. A quarter of a century before, a hitle band of Puritans sailed trom England for the shores of ie New World, bearing with bem the impress of the Joug struggle aged by the Enulish people for the eet, they now enjoy. dota Morri nce sud of Lis early higtory: J was at the of7 years thrown, w wall, Indeed, Canute- THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY JU ubon the streets of Dublin. I slept in alleys and under sidewalks, Idisputed with my asso- cites, other walfa, the possession of a crusts wwe fought like young savages for the garbage that fell from the paeket of the scullion. ‘The strongest won ntl satisiied the craving of his hungers the weakest starved. 1 had no ea that anything was to bo galned by other means than brute force. Heneo my code of moral and political ethics—the strongest iman in the best man. f becamoa pugilist!?? The long period of nletory wa fave reviewed comprises tha world’s axes of puellism. ‘The story of the walt of Dublin ‘Is the story of | the carly age; micht made right; foreo tran repelled by force; the strongest man was the best man. But wo have seen that in Evgland the people stowly struggled up Into the Nght. Religion helped them, letters helped them, and, when Caxton introduced tha printing press ip W471, progresa became more steady, more stire, because the neaple were able to touch elbows, to compare thelr own, vlows with = tle views of others. The printing-press made lberty possible to all men becausy ft bound n'a siugle heap all mankind through the freedom of iuter- communication thereby secured. The tandling of the Pilgrims on Piymouth Rock that bleak December day in 1620 is a most fascinate pleture for the imadination toawell upon. ‘They did not come to Increuse their, fortunes. They had not fled from polltical oppression, though the administrations of James antl Charles wore sullicfently odious to provoke resentinent. ‘They came to the forbidding shores of New England that they mlghtenjoy the froedom of cunscience which was denied them {0 the Jand of thelr birth, Such a-bamd of deyoted souls could have sorung from ne other nation, because from no other civilization than that of the English could such characters huye been evalved. ‘Ihe Pil- grime of the Mayflower were inn’ cortain sento The product of the progress of atl the aves, but more especially of the trials, temptations, and struggles for freedom of the Enylish people. ‘They were the Incarnation of a thousand” bat tes fought in the interest of civil aud religious liberty, and {n their persons they embodied the deatiny of America, f'n far different type were the first scttlers of Virginia. Stith says a large portion of them sere unprinelpled young inen of family whom thelr parunte wero glad to ship off in order ty save = them = from an igvominious fate, discharged — servants, fraudulent bankrupts, debauchees, nnd others ‘of the same class,—peapla more apt to pillage nud destroy than to promote the welfare of the settlonient.”” i "The introduction of slavery was a togical sequence of the character of the colonists of Virginia, Later sume Englishmen of zentio blool foltowed the early: adventurers, ‘They found the {natitution of slavery, aud accepted it with its entall of crime and fatal effects upon thefe future society and pollticnl institutions, It isa painful truth that te chief, distinctive, Jmng-enduring, impress left upon the hablts, Inauners, and customs of the American people by the Virginia coloulsts was ‘TILAT OF BLAVERY. To find the spirit of our inatituttone, the mold- Ing and guiding force, the Pilerim Fathers must be'sought and their character analyzed. ‘They were full of faults, but their faults leaned to virtue’s aide, They wero stern and unyielding, bigoted, and often unjust. As they bad sufferer verseeution, so in turn they persecuted those who differed ‘from them in religious falth. “ Whorocver alall worship auy other God than the Lord,” says the preamble of their code, ‘shall adrely be put to death.” ‘They whipped Quakess, cut off thelr cars, banished them, and prolubited then returning on pain of death. ‘They punthed blasphemy with death, made st- .tendanes ypon tilvine “service compulser floged men for lying and young women for al luwlng themselves to be kissed. Dut it must be borue in mind that these rigorous laws: were voted by the whole body of the people. In the circumstance that the people ruled thein- eclves rested the guarantes of the ultiniate de- velopment of thu pringipigs of liberality nud toleration. If the code-was cruel and teerible, {ta munver of enforceincns was" falr and equit- able; for the right of trial by jury existed throughout the Colonics, and the blasphemer waa punished only by the judgment of Ins peers. lctter than aff else, ihls system, other- wise so repellant, was tost benelleeut on the subject of cducation, ‘The code provided for the establishment of schools in every township, and compelled the inhabltonte, under pain o} heavy fines and penaltics, both to support and send their childreu to them, Thus was firmly established o thorough, comprehensive educa- donnl system, which is the sole safeguard of liberty and low, How different were tho colonization echemes of Greecs and Rome, They were alfalrs of State exvediency. ‘The object ‘of the former was trade und commerce; of the latter, power and dominion. In cach instance the emigrants var- ried with them the political and: religious inst! tutions of the parent State. Hence no benefits averued to civilization; the tate of tha State be- came s ‘THY YATE OP THE COLONY. Having made the peopte the sole repository of political power, the New England colouiste took care to prevent the undue growth of es- tates by abollahing the right of primoceniture, and “ctitting off entirety long trusts and other processes for fettering and tying up Janda? ‘Thus, at the outeet, the ovils of the British sys- tem were rigorously eliminated and ita virtues carefully preserved. ‘Lhe Puritaus did nat for- get, a6 Emerson says, that “The Norwegian pirate got what he conld and held ft for his eld- eat sop,’ and that ‘the Norman noble, who was the Norwegian pirate baptized, did Mkewise.”” Behring this fact fo mind, aud re- musnberlit, ulsy, that “the English Jords «ld uot call their lands after thelr own names, but culled themselves after their Jands,” the New Englanders provided ugainst that sort of up aristacravy, It is ploasant to linger near the birth-place of American iberty, to count its strong pulsations, to note the vigor of its youth, to commune awhtlo with the austers inen who establiabed and cherished it,—cherished it with sucl rigor- ous and savage devotion that, like o giant, It sprang Into existence full psmned. Let ua not forget, either, that the ontetprige required forti- tude of the highest order; moral courage to Ieave home ani friends; and moral and physical courage to face the privations and dangers of frontier life. ‘The Mayflower contained ons hun- dred souls, For a moment their feet pressed Piymouth Rock, thereby rondering it sucred for- wyer; then they pressed on, ov into the wildurnes: In three months half of the dayoted bun perished. This 1s the Urluf, quaint recurd found. In George Hradford’s bistory: ‘The greater half died in the geucral mortality, and most of Uiem in two or tires month! time. Ag thy sure yivoratrere Luman, they wore bowed tu theearth with unutternble erlef, but as they possessed: the courage of thelr convictions they persevered fu the great work they had crossed the ocean to accomplish, To the sublimo courage and in- domitable will of the Pilzrlins we owo the fact that New Plymouth became the cradlo ot American liberty ss it was the grave of so many of its Iustrious founders, Passing over a hundred and fifty years of Colonial life, we tind the descendants of the Pilgrhn Fathers atid. thelr assovintos of the other Colonies nasetubled, a representative body, ut Philadelphia to protest aualust the tyrann: of the Mother Country, to enunclate their politival principles and declare thelr fndepsnd- eneo of the King aud Parliament of: Great Britalu, ‘To repeat the provisions of the great dectaration is to insult the {ntolligence of an American citizen, They constitute the warp aud woop of thetramework of Amerlean sactety, ‘Two specitleaduns of the arraignment of Ene kland indicate the main causes of the long-con- Vemplated separation: “For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world,” and * For sing tuxes onus without our consent,’? English cupidity precipitated American inde- pendence. The English Klug and Parliament cared Uttie for the futernat — cyncerns of the colonies provided thelr trade vould bo xccured for the Kugiish mer- chant. Hence the navication laws providing that © none but English ships should trausport Auericay produce over the ocean’; and diut “the principal articles of that veoduce should be allowed to bo sold only in the markets of the mother conutry,”” ‘The right to tax and to control the trade of the colonies was the durl- Ing purpose of Eugland. ‘The culonists quickly pereuived that with those powers residing in the lome Government their caudition was little betior than thut of serfa, When the Pilgrims crossed the inain to escape religious persccu ton they thought Httle of taxatlon and trade, | Hut their descoudants of 1778 had Jearned thas the sallce which would persecute a Nonconforuist would, with still leas acruple, tax iin without his vonsent, and compel him to. trudu with repard to ite, not bly, advantage. is Decluration wus promulgated and the Reyotution followed, Itwas 9 atruggle between abaudful of men and 8 great Empire. ‘The courage apd endurance of the Revolutionary troupe fs beyond all praise. I cannot, however, but think that the struggle might have been wuch more protracted had it not been for the broad Atlantic, which divided the autagunists. At Volley Forge the aruy was both frozen and starved. "Its condition was pitiable. As Wash: ington, burassed withcare and worn with anxiety, walked glooiily amonget the miserable hute ol tue soldiery, these omiuous words grceted bis ears: “No pay, no clothes, no provisions, vo rum! If the Atluntic had been less broad, or the system of navication improved by the use of steam, Valley Furge would perhaps have uu- culue the valley ut death, not only to the army, but to Une cause it represented. On such sieader threads momentous evants often depend, What American citizen who loves his country will ever cease to remember with xrutitude the puccor rendered by France tu that uroat emergener? It {sn curlous aut Interesting fact thgt, a3 France was the only nation of Europe whieh actively aympathized with our atrieclo for independence, so, fifty years Inter, a Freneli eltlzen—De ‘Tocanavilic—mude the most nce curate aualyaia extnut of the character of our people and {he nature of our Institutions. Out of the firat revolution eame the Constiti tlon; and with equal tenth tt may be eatd, out of the Constitution came the Rehollion of 1801— tho second revolution, [1 the Declaration of In- dependence it was casy to say ‘all men were ervated equal,” but, when Independence had been conqicred, the element of cupidity came into oxercise, Bo, curlously cnough, the Constitn- tion, based tipou the Veelaration, but in flat contradiction of its fundamental {dea, recon nized the accursed institution of human bond- age, The malignity of the foflnence of slavery tnon fthe poltites and statermen of the United Stotes for the first three-quarters of a century of the Hfe of the Governinent Is inealeulable, The course of Davie) Wobstur serves for ius tration. For thirty years Mr. Webster never fulled, pon proper oreasion, to denounce ft fitting terms the crime of slavery. At the end of the long period of public life he sought the Presldency. ‘The Democratle party had fallen humbly at the feet of the slave power the Missourl Compromise had been repudiated, the Kansas-Nebraska til) passed, nnd Mr. Mason's Fugitive-Slaye bill was pcnding, Mr. Webster was in the Senate, and the leader of the Whir party, On the wh of Mareh, 1854, at Huston, ho made a eperch in whieh, after declaring his. purposa to vote for the pending Pagitive-Slave dill, he said: “1 desire to eatl the attention of all’ sober-minded omen out the North, of all conecloutlous ten, of all ten who are not carricd away by some fauatical idea or some faise fiapression, to thelr constitutional obligations, I put it to all the suber and sound ininds at the North, asa question of morals and a question of conselence,” ete, ‘Lhut speech greatly inarred Mr, Webster's reputation for consist- ency. But the North waa intoxlested with lust of eain: the South mad with the passion of slavery extension, Northern statesmen cringed: before the atrognnce of the South? and if one more manly than the rest dared ‘to defy the spirit of dictation he was stricken down,—ayo, even in the Senate oouse, and HI8 HLOOD SYATIBNKD THE FLOOR. Notwithstanding the surrender of the poll- tlclans of both parties, hawever, the spirit of realstance was not wholly extinct at the North. The freemen of Massachusetts and of a dozen other States contested! the slavery advance 10 Kansne, and rolled jt back into Mirsourl. ‘They were meunced by Federal bayonets and oycr- come by fraud at the polls, but, impelied by love of liberty and imbued with an Incomit- able splrit of reststanec, they could not fail. Of the great contest which was finally precipt- tated: of the wisdom ‘of the statesmen of tit porlod which trled men’s souls; of the valor of our soldiers, of the sneriflces nnd devutton of the brave men who went to the front, and of the noble women who, weenlng, cheered them ons of the dead who fell, fighting for Mberty, aud whoso bones tle bleaching on Southern soll, or rest peacefully beneath the green sod in the falloys and on the hillsides of the North,—of the grand achieveinents and the glorious and tender memories of that herale cpoch, 1 have not the power to spealc tlttinely. ‘Vico are “scheora for the living and tears for the dead '*: How sleep the bravo, who sink to rost, By all their country’s wishes blosecd | When spring, with dewy fingers cold, Teturne to deck their hallowed motd, She there hall dress a sweeter rod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod, iy fairy banda thefr knell is rang: By forms unseen their dirge is sang; ‘There Honor comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clays, And Freedom shalt awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there! At Appomation the Republic had its now birt. Bantized a second time in the blaod of patriots, faint from exhaustion, humiliated at the retrospeet of a fratricidal strife waged by brothers in the intereatof barbarism, but proud of emanelpation and hopeful of a more glorious future for thelr country, the armies of the Unton presented for the plaudits of mankind the old flag of the first revolution, cleansed by the sec- ond revolution of the foul stain of slaverv! Grave queations crowd fast upon us when wo study the nizusof the mes. ‘The fathers butlded well. Can we, in enlarging the structure, preserva its symmetry and atronyth. fleulties by whieh clyil society is surrounded multiply tn the ratio of its increase in numbers. Tho fathers of 1776 were but three millions; the first century has passed and we ore nearly Atty millions! ‘The railway, the steamship, and the telecraph make all micn kin; from city to city, from pation to nation, they sorcad tho vices of maoktod, and if virtue would keep even in tho race something tere than the seven-learue boots of uld must be provided, ‘There ts no longer such a weakness as rural simplicity. The whistle of the locomotive startles the despest solitudes, and the rumble of its trou wheels re- fleets the restless activity ot urban life. As the traln rushes past the husbandman nt his plow pauses and hears in imaxiuation tlie hum of city streets, the liouscwife starts uneasily, and both sigh for the alluring: ex- cltements of town Iife. At crery hamlet, bowever rude, the train stove und discharges at loast n pundle of newspapers, ‘These are selzed by young atu old alike, and their contents are appropriated with eager, feverish dolight. ‘Ihe telegraph speaks,—tick, tick,—at every station from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and town and country aro strangely blended, If the city is a ploguc-spot on the body olitic, its polson apreads to the remotest slindes of the primeval forests of the vast empire. ‘The newspaper press! Who cau estimate its influence for good, und, alas! for evil upon the deatinics of mankind! With theatd of its right arm, steanl, tt MULTIVLIES ITSELF MILLIONS UPON MILLIONS of tlines, and, filed with telegraphic flashes of nows from the uttermost parts of the earth, with the treasures of art, sclence, and Mterature, with reports of trade, commerce, anil tmanutactires, with accounts of moustrous and petty crimes which shock the ear, and of ‘sgaudals whieh bring the quick blush of shame fo the check of modcaty,—charged with all the great- neas and the meanness of inankind,—the news- paper, still damp from the press, falle, a Jeal from the book of time, upon the breakfast tablo of the rich, the poor, the virtuous, and the abandoned. Nothing fa hid that shatl not du revealed.” There ia no longer any privacy. ‘The reporter rouscs the slumpberer from dread in the dead of wight, and the preas records his sleepy opinions in the morning, The obscure wretch who lives unknown and dics hy hls own hand, has ifs ghastly day In court, for the press recorda hls inst act and paints in vivid colors the scone of his death snd nilsery, And sid side with the bloudy spectacle of tho suleide apoears the chronicle of the blushes of the bride standing ot the altar, In the burly-buriy of modern civilization, with its inteneenesé of meutul and material uctlyity tending strongly to merge the interest of the Indlyidual fn that of the mass, ls personal Uberty to vain new quarantces or suffer slilp- wreck! Out of the barbaric {reedom of thy ine dividual Gauls, Saxons, and Nurnans, English, liberty was evolved. From the extreme isola- tton of shupherd life iuthe East, mankind has tolled alony the ages to the extreme of modorn suclality intho West. Is Huerty here to enjoy ita gratidest triumph, {ts broadest, most gen- ¢rous expansion? Menofthe West, your responsibitities are many and great, Every nation on the globe, ng well aseyery State of the East, sends to these pratrics tts consleninent of sturdy,recrults, ‘Tho next vensus will disclose to view a mar ousgrowth in the population ot the states resting In the bosom of the Continent, Your relutivo political power in the Union fa soun to be vastly augmented, How will “you teu that power? Hitherto the West has been controlled uo darge part by Eastern jideas; o6 the Eastern’ States drew thelr culture, moral oud political, from Englund, so the West bas drawn ta fuspiration from the trénsures of the Kast orn Stutes. Hereafter the West should dis- ceriiniuate wisely between the true and the false {eas of the East,--odupt the former and dis. card the latter, ‘Lhe West should show {nue- pendence of spirit_ and the courage of intelli- Rent convictlon, It is not tov much to gay that to you and to your posterity of the Weat fs con- fided the destiny of America. Eternal vigilance Js not less the price of liberty to-day, this ycur, aud next year, than it was at that moment of time when the idea of cqual rights first dawned upon the mind of man, It is more precious now than then, in the ratio of tte thousand-fohd wreater prerogatives aud pllenes. Sob fast. to it under its proseat auspiclons conditions, Rest assured, above all things, of ono thing, tat ite Leneticence cannot be fuercased by dividing: the authority under which it 1s preserved, Warn those who demand a stronger government to hold their hand; repress with rigorous frpaecss those who would weaken tho authorlty of the central power, the nation, lest [through the pas- sions of the mob and the fears‘of the opsilent a crisis be precipitated which witl oyermbelm the Republic in ruil. Jn the afternoon amusements of yarious kinds were the order, and {nthe eyenlng the usual flre-works, ‘Ihe whole proceodings were very entertulning nud satisfactory to the vast number in attendance, syd the day closed pleasantly, uninarryg by a atreet-brawl or dis- order of apy Kiud, THE STATE AT TAANGE, BLOLN, Speetat Dispatch to The Tribune, Exar, Sil, duly 4.—Our citizens celebrated the Fourth without much ado, Gen. Lieb, of Chleago, was to orate, but hy falled to arrive iu time, Down-town there was boat-racing, foot The itis, ‘There wos alto on the Fnlr-Grounds horac-trotting, wlass- facia: and rone-walkin the milttary band gave a concert. ball shooting, and bneo-ball.. A towarnine beat A wateb-factory nine 13 to 5. 7 . CATAANVILLE, Rpeetal Phanarch (0 The Tribune. Cantanyitim IL, didy 4.—The Fourth was celebrated {u this city hy a parade, trotting nnd ritoning races at the Fair Grounds, a national enltite, ainda fino display of ticc-works. The attendance wae very laree. ELSEWHERE, THE SOUTH. CITANLESTON, Cranieston, Juty 4.—The celebration of the day begutt by the tiring of a nattonal satute at. sunrise by the Lafayette Artillery, a crack white militia company, beinz the first tine such ralute has been fired by any such company since 1800, belore which time it was the custom, Thero was a largo und creditable parade of colored militta, and business generally was sits- pended, ‘The colored people in Sunday attire Med the strects, und wave the elty o holiday aspect. MONTOOMERY, Mostadwenr, Als, July 4.—Five thousand people assemiled at the Falr Grounas toxlay. ‘The procession of ex-Confederate suldicrs was a consplenous feature of the dav.* ‘The Deelata- tion of Independence was read by ex-Gov. Watts. The Kev. Father Ryan, the voct-pricst, delivered the address, which: abounded fn tributes to the wisdom and patriotism of the men of 1770. He especially clalined that the people of the South should ever cherish the prinelples for which their furefathors contended. Gen, Joseph Wheeler aud cx-Attorncy-General Sanfard made speeches, Many letters were read, atnong them from Jefferson Dayls, Gen. Hancock, Gon, Hooker, Gon. Mesuregard, Gen, GW. Morgan, and Gen. McCtetlan, After apenking there was av old-fasiloned Fourth of July barbecue. SOUTIIERN VIEWS. HOW A LEADING SOUTHERN DEMOCRATIC PAPER NEOANDS ‘TH VOURTH OF JULT, Okatone (Stins,) Southern States (Dern), fly 2. We don't bolleve in the Fourth of Ju-ly, or any other ktud of aziz. We don't that, Cap- taint oad our: paper thls week, carefully, prayer- fully,—aye, siearfully, If you must,—but read it, Messrs. Yankees, and see the sentiments With whiet wo salute the Fourth of July, sincu the American flay became a festering eye-sore, the American cngit a carrion-crow, and the Americun Union ao ie spowed frou: the pits of perdition. © tho Fourth of July— Ly—ly—ly—ly— ‘O the Fourth of July isn lle, Since the murdering, plundering Yankee band Swooned down, like aemons, with blado ond brand, ‘To conquer snd crush our tovely land, And Lorottle us atl with an Sron hantl, ‘And deny the plorfous right and geant ‘To a voveretin State ity awn commantl, While tuey shouted the Tory ery! THE FAR WEST. SAN FRANCISCO. San Francisco, July 4.—The Fourth was celobrated by general suspension of business, procession, oration, regatta of the Master Ma- rincra’ Association, etc. With the exception of the death of achila named Francis Millen by the accidental discharge of a toy cannon, the day was barren of fucklont or accident. The workingmen held a mass-meeting at the sand lots, and passed resolutions sympathizing with the Eastern brethren In the struggle for an eleht-hour law, and urging continued agitation of the question, DENVER, oectat Dispatch to The Trioune, Denven, Col., July 4.—The Fourth was cole- brated here to-day, oclipsing any demonstration heretolora secp. TUE WAST. TAUNTON, MASS. TAUNTON, Mass., Juty 4.—T'he Sotdicrs’ Monu- ment wos dedicated hero to-day with {imposing ceremonica, LAKE WALDEN, MASS. Lake Waunen, Mass, July 4—At a grand temperance und patriotic celebration, Henry Ward Beecher spoke toa large audience on na- tional affairs. fle advocated 9 ‘notional—not a sectlonat—{eoling among the people and Repre- sentatives, aud favored a government by the people, Chineso emigratton, anu honest money, Gen. Kltpatrick and the Hon. Nea! Dow also delivered orations. AT BUNBURY, PA. Pintapenrnta, July 4.—Goy. Hoyt unyelled the status of Col. Cameron at Sunbury, Pa. FOURTH-OF-JULY INCIDENTS, Mark Cunningham, 14 years of age, ying with his parents at No, 201 Johnson street, shot Dimgolf lost evoning through tho left hand. ‘The wound was not a bad one, Edward Kinsolla, white fring off his ofstol in front of lis home, No, 831 Hubbard strect, shot away the Iittle tnger of hts right hasd with o nall hich ho had put {nto the muzzle of his weapon. 3 Aman named John Lukachesky, 24 years of age, living nt No. 24 George strect, accidentally shot off the (rst fuger of bia left hand while dis- charging his reyolyer, at 0:30 ycaterday forc- noon. Ateam of horses attached to o carrlago owned by ‘Thomas Delaney, and driven by EBA Foot, became frightened at some Loys firing off firecrackers at thy corner of Halsted and Wosh- Ington streets at 7 otctock Inst eventn, nnd ran away. ‘The horsea ran untilpthey collided with the aldewall at tho corner of Union street. ‘The occupants escaped uninjured, Peter Callen, 80 years of age, diving at No 157 Wiimot avenne, wag shot ut 10:05 last oven- ing while driving a street-car_on the Milwaukeo avenue line, Dr. Watrous extracted the bullet from his left leg just below tho knee, and pro- nounced {t not serious, ‘The driver claiins that the shooting was done in a criminally carcicss manner by one of the Pine Brog., of No, 835 Bluc Island avenue, William Keating, 16. years of ngo, lying with Ws parent, 4B Weat Ohio strevt, was lust evening drowned at the Uovernment pler. While walking along the timbers of the pler, tio secldentally slipped and felt into one ot the openings, and was drowned before assistance cou be rendered him. ‘the body recovered phortiy afterward, and was acnt Hey D, P. Shaw, lying at No. 20 West Randolph atreet, nud employed as a salesinan by L.A. Talcott, of No. 71 South Water atreet, while ba- Ing put off a Halsted street cnr at the corner of Madison aud Desplaines streets, at 8:20 last erentng, for having quarreled with the cond: tor over some trivial matter, foll jn euch a manner that bia left foot want under the wheels of a Macdson street car golng cast, nnd was badly ¢rushed. Dr, Bluthurdt, who attended him. says ble fujurics aro very serious, At 1G o'clock last night Policeman Dan Duffy saw a ain poll a revolver wud point It full at an. Italien who was standing in front of the auloon at the northwest corner of Yao Buren und Clark streets. ‘The olllcer jerked tho fellow’s arm aside, and the bullet weat plowing into thy sidewalk, At the st a- thm thy prisoner registered as Michsel Lucy, "The Itallan ran away, und consequently the pare {deulars of the alfray, if indved thera were any other than those giyco above, could not be ac cortained, Patrick Hassett nud Michaol Sullivan were ar- rested Jate last night for the highway robbery of Simon Stofford, a ayjtor living at the corner of Johnson and Wright streets, ‘They held kimup mid took away from him a gold watch aud chain valued ot ‘The night before last two railroad men were assaulted and robbed at the same place, und Oftcers Tac and Walker pirsuell One of the number licld them at oay y Hring three shots, out finally they captured. ‘Verence Fitzpatrick and+Thoiae O'Brien, both of wom were yesterday oed $50 by Justice ‘alsh, At 8:40 yeaterday afternoon Frank Fauta, a' Hobemlan, 23 yeard of wze, living at No. 734 Al- fox aveuug, iad shot aud fatally wounded YY a coupabton named Armon Sfarek, living at the same bumber, As nearly as can be asceriained, the two were tryluy to tire off an old revolver, aud while ja Marek's band the weapon was avcidentally dis- charged. ‘The injured man was taken home and attended by Dr, Copp, whu found that the bullet had entered the avduininal cavity about two and a half Inches to the right of the navel, and about ope and a halt juches Lelow it, tis not thought possible for bln to survive. Marex ran away after the shooting, vut, after takimg a common-sense view of the aventent, returacd and gave himecl£ up at the Hiuwau-Sircet Stotlou ab 780 du tbe LY 5, 18799—-TWELVE PAGES. evening, Through an ho brought with iim, the details of the shooting were gleanod, Ho had been firing off the weapon all day, and handed tt to Fanta to fire off, But tho cylinder failed to como round all right, and he tuok the weapon for the purpose of fixing it. While tn his hand It went off, The treapon was Aiitte namall-sized one. Marck saye he threw ft Loto the rivey.as he was crossing ‘Twenty-second alreet. bridge, Both men have worked aldo by side in Palmer & Fuller's planing mil, MARINE NEWS. MILWAUKEE. Apartat Dispatch to The Tribune, Minwaunre, duty 4.—The schr E. 18, MeVea, Jaden with Jumber for Chicago, sprung n leak offyAmsterdaty, in a southwester yesterday afternoon, nud began to fill deepite tho pumps. ‘This side of Shehoyzan her deck-loai of 109,000 fect of lunibar wae fettlsoned., ‘This morning the tug Welcome towed the vessel into the harbor, sunk decks to, She whl be pumped ous to-morrow nud ducked for repalts. interproter whom PORT COLBORNE. Apectat Diaspate® to The Tribune. Ponr Cotnonnn, Ont., duly 4.—Passed down =—Schr M. Fillmore, Chicago to Ogdensburg, corn. < Up—-febr L, §. Jtammond, Ogconsburg to Chivage, cod. Wind, north; feosh. NAVIGATION NOTES. enicago, ‘Thursday evening the props Wissahickon nnd Badger State were chartered for 75,000 bu corn to Buflalo at 19Ze. Mr. Baby, the managor of the excursion atmr Ruby, says the repurt that hls bont is not pro- yided with suill-denc lite-saving apparatus fa not correct, and Uatt sito is supplicd swith good boats, lloata, preservers, vte., according to law. Tle also save that‘he will not allow any more passengers on the Ruby than her papors give fee Ivenso to carry. TLSEWHERE, + Tho new prop New York, Intely launched at Buffalo, will be ready for business iu avout four weeks, : ‘The now steam’ barge Glidden made a trial trip ot Cloveland ‘Thursday, and her engioes worked sntisfnctortly, It fs sald that a new Hebt Js to he erccted on Grassy Isto to take the place of the ous already tiare, and that operations will bo begun imme- diately. The ateam berge Ianac May, with her con- sorts, was scized ob Beng Inlet recently for debt. on the complain’ of the Georglon Bay Lumber Company. Bix buoys bave beon placed {n Rondeau Har- bor for the purpuso uf showing the deep water. Tho three on the port elde aro black, the others belug painted red. * PORT OF CHICAGO. The following are the arzivals and actual sail- Inga at thie port for the forty-eight hours end- {ng at 10 o'clock last uizut: AMINVALS. 7 tg Prop Waverly, Huftalo. sundrica, Randotph stract. Prop alliwavkee, Cleveland, “eundries, Claric alreut. Prop Oconto, Green Bay, sundrics, Rush street Prop Meesenger, Benton, sundrics,sState etre Prop Sky Lark, Henton, sunirios, State street, Prop City ‘Traverse, ‘Praverso, aundries, Fourteenth atrect. Props, Flek, Jt. Buffalo, sundries, Randolph strect, Prop A. Laura, Maskegon, sundrics, Stetson Slip. Prop Tempest, White Lake, limber, Allen Slip. Prop Badger State, Bsdalo, sundries, State strect. Prop Faycite, Maniece, lumber, dtetson Slip. Prop Montanu, Buffalo, sundrics, State strevt. Prop New Era, Grand Haven, sundrics, Kush ty a prop 3°" turd, Houghton, qundrles, Randolph treet, Prop“ Wissablexon, Buffalo, sundrlos, Clark slreet, Prop Luweil, Clévolad, sundries, Prop Hoanute, Buffalo, enndries, Prop Columbia, Collingwood, _ sundries, street. bY C. Reitz, Manustee, lumber, Lake street, roe Siaty Geol SOW Haven, sustdries, Stata s ‘satdvetn, Hacamba, ore, N. B, Tt, pi. vrup Thompson, Muskegon, lumber, 1 ore ree G, Dunnas, Muskegon, lumber Polk street, Prop Hismarck, Sinnekaunes, towing, Rush atrect. Sehr Eldorado, Alnneleunec, Inmbor, Stotson slip. SeurMinnekatnee, Minnekauncs, lambor, Stet Wolls street. Adams sircet. Welle gon slip, ScheNelaon, Minnekaunee, lumber, Stetson altp. Schr ‘Tom Paine, Muskegon, slabs, Rush street, Sche A. dnckwon, Manistee, limber, Itush street. chr Contest, Muskegon, Juinber, PoUs etrect, Scnr L, M. Davis, Muskegon, lumber, Market, Schr. Walbridge, Mtantutce, lamber, Markel, Sehr Huncurian, Muakezon, lumber, Alién slip. Schr Mary Nan. Muskegon, lumber, Market. Schr J. V. Jones, Muscegin, lumber, Allen allp. Schr Tom Stmma, Ludington, inmber, Market. a Nalsd, Oconto, Iumber, Twelfth street. Schr Ju 1. King, Grand Hayen, wood, Rush Sene Ativanee, Tadlngton, bark, Ne Be * Rehr Advance, Luding! je bet . B Sclir attle Fleer, Wilto Laka, lumber, Market. Setir Onk Leaf, Ludington, umber. Mason ellp. Sehr Potrel, Muskegon, Iutnper, Market, Sched, A. Stronach, Mammtoo, lnmber, It. T. Te, Re Sehr B. I, Bruce, Bufalo, coal, Central wharf. Schr Ainerica, Monomitnce, Itinder, Sampaon allo. Selir Jamiaca; Oswego, cuul, Macazine slip. Scht Banner, PL Sheldon, ties, Kush atroct. Schr Jenny Jind, White Lake, woud, Rueb stroot. Hehe Me Ae Grogpry, Metouittios, sli, Kush street, Behe d. It, Noyes, Oswexo, cual, Arcitor avenie, Schr Four Brothers, Mautetee, tumber, Twolfth utecet. Schr Antares, Kehr Onward Rehr Matne, Atualce Bebr L, 8, Bhephe liranch, ator, Muskegon, wood, Tish atroot. Fear roar orihy Lildingtun, twinbor, Atarket. ta. Porteh, Sandy Bay, voles, Fourteenth t. uote Es C Muskegon, lumber, Market, Bebe yatltivor, vord itiver, luinber, Twenty-sec~ ‘oni sire Behr Hating, Hates, Grand Haven, wood,. South tated ateect. Behe Gite Hinckley, Oconto, lumber, Market, fete Hinallne, Muskegon, lumber, Market. belt A. f. Nichole, Leland, posta, Market. fchr G. Hiten, White Lake, Inmiber, Market. Kehr J. 2. DoConares, Ventura, thes, street, Behr Ki 4, Muskegon, lumber, Mneon Slip. Fee mone, Munkegon, lnmber, Market, Behr Citv lites Haver, Grand Haveu, lumber, Slip. Alse Atle, Grand Haven, lumber, Allon fiche Tramafor, Grand Haven, lumber, Kampson'a, Kehr Levi Grants aa t Apntoers oy te of ukegon, lumber, Mayaz! Me Bene Minerva crawford, "Masonville, ties, A. & 1, Le he Coral, Grand Haven, tes, It. T. Re Te Fone Condhor, Manistee, luuiber, Stetson Slip. Kehr, Fonter, Wuffalo, coal, Hel atreot, Heche M. Muller, Exg Harbor, ‘poles, Onondaga, Sehr it. Jobneon, Muskegon, lumber, Market, Hehe A, Richards, Escunaba, ore, blast frnace. Kehr ©. L. Fick, Muskegon, Tnniber, Market. bebe C.J. Siuith, South tiaven, bark, Division street. Schr A, Hust, Muskegon, lumber, Market. Seer jason Parker, White Lake, wood, Brauch, Sched. 1. Morrill, Menominee, lumber, South Halsted street, Schr N.C. Albrecnt, Muskegon, lumber, Market. che Sardinia, White Lake, lumber, Market. Muskeyon, wond, Market. Mnakegun. umber, Market. in, lumber, Aturket. . Muskegon, North cur Wlva, Grand Hayon, bark, North Branen, jagazino, Schr Telegraph, Muskeyon, lumber. M Schr Kewance, Mantatee, iaber, Ma Schr L. B, Contes, Muskegon, Iumoc Schr M. K. Perow, Alpona, liaiver, Market, Schr Lizziu A. Law, Isuffalo, coal, Madison street, Stur Corona, St, Joe, nirios, Rush street, Sime Slichoyysn, Manitowoc, sundries, Rash stm Cf titimmend, South Havon, sundries, Rush atroet, Btme Alpena, Muskegon, aundrle Sime Chicago, Manitowue, suns Stnr Michigan, Muekexon, sundr! Sehe L. McDonald, Mantetey, lum Ti Sele M. Thompson, White Lake, lumoer, Market, ACTUAL SAILINGH. Schr, L, Johnson, Munlates, light, Prop Commodore, Huilalo, sundries, ry Fayette, Manistee, light, prop Gatnes Vieks dees itudaio, sundries, Schr Klizabeth Jones, isufalo, grain, W, Luckuy, Manistee, Nght. Y bh, Banistce, Light, Schr Moses Gage, Ludington, Wzbt Rehr D, M, Forrest, Jacksuoport, Wah. Prop It. C. Brittala, Saugatuck, sundries, Hchr A.M, leer, Muskegon light. Prop Nashua, Cleveland, sundries. Prop Europe, Collinzwood, sundries, Prop Acadis, Montreal, sundrles. Prop Couestoga, Hudalo, sundries, Prop Trader, Yeatwater, sundries, Prop Aunie Young, Erle, sundries. Bebr Sea Star, Ludington, hab. Prop 8. D. Coldwell, Budalo, sundries, Schr Guiding Star, Buffalo, grain, Schr White Cloud, Banistee, light, Schr Cecelta, Manistee, aie Hebe City of "Toledo, Stanletee, light, (Bear Jd, B Merrill, Muskegon, 1gbt, Scr ‘Tupsy, Suskegon. light. Prop Tempest, White Lake, light. Sehr J. B, Penfeld, dJacksunport, light, Schr Mery Copley, Evcanaba, ore, Sebr Ida, Maalatec, Hyut. Prop Avnio laura, Muskegon, lght, Schr Sardinia, White Lake, hzht, Sche Oracte M. Filer, Ludington, ight, Sebr Mary Colline, Menominee, light. Sche Milton, Manistee, hilt. Sehr A. Hust, Muskegon, lieht, Behr Sury Heten, White Lake, sundries, Prop st. Lous, Bullaio, aundrica, Scne Lew Ellaworth, Excanaba, light, Sen’, North, ventwater, light, Prop Russia, Huifale, suodnes. Behe J, Mt, Mutcbineon, Builalo, gealg, -.~* ” sproofs roquired a cessation of hostilities would avhich peace must be negotlated. lumber, North-| ‘vention was signed with the Cuban Insurgents, and Consu}-Gonerul .Meap gavea reception {pn honor of tho anniversary, American residents and visitors wero, present, In the ovening Commander Farquhar and offi- cers of the United States steamer Quinnebang ‘the diplomatic corps, and a brilliant party of natives and forcigu resktents of Constantinople ata lodeing-house In Euston Square, Londoo, necused of murdering Matilda Becker, an cldorly lodgor, snd bldiug the corpse in the coal-cellar, whero {t lay over a yearand o half, has been aoquitted. rare FOREIGN. Hore Windthorst, prooosing that any revenue jo excess of 130,000,009 marks bo distrib- uted among the separate States, Loxpox, June 4.—Tho Sandar@’a Berlin Aispatch says the ‘Larifl Commieston resglved to recommend that the duties ona larme cate- gory of roods, Including petroleum, stall coma‘ js force Immediately on tho passage of tho Arrival’ of the Remains. of the Dead Prince at Madetra. French Government Restrictlons Regarding Attendance at the Obsequics. ITALY. é THN CAMINET COLLAPSE, =. Rox, July 4,—Tho fail of the Depretts Cabl- net fs causad by 8 coalition of ex-Ministers Sella, Micotera, and Racenriul. THE EX-KNEDIVE ARNKSTED, Loxvon, duly 4.—A dispateh from Naples re- ports that ‘the ex-Khedive of Egypt, Ismail” Pasha, bos been arrested, : . FRANCE. ; NOT unornT, i Versain.es, Jitly 4.—M. Testelin to-day ine troduced in the Chamber of Deputies, and do- muvnded “urgency” tor the bill to Impose the onth of allegiance to the Republicon military officers, but urgency was refused in consequence ofthe Government stating they wore now con: sidering the subject. ASIA, CHINESE OUTRACES. Loxpon, July 4.—A Berlin correspandent of the Times transinits a report in the Go'os from its Orenburg correspondent that the Chineso aro committing all kinds of outrages in Kuldja territory, and thousands of fugitives aro seek ing protection at Russtau forts, EGYPT. _ BARRED OUT. ; Losnon, July 4.—The Standards Catro dla patch reporta that the Khedive has forbidden” Nubor Pasha from entering Egypt. AFGIANISTAN, A RUSSIAN ENVOY sTOrrnD, Qinua, July 4.—The Russian Envoy has ar- rived at Balkb, The Governor refused to allow him to proceed to Cabul. THE WEATHER, , Orrict on tae Crtry' S1onan Orricen. Wasminetoy, D. C.. duly 51-9. m.—Indica-. tlois; Vor Tennessee and tha Ohio Valley, northwest to southwest winds, rising barometer partly clouds, cooler weather, ond occasional rains. 3 For tho Upper Mississipp! and Lower Missouri Valleys, rising, followed by statlonary or lower pressura, slichtly warmer, clear or partly cloudy weather and easterly winds. Forthe lakes rogion northerly winds, rialn barometer. with cooler, clear weather, followe ‘by stationary und falling barometer and warmer, partly cloudy weather, ‘The'rivers will generally chango but little. LOUAL OPSERVATIONE. Uwicano, July 4, Teh Fen, | Weather An Attempt to Rescue Nihilists Thwarted by the Officials, a Tho Turkish Sultan ond Ministers Throat. ened with Assnssination, THE DEAD PRINCE. p EUGBNIB. Mapnin, duly 4.—Ex-Empress Eucente has written to Countess de Montijo, her mother, that after the funeral of the Prince Imperial suo will spend a fow months in the Convent near Burgos. ‘ THY PRINcH’s REMAINS. Lonnox, July &—The British troop-ship Orontes arrived nt Madcira to-uay with the re- inains of the Prince Imperial. ‘The remains woro transferred from tha Boadicen to the Orontes nt Capa ‘Tuwn June 15. Sir Bartle Frere, Lady Frere, and all the ofticlats of the colony were present. Imposing religious core- montes were held by the Catholic Bishop. ' PRINCE JEROME, , Lonnoy, July 4.—Tho Standard’s: Paris cor- respondent mentions o report that Prince Jeromo Napoleon has {formed the Government that he will not attend the funeral uf the late Prince Imperiql. “ GOVERNMENT DECISION. ‘The Gaulolsasaurts that the Government bas Acclded that only the officers attached to the Inte Princo will be allowed to attend the funoral, ‘THE DRITISI PRIsors. The Post announces that the British Roral Princes will follow tho remains of the Prince Imporial at the funeral. PUEURY. Loxnon, duly 4.—The Daity Nara’ Paris cor- respondent telegraphs that Gen. Fleury will go on the retired list in order to attend the funcral of the Prince Imperial. s . cLoTinDE, The Times’ Paris special says Princess Clotilde, the wife of Prince Jerome Napoicon, will repre- ecut hor husband at the funcral. SOUTILT AFRICA. ARMY OPERATIONS, Carn Town, Juno 14, via Madeira, July 4.— Col, Newdigate has cleared the country between the Iyotyozt nnd Upoko Rivers without loss. A later telegram says futelligencn is ‘recolyed of the arrival of two more messenyers.from. Cute- wayo at Piotermaritzburg, asking time tor con- feronco. They have been sent to headquartors.. Is ts rumored that a fortuight’s armistico has been agreed to. ‘The official inquiry into the death of the Trince Imporial is closed. Liout, Cary will be court-martisied. CRIEWAYO'S BUREWDNESS. .. Lonpon,; July 4.—In the House of Lords to- night Enrl Cadogan said os far as could bo judged from telegrams received Cctewayo had mado no overtures containhig definite terms of peace, Tha Government's tntost information was contained in a telegram from Lord Chelms- ford to Sir Bartle Frore, dated June 0, stating Time,_| Har, \Tar, Wa. Wind, rf ima, 80; minimam, 04. OENERAL ODSERTATIONS, Cxtoago, July 4-10:18 p. m+ Dre Wind. (ein War fremalae, Clnctonn Gleverand Davenport, Denver... Des Moi 7% rol guisaesaasea| 1 that Cetewayo's messenger had been sent back Dulac with a mossage that Cotewayo must givo proofs anal of his sincerity, suchas the surrender of the cannon captured at Isandula, and the civiug of hostages, and also by eending 9 Zulu regiment to the British camp,to Iny down their arms os proof of submission. Lord Cholmsford in- formed Sir Bartle Frero that ponding Cete- avayo’s answer thera be no military operations, When Cotowayo had given the Gran Inuinoan Keoxuk 8 Cros Learenworth |a0. Lounvitlo, ‘be orderad, pending the discussion of tho final ‘terms ot peace, Tho Government, on the 20ch, of March, acnt a dispatch to Lord Chelmaford . and Sir Bartle Frero setting forth the bascs on SPAIN. | ‘ME COLONIAL PoLicy, Mavnip, July 4.—In Congress Thursday the debate on the address in reply to the specch from the throne was continued. The Minister, for the Colonics sald the Government. was very desirous that affairs in Cuba bo satisfactorily ar- ranged, snd appealed to the patriotism of tha Deputics to assist the Ministry in reducing tax- ation in Cuba, He demanded the immediate abolition of slavery, and sald he considered tho interests of Cuba identical with those of Spain, INCENDIARY FIRES, t Mapntp, July 4,—Several fires iu the Provinces of Xorez and Arcos ore attributed to incendlar- fem on the part of Intornatiouallste. NONORADLE. Premier Martinez Campos, replying to the in- terpellation in Congecss, declared that no con- ay HR ents st LATE LOCAL ITEMS, Mra, Nicholson, 50 ycars of ae, while stand- ing before ab open window fn the frst story of hor dwelling, No, 244 Oak street, when o ball, fired apparently from an adjacent stable, lodged in her nose. ‘The bail was extracted, and the wound pronounced not écrions. : The North Diviston police last ovening re- pore that three boys Ind been serluusly urned and Injured by the explusion of acan- non which they were firing off near Graceland Ceinotery. No particulars could be gieaved, and the name of only one, the son of the lata Nicholas Simons, a siloon-kooper at that polut, was mentioned, Jotn Rubel, living at No, 180 North Peoris, street, got into a quarrel with Peter Malloy at the corner of Peorla and Kinzle streots at 9 o'clock Jast evening, in which Malloy pulled out aknife and cut Rubel twice, onca fn the baci nud once in the side, Both wounds are conald- ered serious, but are not expected to prove fa- tal, Malloy was arrcsted shortly after tho oo currence, The first yictim of the Fourth of July ccle~ bration, Rock Navegat, was lying lost night in, an unconscious condition at his home, No. 429 Clark street. During the day: Dr. ‘Thurston succeeded in tracing the course of the bullet, tnd found it embedded in tho lott lung, ‘To-day, if the patient still survives, an effort will bo made to extract it, ‘The ine jured young man 1s only 18 years of age, aud ‘only six months in the country. §f¢ has three brothers und i blind father Hvlug at the samo place. No ons has been ablo to find out by whom or how the shooting was dove, but from what lttle Rocks was uble to say after cutering the hotiae, it was done carctessly by some ono whom he described as an Englishman, —<—<—$————__— OCEAN STEAMSHIP NEWS, Queenstown, July i.—Arriyed, Caltic, from New York. bi Oo A Cruel Deception on the Negroes, ‘Neio Orleana Tinea, A man who represented wat ho was o Gove ernment agent went through Hulmes County, pllsulas tap about two weeks ago, statiug thas on the following Sunday o freu tralu would are riveat Durant, Miss., for Ue purpose of traus- porting all who wished togo to Kansas, ie gave very durky a small diag, which was to be stuck fn the land they squatted upon In Kansas, thus: clving themactves a valld title to. the ground, For all of this information, of course, the poor negroes had to pay, and they gave the man whatever little money they bad, So shrewd was tho wretch, and so graytile the picture he painted of Jitu Ia Kunsas, that the nows apread Nike wildilre through thu country, und on all sides the darklea commenced to gather up thelr traps proparatury to the Jong trip belore them. Such property as they cout not take with them they dis of at any price they could gat, Cows wore sold at $3 apiece, chickeus at one cent aplece, aud other iio in like proportion and at o almilor wscrilce, On Sunday, the 1th of June, abous 1,000 negrocs asscinbled at Ure railroad stuilon at Durgut prepared, as well aa their silm means and it Juagmene would allow, for thelr journey to Kansas, Of course the {reo train did nut ar rive, anc these poor, betrayed blacks arc now strauded high and dry, ticir homes, catia furniture, aud iu some {nstances tucir taud, all goncand they thrown upon the mercy aud charity of the people of Holmes County. <a ——— aa thelr capitulation was honorable, TURKEY. ‘THREATS. £ CoxstantTinoPie, July 4.—A number of pla- cards threatening the lyes of the Stultan and Ministers haye again been seized by tho police, THO FOURTH. Constantixov.e, July 4.—Minister Maynard All ‘the «principal entertained the Turklals Ministers, members of on board their shin, GREAT BRITAIN. AcguitrEp, Lonpox, July 4.—Hanna Dobbs, a servant AMERICANA orLEnnatn,. Lonpon, July 4.—In consequences of the death of the aiuter of Minister Welsh, the asual Fourth of July party was given by Gen. Badeau. TUR DANQUET. nN Loynox, July 4.—The banguct in celebration of Independence Day was clyen at the West- mitnater Palace Hotel: to-ntht, Curtts: Gulld presided in tho place of Minister Welsh, who was absent in consequence of the death of his slater. t RUSSIA. A PLOT INTERYBRED WITH, Br. Perunssuna, July 4.—Tho Jtusalan Telow graph says it had heen ascertained before the recons executions ut Kleff thut 400 Nihiltata are rived there -from different parts, sore eyou from Western Europe, to attempt a rescue, but their Intentlons were frustrate: by precautions of the police and seizure of a quantity of dynamite Intended to be used in the attempt, CUBA. TAX IEDUCTION, Hayana, July 4—Captatn-Generat Blanco has recelved an ofticial dispatch from Madrid an- nouncing a reduction of the direct tax from 25 toi percent from the Ist of duly, Wlanta- tons will only pay Sper cent, ‘The reduction ts the result of special efforts made by the Cap- tain-General, based on the estimated saving of $9,000,000 for the preseut fiscal year. GERMANY. ‘THE OLD CATHOLICS, Benin, July 4.—It is announced that the Old Catholics are hencelorth to be treated in Ger- many as part of the Catholle Church, THE TARIVY DEHATE, Barun, July 4.—Tho ‘Tarif Commission to- day agreed to the amendment introduced by Strange Finuln of an jopomont. Bhatby (Ala.) Sentinat, We hear rumors of a youtaful runaway couple from St. Clalr County recently, The young cont was aged about 15 und the young lady about 14 years, Fearing parental opposition, they took matters into thelr own handa and started out on foot tor this county, ‘The fathers of ule rana- Ways made pureuit und overtook them tu the uvihborhood of Pelbam on the secoud day of thelr Might. Procusing a marriage Hecuse aint calling iu the services of u muautstrate the old gentlemen proceeded at once to have the young folka uolted ty marriage. ‘They then took thea up behind them on their horses, each father take wx bis child, aud returned Lowe with the wane jererd. ’