Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 7, 1879, Page 4

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The bank of R, Ganpyer & Co., at Cham- paign, I., which passed the panic of 1873 jn good shaps, went down on Saturday under elenr skies and without a signal of distress, The unsocured labilitios amount to $50,000, and the monoy is understood to have boon loet in handling grain, It is s matter of somo spoculation in Lon- don and Paris whother Princo Jenouz Na- ronzox and his sons will attond the funoral of tho Princo Imperial, and the weight of opinion seems to be that the Ropnblicanism of the hoir-npparont to tho Bonnpartiat pre- tensious will not stand in the way of paying such a tribute of respect to the momory of tho dead Princo, The desiro of Gon. Oas- whenau to bo presont at the fnueral is so strong that ho has askod to bo placed on the rotirod list in ordor that thera may bo no breach of propricty in attending tho -ob- Bequios, Atanson Wonk died yesterday at his homo in Hartford, Conu., at the ago of 80. Ha was one of the old original Hlinois Abolition- ists, moving to thia State in 1835, and later on was ongaged in tho dangerous business of assisting slaves to gain their freedom by bringing them norosa the Mississippi Hivor from Missouri into Illinois. Boing caught on Missouri soil with two co-Inborers in the cause of liborty, Wogs and his frionds wero tried, convicted, and sentenced to twolvo years’ imprisonment at Jofforson City Poni- tontiary, from which tho former was par- doned, aftor serving threo yoars and a half, on condition that he returo ond settle in Connecticnt. Tho latter thirty yoars of his life bad boen quiet and unoventfnl, and, ex- cept by the few surviving anti-slavery ngi- tators of the olden time, ho was in reoent years comparatively unknown, There is good roason to belisve that “ Long" Jones ond his friends will make no further -effort to displace United States Marshal Hi.prvr in order to make room for tho olongated politician who claims hia ro- ward for tho sorvico ho rendored in tho eloc- tion of Locan. ‘This reason is fonnd in tho fact that tho United Btates Marshal, owing to tho failure of Congress to appropriate, cannot draw his pay or Government fees ‘until the Congrossional omission has boon supplied. ‘Long” Jonzs is n groat patriot ond adovoted servant in the houso of the Republican party, but ho doos not carry his ; devotion to the extent of serving his country \ or his party without componsation, nor even \ when the pay is doubtful, Marshal Hrconur can consequontly rest easy in tho assurance that “Long” Joxes will mako no effort to displace him till after Congress shall op- propriate his pa: The seventy-two-hour demonstration of tho Socialists ended yosterday in a gonoral condition of unpleasant dampnens, the result of a doingo of rain which stopped thespecch- making and sont tho picnickers homo sonk- ing vet. It wos at notime a great affair, cither in the numbers participating or tho stton- -tion it attracted, and beyond tho rost and recreation afforded tho small’ number of workingmon who availod thom- solves of three consecutive holidays it 1s not easy to seo Wwhoroin tho domonstra- tion has done anybody any great amount of good, If wo take as noritorion the number of mochanics and loborors who marched in the procession, ,attonded tho plonio, and listened to the speoches, it docs not appear thet tho workingmon of Chicago aro quite ready to join en massa in tho olght-hour movement, for cortainly only a vory small proportion of them havo identifiod thom. solves activoly with tho Boofalist proceedings of the past three daya, renee A number of citizons unite In a card which wo print this morning calling for n thorongh sifting of tho caso of Henny Scurz, who was on the ovening of the Fourth of July shot and killed by some unknown porson, pro- sumably by somo rovkless boy who waa “celebrating” the national anniversary by firing a loaded revolver, ‘Chis murder, as woll as the other fotalities and onsual- tlas arising from n similar caugo last Yridoy, lies direotly ‘at the door of the Polico Department, and the blood of the poor Ind who was shot: through tho bead will be found on the hands of the Mayor himself unlogs he ean make itappoar that he intended something more thau incre Lom. bats when he jasuod the ordor of July 8 di- recting the police to prohibit the fring of gnaos and pistols within tho city Ihnits, That order was absolutely ignored by the police, when {ts execution would have saved the , lito of this murdered boy, Was It an under. stood thing betwoen the Mayor and the Police Superintendent that the or- dcr be ignored? or waa tho Mayor wo doeply ougrossod in his assault on the efficlency of the Firo Department that he took no interest iu seeing whether the order was enforced or not? Probably the latter supposition would be tho nearost correct, | althongh the police wera quite excusable in supposing that they wore not expected to pay any attention to an order which was not iasued until after all tho Inds of tho city had Inid in n alock of toy pistola and ball cart. ridges, 'The fecling among the German-Amorican altizens of Chicago relative to the removal of Fire-Marshat Brangn fonnd exprossion yestornay afternoon in a well-attended msss- movting at tho North Side Turnor-Hall, Among the names of the gontlomen who wore present and participated in tha pro- ceedings will bo recognized those of many Germans of wonlth and promincuce, nud of Democrats and Republicans in about equal nambers—citizons who foel the hasty and unenlled-for actionof the Msyor to have been an insult to the nationality which hos always felt a peculiar pride in the distinotion achieved by Matr Bremer, as woll as 6 blow at their intoresta ns propotty-owners, ‘The resolutions adopted at this mecting would, if olreulated, receive the ntmost unnnimons assent of the people of Chicago, regardless of politics or nationality, sinco thoy rocito briefly the undisputed facts fn the engo, viz: that Firo-Marshal Besxen ‘has performed . tho duties of his office to the ontiro satiafac- tion of all our cifizons”; that property-own- ers and insurora believo that proporty is “best protected with Marr Bexnen at iho head of tho Fire Department”; nnd that tho ‘Moyor is anrnestly desired to ‘ rcoonsidor his removal and reappoint hint-to his position.” If Mr. Tlanrtgox means’ to do ‘what ho promised, to bo ‘* Mayor of the ontire city,” ho will heed this enrnest and respectful ro- qnest and restore Marr Bennxn to tho head of the Fire Dopartment. There is nothing he could possibly do as Mayor of Chicago that wonld gratify so large s number of tho people of this city. THE WHEAT-DEAL, The wheat-donl in this city, which some people think is closed, and othors do not, is probably the Inrgest operntion of the kind aver witnosaed.. Thera is good renson to beliove that the June deal, gigantig in itself, was only. ncontinuntion of tho big invost- ment made by James Kernz in whoat tho closing months of Inst yoar, Thoro in also Hitlo ronson to donbt that the operation has attnined a much groater mngnitude than was originally intended by the great California speculator, Fi The price of wheat raled very low Inst autumn. Tho foot of a big crop in tho United States, estimated by tho“Agricultural Bureou at 425,000,000 bnshols, cnusod first holdor@#to market their whoat very freely, and tho big supplies prossing upon buyers encouraged them to insist on lowor prices, ‘They wero nided by the speculative operators known na bears, many of whom thought the market hore would decline to about GO conts per bushel, or ono cent per pound, and hastenod to make money by solling short. Tho result was on almost continuons droop in prices till our market touched 77 conts on Oot. 10, ‘Then aloent combination took hold of it, and caused a reaction to 81 conts by tho close of the month. Dnring this timo Mr, Krenz was studying the situation, with the nid of prominent mon in New York, and decided on making an in- vestmont, He bought some fivo to eix mill- jon bushels in this markot, moatly at 80@85 cents, which was the range of prices during November and Decomber, snd is bolioved to have intonded to carry it till spring, and ship it at low freight rates nonr the opening of navigation, He practically owned or con- trolled all tho wheatjin ‘this city during tho winter; but thoro was n widesproad fear that ho was “only playing with it," and operators wore all the time norvously looking for tho dny when he’ would unload, ond Tenvo the grain to be moved ont by others ‘‘on its merits.” Sul, tho markot rnlod much higher than was ex- pected, nnd tha better prices induced vary largo shipments from tho farm, while ship- pers Enatward contented themsolves: by handling the relatively cheap lower grados. Tho result was n glut of No, 2 in our ware- houses, which made many think that ecarront quotations conld not be sustained, and they hold aloof from the dent, loaving tho market a very slow ono, whilo Kxxvz and his agonts maintained 1 profound silenco in regard to their acts nnd intontions, The quiet was broken March 7 ‘by tho focolpt of .tho woll-romomberod ordor (whother gonuino or not is still a disputed point with some) under which Anum Fisuer, Krenz’s broker, sold out 2,800,000 bushels in a fow hours; tho price for April delivery declining from 93 to 86} cents during tho process, Tho whent wns repurahasod by noon tho next day, which caused o partial reaction; but the market was “stupid” for along timo aftor- wards, as many poople rofoxed to bolieve that Krenz continued to on any large quan- tity of wheat, and tho great majority entor- tained grave doubts in rogard to tho situn tion, It apponra probable that about this timo Kren formed tho design of much ox- tending bis original programmo, the popular mind being in favor of selling, while reports trom Europe {ndleated an increngod domand for our available surplus, and {it appearod probable that our receipts during the spring months would bo light, tho stocks In farmers’ hands boing reduced to a low point by tho unprecedontedly actlys movement of earlier months, “Tho party to whom it ia supposed the conduct of tho deal was committed, after the episode of March, bonght the astonishing quantity of elevon millions bushels, to bo dolivered during May aud Juno, Most of this was sold at 90@05 cents by men who did not own n grain of wheat at tho timo of salo, but expected to be ablo to buy it for leas bofore tho time came to do. liver tho proporty. Our receipts were nob ao large ne expected by the shorts, and the market advanced as they tried to fillin, Tho price touched $1.00 on Bay 22; tho month of June opened with the marked at 21,00, and closad at 31.07, Abont seven million bushels, or two-thirds of tho whole, waa cov. ored during the last week in the month at $1.01@1,07; and some quartoy of n million bushels was left undelivered, ‘Cho prloo at whioh those outstanding contracta must bo settled will bo fixed by tho Committee of Arbitration, The mon who were nuwise enough to sell the proporty of othor people at prices helow those which the other people afore. said were willing lo nocopt linve beon hoavy losors by the oparntion. ‘They. ara “out” collectively to the amount of more than a million dollars, Hntit by no means follows thut the other sido has mado so much moncy, or will Lave made any profit at all by the time they havo done with it, ‘Che oporating expenses aro large, including brokora’ feos, storage, insurance, nud telugraphing, with interest on the monoy employed, This will absorb a large patt of the nominal profit; aud there fs n large quantity of whoat yet on hand to be sold tothe consumers at prices which are at present undetermined. ‘Tha most recount nows from Europo is favorablo to tho hold- THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY, JULY 7, 1879, ° ors, but there ia no question that they hnve mn a dangorons risk in rotnining the prop- orty so long, right up to the forwanl edge of anothor harvest, which might have proved to thom a “ragged odge” indeod. In this point, howover, the commorcinl, publio havo comparatively little dirvet. inter- ent; nithough itinvolves the question of how much shall be paid for tho breadstuifs con- sumod during the next faw weoks or montha. It mattera not to thom whether Ksrsr bo a gainor or losor by the operation, But a good many nmong them are vitally concernod with the answer to the question, Ia tho deal to be continued in Jnly?” ‘Thero aro not a fow who foar that Krexn has got fully na atrong n hold upon tho market for this month's dolivery na ho had for Juno; anda great zhany who naunily trade in whont aro holding entirely aloof, regarding the point fas exceedingly doubtful, If yes, the prico’ of No, 2 whont in this market twonty-flvo days hence may be much above tho highost point thus far attained sinco the last harvost. THE COUNCIL'S DUTY IN THE DENNER Impuleivo men aro not always atabborn, and stubborn mon are not always impulsivo ; dnt Mayor Hangsson, judging from his own talk to reporters and others, is both impul- sive and stubborn, Noither of these qnali- ties is specially adapted to a responsible off- cial caroor, and the union of the two suffi. clontly accounts for Mr. Hanntsox’s troubles, ‘The removal of Bexxen bonrs tho etamp of impulsivenoss, ‘Thore was uo premonition of auch action; tho Mayor docs not seem to have advised ‘with tho underwriters ond Intge owners of buildings and goods, who are mainly interested; and, after roqnosting Benwen's roniguation, tho Intter’s respectful reply that he would give tho requost immedi- ate consideration was followed by an instanta- neous, summary, and ill-natured dismissal. Thatwas impulsive. Since thon Mr. Hannt- nox has had abundant evidence that his ac- tion in the matter was hasty ond ill-ndvised, and ho cnn scarcely avoid admitting as mnch to himself, If ho hns had avy assur. ances of approval, they bave come from a act of small politicians who hope to curry fayor with him or expect to bonofit in some wny from the serious dissension which this ro- moval has produced. Tho insuranco men, the property-owners, and businoss men are almost unanimous in regarding and pro- nouncing the removal of Brennen o sorious menaco to tho best intoresta of tha city. Most of these citizens havo no personal 20. quaintanco with Beyer, and do not caro a coppor whether he is a Ropublican or Demo- crat (whichever ho is), but only know that ho has givon Chicago tho protection of proba- bly tho beat Firs Department in the world, that large sums of money have thus been saved to them in insurance rates and in taxes, and that no personal dispute over a compara. tively trifling matter of official dignity should ‘he permitted to deprivo the public service ofs0 excallont an officer, If Mayor Hannison wero not stubborn he would acknowledge that ho had mado a miatako and would carn the respect of the best people of the community by sending Bexver’s name into the Council to-night for reinstatement; the nomination would be unanimously approved, and Mayor Tiannisox world stand better before the com. munity than ho evor has beforo, Thoro ia no likelihood, howevor, that tho Mayor will take this rational, etrnightfor- ward course, and {t will be the duty of tho Council to take tho initiatory in the restorn- tion of Benen to tho position from which he hos beon no unjustly deposed, It will not ho possible for tho Council, undor the low, to dispone of tho cso to-night, but it ean, ought to, and probably will calla special meeting to consider it. ‘Tho intro- duction of a resolution for the apecial moet- ing will properly open up tho caso for dis- enssion, and tho contradictory aud malicious porition taken by the Mayor should be fully exposed, His protonse of an economical pur- pose should he probad to the coro, Itshould be ascertained whother n reduction of $5,000 or $6,000 could not bo attained by a dismissal of somo of the Mayor's useloss honchmen and a onrtailment in some of tho ornamental departments of tho City Govorn- mont, rathor than by nsking a “yoluntary” remission of 5 per cont of pay from tho most important Departmont of tho city service. Tho firemon actualy recoive but about 369 n’ month after renlizing on their scrip; tho pay is about tho samo as that carnod by on ordinary toamster, who has rogular honrs, ‘and takes no rink of lifo and limb evory day ; theso mon shonld not have beon reqnired to remit any of this componsation until overy othor moans for rednotion had boon extiauat- ed, Lot the Council inquire whothor tho Mayor had mado every possible reduction in the loss important branches of the servico, Tet them aleo consider whethor Bexxxn was right or wrong in refusing to ‘uso his position to bulldoze tho firemon into fn surrender of part of their pay, when tho Mayor dectinad to take the responsibitity and auked for coluntary action. Lot them tako into sccount the spiteful motives that infln- enced the Mayor becauso Bexnen did not tender him his resignation at the boginning of tho present Administration, and becausa Benner has sinco rofusod to do a dirty pleco of work. * Finally let them heed the public sontiment aa to tho merita of the ense, aud the public wolfaro as affected by ao radical change in the contrat of the Fire Department, Consideration of the casein tho light of these conditions will, if honcatly and diligently pursued, lead to Dewxen's roinstatoment by an almoat unanimous voto at tao carlicat momont posaiblo, DEMOORATIC INGRATITUDE, Congress adjourned in tiino to onnble noarly every mombor to raturn to his homo bofore tho Fourth of July. ‘That day wasa pablic holiday and peouliarly sulted to popu- lnr demonstrations, Yot we Inyo fallod to rend any account of onthusinatio recoptions tondorad to the Domooratia Inst-ditchers,” who dragged out tho extra soaslon tn an alloged struggle for the protection of tho people against inilitary despotixm, We have heard of no toreblight processions or other manifestations of popular gratitude for this dovotion of Dorocratio Congrossinen to tho causa of liberty, No caso has boon reportod in which ny Domooratio Souator or mombor has beon carriod upon tho shouldors of men who could not rostrain thia physical demonstration of thelr admiration, So for as wo know, the homes have not boon do- tached from any carriages boaring Demo- oratio Congresamon to their homos fn order to allow on enthusiastic populace to haul the vehicles #0 fortunate in tho possession of such precious loads, None of tho fire- crackors that wore so numorous on the late Fourth, not one of tho rockets sont up into tho air, not a single Roman candio, not tho boom of a canuon, not evon the fizzle of a squib, has beon credited to tho glorisication of theso Demooratio defonders of American freedom. 3 "There is soincthiug wrong about all this, Have the American people grown Bp hope. sto themsolven have gaid that tholr ropresent- ‘ative mon shonld be rowarded with tangible Jossty indifferent to their rights ns freomen as to refuse all acknowledgment of such din. interested sud solf-sncrificing devotion to the canso ns the Democratia Congresemon havo shown? Has tho military dospot who ocenpios tho Wlite House gained such con. trol over the peoplo: tint they dare not on- counter tho impending wrath, which com- mnuds ono soldier to 700 sqnaro miles and every 40,000 votors, or thorcabouts? Are thore Domocrate with sonls so dead as never ‘tion of the groat conflagration, Tho reorgat ization was thorough, aud Mr. Bexnsn, who waa snbsequontly placed in charge of tho re- formed force, has proved entirely worthy the confidence then repored in him. Tho re- moval of Chiof Bernzn on tho filmsy protoxt assigned by the Mayor is an inault, not only to those oitizons who put their honds in tholr pockets nnd drew forth the monoy to pay for tho reorganization of the force hae controlled so efficiently, but to evory oltizon who feels tho smallest intorest in the welfare of Chiengo, As swe write n florco galo blows from tho southwest,—prociscly such n gale na that of Oot, 9, 1871, which swept the devouring flanfes over tho dovoted city. Who donbts, in the evont of a grent firo gaining headway to-day, thnt the nffrightod Mayor would call back to the command of tho Fire Department Marr Benner? It ina shamo that tho enfety of hundreds of mill- jons of dollars in property, and tho vast in. torests of commorco, should bo placed in jeopardy, even for 2 moment, by tho pas- ‘sionate temper or tha absurd ambition of one man olothed in a little brief authority, EGYPT AND HER RULERS. ° The demands of France, England, ond Germany, acquiesced in by Austria and Italy, hayo boen approved by the Snitan and havo atinst resulted in tho retirement of tho Khedive, and in the succession of his eldest son, Monamep ‘Tewrir, to tho throne of Egypt. Tho late Khodivo, Iesart, ‘paconded the throne in Jonuory, 1803. Ho wae tho fitth rnlor of the dynasty founded by tho colobrated Manester Azz, who was appointed Governor of Egypt in 1806, and who, in 1811, made himself absolute master of tho country by force of arma. This action of Mznexer Att was rocognized by the Porte, ani guar. anteed by tho five groat Europoan Powors in 1841, nnd the succossion to the Egyptian throne was at tha samo timo ostablished undor the same rules as those to tho throne of Turkey. The title givon to Mznzmer Attand to his immedinte successors was Viceroy, but by a firman of tho Sultan in 1866 this title was changod to ‘* Khedive-al- Misr,” or King of Egypt, and the rulor of Egypt has since boon known astho Khedivo. By the same firman, and in considoration of additional tribute to be paid by tho Khodive, tha succossion to the throno was made diroct from father to son, inatend of, as requirod by Turkish law, to the oldest hoir. By a snb- sequent firman, issued in Juno, 1878, the Sultan granted to tha Khedivo tho right to mako trentios and maintain armies which he had proviousty withheld, -and sinco then the Khedive has held the rank of an absolute sovereign, Although the different mombors of tho Mezuxmer Axx dynasty have doubtless in- fiicted many evils upon tho country, yet they have done far moro for tho development of both the country and people under their away than have the rulers of any other Mo- hammedan country, Upon tho advent to powor of Mznemer Aut, Egypt was controlled by the -Momolnkos. Of these, thers woro twonty-four Chiefs, orBoys, ench the Govern- or ofa province, Tho Turkish Pasha, placed y the Snitan over thom, was unable to con- rol them, and thelr government was solely in accordance with tho. caprico of each. ‘Tho Mamolukos wero dostroyed in 1811 by Mz- nemet Aur, whoin tho course of his long reign cleared the country of robbors, from Abyssinia to tho mouths of tho Nilo, intro. duoéd the cultivation of cotton, sugar, and indigo, and established a system of nation! educhtion, Ench of his snecessors Las on- deavored to civilizo the peoplo and to do. velop the resources of the country. To Is. warn, the Inte Khodivo, is duo the discontin- uanca of the African slave trade og far south ns the Victoria. ond’ Albert Nyauza, and, toa grent oxtent, the construction of the Suez Oanal. It mayvery justly bo said that under their different reigns Egypt has boon moro in nocord with European civilization than any other country owing alloginnco to the Sultan, and that until recontly no other Mohammodan population has beon ¢o little opprossed, F “The primary couso for the deposition of Ts. MATL aa Khedive has been tho publio dobt of Egypt and tho default in the paymont of tho exorbitant interest exacted by its holdors, This debt was commenced soon aftor tho Orimenn war, and is now ovor 3400,000,000, About four yoars since tho Khedivo found it impracticable to continuo the paymont of the ovidonces of popular approval? What aro wo coming to? Didn't the Domoornts in Congress notually threaten to slarvo ont tho Governmont rather than submit longer to that tortible hoel of dospotian undor which they oro crnshod? Didn't they carry out this throat to the extont of dopriv- ing the unoffending United States Marshals of thoir pny ng fixer by Inw? Isn't euch he- rote conduct ns thia desorving of any recog- nition? What did the Democrats of tho country oxpoot? Did they imagino that their Congressmen would go so far as to out off avon Congressional ralarica? ‘This is too much, and the palpable indifference of tho Demoorntic masses is but anothor evidence of tho proverbial ingratitude of Republics. Gon, Cratarens, one of the most uncom- promising of the Confedornto ‘last-ditchers,” is reported as saying siuce he returned home that he found his people a good deal moro interested in canvassing tho probable yield of tho cotton crop than in bewailing tho failure to repeal the Election law. ‘This in torrible, Whon tho Democratic masses cease to onthuss over tho prospect of free frauds and unrestricted violenco at eleo- tions, and when they refuse to mourn over tho failure to attain this boon, there is roazon to believe thatthe Democraticesprit decorps in on tho decline. When the revival of the State-sovorcigaty ngitntion, backed by tha Rebol yoll, no longer fires tho Domocratio heart, thore fa reason to spprehend that the party will Ho down snpinely under tho op- pression of the Central Governmont nt Washington, Whon Democratio repeaters avd roughs in tho largo cities of the North and tho Confedornto bulldozers and ballot- box stuffers of tho South cannot be guaran- teed immunity from the suporvision of the Genoral Government, and whon this fright ful condition of things {nila to excite any revolutionary demonstrations among the porty masses, thore is au cvidonce that the spirit has beon crushed out of the Democrats by tho ftyrnnny of President Hares and his minions, ond that tho hopo of Domooratic success has beon blighted. No ono who romembers tho burning words of the Demooratic leadors at the opening of the extra session would have believed, with- out this palpable demoustration of Domo- cratic callousness, that the party could be~ como ao reconciled to the prevailing tyranny of the time. Tho Demoernts bave become notually so cowed that they aro not even gratofal for the punisbmont that has beon yisitod upon the United States Marshals, nor for tho expenditure by reason of tho oxtra wession of ‘Congress of four or five times as much publica money as the pay of the Mar- shnla would have consumed, All this is un- reasonable aud humiliating beyond cxpres- Ion. THE MAYOR AND THE FIRE OF 1871. Thora isan ndago tothe effect that light- ning doos not strike twico in the samo place, But who knows whother this is in fact truo? It may be observed that the proprictor whose hougo bas Leen shattored and burned to tho ground by a bolt from Heaven doos not omit the precaution of placing upon tho structure which rises in its placo a lightning-rod ! Noboily, wo venture to say, who witnessed the Ohicago fire of 1871, has quite forgotten that cvont, In there a man of means in tho rehabilitated city who docs not tremble with apprehonsion every timo n groat gale sweops up from tho southwest? If thoro is such on one, we do not happon to know him inti- mately, If wo forget that on tho morning of tho 10th of Octobor, 1871, Chicago was ahesp of ashen, and that a hundred thon. sand of its oitizons had not a roof to cover thom nor n crust of broad to sot isfy tho cMvings of hnngor, another kerosono Inmp may be Icked over and Chicago may again bo Iaid in ruins, If thera bo in Chicago a man out of whose mind all recollection of tho flames of 1871 ,| invosts monoy In foroign securities his Gov- oromont considers that he takes all tho riaks, aud must look sfter hla own interesta. It does not trouble itelf with the secutity: of his investments, Tho real renvon for the “participation of tho English Government with that of Franco was that it was nowill- ing avy othor country ahonld take n londing part in Egyptian affairs, Ithna ‘aince beon ascortained that the British Government did not in renllty desire the deposition of Tamar Khedivo, and that not only was the assont of the Sultan withdrawn in accordance with its sooret intrigues at Constantinople and Cairo, but that it hoped to prevent the French from taking further action in tho mat- ter. The discovery of this oxcited inch indignation in France, and, al- though the friondly fooling between tho two countrica was in dangor of boing sorlously impaired, yot itis probable that the intrigues of England would have boon successful if the rocont appearance of Gormany in Egyp- Han affairs had not taken both England and France by surprise, and forced both to ex- treme mensnres in order toregain their ascend. onoy. In ordor to tako tho load of Gormany, both ronswod, in the most emphatic mannor, thoir demand for the deposition of Issart, and, in accordance with this demand, tho Sultan with much relnctance yielded a prom. isod assent, The presont Khedive, Monamen Tewrir, is 28 yeors old. It is probable that the crod- itors of the counlry suppose his youth will make him more pliant and tractablo in their intorosta thon his father sara proved to bo. Tho European Govern- monts will no donbt force upon him a Governmont made up exclusively of Eu- ropeans, and that it will bo conducted in such mnnnor as to squeeze from thd popula- tion of Egypt every available cont. Tho |. outlook is cvidontly not favorable for tho Egyptinns, ond it is doubtful if the quict which has existed for so many years in Egypt will bo of much lofigor continuance. At o slaughterhouse in West Somerville, ‘Maga., on Tuesday, as Hanne Wats was lead- inga bull fnto the slauchter-house the rope around {ta horns became loosoned, and the ant- inal caught Wits in the abdomen with ono of ite horns and instantly killed him,—2z. Tinxnar Jing pasaod, that man is certainly Mr, Canren Tf. Hannon. It is snfo to say that the firo of olght yonrs ago was not a gronter aurpriso to the poopto of Chicago than the late sum. mary removal of Piro-Marshal Baxnzn, Ono of two things is certainly truo: either Bexnen’s romoval was an aot of passionate haste, or it was on act of partisan expo- dienoy for tho commission of which tho pra- text waa deliberately framed and coolly solzod, What is the Mayor's quarrel with Bexnen? When analyzed, it ts no honost quarrel, Tho Mnyor desired to reduce the exponge of the Fire Dopartmont by cutting a porcentago off the pny of its members. Wo reqnested tho Morahal to submit the quustion to tho voluntary no. tion of tho men, ‘The Marshal did submit the question, and the mon Ge. clined to voto in favor of a reduction of thelr own pay, That they would so vote wos o foregono conclusion, What tho Mayor roally desired was that tho Marshal should uso the powor of his offica to coarco his sabordinates to subiniagion to tho will of tho Chiof Exoou- tive, ao that tho orodit of the rotronchmont might ncorne to Mr, Hanntson, whilo the odium of it wonld rest upon Mr, Dannzn, ‘Tho Marshal declined tho hint, acting upon the lettor of the Moyor's instructions, and finds that his official hond ia of. The con- eluaton is Irresistible that tho action of the ‘Mayor was olthar that of a passionate official or o dexigning politician, A week ago Mr, Tiannteon declared that he con. templnted resignation on the ground that ho was pestered nearly to death by of- fice-sockors, Ho has not resigned, but, instead, takea the first step towards a reor- ganization of one of the most important, it not the most important, of oll the Dopart- ments of the City Govorument. It is known that Mr, Besnza iv not a politician, and that polltical considerations have never entored into the eondnot of the Fire Department under his administration, Does Mr, Hanus gon doalgn to mako a pollticsl machino of the Fire Department to satisfy tho impor. tunitivs of Democratic ward bummers? It ho does so design, and carrics out thedesign, ho will havo a qparrel with the people on his hands bevido which the pretended quarrel with Banxza will alnk into insignificance, Tho Fire Department of the Olty of Chicago, os it xisted prior to the removal of ita Inte Ohief, is not wholly tho creation of tho municipal authoritioa. Cortain citizons of Obicago, merchants and proporty-holdors, importod, at their ex- ponso, o distinguished man toroorganize and place it upon 9 sound footing. Those gentle. ten had not forgotten the fire of 1871, and thoy proposud, if possibly, to avort a ropetl- interost demanded on this enormous sum, ond, at tho solicitation of English bond. holders, the: British Governmont in 1875 aont Mr, Oavz, 8 member of Parlinmont, to Egypt, to ald in reforming its finances, In tho subsoquent yoor Mosers, Goronex and Tounent visited Egypt as the represontatives of the Engliah and French bondholders to confer with tho Khedive on the same sub- foot, Those threo gentlemon concurred in their recommendations, and the planus pro- pouod by the two latter for tho conversion of tho debt and tho roduction of tho interost wor approved by the Khedive in the latter part of 1876, Tho yonra 1876, '77, and '78 wore, however, not productive, ‘ho ovor. flowa of tho Nilo woro comparatively small, and tho crops wore largely reduued. Tho incomo of the country was thorofore in- suMolent to meot even tho naw arrangemont, Presaod by his fuanoial difficultios, the Khediye consented to appoint a Ministry after European models, of which Mr. Rivens ‘Wrrson, designated by tho British Govero- mont, waa to be the Minister of Finance, aud M. nx Burawuzens, by the French Govorn- mont, tho Ministerof Public Works, By tho gamo decrees which appointod these Ministers he consonted to deprive bimaolf of o part of his autocratic powors, In tho efforts of this Ministry to proouro money, at any sacrifice to the country, for tho bondholders, tho Khedive soon ascortained that a largo portion of the Egyptian poputation wore heing, and indood had actually been, reduced to atarva. tion, He thoreforo dismissed thom from thoir positions, and ogain took the matter in his own hands, This aotion mot with the unanimous approbation of the Egyptinn poo- plo, who not only approved of tho dleminsal of tho foroign Ministers but agreod to gnar- anteo In full the plodges made by the Kho- dive for tho full paymont of both the dobt and its intoreat, ‘ Thia bold action of the Khodive mot with violent opposition from the Fronch and English bondholders, At their solicitation ‘a demand was mado upon the Sultan by tholr Govornments for his immediate deposition, and, although the consent of the Sultan was ebtalned, yat -nelthor Govornmont pressod the mattor farther ot that timo, Mossrs, \Wrzow and Da Brzomtenzs wore not re- turned to Egypt, and both Governments asomed willing to await tha result of tho Khedive’s pledges, Snubsoquently, tho con- sent of the Sultan to tho Khodive's depoal- tion was withdrawn, ‘The action thus taken by the Fronch Government in the interoat of its citizons who wora creditors of Egypt was in socordance with its prinufples, On the other bend, the English Governinont recog: nizeg no such principle. If an Engtishwan Warn reminds us of the Democratic party, ‘The oxtra acssion was tho slaughter-houss, and Mr. Harzs was tho bull. ee ‘The Rey. J. A. Nasmt refuses to accent tho Greenback nomination for Superintendent of In- struction in lows, He Js not of their color.— Nee York Times, No, ho ts a horae—we mean a Nasn—ot quite another color. - el The New York Timescomplatne that, elnce tho clovated railroads came in, “the city has fallen into the hands of King Stork” in the matter of transit, It means of King Stock—Waterod Stock, —— Milas Many AnpzRson has o now play entitled “For Sybil’s Sake.’—2x, The beat thing for Sybit's acho, it it 1s of the ordiuary variety, {so Uttle old brandy or some blackberry cordial. — “The Punjab, a new scarf for gontlemen,”” 18 oxtenslyoly advertised. “Panjab” ts evidently a misprint for Pin-jab. $< SUNDAY REVERIES. ‘There's a land that 19 fairer than day, And by faith wo can sce It afar, Spirit bridegroom walt over tho way ‘To marry with spirit brides thar, In the sweet by-and-by ‘Wo shall meet on that beantifal shore, In tho sweot hy-and-by a ‘With Presidents’ sons gone before, Atoll, gaunt woman came into Toe Trm- ‘unm office a few days.ago, and, obtaining an inter- view with the editor, enid to him, 'Is'pose you have often noticed how curious dreamaare. Al- montalways whenever there Isa steambont collision, orwhen & man dies, or some one tumblos over ‘Nisgara Fall, or something, it is auddenly dis- covered that Just at that moment, or abortly before it, some one somewhere had o dreamin which all the essential featnres of tho scene wero strikingly reproduced, Now that makes vory -interesting reading, doesn't it? Well, now Tam coming right down to husiness, Iboltove that I have had moro experience indreams than the next woman, no watter who she ts, Bty daughter can toll you how many slnentar dreame I have had, and how they havo always come trne, WhotIwant you to do ato engage mo a8 Te TninuNs's Special Commissioncr for Dreams. Whenever anything of importance hapnensY'li have a droam upon tho subjectims mediately, and write {t ont as soon asThave woshed up the breakfast things, and T will send my little boy down {to the office with ft Or perhaps, i¢ you’ think Z had better, I can fako 8 nop after dinner and write up my dream thon, eo that {t will vo in time for next morning's paper, Don't you geo the advantages of this aystom? You will alwaya be able to rely upon having yous dreams, the vory bent dreams that the market can afford, and that will savo you bunting throngh the oxchangos, and maybo gotting acooped by tho evoning papers. My dreams, too, will be oxctusive,—I wan't let any- bady knaw about'em except thy danghler or some ono T can trost, ao that yon will have a wit- ness to substantiate the singular ocenrrences, Andas for the torma, I will make them very rea- sonable; what do you say to $2 for single dreams, and where you take ma quantity @ reduction.—sy $ikndosen? If youlike myaudrestion, just welts me ont my credentials to eay that Ihave been ap: pointed a ‘Mntnuns Spuclal Commissioner for Dreams, and [ll atart in right at once.” ‘The edit- or explalnod to her that ha had just engaged a dreamer outrial, aad, promialng that If the young man didn't anawer he would at once write to her, dismissed hor with a pltying smile, ——. Aman residing on tho Woat Sido rocontly read in Tux Thinue about tho accident’at Niagara Fallstos woman who wae sponding tho boney- moon there with her husband, ana who fell over tho precibice with great saccess, Te 1.8 marricd man hiinselt,—waa marriod eleven gentacro ton woman four years bin senior, —and, after reading the para- graph tn question, hin cyes grow very large and dreamy; and after somo minutes’ thought he alaoned hls hand down upon lis log wlth empbasls andeald, ** ly Jings, that's a bully tdea—£ll try it,” So when he went home at night, he said to his wife, pleasantly, ‘’Caroltne, I havo been thinking of late that It 1s olevon yoars since you placed your little hands troatfully in mino-—"* “*If you are making fun of my hands, Jobn Wiltlam Petor Darendorry, you may, Ido weara namber seven glove, Tadmit, tnt it has been toll. ing and motling over the waeh-tub and the knead- ing-board for you that hax made them large. t hands are white and soft; they wonldn's be If yn had the spirit of gman in the matlor of ghopplag wood," dg, ** Well, dearest, we took no werlillng-trip at the time,” “*No, dearest," sald ahe, ‘bat we wonld, and havo been able toser np houackesplng decently, too, if you hadn't drunk so wuch whiaky when all of the time you were pretending to me that you wero aG, W. P. X, of the Good Tewpters,”” ‘+ Well, my lore,” he sald, resolutely keeping & sunny face, **bnaineas has bean mach better with tno this year than J expected, and I have been thinking suppose we give oureolves a little relaxa- ton, Suppose wo leave the children with your sister Kiiza and goand take our boneymoon trip now fora coupluof weeks, Beatod In the mmaguifi- cent palace-care upon ali day trains of the Michigan Central Ratlr ‘we wi\l be whirled by tho mighty powor of steam past tho classi shades of Ann ‘Arbor, and Kalamazoo, and Jackson, and Adrian, and Detroit, and, fleoting like shadows across monarchical oil of Ontarlo, which fs good for beans, wo will econ arrive at that wondrous scene of grandeur ond snblimity, which defes alike the pon of the poct aud the poncll of tha paloter, Niaga—" She cast one cold, ecrutinising glanco of bim that penetrated and shattered his cloquence a8 an foe chave and nowly-sharpened meat-ax punctures & toy-balloun, then she sald in words of such iciness thar it mado #ebivor rundown bissplac: ‘John Willlau Peter Dusenberry, I read the papers. We wit! not go to Niagara Fale. You might fallover. Tread the papors, I will, however, slace you ioe nist upon it, make ® honeymoon, tip ta saratoga t with the children; tha change will do them good, and yor will make « honeymoon trip regntarly ho- tween the office and the house, which mother will keep daring my absonce."* ae et arth, 6-3 There {ea man in our town ond he {8 trondrons mad. Some months ago, though he had previousty borne an nnsullled character, ho wrote a tragedy in four acts which he aubmitted to alocal manager, whore name (ont of regarit for hia famitzy-will bo suppressed so long na ho etands the clears regularly twicenday, The manager isan old birdwho hae no desire to be caoght with anyhody's chaff, and so he first turned ovor all tho pages of the manu- reript to ace that nono of thom wera pated to- gether, —malignant young anthors frequently havo a way of priting np Jobe of this sort on manngers, and then stowed if away in the deepest pigeon holo beneath hiadesk. By-and-by the antnoream ronnd and neked the manager what ho thonght of ‘eepween Sommer Bonnet and Moat-Ax," the historical tengedy which he had teft for his pornsal. **0," sald tho manager, without tho alightes fear of Heaven's thundorbolte, though « thander atorm eqnal in intenalty to an extra scssion-of Cons gross was at tho time raging outside, *'I was vory much pleased with it, Indeed. ‘The chlar‘oscuro ls gtand; the plot 1s carefully developed, sod brought by legitimate methods to a bold and satis~ factory conciuslon: tho ander-plot fa aymmetrical and—and compendious, if I may be allowed the expression; the characters aro cast fn ihe tragic mold of fashion and the glass of form, and alto- gether it in one of tha cloverest things I havo react foralongtime. There is only one drawback to it—the first two acts acem tome todrag. Tho se- tion is devoloped feably, and, thongh the last two acts sro vivid and kaloldoscopic, I'm nfrald the pioce would drag."” F ‘The author, somewhat disappointed but, never~ theless bapny at having recolved ao valuable a crit- Ictam trom #0 admirable a source, took his manus script and departed, and sabseqnently confided his experience toa frlend **not wholly nnconnected,'* de tho English roportors aay, with tho dally press. +O, that’s all poppycock—he's beon presenting you with a stif!—giving you a taffy donation-party.” ‘Ho never read a line of your play—thoy all do it; £ moan they all don't read them. Why, one of tho STuatice'a clerks on the Wost Side proved that once when ho stitched togather 400 folios of canceled chatte) mortgages and ring'em in on every mana- ger in Chicago aa a five-nct comedy on the mode! of *Tho School for Scandal,’ and overy manager In Chicago declared that there wera scores of splen= dla and briillant pasasges in the play, but that is was too long—-ought to be cut at teast half," 460, but that great and good manager, young dramatist, ‘cannot tell a lio; besides, bia oriticiem on ‘Tween Sommer Donnat and Moat Ax?’ was just, Inlways thought mysolf that the action lagged at tho first, and thatI did not fairly rine to the hight of my anbject till the third act. It is impossible that he should havo 40 willfally do- colved me,”" “*T will tell you what to do," eald his fronds “¢Juat yon tear off the fiyshect of your play and put on a new one; tell him it's alight comedy of modorn society, and see what ho'll do.” $ “7 will do #0, sald the dramatic anthor, **tuongh Tam ashamed to donbt the truth and magnanimity of that noble man.'* He dideo, and told the manager be had writton another plece, **Oconomowoc," which he thought would maka 8 bit, ‘ p **T witl look ovor ft, my doar bo-oy," sald the genial manager.’kindly; ''] think the raling de- aldoratum of the American stage is the want of such apiece; and, if youra is 8 good one, why, thoro are millions in ft for both of us." . Bo he took the crodnions idtot's manuscript and ran over the leaves to aco that thors was no pat-ap. job abont It, and then shied it into the same old pigeon-hole, In abont two weoks, when the an- thor came round, the manager shook hands with him warmly andenid: ‘‘I've been rending that nociety play you loft me, It is really admirable, —thet 1, the first’ two acts are really ad- mirable, the dialogue !s crisp, the action is direct and momontous, and the incidents, mthout being vulgar, are overwhelmingly comic, That old woman, especlally,—what Js hor nas, now? I forget it, —would, in the hands of a competent intarpretor, becomo one of the most captivating figures in tho gallery of American comedy, But you inst have written the last two acts whon you had ahead on you, or were in troublo; in theit prosent gloomy and disjointed form thoy would utterly damn the ploy if it were prt upon the stage, Take {t homo snd rowrlte the last two acts; brighten ‘em up, and I think tho play will makoagreat hit, I think it wonld bea goad faea to organize a troape to play it on siternate nighte with that tragedy yon brought me a few days ago. Thay woald have a tremendone run." ‘Tho young dramatic author took his mannecrint and went home, watking ke 9 man In a dream, but keeping up a thinking pressure of at least 149 vounds to the square inch. For very shamo's sako ‘be says ho will not.make tho matter. pnblic, but tho reporter 1a more cynical and busin ike, and unless that managor keeps up the snpply of clears ho will find that he 1a aitting on the safoty-valvq of a volcano. —— “TRIBUNE” FABLES. ‘TI DBNEVOLENT ANACONDA AND THE PROVI+ DEXT GOAT, AProvident Goat, being destrous of arranging forthe comfort of his Kids after bis Death, wag abont {o betake himaclf to the Ofico of an. estab- shed Lifo-Insurance Company, when he chanced to fall In with a Benevolent Anaconda, to whom he confided hie purpose, "My Misquided Friend," cried the Anaconda, ‘*why will you waste your Money in sopporting Hordes af Pampered Goat- anckers who occupy thote bloated Nosts in the Sweat of the Policy-holdors' Promlam? Rather let us organize a Granger Mutual Company, #o that when yon sre no moro your Family may foro wimptuously on Oyster-Cans and Circus-l'ostera every day. Iwill ba the Hoard of Directors, and fas I fat for Kightoon Months ata time the Operate ing Bxponses of the Company will be abnormally low.” Tho ailly Gost chiming in with this Propo- altion, the Anaconda sald, ‘'% will now proceed to make Assessment No, 1, owing to the fact that a Momber of Class A, tho Dodo of New Zealana, is extinct,” and he ombracod the Goat in his Colle with such Enrnestness that tho poor Creature's Criea contd not bo heard for the Cracking of its Bones and Ilorns. Monat. —Now the Sorpant was more Sobtle than all tho Deasts of tho Field,—cspocially than tha Goat, PERSONALS, The pools aro not all dend yot. ‘Tho Moyor'a dagle is ovidently befouling {tu neat. Mr, Hoyos hos put his backbone away atil next Besson, Tho English are so stocessful in kooping ont of roach that Cotewaye Is tired of war, A woman with two lends has just arrived from Earope—and wo fear with two mouths, Now York is fast ostablishing a reputatior aso cummer roeort for the criminal classes, ‘The note which wa hold sgainst the late Khedive we will sot] for 25 conts on the dollar, If the fool-lciller nttonded to his business, he would eoon rain the bastness of the pool-seller, It ig understood from Mr. Borio that Grant does not want to be President—uoless bo can be elected, Mr, FIendricks onn never be Vico-Presi- dont, Ho swears too mach, snd wouldn't catch any fab, ‘The Confodorate Congressmen having gone homo, the yellow fever ts requested to dolay ite oporations no longer. : ‘Tho casualties of tho Fourth of July are calculated to inspire the question, ‘* Will the comtug man have thumbst'? Mr, Lamar should not venture back to ‘Washington unless he can procure the proper poaco guarantees from Mz, Conkling. Tilly Deer will leotnre, notwithstanding the Golden Rule, which saya Duer unto others as yo would that they should Duer unto you, Tho Princess Loulee was off in the wilds of Canada fishing Instead of holplog us colebrate the Fourth, Dut is this true patriotem? Congreas having adjourned, the worthy and deserving tramp meets with cracl revue from persons who mnlatake him fora Congressman, Tho Confedorate Congressmen will be rather coldly tecatved by their constituents for not - bringing the United States ‘Treasury home with them, President Hayes and Senator William Pinckney Whyte, of Maryland, were stadonts toy gether at the Harvard Law School. Sinco their graduation they bad vot inct uolll Tacsday, when Bengtor Whyte waa one of the Committee to walt npon the President and sek him if bo had any fum thor communications to make to Congress,