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DICKERSON, Hecorder. ular Communiaation Fridsr evening” Mav7, for bus ‘ ication Fevening, May 7, - esa By order “WAL GARDNER, W.AL ess. By ord &¢ oS CATLIN, Secretary. « CHICAGO COMMANDERY, XO. 19, ‘ Conclave Monday evening, May 3, 180, at7:3) o'clock. Visiting Sir Hxiguis welcome. By order of the Em- mmander. anene “* TERAM TT. JACOBS, Recorder. rT at _T—Stated BLAIR LODGE NO. 30, A. F. & A. M—Regular Communication Monday evening, May 3, 155, at 16 Bast Monroc-st | Memburs earncsity requested to be Present. Visiting bretheren cordially invited. SUNDAY, MAY 2 1892, = Bree as entered the Post-Office at Paw Paw, Mich, Friday night, burst open the safe, ‘end decamped with £1,000 in stamps and money. ‘THe annual inigration of wealthy Ameri- sans to Europe has commenced. The steamers ‘which sailed from New York yesterday carried “450 saloon passengers. Secretary Surnman bases his hopes for ‘a nomination at Chicagn on the belief which he sand his followers entertain that Grant and “Blaine will succeed in killing each other off. ‘Wartriss Wittrams, the eminent Welsh Yawyer, has decline the office of Solicitor-Gen- eral of Engiand, and Mr. Herschel, a leading anember of the English Bar, has been appointed ‘thereto. i Lasrevening the schooner Halsted sailed Hor Milwaukee to load with wheat for this port. Evidently some of the Milwaukee operators in wheat are cornered badly in this market through gelling short. ~ { Some of the lay Catholics of France have ‘organized a committee, of which the Duke de iis Rochefoucauld is the head, to raise money to defend the right of the religious orders to deemain in France. i. Arameeting of the Humane Society yes- Jeerday some of the members very properly heriticised Gov. Cullom for retaining in oftice ‘State Agent Marquart, whom they declared dutterly incompetent. = j | Tue Board of County Commissioners al- Yowed Edwin Walker £45,000 yesterday in satis- ‘faction of his claim for extra work done on the d \Connty-Building and in compensation for the ‘loss he has sustained in discounting county sorders. Some of the members strongly opposed the allowance, In consequence of poor health, CoL Tom \pcott has tendered his resignation as President »of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, to take teffect the Ist of June. It is doubtful if the Di- ‘rectors will accept the resignation. Col. Scott ‘has been President for six years, during which “the road bas greatly prospered. i Reports from Washington state that the Republican Senators are willing to cordially co- ‘operate with the Democratio leaders in bringing \about an adjournment of Congress about the ‘st of June. Should the adjournment not take ‘Place then, it is thought that the session will ex- tend till after the Cincinnati Convention, Mas.-Gex. HErNTZzELMAN, who com- ‘wanded a division at the first battle of Bull Run ‘and whose gallant conduct throughout the War, as well as bis many amfuble qualities, endeared him to the soldiers of the Union army, died res- terday morning. Gen. Heintzelman suffered wnuch in recent years from chronic rheumatism. SPEAKER RanpDaLt, who may be con- ‘@idere!a. authority on the matter, says that “filden will bo a candidate before the Cincinnati “Convention, and that he is confident of a nomi- suution. The talk about Tilden's withdrawal in ‘favor of anybody else Randall pronounces as sponsensical. He also claims that forty of the Pennsylvania delegates are for the Sage of “Gramercy now, and that before the Convention \mmeets the entire delegation will be in bis favor. : Unpbes the Presidency of Bishop Scott the ‘vighteenth General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church opened at Cincinnati yester- day. Besides Bishop Scott there were present Bishops Wiley, Peck, Borman, Hurris, Foster, “Andrews, Simpson, and Merrill. Over 10 dele- gates were present, among them a Hindoo, an sAnglo-Indian, and a Chinaman. There were ‘also delegates from Liberia, Sweden, Switzer- ‘snd, Germany, and Norway. The opening ex- ‘ercises were very simple and impressive. Tue order which has been issued by the Wussian Government commanding all Jews of Xoreign birth to quit the Czar’s dominions, is said “to owe its origin to the fact that a large propor- “tionate percentage of the Nihilists urrested by the Russian police are Jews. This story is, how- ever, contradicted by statictics published in one of the Russian newspapers,'the Noroya Premya, ‘which show that of all Nihilists so far arrested 22 per cent are soldiers; 19 per cent gentlemen, that is to say, persons whose fathers were not “erfs; 9 per cent the sons of priests; 7 per cent shopkeepers, and only 3 per cent Jews; all others mechanics. The criminal records show ‘that it 1s only in the southern crovinces that the | Jewish people have been strongly imbued with revolutionary principles, while in the northern provinces, where they enjoy many privileges, they buve kept aloof from any participation with the Nihilists. bd At Omaha yesterday seventeen Blaine delegates were selected tothe Nebraska State Convention after a very bitter fight with the supporters of Grant. It is confidently claimed by the Blaine men that this action will give the entire State delegation to their man. the returns from the Seventh Precinct of the Fourteenth Ward indicate that considerable crooked work has been done in the way of doc- toring the returns, and it looks now as if some of the judgeswould have to stand trial with Murphy, of Seventh Ward notoriety. ——— THe Montenegrin frontier troubles seem to have only commenced, and notwithstanding the demands made on Turkey by the other Euro- pean Powers it is difficult to see how it can turn over the territory claimed by Montenegro in the face of a threatened invasion of a portion thereof by some 15,000 Albanians. There needs to be a new partition of even the border provinces of the Ottoman Empire. Is the County Conventions held through- out Illinois yesterday the delegates’ chosen are pretty evenly divided between Grant and Biaine. As usual, the strong Republican counties select- ed Blaine delegates, while the Democraticcoun- ties of Egypt selected Grant “®elegates. For Governor, Cullom seemed to have the lead, but was closely followed by Hawley. GeN. GARFIELD Is rather displeased with those who represent him as being an obstruc- tion to tariff reform, and, in a speech delivered inthe House yesterday, took occasion to char- acterize as slanderers and vilifiers the persons who so represent him as being responsible for retaining the duty on wood-pulp: but, in answer toa question: by-Frost, of Missouri, he admitted that,while he was willing to vote for a reduction of the duty on that article, he would not consent to have it plaesd on the free list. Tue County Conventions throughout ‘Wis- consin show that Washburne has very consider- able strength, and there, is uo doubt that should he come out asa candidate he will have a very large support from that State. In this city the Washburne movement is gradually assuming shape, and at a meeting of the Eighteenth Ward Hepublican Club last evening resolutions strongly favoring the nomination of Washburne were unanimously passed, and, notwithstanding that it is the home of E. C. Larned, the Club ex- pressed itself as opposed to the third term. Tue debate on Carlisle’s Internal-Revenue Dill yesterday was diversified by a discussion on temperance.—the Iowa Congressmen, reinforced by Conger of Michigan, taking strong grounds against intemperance and the manufucture and sale of whisky,—while McMahon, true to his Celtic origin, several of the Southern members who have probably indulged in the sour-mash apa bourbon of Kentucky, Singleton of Quincy who wanted farmers to be given permission to eatablish private stills, and our own Barber, who doubtless has often partaken of the foaming lager of the North Side, vould see nothing but good come from a moderate indulgence in the use of the exhilarating products of the brewer- ies and the distilleries. ——— No wonpDeR that there are so many persons engaged in the saloon business in this city. At @ meeting of the brewers of this city and Mil- waukee, held in the Grand Pacific yesterday, it ‘was stated that a barrel of beer which is sold at $8 wholesale is retailed at $28, and that most of the saloonkeepers sell at least one barrel per day. The saloonkeepers in turn assert that the entire cost of manufacturing a barrel of beer is only $4, and that the proposed increase in the wholesale price to $9is iniquitous, unjust, and unwarrantable, Now it is time for the beer- drinkers to protest against paying five cents a glass for the foaming beverage, as iniquitous, unwarrantable, and extortionate, and to swear off unless the price is reduced. Tue fight between the en and anti- Tilden Democrats waxes fierce in Kentucky, and the leaders of the respective factions are by no means lacking in the use of strong lan- guage towards each other. The Louisville Post, the organ of Senator Beck and other anti-Til- denites, charges Henry Watterson, the chief of the Tildenites, with having promised Judge Martindale, of Indianapolis, to support Grant if Tilden is not nominated, and refers to the brilliant editor as “illustrating the vices of Arnold and of Burr combined, without having any of those better qualities which softened the brandon the forehead of the former and which soothed the degradation of the latter.” ‘The Post's article concludes: “We have per- formed our duty feebly but fearlesly, contem- plating all possible resulta and consequences.” Evidently the end is not yet. Watterson re- mains to be heard from. Mosr of the metropolitan journals of England strongly opposed the Liberals in the recent elections, and before they came off con- fidently predicted the success of the Tories. Now the owners of these papers are discharging the conductors and leader writers by the whole- sale, and supplying their places with men more inaceord with the opinion of the country as proclaimed at-the hustings. Among those who have received notice to quit is Mr. Greenwood, the editor of that most Jingo of all Jingo organs, the Pall Mall Gazette, Bir. Greenwood might be fittingly described by -the language which O'Connell once applied to Roebuck, the late member for Shefficld, as “a vinegar cruect on two legs,” as his vinegarish and virulent references to America and Americans, in his valedictory published in last evening's issue of the Gazette, fuliy show. Although action looking towards the abroga- tion of the Bulwer-Clayton treaty had been taken by Congress before the announcement of the dissolution of théBritish Parliament, Mr. Greenwood says: “It is significant that the ad- Vent of the Liberal party to power should have been seized on by the American people as the occasion on which they might offer with im- punity a slight to England.” After alluding to the bumiliation which he claims the British | nation suffered through the Geneva arbi- tration, and indulging in a rather undig- nified scold about the assumption of “ Yankee sovereignty” over the American Continent, he concludes by calling on Gladstone, Gran- ville, and Bright not t> be “frightened by Yan- kee bluster into the cession of any rights” which are conferred by the Clayton-Bulwer treaty. Mr. Gladstone and his colleagues are not any more likely to follow the advice of the retiring editor of the Pall Mall Gazette now than when that gentleman was regarded by bis em- ployers as a great political prophet. A WHOLESOME EXAMPLE The punishment of William H. Kemble, once the political “boss” of Pennsylvania, and his fellow conspirators, for bribery, is a vindication of justice that will cause all good men to rejoice. The Pittsburg Riot bill, authorizing the appointment of a commis- sion to ascertain. losses caused by the riots three years ago, and providing for the pay- ment of the same, which was introduced in the House of Representatives Feb. 8, 1878, ‘was the instrument which has secured this result. On March 19 it came up for a second reading. The organized opposition to the biltat first consisted of only about a dozen members, but as time went on the number grew, and outside and inside of the House the opposition became formidable. An im- mense lobby was organized against it, and, after monopolizing the most of the session, it was indefinitly postponed on the Oth of April by a vote of 103 to 9. On the same day Mr. Wolfe, amember of the House, stated that he had positive evidence of “an attempt on the part of prominent men to undertake to corrupt members upon the floor of the House,” and moved a committee of investigation. The Committee was appointed and commenced its labors on the 2sth of April, with what re- sult we copy from the Harrisburg corre- spondence of the New York Times: At first its sessions were secret, but they were finally held in the Hall of the House, which was crowded at every meeting. William H. Kemble's testimony was given before the sessions of the Committee sere made public. He announced himself a bank President and President of a railroad company. When asked, in the langu: of the Constitution, concerning the bribery, he replied: *L know ‘the Constitution basa lot of tuff in it that none of you live up to, and I’m no etter than other people.” He said that he bad not directly or indirectly “given or promised any money or thing of value, testimonial, privi- lege, or personal advantage to any member of the General Assembly to intluence him in his official action on bill No. 10." He swore that he did what he could for its pastage in what he consid- ered an honorable way. He did not, he said, send for members of the Legislature to intiuence their votes. The most interesting testimony in the entire investigution, however, was that given by Myron H.Silverthorna, of Erie. He it was who kept Mr. Wolfe posted, and gave the informa- tion which led to the appointment of the Com- mittee. He stated that one morning early in the beginning ot April Representative Rumberger, of Armstrong County, called on him, and said: “ Would you like to make some money?" adding that he was to receive $1,500, and he would give Silverthorn balf tharsum to vote for the Riot bill. Silverthorn, who bad been Kumberger's schoolfellow, though both are now old and gray, hesitated. and said he would think over the matter. He called on bis colleague, Mr. Short, of Eric, who advised him to report the matter to Mr. Wolfe. Subsequently Silverthorn accom- Panied Rumberger to Kemble’s room, where the ‘ing of the lobby told him he would abide by whatever agreement was made by the member from Armstrong County. After Silverthorno had testified, all the members called and sworn. Some _ testified had been made offers of from $500 to $1,000 ta Yote for the bill, The evidence implicated Will- iam H. Kemble, Representatives Petroff and Smith, Philadelphia; Sherwoud, of York; Charles B. Salter, an ex-member; Rumberger, of Armstrong County; Jesse R. Crawford, Su- perintendent of the Public Grounds, and several others. It was shown that, in approaching mem- bers sought to be bribed, the lobbyists Invaria- bly asked the question, “ Are you a Mason?” and in one instance—namely: that of Petroff ad- dressing Representative Watson, of Mereer—he asked: “ Would you like to be a rooster?” These phrases soon pussed into the literature of the street and bar-room in Harrisburg and Phila- delphia. As it had been intimated that the in- finence of the » press was being purchased for the Riot bill, the Philadelphia editors of ‘the leadit papers were subpoenaed, and promptly answeret A paper defining their position was pre- pated and presented ta the Committee by the lon. A. K. MeCiure, and all testified cheerfully and without equivocation. The only editor who said he had been offered money was Mr. Tag- gart, of the Sunday Times, and the representa- lives of the press.came out of the ordeal with credit to themselves and the profession. The Committee reported to the Legislature, and atfirsta motion to expel the implicated members was discussed, but this gave way to a resolution providing for a committee to prosecute them in the courts.. They were tried before an upright Judge, convicted, and sentenced to a fine of $2,000 and to one year’s imprisonment in solitary confinement, at hard labor, in the Eastern Penitentiary of Pennsylvania,—a sentence which carries with it disqualification for life for holding any office or trust in that State. Justice has rarelyovertaken 2 higher crim- inal tham Kemble. He had been State Treas- urer of Pennsylvania, a candidate for Gov- ernor, the manager of political campaigns, the king of the lobby. He enjoyed the confi- dence of the State politicians and many of the officials at Washington who were indebt- ed to him for their elections. He was not a man who handled little things. He was the engineer of theState machine and controlled State politics and legislative action. Thirteen years ago he wrote the following letter, which gives the clew to the principle which guided him in his entire career: - TREASURY DEPARTMENT OF PENNSYLYANTA, HARRISBURG, March 20, 1867.—My DEAR TITIAN: Allow me to introduce to you my particular friend, Mr. George O. Evans. He has a claim of some magnitude that he wishes you to help him in. Put him through as you would me. He understands addition, division, and_ silence. ‘f W. H. KEMBLE. ‘To Titan J. Correy, Esq, Washington, D.C. For: thirteen years he has practiced the shameless rascality involved in the three words, “addition, division, and silence”; but at last justice has overtaken him and thrown him into a felon’s cell. He may have influence enough left to secure his pardon before his term of incarceration ex- pires; but he is none. the less a dis- graced man, and Justice in Pennsylvania has shown herself strong-enough to strike at the very leader of political corruption, notwithstanding his wealth, influence, and high position, and brand him as a felon. It is a subject for general congratulation among all honest, law-abiding men. It should bea salutary lesson to all unscrupulous lobbyists, toall young men ambitious of rising in the political world; to all party managers, that it does not pay. to secure results by such in- famous means as Kemble employed. His disgrace is only another of numerous proofs that honesty in politics, as in everything else, is the best policy. Since writing the above, which was crowd- ed out on the day it was written, the tele- graph has brought the intelligence that Kemble has been pardoned.. His pardon, however, does not remove the crime, the con- viction, or the disgrace. His infamous brib- ery system is now a matter of;record in the courts, likewise his conviction by an honest jury before an upright Judge. The disgrace is fastened upon him just as indelibly as if he had occupied a felon’s cell, and in the minds of all honest men there will be no question that he should have occupied it. ENGLISH ULTRAMONIANES AND EN- GLISH LIBERALS, The following paragraph, taken from the London Tablet, the organ of the aristocratic and Ultramontane English Catholics, is go- ing the rounds of the press: Among the incidents of Wednesday's poll one excites our especini regret,—the defeat of the only Homun Cutholic candidate in England, Lord Edmund Talbot (brother of the Duke of Norfolk), at Burnley. The local Conservatives worked well for him, but the Radical and Irish element was too strong t be beaten. This should be read in connection with an article which appeared in the Tablet the pre- ceding week which gives expression to the feelings and opinions of the class which it represents. After the utterance of some gloomy predictions founded on the result of the early electoral contests in the English boroughs, it says: “For the sake of the Church, both at home and abroad, the pres- ent [Tory] Government should be support- ed.” When it is remembered that the Tory party fought Catholic emancipation, fought the disestablishment of the Irish Church, fought the extension of the most limited privileges to Catholics at all times and under every circumstance, fought the granting of the most meagre justice to the unfortunate people of Ireland, who have suffered the Rtossest indignity, the most exasperating privations, and the foulest injustice for cent- uries, aid inagreat measure because they have been steadfast Catholics, it puzzles one to know on what grounds an English Cath- olic paper can support a Tory Government. The specious and plausible theory which it puts forward in one part of its article will not account for it. It may be true, as the Tablet says, that The policy of Catholics is in the main conservative, founded upon a faith in those great institutions. which have worked well for generations.” ‘The English feudal system, the Irish land laws, the penal laws, 2 State-paid Church, the landlord game laws, . limited suffrage, and compulsory ignorance, according to the En- lish Catholic organ, “have worked well for generations.” But, apart from the so-called “traditional policy of Catholics,” there are far more potent reasons for the course pur- sued by the Tablet and the people whose mouthpiece it is,—a small but powerful sec- tion of Catholics whose reactionary and con- servative instincts have always been a check upon progress and liberty.. With it and them liberty means license, privileges belong only to the wealthy, and the poor are niere chattels, well enough in their way if they minister to the comforts of the aristocratic ‘people who let them live. “ Liberalsbecome Radicals, and often show an inclination to go on getting redder and redder in the color of their opinions. Catholics can have no sym- pathy with the revolutivnary doctrines which are rapidly gaining among the real leaders ‘of the Liberal party,—as witness the speeches made ypon -disestablisbment in England and, Scotland.” So says the Tablet. Of course, its dread for the future of the Established Church in England and Scotland is merely the dread of change, and its tears, after all, may be crocodile tears. What it really dreads is an extension of the suffrage, an abrogation of the feudal privileges of its patrons, and the secularization of education, —although, as far as the latter is concerned, the Education act now in force in England, which was framed by Mr. Forster, a Radical, is eminently satisfactory to the mass of En- glish Catholics. Besides, the Tabict is the organ of that aristocratic and Ultramontane faction of the Church which has brought discredit on it in every country where they had control,—Spain, France, and Italy,—the faction which, to preserve its own factious importance, cared nothing for the general mass of the people, and who affected Chris- tlanity in too many instances because it was respectable. The alliance between the Irish and the English Radicals, alluded to by the Tablet, shows what THe. TrmunE has frequently pointed ovi: that whatever the Irish may be in this country, where they are too frequent- ly the tools of native and foreign dema- gogs, in Ireland and England they have an intelligent appreciation of their duties as citizens, Many would naturally suppose that they would support a Catholic candidate’ in preference to a Profestant, but this is shown to be not the case. All through the United Kingdom they supported the Liberal candidates in preference to the Tories, and the Radical candidate in preference to the milk-and-water Liberal. ‘They cared not, what the candidate’s religion was; they only asked what were his political principles ; and it is admitted on all hands that not less than fifty Liberals in the English boroughs owe their election. to those Irishmen. who are too often feferred to as ignorant Papists. Although they were appealed to by English Catholics, “in the interest of the Church both at home and abroad to support the Con- servative Government,” they refused to do so on the advice of their honest and patriotic leaders, and have proved not only their in- telligence, but the falsity of the charges of religious bigotry and stupid intolerance too often made against them. They have un- doubtedly made' great advances in a few years, and in this way have begun to win respect from their bitterest opponents and admiration from their sympathizers. Bigotry was never so great an element in their char- acter as some nave honestly believed, and, with the spread of education amongst them, it will wholly disappear. Already they seem to have come to a full understanding with their false friends, the Ultramontanes of En- gland and elsewhere, and the latter will prob- ably begin to think that they have only them- selves to blame. S THE SLAVIC FEDERATION IN TURKEY, The London Spectator, a leading organ of the English Liberals, has a semi-authorita- tive article upon the Liberal policy in the East, which foreshadows some important changes in the political condition of the Balkan Peninsula, or at least intimates that the sympathy of the Gladstone Government will lie in the direction of those changes, which of itself will be a most momentous gain in the estimation of the Slavie victims of Turkish misrule. The Spectator inti- mates that, unless the Beaconsfield Govern- ment has made secret agreements of which the country is not aware, and which cannot be disregarded, the policy of the new Gov- ernment will be to convert the Balkan prov- inces into a Federation which will be the legitimate heir of Turkey, or rather its suc- cessor, as Turkey can leave nothing ‘which any people would be willing to accept as a legacy, so that the Federation will appear in the place in Europe which Turkey now oc- cupies,—a consummation devoutly to be wished. * A most important auxiliary in this charige will be the Treaty of. Berlin, which has never yet been carried out in any of the de- mands which it makes upon Turkey. The Spectator points out how the Federation may be accomplished, and in its plan sub- stantially indicates what Mr. Gladstone has more than once urged in his speeches and writings, and what Lord Hartington and Lord Granville have also indirectly sug- gested. Bosnia and Herzegovina are not annexed to Austria by the treaty, but are only placed in ner custody, as a sort of re- ceiver, and can be erected into a principality under an Austrian Archduke. -Servia is in- dependent, Montenegro is independent and has obtained the addition to her territory which she has always wanted. Roumania is entirely independent, and Bulgaria substantially so. Eastern Roumelia is freed from Turkish officeholders, and can easily, be made into a principality. Mace- donia is guaranteed a Constitution by the treaty like Crete, and Greece will shortly be erected into a powerful kingdom with the addition of Epirus and Thessaly, hitherto kept from her by the bad faith of the Tory Government and the obstinate procrastina- tion of the Turks. If, therefore, the treaty were carried out according to its spirit and letter, the City of Constantinople and its environs would be all that is: left in the Balkan Peninsula of Turkish insolence, perfidy, brutality, and misrule. A Federa- tion like this, allied for offensive and defen- sive purposes, adopting common military arrangements, and backed by the sympathy of England, would be a formidable Power against any nation that should attempt to invade it. It is estimated that in less than five years from the organization of such a Federation it could put and keep in the field the following forces: sees encecses cone 2000482, The above is a stronger force than that ‘with which Turkey held Russia at bay so long, while in this case the Federation would have the active sympathy of England, which Turkey did not have, In answer to the very natural comment that might be made by some, that these prov- inces would be mere outlying States of Rus- sia, the Spectator says: So long as they are oppressed by the rest of the world they naturally look to their one armed friend, fear to disoblige him, and in the lust resort even obey his commands; but, if once made free, why should they be Russian, even in proclivities? Because they are Slav? ‘The Rou- maninns and the Greeks are no more Slav than the French; the Serbs are proud to foolishness of their separateness from all other peoples, and the South Slavs are no more Russian in pre- ditection than the Poles are. People write as if the Slavs were of necessity united, and forget that two great branches of the race have con- tended for 600 years, and that a third has always expressed acute fear of being lost in the vast morass of Russian life. Community of race mukes peopies intelligible to one another, but does not always make them friends; and a Pole and a Russian, or a Serb and a Russian, or a Bul- garian and a Russian, are quite as capable of quarreling as a Virginian and a man from Mas- Sachusetts, Do all we English love all Yankees so exceedingly much? Tt has been one of the ,oddest circumstances of the controversy now Gnded, that the men who devest Russia and de- Scribe her as the most cruel and oppressive of States have ulways represented her also as a most attractive Power, so attractive that Serb, god Roumanian, and Bulgarian will always be her devoted and faithfulagents. They will, we -Ferily believe, be ainong her most unmanagea- ble and refractory neighbors, always ready for any alliance which will release them from at- tending to St. Petersburg. The above siatement is interesting as pre- senting the policy of the Liberal Government, and it is a policy which not only will com- mend itself to all free peoples, but is one whether the English Government lends its countenance and sympathy to it or not. Whatever else the war with Russia may not have done, one thing is certain: it was the deathblow to Turkey. She is bankrupt in finances, in material resources, in political possessions. She is beneath contempt as a Power among European States, Sheisshorn of alarge part of her area, and, when the treaty is fully carried out, she will be re- duced to a capital withouta country. Such a skeleton as this, even if it had the dispo- sition to carry out reforms, could not do it The whole spirit of the treaty aimed at mak- ing Turkey a European Power pursuing European methods of. rule,—a metamorpho- sis as impossible as it would be to expect the Afghans, the ‘Tartars, the Chinese, or any other Asiatic caste to Europeanize itself. ‘There is but one alternative left, and that is ‘the foundation of a great Slavic Federation upon the ruins of the Turkish Empire; and if the Gladstone Government can accomplish this, or prepare the way for it, it will leave ; behind it a noble monument, even if it ' should fail in every other measure of the re- forms it hopes to consunimate. AMERIOAN BOYS NOT PERMITTED TO LEARN TRADES. ‘We printed yesterday an article on the subject of the evil to society accomplished by the arbitrary exclusion of apprentices by the trades-unions of this country. Forty years ago every mechanic working at his trade in city, town, or villags took under his care and instruction one, two, or three appren- tices. The trades were all open to Ameri- ean boys, anda trade was ag much 2 matter of course with the young man of that time as attendance at school. The Americen me- chanic was part of the industrial, social, and political system of the country. All this has been changed for the worse. There are comparatively few American apprentices to trades at this time. If there are boys learn- ing mechanical trades they are mostly doing so in village shops, and in an imperfect man- ner, beyond the jurisdiction of city trades- ‘unions. There are in this city many throusands of boys from 14 to 18 years of age who would like to learn-mechanical trades, but who are rigidly excluded; no shop could take any of them in without being instantly abandoned by its workmen, and no other workmen would be employed in that shop without fall- ing under the ban of the trades-unions. What are these boys to do? Excluded from any chance of acquiring instruction as me- chanics, they are forced to find something else; they become, or try to become, salés- men in stores, drummers, clerks, porters, bookkeepers, expressmen, or seek employ- ment on railroads; or, attracted by the fine clothes, profusion of cigars, and comparative ease, they seek places as barkeepers, whisky- peddlers, and those who do not fall early in this line have somé hope of keeping a saloon on their own account at some other day. Some boys, more ambitious, denied all opportunity of becoming mechan- ics, try entrance to the professions. Every medical school in the land is crowded with poorly-educated boys seeking and obtaining medical diplomas. The law schools are in the same condition, and both of these profes- sions are filled-to overflowing. Of the re- siduum of the growing boys, some go West on the farms, but not many; some go to the mountains seeking gold or silver, but, un- fortunately, a very large proportion gradu- ate as hoodlums,—the idle, profligate, drink- ing, rowdyish ruffians who infest the cities; and another portion furnish an ever-increas- ing supply to the army of thieves, burglars, garroters, pickpockets, and confidence men. In the proportion that idleness and en- forced exclusion from honest employment constitute an increase of the criminal class, in the same proportion are the trades-unions directly respousible for producing criminals. With a sort of retributive compensation, thousands of boys who would as apprentices have learned mechanical trades and been honest and honorable members ‘oi sé¢iety, had they been allowed to do so by the trades-unions, eventually, after’ lives of idleness and crime, learn the same mechan- ical trades in the penal institutions, and thus, by their labor in such establishments, fur- nish a standing grievance to the unions. The skilled labor of the United States is largelyin the hands of persons of foreign birth, some trades exclusively so. These persons, asa rule, control the trades-unions, and, rig- idly excluding American apprentices, con- fine the employment to themselves. The trades are recruited from fresh arrivals from Europe, and thus is presented the singular anomaly of the mechanical labor of the coun- try in thecontrol of persons. of alien birth, and the exclusion of the native population from regular admission to the trades. In some trades no apprentices are permit- ted in any shop recognizing the authority of the Union; in others the few apprentices allowed are confined to sons of members of the union, but in all the trades the number of apprentices allowed in proportion to the journeymen is so very limited that prac- tically apprenticeship or entrance to the trade is prohibited, except through side doors or actual defiance of the union system. In the article printed yesterday the at- tention of workingmen was called to the immense arrivals from Europe. During the past April 46,000 immigrants landed in New York alone, and on the last day of April no Jess than 3,386 arrived in that city. These immigrants are from Ireland, England, Ger- many, Austria, Hungary, Poland, and the Scandinavian States. The male immigrants this season, except those from Ireland, are mechanics, skilled workmen, and the women. trained and experienced servants. The demand for this skilled labor is equal to the supply, and orders for this class of work- men have been filed at the immigration agencies. In'‘like manner applications have been filed for the “women and girls who have been educated or trained in . their native countries a3 cooks, faundresses, and ‘other household em- ployments, which they have adopted and practiced as trades. During the present sea- son, beginning on the Ist.of April, the num- ber of these immisrants coming to this coun- try will average from 1,500 to 2,500 a day, and all will enter into direct and active competi- tion with those who, under the organizations known as trades-unions, undertake to con- trol the labor of the cuuntry. Those immi- grants who have no trades ifust enter into competition with the unskilled labor of the large cities, or, which fs far better for them, find their way to the agricultural fields of the West, and as farm-hands train themselves to become farmers and owners of land. The land is full of American youth who are denied the privilege of becoming skilled meckanics. The trades-unions, in order to keep down competition, have excluded their own, and their neighbors’, and their employ- ers’ sons from acquiring trades and becoming mechanics. Their sons and their sons’ sons have been prohibited from becoming work- men in order to keep labor’ scarce and sus- tain the arbitrary authority of unions. Now an avalanche of foreign labor has set in. Skilled labor of all kinds is now coming from all quarters. The factories, and the mills, and the workshopsare all filling up with thesenew arrivals, crowding out not only the American population, but also the very class of work- -men who have so arrogantly seized the control of the right to labor, - and also the right to employ, The trades- Its exclusion of Americans from all mechanical employments has invited hither vast hordes of skilled workmen from all the nations of Europe. Inabrief time the amount of both skilled and unskilled labor seeking employment will equal and far sur- pass any demand at the present or possible future rates of wages? The attempt to en- force a monopoly of mechanical labor has of itself invited hither the agents to destroy that monopoly. Before July a quarter ofa million of workmen. will have arrived this year seeking employment, and each day thereafter will swell this number, forcing them into every industrial centre, there to compete witi the trades-unions and by force of necessity and of numbers break down the usurped authority of the unions to deter- mine who shall and who shall not work fora living at mechanical and skilled labor. In the meantime this unprecedénted mi- gration to this country of skilled workmen serves to perpetuate the exclusion of the American boys from meclranical industry and employment. If apprentices were pro- hibited when there was room for employ- ment, the possibility of the education of ap- prentices under a daily arrival of ship-loads of full-grown workmen, seeking the employ- ment which their necessities make impera- tive, is still further postponed; though it may be that the very magnitude of the competition may, by breaking down the ex- clusive rigor of the trades-unions, open the doors of workshops and of all the trades to American boys, and make it as free for them to become mechanics as it is to become lawyers, doctors, clerks, salesmen, barkeep- ers, and hoodlums. SPELLING-REFORM. + Mr. Ballou, member of Congress from Rhode Island, has introduced in the Lower House a Joint resolution looking to a practical step in the direction of spelling-reform. The resolu- tion provides for a Commission of learned men to take the subject under advisement. This Commission is to inquire what changes are de- efrable in the spelling of public documents and text-books used in the public schools of the Dis- trict of Columbia. Congress is not committed to favorable action on the report of the Com- mission. No appropriation is asked for, and the expenses of such a Commission, at any rate, would be trifling. ‘The author of the resolution does not desire or advocate a system of pure fonetics, but only such changesas would conform to the etymology and the anulogy of the language. It is probable that the Commission, composed as it would be of eminent filologists, would be cautious and conservative. Its work would be largely edu- cational. Whether its recommendations should be adopted or not, it would inform the people of the great weight of learned authority that exists in favor of 2 simplitied or- thografy to the extent at least of dropping out useless, misleading, cumbersome silent letters. It might also show tothe public satisfaction that practical benefits, including great savings of time, space, and money, would result trom the dropping of silent letters and the correction of incongruous, irregular spellings. Action by our Congress on this subject is specially desirable, because the British authori- ties have already signified a willingness to co- operate with any Commission appointed on this side the ocean. More than 120 School Boards in Great Britain—that of London included—peti- tioned the late Government to consider the ad- visubility of adopting a simpler and easier speil- ing. Mr. Disraeli himself and several of his associates professed to be in entire sympathy with the movement, and the only effect- ive objection offered to it was that the larger ‘part of the English-speaking race—in America—showed no disposition to engage in any reform measures. Without the active sympathy and codperation of the people ofthe United States, itwas forcibly urged, no permanent and uniform reforms in English spelling could be accomplished. If Mr. Bullou’s resolution should be passed by Congress this ob- Jection would be atonce removed, and, as the American Commission fs authorized to consult with the British authorities, codperation would be not only offered, but incited. Few persons who have studied the subject can any tonger doubt theta simpler spelling is de- sirable and easily possible. The few small but useful simplifications adopted by Tae TrrsuxE a few months ago have been readily accepted by its readers. They have, in fact, called torth scarcciy a protest from any quarter, and during the present year notone. The example set in these columns has been imitated wholly, or in part,.by the New York Hume Journal and Independent, the Utica ‘Herald, the Leaven- worth Times, the Atchison Champion, Oberlin News, and other newspapers. Some ot these journals have made change’ that Tae TRisuNe has not as yet adopted. But none of them has met with anything but a kindly response from the people. Everything indicates that the num- ber of the spelling- reform press will soon be largely reinforced, and that some of the most obvious reforms, defensible on etymological and all other grounds, will be widely introduced. While itis best that changes should be made slowly, so that readers may be gradually ac- customed to the improved spelling, it is also im- portant that the indisputable reforms—those which all authorities agree in recommending— should be pushed into common use as soon ag practicable. Such reforms are the dropping of final “e"” when the preceding vowel is short in words ending in “ive,” as “ sensitiv,” “ legislutiv,"" “deceptiv,” etc.; and the substi- tution of “f” for “ph,” as in “fonetic,” “ filosofer,”*telegrat,” “ emfasis,” etc. ‘These “changes are strictly in accordance with the ety- mology ot the language. For example, “hay” is the root-word, and the terminal “e” means nothing. Itissimply a connectiv used to join the verbal endings in the original to the root. As we have no conjugations or declenaions, we have no use either for terminations or con- nectivs. In asimilar way, “f" is as nearly an equivalent of the Greek “fi” or“ phi” ag any- thing we can get in Enghsh, and when in Greek traces of the mysterious di-gamma appear, we cannot even indicate it except by the useof “tf.” There can never be any doubt when ES isused for “phi,” as the Greeks had no other “{" sound in their alfabet. Theso spellings, and many others like them that might ‘be sug- gested, make the pronunciation of. words plainer. By dropping the faat “e” after short “i" and retaining it after long "i" the quantity of the vowel is more clearly indicated than before. Thus, alive, lively, revive, survive, archive, etc.; when the tis long the final ¢ should be retaine: ut when it fs short, as in give, live, elective, relative, ete, the silent, misleading short ¢ should be dropped. Nor fs there any sense, necessity, or etymolog- ical reason for ending words with double conso- nants, such as add, odd, egg. ebb, err, burr, chaff, staff, tall, knoll, scroll, stress, ngsess. carelessness etc. Ita sheer waste of time and space to write and print these double consonants. Great good could be done by dropping the silent a out of such words as head, lead, read, bread, spread, wealth, Jealous, zealous, dreamt, earnest. ete. as the use ofthe silent a misleads the learner in pronunciation and adds greatly to the difficulty of learning to epell. Dropping the silent t would be of great benefit in such words as be- Neve, deceive, seizure, aggrieve, conceit, achieve, and spelling them sim: ply beleve, decere, sezure, aggreve, concete, acheve, ete. Height and sieve and similar words would be greatly improved by spell ing them hight and siv; tho digrafseiand teare ‘among the most confusingand worst in the language. Clinuges such as these would certainly be for the better, and the next ones will probably be in this. direction. ——— THE New York Tablet, a leading Catholic Journal. devotes an articie of the last issue to Archbishop Darboy, who was massacred by the zac Communists. The article concludes ag follows: He fell a martyr to duty and religio left on record one of the prightesr exams with what calm resignation and devoted fortiinde 8 putriot priest can meet his death. In the ead hour of his affliction he found a Kind friend in Mr. Washburne, then United States Minister to France. When the representatives of other ne. tons had tled to Versuilles he alone remained, at no smnall risk to himself. to Wateh over the In” terests of Americans in Paris. With him duty was paramount to safety, and, though he bud eo religious -afliliation with Bishop Daron ae noble and generons nature urged hint tovane Sere Possible effort to save histlife. Falling in fhis, be has generously paid deserving tribute to is Memory a3 a pitriot, a Christian, and & martyr, whilst in bitter invectives he rails at his executioners as _a vile, bloodthirsty rabble of Fuilians and murderers.’ All honor to Mr. Wash- urne! Every Catholic, aye, every generous, Roble-hearted man, Whether Catholic or ness of two of those objects. other- | traying it,” et his noble and humane> interference on behalf of the martyred prone Archbishop Darboy. ASTRONOMICAL. Chicago (Tropez office), north latitude 41 deg, 52m. 573.; west longitude, 42m. 18s. from Wash." ington, and 5h. 50m. 30s. from Greenwich, The subjoined table shows the time of rig ing of the moon's lower limb, and the officiay time for lighting the first street-lamp in each cin. cuit in this city, during the coming week, ‘Unless, ordered svoner on account of bad weather. Alse the following times for extinguishing the first. ii é 3:00am, has now just passed into her lage quarter. She will be “with” Saturn, Me; and Venus on Friday morning, but several de grees to the northward froin those planots. Hep conjunction with the sun (new moon) will occur: next Sunday morning at 26 minutes night. The sun's upper limb rises Monday at 4:50 @. m.; souths at lh. 56m. 40.858. a. m.; and sets at 7h. Olam. p. m. The sun's upper limb rises Friday at, 4:44 a, m.; souths at Ih. 56m. 215s. a. m.; and sets et, Th. 054m. p.m. : Sidereal time Thursday mean noon, 2h. im 49,988, - - Blercury Is a morning star, by virtue of poste tion, though not visible to the ordinary ob- server. He will rise Thursday at 4:02 a. m.; o¢ only 50 minutes before the sun; and will then © be only ¢ degree north from Safarn. oe Venus is also a morning star, rising Thi at 4:10 a.m. She is now (apparently) moving among the stars at very nearly the sume rate ap the sun. Mars isan evening star. Thursday he southe at4:0t p. m., and sets at 11:43 p.m. He isnow: in the middle cf the constellation Gemini, and’ not a very conspicuous object, being not much brighter than «star of the second magnitude, Of course, bis moons have long since censed to be visible, even in the most powerful tele scopes. Jupiter is also a “son of the morning,” rising Thursday at 3:20 a. m. sutliciently far trom the sun to permit observations of his satellites. He: will be very nearly in perehelion at the date of his opposition next October (the 7th). His die tance from the earth will then be only (1) 385- 000,000 miles, or 3.9265 times the earth's mean dip, tance from the sun. a. Saturn isa morning star, rising Thursday at & o'clock in the morning, very near to Mercury. Uranus is now passing rapidly away from the Position favorable to evening observing. He souths Thursday next at P.m. Prof. Hough, of the Dearborn Observatory, has recently been. measuring tho positions of the satellites; a work. which is possible oaly with the few large tele- scopes of the world, owing to the extreme fainte after mide $= Dvrrse the last week Mr. Henry Greene baum was tried in ‘the United States District Court upon an indictment growing out ofthe management of the German National Bank, and acquitted. Mr. Greenebaum was President and active manager of two banks and of seve eral banking firms. Under his strenuous efforts, to maintain his institutions the accountsaf all these concerns became somewhat involved, and, out of these complications grew the accusations of misconduct. On the trial Mr. Greenebaum established to the satisfaction of the Court and jury that he was guiltless of any criminal ine tent in any of the varied transactions, and he Was promptly acquitted. The untiring energy, the bold perseverance, and unbounded kind+ ness of Mr. Greenebaum during his twenty-firg years’ life as a banker in this city had won for him an universal friendship, and the congrats lations of his friends upon his acquittal were general and heartfelt. a A SUBSCRIBER asks “ What is an agnoe and what is agnosticism? I suppose it relates some fase or kind of religious belief. The word isnot in Webster's dictionary.” If ourcorre> spondent had examined the Supplement to the latest edition of Webster he would have found what he wanted. An agnostic is there described 88\“one who professes ignorance of theism or re= frains from dogmatic assertion, and who neither affirms nor denies the existence of a personal Deity, for the reason that he cannot proveor disprove the assertion; and. because of the necessary limits of the human mind, or because of the insufficiency of the evidence furnished by aychical and fysical data to warrant a positive conclusion; opposed alike to dogmatic skepti- cism and dogmatic theism.” ‘The above includes the definition of both words. In one sensean agnostic isa nothingarian In theistical problems. ‘There are many such‘people in the world. ———— THE agony of Moving-Day is over. The people of CRicagp have changed places. Afow days of settlement, repairing broken furniture, supplying broken crockery and mirrors, settling express bills, and every one will begin getting used to new neighbors, uew locality, and the new régime, and stay fixed and contented until another Moving-Day comes, when the annual hubbub will begin again. Having moved, Chi- cago can now pay undivided attektion to the wants of the thousands who are coming herethis summer to transact business and enjoy herun rivaled advantages as the great summer resoré of this country. i <2 Z PERSONALS. A dark horse is soon curried. = The Prince of Wales’ latest bust is ond that he sat for to Sarah Bernhardt. It is gratifying to know that America will soon be properly represented among haughty potentates of Europe. A rife team leaves for England next month. “ Proctor ”—It is true that if you give 9 dog a bad name it will stick to him, and it is also true that if you give a small boy 4 can it will stick to the first dog he can catch. . “ Brooklynite*—There is no Vanderbill scandal.” The Maud S. that Mr. Vanderbilt's name has been associated with so much of Ite isa. trotting-horse. Sorry to spoll your antick pated fun. “ Maybe there isn’t any God for the United States,” said a Canudian Mayor to Col. Robert Ingersoll, “but there's one for Canada; and you can’t have any hall in this town in which to defame Him.” A new play by Joaquin Miller, called ‘ Home, Sweet Home,” has been performed for a week in Providence. If it is anything Uke ‘some of Joaquin’s poetry, we should think spectators would appreciate the title more than the play itself. -“ Dr. Sehliemann”—The origin of the et. pression, “You will never miss the water til the well runs dry,” is not known, but itis be- Neved to have come from Kentucky, where all the wells in a county wouldn't be missed as 100g as the whisky held out. : Cornelius Vanderbilt, who will soon be again in collision with hfy brother, said to an interviewer that “the world will find out after awhile that Bill hasn't any brains.” Cornelius asserts that he has cleared $100,000 In stocks in six months. He bases much money ashe watt, but he doesn't want trustees put over bim a5 ithe were a lunatic. Emperor Alexander’s son and heir fs not much esteemed in Europe. Although well be- haved and religiously. disposed, he is thought narrow-minded, a sort of Loufs XVI. Probably if the young man wwotild cause himself to be blown up afew times he would become auni- versal favorit. It seems to be necessary in Russia for rulers to be detonated into the affeo tions of the people. _ The New York Tribune of April 29 says? “The Government has a prosecuting officer of & queer kind in Chicago. Mr. Leake, whos quty it became as District-Attorney to prosecute ove of his friends, an ex-Postmaster charged with embezzlement, appeared both forand against the Government, or rather did not appear for the Government at all. He went volun upon the stand asa witness to the Postmaster’s good character, and afterward asked to be ex~ cused from addressing the jury, as it would be ‘painful’ for him to do so. When Judge Blodgett denied this request, Mr. Leake ex- cused himself by simply making a brief and evi- dently insincere demand for conviction. ‘This is an extraordinary prostitution of official powers. Mr. Leake might have resigned his office, or left the disagreeable prosecution to another. Asit was, he seems to have taken charge of the Gove ernment’s case for the express purpose of ber