Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 18, 1880, Page 4

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F.—Hall_ corner Clark and Washtinzto! sist, will meei next Fridxy evening, July 23. All P Triarebs are requested to be present. {mportant busi- Visiting Patriurehs cordially, invited. By or- der ‘RL BAIN, C. P. £. E, RELNERS, Scribe. EXCELSIOR ENCAMPMENT. I, 0. 0. F.~Mem- ders are nested to meet_at thelr Armurr, 19? and SO Sra tag PoOeNy See te rely ¥ rel = ovel. ck, for drill. ng Roger E. D. REINERS, Scribe. ST. BERNARD COMMANDERY, No, 33, K. T.— Stated Conclave Wednesday evening, July 21. at 8 Gclock. Work on the Templar Order. Visiting Sir ghts: ‘cunrteourly invited. By order Hnignes are cunrig ony DM: CARR, Commander. J.Q. DICKERSON gliecomer. FAIRVIEW CILAPTER, No. 16, R. A, M.—Hall comer Thirty-seventh-st. and Cottaze Grove-av— Kegular Convocation Thursday evening. July 2. LAO, at 6 o'clock. Work on the RA. Dexree. ‘Visiting companions are always welcome. ee TLS. TIFFANY, M. B. HP. MYRON HARRIS, Secretary. APOLLO COMMANDERY, No.1 ENIGHTS TEM- PLARS.—Stated Conclave peeeay Exgning) July 2, 1880, nt 8 Sele Commandery sell assem 6 in the armory. Eminent Comm: ro ors By onder OF TL 5. LIFPANS, Recorder. CHICAGO CHAPTER, NO. 177, 1 A, M—Berular Conrocation on Monday, Juis 19, at 8 o'clopk. for important business and work. Visiting companions By f the M. E.H, P.. Invited. By Onder of ne TE StiTH, Secretary. SUNDAY, JULY 15, 1850. A Puavdepata wife-murderer has been sentenced to be hanged. Ir is said that the Pope is much displeased at Cardinal Nina's action on the Belgian ques- tion. Tue Arabs who attacked the British gun. boat on the Euphrates a few days ago have been arrested. Negorratioss for 4 supvly of coal and provisions forthe Turkish Mediterranean squad- ron are In progress. | THE Hon. Horace Maynard, recently ap- pointed Pustmaster-General, left Constantinople Friday for this country. * Mosr of the expelled French Jesuits are taking up their residence in Spain. Several members of the Order have :eft for the Phil- ippine Islands. - Execriox riots have occurred in the Brazilian provinces. About twenty people were killed, and many were wounded. Ir will doubtless be interesting to many readers to learn that Prince Gitoter I of Schwartzburg-Souderbausen has abdicated in favor of his son. ABaxtmonre furniture factory was burned yesterday, and sixteen adjacent buildings were damaged. The loss is estimated at $10,000. A woman was fatally injured. CHamMan JEWELL states that Republican tickets will be placed in the field in every Southern State. and the campaign there would be conducted actively and aggressively. _————— GaMBETTA, in addressing the officers who came to Paris to recelve regimental flags on the national féte-day, said the virility and merit of the French army yrere the surprise of Europe. A crecuLaR has been issued by Secretary Bherman to the sugar importers, informing them that any attempts to pass sugars below their grade will be punished by the forfeiture of the goods. CoNGRESSMAN JonN H.- BAKER, of In- diana, bas written to a friend in Washington that the Republicans are confident of carrying the State in October for Porter and for Garfleld io November. ‘THERE is prospect of an abundant harvest in Ireland this year. Although there has been considerable rain, the weather is now very favor- able and abundant yield in all kinds of small grain is promised. Letra, the Basuto Chief, was willing, or pretended to be willing, to surrender the arms of his tribe to the, British authorities, but his sous would uot permit it, and so the tribe re- tain their arms. 5 * For the purpose of permanent organiza- _ ‘tion Secretary Evarts has invited the Interna- tional Exhibition Commissioners appointed by the various State Governors to meet him at New York the 10th of August. Tue Board of Trade yesterday passed a resolution requesting the Directors of that body to look for more commodious quarters, and to submit the result of their inquiries to a meeting to be called for that purpose. . Iris stated that Mr. Sayre, Grand Secretary and Treasurer of the Brotherhood of Locomo- tive Engineers of Indfana,has been deposed from his office for political reasons. Mr. Sayre isa Republican. His successor is a Democrat. ——_—— Dr. TasxER thrives;and grows fat. on water. At noon to-day he’ will have completed his twentieth day of fasting, and yet heis de- seribed asin excelient condition. His voice is strong, his eye isclear, and his step firm and tlastic. Tar Hox. A. G. Porter, Republican randidate for Governor of Indiana, has chal- lenged his Democratic opponent, the Hon. Franklin Landers, to meet him during Septem- berin joint debate in each Congressional dis- trict of the State. Carr. Payxe and his gang of squatters, who were arrested a few days ago, will be tried in the United States Circuit Court for violating the law and disregarding the President's proc- lamation in settling in the Indian Territory. ‘The penalty is a fine of $1,000. Ir ig generally believed that no farther steps will be taken towards the erection of a statue tothe Prince Imperial in Westminister Abbey on account of the action of the House of Dommons Friday night. The London - Times, which always follows public sentiment, now pro- gouncea the scheme unwise in its origin and says it would be more unwise to revive it. Al- though Mr. Gladstone advised the. House not to interfere in the matter, he with several mem- bers of the Government abstained from voting on Mr. Briggs’ resolutl Trar the Risca colliery explosion was caused by lightning striking the overground gear of the machinery is the latest theory advanced by the colliery owners. Such a theory, if estab- lished, would exculpate them, and it is well, therefore, not to belleve in it too implicitly. Two seN while bathing in the Arkansas River, about forty miles from Pueblo, discov- ered an iron pot containing $3,000 in gold and silyer. A letter concealed in a leather purse, found also in the pot, indicates that the money was stolen from a farmer living near this city. ————— Tur real estate of California is valued at $446,273,585, and the personal property at $118,- $0445L The total debt of the State is only $11,890,918. The total yearly expense of the public schools of the State is $1,557,978, and the ‘entire yearly tax for all purposes is $11,108,002. Te Russian Ambassador at Constantino-" ple has drawn the attention of the Porte to the concentration of Albanian troops at Tusi, on the Montenegrin frontier. The Turkish Foreign Minister promises to attend to the matter, and intimates that a pepeable settlement will be ef- fected. Senator McDonatp asked Supervisor Davenport yesterday whether he intimated that Judges McCunn and Barnard had acted fraudu- lently in issuing naturalization papers, to which Mr. Davenport promptly replied that he did not intimate, he asserted it. Senator McDonald subsided. ‘A. J. Eatos, a well-informed colored Re- publican of Florida, says that that State is cer- tain to cast its Electoral vote for Garfield. To the statement that the Democrats will count Garfield out, he replies that the colored meh will stay by the ballot-box till the last vote is can- vassed.. Drnixe the month of June there arrived in the United States 72,507 immigrants. Of this number Ireland furnished the largest quota, and Germany the next largest. The immigrant ar- rivalsat the port of New York alone for the yearending June 39 were 263,726, aguinst 99,224 for the preceding twelve months. Tae Hon. Stephen T. Logan, ap old and respected citizen of Springticid, and at one tine aprominent member of tho Mlnois Bar, died yesterday at the advanced age of 81 years. Judge Logan was at one thne a law-partner of Abraham Lincoln. His only surviving child is the wife of the Hon. Ward Lamon. Tue two Liberal members for the English borough of Chester have been unseated for brib- ery and corrupt practices. Onc of the members is Mr. Dodson, President of the Local Govern- ment Board, a Cabinet office, and in the lust Parliament was Chairman of Committees. Yet English newspapers lecture Americans about purity in politics. One of the Turkish Ministers, in justifying the state of affairs iu Asia Minor,remurked to Mr. Goschen, the English Ambassador, thut En- gland had a little trouble of its own in the case of Ireland, which Mr. Goschen doubtless under- stood as meaning that England ought to attend ta ber own business. The prescription was: Physician, heal thyself. A.F. Disser, an Inspector of Customs at Velasco, Tex., made a speech, at a Republican meeting a few days ago, which seems to have displeased the Southern chivalry. He has becn ‘obliged to quit his post since then. .A gang of twenty-five desperadocs has been scleoted to hang him for his temerity. This ts the way in which it is proposed to give Hancock the vote of the Solid South. —_—_ GaMBETTA Will be feted at Cherbourg on the 9th of August.. Some 300 Mayors have been invited to participate on the occasion. There will be a naval review and illuminations of the harbor in his honor. In the meantime, Roche- fort continues to pour some hot verbal shot at his former ally, denouncing him as a Genoese corsair, and a dangerous demagog, whom all true Republicans should unite to overthrow. ReEceENT accounts from Mexico indicate that none of the Presidential candidates re- ceived a majority of the total vote cast in the jate elections. The choice of President, there- fore, rests with the Mexican Congress, who will, 1m all probability, elect Gen. Gonzales. In that case, President Diaz wilt become Minister of War and a member of the Cabinet. The elec- tion is described as the most orderly ever held in Mexico, Ar the request of the Sultan some mem- bers of the Prussian Civil Service have been sent to Turkey to aid in reforming the civil ad- ministration of the country. Hitherto such in- vitations have been almost invariably sent to English civilservyants. The change is regarded as Significant, and is interpreted to mean a Ger- man-Lurkish or an Austro-German-Turkish al-, ance. This suspicion is only strengthened by the repeated declarations of the German diplomats that the tender and acceptance of the invitation do not mean anything. THE weather in England just now is very unfavorable tothe crops. It is hot and sultry, with frequent thunder and rain storms. Parts of. Gloucestershire, Leicestershire, Yorkshire, Berkshire, and Nottinghamshire are now under water, owing to the overflow of the rivers. Railway travel is much interrupted, and the crops, particularly hay, are tuined. Notwith- standing, prices are very low for all kinds of farm produce. Mr. Gladstone has already re- duced his rents 30 percent. The prospect be- fore the farmer is by no means a cheering one; neither is it so for the landlords. Tue Whig secession from the English Liberal party is not regarded as very serious, being confined to a few gentlemen who own ex- tensive estates in Ireland, and whose presence in the party has always been regarded as a. source of weakness by the more advanced members. Mr. Gladstone docs not seem to be much concerned in the matter. and bas ex- pressed a determination to persist with the Irish Disturbance bili, to which the secession is due, The divisions during the recent devates on the measure indicate that. the Govern- ment will be able to curry it to-a successful conclusion this session. Cot. Casy, the South Carolina duelist who shot Col. Shannon, was taken before Judgo MglIver, of the Supreme Court, at Cheraw, S. C., yesterday ona writ of habeas corpus, and was admitted to bail in the sum of $3,000. Previous to the hearing of the case, Cash's son attempted to shoot the editor of alocal paper which con- tained some severe strictures on the elder Cash. The young man was encouraged to the attack by his father, who drew his pistol to sec, ashe said, that there should be fair play. Fortunate- Jy for the editor, there were some friendsaround who saved him from the bullet of tho young sprig of Southern chivairy. The Cashes are men of honah looking for goah. Mr. Banker, a Philadelphia. merchant who purchased war material for Russia in this country during the late Russo-Turkish war, and who astonished the Russian authorities at the scrupulous honesty with which he- ful- filled his commission, has been received with distinguished honor by the Czar. It is rumored that Mr. Barker is in St. Petersburg, this time as the representative of an American syndicate with whom the Czar is negotiating for naval armaments. Another rumor has it that Mr. Barker is going to superintend the erection of grain elevators through Russia,.and still an- other that he is about tosuperintend the con- struction of several railroads in the Czar's do- minions. Ir may be remembered by some that in 1868 a resolution was offered in Congress that the Committee on Judiciary should investigate certain charges freely made in the press. against one of the Justices of the Supreme Court, and report whether these charges constituted such a misdemeanor as to re- quire the House. to present to the Senate articles of impeachment. There was an ex- citing debate on the resolution, but it was finally adopted. Near the cluse of the ses- sion, however, the Committee of investiga- tion was discharged and the wholematter laid upon the table. A recent statement in the Bichmond (Vs.) Commonwealth shows how small and ridiculous was the mouse that made the mountain labor, The Justice against whom the charges were made was Mr. Field, and it appears that in January, 1868, he was invited to a dinner given-by Mr. Samuel Ward to the Secretary of the Trens- ury, the dinner-hour being 5 p. m. Justice Fieid attended, but remained onlya short time owing to other engagements. At 8p. m. ex-Goy. Price, of New Jersey, came in, having understood that to bethe dinner-hour, and, as there was no other seat, took the chair left vacant by Justice Field, whose card still remained by his plate. As the’ evening progressed stories were circulated and con- versation became yery free and general, as no reporters were present. During the con- versation Mr. Price stated itas his opinion that the reconstruction measures would soon be “smashed up” and sent to “kingdom come” by the Supreme Court. The remark was overheard by an eavesdropping re- porter, who, not knowing the speaker, man- aged after dinner was over to get into the room and secure the card which bore Justice Field’s name. He immediately wrote up the startling intelligence, and it traveled the length and breadth of the land, finally reach- ing the House, with what results has already been shown. It was probably the smallest teapot in which a tempest was ever brewed. COOK COUNTY SURE FOR GARFIELD. Some Democratic enthusiasts profess to be confident that the County of Cook can be carried for Hancock and English this fall. But they give no calculations on which to base their predictions. It is perfectly plain to anybody who cares to know the truth that Cook County is likely to give a large major- ity for the Republican candidates in Novem- ber. Some of the reasons for so believing are as follows: : 1,.The majority for Tilden in the city and county in 1876 was exceptional and ‘abnor- mal. It was made up of malcontents from the Republican party, and included every- body who wanted a change, everybody who was oppressed by the hard times, and everybody who was° deluded by the attractive Democratic cry, ‘Reform is necessary.” There was no sectional issue in 1876. Some of the Southern States were Republican, and some of the Northern States were Democratic. There was a hard-times issue. Many Republicans honestly believed .that resumption in 1879 wasimpossible, or not desirable if possible. Another body of independent voters nat- urally Republicans voted for Tilden in 1876 | because they were dissatisfied with the previous Republican Administration. Tilden then had a great reputation as a reformer. He had cleaned out a nest of robbers in the Now York Canal Boards, His true character was not known, and he caught, the great bulk of the independent vote by his pre- tense of superior virtue. 2, The German vote was split up in 1876. Not more than one-quarter of the Germans yoted the Republican ticket. The Staats- Zeitung was neutral, partly because it did noteare to go against the sentiments of a majority of its readers, and partly because it had no preference as between the two Presi- dential candidates. 3, The spirit of incipient Communism had then begun to make itself felt. In the fol- lowing year the Communists cast about 7,000 yotes, and their strength was mostly in Re- publican wards. The outlook is now very different from what it was in 1870, because: (1) The Demo- cratic pretense of ‘refarm is exploded. No- body believes that Hancock knows the mean- ing of the word reform, or would enforce the. (2) Sectional lines are For the first time in a idea if he: could. more strictly drawn. | Presidential election the North is distinctly: menaced by a Solid South. (3) The Ger- mans are now all stanch Republicans, The German newspapers -are working together harmoniously and zealously for the success of the Republican ticket, and they truly rep- resent the sentiments of their constituents. (4) The hard times have passed away. He- sumption has brought prosperity. The fac- tories are busy, the shops are full, and all the industries of the city are active. There is no dissatisfaction with the financial policy of the Republican party. (5), Finally, the Com- munist element has melted away into thin air, All there1s leftof it has gone over to the Greenback-Labor party, and the combined. forces will hardly make aripple in the ap- proaching election. Though Tilden carried Chicago by nearly 5,000 majority, and the County of Cook by 2,400, there is this significant fact connected with thatelection that some people seem to have forgotten: The Republicans elected all the county officers except the Sheriff. Luther Lafiin Mills was elected State’s. Attorney; Emil Dietzsch, Coroner; Jacob Gross, Clerk of the Circuit Court; and James Brock- way, Recorder. The Democratic candidates for State offices ran heavily behind the Presi-. dential ticket. Steward had a majority of only 2,500 in the city and 181 in the county. The difference between his vote and that for President shows how serious the Republican defection in that year was. Yet it does not represent the great number of Republicans who shut their eyes |and gulped down the whole Democratic ticket. : Cook County isa Republican county. All its officers—including the whole Board of Commussioners—are now Republicans. It will give a Republican majority of from 8,000 to 10,000 next fall: The Republicans this year have nominated a famous statesman and a growing candidate, whereas they had before put up an estimable gentleman but little known at first, and one who did not excite enthusiasm as the campaign advanced. Illinois Republicans outside of Cook County need not concern themselves at all about this end of the State. If they willtake care of themselves, or call on Cook County to help thein out only with a few thousand, they will assure a good Republican majority in the State. THE WATER-SUPPLY OF CHICAGO. Chicago is supplied with lake waterthrough two tunnels, one having a capacity of 50,- 000,000 gallons daily and the other 100,- 000,000 gallons, making an aggregate of sup- ply. to the wells of 150,000,000 gallons per day. The present capacity of the Water-Works to pump and distribute is equal to 100,000,000 gallons daily. The average quantity pumped is 65,000,000, though one day of extreme heat the pumps were worked at the rate of 80,000,- 000 gallons. The original plan included ad- ditional engines at the West Side Works which would add 25,000,000 gallons to their capacity per day. ‘The present pumps are located at points distant from each other nearly-four miles in an air line. The two pumps are en- gaged in giving force to a distribution ex- tending nearly four miles in a direct line, and tapped by innumerable pipes running several miles in various directions, The con- sequence is, that the force given by the stand- pipes is essentially weakest at the point where these two currents meet, and _ that happens to be in the heart of the city, where the large and high buildings are to be found, and where the greatest pressure in the mains is needed. Considering the con- tinuous and large growth of Chicago and the wide area which it now covers and always will cover—considering also the magnitude of the suburbs at present and the certainty, if not necessity, that thesesuburbs will be in- corporated with the city proper, and that their territory will haye to be supplied with ater—the duty of increasing the water- up- ply by regular additions cannot be avoided. in 1867, only thirteen years ago, the first lake tunnel, with its eapacity of 50,000,000 gallons per day, was completed; now that tunnel is not more than equal to half the supply that will be needed in 1881. Even the additional tunnel was not constructed a day before its necessity was obvious; and five years hence, say in 1885, the necessity of an- other tunnel from, the Iake will proba- bly present itself so strongly that it will have to be supplied. In the meantime, with a lake supply equal to double the average daily con- sumption, it is the duty of the city to provide for the best and most: economical distribu- tion to meet the public wants. The situation of. the present pumplng- works and the fact that the pressure is weak- est at the very point where it. should be strongest prove that what is wanted now, and what will be wanted hereafter, is an ad- ditional pumping establishment on the east or west bank of the South Branch south of ornear Jackson street. Much of the force now given by the machinery at the two ex- tremes of service is lost by friction through the long distances'from the stand-pipes in the northeast and southwest sections of the city. The loss of thnt power at or near the centre of the city is 3.waste which is more criminal, because it takes place just. whorethe greatest power isneeded. Now, if an addi- tional pumping establishment were provided midway between the present pumps the de- mand on the present machinery would be largely reduced, the present serious loss of power by friction would be obviated, and each of the present establishments could supply as much water as it does now, at less cost than is at present required. The addition of another pumping-engine with equal capacity to that on thé North Side and located mid- way between the present establishments would secure to the central part of Chicago asupply of water where there is more occa- sion for it, and, by reducing the strain on the other works and saving the loss. of force now. caused by the friction through the long mains, with their countless turns and angles, would give to the general distribution of water a force nearly equal in all parts of the extended city, and sufficient, with the exist- ing works, to exhaust all the water that can be supplied by the existing tunnels. ‘The addition of other engines to those now in use at the West Side Works may be neces- sary intime, and should be made, but theirad- dition at this time will not overcome the great, pressing necessity, and that is, other pumping works in the centre of thecity. To increase the power at the extremes of the city is mere- ly to increase the waste, increase the cost, and not add anything of consequence to the supply. The present evil of having no pump atthe centre will continue, no matter what additions may be made at the extremities. ‘The city some eight years ago made a con- tract with the Government. by which the site of the old Bridewell was exchanged for the site and ruins of the old Post-Office and Custom-House. That exchange was made because the city ‘asked it, so that a Public Library building might be erected on the site of the Post-Oftice, while the Bridewell Jot would better suit the Government as a site for a Government warehouse. As the city in some way was deprived of ever using the lot obtained from the Government for a library, and that lot has been ever since used for a.theatre, and as the Government is in no need of a site for.a ware- house, it might perhaps be as well for Chicago to ask Congress to take back the property. If this ean be done, the site of the old Bridewell would suit admirably as a place on which to erect the central Water- Works. It may be that Congress will be un- willing to do any more‘swapping, particular- lyasto do so would: deprive the Board of Education of Chicago of the opportunity of running a theatre as part of the public-school system; but it may be willing to sell the lot, which the Government does not need, to the city as a site for additional water-works. “In that ¢ase, should that lot upon examination prove to be asuitable and satisfactory one for the Water-Works, then the city might at once take active steps in the matter. The City Council sliould, at as early a date as practicable, determine upon the policy that isto be adopted. It should decide now that the best interests of the city require an ad- ditional pumping establishment near the centre of the city and within reasonable dis- tance of the line of the tunnel, and should then direct the propersurveys as to the selec- tion of a site, and the preparation of plans and estimates. It will take probably two years to complete the establishment and put it in working order, and by that time it will have become an imperious necessity. The decision of this matter cannot be made too soon. An abundant supply of water is essential to the health of the city, and the Council should never by delay suffer the supply to become either deficient or pre- carious. : ‘The water revenues are cheerfully paid by the people. This increase in the operations of the department can be paid for out of the surplus earnings of the water service without impairing the extension of that service. The Council can do no wiser act than to settle this question promptly. JOHN BULL'S VIEW OF THE UNITED STATES Itis not always pleasant to see ourselves as others sce us; but there is a notable excep- tion to the rule in an article recently printed in the London Times. It isa matter of very unpleasant notoriety, and in times past it has occasioned much hard feeling between the United States and Great Britain, that John Bull has persisted in seeing us not only in a very unfavorable -but in a very prejudiced light. A century agohe looked down upon us in loftyscorn; even a quarter ofa century ago he showed himself to be bitterly hostile to our Government and our people, and that, too, in a time of extremity, when other nations were showing tneir good will. Lately, however, his views have materially changed. Upon the day preceding our anni- versary of National independence, the Lon- don Times devoted a long editorial to Aimerienn progress and prosperity, and sent fn the most’ profuse and the handsomest congratulations that the sea- son has yet produced. If an enthusi- astic american had written the article he could hardly have been more joyful over the outlook, and we doubt whether any American orator, ashe unloosed his eagle that day, sent the bird of freedom on a high- erflight. The Times is satisfied with every- thing. Itis glad that Gen. Grant was not nominated, and that the American people “ prefer that the White House should repre- sentsimply the American people, and not either individual renown or an individual grievance.” It is glad that both Garfieldand Hancock were nominated, because “both are’so respectable and moderate that it would be hard for an American who was neither Republican nor Democrat to choose between them.” Itis glad that “individual Amer- icans, codperating with boundless physical resources, have created a National structure unexampled in the history of empires.” It congratulates us upon the rapid growth not only of our cities but of‘our rural towns. It prints gratuitously the following first-class prospectus of our natural advantages, which will help us materially in bringing.over more emigrants: i Every gradation of temiperature is within its reach, from the wheat-producting plains of Minnesota. with a mean of 41 degrees, to the oran, ok Fa aaa iy Carats of Gas ana At Washington Territory. He may select his chances of life, though not, perhaps, with quite the same largeness of Lae ed y may. quate corte and, ao far a3 Nature has to do with it, with an equal and-abundant certainty of wealth from one and all. But thore are fertile rezious elsewhere, if hardly of a range and diversity in their character so wide. South America has its infinit stores of natural weulth, and Asia Minor is to the full a8 gifted. Yet they add ase Kittle in_proportion to the world’s store as the United States add much. ‘And this is not all if doesfor us. Itis glad that Americans have just the qualities which fit them to turn these great natural advan- tages to their best account. In the quantity and spread of mental culture it declares that even Germany-cannot match the United States, All the paraphernalia of education, “schools and colleges, libraries and muse- unis, and galleries and institutes, exist in the ‘United States in a prodigal profusion which defies enumeration.” It pats our farmers on the back in the following handsome way: “Between the American farmer and the American’soil there is a sympathy which for every difficulty finds its solution. {In adapt- ing means to ends he displays an unfailing instinct which renders the expansion of his Jandinasingle century from a wilderness into the world’s treasure-house 2 wonder still, but no longera miracle.” It is more than ever glad because all mankind, especial- ly the English, gain by the prosperity which the Americans succeed in extracting from their land. “American harvests ripen for the food of Lancashire and Yorkshire. Col- orado and California yield their silver for the facilitation of English commerce. The Prime-Minister in his intervals of busi- ness has attempted by way of mental gym- nastics to measure the rate at which Amer- ican prosperity may be expected to overtake that of Great Britain. It would be more in- teresting ,and practical to show the impossi- bility of any development.of transatlantic resources which should not promote in the same degree the wolfare of this country.” All this is a little late, but better late than never. The Timés has made up for lost time by the handsome manner in which it finally ac- knowledges American supericrity and En- glish dependence upon that superiority. All the former indifference, and at .one time actual hostility, of the Times to this country can be overlooked and forgiven in view of this handsome retraction and apology.. We are glad that the Times is glad, and glad that it selected the Fourth of July as the time to show its gladness. . | ees HOW BUSINESS FAILURES AFFECT HEN. In our last Sunday’s issue we sermonized a little upon a text drawn from Mr, Edward King’s “ Egotist,” a book which is having a large circulation, and which is calculated to convey to the reader very. peculiar and in- deed gloomy ideas of life, as it is written from a generally pessimistic standpoint. To- day we choose another text from its pages, which may be briefly stated as the effect of business failures upon a man’s future stand- ing. Upon this question, as upon all others, Mr. King discourses as gloomily and hope- lesly as itis possible todo. Before replying to his jeremiad, we will try and sketch the substance of it, Hefindsthata man who fails in business is afterward surprised when others refuse to trust him, and that he wonders that men who formerly wereso anx- ious to sell him goods now fight shy of him and demand ready money, where formerly his word was good. He has been advised by. friends that bankruptcyis a light matter, and that he can fail and prosper; butin reality he finds that he is still the old. debter; that he ltas lost moral power; and that he no longer holds position in church, society, or business. Arguing from such a premise as this, the writerjsays: oo.) Ihave heard it asserted that the most succese- ful business men hive fuiled at one period in thair career; but that is not true. Alen who fail, almost without an exception, in the end go down. Men wh hold success to the end of lite are men who have never failed; men. who haye never compromised or made settlement with their creditors. They are the men who have puid one hundred cents to the dollar all through their lives; their word haus neyer beeu broken; their promises have always becn kept. ‘I'he man who has failed can never feel full man- ood again. He feels that a virtue has gone out. of him.” It makes him timid or reckteas, accord- ing to the disposition of the man. Failure Brtkes unrelenting, unforgiving enemies. This is sufficiently gloomy, but he con- tinues in. the same hopeless, despairing strain. The bankrupt finds that “he is smit- ten with financial leprosy,” for no one will trust him; his word is treated as a thing of naught; and he is shunned by every onc. Speaking of spending money, he says: Some men think it 1s to their credit that they spend money, as they call it. And what is tho menning of that expression? Do they mean that the money has been used in good works? that they have fed the poor, or that even they hive used it tor their own good or that of their families? No. They menn that they have spent itin low riots, in debasing self-indulgence: iu corrupting themselves and others. It has gone to the tavern, and not to the home or to. the church. This istospend money. Isay men are angry when they lose their money. And tho debtor feels that they ure; and he knows they have cause for anger, for he takes his ready eush after be bas falicd not to the men who bave lost by him, but to strangers to his former dealings. After such gloomy views of business life asthe above, and many others which might be quoted, he ‘closes his mournful screed with the following advice, which is very good for those who can follow it:- If you wish men to respect you, pay them. If you Wish men to Jove you, pay them; for no man whom you owe, and cannot pay, will love you. I cannot too strongly urge upon the young man who happens to_read this paragraph the necos- sity of keeping bis name free from the stain of debt,—from the stain of .broken promises. And be careful bow you associute it with oldernumes. The older man may be water-logged, although he manages to keep atlont; but be will drag” down sour fresh name. Let your name mean just what it imports—that of a free man: When your word is once broken, your nume is no longer free. The trouble with the ‘“Egotist’s*? state- ments is. that they are too sweeping. Like many another weeping philosopher, like the whole race of pessimists in fact, he closes his eyes to everything that is cheerful and hopeful, and is determined to see only what is cheerless and .hopeless, which is the easiest thing in the world todo. He pro- ceeds upon the assumption that all failures are dishonorable, which would unquestion- ably be true if all misfortunes were crimes. There is a line which creditors always draw in case of failures, and it is the line which runs between honesty and dishonesty. To say that all creditors. ostracise and isolate all debtors from future trust or regard them as financial lepers is a statement that at least is very wide of the mark, and shows only superficial knowledge of business practices, If aman’s transactions have been honest; if he has made no misrepresentation of his condition; if’ he ‘has not. obtained goods from his creditors upon false pretenses; if he has not concealed his busi- .| ness status; if his habitshave been good and his living prudent and economical; creditors are always lenient with him. If he can show that his failure was not due to carelesness, dissipation, or wanton misuse and waste of money, but was inevitable, growing out of panic, or fire, or failure of others, they would not only be very hard-hearted but very fool- ish creditors who would not grant extension, or help establish new eredit, and thus assist in setting the debtor on his feet agaim, Such a debtor, assuming him to be an honest, con- scientious man, after having made composi- tion at 50 or 75 cents on the dollar and recoy- ered his financial standing, will go back to his creditors. and pay up the remainder. There have been numerous bright examples of this honorable style of conduct, which of themselves alone refute the sweeping whole- sale charges of the ‘Egotist:” There are cases on the’ other hand which ure, and unfortunately such cases are so nu- merous that those we have been citing are only the excoptions, unless it be in a time of panic when one large failure may topple down smaller concerns which may havebeen perfectly honestin management. If a man has managed his business in an imprudent, reckless, and extravagant manner; if he has been a drunkard or a gambler; if he has squandered money in fast Ilving; if his fami- ly have been extravagant; if they have been running expensive equipages, flinging away money at watering-places and in making for- eign tours; if he has been giving out the impression that he is mak- ing money when in reality he is spending other people’s money,—then his creditors have reason to be exasperated with him. He should never be allowed. credit again. He is not worthy of trust, and if he is shunned as a financial leper he has no one but nimself to blame.. The whole question turns upon the exercise of prudence, hon- esty, and economy. If these qualities have characterized a business-man, he can recover himself, and in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred des recover; if they have not, he ought not to recover. But when 2 failure is honest, and arises from unforeseen and una- voidable contingencies, every successful man knows how dangerous and hard-hearted it would be not to extend sympathy and assist- ance. The trouble with the “Egotist” is overstatement. Te paints his whole picture black, but only represents one side of the case, ASTRONOMICAL. Chicago (Trrpunz oftice), north latitude 41 deg. 52m. b7a.; west longitude, 42m. 18. from Wash- ington, and Sh. 50m. 80s. from Greenwich. The subjoined table shows the time of setting and rising of the moon’s lower limb, and the of- ticial. time for lighting the first street-lamp in each circuit in this city, during the coming week, unless ordered sooner on account of bad weather. Also the following times for extinguishing the first lamp: Light. Extinguish. ‘Day. July 15, 11:45 p.m. 2:50 a. ma. Monday ... ‘Muesday. Wednesd: 8:00 p.m. _9:55 p.m. 8:00 p.m. 10:20 p. m. ‘The moon willbe in perigee about 6 o'clock Tuesday morning; and at the full Wednesday at 3:12p.m. This full moon will therefore be much brighter than the average, though not more s0 than some that havé preceded it this year. The sun’s upper limb will rise on Monday at 44114 a. m., south at 6m. 0433. p. m., and set at 73004 p.m. ‘The sun's upper limb rises Friday next at 4:45 a. m., Souths at 6m. 12.98. p. m., and sets at 7:20 p.m. te Thesidereal time Thursday mean noon will be 8h. 03m. 24.903. + 2 Mercury is now east from the sun, following him in his daily round. Next Thursday the Planct will south at 1:2 p.m. Venus was-in superior conjunction with the sun last Tucsday evening, and is now passing slowly towards the position of an evening star. Next Thursday she will south at 0:17 p. m., or only about 11 minutes after the sun. Mars is now a faint object in the evening sky, . and rapidly nearing the sun. Thursday he will south at2:11 p.m.,andset at9:03p. m. He is near- ing conjunction with Uranus, but when that event occurs both will be too near the sun to be of much interest. Jupiter will rise next Wednesday at 10:40 p.m., and south Thursday at 5:10 a.m. He is now a bright morning star. His big spot will be visible before sunrise this morning; also the mornings of Wednesday, Friday, and next Sunday. Fri- day at 0:33 a. m. his tirst satellite will disappear behind the body of the planet; at 1:20 a.m. the third satellite*will reappear ufter occultution; and at 4:07 u. m. the first satellite will reappear after occultation. Saturday at 1:27 a. m. the tirst satellite will omerge from a transit of the planet. 2 “ Saturais a bright morning" star, only 9% de- grees below Jupiter, and the distunce between the two is slowly decreasing. They will be to- gether and in conjunction with the sun the 2a and 23d of next April. Wedneaday next Saturn will rise at 11:09 p. m., and will south Thursday nt5:48a.m. The apparent ratio of the diameters of his ring system is still nearly 1 to 4. Uranus will south Thursday at 2:32 p. m. and setat 9:15 p.m. Neptune willsouth Thursday at 6x6 a.m. : The motion of the companion to Sirlus, dis- covered in January, 1862, with the object glas3 of the Dearborn equatorial, hrs been a perplex- ing thing. Several orbits” have been calcu- lated, none of which have satisfled the observa- tions mude subsequently. An investigation of the problem bs just been completeé by the recent chief of the Dearborn Observatory, and he finds the following as the leading facts of position: The reul orbit forms an angle of 57.1 degrees with the’plane of the apparent orbit; the posi- tion of the line of intersection being 42.4 degrees from the north point, reckoned towards the east. The companion will be on this line in June, 1862. The companion was at its greatest distance (Apastron) from Sirius in January, 1867, and will be at its least actual ‘distance in August or September, 1891, the period being 49.6 years. ‘The greatest apparent distance wus 11.4 seconds, in 1874; the least apparent distance, 2.2 seconds, will be in the year 1800. The semi-axis major of the real orbit is 8.41 seconds, and of the ap- parent do, 7.63 seconds. Tho eccentricity of the reaLorbit is 0.53. Wivh the most recently ac- cepted distance of Sirius from the sun,—1,009,- 060 earth distances,—the semi-axis mujor of the orbit is 43.6 of those distances, or about 4,050,~ 000,000 miles. From this it results that the.“ quantity of matter in Sirius and his companion is 33.6 times that contained in the sun. VX Tue Vienna Fremdenblait gives some sta- tistical data about the territorial acces- sion given to Grecce, by the Conference of the European Powers. TheGreek Memorandum asked in Epirus for the sandjak of Prevesa and a portion of the sandjak of Argyrocastro, together with 107,160 inhabitants, of whom 87,- 600 are Greeks, 18,810 Mahometans, and 70 Jows; also the sundjak of Janina, with 182,200 inbabitants, of whom 144,000 belong to the Greek, 35,200 to the Mahometan, and 3,000 to the Mosuic religion. That would be an acces- sion in Epirus of 239,360 inbabitants. Accord- ing to the .Anglo-French proposal, a portion ot the district of Vurenda, with 15,000 in- habitants; a portion of the district of Zugori, with 16,000 inhabitants; the. dis- trict of Philates, with -44,500 inhabitants; and the district of Pogoniani, with 20,000 inbab- itants,—in all 05,500 inhabitants,—were struck off. In Thessaly, Greece, according to the linc of M. Braflas, would have had ou accession of 0,000 inhabitants, of whom 253,000 belong to the Greek, and 42,000 to the* Mahometan re- ligion. From this the district of Kaberina, with 19,000 inhabitants, has been struck off. Accord- ing to the Greek line, Greece would thus have hud an accession in all of 614,305. inhabitants, Dora d'Istria has not read and commented unre She has lived fcr some years inher own ri] : Florence, surrounded by a magnificent gorges which she cultivates hersolf, entertaintnys 7, charming hospitality all who are attracted to ke, a home, and writing more and better every bade She has always been interested in “Amerie, sor the Americans, especially in thelr’ shut” gies for equal rights, 4 rote porter called on Dora d'istria ar T. Windsor Hotel in New York. She. Se herself as surprised and delighted with ‘What the.’ had seen of the New World. Her intentio; is. goto Hartford for a few days and ure Boston and vicinity, remaining two month 4 will return to Europe in October, and will ly bo West at all. She snid she would like to ss, Edigon, and Bliss Sanborn, who had delisereas lecture about her. She thought it was ve at) fair that any of the Albanian territory be given to Greece or Montenegro, and st be..- lleved the Albanians, who were brave, though with no one to help them, would resist ADy en. eroachinents, * Shall you write something of your visit to America on your return howe she was asked. “Yes, ob, yes, I shall writs g book of my ‘ impressions.” Lam sure, too, iff could write as I feel now I could write a thing very nice. I have been so mucl to begin with." * Pleased. a Some of the letters of regret read at the Irish Ropublican Convention in Indlinapoijyt were pithy and instructive. William H. Looney, * of Portland, Se., wrot eel) As descendants of a race which for oer s centuries hus thundered aguinst oppression * must be members of that party which in tons way will in the neur future restore the helt million disfranchised citizens to the right of suffrage. 78 J. A. Nolan, of Boston, wrote: 1am pleased to learn,that my count breaking away from the corrupt old. Dano ‘ hull. have recently talked with a number of Catholic clergymen in Ohio and Indiana, whe nave said tome that the interestsof Irish-Amert. cans lie with the Republican party. [Tho namey of a number of these clergymen were given, but not read to the Convention, the y stating that it would not be praper to give the names, 23 these gentlemen were not connected with politics.) Irishmen are awakening, and the Democracy can’t any longer depend upon count. ing Irish noses to see how many votes they arg. sure of. : Patrick O'Farrell, of Hartford, wrote: ‘The great abolitionist. Daniet O'Connell, sug “ingratitude was the worst of crimes," and { have no hesitation in saying our people are. guilty of ingratitude in not recogni: beneiits they have received, during the last el. ° teen yeurs, from the legislation of the Republic: * an purty. St was that party that gave ug the, Homestead law, by. which’ thousands of our countrymen now hold title-deeds to comfortanfe* homes and bounteous farms in the Great West. The Republican party we may thank for the, expatriution laws, whereby we can claim r receive protection should we visit our native land. Wera it not for the Republican party the prophecy of the London Times, “The rent fe, public is no more,” would have been verified,’ and the Potomac would have become a second’ Ahine, with a blue watch on one side and a gray : on the other. ; oe SaMveEL J. TILDEN made a most beaittifat’ and touchjng speech to Stevenson, the Bourbon! ~ statesman of Kentucky, in response to the feel-’” ing allusion of the latter to “the declination of the Gramercy Park candidate.. The Albany : Journal js unkind enough to parody the ‘speech / in this double-barreled way: Gov. Stevenson andj Mr. Grapevine aad, gentlemen: I thank you'branches: I thank son.’ for the kind terms in; for the kind ‘mannerin’ which you expressed | which you have regan- the communication you ed my claims for grapes ; make tome. The reso-|The rezolution viet janen wnick ettablos you peed oe Hien of = the Demoeratic party to!passing me the grapes, * vindicate . effectively Pcannor but Terres, the right of the people;much more nutritious - to choose their Chiefjthan the fruit of the’ Magistrate — a right/vine. That regojution;” violated in 1876, and utjwhich vindicates your. the same time relieves/determination to have, me from the burden of|your grapes grow too; 2 cunvass and fourjhigh for me to spack: years of ndmintstration!them, and relicres me. ig most agreuable to/from the burden of” me, My sincere ‘jumping wildly for fruit: wishes and cordia' ¢o-jwhich, considering that operation as x private!I am sure they are sour, citizen will attend thelI'could never cat » great soldier whom the|is most agreeable tome} Democracy have chosen My sincere rood wishasy as their standard -'and cordint codperation. bearer in tho Presi-{as.a fox with an unap dentiul canvass. icon-|peased appetite will st: gratulate you on thejtend the animal wie: while now it will have an accession of 499,865 in- habitants. As regards the extent of territory, according to the Greek proposal there would have been an accession of 14,000 square miles, while, uccording to the line accepted, there is an accession of 10,000 square miles. © _ $< Dona d’Istra is in America. She is the Princess Helen Ghika, born at Bucharest in 1829. Her life-story fs thus told: From her earliest youth she wes brought up on “strong studies,” and recelved an exceptional education, learning, beaides her mother tongue, Latin, Greek, Ger- man, Englisb, French, Itulian, and Russian. Ste 300n acquired a reputation for learning equal to the renown for her beauty. In 18!1 her father, who had been Prime Mintster, gave up his posi- tion, and for eight years traveled with his deughter, her education going on all the time. When she was only 15 she translated % part of ‘the Ilad: into German and wrote several plays. In 1819 she married a Rueslan Prince, Alexander Koltzoff Massalsky- The marriage was not a bappy one. She lived six years at the Courtof Russia, but the atmos- phere was oppressive. She was obliged to leave Russia, and lived for a few years in Switzerland. She then removed to Florence, where she has lived ever since. She has been hard student and a correspondent of learned societies in all parts of the world. The nom de plume, Dora d’Is- tria, means “Dora of the Ister,” or Danube. She has been made honorary member of most of the important. societies of the world—archwo- ' the Freeport (Fifth) District, says be ‘back to Congress, if the people want favorable ‘pros pects{/has been awarded the’ with which that canvass! particular cluster! has been ‘commenced|srapes that I nad :aety and the promise it af-|my eyes on and wal fords of complete andjmy moath at. I cop-** final success. . (Slgned)|gratulate you and bint Samven J. TILDEN. [trusting that the ¢r-y treme acidity of ‘the, grapes will not resultin’ giving him a superd: stomachache. (Signe REYNARD THE Fox. ———— Pay ‘Tre Hon. E. A. Ferguson, of Cincinnalf,; who bas announced his intention to vote. fet; Garfieldand Arthur in the approaching electioa,: is a lawyer of very bigh standing. His posltioa : in Ohio is similar to that of William M.Erart in New York. As a lawyer he maintained,in’ opposition to the almost universal opinion of - the Bench and Bar of Ohio, the constitutions! a power of the City of Cincinnati to construct ths Cincinnati Southern Rairond, and defended bis" opinion in a seyere contest with the ablest law- yers of the West from court td court, until ft; ‘was fully sustained in each tribunal, ending with ; the Supreme Court. The Beston Advertiar sys. of Ferguson’s conversion: : pa : ‘The declaration of a life-long member of sac ability that the Detnvcratic party virtually dis") banded at the Cincinnati Convention, and. that. he will support Gartleld and Arthur, indicates, not alone a strong probability of the elect these candidates, but also the tendency o | thoughtful men to regard their election a4 ne essary to put an end at once and forever. to G8 , hope of governing the United. States by the ust i of a united Southern vote. i a SuRGEON-GENERAT. Cunxtvomast, | who had great experience among the starving Hia-" doos in the Madras famine. has studied “the eifects of starvation upon both plants and ant mals as well as human beings, and tracescom- plete similarity In all three cases. Tne process was found to be accompanied by fatty degea: - eration of the tissues. ‘This dezenerntion ia the cuse of animals and men is most noticeable in - the cells lining the digestive canal. In the suf ficlently starved man these ceils, upon Wble® , depend the assimilation of nutriment, are com: pletely swept away, and thereafter the tdking of ; food is but 2 source of Irritation instead of life-« giving nourishment. Frequently. the people who sought succor in the relief catape of India found it only in a quicker deliverance | from life. With no actal disoase apparent they speedily succumbed to the famine didrrbes | with any augmentation of dict, no matter bt cautiously the change was made. . Tne St. Louis Globe-Democrat saya, that “ One shake of the grand old bloody shirt.wil bring more votes to the Repulican party than al, that can be said for Civil-Service reform, from i now till doomsday.” The Globe boomed bi Gen. Grant and a,bloody-sbirt campaign; bat mm General sat down on the “shirt.” Hesaldind his Bloomington speech a few weeks ago: a Hi I bave been gratified with my receptios 1: the recently rebellious States. 1 f on Philadelphit to Flurida on mg way to Hart and on my return cume via ‘Texas from Meri? thus passing through all the rebellious State | and it will be agreeable to all to know ay hospitality was tendered me at ory ait! ibrough which I passed, and accepted in be all of them by me. The same decorations Pid i geen in every State that are seen here to" ad The Union flag tlouted over us eve! eran is! the eyesof the people are xs fumiliar intee= colors 23 yours, and look upon it as , * ing to all the rights and privileges of & free Pe + ple, without rezard to ruce, color, or Pre ous. condition of servitude. a << Mas. TLawx, member of Congress Soa! ; is sore: and he has met with no opposition thus tar iS fa Freeport Journal says; “So far as we have’ ? able to ascertain by careful inquiry amone® : Repubitcans of the county, and from every RE tion of it, there is no opposition in Stephene County to the renomination of Maj. Hawk: “0: has made an admirable record and bear ",, deserves the indorsement of a renominst ein ‘Maj. Hawk's home county is Carroll, snd it and Stephenson to start’ with, he is Mell ':: distance all competitors. BEER-DRINKING by harvesters iS the’ sub- Ject of a grave discussion in the London Pal < The practice isn't favorably tee fr Philip Rose bas written and printed & le judi Mr. Abbey. of Oxford, in which he say$ Fy resolved some six years ago to stop bear diet t ing among his harvesters when they fou! work. He did so, it appeurs, because. te Oat that accidents happened sometimes, eres the men got sullon and stupid, “the boys, and rough with the horses,” and the i cited. Sir Philip substituted cold ter. ant result was most encouraging. He bas ba