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MEW YOKK. TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 1878.
Thk IIf.kald will be sent lo the address of
persons going into the country during the summer
at the rate of one dollar per month, postage paid.
The probabilitus are that the weather in Hew
York and its vicinity to-day will be loarm and
?partly clwuly or fair, probably with showers, fol
io wet I tmcard night by an increasing cloudiness
and threatening indications. To-morrow it will be
partly cloudy or cloudy, with rains.
Wall Street Yesterday.?The stock mar
ket was l'airly active anil weak. Gold was
steady at 10034. Government bonds woro
slightly weak, States dull and railroads irregu
lar. Money on call lent at 2 a 3 per cent, clos
ing at -Lj a 3 per cent.
The Lies Saving Service 13ill is one of the
few really meritorious measures of the session.
St. Louis' Great Strike seems to have been
iudeliuitely postponed. Was the story au ad
vertisement to spite Chicago I
Business Men Will Be Interested iu a de
cision iu one of the courts yesterday. It is held
that a composition with creditors in bankruptcy
burs debts even if fraudulently contracted.
Tiie PnorosmoN to convert the Fort Gouse
voort property into a market lias the strong
point in its favor that it would bring far uiorc
revenue to the city iu that way than as a street
railroad depot.
So Many of the bishops of the Episcopal
Church arc absent iu Europe that it has been
determined to postpone the meeting of tho
House ol Bishops until August. Bishop McCos
kry's successor will then be appointed.
Some Imtohtant Bekoums ureetfectcd iu tho
new Army bill by which at least upward of three
quarters of a million dollurs will be saved to the
Treasury. They iclate chietiy to the counuuta
J|>u ullowed officers for fuel, horses and quar
ters.
A Sowhue Tint is thrown uui'oss the fashion
able life ot Newport by the Society of Friends,
who are holding their annual council in that
city. The meetings are very large and uu un
usual interest seems to bo token in the proceed
ings of the Society.
The AivotNTMKNT by the House of Itepresen
tatives ol a select committee to consider tho
labor question this summer shows the keen in
terest of (.'engross in the welfare of the workiug
niau. Business will revive as soon us that com
mittee gels to work.
Gexrual Martin EE-Cam i-om lias become tho
Governor General of Cuba, and his predecessor,
General Jovcllur, sails for iSpuin to-day. The
public festivities iu celebration of 1 he return of
pence came to a close yesterday with a bull light
in what is described as tlui "ancient style."
While T ilEKK docs not sceiu to be any rcu
joii lor suspecting that the Communists or
other lawless el asses of our population contem
plate the robbery of the armories, the precau
tions tliat have been taken for their protection
arc exceedingly proper. The 1'uet that they are
properly guarded may keep some oraxy people
out ol tciuptatiou and save their necks.
Ex-Sec liter amy Bomcmox's nduiiuistrutiou of
tbe Navy Deportment has boeti severely con
demned by the democratic members of the Naval
Committee. They recommend that legal pro
ceedings bo tuk< 11 against him und the late chiefs
of tho bureaus of Steam Engineering. Construc
tion ami Provisions ntid Clothing. A trial will
show exactly what foundation there is for the
charges.
lim I>>i hhaha question very unexpectedly
came to the lront iu th<! Sciiutc \twterduy U|k>u
an allien (latent to one of tho appropriation bills to
insert five thousand dollars lor the payment of
the expense* of the Louisiana Commission Mr.
lilaiiio and Mr. Coukiiug bitterly opposed the
proposition, and it wan defeated. '1 he iucident
w significant ia show ing that two of the prin
cipal leader* of the republican party seem to
be ot tlio opinion that the houthem question 1*
not dead and that it will bo bcurd of iu tho fall
campaign.
TlIB Whaiiiku.?The area of low pressure
which dominated the weather in the 1'eutrul and
Middle AUautio districts during the past few
day* ia moving through the St. Lawrence Val
ley toward Nova Scotia. It is attended by light
ruins and brisk winds. Another very large di
pression is advancing tixini tbo Southwest and al
ready extends its iiiliuenoe from New Mexico to
the Ohio Valley and from Dakota to thetlulf. The
pressure is highest over tho northern hike
region and tho Northwest. It is also high in
the South Atlantic coast districts. Light rains
have been general on tho Atlantic const, north
of Virginia, find in the Western ftnlf States. In
the Mississippi and Missouri valleys tliey have
been unusually heavy, particularly in Tennessee
and Kentucky. The temperature has risen in
tbo West and Northwest, has fallen ill the lake
region and has varied very little in the Middle
Atlantic States, 'i lie winds tire generally brisk on
the New Knghtnd coast, the lake region and tho
Norlhwest; elsewhere they arc light. 'J lie
weather in New York and its vicinity today will
be warm, partly cloudy or lair, probably with
ihow < rs, followed toward night by increasing
cloudiness and threatening indication*. To-mor
row it will be partly cloudy or cloudy, with rains, j
Tk? Sea?lou?If? Bud Effect on ??*>?
neas.
The long session of Congress, which is to
close to-day, has operated as a continuous
evil on the business interests of the coun
try. Except for the fact that the passage of
the annual appropriation bills is necessary
to keep the government in action the coun
try would be considerably better off to-day
if this session had been dispensed with.
We do not deny that a few excellent bills
havo been passed, of which the one hold
ing the Pacific railroads to their obligations
is the most creditable, Nor do we
deny that several mischievous proj
ects have been defeated, like the sub
sidy bills; but the defeat of those
simply leaves things as they were, which,
so fur as these bills aro concerned, would
Lave been the precise effect of holding no
session at all. Hut the same remark docs
not quite apply to all bills which fail to
pass, because in many cases their proposal
and discussion put the public mind into a
state of uncertainty while the bills were
pending, and by such of them as touched
business interests a great deal of harm has
been done by taking away every possibility
of forecasting the future.
Now, it has bo happened that a largo
proportion of the thiugs which have
been proposed and agitatod, * but not
accomplished, during this protracted and
tedious session have been precisely of
the unsettling character which precludes
the possibility of rational business calcu
lations. It is the unanimous testimony of
our merchants, forwarders and bankers that
after the assembling of Congress in October
lust business did not fulfil tho promise of
tbo early autumn, and that a depressing in
fluence has weighed upon it ever since. It
is not difficult to explain tho benumbing in
fluence of Congress upon the business of
the country. This can be made plainer by
selecting particular instances than by any
general stateinont. Tho internal revenue
has largely fallen off for several months,
and the reason is intclligiblo enough to
those who consider the effect of threatened
changes in the Excise laws. Tho
main sources of the internal revenue are tho
tax on tobacco and the tax on whiskey. In
ordinary circumstances a considerable dim
inution in this branch of revenue would
indicate diminished consumption of whiskey
and tobacco. The consumption is probably
as great as it was before Congress met, but
the proposed lowering of the taxes on these
articles has caused owners to withhold their
goods in the hope of profiting by tho ex
pected reduction. Tlio stagnation of trade
in these articles is a natural consequence of
the hopes raised by Congress that whiskey
and tobacco could be put upon the market
at less expense than under the existing
laws. A similar expectation hits caused
a shrinkage in the revenue from customs.
Mr. Wood's Tariff bill, the general effect
of which would have been a reduction of
duties, kept tho importing merchants in
suspense during the greater part of tho ses
sion, and caused them to take tho smallest
amount of goods out of tho bonded ware
houses that would supply immediate pur
chasers. A reduction of duties would have
inado cheaper goods, and business is always
done on a limited scale in what is called
a falling market. Nobody buys lnrgely
whon there is a prospect, or even a chance,
that prices will soon be lower. Both cus
tomers and merchants who supply the cus
tomers prefer to wait when there is a hope
or a chance of buying to better advantage.
Dealers in whiskey, dealers in tobacco, deal
ers in imported goods have preferred to
wait and see whether Congress would not
enable them to muko cheaper purchases.
So long as bills wore pending for roducing
the taxes on tobacco, whiskdy and imported
goods business was kept at a stand except
for tho supply of immediate wants, becauso
no man wishes to purchaso to-day tho goods
which ho may soon have a chance of buying
at low cr prices. This Congress has inflicted
a great iujury upon trade l?y exciting expec
tations which have not been realized, or
rather by raising doubts which baffled
business calculations und kept trade at a
stand.
It makes a great difference whether Con
gress proposes to raise or to lower excises
and imposts. An expectation that they will
be raised is a great stimulus to trade. If
whiskey and tobacco were to bo moro
highly taxed the owners ol such property
would he eager to pay tho existing tax and
evado the expected higher rates. When
the duties on imported goods are likely to
be raised every importer will m.iko haste to
take his goods out of bond and pay the
duties buforo they are enhanced. When
ev? r Congress seems to be moving in tho
direction of u higher excise and higher
duties business is stimulated and tho
revenues increased by tho desire of tho
business community to take advantage of
tho existing rates before they tiro raised,
liut whenever tho tendency is tho oilier
way, whenever there is an ngitation in Con
gress for putting down tho rates of taxation
instead of putting them up, trade inevit
ably stagnates until the question is decided,
'i his l.as been the untortunnte experience
of tho country during the long session
which is to close to-day. llnnincss has
stagnated in consequence) of expositions
which Congress ruiscd but did not sat
isfy.
Tho Wood TarifT bill was n mistake, not
because the cliunges it proposed worn un
desirable, but buoatUMchanges of that kind
should not bo proposed w ithout a reason
able chance of success. A new tariff bill
necessarily disturbs business while it is
ponding, and ought never to be introduced
unless there is good reason to expect its
prompt passage, A man who proposes such
measures should be reasonably certain of
carrying them without much delay, becanso
no statesman hui any right to derange tho
Settled course ot business by merely tenta
tive efforts. Mr. Wood's attempt to recon
struct tho tariff wasun error when ho had no
reosounblo clmrice of carrying tho reform
within a short period after lio proposed it.
This is a kind of legislation in which it w ill
not do to miscalculate. It should either bo
left nlono or taken up with a full assurance
of prompt success. The most important
thing for the business classes is ability to
mukn calculations for the f uttiru; and when
ever changes arc proposed which cannot be
carried trade is kept at a stand by injurious
uncertainty.
Mr. Wood's Tariff bill is proved to have
been u miscalculation by his inability to
carry it. It checked foreign trade lor five
or six months in the expectation of lower
duties, and then fell fiat under an adverse
vote of the House. It is one of the things
which should never have been attempted
without a reasonable nssurance of success.
It was mistimed, becnuse there was already
a necessary element of uncertainty which
affected general business. Wo refer to
tho currency question, which did not
admit of postponement. The time fixed
by law for resumption is so near
that this subject could not be evaded, and
when this great element of uncertainty
could not be escaped it was an error to per
plex the business community by introduc
ing another disturbing question. It would
have been wiser to settle the currency at
this session and postpone changes in the
tariff and tho internal revenue laws until
alter the resumption of specie payments.
One element of distraction and uncertainty
is enough at one time. Attempts at tariff
reform and internal revenue reform
should have been postponed until after re
sumption, the other great clement of busi
ness uncertainty, bad beeu securely at
tained. The tariff reformers and internal
revenue reformers should be convinced by
thoir utter failure that their efforts were pre
mature. If they had had the prudence to
postpone these questions they would have
saved themselves from a great deal of morti
fication and misdirected effort, and the
country from a needless disturbance of
business calculations.
Filthy Streets unci the Public Health.
Our contemporary, the Times, has taken
tho pains to make a careful survey of the
streets, and finds them to be in a most filthy
condition. Its description of one quarter
of the city is, it declares, a fair specimen of
tho whole after leaving "tho middle lino of
tho island," with tho exception of a few
streets, such as Fourteenth, Twenty-third,
Thirty-fourth and some others, up as high
as Fifty-ninth street "Series of irregular
basins of filth" are found, owing to the bad
condition of most of tho pavements, "while
the gutter troughs, from the luck of the
proper inclination, lail to carry off the water
that collects jp thorn. At all points the
interstices betwoen the cobble stones are
packed with garbage to the extent of at
least a cubic fyot to the square yard. This
estimate, with from six to eight stagnant
pools to the block, to say nothing of old
boots, cabbage leaves, fermenting heaps of
vegetable refuso and overturned garbage
barrels, may be considered as fairly stating
the condition of the streets yesterday (Sun
day), although no rain had fallen for about
forty-eight hours. In the gutters the solu
tion of filth had already turned green and
sliuiy." As the Times is politically friendly
to the Police Commission its description is
not likoly to be exaggerated.
If the city is to bo spared a pestilence
this year no thanks will be due to the street
cleuning authorities. When the legislative
session commenced and the people de
manded that the streets should bo cleaned
for tho largo amount of money expended for
that purpose tho bureau mado a spasmodic
pretenop of activity. Meetings of the Police
lioard were held, at which "systems" wore
discussed and the larco of inviting bids for
doing tho work by contract was enacted.
No sensible person doubted that all this
seeming activity was a mere sham, designed
to prevent any trausfor of the street clean
ing businoss to other hands. The Legisla
ture was urged to pass tho bill submitted
by the Council of Municipal Reform, but
neglected to do so, and, as was predicted,
the close of the session is the signal for a
return to the shameful neglect for which the
present Street ('loaning Bureau has bcconio
notorious. Notwithstanding the present
disgraceful and dangerous condition of tho
streets, the fall amount of the large appro
priation for tho month of May has been
drawn out ot the city treasury and squan
dered by the department.
We arc likoly to have a hot summer, and
filthy streets and rotting garbage are peril
ous to tho public health. We can hope for
no protection from tho street cleaning au
thorities. Indeed, they are an evil rather
than a benefit. In somo of tho uptown
streets, such as Sixtieth street, the resi
dents, besides paying their tuxes, hire a
private contractor at a charge of ten dollars
a year for each house, to clean tho street.
But when tho employes of tho department
guthor the ashes and garbage they dump
them so carelessly as to scatter them over
the road and spoil tho contractor's labors.
On such ptrcets tho city sweepers are never
seen. Now, what aro tho citizens going to
do about it? There is evidently only ono
way toe cape lrom the evils of filthy streets,
misappropriated public moneys and threat
ened pestilence. It lies through the Grand
Jury i-o>m into tho criminal courts,
bel'oro which tho law defying Aldermen and
tho incapable Board of llculth have been
culled upon to plead to indictments.
Tile Ken son In 1'itrii.
Our Boris letter tells pleasantly the story
of a duy's enjoyment at a private raco
course on the Heights of St. Cloud. Beyond
the sea thoy nre fertile in happy inventions
lor social delight, and though they may bo
inventions not highly appreciated by a
democratic public because of tho fea
tuio of oxclusivoncss, that is certainly
tho point of departure for such assem
blies a; that of La Marclie. But every
body is exclusive in some degree even in
democratic cotintrios, and if ladies chooso
to give n party in a garden as they
do i;i London, or gontlcim n chooso
to have tin ir social day 011 a race
course rather than in a house?tho only
observation that may bo justly made is that
it is a sign of growing love of nature and
good tasto that people should thus delight
to bo sociable in the open air and on tho
green lawns, rather than to condemn them
selves forever to tho discomfort of blazing
salons. The garden party is a beautiful in
stitution, in the cultivation of which our
Knglish cousins aro fur ahead of lis, and
this delightfully recorded "private day" at
a racing party points to tho further pos
sibility of tho same use of tho greenwood
shade as to which people hero have much
to learn.
The Peacemaker*.
No important subject was determined at
the Berlin Congress yesterday, iuul the
point considered?the admission of minor
.States?is only of relative consequence.
Greece's admission, though it would be
satisfactory to England, cannot be especially
desired by nnv other Power, while all evi
dently perceive that an unpleasant impres
sion must follow from it, as an indication
of a spirit inimical to Turkey. It has
| been threatened?and tho threat is
not altogether a wild one ?that if tho Gre
cian provinces are taken from tho Turkish
Empire the Turks will abandon the Con
gress and claim from ltussia the enforce
ment of the Treaty of San Stefano. Europe,
of course, proceeds in the Congress nomi
nally for its own interest and hot with
regard to the wishes of Turkey; but such an
act would create a peculiar situation and
one that England cannot desiro to
force. '1 he report of most significance
in the news is that Earl Beaconstield
will propose the Duke of Edinburgh as a
candidate for the throne of the new Bulgarian
State. It is hintod in otir despatches that
the Bussian government will probably not
bo disposed to accept this nomination, al
though tho Duke of Edinburgh, son of
Queen Victoria, i:s also the son-in-law of tho
Czar. As tho whole scheme is in mOiibus
there are, of co. rse, no certainties in con
nection with it, and that ltussia will refuse
the project can as yet scarcely be more than
a guess. But if she does refuse she will be
exceedingly unwise. If she can placate Brit
ish opposition by a strictly sentimental con
cession she must have lost all political
instinct not to do it. Earl Beaconstield may
not contemplate the act with which ho is
credited, but this candidature is of a piece
with his political conceptions generally.
Should tho Duke rcceivo tho throne it will
bo contemplated in the Congress as an
advantage to England that must be weighed
against an equivalent on the other side; but it
needs no prophetic vision to see how utterly
worthless to Englund this nominal "advan
tage" would be?liow hollow a mockery
it must prove to give away any part of her
claim in these negotiations in consideration
of a stage throne and a theatrical crown
for one of the Qnoen's sons. How has tho
Boumaniau throne been of advantage to
Germany, or that of Greece to either Bava
ria or Denmark? In just the same propor
tion will the Bulgarian throne benefit tho
cause of England in the East. By accepting
this candidature ltussia would seem to yield
a point to England, yet would have in Bul
garia all the inlluenco that she can have in
any circumstances. As there is a proposi
tion to send one of Victoria's sons to Can
ada as Governor General these princes seem
in a fair way to learn, with more or less dif
ficulty, the important art of government.
Tile Silver Conference*
Tho interview with Mr. Noyes, our Min
ister to Franco, which wo printed yesterday,
gives reason to hope that England, as well
as all tho nations composing the Latin
Union, together with Hungary aud Sweden,
will bo represented at the International
Silver Conference, which is to be held in
Paris. Germany is the only nation to which
tho invitation of the United States has
been tendered that has replied by a positive
refusal. Germany could hardly liuvo done
otherwise, considering how recent is her
groat experiment of demonetizing silver
and substituting gold as the exclusive stand
ard of her money. The government of
England is more liberal and tolerant.
There is some reason to hope thut England
will bo represented in the Conference.
Tho reason assigned for her hesitation is
devoid of weight. It is said that she is
willing to send representatives on tho un
derstanding thut she will not bo .bound by
tho decision of tho Conference. It is im
possible that the liritish government should
have made such a statement. It is not tho
purpose of tho Conference to negotiate a
treaty. Nothing which it may agree upon
will bo binding on the nations represented
without their subsequent action. Tho
idea that its recommendations will have
any binding force is ridiculous. Even if
the representatives of the several nutious
wore plenipotentiaries (which they ure not)
empowered to negotiate a treaty, such n
treaty could not be binding on tho United
States, at least, without confirmation by the
Senate. It may be questioned whether
such a treaty eonld be entered
into by the United States. Oar con
stitution confers upon Coiigross the power
?'to coin money and regulate the value
thereof," and not oven tho treaty-making
power can divest Congress of this preroga
tive. If the Silver Conference comos to an
agreement ?us it is earnestly to be hoped
that it will?the only mode of putting tho
agreement in force, so iar, at least, as tho
United Stales aro concerned, is by
legislation establishing tho ratio agreed
on between silvur aud gold in tho
coinage of tho country. If the legislative
authority of each nation represented should
pass such an act the great monetary prob
lem would bo solved and bi-inctulism
would bo successfully established. The
Contcrenco is merely preliminary. Tho
things it may agree upon w ill only have
the lorcc of recommendations. If they are
adopted by most oi tho nations represented
tho double standard may bo successfully
maintained.
Com lit nn lata' Crlrhiallnn.
Tho Communists propose to hold a cele
bration in this city on June 24, ihe annirer
Hary of the I'aris rovolntion of 1848, and it
lias been suggested that tlio police should
prevent a parade through the streets. Wo
think tills would bo a mistake. A parade,
if made, will bo subject to the direction
of the polico and could bo so arranged as
not to interfere materially with tho pnbliu
convenience. It would bo interesting and
beneficial to allow the people to hoc what
sort of huings follow tho lciul of the Lieu
tenant Governor's friend Schwab. An ex
hibition of tho frequenters of tho lager beer
cellar reunions would mako their faces fa
miliar to the police, and bo useful in case of
any rlotons proceedings in tho city hero
aftor. besides, it is nevor desirable to
allow even tho scum of the metropolis to
suppose that they are feared or to suffer
them to lay claim to tho character of
martyrs. The utmost limit of free speech
may l>? permitted here, because incemliar
ism and violence only disgust the people
and supply thoir own antidote. To allow
the Schwabs to blurt out their stupid ex
travagance is to make them ridiculous in
the popular estimation. To apply a gag to
them is to win sympathy for them even
among those who despise them, 'the well
known Tompkins square meeting is an illus
tration in point. If that meeting had
l>Gen prohibited, as some desired, thou
sands would have oondemned the act.
It was held, and not only did it
make its own folly and stupidity glar
ingly manifest, but it gave the idle and
worthless ragutnuffins who attended it a
wholesome lesson of the strength and effi
ciency of our police. Let the proposed
celebration be held. Any disorderly con
duct on the part ot those who participate
in it can be promptly and severely pun
ished, and the beggarly character of New
York Communism will be sot before the
eyes of the people.
Oil tbe Bottler.
About a thousand Indians, it is thought,
will presently bo concentrated at a point
where they can wage effective hostilities
against the small force of troops with which
alone it will be possible to reach them.
This is the season to expect such an event.
As tho striker has his rogular period, and
the tramp takes to tho pleasant coun
try roads when the fruit begins
to ripen, so tho Indian prepares
for a little war when tho grass
grows; and as we cannot control that
domestic Indian ot our cities aud towns?
the tramp?it is not strange that we cannot
control that savage tramp of the Plains?the
Indian. Certainly this will not bo other
wise, to any satisfactory extent, until Indians
between the Mississippi and the Pacific
arc as scarce as they are between tbe Mis
sissippi and the Atlantic. 'llio news trom
the Mexican frontier has an aspect even
more threatening than that from the Indian
country, but there is reason to believe that
further accounts of the events chronicled
may present them in a somewhat different
light
Tli? Literary Congress.
Mr. Herbert Spencer has formally do
fondod himself from the charge that he re
cently gave in Franco the word Frater
nity as a toast, which was a little squeam
ish, since it seems hard to hold a good word
to blame for the atrocious acts it has been
made to cover. But apparently the writers
who joined in the ceremonies of the
opening of the International Literary
Congress at the Chutelet Theatre in Paris
last night were not afraid that they would
be charged with fraternal demonstrations.
With Victor Hugo as president, supported
on the right and left respectively by a Kns
sian and an Italian author, and with ad
dresses from an Englishman and a German,
the occasion may fairly be looked npon as
a festivul of literary fraternity. As this
Congress has a programme of scrions labors
beforo it the end of its deliberations may
be as lull of interest in the world of letters
as its inauguration was brilliant.
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.
A knock-down argument is usually propounded.
Johu Sherman, bo saro you write, and then go
ahead.
Staoloy Matthews, beware! The sword ol ocles
is hanging by the gills.
Chicago Journal:?"Nine times out of ton tboro is
nothing fair and rquaro in a lottery drawing."
Kx-Congrcssman John Hill, who incubated the
postal card, would be willing to go to tbo Hons* again.
Lieutenant Oovornor Loitllicr gave u State dinner
tail night at Qucbeo to the Oovornor Central, Lord
Duffcrln.
A yoaog lady ot Euglowood, being asked wbotber
sbo was a houiooipathui, replied, "No; tor love doca
not cure love."
The Confederate Army ol Tenncssto at their moot
ing will proaenl Jefferson I) <vis with a gold badge for
tbo efforts he inado to destroy the Union.
Schuyler Collax in Colorado Is sercno nod m.ijestlo
and smiling. That tnan will some day all on a monu
ment long enough to smile the top of griefs head oil.
Whoever saw a dovll list. 1?llrrtUd J'. /. You can
ace a poor devil llah from the dock nt Hartford any
fair d.iy Irotn eovoa A. M. till six V. ii.?l/art/urd I'ott.
There are masons lor boliovlng that Mr. Schurx
would get along with tbo republican parly If he would
take tho paregoric first and afterward oat tho green
apple.
It war a New Jersey boy who was ciphering In long
division and said that auui things can ho done as well
as oilier.-*. That boy ought to live loug enough to count
in a who o clooioral commission.
You ought to see the ignorant, ohlulcaa son ol a
luik-baard backwoods Jersey man, who cannot write
lu? name, look down ou a negro who has picked op a
little lu the classics. And it is not deorgla, but New
Jersey.
1 lie Korristowu llera'd la willing to pay a premium
for a pun on laiuglata. Well, speak about somo >oaag
la ly looking at herself lu a mirror; stio sees eye* In
ct is*-. Or speak oi a young man looking at a sherry
cobbler; ho sees ice in gloss. Hut let us forbear.
Herbert Spencer should Dud that his theory of evo
lution Is having its practical trolls, lor bore in America
Is a special Journal called Anhriciin Cormpondmcr and
editod by Mr. r'elix Auc.ugue, which devotor itself to
international interestsns between America and Kr.mrr.
A Now Yurk dry goods drummer, having au hoar's
leisure, went into a I'ater on foundry the other m rn
lag, nnd, going too cloao to tho inucbincry. uTen ton
trip himmor hit Intn in the check and broke ttsell all
toplcoea. Ho Immediately Ult the town to avoid aaull
tor dmuagos.
K okuk CvHititulirn:?" 'Anything new or troKb this
mornlugf' a reporter a* kid In a railroad oilier.
?Yea,' replied the lono cccupant ol ilie npartment.
'Wnul ta nr? queried the reporter, whipping out hi*
notebook. ttuld tbo railroad loan, edging toward tbe
do >r. 'That paint you nro loaning agelnai.' Such
are the loads a newspaper roan must bear.'*
Loudon Wurhl:?"K lattery, (lattery, and always
Mattery, Is tbe true motto (or tbo heaven born states
man who holts, an 1 holds rightly, that uicondeiiey m
the sne'.al empyrean is a nccesaary condition ol polltl*
cat sway, l'hcro ta but oue way lor requiring power
with individual', whether they aro men or women;
a-aail persistently their weak points, carry 1110*0
points victoriously, and Imbna them with tho dolu
slou thst their weak points srs thslr strong one/."
A Urvek youth who was engaged to a Groek maiden
ol eighteen has boon drawn Into the army. Tbo livir
sends to Ills lovs a letter saying that lis may bo gono
long, perhaps lorsver, end that tbo bearer ol tbe letter
Is a good boy, worthy of being her husband, living
asked If she likss this one sbs say*:?"Well, you see
lbs other ?no la away, and may never return. 1 crh d
lorn week; thou this one caiuo; be Is now here and
my trousaeau Is roudy. 11 1 wall much longer I shall
soon be too old, lor In another two years 1 shall be
twenty."
LARGE PERSONAL PROPERTY.
Miss Kllz.ibolh Thompson was yesterday granted
lettera ol adnilolatrntion on the personal estate of
her deceased sister, Catharine Thompson, who
died. Msy 9, 1878, at her residence, No. fi.10 Madison
avenue. The personal property lor which the lotters
wcro granted is valued at $40,000. The heirs to the
estalt are her two sisters, the administratrix, Mrs,
Klncoit Weaool, and her brother, Joseph Thompson.
From All Farts oi the
WcrlcL
A MURDEROUS CONSPIRACY.
Secret Scheme AgaiDst the German
Grown Prinoe's L fe.
RUSSIA CHECKMATING ENGLAND.
Ludicrous Attempts to Belittle the
Gl?be's Enterprise.
MONTENEGRO WINS AGAIN.
Tlie Cotton Strike at
an End..
[by cable to XHE HERALD. 1
Londos, Juno 18, 1878.
Tbe Standard bus tbo following from Berlin, Jun?
17:?"A report received from Vienna of a meditated
aticn.pl ou tbo life of tbe Crown Prince Frodorlotc
William caused- some scnsatiou here to-day. One
noudred anil thirty soclallsls*were arrested to-night
at ibeTivoli Ulcrgerten, near this city.'*
tijk ulouk's on hat "bkat."
Tbe Duke of R.cbmoud and Cordon, Lord Presi
dent of tbe Couecll, replying to Earl Granville In the
House of Lords yesterday, said tbe memorandum of
tbe ugreeiueui between England and Russia published
In tbe Globe war surreptitiously procured through some
person having acoess to confidential papors. As an
explanation ol tbe government's policy, be said, It
was incomplete, and therefore luaccurate. Tbe gov
ernment would at the earliest moment give the
fullest informal ion.
si.adk runuo bt rcshu.
It Is sialod at Berlin in some quarters tbat the
document priuted in the London Ulobc on tho 13th
lust, contains proposals submitted by Russia and
rejected by England, and that their pub
lication was proenrod by the Russians In order
to prove that they are not repugusnt to English
public opinion, and thus to limit tbe concessions the
English representatives may demand In tho Congrosa
Tbosu wbo credit this statement of eourao believe
tbstno agreement exists between KDglendand Russia
about modlficatloos to bo made in tbe Traaty ot San
Siefano.
Til K TURKS AXD MOXTXXKGKINS.
The Berlin Worth German Gazelle says the Austrian
delegates, as woli as the Montenegrin representatives
here, havo rocoivcd news of an attack mads by thd
Turks on the Montenegrins, In which tbe aggressor!
lost several killed and wounded and sixty prisoner!
The aggressors were nnt soldiers, but U is suspected
that tbe attack was instigated by a pacha.
BxrcnsKV, as usual.
La France ol Paris published yesterday a Cettenjo
tologram, dated on the 15th, announcing that on Frt
day the Turks iroin Scutari attacked the Montenegrin!
and were ropuised. The Berlin correspondent ol th!
ATeict savs a similar despatch reacbod tbe Montana
grin delegates in Berlin Iroin their government. This,
as well as the roport coming by the way of Ragnsa,
may bo erroneous. Nothing further or later bos been
received about it.
LBAVIKO SAX STB FA NO.
A despatch trout Constantinople reports that thd
baggage belonging to the Russian headquarters wad
removed from San Stefano yesterday. It Is not
known whether General Todloben Is moving north*
ward or toward tbe centre ol the Russian lino, hot
tho lattor direction Is thought to bs the mors proba
bio one.
AUSTRIA AMD nUXGARV.
In the Lower House ol the Austrian Relehsratb yes
teiday the hill relatlvo to the New Compromise lawd
passed its third reading. The Austro-Uangaiian
compromise is thus finally sanctioned solar an thd
Chamber of Deputies is concornod.
lit*ASIA SSXDS WORD TO BSRVIA.
A telegram from Belgrade announces that the noted
Russian Slavophil General FadalelT arrived there on
Sunday with despatonoo lor Prlnco Milan, who lolt
hurriedly lor Nlsch. This inoldent oauses apprehsn
sions ol wsrliko complications.
MACMAllOX AOAIX TURXATIXS.
A Paris letter says:?"Some apprehension prevail!
lest a new sttompt he made to pat a reactionary Min
istry In control of tho government lor tho purpose ol
Influencing tho coming Senatorial oloclious. Soeh a
step would be tho laat desperate effort ol the mon
archtsts to prevent tho firm establishment ol the Ro
public aud leave tho question or tho revision of thd
constitution open three yours longer.
burk or a nniTouoAX majority.
"Unless tbe coming elections can bo Influenced id
some such war >be rspubhuuns srs sore to obtain d
majority in tho Seusle. It Is impossible lo predict
whether President MseMsbou will lehd himself t?
such an iuirlgue, because his chsrsctsr is little nn
djrsiood. Tho most slgnifloaul lact giving ground
lor republican fears ibj tho dioiatorlsl atlliude adopted
by tho War Minister toward the Lolt in tbe latter part
ol tho session. Tho conservative newspapers have
also been publishing threaten lug articles, Tbe con
servatives rely on German support, in consequence o<
the odtt-eocUl movement.*1
WHAT OAtlHSTTA HATS.
The Paris Rrptthliqtu Francaiir says:?"W# fear wo
poreoivs in tlio nomination of Gouoral Wolff to tho
command of the thirteenth corps at Clermont-For.
raud, a chock to the system of Parliamentary control
and an aggressive movement in tbe direction or per
sonal government. It Is iho doty or the Cabinet to
prevent tho revival ol any suoh idea, and lor the Min
istry It is a quefilou or tile or death.*'
TUB OSRMAX LIBERALS.
Tho leaders ol tho German national liberals, In view
ol lbs approaching election! In Gerinsoy, have Issued
manifestoes declaring that the party will support all
proposals lor tho protocuon ol ortier, which do not
Jeopardise tho permanent guarantees ol liberty.
Tna urasu pries.
In tbo race for lb* Grand l'riae of Paris on Sunday,
Tburiu, the winner, was ridden by Cannon, and eon by
a bond, Willi iba *atno distance between ibe aeoond and
third burse?. Tbo belling on aacb of the eight
starters immediately before ibe race was an follows,
they being named In the order In wbieb
thoy passed tbo winning poal:?ft ts 1 against
Thurlo, 7 lo -l ogalnal tnaulalre, 26 to 1 against Inral,
2ft to 1 ugninst Cleinenllne, (S to 1 against Boulouf, 6 to
1 Against Clnchor, 20 lo 1 against Mlalhouder and 20 ts
1 egainat I.e Oraut. I lia time of inn race was 3:28.
Tno value ol tbo slake* la $20,070.
KNI) OS TUS COTTO.V STRIKE.
The Kxocitlive (Jominilteo of the Masters' Asaooln*
tlon mat at Blackburn Inst seating and resolved, IS
vlow of tbo decisive majority of lbs operatives wbo,
throughout the strike districts, hnvo voted In favor of
resinning work, that all the mills be reopened on
Wednesday next. It la cgpeeted that tbe majority of
tbe operatives wbo will then return to work will be
woavera, aa ibe aplnuera and carders are reported is
bo still obstinate.
MiscbT ok rue MXirinoa.
Of seventy Ave meetings of operative! bold jester
day flliy resolved to go to work at the reduction of
wagof, twenty-one resolved not lo resume and al losr
no decision was reached.
KSSUMt.NO WORK.
A large numl>er ol operatives throughout Lance
sblre returned work yesterday at the lull reduction of
wages. I ho inoellnea al Burnley were very tbioly
attended, and tbe general opinion la that ibe airlke Is
ended.
CONKI.KTKLT COILSPSBB.
Detailed accounts conUrm the collapse of tbe oottos
strike; but, as It la aviuont tbal a strong mlooritv ol
the operatives alill favor resistance, the Master*' Kx
,ecutivo Committee bee resolved, ass praoauitosarr