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New-York tribune., 1877-07-21

be well to know the facts and make some pro-
vision against continuance of such practices.
A thorough exam ination OF the Charter oak 8
books for a series of years past might throw
light upon the sources of some mems wealth
in Hartford, and disclose, perhaps, whole sys-
tenn of leakagcs. In the present state OF feel
ing against the "robbers of orphans in that
city. it would not be amiss to post the books
and find out, if possible, whether some very
respectable men in Hartford have not been IN
dividually engaged in this business for many
wears. TO the impairment of the assets that
belong to policy-holders. And II, as we
have heard intimated, there are still other
life insurance companies conducted on the
same plan, inwhich stockholders get unacconnt-
ably rich on limited dividends, so much the
more reason for thorough inquiry. The inves-
tjgation of the Charter Oaks past transactions
should not at all be hindered III thorougnness
Ivy the fear of awkward disclosures regarding
other apparently prosperous companies
New-York tribune., 1877-07-21
3noer 10 Aopcrilsems nts.

AMusEMENTs-llM Pdoe-6th column.
BOARD AND ROOMs-llM PG0e-5th column.
BUSINESS CHANCEs-10M PGge-6th column.
BUSINESS NoTICHs-6th Pa0e-1st column.
CORPORATION NOTICES-llh Pdqe-3d column.
DANCING ACADTMIRs-11h Pa0e-lst column.
DIVIDEND NOTCRS-l0h Pe0e-6th column
EUROPEAN NADvEETIsEMENTs-loh Fdge-0th colu1n'
FXCURsIONS-11h Pa0e-6th column.
FINkNCIAL-lGth Fa0e-5th and 6h columns.
HEIR WANTED-11M P0Qe-6th column.
HOUSES AND FARMS WANTED-9h PdQc-6th column
les CRKAs-11h Pdqe-3d column. n
INSTRUCTIoN-Sh Paoe-5th and 9Th columns; lin
P0Qc-lst column.
LEGAL NOTICR'-9m PdGe-5th column.
MACRIS1kr-9h Pa0e-3d column.
marble AND 81 ATE MANTELS-l1h Pd0t-3d column.
MARRIlGrs AND DNATHs-7M PGGe-6th co UNIV. -
MIsCEILANEOus-9h Psge-3d columns I'm Fdge-4Ih'
9th and 9th columns.
MUSICAL INsTRUMENrs-1lh PdJo-6th column
NEW PUBIICATONs-Sth Fd0e-lth ana oth cOiuihhS-
PROPOsALs-9h Ps0e-5th column ~ ~ ,.,
column: CoUNrRY-9h Pd1c-4th column AUCTION
SAIEs-9N Paae-4tn column.
RELIGIOUS NOTlCB-l1h Page-3d column
SALES BY AUDTION-lOm PGge-6th column
SPECIAL NOrICIs-7h Paee-6th column
SITUATIONS MALBs-llM Pdge-oth cOlulnh J;
FRMALBS-llM Fage-6h column n,
STEAMBOATS, AND RAILROADs-11h PdGc-lst ana "a
columns
SIATtONERY-llh Pd0e-lst column
STEAMFRS OCRAN-9h Pdge- Atm ard 9TH coumns
SUMMER ROArD-i1M Pdqe-:}d. 4th and 5tb Columns.
TEACHEks-llh Pege-lst column -,
To LET-CIIY PRoPERIY-SM IGgS-4th oolunl; fhooh-
IYN-9h Pa0e-ith column CotN NTRY-9h FdJe-ilh
column.
New-York tribune., 1877-07-21
POLITICAL NOTES.

Only safe course for the Democratic party:
take u vaca ion till 1880.
The belligcrent ofiice-holder decides that no
will not upset the u 8 Government with his opposition
Thsls jDle forenrance
Charles Francis Adams is the logical Demo
cratic l,aderi, 1850. The inventor OF tho "frlul"
plat should be allowed to smash IT,
Democratic ammunition Is pretty low when
the party press u fad .aut with the Pres
den for sending troops the railroad strikers
Yet this extraordinary spectacle Is presented
All of the New-York State officials, except
Secretary Bigelow announce that they hope for ami eS
pect denomination. Their frankness Is more cOminehu
able tnan tLelr modesly
Those storm signals which warned everybody
to stand from under the Ciyi Service Deugo were e
prematno. II wasn't much OF shower in the AlliaS
ers office after all.
Mr. Tilaen is scarcely out of sight before
his enemies revive their lament that he DID not sho"
moro IN the Presidential controversy last Niu1''
They charge that h, should hayo led assault aylhs
the White House No man knows better than no that u
he had tried sach thing his whole party "ouo h'''
left him TO charge alone
There is not colored man in the Georgia
Constitutional Convention This is unjust exclusion
of large portion Of the citizens OF tho State, but II may
20 OF some advantage inducing tue Convention to DO
scrupulousy careful In securing tho most equal nsh~
for the race spicn has voice IN its deliberations
Suppose Mr.. Packard's prediction should not
come true and the Republicans snould secure ONO anu
this FALL would his JOY DO so great as !" 10
unseaKabiei II the pleasure OF peramouiang arouna
the country remarkng told you So" should De dehea
hnl, he would DO n good deal saddor than ho Is now
Senator Wallace of Pennsylvania texpects 10
SEQ Democrats carry that state by very nespoo
able majority" THIS Is ur usual modesty. John u
Tnom pson claims Oalo by 10000 mSjority, and he uo
it as easily as Mr. Wallace makes his CLAIM. Wind uoe'
not cost any Ihng-and sometimes IL scares pcopo
Packard and Tilden are alike In one thing,
At each declares. with beautiful unsenshness ".'
he has not shadow of persona grievance the soi
row IA all for tho wrong which has been inflicted upon
New-York tribune., 1877-07-21
THE R1ILRO4D STRIKE.

A great strike is always great public calarl-
ty. 1t is not crelitable to American civilIza-
ton that having made wonderful progress in
all manner of devices for increasing the eff
cheney and improving the condition of Labor,
we have as yet no better remedy for differ
enccs between employer and employed than the
Old crude, brutal and expensive system of
strikes. BIT it is waste of time to repeat the
trite saying that the employer has IN absolute
right to say whether he will pay higher or lower
wages, and the employ ed have an absolute
right to stop work, it they please, at the
wages offered. No intelligent man in this
country questions the right OF the employed
TO decline 10 work whenever they are dis
satisfied with the terms proposed, and only
persons of very inferior intelligence question
the corresponding right of the employer to de-
termine ut what wages and on what terms he
will employ the services of Others. Labor Is
free therefore it may decide for itself whether
to work or not. Employers are also free /;
therefore they may decide for themselves on
what terms they wish the labor of others. The
difficulty is not in q formal denial of either of
these rights. 1t is in an attemp. to control by
force or fear the action of those who do not
wherever made, under whatever color or pre-
text, is an act of war against the freedom of
Labor, and against the peace of society, and
ought to be put down with stern, uncOmprO-
missing and unspanng vigor
A strike on great railway lines, however, in
wolves something more Not only the freedom
of the individual is assaiied by every attempt
to drive worknen from their voluntary choice
the entire business of the community is inter
rupted, property is arrested in transportation,
merchants are exposed to loss and possibly
to ruin, through the inability of "a transporter
to perform his contracts, wOrkmen in places
far distant from the scene of conflict are sub
iected to serious and ineparable loss, because
their industry is interrupted by the failure OF
necessary supplies or materials For instance,
a coal train on the Baltimore andOhiO IS stopped.
1t may be that, in consequence, more than one
factory is compelled to stop work. freight
train, with material for an establishment in a
Western city, is forcibly detained 1t may be
that hundreds of workmen, VINO have no part
in the controversy between the Baltimore and
Ohio and its men, are compelled to lose one
or more days of time. In thousand ways
the loss falls upon men in all occupations and
in distant localities, and if the struggle is pro-
loneed the interruption of transporta-
ton becomes great public nuisance,
which ought to be abated as quickly
IA possible for the harm that it does to the
entire community, and particularly to thou
sands of persons who have no responsibility
whatever for the conduct OF the company, and
New-York tribune., 1877-07-21
WONFN DOCTORS IN GREAT BRITAIN

WOMFN DOCTORS IN GREAT BRI IAIN.
The fight for medical education and official
recognition for women In Great Britain may
be SAID to be over. Se.fshness and prejudice
have gone down, and the women have won.
Mr. Russell Gurney's bill, enabling the British
examining bodies to extend their examinations
to women, as well as to men, passed through
Parliament last Summer, received the Royal
assent, and became law. This permisslve
law may well raise laugh against the Uni
versity of Edinburgh for that sapIent institu-
ton having at first officially admitted women
to formal mltrculation and subsequent in
struction, attempted afterward to evade this
action by the suggestion that it had exceeded
its powers The question brought INTO Par
lament has resulted in enabling" the Uni
versity, in spite of itself The Woman's
Medical School in London, established about
two years ago, has overcome the serious dliii-
Guilty 1t found in securing the necessary prac-
teal hospital instruction. The Royal Free
Uospital. winch has no male school, has con-
sented to give the required facilities, and the
agreement was signed on the 18th of June.
The Senate of the London University passed
a resolution last Spring to admit women
to medical examinations and degrees, and
straightway storm arose among the male
doctors. Some of these gave as their
reason for opposing women physicians
that they didn't intend to have the bread
taken out Of their mouths by wOmen-which
was beautiful argument and one cal
culated to make the world regard them
with an awful reverence. The best that these
hinderers could do was to request the Senate
in convOcation to suspend action upon the res
oution until they had considered the question
of admitting women to other than medical
examinations and degrees ConvOcation adopted
this proposal by a small majority but the
wheel rolled over this pitable stone, and on
the 2Oth of June the Senate voted to carry
ont its original resolution without delay.
The greatest obstacles have thus been set
aside, aud though male medical opposition will
of course go on for many years, it cannot
effect,lally prevent the practice of medi-
cine by women who are fitted for the
profession by natural taste, intellectual
and physical vigor, and conscientious
and exact study. The general feeling of the
profession in America upon this question does
it honor; and it may perhapJ he useful to the
British doctor to reflect that the loudest
clamors against women in medicine come from
the youngest, the most ignorant, unprogrcssive
and little minded among medical graduates
But loud rs they are, these clamors are
unavaling; so long rs women wish to
study medicine and can practice it success
fully, and long other women prefer to be
attended by them, not all the male doctors in
Christendom can prevent them. The great
Continental Universities were long ago wise
enough 10 see this, and make no difficulties in
giving instruction.
New-York tribune., 1877-07-21
TUF OREGON INOTIRY.

There is "A disposition on the part OF nearly
all decent newspapers to comment sparingy
for the present on the Oregon investigation,
and to give ex-Gov. Grover every opportunity
10 save his character from the dangers which
seem TO encompass It, The telegraph gave
IA only little bits of the evidence against
Mr.. Grover; perhaps if these ugly frag-
ments were studied in stu they would
bear better appearance. Now that we nave
heard the other side they have lost much
Of their significance. 1t must be acknow-
lodged that so far Mr.. Grover has not been
convicted, if even he has been distinctly ac-
cnsed of the personal expenditure OF money.
The testimony, however, makes it pretty clear
that about the time of the ballOting for
Senator the air of the Capital was fairly
green with the hue of Treasury notes, and
the rustling of bank bills was like the music
of the summer woods. Poor men went
up to Salem loaded with debts and mortgages,
and threw down their burdens at the Governors
feet, as Christian cast off his pack i'll the be-
ginning of his memorable journey We read
of one hard working legislator who hadn't
sixpence until he voted Tor Grover, and then sud
denly emerged into financial circles as the owner
Grover h4viag been elected under a pledge
to vote for Nesmith, it is related that he passed
several days after the election In changing
twenty dollar gold pieces at the Portland gro
ceres. And if the witnesses are to be trusted,
there were some strangely frank and business
ike discussions between the legislators and
tAe friends of Mr.. Grover respecting the mar
ket price of votes and the proper com
p.nsaton to be paid Nesmth man who
merely stayed away from the balloting.
All these things, as we have said, are by no
means conclusive as To Mr. Growers guilt, but
how he must wish, as he listens to them, that
his conduct in much more important Crisis
than the Oregon Senatorial election had been
such as to establish i'll the public mind pre-
sumption OF his high sense of honor. How he
must lament his folly and weakness as he re-
feet, that in helping Mr. Tildcn's vain scheme
to steal the electoral vote of the State
he was digging n pit for his own feet. Mr..
Grover was guilty OF so gross wrong III Is
suing IA commission to Cronin for the benefit
of Mr. Tillen. that when charge OF bribery
for the benefit of himself is brought against
him. an wncharitabe world con iemns him
with alacnty. 1t is all of piece with
his "gobble" dispatches and his "galvanic
"survivor," aud his " heed scantiness,
"dottish coalcsce," and all the rest of the
little dictionary jargon which he sent over the
wires while the purchas, of a Republican cleo
tor was in course of arrangement at Gramercy
Park. How queer it would be II some OF the
money which Mr.. Tilden sent to Or gon for
use in the Cfonin Conspiracy should turn out
to have been used to repay expenses incurred
in the purchase of Senatorial honors for the
chief engineer of the patent automatic single
back-action, self-reglstering Electoral College.
New-York tribune., 1877-07-21

THE NEb CABLE BOhpPOLY
The combination between the Direct Cabl5
Company and the Anelo-Ancrican, announced
from London a few days ago, appears to he
moving smoothly to completion, i'll spite of the
Indignant protests of the newspapers. An ex
plicit provision in the charter of the former
Company prohibits any amalgsmatiOn with n
rival line, but this is eyaded by closing up the
affairs of the Direct Company and assigning
its effects to third concern, the Globe Trust
Company, which Immediately proceeds to form
pooling arrangement with the old Anglo
American. The purpose Of this transaction l.
100 palpabe to be covered up by any thin de-
vice of concealment. 1t is evidently intended
TO re-esiablish the extortionate rates for ocean
telegraphy that oppressed the business public
before the rival line was put down. The
Anglo American, after swallowing the French
cable, with its fair promises of honest cOmpe-
titl0p. has now absorbed the Direct Company,
And having again an undisputed monopoly
may be expected to double OF quadruple its
tolls. The business public on both sides of
the Atlantic Is vitally int! ested in know
ing whether this scheme is to be car
ried out. Cheap ocean teegraphy has become
a necessity of commerce, and it will not be
given up because IA few greedy spectators have
plotted against it.
We are glad to see a remedy for the
threatened evil of new monopoly pointed
our by our cOtempOrary, The World The
Direct Company obtained its privilege of
landing its cable upon our shores upon the ex-
pllcit pledge contained in its charter that it
would never consolidate with any competing
line. 1t violates It's pledge. Very well let the
Government take away its privilege of work
ing its line to the shore end at Rye Beach,
n H. 1t seems to be clearly within the power
of the President to do this. 1t may be said
that this would not bring the Company to its
senses, because its first terminus is at Torbay
in Nova Scotia, and it might mako connection
with all land lines there. But the Canadian
Government has been imposed upon just as
badly rs that of the United States, and has as
good reason to take remedial measures. The
pledge in the Company's charter was used at
Ottawa ~ well as at Washington to obtain the
landing privilege. Furthermore the Dominion
Prime Minister, Mr.. Mackenzie, informed the
Direct Company some time ago that it would
forfeit all its rights in Canada IN ease OF an
ANAL gamation, and the Canadian papers are
confident that he has not receded from the
position he took then. He will probably wait
for the United States to move first; but if
our Government seizes the Rye Beach terminus
he will undoubtedly throttle that ut TOrbay
With both its American termini closed, and its
cable lying idle on the bed of the Atlantic,
the Direct Company, or the concern that pro-
feSses to have succeeded " its franchises,
New-York tribune., 1877-07-21
TRIPLE SH L L L
TIE NEB,S THIS NOR WING.

Herzegovina insurgents are march
ing to the aid Of the Montenegrins. -= Greek
troops have been sent to the Turkish frontier brig
ands having appeared there. - The Czarewitch
has moved his headquarters beyond the Jantra,
preparatory to advancing on Rustchuk. =- Cos
sacks have destroyed several villages, south of the
Balkans -= A motion in favor of amnesty to the
Fenian prisoners has been rejected by the British
House of Commons.
j NJ .sUC.-Tle railroad strikes on the Baltimore
and Ohio and the Pennsylvania roa Ills still continue;
q strike has also taken place on the Ere Road stop
ping all trans, the troops have been called ont in
Maryland, Ohio and Pennsylvania; the United
States troops guard the railroad in West Vir-
GINA; riot took place in Baltimore last
night, and the sixth Maryland fired INTO the crowd,
killing eight and wounding others. = The Union
Camp-neetng closed at Round Lake, and the Sunday
School Congress opened. - The Races az Sara
toga open to-day - Government Contractors at
Buffalo have been indicted for fraud. == Gen.
Mcdowell thinks the Indian war practically at an
end.
CITY AND SUBURBAN.-Ex-Inspector William II.
Grace assaulted Surveyor Sharpe against whom he
had made charges. -= The defence to the four
million sut against the Universal denies all the ale
cations of the complaint. == No apprehensions are
entertained hy railroad officials Of the extending of
The strike 20 this city. The charges against Police
Captain Foley were declared false. == Startling
testimony was given in the divorce suit of Lane
agt Lane The number of departures for
Europe is decreasing. == Gold 105ls 1851 lO5Ss
Gold value of the legal tender dollar at the close
949Io cents. Stocks active and higher but later
reacting and closing weak.
THE WEArHsR.-TRIBUYE local observations in
dicate very little change in temperature, and partly
cloudy weather. Thermometer yesterday, 7G', so,
100
New-York tribune., 1877-07-21

1t may. be soothing to the minds of tho gentlemen
who are shocked ut tho magnitude OF the reduction
of force advised by Mr. jays Custom House Com
mission. to reflect that tho special training which
they have been subjected may have made them over
tilnid. Gentlemen Who have boon for years studi-
New-York tribune., 1877-07-21

The strike of the railway hands assumes
more threatening proportions every day. WI hile
the blockade of trains at Matinsbug has
been at least partially broken, the controversy
has been embittered by the riot in Baltimore,
where the mob suffered the penalty of their
audacity in firing upon the troops in having
eight of their number at least shot dead, and
q number more wounded. In Pennsylvania
the trains are blockaded, and the mob
threatens the life of the General III
command of the troops, while it boots
and iecrs the troops themselves. In OHIO
also troops have been ordered ont, and III
New-Jersey the Governor has been called upon
to protect the Pennsylvania Railroad. The
madness of the strikers is spreading with
equal rapidity East and West. Travel of ali
kinds is completely suspended on the E"ie
Road, and at Omaha there is a mutteIng
which may pOrtead storm on the Union Pa
ciic. But no matter how rapidly this move
mens may spread, or how much distress and
confusion it j. able to create, there can be but
one end to it; that men who JOIN it will have
themselves only To thank If they bring stlrya-
tion and ruin upon themselves and their flmi-
lies The effect of their folly upon their per-
sOnal fortunes, however, will no longer be
considered by public indignant at the law
less spirit which these strikers manifest, and
eager to SEQ the authorities deal with them
promptly and sharply.
New-York tribune., 1877-07-21

are certainly not prepared to have Texas made
a base of operations by his opponents. AT
this moment especially, it is our duty to give
the Mexican administration no reason to al
lege that our national authority weakens as 1t
nears the Rio Grande.
New-York tribune., 1877-07-21

would speedily find a way of backing out Oh
any bargain it may have made with the
nglO-AmericaD.
New-York tribune., 1877-07-21

Important events may now be expected to
follow in rapid succession at the theater OF
war HencefOrth the Russians will have to
strike strongly and quickly. During the cur
rent week they have descended from the
swamps of the .Dobrudja, aud acquired pos
session of Kustendje and Cernavoda, thereby
gaining control of the important railway
connecting the Danube and the Black Sea,
which has its teImini in these towns. On the
Danube they have carried the National flag
beyond Nikopohs, and are now on their way
to invest Rustchuk, which the Russian cavalry
has nearly isolated. In the interior OF Bull
garia the Russians hold the line OF
the Jantra, and have large army
at TrnOva, the ancient capital of the pro-
vince. These achievements are crowned by
Gen. GourkO's march across the Balkans and
daring operations in ROumelia, where his Cos
sacks have destroyed several villages, and
spread al rm to the walls of Stamboul. Ii
follows from all these successes that the Turks
must fight shortly, or do so later at hopeless
disadvantage.
New-York tribune., 1877-07-21

When the Mother of Presidents takes Mr..
HAYES to her arms, even the people who cry
"frandn will have to admit that he belongs to
the family.
The export of fruit has grown, by means of
the vario.s devices now employed to preserve
fruit for long periods into great trade, of
which some account is given elsewhere. Every
year is likely to multiply the already numerous
inventions by means of which it is carried or,
and to increase its volume.
The curious story told elsewhere of the
means of detection employed in the old Post
Office will read like romance TO Post Office
clerks in particular, as well as to the public
generally. To the former it may suggest an
inquiry as to the secret means OF watching
their operations employed in the new Post
Office.
A Washington letter printed elsewhere sheds
q needed light on some of the absurdities of
the demand for the Dollars of our Fathers"
For dollar that was their particular prop
erty. the Fathers seem To have cared very lit
tie about it. Very few of them ever saw or
used them, only small number comparatively
have ever been coined, and the reasons which
UidUc III "a proper iuOH'tdif HhiO III 'hN way = WI
the Fathers are equally strong against Its use
as a monetary unit now.
Such controversy as there has been about
Admiral Farraguts being lashed to the mast
and there is always somebody ready to burst
into contrOversy-ought to be settled by the
letter of Major Montgomery, which we print
this morning. Major Montgomery was the
nd
sonal testimony to give, but has collected enough
from all sources to establish the truth of this
historic incident. And now it Is to be hoped
there will be no more controversy.
The impunity with which Gen. Escobedo
and other adhereDts of ex-President Lerdo are
making use of the Texan frontier 10 organize
hostile expeditions is In keeping with the un-
satisfactory condition of that quarter. Although
we have not recognized President Diaz' We
New-York tribune., 1877-07-21
Gnslness Nontes.
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COMPRRsSED
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which we invite special attention
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New-York tribune., 1877-07-21

When the Mother of Presidents takes Mr..
HAYES to her arms, even the people who cry
"fraud" will have to admit that he belongs to
the family