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NEW YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, MONDAY, DECEMBER %, 1877

during the past month. For during the Discus
sion in the executive session OF tho Senate,
over the nomination of Federal Marshal i0r
Georgia. one of the sensational incidents OF the
exciting debate was the production of certain let
ters Of Mr.. Gordon's which expressed view Oh
the Civil Service quite unlike that presented IA
his sneech in 1876. Gordon had recommended
the appointment of a Liberal Democrat haiheu
HUFF: but when he found that the Republicans
were !nclined to support Huff, he wrote to the
President withdrawing his nomination, ana to
Uuif telling him what he had done. lie
eeenq to have treated both with cOmmendablo
frankrcss. He rcbuSed Huff for desertlng "
the Democracy and attempting to build up
the Republican party in Georgia : ana he
told the President that he found he had
been mistaken in Huff, and
"Democrat was to be appointed to Office ne
"wanted one whose Democracy was unques-
"tloned" Are we to understand that hr, Cor
don's sentiments in March, 1876, were different
from his sentiments on the 1st Of December,
1877, and that his sentiments on the 2Oth Oh
December were again unlike what they were
on the 1st? Or does reform mean one thillS
when applied to Ncw-YOrll Collectors ana quite
another thing when there IS question OF Georgia
Marshals
We do not know whether there still fingers
in the brain of any mbomcr of the Cabinet
the delusion that Republican Executive can
carry ON n Republican Administration in
chronic disagreement with the Republican
party by the aid of the Democratic half
of the Senate. If that fancy is not yet
entirely dspelled, perhaps this exhibition OF
Senator Gordou's style of independent reform
Will aid in destroying it. These Southern
gentlemen, upon whom so much reliance has
been placed, cordially support the President IN
al measures looking to tine promotion OF
quarrcls in the Republican party and the APP
recruitment of democrats whose Democracy
"is unqucstioncd." But we confess that we
do not see what that kind OF support Is
worth.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-12-24

Egypt, she would awaken the hostility
of France, Greece and Italy, and give
the signal for the partition of the ot-
toman Empire. At such moment
Russia, released from all previous obligations
may be expected to arouse still more the en-
ergies of the Greek and Slavic races, and move
irresistibly on Constantnople. British Minis
ters may well AJAX the opinion of Parliament
before entering on measure frauSht with
smch dnnrprs.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-12-24
SEN1TOR GORDONS WIH.

Senator Gordon, of Georgia, has given,
through the convenient inStiumcnjali'y of n
Washington correspondent. AN explanation, or
defence, of his part in the debate over the New
York appointments. 1t appears, according TO
this Interpretation of his conduct, that he had
10 intention Of constituting himself either the
adversary OF Senator Conklmg or the cham
pion Of President Hayes. Far be it
from HIM to NEEDLE with New-York
politics; far be it from all good Demo-
Gratis to trouble themselves with the defence
of Il Republican Executive. But Mr.. Gordon
laid down for himself long ago certain princi-
pies of Civil Service Reform, and in accor-
dance with those principles it was his duty 20
urge the removal Of Messrs. Arthur and
Cornell. In March, 1876, he made a
speech advocating a radical change in tie
policy which makes the Custom House a 20
htical headquarters, and urging his associates,
without distinction OF party, to unite in the
effort to place The revenue service on a busnes 50
basis. He referred mt considerable length 10
the example Of England, where Government
servants are appointed for their fitness, not for
their politics, and he insisted that Democrats
and Republicans should act together in causing
the United States to adopt the same sensible
plan.
1t was very good speech in some respects.
But what an astonishing commentary upon it
has been furnished 10y Mr.. Gordon himself
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-12-24

magazine ceasing to appear as an independent peri
odical, will henceforth be merged in The atlantic
Monthly During its eleven years life The Gdtdry
under the control Of Messrs. VIM c. and Frank r.
Church. has enjoyed popularity and reputation. and
it will add something substantial to the fortunes Of
The atlantic, which already attracts much of the
freshest thought and most generous culture OF
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Amuscments ano alreiln9o 60 Might.

RoorU's THE TEF--" AS You Like It.
BH0tpwlY THTt rRE--" Monte Christie.
EIrTu ANFNrg WAII--Hcllcr's Wondera ,,,t..,..
F,III SvF<TF IHTATRE-" Adronne." Nine MooJesA-
Nirfo,s q ARDEN" Blac6-Eycd susan &C
PAPK TYEA 1RE-" Our American COush'
S,N FR ANcTSCO MINsTRElS.
FR tNCNs-"Rome and Juliet. . ~, g., -.o.,
Ir~S0N ,RE ATRE-"The Mothers secret
W,iIACK's THEATRE" Won at Last
cuNoRr's GARDrN-Circus and Maunering
MN AMERICAN MUsEUM-Day aud Evening
NEW YORK AOUARIUM-Day ana evening
No 2S EAST 14ru-sT.-The Venus AuaCl oheho'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-12-24

FoREIGN.-The report receives credit that Eng
land intends to buy the Sultau'5 suzerainty over
Egypt. -- The revolution continues in SantO
Domingo. === There is a strong Russian force
northeast OF EzcUm. =- There is great distress
among the poor Of COrstantmOPc. = 4 letter
from Professor Martin. IN China says that the Cu-
yersity at Peking is in a fourshing condition.
MISUNDERSTANDING sherman is coming to New
York to inspect the Custom House Western
men in Washington are agitatiug for a rcenactueut
Of the tea, coffee and income taxes. Recruiting
for the army Is again in progress. ==A party Of
Mexican horse thieves were hanged in Southern
California. -= Government troops are at Elizuic
Texas. -=T The Tennessee Senate voted TO settle
the State debt with 90 per cent bonds, at +, ald
per cent interest.
CITY AND SUBUEBAS.--EXcse Commissioner Owen
Murphy has fed with between $780, 900 and So
600 Excise funds -= The Museum Of Natural
History Was opened by President lIaycs Saturday,
and Robert l.. Stuart, President Eliot, Of II5r-
ward. and Professor Marsh made addresses. -=
President Hayes, Secretary Ev1rts Presidents
Eliot and Porter W. w. Story and others spoke at
the Ncw-England dinner. == The hearing OF tcs-
timony concerning the Police Commissioners was
ended. -= The Central Underground Rail-
way plan has been revived. == Another
railroad war in rates is expected this Win
ter "A third body was found in the
Barclay-st ruins on Saturday. = Three
Wal-st. brokers were arrested members Of
gang Of countcrfeiters. -= Cold 1923, 1924,
1924 Gold value of the lcgal-teuder dollar at
the close 079lo cents. Stocks dull, but generally
higher, closing steady
THE WE4IHRR.-TmBUNE local observations III
dictate a continuance Of warmth and frequent
cloudiucss at times threatening rain. Thermometer
yesterday, So, 42o 333.
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Messri. llonghton & Co. have purchased the good
viii and subscription list of The GALAXY, and that
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the touching kiss of homage to the genius oil
Benhardt. This was festival of Art, and as
such will be long remembered.
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Aem-llork Daily Grl0n)1e.
FOUNDED BY HORACE GREELEY.
THE NEUs THIS MORNING.

MONDAY, DECEMBER q. 1877.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-12-24

If the Confederate balance in the Bank Of
England, which Mr.. Rayncr wants the United
States to have could be used as a relief fund
for the holders of repudated Southern bonds,
the Confcderacy had hot died in vain.
The well-worn joke about the army Of brig
adier5 has ceased to be a joke. The United
States Army has been ciphcred down and DIS
covered to have one officer to every eight and
q half mon. This secures a high state Of disci-
plue-especially on the part Of the half.
The regularity with which the Russians post
their losses, weekly, serves to keep the national
mind alive to the sacrifices which Ottoman
obstinacy entails. The account is already
heavy-SO,412 men-and calls for ample guar
antecs that II shall not be rcopened in cOnse-
Quence Of iil-adyised leniency.
Many reactionary signs in China are more
than countcrbalanced by the favorable progress
which the Imperial College at Picking is making
under the able presidency Of DR.. Martin. This
essentially American institution, with its for
eien aud native professors, cannot fail to give
ageucral impulse 10 popular education III China.
The revival of Victor Huso's play Of Her
"naD" was a great event IN the Prshn world
Of art the dinner which lac gave to the artists
who participated in the representation. and
the speech which he pronounced made a
great event in the lives Of all his guests.
Our London correspondent portTays the striking
sceue-the great poet at the head Of
the table surrounded 10y a hundred and
fifty brilliant men and women, with his
six-year-old grandson at the foot; the
glowing speech of thanks to his friends, and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-12-24

Should the British Government persist in
the contemplated purchase OF the SUltan's
suzerainty over Egypt, it viii find itself in
volvod in some strange pclpleXitics. On
searching the title Of this claim il viii be
found to rest on right of conquest, which
was rcpudiatcd by Mchcmet Ali as re-
Gently as forty-six years ago, when he would
have made Egypt independent, and would
perhaps have overthrow the Ottoman En-
pire, had not the European Powers intcrycncd.
Should, however, the settlement Of 1866 be
deemed conclusive, Great Britain would be
able to purchase only the right to a
tribute amounting to about f3,5OOO 600
annually, with authority TO call al the
Khedivo for military and naval aid.
Any further eucroachment on the sovereignty
of Egypt would be a violation Of solemn treat
les. amounting to an act of war. In the event
Of hostiitics, Great Britain would have to deal
with a fierce, revengeiul race, which would
rally TO the aid OF the regular army,
row 10000 strong. But the .graycet
contingency involved is the certainty that
were England to purchase over suzerainty
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-12-24

This time it is a trustee of public funds who
has made of, and for once, the widows and
orphans are not the direct sufferers.
Mr.. Owen Murphy. Excise Commissioner
is wanted by the police, who wish
to sec a little sum. anywhere from $4,000
to 100000 which he has IN his custody re-
turned TO the treasury of the Board. Mr.
Murphy is a poor pupil of the Tweed school.
He made great mstake-in running away.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-08-17
MISSISSIPPI g. TENNESSEE
RAILROAD.
Change of Schedule.
Mrrrn1p. TrvE., May Z. lSl7.

MEMPHIS. TENN, May II. 1877.
AN AND AFTER SUNDAY. MAY 18th,
~ 1877, trains will run as follows:
Leave. Arrive.
New Orleans mail, daily 800 pm. 1850 pm
Freight and Ac'm' 'dation,
daily (except Sunday $50 am . 5O a m
6s-t M.BURKE, Sup't.
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The Cniuese Idea Of God. i.

Celestial Empire
Whether Shang Ii be the true
God or whether he be Baal, Zeus,
Osiris, and all the other heather
deitics put together, there seems
but little doubt that the Chinese
have very vague notions as to his
nature and personality. A short
time ago, good missionary lady
who only spoke the Northern dia-
lect, was trying to instil into the
mind of a Shanghai woman some
Of the most elementary principles
of the Christian creed. Owing to
the difference in pronunciation,
however, she failed in making her
self thoroughly understood; and
turning to another woman who was
standing by, a convert to Chris
tianity, she asked her to be SO good
as to explain her meaning. The
woman Immediately took up her
parable, and began to instruct her
less-enlghtened sister with much
glibness. "Don't You understand
what the lady says?" she remarked;
Jesus, you know, was the son of
Yu.huang Shang-til" !" Now Yu-
huang Shang-ti, according to the
Chinese belief, is the progenitor of
the Taoist dignitary now in Shaug-
hal, and is certainly not the God
whom Christians worship. The
occurrence reminds us Of Bishop
Russell's story about the Taoist
idol, to which we referred in our
review of his recent pamphlet.
But when men of such vast expe-
rience and profound knowledge of
the subject differ so radically from
one another upon this point, it is
not for.al outsider to presume to
Judge between them.
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MARKET FOR AMERICAN GIRLS.
the sort OF YOung Men who FuT-
chase American HeiFesses with
their Titles

How II ta CuItiVAled I'm France, and
the sort OF YOung Men who FuT-
chase American HeiEesses with
their Titles.
The Paris correspondent of the
New York Tribune writes: AS
Partisan civilization has exercised
so strong an attraction over a large
portion of the American public,
and as the female part Of that pub
lie has certainly not improved by
its admiration for the brilliant APP
pearance of the supper ten thous-
and in France, perhaps it might
not be altogether uninteresting to
show what the fashion is after
which a so-called gentleman" is
brought up now in the country of
Voltaire. 1t is just within posi-
bility that had American fathers
known q little more of the train
ing of the young gentlemen in this
country they might have been less
eager to purchase aristocratic names
for their daughters at the cost of
fortune, good fame, and happiness.
Let us take, from his earliest age, u
son of some family with a high
sounding title, and let us chronicle
impartially what the process is
which is gone through to "make a
man of him." He is, first of all,
as soon as he can talk and walk,
made a show of, and drilled to be
an actor in the midst of other ac-
tors, He is a great deal with SER
wants who tlatter him, and teach
him to think that the externals Of
life are alone Of any importance,
He opens his eyes to acts Of busi-
ness, and his ears to words Of false
hood from the moment when he
can observe anything. He sees his
own attendants cringe to his pa.
rents and abuse them loully behind
their backs. He learns no good Of
his parents from those around him
and when he comes to study thos,
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BoAOANo buOlAoClNNc, NOSo llC uuQ III
them anything to correct the esti-
mate in which they are held by the
hired menials of their household?
There is the one great question, and
it must be answered in the negative.
No. He finds nothing in those of
whom he is born that should induce
him to think they have been cal
Illuminated by their hirelings. The
first thing that must strike him is
the identity of tone and feeling
between the salon and the ante
chamber-as also the fact that i'm
presses any student of modern
France, must necessarily be, that
all so.called "high" society has
been turned into one vast ante
chamber, with the same peculiar
feelings and habits, and the same
vices belonging to those whose trade
it is to live upon the master whom
they hate. This explains much of
the facilities of arbitrary rule.
The next stage in the young gen.
tleman's life is the stage tuition;
but here begin the complications
which unavoidably unfit him from
ever being a citizen-a man. If
not educated at Rome by a priest,
he is sent as an outdoor pupil to
some college which is under eccle-
siastical rule; or if made a perma-
nent indoor pupil, he goes inaIlibly
to one of the Jesuit's establish
ments. Wherever it may be that
he is sent or trained, the basis of
his education is hostility to knowl-
edge. Let this never be forgotten,
for it explains almost everything.
From two points of view he is led
to condemn and despise instruction;
from the point of view Of religion
he is taught that science is impiety
it is the work Of the devil; from
the point of view of society, it is
subverSive, demagogical, revolu-
tionaryl The real mark of a per-
feet gentleman, of one of those in
contestable "chiefs" such as were
the forefathers of the youthful stu
dent, is to do nothing aud learn
nothing, and to govern all the
inferior mortals whose condition
obliges them to act and to acquire
knowledge. The great principle of
the priestly education, now nearly
universal in France among the up
per classes, is that of sequestration
from the public, Whatever is pub
lie is looked down upon. The
public is vulgar, it is noisy, rough,
meant only to be governed by force.
When the object of all these ter
rible mistakes comes to the age of
four or fye-and.twenty, he is sought
to be richly "placed." Then comes
the moment for transatlantic fa-
theirs and mothers. 1t is no longer
asked as Of yore, for English heir
esses. | scarcely know for what
reason, but the British female is
rather at a discount; and the enor-
nous demand is for American mar
riageable girls. A Frerch mother
walks into the salon of her friends,
whose "day" it happens to be, and
quietly, in a kind of half whisper,
says to the mistress of the house,
'Do you know Nine. So-and-so?
She knows all the American colony.
Couldn't she find me an American
heiress?" There is no disguise about
the transaction; it is all very rela-
lively frank and open.
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RAILROAD

CCHEDULE ON AND AFTER JULY 30,
Leaves. Arrives.
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Mail train, daily .......l0.2) am IL f6 u. m
SOmerville accem datiou
Except Sunday)..~~...... 00p.m Sloa.u
yInle rW rn'y 1!nGL-s Foster tnRn
cay r'm-.
The ll:55 IN Expre /. the LIGHTNING
TRAIN from Memphis and will ONLY stop
at JUNCIl0NS and terminal point.
The 1925 a IN. Mali train will stop at regu-
lar stations.
sOmetV We irain VIII StOp al reg
uIaF aud fiHg stations.
The lehInln kN0rsSH TratU makes
the quiche3t rima ever made 10 Cbatt =
noog0, knoxville. Lynchturg, Washington,
and last IN cities.
Tick ct oifce . 3 Maia street and Depot
Memvhi aud thirleston railroad.
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Chief Engineer and General Sup't.
I. s. DAVANI,
1921 Assistant General Passenger Agent.
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69zs Cash Prizes, amounting to-. ....esEO, 900
Whole Tickets. $40; halves. IS; Quarters,
$3.50; IL Tickets, 500; SS% Tickets, $500; 56N
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made payable to G. W. Barrow & Co.
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Do not stupefy your baby with opium
or morphia mixtures, but use DIR. Bulls
Baby Syrup, which is always safe and
reliable and never disappoints 25e.
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open space in front of the little
verandah, the body of young
man with his head half severed
by a sword cut. His name was
Jordon-oglon Geordi. l forgot to
mention that my friend picked up
two bullets in the house where /
found the blood-stained chemise,
fattened and with bone adhering.
They are on the table before me as
| write, and have been fired from
Remington. We then drove ont
into the country, and in the plain,
about quarter of a mile out, we
came across the body of a man
who had been apparently making
hay, or perhaps had been driving i
hay cart The condition in which
we found him does not permit of
description. His head was also
battered to pieces. After this time
failed us, and, amoreover, sicken-
ing horror had taken hold Of US,
which it will take a long time to
eface. But our guides were, and
are still, anxious to conduct us to
all kinds of places, guaranteeing
the like awful Spectacles. / may,
out of curiosity, prosecute my re-
searches further, but no further
evidence is necessary for me. What
matters it whether the number is
ten, twelve, fifty or a hundred? To
each of these creatures the ex-
treme agonies Of human life-death,
dishonor and mortal pain = had
been awarded; and what more
could they have suffered?
Having given in detail what our
researches lead to, | must now sum
up the evidence which has con-
yinced me that this massacre was a
d-blooded, undeserved attack by
the Bashi- Bazouks on the defense
less Bulgarians. To begin with,
not one single Turkish corpse has
been or, apparently, can be pro-
duced.
AS to the numbers OF the people
actually killed at Yeni Saghra in
the massacre of the 15th-16th
have no means Of forming an idea,
for many people that are now sup
posed to be dead will turn up again
when the troubles are over as they
did after the massacres Of 1876
Nor can the numbers given by the
people be even approximately true.
as they vary from ten or twelve tc
five hundred. 1t is quite true,
though, that a number of girls arc
missing who fled from the town
and as | went among the people
and my dragoman cross-questioned
a great many of them, | think that
We got at the truth about some o.
these things. Twas struck with the
singular look of despair and alarm
on many of the faces of the women
and of one in particular who had
received most brutal outrage shall
not easily forget the expression.
She was very fine woman of FIVE.
and-twenty, with a figure of great
beauty, tall and straight, with a
most remarkable face. When try
ing to discover any one authentic
case Of a woman having been out.
ragged, this woman was pointed out
to me by a man called Basilike
who had been one of the wealthiest
men in the town, an engineer and
architect. 1t appeared that from
this unfortunate woman's beauty
and social position, and from the
publicity of the horrible affair, il
was an impossibility to throw ovel
it that veil of silence with which
they all naturally strive to hide
their own shame. The woman un.
mistakably showed more despair
and a more painful expression ol
shame about her than almost any
of them.ss
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Louisville and Great Southern R. R

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for St. Louis and Chicago, at Mckenzie for
Nashville, Chattanooga, Atlanta and the
Southeast, at Guthrie for HoPkinsvillo, Hem
derson and Evansville, at Louisville for all
points North and East
lilo pm Day Ezpress-COnnests for st.
Louis and Chicago, at Louisville for all
points North ahd East.
l.40 pm. Milan Accommodation = Daily
except Sunday.
Pullman Palace Cars on either train to Louis
vile, aud on Night train to Nashville.
For tickets or Information, arply at Ticket
Office. 287 Main, Northwest corner Madison
John T. FLYNN, sup't Memphis Div.
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Mrs. Julia Ward Howe writes
from London Of the distinguished
painter, Alma Tadema, that he is
a German of the Germans, bland,
rosy and full of sparkling good
humor. His house is oddly furnish
ed, The reception room is a Turk
ish boudoir, fitted with low seats,
low tables, pipes, porcelains and
Oriental hangingS. OF the two
drawing-rooms, one is furnished in
French, and the other in old Eng
lish style, Then there is a Pompeiau
salon, and an Egyptian studio with