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New-York tribune., 1878-07-10
THE BRITISH CAR.


Lord Beaconsfeld's diplomatic triumph
snowy and illus0ry as we must still regard
twill undoubtedly carry him TO the highest
level of the peerage. The Queen whom he
has himself made an Empress will graclousy
return the favor by making him Duke. 1t
will be a proud distinction for him who was
born plain Benjamin Disraeli for Ill the
course of two centuries only one English
man has entered the lower House as
an untitled commoner and been raised
to the highest rank of nobility. But
the title matters little. With more
truth than irony the Liberal journals
have given him the name of Car Benjamin
SO long as his majority in the lower House
holds and his sovereign smiles, he is virtually
the autocrat of the British Empire
This direct tendency toward personal gov
ernment is the most significant and, as we
hold. the most dangerous element of a foreign
policy that has eliminated in the occupation
of Cyprus and the ProtectOrate of Asiatic
Turkey. Engliyhmen have boasted that their
ancient monarchy was in reality crowned
republic, With It's acting President. its
Cabinet and its Congress-the authority
of the sovereign being a symbol rather
tllan ldCI DuJ JhlOuSHOuU INV hN5"
tiatons of the past six months the weakness
of the nation has been manifest. The Premier
and the Cabinet so far as he has taken pains
to enlghten It, have kept their own counsel
and worked ont their own plans. Neither
House of Parliament has been taken into their
confidence. The nation has had no means of
finding out what was going on and what the Gov
ernment was aiming to do. The fleet was sent
TO Constantinople, the Sepoys were dispatched
to the Mediterranean, bargains were made
with victor and vanquished Cyprus was an
nexed and the enormous responsibility of
protectorate of Asiatic Turkey was incurred;
and in each instance Parliament has learned
the purposes of the Cabinet when 1t was too
late to interfere or even to discuss the meas
urcs with dignity. This ProtectOratc scheme,
which is yelled under the guise of dcfen-
sive alliance with the Porte, may be ffom
its political consequences the most momen-
tons act of the century ana yet the Premier
locked the secret in his breast, and only al
lowed his associates to mention the matter in
Parliament when the nation had been dragged
INTO a position from which it could not draw
back with self-rcspcct.
This is something more than personal gov
ernment it is autocratic Prince Bismarck,
who has generally had his own way on the
Continent, has never found Germany 80 manag-
able as England is TO-DAY under the leadership
of her crratic Premier. Lord BeacOnsiieId has
determined in secret the destiny of his COun-
try in Asia A Gar cannot do more than
that.
New-York tribune., 1878-07-10
MR. RTTLER H1S "LIT.r


Mr.. Butler has delighted two parties and
somewhat astonished and confused a third.
During the time he was in the air there was
q ceI tain awe of expectancy in the public
mind as to where he would eventually alight.
The two great parties held their breath and
watched his singular gyratiOns in fear and
trembling, lest he should tumble down among
theln and the third the conglOmerate Of all sorts
of discontents, huddlcd together their small
beginnings and hoped they had not enough
prospect of success to tempt his cupidity or
his ambition. The Republicans viewed his
departure from their ranks with uncOncealed
satisfaction but they had so often seen
him set out to leave them, only to re-
turn and stir up new mischief, that they
restrained their JOY until he should
fairly shut the door behind him. The
Democratic party having had experience of
him, shuddered as he cooked his eye in their
direction, and tmidly deprecated his approach ;
for though they accepted with alacrty the
service he volunteered, they dreaded his
nearer coming, lest he should demand to be
counted in when there should be a division Of
the party's plumber. And the Nationals, or
Labor RefOrmers, or Greenbackers or Com
munists, or Adullamites, or whatever they
call themselves, had just sense enough to
know that if he should happen to drop in on
them he would bring more mouths to their
small table than provisions to their larder
And after all he has descended among them
They are not, as a rule, particularly glad to
see him. Instead of haiing him as a bene-
factor or deliverer or leader, or anything of
that sort, they are surly and suspicious, and
grufly ask him what he wants
And the jolly old sOul-for say what you
will of him he is always Jolly tell him to his
face, as the Rev. James Freeman Clarke did.
that you don't think he is honest, or that he
is a lowdy, as General Boynton did a few
weeks ago, and it doesn't rufile or disturb
mm-the jolly old-soul makes straightforward
answer: ooh nothing in particular. Here's the
GOvernOrship of Massachusetts lying around
"loOse; don't care much about it, but if you
"felows are in downright earnest and want to
"see some reforms started in this State that
"will make things hum, | suppose | am about
"the man to do it. | know where the trouble
"is better probably than any other living man,
"and you can trust me to get after it and fix
"it up. Then as to the Presidency-wcll. of
"cOurse, you will do pretty much as you please
"about that. Only | have invariably noticed
"that the man who is elected President is
cone who has not allowed himself TO look
"for 1t or think of it; and i want to
"say to you right here that | will not permit
myself to think of being a candidate for
" President" SO he tries to reassure them,
New-York tribune., 1878-07-10
Netu'2lotk Daily Grih14lre.
FOUNDED BY HORACE GREELEY.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 1873.
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FoREIGN.-The London press excepting The Daily
Ne1rs, comment favorably ON the AngO-Turkish
treaty -SI Garnet Wolseley Will leave on
Saturday for Cyprus; Prince Gortschakof regards
the acquisition of the island by England with salts
faction 80 Prince Milan has proclaimed the in
dependence of Servia. =- The July stakes at
Newmarket were won by Rupera == The excite
ment continues at Montreal.
DoMEsTIC.-General Howard has had fight with
400 Indians, repusing them three times; Canyon
CITY is in great danger on account of its defonceess
condition. -- Secretary Sherman has made fresh
demand to be allowed to present testimony to the
Potter Committee - AttOmey-General Devens
decides that under the law the Secretary
of the Navy is free to contract for ten hours day
work. == Many races were postponed yesterday,
on account of rain lightning struck many buildings
in different parts of the country = Thirteen
buildings were burned in Buffalo, n. Y, yesterday.
-T The cotton crop reports show that cotton
is doing fairly but that in some of the Gulf States
it has been damaged by rain.
CITY AND SuBURBAN.-The arrival of William f.
Gray, the forger, is expected Immediately. =-
meeting of Socialists was held yesterday
10 express sympathy with the German men,
bers of the party. 60 Uptown residents
on the West Side. urged the extension
of rapid transit. - The cornerstone of the
House Of the Good Shepherd laid at Asbury
Park. 80 Opening services were teld at the
Ocean Grove Camp-Meeting. = Primary
elections were held by the New-YOrk County
Democracy. - Two persons were charged
with setting fire to tenement-hOuses. ==
The proprietors of the Buckingham Palace,
a low resort on tho West Side were arrested.
80 Gold, 1902 1OO12, 1902. Gold value of the
Iegai-tender dollar at the close, $3.50 cents. --=
Stocks less active, but, after Decline recovering
and closing irregular.
THE WEATHER-TRBUNE local observations in
dicate clear, partly cloudy weather. Thermometer
yesterday, zoe. 7So, 75o
New-York tribune., 1878-07-10

The Eight Hour Law agitatOrS who an
nounced recently that Attorney General
Devens would decide in favor of ten hours
pay for eight hours work, said more than
they knew. The text of the Attorney-Gen-
erals opinion, given in the Washington dis
patches, shows that, on the contrary, he sus-
taIns the only view of the act which Is at
once just and business-like, sound in law and
sensible IN practice General Devens finds the
Navy Department circular, which proposed to
pay men who worked ten hours more than
those who worked but eight, III "perfect har-
"mOny" with the Supreme Courts exposition
of the law. The Court held that the law did
not specify the price of days labor nor of
eight hours labor nor of more than eight
hours; that it did not prohibit special, pri-
vate agreements as to the length of a work
ing day; that it fixed the time simply when
10 special agreement had been made. The
Navy Departments provision of increased pay
for the ten-hOur men, the Attorney General
decides, therefore. to be entirely consistent with
the law, and plainly hints that the agitatOrs
view of the matter can only obtain after
further and explicit Legislation by Congress.
That legislation, it is to be hoped, may never
be had. The Eight Hour Law was a calamity,
and would be at any period, but there could
be no time more unfortunate than the present
for a legal enactment expressly declaring that,
while thousands of wOrkmen were unable to
obtain work on any terms, one class should be
fraudulenty Overpaid.
New-York tribune., 1878-07-10
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country who are looking for odd job in the duh
season. may not, after ALL be able TO find immediate
employment in Washington. The committee may
content themselves for the present with sunmOning
the old lot to swear that they lied when they testi
fed before the recess.
New-York tribune., 1878-07-10

BY the latest dispatches from the scene Of
Indian hostilities, the situation does not seem
at all improved. A frightful panic prevails in
Canyon City, which is said to be at the mercy
of the saYages, and where the 500 inhabitants
having less than 100 armed men among them
are hiding in mining tunnel The Indian
Bureau at Washington does not credit all the
reports that have been received, but the situa-
tiOn is evidently grave, though dispatch
gives the news of successful fight by Cen
eral Howard
New-York tribune., 1878-07-10

Duelling has never yet been suppressed by law
where il was sanctioned by public opinion. But it
has disappeared from civilized communities which
New-York tribune., 1878-07-10

Persons Tearing torn for the season. and Summer
frdrelIeTs can here The DAILY TRIBUNE mailed 10
them. postpaid. for 81 per month, the address being
okapged a. often 0s de5ired.
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New-York tribune., 1878-07-10

We all remember the excitement into which the
organ of the Blue party at EatanswiIl was thrown
by discovering the nefarious purpose OF the Bluffs to
give Buff ball in neighborlng town A e,milar
stir was created in sundry newspaper offices the
other day by the announcement that Minister A0yes
had been entertained at dinner in Cincinnati by
the Hon. Washington Mclean. One journal re-
ferred to this little social festiyity as great po-
In cal event and another declared it 20 be wholly
unaccountable. But if Sundays dinner seemed
big with the fate of partes what will these gentle
men think of the dinner given in honor of the same
Minister Noyes on MondayY Mr.. Mclean brought
together around his hOspitable board party Of
politicians; Mr. Richard Smith, of The Cincinnati
Gazette achieved the much more remarkable feat OF
collecting the most incOngruOus OF editors. with
Washington Mclean, and John Il. Mclean, and
Murat Hastcad and b. EgglestOn, and Mr.
Smith himself seated in the same room
and drinking from the same bottle Mr.. Noyes
must have rubbed his eyes and doubted whether he
could be awake Here were men who had been
threatening one another with pistols, and denouncng
one another time Oit of mind as miscreants of the
most diabolcal kind. Yet we do not learn that the
stvities were interrupted by the peremDtory bul
let or the positive cOwhide. Nothing popped more
dangerous than q cork or sO and We have no doubt
that the party was as pleasant rs good company and
a genial host could make it. Why should not gem
tloman be allowed to ask few of his friends and
neghbors to dinner without setting half the news
papers guessing what they could have talked
about
New-York tribune., 1878-07-10
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There is probably oniy one region in this
county where the persecution of whole
town for religions sake is possible, and there
is little need of naming the stronghold of in
tolerance in which the prescription described
elsewhere by correspondent is practlced'
Mormonism hardly appears in darker colors in
the history of the Danites than i'll this
persecution of the men who had dared 10
found a Gentle city IN the heart of Utah.
The Prophets curse upon the inhabitants OF
COrinne, which the Prophets followers called
"Hell," was executed with heathen cunning
by highly civlliz( methods. Though the town
was the best paying station or the Utah
Northern Road, the track was torn up and
all its rail connections were severed.
Even the steamboat that carried on its lake
traffic is lying idle in Mormon hands, Nor
mon capital being willing to lose interest
rather than see Gentiles earn 1t. But Corinne
is pucky, and proposes to live. 1t will be
strange if it does not live, and outlye Its
arch enemy.
New-York tribune., 1878-07-10

no person in the world, probably, so easily
cheated as the Caucasian who has made
up his mind that "nObody can cheat him,"
and the backmen of Niagara Falls and their
cOnfederates, having deep insight into human
nature, must be fully aware of that fact. An
encouraging report is made. however, of the
discipline which the substantial residents OF
the place have succeeded in imposing upon
these once lawless ft'low and much practical
advice is given for ti9 heaeLt of prospective
visitors.
New-York tribune., 1878-07-10

Another is to be added to the seaside homes,
of which there cannot be too many, for poor
mothers and children. The cornerstone was
laid Yesterday, at Asbury Park, of a building
which is designed TO accommodate fifty of these
unfortunates, and is to be erected by the efforts
of the Protestant order of the Sisters of the
Good Shepherd. In no form of charity can
so much be done so speedily and with so lit
tie money as in this, and probably there is
none where imposition is so nearly impOssi-
BILE. The House of the Good Shepherd. and
all others like it, should prosper.
With Secretary Sherman for a commentator,
it will be simply mule -Obstinacy if the Butler
Committee doesn't get a clear idea of its own
character. The Committees refusal to allow
witnesses to be called who will prove intimi-
dation in Louisiana while hearing witnesses who
try to disprove it, is a commonplace sample
of Democratic consistency; but the license
which was granted to Webber, the great
American liar, to testify as to common rumor
sand to his inferences based upon common
"rumOr," is a more serious matter. The
Butler Committee ought to maintain at
least a show of respect for the forms
of law and the requirements Of decency, and
such violation of both reflects no credit
upon the men who permit it. 1t really does
seem as if Mr.. Potter must want his name
taken off the sign.
The correspondent who describes Niagara as
it is gives new view Of the old controversy
as to the moral accountability of the people
who live around the Falls, and off of
them, too. The account of the way in which
the average visitor fights shy of the hotel
keepers for fear of being swindled, and rushes
right into the arms Of the cannibal hackmen,
has stlOng touch of nature in it. There is
New-York tribune., 1878-07-10
NEw.yoRk DAILY TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY JULY TO- 1878

Iauuhed at itsasrdities lust as certainly ii has
from those which were Mortified at It's wIckedness'
The fact that the leading newspaper of South Caro-
lima is found effectively rdiculing the code is an
encouraging proof of the prevalence of rational
sentiments among gentlemen of "honah" III the
South. Pistols for two will soon be an obsolete
institution even in warm atitudes.
Five years ago the Credit Mobilier Committee in
Washington was very anxious to obtain certain Inr
formation which was said to be concealed about the
person of General G. NJ. Dodge. sergeant-at-
arms with subpoena, was dispatched to Texas,
where General Dodge was theg surveying railroad,
or something of the sort, and Immediately the
Associated Press was informed by telegraph that
General Dodge, without waiting for the process
server had started for Washington to tell all that
he knew. From that moment Dodge became an
impenetrable mystery. The Associated Press re-
ported him from time to time moving slowly
northeastward, but the most anxious appeals from
Washington, where the committee was impatiently
waiting to adjourn aud go hOme failed to hasten MS
stops At last the newspapers reported one morning
that General Dodge had arrived at Council Bluffs
on his way to Washington" This was too much.
The committee gave him up and dissolved. He
never reached Washington; but in the course OF
time the Texas papers announced that General
Dodge had returned from Washington, whittier he
had been summoned to testify before the Credit Mo-
bilier Committee;" and then the gallant officer
was dropped from the public mind. He now turns
up in Paris, talking with General Grant, and send
ing home a report of the talk, which finds its way
into print. Here is a significant passage from his
letter: Unless | read the times wrongly 1t VIII
not be long before the Unised States will demand
at its head strong Government, and man VINO
can preserve it against all corners and all issues ana
that man will be Grant don't know but am en-
croaching upon quiet conversation, but | could
not help telling you this much for / find in some
things he has been misrepresented." What has
General Grant been saying to DOdgei
New-York tribune., 1878-07-10

The Potter Committee resumes business to-day,
and yet the experienced perjurers throughout the
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-06-26
AUCrIoH sALEs...Future Bays.
by Frank j. Sampson,
Real Estate Agent, Anctoneer. and Notary Public,
Nc. OIL Hnil street. Manchester, Va.
nIIRLIC AuCTIaN sALE nF TRULY

DUBLIC AUCTION SALE OF TRULY
i VALUABLE MACHINERY, pATTERNs,
TOOLS &c &C. ~ BALsD,s F2pNR s5Whb IN
ATELY ON THE -WATER LINE AND THE
BUILDINGS AND LRAsEHOLD INTEREST OF
E. j. BAIRD AND OTHERS, APPuRTENANT
THERETO. FORMERLY OCCUPIED AND sue
CESsFULLY OPERATED BY THE LATE MR.:
ROBERT BAIRD, AND SINCE HIS SEtTH BY
Court for the citr OF Manchester. in the cause or
Baird ct ais. us. Baird et ais, we VIII sell on the
premises, on SATURDAY the 9th day ct July.
1878. commencing NJ IL o'ctC * A. H., large LOT
Of PATTERNS for all parts OF machinery, ana
GEARING for mills. factories foundrtcs and mould
tng seps yea 15f vf19Rs
Also, L1TFoRMescAIEs, DEREiCKs,
LATHES. DRILLS,
ILACKSMITH'S TOOLS,
planners, CRANES,
CIRCULAR SAWS,
BOLT-CUTTERS, and other valuable maehi-
merry, and tile
BETTING and sHAFTING belonging thereto.
MOULDING APPAR&Tt:S suitable for con-
Quoting hrst-clasN an profitable foundry
and moulding establishment; also,
THE BUILDINGS Use In number),
and the interest of Il. j. BAIRD and others In the
grounds and wafer supply under lease from the city
tinue with the privilege OF rem wing indefinitely.
The PATTERNS and NJ MACHINERY are yalua-
ble aud we Invite the attention OF niers moulders
and machinists generally 10 examine the same.
TERMS: One fourth cash: the balance upon q
credit Of SIX twelve and eighteen months, Tor APP
proved endorsed negotiable notes. with interest
A. G.. ATKINSON.
DAVID l.. PULLlAM,
ie 25 Special Commissioners.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-06-26

The other evening man with box OF
strawberries In his hand boarded Wood
ward-ayenue car ut Clifford street and set
down beside pale.faced and nervous-look-
ing passenger. In about minute the nerv-
Gus man, who had SHE'D along as far as be
could, queried: "Beg pardon, sir, but what
are the contents Of that box?" "Straw-
berries.n Strawberries, Strawberries
They may explode, sir.'' ,"Oh, guess
not" laughed the citizen. "No levitY-no
leyity. SIR" commanded the other, as he
pulled out bis note book and began reading
a printed slip. 81 have here list OF ex-
plosive articles-tea-kettles, gunpowder,
camphor-bottles, candlesticks, milk-cans,
tea-pots, apple-sauce, fried cakes strawber-
ries, sir, strawberries-here it is-and there
is q big black Sd here for dangerous! 1
will ride on the platform, sir-I take no
chances, sir" And he was as good as his
word, and the citizen was observed to
handle the box very carefully.-Detroat
Free Press.
Nothing like setting fair price on things.
Girls in attendance at church festivals In
Missouri ask 5000 for kiss. This may
seem outrageously high, but the kisser pays
only ten cents down, and the balance runs
on one hundred years time.-Free Press.
| A good listener-Enthusiasti young
lady: "You are fond Of music, Colonel9'
Colonel F.: "Muslc? Aw-yes, think
may say like-aw noise of-of any kind %
Scribner's Monthly.
The Watertown Dispatch produces its
champion old woman, Mrs. Massey, OF Gren-
adler Island, one hundred and fifteen years
old. What venerable cid granny dear, to
be sure.-Nycunl Advertiser.
The country is full OF poets, scholars, and
deep thinkers, but the man has not been
born who can tell why the sleeves Of sum.
mer undershirts are always five inches toe
| long.