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NOR CHARACTERLSTICS.

All riots are substantially alike. That which has
Just afflicted Quebec was no exception to the rule.
IL began with small offences against the peace vi
these the authorities took no notice. The anarch-
lists thus embOldened, increased in numbers and
violence. Then came the Premier Jolly lgenial
name . who made one of those saponaceOus speeches
often made before, and invariably with the unde-
sirable effect of convincing the mob that the
speaker was afraid of it. Then other gentlemen
did the other inevitable thing-they reasoned
with the riotersD There was the usual melancholy
failure Mobs do not care much for eoquence 1t was
so in this case After the speeches, the unconvinced
and lawless broke INTO the flour stores, and
helped themselves to tho -four Then the military
Interposed, but still there was temporizng. The
cavalry ambled gently through the rioters ranks,
for the purpose of softly scattering them, and was
stoned for its forbearance. Then the fusllade,
and, one man being killed. the crowd dispersed.
Thus we have one man killed, the flour stores and
other buildings sacked, the Provincial Parliament
driven through fear to adjourn the soldiers stoned,
the Jail windows broken. For a long time the mob
had everything its own way. At the first real dis
play Of legal force il succumbed. Why could not
the proper force have been sooner usodG
mob, collectively considered, is a great eOwardly
crowd. Individuals in it may be amenable to
reason and persuasion but the aggregate is not.
Mayors who with quaking knees and voices trem-
ulous and husky, address it in soft and amicable
language, might as well talk to the winds and the
waves This has been 50 often proved that it Is
folly to question it. There can be no reasoning with
men who, wanting their wages raised, think that
the desirable object can be best obtained by arson,
robbery, murder and every variety Of what the
law calls malicious mischief" Another absurdity
of riots was well exemplifed at Quebec. Two or
three Thousand Of the strikers being assembled, one
Of them announced that anybody caught stealing
would be immediately strung up" This has an
enormously disinterested sound The first thing the
rioters thus exhorted dad was to breakinto the grain
shops and steal Hour! Every man helped himself
But 10 Is not stated that any one was "strung MP"
according TO the promise of the orator, who IS
described as being a French communist"
Yet another evidence of the folly of mobs was
furnished by this outbreak. Mr.. Peters was
teTorized into signing paper promising to pay all
hands in his employ certain wages. OF course there
is not the least validity, moral or legal in such
document. Yet the madmen actually thought
that they had gained something by extorting 1t
from Mr. Peters When we again refer to the at
tack upon the Jail. think the animus OF the
Quebec rioters is sufficiently set forth We can
easily believe that they do not like jails.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-06-14
POLITICAL NOTES.

If Congress adJourns next Monday much will be
forgiven It
General Butler is in danger of being led Ostray by
excess of zeal.
Tho heather IN foreign lands should be neglected
till those in Louisiana are converted.
Mr. Potter talks so well that he magnifes the
blunder no made when he became drum-majOr of
the fraud brigade.
Glover will only make partial report. That is, he
will omit all mention of the Democratic statesmen
whom his hooks have lacerated. 1t will be n brief
dOCuI lent.
1t seems little cruel, after ALL to blame General
Ewing srnd Judge Kelley for tapering of the anti
resumption movement with small TAIL There
wasn't enough left of 1t to justify larger one.
The Hon. Galusha A. Grow says the Republican
outlook in Pennsylvania is encouraging. and urges
all Republicans TO do their utmost in the coming
campaign. "a il is one of the most important in
the history Of the Government, and may save the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-06-14
THE RAILROAD VAR.

The railway pool goes to pieces, as The
TRIBUNE predicted from the beginning that
it must. 1t is mistake, probably, to at
tribute the collapse of the combination to Mr..
Guilford, who seems to have done as much as
any one could do to harmonic conflicting in
terests. 1t is also mistake to say that there
are "too many roads," the trouble is that
there is too much stock and debt. Mr.. Van
derbits system Of roads, for example, could
well afford to accept smaller percentage OF
aggregate receipts, or TO transport at lower
rates, if the capital actually and nOmlnally
invested in those roads were only what it would
cost to build and equip them mt present
prices. Nearly every road is trying to earn
profits for an excessive amount of bonds or of
stock, which represents pickings and stealings,
losses, Jobs and consultations, ever since the
road was projected. The traffic of the country
is great enough to pay fair dividend on the
actual cost of roads employed in the chief
freight movement between East and West, but
it is not great enough to pay interest or
dividend on all the steaings, wastes and losses
of the past The attempt has driven many
roads into bankruptcy, and others must pres
emily abandon it, or travel the same road.
The Lake SDOfe Nanlcu OFcI ~ pei CcnJ vi Iuc
entire earnings of the pool; the Michigan Cen
trail wanted over 80 per cent; the Pittsburg,
Fort Wayne and Chicago wanted over 30 per
cent and the Baltimore and Ohio was not
willing to take practically nothing, while
doing q very large share of the East
bound business. One quarter of that business
would return a very handsome profit on
the actual cost of either of the roads,
the West-bound business remaining what
it is. But the roads all have debts; all
have inflated stock; and all want to make
enough money to pay profit on 100000
for every 100000 of real cost Hence
there is dscOrd; nobody viii yield; the
agreements made have been continually vio-
lated and the railroad managers at last have
the good sense formally to abandon an arrange
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ment which has been Of little effect except as
an advertisement of their bad faith.
An open fight is expected IN place OF the
guerilla warfare which has been waged since
the compact was made. 1t hardly seems prob
able that rates can be pushed very much
lower; nominally they have been only j cents
a bushel for wheat from Chicago to New
York, and there have been enormous SNIP
ments for even less. But some reduction Is
expected Larger sales to Europe, cheaper
food for Eastern consumers, better DuSi-
ness for Eastern dealers and manufac-
turers, and larger favorable balance OF
foreign trade, and more rapid progress
toward resumption. are among the results
10 be naturally anticipated. As for the Stock
Exchange, a bladder will be pricked. Prices
of stocks will collapse if, as recent events
have shown, they are peculiarly speculative
and artifcially inflated. There may be sue
cessful resistance for time. The comblna-
tons which have suficed to put up prices
unreasonably may still sustain them. But 1t
will be seen, in due time, that the railways
cannot pay on their present stocks and bonds
without a conspiracy TO fleece the public, that
such a conspiracy cannot be kept together
long, and that stocks are not worth 90 cents
on the dollar which return absolutely no sure
dividend TO purchasers.
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gnoex TO ACCOMPLISHMENTS.

Aurss,fFNrs-3d Pa0e-6th column.
PINEpuPT NOTICEs-6M Fd0e-Oth Column
13oAED AND ROOMs-3d PaQe-1th column
ETsISpss CHANCEs-7h PGQe-6th column.
fsUsIxFss NoTICEs-4H PdQe-lst column
CoPARTNTgsHIP NOTICEs-3d PGGe-3d column
CORPORATION NOuCEs-7A Pd0e-6th column
UNSATISFACTORY Paqe-6th column.
DIVIDEND NOuCEs-7M PGGe-6th column.
DRY GoODs-3d Pd0e-5th column.
ExCURsIONS-3d PGge-6th column.
FINANCIAL-7th PGG6-6th column.
FURHITURE-6M PQge-3d column.
HELP WANTED-6m PdOe-3d column
HOTELs-3d PdQe-5th column.
INsTRUCIIONs-6th PQge-2d column.
LAW SCHOOLs-6th PdOe-2d cOipRnn.
LEGAL NOTICEs-6h Pa0e-Gth column: -
MARRIAGES AND DEATIIs-5h P00e-6th column, e.t
MIsCFLLANEOUs-3d P00e-6th column oh Foge-O'n
MUSICAL INsrRUbENTs-GH Pqge-3d column
NEW PUBLIC TIONs-6M Pdgc-ist and "a Columns
IROPOs ALs-6h P0Ge-6th column. -, .,
real ESTATE FOR SAIE-fITY-3d P00e-Zu COi ,u
BRoOKLYN-3d Pd0e-2d column; CoUSTRf-Sa ftt0S e.
% column AUCTION SALES Sd PdDe-Zu cOIuuh' ~
ExCHANGE-3d Pd0e-2d column.
SALES BY AUCuON-7M PGge-6th column
SPECIAL NOTICEs-5h PdQe-6th column.
SITUATONs WANTED-MALEs-6h Pd0e-3d co umn
FEMALEs-6Li PG0e-3d column. 80 49,. 49,,
sTRANBOATs AND RAILROADs-6h Pd1e-4th ana Otn COZ
umns.
sTFAMRRs OcEAN-6th ,Pq0e-5th column.
STTlINFR ROARD-3d Paced, Attn and 9th columns.
TgACIERs-6M Pa0e-2d and Sd columns
To lET-CTY PROPERTY-3d Pdge-2d column CoUN'
TRY-3d Paced column.
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istration is not very we'll defined, but his will
iueness to find out facts compromising
several persons connected with the louisiana
Commission is well known. Pitl1n is undoubt-
edly his witness. Let everybody stand back
then, while Mr.. Butler examines his witness
and pursues his little private grudges He's
willing witness, and will not need 10 DE
browbeaten. We are beginning to get at
the real purpose of Mr.. Buffers appoint
ment. He isn't hunting fraud; he's hunt
ing mud. Wouldn't it have been more
manly in Speaker Randall, though, to have
given him a committee ali to himself, with
full power to brOwbeat and blackguard to
his hearts content while he pursues at Gov
eminent expense his private animositlesT
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THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FoREIGN.-The European Congress assembled yes
terday afternoon at Berlin; after short ses-
sion it adjourned to Monday. III IS
stated that Lord Beaconsfeld Is about
to induce the Congress to allow England
to supervise the reforms Asiatic Turkey and
maintain the freedom Of COnstantinOpe. NJ. Mar
tin and N. Renan have been elected members Of
the French Academy. 1t is expected that the in
surrection in Thessaly win be renewed.
DoMcsuC.-General Smith was the only witness
examined before the Potter Committee yes
terday; his testimony was very favorable to
Mr.. Sherman and President Hayes a sharp
exchange of personalities took place between Mr. Cox
and General Butler; there is a rumOr that Mr.. Til
denpaid Anderson's lawyers large counsel fee
The Michigan Republican Convention nominateda
full State ticket =- The North. Carolina Demo
Gratis nominated Chief Justice and two Associate
Justices. 80 The Glass Of 1873 Of the Military
Academy received their diplomas.
CoNGREss.-In the Senate yesterday, diligent
work was done in the way of passing bills on the
calendar; the Resumption Repeal bill was taken up
and amended so as to leave nothing in the billex-
cept the making legal-tender5 receivable for per
cents and customs; it was then passed. The Senate
adiourged while the Kansas Pacific sinking Fund
bill was pending. =-- In the House, the Sundry
Civil bin came up; great deal of uprOar and con-
fusion took place over the bill, and the House adj
journed without accomplishing anything with iii
the evening session was attended with much DIS
order; at midnight the SuDdry Civil bill was
passed.
CITY AND SUBUrBAY.-The motion to Quash the
Indictment of the Aldermen was argued yesterday.
- BOwery building fell iniuring a number
of fremen. - The Union League Club
the Associated Press and other organ
izations honored Mr.. Bryants memory. -
A suit was brought against Max Suakosch
for alleged breach Of promise. =-= The social
difficulty at the Union League Club was ended.
60 The Erie directors ordered that the
third rail should be completed at once. ===
Roux & Co.'s furniture factory, and Henry BtteI's
tannery were damaged by an explosion. =z== Gold
1O1, 1908, 1903. Gold value of the legal
tender dollar at the close colo cents. Stocks
opened weak and declined later rallied sharply,
and closed excited and feversh.
TIE WEATHER.-TRIBUNE local observations in.
dicate clear or partly cloudy weather, with slight
chance Of occasional light rains. Thermometer yes
terday, CO., 74o go.
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GENERAL NOTES.

A Jacobin magistrate in one Oh .ne SuOS s,nr
-, 1,o,,o, rocentv senteuced an orangeman to four
taon Gavs mprlsonment for playing on flute the tune
., Rovne water" while marching through the s'ree'',
The charge against tho mlscreant was ad uha', nm
General Police Act and set forth that ne nau
guilty OF using threatening abusive, or inSul'nS
image calculated to provoke breach OF the po"s.a
TIA case was carried before the supreme oOui "a
the musician was released without delay Inc - :,
Justice Clerk remarked that no was OnS @" - ,ha
niaytng of an airand 10 was preceuent ,top with
fnenea 10 fOllow-whioh occurred IN s,-os whep
Tie celebrated trial OF Muir ior ueason' !"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-06-14

National Greenback party and all its works.
The best way to c0unteract the mischievous
tendencies of this organization and all that
are allied to it is to do just what these Re-
publicans have dOne-not to run a race with
it for votes, making concessions that ought
not to be made, but to face it at once openly.
This is the best politics and the best pa
triOtism.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-06-14

test will be decided, not by the votes of the
extreme partisans on either side, but by the
votes of candid, thoughtful, law-abidlng
and conservative men. Such men are dis
gusted by Democratic behavior They ought
to have fair chance to defeat the Demo-
cratic party without voting for persons un-
worthy of trust
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-06-14

The Senate repudiated yesterday Its tacit
promise to refrain from further financial legis-
lation, and passed the Senate substitute for
the House bill repeating the Resumption Act.
The Senates bill provides that from and after
the passage of the act greenbacks shall be re-
ceivable the same as coin for the four per cent
bonds, and after the LIST of next October they
shall be receivable in payment Of duties. This
substitute was adopted by majority OF one,
but the formal passage of the bill was ordered
by a much larger vote.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-06-14

Evidences accumulate of Anderson's as
founding modesty. We heard before how
willing he was to take a cheap consulate
when the information he processes to have
had would have been worth a Custom House
Collectorsmp at least. Now we learn by the
testimony Of General Smith, late Appoint
ment Clerk in the Treasury, that Anderson
made no effort to get at Secretary Sherman,
while hunting for any Office he could get, and
never once msinuated that he had that I'M
portant functionary in his power. Anderson
asks us now to believe that while he was
proving about the Treasury for bone, he
had letter in his pocket from the head OF
that great department making promises whose
fulflment this man did not even ask for.
Every day has brought evidences that Ander-
son had attempted lie too gigantic even for
him to handle, and this is not the least OF
Them
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Business Monies.

HANK1NsoN's Steam Carpet Cleaning Works,
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Persons earring torn for the season. and Summer
trareIlers, can hare The DAILY TRIBUNE mailed to
them postpaid, for 81 per month, the address being
changed as often as desired
West Point had distinguished visitors yester-
day, and the new class was hOnOred by the
congratulations of a President, two Cabinet
officers and a General. The talking member
of the Cabinet, who used to be fighting man
himself, seems to have won the most favor in
the speeches to the new officers.
A party of the first part in a viii case yester-
day found an umbrella in the hands of party
of the second part lively instrument of itiga-
ton. SuTOgates might have an easier life,
and the public be wearied with fewer family
ouarrels, if this idea had a wider application.
Let contestants appeal to umbrellas, with the
Surrogate for umpire, and let justice be on the
side Of the stOutest stick.
The career of the late Earl Russell is the
subject of a discriminating review in a letter
from our London correspondent Even Lord
Johns faults were of such rugged sort that
they won a certain respect and if he was not
the best friend America had in England, at
time when America needed friends, he had the
frankness, which not many Of his country
men had. to make some subsequent admission
of his fault
The Aldermen's trial began yesterday, with
the Aldermen posing behind their cO-fepend-
ant, a little newsbOy fourteen feet long, who
kept a newsstand five years-we beg Mr..
Roots pardon, newsboy fourteen years old,
who kept a stand five feet long. Nobody
cares what happens to our respected Alder
men in this judicial inquiry, but we venture
to say that the public wouldn't like TO see
any harm come to young Johnny Butler.
The Republican Convention of Michigan set
Q good example to other Republican conven-
tons in the West by squarely denouncing the
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1TT-rp AvySUE 1HEATRE-" Humpty Dumpty's Dream
NImO's GARDEN" East Lynne"
pARK THEATRE-" Our Bows
6TINDARD THEATRE" Fritz" ,
TNIoN SoUARE THEATRE-" Lady OF Lyons
W1TIICKis THFATRE-" Diplomacy"
GuMoRE's GARDEN-COncert Thomas
SpVT.G HAII-2 and 8 4: The PhOnOgfapn
NEW YORK AoUARIUu-DaY ana Evening
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The Republican Convention Of Michigan set
Q good example to other Republican cOnven-
tons in the West by squarely denouncing the
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-05-23
A Family Of Famous Brothers.

Anew York letter says: DIR. Potter,
young red cheeked preacher, is
looked upon by many, as likely to
succeed his uncle, Horatio Potter, as
the Bishop of OF this great diocese.
The venerable Bishop has reached an
age when minds of men cannot be
kept from such reflections. 1t would
be quite In the line OF precedent in
the Potter family should this happen,
for the father of the Doctor was also
Bishop-the famous Alonzo Potter,
of Pennsylvania. He had aremarkable
family OF sons. One is Howard Pot
ter, the head of the banking firm OF
Brown Bros. &c Co., and prominent
citizen. Another is Clarkson N. Pot
ter, the Congressman, who had a
narrow escape from the Democratic
nomination for Governor in 1876, and
is one of the most thorough gentle
men In Congress. as well as an able
man another is this DIR. Henry c..
Potter, and eloquent preacher, and
at the head of the richest congrega-
ton in the city, next to Trinity. An
other Eliphalet Mott Potter-is
President OF the Union College, where
his father was once professor and az
terwaad Vice President. Another
William Potter-is an architect OF ex-
cellent rank; he succeeded Mullett as
Supervising Architect to the Treasu-
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-05-23
IL Don't Paw.

The following, from the Newark
Daiy Advertiser, has some whole
some truths which il would be we'll
for all classes OF citizens to ponder:
1t don't pay to have fifty working
men poor and ragged in order to have
one saloon-k keeper dressed in broad
cloth, and flush OF money.
1t don't pay to have these fifty
workingmen live on bone soup and
half rations, in order that the saloon-
keeper may flourish on roast turkey
and champagne.
1t don't pay to have the mothers
and children OF twenty families
dressed in rags and starved into the
semblence OF emaciated scarecrows
and living In novels i'm order that the
aloon-keeper's wife may dress in
satin, and her children grow fat and
hearty, and live in bay window par
lor.
1t don't pay to have one citizen In
the county Jail because another citi-
zen sold him liquor.
1t don't pay to have ten smart, ac-
tive and intelligent boys transformed
into hoodlums and thieves, to enable
one man to lead an easy life by sell
ing them liquor.
1t don't pay to give one man, for
SIS quarter, license to sell liquor,
and then spend $4,000 on the trial of
Tim Mclaughlin for buying it and
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-05-23

When the suggestion was first
made that the recent frightful ex-
plosion i'm the Touring mills at Min
neapolis was caused by the floating
particles Of flour dust, it probably re-
ceived little credence from most per-
sons. Certainly at first blush moth
ing could seem more harmless or less
charged with dangerous qualities
than the impalpable dust which fills
the air and settles in the hooks and
crannies of "grist MILL" But In
vestigation proves that under GER
tain conditions this seemingly HARM
less substance becomes as danger
Gus as dynamite. The Minneapolis
explosion is not the first of the kind
on record. A similar disaster, even
more destructive Of life, occurred In
England in 1872, another in Scotland
in 1874, and like explosions have oc-
Cured in some OF the countries OF
Europe. An investigation Of these
disasters left no doubt whatever as
to their cause, and it is surprising
that intelligent milIers should not
have taken the precautionary meas
ures against danger of whose ex-
istence they could hardly have been