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IN INTERESTING MoEENEYE.

A movement is on foot in Europe 10 hold an Inter
national Congress at Rome in 1850 to favor the
adoption OF q code Of international law, the pro-
poItiOnal disarmament Of all the great military
powers. aud the establishment of the principle Of
arbitration as a means OF settling disputes between
governments. The FIRST impetus WAS given by Dr.
Adoph Firsrhof, member Of the Austrian Parlia-
nent, who formed society for tho advancement
OF these ideas lately the matter has been takon
up by an Italian committee al the head of which j.
Professor Sbarbaro, who occupies the char Of
Science of Public Admins tration in the University
of Naples, and is q writer on international law.
Invitations TO aij in advancing the movement and
70 send delegates TO the Congress were dispatched
by the committee to every civilized country.
II appears from an article in the Florence GG=etia
PItqlia Of June 90 that letters approving the OBJ
iect, of the Congress have been received from
ninety members Of legislative bodies in England,
Portugal, Spain, France, Sweden, Norway, Dem
mark. Holland. Belgium, Switzerland, the United
states. San Salvador. Peru, Chill. and the Argen-
tine Republics from twenty universities in England
Russia, spain and Germany; from six hundred
Protestant ministers aud two Catholic Bishops
from one hundred and twenty masonic lodges, and
from a large number of societies Of operatives,
mechanics and other labOrers. IL Is asserted that
the Emperor Of Russia. Prince Bismarck. and Gam
beta have given in their warm adhesion to the
movement At first it was the intention of tie pro-
moters of the Congress to have II held under the
Presidency of Gaubaldi, but he has declined in
characteristic letter. in which he speaks or the idea
Of international arbitration as "a sublime
conception, which will be an actualIty when liberty
and justice shall longer be VAIN words The
selection Of Garibaldi was unfortunate in one
respect 1t brought out a sharp letter from Baron
DOltzcndorfi Professor OF international Law in the
University of Munich, the advocate who defended
Count Arnlm in his famous trial. The Professor
wrote that neither Germany nor Austria would have
anything 10 do with the Congress If Garibald were
ut it's head. because remembering the part he took
in the war between France and Germany, and the
fact that he is now encouraging a warke move
ment to wfest "unredeemed Italy" from Austria.
he could not be regarded as exactly standard
bearer Of peace. The movement seems however,
Ia have made considerable progress in Germany
prior to Garibaldis resignation. foy the committee
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reports the receipt of 426 commendatory letters
from that country.
In the Gazefta d Italia which advocates the project
win great deal Of Zeal, and has been IN some sort
made its newspaper organ, appears vigorous leu
ter from Emile De Laveleye, the Belgian politlco-
economist and writer on International Jurisprudence
who draws painful picture of the condition OF the
laborng classes in Europe and that no ameiio-
ration of their hard lot can be expected long rs
the present immense standing armies deyodr the
greater part of governmental revenues The peo-
pie are crushed under the weight of war expenses
and he sees no help for them save in simultaneous
and proporionate disarmament. Europe, he ne
clares has never suffered so much as now from eN-
cessive military expenses. He is convinced that
the time is well chosen for the International Con-
oress and that Italy, which is loved by all couh-
tries and enaces none is the best place to hold It,
Here in America we cannot be expected to take
more than a passive interest in this movement
The miscries Europe is suffering from her enormous
standing armies concern us only as sympathetic
spocrators Our entire army does not number one
third as many men as the permanent garrison OF
either Paris ST. Petersburg yeti does the wolA OF
watching over 10000 miles Of coasts and frontiers
and keeping in order 800 600 savageGnd seml-saVage
Indians brilliant French writer lately compared
Germany TO a man in armOr, encumbered DS INC
weight OF his mail and weapons, and Obliged at the
same time to make a living by peaceful industry.
The illustration is applicable TO every Continental
nation. They are all hampered and crippled py
their heavy ornaments, and their producing classes
are impoverished to support millions OF abebodied
men in dlencss. Yet they relatively no stronger
for those exhaustng military efforts. Each
country would be just powerful if the armies OF
all were reduced to one-half or one-thTd their
present strength Tins is Is simple truth as the
plainest rule OF arithmetic. but no European Gov
ernment appears willing to take the initiative
toward a general agreement for disarmament.
Perhaps the Congress OF Rome Will stimulate an
agitation of the question which will have good re-
mts At all events the people of the United states,
who have no such burdens 10 bear as the inhabitants
of European countries groan under and VINO enter
lght-footod the worlds race for industrial SUI
premacy. will fud much cause in this movement for
sober. thoughtful self-gratulatIon, and VIII at the
same time accord il their cordial good wishes.
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4 MEDIKVAL PICTURE.

The Russian Government has resorted to an
effectual method of stamping ont Nihilism.
Whatever is done, whether by the secret So
cieties or by the secret police, is done in the
dark. The press is forbidden either TO criti-
else the conduct of the officials or to publish
the news of the day. Revolutionary placards
are torn down and seditious prints seized be-
fore they catch the eyes of the disaflected
classes. Silence implies inaction, and iDaction
the nOn-eXistence of cOnspiratOrs. Hearing
aud reading little that is new, the credulOus
townsfolk would find it easy to believe that
the formidable rebellion against the Car had
been suppressed, were it not for one sign.
That sign is the torch. During May there were
1,73O CONGREGATIONS, and in six months the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-07-11
ufEsLIUGHTER is i SPORT

The time seems to have come for the public
70 demand that the pistol shall not be used
rs q TOW. The Chinese celebration OF the
Fourth OF July, Of which we hear so much
nowadays, is a trihing evil compared with
the practice that has grown up OF using
pistols for amusement and allowing mere
children to play at the game OF lie and death
in this way. Three persons were killed III TINS
city on the Fourth OF July by the careless fir
incof pistols, and Mr.. Seymour perhaps came to
his death in the same manner. On the same day
no less than fifteen persons We're wounded by
pistol shots in this city and Brooklyn. Bat
the diversion of pistol-shOOung did not
begin and has not ended with tie an
niyersary Of the Declaration Of hide
pendencc. The death of Mr.. Seymour
has been the means Of directing public
attention to the fact that great deal Of
shooting has been going on around the Semi
nary grounds. Ball cartridges have been used
when the sportsmen Of that vicinity wanted to
knock over a cat, and blank cartridges when
the object was merely to make "a bar
barous noise, as seems TO have been
the case with the young student who
fired his charges of powder out Of the
windows Of the Seminary itself. On Wednes-
day night last. nearly week after the
Fourth, a boy ten years old, living i'll the
upper part Of this city, was dangerously
wounded by the accidental discharge OF pis-
toll in the hands of one of his playmates.
This is simply horrible. There are dangers
enough to life from disease and accident, in
great city, without making the very sports Of
children dangerous also. The right of the
people to bear arms cannot be intringed, and
every man who thinks it necessary to
keep revolver for the protection Of
his home against robbery or violence can
have it. But the strict enforcement of the
regulation which requires every person car
rying pistol to have a police permit
10 do so would do much to correct
this growing evil An active public opinion
would do more Any parent with the ordi-
nary instincts of humanity should be ashamed
TO endanger life by allowing boy to
have murderous weapon; and any man who
fires pistol i'll Il crowded city, ex-
cept in defence Of person Or property
commits an outrage. 1t is idle to talk of care
in distinguishing between ball and blank car
tiidges. Blunders will happen. The only
safety lies in avoiding the possibility Of
blunders which so often prove to be bloody
crimes.
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The Sultan will now have to learn that ne
NAV carry out the will of his protectors but
must not indulge in the capriclous exercise
of power.
All the labored arguments of Southern Sem
ators to prove that the temper oil the peo-
pie of their section is fair toward
men of all parties, and that the charges
of intimidation, social oppression ana
even brutal violence toward Republicans
are false-all these fall dead beside one such
utterance as is reported in our Washington
dispatches Mr. Swails is a coored man,
now earning his living as n Treasury clerk
in Washington, who was driven from South
Carolina by the Democrats. No one has ever
been able to discover that his arrest and Dan
ishment were caused by any crime but that OF
expressing his Republican sentiments IN the
community where he lived. and seeking TO keep
ND the organization of his party. But the
spirit that drove him into exile is fully eX-
posed by the Outcry which has just gone
up from the Democratic newspaper at MS
home when n rumOr crept about that ne was
coming home. This newspaper said that II
Mr.. Swails did so he would return "at his
"persona! peril" "The white people" OF
Williamsburg County, it seems, "vlll rot per-
init Swails to return here TO live" One con-
cession this Democratic organ was Wiling 10
make. If Mr.. Swails merely wished to stay
long enough TO arrange his private affairs,
the Democratic County Committee might
demand of him pledge in writing
"glvmg the exact time within which
"he will leave for good, and beyond which he
"will not be allowed to stay" Again " II
che declines TO state his purpose,
" the public should be made aware OF
1.-THE fact. If, after this, he
makes his appearance, he can take
"the consequences of his act" The reader
may we'll rub his eyes and ask himself
whether these things have actually been said
10y a newspaper published III a free country,
and i'm the United States At that. And yet
Southern statesmen grow indignant if their
people are charged with making a barbaTous
warfare OF politics.
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THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

ToDrIGN.-Tbe remains Of the late Prince
Immortal were transferred to yacht yes
terdav for CONVEYANCE to WoOlwich ==
Canada is raising four per cent loan
in London. - England and France have called
ON the Snltau TO give the Khedve the authority he
recently withheld - General Wolsey has ar
rived in South Africa. -= Mr.. Chamberlain NJ. T.,
has published a letter ccnsuIing the Marquis OF
Harrington
DoMEsuC.-There is a panic at Memphis over
the yellow fever; there was one death yesterday
and several new cases. -- The French war ships
arrived at Newport yesterday; visits oil cour-
tesy were paid and salutcs were fired. -=
The Government is fearful lest illicit distil'ine
revive in the South, now that there rs 10 money to
pay deputy-marshals -= -Four hundred mem
bers of the Dodge family met at Salem, Mass yes
terday the family WAS claimed TO number NIL
lion. --= Five more Of the races of the Saratoga
regatta have been successfully rowed.
CITY AND SUBUlBAN.-Thc Hebrew Council al
iourned yesterday, after adopting resolutions look
inr TO the establishment Of agricultural colonies.
60 Professor Chandler thinks New-Nork IN no
danger from yellow fever. = Officers OF the
Manhattan Railway Company deny that the subject
of reduction OF fares has been considered --
Beata. Florida Loulauier, Brunble and Disturb
ance were the winners al Monmouth Park Magnet
ism was cut down = Gold value of the legal
tender silver dollar t412l2 grans) $40 cents. --
Stocks more active but irregular-generally lower,
and closing teverish.
TUF WEATHER.-TRlBUNE local observations IN
dictate clear and partly cloudy and cooler weather.
with chances OF lgdt showers late In the day.
Thermometer yesterday: Highest, so; lowest
20; average 1sl20.
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r1Lr1RLE NEW LE1TrPES.

In carrying ont its unvarying purpose always
to furnish the public not only with the latest news,
but with fresh and timely information upon all
matters Of current interest, THE TRIBUNE has in
preparation several new features which cannot
fail TO prove of great value to its readers.
The deep interest which is now felt all over the
civilized world IN the rich mining regions of the
West bag induced THE TRIBUNE to send two special
correspondents to those regions, where they are
now carefully gathering material for
series Of letters. the publication OF which
will shortly be commenced and viii be continued
for several months. They will embrace dcscrlp-
tons Of the country, of the mines and of The peo
pIc; and the most trustworthy information obtain
able as to the actual mineral wealth of the varous
regions The absorbing interest and great imp0r' ance
of the financial question in our National politics
have also prompted the preparation Of a series of
papers on the \ j Of he Money Question, which
Will be commenced soon in the several editions
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or twelve weeks. These articles viii treat the
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PUBLIC OPINION.

One of those unrcconstructed women Jen
Davis Is so proud OF has not only lett him handsome
propcrty-two large plantations ANA an elegant VIA
but she has died-lCiucinnau Commercial uldJ
If Mr.. Tilden is to be displaced, II the 0id
ticket bchetded. then an entirely lew one mus 70
RECONSTRUCTED. 10 must represent hand money, uomo
ru. and administrative reform. IL the Democracy WIS
at all this the direction OF its policy and IL II ponce
whch most effectively excludes Mr. HendricAs'-ti'o"
willie Post (Dem)
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CURIOUS CAUsF FOR DEMOCRATIC GRATITUDE
IL IIndl

That the Democrats have not attempted anu '.
probably never intended do ali the dreadui 'ne S
which Messrs Chandler and GOrAam easulSd Us ."I,
were gong no do is PLAIN enough. But the way la
winch these charges nave been dism0Yed ma SVe
nothing 10 maze people willing or READY TO see ~ an
brsrctes az ma Government Democratic hanus', "a
he contrary We believe very large proportion o o
49,, Democrats themselves nav 80.
inpS their stars uunng the past three mouths 'u"'
thcre IA A Republican President.
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Captain Eads reports the final success OF
his great engineering work at the mouths OF
the Mississippi. The jetties are practically
completed, and the result is approved by the
G. government officer in charge. This closes a
brilliant and useful achievement.
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DIR. Howard Crosby, in a letter We print on
another page, gives some striking facts re-
specting Jacoi, Berry, whom Governor Rob
inson has just pardoned, and declares that
the Governor by this and similar acts, &" shows
ga determination to thwart every effort OF
"the Society for the Prevention OF Crime at
securing the good order of the city"
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The intelligence now reaches Us from the office OF
The Horid newspaper that the disgracefui election
frauds of Sos wera perpetrated by repeaters who
like a sea of glory were spread from poll to poll,
and that they were mot organized lorthe benefit of
Mr. Seymour who was the Democratic candidate
for the Presidency, nor of M Hoffman, who was
the Democratic candidate for Governor OF New
York nor Of any Democratic members Of Congress,
but solely and absolutely for the benali. OF Tweed,
then a candidate for the Office OF County Supcryi-
sor in opposition to the late Mr. john Winthrop
CHAMBER, who was running as an Independent
Democratic candidate fof County Supervisor
against rweed." We also learn that when Presi-
dent Hayes intimates that election frauds similar
TO those of 1865 are liable to be repeated if the
laws for the protection Of The b.llot-box are re-
pe,ed. be is guilty OF wrctohod partisan iib aud
pretence unworthy the President of the United
STATES Aud 40 we emerge from the mIsrs and fogS,
the passion and prejudice Of contemporaneous fame
into the clear light of history. The delus0n that
Tweed was recognized Democratic leader with
larger power and more extended influence than
any other man in the parry; that he organized
frauds in the interest OF the Demo ratio
party, and that he prominent Democrats who were
not his active accOmpliccS and agents, mad guilty
knowledge Of and proited by Them gradually dis
appears. Tweed was Il very bad man. lie ran
against Democratic candidates and organized
frauds not in the interest of tho Democratic party
perish the thought-but simply in his own. And
tb,s appears when no has been dead little more
than year. At this rate shall find ont IN time
for the campaign of 1850 that be was really Re
publioan all the time he appeared 10 be running
the Democratic party. il seems, however, that
there were election frauds IL 1865. We dimly re
member TO have some time heard it denied.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-07-11

If the Jeanette had saledA few weeks earlier she
might have met in Behring's Strait Professor Nor
deuskiOld, the Swedish explorer whom Russian ad-
vices reported there carly IN May, with Lis steam
yacht. the VEGA, in which he had skrted the
northern shores Of Europe and Asia. Nordens-
kj0ld should have reached Japan by this time.
The absence OF further news from him IL probably
occasioned by a delay at the Russian settlements in
Kamchatka The report of his long voyage past
desolate coasts and through frozen seas will make
a narrative Of intense interest So few undscoy-
cred countries remain upon this little globe OF ours
that the traveller who goes into untrodden paths is
sure of an eager hearing when he returns, from the
whole civilized world. 1t is pity Commander De
Long Is not 20 meet the Swedish explorer The
route of the Jeanette will be quite different after
she leaves the Strait from that which the VEGA has
passed over. but the American navigator might
have learned from the Professor much about tho
winds, currents and Winter rigors of the Arctic
Sea- which would be useful TO him. Although Nor
don5kj0ll has demonstrated the practicability of
getting vessels TO Japan by the Northeast Passage
not probable that commerce will make any use of a
route open only two months in the year. and skirt
inga dangerous coast wholly unproyidcd with
lighthouses and charted harbors. HIS venturesome
voyage may, however, stimulate the Russian Gov
eminent to make thorough scientific survey
oil It's Asiatic coasts, an undertaking il ought to
have set about long ago.
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pApID pROGRFss OF THE STILL HUNF
Nc, -, U,snat n 10 TAs Iad4G HapOs Johfaa' =,

IV1.htngt0n DtsDat,A 10 The IHdsdRdf0''s 1Vf -.
4 nrominent Democrat, known TO be trlehdiy
10 11idrn saws the sage OF Gramercy square W.,
Lion lar ,reaer strength IN the West han any Ia
na1iors Leaving Indiana out OF the can
.nasets Tn carry "A majority nt every vther "eS''AN
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-07-11

The demand which England and France
have made OF the Sultan. to invest the new
Khedive with the sovereign authority held by
his predecessor, is the most direct which these
Powers could have adopted to retrieve their
blunder in permitting the Sultan to reduce
the Egyptian ruler to the rank of a
Pacha intrusted with the government
of a province. AS shown in our Lon
don letter, this was in conflict with the
National policy of England, and might
be traced to Lord BeacOnsfeld's persistent de-
sign to strengthen the Ottoman Government.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-07-11

qhe labOrious and shocking methods OF sui
eide often resorted to are the wonder OF all
those luxurious persons who are constantly
asserting that if they were ever tempted to
take their own lives, they should do it in
some painless and easy way. The attempt at
self-murder reported IN our local columns to-
day is certainly one of the most extraordinary
on record. The mood OF the man must have
been desperate indeed; he was NOS only
anxious 90 destroy himself. but he adopted
for some reason, barbarous and most painful
manner Of doing il.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-07-11

If General Ewing accepts the invitation TO go to
Maine aud take the stump he may feel himself in
the awful prcdicamert of not knowing exactly
what party he belongs to. Everything he has said
and done IN Congress to make himself conspicuous
tends to identify him, not with the Maine Demo
Gratis, but with the Maine Greenbaekers. He intro
duced bills to repeal the Resumption law. TO destroy
the National banks aud replace their currency with
irredeemable legal-tender notes, to Gnln IA un-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-07-11

The Regents Of the State University have
conferred the honorary degree OF LID.
upon. Thurlow Weed. A few months ago
they conferred the same degree upon another
distinguished citizen OF New-I Ork-Peter
Cooper. The announcement Of this new
action will be received with pleasure
by the many friends Of Mr.. Weed
and the public generally. Mr.. Weed,
though never an ofice-holder. Las long been
identified with what may be called the
government interests of the State, and has
welded for many years a remarkable influence
in Our politics. He has always taken deep
interest in questions of education, and has
identified himself with many charitable and
reformatory movements. He has now reached
the period when such honOrs seem most fitting,
and the action.of the Regents will be regarded
with general appreciation as observed tribute
to a highly respected citizen.