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Show ABDUL AZIZ AND W1URAD 1 EFFENDI. Prince Joseph Lubomireki gives some intere.'ling details respecting tlie new sultiin ot Turkey, and eays tl,:.t all the brothers of Abdul Mc-djid, ilurad was the one upon wliom the most hopes were baaed. This was because ho had been tried by adversity. Kept in confinement for a long time by his uncle, he spent his time iu study, and obtained a better education than, any other member mem-ber of his family. He was thorough1' imbued with civilized ideas also, and in favor of introducing western progress pro-gress into Turkey. Ho writes French very well indeed, and probably knows English also, Bince he has an Eneliah wife. During a period of filteen vears Murad bad to remain at the or ders of his capricious uncle, and ( Prince Lubomirski gives somo do- ( mestic scenes to show what their relations were. When the sultan was in bad humor ho sent his nephew away from the palace, nnd ordered him shut up in the kiosk, where he was closely watched. Suddenly Murad would be sent for. "Why was it," said Abdul Axist, on one of these occasions, "during your exile irom the palace, that you looked so constantly toward Scutari?" Murad mr.de no reply. "I know," said the sulUn; "it i? because you expect some ont to come from Asia to dethrone me and put you in my place. 1 went of my own free will among the -nfidels, Minding to liis trip to Europe, but you tried to make people believe thai I led you about by force lam a Giaour, am 1 not? And you are immaculate." Murad still said nothing, and Abdul Aziz glared at him until ho trembled with fear for his lit'o. "And why is it that you never go out? You want to make people I think that I have shut you up. And why, hey ? Why don't you reply," he cried, angry at Murad's silence. "j am always al the orders of your majesty, but I thought it W;ia 1' rbiti-den rbiti-den for me to go out." "Xot at all! Go out! T;,ke your promenades in public: I order it." The next d;iy Murad went out in a carriage, anil had hardly relurutd to the palace when the sultan again jent lor him and said, sharply: 1 ou went out with four lnrses." J "Yes, Sire; they hitched up a gala carriage." "And you knew very well th.it I alone go out with lour horses. Yuu wanted to show by that you were my equal." i "Me, Sire, your iqual " '"Silence, and show yourself more modest in the future." A lew days later Murad received another order tj show himself in public, for public rumor said that the sultan was keeping him a prisoner, and be went out with only two horses, Abdul Azz then aecuieJ him ol going in this modest way to make the public think that he was not dlowed enough to live according lo nis rank. For tifleen years Murad was subjected to such treatment as this, and ho wrote his complaints to a sympathetic friend, who has his letters to-day. Late ly he gave way to despair, and was prtpaung to flee from Turkey when taken out of his bed by force and pushed upon the tluone. Abdul Ham id, the second son living of Abdul Medjid, is now heir to tue throne, and there are three oilier biuihcn?. Yoiissouff f ziediun Etlendi, tliu 60 n uf Abdul Aziz, is therefore lotirlh in the line of succession. succes-sion. Cor. X. Y. Tunes. RAILROAD NOTES. Butwicn April '2-2.1, and Juiip 10th of the present year, the shipments of grain Irom tlie northwtsl lo tide water were l2S,:o,zl, aUmt one half of which was carriitl by rai' ami onc-bnlf by lake. Thi.i is mainly the remit ot the- experiment with very low rail rates, which have diverted a larye shure of the trallic from the lake, ai,d given the railroads all they can manage to do. Heretofore during dur-ing navigation season the loala have shipped the bu'k ot the grain to tale water; but this season's experience enn hardly tail to lead to the adoption of competing rail ral' 8 in future. The Railroad h'.iztte ot tho 2;id of Juno reports o'S7 niilei nf new railroad rail-road computed in the t'tiitid Slates in ib70, againblt '.',1'2 mil, -a reported for the same period in l7'i. o70 in 1874, and 1,'J71 in KS8:l. Xurthwedem travel is said In be greatly stimuli ti d by tho lower through rales to the vA, which is decidedly a good tiling lor the northwestern north-western railroads, which maintain their ratts and make a profit, wlulu the lines lo tho enal carry for k-s than COft. lt ii!rc:atl eotiifii'lition anil combination combina-tion is tlie subject of tlie tiiiid ul Mr. Charles Francis Ailatim, -ir.'s. paper-t on tho "slut and the railriiailn," iiiltlishf d in tlie July number nf tho Atlnt: M.nihly, which is icceived so tale lliat we arc unauie V give n tins week Iho attention wliicli it desi rves; for this is one ot I tin iinwt striking di.-cn-ionrt of railroad politics tint has yet been published, and i Mire to attract general allentnon. In railroad rail-road liusineri-i, Mr. Adami cnncludet that competition that is, a general competition a Meeting all liallic s imiiOiwihlc; that the iirtual competition competi-tion compelling undue reductions ol rates at some places which nra recouped re-couped when possible by adding to tho ratm a1, other place.-, catisen great irregularities and entire uncertainly in rated which ii tieit to iiiHiiflcrable; that tho only practicable rt iiitdy lor this condition ol allairs is combination actual nnd a .knoivledgeil monnpwly in railrnnd tranpoi'tuion; I In I rjflbrU to lonn mn-h a combin ition, thougli they have failed her to fur u-and u-and may not succeed until after much moro experidenco in disastrous coin-)elition, coin-)elition, must linally be hiiccci-hIu!; aud that such combinations, having respoiiHiblo head-, and acting with publicity, re to Im wdmim! by tho commnnily, which will find its protection pro-tection against cxt irtion i it Iter in public opinion, which now tuercisi b ii powerful i Heel, or in legislation, which can ho made ctl'.'dive iu (ace of a combined syHtem of r.iilr Is much more eauily than when ib aling with what wo may call the preaent clitios of railroads. Uailroad (iU'.fte. Thokk wiveH of lager beer thinkers who celebrate tho prowt kh of their husbands in Mowing iiwny from twenty to sixty glasses oT lager a day, aro doubtless faithful Ppotifus; but wci cannot call them wise ones. Due wilu tills how her lord swills down fifty or sixty glasses a day, including schooner nearly Ihi ieo tho ordinary glum and when alter hisday'H labor In accomplishing this feat, ho gets homo, they logelher drinking two or three uarlmunK, and yet ho in an miher us a judge. I ho mini who does that may ho a loving husband, hut he is prudent neither as to bis heallh nor us to his money. I lis sixty laeers cost him three dollars u dav, 1 widen what ho drinks nt homo. And, leaving his pocket out of the account, no man ran get rid of lour or live gallium uf lager a day and keep in (inst-clasn or even Hocond-cla-s trim. His inordinaI thirst will folch him wmio day; and yot wo nre no enemy ol Uttur. Xtm, |