Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 13, 1875, Page 4

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: TUESDAY, JULY 13, 1875. TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. BATES OF RUPACRIPTION (FATABLE IN ADVANCE), Pontage I'repnid at thin Offiee. 200 [ Worklr. | soar....8 1.0% Pl SIGI0 | Frecrnlogoirs £:08 Bunday Ten euptes, 14.00 double 3l Parts of s yesr at the ssme rato, ‘WaxTED—One active agent In each tawn and village. Bpocial arrangemonta mada with anch, Bpecimen copies sont freo, Toprevent dalay snd mistakes, lin anre and gise Poat-Office addrees In full, including Statoand Cotnty, Remittances may be made either by draft, espress, Post-Offico ortler, ar {n regiaterad letters, at onr risk. TERNS TO GITY BUDSCRINZRS, Dally, delivered, Bunday exceptert, 223 centa per week, Danly, delivered, Bundss inchuled, 30 cents per week. Address TIE TRIBUNE COMPANY, ~ - Corner Madison and Deatborn-uts,, Chicago, Iil, TODAY'S AMUSEMENTS. TOOLEY'S THEATRE—Randolyh «(zost, betwcen Clavk snd Lafalle, Engagement af tho Union Bquare Cowpay, ** Tho Two Urphaun.” ACADEMY OF MUSIC—Ilalsted_sireet, botween Manisn aud Monroe. Madatno Blancho's Statue ‘Axtists aud thie Pracger Fanilly.” McVICKER'S THEATRE~VMadison street, betwoen Dearborn and Stuto. Duprez & Lenedict's Siuetrels, DARNUM'A UIPPODROME—Lake Shore, foot of Washington street, Afternoou and ovening, TBOCIETY MEETINGS. KILWISNING LODGF, No. 311, A, T, &k A, M.—A special conmunication will be held thin (Tucsday) I'olllngxllll_v 3, at 7130 o'clock sbary, at Corinthisn 0.1, 16% Eant Kinziet, for work on ‘the Thitd De- gree. Vmwncurdhllflxnvll«lé"nl : The Chicagy Goibune, Tuocsday Morning, July 13, 1875. Greenbacks closed at 863, Joun D. Lrs is bo tried this week nt Beaver, Utah, upon the chargo of having been connected with the celebrated Mountain Mendow massacre of 1857, Lor eighteon years this terrible atrocity has been laid at the door of the Mormons, and it is expected that the trial of Lur will dovelop the facts and settle the question of responsibility for the slaughter of tho 140 men, women, and children who wero killed at Mountain Meadow. The Milwaukee distillers bave practiced a system of double-entry bookkeeping which the rovenuo oflicers have not as yet boen able to uso for the benefit of the Government, It seems that thoy have kept two scls of books, one of which wns for the inspection of the revenno people and tha othor for their own private use. The prosecuting officers are not satisfied with tho bogus no- counts, and are using their best endeavors to got hold of the genuine records. Their Inbors in this dircction are beset with many difficuities. . Wo print n card this meming from Mr. F18npack, the former proprietor of the St, Louis Democrat, in reply to tho apecryphal story which came from Washington relative fo the supposed purchose of his paper with funds supplied by the whisky ring. Mr. Fsnnack’s reply is just what we bad ex- pected, viz: 'That the snle of the Democrat was negotinted entirely withont referenes to whisky or tho exposure of the whisky frauds, in which Mr. Fisunacx acted an hnportant and creditoble part. Mr. Fisunack nlso says that Mr. McKre, one of the purchasing partics, was awply ablo 1o buy the Democrat out of his own private fands, and then have oll the monoy left that n man ought reeson- ably to ask in the worlil, In conncction with the Attorney-General's construction of that yyrovision of the nct of July 14, 1870, relatinng to the fime allowed for ascortaining dn'.nages to imports, he has also been called uyjon to decide whether the incrense of dutivs under the act of March 8, 1875, is to npply to merchandise which reach- ed the port of arrival prior to tho passage of tho law, but did not reach the interior port of destinntio n natil aftor the law went into .effect. The, docision is, that the incrensed tarifi-mto / s not to be enforced in such cases, ond thus valuablo relief is afforded to tho importer g of various lorge cargoos which ar- rived at tho ocean ports in timo to escape the extra ¢ uties, but on which it was sought to collec ¢ the new rates simply becausa the R00¢ 3 had not reached their final destination in t he interior. A pair of organs have been added to the machinery and apparatus of the ring which controls the disbursement of the county funds, The proceedings of the Board of Commissionors aro to be poblished in two papers, ono English and the other German, for tho purpose, not of informing tax-payers of tho doings of the Board, because they learn this through the newspapers of Chicago free of cost, but of farnishing the corrupt maojority of tho Board with subsidized or- .gons. We havo the authority of meveral members of the ring for this statement, in the discussion of the question yesterdny there woa no ooncealmont of the fact that the Board wants an organ. They hava got two of them, and the tax.payers must foot the bill. Tho thing nmounts to an out-and-ont donation of tho people’s money, for which no sort of return fs to be rendered ; a bare- faced and indefeusibls squandering of the county funds, At lagt Manx Bmentoax has gently set in seller Angmat, Corn was less activo and o lowér, closing at 631c cash, and 70¢ for August. Onts wero active and 1elower, closingat 600 for July, and 383c for August. IRye was quict and finn it $1.02, Barloy waa quiet and 2o lower, closing at 08¢ for September. Hogs wera active and casier; snles chiefly at £6.90 @7.20. Cattle wero in good demand and closed firm. Sheep wero inactive aud un- changed. Altogether the police row is not likely to havo an unfavorable issue for the public in. tercsts, whatever may be the final’ result. Tho inanngement of the police force has been wrotchedly bad ; that is admitted on all widen, nnd the responsibility lics somewhere Letween Remst and Sunupay, Now, one of these gentlemen is sure to leave as a result of the present difficulty, If the Donrd is sus. tained by the courts, they will not deliberate long about ousting Mr, Renmst; if not, then Mr. Suermay will have to give way. Inthe subsequent reorganization, managoment, and efliciency of the police, it will appenr who was really to Llame ; and, asmatters can't bo much worse than they are now, the publio is likely to Lo benefited by tho change either way. There is another large failure reported from London, with linbilities to n single firm of $3,000,000, ‘Thero are probably still others that will have to topple over before the end is reached, The London ZEconomist, edited by Mr. Baoenot, the eminent finan- cier and writer, explains these failurea on materially thio same grounds heretofore taken by Tue Tninvse, and points out that it is impossiblo to loan on call so large an ncenmu- lation of surplus capital as has been put out in London within the Inst year or two with anything like finonncial safety, The causes of the English failures ronch back to the time of the American panie and even before, and have nlready been fully explained in these columns ; Lut the failures have been delayed by the readiness of capitalists to loan idle money which had aceunmnulated in their hands owing to the decline in the foreign demand. EELLEY'S ABSURDITIES, The Mon. W. D, Keviey on Saturday de- livered an address at Youngstown, O., toa gathering of persons interested in some iron mills, which mills ccased operations soon after Jax Cooxe and the other wild-cat specu. lative jobbers closed their doors in 1873, Theso gentlemen want o return of the specu- lotive times, when railronds were built by bonds and not with money, and when reck- less construction companies dealing in bonds could pay whatever prices for iron that was demanded. Mr. Kruier profosses to baa statesman and to have a broad national policy motion the tonguo which he promised should wag to the grievons discomfiture of various parties high in official station. The fustru- ment of torture operates but mildly as yot, compared with the severo racking of bones which is looked for when Bueman com- pletely folfills his throat of exposure, He *Lina not yet touched the aprings which are to roveal the reason why the thieves and gam. blers have so long enjoyed absolute immunity at the hands of the Police Department. Let Minx put on the scrows In good earnest, and call forth some genuine howls of angulsh that will ba music in the ears of the crime-ridden com. wunity, He may not succeed in perpetuat- ing the useless Board of Police, but he can distinguish himself and earn the lasting gratitudo of the people of Chicago by making good Lis promise to exposa the corruption genorally belleved to porvade the prosent municipal administration, * The Chicago produce markets wers rather feverish yosterday, Mess pork wasquict and 20@30¢ per brl lower, closing at $19,25@19,50 cauly, and $10,30 for August. Lard was dull and 5o per 100 Its lower, closing st $13.12)@ 18,15 eash, and $18.18 for August. Meats were dull ana fo lower, closing at 8}o for shoulders, 113c for short ribs, and 11jo for short olears. Highwines were quiet and strong at 81.17. Lake freights were ateady 8t 2{o for corn to Buffalo. Flour was quiet aad strong. Wheat was moderplely active, aud 1@1§0 bighas, cloaing at §1.08f oash or which Le proposes as o remedy for all finan- cial evils. It was natural to expect that he would present some idens which thoughtful and intelligent men might consider and wight apply to tho state of tho country; but Mr, KeLeey had nothing of the kind, His speech wos a rohash of tho perversions of history, a bold disregard of truth, and a repetition of the projudices of intolerant and intolerable ignorance. Mo made assortions as of fact which were notoriously unfounded, and drew conclusions therefrom in & manner that would have Leen disgraceful in a school- boy. He represonted that the first decade preced- ing the issuo of greenbacks was one of freo trade. Tho tariff of 1842 was arranged for protection; that of 1846 was one arranged for revenue. This tariff proved successful, Under it manufactures grew aund prospered, nnd tho revenue far excceded the wants of the Government. BSo grest were theso revenues that the whole cost of the Mexican war wos paid without resort to any special toxation, In 1857, clevon yeéars later, so large hnd the surplus revenuo become under o tarifl whose average rate of dutics wns but 26 per cont, that there was a confession mnde by Congress that tho duties should all be re. duced. In the arrangement of the reduction, Mr. Sewanp, Scnuyren Courax, Mr. Monnrry, of Vermont, DEW1TT, of Massnchusotts, Mr, Henny WiesoN, now Vice-President, Hasir. rox Fisu, now Secretary of State, and Gen, Bavxs, and other Whigs and Protectionists, took part. On the passage of the bill, seven of tho nino New England Benators voting voted for tho DLill. The same year tha bill passed there wns a financial revulsion, and imports and tho revenue fell off ; the second year thero was o partial recovory of business, and in 1859 and 1860 the tariff of 1837, which had so greatly reduced the rates of the tariff- of 184G, nctually produced the amount of revonue contomplated. But the country was on the immediate eva of a great war. The expenditures of the Government incrensed far beyond what hod been anticipated. Tho revenue in 1860 was insufficient, and resort was had to loans. The trouble was not the low rates of tariff, but the interruption to business cansed by the panic of 1857, aud the pending political disturbances which wore to ond in war, Son- ator Monrenuy, of Vermont, in a speech made sinco tho close of tho War, admitted that the period of the low tariff botween 1858 and 1861 was the most prosperous in the history of American manufactures, It was during this period that they begun to export their manufactured goods in large quantities to for. eign nations. Mr. Kerrer says that during this period the pooplo deluded thomselvos with the idea thhit their currency was based on gold, and that this period tests the result of hard money. The people were not deluded with any such idea. They Luew it waa quite the reverso, 'The paper currency conaisted of the issucs of notes undor the laws of thirty. four differcnt Statea, The New York, New England, Ohio, Louislana, and Indiana bank- notes were good, and were equivalent to coin, and these banks remained good until they wero abolishod by Congress in 1862, ‘Uhe other bauks wore mostly wild-cat insti. tutions; thoir notes were not redesmablo ; many of them were located in the wilder- uess, and the ‘* curronoy” of that day, in. #tead of being s hard-money ourrency, was dopreciated, and circulated at pricos ranging from 90 to 60 cents on the dollar. 'That was not a hardamoney porlod by any means, The noxt charge is that wages wers low and omployment scarce in 1857 after the pania of that year, But before the paunio omploymont was abundant and wages good. Mr, Kzrrey caunot rub outthatfact. Aftor the effect of the panic of 1857 had time to poss off, there look placs throughout the Unitod States a rapid reouperation and im. provement of times, Our manufacturers made a fresh start, not. withstanding the tariff only averaged 19 per cent and there was & very large free liat. ‘They produced under that low tariff not only for the home market but for export. But Low is it now in the matter of wages aud en. ploymont after fifteen years of high protec. ‘tion aud inflated, doprocisted currency? As Kmurax sopressats Iy wages in 1878 have e 1} Leen reduced one-third to onc-lnlf, whilo thousands have been thrown out of employ- ment; the workmen are reduced to poverty and want, ronming from place to place begging food; machinery is idle; furnaces, rolling mills, mines, and other property des. tined before another yonr to pnss into the hands of thé Sheriff. This is his own pictura of tho results of fifteon yenrs of high protec- tive tariff and of n dopreciated paper eur- rency. The * era of prosperity,” according to Mr. Keniey, begun with the issno of greenbacks ! that is, the period of an awful war, That wns the period when wo were addinga million of dollars to the natioual debt every day, and were burying on an average 20,000 of our young men, North and South, on the battle-ficlds overy month, 'That was the po- riod when two millions of men wero with- drawn from productive industry, and the country was engaged iu the work of national destruction and nnnihilation, That wns Mr. Kewrex's period of * unexnmpled pros- perity,” because money was **chenp,” nnd productions searce, and prices high. Wo «question whether thero is n sane man in the United States besides himaelf who will claim that the period covered by tho War was not ono of horror and lesolation, of individual misery and suffering, and of gen. eral loss and destruction. Whilo all man- kind hailed with gladness the return of peace and the closing of thie bloody and destructive scenos of desolation, lhere is this man pro. claiming that the period of the War was one of scarcity of production and high prices, and therefore the most prosperous that tho country had ever been blessed with. It is truo that in theso days fortuncs were made and proporty accumulated by the few, but these protits were stained with the blood of the men falling in the War or dying in tho hospitals, Ho claims that it was prosperous because persons owing debts paid them with currency at #0 fo €0 cents on the dollar; that in this way hundreds of millions of bLonest debts were sponged out; and, while he cannot hope for another civil war, he insists that the groen- back shall be ngain watered and reduced in value Ly inflation until, with legnl-tenders ‘worth 50 cents in the dollar, the indebtedness of the present day may be ngain obliterated ! 'This iu his ideo of good times and commercial prosperity. Noxt to tho restoration of pence ha insista that the distress of the country has been due to contraction. Unfortunately for his argu- meont, there hns been no contraction inthecur- roncy since 1866.'67. Theorginal issuc of logal- tenders was $450,000,000,0f which$50,000,000 wns temporary by law. Since then, for every dollar of nationnl curroncy withdrawn, there hins been sevomal dollars of other curren- cy issued. Moreover, the currency has been oxpanded by tho increaso in its value, The volumo of mouey, if computed by its value instend of by the number of its pieces, is ox- panded cr contracted by the rise or fall in its purchasing power. Four hundred millions of groenbacks worth 50 cents on the dollar aro really only 200,000,000 of par dollars; but the samo number of notes worth 90 cents on the dollar are oqual to £360,000,000. Every 1 per cent ndded to the value of the §750,000,000 of currency now afloat is an expausion af the reol valus of that currency of $7,500,000, and the currency of the coun. try hos been actually expanded sinco the ‘Whar in tho proportion that its value on the dollar has beon incrensod. The talk of con. traction is thus shown to be an absurdity, negatived by thd facts, and contradicted in every sonso. CANADA AND GREAT BRITAIR. We have already mado referonco to Lord Duerenin's specch at the London dinmer given to him, viewing it in the light of the criticism which the Standard printed. But having defonded tho Governor-General of Canada in his statement that the United States Government has no notion of any at- tempt to forcibly annex tho Canadng, we cannot agree with him inhis opiniou that the destiny of the Dominion is irrevocably fixed nsa part, or province, or dependent of Great Britain, The fact is, the attachient or con- nection between Canadn and Great Britain is only sentimental, and the Canadinns have, to oll intents aud purposes, an inds- pondent political entity. They exercise not only the privilogos of an indopendent local Government, but, with » single oxcep- tion, the functions of sovercignty. Except that they pormit Great Britain to nominate their Chief Mogistrate, whose powers are ronlly subordinated to the Ministry dictated by the people of Canada, they form a sepa- rate and distinet nationality, composite and Leterogencous in ita character, largely un. English, and with a strong national sentiment of their own which develops the atrongest opposition that is felt in Canada to a union with the United States. The stops toward Cnnadizn independence have been so gradual, and bave been takon with o much good will on both sides, that the British have failed to appreciate their full extont and importanco. A brief enumeration of Canada's reserved powers will show how complote the severance has been. Canada has hor own coinage and monetary systom ; aho not only makes her own money, but Las adopted the American standard of coin value and decimal system of dollars and cents, and rojected the British system of pounds, shil- lings, and pence ; she has her own postal system ; she fromes her own tariff and oxciso law, without any regard to Great Britain's schedule, and levies the same duties on British goods as on the products of other nations ontirely foreign. She does not con. tribute one penny to the support of the Home Government by taxation or otherwise, Tho public lands of Canada do not belong to the British Crown, but to the Dominion. Tho Canadians have thoir own Parliament, con- sisting of an Upper and Lower Houss, and mako their own laws, Thoy have their own Judicial system, which was was rocently ren- dered entirely independent by cutting off all sppeal to England, and making the decisions of the Canada Bupreme Court final, They bave thelr own military system; the last Dritish soldier was withdrawn from Canada some years ago when the Dominion was es- tablished, Canada docs not permit England the right of drawing upon hor for men or 1oney in the event of a foreign war, In these and all other essentials of sover. eignty oxcept the one we have named, Cana- do is absolute and supreme, Her factitious velations with Groat Britaln glve her some advantsge, such as the use of British capital on peculiatly favorable terms, There are also somo disadvantages, such as the danger whiok Cauada suffers from attack whenever Great Britaln shall becoms involved in a for- ‘war,—partioularly if war should occur be- tween Great Britaln and the United States, On the other hand, hor relation with Great Dritain onables her to demand asslstance from the Homa Governmend whansver Canada herself geta into any trouble. Thua thero are ndvantages nnd dislvantages in the present nominal conncetion with Great Brit. ain, and the doubt ns to which proponder- ates is probably the slender thread on which this conncction hangs. The population of Cannda is far from being entirely loyal to Great Dritain even in foeling. About one. hnlf of it only 18 thoronghly British ; tho Irish aro not friendly andthe French are alien, Thoro is, therefore) no groat strength even to the sontimental attnchmont which nlone exists between Canadn and England. It is not likely that the time will bo long delnyed when Canada will demand the privie lego of choosing hor own Chief Mngistrate, now appointed by tho British Government; nnd when the demand is mnde England will not hesitato a moment about granting it. The Canndinns are rather fattered as yot by hav- ing n British Lord sent to live nmong them, particularly as he cannot in any way interfero with the laws or the people. Dut the growth of Republicanism and national feeling will probably obliterate this relic of aristocracy before the next political generation comes on the ficld. Thon all color of British rule will bhave vanished, and Cansda will be a scparate and iudepondont Government in name ns well a8 in fact. Lord Durrenin's talk nbout the destiny of Canada being unalterably fixed ns a dependent of Great Dritain was, therefore, a piece of pleas. nnt and harmless sentimentality, cut from the same thin cloth which forms the union bo- tween tho two Governments, It will proba- bly last until the interests of the Canadian people suggest a final and complete severnnce of all bonds, and then it will bo done as quickly and peacefully as the successive steps 1o that end have boen taken Leretofore. Jject which has besn incorporated in tho Wis- consin platform, and in other platforms nlso, innot a mere empty genorality for politienl purposes, but the expression of the public in- dignation at the practice of a groat wrong, and the determination that this aystem of ox- tortion shall be suppressed by such n revision of the patent laws as will protect the inventor in his rights and tho public from the heavy oxactions of speculators, This is only a rengonabla demand, and, being & rensonable demand, the people are dotormined it shall bo concoded, It will bo the part of prudencs, thorefore, for the Washington politicians to give speody nttention to this popular de. mand. ————— If the Chicago Journal will examine the matter a little, it will discover that foreign merchonts and maunfacturers do not sell goods to American importers any cleaper than they scll'to other people. Merchants of nny other nationality can buy goods in En- gland, France, Belgium, or Germany, ns cheaply as Americans, Foreign gooda are soll in Europe to purchnsers at the market price; where tho purchasera were born or came from hns nothing to do with the price, The American morchant buye goods in Eu- rope, Cuba, China, Brazil, or elsewhere abroad as cheaply as any other merchant, but not cheaper. Ho ships the goods thus bought at the market price to an American port, pays the tariff theroon aud the cost of transporta- tion, and other chargos, and adds them all to the first cost of the goods, and on top thercof Iays his profit, Tho consumoer pays the whole prico— first cost, tariff and all, as a matter of course. And the domestie mauufacturer who maken similar goods sells them for about the snme price, so thnt the consumer pays substan. tially the same prico for domestic and im- ported goods of equal quality or grade, When he buys the foreign article he necessarily pays enough to cover the tariff which was ad- vanced to the Government by the importer; when he purchases tho domestio article ho also pays the oquivalont of the tariff tax; bat, instead of the money finding its way into the Treasury, it goos into the pockot of the protected manufacturor, We had sup- posed the Journal knew all this already, but it has o theory to defond which is in conflict with the facts, and honce it is not anxious to admit or perceive the truth, ——e THE BLACK HILLS SWIRDLE, Tho mining-swindle organ of this city is beginuning to hedge on the Black Hills busi. ness. Its correspondent has at last found out somo things which he ought to have fonnd before, and which T'ne TripuNz correspondent gavae the publicsome timeago. For instance, ho has found that the Indinm queastion has modified the programme of the miners; that the outfit of the Gorvon expedition has been annihilated by the military; that work in sev- eral of the miningcamps hns been suspended becauso the miners *‘do not desire to expend time and labor on their claims to have their property confiscated aud destroyed and their diggings wrenched from them”; that the non- appearance of the Sioux s an indication of their unfriendly spirit; that Prof, Jrunzy has Deen prospecting with theresult that apan full of dirt yiclds tAree-quarters of a centto thepon; that some of tho miners think the diggings aro composed of ** spotted camps,” or camps that aro unrelisble, ote. In view of these focts, and after conceding that there are several sides to the question, this corre- spondent wisely sums up by leaving it to cach ono ** to draw his own conclusions 88 lo tho tenability of cither position.” Editori- ally, the mining-swindle organ also takes the bock track, and commences hedging sgainst the probability of n collapso of this big Black Hills balloon. Says the A, 8. 0. We print another letter this moruing from our re- porter with the Dlack Ililla exploriog expedition. As will Le discovered by perusl, tho miners and the sclentiela with Prof, JenxEr's party sro st variauce rogarding tho richness of the “diggings." We refrain from expresaing any furihor opinion s {0 the dis- puted question, ute., ete, While this rocantation of the mining-swin- dlo organ will bo of no bonefit to the victims who have already started to the Black Hills under tho inducoments of its flaring head- lines and double-loaded misropresentations, its falschoods, its misstatements, distortions, and concealmonts of facts ; while it will not restore thom their lost timo and their money which has gone into the pockets of specula- tors ; while it will not make them any amends for tha cruel disappointment many of them aro certainly doomed to experience, it is nev. crtholess a matter for congratulation thae this sheet has at Jast resolved to make no further expressions of opinion relative to tho Black Hills until it Las definito facts to proceed upon, and that, after all ita misrepresentn. tion and falsification, it has at last been com- pelled to take the position which has been occupied all along by Tux Trinyws, But, having boen sent to the wall in thig swindle, what now rascality will it adopt next for the swindling of tho unwary? Senator TaunaaN may well cry: *“Lord deliver mo from my friends.” His friends colloctively placod him in the most embar- rasging position whoen they pat the shin. plaster inflation plank into the Ohio platform. It left him the alternative, ns p Presidential candidate, of repudiating the platforia and sacrificing the vote of his own State in the Convention, or of practically repudiating his principles and alienating the confidence and respect of the hard-money Democrats else- where. He chose to take tho latter horn of the dilemms, and gince then there has been a frightful buzz about his ears. An individual friond hns endeavored to come to his rescue, by writing an explanatory letter, aud Mr. Tuonaan is loft in a littlo worso plight than he was beforo. This explaining friend enys that he has uot abandoned his principles, but only put them away pending the campaign, and that ho will come out next wintor in tho Senato more strongly than ever in favor of a sound currency. That is, Mr, Tuonyan has hung bhis prineiples out to dry while he cul. tivates tho votes of an ignorant and dishon- ost rabble. If he conceives that men attain the Presidoncy by such a course as this, ho places & vary poor estimate on tho intelli. genco and honesty of the American peoplo, and wo beliove that ho will find himself mis. taken, rogatta wlll take placo on Baratogs Lake, All tho crews are now on the ground, sud en- gaged in stoady practice. The citizens of Sara- toga, and othors intereated in making tho racoes & regular part of the ‘‘scason™ at that placo, have done everytbing iu thoir power to insure the comfort of speciators and to provent the recurrenco of fouls or accidents, Tho course of each boat bas beon marked by Luoys, and it is hoped that there will bo no clashuing of any kind, The underatanding is that if overythiug doce not go off awoothly this time, Baratoga will be aban- doned noxt year, and the New Eupland colleges will try their mettle by thomsolvos—possibly at Norwich or Springfleld. Hence tho 1ntonss do- siro of the Baratoga hotol-meu for peace. Special arrapgements have Loen mads for the convey- ance of visitors from the towg to the lako. The supervisors have established a schedulo of rtes for omnibuses and atages, aud extra inducements hsve been of- fored to tho farmors in tho nelghboring country to como in wilh their teams and carry passen- gora. Yale, Harvard, Oolumbls, aud Wealeyan are the favorites; bot among the “dark” horees are some whoso color may yet be found at the winuiog-post. PATENT REFORMS, Among the planks of the platform recently adopted at tho Wisconsin Republican Cone vention s the following : That we dosire such & reyision of the patent laws as will reliave industry from the oppression of inonopo- Ues, and at the pamo time sscure to the inventor s fair remuneration, and fothe publio the benofit of the in. vention upon equitable terms, In spite of the efforts of the jobbars, the politicians, and the speculators to put it down and to ignore it, this protest against the in- juatice of tho present patout system is rapid- ly making itself heard and folt. It has now become 8 political question, and is fast find- ing its way into the party platforms in the form of a warning to the Wash- ington politiclans,—a warning which they had botter heed if they would save themselves from the indignation and wrath of the public, The prosent patent laws and practices are an opprossion of the whole community, They have been so de- vised as to onablo speoulators to flecce the publio for a lifotime by a system of legalized robbery, After an inventor dios, and some- times before, tho spaculators get hold of his patent, and by the aid of powerful rings and of members of Congresa they form a combi. nation, secure extension after extension, and then fasten it upon the public, How this is dous and how the public is robbed has been shown in tho case of the rubber patents, and more particularly by thd"'recont exposures rolative to the sowing-machine swindle, which has blod tho publio for yoars in the interests of a combination of speculators. Thero ars undoubtedly many patents which pay the in. vontors very poorly, either because the pa. tent s of little worth or beoause it represents an article of no great goneral value ; but let the patented article ba some- thing which must como into general use, somothing which peoplo cannot got along without, and immediately the apeculators will forn a combination, seize upen it, and procecd to fleece the community, The pub. lic now s beginning to protest. The feeling of dislike for the present patent lawe is growing general, and the domand for their revision and modification grows louder and louder. No one will deny that an fnventor Qeserves to be so protected au to reccive a proper compensation for the product of his akill and industry, and for the time and money he has laid out upon his work, but the people are determined that they will no lopger ba bled by rings of o latora controlling articles of indispensable daily use. They determined upon re. torw, aud if the politicians donot grant them the refonn, 80 much the worsa for the politi. olans, who will find they have no patents on thelr placss, 'The deslaration upoa this sube Mr, W. B. Conris’ card in Tue TRIsuXE ap- pealed confidontly and with renson to the repu- tation which ho hias borne 1a this city for more than twenty yeara as sufficlant refutation of the charge that ho was indirectly responsible for the drowning of young HanNexamp in the Harlem River. As we expocted and intimated in our fizst comment on this affair, all the per- sons accused of cowardice indignantly deny the ohiarge. Moreover, a closer Investigation of tha facta seems to relisve everybody of blame, Al the offlcers of the Athletic Club bave joined in s oard to the nowspapers, giving what they oall an wuaprejudiced aud uncolored version of the facts, showlng that the sad scal- dent waa bogond the power of any human agen- oy to prevont, The truth appeais to be that no- body was aware of Mr, Hanxezaxe's peril untll 1t was too Iato to save bim, with tho exception of Mesary, DzraNgy and 8TRASDUBGER, Who were themselvos noarly drowued iua valn effort to bold him above water. The fricuds of Mr, HaN- wexaup thought ho aud the othor men in tho water with him were indulging in a practical joke. It may bo eaid, theu, thst the life of HANNERAMY was sacrificed to the advanced Idess of bumor generally entertained it Amarios. ptien dobdodoy ‘Houzn has been found found nodding again, A Lincolnshire parson has caught Mr. Grap- aroxe, the ox-Premior, in & sad Blbloal alip. This lnguisitive parson finds in an article by M UraparoNe upon the Prince Coosort in the Contemporary Review the followiog: “This flerce light that beats upon s throne Issometimes liko the heat of that furnace in whiok only Dax- 121 could walk unscathed—too florco for those whose place it iu to stand fa ite vicinity.” The panson thinks that Daxixe was sufficiently ex- posed in the lions' don, without being immersed in the flames of that furoace, whioh in reality contained BuADRacy, MEauach, sud AVEDNEGO, aud most readerd will agres with the parson. At the same time, it is comfortiog to ordinary sleepy mortaly, sometimes caught uspplog, when great Hoxzu himself nods. g Woinx W, Baows, the Philsdelphia wife- murderer, was arrested under peoculiar arcume stanoes. Romores was t00 strong for him. He could not abandon the place where L liad lived 80 hisppily, and where e bad murdered a wife whom ha lovad, after his low fashion. 8o he reburued, aftar the first mad flight, to the nelgh- borhood of bis old home, a0d was takea by the polics. In Lis pooket wers found memossuds of inssne raviogs, describing the tortures be bad aulteceds Ko wiote that his heast was htvkea | that ha killod his wife in a moment of panaton, {oduced by jealouey; sud that he intendad to commit suicide, and moet hie Besme on the “shining shore.” Thore is moro than a sua. piclon that the roan dosires to work up publle nympathy in his bohalf. We know well suough how easy it ia to escape oonviction for any erime, however atrocious, if once *‘the ponu- lar hieart” bo touched. Tho populsr hoart, sad to rolate, ia full of weakuness, and ia essily in- fluanced by sentimontnliam. Drown doubtlesa knows what he {s about when he raves of his darling Besate and her white saconslon robes, and nalvely adds, *They toll me shols dond." . e B S The frightful consequoncen of going to s tom- poranca lecturo are illustrated by the fate of & Dubaquo farmer, While ho was away from his hiome, ho wan robbed of $1,360. It he kind been at s theatrs, tha papers which troatod Lincowy'a assagsinationas & punishment for attonding s play would doubtless bave ropoated thoir warne inga, His hired man had $500 stolon at the same time; but this will doubilosa bo rogerded a8 8 wld joko 1n England, where av sgricultural laborer with $5 would be rogarded as a curiosity, —— WHY I AM FOR GRANT AND A THIRD TERM, T (Ae Editor a7 The Chiraze Trib Cnicaao, July 13,—1, Boca of his experience in the oitice of Prealdent, which this thue must bave muude him capable and better able to fill the position and moet the neceasitics of the case, 2, Because It fs finpolitfo to hava an excited sni par- tasn sctimmag, ot sliort futarvals, for the sske of— spolls, chieds, ‘Tl‘. ueuuurlharu fano principle whatever involvad In_ the pending campaigni but the object of politi- cal partisans will bo posiiiun, and moucy for selfiah I-vllr‘l‘onl ouly, not for huuian good oud geniral pros- erity, P Yiecanas Prestitent Gnaxt, in spits of the money powar, will yet recogalze tlo necessity of tha working and {udustrisl classes for more currency, means with which to keep thamselves aud everybody employed ud that Lie will speak r.ght out aad {nsist upon a bet~ ter policy for the relief of the peoplo, 5. Decauna chuuglng oficers of Governmant, oxcopt for iil-tiealth, Insanity, or hopeless incompetetcy— which inclades dishoncsty—is of uo advantage to the people at large, either tinanclally or mormlly, All olamorers for mere plice sud power ara equal in vir- tue, equalin intelligence, or equally corrupt, G, Docause greater perfection can bo attuined fn all departients where jucumbenta sre cxpected and sl- lowed to remain indefinitely, and improve by steady fidelity and experience, 7, Becauss aliort terms of sorvice are mers Laits to mere time-servers wnd * hummers,” and frequent jn. vitations to plunder and stoal. Thura ara tany other roasons which can be given why I favor s third torm, Qoven WiiTLOOK, Rerry. —-Wo gratity Mr. Wairrook's desire for notorlaty by gtving publicity to bia letter, sad take occaslon to make a brief reply to his points seriatim, 1. The experienco argumont would apply equally wall to all Presidonts, 2. ‘Tho socond objection conld only be avoided by lengthoning the Exocutive term. There will bo & Prosidential oloction nest year uo matter who sre candidates, and it would bo no loss *‘excited or partisan” if GmanT wore running for a third term. 8. 1f thero fa no principle invoived in the pending csmpaign, there 18 no uecossity for violating & two-torm usage. 4. It {s cortanly & ourious resson for an in- flatfoniat to give for desiring GraNT elocted for s third torm that be {8 in favor of sound par money, but may beraafter *recoguizo the nocoye sity of the industrisl classes for moro currency." The fourth resson I3 decidedly misty, No ex- planation is given how watoring the corrency would give everybody smployment. It could producoe uo other offoct than to destroy a part of the value of every man's monoy in hls pocket, on deposit in a savings baok, or loaved out. The fifth and mixith ressony might be put for. ward in favor of clecting & President for lito, which would bo the same thing as having a Kiug or Emperor, The seventn: ditto; no reply to them is roquired, except to say that they are uu- American, POLITIOAL NOTES, The waste of raw materisl 1 Oluo contlnues. Thurman eposks in the hard-money reglon, and Allon takes caro of the soft spota. William Bigler is said to be more disposed than ho was to accept the Democratio nonina- tion for Governor of Penusylvania. Mr. Ignatius Donnolly has & fittle triumph in the pomination of Duell by the Democratio Con- vention in Minneeota. Fisher was the newspa~ per candidate, but not Donaclly's. “ Expansion or repudiation—which 7 aska the 8t. Louis Times, No matter which, for expan- alon will amount to ropudiation in theend. Thoy are convertible torms.—Alemphis Avalanche. The political probabilities portond & gathering of Demooratic chioftains at Saratoga next woek, and a aiscusslon of thoourrency queation as relat- od to party discipline, No toflationists need ap- piy. Frederick W. Beward, son of tho groat Becro- tary, le proposed for the Republican nomina- tion for Beoretary of State in New Yurk this fall, The ides is generally approved by the mewwpa- pera. Becretary Bristow's attention ia directed to the Whisky Ring on the Paocitlo Const, said to be 1arger and more wosltby thao those of Bt. Louis, Chicago, Milwaukee, and Ciuclonatl put to- gother. Mr. A, R, Wright, of Bloux Oity, the Demo- cratic nomineo for Buperintendent of Publio Instruction in Iows, refuscs to run. He believes theeducationalintereats of tha State would be bote ter subserved by tho re-ewsction of the Hon. Alonzo Abernethy. A friond of Mr. Morrill defeated s friend of Mr, Blaine 2 to 1 in & Convention which bad the pominatiog of a State Bonator ia Maiuethe other dey. Some of the weather-wise politicians try 10 show that there i3 great significance in the ro- sult, but othera say that Bisine is merely nap. ping. The New York Post hopes Gov. Beveridge “witl pitch his eloquence on a lower war-key" in auch spescher as he may make in Ouio, *than Lo did danng his spring tour in Connocticut,” Tho Post has obviously confounded Gov. Bover- Idge with gallaot Diok Oglesby. Gov. Beveridge did not take part in the Connecticut osnvass, ‘The Olacinnatl Timesnoticea tha throwlng out of Olio Democratic Presidential caudidates, and Bays the reat seorat of it is “the growing cou. viction that the Btate la lost to the Demooracy.” This 18 » true statomont. But as the Democratic caudidates disappear, possible Republican can- didatos from tho ssme State loom up inview, By thoe way, what has become of Senator Bberman? 1If thero ia an interasl plot to send to tho next National Democratic Couvention sn Ohio dele- gatlon headed by George H. Peudleton, with the {utention of nominating Bayard for the Presi- denoy, it is ot likely that anybody concerned would just now sckoowledge it. Wo may ex- pect, therefore, that for some time Tux Ciicaao Taisunk's Columbus corzespondence will lack confirmation, The communicatiun in question will produce some thoughifulness, however.— Cincinnati Commercial, The political situation in Masnachusette 19 said to be complicated, The Republicane have about decided to nomioate A. II, Rice; tha Prohibi- tionisis threaten to bolt and support Talbot, who was defeatod last year on sccount of Lisob- noxious temperauco 1e0ord ; sud the Democrats will probably stand by Gaston, ths present in- cumbent, It is characterutio of Massachusotts politics, in which' the sentimental eloment so largely predomiuates, that the Pomeroy case will be lugged iuto the cauvass, and, whichever way the Goveroor may decide the fate of the Loy-murdarer, he will lose some votes In conue~ quonce. When we have further said that Geao. Butler is keoplug quiet, suough baa been eaid o abow that the Republicans are in pretty guod conditlon, sud slmost sure to win, ke Blrewd observers cannot fall to have notiosd that Inaependent movements flourish beat when the Bopublican party is strongest. In regious where the Demociats have s large majority, thore is' little talk of punfying politics, or of dolug suything which would tend to deatroy party disoipline, An instance in heud is afforded by an address of tha Couservative State Come wittes ln Virginia, recently lsausd, whioh containg the following paasages * Naminallons through tho medinm of regularir-called aud falrly-aonatic tuted couventions shoull bo the rule, and the atsndard-bearors thue solected should recaive the individual support of the party. lIndepend- ont candidaten (otherwise than whon such shall bo tho policy, aa determined by the party for tho particular district) ¢ho 1d bo taught that the. voico of the parts, v 1 falrly expreszed in a uomluating conventin, .4 omuipotent, and lhat thelir ambition for jls:e snd position must be Lield subordinato to their party—i. e. tnowr cuun- try'sgood,” PERSONAL Tom Robertson left a posthumous play, entitied *““Australis.” Tha Brooklyn Eagle aays Tilton will not con. tnuo the fight. _ ‘Whst raise of salary does Elizaboth get? It 1en't menttoned yot. The bunko-stecrer i *Tho Granger's Guid Covington, Ky., fa noarly tatoxicated with prido over * s gonuine case of Asiatic cholera.” It is propoged that Frank Clynesact as roferos for Orover in bhis groat englo-act walk to Drooklyn. A Patisian advertisen to tosch parrots to talk nengs. 1lie specimans can swear like tho pirates of sll nations. Bohenck is again said to bo on the verge of marrying an Englinh widow, What will be the uso of his land-hook now ? Lyon County (N. Y.) claims & phosphorezcent shower, but several ressous e in its uame why it should not be belloved. Josoph Jones, of the Board of Trade, and dauglter, will sail on the Ohlo from Philadel. phis on Thuraday for Europo. Sixteon childron, beiween the agoes of 4 and 8, fighting drunk, was ono of tho ploasant aights at Hartford, Conn., tho other day. Chbarlos Feancis Adums recommonded nawapae pers to tho college-boys, He should not have dono it, for wo hiave applications enough. Dr, Leonard Bacon haa had anothor fall in the winter of hus life. Ha fell the whole longth of tho Stato-Houso steps at Hartford, Conn, Charloa Mathewn is going to Indis, and his frionds think Le'Nl have a Lot time of it. Bah! We've known sators who went to s warmer placo than that, 8he married a fellow with a black oyo, but all the ointmont 1n Yoronto would not ease the anguish of her brothers whon thoy sat down to the coremany, Senator Logan arrived at 8an Francisco yes- torday. 1o sfates thst ho Las no intention of takiog part io tho campalgn o Californis. He is thero oo buslness, Paria has turned the Iaugl on bully Cassagnao, hecause Cambatta will not fight him. Two can play at the gamo of pistols, but a cityfull can play the other Gambetta. ‘Tho grape crops in Ohio are raid to have suf- fored with rain, but Jorsey lightning snd goose= borry-rhubard champagne sparklo unconcernodly in their rospactive vessela, Anothor lady has attainod the digoity of cols lego ** Profeasor.” Miss Busan M. Hallowoll ase sumes tho chairof Natural History in Wellegay Colloge, Massachuactts, with a ealary of 1,800, Lydia Thompaon 18 coming over in April, but we declioo to sloken in advanco. Tho Miller- ites may have boon out only & season ortwoj almost avything may happon bofora April ta savo ua. Mra. Morrigan, tho allegod murderese, {s highe ly clated by Mr. Evarts’ ducluration that tho dise sgrooment of the jury is *s complote trinmph of truth." And sho never was a very sanguine womau eithor.~—Brookiyn Argus. The New York Sun says: **A phonographls outiino for the word ‘Bunbesms’ roads the eawme either side up." Curiously onough tho sama plienomenon 1 apparcnt in the vernscular, You can't tell which is hoad and which tail. The Bishop of Verdun, Franco, haa probibited any further apparitions of the Virgiv, Thore Liave beon enough of these things, and enough is as good as 8 fonst, Besides, it they got too common, domo Katie King oxposore will follow, Tommy Bhearman is on the ** rolliog deep,” under the stricteat orders not to grve way to his feolings. A swamped stoamor aad s disastrous. Iy high tide on the Amorican coast are mention= ed as tho lightest consequonces of his breaking downo and weoping. Among the thousand guests of 8am Bkinner's Btockton Houso, Capo May, are Col. Tom Soott and family ; President Grant ; Gen. H. 0. Pore tor, Obicago; Commodore Garner, John Hoey, Mr, Fargo, Bonstor Hendricks, Thomas Murphy, Postmaater Jewell, Becrotary Borio, and ,G. Washington Childs, of Phitadelphla. The extradrainary spectacle of Mr. Hart Jack- son in & base-ball uniform, etandimg {n front of a cigar-store on VanBuren stroet near tho bridge, attractod several mombers of the Union-Rquare ‘Company to tho apot, After whaking him for ten minutes without elicitiog & romaik, it was dis- covored that he waa & woodau countorfelt of the great dramatiat. Everybody says that ex-President Woolsey's Phi Bota Kappa oration at Hartford was a Kape patal thing.—DBoston Post, Phil What muast s man Beta maka such » remark as that ?—New York Oommercial Advertiser, There then! stop it1 Buch jokes are not Nu.—DBoslon Advertiser. Omega a botter one thag thac, or zets it thad you've not delta doath-hiow to your colomuo, ¢ The olothes found upen the rivor buuk at Dave enport were identifiad an belonging to Dr, Emile ius Godfroy, Fifty mon dragged tle river for two days wlthout suiccess. The body was not re- covered uotil Thursday eveniug, when it waa found In an sdvanced stsgo of decomposition nesr Council Bluif4, sitting in & Pullman patsce oar alongmda of Mrs. Aurors Besle, the blonds milliver, who was supposed to bave gone East to buy goods,—Local paper. *Two bad Chinaman, he buy woman for $300. One more Chinaman he want Liitle Chioawoman, and glve £500. Bbe no want Chinaman, Bho want me. and meo catchee and run away, China. man cateheo Hittle womau, take her back to bwl place, Blio mally mo, me mally she,- How you mally Melleau way? How mucboe?” The fond pair were escorted to the County Clerk's offico, n marrisge Hoense procured, and the twain mady one flesh by Jadgo Loudetbaok.—San Franciscd Post. The BSveclator says of tho revivalists et Eton: ** Mr. Moody scems to have delivenl one of hisleast eccentric addredses, very earnsit, and ouly u littlequaint, a4 whon Letold tho bo;'s that they might never meet him sgain on the shores of time, but thut they cortainly would in » place where there was no parting, if theyscted In socordance with the teaching of the Gospc’ How muoh would an average Etou boy bo trasted, we wonder, by the prospect of nevei- ending intercourso with Mr, Aoody in the etorust world 2" HOTEL ABRIVALS, Palmer Houss—Frauk Piorce, oston; 8, G, Iow*, New York: B, "Torcheyi: Now Orleans; 8. 4. Beuo: no more, Ho is now 3. Maddoz, Cincinnad; L. T, Dewey, Ban Frauchoo; I, H, Mudd, 82, Louls, W, l]'.-’fd"l. Otucinpati § M, 1, Walker, Ioufan- A, W el eabigion 1 T B ppi 3 J, W, Wt 3 U U Pooria; 1. 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