Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 2, 1875, Page 4

HE TRIBUNE. TAYAVLE I ADVANCE). thiv Ofitee, A ' Partaof & year at {he rame rate, WANTED—One netive agent in each town and village, 8peeial srrangements made with such. Speefren caplen sent freo, Toprevout dely and mistaken, ho sure and give Tort-Ottien sddreas fa full, incinding State md County, enuittances mny b mitde siiher by draft, exprecs Pott-Ofico order, or In registered leitern, at ourrisk. TERMO TO CITY AUBCIINERS, Dalty, deiivered, Kunday excoptad, 25 conts por week, Lasiy, delivered, 1 conta por wieke Addrass COMI'ANY, Carner Madf + Chicago, T, MOOLTY'S TII Olari ana gatatte, T Conpany . ** Tho Two D ADELPIT THFALLY Blonrow taudoloh atzest, hatween t of the Unlon Square florn strcet, coruer "BUSINESS NOTICES THE BVESING TOILET NEORIVI focting taers lom LTalwl's (Hloom of frous amocthiaest and taa temilar glow W stn tha te. nptotingl oy uots, :::m::m OV, ul.\nim:;;‘l:zlfhbkurh o, oven in the The Chicags Tribuse, 18708, Monday MMorning, August 3, Greenbacks on Saturdey fell from 88} to 833, ndvanced to 89}, nnd closed b 883, e Gronnd haa been lraken for tho erection of the Govornment Centennial building at Phil. odelphia, The Presiden terday issued a prociamo- tion announcing in fitting terms the death of Axparw Jonnsoy, dicecting the draping of tho Ixecutivo Mniusion and Departments, nnd ordering tho War and Navy Depertments to pay seiteblo lonors to the nawory of the il Iuetrions dead. Gloamy crop reporls are received from the central and sonshern portions of Tilinois and Indinoa, where thie heavy miins of the pest two or threo days have wmade terrible hnvee wrong tha half-harvested grain, One account P of nswollen river whose surface was dotted with wheut-sheaves washed from the fields 5 and from the scctions mentioned the advices show widespread destruction and dwnags sutfered by the furmers, An immense mass-meeting was held in TNyda Park, London, yesterdny, in hehalf of nmnesty for the Fenian conviets now lan- guishing in British Gungeons. Tho vast a5 semblage, numbering alout 100,000 people, ~ens prosided over by dois O'Cosvon Lowk, AL 1, who expressed tho sentiment that the Tonwn prisoners wero exiitledto npprobation ¥ather than ecensure. Resiolutions in accord with the purpose of the mesling were passed. It cost tho United ates Government the snug littlo sum of £27%,500,000, exclusive of the sinking-fund rey nent, to keep the muchinery in suotion during the fiseal yemr ending Juno 80, 1875, ‘Fhero was some good guessing done in this dircetion, Gen, Gan- rizry, Chairmin of the Committco on Ap- propriations, placed the fignre st $270,000,- U0 ; whilo Sccrutary Brisrow, one year Iater, aad six mouths beforo the year closed, esti- wated the expenditures at 275,000,000, which wag only $300,000 out of the way. Postmaster Aunorr, of Larnmic, Wyoming, hos been invoatigated by r Speeinl Agent, and tho result is a bad showing for the 1, M. He uccepted 8 monthly stipend of 100 from a lottery-schemer as n consideration for nou- interference with hiy mail, And for promptly forwarding it to Qmnha. Annorr represonts that he received the money for the payment’ of an extra elerk, necessituied by tho large awountof mail niatter incident to the lottery- rwindle, but tho Bpecial Agent ascortained that no such extra clerk was cioployod. The Larumie Postmaster will probably have ocen- gion to join with the decnpitated revenue officials in their indignant protest sgeinst swoeping reforms, Tho bonefit to the Lreasury Department’ nnd to tha country at large of having an honest, energelio, and efileient Chief of tho Seeret Sorvico is npparent from the summary of FEruen Wasanuun's work during tho month of July., ‘Thero wero anested two wnnufecturers of bogus coin, two **shovers” of thesame, fourdealersin countorfeit money and tho man who supplied themn with goods, threo “‘shovers” of counterfeit paper money (i, e., intlationists), and two plute printers, Desiden a lot of muterinl. In addition to this tino showing, an important capture hag just been efiectsd in St Paul, whero tho Secrot Hervico deteotives havo arrested s parly of bank-note counterfeiters, sceuring about $100,000 in spurions stuff, which would soon bave found its way into circulation. e e Tho new charges of frauds in the menago- ment of Indisn alinirs by tho Interior Dopart- mont will only tend to hasten tho investiga- tion into tho conduct of thut Department und vender it' complete. The later charges cer~ tainly find & prima focle confirmution in the disagreoment Dbetween the Department and tho Board of Indian Commissioners o yenr or 50 8go, which lod to the peremptory resigna- tion of several of tho most efliciunt members of the Board, Their action excited vory sorious guepicion at the time that tho gentlo- men who rotirod had msado up their minds that they could uot hopo ‘to socure on honest and fair sdministration of the Dopartment so long as their efforts wore opposed by Mr, Deuaxo. Ihe recent charges como in {he way of conBrmation of thia suspiclon, and, togethor with Prof. Manax's statemants, they demand tho most searching investigation, It would be much more becoming in Becretary Deraxo if, in- atoad of taking, the position that ho ought not to b requested to resign in tho face of publio eriticism, bo should give up his port- folio on tho ground that it would facilitate tho investifzation. Such an action would re- liove tho President of o serious embarvass- ment; but we very much fear that Bucrotary Dxraxo i4 not * that kind of a man.” The Chicago produce markets woro strong- or on Buturday, Moss pork wes active and n slindo firmer, closlng ot $20.45 eash and §20,66 for Boptember, Lard waoa in fuir do- waud and 100 per 100 s higher, closing at $14,20 cash, and $18.40 for Scptembor, Meats were guiet and unchanged, at 8}a for shoulders, 110 for short ribs, and 120 for short clears. Ilighwines wore qulet and stiong et $1.17@1.174 per gellon, Lako freights wero in fuir demand, and steady at o for corn to Buffalo. Ylour was more o' tivo and 10@180 higher, Wheat waa fn good spovulativa request, and fa higher, closing as §L.u3} oaab, and §1.03 for Baplembor, Corn wns netive, and closed 1o higher, at 71'c eash and 7ie for September, Oata wero active nad irroqulaly higher, closing at 5Ste casand diFfe for Augnst, Rye was quict and firny, at Koe for Aungust, Dincley was.in gond domand and 2ate higher, closing at ) nsked for Septewber, Hogs were dull and 5 10c per 100 1bs Tower, at $7.25@7.80, Cattlowero dull and ensier, Sheop wore quiet aud unchanged, Tho statetncut of the outstanding legal tender nofes and fractioninl currency shows the fulsity of tho general Democratio cliargo that the Government lns heen contracting the cnrroncy. Tho total amount i found to heo §116,456,020, When Congress, during tho Wnr and on the ground of dire neces. sity, authorized the issno of the legal-tonders, it mado a solowm pledge that tho totnl amonnt of United States notes should never exeeed §100,400.000, * Tho amount of cur- reucy ontstanding, including the fractionnl notes, iy netually $16,000,000 more than this maximuza Hmnit; and the outstanding cur. reney would have to be reduced by this amaunt beforo there conld be the semblance of achargo of ‘‘contraction,” At preseat, thera is an actual inflation of §16,000,000 over and nbove tho highest issue over con. templated by the Government in its direst necessity. HAYES AND SHERMAN IN OHIO. Wo print this morning estracts from speeches delivered Snturday at arion, 0., by Gen, I, B, Hsvrs, the Republican candi- date for Governor, nnd the Hon. Joux Suen. Max, one of the Gnited States Senators from Ohio, "Thoy sound the key-noto of the Ohio campnign. It is the ewrrency quostion, The isste has beeu mado fairly nud squavely in that State, Tt has been given an exceptional prominenco in the party platforms, and varis ous cireumstances liave combined to raise it above nll issuca of alocal character, The sitantion gives the Ohio eampaign o national significance, It ismob surprising, therefore, that Slessrs. 1laves and Sneryax should both have devoled themselves almost exclu- siveiy to the discussion of the currency, and their speechies togethier draw o notuble con- trast botween the firm, consistent, and hon- est attitude of the Republican party on tha one side, and the infirm, vacillating, and dis. hionest purposes of their opponents. ¢ Tho Republican speakors in Ohio during this campaign hava no opportunity to cater tothe selfish tendency of their henvers, and no oc- oanion to nvail themselves of tho easy sophist. ry of chieap moncy. 'They appeal directly to tho intelligenco nnd good faith of tho people, aud, if they stall be successful in this appeal, they will have achieved o victory that will be not only creditablo to the State of Ohio, but ono which will assure the ultimate triumph in this country of the policy that favors a sound cwirency and the conservation of the public faith, Gon. 11AvEs took occasion on Saturday to trage the contradictions and incousistoncics of the Democratic party in Ohio on the money question, nnd showed into what diro confusion and probable defeat this courso had betrayed them. Gen, Cany, tho Demoeratic candidate for Licutenant-Governor, is about the only man among tho leaders of tho Demo. crats who has dared to state frankly the true menning of their position on the currenoy. “With an absolute paper money,” he suys, **stamped by the Government, and made n legal-tender for all purposes, its functions as money are as perfect ns gold or silver can bo." “I'his is the financial scheme of the Ohio Demo- crats in & nutshell, It means the nnlimited inflation of o professedly irredeemable paper currency, doclured money by nct of Congress, nnd put ont ad libitum with formal notice that it is nover intondod to rodoem it. Fow much would such currency bo worth? The French nsaignats, tho shinplasters of the early American Rovolution, the paper “‘monoy " printed by the Southern Confed- eracy, mny oll be cited in vain a8 an indica. tion, Such “money” as Gen. Oamr aud tho Ohio Demacrats prapose would not rotain o titho of tho valuo of those samples wo have mentioned, and history hoa'demonstrated | Lliow little valuo thoy had. Gen, Haves has given somo insight into the maner in whick this inflation polity was fixed upon the Ohio Domocrats, Ol Wiri- 1AM Avrrex was formerly a bard-money Dem- ocrat. Senator Tnunuax said only last year in the Unitod Btatea Senato that *inflation of tha curroncy means that there shall never be any resumption at all." T'wo years ago the Dornoeratio: Convention in Olio which nominated AnLeN for Govornor said flatly that ‘it recognized the ovils of an irredecm. ablo paper currency.” The inflation policy wasg sprang upou the Democratic Convention of this your, end the men of the party with suflicient intelligence to understnod its dangers have not had sullicicnt honesty to repudiste it. This is tho situation, and Gun. Haves points out that it has produced the wildost confusion sud demoralization in tho party. There has beun a storm of eriti. cism, Thoro has been o considerable disat- fcction, and Gon. Haves snys that, if Mr, TuunaaN could got that Convontion together again, he would rout the inflationists, horsp, foot, and dragoons ; and that ** it now looks 0sif Gen. Oany might bo left almost alone bedoro the canvass enda.” » Tho utterances of Mr, Smemaax on Satur. dny wove ns cloar, consistent, and outspoken as they alwoys have Dbeen on the sub- jeot of the currency, As tho Chairman of tho Finance Committea of the United States Henate, his uttorsnces have a poculiar siguifi- cunco. He punctures the common fallacy about contraction, which rests upoa tho fulw nssumption that the amount of curren- ey needed cun be fixed by law. Thé resump- tion of spocie-payments would not be a con- troction of the ourrency Leolow tho necessi- ties of busincss, The paper ourrency would only bo rotired until it would pass st parin gold. It would then bo moncy, Gold and silvor would thon cowe into circulation, and supply tho placo of the rolired currency to exaotly tho extent that the demands of busincss require. Our carrenoy would then be like that of TFrance,and England,and Gormany, interconvertiblo with specio, and ciroulnting alongslde of gold aud silver. It would bo money with a fixed standard valuo, 1ike gold and silver. The poople would then be like the Fronchmen with his banle.bill, who didn't want the monoy if the bank had it, but did if the bank hpdu't it. The retire. ment of grosnbncke by their redemption ju spocio in the extent ta which thoy aro pre- sonted for that purpose will not be, therofore, o contraction of the currency in the senso generally undorstood. Gold and silverewill supply thoir place j if thero fsn't gold and sllvor enough, bauk-notes, redeomablo in gold, will be issued in ample quantity, and the country will ulways have a owreuoy of equablo valuo, which may be czchanged at tho same rato for commodities to-morrow ay yestorday, Mir. Buxmuan took up the finan. clal plauks of the Dewooratle Convention, THE CHICAGO TRIBUNZ: MONDAY ~AUGUST 2, 1875. and dispored of them ns completely a3 in the fallney of contraction, Al those planks lead to national barkruptey and repudintion, ‘Uhia is tho issuo to-day befare the peaplo of Ohio. Gen. Hayrs mokes several good pointa on the Democrats relotivo to loeal insnes in Ohio, To begin with, ho pointed out tliat the ng- gregate taxation in the Blato for 1874 wns §27,000,000,—n much larger snm than wns ever beforo exacted in Oldo, Ho traced very effectively the conneotion between tho Granay bill, tho'solid Catholie support of the Demoevatio ticket, and tho attacks ou the free-uchool system, Wo have already sct these forth, aml they will not be without their influence in determining the result of tho election favoraldy to the Republicans; bt the real issno is Money rs, Shinplasters,— Lionesty aud good faith against dishonesty and repudintion. Republican succoss in Ohio means tho former; Demoeratio succesa the latter, BENATOR THURKAN'S SPEECH. Wo print this morning so much of tho speech delivered on Saturday last at Mans. fleld, O., by Senator Tuumray, as relates to the question of finance. It will bo remem- bered that Senator Tuunxax s a Democrut, aul o eandidnto for the I'resilency, and n hard-money, anti-greenback, specie-paying man, Io lns opposed inflation nnd advo- eated specie-resumption in the Sennte during his wholo term of servico. The Obio Deo- cratic State Convention, led by PExprLETON and others, proposed and ndopted a green. back plaiform,—in favor of iswsuing green- backs to buy np the bonded debt, and to any amount that Congress may from time to time consider requisito; it also declared that greenbacks should Lo substantinlly the only carrency or money of tho coun- try,—gold and silver baving been super- seded by tho people's money. dr. T'auniaN was present at that Convention, ns wero also & nuwber of other hard-money Democraty, and he wos not allowed to re- monstrate, or object to the platform ; he and his friends were told that if they did not like it they might leave, That wns on tho 17th of June, aund, six weeks Iater, Mr, Tirensean mustored courage enough to at- tempt to explain Low Lo, a Democret of tho ancient faith, can consort with Bry, Burnen and the rag-moncy ndvocates. 'Thespeech is o curiosity, Mr. Tuunsay exvels Brospiy with the balance.pole. 1fis ingenuity, how- ever, is not new, 'The lojjic by which Lo contends that o man, who is n Senator and a eandidate for Tresident, mhy have strong convietions that a certnin line of policy is nlono cousistent with honesty, and at the samo timo bo compelled o vote for that party which repudiates his honest policy and avows iteclf in favor of the directly opposite one, is a8 weak upon his lipa as it has always been. - 4 Mr. Tucesay lays down nnguestionably the truo doctring when he daclares that an irredeemable paper currency, which neces- sarily must fluctnate in value, and lead to specnlation nud extravagance, can be of no Lenefit excopt to money-shavers und spocu- Intors ; nnd that tlie only honest currency is gold nnd silver, and paper convertiblo at par into gold and silver at the will of the holder. This, he correctly claimed, was consistent with the opinion and teachings of every really ominent political econowmist the world over, with the experionce of every commer- cinl nntion, and consistent with tho vicws of nlmost the entire body of tho business-men of tho United States, Alr. Tauraay showed a wise disoretion in selacting the audionce to whom he should stato theso sound, states- nmmnlike doctrines. Ho solected an nudience in tho north end of the State, Iad ho ut- tored mich things ot Cincinuati, it is more than likely tho £Lnquirer Democrats of that city would have hooted him from tho stand, and refused to lot him bo heard. Iis defenso of the Obio plaiform is ex- ceedingly wenls, 1o does not defend it; he donies that it means whot oll its friends in- sist it does mean, and what it can only mean according to any fair intorpretation. Ho folt the awkwardness of his position in denying that the platform meant what its frionds cluimed it to mean ; and therefore he ventures to say that tho greeuback wing of the party whick follows the Cincinuati La- quirer iy ‘' comparatively fow in number,” leaving it to be inferred that the hard-monoy Democrats of Ohio, who agree with himaclf, aro largely in the majority, Acknowledging his dissent from tho platform, both be- couse of what it contains and what it does not ‘contuin, ho declared that, neverthe- lous, boing o Democrat, he must go with his party, aud by no word or act can coutribute to defeat it. Ho ingeniously secks to escape any further embarrassinent Lecause of his wholesale dis. ngreoment with his party, by saying he will not aguin Lave occasion to refer to Lis per- sonal opinions ; but we donbt very“much whethor his party will tolerato any such pro- cecding, lo eannot bo silent if ho would, aud tho greenback faen in Ohio are notin n temper to hayo Lim wliiatlo thom down the wind with contomptuous references to their beggarly numbers, or stolid ignorance of what is known to all tho rest of the world, He will bo forced to swallow the rag-money platform, or dtop moking speechos showing that hard monoy and specio-paymonts are alune consistent with honeaty. Nor ean Mr. Tuunuan oscape the serious dilemma in which ho is involved by saying that the candidatos to bo elocted this yoar in Ohio aro morely Stato otilcors, who will have in no wise any control or voice in the dispo- sition of the cwrenoy question, and, thero- fore, that lssue is not presented at the clec- tion, No one knows better than AMr. I'nuz- AN that the election in Ohlo this fall is to dotermine whothor tho Demooratio party of tho uation sball in 1870 onter the Presiden- tinl election with tho Ohio platform of inila. tion and a pormanently irredeomabls paper currency, with an inflationist like Arrex or PrenpreroN for President, or a hard-money platform and a spocio-payment candidnte like ‘I'tLozN or Tivnaan, That is well known in Ohio, and the whole country is awaiting the rosult. I Avvex be clocted, then the Demo- cratic party ia to be rvorganizod as the great inflation party, and Mr. TuousaN cannot dis. guive tho fact that that s the iusue in Ohic this year. Smeae—— Binto officors and @ Legislature will be clocted in Kontucky to-day. There are two tickets in the fiold, as follows 1 g Offecrs Rl{:lh!lmn. Democratie, Qoveruor, Jobn M, Torlan, James . McCreary, Lt-Governor, Mobert Boyd, Jobu O. Underw An.‘rflln-nl. ‘W.0.0Go0dlos, Thomaa E. Mosa, %?lar\,l?fi %vl. li" %:(cllflu '1'7. Huw‘;h!rsmflh- 'y ., derry, amaes W, Tyte. Register, Teuten I’:{rh‘k. T. L. Nfle\‘m. ‘Tho importance of the election {s onhadeed by the fact that the Legislature chioson will have tho making of o United Blates Senator, to succeed StzvessoN, Kentucky is & Demo- cratio stronghold, and tho Republicans have not the slightest hopes of redoowming the State this year, Moreover, when the most that oan be espeoted is the reduoiion af & wajorily already too large for the party which possessen it, thoro in little encouragement to work for that end. As to*the Senntorinl election, that appenrs to bo & privato Democratic affair, Among the prominent sspiranta are Cerio- Gonpo WinLiass, who was shabbily trented in the Into Btate Convention ; Gov, Lesute, who in loath to fetire’to private lifo; Mr, Brok, who resigned his seat in the Lower Tlouse with tho expeoctation of being asked to go up higher ; and the presovt incnmbent, Senator Strvenson, It will be time onough {o canvaen their qualifientious and weigh probabilitics next winter, when tho Legiala- turo meets, ——— WESTERN UNION AND JAY GOULD. It has long bLeen known that Jay UGourp ontortaing tho ambition to control & vaat telo- graph system as a part of hiy comprehensive sehemo reaching from New York to China, 1o has au jusatinblo thirst for power ns well a3 nn inordinate greed for gain, 1fe is bock- ed by comparative youth, good henlth, unex- nmplod oucrgy, utter unscrupulonsness, and long sories of successes, His first atep 16 this end weuld bo to supplut Vanprroinr and the Vayoennur cliquo in the Board of Dircetors of tho Westorn Union Telegraph Company. Ho thought he had compassed this part of tho programme prior to tho last anuual eloclion of Directors, but he had over. cstimated his strength, It is stated that ho s owns 57,600,000 of tho 235,000,000 Western Union stock, while Vaxpenninr owns but 25,000,000 ; but Vaxpeupiur'’s frionds in the Board, who own $11,000,000, were Loostrong, and Mr. Gouwp did not succood for the timo being, It is understood that, after this tempornry defent, Mr. Gourp bought heavily into the Atlantic & Paciflo Telugeaph Comwme pany with the purpose of either building up o formidable opposition to the Western Union in ense he could uot control the lnttor, or of absorbing all competition in case ho should succeed to tho control of Western Union. A coupla of days ago thera camo an announco- ment, which doos not as yet soem to bo con- firmed, that the Atlantic & I'acific had beon lonsed perpetuslly to the Western Union, at 7 per cent on o valuation of $2,000,000 ; and now comes the aunouncement that Vax- prrmwr s rendy to sell ot what his Wostérn Union stock cost him, The indieations are, thorefore, thut Gouvrp is about to succeed, and will beforo long control a completo and absolute monopoly of the telograph business of this country, 3 This state of things may be confidently anticipated ns sure to come about sooner or later, uuless somothing unforescon intor- venes, if indced it has not como alrendy, When it does come, tho people of this conntry nnd the press of tho country will be in the power of an unscrupulous adventurer of & moro fabulous financial naturo thau Monte Clvisto, and disposed to oxercise his power with the single purpose of selfe sggrandizement. Tho situation will bo a sorious one while it lasts, and it will lost till a great popular reaction sets in and demands that the Government shall either buy the ex- isting telograph lines in tho county at their actuul value, or builld np a new systom, which <an bo done at one-fourth the nominal value of tho present lines. Groat DBritain hna «demonstrated that the telegraph systemn may Do suecessfully allied with tho postal system, thot tho business can thereby bo doubled, that rates ean be rednced ono-half, that mes. sages of twenly words can be sont to any part of the Kingdom for & shilling, ond that, instead of & monopoly and extortion, a telo- groph system may bo o great commercial and nationnl Dlessing. This is what will cortainly cosue if Mr. JAx GouLp possesaes himsell of the hugo telegraph monopaly to which he aspireca. ANDREW JORNSON DEAD. Ex-Prosidont Axvnew Jouxsoy died Shtur- day in Tonnessoo, from tho effect of n paraly- tig with which ho had been stricken on Fri- duy. To was born Dee. 20, 1808, and was in the 68th year of his age. His publio record is n remarkable one, At 10 years of nge lo was nppronticed to a tnilor, and worked at that business in Raleigh, N, O, until ho was 18,~tenching himsolt to read. With his widowed mother, ho moved to_Greenville, in Eost Tennesses, whero ho worked at his trada and morried, At 20 years ho was clocted an Alderinan of the town ; was Mayor from 23 to 28 ; a membor of the Legislature from 27 to 31; canvassod the SBtato as Presidontial Eloctor nt 82 ; elected to Stato Benato at 83 ; to Congress at 85; and, during ten yenars' continuous gervics, took an important nnd conspicuous part in legislation ; served four years (until 1857) es Governor of Tonnesseo ; wis then elected United States Senator for six years; armuyed himsclf on the sidoof the Union and ngainst Rebellion; was appointed Military Governor of Tonnesses from 1862 to 1865; was clected Vico-Presidont November, 18G4; inaugurated Marck 4, 1865 ; succeeded o5 President of the United States April 16 in tho sama yoar ; rotired March 4, 1669; and in Fobruary, 1875, was clected United States Sonator, taking his sent on tho 4th of March. From his election aa Villago Aldermon in 1820 to tho time of his death be wes con- tinuonsly in clective offis, except during the thx,o ho served as Military Governor, and the six years following the expiration of lus torm as President, Axprew JomxsoX was no ordinary man. Indeod, ho was an extraordinary character. "His succoss wos due to no advantsges of wealth, family, or ‘education. ‘lo was poor at the outset, and remained com- parutively poor to the end. He was thrifty and sparing in his expenditures. Ho was a mun of gront natural abilities, which made themselvos consgpicuous despite his illiteracy and want of education; they enabled bim to surmount obatacles thot were fatal to othera. He enjoyed tho personal confldenco of his immedisto neighbors, and of the people of his State, and that confidence had oven o widor oonstituency among the American peo. plo. There was one particular in his character that should naver bo forgotten, and which should serve as an fucentive to all classes, and especially to men holding publio station, and that was his inflexible personal honesty, No susplelon of any official turpitude ever existed of AnNpnew JounsoN ; and it waa to Abe publio faith {n hia intogrity that he owed the viotoriea which he gained in his contests in his own Stato. Axprew Jouxsox's publio career, of courso, renched its zonith in the Presidenoy, The oxtraordinary ovents of his Presidonoy avo frosh in the memory of tho publia, He suc- ceedod Mr, LicorN under the awful and und precedented circumatances of assassination. e succeeded at the close of along bloody civil war, when the Government had to deal with even the miore dificult question of the roconstruction of twelve millions of people, four millions of whom had been elevated from the personal condition of slavery to that of freedom and political citizenship. Do twoan the two rades, the Une which soparated the superior froin ha inferiox been broml and impasspble for a eentury; it hind been intensitied by the compnrative igno- rauce of the one race and the cultivation of the othor ; and the problem which met the Administration of Jounsox was how to create, upon an enduring basis, Governments for theso people in whick thero should be no dis. tinctions of raco or color, and where the master and slave wero to be on a common lovel of right, of froedow, and political equality. Ono of the peculinr traita of ANDREW Joivaox's character was inordinnte egotism,— his” completo confidenco in himself and in tho unbending pertinacity or obstinacy with which ho adhered to his own ignorant con- victionn. Before the meeting of Congress he had marked ont his * policy " of negro serf- dom, and songht to so commit the Govern- ment thoroto that Conyross wonld hnve to acquiesee, But Congrvess refused, nnd for three ycars thero was n constant and bitter struggle between the Exccutive and Legislative Departments. Tho President vetood all the mensures of Reconstruction, and, so far ns he was able, used his authority to nullify and defent them, Congress, on tho other hand, resorted to legislation having for its proctical effect to deprive the President of the power to removo aud appoint the civil officers of tho Government, including oven tho members of his own Cabinet, The Prese ident was not amiablo under the controversy, Ho wna deflant and aggressive, and was s~ peeially shusivo in his speoch. The Con. gress, fortifled by an overwhelming vordict of tho people, at lnst resorted to tho ex- trome mensure of impeachment, and n formal conviction and deposition failed only by a single tote in tho Souate, Wo do not think it extravagant to say that the goneral action of Congress in the matter of Reconstruction, 08 opposed to that of Ax- prew JonnsoN, was sustained by five-sizths of tho Amorican people ; and the actunl ro- construction of the ex-Rebel Blates was only accomplished in spito of and against the un- relenting opponition of the Presidont. This is hardly tho oceasion to discuss the opposing policies of the Presidont and of Congress in tho matter of Recoustruction. Roconstruction is now completed, and the excitements and passions and vindictive foclings that provailed in 18653 lind 5o far relaxed and faded awny that tho people of tho North, of all partics, gonerally wero gratified whon the Legislaturo of Teunessee, lost winter, elected the ex- President to the United States Senate. 1lis olection was a personal triumpb. 1fe do- fonted the caucus, through thoe valuntary do- mands of the common people of the Htate that he bo clected. Axpuew Joussow, however, by his conduet in 1861, in opposing Secession and Rebellion in 'Pennessoe, gained o place in his country's history which evon a subsequent successful impoachment could not have” wholly ob- seured. o faced Disunion, I'renson, Beces- wion, and Rebellion on tho soil whero these flourished, and whero it required courage oud patriotism of tho highest order to do so. Axprew Jonssoy could, however, have hardly adopted nny other comrse. Ifo had Dboen a living protest against the aristocracy which wns founded upon Slavery. o was aman of the common people. He had no ancestry or lineaga to refer to ; ho was not a descondant of a family rich in lands or slaves; he was a laborer, living upon the wages which his own hands earnod; his appear- anco a8 o lender in politica was resented 88 an enoroschment upon the domain of those born to rule; ho might bo tolorated as o useful rotainer, but as a Captain never! Every offico ho obtained he foroed from the “upper class” of his party. At lnst ho reached Congrosy, nnd for ton yoars he was content to represont his immediate neigh- bors and friends. His party refused to rocog- nize him further. Intho Prosidontinl oloc- tion of 1852 tho State had voted for the Whig candidate, and, in 1853, Axpuew Jomy- soN was esgontinl to the success of tho party, and thus he forced the old nullifiors, abstrac- tionists, socessionists, and aristocrats to take tho Tailor of Greenvillo and mako him Gov- ernor of tho Stats, Two yoars later ho was agnin called apon to meet Knownothingism, and gucceeded. Yle mado war on the aristo- cratic wing of tho party, and so strong had he become that Tonncssoo wasone of the strongest Union States at tho South. It ro- fused to secede in 1861, and, in the end, was declared to have soceded, by fraud and swindling upon the part of ita executive ofticers. Axprew JoussoN had his faults, personal and political. Ho had many very wild politi- cal vagaries, which, however, despite thuir ubsurdity, bo honostly belioved in, He was oxcensively dogmatio. He was intolerant in his opinions, and always extrome. Owing to his deficiont education, and Lis residenco among a pooplo who at that time were hardly a8 woll improved as himaolf, and the porsonal antagonisms ho had to encounter because of his humblo origin and his mechanical oceu- pation, he in early life had to resort to lau- gunge in his popular addresses which was far more foroiblo than clegant. In the vituporation common on the stump in Ten- nessco ho had but ono rival, and that was the ‘Whig Parson Brownzow, and for nearly fifty yoors these men lod s life of bitter dennnoia- tion, JomxsoN was porfoctly at home in such o strife, and there wero fow mon, in Tennes- 800 or out of it, who would venture a second timo into that kind of discussion with him, In after life, whon in more elovated positions, ho could not get rid of this rude styls al- together, It followed him to thelast, attract- ing more unfavorable comment in his exalted positions than in his earlier days, He lived to an advanced age, and haa gone down to tho grave bearing many honors. His own intense combativenoss provoked acoun. ter warfaro on him, The ocountry will liear of his death with no revival of unkindness, Though condemned by the nation, and at times regardod as a dangerous man, never- theless, at the gravo of the Village Aldorman, Meyor, legislator, Congressman, Governor, Senator, Vice-Prosident, and President, all his foults and errors will bo overlooked in tho brightnos of the epitaph,—*“In the dsy of treason, he was an Amerioan patriot.” ————————— A nult in the Ban Fracoisco Probste Qourt re- oalls to mind the murder of O'Nem by ono Jauxs O, Ko, In New York, some timo sgo It appeara thet Kixa's wife waa the daughter of Wrriax 81077, & woaliby merchant, Brorr and Kmva, about eight year ago, had s quarsel, which was ended by Kixa's drawing his ree volver, a8 usual, and severely wounding the old gontleman, who died two years afterwards from the effoota of injuries recalved ju the unequal fght. Ha lett to his daugbter,—his will providing that, as soon s eased (0 be the wifoof King, ahe should recelve 910,000, Bho brought suit sgainst Kia for divorce, two s after, o which sult O'Nzw was & wit- nias, Kixe was jealous of O'Nmiz, and, oo tleir leayiog oourt, shot him in ihe back and inetsutly killed Lim. He was i, aftor one year's imprisonment, And sentenced {0 the Penitentiary for life. Upon the strengih of bis Impthoumenty Mrés Kixd dewands the £10,000 loft by hor father's will, claiming that ho s, du Jaw, desd. The executora rofuse to acknonledge hor claim, and tuo case s yot to be decidou, o s, Tho Engllsh papers zud the lettors of tha Tondon corranpondents are fillod with gowalp concerning tho I'tinca of \Wares' proposod visit to India. It is fully decided upon, and 18 to bo & aplandid affair, of course ; aud a protty sum 1t will {ake out of Jonx Burt's pocket,—which s full enough, to be suro, yot is nevor reached hy spondthrifta withont somethlog of & mass, The Priuce is to liave £60,000 fur his porsonal oxpon- sea. Whilo on Indian soil, ho will be & guest of Lord NorTitnuoox, and will be niggardly enough, o doubt, with bl allowance, Ho will Le ex- pocted, howaver, to make a good many presonts to native P'rinces, lavisbing £600 Loro and thore in his Royal progress, to improws the untatored depondencies with o propor sense of his magaitl® conce, Nor will the Princa bo sbovo receiving proaoute {u return ; nnd, whoresa thoso ho givos will bo palt for by the English peoplo, those ho roceiven will becoms his own private proporty. Thore {8 mnothing, efthor in law or usago, to provent him from mclilog his Indlan spoils, ou his roturu to England, at publio vendue. Mr. Coxwar intimatos plain- Iy that ho will do fio, and that the real purpuso of his Indian trip {8 to uathor in valuables of ‘various kinda suficiont to reliove bis pressing necessities. This ia not a noblo thivg to nay of o l'rince; but, If Princes will porsist in being sordid and profligate, wo do not know that any obligation reste upon impartial journaliaty to ropresent them otherwleo, A largo mass of tho Euglish peoplo ovidontly take tho samo viaw of this subject a8 Mr. CoNwAy dass. Publio most- ings bave becu held iIn various parts of the Kingdom, at which great indignation has boen oxpresscd at the action of Parliamont in raaking the grant; but the peoplo who talk and think in this manuer are not ropresentod in Parliament, and the Lords aud Commons consider their mut- torings nat worth rogarding. Tho real probiem, to observars at agreater distance from the sceuo, appoars to bo: Will the Princo of WaLrs ba the woloer if ho makos £100,000 out of Indis, and groatly increases popular discontont at kome ? A T S SO Mr. FeonTER, who {8 notoa for disagreements ~=to put it mildly—with all pecsons havivg bnei- nces rolations to him, got into troublo again, at Toronto, & few nights ago, Mombora of lus company notificd bim snddenly, just as the cur- tain was to bo rung up for ' Hamlet," that they swould not procoed with tho play until arrears of wagea woro paid. Ho refused, and the perform- auco wae interrupted suddenly, fn tho midst of tho flret act. Froures, in tho garb of Hamlet, apologized to the audience, and attompted to ox- plain, when tho stago was invadoed by Polonius, Horatio, Ophelia, and other Danes, who all had spoochios to mako that wero nover written by BuAKsPEABE, As tho upshotof it all, tha play went on without & Lacrles or Zoratio,~thoso parts boing rond. The motors responsible for this porformance wore, of courso, ontitlod to tho money due them; but they should have borne in mind that it was 3 groat o sin for them to forgot what thoy owed to the audionce a8 for Mr Fronren to forget what ho owed to them, g Mr, Epwin Cowrzs, of tho Cloveland Leader, has triod in vain to secure the punishment of tho rufian who lately assaulted bim in his private ofice, Tho Pollce Justico boforo whom the as- sailant was brought rofused to bind the fellow over for trial in tho Oriminal Court, Mr. Cowres theroforo gives notico that, haviog Dbeon abandoned by the officers of tho law, who themselves sppoar to bo iu sympathy with a riug of corrupt local politiclana, he will under- toko his own protection. 1Io announces to all persons intorosted that ho intends to * obey the fivat law of nature” aod dofend bimself, **oost what it will.” Thore s probally not a rufian in Cloveland who feels disposod to moloat Mr, Cowzxs, now that ho is propared for an atiack. ——— POLITIOAL HOTES, Gontleman George, who, in his character of ‘Young Greenbacks, pleaded for apocio-paymouts, 1is now called by thie Ohio nowspapers Goosgo £H. Pondulum. Tho Bt. Poul Piopeer-Press is now a preity good Ropublican nowspaper, supporting Dills- ‘bury, attackiog Bill King, aud genorally conduct- ing itsel¢ docontly. It promisos to bocomo a power in Minnosota, To avoid mistakos ond innumerablo corroc- tlons, let the Philadolphia Times be hold respon- sible for tho mtatement that Gen. Bpinner la “named " a8 tho Ropublican osndidate for State Troasuror of Now Yorl. Presidont Cliadbourno certalnly was nomi- natod for Contennial Governor of Massachusetts by the Adams Transcrip,and tho fact was noticod in the Springtield Kepublican, Will tho Boston nawspapera ploaso take notico, and not hereafter £o sway from homo to loarn the news? Mr, Jefforson Davis, beiog weil ont of the Toxas Agriculturel Collego scrape, has been invited to bocome Chancellor of the Georgis TUnlvorsity. It the ealary is ineufliclont to me- curo him, the Avgusta Constitutionalist advisce thnt it bo made largor by degrees, until ho can find s In his consolence to accopt, Tho Boston Journal ironlcally proposes to mako s full Btuto ticket from one family, repro- sonting all abades of polities. Bohold it: TFor Govornor, Olarles Y'rancis Adams, Ind.; for Beerotary of Btate, John Quinoy Adams, Dom. ; for Treasorer, Charles Francis Adams, Jr., Rop, ; for Auditor, Honry Adams, Ind.; for Attornoy- Qeneral, Brooks Adams, Rep. With such a tioket, the Journal says, Mazaschuseits could disponse with a Licutenant-Governor. Tho first stop looking to a revision of the presont State Conetitution of Kentucky will be taken by tho people at tho August election, If » majority of all the qualified voters in the Stato yoto in favor of calling a Convention, the ques- tion will bave to be resubmitted in 1877, and, it it again recaives tho approval of & wajority of all tho votors of tho Btate, the membars of the Convention will be elected {n Auguat, 1878, and assemblod In the fall of that year, The Keokuk (Ia.) Gale City, referring to Mr. Harlan's candldature for tho United Btates Bonate, recails the Unioa Paciflo incldent ia hls caroer, and says: “Wo lavono hoart for o controversy over Mr. Harlan, The Gale Cily fave him yoars of stanch and admiring support. When he committed politioal karl-karl, we pro- foundly doplored it. Now the attempt to resus- olcate him ia full of the menace of harm to the party without ohance of profit to him," The Boutlern newspapers of ths whito-line order glve the following sa & veritablo extraot from tho mpoech of & oarpel-bagger in Blisals- sipplt " Colored Republicans: It is not nocessary for me to spesk to-night. Yon sll kuowme, I'magood wan. I'm tho best man in the flold, I'vo always boen 80. Why! Didn't 1ehow my feelings for your raco, when, having & white wife, and she dido't suit me, I got mo » bisok woman? And she has two childron and thoy sro mine, and I love her boet of tLa tyo to- day. Bay, now, if I am not s good Republicgn?" Doubtless this {sa fair burleaque of the spaeches really delivered, both by Domoorats and Tle- publicans, to ignorant laborers oa the bottom- lands. Mr, Ignatios Donuelly {a quite overcome by an article in Tux Tai1sUNs, combating his views, which treats him courteounsly, sud merely demol- ishes his srgumonts without asaniling him per sonally, He writes in the Anii-Monopolist: #Tus Taioy: waro that oustom, aa oa- tabilaled 1o shis State, requires that, in disous- sing any question with us, an adversary should opén his argument by denouocing ua a8 * & pes- tiferous demagogas,’ aud oloss it by proolatm- ing usa ‘gooundrel.’ We were uot propared for such courteous snd respectful treatment by & Republioan newspapar, aod it quite uanerves 8ad baw! ua,” The Omaha Herald (Domooratlo) will noé pre- tond to spesk for the New York {Vorld, but, for its own part, |t bopss aud prays that Willam Allen sd the Démossatio lioked in Olilo tmay be beaton by 100,000 majority. Domocratio aucensy in Olio wonld Ineuro an allintieo of the Bow. orn and one or two Northorn Ktatow tq fateo & #oft-monoy policy npon the Domoeralig National Canveutfon, which poliey would in. ovitably result in irremodiabilo disaetor. Domo. orata in New York and New Lugland sao tlyy cloarly anough, and are not slow in urging thejy viewa upon the attentlon of tho lnaders ig Ollo. Thurman soon it, too, aod Lo in indirectly doing tho bost ho can to dofeat tho Allcu-Pey. dleton faction. PLCREBONAL. Charlotto Bronta's huaband, the Rev. Arthyy Boll Nichols, has a socond wifo, Dlaine hna caughit tho L. D. dinsass now. Hy took the infoction from Colay Unlversity. Wendell I'Lillips will deliver tho oration at thy O'Conuell contonnisl in Boston on Fridav. Kingaton, Canadn, in oxeited ovor tho repory that Boochor 18 golng to camp-moating there, “Tho Rapged Edge' s tho mow titioof 4 steep and glippory bill at Niagara, It is actua), not moral. A coblo is boing Iaid betweon Bydney and Naw Zealand. Tho work ought to bo done with alf posaible dispateh, cughtu't it? Apstarchi Doy, tho Turkish Minister, fs sy Baratoga, and tho girls havo their eyes on him, Ha's boeu thoro hofors, howavor. Tnfant-mortality jn Now York 1s on thein. creaso, and Mr. Childa thinls of cstablishing g : branol offfes of tho Ledger thoro. Ilow witching is a widow with ©8,000,000, No wondor Mr. lanry Jones, of Baltimor, hay gono to I'aria to marry Mra, ljruokn. Tho Princo of Wales hea been singularly fon tunato in ovorything, but not until be fs fu Indl will La admit that ko Is in Lucknow. An English clergyman owns s mastif that [y valued a¢ §25,000. Ouly n Kafser can afford tg buy such & dog.—Zoslon Post, or Forney, Bowdoin Collegn wanta 810,000 to endow Lougfeilow Profussorship,—a Longfolowehip thoy would make it at an English university, An Austrinn Princo spont two weeka at Bars. toga, and got away without being honored with propoaals from tho tuft-huntreases of the place, DBunko-stoorers aro only a degreco more in tractablo than Toxas stoers; but nobody thinks of taking bunko by the horns and patting it down, Graco Greenwood saya Martin Tuppor looksay bandsomo a8 io his youth. He ovidontly pre. sorves tho samo attraction for sentimoatal women. Mr, Henry J. Wisoly, of Dolaware, has given 25,000 towards the building of & now chureh. Go thou and do like Wisely.—Louisville-Courier Journal. A summeor-resort in Vermont has a Bresd-Lox Inn, whore the flowor of tho nelghborhood, and in fact, numbors of tho well-bred, loat in ang out at their plensnre. ‘Tha lifo-insurance compaules are thinking of insorting a clause in thoir policies forbidding thr - Inventton, oven, of balloons, They look ¥ - Behroeder with disguat. ! Philadelphia nooda to advertiss the Centon: nlal, henco the sudden gush of elegies, the Kooley motor, and Father Gerdomsnon. Ity : cheapor than $£25,000, any way, Toal estats in Tencsace and Kentuoky is rising, Geologiats think that, in half & million yoars it will bo 6 or 7 inches higher. It's a goodin vostment, anyway, oven if thoyare ont a yoaral * two. Dr, Miller and hia co-laborers may fesl ene couragemont in the snnouncement that the free excursion systom {n Baltimore has much reducel the death-rate among the poor children of thal city latoly. ‘W. J, Florence, the actor, spent the Fourthof ' July at Ewms, whore ho headed the Americas oolabration, little dreaming that his lettors-ofe . credlt on Dnncan, Shorman & Co. wero com f5. parativoly valueless. f Mra, Dan Bryant has boen pald $18,103.99 by W™ Mossrs, Josh Hart, W. R. Floya, and A. M, Pal meg, tho Trustees of tho Dryant Rellef Fand Further smounts atill uncollected will probably be added to the fund. Doaton has threo imitators of the Mafiltons porforming thors, and eays that, when they danco, it seoms a8 though there were tweln toge on tho etage. That ie wby DioLewsar - nouuncos ** prohibition a fallare,” Tho Louiavillo Courier-Journal says Chlesgo can'c tell whothor it was namod after a skunkor an Indisn brave, Louiaville's derivation is more - cloar. Tho fragranco of its reputation polots * conclusivoly to 8 Fronch monarch as ita sponsor, Merimeo's ** Lettors to an Unknown Lady* continuo making & seusation in Paris, becaws tho lady ia said to bo the Countoes Ligo Przdree raka. It would bo scarcely worth whilo giving lier any more lotters, unless they wers vowels , It wos on the U. P. Road. 8he waa picking & apring chicken, and took off her rings to faoills tato tho operation, Sue handed them to her fathor to hold. Ho was eatiug chicken, and, whon he throw the bones out of the window, 21,700 worth of jewelry accompaniod them. Now, organizo an expodition to that spot, soma lazy fellow. ‘Flio Hon. H, W. Drummond, in his bookon “ Tho La:ge Gamo of South Afrioa™ (whichis not o supplement of Bchoncl's Hand-Book), de« clares that tho elsphant Is the most intoxicated® boaat of the field, Ho eats = certain fruit of which hols fond, and gets literally howliog dronk onit. What nn enormous hesd-achoLs must bave next day | Josquin Aliller 18 not the only poet enchamed by the mysteries of orthography, Anothar post Las written, Bpell-hound in the rosd behind her, TFaused tho burdy-gurdy grinder, Grioding wildly out of tupe, and it was not G. W, Ohilds elther, though Joaquin's 1atost offorts wero made in the cityol cantennial ologinca, t An olderly lady named Cangon, of Masasobie notts, was etandiog by sn iron sink duriogh thundor-storm, when she waa proatrated by light ning. Bho wos eutirely senseless, and waa 80 chargod and battered by the electrio current thsd tho gold boads about her neck were molted; bub she liven, and ascribes her escape to the silkes cap she wore, A Cannon charged and dischasg ed by eleoiricity doea not noed a oap. s One of the Biamess Ambassadors, on returt ing homo trom Europe, gava the followjng &+ soription of a plano-forte, or, ashe oalled it, " Rroat trunk get upon loge,” e sald, “ A womss slta in front of this and, tokling a sort of !l it has with her tos, produces avaristy of sounds by beating rapldly with ber fiogers on & pumbe? of little bits of ivory in front of it ‘Thosd Biamoso are unblased, and therefore relistle critica, Edward M. Fry sud Agnea Luning, of 88 Frauclsoo, wore eogaged to be married. Hewss » Protestant and ulie a Catholic, A few dsyabi fore that fixed for the wedding, Archibishop Al many sent for the coupls, aud they went to bif bouse, The Archbishiop told Fry that if 0o blessod him with cbildren, ho supposed b8 would have them educated in tho Cathold Church, Fry ssid he * didn's underatand thed logloa! terms, but he aldn't propose toputs mortgage on s unborn cbildren,” * Then oan't grant you a disponsation,” said the Asebe bishop, *and without {¢ you capnot be ms* riod,” *Tho deuce I can'tl” sald Fry, T2 sbout tired of the Catholla Church, suybo¥ asid Mra, Fry that was to bo, and they huated b Protestast minister, sod wero marcled.— ochange. MORTUARY, eetal Digpaioh to L'Aa Chisano Tridunt. Avnons, Iil, Aug. 1,—The Firo Deparimest thia afteracon followed to ita last restlog pise tho body of Willisia Bolton, & member of Holly Hoss Company, who dled fo uunuqumt: of belug kickea In the nbdoman by ouo vf b borses. Tho ceremonies ware of an {mpressls cbaracter, and wilucessd by maoy humfndl oltiseas,