Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 4, 1875, Page 8

8 4 THE CHICAGO ' TRIBUNE: PTIEMBER SATURDAY, SI TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. RATER OF ADDSCRIPTION (PAYADLE TN ADYAROR). Tostnme Prepaid at this Ofce, 1 (S 100 | Weeklr. ) soar... 8 1083 -'r','.!'(\;ml?" 91388 Elre ol et i mibta aheet. .00 I'nrta of & year at tha same rate, WaSTED—One aclive agent in csch town and villsge, Bpecial arrangements mada with such, ‘peclmen coplen sent frec. To prevent delay sud mirtaker, be aura and givo Post-Oflico addreas in full, Including Stateand Counly, Itemittances may bo mado eftlier by dvalt, espress Post-Office onler, or {u registereid letlers, at ourrick. TERUS TO CITY AUDSCRINKRA. Dafly, delivered, Sunday cxcepted, 2 cents per week, Daply, delivered, Gunilsy includod, 30 centn per week, Addresn TIIE TRIDUNE CONPANY, Corner Madison and Doatborn-sta,, Chicago, Tl RS LY TODAY'S AMUSEMENTS. CADEMY_OF MUSIO—IInlated sireet, between AT ADE N Monron, Lreunan' & Waro's' Combluse tlon, Afteruoon shd ovening. HOOLEY'S THEATRE~Randolph street, between Clark sud lafialle, Eugsgoment of the California Alipstrels, Afternoon snd evemng. e ADELPHT THEATRE—Dearhorn _sirset, comer Monroe, Engagement of Oliver Doud Byron, # Donald McKay." Afternoon snd ovening, MoVICKER'S THEATRE adison street, between Dearborn and State. Engngement of Edwin Adsma. + Enoch Arden,” Aflerncon and evening. CIIICAGO THEATRE—Clark atreet, betweon Ran dolyh and Lake. * learts and Diamoude,” After- noon aud oventug, BURLINGTON HALL~~Corner iste and Sixtrenth c Fhlrlu MacEvoy's Hibernfcow.™ Afternoon n OUhe @hicagy Tribune, Boturday Morning, Euptu‘nbor 4, 1878, WITH SUPPLEMENT. Greenbacks ot the Now York Gold Ex- change yesterday opened and closed ot 87}, with purchases at 875 and &7, The verdict of the Coroner's jury, impan- eled to inguire into the cauge of death in the cage of W. C. RaLstox, disputes the theory of guicide, and finds that apoplexy and drowning produced tho fatal result. An su- topsy is said to Lavo revesled no traces of poison in tho stomnch, and so that theory must needs bo abandoned. Thero still remains, however, the plansible supposition that the drowning itsclf was the deliberate act of tho ruined banker, whoso (rent force of character and iron will were fully equal to the nccomplishment of self- destruction by this menns, The actual cause of death will alwnys remain a mystery aud a mooted question, and the Delief in tho sui- cide, supported as it is by so many significant probabilities and corroborative proofy, will never be wholly discarded. ‘The latest Commission of Chicago Custom- Ilouse examthers, appointed by Sceretary Inistow, but designated in part by President GrasT, lave arrived upon the ground and begun their Inbors. It in manifestly the in- tention of the Commission to proceed care- fully and with great thoroughness to make their tests and oxaminntions, Theirs will Lo the dnty of deciding a4 hetwoen thoe two conflicting reports on the subject of the walls sud fourdstious and the fitness of tho stono for the purposes employed, and their finding will probably bo final with the Government. They enter on the work wholly nnprejudiced, it i to Lo presumed, and freo from any incli- nation to tenr down the half-finished struc- ture for anybody's ambition, plensure, or profit. Such being the cnse, their verdict, whatever it may be, will command respect in Chicago. Our neighbors of the Dominion of Canada e to experience no ond of disgruntlement on account of the Washington Treaty, and the interpretations thercof mnde by the TUnited States. Home time ago it way the tariff on tho tin eaus containing lobster and #almon that troubled them, and then the de- cigion relativa to senl Jocks and the transporta- tion of bonded goods vias n source of vexa- Jtion. This timae the question of the carrying .trade on the lnkes hetween ports in the United Stales hns called forth a letter from Secrelary Bmsvow, the effect of .whichir to cut off a large amonnt of fraffic from the Graud Trunk steamboat and rail- way lines. Mr. Bristow construes the treaty to mean that this class of carrying trado i restricted csclusively to American vessels, and that Canadinn compotition in =hut out. ‘The determined assanlt of Muxx Tivans upon tho pockets of Chivago tax-payers bLins 8t last been rewarded with suceess, The roe sult was reached in o ronndabont woy, but none the loss it was venched, After reshict- ing to a reasonable mmount the allow- nuce for the Collector’s nalary and neees- eary expensos, the South Towu Hoard have unanimously voted to rcleaso the claim of the town upon Evans' percentage in collect- Ing city taxes. It is presumed, ond confl. dently expected, no doubt, by the tax.grab- bing mob, that a largo portion of the city taxes for 1875 will bo collected by Mixz Evawns, who is by law nllowed a commission of £ por cent, such percentage to De covered into the Town Treasury unless re. leased and dopated by tho Board, This is the way the steal i to bo consummated Tho eity, which includes the Town of Houth Chicago, with its already elaborate system of tax-collection, is to ba further bled to swell the plunder of Mixe Fvaxs and hig gang, Damaging developments multiply go rapid. 1y in conuection with tho Intorior Depart- mont that Becretary Devaxo is in a fair way .koon to fully realize tho truth of the saying, Jucilis decensus arerni, Now that he is well started in that direction, thers is uo end of tiinely and helpful kicks, Oneof tho latest is the alleged discovery of a fraud in the pur- chiuso of furniture for the Departmant, where- by a division hLas been mado of the differ- ence betweon 310 and 935 a8 the price paid for office-desks at Balti. more snd Washington prices respectively. The first-nsmed Sgare left n fair profit to the' dealer ; the second’ was nocesiary in order tlat parties in the Interior Departinent might pocket a casual dollar or two, Standing by itself, a potty fraud of this kind would attract but little attention ; but when the item of desks i odded to the carringes, drivers, gerauiuay, oto., and all theso are tacked ot the bottom of the corruption list of the Iudign Iing, the grand total becomes con- spicuous aud the inoidental peculstions derive their due fmportance, ‘The Chicago produce markets wera stoadier yesterday, but bresdstuffs weskened in the latter past of the day. Meas pork was more active and 200 per brl higher, closing at $30.70 omb, and $40.40 for Ootober, Lard wns dull and unchanged, closing at $12.85 per 100 Ibs cash, and £12,05 for October, Meats were in good demand and firm, at 8]a for shoulders, 12¢ for short rihs, and 12ie for whort clenrs. Highyinea were in mod- crate request and steady, at 31,10 per gallon, Lako freights wero fairly nctive and stondy, &t e for corn to Buffalo. Flour was quict and ensier, Whent was active and firmer, but closed wenk at 81,13} for Boptember, and #1.15 for October. Corn was in good de- mand, and strongor, closing at 62} cash, and 63 for Octobor. Oats wore in fair de- mand and §@1c higher, closing dull at dtio cash, and iMe for October. Iyo was quict at 7R}@7he. Barley was in good demnnd, and 2@2}e¢ highor, closing at $1.09 for September, Hogr were dull and n shade lower, with the bulk of the sales at $7.50@7.05 Cattle wore nctive at 10@¢3c decline. Sheep ruled steady. Ono hundred dollars in gold would buy #114,12} in greenbacks at the closo. f bty A spectaclo of n thrilling but most satisfac- tory character wns witnessed yestorday at Fort Smith, Ark., whero six murderers, sen- tenced on the same day and for differcnt crimes on the 5th of last June, in the United States District Court of Western Arkavsns, were hanged together. ‘The like, we heliove, was nover bofore scen in America in one day and at ono place, except, perhaps, the execution of {hirty.cight Sionx Indians ot Mankato, Minn., in 1862, In tho sextuple lianging at Fort Smith, four of the doomed men were whites, ono a negro, and another n Choctaw Indinn. The crimes for which theso murderers paid the penalty of their lives are wketched in our dispatches, and it is worthy of noto that, while all tho murders were of the most brutal and flendish type, in ench cnge tho evidence was absolutely conclusive of guilt, and the punishment was richly merited. Nothing less than this awful jointure of retributive justice, so well ar- ranged with a view to securing the end rought, could have served to strike terror to the hearts of the murderous hordes which have 1nfested Western Arkonsss and the ad- joining Indian Territory. Just such a com- bination of startling effocts was nceded in that region, and the resalt cannot but be salutary in demonstrating the terrible majesty of the Inw. Something of the kind in Southern Illinois would be the right thing in the right place and at the right time. GOV, HENDRICKS' S8PEECH. ‘We print tho matorial parts of the speech delivered at Zanesville, Oliio, yesterday, by Gov. Hexpnicrs, of Indiana. Of all the speeches delivered jn Ohio on the currency question, that of Mr. Hexpaicka is tho weak- est in moral and intellectual vigor. It lacks the rude fearlessness of Sast Cany, the cle- ganuco of Pespreroy, the thought of Taun- aay, and the frankness and intelligent devos tion to prineiple of McDoxarLp. Considering that ho is a prominent candidate for the Pres- ideney, the whole speech is a mere evssion,— nn apology for not having any decided opin. jop, ncowardly begging of n postponoment of any couviction until the Domocratic Nom- iuating Convention in 1876, The Ohio Democrats adopted their rag- money platform ns long sgo as the 17th of June. Gov, HuNoricks soun after went off prospecting for the Presidency in New York and tho Eastern States, among people who nre unnnimously for specie paymouts, Heo hins heon lnboriously engaged in conciliating the hard-money factions of the Democratic party; be has been Lolding himself out to the Enat as a safe man, having no intorest in the inflation and repudiation doctrines of the Ohio Demacraoy. But the Obio Democrats biad their eye on the Indiana statesman, and they compelled him to come into that State and show his hand. "What was the hand that he displayed? Did he declare, os Senator McDoyaup did, that the Legal-Tender nct was unconstitutional in the beginning and at this time? Nothing of the kind. Did he declare that the Dewocratic party wns opposed to paper moncy, 643 & frand upon the coun- try? Certaiuly not. Did he declaro that the country needed more currency, and that legal-tenders should be issued to meet the popular demand? He snid nothing of the kind, Was ho in favor of expansion? No. Was he in favor of contraction? MNo. Was Lio in favor of specio paymonts, or was ho apposed to fpecio payments? On the last point ho said ho was in favor of a rétnm to specio payments at somo time in the future, but Lo was not in favor of it at this time, nor could hoe tell when it would bo advisable, 1o was in favor of keeping the country sup- plied with papor monoy, bat of what valuo or hiow much paper money was necessary ho did not venture to express an opinion. To proposed to let thivgs alono until after tho next Democratic Presidenlial normination, when ho wonld agres with whatever that Con- vention should adopt, adding, all unconcious- 1y, 8% anexplanation of his position, that * no sentimont attributed to Mr. Gueerxy in 1872 wns morg hwrifal to his political for- tuned than the demand for immediate specio payments," Nr, HEexpnicss was not disposed to say anything hurtful to his prospocts, gno way or the other. He thorefore spoke for an hour and & holf and enld nothing. e soemed nover to have heard of the Ohio plat. form ; ho appeared not to koow that the issues presonted by tho Oliio Democrats were enguging the attention of the whola country. e went through the forms of making o Epeoch, but Jiterally oxpressed no opinion on any subject,—at leust no opinfon which he was disposed to adhere to, especially if the Naotional Democratio Convention in 1876 showld' think otherwise, He traduced the Tepublicnns, but advocated nothing definite, ‘What did Mr, Hesvrioxs go to Ohle for, unless it was to ndvise tho people on tha vital subject raiscd by Lis friends? Did he sup. pose that the {ufistionists of Ohio would think any better of him i# ho equivocated and bad no opinions, than it he had avawed him. self, as McDowatp did, in favor of hard money ? Did ho supposs that ho conld retain the rospect aud contidence of the hard-monoy Democyacy by pattcriug in o double senso about o paper currency equal o the demands of business? Does he not know that maoli- nees, courago, and aggression are easentisls to sticcoss ab this doy ? It looks tous that if the Demooratio party shall turu to Indiana in 1876 for a candidate, it will not be to eslect & man like Hunpsiord, who carries water on both shoulders, but to sore wau like McDax. arp, who traveled over Ohlo insisting upon specie payments, and declaring the fsauo of paper money a3 a logal-fendes to be uncon. stitutional, It seems thot the reason why Justices Soauenrero and Dz WoLy bave not attended the meetings of tho Town Board, of which they are ex-officio meinbers, s because they were ubsenut from the clty. This ciroum- stauce only mekes their abuenco imore sus- pioigus, 'Tho Town Board meets but once a yoar to fix the compersation for towa of« floers, 'The law provides that, in the absenco of miy two of tha Jutioss, the Tova Assessor and Town Collector may become members of the Board, which gives them an opportunity of voting their own compenss. tion. Justices Susmrnetern and D Worr knew thiv, and atso knew that there would b, an cffort to grab n large amonnt of the pnblic moneys if the town tax-caters could ot vontrol of the mecting. Yet they sclected this particnlar week of the whoelo yeor to go out of town, 'Their absenco nt thia time could searccly have been accidental, With i34 other days of the year during which they could go nway withont damaging the public interest, it is very stranga they should have selected the very timo when the Town Board was to meet, and when their absenea gave the town officers a chance to grab alot of money to which they ara not entitled. thinks himeelf or herself perfectly competent to perform that kind of simple, easy, genteel work. A to the curpenters, it is certain that thero hay nover been so much employment for them in Chicago, except after tha firo, ns thero is this year, 'Thero iy a lnrger amount of building thau in any year previous to the fire or since 1872, and tho sash, blinds, door, aud stair-building establishments have incrensed in number and enpacity. Tho roceipt of n Inrge number of roplics from earpenters secking work sin- ply shows that, no matter how much work is furnished, tho flonting popnlation pouring into this city from all parta sceking work ex- ceedr any possible supply. This is, in fact, the whole explanation of the silly elfort of this Bohomnn to foist an exaggerntion of Chicago's poor and unem- ployed upon too-willing ears. There is no city in the United States outside of New York whichi nlways Las o largo a floating popula- tion as Chiengo. The circumstanco i to be nceounted for by Chicago's prosperity, growth, aud caterprise. Thero isa feeling overywhere that Chicago is the place to turn when a changois to be made and people can- not find employment elsewhere, There is a confidenco thronglhiout the Union that thero is a better prospect for remunerative employ- ment in Chicago than in any other city, The consequence is that thoe people out of worle clsewhero flock horo and aro always in excessy of the opportunities, It was so when Chica. o was not half as large ns it is now; it will be so when Chicago shall grow to be twice ns large ns it iy now, When Chicago shall reach a stopping-place in its growth, and settle down into the slow and sleepy condition of Lonisville, we shall not have this largn floating population of employ- ment-seekers, which is renowed from week to week ag places are found ; then peoplesenrchi- ing for situntions will not come to Chi. cngo, a5 they do not now go to Louisville, but they will go to somoe live city whero the chance of employment is better. The timo for this, however, scems to bo far distant ; nnd, meanwhile, wo shioll always hove a large floating population seeking employment. ANOTHER BLACK HILLS BWINDLE, The letter from our correspondent t Chey- cnne, printed in Tur Thisuse of yesterday, touching the srrival of the Sioux Indian Com- wission at that place, pending tho negolin. tion for the purchaso of tho Black Ifills, de. velops some singuiar focts concerning the Indian Ring which should receive attention. It appears that the Ring, ou learning that the Indians were disposed to cedo their slight clnim to the territory for a fair price, went nmoug them and in various ways succeeded in inducing them to put an almost fabulons price upon it. As the result of these visita. tions, the Indians are now talking millions, and annuitics for fifty years, Of course the more money that in handled by the Indinns, and the more annuities and goods received by them, tho lnrger will be the disison with the Indinn Ring, and the moro they will obtain by fraud and theft. Tho object of the Ring is so transparent ns to allow of po excuso for not trampling out its conspiracy nt ouce, The amount which the Riug hns put the Indians up to demaunding will reach in the nggregate, it in stated, $110,000,000, which wouldafford tho Ringeven richer stealingsand pickings than it has ever had before. 'The impudenco and absurdity of the claim are sbown by the fact that it is only a question of comity whether the Government will pay the Indians n singlo cent for the Black Hills. It bas already given them subsistence and kept them from starving since the Snemian ‘Treaty of 1868, for which they hsve returned no considoration whatover. Their subsistence hos been purely gratuitous. Lhey do not oc- cupy tho Black Hills country, and never will, ns thero ore no Luffaloes there. 'They do not mine the country, and never will. It is of no advantage to them ogriculturnlly, as they nover work, They only ramblo over this re- gion in n goneral manner, like tho wolves. They have no fee-simple in it. Their in- ‘I'ho Democrats of Cinciunnti have renom- inated Grouax, the author of the bill which has Leen notorious under his name for regu- lating religious worship in the penal and re- formatory institutions of theState. Tho bill provided that no minister of the Gospel should be excluded from any institution sup- ported by Btats appropriations or publia charity on sccount of his denominational connections. ‘Tho bill was not wrong in itself, 1t simply embodied a principle which terest in it is of a nnmm}in sort, | is recognized by common consent in Ilinois and about 03 valid and binding as | and somo other States, and whicl requires that of the wolves and other small | no legislation to assure its enforcoment. game which live in and tmvel over it. ‘T'hat thoy should come in now and demsand over a hundred millions of dollars for prop- erty which thoy do not and never will occupy, and in which they have no valid title oxcept throngh sufferance of thn Government, which is supporting them and keeping them from starvation, is a proposition so monatronsly absurd that it should be discarded at once. The Commission should not condescend sven to listen to it. If, howevor, they are in- duced by any underhanded or upperhanded influences to roport favorably upon the proposition, then Congress and tho country should roject it at once, The Indiansshould be paid as they have been paid herotofore— that is, n reasonable sum for their slight {n. torest, and this amount not in monay to be divided among Indian Agents, speculators, and thieves, but in food and clothing, until their title iz extinguished. It i3 the manifest destiny of the Black Hills to bLe opened to civilization and to bo devoloped in what- over way they will pay the best, whether it bo mining or agriculture. The Indian Ring has promptly recognized this fact, and is seeking to mako it the occasion of & systom- atio and impudent reid upon the revenues of the Government. ‘The Government, therefore, should protect itself by squelching it at onco, There was no opposition to the principle of the bill. But Mr. GeanaN excited an antag- onism both to his bill and to himself by pro- claiming ip effect that it was demanded by tho Catholic Church, nud that, unless tho Democratic majority in the Logislatnre passed the bill, the Churchk would call upon Catholic voters evesywhero to desert the Democratio party, with whom they-have horetofore acted almost! solid, and vote agninst it. The posi. tion which ho took indicated s formal allianco between the Roman Catholic Church and the Democratio porty, nnd forecast that the influenco of the Catholio Church, if success. ful in coercing this measure, would bo exerted to use the Democratio party to break down the pubtic school systom, and crry out other sectarlan and dogmatio attacks upon the constitutional provisions of the State aud the underlying principles of popular govern- ment, It was this that created poblic alarm and tho opposition to the Geomax bill and its suthor. The more conservative and far- soeing mombers of the Democratio party in Ohio sought to throw Mr. Geanax overboard after pasaing his bill. They saw that the attitude which he sassumed was caleu. loted to damago the intercsts of the party ; snd, while they were willing to submit to the dictation of tho Catholio Church in effect, thoy desired to effaco the ovidence of such submission, It was the pro- gramme, theroforo, to defont Mr. Graman for renomination. 'This was the course which the Cincinnati Enguirer ndvised. But tho re- sult lins shown that the ultra Catholiceloment in the Democratic party of Obio is in the ns- cendant, and does not care even to disgulse ita nims and purposes. At tho local Cineln- natl Convention of Thursday the Catholle partisang of CroEAN wero victorious, and he ‘was renominated in the face of a flerce op- position to him, and after n noisy and dis- reputablo aquabble. The Cincinnati Bnquirer, the Democratic organ, now wanta to repudiate ‘him, but this will not help the matter, His ronomination shows than Geghanism prevails in the Ohio Democracy, and controls it, and the party must go before the people with this incubus upon {t. This circumstanco almost renders cortain the defeat of the Democrats in the appronoh- ing election, which had already bocome prob- ablo on account of the inflation doctrines to which the Btate Convention had committed the party. The poople of this country are not yet prepared to accept Geghanism. The peopla of Oblo will gcarcely submit to the imputation of Church oligarchy which the success of tho Democratio party, with Geaman at ita head, would put upon them. The in. tegrity ot thelr public achiool system, and the freedom of politics from tho shackles of dog- matiem, are sa yet too doar to the American peopls to encourage the union of the State with the Church by electing a party which tacitly agrees to it. 8im Oary and Gramaw, Repudiation and Ultramontanism, will prob. ably go down together in Ohlo, Gov. Hexonicxs and other poopls who are efrald to have any conviotion on any subject think that in coursa of time the country will grow up to specie paymenta; that is, if there be uo expansion or contraction., TLet us see how the country has grown towands specle paymenta. Five years ufter the Civil War terminated, when national taxes were greatly reduced, and the floating debts of the Gov- ernment wero either funded or pald, green. backs advanced in value to $110}@112 of logal-tonder was equal in purchasing power to $100 in gold, Tho fluctuations of 1870 were from 110} to 116} In 1871, the loweat rate was 1084, the highest 115§, In 1872, thero was on advance to 118}@118§. In the firat seven montls of 1878, there was o further advance to 115@119, but during ths panio, while large sums of the legal-tenders wore locked up, the rate for gold fell to 1083 in Rovewber, putting legal.tenders at D4 18 cents in coin, the highest valua they have ever veached. In 1874, the lowest rate was 109, the highest 114]. The year closed with tha zate ranging from 110 to 112, or green. backs warth 88} to D0, During 1875, there has bean 5o advanss iz the value of the cur reaoy ity georal average huy beda from 67 A NEW FLING AT CHICAGO. The Louisville Courier-Journal prints a second Chieago lettor from its special corre. spondent in this city, who appears to have heen sent hero to distort and oxaggorate the business condition of this city. o first nsserted that there were 20,000 willing work- cra out of employment in Chicago and ina starving condition. Ho still inglsts that there are 20,000 able.bodied people in Chicago out of omployment, and unable to find work or any means of procuring bread. This num- ber would bo nbout one-third of the able. bodied industrial population of the city, and, put in this way, the statemont shows its own absurdity, If there are 20,000 working peo- plo out of employment, there aro from 80,000 to 100,000 people who are either starving or living upon charity, If thero werse any such masg of humanity starving hera or clsewhero, there would be n movement throughout the wholo world to send them relief. There wonld be popular subscriptions, such as thero wero for tho benefit of sufferors from thé Chicogo fire, for the Indin famine, or tho French floods, Tho neglect to take thess steps, and the faot that we have only the word of an auonymous writer anxious to make a §5 bill by catering to a wectional prejudico, I8 pretty conclusive that ** Chica~ go's starving hosts " aremythical. We know absolutely that 80,000 or 100,000 people are not living upon charity in this city, Who would furnish the means? There are but two sources from which any large amount of charity is extended to people who can or can. not work, but who can find nothing to do. Oneis the Chicogo Rellef Socisty and the other the County Poor.House, The latter institution has about its usus! number of in. mates at this jimoe of yeor, and the Relief and Aid Society is called onto dispense scarcely a8 much charity as of ordinary. Even this correspondent alludes to the faot that the Communists recently held a big plo- nio at Ogden's Grove, at which 5,000 (?) peo- ple were presont; if this statoment is cor- reot, it «imply shows that they nre notso badly off but thot they have means for neces- sary living and also for personal amusewent. Tho Louisville Courfer-Journal correspond- ent thinks he has made out Lis case by in. sorting two advertisements in Tae Cmoaco TrinuNz, one for a malo or fomale copyist, and another for a carpentor. To the former bio says he recelved 510 () applications and the Intter 804 (P) replica. This large num. ber, if ho tells the truth, is partly sccounted for by the exceptional excellence of Tax TwBuNg es an advertising medium ; the copy of the paper in which he inssrted the bogus notices probably was read by every person in search of the kind of employment for which ho advertised, The advertisement for a niale or fenle copyist would probably reach a vory large proportion of the floating popula. tlow, for everybody who can write snd baa tothlog to' do Is willlng 0 49 oopying, aad 4y 1876.—~T'WELVLE PAGES. to 89 cents, with gold quoted at 112 to 115, 1t will bo seen, thorefore, that in the five yenrs sinco 1870 the value of greenbacks hns undergono no permanent improvement. Tn Marcl, 1870, they wero worth 85 to 010 conty on the dollar, nud, except ny stated, dwring tho temporery senreity of legal-tenders dur- ing tho panic, their valuo ks remained with- in thoso figures until the present time. Sub. stantinlly, during the five years the conntry lias not grown ono cent nearer to apecio pay- ments, How long it will take at this rate tho conntry to * grow up” to the desired point is something {heso gentlemen do not explain. Greenbacks, ny wo have stated, liave none of tho qualities of money, save that they mny Lo foreed upon creditors in payment of debts, ns n mbatitute for gold. "That they are worth but 87 or 88 centds even for this purpose shows that they aro in excess of the demand, and ave conserquently chenp, Ax there seemn to be no probability of the demand growing up to the supply, the next Dest thing in to reduce the supply to the de. mand, The man who wants greenbacks to poy debty will pay 90 cents for them if ho cannot get them for less, and will quite read- ily poy 98 cents for them, if they nro not to bo had otherwing, in preference lo paying 100 cents ingold. * e HERDRICRS' LITTLE PLAN. The lines of Democratic * statesmen ” now- adays fre cast iu hard places, They havo to spenk in Ohio and dodge the Ohio issuo. This ivhard. Gor. Hexpnicks has evidently found itso. o tried to ride two horses at onco in his speech at Zamesville last cvening, but this performauce is even more difficult in the political than the public circus. Mr, TIeN- pnicrs bashfully ndmits that he belioves gold nud silver to be * the renl standard of values, universnl and permanent.” But he at once smooths the wrinkled front of tho Ohio brethren by saying that the inflated volume of depreciated papor must and sball not ba reduced. ‘This is much ns if n man should say “It is imperatively necessary that I should go North,” and should then take the first train East, Mr. Hesonicrs, howoever, does not sco the matter in that light. 1le has n wondrous jdan by which hio is to get North by going East. And ho hns propounded this plan to the nation, It is not new. It iy not intelligont. 1t is not practicable. It corresponds, however, pretty exaclly to Mr. Hespnices' statesmouship, ‘which has nover been suspected of originality, or intelligonce, or practicablencss, "The In- dinua Governor has found somewhere in his memory the phrase ** Grow up to specic poy- ments.” This he iterntes and reiterates to the admiring rustics of Zanesville. We might unkindly mention the fact that, in the five years during which this has becn Lried, the paper dollar has grown up frowm a valuo of 90 cents in 1870 to ono of B8 or 87 in 1876, Weo presume this must bo growth, becouse Hexpaicks implies this. If we dared to differ from such an eminent statesioan, we should spy it was decny, not growth, and that we have been decaying away from'specie payment, instead of grow- ingup toit. DButitis very bad for s fact to interfere with Mr, Hexpricrs, The fact al. ways perishes, of courso. His spoeches have a way of denying, and destroying, and loftily ignoring facts that should warn everything of the sortto keep ont of tho Governor's woy. Everything of tho sort scems to havo kept carcfully out of his Zancsvillo speach. Heo deigns, however, to go into tho details of his plan of resumption, Thero are threo divisions of it. First, production of cxport~ oblo commodities must bo cucouraged ; sec- ond, importation must ho checked; third, the wpationnl debt must bo trons- ferred from abroad to bhome, How is production of exportable commoditiea to bo enconraged? We aro now producing as much 88 we have a foreign market for, nnd we not infrequontly produce moro than wo can sell abroad at a profit. 1Mr. Hexpriczs does not propose to raise an oxira peck of corn himself, or weave an additional yard of cloth himself, or forge o bar of iron himself, Ho wants sombody else to do it, oblivious of the fact that tho corn and cloth apd iron produced are alroady fully equal to tho de- mond. There is only one way in which production can be imcronsed. That in by catting down the tariff, and so inorensing the imports. This will increase the European demand for our exportable prodacts, open a now markot to them, and so stimulato pro- duction. But the Indiana states wan does not medvocate this plan. He “demands that imports should not only not be increased, but should actual- ly be diminished. The flrst and second branches of his plan are Kilkenny cats, which dovour each other, Each absolutely nega- tivea the othor, forif imports are reduced exports will also be diminished. Thoy are eimply exchanges of snrpluses. Thero ro- mnins, then, one more resource. Tho na- tional debt ia to bo transforred from foreign holders to our own citizens: the drain of gold to pay interest will thus bho averted ; and wo can aceumulato o stook of specle that will enable us to resume. How pretty this fs. And what a pity that it is sheer non- sense, for who is going to buy back the bonds? Gov, Henonicks says that the ‘¢ fa- tal policy " aud * strango and questionablo devices” of the Republican party Lave put our bonds in foreign hands, Tho party las aotually been ainfal enough to sell bonds at & per cont interest to forsigners instead of placing them nt 8 or # per cent at home, Tt has sinfully saved the tax-payers tho neceasity of paying nearly double rates of interest every year, And now our IHix. Drices’ panacea for the currency question is to accumulate gold in the Treasury by forcing the Theasury o pay out twice ag1nuch goldin intorest every year as it does mow ! Buch wisdom is beyond our kon, Perbaps tha Ohio Demooreay can comprehond it, - The speech was intended by its author to gain for him the sobriquet of ¢ Olly Gammon,” but its palpablo abgurdities hardly amount to the dignity of gammon, Hrxpaioms had beter have staid at home and kept his mouth ahiut, He has not improved his prospscts for tho Presidency by his pilgrimoge into the land of the Buckeyes. S —————— The Catholio curate of 8t. Juhn Baptiste, in the Province of Quebec, hos declared an unrelenting war againat the present style of femalo dress by announcing that he will not adminigter the sacrament to those women who herenfter wenr low-necked dresses or 4 pulled.baoked” akirts, This makes a good square issue belween the Church end Fashion, and the tight will undoubtedly be a very lively one. Merctofore the Church has hed fights of this kind on its hands, and has sometimes come out suocesafully, but it hag never hod such an apportunity for its tough- est blows and loudest fulminations as mow, for if.theze aver was m fashion for which Jovely woman will fight, blesd, and dle, it is ‘M " L H luntwy #f sabibitlag ber pretyy form; ahe aving ouve tastsd the. will do her lovel best to prevent going back into hoops. Sho will pull back harder than ever ngainst the prudish curate, and wo believo she will win, Wo don't heliove tho curato can cure it e m——— MATRIMONIAL ECONOMY AGAIN. In a provious nrticle upon the financial as. pects of the matrimonial question, we plead. ed for the oxercise of common Eonso a8 ono of the most importnnt factors in solving the vexed question how to malko tho matrimonial Looks balance. Wo now propose to Lo still more epecifie, and treat of cconomy 83 the golden remedy which commnon sense sug: gets to cure tho ills of matrimony and make overy household happy, contented, and pros- porous. Economy is the main pivet upon which the snceess of every houschold turns, and ita study and practice are not henenth o attention of any lady. ‘Thero is certainly ns much for womnn to do in this useful di- reclion ng in tho ornamental. At present the ambition of most women is to appear ns «queens in society, to be leaders of fashion, to shine in poctry nnd the nrts, and in somo instances in the sciences. This is very landable if the more prac- ticnl facts of. cconomy are mnot lost sight of at the same time, Fashion never yet made a prosperous home ; on the othier hand, it bes ruined many. The sway of society is not conducive to a lealthy condition of the fomily exchequer, unuless the queen has o lord of the treasury to manago tho finances with alill. Thero are few eminent women iu poctry,. musie, tho arls, or seiences, who hinve been successful in tho juanagement of the household ecconomy. Now it is an open question whether the study of economy is not us dignified, elevating, and ennobling as any of the stndies involving sentiment, polito literature, or tho csthetics. The latter may givo o certain degree of grace and culture to tho howeo (sometimes they do not give any), but the former adds thrift to grace. Culture nlone never mado n home Lappy. Culture and thrift togother will produce happiness, if anything ean, Is it not worth while, there- fore, to sacrifico somo of the sentimentin favor of tho practical, and thereby combine tho useful and the ornamental in that pro. portion which is suro to result in happiness and prosperity ? Upon this question Dr. Lonenz Vox Stery, one of the most cwminent of the Austrian po. litical economists, has recently made some admirable suggestions in a Iecturo to the Ger. maa students in that city upon * Womsn in the Sphere of National Economy " which aro worthy of reproduction in discussing this iportant question, although his statistical theories aro somowhat at varinneo with Ameriean practice and Amorican management of the houschold finances. Vox Stev di- vides the entire family income into two dig. tinet parts, Tho first, which depends entire- 1y upon business and capital, belongs to the husband, The second part, which pertaing to houschold economy, ho subdivides into six parts. Four of theae, including that part of the inconie to be dovoted to tho dwelling, tho standinig wants, such as dress, light, fire, ond servants, the cxpense of sickness, denth, insurnnce, and recreation, and a corlain pum et apart as the family savings-box for the subsequont benefit Jof the children, are to bo under the immediate juriediction of husband and wife together. The wifo alone has the solo chargo of the other two parts, which include the daily and weckly expenses of housekeep- ing. Heo theroupon demands that the wife, who thus has charge of ono-third of the life. economy and an equal jurisdiction in the other two-thirds, shall moke tho closest possi- blo estimates of nll items of exponse and of the prices and quantitios of commodities, Upon this point and its importanco he says : 41t is moro important that girls should know how much a family with an incomo of twelve hundred or twonty-four hundred florins should spend on flour and meat, turnips and gugar, than how much nitrogen and oxygon enter into their composition—most important for thom to know how much it costs to foed o lamp during a winter, and how much clothing and washing the housobold needs, or how much fael is required to cook for five porsons. With this supervision over the oxpenses under her charge, the wife is to bave the care of the house and to see that all things are in order and nothing is wested or lost." ‘Thero is a vast denl of wisdom and sound philosophy in Dr, Von Stem's suggestions, and they are not altogether without a senti- mental bearing. They Lave n very ovident benring upon connubial lhappiness, sinco good and economical housekeeping can make n happy homo and bad housekeeping cannot. It would probably natound any person, oven the most cbgervant, to know lLow much business the divorce courts lave dono which has grown out of dirty rooms, ill.cooked 1menls, unwiso provision of commodities, bad boying, waste of monoy, efe. Qarelessness and improvidence have been the first steps in the ruin of many o family, while prudence, cconomy, and thrift are very sure to cement more closoly the bonds of mutual love in the family. As Vou Bremy says: *“The frugal wifo in her neat dress at broalfast, who sends her hus~ Yand to his business with good spirits, has more hold on him year in and year out thau the spendthrift pleasure-soeker who trics to charm him in the evening by her silks and jewels,” There waa once a sort of ** money " kmown As puxignats, It resembled tho grocnbacksin many respects. Its inaterial was poper. It was @ promise to pay, It circulated. It was sacured by n plodge of the “faith” and **re- sources,” etc., of all Franco, Bat it wont down, down, until its chicf value was aswall- poper in peasant’shut. ‘Wil some inflation. ist oxplain the whya and wherefores of this fact? *Why, gontlo stupid, tell us why?" Pl A Judge Kxrrky has baon nrryhl; his infiation priaciples into tho enumeration of his sudiences. Heo saye to a reportarof the Yhiladelphia Times: At Chk my audlencs waa' oyingly small. 1t munhuflm 7 Jout a thouasn nlnln\'.nlvl hunpdred pic, ‘I'he audience upon the basis of decimal uots- tion was 500 people, by actual ocount. It must Lave been ** sunoyingly small,” The Judge pro- coeds to scconnt for this unoxpescted clroum- stanoe. liosayu: Tha gentlomen who hiad {nvited tue thor Lad taken Metormick's Hall, one of the largeat in the city, mads every ossible armogement for wy comfort, but had forgotlen to advertise ths timo and of the wmeet- 1 should way that invita partics of buainess 1og. 1t ix dus Lo tiem thas tlons bad cums to me from iwo The actoal facts of the atier are notes Judge Km.Lxy reprosents thew. The meetiug was advertisad every day fu the local columns of the daily papers, and refeszod to in their edi- torial columae aléo. The trouble was that the people of Ohicago dld not want to hear Judgo Krrixe's spesch. Tha long list of Vice-Presl- donts of the mestiug was made up without the knowledge of the gentlemen who wers placed bpon it Fous-atils of Kuees wesd usl i byipss thy witl: ilie views of the speaker. With roter. once to tho questions put to him by Tur Trip. UNE, ho mado it convonlent not to answer them, oxcapt in & mannor neither intelligent nor ony spoken, It ia truo that hia mission to Chicagy was n faflore, but ho has no right to complain of tho lack of attention of the proas. That Le failed to gain honor, glory, or convorta was (lg fault of lumsolf aud of tho causo he roprosonted, B S MiKe Evana sy that Justics I'OLTAK 14 pl FETOTICE Nl TADARTOATET SRS 10 €61 Bin hars o1 tho papers, and thut that wat why he kicksd up & Loh Dery Wednoeday night at tho meoting of the Souly Town Toara 3 that tho Collector must 11y big wigey 10 et honest men to Liolp bim,—post and Mait, Mikg EvANs nood not foel Jealous. IHo will not have to ** play reformer " to keop Lis name before tho public. Ihw * money-anving ** wi nover do it for him. Tho claim that ho eanuot collect binlf tho taxes of tho South Town for £10,000, however, will doit. Porhaps Mr. Mg LvaNs may not bo su anxious to o bofore thp publie, then, —————t PERSONAL, Woadhull and Ciaflin aro lecturing in Ven mont. Pheebe W, Couztns, of 8, Louis, is & guest at thio Tremont House. Bergh says a wyoman who will keop & canary (n a cage in not fit to bo a mother. Liout,-Cola, Jackeon aud La Montague, of Quebec, aro at tho Sherman Ifouse, Alexandor II. Btopliens {s repurtcd to bo iy botter bealth than ho Liss beou for s long time, PacMahon novor was guiily of tho Malakoq phraso tmputed to him: “Here I am; hog I'll stay.” It would be considered too pergonal to inquiry whother the Drooklyn snfferors from hay-feyer aro rakos, Jamoa Woods, of Philadelphis. enjoys the dis. tinction of mnot haviog been subar ous dsy in BoYen yoarsd, Pius IX. {a actoally said to be writing au au. toblography, ** Lafo of & Popo." If it is accurate 1t must bo terribly lovg, Johno . Wallis, the lawyer, roturned from his Eastern trib yesterdsy. Ho says that Pennsyl. vanis ir tho gardon of God. Trof, Proctor {8 almost rendy to publish tus comsus of Jupitor and Afars, so fully does he bo- lieve in thelr Labitablenoss. Dr. Glonn, of Coluas County, Cal., Lias a ttly littlo farm wluch fronts for 18 milos on the Sao ramento ivor, and runs back b miles. The Rev. Bumner Ellig, pastor of tho Clhurch of tho Rodoemor, will occupy bis pulpit to-mor. row, aftor an absonce of saveral weoke. * Poter Cooper nto tho flrat beans cooked in Boston,” says the Cincinoatl Gazelle. Peter must kave had more faith than his namesske. James Russell Lowell's frionds aro very so:ry ho published bie lagt poom. ‘““Weo air & great people, and wo must be cracked up,” you kuow, Lucy C. Hooper annonnces the overwhalming discovery that Dumas fils had a mothor. It takes & live woman to forrot out a fumily secrot, Tho Brooklyn Argus is of opivion that: *0livo Logan is tho bost dressed lady at Long Braoch—after tho othor ladies have gono lo bed.” A nioco of President Van Buren, 79 yeam of age, i8 & publio charaoter, like her unclo. Bhols an {pmato of the Hudson County, N.J., alms- bouse. The Pittsburg Commercial asye that Bogardus I8 to writo an autobiography in pigeon English, Io'll probably fiod that aa chincasy s langunage 8 any. Gon, W. H. Fronklin, Jamos H. Willson, and Henry Kennedy, of the Cuastom-Houso Investi- gation Commiftec, are stopping at tho Palmer House. Qov. Gaston will not sign Josso Pomeroy's doath-warrant, and the Council refase to com- muto bim., He' thereforo to-be hangad aud not to be. At Rock Spring Primitive Baptist Chureb, Morgan County, Toun,, throe Cooper sistors, triplots by birth, wero baptized Judia, Jalia, and Judy, sovorally. § The intelligenco and invention of Plymouth Church {8 now employed to prevont Mra. Tilton from ever making it up with Ler busband, as sho {a inclined to do. Brooklyn, which has been slumbering over the smouldering embers of its strifo, is about to re- sumo its interocine warfaro in s week, Heury baving decided to return. . Princo Btartemberg, who so bravely smoked & clgar and aketched the scene wlule the steamor was ashore the other day, is now in New York, baving roturned from Newport. Dr. Graham, of Louisville, 1s 91 yoars of age, but be goes about on horssback, hunting up co« tiositios for the musoum, as apry and blythe s ho waa sixty or sevonty yoars ago. The proof-reader will mever nevor condascend to note tha differonce betwoen tho words affect and offect. Whon told of his errors he nover offactd & chango for tho better, only affeots it. A sontimental young lady ‘remarkiog that Longfellow did not look like a poet, learned with disgust from ber unclothat *‘real poots never do.” Which discovery Josquin Miller has ro- cently made, ending ain the shortening of his hair, Emlle Olivier defines * Ropublio™ fn the Na- tioual Dictionary of tho French Academy as: * A Biato where the Governmont s conferred by election and of which the chiof is not hereditse £y," whioh in a8 near as the averago Fronohman comes. A, I. Norton, sditor of the Dallas (Tex.) Jn- leltigenoer, vomed over thirty yoars mgo never to sbove tiil Henry Clsy should be elected Presi- dont, and bis beard I8 » yard long, It noves ocenrred to bim to trim it, though ho's 20 trimmer, The Pliladolphia Times says that Emie Sidl Jusset Zis Alkhalidi has vacated the Arable Chair in Vienna sud gone back to Jeruatem. ‘What's tho * Arabjo Chair”? It conldn’c Lavs moant gum Arablo, for thon he'd have stock 10 It Jonger, you know.—Commercial Advertiser. A. M. Thomson, of tho Mitwaukeo Sentind offors for uate 818,700 of full-paid stock in that Compauy, Nobody who knew anything suppoved Mr. Thomson belonged to Carpenter's Ring. That he is willing to sell out his share {n the ‘Whisky-Riog organ shows that ho {a not in thas one, either, It s likely that the story in the Brooklra Arguv of the eucounter between Barry Sullivan, Charlos Qaylor, and George Butlor was malnly true, The only tncrediple part of it e thsé Butler thra#bed anybody, Gayler kindly held Sullivan while Butler thrashed him, Any wsJ, it was & nice, creditsblo thiug for the dramstle profession, which seoms to be obtalning & m0- nopoly of thia sort of thing, TOTHL ARBIVALS, J'remamt Houss—Jobu W, Madden, New Orlesss| 0.8, Johwaon, Now York; O. W, Goyer, Mempbisi Qol, 3. i, ¥iake, Boatou ; Thomas Himpson, Winous ! ¥, . Jamos, Hoston; J, Page, Deaver; E?flul:' Acitae, Omaha; 3, Fubirman, Central Clty§ Crist, Oluciuuati} F. E, Ferry, ratef § Now York ; 8, A’ it New Haved Ma).'a. 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