Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 11, 1875, Page 12

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1875.—SIXTEEN PAGES, TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. RATEZA OF STRICRIPTION (PATARLE 1N ADYAXCF), Pontage Prepald nt this OMce. Bpecial arrangements made with such, Bpecimen copies sent free, To prasent delsy and mistokes, ba sure and give Post-Oftice address 1o fal, fucluding Stateand County. Reimittances msy be made either by drafl, exprest Post-Ufice order, o In regiatered lettors, at our rik. TERMS 7O CITY AUTACRIREDS, nity, dellvered, Bunday excerte. centn per week. vered, Bunday incinded, 30 vents ner wweeky THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Corner Madison and Desrbo Chlesgo, Til, s e TO-DAY'S AMUSEMENTS. OD'S MUSEUM—Monrro strecl, haiween Dear- m'r'}f’.n..%.‘:' O Romtd tha World in Tights Daye.” Allernoon renlng, MY OF MUSIC—Halsted sireet, betwern Ih‘nfifig&fi‘; Montoo, Engagement of Millon No les. + Dohemians and Detoctiver.” Afternoun and evouing. McVICKER'S THEATRE—Mudison nireet, betiwcen Deartorn and Hiate. Engagement of Idwin Adsms, *Enoch Arden.” Aflcruoon and evenlng. HOOLEY'S TITEATRE—Nandolph stroet, betercen Clrkand Lafalle. Engsgemeat of the California Xinstrals, Alternoon sud cyeniug. CHICAGO TITEATRE—Ciark atreet, betwoen Ran- Quith and Lake, *liearis aud Dismonds,” After- noon and ovening. FARWELL FIALL—Madinon etreet, between Clark and Lidalle ~ Concert by the Kennedy Fambiy, Alter- noon aud evening, INTER-STATE EXPOSITION~Laks shore, foot of Adams strest, McCORM'CR HMALL~—~North Clark sirect, coroor Kinslo. oy's Hiberuic The Chicags Tribuae. Baturdsy Mornng, Boptember 1l. 1875 Groenbacks at the New York Gold Ex- change yesterday opened nt 86}, fell to 83} advanced to 864, dropped to &3}, and closed ot 833, Tho acarcity of gold and tho nows of the sdoption of au inflation platforn by the Pennsylvonin Democrats were promptly used by the holders of coin monoy to de- preciate tho value of the currency of tho country. The Indian Ring Investigation Commis- sion hag wisely deicded to conduct its Inbors with open doors. So far, tho investigation promises well. Bishop Ilant, of Dakota, wng the principal witness yestordsy, snd tho worthy prelate was not backward in confirm- ing the gencral estimate concerning Agent Saviuue's dishouesty, or in supporling to that extent the charges of Prof. Mansit No better reflex of the state of trado in Chicago could be afforded than is found in the advertising columns of Tur TRIBONE. Our merchonts and denlers, quick to nppre- hend the popular bent, and knowing without 1fail when the time is suspicious, are prompt in nononneing their ability to supply the de- mand for their wares. Liberal advortising means brisk trade, and the symptoms notico- blo to-day are both significant and gratifying. The plntl;:rm j;mt adopted by the Demo- sratic Convention of Pennsylvania reads in turions contrast with that propounded by the same party in tho sameo State last yeor, It rends ps follows: Aateady offort ahiould bs mada to bring the Governa ment notes to par with gold, nnd to secure a return to 1pecle paymens at the earliest poasibile period that re- Mmplion can bo offected with satety, On this platform the Demoerats carried the Btate and the Legislature, and scventoon membera of Congress to ten Republicans. The American Pomological Association has concluded its intoreating discussious and its waluable labors, and the reading public, duly informed thorcof by the daily press, are the wiser and happier for it oll, more cspecially those who havo been favored with s viow of tho beautiful fruit display made by the Po- mologists at the Esposition. Moreover, zs wo aro glad o note, the Association has re- ceived fitting courtesies and atientions at tho finnds of our citizens, and tho members will doubtless take with them reciprocally pleas- ont impressions of Chicsgo and her people, The fact that Mr. Jory Krrvy, of Buffalo, i a Democratio politician of *“injfluence,” scomn to have been overlooked by Gov. Tre- py's Committeo intrusted with the duly of investigating the cnnal frands, That Coma mitteo yesterdsy surprised Mr, Keiny and his influontial Demacratia friends by causing his arrest on the charge of perjury in having certified to fraudulont bills under onth in the «copaoity of Canal Superintendant of the Buf- fulo Division. 3r, Ketwy, like any other knave, was called upon to furnish bonds or go to jail, and it is understood that other prowinent politicinns in Buffalo are wanted for tho same purposs, bat are conveniently sbsent. ——— We publish this morning a comprehensive and interesting articlo descriptive of Chi- cago's vast ruilway system aud ita nuxiliary departments, with an accompanying map illustrativo of the samo, The compilation in. cludes facts of interest portaining to sixteen great trunk lines of railroad centering in and baving for their grand objective po'nt the metropolis of the West, together with tho branches and divisions of ouch, the Purr. N Palaco Car Company, the different fast freight lines, the important mubject of rail- rond supplies, and tho systom of railwny passonger and boggage transportation from point to point within the city, The public is divided into two classes, shippers and travelers, nnd heuce the valuable informa. tion upon the subject presented in such at- tractive form in our columns to-dny will be reasd with pride and satisfuction by the people of Chicago, and with interest by everybody. B Tho Chicago produce markets wero steadier yesterdny, aud grain was stronger. Mess pork was quiet, and 100 per bri higher, clos- ing at 821.65 cash, and §20.97) for October, Lard was dull and 5@7}c per 100 Ius highor, closing at $12.85 cash, and $12874@12.90 for October, Meats were quict and easior at E@8{c for shouldery, 11{@11}c for whort ribs, sud 12}c for short clears, Highwines were quiot and steady at $1.174 per gullon,, Lake Ireights were active and steady at 2jc for corn W Baffalo. Flour was in fair demand and a shado easfer. Wheat was activo, and 1je high- er, closing at §1.14} for September, aud $1.12} for October. Corn was active, and Be higher, closing at 5970 cash, and 5Y]c for October. Oats wers qulet and o bigher, closing at 33}c for September, and 84fc for October. Ryo was quiet and firm at 76{@ 70c. Barley was quiet and firm, closiog at $L.1< for Septewber, and $1.05§ for October. Hogs wers in good demand, and light weights | eommanded better prices, Sales were prine cipally nt $7.25@7.75. Cattle were quist and unchanged., Sheep wero in demand at full provious prices, One handred doliars in gotd would buy $116.75 i greenbacks at the close. et . Corrnption and cownrdice, fraud snd vio- lence, are usually found in couples, 'Tha dis- lonest ring in the Board of Connty Commis~ sioucrs forms no exeeption to the rule, On Thursday last Tar Trinose pointed out and exposed n schemo for robbing the tax-payers in the award of tho contracts for furnishing conl Lo the poor and to the various connty in- stitutions. 'Thenrticle was moderato in tone, reflecting on uo one personally, but simply giving the facts, and suggesting the inference that tho interests of individuals, and not of the county, were being studied in tho matter of the coal vontracts, The article, morcover. | wna fully borne out by the action of the Board yesterdny in awarding the contracts according to the programme announced, and inshame- less and open violation of honesty and decency, Tho entire proceduro is stamped with corrption;; noother conclusion is possic bla, Compared with the Abstract job, tho coal stenl is & suall ono ; but it is unmistaka- bly astent. Worst of all, the profits on the contracts to bo shared among the members of the ring must como ont of tho prupera in shape of inferior fucl and short weights, Haring ll this in view, no one will bo sur~ prised that a violent assanlt was yesterdny made upon & Tninvse reporter by Commis. pioner MeCarrnry, egged on and backed up by (‘ummissioners Costr and Jonxsox, ‘The attack was made whilo tho reporter was weated in A chair and unable to offer re- sistanca, It wns not onmly coward- ly oud contemptiblo; it was a confession that what the reporter had written was trug, anid a notification that the exposuro of cor- ruptipn will bo visited with personal vio- leuce. 1t wns the act both of a raseal and ruffion, The reporier escaped unhurt; the samo cannot ba said of his sneaking assail- ants, THE PERNSYLVANIA DEMOCRATS. ‘The Pennsylvania Demoeratio Couvention, after n two dayy’ fight, adopted » platform on the currency question almost identienl with that of the party in Ohio. The vole in com- mittes on the resolutions was 23 to 24, show- ing bow vitally tho contest was fought. All during tho two days the delegates wero del- uged with telegraphic appenls from Ohio, imploring the Pennsylvania brethren not to *lay down™ on tho party in Ohio, and warning them that, if the Convention voted dotn inflation, it would destroy all chances of AuLey in Ohio. Theso appenls had an effect, nnd so the Convention yiclded, and ndopted a most extraordinary platform. But the pressure from Obio was not the only enuse producing the adoption of tho rag- money platform. The Convention was n crenture in tho hands of United States Sens- tor Wanrsce, and Warracr is but another name for Toxt Scorr. He was the Vice-Presi. ent and acting-mannger of Scorr's wild-cat railway enterprise in Texns, for which Scorr hns applicd to Congress for n subsidy in bonda or indorsements ranging from fifty to one hundred millions of dollars. The Domo- erats having socured a majority in the Penn- sylvania Logislature, Scorr had his Viee President elected to the United States Senate, With Siwon Cawrnoy and Warnace, Scorr has two representatives in the Senate from Pennsylvania. Mr. Scotr hes on his hands o great construction company, besides n largo number of unproductive railways which aro heavily in debt and under protest for in- terest, Ieis, of course, for inflation. He wants ¢ money ” not enly to ba inflated but “ cheap.” The chenper the botter, The Convention was bossed by Scort's Lieutenant, and pressed by tho hard-driven party in Ohio, and undor these two forces produced the anti- Democratic rag-monoy platform, The platform begins with an expression of unfaltering dovotion to the principles onun. cinted by Tuosas JEerrEnsoN, among which are recited, * llonest payment of our just debtg snd tho sacred preservation of the public faith,” snd then declaros in favor of an unlimited issue of irredeemablo legal. tender notes as the exclusive paper currency of the nation, without any provision for their payment or redemption,—not oven providing that they may be funded into Kerrry's 8.65 scrip bonds. They are to be unlimited and jrredeemnble, and at tho same time a legal- tender, which is rathor o strange way of vin. dieating JerrErson's fundamental principle, “Tho honest paymontof debta and the sacred presorvation of the publio faith,” Tho Convention complately verified Sena- tor MonToN's explauation of the Democratic policy in his Ohio specch, that the party knew very well that the Courts will declaro any new issue of legal-tender notes to be utterly void; that the Nostional Banks being abolished and their notes retired, sud legal tenders mnot authorized in excess of the £400,000,000, there must of necessity be n return to the old system of 8tate banks,— tho wild-cat, blue-pup currency, each Stato having its own system, and no two Gtates baving o currency of equal valuo. Tho Convention thorefore declared in favor of tho abolition of the National Banks,—not only the repeal of authority to issue bank notes, but their abolition for all purposes, It further demanded the immedi- ate issno of legal-tender mnotes oqual in aount to that of the bank notes, and to such further oxtent as the ** wants of trade ” may require, leaving the restoration of legal-ten. ders into par in gold to bo brought about by ** prorgoting tho industrics of the people.” Promoting the industries of the peoplo is o phrase having a peouliar meaning in Poousyl- vania, Tt moans an increase of the tariff, and unbsidiziug rallrond companies by loans from thoe National Trensary either in money or bonds. low an increaso of taxes on im. ported goods and subsidics to railroads can bring irredcemnble and watered paper cur- rency to par In gold, is one of those problems in political economy which no ono outside of Ponnsylvania can oxplain, Mr, Kevver has long since got it through his Lead that water. ing tho greenbacks must run them down to a very low value unless there bo some means by which they van bo condensed, so ho pro- poses that they mny ot ony time be funded in & bond benring 8.65 per cent interest. In his speech at Cincinuati, a fow nights ago, he went further, aud was willing that the 3.65 interest should be payable in gold. 'That would farnish some escape, and would tend to keep up the value of the cur. renoy to that of & 8.65 per cent bond, But the Peunsylvania Democracy discard even that mild form'of redemption. They propose o0 unlimited issne of currency witbout any form of sedemption whatever. ‘Thero ispot & Democrat in publio life in Peonsylvania who is not on record ay op- posiug the Legal-Tender act. There is not u Dewoeratio lawyer in the United States, nor & lawyer of any politicel persuasion, who, in the light of the decisious of the Supreme Oonxt,hnquun: aware that ¢ new issue of the Tronsury notes, mnde a legal-tender in timo of peace, would bo promptly deelared unconstitutional by the Courts. What, then. ia the menning of the demand for tha repen! of thae National Iank cirenlation, and an in- crenaed iasuo of legal-tender notes, whieh they kuow and expect will be declared void ? Lho explanation is the same 83 that given by the Democrata in Mississippi for keeping up a conatant warfare between the white and black rnces, that * We want first to mke the State a perfect hell, and thon ft will gldly Uecomo Democratic.” The party in tho conntry want o lave the National Bank curreney abolishied and the legal-tenders declared void, and then, there bicing no curreney at all, there must bo a return to the old wild-cat Stato banks, The Southern States alone will put in operation thousands of these Stata institutions. Banks will be established at every cross-vonds and in every village, and the country will bo deluged with n currency nine-tenths of which will Lo fraudulent, unsecured, and worthless. To that end, the assertion of Biate sovereignty in the mnnufacture of paper money, the Democratic leaders aro Inboring under the ‘delusive cry of more greenbacks, which they know will bs branded as illegal the moment they aro irsued. THE '48 MINORS AGAIN, 'There is ono view of the 18 minor case which has not, perhaps, been presented to these people with sufficient distinetness, The point is, that persons of this class never wore legnl volors, even under tho Constitu- tion of 1848, If they have boen voting without being naturalized, they have been caativg ilivgal ballots. Casting o thousand illega! bollots will not ako o person a legol voter, The Constitutionof 1848 provided: * . . . every whito male inhabitant of the age afore- snid " (viz. : above 21 yearsof nge) **who may bo a resident of the State at tho time of the ndoption of this Constitution shall have the right of voting as aforesaid.” Any ome of theso I8 minors possessing averago intelli- gence can sec, by simply reading this pro. vision, that nono cxcept those who were nbove 21 years of ago ot tho time of its adoption wero inclnded in this clause of the State Constitution of 1848. For an alien to be entitled to voto un. der this provision ho must bo able to affirma. tively answer this question : Were you at the timo of tho adoption of tho Constitution of 1818 o white malo inhabitant above the age of 21 years, residing in this Stato? Jt will ho noticed that three things are necessary. Tho alien must have been a white male in. hiabitant above the age of 21 years, and a regidont of this State at the time tho Consti- tution of 1848 was adopted. That Constitu- tion was ndopted on tho first Monday of March, 1848, nnd took cffect on the 1st of April of that year. Under tho clause to which we have referred, no rlien who wns not 21 years of ago at tho timo that election wag lold could be o legal voter. Evory voto such persons havo cast during this many years was simply clearly illegal, Thus it will ho seen that tho Constitution of 1870, as properly interpreted by the Su- prome Court in tho Oass County caso, does not deprive any one of a singlo legal privilego ho had under the Constitution of 1848, As we undemstand from the printed appeal in the name of ** 25,000 '48 minors,” the burden of this complaint arises from being deprived of a right thoy supposed they had legally ox- ereised, \Whon they roalize the faot that they are tho ones who have been guilty of wrong by casling so many illegal votes, through a mistake of logal right, of course, wo are certain that they will socopt the snggestion wa proviously made, and with the utmost good nature repair to the noarest Court-House and take out their naturnlization papers. Their number in not as pgreat a8 supposed from this fact, in addition to others given : The error mado in Cass County did not extond over the entire State. In many parts of the Stato our people read tho Constitution of 1848 cor- rectly, and all of these '48 minors wero nat. urnlized beforo offering to vote. In many cases tho father who was old enough to claim the advantago of that constitutional pro- vision took pains to bo naturalizod himself, so that his minor sons on becoming of age could enjoy the privileges of citizenship with- out further trouble. If the fathors in Cnss and other conntiza in that part of the State had done this, thero would not now bo any "48 minors whoso votes could be quoestioned. THE MIBBISSIFPI RIOTS, Bad blood betwoon tho races still continues in Mississippi, aud bad men upon both sides aro industriously sceking to foment disturb. aoce and bloodshed. A few days ago, & mass Republican meeting and barbecuo were held at Clinton, and nearly 3,000 people wero in aitendonce. After the spenking bad com- menced, & riot suddenly sprung up in the crowd, growing out of the interforence of Democratic white men with Republican ne- groes, A fire-eater had drawn a pistol upon o negro. Tho negro retalisted. Otber ne. groed and whites mixed in, and pistol-shots wero numerous, finally reaulting in the kill. ing and wounding of half a dozen negroes and asmany whites. The meoting was brokon up, but this did not ond the trouble, Armed whites took possession of the grounds, and others began to pour in from sdjacent towns, A dsy or two afterwards, if the dispatches can be relied upon, these whites scattered sbout in marauding bands, killing o number of negroos, ‘The colored men appenled to the Governor for protection, and the Governor, being unable to give them that protection, appealed to the President for military help. The President instructed the Adjutsnt-Gen- eral to direet the Commanding Gen- eral of the Department of the Bouth to furnish the nacessary sssistance to the Governor in case the insurreotion in that Stato should become too formidable for the Btate authorities to suppross, at the game time dirccting the Adjutant-Genernl to sub- wit the instructions to the Attornoy-General toseeif thoy woro legal, The Attorney-Gen- eral has decided that it wonld not be legal to direct steps to be taken by the military forces in advance of the issue of o proclamation commanding the rioters to disperse. Whether such a proclamation shall be issued is now under advisement. Meanwhile Vicksburg dispatchea report everything quiet in the turbulent neighborhood, and a rosy dispatch from the Chairman of the Demo- cratic Btate Executivo Committeo uays: *There are no dlsturbances in this Stalo ond no obstructions to the execution of the law. Peaco prevalls throughout the State,” #ic., eto, In this affray, riot, insurrection, ¢r what- ever it may bo called, it s just as difficult to ascertain the facts from Bouthern news re. ports as in any of the previous affairs of this kind. ‘Ihio blacks report a large number of their race Lilled, and the whites reporta number of theirs. The Repullicans insist | thero is no oceasion for it. upon it that mauy blacka have been killed ; tho Demoerats insist that no ono has been killed Lot whites. 1L is most probable that the trath lies Letween them, and that both Ulackn and whites have been killed in theso uarrels, Suflicient facts have been devel. oped in this, ns in previous nffairs of the kind, o indicate that the color-line is savage- | ly drawn §n Mississippl, and that althongh tho State may be * quiet " now, nn outbreuk may occur at any moment in future, Tho Btate is under tho political contrel of the blneks, who largely outunmber the whites, There i» o modernto whito sentiment represented hy such men as Lawar, bub it seems to e ineflicient for any practical pur- pose. The remainder of the whites are of the Immoderate Vicksburg Jlerald fire-eating stamp, Between the two extremes the State is kept in continual turmoil and disturbanee, sud lifa and property ave conatantly inme- citre, 4 no oue con say at what timo theeo outbreaks aro to oceur. Until some chango ineffected, therefore, we must expeet to hear of n recurrence of (he outrages, especinlly when political fecling runs high. Wo may expect to hear of whito tmen slaughtering negroes and negroes killing white men, Wo may expoct {0 hear Gov. Amrs appesling many more times for help, and tho equally frantic statements of the Democrata that It ig ovident enough that the only remedy for this misera~ ble condition of thiugs in Mississippi is in an improved public sentiment, Tho reasonnble, temperate, honest men, both white and black, should determino to live in harmeny, nnd compel others to do the same, and abol- iah the colorline on bLoth sides, Until this is done, there con Le no hope for peace in Mississippl. As it now stands, al- though nearly all the reports are exaggerated, coming as thoy do from the Lre-coter side, the Dlacks havelo share with the whites their portion of blamoe, and it is perhapa the despair of the situation that the Governor of the State is unable to enforce law and order, and moake his commands respected snd obeyed. Until that time when tho influonces of bet- ter white connsels or of general education and civilization result in the abolition of the color-line, and restors havmony between the races, there is only one safe policy for the negroes to pursua a9 6 race which will ba likely to result in peace. They shonld not be the nggressors, but when they are im- posed upon ond fired upon, they should strike back. Tho surest way to preserve liberty is to defend it aa vigorous- Iy as it is nssailed. The United Stotes Gov- ernment cannot alwaye instantly furnish pro- tection to thoso who don't or won't defend themselves. They have the right of self- defense. ‘That is every freeman’s right, and thoy aro more likely lo commnand the respect and forbearanco of their onemios when they resolutely and manfully defend themwselves after they are nssniled. If they aro nob tho nggressors ond are unable to protect them- solves after vigorous efforts, the Government must step in ond help them, both in the in. torcats of tho law and of humanity, if tho State Govornment is unablo to do it. DOMESTIC ECONOMY OF A QUEEN. The money-matrimonial correspondonos lately published in Tuz Triuse has given tho publie glimpses into a number of humblo households, Wo havo seon how Epwin and AxoeLtva menngo to live with com- parative comfort on half the sum that Avorrmua finds insufficient for his single wants. It has beon reserved for o grocer in Parig, howover, to fling wide open tho doors to a royal household, and contribute to lognl literaturo an nccount of the way in which an ex-Queon mannges her domestic affairs. Taa- BERLLA, tho mother of the King of Spain and an eoxilo from Bpanin, has been sued by n vulgar, democratioc grocer, and the courts of Paris have compelled her to nppear, at least by proxy, and pload her cawso, Thoso conrts by the way, bave o habit of treating alleged cul- prits with remarkablo impartiality. Thoy condemned a mon, in hia absence, twice nom. inated for President of the United States (Jonx C. Furxoxt) to two years' imprison. ment for swindling; they clapped Prince Penrrys, tho American who was rash enough to marry into tho Bourbon family, ‘into jail for defrauding his butcher and baker; and they havo just beon trying ox-Queon [sanerra on the charge of her grocer that she was in- dobted to hin and wonldn't pay, Paris haa takon n livoly intorest in overy detail of tho trinl, but its chicf interest to us is the gketch it givos of the interior arrangement of tho household of & womnn of much monoy and much matrimony. Few Queens have over Yiod 08 may busbunds as Tsaverra pe Boosn- DON; no ex-Queens have over had ns much monoy. Iere, then, is & woman experi- enced in both the depnrtments of life which'| our correspondents have been desoribing, Hor plans cannot but be of value, In the first place, sho made n dirset con. tract with her cook. The latter, Mr. Azraep Brancnaap, promised to supply her food and drink of o certain quality and quantity at a fized prico, Any ono who las scen the wieldly bulk of hor late Majesty will not be surprised to learn that her daily diet consists of two soups, eight dinhes of meat, vegota- bles, choess, stewed fruit, and plenty of Spanish and Bordeaux wine, It s surpris~ ing, however, that BraNcmanp should have undertaken to breakfost and dine and wine this vast lump of royalty for the compara- tively small sum of $2.40 a day. No wonder ho failed to pay his green.grocer, and k0 got bis royal mistress into the unpleasant position of defendant in a petty suit in a potty court. It is true that the §2.40 was tho average prico paid for each of the ten porsons who formed the famlily of the Queen, and the threo or four children of doubtful paternity who call her *Mam- ma" may eat littlo enough to atons for thelr mother's ogre-like sppetite. The unfortunate Brancuann was forced to pay for all ¢ wast- ing " in the kitchon and to feed the servants at certain ridionlously low rates, It is safe to say that there was the minimum of waste and the maximum of want in the scrvants’ quarters. And now, just aftor all this was settled, when the household machinery was working smoathly, thero cane the unfortunate trouble between tho gracer and the Queen, The for~ mer sued the lalter for provisions fur- nisbed the cook; Isapxria filed a copy of ber contract with the cook to prove her own non-liability ; and thus Paris and the vest of the world learned the detalls of the do. mestio economy of a Queen. The coolness with which the Pennsylvania Democratic Conventiou asserted a falsehood, 88 the bass of one of its resolutious, is re- wmarkable, 1t says in the seventls resolution;: ‘' That the contraction of the money our- rouoy and circulating medium heretoforo made by the Ropublican party, and the further contraction propossd by it with a viow to tho forced resnmption of specio pay- monts, hna atrondy bronght disaster to tha business of {he conntry and threatens gen- eral bankruptey.” The amount of currency citculation now s greater than it was in and has o much Ineger purchasing " power. ‘To nttributo to an act of Cougross passed in Febrnary, 1875, tho downfall of Jax Cooxz and tha panio of 1873, is cerlainly as bold an insult to publio intelligence sa oven n Democratio Convoution evor at- templed. —————— TEE RALSTON MEE1ING IN 'FRISCO. Hero-worship survives in all its old-fashion- ed vigor on the PacificSlope. CarLyLE him- aclf conld wnnt nothing more in that line. Tt ia doubtful, however, whether any futuro edition of his * Heroes and Hero-Worship " will contain n sketch of Rarsroy, the Cali- fornia Money-King. Even tho meeting of night beforo lnst in San Francisco will not affect this, What has been foolishly said of Lixcory may bo wisely said of Rareron: *Tho most fortunnte thing ho ever did was to die when he id." His tragic fato tonchod the quick chord of sympathy in the gencrous henrts of the people of the Pacific Stope. 1lis errors wero forgotten. 1lis offenscs, if he com. mitted any, were condoned. Thousands of peopla gathered to do honor to RarnstoN dead whio would have been frantie in con. Aomning Rarsroy living, Far be it from us to rebuke tho grent charity that throws n veil over tho alieged misdecds of the financior whoso stormy life onded in the calm Paoific, state on o public square in San Francisco, with the flng of his country for a pall; when Baxen delivored over tho corpse of his friend and his fellow-Seuntor that marvelous faneral oration that rang from the Pacific to the At- Iantie; when the great deedsof the man who roso from p New York fireman to an United States Seuator wero painted,—then no voice wna henrd roviewing the mistakes of tho dead. His errors wero buriod with him, 1is good doeds —Vlossomed from his allent dust, As far ns the meeting of Tharsday night con- fined itself to lauding the good traits and deeds of RALsTON, it was merely giving voico to the gvery-day talk of many men, and did not exceed tha limity of good taste and saund discretion. As far, too, sa the meating brought out new facts in defenae of the dasd monarch of the money-market, it simply dis- charged a friendly duty. It unfortunatoly went beyond this. It took aleaf from the Contral Pacific book and tried to destroy two nowspapor mediums of public opinion, the sentiments of which did not agreo with ity own. It adoptcd.resolutions to withdraw subscriptions and advertisements from the Bulletin and the Call and crush them out. This is not fair play. Taking refugoe bo- hind n dond man to asspil a living one has never been counted tho extremo of gallantry. The circnmstances of the temporary suspen- sion of the Bank of Californis ks justified to somo extont, ot least, the criticisms of the Call and Dulletin upon RarsTon's manage- ment of that institution, The remainder of theso attacks, personal in their nature and dirocted at tho Into Mr. Razstoy, cannot be justified, but noither can they bo successfully comboted by the sdoption of mob-resoln. tions, The way to mect them is to disproce them. JerrznsoN eaid that error could be safely toleratod as longas truth waa left free to combat it. Weo commend this maxim to tho men who got up tho meeting. They are froo to combat what they believe to bs error with what they think to bo truth. HOW HAWES MADE MONEY EASY, Hawzs is p Michigan flanancier. His other namo is Moses, Ho lived at Allegan, With his nowspaper ho enlightened or fuddled the Allegan mind. With his single-factory he supplied material for roofing tho Allegan house. The duplex business failed, howevor, to fill Mr. Hawgs' oxchequer. As the funds in that sank, his spirits fell in a correspond- ing proportion. To him, moody,~as En- glish translators of Houer say,—camo an Idea,—an idea worthy of a big I, which made Hawzs' eyes grow big. When hawks' eyes aro in this condition, it behooves their gnmeo to keep ont of their way., DBut the werld of Allogan wont on in its nccustomed quict coursg, uncouscious of the fate thet wasin store for it. In this accustomod course, it accumulated largo numbers of Mr. Hawge' notes of hand. These promises to pny, with .Moses' bold signature beneath them, baceme ane of tha things that 10 respectablo family in Allegan was without, At this juncture, tho Iden struck Mr, Hawsa, It strack him hard, but its practico struck Allegan much more severely. It may bo said to have beaten Allogan, for it enabled Moses to beat that quiet burg out of a goodly share of its property, 'The Idea was simplo but comprohensive, It was worthy of Krurey, for no ordinary lunatio could have conceived it. Mr, Hawza decided to redeem his prom- ises to pay 1n othor promises, and never ro- deem tho latter, He had soveral reams of paper in his nowspaper office, the remnants of the lnst stock bought before tho paspor- factory declined to receive any more bad promises in rcturn for good paper. These reams wero promptly utilized. Their pseudo-owner out them up into little pioces, stamped acach plece 23 conts," * 50 cents,” or *‘ ona dollar,” affixed his too familiar signature, and thus supplied Allegan with **a volumo of currency equal to the wants of trade * with a thoroughness that the Ohio Democracy is bound by its plat- form to admire and try to imitate, Business rovived in Allegan. Money was cheap—and kept growing cheaper. Unfortunately, 1t got too cheap, The tax-collectors refused to re- celve it, Allegan waited collectively on Moees Hawxs, Esq., and requested bhim to redeem his * money.” M, H. responded fn o manner worthy of Keutey, The original Moses proposed to lead hls people out of bondsage, but the modarn Mosks proposed to lead people to bouds, his own bonds, bearing intorest in his own ** money,” and exchange. able for his legal.tender, and his logal- tender convertible into his bonds. Now Kerigy has never, we belleve, spoken in Allegan. He prefers to epeak in large citica, As a result of this mournful omlssion on the part of W, D, K., Allegan was unablo to detcot the merits of Ar, Hawza' new plan, and refected it with unkind derision. It ruthlessly brought & multiplicity of suits egainst Moses the financier, so that that un. appreciated gonius was compelled lo part with his shinglo-factory and his maney- factory, with everything, in fact, save the articles ezempted from execution by the Jaws of DMichigan, But whilo Hawzs was thus heavily indebted to Allsgan, the community at largo is indebt- od to Hawks for furnishing it with another illustration of the wisdom of ¢ making mou- ey ¥ out of rags, lampblack, and ** faith.” It ia indebted to him, too, for & clear statement of the real theory on which redemptionless shinplasters i based, When pressed to hou- ‘When the dead body of Broognick Iay in | or same of his paper promises, ho Luist out with the following licid worda: * Redests it? Redeem h=11 Tt wos made to circu- Inte—not to redvem.” hal pats it pretty clently. The Kernury sort of money in mado to circulato, not to redeen, And paper. money sura not to bo redeemed is worth what it will feteh at the papor-factoriea whon 80l by the pund. A pramonitory symptom of what may bo expected in case of real danger of an infla- tion of the currency in the advanced valne of gold in greenbacks to 114} yestordny, Ureenbacia reachod 89 conts in golil value n few wocks ago. In the light of n serious declarntion in favor of inflation by the Con- vention in Pennsylvania, greenbacks yestor. day fell below 86 cents, Iero s n loss of 3 cents on the dollar of tho money fn tho hands of the people, n loss of 8 cents in tho dollar of avery mnn's wages, n loss of 3 conts in the dollar of tho one thousand millions of Qollars on deposit in the savings banks—tho nccumulations of the thrifty and industrious, Hnd some dishionest bank oflicer run away with ten, fifteen, or thirty millions of dollars doposited in the savings banks, tho wholo conntry wonld bo'alarmed at the erime. Yet, in tho declino of the valuo of greenbacks from 80 to 86 cents on tho dollar, if it remnin pormanently so, the do- posits in the savings bauks have shrunkon in valuo over thirly millims of dollars. The money on deposit will purchnse that much loss foreign goods, and, if the declino continues, it will not be long uutil domestic goods will becoma dearer in just the propor. tion that the currency loses in gold value, or, in other words, in its purchasing power. It is in this way that the demagogiesl Penn. sylvania resolutions benofit tho laboring classes, In enso thers should be an sctual instead of n threatened inflation of the cur- roncy, tho reader con ostimate how much further tho decline would go. Every time the groenbacks fall one cont in the dollar in value, the valuo of the deposits in tho sas- inga banks of tho United States declino §10,- 000.000 in actual value. Every timo green. ‘backs ndvance one cont on the dollarin value permanently, there are added $10,000,000 to the value of those deposits in case of their uso in exchango for tho necessaries of life, If tho effcct of threnteucd inflation have such an effect, what will ba the cousoquenco in caso inflation Lecame an nctual fact ? —— Ono of tho Pennsylvania Democratic reso- lutions roads thus: Ntnth—Tuat tho putlio interest demandsthat the Gorornment should ceate to discredit its own monoy, and aliould mske ita legaltunders ro ofvable fur all public dues excopt whero rospect for the obligation of contracts requires paymout in coln. What is meant by ‘“consing to discredit its own monoy " can only refor to the payment of dutien in gold. Tho Government recoives greenbacks in payment of all other taxes. Buppose it should adopt this courso and re- ceivo curreney inutead of coin in payment of tanff trxesonimported goods, how conldit pro- cure gold withwhich to paythoe interest on tho nationaldebt? ‘‘Respect forthoobligation of contracts” roquires payment of the interest of tho debt in coin, Thisis admitted in the platform. Thero aro only two ways in which the coin could bo obtained : one would be to purchnse gold with greenbacks at whatover it would cost ; the other to sell bonde for gold ond thereby inerease the debt. By the first mothod it might require 200 of greonbacks to buy 100 of gold ; and, as they would con- stantly depreciato aa tho process of inflation went on, it might happen thatin a fow years 600 of greenbscks would not purchase 100 of gold with which to pay intorest. Tho next stop would be to rofuse to pay the intorest in gold, and rejoct all obligation of contracts which require payment in coin, The demagogues ars rondy fo remew the Pexpreron howl of '8, that **if greenbacks wero good enough for Americon plowholders they were also good onough for British and German bondholders,” Repudiation is the outcomo of this whola buainess whenovor the Domocrats of the Ohio and Ponnsylvania stripe obtain control of the Governmont. MR, TEX BROOK AND HIS “ AMERIOAN UNIVER- STTIES," The abacuce from tha city of the writer of " Famllisr Talkk " has delaved until tho presant moment an answer to tbo chargs of plagiarism lately profesred by BMe. Txx Brook in the columpa of tho Times snd Inter.Ocean. Itis n good desl of m wurprigo to learn that Mr. TN Broox has sct up a claim to the facts belonging to American hiatory. Binco when does be protond to hiave onjoyed the monopoly ? Every Iltom of loformation Mr. TeN Daook prosents lu tho Brat chapter of his ** American Universities” tmav be pained from tho pages of Qganay, Hitprer, Baxcoorr, Loasixa, Goon- wien, and other writars on tho infant lfs of our country. The story of the goneral intelligence and colture of tho early pilgrima, aud of the ways and meaus by wiuch ther catablishied scboola avd collegss almost with tho fouudation of their settloments, in told over and ovor again even in our abridgod school histories, sud yet nowhera do we flud ao intimation that ¢ has been pilfored from Mr. T2y Broox. Io many cages the very words used by Lin¥in bis version havo beon employed ngain and again by writers who bavo preceded him, aud atill thero biks been no apparent consolouaness ou their part that a froodom waa being taken with Alr. TEN Broox'a pitvato propeity. Is thoro soy ressdn why the Dowspaper writer—who 8 often as palostaking, and schiolarly, aad trustworthy—may not appro- priste from the commen fuud accumsulated by industrious suthors duriug uow poarly two cen tuncy the matter that 18 worked over by overy successivo blographer of the Americau Coloniea? ‘Tle ono extract iniroduced futo the article on +Early Educstion iu America” by the writer of +Famitinr Talk," which was tagen from * Amer- lcan Universities,™ was carolully ceedited to both Look and suthor, Awother extract borrowed for tho same articls from tho elegant history by Hic- OINBON gave no clew 0 18 parentage, being sim- ply inclosed in quotation maris. DBut up $o tho present time a complaint hss not come to Tue TeISUNE from Mr. HigaiNson, or beon pub- habed by him {0 the rondy columns of our morn- ing contemporaries. Neitler do we expect to besr any moan from My, }MI0OLNBON, nor from tho numorous othor historisua consult- ol in the proparstion of our lttle article. Large-brained men of lottery whodse idess a4 books command tha respeot of mavkind ara not prane to petey Jealousy of every writor who touckies » subject thoy have trested with brill- lans success. ‘The writer of *Famillar Talc " happens to be persoually acquainted with the carcer of Mr, Tgx Drook, aud to kuow foll well bow the fall- ure to securs an appointment to & Profossorship iu the Unlveraity of Michigan Lss embittered bis lte; coossquently, whou “ American Universie e " came ta hand for reviow, & gunuine desiie was folt shat 18 might prove desorving of hoarty praise, sud a belping band be thorewith friend- Ly extended toa disappoiutod man, We vou- ture to say moro thne was spent by usins search for good thivgs in it then Las been given to tlse Lok by any gther reviswer in the coun- trv, Tho search was wuearly fruitless, for the usetul, though not original, fuformation cone tatoed in tho firvt meventy psges could not carry ® beavy octavo volume priocipally occupied with on old quarrel i Miclugen University in the courss of whish Ar. 1m¥ Hioox was baaly worstad, Does any one who hna not had an ex periouen in the husiness know how biard a trial tho erftic oftan has to lnd a wav to spare sn un. fortunato anther and vot bo Just to hia reader 2 ‘To cuncinde, have wo not mumowhero hostd tha namo ** sorehead " applied to a disaspointad, Aourad aspirant for honors? Thora is & homoly forca 11 somo of our *'slang " plirases that ocen. pionally commeonds them dospita of tbolr vul- garity. e Tho schonl quostion which now figures in the Ohio cnmpaigs reemy doatinod to euter alao into the Now York campalen, Sinco the vareage af the amondment in tho laster Btato forbidding tho appropriation of the 1nblie monora in ald of soctarian schools, tha' Catholic londors are make ing & coalition with tho Democracy in all parts of the 8tate. Tho Albany corrospondent of the Now York Zimes anys: Iu all the interior town of the Stato they are make Ing this unlon cloder thaw ever hefore, hoying by L meaun o otfectually change tho conimou-achool a tem tiow existing. Durlng a convareation upon 4 anbject bad this evening with one of the bost known meu (1 tne Btate, Lis sald: * The Cathollo question Ix niready o vilat oije I the polities of New York, and we may an well meet the {sus boldiy,” He stated furiber thiat in many of the inlerior eiticn and large vilisges ot tlio Blato the rulfgions ra-t tn queation were bullding nehiool oiaes nt thelr own ezpeuss and domanding thut the Oeneral Heh deatguated by thewn, toiniug s1.0' schoold school fuud, Thero may bo & differenco of opinion tupon the part of the Amoricau peoplo with regard to the curroncy question, but swith ragard to the pub- lic-achicol arstom and 18 Immunity from soo- torian assault thoro is but ono opinion among the masees. The Repablican party of Naw York bas exprosscd itee £ in its pistform calmly bui decidedly, and, ifitho issuo is made by tho Demoo. racy, it will bo mot not only by the Republican party but by avory P:oteataut and every libersl Catholic frioud of Stato aducation. The inner history of the negotiations batwesn Jeer Davia and thie Directors of the Winuebago County Fair has yot to bo written. It sooms that there was a Jittio diforonce of opinion bo- tweon tho lngh contracting parties as to the valuo of a lecture from tho ox-President of the Confederscy. 3Mr. Davis demanded $600, Tho Dirociors bogrod bim to krock off something for tho sako of the cause, and to sesl tho ers of reconeilistion for £400, o refused. Thon they offered $400. Snll he refused. Ho stood by his origioal stiju atiun ; aud as tho Board was par~ ticularly zonious in the matter, il tho membors * but ono being Damocrats er * Independents,” the §600 Lama waa finally agroed upon. This arrangement was displeasing to maay Ropublio- and In tho county, and, aa ovorybody kuows, it ‘was brolion off to the couveuioncs of Loth par- tios concetned. Now 1t is emd tho Boutbern farmers aro seoking to continvo the unpleasant. neas by withdrawiug their patrnoago from the R.ckford manufacturers, who deal lsrgely in agricultura! implements. It is o wrelched buaje uess from beginuing to end. PRI Tho Graphic mays thnt recoipts have been found in tho bandwricing of Julgs ByaLcEy, of tho Unitod Btates District Court for Vermont, for large sums i1n pasment of * expenses and mouay pald aut o tha Tiegislatare and prepaca- tory thereto for the Yermont & Canada Reilioad Company,” and for mousy * oxpended in leg~ islativo mattors on bohal? of " tho same road. If this fo truo, Judge SstaLuny has ono of tho fluest opportunitios for explanation ever offored au eminent jurist. Aud unless o satisfactory explanation can be given, this logal luminary's proper place would seem to ho at tho bar as calprit, 1stead of on the benoh s & Judge. ———— The world rovolvos on ity axis quite rogularly, Bo.rd+ should accept teachers d that {ho expenses of muin. It be patd out of the common. and vat thera {8 ono secret which neither science nor skill can extract. Irevious to springing the drop, CaLcaArT, the Eoglish haugman, slwsys whispors somothing in the ear of his victim. It {8 tho last word che poor wietch hoars. Whas It is, Caroparr refuses to eay, and dead men toll no taler. s It a **bon voyage" or the pass- word? Now that & youngor man hes taken his place, tho murderer goes his way without & ‘word of consolation. Heroafter, nll ducla fought in tha Btate of llinots should bo srravged upon the Waco (Tex.) model. Two mon in that romautfo noighbor- hood woro locked up ina dark room and told so blaze away with revolvera, no particular note beiug made of calibra or inake, They blazed. Whon kilonce indicatod the tormination of this rude affalr of honor, ons was stark doad and 100 othier too full (of holes) for niterance, Bb. Louis editors, please make a notoe of it. — A considerable destruction of shipping i ro~ vorted 1o connoction with tho terrific gale which succeodsd the violent rain-atorm and sndden change of tomperaturo of Toursday night. A largo number of vessels of varlous slzas have born wrecked on Lake Miohigan in the vicinlty of Chicago, but happily no losa of life is yot re« ported. —— POLITICAL NOTES, The Republicansin Californis are now advertis. ing about as foltowa : ** Retura to us, Indepond- ents, and =l shall be forgiven,” And the Inde- pendents will probably rotura. Mr. Charlos Norduoff attributes the want of prosperity in Georgia to the fact that it 1s an old Btate withi worn lands adjacent to uaw and for- tile noighbors, who offer its Inhabitants, both blacks aud whites, groat juducements to emi- grato. 1¢ this thing [medifying thefr ioflation idesa) goes o much longer, we shall expect to convert tho Cincinpati Enquirer, and suould have hopes of the fnter-Ocean, only that we remambor thas Frank Palmor got his back-pay in greenbacks.— Mlinois Blate Reglister. Tho Domocrata of Olio are becoming known #8 thoe foul-weathor party. Every day of sun- shine Lolps the crops along, nod makes It more duficult to point & moral on the sufferings of the pour farmer. With good crops, thors will bs no more complaint of bad times inthe sural dls. tricts, Drandt, the ex-Depaty Treasuror of Iows, makea hlsescape from pilson only through s tachuical eveor in the progess of the courts, the wtatute of lmirations ssving Lim from further prosscution ; yet thoro aro papors in the Btate which have the hardihood to spesk of him as & truly good man. ‘The peoplo of Baltimora anpaar to be seriomly engaged In & Reform niovement. Their method 1s to walt until all partias have made nomina- tiony, select from the tickets intho fle!d the ‘beat meo, snd i1l vacancies still existing by orig- oal nomination, It is the theory of natursl se- toation applied ta polities. | Of ulnetesn Ropublican pspars in Now York which ezpressed opinjous on the Third-Term question tefore the meeting of the Bisto Con- vention, ixteon domanded a positive rosalution on the subjeot, avd three sdvocated s non-com- mittal policy. The Conventizn did not healtate long which course to puraue, Tho late Spenkos McGuin, of New York, who wan tho greatoat rival of our own Halnes, Is te ba retired to private lifo, Ho was not even elocted s & delegato to the Btate Convention, though he way a candidate and worked hard for the placo. 1lis opposition to the Retocm policy of tov, Tilden resored with fatal resulta. Thoss Dowoeratio leaders and nowspapers who oudured the Olfo infiation resalution sa woroly temporary and spaanodical must be beld responiible for the Penniylvania folly. The rag-baby might have been strsugled in its cra- die; uow it bas grown Lo be a glant, which all the strength of the Democrabic party will scarce- 1y suBlice t3 hiold in chieck, Ex-Gov, Talbot's letter declining to be & ean~ didate for (Fovornor of Msasschasotts has oliest- od expresuioos of wara oummenistion from all quarters. ‘The sacnfice of his own personal do- #iros aud fealiuge to the Rood Of the parly bhas established Mr, Talbot lu tho confidence and re- #pect of his political osscalstes. The Boston Journal aays that thore e some falk of ruaning