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

TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. RATFR OF AUTACIITTION (PAYARLE 1S ADYANCE). Pastape Frenabd at this Ofice, Dally Edition, poet-naid, 1 year... Tarts of yrarat samo rato, ny Addreis YOUR WEFKS Maited ¢ 100 L7 .00 TAW i) Parta of yere at ramo rata. WRRILY EWITION, TORTTAID. . Oneopy pocdoar. 81.50 Clb ot Hvo, 5aE €Dy 1440 il of twenty, Der Cop) 1115 Tha portage 18 1.3 conts nyear, which wo will propay. Specimen coples sent free, Toprerent delty and mistakes, be rore aud ive Port-Offico addreas in full, suchnding Staterad County, Retnittancen sy be made efther by draft, expreat, Post-Offica onler, oF in registered lotters, ot our rlsks TERMA TO CITF BUDSCMIINS Daily, delivered, Banday excepted, 275 couts per week, Datly, delivered, Banday iuchided, 31 cents per weck, Aduress TILE TEIDUNE COMPANY, Corper 3fadiron ani Nearhart-ty,, Clicago, Tk o s AMUSEMENTS, RT3 CHICAQO THIATRE—Clark atreet, hetwaen 'm‘nslulyh ant Lak went of Chiarlotte Thompe #on, *'Jane £y ADELPHT THEATE Monree, ¢ Lsrpet.” Deatlom stecot, corner 11— STaidison sireet, botwern Engagenent of James Lewls, MeVICRER'S TH Dearlorn and Stat.. “Tho Dig Bonanza. HOOLEY'S THEATRY Cinrkand Lafalle, ¥ Stipitrely, Toiph efreet, betwesn ut of tho Callforni % WOOD'Y MUSED™ baru and ftato, Lt Evoutug, “ Uncla Towm's Moarco atreet, hetween Doars 0 “The Marblo Hearh" bin. UNION PAGE CHURCH-Loctuto by Joaquin Milter, FANWELL HALL—Madleou_street, and Lag.lle, Club, een Clark Conert by the Mendelssohn Quintetts "SOCIETY MEETINGS. ATTENTION, BIit K A?\ollo Conmandery, No, ing at & n°Clne, for b dor Vst Sie Kuigiie Pl . B ¥, LOCKE, Recorders Ehe 7@']}3&1@ Iy Tuosday Morning, November 2, 1875, Thane, Greeabacks £t the New York Gold Dx. shange, yesterday clusal at ¥4 the higiest price of the day. The lowest price wes 851, tement for the month of Ootober shows n deerenso of the public debt for that month of 21,060,015 The debt, Iess the eash in thoe Treasury, is £2,118,397,- QUL Voters shonld not abseut thetselves from tho polls to-day on account of Laving neg- lected to register. No registration s re- quired. A residence of one yenr in the State and thirty days in the precinet next preced- ing the clection cutilies ovary citizen to vota, The large end cuthusiastic Itzpublican mass-meeling lost night at Turner Mall in the North Division proves that there nre gome thousands of Geruan votes which Mr. Heorxa does no? carry in his breeches pocket, And the count of tho votes to-night will fur- nigh still more convincing ovidenco of that fact. 813.00 | steady, at &le for part salted shonlders (boxrd), H11a 11 }e for short rit do, and 12e for rhort clear do. Highwines weve quict sady, at3 13 per allon. Lake freights «uict and strony, ot Ge for wheat to Flour wes dnll md easier. Whent t and lower, closing nt $1.08} cash, £1,04 for November, and 31,072 for Decen. Ter, Corn wnd in fair request and ensicr, closing at fle eash and f0}e for November, Oats were netivo and casier, closing at 313c for November aud 81 fefor tho year, Ryewna dull and easier, o 6wi68ie. Barley was in fair demend and firm, closing at 8¢ for Novembler, Hogs wereactive and 10e higher, with sales principally at %7.20@7.50, Cattle were quict and unchanged. Sheep were ine active, One hundred dollars in gold would buy $116,25 in groenbecks nt the close. Mr, TMrave's “frec-speech” meeting at MeCormick Hall 1ast night proved to be noth- ing more digniflud or consequential than a Dovil-Fish pow-wow. Among the few busi- ness men whose names were published in connection with tho call, not ono made a £peech or a motion, proposed o resolution, or in any manner tock part in thy proceedings, These gentlemen were only conspicuons by their nlsenca, or, if present, by their silenco and unabtrnsivencss, o place of enrmest, respectable merchants and business men, the hall was Glled with Opposition eandidates, hacks and bnmmers, the Iatter Leing snppiiad copionsly from the slums of the Twenticth Ward nod the saloons in the vieinity of tho place of meeting. 1t was com. posed of material in striking contrast with that which made up the Farwell Ifall gather- ing. Tho finn} strugigle between tho people and the Dovil-Fish takes place to-day, nad ut suu. ght it will Le decided whether the h will capturo the peoplo or tho peo. ple will kill the Devil-Fish, It unkien its lost desperate effort to-day. Tt has wound its tentacles about the city and county, and, in its desperation, around the Lallut-boxes also, Its tentacles nre the Lummers and sealla- wagd, the thicves and bunko.-mexn, the game Llers, desperadoes, and corrupt election judges. The bead of the Devil-Fish is the Oppogition ticket, Slesh that off, voto it down, stemp it out, and all the {entacles will let go their hold. The people will be [ree, "L'v do this requires one day's hard, carnest, courageons, and determined work. Is it not worth the wor! ill th D Fih ! The insnne attempt made by Mr. Ifcsiva's newspaper 1o persuado the foreigu-born citizens of Chicigo and Cook County tint the eliort to deteat bimisa * Know-Nothing" effort {o put down the forcigners, in the moro ridiculons beeanse the two leading candidates on the Republiean ticket are for. Mr. luces, the candidate for ver, is o German, and Mr., Heauy, the candidate for Clerk of the Superior Court, is o representative of the Irish people. They aro nominated by a party which has earned its suecess in the past chiefly by its devotion to the political rights of all men, without distinetion n3 to raco, sect, or color. The fact that Mr. Hruivo las descended to so The Deril-Fish crowd at McCormick Ilall 1nst night went through tho farco of **juvit. ing” Messrs, Hucs, KweLey, and other op. posing candidates to speak if they desired, Of courso none of thoke gentlemen were present, and tho crowd koew it. No Repub- licun eandidato would bo guilty of the dis- graceful conduct of the Hesine crew at Far- well Hall, There is renson to beliove that the election to-day will pess off ynielly nnd pencefnlly. Al men and oil pertics ought to work to- gether to that end, We do not believe that anything con lead to n disturbanee except some palpable effort at ballot-box stufting or determined refusel to concedo tho rights of challengers. In such case, we believe that tho police will promptly arrest tho offenders and protecl all citizens in the cxerciso of their Tights, clearly defined in the Election law, 1f the police do thcir duty, thero is no dauger of troubls; and wo are assured that they nre prepared to do this, We hopo that it will prove to bio go, —— Informntion was received at Republican headyuarters last ovoning that in ono of the precinets of the ‘Thirteenth Ward—a Repub- lican stronghold—no judges of clection could be found, cod no ballot-box had been re- ceived. Whether this is apoversightonthe parg of’ the County Clerl, or an intentional omis- sion for the purposo of hampering the polling of votes in that precinct,~—in cither caso the voters have it in their power to supply the deficiency aud proceed with tho casting of their votes. 'The coursy to bo pursued in this nnd iu all similar cases which may oceur io fully set forth in tho letter of Mr. Crovaur, Chairman of the Republican Contral Com- wittee, published elscwhere Miosaen C, Ilickry, Superintondent of Polico, has an opportunity to-day to mako or unmake himself. DBy instructing his police- men to act impartially in protecting tho right of people to vote and the integrity of the ballot-box, he will commend hinself to the whole community, If, on the other hand, he sonds his police forco to tho polls in the interesto of Hesing and his crowd of gam- blers nnd ruiMans, and they itorfere with Hepublicans in voting, and allow the Hruso gong to stufl the ballot-boxes, a3 it hins been intitaated they will do, nothing can save him in the future, 1o has never had such an op. portunity of showing bimsclf n prodent, Jjust, and discreot official a3 mow. Will Le palpable o misrepresentation is another proof that ho has little confidlenca in his success to- day, and ig strainiag every point, not stop- ping at falschoods, to win in the desperato fight, THE KNOW-NOTHINGS OF 7T0-DAY. There enu be no right-thinkivg man, whether of native or forcign birth, who ean contem- plato Lirthplace ns o political test without the decpest regret. We bave but one Con. wtitution and ono citizenship; we aro in law all Americans alike. The Constitution wiscly provided against tho presence in this conntry of n permanent alien population by provid- ing for the speedy assimilation of the foreign inunigration into tho Ameriean body politio a8 members of the samo comnon political family, The evil of Laving sn unwilling nlicn population was averted by liboral pro~ vision for naturnlization, nnd the ovil of o voriely of nativnalities in the one population was guarded ngainst by an oxclusion of all political tests resting on the birthiplaco of the eitizon, English, Germans, Irish, and other Luropeans, vere placed on the samo -politieal cquality in each State with Amori- cend born in the other States, and the theory way that an Amoricnn citizen was to be recog- nized n such without referenco to tho acei- dent of his place of nativi On mora than ono oceasion attempts have beon mado to overturn this principle of our Governaent, tho most conspicuous attempt being mnde in 18534, which hos passed into history as tho Know-Nothing episodein Amer- ican politics, That moveinent sought tho progeviption of persons of forcign birth, and the good senso of tho American people gilenced it, aud forover, within less than two years of its inception. ‘We appeal to tho good senso and reason of thoe German populatfon of Chicago whether they can conscientiously afford to counte. nuuce or support a politien! combination of all persons of forelgn birth in the election of public officers in this county. There has nover been an ocersion in this city whon tho native.lorn citizéns have shown any hostility to the election of foreigners. The City Council and the Board of County Com. missionors have for many years always had a naujority of foreigu-born citizens among thoir metabers, 'Thio Board of Police Counmission- ers nnd the Bonrd of Publio Works have had generally four out of the slx Commissloners of foreign birth, Tho Sheriffs of this county during the lust eighteen years have boon chosen frequently from foreign.born citizens. improvo it or let it pass? A dny or two sgo o press dispatch from ‘Washington was published, purporting to give o statement of the President’s attitude townrd the Cnban question, and thereby im- plying tho contents of the mnote rocently forwarded to Minister Cusirva at Madrid, It was nssumed that the iustructions to Mr, Cusursa cbodied a sharp reminder to Spain that the condition of alfuirs in Cubn wouldsoon become intcleralilo te the American Govern. ment, and that tho Iatter would feel fmpelied to iuslst upon a settlement of tho diticulty be- tween Spain and tho Cuban ivsargents, ‘The London Z%mes, whilo discreditivg the rumors that the American Government intends to provoke a rupture with Bpain, porceives tho probability that tho Alfonsist Goverument will era long be called upon to choosc Le. tween the rolinquishment of Cuba and tho risk of the dismembermout of Spain, The Chicogo produce markets wore rether tamno yestorday, but steadier, Aless porlk way 1 fair dewmand and strongor, closing at $21.u0 per barrel for now, and B18,00 seller the yesr, Lard was dull and tirmer, closing ot §13.85 per 100 1b8 cash and $12.20 scllur the yebe were i beiter zcqueet and ‘tho Clerks of the County Court have been of forcign Nirth for cighteen yuars, The Clerks O the Circoit Court and the Clerks of tho Bupcrior Court linve Laen selected from the Germuny and Seandivavinns for wauy yeara, THE CHICAGO from the keeper of the most aristocrl gambling-iouse to the mnmner of the lowest Drothel. With this exclusively foreiun party and ity eriminal allies, Hesiva and Lies have placed in noniination n list of eandidates, all of them of forcign birth,—exeluding all per- persons of native origin, Wa therefora appenl to the foreign-born citizens of Chicago, and especially to tha Germnny, whether they ean, as Aterican eit- izous, consistently give their countenauco nnd support to o Foreign Know-Nothing par- ty, having for its object not anly the political disfranchisement of Americans, but placing tho eriminal population in actual control of the Government of the city and county, 1f the comhinntion of the Americans to disfran- chise naturalized citizens was infamous and repulsive, what muat be tho designation giv- en to o combination af the foreign-born citi. zens to cxclude native-lorn citizens from po. litical rights and equality 2 [ —— TO THE CHALLENGERS. The most important duty to-dny devolves upon tho chatlengers selected by the Repub- licans, 'Iho very result of the election de- pends upon their faithfulnoss, vigilnuee, and cournge. There has been ample warning of tho purpose of tho Hesisg.Lien-McDoysup crowd to ety the election by fraud,—by ro- penting, by ballot-box stufling, by any and all the corrupt practices known to bnse and des- In all tho subordinato positiovs under the local governments persona of foreign birth have been largely vepresented, ‘Lo the oftica of Counly Trensurcr foreign.born citizeus havo been repestedly eleeted. Thers han never been any uitempt at an exclusion of ouy man from oflice Lecauso of Lig forcign Dirth, At this very timo there is in nomina. tion on tho Xepublican ticket Mr, uck, a German; Capt. Heavy, oo Inshman ; and other persons of foreign birth, with some Americans. But Heavo and Laxp, controlling two nowspapers printed in German, haviog fong Leen personal enemies, have uvited and or ganized an exclusively forelgn ticket, and. paced it beforo the people of this county for the gole pwrpose of oxcludivg persous of nstive Lirth from ofico. Thoy have united tho Goywans, Irish, Beandinavizo, Iolland. ors, Bohemians, Fronch, Poles, Austrlany, and all others of forsign notivity, as o dis. siuct politiend party, aud have in addition theroto orgaulzod sud ettached to their party tha wlolo blacilog ood wiming population, perate politicians. The only protection that honest voters have ngainst this purposa is the challengers, Tho HesiNa party have the Judges and clerks in all the wards whero the ballot-boses ara likely to be stuffed, and have refused their opponents the usual safeguard of a representation in the election boards. They cannot, howover, lawfully rofuso to ad. mit ono challenger juside the room wheore the lallot.liox is kept. If any challenger is re- fused admittanco, ho must be propared to enforco his lawful demaud. Tho prab- ability is that the policc will sustain him in most of the precincts; but, if theve ia a failure to do this anywhere, the honest voters must furnish sufficient force to sustain the lawful right. I€ there ave half o dozen, or oven two or threo, precinets in this city whero the honest voters aro not repro- sented by a challepger inside the judges' raam, {hat omission alone may be enough ta defunt the houest vote. Moro ballots can bo stuffed iuto tho box nt one procinct in n fow minutes than can be honestly voted in a dozen preciucts all day long. The law requires that the ballot-boxes shall be publicly exhibited before sny ballots aro {aken, in order to show that they nro empty. Every challenger should see the box in his precinet at this time, and nceer {ose aight of it Jram that wmoment until agter the vote s emnted, o cannot leavo it to eat or drink without danger, Ho must not bo enticed on any pretext to go into another room, or step outside, or turn his back, If tho ballot-box is transforred from the polls to some other place for the purpose of counting the vote, the challenger must fol. low step by step to seo that some stuffed box iy not substituted for the genuine boxinwhich the baliots have been deposited. Ho must insigt that na outsiders shall be permitted in- sido tho room where the ballots are taken, and especinlly whon thoy are coonted. He nust wateh the clerks of election to see that their lists of names do not leavo vacant spaces on each page to be filled up by fietitious names for which corresponding bogus ballots may bo supplied. Ho must nlso endeavor to kecp n careful and accurnte secount of tho actual number of ballots cast, and watch that '"RIBUNE: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1875. Mr. Hestso will be deferted, and with h the County Ring and the bad erowd with which he is associnting. Tho eounty election to.day really inclides tha city election nest spring, for if the Ring cannot bo defeated now it can havdly beo de- fented in n fow months from now, when it will then be stronger for its recent suceess. 1t includes, therefore, the wholo question of connty and city taxes, tho expendituro af canaty and city moneys, the wmnking of connty and city contracts, and tho entire adiinisteation of connty and city affairs. The clection to.day is more importaut fo the cilizen and tax.payer of Chieago, and he has personally movo involved in it, than in the Presidental oloction next year. o the individual tax-pnyer tho suc- cessor failure of cither tho Republican party or tho Democeratic party to eleet a Prosident is insignificant ns compared to tho amount of locsl taxation, tho economy of administeriug county aud city funds, the honesty of local contracts, the order of tho city, the protec- tion of Jifo aud properly ngainst gamblors, roughy, and maranders. These are the issucs involved in to-day's clection, and no citizen can dacline to vote ns his conscienco dietates for bis own welfaro and that of his neigh- bors without the violation of o sncred duty. It is belioved that there has been no time sinco 1868 when the voluntary * non-voters” have been appealed to with so much effect ns during the present campaign. Certainly there has been no other ocension ro exacting of political duty. Wo hopo that to-day's vote will show a revival from the indifference which is responsible for most of our politi- eal woes, THE FIGET FOR KNOWLEDGE IN NEW TORK. The cnrrent number of Jarper containg the thirtcentls paper in tho valuable series entitled *‘The First Century of the Repub- fie." 1t is on * Educationnl Progress.” ‘Tho bulk of tho article is devoted to thie riso and history of the publie schools of tho State of New York. ‘fho story is n typo of the battle fought by dovoted friends of popular educa- tion in mnenrly every Northern State. Wo owe to p comparatively fow men the mag- niticent growth of our common-school sys- tem and the consequent wagnificent growth of our country. Among the first Holland colonists of New Amsterdam was o schoolmaster. ‘Iho free schoot hie taught, founded by the Reformed Dutch Church, still exists in Now York, It is probnbly the oldest in Awmerica. When the Eunglish seized the province, education lnnguished. In 1795, tho first suggostion of & comprehiensivo system of free schools was made in a messago of Gov. Gronar CLiNTON, Tlo recommonded * the establishment of com- mon schools throughout tho State.” Tho answer came in the shopo of nn appropria- tion of §40,000, which was directed to be di- vided among tho towns in proportion to their population, on condition that each town raiged by taxntion an amount equal to one-holf tho sum furnished by tho State, A numbcr of schools were opened. 'They all flourished. The appropriation lapsed in 1800, howevor, and the towns, bereft of the Stato bounty, closed the schools, A generntion was growing up in ignorauce, At tbis junc- turo, two men, self-cducated and poorly edu- cated, but pervaded by an intensq zonl for knowledge, bogan a crusade in bohalf of free schools, Jepromn Prox and AvaCousrock were tho fathers of univeranl instruction in Now York, They lectured in overy town; they wrote, printed, and distributed tracts in not more than one ballot goes into the box at a time, Tho challengers should uniformly keep their temper, and allow no amount of persoual opitlicts or abusa to botray them in. to o resentment, 5o long as thoy nre not ate tacked physically, If they are, they must defend themselves, and call upon their friends aud tho polico to protect them by every means /Y bond in standing by their sacred trost. Frauds ou (he ballot-box are worse than forgories, or embezzlements, or raised checks, becausa these offenses aro easily apprehended ond tho offenders brought to justice, and bo- cause the suffering they eause is individual ond rare. But tho frauds on the ballot-box are at once forgerics and raised checks in principle, and the entire community is bo- trayed thereby. The defeat of the poptler wilt by fraudulently overcoming the honest votes cnst is tho most serious danger that threatens our peoplo. It is a despotism of tho very worst character, ‘Tho oaly hope to escape from this despot- ism jn Chicago is in the vigilanco of those who biave nccepted the positions of chal- lengers in behalf of the honest voters. T0 THE * RESPECTADLE NON.VOTERS,"” It seems (o have become f fashion of Jate yeurs toalfect an inditference to veting, Two members of a large German firm of wanu- facturcrs, who bave an fmmense property in this city, wero heard to sny within a day or two that Mr, Hesxo ought to be defeated for tho good of the city, and that thoy would cer- tainly vote ngrinst him, if they toted at all, Theso gentlemen, who employ 100 mien, are ropresentatives of a large class,—men who would vote right alwaysif they voted at all, Lut who appear to bo utterly indiftercnt about guing to the polls, Many of them scem to think that thero is something degrading about excercising tho clective franchise, and diamiss the wholo matter with the remark that ‘¢ politics hnu bocome so0 low that they want nothing to do with it." Yet these men de- liberately ignoro the fact that what they snecr nt 5o contemptuously under the namoof * pol. itics " controls the amount of taxes thoy pay, thostability of theirbusiness, tho extent of their protits, the safety of their homes, the ropu- tation of their city, and the ndmivistration of the laws. Thoy forgot that politics is de- graded becauso they and the respectable non. voters refuse to oxerclse their rights and do their duty us American citizens, Thoy over. look that it has been repeatedly demonstrated that exposuro and denunciation will not de. feat public plunder, and that it can only be stopped by tho votes of all men who are in favor of the pure and economjcal administra- tion of public atfairs, ‘Ihero is pot & tax-payer or good citizen in Chicago but feels in his Leart that Mr, Hes. 1¥a is ut the heud of and in tho handsof a most dangerous gang, which includes tho great mess of the political scoundrels, the gomblers, the roughs, and tho villaius of all classoy, and that he ought on that acoount alono to be defeated. Bome of them of Ger- man birth may compromise with their consclences and vote for him on grounds of uativity, pecuniary sympathy, or porsonal friendship, Some of thew, trong Domo- cratio partigans, may thiok that Mr, Hesmo's clootion will ba of bouefit to thalr party, and vote for him on that account. Butif every cltizen * non.votor” who stays awsy from the polls frow hablt or indifference will cast l bis ballot to-day as his consolenco and judg. incut promps i, thosd Is 0o question but favor of State education; they pressed o bill for it upon every Legislature, Gov. CLiNTON backed thom, but all they could get was the proceeds of what weroknown as *¢ Literatuve Lotteries,” in which tho prizes wero Stato lands. Tho Legislature actunlly refused to let tho towns tax themselves for school pur- posos, Tho tactics which Conpix afterwards found so succesaful in carrying freo-trade wore resorted to for earrying free sohools. Clubs, known as *Free-School Societies,” wore formed, and an agitation began which led to tho foundntion of o system of State schiools in 1812, 'I'his was singulntly success- ful. In 1822, thero were 857,000 children of sohiool age in the State, of whom 301,173 sttended the publie schools. Ton yoars afterwards, 504,475 out of £25,000 children wero thus tavght. In 1840, the Catholic pricats mado their first scrivus attack upon tho freo-school system, but without much success, Up to 1862, tho schoold wero sup- ported by *‘rates,” and psrents who did not poy theso woro loth to send their childron, becnuso tho latter wero taunted by their com- rades. DBut in 1862, the Legialature declarod that the public schools should there. after bo free achools, wupportod by gen- eral toxation, and not by rates, Mean. while, thoe increase of tho eriminal classes in tho largo towns and cities, and the immwi. gration of illiterato Europeans had oroated & largo clasa of untaught children, Wo meet this ovil, the Cowpulsory-Education act, which becamo o law on the 18t day of Jane uary, 1875, was possed, Ils etfect promises to ba excellent. Tha New York which grudg. ingly gave 350,000 for popular education in 1795 now freely spends $11,000,000 o year for that end. Despito sectarian attacks, de- spite tax-payors’ ignorant selfishness, do- splto tax-entera’ rapacious greed, tho common schools are firmly ostublished. The good fight haa been fought and the victory won, It may ns woll bo understood now that, let the result of the election to-dny result as it many, there ean bo no room on eithor sido for claiming tho reault as cither a Dowmocratio or Ropubliean victory. The struggle is purcly one for an Honest Governmont, asopposed to an alliance between a part of the foreign populntion and tho criminal elasses undor tho leadership of A, C. Ilesivo, In such au iusue there are no pagly lines, and there must bo a victory for, or defoat of, IHonest Govern- mont, by which the whole peaple are to Lo equally sffocted, Mr, Huox was nominally put in nomination by the Republican party, becauso the Re- publican party at this junoturs was thoe only ouo which offeredan organization opposed to tho allinnce of Lixy, Hrsine, McDoNaLp, and thefr followers, For that roason its machinery g4 employed to placo generally mcoeptable cundidates in nomiuation, A, O. Hesnio will to-day recoive the votes of thousands of Germans who are Republio- ans, bat who vote for himn from personal and soolal considerations, stronger thanparty, and who will vote the Republican ticket next yoar ag they have dona in the past, 8o with Mr, Huek ; he will recelva o very large vote from Demoorats who never voted a Republican ticke} in thelr lives, but who aro opposed to the Hestna-McDoxarv.Lien ' combination, and will vote for Huox and his oasaociates on the tickat ag vepresentatives of the public interest—as a rebuke to Hosing. jum snd o8 au effort to maintain hoxoet snd looent government in Chicago. Under such ciroumstances, the elestion of Mr, Huck oannod ba peoperly olaimede ss & Republican victory—it oan only be honestly clnimed ns n victory of the onest people of (hivgo over those who wonld botray the city into tho hands of the eriminal classes. In caso Mr. 1Iesina bo elocted, no man ean right. fully claim it 03 a Democratio victory, beeause n Inrgo portion of his vote will bo given by old nssocintes, who feel kindiy<lisposed to hint porsonally, and who think he is in great pocuniary need of tho office. Bo the result then what it may, thore ean he no party vie- tory claimed by vither Republicans or Demo- crats, It will ba o victory or defeat of the honest pooplo,—nothing more and nothing loss. WHAT * FAITH" DOEd FOR QURRENOY, Faith nnd credit are protty much the samo thing. Faith is n state of mind, Giving credit to o man is putting faith in hisability and willinguess to keep his promise to pay. ‘I'hus credit fulfills some of tho functions of currency, innsmuch 08 it dolays the demnnd for acertain part of the existing cireulating medium, and o ennbles that part to pass from hond to hand and satisfy other dobts beforo it is needed to satisfy this particular debt, Tf A sells B $100 worth of goods and requires payment in cash, I3 must hand over 100 in ourreucy, DButif ho takes 1's note, duo in mninoty doys, tho 3100 that would otherwise bo pnid ot once may pass from B to O, C to D, ete,, and settlon hundred nccounts bofore B uses it, or its cquivalent, to pay A. When credit is so cominoun and thus serves, in many enses, ns curroncy, it is not strange that many people should confuso tho two, justas ono school of economists confuses credit and capital, and imogine that o permanent currency may be got by simply using credit ns its basis. It s important, howover, to remember that crodit oxiats simply because it is not permanent. 1t 1¥'s noto wero nevor to bo paid, A would never takoit. If tho United States should an- uounce that the greenbacks wero never to bo redocmed, tho precarious credit thoy have mnow would utterly disappear, and they would be worthloss, except for curiositics. The Confederats *graybacks"” beeamo valueless, simply beeause they will uover bo redeemod. Tho credit they nask is an cternnl one. But oternal credit cannot oxist. Giving credit to n mon is belioving that he will pay what ko promises to pay. If ho declaros that ho will never do so, this belief, this credit, of course vanishes. It shonld nover be forgotton that credit merely postpones the use of monoy. It does not obviate its use, For this reason, thenm, oredit enn never take the place of monoy absolutely. Credit is necossarily limited in timo. Per- maonent credit is an absurdity, For this reason, then, a permanent currency cannot bo created out of mere credit, A note is tho sign of credit. It is a promise to pay moncy. Its passage from B to A shows that A has faith in B'a ability to pay it on maturity, Thero nro two clements in thig transaction, ono tangiblo, the other intangible. The first is the note, the second is the stato of mind which induces A to ro- ceive it, Tho latter is the moro important. For if it exists, A may take B's spoken promiso instend of his written ome. But whother the promise is spoken or written by an individual, or privted by n bank or nation, the stato of mind must exist in order to allow the promise to fulfill, cven for an instant, tho functious of cwrrency. And this mental state is wholly dependent upon tho supposed ohanco of tho ultimate redemption of the note, Thus, persons who boliove that a hit of Government paper, re- doarnable, if atall, only in other paper that is redecmnblo only in it, can ciroulato ns n pormanent currency, practically say that Bs note will buy A’s goods, when A knows that B will nover take up the noto snve with an- other, and will never redeemn the socond ex- copt with the first! ‘This reductio ad absurdum effectunlly disposos of the follacy that credit or “faith” can be utilized as tha permanent basis of correnc; THE NEW MIBS0URI CONSTITUTION. Tho new Missouri Constitution which was adopted by tho peoplo of that State on the 30th ult., whils it is derived in large part from the Constitution of Mllinois, contains somo new featares which are of intereat in this era of new Constitution-manufacturing. Ono of tho most prominent features of tho new Constitution is that pertaining to rail ronds, and in its provisions tho Grangor in. fluouce is conspicuously peroeptible, espe- cially in the attempted checks whioh are placed upon railronds and wouopolics, ‘Tho firat check is in the forbidding of tho consolidn- tion of parallel linos and proventing an officer in ono road from being an offtcer in & compet- ing line. Another check consists in the declaration that when a Missouri road con- solidates with a road organized under the laws of asuother Stato or the General Government, tho Missouri rond will atill remsin ameunble to tho laws of Missonri just as if it had never been merged in the othor road, which is evidently a blow nimed at certain Illinois ronds which have pene- trated Missouri by absorbing little fecble ronds in tho latter Stato. Tho official dead- hends got the same rap which thoy have received in other Westorn States by a clauso which provides that no railroad or transporta- tion company shall grant free passes or tickots at a discount to any State, county, or municipal officer in tho Stato, and muking the forfeiture of his office tho pennlty of accopting such n pass, In the matter of rates, tho law is very rigid. It dirccts the Legislature to fix maximum rates from timo to time, and to punish unjust dis- criminations, espocially unjust diicrimina. tions botweon individual and corporation shippers, in the form of rebates, drawbacks, or preference in furnishing cars. It also aima & well-directed Llow at the Oredit-Mo- bilior business by forbidding railrond Pres- idents, Directors, officers, agents, or omployes 10 ba {uterested dircctly ar indirectly as in. dividuals in furnishing supplics or engngingin tho business of transportation over their roads, ‘I'ho right of oue road to cruss or intersect another is granted, but with this right comos the requisition that thoy shall convey eaoh other's froight and passongers without delay or discrimination, ‘Fhe clauso relative torail. rond taxation has alroady caused great oxcite- ment in Missouri among the railread oficials, and bids fair to result in much litigation. 1t is aa follows ; All rallroad corporations doing businesa'in this 8tate aball be subject o tazation for Btats, couuty, school, munietpal, and otber purpeses, on the real and per- sanal property owned o used by them, and on thelz aross earnings, their net earnlogs, thelr frsachires, and thuir capital stock, Tho Logislature, under the now Conatitu. tion, is hedged in by some strong limitations which are specially intended to check Ring influences and corruptions in that body, It is not allowed to hold its regular sessions bo- yond the term of seventy days exceptata reduction of theee-fourths of thelr per diem. It cannod take reoosses of more than thres days) oanios give public monoy to lndl. and vidunls or corpovations, except in tho case of n public ealamity ; eannot anthorize subserip- tions of stock in any corporation ; eannot re- lease the State lien on railroads or pay war clatmr; cannot legislate in specinl gession on matters not in the Governor's proclamation, or incronse the State rovouue tax over 20 cents on the $100. Undor theso and other provisiona relative to the Leginlature, corruption will not bo ns practicablo ns horetofore, aud rings ennnot bo organized with tho easo thoy have Leen, The county, town, nnd city govern- monts, with their various Loards, are also put under rovora lmitations of pawer, corporations ean bo exenipted from taxation. No Alimit is eatablished to tho rate and valua- tion of taxes, and they ensnot henceforth ineur a debt greater than & per cont of their tazable valuntion, cellaneous provistons dirccted against shyster corporations pelling the former to make a deposit Thore aro also gome mis- and insolvent banks, com- in proportion to their capital stock, making it a erime for the Inttor to recoivo deposits whon they know thoy aro insolvent. In the matter of color, the word * white " js struck out from tho qualification for Govornor, and separste schools aro established for colored childron. Theso aro the main features of the new Constitution, upon which, asa whole, Mis- rouri fa to bo congratulated. It slhows n Liealthy public sentiment, both in the effort of the people to break up rings in the vari- ous departments of Covernmont,—Stato, county, and municipal,—~and their detormi- nation that individuals shall be protected nagoinst the rapacity, swindling, and stealing of just such corrupt gangs as the people of Chiengo and Cook County aro uow suffor- ing from, The Post and Mail, ono of iho nowspnper supporters of the Opposition tickat, says Tug ‘CninuNe refused to print for pay Mr. Hes. 18G’s so-called ** Addressto tho morchants and business-men of Chicago,” and claims that the rofusal was ungonerous to Mr. Hesixo! In the first place, Mr, Hesrvo did not ask the editor of Tae TnbunE, either verbally or by lottor, to insert it. No friend of his came to Tue Trinuse ofiice with a message from him desiring its insertion fn our columns. It is falso, therofore, to allego that Tux TrinvNe has refused Mr, Hersxo the favor, ns e did not ask it. Wo have printed soveral of his speeches attacking his opponents in the bit- torest stylo and defending himsolf in the most vigorous mapuer, without charging him there- for. ‘The Opposition Campaign Committes sent to Tuz T'smune oftico on Saturday two or three columns of matter, mainly libelous as- saults upon Mr. Louts C. Hucg, the Repub- Hcan candidate for County 'I'reasutrer, which wo did not deem to bo our duty to publish. One of thoso libolons articles had the name of A. O, Hesixo signed to it. Wo wero vory confident he never wrote a line of it, but that it wns tho production of the Opposition Cam- palgn Committeo, who impudently sought to ingert it in 'Tue Tniune, For this roason it wag vory properly omitted. The hoodlums of California aro porturbed at tha prospeos of tho dawning offthotday when tho exhilarating pastimo of killing a Chinaman munt be sbandoued, and whon thoy will even bo denfed them tho poor privilegoe in thoir burats of hilarity of solzing a Celestis! by tho pig-tail and mopping tho gottor with him. That doy inovitably comos with tho day when Joux becomes & voler. Hithorto, benighted heathen that ho Is, in bis contompt for the outsido barbarian, he has neg- lectod to 80 far explore our ropublican institu. tions a8 to discover the big bonauza thore {8 in politics, or to get ao inkling of tho cash valuo of votos, sud Las oot applied for naturalization paperd. But tne roport of the Superintendent of Publio Instruction disalosos that in San Frau- clsco nlone thero aro 855 Chineso undor 17 yoara of age. That is a0 many wero cnumerated in taking the school-consus, but, owing to the characteriatic soorecy and timtaisy of the Chinedo, snd their terror of whatove-smnscks of official surveillancs, probably in makiog the enum- oratlon twico a8 many were omitted. Throughout tho Stato there must be not legs than two thoueand more, As tho Orlontal practico of destroying fomale infants {8 clandestinely maintained among the Califor- nin Chineso, the boys constitute the grost ma~ jority. Ouv attniniog majority theso wmill, under the Constitution, bo duly qualifiod voters, and therefrom the Chineso eloment will begin to tigure fu Californian politics, which eignifies the rapld acquisition by them of opportunities and position bithorto impossible. A probablo restls wlil bo an onormous stimulus to Chinose immigration. A singlo province of tho over crowded Colestis! Empire could pour out mill- fous of Immlknnls. to whom » dollar a day wauld seom tha realization of the wildest dream of wealth. The immigration of whitos for years hag been insignifleant, and scoms dwindling aonually. Tho patieuco sud peraistonce with which tho Chiuess in California hove endared and withstood mob outrages, cruel proseription, and tho practical denial of protection and re- dross through the Courtd, aud notwithstanding havo poutod Into tho Btate, indicato to what proportion the tido of immigration may swell under the encoursgement of the growlug colony of Chinose votora brod in the State, Amung the passibilitios of the next forty yoars, ovident- 1y, may be rookoned such aninflux of Chinese into California aa wlll transform it into & Mou- goliso Btate, and in which the American elo- ment will be of oven less significance than in Chicago or Now York. . ———— ‘The project of s monument in commemoratiory of the bundredih suniversaryof American Tra. dependence, to bo erected in remembraace of tho anclent friendship of America sud Irasace, doserves tho hoearty sympathy snd suppor¢ of the people of both pations. ‘Thua farthe Fsench soom $0 have tsken most {ntorost inthe andor- takiug. It ia time theo Americans sho ald vie with thom In securing ite success. Tl aijdes is to have a colossal atatue, ropresenting, Libsrty enlightomng the world, elovated or. a little {siand {n the middle of Now York har tor, over- looking the cities of New York, Lr-soklyn, and Jersoy City. The pedestsl, docors zod With al- legoriea illustrating the history o'f the Unlted Btates, will Le noarly 75 foat highy, Tho whole monument, from the soil 30 the summit of the band, will aitain 200 foot. ‘The firat model 14 ready and accepted. Tho wirsk in to bs por- formod by the celebratod sculptor, Avavsr Bantuorol. Remittances mray ba made to Ep- MOND LABOULAYE, the emiuant scholar, Chair- mao of the Franoo-Amories n Unlan Committce, at No, 176 Ruo Bt Hono'e, Paris, Frauce, or directly to Minlster Wasy suuwe, whoso®hame 14 wppended to tbe circular of the Committeo auan houorary membes. Th‘s snciunt friendship of France and Americs ls indeed something to be hold in escred’recollerstion; and. though it neods no visible monument, 4o keop its memory green, wecsn {0 no othe:: way 50 offectuslly manifest how decr it 18 10 Wi Americanys and Frenchmen. — —————— ‘We give the vc.re of the election held in thls clty in Novembr.,, 1878, when the People's Party dofeated tha tiu get of the Citizens' organiaation. Tho total vote " then was 47,811, while to-day it will excoed | cobably €0,000. The combination in 1478 wasroew, It embracod thoussnds who BOW Suppa’ { the Ropublican ticket, sa the Bun- day beer g nsstion wae seitled $wo years ago by tha defens,, of the ordinance, Yo 1878 the Poo- Ple's Part iy palled avery Yoo tuey could control, while of; the othiss sldo thore wa in many wards 8 Vo7 b foxld Suru-out, To-dsy thers il be s ronoral turn-out, and I the hahitual now.vogu, and thoo who have becomo votors since 1.5y attond tho polls there will bo an dnereans of ;, voto. ‘Tho rosult of the election will dage, constdorably on tho oxtent of Lhe Kiviey g, “Iho Yot uf 155y ond tho incroaso of tho vote. \ran aa fallaws: Teoplo's ticket, Citizena’ ticke 101874, a yoar ago, the Poople’sand Denyuery, fc partios wera united. and tho vote for Congrey, in tho samo wards woa as follows : Domocratie ' Ropublicats, Oppostiton majorit 4 In the wholo county in 1874, Rrens, thy Opposition majority was only 672. Thg taty voto in the eity in 1874 for Congross was 1,21 aud in tho county 40,373, —_— Wo anticlpato tho pleasurs, about day sl to-morrow, of wolcoming back Mr. Jonx p Fingnty on bie return to tho position on T.; Trintse city staff, which lo so 8atisfacuor, fillod up Lo the time of hin ombarking in polit, It wan tho misfortuno of Mr. FINERTY that N ‘a8 unable to froo himsolf from political folloy, ship with DitLy O'Bmien, FRARK Aoxer, gy othora of that ilk, and that with such backing Ly should bave boon nomioated for an ofico (o which, otherwise, ho was well qualified, and fop which Tue Tainuxx could have supported in, Theo i nb placo for him in Mr. Hrsixu's pary, but ho will find an opon field In Journalism, gy wa doubt oot will raturn to it the wiser for g experionco as & candidato on tho wranug ticket, il S A Tho white-Hnors of Missiesippi, who concady that on n full voto thiey sro fu & minority of aboy 25,000 votos, expect to carry thn oloction tolsy, Yot they hiaven™t appointed all the judges of ele; tion from amoug thotr partisans, ‘Their wod. is Josa complex, and thore is nothing roundabes; init. They have simply, through their jou. nals, servod notico upon the votars of tha negra majority to stay away from tho polls, of whi, this is & samplo from the Vicksburg Herald In $his eloction, colored men, your voto (a no beiyy thian o vote, You liave given ' the whitn peaplo go | caura to mistrust sou. 1 you stay away from 1, pollu altogethier tha wiito peoplo will uuderstand as} spprociate it. S o Janx F, Fixenty dosorvea & Lotter fato 1ty tho dofoat ko will eucouutor to-day, for ey worthy of better things than to Lo dragged t tho slimy depths of tho political pool by Dovil-Fish party, which has faatened upoy bin with all its tentacles, whilo it8 suckers stick 1o him clowor than & Lrothor. Next timo Y, Fixerry will not neod bo warnad that any a, overy polition) alltanco with Mr. 1lesixa niust avitably drag down whoover outers intoit, H. 3x6 i fatal to Fixenry, and not oven fivana con wove IIEsINO. —— Tt ws, it appears, ouly o forceastlo sarn, s atory told by & sulo survivor and telograpli:! Tue Tomvsk aboul tho crews of the Dot barks Jewess aud Youug belng ssrved up 1 roast aud fricasseo by tho cannivals of thy Aucklund Tsles. It anpeavs that thess ishanly are uniuhabited; that neither of tho vet iy could lavo mailed within 100 leagues of iy Auckisnds, aad that they both undoubtedy foundered at soa, ——— His Hollvess Pro NoNo lias also declae) ogaingt the rag-baby and for houect carren Iu an addrees tho otber day to o party of Fronch pitgrima ho said ; Tu it not truo that st the procent timo teade s far tabing fy Frusico; Ui o kurveat nrich i b 10 Aevoral provincos; that sounding moncy cire.a abunduntly {n your country, winle cliowhere, 1) epecialy hero 1 Ttatg, It disvppoars o 4ive fss auother currenicy which Kivos 10 80und savo that rs duced by b great masa of' paper turowa violeatly o s hard tablo or un the paveniont 7 A “Bubscriber " in Wanlkogan asks ' Wheth Mr. Wasn. HesiNa was nominatod for Congres last fall by the Democratic Couveutlon." e wag not. He announcod himacl! a4 a candidys and electioneered through tho district foc acos- sidorable titme, but not making a satisfactors in- pression on tho Democratle voters, or for somt atber roason, Lio withdrow, and the Domoustiy Convention nominated Mr. Le Mo S The way in which tho froodom of the ball il bo maintained in Missiasippl to-day inioli csated by the lollowlms from tho Vicksburg Jer- ald: Colored men, cottan plcking {a of mora tmportssct 10 you thau tho wrangling of Itadical aspieants for ol fico, You have no intoreat in thls enmpalgn. Sur away from the polls and attend to your Uesia's motto s “Rolo or Ruin.” Fiadik ho would not be pormitted ta rulo the mechanics' ‘mooting, he turned loosa aud ruined bis owa «mall chanco of oloction by giving the 8,000 r= spectablo citizons prosont at Farwoll Hall an et Hibition of his ** true inwardness.” ‘Tho Hosingite who ndvortised in Tre Tanrst few doys ago thiat ho would hot $1,000 to §200 that Hemno would be oloctod, and backed oul whon Mr. Horyaex planked tha 200, yestendst rofueed to back hiv man at even moooy, Btraw tell whict: way the wind blowa, Joun Fiserty's friouds, McCruar, Fosmy, Macxry, aud Frexey, Lave mado a gallaat o5l for their lender, but oven Joux's popularity will not #avo him whon burdoned with the welibi of Hzstxo nnd Mooy, —e Fzsria sbould romombor that aa favitstion b ride is 1ot liconso to drive. st il u W Buci sold favorite in poola Iaat night, —_——————— PERSONAL. Elmor Washburn {s at tho Paimer, Tomes Lovwis, of tho * Big Bonaozs," is s#2¢ Tressmont., Joaquin Miller, the poot of the Slerrss, l1s! tlae Pacifio, < Tbe Hon, C. W. Clisbee, of Casaopolis, Mich is at the Tremont. Tho Hou, John F, Farnswortb, of Bt Charlety i at the Bhorman. Tho Mendsiasohn Quintotte Club, of ‘Poatony stops at tho Palmor. It ia esid that Gon. Sherman's book b brought him {n $30,000. Kellogg went to goe *Our Doya " in Botlen Friday,—the torward thivg ! Gov, Jobn L. Boveridge and H. Springfield, are at tue Pactiic. James M. Truo, United Hlates Kiugaton, Can., 18 ab tho Pacific, o C. V. Smith, of the Behooloraft (Micb.) patch and News, is at tho Palmer. i Jamon W. Morrisany, business mauager of Fifth Avenuo Company, b st tho Palmer. i Col. 11, McCoy, of Baltmoro, snd U‘L ?‘?[’,_ Baguall, of Milwaukeo, are stoppiug st tho wmont. - A commercis pun, for which *the m:rmh: ble eaitar " declines to be reupcn:lnblt. ++Choating st bliliards—oue-pldity. — The now Minster from Iussia calls h' pine Buishkls, We, au Amoricans, aud mon o & ily, profer writing his name to prm.wmmn"nn‘n " Ex-Beoretary of ¢ho Interlor O. I I:l'o M: Quincy; ex-Senator Aatt Carpenter, M '& o and ox-Beuator M.l M. Gwino, Califor &topping &% tho Paol Ji.)[l’l. g!eculllgh. oor&m 84, Louls azabrnfldf': ocral, has bocomo & teu-cent plulam?h‘“n‘ i formor, having sccepted & mwn'\}::'m the Big-Bridgo Sundsy Loctoro Assocl . . ™ Richard Watson Gilder, tho oditor ‘:“ o 0ld Cabinet " {u Scribner’s, is the 8UAC 4y now volume of poems, sad 3 be vuyp e and obscure, which be ull:"'l' Tho Now Day Poem in Bonge and Bongete.” » Beasio l‘ar:nr'- now novel will bo lnllll:: b ; Woman {a the Case” s and it ls und‘ar‘l;: et » grapblo tribute to the memory o ked, 28 who slept when she should bave W waked when she should heve slept ol The reporter of the Cinclaast Times :w b it thsa Fasiny Devsogorh did say just Hilliztdy Conuul 10