Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 10, 1875, Page 4

THE CHICAGO TKIBUNL: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1875, P e et et e et ettt ettt eeetpeeeepeererems P eep EEe e oo et L o] TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. RATES OF FUBSCRIPTION (PATABLR TN ADYANCT). Postare Iropatd at thi L Dally Editton, post-paid, | year, Party af year #y nddress FOUR WEEK " e Laion: Tatarary aad Hellgioad doati I ribs, and 103G 11c for short clears, all boxdl Highwines wero active and atoady at $1.11} llon. Tlour was dull and easior. Whent ar. closing at #1.07¢ cash anil 3107} for December, Corn was oo | auist, and d@le lower. closing at tje ensh, @.00 | andd A1c for November. Oata were guiet and atendy, closing at 10je cash and 30%c for 40 | Decomber. Ryo was firmer at 68 Darloy was dull and Yo lower, closing at 8Go for November and 8ifc for December. Hogs woro aolive and stronger, with the bulk of sales at §6.80@7.10. Cattle wore active and unchanged. Bheep were in falr demand at 23,00@4.60. One hundred dollars in gold would buy $114.624 in greenbacks at the closa, il I Parta of year WEERLY RDITION, POATPATD. lub of twenty, per The postage Is 18 oenta a yusr, which wa will grepay. Bpeciman copiea sent free, . To prevent delay and tistakes, be sure and give Post-Offics Addreas in full, Inclnding Statosnd County, Rem({tiances may be made eliber Ly draft, espress, Post-Office ordar, or In registered letters, at our risk, TERMS TO CITY SUIMCRINERS, Dafly, deltvered, Bunday excepted, 23 conta per week Daly, delivared, Banday tucluded, 30 centa per woek, Address THE TRIBUKE COMPANY, Corner Madison and Deatborn-ts., Chicago, Iil, The Sionx Indinng, nccording to the report of the Gevernment Commirsion, seom to he an exception, in tho matter of population, to 11 the othor tribes. While the other tribes are decreasing year by year and gradually fading awsy, the Bioux Indians, on the other NRW CHIOAGO THEATRE~Clatk sireet, between | hand, are incroasing in nummbers. Tn 1820 fifl.‘é’!&l““‘""’ EResHRBILOr Kelly A Do s (hnir’numhom wurugns!imn!ml at 15,000; Inat yenr they numbered 41,704, In this lapee of time, theroforo, they huve nearly trebled, fhich is largely owing, in all probability, to the admixture of whitu blood, which results in the production of worso Indinns than the original article. With referenco to the Sioux, therefore, the old saying, *‘As long ay we feed them, wo will nat bo required to fight them,” loses its applicability, for, inasnuch a8 they are increasing ot thia rate, the cost of 1 ng nnd supporting them must incresse in tio, v that it 13 only n question of T AMUSEMENTS. ELPIII THEATRE-Deatborn _street, corner e agoment of the Kirslfy Troupe, ¥ Atound the World in fi:m Daya.” WOOY'8 MUBEUM--Monroe streat, hetwoen Dear- born and Biste, Afternoon, * Uncls Tom’s Oabin” Zvening, ** Grifith Gsunt,” " FOOLEY'S THEATRE—Randolph streat, between Ciarkand LaSalle, Engsgement of tha California AJiastrels, MOVIOKER'S THEATRE—Madlson stroot, botween Dasrborn snd State. Engagemont of Jane Coomba. * The Btranger " and * The Honeymoon.” HALSTED BTREET OPERA JOUBE - Halstod treet. corner Harrison. BlacEvoy’s Mibornicon, FARWELL ITALL—Msdison street, briween Clark time, if thiy old eazing bo true, how soon we must stop feeding them and go to fighting them. tud Lafalle, DuQuincy's * Tour of the Holy Land.™ e ——s SOCIETY MEETINGS. * WABHINGTON CHAPTER, No. 4%, R, A, M.—Tiegu- | The regular annunl stenl of tho South Chi- 2:,?.“,,‘32;‘;‘;‘,:,‘:‘:;}'51“:{3,=§§“'£fl,,:;,,;’," for but | cogo Town offlcers was yestenlny sandtioned Bers of importapco will o Ir;nlnc(:u!,al.ull atiend- | and abotted by the Board of County Com- tuce ia dusired. By ?xr,?l;r of {-’}fol{el&ilmuli. Secv. | missioners in an approprintion of $15,000 for = it 't i “ South-Town expenses,” aud another of e, No. 2, A Faand A, sL—Btated | a0 415 i " 3 (SENTAL LOBGE, N0 30 4, T and by M oBist | 822415 for * old indebtodness.” This willful for business und work oa thc E. A, lJ_éIétj‘in l!g order | malappropriation of the people's moucy was I N TLCKER, 36 | conmitted in spite of tho earnest protests of of the Master, COVENANT LODGY, No. Commissioners Crovan and Bumbicg, in A P& AL l—] u- iy (Friday) evening at : o Damintss of (aporiatca 1) Eone Tafoga the | BPite of the nbsointe cortainty !&m: Lodge. Efl‘fymivl’-\berul"l“l'“efllg]'*;fi',";’-‘ ’31:"1'- the sum voted for ‘*‘old indebtedness derofthoWM. ____ WALEEMR B | oy 1o gobbled wp to satisfy ftho THOS, J. TUIINER LODGE, So. 409, A. F. & A, M, —Tho members sre herety notified to appesv at Driental all, 132 LaSailo-st,, Baturdsy morning, Nov. 10, ut 10 a'clock, sbarp, to ansist with “the Most Wor- shipfal Grand Lodge of Blate of Tilinois in faying the sormer-stone of the lush Medieal College, corner of ¥ood and Hnrllwnf‘ Tho :\'. Ali Tequests ull Mae- \or Mssons of this Lodse to attend, JOUN T, 'ETTIRONE, Sec'y. ORIENTAL CONSIRTONT, 330, B, T, Lo, Bt The niembers of this body are_hersby notided fo & sear at their rendozvous, 72 Esst Mouros-sf,, Sstur- Juy, Nov, 20, 1675, 5t 10 &, m., sharp, Iu.full iniform, tor tho purpove of participating i the ceremonles o rapaeity of tho tat-sfealing officials, who have demnanded $14,000 for salavios. The appro- priation having been voted by the County Commissioners, the Sonth Town Boand can aud will snap their fingers at the specifica~ tion of *‘old indebtedness,” which is itself a fraud, and spond the money as thoy see fit, Here is another caso for the cognizance of the OCitizenw' Association, An injunction should be obtnined to provent the consumma- ;fi‘:,f ® “’"“'”‘“5}3 'i-r 3‘[’)‘;‘;‘3‘};‘&?'&%‘,,,2?&_’55},{}” tion of this shameless steal, ENTION KNIGITH OF ST, BERNALD ¥ N . :fiffii\{nflfi i’g.‘ anl‘ E. ql.—iuuurn fequested to Tho defont of Mr, Hzstxo and the election ppear ot the Atyl\mix of our Co‘nunlndary #aturday | of Mr. Hucrk as Conunty Tregsurer has had o :30 o'clock, By vrder, Ll o . W, BARNERD, I C. singular cffect upon the pefeptions of the Opposition Ring in the County Board. Pre- vious to the election these gifted legislators were able to expound the laws of the State 80 as to vote the County Treasurer an annual stipend of $10,000, and they fully expectod to repeat this liberal construction of the ATTENTION, BIR KNIGHTS!—~Tho memtars of Chicago Comnuandery No. 19 K. T\, are Lereby notified w0_appear at tho Asylum, corner Mnlsted and Ran- Solph-sts,, Batnrday, Nov, 20, 1475, at 10:0 a. uarp, 1o full uniform, for vavort duty. Bir Kniyh of alater Ot‘mml{n‘g:n’:' mé'dlllly Invited to meet with 19, By order of the Em, Com. = i ¥ G, A, WILLIAMS, Recorder, —————— | Cgnstitution and the statutes for an. .2 L e other period of two years, The fact, Ebz Gh]flagfl ny_]bum. howerver, that tho official canvass of the vulm‘! cast for Treasurer vared from their expectations hns worked a ourious change in the Board. Since it is Mr. Huek, aud not M, Hearva, who is to receive the salary, it is discovered that the law nilows o salary of but $4,000 to the Treasurer, with no addition s ez-officio Collector ; and that Buffnlo Mitt- En hns roceived o clear bopanza of $12,000 during tho past two yesrs in plain violation of Inw. 'Thus tho benefits of the recent pop- ular uprising in Cook County becoma daily moro perceptible, Mr. Hocx will be perfoct- ly eatisied with his lawful compensation of 4,000, and Buffalo Mmier will of course refund the 12,000 paid him by mistake. Ho I8 too pure a patriot snd too much of a gentleman to keep it. T e Friday Mormng, November 10, 1875, ' Greenbacks at the New York Gold Ex- shange yesterdny opened at 574, fell to 873, tegcted to 877, and closed at & As was predicted yesterday, the Spanish Gavernment declines to vouchsste a reply to tho impudent proposition of Don Canvos. The only notico taken of tuat ¢xirnordinary missivo consists in instructions to Gen. Quesapa to receive no more ‘communications from that source, excepting such na shall em- oody propositions for the nuconditional sur- cender of the pretender and his partisans.® Brionax Youne is ence moro the free and anterrified Prophet of the Haints, thanks to, The bandit with royal blood in his voine the conflicting orders and rulings of tho | who ryles part of Spain hns sent a curious United States Court in Utah. First- ho was | pots ¢ the son of Issnrrza who rules the ruled by Judge MoKraw to pny ANN Eniza's | othor part, Don Carros 18 of the opinion elimouy, and put in confiement for his re- | 41,04 the United States will soon male war Fusnl to oboy ; then that order waa vacated | ypon Spain, unless tho independenco of Cuba and tho prisoner discharged on the judgment is recognized. Having snid this, he informs of Judge Lowe ; next Butouant was commit- | Ay ronao that the latter's usurpation is respon- ted for contempt by Judge Boreman and | gible for the * parricidal revolution” in the tocked up ngain ; and yesterday ho was 1ib- | « Queen of the Antilles.” Thisiaa triflo hard, erated by order of Chict-Justico WaiTE, Who | g0t to Aoy unjust, inasmuch us Spanish bar. held that ho had been wrongtully imprisoned. barity and rapacity are responsible for the e Cuban insurrection, and the latter would go on whother a puerile Avrroxso, or a bigoted Carros, or a theory-bound CASTELAR were occupying the Escurinl. Having thus freed his mind, the King of the Bnsques makes o ourious and important proposition to the King of the rost of Spain, # Should war break out,” he writes, ¢ I offor youa truce as long as tho contest lasts,” ArvoNso is to ruls his subjeets; Camros is to rule his; both nre to bend their energies to the somewhat difficult task of mashing the United States. Don Carvos declines to send hiu troops to Cuba; he says, indeed, that he * cannot,” which is doubtless perfectly true, But ho volunteera to defond his sliare of the Kiogdom nnd the Cantabrian const, and to send out * privateers whieh which will pur- w#ue tho muchant-ships of onr enemics, and perhapa chaso them into thoir own harbors,” That ** perhops® is a wise word. 1t would Do an extreme diffieulty, in tho first place, thanks to our wika tarifl, to find an American ship thot did not belong to our navy, and thon the chasing would bo changed about and tho privateer of Don CUanros wonld hnve just sbout time to baul down her fing before she sank. 'The reply of Avronso to thix modest noto can scarcely be doubtful, llw_»gmzlng, even for an instant, tho hu. ihority of Dou Canvos over any part of Spain, e - such wors allowing him to atrengthen his Yesterday was o biack-lotter dsy in the on- | Government peacefully and sooustom all the nals of tha Bt. Louis whisky.fraud oxpo- | 100Ple of one great section to ucknowledge sures. The atpriling devolopments incidental | bim 83 Kiug, would be fatal ta any futuro to the trinl of MoDonALD wera the occslon | Sttempli of Atroxso to make himself ruler of the highest degree of interest and oxcity- | ©F tho wholo country. 1t such n truco should THE BPANISH NOTE. Now that the Grond Jury has roturned twalve indictments ngninst dishonest judges of election and repeaters, the people will with coufidenca look to State's-Attorney Reep to proscente theso cnses with some- thing of the flery vigor and rothlessnoss which ho ocensionally displays in fimst- clpss murder trials, even, as iy some. times claimed, to the extent of g little vindictiveness, The oxerciso of Mr, Rexp'a woll-known energy aud ubility as o prosecutor of criminals will bo expocted in theso election-froud cnuses. Any error on’ thoside of extra sevority will bo most grate- fully pardoned by an anxious community. Papers wero yesterday filed in the Caunty Court in the contestod-election casio of BrrrrLy us. Convy, the plaintif charging o large amount of fraudulent and illegal vot- ing in several of tho towns compris. ing the Sixth Commissioner District, besides Trandulent and illegal acts upon the part of tho judgos of election. 'fhe eympathles of the tax-payers will bo with 3Ir. Szzey {u the coutost. The man Coxvy is o member of the corrupt Ring in the Board of Commissioners, qud if it can be shown that his re-clection was obtained by dishonest and unlawful means, his defent in the contest would be in every way doesirable. wment yet reached, Persons mnot hith- | be agreed upou, Commissioners would bave erto suspectsd of compliclty in the | t0 8ettle tho boundaryine betwoen tho two ‘‘crooked” conspiracy were fmplicat. sections for the time belng, and the Carlist ed iu the testimony yesterdsy, mmong | frontier conld uot thereatter s beaten back, them, we regret to stote, two well. | W donob imagine, Indead, that the con- Xknown editora of 8t, Louia papgra, 1t s to | tingancy on which Don Cantosbases hin offer be hoped and expectod that thess gentlemen [ Will come to pass. The result of a war with will soon demaud and receive tha privilege of | Spain could not bo doubtful, though the diproving the allegations of partuership in | Spavish navy might do us some temporary the proceedp of the revenue frauds, and that | injury. The end would bo inewitable. Bup they will be able to demonstrate the fulsity | if the war euded, asit pretty certaiuly woul, of the charges. in tho annexation of Cuba, the consequences would bu dissgtrous. The island is wholly unfit for our institutions. We conldnot keep it & Perritory forever. If it becawe o State, it would bring its punishments. We miiiht oy well annex o batch of South “en Tslunders awd give them yotes. The lu. mand, and firm, closing at £11.00 cesh or | siructions o Minister Cusnina contain thila saller the year. Meats were dull and un- | passeye: ** The President docs not medi- changed, at 7jo for shoulders, 10j¢ for shust | tute or Geaive thy utuvaution of Cuba to the ST The Chicago produce markets wers rather lrregular yesterday, within narrow limits. Meas pork was quict aund pteady, closiug at $18.17]@10.20 weller the year, and $19.17} for ¥ebruary. Lard wes in moderate de- United Siates, but it clavation into an inde- pondent Republio of free men,” 'That is the right doctrine. Slavery of men by othor men and of the community by n barbarous Enropean Stato should coase. But the woy to bring this about is not for ns to plunge into a bloody and gostly war, with its con- comitanta of loss of life, contracts. rag- money, und corruption, Spain_ should Lo troated as if sho helonged, ay sha doces, in the samo eatogory ns Turkey. If the United States, England, Rtussia. and Germany noti- fled her that Cnba unst be freo, and notifled Cubn that glavery must bo abolislied, resist- ance to either demand would have to be abandoned. The revolution wonld be n peaceful one. Sponish pride would have to *yiokd, aud Spanish greed would liave to refax ita deadly hold on the richest island in Ameriea. Tt wonld then become » question whether the sano omnipotent power might not rightflly bo enlled into play to stop the Kilkenny-cat warfare of Canros and Arvoyso, aud give Spain n Government that was some. thing more than an incitement to revolt and o sham, once arises n question swhich will provoke universal diseunsion, If thera iy no power to compel a whits man to ho edneated, how BYS W fo compel e yoo dea to sboot? Ong thing e eertain: Bdoe ention muder theso ‘eircumstaness wonld be compulsory in the hroadest and froest sig- niflennce of the tarnn, The whols wemy of the United States would be insunlcient to en- foree cduention among the Indinns, Livery ablo-hodicd Indinn would requirs a corporal's guard to stand constant watch over him, to keep him ot his work, and save the school- aster's cr nchool-ma'an's sealp, SnrRAN's eavalry would lave alively time in driving the ‘Tougarces nnd Wongarees to their tiily doso of the rule of three nud tho use of the globes. Imngination fancies the youthtul Indins waidens industriously toiling over their fust lessons in T'ronch and Berdin wools at the visk of adose of grape and oanister; scouts industriously pussning yonng Indinn gentle. men who have gono off hunting prairie ehilckens +instend of poing to school ; o rogi. mont of troops campetling the one little, two little, threo little Injuns, magnified in this cnso into one, Lwo, or three thonsand, to nb- sorb their daily rations of Tioser, Ipvy, po- 1dtical economy, and moral philosophy. Im- agination goes atilt further nnd fancien the denpair of the average young Sioux or Ponea a3 be wrestles with the Pons Asinorumand the processes of logic, and the horvor of the Ar- rapabioo and Chippews ns he listens fo the Biblo in tho publie schiools and finds thnt his JManitou is not in it, and his disgust at being compelled talisten by nsquad of infantry, Decause if there is any right to compel i to, be educated thore isthe same right to compel him to listen to the Bible. Tho rec- ommendation of tho Commission as to com- pulsory educntion is good {u theory, and ealls up agrecablo pictures of schools filled men wid nations will eoncgde ta gold an intiingic value &g money. independent of the nat onnl stamp that may be imprersed {heroon, . Senator Havann ovidently represents a Demovracy of the past. 1t is true, the Dom- ocratie party was & hard-money party from tho foundati:m of tho Government until the days of Jacgson, when its opposition to paper money beeamse intensifiod, Even when the Whigs obtained a brief control of the Government, in 1841, they waro swept out of power by tho hard-money Democeats. Tt was ot until 1868 that Mr. Pexvurtox be- came n prophet in the Denocratic party, and pronchied that paper moncy wns better than gold. and that gold as n mersure of valtes was o delugion and ndfenud. Sinee that time, in apd aronnd Cincinuati theve has been o gort of Democratie school of 1)bliticnl econ- oy, swhich seeks (o edueata the country up to the point of believing that uncoined gold hins o intrinsdo value: nnd that, if the Gov- erninent wonld stop making money ont of it, it would be sold to tho junk.shops like old stoves ond rusty boilers, B THE VAMPIRE OF CUBA. I'heve are n nnmber of facts, not generally Xnown, in relation to the rule of tho Span- Yardin Cuba, Spoin has heen the vampire of that island, sucking out its life and leaving it bleeding and helpless, 'The Cubans have been gystomatically plundered. They heve repentedly been obliged to wend mouey to Spain to pay bounties for recruits and defray the cost of their transportation to the island, and the regiments, rnised on paper, have never tonched Cubau soil. Cuba is now pay- ing the intevest on a sevies of losns raised nominally for use in Cubn, but roally stolen in Spain, 'This gamo was played for tho last time n fow months ngo. Shortly aftor tho TilE INDICTMENTS FOR ELECTION FRAUDS, Itis aratifying to know that the present Grand Jury of the Criminal Court swill not adjonrn without having found several fime bills ngainst the men who wero engaged in repeating and otherwise contributing to tho corruption of the bollot-box at the recent election, ‘Tha evidenco of fraudulent voting or ballot-box stutling in one or two of the previnets is too palpable in the vote to admit of any possible miistake. There is cer- tain knowledge of tho oxerciso of terrorism and unlawtul interferenco with honest votors in othier precinets, The judges in one pre. cinct refused to comply with the Iaw which required them to sign and deliver returns to the County Clork. All these violations of | yiy protty littls Indisn maidens in f{’mi"", ?'f A"N:;jflo& tth::l “I::rv;:id :: thu_}:lccnon law aro so many menaces at tho pontalettes nnd pinafores atudying their b:’ bri"l:cd i::vt": ncmu;!:a;o ;ca e purity of the ballot-box, and they cannot bo | jiple lessons, and industrions little In- a : ignored without grent danger to the com. munity. It is tho duty of all tho officers of the Court, including the Grand Jury nud the Stato's-Attornoy, to sesrch out all the evi- deuce they cnn get which will lead to the indictment and conviction of thoso who have been guilty of fraud at tho polls, whether inside or outside the judges’ room, There can be no mistaking the direction of public opinion in this matter. The people of Chicago were nevoer so fully aronsed to tho dangersof a corrupt ballot-box as at the recent olection, It waa this that induced them to turn out in large numbers and defeat the crowa that threatencd the purity of clections for all timo. This feceling has not by any means been lulled. The public meetings that have been held since election, the will- ingness of citizens to give time and money to secure the conviction of repoaters, the united scutiment of the press,—all should prompt the Grand Jury and the Prosceating-Attorney to make specinl efforts to bring to punish- ment every man who in any manner has been accessory to fraudulent vaoting, It is the safety of the future which must bo kept in mind, and this can only be assured by the conviction of those who lave been appre- hended. Thore is no longer a Registry law for our local clections; and nothing excopt the drend of ‘punishment to provent ropeat- ing, ballot-box stufMng, sud refusal to abids by the law. A failure to convict this fall will rouder the repeaters bold and aggressive next spring, and there will be no restrining in. fluences over election judges and clerks in- clined to bo corrupt. We must have some couvictions. egrom was flashed from Mndrid to Captain.General VArxaseoa, domdnding tho instant romittanca of 2,000,000, Varya- 8cpA tolegraphed back that the Spanish Bank at Havana would lonn the money if 20,000 fresh troops conld be sont to the island. Gotting 132,000,000 for promise was chenp cuongh. ‘The promino was sent ; Bo was the money ; 50 waa 2ot the troops. Tho two or threo battalions of Carlist doserters and Mndrid ragamufins shipped to Havana this year huve not numbered 2,000 men, all told. "Fhere are other direct robberies which diffor from these, not in boldness, but inregnlarity. Cuba i3 taxed every year $12,000,000 for “War,” “Navy,” and *State" purposes. This sum is used to defray the cost of the srmy on the {sland, the navy in Weat Indian waters, and tho whole Spanish cousular and diplomntio service in Americn, North and South: There is another tax of 230,000 o year for the Government of tho colony of Fernando Po, on the west const of Africa, which has about as much to do with Cuba as it has with the North Pole, Besides all this, tho sum annually remitted direct to Andrid is 27,350,000, The island is thus regularly taxed $19,600,000 & yoar for the benefit of Spain. It is incrodible that the Cubans showld still bo at oll faithful to fpnin, ‘I'ha explanation of this incrodible thing is a poradox, The Sponish Cubane willingly help pay the $19,600,000, becanse thoy slso belp to pay $18,750,000 mpro eovery year! Tho total tax collected is 883,850,000, Of this sum, nearly $14,000,000 is absorbed—orstolen —~by Government funotionaries and their friends on the jsland. 'This.ia the price pald Cubans for conniving at Spanish robbery. This immense sum is awallowed up in fees, percentages, enormons ealaries, and (prob- nbly) direct theft. But the mon who ave thus paid for their country’s dishonor are not satisfied with their shares of only $14,000,- 000. They are sald o make enormous gains Dy letting and gotting frandulent coniraots in army and navy mattors ; by writing up pay- rolls for an army 25,000 strong when its real strength doos not exceced 15,000; and by methods that surpass 1 cunning oven those duar to the civic scoundrols of the United Statos. But Cuba, jmpoverished by years of civil war, nnd crushed by remorseloss toxation, cannot long be o rich prize,. The orange has ‘boon squeezed. Boon {here will be little but national vanity to diotate the rotontion of the “Queen of tho Aniilles.” Then the island. ors will not be divided into hostile cnmps, and ¢ Cube libre" moy not bo shouted in vain. A TEANACONTINENTAL RAILROAD, The inalienablo rights of an American cit- izen, in this era of the Repnblic, are life, Jib. crty, the. pursnit of happiness, and the posscssion of a plan for a transcontinental roilway. ‘The entire desert between the Mis. gouri and the Bierras has boen covered, in imagination, with iron rails. In fact, if the projected roads should all be built, it might bo necessary to put soms of them on trestle- disn boys tugging nwny at their geogra- phies and histories with cloan faces and collars, but bow is it to bo put into prac. tico? If the Governinent crunot soparate the white ohild from the parent, remove him to some distant loeality, place him in gehool and compel him to be educated, how can it pursuo this course with regard to the Indian child? If he belongs to n foreign nntion, protected by trenty stipulations, the Govern- ment hus no right to take any steps at all in the matter, If, on tho other hand, heiss citizen of the United States, then the Govern- ment ins no right to enforce any laws with regard to him that it cannot enforce with regard to whito children. INTRINBIC VALUE OF COLD, Benator Tnoaas F. Bivann, of Delaware, hns been writing a lelter to somo persons in Georgia on thoe subject of paper money, in which, among other very simplo and self-svi- dent propositions, he suggested that when ‘““money" coutains in itself no intrinsic valuo it cannot bo used as o standard by which to mensurs the valtes of other commodities, and thus fails in the bighest sitribute of money, The Cincinnati Kagwrer, claiming to spenk for ths intelligent wmpsses of the Democratic party, thus demolishes the Democralic Sen- ator: Jurt the reversoof (ko above fa troe. If the wmte- rial of which money 4 made has un ntrinslc value, then ila warla‘dens lu production and ccreumption il affe>t ita worth a8 & circalating meium, A« gold itnelf {a & cominodity, ADAM SxtrTa, fo hits % Wealih of Natlops," declarea St fa s o trus inmasurs of valus for other articlea, Bupposo whest or corn wera to Lo the stanidards of valuo, a short or too plentiful czop would alike dinturb all monetary valucs, But gold Aas na ntringis value, Tis valuo {8 simply owing to the stamp of the Governmonts which fs put upon it Threa-fonrihis of i is ured an ourrency, Intrinsically 16 18 nut ux valusdle uy paper, Tuper, lu overy vari- ety of form, fa uscful, Qold ia only ornsmental. Thery have been during the lnst fow years soveral iucipient statesmen who hnve sought local notoricty by insisting that the value of gold coin consists in tho stamp placod thereon by tho mint, and that tho samo stawp placed ona pieco of paperorleatherwould have equal value. Bat we havo never met a nowspapor published in an intelligent community, and intended for circulation among intelligont peopla as the organ of any respeefable num- ber of Americans, that ventured to make such an nssertion until wo saw it repeated several times in the Enquirer. Unfortunately for this new dootrine, the oxperience of mankind has been difforent. ‘There hos hardly been a Government in Eu. rope which has not in past times nttompted to substituto the Government stamp for intrinsic value in the coin, but the operation hos invariably fniled. The expodients of putting shilling stamps on aixpences, and of jsauing brass shillings, all failed, for the want, we suppose, of n leading newspaper to in- form the people that it was the stamp nlone that gives value to coin, If tho editor of the Enquirer will visit tho assay offices of tho Unitod States he will bo surprisod perbaps to find that the great bulk of the silver and gold produced in the United Btates is not put into coln, and bas no atamp THE OIVILIZATION OF THE INDIAN. The report of tho Commission appointed by the Government to negotiats with the Sioux Indinus for the Cession of the Black Hilla region, which was printed in tho last is- sue of ‘[z TRIDUNE, in ndvance of sll other papers in the country, contains two points of more than ordinary interest as bearing upon the problem of Indian civilization. The one is Low to make the adult Indian support him- self by labor, and the other is how to mnke a truly good mnn out of the javenile Indizn by education. If either of these problems can be golved, the whole Indian problem is solved. The general spirit of the report ia encouraging from the fact that, in accordsnca with the statutes, it deals with the Indians vot as a forelgn nation, but as part and parcel of the peoplo of the United States, however irregular & lot thoy may be, So far as the Inbor question is concarned, therofore, it may foirly be troated ag if it involved the white population of any one of 'the States or Terri. tories. The romark of Fnoupe, that there are but throe ways of living,~by working, by boggiug, and by stealing,~applies to the In. dian with the same fotce asto the whitemnn. If o whito xonu stonls, hie goes to the poni- tentiary ; wo should the Indian. If a white mau begs for a living, ho eventunlly lands either in a fail or a poor-house ; 8o shonld the Indian. If o white man will not work, he starves; so should an Indian. Itis anun- just form of taxation which compela | placed upon it oxcept its weight and degres | work for tho whole distance, in ordor that the people of this country to sup- | of finencss, and tho owners of this bullion ac- | other might run beneath them. Fanoy the port an entire iribe or nation in | toally hold it in value equal to a corvospond- | profita of a Oredit Mobilier with 1,500 wiles idlencss, and to provide them with | ing weight in coin, and as bullion it issent to | of trestlo to bnild, in addition to the ordinary bounties aud rations without recolving any oquivalent in rotnrn. Thers is nothing in oxiuting troaty-obligations which requires it, apd ne a matter of cquity it is absurd, The rocently emancipated slaves of the South have ay good a right to demand that the Gov- ernment shall feed and clothe them in idlencss as tho Indiana. The law {tself cannot force a mon to work, Government itself cannot izsuo au edict requiring every Indinn to per- form manual or mental labor, This would be virtually reducing the Indian to slavery, but it can compel the Indian to work upon the grounds of public necessity and self-sup- port, by making the proper stipulationa that rations will not be iseued oxcept s part com- pensation for labor performed. As the Indinn will not work voluntarily, the Commingion hna done well fo wurge upon Congress and the Interior Department the neceasity of the enactment of Jaws that will securo this result, When this is done, then the Indian is brought to the same level of necessity as tho white wan. He must live oither by werk, beggary, or theft, If ho will not do the first, then let him starve. If he chooucs the other modos of living, let him take tho results like white men, ‘Tho way sema clear s to the labor ques- tion in its application to the adult Indian, but it is not wo clear with reference to the educational question in ity application to the juvenile Indian. I{appily, the sdult Indian is out of all consideration, since it would be n more hopeful task to gurmence the educa- tion of all the mummies in Egypt than of the Bioux or any other tribo. ‘The Commission boldly takes the bull by the homs and demands that the young Indian ladies and geotlemen shall by removed from their parents 10 various wilitary academies and other educatlonal localities, and then cowpulsory educa. tion shall be brought into play. Hero at other countries, and there, free of any kind of stamps, it ia taken at the value of an equiva- lent weight in coin, s It is possible that if any person will inves. tigate the matter closely it will be found that, cven in the matter of coin, the Govermment stamp gives it no value at all, Tho stamp of ton dollars on tho engle is morely evitoncs that when thot coln left the mint it contained o stated weight of gold of n stated finéness. But that stamp is not conclusive evidence that the coin must bo always taken &8s worth ten dollars. If a thousand eaglos, each stamped * Ten Dollars,” be paid into n bank, and, upon placing thom in & scale, they do uot weigh the exact amount which thoy ahould do, the stamps fail to make good the defleiency. When the light coins are pleked oat, though the stamp on each may bo por- fect, thoy cease to have the value of ten dollars each, and cense even to bo u legal- ‘tender for the sum jndicated by the stawnp. The United States muy issue coins of the weight and flueness of the present eagle, and stamp them ‘‘twenty"” dollars, bat their value will be unchanged by the stawp, and they can only beusedat their actual value. To deny that gold has an iutrinsio value is, how- ever, essential to thw theory that the Gov ernment can &0 jrcedeemabls paper, and stowplit to any volue that wmay bLe deemed proper, and that the latteris of necessity, from ita stamp, equal ta any other form of money, When this principle is eutublished, when the pooplo shall be educated up to the powt that paper mongy stawped by the Gave erumpnt and irvedeemabls 'm of necessity of equal value to gold, then and about tho same time the people will ba ¢e arrived at the conclusion that gold has ncs intrinsio value. Until then, bowever, s0 fong as & given wolght apd. fincuess of gald, bas the same pur- chasing power the world ceer, whather it be coined or uncoined, stawpsed or unstamped, work on a railroad, We ars surprised that tho plan lLes not becn suggested before. Tho advantage of having » road that can only bo impeded by a 30-foot fall of mow f{a obvious. Congressmen have heard of many transcontinental schemes in whioh stock is to be had very choaply,~not exactly for o song, but for o speoch and a voto. There are a number of persont in Eyrope who have heard of t‘hem, und are not likely to forget them as long ns the bosutifully-engraved cortiflcates of stock or the pretty bonds in their safes aro valuaple only as picturcs, /s meruontoen ot Tash jn. vestmont, and asJgions fnexperionce. 'Lliero arg thoso who might be able to give the names of ‘mony widows and orphans who own fractions of a to-be-built road that wns to pass through o ‘* northern tropical zone,” the cbief products of which at the present worment are sage-brush, snow, and scalps. ‘Tho business hus been somewhnt ovordone, Some of the sanguine projectors are in Freuch prisons ; some sre in bankruptcy ; some—nnlikeany of the victims—are wealthy. Tut the lavish subsidies are granted no more. In vain Podunk, Kt. Jouis, and Clamville show that the only thing needed to make them prosperous is a donation by the people, through Congress, of a few hundred million dollars for a railroad that will develop the desert and opeu up a direct trade with tho Digger Indiaus. In vain imemorisls are printed oud ingenious speeches prepaved. ‘Iho subsidy-ago is over, ¥ Que Amorican citizen, AvavsTus WarsoN, unabla to yid himsclf of the transcontinental Lalluciuation, but awsre that Lie canuot corzy out his schemes on the sandy soil of the Great American Desert, has turned bis face and hopaes towards Africa, led thereto, probably, by the conneation of jdeas between our desert and the Sabara. AvevsTus has a simple plan. ‘Plio rosd is to be 4,000 miles long, aud is to e e — ba built ont of the proceads of a Innd-grant ' the noxt day; and 'Squire Txraxn, the extonding 80 miles on cither pide. Liberia | logal luminary of the noightorhood, bo‘laruhnm is to wote tha grant first, and the few | 8'} the canos wore bronght, allowed the oftast, Dbundred cannibal Kiugs to the enstwnrd | Whicl smounted to $40 more than the bill for wread aro to do A vs thr snine favor, | b0ard aod rendored Judgment againat tho faleg The markelvalue of Alriean jusgie is """,”fi""'"‘"'""“N"gmmh 50 wun the latter ol grent, eyen when tho snnkes, :’l“'l:m‘(.'::” dnunhl?u porfldy, and e case wild Deasts, and conuibale appurlennut ® An awfdl warning to other girin 4 mamma, therato nro (hrown' in, Torsona who would like to be cooked and eaten can get all the African domain they want by merely squat- tiug on it and waiting until the natives aro tired of negro ay naturel snd wish to experi- mont on boilcd white man. If this obstaclo could he surmounted and Central Africa bo Inid out in town lots, with the materinls for a first-class meungeria on every lot, and the money realized froin their sale be expended in the construction of the Central African Railrond. what good would it do? Mr. War- #0: Kees An- ‘* intmenga local freight and pns- aenger business,” but wo fear that it is nll in his eye. The man who seriously projects such a plan wanld certainly find space for the business within one of Lis enrs. At tho same time, we would uot discournge AvauvsTus from trying on his rcheme, Let him seok Central Africn and wuve his enrs to tho utter despair of the envious elephant. Tho United States enn present. him. in view of a subsidy, witl an recuralo copy of n Credit- Mobilier Conatitution, n number of persor akilled in the'* constructicu-compnny " buis- iness, and o myrind of men who will e hap- DYy 08 soon a8 their termas of imprisonment Liere have expived, to manufucturo the staple Afriean comnodi e, In exchange for this nud for o fow eargoes of nssorted breech- cloths sud glass bomds, our AvarsTus can supply Ireland with snalkos, the United States with slaves, Barvuar with monsters, and the world with a laughing-stock Aceording to tho statisslcs whioh. a Brookiyn roporter has industriously collected, the revival In that olty under the ‘miolstratlons of Moopy anakenlng among tho multitudos who throng to hear them—to tha sina af other people. Thy requests for prayor oxactly ilinscrate If. The falr averago of theso I8 from thres to fone hun. dred por diem, avd the extent of the convistion of othor people's sins in indieated by an moalyaiy of 045 uach roquonts pent up to DBrother Maony who asknd pravora for somebody olse, and, of tho remainity thirty-ulno who felt tho need of prayeis for thomaalvos. sixteen askod that thoay be offerad. not for their conversion, but for their tocovery from sioknoss. The extent to which hls auditors are being convieted of the elufulnoss of othors would mesm to afford Drother Moopr s splendid opportoulty for & briof dincourse npon the toxt, nomothing abond the boam in thelc own eyos and the mota ip thelr netghbors’, ———— Tho absurdity of Rosal otiquette fs vory forels bly shown by an incident in connection with the prosont vislt of tho Y'rince of Wales to India. Mr. Bouznens, tho Consul nt Hydarabad, fnsisted that tho Nizam of flint place should RO to moet the Prince nt Bombay, and pay bis respects to him, Lo Nizam, ibappears, jaalittle, puny, sickly child of 8 years of age, who Las novor baen able to g0 wilon from hia pajaco, }iie Prime Min- iator uot this state of facts boforo the English Conaul, but tho luttor atill inafsted the baby musy g, and {t was not until tho Conrt physicians proved to the Conaul that the Xizam would prob- ably have his little lite bumped out of him in the long olephant rido that tho former desisted from lis silly demand., Aloanwhilo, it it be ex. pocted that asick baby must be toted seversl wiles on an olephant at the riak of his lite, why should tho great, healthy Princo of Walos decling togoto cortam proviuces in India morsly be. causo thoy have tho cholera ? Mr. Hanus, contractor, has made a public statement with reforence to the awsmp-elm piles which have been carted into the Court- Houso Bquare, instend of the onk and Norway pine slipulated for in tho coutract. Ha gives tho publis assuranco that, so far us ho is concerned, he intends {o strictly exccute his contract. Thisis sutisfactory, but when ho generalizes ha {4 not so watiafactory, * Great works of this kind do not mn smoothly at first ; it takes a littlo time to got everything right,” says Farmor Ianas, This is had ren- soning, Great works should run smoothly at first, and no timo should bo wasted in got- ting things right. 1f the great works don't Tun smootbly at first, there is little hiope that they will run smoothly at the widdle or the end. The colorod paopla of Memphis are warasd by tholr organ, the Planel, of the {mpending penl. It isn’t of, the Whito-Liners, nor of & movemens againat tho colorsd achools. But, worse than sll that, tho clrcus is coming,—‘*the same old how,"—by which ¢ Momphis s to bs caraed and tho colored people called on to foot half the bUL" Tho Planet concludes ita sppeal {o the coiored poople to beware of the clrous with this bit. of pathos: ‘'cachers, tell your pupils, Preachers, fmpress §t on your cougregntion. Fathers and mothers, tall yous? clildron to let this sbow go by, thars will b otherenext year, Aol ers wil b e ‘The caso of Moses B. Wnerrer, s few days Alnce pardaned out of tho Massachusetta State's Prison, afforda n startling illustration of injus- tice wrought through the courts of juatics, for swhich thoro is vo redress. In 1868 ho was cop- victed of sr+on, upon the testimony of bis slster &ud her husbaod, and gontencod- to imprison- ment for life. Tiwo yeare Ister tho sistor, upon her deash-bod, confessed that sho hiad perjured harwelt in tostitying agalnat Wisersn. Korob- Jeet had beon to got bim out of the way that sho raight continue to enjoy tho estate of a deconsed brotber, of which she obtaiuod possession by forged documents, but which had beon left to their mother, This statement, not having been reducod to writing and sworn to, was not avails able for the purpones of a motion for anew trinl. WurELER whs utnblo to securo such presouta- tion of the facts to tho Governoras would secure his pardon, There was the verdict of s jury ran- dered upon the aworn testimony of two witnosses findiog bim guilty. 1t was rolnforced by tho sentouce which tho Court had not sob asido. Aganst this wea tho retraction of one of thoso wltoossos not sworn to, and not ovidence under tho tochnical ralo which ndmits dying declara~ tions only in murder cases,’ So WiEELER way saffered to lio in prison vix years longer, aud might havo beeu kept tnore for lifa but that by some unaccountabls good fortune be succeeded In yocuring an examingtion by the Governor of the evideuce that was ho evidence according to the rules of law. That domonstiated his in- nocetice, and ke was pardoned, For cight years he has suffered paniybmout ag a convicted folon ; now ho i releas:d as a pardoned criminal, though thiore i8 0o qoubt of his innecence ; thero la no legal procoss by whicn to set avido the verdiot agigaet Lim: the brothor-in-law lins disapposred; and for his falso imprisonment lio can bave no redross sgainst the State, e e The somowhat notorious ** Brick " Poxenoz ls once moare in bankruptey. This time the lisbill- ties aro $140,000; assots, nothing, except s sult of clothes adorning tho body of this eminsnd financior, which aro exempt by lsw. * Brick® Poxerox {n times past has make many intarest: ing statementa to the pablio, but the most inter- eating statement he conld make to the aversge man who works industriously day after day, and barely manages to make both onda mest, would beto inform him howho manages toget $140,000 in dobt, without any sssste. It {s writ In the stars that there shall be m third torm, and now the Herald may quit alsrm- ing patriota about Cresarism. Prof. Lierzz is the man who read it, and tho Herald roports him ae having, at Coopor Instituto the other night, caat tho horoscope of Presidont Gmant, and there. from he prodicted that on tho' 4th of March, 1877, it waa decreca that the Presldont’a political atar would forever sot. - What a deal of printer’s ink might have beon spared If the XMerald had cousuited this nstrologor at an earlier day. S e e S Tho now Constitution of Alabams, which ex. rrensly ropudiatos $20,000,000 of the Btate debt, and practically repudiates the remalniug $10,- 000,000, by protubitivg taxation suficiens to pay ioteroat on it, will bo voted on to-dsy. Repudie ation of debts which 1% is Inconveniont to pay scoms eapecially popnlar in the reconstructed South, bouides which tho proposed Conatltution practlcally sbolishos tho free schools, whioh Boems bo add to its popalarity, so that it will nob bo surpaisiog It it b adopted by an overwhelm- ing magority. ——— Repudiation after tho atyle of Alabsma s dis cnesod {u Virginia as & “‘readjastment of the Hiate debt,” to bo consummated st tho approache ing seswion of the Logislaturs, not by repudis- tion,—that isn't the word,—but by *legislative dgplnl of existing obligntions,” The Richmond ‘:"}Rg, which thus gingerly alludes ta the maves There was o timo, not very long ago, when we had an Xclec- tic party ; and somo of the reasons that wero urged to excuse its existonce may bo ndvanced with squat rosaon to justity sn Ecloctic Church. Thero actually is such an organization slowly taking shape {n Towa, Italroady has a hoead; oll it woods to complate its’ oxisteoco {8 mom- bers, 'The Pope of tho Eclectic Church is the Rev, A. P1okeLL. ~ Ho is preparing au Ecloctio Dible, which is being published piccemesl in the Brush Creek Alessenger. What the principal features of this DBible may be, wo lLave no means of knowing ; but 1t is at lesst pecullar in apelling ¢ boly” with two I's, ‘Che Eclectio Tope claims to be infallible. 10 proclaims only & limited pumshiment in the futuro lifo ; denies the doctrine of the Ioesurrection as taught by tho Orthodox Churchos ; rejects tho promisy of the Resurroction of Chrlst; pronouncos bigamy tha doctrine of renaon and rovolation; and enjoins tbe acceptance of tha Eclootio Biblo as the Word of Gud. The Eclecticlom of this sys- tem la ono-sided, end chiefly fitted to sootho and comfort tba Ecloctic Pope. Many features of the plau, howover, are of a natire to merit the spprobation of tho fouaders of tho Eclectio political party, in the Chicago Zvines ofice; and wa suggest u union of tho Eclectic Bow and the EclectioT'ope, with & view to the gounoral ad- vancoment of Lolecticism, Ricwarp Arant Worre s getting to bo in a chironic utate of ill-tempor, simply because sonio of the newspapers bave been poking fun at his mistakes. In the current pumbaerof the Calaxy he 1enencka both thie Greek and Latin lauguages, the English bojug insufliclent, builds up the huge word + Cynicasterisur,” and hurle it at the heads of tho offendjng editors. Dir. Winre makea lumeelf much mors ridiculous with his wrath than with bis slips of the pen. He shouldroflact thats ruau who deliberately weta himself up to remind the world of. its intirmities aod correot its mistakes, and makes publio sdvertisoment that such is his business, has o right to com- plaie whon the world correats his mistakes and makes gentla alluslon to Lis lniirmities. Depre- cating Mr, Rioyann Ouaxt Wurre's wrath, we therefore would remind lim that, in addition to provious mistakes he has made, the manufap. tare of new worda by compounding foreign words is alwaye cousidered by scholers & very gross and valger rhetorical error. We are sur- prwed, thorefors, that, of all men, Mr, Ricizaun Gmant WinTe. » professioual rhetorician, should bave been gullty of a pradtice which Las hereto- toro beeu wouopolized by acrobut and quack ductord, ‘Why not an Eclectic Church ? will not be able to control thio Legislature. eI YRRy T, Tho Western Ponnsylvania Demooratic {nfis ing calanity, and woeps, It saya: If the moneyed power of tha East quccesds fu caps turlng tho (! mucnfilel Natlonal -tonvention aud nominsting a csndidate shat wears New York uniform, tho Weat 18 likely Lo bolt and make wnothsr nominde bayonels e Gy AR R dungor aui GRANT the President for ten years. Is gravely disoussed 1in cortain guariers, and will bo sttonmpted. e Tho complote afiicial roturna in isconsia glvo LuviNaton, Republioan, 843 majority for Governor. Parkor, Demacrat, la electod Lionteoant-Governor by 1,67 majority, sod tht remaipder of the Demacrattc nomineas for Biatt ofices by from 600 to 2,700 msjority. The Re publicans have elected 51 ont of the 100 mem- Dbera of the Axsembly ; tho vote is a tis o opd distnct, and 6 Indspendont, and 43 Demoeratit mombora aro efoctod. i e s < Saveral of the defaated Republican candidates for Congross iv Mississippl, It Is announced, will contest the alection. Of course thoy will bardly oxpoct that the Democratio House .will swsrd thom sonts, but. if they will only introduce etk dence to clear up the mystary of how the White Linors, without intimidation or threats, carried the Htate againgt 0 negro majority of not les 000, thio contestants witl do good publis e Full roturns of the New York election gire Brozrow, Democrat, for Beorelary of Siate, 8 majorlty of 16,480,—wvhich, as compared With TILDEN'S Voto lsst yesr, shows s falhng off from the Deroooratio majority of 34,837 votes. Oute slde the city and county of New York, Suwaan's plurality ovor Bioxzow is 14,091, The canvass hias not beon completed in the city, snd den of- floial roturns may modify slightly DioxLow's mé= Jority. 3 The Now York Frening Mafl asys Whtever elso the late elections hiave shows, thers haa heen one lessan. u‘\:?h: by thew which nnwl“ . . 1o tho result of the local caivase fn this city, BrooXiyn, Chicago, nd other citits, §t bas beed P10 that whed the honest, propertyowing, s peying roputable cliizens of tha community really deforiaios 10 theow off an intolerable. POl ks and 800! 10cal reforia, victory is certain to be thelr recompensa sorvice, e Tho Probibition votoloomed up at Philsdelphle st the late eloction to the extent of 634 votes, 88 told, and tho 034 now enjoy su bundrad-fold the sublime conscionsness of baving shrowa away their voten. g ok Judge Hruy, of the Unlted Btates Diats] Court for Mississippi, has lteraliy nhnnu:m t-h:: complexion of the juries in that Court by L : ing & rule which excindes from 1he pacel all w oannot ruad, writs, and oompute Ioterest. s+ Taght ad & lover's vows " may bo all right as a figuro of speech, Lut it is & Hure that doos not apply sround the Town of Wilmington, Will County, Jil. It wus the young lady who broke them there, all because of the other tallow she liked botter, Just asuhe was on tho evenf manylog taat other fellow the discarded lover spolled their arrangements for bousekeeping by replavyiug the sewlng-machine be Lisd prosonted her, To get eventhen the danisel's ma brought suit agaioat him for board on thoae occaslouu when, daxing Lis conrtubip, he dropped in to fea. But the young msn brought in &8 au offest his bill for time lost in sittlog up a-sparking niglts and Josing & dey's work by sloeplug over —— he purchesing power of green: hl{‘;:.“l‘l:: ::l:“a:l Times ‘-u\n « People st reslly desling with specle valuss, Bell aborse, or & bouss, or lsud,—aud land is next to :nld.l;‘ aud oar word for I, you will be obliged $o nnd BANREY has bren attended by & powsrfal’ tbo atlier day, Of tlics, 306 wers from peaple” ment, clafms, however, that tho repudissionists tion organ, tho Pitiuburg Post, foresoas the come tlou, Thisnay theaw the election ioto the nw‘l‘i ‘