Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 20, 1875, Page 8

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DELPII THEATRE--Dearborn_streel, corner T agement of ths Kiraufy Tronpe,« Aroand the World in hty Days.” Afternoon and evening, SEW CHIOAGO THEATRE—Ciark sirsat, between Raudolpli aud Luke, Engagement of Kelly & Loon's Minstrela, Aftarnoon and ovenlng. WOOD'S MUBEUM—Monroe street, batween Dear- born and Blata * Grifiih Usunt.” Afteraoon aod svenlug. TOOLEY'S THFATNE—Randoiph streat, hetween flark and LaBaile, Eogagement of tho California Migstrels, Afternoon and evening. McVICKER'S THEATRE—Madison street, bstween Destborii and Eate, Engagowent of Jana ' Coomibs, Aftcinoun, * Adricnne the Actras,” Evening, * Int gowar,” IALSTED STRLCET OPERA HOUSE — Halated streat, corucr Hi rrison, MacEvoy's Hlbornlcon, Af- ternoon std aveniug. TARWELL HALL—Madlron street, between Clark and Lagalle, ‘DaQuincy's * Tour of the Holy Land.” Afternoon sud «vening, SOCIETY MEETINGS. ATTENTION. SIR KNIONW’ Chiccgo Commandery No, 14 '~The membera of <are hereby uotifled orner_Halsted and lat- ., Battirday, Nov, at 10 rhorp, i Full uniform, for oscort duty, Siv of slvier Conimu udeeics coriatly fpviied to meet with ug, By order of the Em, Cont. ‘A, WILLIAMS, Recorder. LODGE, NO, 211, A, F, AND A, M.— e heroby notliled (o ssswmblo at’ their X ataryi, (his, Saturdey morniug, to Lall at 10 o take part in the caremonies of laying the corner-atone of the now fual Medical College, : IRUBEN CLEVELAND, W, M. , A, Ty AND A M.—The o’ hereby noified to weet st thelr Hall un Saturday, Nov, 20, st 9:30 n, ., to us- slst in the ceremnony of laying corner-atouo of Rush Mcdical College, By order of GLOKOR NOWISON, W, 3. ATTENTION, SIR KNIGHTS 1-8t, Bernard Com- mandery, No, 83, K, T.: You are requested to appear ot tho Avyium of 8t, Bernard Commandury this (8at- urday) forenoon, at 10:30 o'clocl, for cacort duty, By order. G, W, DARNERD, E. C. APOLLO LODGE, NO, members of Apyllo Lod: The (jfi'bifagn Tibune, Baturday 2Mormng, Novombor 20, 1875. © Greeobacks at tho New York Gold Ex- change yosterdny oponed nnd closed at 873, with soles £ieanwhiles at 874 and 87, I'ull ofiic al returns from all the connties of New Yoris i3tate show s majority for Biorrow, the Democratic candidate for Secretary of Gtate, over Srwamp, Icpublican, of 14,812 4 The eattle and sheep markets were unchanged. One hundred dol- Iars in gold wonld buy $114.87} in green. backs nt the closo, On the ocension of the death of Mr. 1%, T1, Tasron, of this city, n few days ago, it was remarfed that the carcer of this fine speci- men of the self-mado man afforded n valunble example and guide for struggling wayfarers along the road to success. Not loss in death than {n life Mr, Tasron furnishes n noble ox- ample, n3 will be scen hy tho terms of his will, published in another colmnn. After having provided generously for the natural heirs, the will dovises the remaindor of a Iargo fortune to the founding in Chicago of a new charity, such as, in the opinion of tho Trustees named to manage the fund, *“is most needed, and will do the most possible good aud the least harm;” or, in case this disposition of the money is deemed inexpe- dient or undesirable by the 'Prustees, then tho Home for tho Friendless is o ho made tho recipient of the entire bequest, which is estimated at not less than $500,000. Tho extensive raid upon tho gambling. houses organized and successfully excented Inst evening under the direction of Police. Superintendent Hrckey was an event ns gratifying ny 1t has heen unusual of Iato in Chicago. Judged Dby its results, the move- ment appears to bave been planued with great skill and secreey, aud carried ont with promptness and energy. It wasn goodnight's work, and the citizens of Chicago will applaud Snuperintendent Hrcker both for his zenl and cfliciency, He undoubtedly meant busi- ness last night; heshowed what ho could do, Tho Temjperance candidate received 9,832 votes. The total vote of the Stato was 265,574, There is trouble again on the Mexican bor- der.” An organized band of naranders, who had wade a successful cattle-stoaling expedi- tion, were pursucd by a body of ‘L'exas itate troops across the lino into Mexico, where a pitchied battlo occurred, the Woxans getting the best of the engagement, though thoy wero unsuocessful in recovering the cattle. The aation of Chief-Justico Wmire, of Utal, in velensing Beiowaxt Youne from the obligation to pay alimony to Any Eutza, is approvod by Attorney-General Prrumirowt, who is of the opinion that the grass-widow * in question violated the United States statutes in warrying the Mormon Chief, and she can- not therefore avail henself of lor own wrong act and obtain alimony, Ordexs have been issued by Presideut (inant for the consolidation and reconstruction of o large cumber of Intornal Revenue Collection Districts, und designating the Collectors who wre to be retained, Tho effeot of this rear- yaugalsent ix to largely decrease the number of districts and internal revenue officials, and at the samo timo to materinlly reduco the pro- portion of the cost of collection to the amount of rovenue collected. All persons who voted for cither Iock or Keczry in the First Precinet of tho Fwon- tieth Ward should respond promptly to tho call of Mr, JuLwy 8. Ruseey, Prosident of the Twentieth Ward Club, to leave their nmpea at the roows of the Club, corner of Olark and Illinois streets, to-dasy. The judges at this procinet only allowed Huck thirty-six votes, while tho residents of tho ward are firuly convincod that a very much larger number of votes wera cast for hiw. If this can be proved, there will bo a posi- tive evidenco of fraud thut may lead to the vunishment of those who committed it, The question of the cducationnl exhibit to bo mado by Tiinois in the Uenteunial Fxpo. sition {4 receiving the attention of our ost prominent State educatory, aud the hearty iutercut shown in tho matter promises well fora creditable ropresentation nud display. Pursiant to a call isaued by tho State Buper- intendent of Publio Instruction, a well-nte tended meeting of school ofiiclals and teach- o from various parts of the State was held in Chicago yesterday, and a plan was adopted for the presentation of the educational inter- osta of lllinois at the Centonnial, and it was resolved that the sum of 10,000 should bo rafsed through the efforts of teachers for tho purpese of carrying out tho plau. o cem St ‘the Clicago produce markets were fairly potronized yesterdny, Mess pork was in woderste demand, and 6o per brl higher on futures, closing at $19,20 seller the yoar, sud $19.40 for Feb: . Lard was nctive and advanced 7}@10c per 100 ths, closing at $12,00 cnsb, and $12.15@12.17) for Fel- Tuary. DMeats were quict and utemly at 7o for shoulden, 10{e for short ribs, aud 10}@ 110 for short clears, oll boxed. IHiphiwines were quiet ond steady at $1.11} per gallon, Flour was dull end unchanged. Wheat was active and irrogular, closing ot $1.0G} cash nud ¥1.003 for December. Corn wus mod- rutely active and eaaler, cloaing at 510 cash, vud {du seller the year, Oats wero in fair deand and steadler, closing at 80jo caal, and B0je for Docember, Rye was firm ot 68}@U8}e. DBasley was quiet and advanced 1o, elosing tame at 88jo cash, uud 8ho for December, Hogs were In good packing and ahipping Qemand and were shrongs Bulos and justitied the high opinion that is enter- tained of lis ability 8s a polico officer. It is o fine begiuning of o much-needed campaign ngainst the horde of bLlacklegs and blood- stickers who have so long enjoyed immunity from disturbance, Lot it prove to bo but the beginning of what shell be mado a relentless and unromitting war upon the gambling Lells, Tho people want them cleaned out root and branch, and ropeated raids like that of last night will do it. BPECIE PAYMEN'K;;AAND THE DEBTOR ‘Wo have nlready presented to our readers some general observations on the wisdom and jnstice of disarming a large proportion of the people of the strongest objection they enter- tain to a return to speeie payments. Tho ob- jection comes from nn honest sud intelligent cless of people, who have coutracted debts ranging from $2,000 to $10,000, which debts hinve several years yet to ran, and which the debtors hope to have the opportunity to pay in depreciated currency and not in specie valnes. These debts they insist were cpn. tracted when the lawful money wos at a dis- count, and, though they concede that tho power and the duty to redeom theso notes at par aud to rotivo them lave always existed, and that afl contracts were conditionod npon these eircumstances, they claim that for tho differenco botween what they got for their mortgages and tho coin dollar they will be compelled to pay there is a want of consideration. We do not proposo to arguo the legality of that claim, We wish to call the attention of the friends of specic payments to the fact as it exists, that the vast body of men situated as theso are— and weo do not include mmong thom the broken and bankrupt spaculatorsi—do oppose nnd will continie to opposo any schomeo of re- sumption which takes from them the legal right to pay their past debts in money which was legal when those debts were contracted. Apnrt from the strong equities of the case, wo do not beliave it to he wise policy to keep all these peoplo arrayed against & resumption of specio paymonts, especially as specie pay- ments can be resumed at any day by an arrangement whick will leave the equities of debtors and ereditors undisturbad. In the first place, there can be no specio -paytuients until the paper curroncy coascs to Le o logal-tender for new contracts, That must stop at some time, and it may as wall #top now as one, two, or ten years henco, Day atter day, we are going on piling up debt upon debt und contract upon coutract, with 1 sceming inditferonco to tho cortainty that there rust be a day whon specie pay- menty will fall upon us as an inexorable aud inescapablo fact, It can mukes no difference to either ereditors or dobtors, o far as exist- ing debts are concernod, if all new contracts were mado payablo o gold. Tor that event all intelligont nod honest men are prepared, and caro nothing how soon it may be estab. lished, The great objection is in ante-dating specie payment and making it applicable to the debts of the past, A writer, whose lotter wo published gome days ngo, objected to auything less thon an absolute requirement that all existing dobts bo paid in coin, be- onuso creditors who Lad loaned their coin prior to 1862 had been compelled to take papor therefor, Tho ono injustice and op- pression furnishes no apology for its ropeti- tion. The suggestion wo made, which has beon 80 widely commented o, was that the hold. eors of the national currency should be allow- ed toreceive in exchange therofor national bonds ot 4 per cent, or some other low rate of interost, the Londs to run thirty yenrs; and to be legal-tender in tho payment of all debts contracted prior to, say, the 4th of July, 1876, ‘Theso bonda would always be available in the nrkot for those needing them to pay debis with, They would, to the extont of their issue, tako the place of the greenbacks now locked up 88 reserves, The ourrency would continuo in circulation preciscly asnt present, receivablo at par in poyment of all pre-exist- ing debty, and at their valuo in the purchnso of goods. 'The business of the country would bo carried on with ronl values instend of fictitlous onos, Instend of buying cloth ot the numinal prico of ono dollar & yard and poying for it with a dollar worth 85 cents, the cloth would be sold at 85 cents and the dollar would bo taken at its uctual value, The business of Culifornia and tho other Paciflo States 14 done in paper money, which pasies from hand to hand at 1ts ronl fostend of its stamped volue, aud a vast mnount of the business of the Dowmin. iop of Canadu s carried on in our green- backs, which circulate there frocly, ns they do in California, at their actual valye, In the menntime, the busined of the coun. try, relieved of the burden of a legalizod, but nono tho Jess frandulent, currency, will take 4 fresh start. Now books will be open. ed, and, while the adjustment of tho old ac. countsnd indebtedness of the people will rapidly go on, the currency and tho bondy furnishing the means of exclange for thLat purposo, the new business will bo upon o changed systom of values, Tho clement of uncertainty and speoulation will be oxcluded ; the necensity of betting against the proba. ble valuo of dollars ata given day, thisty, sixty, ‘or ninely days in tho futuro, Will ‘no longer exist, aud when men buy they will Luy at pricés in sesl NOVTE URDAY, IBER 20, 1876.—~TWELVE PAGES, dollars, expecting to pay in dollars, Ouce be- gun, the change will rapidly be adopted in every branch of business and occupation. The Gold-Room will close, and the daily bul- letins of tho fluctuntions in the value of dol- lars will be heard no more, Our object, however, is to anggest that all reasonable objections to specie payments can be removed by the fixing of an early date after which greenbacks shall not be o legal- tender for now debts, and leaving the cur- rency eitlier in its present form or in that of alow interest band, to be used as legal-ten- dors in payment of all existing indebtedness, individual or municipal, Let the old dobts bo settled with the cnrrency in which they were contracted, and let the equities of debt. ont nnd creditors bo undisturbed. Thero i no necessity, nor ia there any justice, in requiring that specie payments shall linve & retroaclive effect. What the country wauts i3 to Legin anow, and, once relioved of this confliet between debtor and creditor under the paper systom, the reswmption of specic paymonts might take place at avy time without the least disturbanco of business or credit. SHEPHERD AND MULLETT, ‘Wo should think that Messrs, Surruzan and MorreTr hiod already hnd sufficient waming that the future of the Republican party s in no wiso dependent upon their active co-opern. tion with that body. Those who have the interents of the party most at heart ave per- fectly willing that these gentlemen shall go over to the Democrals, take a trip to Furope, give their undivided atteution to their own business and domestic affairs, aud permit the Ship of State to sail on without the benefit of their advice. They evidently do not yet un- derstand that the American public has not the heart to ask of them any more sncrifices to tho public service. Thoy are still nnder the misapprehension that they 1y coutrib- uto to the suceess of the Republiean party, and perhaps incidentnlly to their own, by their identification with its interests. ‘Their appenrance nt the recent serenade to President Gnant at Washington indicates ns much. Perhaps it is ns well, therefore, that they should bo formally and publicly notified that thoy aro not at all necessnry to the suecoss of the party, and that, as a matter of fact, they can hest serve the party and the publio gen- erally by quictly sinking into the obscurity to which fate and reformn have comsigned them, Snerrern and MULLETT ave cmong the ex- cresences that grow upon any party which is favored with a long tenure of power, 'The ‘Whisky Ring, the Mail-Contract Ring, tho District Ring, the Public-Building Ring,—all belong to the snme category. They aro among the penaltios of party success, They nsually drag down the party with them ; but, fortunately, the honest element of the Ro- publican organization prevailed in time to save it from the fate to which the schemery and speculators would have consigned it. The criminally guilty are to be punished, and those who escape this extremity but have fastencd themselves upon the public servico a4 lecchies must give way to the general clearing-out, Sueruenp and MuLLcrr are to bo classed nmony the latter. They have been dropped in bad odor, and it is sheer im- pertinence in them to foist themselves upon public notice. Messrs. Surraenp gud MULLETT may insist upon making public exhibitions of them- sulves when they are in no sense connected with publie life ; there is no law to prevent it. But if thoy would retaina spark of pub- lic respect, and if they have any genuine in- terest in tho continued success of tho Ro- publican party, they will accept the situn- tion and retire from public life, or join the Democrats and do what they can toward idontifying themselves with that party to share its succesa if it ever comes. ‘They may rest assured that they will never get any more pap out of the Government from the Republicun party, nnd, if they become thoroughly satisfled of this, they will bo content to let it alone, This is & cousumma- tion devoutedly to be withed, ARE THERE TWO GROBVENORS P In the New York Iferald of Wednesday last thero sppeared n three-colnmn communica- tion from Col. W, M. Groavexon, adorned with some stunning hend-lines, such as tho following : *‘The Whisky Ring™; “W. AL Gnosvenon's Ixpose of Its iso, Progress, and Destruction ”; *McKee, McDoNALD & Co, as ‘Friends of the Administration'"; “Shameless Pablio Thisves,” cte., ete. In thia article Col. W, M. (nosvenon (of New York) appears in the role of a noble Buuzos, —n paragon of publio virtue protesting oigainst the enormities of the Whisky Ring in S$t. Lonis, laying bare tho scerot springs that ruvenl tho modus operandi of the Ring, expos- ing the tortuous windings of the *grape. vino," and fulmninating bolts of wrath st the couspirators, ‘* Ba ready, gods, with all your thunderbolts, dash them to pieces,” cries our modern Bruros—-Col. W. M. 'Grosvexon (of New York). The Jlerald editorially in. dorses Buutus Guosvexor (of New York), vets him up on a very handsome podestal, and comnments on the sad state of things do- veloped in his disclosures. Thisis all right and proper on tho part of Col. W, M, Gnosve. non (of Now York), It was his duty to ex- pose frauds and corruptions, but, sinco read- ing his fenrless denunciation, the testimony in the McDoxawup trinl at $t. Louls brings out a Col. W. M. Grosvenon (of 8t. Louis), who doos not seem to bo a BroTug, and we aro o littlo confused boetwoen Col. W. M. GoosveNon (of New York) who i3 o Bnutus, and Col. W, M. Guosvevon (of 8t, Louis) who s not o Bruros, Who is who, and which {8 which? In tho testimony of DBan- wrr I, Exoxike, o rectifier, appears the fol- lowin, Iu thewe conversatious, LeavEnwonTa told me that, in 1871, the Ring-men wors Cox Mrasug, McDowaLy, Jovox, McKxe, Fomp, and somebody outslde from whom they got {nformation, Thls fuforwmation was geuerally very corvect, Hubscquent to J67J, the Ring, s T acertalued by those couversations, was composed of MoDoNatw, Jovex, Lveues®, Firzuor, CONGAN- oy, MoKex, Maouisr, Paimios, Nxwcouy, aud Onosvixon, T understand that GoSVENOY recelved 1,000 10 “let up® on Maoums uhout the tie Maourse oxpected tho pominution for the Mayoralty, ‘The money was Mot ‘‘rafied,” but Jovce told me fio pid It blmeelf, T Lelleve Guoavsyon did Jot up accordiugiy, as the Oles of tho Lemocrat will show, 1did not undaretand how much McDoXaLp recelved, Ceugers aud Blorekeopers ware gouerally pald by the distillerios whore tbey worked, vo much on the barrel, From this it appears that Col. W. M., Guoa- vexon (of t, Louis) was & member of tho Ring, whother in the contra of tho charmed cirelo or morely hanging on the rugged edgo isnot stated, It appears further that Col. W, 3. Grosvenos (of 8t Louls) recelved 1,000 for *letting up"” ou Macvine, 4 momber of the Whixky Ring, when ho was running for Mayor, 1t farther appears that the nioney was paid by Joxce, now doiug the State some service, aud temporsrily absont from society inthy “oathodral alsles” of the Missouri Penitontiary, wharo * the cryatal waters™ do o not seflest ' the oak and ths sycamors,"” and thero nre no *‘ gentle Lreezes and bivds ™ to mako * merry music.” From this dunl condition of things it be- comes interosting to know who is who? I Col, W, M. Grosvexon (of New York) Col. W. M. Groavevon (of 8t. Louin)? Aro thn two GrosviNons who aro W. M.' amd Col- onels, ono of whom is n Brorvs and the other not, ono in New York and one in $t. Louis, ono and the samo? 'The ono in Bt. Lonis does not appear to havo any resemblanco to Buutvs, We bave looked the fulmination of tho one it New York carofully through, and find no mention of the little 81,000 tranenc. tion. Unfortunately there ia no Cox in the name of either which might help to fix the identity. Will the Col. W. M. Grosvryon (of New York) kindly riso and explain whether he iu the Col. W. AL (nosvexor (of St. Louis)? It may bo possible there are two of them,—that the one in New York did not get £1,000] and that the one in Now York did not issue tho Herald fulmination. If Col, W. M. Grosveson (of 8t. Louis) did get S1,000 for *letting up,” he ought at onee to say whether he wroto the fulmination, and if Col. W. M. Gnosvizon (of New York) in really n Bruzus and a paragon, he ought at onee to any whether he *let up " for §1,000, So long ns this confusion exists thero fu a possibility both Colonels may sulfer. Tho New York Colonel may suffor a thousaud dollars' worth of prestige as a Brutus, and tho 8t. Louis Colonel may have the imputa. tion of being a hypocrite in addition to his reputntion as o munipulatorof * grape-vines,” given to it by the rectifier, ANOTHER TAX. Tho Boston Journal of Commeree, in tho Inyt half of the nineteenth century, lamonts tho provision in the Constitution which pro- hibits a duty on exports, 1t insists that tho Government should not tax its own peopla whon by an export duty forcigners conld bo compelled to do s0, The misfortnno iu that we cannot compel foreigners to support our Ciovernment, and an export duty is the wenk- est possible mensure to bring abont that re- sult. Such a tax wonld Le another twist in the grent protection scheme of torture, We now have & toriff which, in its opers- tions, nmounts to a heavy export duty. All our cotton and other agricultural produce iy enormously taxed. Wa raiso a surplus of cot- ton, brendstuffs, and provisions, which wo sell abroad. On all the return goods we have topay & tax amounting in currency to an nverago of 60 per cent. To the producer it mnkes very little differenco whetlier tho Gov- ernmout confiscates ona bushel of grain out of three, or one pound of cotton out of three, at the place of export, or takes an equal amount out of thio commodities for which tho cotton and breadstuffs aud provisions be ex- changed. In both cases, our productions bo- ing surpluses, which we have to el at the world's prices, the producer pays the tax, and as o matter of fact it can mako no dilferenco to Lim if one-third of his production be taken boforo salo or one-third of the proceeds bo taken nfter sale. To tho producer the salo would yield just the same,—he would sustain the same robbery in cither case. It is possible that under an exclusive ox- port tax the country would escape much of tho extortion of protection. Under an ex- port tax, the producer would only have to pay o tax on what he actually exported, while nnder the protection system he is sub- Jjocted to the same extortion on that portion which he sells at home as upon that which ho sells sbroad. Now, howevoer, this Boston papor mildly suggosts that, were it uot for the mistaken prohibition of an export tax, Congress could supplement tho protec. tivo taxation with a tax on exports, Then indeed womld every American, according to this Borton editor, sit under his own vine and fig-tree, and behold the sublimo speotacle of the peoplo of other lands paying his taxes, supporting the Indian Ring, subsidizing rail. ronds, building canals, and, it amny be, pay- ing our national debt and redoeming our greonbacks. THE CENTRAL AMERICAN REPUBLICS, The Envoy representing the epublics of Gnatemala and Ban Saivador at Washington has communicated to the Now York Herald the details of a plan for combining and con- olidating into one Government tho five inde. pendont Republics of Guatemala, San Salva- dor, Monduras, Niearagna, and Costa Rica. This is 8 movement thoroughly in keeping with the spirit of the times, which encour- ages the enlargement of politicl power and cornmercial dominion by the consolidation of intorests that are naturally and geographi- oally identical. The unification of Italy and Gormany was prompted by this spirit, and it followod a similar manifestation in the suc- cessful resistance in this country of the at- tempt to divida the United States of Amorica. The community of interosts is nowhere moro pronounced thun in Central Amorics, and the States that aro now independont should un- doubtedly bo united by at least a Fedoeral boud, which will givo thom n position and influence that they canuot comwmaod when acting sopurately, and which will be in tho interest of cconomy of administration and tho growth of their commerce, When Central America was Bpanish terrd- tory, it was governed as ono great province stretching from the Isthmus of 'Fehuantepeo inexico to that of Panama. A Captain-Gen- eral was placed over tho province, which was further subdivided into depurtments cor- responding to the present independont Ro- publics, 'The first independuvit Governmont was a Pederation of these provinces, but tho radical idea of liberty had been gencratod awong the peoplo under Spanish oppreasion, and thoy thought thoy were not freo until each dopartment had an entirely distinet and separato Government of its own, ‘Thus oue country, geographically, comniercially, and in the character of its people, became divided into five, which Lave ovor since undertuken to play prominent parts in history, maintain lurgo standivg manies, and endure the ex. ponses of fiva Governmonts instead of one, What would bave been s hoalthful spirit of emulation under o friendly confedoracy, liko that which prevails among the differont Btates of the Awmerican Unjon, los ofton do- generated into a petty rivalry thut has led to warfare of an internecino character. Intrigues and jealousies have cramped the entorpriso and retanded the industrial progress of all the States ; enterprises huve boen underteken to which tho resources of no one of thom alone was equal ; and the result has besna turbu. lent and unseltled condition of saclety, often bordering on outlawry, and gonerally steened in bankruptoy, nud the object of contempt, oucroachniont, and fusult from other nations. For soms tinio past a more friendly focling has prevailod amoug the Central American “States, and it 1y thought that the scheme for unification bas now sowe chance for success, Such a consolidation would be in tho interost not only of the Central American Statca thom- selvos, but of the whole commoercial world, and particularly of the United Btates. There would then bea fale prospect for the coms plotion of at lemst two of the schemes for uniting tho Atlantic and Pacitio, one Ly eannl and ono by rall. A nnited Government could command financial assistanco which no ona of the Central Ameriean Itepublies alone can hope to get after the experienea cnpital- ists have had with them, At least ono of the threo projects for an interoceanic ship-canal will be probably completed, and most likely that ono which shall commond iteelf to the beat judgment of those who must furnish the monay for construeting it. Meanwhilo thero will ho a common interest among the fivo Stalos to redice expenses, oncourngo im- wigration, increnso industry, and enlargo heir commerce, all of which will contribute to their own welfare and the benefit of com- meyca overywhere, Tt is to bo hoped that thin Foderal movement will take n practical and promising shaps. WHAT THE INDIANS COST U8. Tho accounts of the Tudian Bureau, pub- lished in 'T'ue Trinuse of yesterdsy, liavo o certain enrious interest, Somo of the items aro peculior. ** Vaceination " cost the coun- try $13. When the necessary cxpenso of hauling the vaceino matter—on tho McCany plan—200 miles on a road that moasures 100, has been dedscted from tho £13, we fear the virus Ieft was not suflicient to produce a very marked eficct upon the systems of tho 212,921 Tdinns under the eare of tho Bu- reau. Wao are somewhat puzzled by the en- try of £140,153 “to promote civilizntion of Indians. ‘This ia at tho rate of 19 cenls per wavage, What permanent result has 19 cents’ worth of civilization upon a brave, or a pap- poose, or a squaw ? We should like to sean detniled statement of the expenditures for the promotion of ecivilization. To ba sure, 19 conts would buy =n modicum of kinnikinick, and TrAcKERAY ways that tho nse of tobacco makes men “monstrons well-bred”; but the Indinus have probably not been civilized in this way. ‘This mystorious item does not includo any part of the cost of schools, for this is cata- logued elsewhere. It can searcoly refer to religious instruction, for this is given in the schools, and besides a goodly share of the Agents are ministers, and their salaries shonld cover the expense of an occanionsl sermon, Their Christian zeal is well known. Thus deprived of any tenable hypothesis as to the means of civilization for which the nation paid $10,453 in the yonr ending June 80, 1875, wo aro forced to ask for iuformntion. Could not a few of the savages who have been blessed with nincteen conts' worth of civilization apiece be exhibited to n curious public ? Those for whose vaccina- tion we have generously puid $13 should bo relacted. There ia a goneral vagueness about tho accounts. Thus wo have “‘ agricnitural improvements," $24,4 ** ngricnltural nnd miscellaneous,” $262,516 ; and ** miscellnne- ous,” $170,314, It we divide the second item into two equal parts aud nllot oneto each hending of the eaption, we find that ag- ricultural improvements for the Indians cost the country 324,472, and sgricultural casays, which were not improvements, cost it $131,- 168, This leaves ua 01,472 for * miscel- Inneous,” which ia surely enongh to cover a choico miscellnny of sins, Butof twenty. cight items on the telographed schodule, no Icss than eloven nre for saluries and exponses of employes. Thoy can bo tabulated as fol- lows : Pay of Superintendents and Agonts Tay of Special Agenls, Pay of Hub-Agents Tay of interpreters 1ay regular Agency empi Fay lemperary Agency erple Tay ond expenres Inapectors. Inipection of goods and suppics, Travellng eXPensos.,...siuee s Travellug oxpenses of Bpecial Agents, $ B2,800 10,945 1,000 'y not includo any of tho running exponses, re- pairs, cto., of tha Agoucies. It amounts to 1goro thau 20 per cent of the cost of the pres. cnts, the medicines, the medieal supplics, tho annuity goods, and thoe subsistenco stores distributed to the * wards of tho uation.” Anothier unplensaut feature of the nccowmit is an item of §3588,668, which is enterod ns “not nccounted for by Agents.” A firm which was intrusted with 4,000,000 worth of goods to distribute, and could only man- age to do o by paying ita employes 20 per cent of that amount and allowing another 20 por cont to remain in their hauds unac- counted for, would not be considered a model of business eapacity or honest dealing, One of the most progrossivo acts of modern civilization was the adoption of the inter- national postal service, whereby o person re- sidling in nuy part of tho world—that is within tho tewritory of any of the contracting nations—could mail it at tho place where written and havo it carried to its destination, with or without the propaymont of postage, and at tho rate of G cents, which rate hns since heon roduced to 5 cents, The treaty aléo mnado thy further wiso rogulation that, instead of complicnted accounts and sottlo- ments botween netions, tho postage should bo rotuined by that Government in whose dominions it was pnid. Thns, it a letter bo niniled in California for a town in Germeny or Ruesis, tho wholo postage, if paid in Cali. fornin, is retained by the United Slatea; but it collectod at tho destination, the postage bolongs to the German or Russian Govern. ment, The service so far has been profitable to the United States, ny it is ofiiclally an- nounced that of the whole postages ou for- eign lotters to and from tho United States, during the year ouding Juno 50, 1875, §783,385 was paid in the United States and $195,965 in foreign countrics, showing an excess in favor of the United States of 8183, 400. Under the uniform rate of postage, the number of lettors to and from all parts of Europa is on tho increase, Alr. Cox Mearuz, who was the St. Louis cashier of the Whisky Ring, and whoso testi- mony has finplicated fonr others besides him. selt in the employ of the Governinent,— MoDovaLp, Jovce, Aveny, and the docensed Colloctor Ionp,~has published a cand in which ho says that he has no knowledge whatever of the implication of Baucocx, Opvoue Gnant, Casey, Dovorass, Hovr, Luokey, or any of the Washington ofiicers excopt Avery. OF course this statoment has o valuo only so far ss Meorur's porsonal Lnowledgo goos, but there are certain ciroum- stonces which would soem to give it force, Ouo is that the numes of these persons bave boen Lronght into the scandal in an indirect way, sud thero has been no testimony whioh would convict thom as members of the Ring. Apother is that, whilo Jovox and MoDoxALd moy have divided their sharcs with others unknown to Mzonuk, he. was cerfain. ly in & position to bave & wider ruuge of information than any others except McDoxarn and Joxor. It is also fair to preswmno that Mgzonve, after testifying sgaiust men so prominent as Joxce, MoDox. LD, Aveay, Foap, and MoKex, had deter- mined to make a olean bresst of it, and tell all be Xuows. It is, therefore, proper that theso persona should bo held guiltless unless thero in direct evidonce against them. Au outspoken vindication of the South from the imputation genorally put upon it to the effect that it favors inflation is offered by ex-United States Bonator Mirren, of Georgin, in an opon letter to Henator Bayanp, in which ho claims that tha Southiern peopla havo beon nusrepresented iy this nattor. Antong a nun. ber of excellent rensons which Mr, Mitirn given why the South does not favor tho far. ther dilution of an irredcemablo eurroncy is the recent expericnca of the Southern people with this kind of n eurrency, which hns thught them that no words or Government stanp on a pieco of paper constitutos monoy, and that n Governnient promise to pay, like that of an indivilual, is worth only what the actual chances of payment in gold are worth, Another characterintio ronson which he says deters the Southern peoplo from favoring an adilitionnl iksuo of paperis their hereditary doctrina that the powerd of tha General Gov emment whould bo strietly defined and lim- ited. "'ho Sonth passed through the ordeal of flooding tho country under the Confedoracy with worthless aud irredeeinnble paper cur- reney, and, with that experienco well in mind. Mr. Mirize says there is no disposition to re- peat it. Tho Tweep case seoms littlo nearer trial than beforo tho last decision of the Court of Appeals, which wag hatlod 88 making an end of tho dila- tory proceodings by which tho Boes Las pro- vonted ity being brought to trisl. 'Lhiat decision -—mado aftor months' delays, whilo (he potnt was being earried from court to courl that it might bo roached—rvas that tho trisl was not to be put oft until the great defondant wos furnisbed an temizod nccount of all his stealings in dotail, the avidonco of which ho had destroyed, Thoro- on tho caso was remanded to tho court Lelgw for trial ; but not to be tried. ut least not until it has bean again carricd through all tho courta on auother series of motiona which have al- roady been mado by TweED'S counsel, Whothar tho easa will over got to trial obvionsly dopeuds upon tuat very uncertain question whether it is poesiblo to oxhaust tho fnvolous defenses with which our enlightonod system of jurisprudoncs arma overy roguo whoso steslings have boon big enough topay lawyers' feos. Porhaps by tho timo TwErp has passed away and boen for- potton, whilo bis hieira continue to put off tho trinl of the claim pRainet his ostate, it msy oc- cur to the groat publie, which bas boon pounng out its tndignation upon tho conrta tor procosd- ing sccording to tho lnw instead of making lnw to fit particular cases, that it 18 sesson somo rational mode of judiclal procedurs should bo sdopted whereby cases will bo tried upon thelr morits. and a final decision roached somoe time within 8 decado after thoy aro commonced. Mr. Breeneny WestoN HEALY, the pseudo art- eritic, who hes 8o porsistently forced his slander- ous articles on Amercan sculptors upon tbe Zuropean and Amorican art public, hes at last met with his roward, and tho rovard s of such & character that the public will probably not suffer from any more of bls tirades, It will bo re- memberod that ho haa sttacked nenrly all the promnivent American scuiptors in Italy, among them Brony, Muang, and Haupier Hosyer, o & sarlesof articles which ho caased to be published both in Itajian and Amcrican newspapors, tho burden of thieso attacks belug that theso acalp- tors wero really taking credit for work dono by hired Italian worimen., Thedo nttacks have been kept up porsistently for over & year, and st last one of the ngaiieved parties, aud one of tho least koown, brought a euit for lbel fo the Tomsn courts, which haa rosulled in the serious penalty of two weoks' imprisonmont aud a fluo of 1,000 fruncs ageinst Mr. Heawr, whilo Guoriaupr, the marble-catter, who, sc- cordiog to HeAvLy, really designod tho Meivk monument to Lixcory, and under his advice brought suit against Meipz, has bad his case thrown out of court sod baen compelled to pay tho costs, The result of theas trials will ba to supprecs Mr. IIEary and his friend the marblo- cutter. American artists will henoeforth be per- mitted to purae their professions unmolestod by theso two libelers. Tho dedioation of a monument to Epoan A. TPox at Baltimoro a few days ago was in soma of its aspects a sative upon the old theme—the emptiness of famo. Pom wna a man who had shown mors geunino postio senability than anv American of modern timea; who was to Americs what Huertey wea to Eogland; and yet the project of & monument to his memory oould ox- cite the interost and sympathy only of a faw in~ coaosidorable persons. Mr. Q. W. Cnmiips, of Philadelphia, {ho montion of whose name sug= gesta professional philanthropy and monument- making, was tho principal financial support of tho movemeut. Tho poet of the occasion was WizLiax WiNten, of the Now York Z'ribune, who conjured up only suoh sober statements of fact #8 that ** glory's icy breath™ was *:chil}," and **with dewa of grief our eyoa ars dim.” The monument was crownod with flowers by Mra. Jaugs A. Oares, a comio opers singer, The mockery of grief and faleo sentiment could no farther go. Not a peraon of mote took active part in thoproceodingy. All the Americsn poots prayed to bs oxoused; and the speaking snd reading for the occssion woro dlspensed by & fow profossional clocationists. In one of his rocont discoursos at tho Brook- lyn Rink, Drother Moony made the following somowhat startling statoment: * Supposo that Prosident GrRANT or some ather politician should dio suddenly, there wonld be commotion and distress through the whole conutry, yot in Heav- on it might not be known at all " Apatt from some vory grave doubts which will exiut as to Brother Moopy's authority to declare what will or willnot bo knowa in Henvon, if thisis his roal beliof ns to what may occur 1 case of the doath of a publio ofticer or eomo dther politiclsn, 1s it not hue plain duty to lay eloge to thoso public ofticora at oncoand convort thom ? Thera Iy no telling the incatimable blesstngs that might on~ sue it he and BAxKEY were to kuddenly appear amang the Washington politicians aud com- mo ico ovangelizing then, Thp flold is white for tho harvest, why doos L not enter in and roap ? Now that a Damoczatic House ju about to assem- ble, tha wholo country would rejoico to seo Moopy and Baxnky wrestliog with thom and bringing thorm to a sosltzing senge not only of their heavenly but also of their oarthly duties. —————— The Comumlttoa appointed by tha New Orleans {ndignation moating to dsmsod the rosignation of the Prwcunaox School Board, which catab- lisied the mized soboots, bave resigned. Ina published card, in whioh thoy recommit tho whol matter to tho people, the mombers of the Committoo stato sa thelr rosson for resigming that tho Btato Boperintonaent of Hehools invited them to appesr bofore the Btate Board and pro- duce tho avidonco {n support of tho charges by thom mado againet mambers of the New Orleans Board. To be ssked to prove what they had charged was all too wmuch for the fudignant mem- Lors of the Indigustion Commitise, aud they ine contineutly resignod. And now the flurry over tho nigger in the publio schoolas neams dying out, and can only bo revivod by remarkably ili-timed and ill-tempored action of ths Behool Board, which, now that thoy bave osrrisd the main point, 1a not to be anticipated. —~— The ways of Bouthora editors aro past finding out. There ara two lu Bodulis, Mo.. who Lave made fools of themuulves. The oneis Dr. HuLr, oditor of the Democrat; the other, J. West Qoop- wiv, editor of the Hasoo, Tho two mes in the stroet the other dsy, The Bazoo mau mede s faco at the Denocrat man, The latter told tho Ziazoo man he bad better uot insult bim on the street. 'Cho aioo men then rushed up to the Dencorat man, seized bim with both srs aboat the walst, throw him down and was sbous to eat him up) when be found shat $he Jenocrdl maa Lad drawn & dagrer. Ths Bamo man theran, 1ot go and loft tho scens of conilict, and nn::: wan liiet, a8 usually havpous wheu two Southery editora got at each other. Y In Naw Yark. at tho last eloction, 5,802 voten, throw away their ballots by canting them for Prohibition caudidatos. The only Poreeptible ronlt was o Inaurn tho dofex of govarsl Repatx llcm_ candidatos for the Logietature, and e olection of tho Demacratio wominees, Wiy don't they vote tho Democratle tiokot straight 7 i tho quontion now auggontod, 3 to which the Now York Times nnyn: That 11 alvoraten of the tampora gearn gast Tioon F3ing 1060 L4 fatede of sooparle? Enatlc patty {n n fact which £ wamld bo Impossitle 1y dety, and equally fniposible 43 explain, What syne patliyin there between the Lemocratio pacty and i rohibitionistn? The sympalsy of repulaion—noty. {ugg clse, Tho ruuse of omperance n by 0o mescy daacto Demoerats, 'Tha nvaraga Tiominerat. in ooy citlen would rather t: the pledga, ¢ AKO 8 (i of TN any day thag RS The eolored voters of Louiniana cannot une derstand how the White-Liners, who conceded thiat thoy were In & minnrity of abont 25,000, yet clnimed Minsisnippt by nbout 4,000 majority af the lnte eloction, Approhending that the ko may hiappon (n Louloina if noaction bo takey to guard againat it, thoy havo published n call Tor & convention of all catored votors, to by hely at Now Orleans on Manday next, to tako sucl, action ag will nliny tho fonrs of {ho wesk aug timid, and ctilize their moans “to realize they own strength practicaily.” Rt it - R Tho pedestrinu match batween O'Teany and WeetoN was tto prevalling thome of discupsion ostorday on tho Board of Trade, and thore Ay moro batting on tho resolt of tho raco tusa on prices in tho oata, rye, or barloy ringa. Torty. nataly thiz atylo of gambling ia not projudl:ial to tho commanity nor to tho businoss roputstion of thocltv. It would bo s comsummation de- voutly to bo wishiod it all tho gambling on the Board woro confined to man and horse racey, s e o Y The conviction of the Whisky-Ring thievey moves tho Springfleld (Maas.) RepubHean to this vigorons utteranco of a sadly selt-ovident truth; ALltitndea of poople cansider that thare I nat ,criminal in robhlng or dofraudfng tho uuvmuf':.'z'-', ‘c1pocially when 1t Governmont, like ours, i & i ternal” ane, If it Janot of this paternal charactor 1t {8 n tyranny, and tho Lahor Roformers. destary fhiah sll Govornmehta aro tyranalcs, and vhould Lo put own, —_——— Tho official returns of tho Minnesots elaction rivo PiLessuny, Ropublican, 12,018 majority for Governor ; GiLriLuaN, for Bapreme Judge, rae caived 12,680 majority, and tho remainder of the Ropublican ticket was electod by msjorities Tanging from 6,000 to 12,000, J. B, Fargo, of Detrolt, {s at the Tremont. Edgor T. Hill, of New York, ia at the Tremont, You Moltke bns colobrated his soveniy-ifih birthday. © Prof. A. T. Kecklor, of Oincinuatl, i& at the Tiemont, . Gon. E. J. Epstoln, of Now York, isattte Sherman, Tho Hon. Lyman Elmore, of Brookivn, jsat the Pacifie, Tho Ion. J. C. Thorpo, of Eau Ciaire, s at tho Troment, Tho Rev. R. H. Pullman, of Now York, uat tho Bherman, Dr. L. A. Brewer and H, J, Kiog, Indlan Com- missionors, are at tho Pacific. 5 Tho New York Commercial Advertiser wanisto 8ay, but does not, that, when famiel's father waa *“quietly in-urned,” he bocame a at-urn-iuo follow. That is n mero ghost of & joie. Bankey was a whiaky Gaugor. Lucky for him Jio Lias n botter boart, olse ho might now bein 1ai), instead of in Brooklyo—which is all the differonco botwoen perdition and paradise. In anewar to a quostion, we sla‘o that tha conjunction of Satura snd Mars, in 1tight Ascen- sion, will ocour at 8 minutes past 10 o'clock in the evening of Bunday (to-morrow), Chicago moau time. Mars will then be 13 mioutes of arg south from Batusn, Mr. Henry C. Bowon aunounces in his papet that as one of the founders of Plyzionth Church Yo i raluctant to Jeave it, but the oventa of last spring will probably require hiwm. whilo wtills momber and pew-holder, to sttend worap fut tho most part elaowhere. Judgo Van Brunt, of New York, will provably tender his resigoation, snd never roturn to the city. Tho resignstion seoms a mattor af no- cesulty, since his rocont marriagg kv in flat con- tradiction of the decres by his own court grante Ing bis firet wife hor divorco. Moody prenched in & Unlitariin clurch ia Northfleld, Mass., soveral years sco, aud his thome was tho atoning blood of Chi Aftor tho sorvico the pastor said to hi I blood has no more to do with va thun tha blood of & chicken,” and tha ehooked wvanjoliut hat ot alnce preached in a Uaitarisn churet. “Tho pedostrian market on "Cliazgo was largels attondod yosterdsy, snd trading was brisk, ‘fuo only diffioulty ia tha way of doing: a really larze ‘business was the fact, 88 & Codkuoy rematkel, that mosc of the operators wapted to iu-West-0a O'Loary, o8 ho had o “put” st 33 above the stcall " of bis opponent ; sud the market touded strongly upward (and ouward). Mianie Rosne, the unfortunate girl who com mitted suicide in Now York last wook, weta ni tivo of Virziuia, and a member of & notod I 13 V. Sho ran awsy from homo about six yeurs ngo, with tho avowed purposo of beginuwg 8 lifoat shame. Tho sistor threw hemelf from the window of a hospits! in Ualtimore, and ws anstantly Jolled. The tragio fats of Minule 18 well known. A Boston oculist has mado sa_ozamination ot tho eyos of several wtudious Freuhmon ot Am- Lerst Colloge, and intends watching then close Iy uctll the end of tholr collego coursa. e Liopos to galu in this mannor some valusble io- formation =8 o the offect of conataat study upd the eyesight. Ifo will :ba provosed it soms of ‘hie studions Freshmen should tura out rojstor 1ng Boulora. . ‘fhe following * Odo to the Iiine Wind appoora in the Burlingtou Hawkeye 33 originaly but it rosds awmazingly like Joaguiu diliert «Ob, tho blizzard, tho besutiful Llizzirds froezlog a fellow from oar-tip to jzzard ; wakig Diis faco s .bluo an & wizard, chilliny the lif- blood that flows from hiy gizzard; blowivé suowing ; cold aa e lizard ; gt up avd get out of this, boautitul blizzard."” s "Thio whisky trisls at 5t. Louls diselogo that the {avorite name bestowed wupon chiliran v uuli cityls *Con." Itueems to be almost univordd nmong the first famities, There ts Cou Megrud Con Counon, Con Maguire, snd, wo '“”m:v Con McKee, Con MoCullagh, Con Mebonsld) *Flie prosocution insists there waa & cnugnlrltr"- ombracitg & number of confidontie! contributy to tho pool, but this noods conflrmativh. ¢ Lord Darnloy, the Xnglish laodiord who a.rm;:h. 10 presorve the npirit of Yeudsllsm by ojecting tenant of twenty-threo yoary’ atandiog Im"_lk o eatato, has made himealt tho lmsumu-flmm all Kugland. Aftor breaking with bis ouaul s ‘acoount of tome militta-dlsagroemeut Lo n:u . gized to (Lo tenant and to the militis, 8D: I“ “forgiven by tho latter but not by tho lor:nu“- ‘Even the staid London Tyncs pokes fun & ‘humbled Lord. James Parton authoritatively denl:s xhal-t:: concorning tho travafor of real extate Le : e Denjamin Praaklin aud his son st the brou o4 out of tho Revolutionary War M. h:m seys: “Amanless capable tuss Dt F’l‘l:‘ s «of the prudoatisl baseness ateributed lta" ‘:o i ths wtory pover existed.” Dr. Fraukl fl:n according to Mr. Parton, uever raiuh e Amorica aftor the War, and could nott heur s havo bosn heard quareoliog with bls (SHECC Pounsylvavis ml)fi:q-lnu a3 related by lous chronleler. “'lmhuu committes of New York lcntlm‘::" : charge of the faosral of poer Bdmm,‘l“ T gllak aoton; reveived & chesk foz 83,109 {1