Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 18, 1875, Page 8

TIE: CIIICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, _— DEC EMBER 18, 1875.~TWELVE PAGES. TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. BAYRS OF SUNRCRIPTION (PAYANLR TN ADYANCE). Fontnge I'revatd at this O Datly Fitlon, poet-pald, § sear..., Parta of oar at ra; Mailed 1o any addrres FOUR WERXR for.. Doy LaNans Thtorary o seftele . T WERKLY XDITION, POSTEAID, Oneeopy, per year. Club of i The postage Is 13 centx year, which we will prapay. Specimen copies sent fres, To prevent delsy snd mistakes, ba sure and give Tnat-Ofice addroan i full, fncluding Stateand Connty. Itemittances may bs made either by draft, express, Post-Ufice ardar, or In registared letters, at our risk. TFRIUS 70 CIrY SUASCHI Daily, delivered, Snnday excepted, Dauly, delivered, Buanday fneluded, Addresn THE TRIBU Carnar Madison and Dearbors ; COMPANY, Chleago, T T AMUSEMENTS, NIUW CHICAGO THEATRE—Clark sireet, between Randolph aud Lake, Kelly & Leon's Minstrels, Aftar- noon aud evening., ADELPUL THEATRE—Dearborn Mouron. oveniug. streel, cormer Variety entertajoment, Aftermoon and HOOLEY'H TITEATRE—Randolph airest, between Clark and LaSalle, Califurnis Minsirels, Afternoon 4nd evenlng, MoVICKER'S THEATRE—Mad{son strest. betwsen Dearborn aud Blate, Lingagement of Miss May How- ard, Afternoon, “ Ilnated Down.* Evaning, “The New Aagdalen,” ‘WOON'S MUSEU: ‘porn and State, snd evening. oet, Detwoan Dear- Cabin,™ Aftarooon ncle To: FARWELY, TTALL—Mafteon strset, batween Clark aud Lasulio, Lecturo by Judge H, N, Magulre, Bub- Joct, % Thio American Wonderland,” he hiage Tbune, Saturday Mornmg, Docomber 18, 1875, WITH SUPPLEMENT. Greenbncks, at the New York Gold Ex- change yesterday, opened at &7 and closed at 873, The weather pmélioslicnl;r‘_ thinks that southerly winds oud warmer weather will prevail hereabouts to-dny. M. Leox Sax, French Ministor of Finance, persists in his determination to resign, and ths Ministerial crisie continues in conse. Yience, The rato per pound of fat Iilinois steers yeaterday touched tho lowest point known for twelve yoars in the New York live-stock warkat, The total number of killed aud wounded by the awful dyuamito esplosion nt Bremer haven is now estimated at 200, TroMrroN' wifo, now at Dresden, i believed to ba in. nocent of auy complicity in hor husband's cnme. PlymO\\th_()L;\lr;IFIAh (‘A\\m\ng disposed of Dencon Wear's letter by placing it on fillo— that is, by burying it forever. In Mrs. MovL- TON'S cago, a leiteraninsivo was ndopted pro- posing an Advisary Council of churches, to Lo held Jan, 11, and to determiue cerlain pline, questions of rule nod di Nothing of importance transpired in Con- gress yeaterdsy. ‘Tho Senate had a half-honr session, aud the Houso held together a littlo over an hour. The chief attraction was in Philadelphia, the Gentenninl managers having invited Congvessien to visit that city toin- spect the Contennial buildings, and all that that term, in its conventionnl sense, implies. S e Tie Trisose will publish in its jssus of Jan. 1, 1876, two weeks from to-day, in ac- cordanco with ita custom for many yems past, & comprohonsive and claborate Annual Tieview of the trade and commerce of Chicago for the year 1876. By deferring its publica- tion until Jan. 1 it will bo possible to make the Review moro accurnto, complefs, and trustworthy than would be possible if pub. lished priorto that date. It will evon include the business of tho #lst of Deccmber, and thus embrace tho statistics of the entire yoar. —e For the sake of roconcilintion with our er- ring Southern brothren, many poople wero willing to stand * gray-mixed,” but * gray nbove the bine” is crowding the mourners o tittle too hard. Throwing out of tho nation’s Capitol and into the street tlso onc-logged sud one.armed, battered, bruised, and bullet- holed Union spldicrs who hedd tha littlo subordinnte places about the IXouso of Rop- resentatives in Washington in order to make placos for Confederates wns rathier rough on tho *‘bina.” If reconcilistion can only be purchased ot such a price, wo hope to belong to the “irreconcilables " awhdle Jonger. Bpecimens of the haugman's handiwork were furnfslied yesterdsy at New York and st Hermann, Gosconade Gounty, Mo.; and vur dispatchies give interesting accounts of the exceutions and thoe crimes for which they wers tho penalty. At the Tombs in Now York three were hung for the murderof a peddler, and the customary horror of the acene wns torribly enhanced by the displace. went of ona of the halturs and the prolonging of the death agony, A double cxocution was expected at Hermnun, Mo,, whers an old German farmer and his gray-haired wife wero doomed to die on the gallows for the murder of a gon-in-law. But one of tho con- demned was oxecuted, the Governor having commuted to {mpriscument for life the sentence of tho old woman. Tho National ’J.‘m:..;pnr.tnt o;z‘ Convention ribs, and 10}e for do short cloars. Ifigh- winet were moderately active and casior, nt 1,10 por gallon, Flour was quiet and weak, Whent was netive and clored 1o higher, at 8740 cash and 97{e for January. Corn was in better demand and firmer, closing nt 49¢ for Docember and {tfc for Jaunary, Osats were more active and jc higher, closingat 30ic cash and 30}o ecller January. Nyo wns stendy at 68Jc. DBarley was quict and steady, closing nt 87§@87§c for December and 8Ge for January, Hogs opened firm at a slight advance, but closed dull and wenk. Bales at £06.40@7,20 for common to prime packing goods. Cattle were quiet sud unchavged, Sheep were activo ond steady. Ono hundred dollars in gold wonld buy $114.25 in green- Lacks ot the close. yesterday concluded its deliberations, and adjourned to meet & year henoe in Louisville, “Tho report of the Committeo on Resolutions, which was adopted, entire, though consldered separately, embodies n condensed exprossion of the obfects aod views of the gentlemen comprising tho Convention on the great question of tmansportation and the multi- forious subjeots relevant thereto, 'The atterapt to obtain en indorsement of the Texas Pacifio Reilroad scheme Wwag vigorously pushed by the Eonthern dele- gotes, but the Convention, as a whols, was not willing to commit itself to the project, ond with evident refuctance adopted s reso- lution favoring tho completion of both the Northern and Southern Pacifio Railroads * as saon a9 the means for the completion of the same can be properly made wvailable,” There 1s small comfort for Tox Scort in this decla- ration; whatever its meaning, it is certainly not in favor of & Government guaranteo -of bouds for either of the roads. ‘The Chicago produco m; ‘Were gener- ally fing yesterdey, Mesy pork was in fair dumand sud 100 higher, closing ut $19.35 cash and #10.65 for February. Lard was quiet and 2§@30 per 100 s higher, closing At 12,40 oash and $12.60 far February. Hoate wora leas aotive and stesdy, at 73@7§c Sos bozed ahoulders, 10i@100 Lor do shard, Tho confirmation of District-Attorney Drrx, tho cuergetic prosecutor of the St Louis whislky thieves, has been duly an- nounced in our dispatches. The fact is an added proof of the malicfousness of tho lics circulated by the New York Herald nnd its itk about the President’s notion in regard to the Bt. Louis casen. Geu, Gravt could rendily bave prevented Dyip's confirmation, if ho had given a hint that he desired it. By doing so, he would have taken nway the mainstay of the prosecution, for it is Dyen who collects the evidence, plans tha cnses, and does the work,—the other lawyers mere- 1y supply the cloquence. If Dyer had not been confirmed and o suecessor had been ap- pointed, tho latter, no wmntter how capnble and honest, would have been unable to bring the enses to trial for mouths, If he pushed them, ho would infallibly have lost them. Dyrn's confirmation will carry dismay to the Whisky Ring. 'fho credit of it is due to Gen, Graxr, The portentous indigonco of a portion of the population of Moutreal, which has been adverted to by telegraph of late with some frequency, yosterday assumed the formof tumultuons demonstration, incidental with which & bread-eart was ravished and an un- lucky operator in mutton pies involved in forcible and irretriovablo ruin. The dread- less cohorts unpursued then held their way to the City-Hall, whero the Mayor stren. wously urged upon them the mecessity of guarding against the impulses of their appe- tites, aud promised that the Council should tnke action in their behalf ot tho evoning mecting. Inthe middle of one of the Mayor's periods o lenn aud hungry listenor punched a neighboring nose, and, the police coming down in n body, tho meeting was informally adjorirned. At tho session of the Council, tho Msayor road a letter from Minister Mac. EENZIL, snying that Montronl must heal her- relf, and the Aldermon thereupon voted to #el as many men ag possible at work on the earthworks at G0 cents n day. The polico apprehiended trouble before duwn. THE CONFEDERATE RAID ON CONGRESS, It ia all very well for Senator Mergnvos, of North Carolina, to explain that he didn't mean his bill to pension Confoderato soldicrs, but only to reconfer the pensions of the War of 1812 and tho Mexican War upon thoso who forfeited them by becoming Rebels aud trying to desiroy the Government, It is entirely likely that Senator Meranton is correct in this technical explanation, but wo do not see thut he Lns bottored his caso very matorially by makingit. o now explains that, in his opinion, the highest crime known to the Gov- ernment—treason—should be no bar to the fovors of tho Government. Ho moans that a soldior who deserts tho flag ho has fought un- der, forswears his allegiance, and joins n band of traitors, should be purged of his tronson at the very first opportunity and re. ndmitted to all tho favors and pensions he previously possessed on an equality with thoso who remained true and faithful to their country, Placed under this light, we do nat seo that Mr. Mranmeon's explanation is any moro creditable than the proposition as it was originally construed. Mr. Mernivon, Domoerat, in the Sonnte, is backed up by Mr. Vaxce, Democrat, from tho saine Stato, in tho House, who does not place ony limitation upon the privileges which he desires to oponup to the ox-Con- federaten. Ho haa proposed a bill to ropenl all the statutes which prohibit payments to Ttebels and Rebelaiders and abattors. Thatis, liewants not merely the old pensions restored to thoso who forfeited them by treason, but ho wants the Governient to puy for the tok- ing of o consus in thoSonth in 1860, all value of which to the Government was destroyed by the Ilebellion ; he desires also that the Tkobol Postnasters shall be reimbursed for the stamps they had on hand when they went in- to the Rebel army ; he also desires that all bar ghall bo removed from former Robels for losses or allegod losscs of any nature whatev- or, Having mado this much progress, the noxt step would bo to pay the ex-Robels the value of their emancipated slaves and the losses of the Confederate debt. Mosers, Menrmon and Vanck, Democrats, do not stand alouns, Mr, Cook, Democrat, of Georgin, sustains the North Carolina Demo- cratic gontlemen with a bill to refund the cotton-tax out of tho poclsts of the Northern tux-payers, and to authorize the payment for all cotton seized by the United States nfter 3ey 29, 1865. Thus, within the first fow days of tho session, and before Congress has got into fhir working condition, bills hnave been iptroduced covering all the efforts which ‘Par 'Trivusg predicted would be mado by the Democratio Congress to open the vaults of tho United States Treasury to the ox-Confed- erates, and to put upon the loyal North the losses inourred by tho rebel Bouth on account of its own folly and wickedness, In the cot- ton tax, the Sonth contributed a emall pro- portion of the cost of tho war, insignificant wi compared to the special tax borno at the North for the same purpose. But the Bouthurn representativos, 1t seoms, desire that even this much shall be refunded out of tho pockets of tha Northern people, and that the Southern peaple sholl suffer in no re. upect for their offort to destxoy the Govern- ment and dismember the American Union, but receive its bounty in an even greater de- gree than the Northern people, who fought for it and preserved it. In view of tho cfforts we have noted, it will scarcoly be denied that the people of this country are to be congrata. lated upon n Republican Heuats, and tho check which it may hold upon the Democratio wmafority in the House. Aduty upon tea and coffce would have three great advantages. It would baa pure- ly revenue tax; the cost of collection would be almost nothing ; and it possibly would not raive the price of elther tea or coffes, This Iast paradox is erplained by the fact that tho levy of au impert-duty hers would probubly scon oblige the countries from which wo purchaso those products to lower their oxport-duties, which wege raised as soon @8 our tax was taken off, - In Japan, which now exporta nearly all her surplus tea to the United Btales. sending but litlle to Great Britain, the prics of tea ot the seaboard was ! 228 to &1 per pecul of 183} pounds in 1872, when we taxed the imports; in 1874, whon wo did not, the price was 240 to 42, This wag owing to the new export-duty which wo have Dbeen pnying. 'This duty would in all probability be repealed i we re-concted our tax on tea. Buteven if it were not, the individual citizen wonld pay but a bagatello more than ho does now, The avernge consumption of tea and coffes, per capita, i 1} pounds of the former and 44 of the latter per year. A tax of 10 cents on ten and 6 cents on coffeo would therefore oblige the averago Anterican to pay only GO conts n year. The Government would get 226,400,- 000, less tho trifling cost of collection, and Congress would therefors remit some high- tarill taxes on clothing and other necessaries of life, which, while yielling only this amount to the Treasury, mulet the people four or five times as much by obliging them to pay tribute to domestic manufactaring establishments ad well as to tho Government, The figures wo have given for tho two taxes may not be the best possible; but they serve to show what can bo done by any duty upon coffeo and tea. BET WASHBURN AT 'EM. Mr. Ixcarzs of Kansns wants the pension fraudsinvestigated. Ile very properly wishes the hundreds of mythical widows, the multi. tude of miraculous minors who persist in staying minors forever, and the thousands of shadowy soldiers who exist only on the pen- sion-rolls, and so enabla raseally claim-ngents to exist aud fatten ou the tnx.payers, to be dropped from tho bounteous hand of Uncle Sam. The intention of INaaLLs of Kansas is good. The plan proposed by him exhibits zenl without knowledge. His bill authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to appoint forty Special Agents (N, B. Joxcr, lato of St. Louis, now of tho Missouri Ponitentiary, was a Special Agent), who aro to lurk nround nnder the direction of tho Commissioner of Ponsions avd unearth frauds. The pay for lurking is pretty good,—traveling expenses and £t a day for subsistence, nud £1,600 & yenr for profit. Judged by somp of the recent Whisky-Ring disclosires, tho business of the averago “ Special Agont” would bo highly remunerated at this rate. Tis functions ecan bo summarized somevhat as follows: When dotailed to visit a certain city, he, or somobody else for him, telegraphs the suspected parties from Washington that he is going to *‘investigate™ them, and will arrive on such s day. Tho *‘suspects”at onee raike sotne money. Ho registers him. self at the principal hotel as ** Joux Synti, Specinl Agent of tho United States for the Detection of Frauds upon the Pon- sions,” This natorally greatly enhances his own importance. Tho fnaet that it provents his finding out anything by notifying all the rogues of tho object of his visit is of course a minor mattor. They have gonernlly been notified already, at any rate. The Special Agent sces the suspects; tho Iatter **sco” him. He gocs back and reports overything all right. Probably ho makesn “geapegoat” of some ong who has mo frionds. Tho real rascals continue their frauds, They are richer; ho is richer; no- body but Uncloe Sam is poorar. But facta such os these do not daunt Inoarrs of Kan- sas. Not satislled with a fresh batch of 4 forty " Special Agents—who would not un- likely turn out to be forty thieves~he pro- poses to anthorize the Commissioner of Pen- sions o detail any number of his clerks to serve a8 Bpecials and receive the pay and nllowances already enumerated. If the Com- missioner has somany clerks that hecan spare the services of any number of them while thiey go junketing around tho country, that number should be dismissed forthwith, Inoarrs of Kansas is not fortunate in his suggestions concorning investigation. We can tell him and the Scnate a much better plan. Bet Erarn Wasmounw, Chiof of the Bocrot Borvice of the Treasury Departmont, on the trail of the rogues. Let him chooso & dozen men,—he knows whero to find the best men for the purpose,~—and dotail them to in- vestigate, uunder his direction, the alleged frauds. Then the claim agents who ave now playing the part of Protews, and draw- ing pensions a8 mick or crippled soldiors, as blind soldicrs, as the widows of woldiers, s tho minor childron of soldiers, will be caught ond spared sooner and better than 4,000 Special Agents and the whole lot of clerks in tho Pepsion Buresu can do the job together, in the way proposed by INaALzS of Kansas. THE TUTTON LETTER. One after another the malicious elanders ngainst the President, concocted for partisan purposes by his enemies, are nailed to the counter, Yesterdny two of these slanders were completely oxploded. Tho first was tho senseless fabrication originated in the New York Jlerald ofico that tho President com- pelled Secretary Bmistow to agreo to Hen. prusox's dismissal, This soandal is ended by the flat donial both by the President and tho Bocrotary. Tho second was the charge that tho President bad intorfored at the instance of Gen. Bancock in behalf of the 8t. Lonis Whisky Ring by rovoking the' order of tho Sacretary of the Treasury, issuod in January lnst, transferring Supervisors, Upon this point, Mr. Turroy, the Bupervisor in ques. tion whose transfor is uaid to have been re. voked, has wrilten a plain, strnightforward lottor, printed in the last issue of Tie Tnin- uNE, which completely sets this slander at rest, Briefly, Mr, Turron says that in Jan. uary, 1874, ho received a letter from Com. missloner Dororass transferring him to the St. Louis District. As tho transfer was only for a short time and it would seriously jncon. vonionge Mr. Turron's domestic arrange. ments, he went directly to Beeretary Buwsrow and ropresented “to him he would be unable to take the St ILouis District, at tho same timo suggesting Bpecial- Agent Brooxs for the place. The BSecretory suggested that he should wee the President. Ho waited upon Gen. Bancock, who hed nothing more to do with tho matter than to send Mr. Turron's card to the President, and waa not presont at the interview. During that interview, Mr, Turron proscnted his objectiona to taking the St. Louls Distriot in such a manner as to convince the President that it would bo uniwise to make the transfer, aod he so exprossed himself upon that ocon- sion, thus completely refuting the chargo that Gon. Bancoox improperly influenced tho President in his decision, Ar. Turron's letter bears both internal and external evidence of being a frank, Lonest statemont of facts, and is cortainly entitled to credit, especially as agaloat the malicious rumors ket aflont by the political enemies of the President. It shows conclusively that Gon. Banooox did not interfere in the case, nor go to tho Presidont about the matter, nor have anything to do with it. It shows that the first in. timation the President had of the Tuz. som matter was ot this inserview, and that e | Another bypotheals is thsl somte novel— mrived nt his decision through the force of Mr. Tuvrsox's arguments, so that, even if there were any pressura upon him after- wards, it was superflious, More important than all this, it shows the falsity of Mr. Hex. ERSON'S necusations against both tho Predd. dent and Goun. Bancock, and utterly sweeps away his chargos that tho President used m- proper influence with regard to tha proposed transfer. Indirectly, other and more impor-~ tant facta now appear in the light which this letter throws upon the situation. It appears that the Prosident, instend of inferfering in behialf of the Whisky Ring, pursued a policy which evontually resulted in erushing it Had bo consentad tothe transfer and made tho change at the time Commissloner Dova- Lads wished, the detectives who went to 8t. Louis would never have exploded their mine with the auccess which has already nt- tended that oporation. If tho change had been mnde, the Whisky Ring would have been put on its gnard in time to havo de. stroyed the evidence, and to hava bedged it- melf in such o manner that conviction would have been well nigh impossible, Mr. Tur- Tox's letter, therefore, answers n double pur- pose,—first, in showing the growadlessness of Mr, Hexnenson's charges agninst the Presi- dent and the 1njustice of his accusations against Gen, Bancook; and second, that the President’s sction wos wise and prudent, since, if the trunsfor bad been made as was originally agreed upon, tho efficient net would have made an empty haul. Xf ToTron hnd goua to theSt. Louis District, the crooked distillers would havo taken the alarm at once and covered up their frauds, e did not go, but in bis place tho detectives who caught the guilty partics in the net of defranding tho revonue, and scoured the evidence which they hod not time to conceal or destroy. It js not likely, however, that oven ruch disolosures ns these will stop tho President's enc- mies in their persistent aund mnlicions work of defamation, It is cssy to invent seandalous rumors and set them afloat, but it will only require suflicient timo for the facts to bo known and they will fall to the ground ns harmless as tho false charges mnde by Mr. HexpERsSoN, who has only himself to blamo for the pitiful plight in which he is placed by tho TurTox lotter. THE MOSEL MURDERER, The rhymestor who wrote tbat ‘‘horrors pile on horrors' head " was refersing, we be- liave, to an unpleasant legend concorning the nature of hell, but if he had boon prophesying nbout the recent news from Bromen le could not have batter hit the nail upon the hend. Suoch a fiendish schemo a5 that revealed by the investigation into the dymamite explo- sion on the whart at Brernerhaven hns searcely evor been heard of before. One of the crimes which dsmns Nero's name to averlasting infamy is his atlempt to have a ship containing n dozen peaple sunk in deep water, but Trouas, to whom NEgo wasg no- body, deliberntely planned an explosion on midocean which would bave sent the steamer Mosel, with every soul on board, rocling down to sure destruction. The iden that » man of this century should be o¢apa- bla of planning such a frightful schemo is simply torrible, . The story of tha ctime is still in gome re- spects incomplote, but all the main points aro known, Writirax Iline Thoamas, the wholesale murderor, was a native of Brook. lyn, N. Y. Ho married at Now Orleans and lived in Virginin during the War, when ho made a fortune Dby blockads-running. Upon tho collapso of the Oonfederacy ho fled to Germany, where ho has since lived under the assumed name of Tnoatasses. Having lost his jll-gotten gains by speculation, he laid the plan which has cost the world nearly 100 livea already and which mny lead other mis- .croants to similar blood-cardling crimes hero- after. Ile had an explosive machine mode, 1t consisted of a barrel divided into two parls, ono filled with dynamite, tho other occopied by -clock-work so arranged that at the end of cight or ten dayas the deadly dynamite would be ex. ploded by a suddon blow. Ho intendod to have this shipped at Bremen upon the Deutschland, which he was to loave himself ot Southmmpton. At the latter port, & num- ber of cases of rubbish, insured a8 very costly goods, wera to be placed on board. Then the Doutechland was to stomn wostward on tha broad Atlantie, crowded with passengers, loden with liopes. The conspirntors—for Trowas hns confessed that ho had accom- plices in New York—expocted that whon the vessel was out of sight of land, out of reach of all help, there would ky a shock like that of an earthquake, a rour lke that of a whirl- wind, a column of flame like that of o voleanio eruption. The steamer wonld be blown into infinitesimal fragments. Passengors and crew would bo hurled in. stantly into eternity. Days and woeks would wear wearily on without news of the missing vensel, and, whilo hundreds of families were settling down into the dull agony of hopeless griof, the parties to this Lellish plot would collect the fictitious insurance, the blood- monoy of their guilt, asnd so repair their shattored fortunes. The inferual machine wea not ready whon the Doutschland sailed, and the lattor therefore escaped this Charyb- dia to strike upon the Seylla of the ** Kentish Knock.” The Mosel was the noxt stonmer of the sama line. By somo plece of good far- tune,~—comparatively good, positively bad, sinoe it cost 100 lives,—the dynamito oxploded on the wharf ot Nromerhaven instead of in mid-ocean. Tuoius, who was already on the Mosel, was drivon by a guilty consclence to attempt to commit suicide. He was promptly arrested and his wounds bandsged. ¥o toro off tho bandages only to bave them roplaced, but at Inst succeeded in killing himsolf as cffcctually as he bed the murdered hundrod. Ho died Thursdny,' He is boyond the reach of human justice, but perhaps his accomplices may be discoverod. 1f so, the Beriptural law of an eye for an eyo, ate,, would bo satisfled by tying them into a small schooner, above a oase of dynamite, with clock-work attachment, towing tho vessol out to Boa, setting the machinery for an oxplosion in twenty-four hours, and then leaving the wretchos to their own thoughts 1oantime. The plot may bave been suggested by an attempt said to have bsen wwde, in 1856, to destroy tho steamer Oriel, sailing from the same port of Bromerhaven, Two oases, beavily insured and purperting to contain silk, but really packed with combustiblea and with a clock-work npparatus for striking sparks, were shipped upon her Sho was stopped by a telegram from the Jast light- houso on the coast, The mechanio cmployed by the gouspirators had confessed the crime ot the last moment, back to Bremen, where they served aa mute witnesses against the two persons, father and son, who wero nrrested, The former com- mitted suloide ; the latter is now in prison at Bremen undor alife sentence; the me- chanio is said to live on Btaten Island some Mophistophelian Republican, is .af tho day. Tho cases were taken for instanco, Rrape's ** Foul Play "—sug- geated the foul scheme. Btoriea of shrowd crime not infrequently have this of- foct. A stlll more horrible iden is that this plan has hean suceessfully tried befors, May it not explain the mysterious disapponrance of some of the missing steamnera of the lnat fow yoars? 'Tho dispntches say that Troas had ordered twenty infornal machines from the mechanic who made tho one designed to destroy the Mosel. Would he have done this if the plan had not been found to be a suc- cess? The theory is a startling one, but not untonable. In any event, the world is well rid of this dynamito devil SPRINGER'S THIRD-TERM RESOLUTION, 'The Demoorats aro geunerally criticlsing Mr. Brrixae, of this State, for his sharo in setting the Third.Term spectro at rest, and unyittingly depriving the Democrats of po- litical eapital, Evidently without gnining the provious consent of King LaMan and his apecial Council of 'Thirteen, 3r. Bpninozn introduced the following rosolution ¢ lesolred, That, in {he opinion of thin Houss, the precedent eatabliahed by WasnivoTox snd othor Presis denta of tho United States in rotiring from the Presi- dential afiico after their second term bas become, by universal concurrence, a part of our ropublican sya- tem of government, aud that any departure from this timo-honored custom would be unwise, unpatriotic, aud fraught with peril to oar free (natitutions, A voto was takon on thig resolution imme- dintely under the pressure of the previous question, and resulted in 232 in favor and only 18 aguinst, Of the letter, eleven were Southern carpot-baggers and four from Soath Carolina, Thero wera two Michigan men (Braprey and Hunserr), Dextsox from Vermont, MacDoveary from New York, Paoz from California, PraisTep from Maine, and ‘Wirrtivo from Dlincis. .All the othors wers cithor colored or carpet-bag Southerners. There was a nearly unanimous oxpression of tho people's representntives in Congress against a violation of the national precedont against tho occupancy of the President’s chnir for mora than two terms. This ox- presaion, along with the united expression of tha Btate Republiean Conventions and of the Republican press everywhere to tho samo purpose, finally disposes of the bugbear of * Cmoarism ™ which has constituted one of the chiof Democratic stock- in-trade points for the last two or thres years, More siymificance has been given to the failure of Mr. Bramng to vote on this question than the circumstance do- serves, Unless Mr, Bramve was accidentally abscnt when tho vote was taken, ho may have been restrained by somo notion of courtesy, on account of his former intimate rolations with the Prosident while Speaker of tho House ; but, while this motive would be discroditable to Mr. Brasz's judgment, it warrnnts no inference that Mr, Buame bas any sympathy with the Third-Torm idos, in which ho would stand slons among the prominent men of tho country. Mr. Searvogr will probably bo severely disciplined for acting without the consent of the Democratic Star-Chamber in this matter. Without o third term to harp upop, the Domocrats will be at a loss for materinl to moke a campaign against the Republicans prior to the nomination of the Prosidontial candidates. Mr. Bramvoes must expect to be held accountable for the fauz pas by which this Democratic weapon, which has deno such good eorvice in the past, has been at ono blow broken and thrown away. It may bave been Mr. Serivaxn's ingenuous nature, or. it may lave been auggested by or it msy' havo boon that Mr, Senmaorn moro honest than tho average Deomoorat, bat the result is the samo in any oase,—tho bugbear is out of the way, and the President's actions aro no longer suscep- tible of a misconstruction a3 with referenoa to his re-olection. Ho will be at full liberty to continue the effort at reforming the publiv servico wherever it neods reforming, and will demonstrate before his term oxpires thot the Republican party is fully equal to this work without any Democrotio assistance, Menn. while it is sad to contemplate how many Democratio orators have been nipped in the bud, and how many Democratio editoriala will be still-born, on nccount of the summary disposition of the Third-Torm scare-crow. There {sm’t even the shadow of an excuse for nany further ngitation of tho Third-Term ques- tion. GuanT says he doesn't want a third torm, and everybody elso bas declared that thers is no intention of foreing it upon him, 8o that wo can’t see how this question can cut any more figuro in tho political literature ‘We may dismissit with a Requi- excat in pace, while acknowledging thoe admira. ble manner in which Mr, SeaiNoxn conducted the funeral services that buried n mera effigy. THE EXAMPLE OF FRANCE, An snonymous correspondent, ** Bergon,” asks for *authoritios” with rogard to the contraction of the Fremch ourromoy. We can do no better than to rofer him to the official veport on the Fronch Budget, mado this year by M. Loy 8ay, tho French Ministor of Finance, and to the roport of his predecessor, M, Bopzr, and the report of F. O. Apauy, of the British Legation at Paris, to his Government on Fronch iinances, to eny nothing of hundreds of other authorities. In truth, tho question of nuthoritics which “Dorgen® trics to raise does not exist. All the authorities agree, beonuse the facts are indisputabla, Tho intlation in Franco consisted of an arrangoment between the Government and the National Bank of France, under which the Dank was to loan and advance the Government 3506,- 000,000 at the nominal rate of 1 per cent in. terest. The Bank was allowed to extend its paper issues to the amount of this loan, and to suspend specie-payments. This was the inflation. Tho Government bound itsclf to ropay the ontire loan in seven anuual inatall. ments, which were to retire equal amounts of the paper, which was to be burned. “Bold" sa this schemo of ‘*contraction” was, {ts operation has boen bolder atill. 'The legal resumption of specie. poymenta does mot tako place till 1878, but st the opening of this year the ‘Bauk of France, with 8 bolduess that even ¢ Borgen " ought to admire, placed itself on 8 specie basis, threo years ahead of time, by throwing 360,000,000 of geld into oirculation amount of twenty-frano paper notes. Any Bank, according to an aofficlal tions like thoss to which 2L Bomur and withdmwing and destroying an equal porson who chooses can now obtain gold for any paper note he holds of the Bauk of France. The polioy of the Bank has been contrastion from the start. When the silver fivefrano pleces returned to Franoo, the ¥ au- thority * in the Journal des Debats, used them to rotire the five-frano notos. These legal-tendor notes were bumned. ‘Tho result of this intelligent co-operation of the Bank with the policy of the Governmont has been that the notes of the Bauk of Franoe have virtu- ally maintained their full value, tha only ex. oceptlons being alight and tex) fluctus. to. In No'vum).\cr, 187, the notes of the Bank of Franco amounted to 8,071,000,000 fraucs,—about 14,200,000 ; {n the report of thoe Bank for tho first woek of this month thoy aro put at 2,412,000,000, or $482,500,000 ; and thoy nro at par. The * boldness” with which tho CQovernment set asbout contracting the paper curroncy mny be scen from the fact, stated on the anthority of Matumiru Boogr, that at a timo when sd- ditional taxes to the amount of $127,500,000 a year had to be Iaid to meet the oxpenses of tho Franco-German war, the Government un- hesitatiugly levied 40,000,000 more a year to cnable it to relire thoso issues of papercur- roucy canded hy the war. 3. Lrox Bay, in his report this year on the Budget for 1876, showed that the rmount ropaid to the Bauk of France in 1872, 1873, and 1874 was £120,000,000, and proposed to the As. sembly tho mnecessary faxes fo redeem all the paper by 1379, by rotiring $90,000,000 in 1876 and 300,000,000 in the two years aftor, The French Government did not commit the folly of the financiers on this side tho Atlantic who have paid off hundreds of millions of the bonded debt not dus, lenving unpaid tho dishonored, overduo duo- bill or serip deht. As aresult of this wise and masterly policy in France, spocie-payments are to-day in prac- tical operation there. The history of French finanee of to-dny is only a continuation of that of thelast goneration, when Narorrox I. exter- minated the old irredoemable paper money and mndo specie the permanent money of the poople by forbidding the issue of notes in denominatious of less than 100 francs, Specio poured into France sud nccumulated in overy hamlet, and the inflnence of this can be plainly seen in tho marvelous recuperative powers of the country at this time. The Bank of France now holds over $310,000,000 in gold, and is probably the strongest Snancial institution in tho world, ‘Theso aro the results of a “bold contrac. tion” of an inflated paper currency, which at the vory moment of crenting irredecmable poper circalation provided for its certain and speedy redemption. 'We cannot but thinkthe “‘puthoritios” wo have given must compel **Borgen " to acknowledgo the accuracy of the torms in which we spoke of “‘T'he Finances of France,” nnd to admit that by contrast the manner in which tho United States have dealt with their irredeemable paper monoy seoms iguorant, weak, foolish, and pusillanimous, THE BOSTON CITY ELECTION. The result of the municipal clection in Boston a few daya ngo once more establishes the fact that when the respectable nnd sub- stantial citizona in our large communities de- termine’ to take the power into their hands and establish an honest administration of -municipal government they can succeed. The regular City Republican Convention, throngh ward-packing, wire-pulling, and chicanery, nominated Mr, Boirpaaw for Mayor by a bars majority of one. As Mr, Boaroxan represonted some of the worst olements in the community, the respectable and decent eloment of the Republicans ot once bolted and nominated Mr. Conn, who has boen Mayor during the last two terms, and has administored tho office in an honest, upright, and cconomical manner. When the regular Democratic Convention met, it took advantage of ihe bolt to nominate Boanomax, the candidato of tho roughs and scalawags, and thus tho issue was squarely made be- twoon the two classes—tax-payers snd tax- .caters. On the one hand, Mr. Cops rep- resonted tho bost classes of the commu- nity. On the other, BoaRDMAN ropro- sented the worst clements. He had tho Democratlc organization, or the majority of it, at his back, and this following was aug- monted by the entire whisky interest of the city, the gamblers and the roughs, the com- munistic clements, the vicious classes, and all who were engaged in tax-eating and in spec- ulations upon public intorests for private greed. Backed by the Democratic party as far as ita mombers could be controlled, and the worst portion of the Repnblican party, and having the prostige of rogular nomina- tion by the two rogular Conventions, they went into the fight and wore routed by s handsomo plarality, Mr, Cosa being elected for the third time, aftor taking the position against his porsonal wishes. The law-sbid- ing citizens triumphed. The Boston Adrer- tiser, commenting upon the result, says : It {n their triumph, and it was won in the name of order, honesty, integrity, sconomy, and a better system in the sdministration of our affairs, Rich mon and men who rarely vots contributed to it; bus much more was contributed by the active business men of the city, men of modarato meanv, who cannot live without work, and who know that thelr work will be of little avail 1f they cannot have s Government reating npon consclence &nd charsctor. Such s Government we have had for several yeara past, and sucl a Uovern- ment, by Qoit's grace, we intond" to renw annually hereaftor,—answering n that way the akeptica smang us who havo Jost or are loalng faith in the virtue of popular governmont. There is strengtls, and dignity, and power in it when the people really ruls, and they can yule when they will, The result in Boston not only shows that the respeotable cloment can control a majori- ty in that city sufficiont to defeat the disrep- utable clagsos, but it also shows that it is only nocessary for honeat peoplo in other lorge oties to work and vote and uso their influ. ence in order to secure an honest’ administra- tion of the Government. Tho same result was shown in Brooklyn and Chicago last fall. In the latter city tho leason is evident. It emphasizes the duty of our citizens at the charter clection next spring, Thoy raust not. rept content with having partinily defeated"| the County Ring. The same amount of work that they put forth last November ought to bo pat forth again next spring, and tho City Ring will be beaten. Chicago can be To- deomed from the bummers, and gamblers, and thieves, and corruptionists, as Boston hiaa, if the respectabls citizens will do their duty. Elsawhers is a socond epistleon thefiuances from Mr. Rionwoxp, e {s wmore disposed to oooupy valuable spsce than to present any new or valuablo idoss. He now makes a parcel of statements not embraced in his for- mor lotter, and then triumphantly asserts that Tuw Tamoyx hes not and cannot answer them ! We havejcorrected his spelling and grammar, and now proceed to ogrreot his idess. Our plan of resumption, frequently stated, campletely obviates the objections he ralses in rogard to the oppression of the + dabtoralass” by tho resumption of specie- peyments. The Boaton Journal says of this lan 3 po' the methods of resumpilon alresdy published, ons of the most mertlorious, as 1t seema to us, 48 that offered by Tum Cilcsao TRIBUNE . » « I8 pro- poses the follawing s Lat Cougrees thia winter snset 1 1. That the bolders of grosnbacks, u) poa presents. tlo of them 10 the Treasury Deparimest, ba entitlod 1o recelvo in lufltfl. ihorefor 4 or 3,65 por ceud gold bondy, of the denomination of $4U (of lass) or $100, o sy ‘multipie of §100. That thess Londs, haviog thirty years to run from the duta of {saue, be mede legul-tenders in the pay- wentof el dl;\;«'-. and contructs mads bafoss, say tis 3. Thl{fu legal-tender for all coniracts made sftes m&mmumwumuummumm ‘Whet paymans otherwiss masy s xpresaly stipulsted, i #0018 B R0 latltion. 88 WAL I0* "y, Wil b Smmm 10 put all naw bustness on » ape efs bad s, altbough Ly exialing currency will continui1 to biyused at its cot, valuo,—that is, 1t witl 80 longs ¢ servo sa s messute of valuss, but will take ita trus por tition 8 » by compariiny with the markets of the world, At/ Tux Curoig TAIIUNE says ¥or alf purpodes of payment o f debts 1 the Kresnbicky in thelr new form of bonds 1 /il bs avslialle. Tiy Lionds tbomealres wil, at prote uk pri soe of mozey, by worth ahout K0 to 83 centa on th ¢ doll ar iu coln, Tay Qoverument 6 par cents are wo rth b r, and the 3.6 per cents would range from B0 1o A5 sentr, They wil continue to bo bonght and sold 1 1 the curyenoy now (s for the purposs of making paym ents of debt, aud wil, l,m from hand Lo haud ‘as currenct: In sll tranns ions over $30. For thirty yearn tho se botids or iy unfunded curroncy will cottinue. to sorve s s legy tendor for debts alrsady contracad, snd ihat periog will cover sl exiating liabilittes of i1 1lividuals, corpo. rations, sud municipal Gover:ame itn, No msn o municipslity will ha called upo. i o pay debts in any ofbor currency than tlat in % 'hick: they were con. teacted, ‘I'wo quesliona put by Mr. Ricumoxp re. ' main to be answered: (1)) If official ealarie aro not reduced when they are paid in gold, the blame will fall on the pople alone, whe pay the taxes and elect every porson con. cerned in fixing theso salar fos . 1f the peopls wish thom reduced, they will bo reduced, (2) When the spocio atand aré | s establiabed, Tur TRIBUNE oxpects to (to)iform its rates thereto ns poon, and to thte same oxtent, ag other classes of manufactu re 18 and busines men, This is sad. orlin correspondent of tho London 7%mes has dit icoovered that “an ogont of Prosident Graxt'’ is: trying tosell o million dollars' worth ol cannon to the Terzegoviniana to fight th o Curks on credit, Dotectives should be det:iili:d to watch the President, to seo that ho J.oes not surrop. titionsly enter some armory a nd slip a mortar into his vest-pocket or a c:aigs on into hiscoat. teil. It wns by.such slyr practices, no doubt, that Bruxxar jgot hold of thy $800,000,000 worth of 1var.material which some Democrat—LuTTRELL 8nys it wasn'y he—has acensed him of selling on his own nccount. Any packagos si:nt from the Whits House to Mrs. Sartonts sbiould be inspected. ‘The million dollars’ worth of cannon may be seerotly shipped via England, in this way, Rattles nominally destined for the baby may be found to be full of poyvder and shot, and onch trunk may contain o whole park of ar tillery qwhile Burrzn mig bt be hid in a hat. box and thus smuggled out: {0 serve as Com. mander-in-Chief of the Her: egovinian troops. Tho Catholic churches of ornis will zo, noed any **slico of the echool fund™ for & lit tlo while to come, for they lavo just got s judgment against Mexico for mearly a million dollars now and something morn every year for- avor. Lato in the moventcenth century the Jonuite raised what waa koown as the Plous Fund, for the conversion of the henthon of California,—Upper snd Lower. In 1767 the Soclety of Josus was oxpellod from Bpain and its proporty conliscated, The Pious Fund was ndministerad 88 a trust by Hp:vin aod Moerico, aod finally by Mexico alons. .Politiciaua used t Jive on it, uotil BanTa AnNA covered it intz the Nationsl Treasury in 1842 and agroad to pay 8 per cent intorest on it to the California churchies, It had then boon so deploted by fraud that it nmounted to only $1.500,000. When Upper California was ceded to ths United Btates, Moxico stopped paying their sharo of the intorest o the Catholte churches fn the coded diocose. The diocosan authorities eoon brought the sait that has juat besn decid- od. The claim was submitted to the Mixed Commission now sitting at Washington, which disagroed and referred tho matter to the arbitra- tion of Bir EnwARD THonNTON, tho British Mio- ister at Washington. He has found that the California claimaats ars in the right, and the Republic of Mexico s therefore adjudged to psy ovar $900,000 cssh and & cortain aanusl su” forover horeatter. Curious literary discoveriea ars conatantl being made in Germsny through the study of wrappors inclosing ancient manuscripts. Somt of thess wrappers have proved to bo more valus- blo than tho ranuscripts which they inclose, By putting fragments of wrappera togother anold pagan author hiss boen recoustructed st lar borg and an early Chnstisa writer at Munic! The New York Herald correapondent writes The fragments nawly brought to light belong to ous of what 370 gomewiiat -rm%:tmyugmnu the Italic ‘versions of the Heriptur@, thoss, nanely, which pro ceaded tha Vulgate of Bt. Jerome, so callod becauso | rapldly came into such universal use that ell ita foro: tunners wers soon cousignod to oblivion, sy are now extant ouly in the form of quotations and frolsted fragmonts, 'The ** Italafragmenta,” edilod by Dr. La Ziogler, of Munich, with & preface by Prof. Rankl {not the grest historian), containa some highly inter- eating postions of & pre-Iiercuyman vorsion of tht Pauling Epistioa and of the Firet. Eplatla af ft, Jobn. They originsily belonged to the Oatliedral in Frelsing wheneo iliey had boen transferred fo tha Nalious Library in Munich, A Christian fathor resurrocted In this maoanel becomea an interosting study, objectivaly aswell s Bubjociively. Fow literary remafos sre mord deserying of the nsmo. 1he Zditor of The Chlesto Tyibuma & T Lo RKA, Kan, Doc. 1e—lt ia well understood thst quita a Iatge majority of Teast 8o far an thoy Liave opjmon upon the subj 1 “Third ‘erm * Projullce, fear, preccdont (i lasi, Lut ot lesst, nonsonse (7) com! , have pro- duced this Quizotism, Iere is & question, bowsrers which I hava neith ked or answered Ly thed who bave engsgod in_this disoussion, (Probubiy It ¥ mot aiopoy) 1 the Republlcan ‘Naflonsl Convention should conslude (no malter for what Teasans) {0 iominate President GRANT, what, in that event, woul ‘b the duty of Republicans 7 Yours truly, V.A RerLy—As our ocarrespondent Buppos wholly improbablo caso, it is as uselass to spec: ulsto on what In that event would be tha duty of Tiepublicans as it would ba concerning there: sult of & collision of an irreuiatible objoct agalnst an immovable substance, Tho thiug won't bap~ pen, and that {a all that need bo sald sbout it el e The two Navada Senstors, Mossrs. Joxzs sod Suanox, whatever thelr good qualities may boy wero elocted to the Benate simply because the were rich. The represent plulocracy, the rald af wealth, dangerous to any oountry, doubly dangorous to s democracy. Sonator JoNss wol Liis epurs by ap admirablo speoch on currency: roform; Henstor BHARON Lins yot to show what stuff s in him. Noither of them has yet dond auything remarkable, Their absence from Wasb: ngton atatime when s emall Republicsn me jority in the Senato s the country’s only safe: guard against Domocratio disloyaity and fewrong, It they cannot take cara of thell money and thelr political duties at the samé timo, lot thom Iay down the Iatter. e The latest procesding in tho TwxED bulnn‘: 1a an application for tbe forfeiture of his bal Tc appears that his arrest was upon procsedingt in the £6,000,000 clvil suit, and was made whil e was at large on ball for his appearance o 8 uwer to the five indiotments sgalnet hum. Tht bondsmo set up thiat a8 Twexp through bis ar Toat in tho civil sult was taken out of their W:‘ tody by tho State, and throngh negligenco of il I: officors eacapqd, they sre not liablo upod shel bonds, sinoa in fact Tween was oot sb ATt upon them at the time of Lis escape. —————— Mr, MaTrnrew AmxoLd iu n:lng daxrul 4‘; of pains to enlighten England au the polnta of bis cresd. Knowing sash s bresttr 1esa world is soxlously weiting to know ps what his confesston of faiths s, we Liave take! the tronble to study is up and fnd that it m:; bo condonsed into threo clausos, thus 1 Telil : abonld [be a matter of wwestnoss and Lghs) #ig for the Biblo ; damn all disssoters. —— ————— ‘The Now York Sun still continucs ita anrslent 1ng warfare upon Mr. Baxouss, omliting 20 ‘z portunity to denouncebim as & pazjures Mnlk sdalterer, Mr. Daxa plainly invites s libel s and Mr, Brzoza as plainly refuses 0 aocomy modate him. e Tbe New York Boclaty for the Preventies ¢ Crualty o Oblldren h-:l‘w Mm = :1 [y h.ulnlp&l child “ Prince Lo sultsble 00, 804 bl reasited dalhar nd senk yseat hat